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Blade Runner

Blade Runner (1982) is an American science-fiction film, directed by Ridley Scott, with a screenplay written by Hampton Fancher and David Peoples, loosely based on the novel Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep? by Philip K. Dick.
 * For the game, see Blade Runner (video game)

Rick Deckard

 * I'm Deckard. Blade Runner. B Two sixty-three fifty-four. I'm filed and monitored.

 * I was quit when I came in here. I'm twice as quit now.
 * In response to news that he is wanted on another assignment as a "blade runner" — an officer of the law who "retires" renegade "replicants."

 * Replicants are like any other machine. They're either a benefit or a hazard. If they're a benefit, it's not my problem.

 * I don't get it, Tyrell. How can it not know what it is?
 * On Rachael not knowing that she is a replicant.

 * Memories, you're talking about memories.

 * [Revealing to Rachael that she is a replicant] You ever tell anyone that? Your mother, Tyrell? They're implants. Those aren't your memories, they're somebody else's. They're Tyrell's niece's. Okay, bad joke, I'm sorry... No, really, I made a bad joke. Go home, you're not a Replicant... (sigh) you wanna drink? I'll get you a drink.

 * I've had people walk out on me before, but not when I was being so charming.

Voiceovers

 * These were expunged from the Director's Cut version. It has been said that both Scott and Ford were unhappy with the dialogue, as it was forced by the studio and was written by another scriptwriter (Roland Kibbee) not associated with the project. They can still be found in International editions, and all were spoken by Harrison Ford.

 * They don't advertise for killers in the newspaper. That was my profession. Ex-cop. Ex-blade runner. Ex-killer.

 * Sushi. That's what my ex-wife used to call me. "Cold fish."

 * The charmer's name was Gaff, I'd seen him around. Bryant must have upped him to the Blade Runner unit. That gibberish he talked was city speak, gutter talk. A mishmash of Japanese, Spanish, German, what have you. I didn't really need a translator, I knew the lingo, every good cop did. But I wasn't going to make it easier for him.

 * "Skin jobs". That's what Bryant called Replicants. In history books he's the kind of cop who used to call black men "niggers".

 * I'd quit because I'd had a belly full of killing. But then I'd rather be a killer than a victim, and that's exactly what Bryant's threat about "little people" meant. So I hooked in once more thinking if I couldn't take it I'd split later. I didn't have to worry about Gaff. He was brown-nosing for a promotion, so he didn't want me around anyway.

 * I didn't know whether Leon gave Holden a legit address. But it was the only lead I had, so I checked it out.

 * Whatever was in the bathtub was not human. Replicants don't have scales.

 * And family photos? Replicants didn't have families either.

 * Tyrell really did a job on Rachael. Right down to a snapshot of a mother she never had... a daughter she never was. Replicants weren't supposed to have feelings... neither were blade runners. What the hell was happening to me?

 * Leon's pictures had to be as phony as Rachael's. I didn't know why a Replicant would collect photos. Maybe they were like Rachael... they needed memories.

 * The report would be "routine retirement of a Replicant", which didn't make me feel any better about shooting a woman in the back. There it was again... feeling in myself... for her... for Rachael.

 * I don't know why he saved my life. Maybe in those last moments he loved life more than he ever had before. Not just his life... anybody's life... my life. All he'd wanted was the same answers the rest of us want. Where do I come from? Where am I going? How long have I got? All I could do is sit there and watch him die.

 * Gaff had been there, and let her live. Four years, he figured. He was wrong. Tyrell had told me Rachael was special: no termination date. I didn't know how long we had together... who does?

 * This narration was only used for the film's workprint. The only piece of narration used in this version, it is an alternate version of Deckard's questioning of Roy saving his life.

 * I watched him die all night. It was a long, slow thing... and he fought it all the way. He never whimpered, and he never quit. He took all the time he had, as though he loved life very much. Every second of it... even the pain. Then, he was dead.

Bryant

 * Stop right where you are! You know the score, pal! If you're not cop, you're little people.

 * Talk about beauty and the beast — she's both.

Eldon Tyrell

 * Commerce is our goal here at Tyrell. "More human than human" is our motto.

Rachael

 * Is this testing whether I'm a Replicant or a lesbian, Mr. Deckard?

 * I'm not in the business. I am the business.

 * You know that Voight-Kampff test of yours? Did you ever take that test yourself?

Leon

 * Painful to live in fear, isn't it? Nothing is worse than having an itch you can never scratch. Wake up! Time to die!

Roy Batty

 * Fiery the angels fell; deep thunder rolled around their shores; burning with the fires of Orc.
 * This is a deliberate misquote of William Blake's America a Prophecy "Fiery the angels rose, and as they rose deep thunder roll'd / Around their shores: indignant burning with the fires of Orc." In context, the Replicants were exiled from Earth, to the off-world space colonies, but Roy's group of Replicants hijacked a ship to sneak back to Earth. Thus in a sense, like Lucifer and the Fallen Angels, Roy and his group were both "cast out" and "fell to Earth" (though not at the same time).

 * Quite an experience to live in fear, isn't it? That's what it is to be a slave.
 * Standing over Deckard as he hangs from the side of the building.

 * I've seen things you people wouldn't believe. Attack ships on fire off shoulder of Orion. I watched c-beams glitter in the dark near the Tannhäuser Gate. All those moments will be lost in time, like tears in rain. Time to die.

Gaff

 * You've done a man's job, sir!

 * It's too bad she won't live. But then again, who does?

Others

 * PA Voice: A new life awaits you in the Off-World colonies. The chance to begin again in a golden land of opportunity and adventure!

Dialogue

 * Dave Holden: Describe in single words only the good things that come into your mind about your mother?
 * Leon Kowalski: My mother?
 * Holden: Yes.
 * Leon: Let me tell you about my mother! [shoots Holden]

 * Policeman: (Korean) Hey, idi-wa. (Hey, come here.)
 * Gaff: (French/Hungarian/German) Monsieur, azonnal kövessen engem, bitte. (Sir, please come with me at once.)
 * Howie Lee: He say you under arrest, Mr. Deckard.
 * Rick Deckard: Got the wrong guy, pal.
 * Gaff: (Hungarian) Lófaszt! Nehogy már! Te vagy a Blade, Blade Runner. (Horse shit! No way! You're a Blade Runner.)
 * Lee: He say you Blade Runner.
 * Deckard: Tell him I'm eating.
 * Gaff: (Japanese) Captain Bryant toka. Meni-o mae-yo. (Captain Bryant insists. Face to face.)
 * Deckard: Bryant, huh?

 * Rachael: It seems you feel our work is not of benefit to the public.
 * Rick Deckard: Replicants are like any other machine: they're either a benefit or a hazard. If they're a benefit, it's not my problem.
 * Rachael: May I ask you a personal question?
 * Deckard: Sure.
 * Rachael: Have you ever retired a human by mistake?
 * Deckard: No.
 * Rachael: But in your position that is a risk.

 * Eldon Tyrell: I'm surprised you didn't come here sooner.
 * Roy Batty: It's not an easy thing to meet your maker.
 * Tyrell: What can he do for you?
 * Roy: Can the maker repair what he makes?
 * Tyrell: Would you like to be modified?
 * Roy: [to J. F. Sebastian] Stay here. [to Tyrell] Had in mind something a little more radical.
 * Tyrell: What? What seems to be the problem?
 * Roy: Death.
 * Tyrell: Death? Well, I'm afraid that's a little out of my jurisdiction, you—
 * Roy: I want more life, fucker!

 * Eldon Tyrell: You were made as well as we could make you.
 * Roy Batty: But not to last.
 * Tyrell: The light that burns twice as bright burns half as long, and you have burned so very very brightly, Roy. Look at you. You're the prodigal son. You're quite a prize!
 * Roy: I've done questionable things.
 * Tyrell: Also extraordinary things. Revel in your time!
 * Roy: Nothing the god of biomechanics wouldn't let you in heaven for. [kisses Tyrell and kills him]

 * Hannibal Chew: You Nexus, huh? I design your eyes.
 * Roy Batty: Chew, if only you could see what I have seen with your eyes.

 * Roy Batty: [taunting Deckard with a counting rhyme] Six! Seven! Go to Hell or go to Heaven!
 * [Deckard beats Roy on the side of the head with a lead pipe]
 * Roy: Good! That's the spirit!

Voight-Kampff test questions

 * It’s your birthday. Someone gives you a calfskin wallet.

 * You’ve got a little boy. He shows you his butterfly collection plus the killing jar.

 * You’re watching television. Suddenly you realize there’s a wasp crawling on your arm.

 * You’re in a desert walking along in the sand when all of the sudden you look down, and you see a tortoise, it’s crawling toward you. You reach down, you flip the tortoise over on its back. The tortoise lays on its back, its belly baking in the hot sun, beating its legs trying to turn itself over, but it can’t, not without your help. But you’re not helping. Why is that?

 * Describe in single words, only the good things that come into your mind about your mother.

 * You're reading a magazine. You come across a full-page nude photo of a girl. You show it to your husband. He likes it so much, he hangs it on your bedroom wall.

 * You become pregnant by a man who runs off with your best friend, and you decide to get an abortion.

 * One more question: You're watching a stage play - a banquet is in progress. The guests are enjoying an appetizer of raw oysters. The entree consists of boiled dog.
 * Rachael "fails" this question when she shows more empathy for the oysters than the dogs, indicating she's a Replicant by her inappropriate emotional response.

Taglines

 * Man has made his match. Now it's his problem.

Quotes about Blade Runner

 * The purpose of this story as I saw it was that in his job of hunting and killing these replicants, Deckard becomes progressively dehumanized. At the same time, the replicants are being perceived as becoming more human. Finally, Deckard must question what he is doing, and really what is the essential difference between him and them? And, to take it one step further, who is he if there is no real difference?
 * Philip K. Dick, "P.K. Dick Interview", Devo.com, (Retrieved May 23, 2012).

 * In an earlier review of "Blade Runner," I wrote; "It looks fabulous, it uses special effects to create a new world of its own, but it is thin in its human story." This seems a strange complaint, given that so much of the movie concerns who is, and is not, human, and what it means to be human anyway. Now study that paragraph again and notice I have committed a journalistic misdemeanor. I have referred to replicants without ever establishing what a replicant is. It is a tribute to the influence and reach of "Blade Runner" that 25 years after its release virtually everyone reading this knows about replicants. Reviews of "The Wizard of Oz" never define Munchkins, do they? This is a seminal film, building on older classics like "Metropolis" (1926) or "Things to Come," but establishing a pervasive view of the future that has influenced science fiction films ever since. Its key legacies are: Giant global corporations, environmental decay, overcrowding, technological progress at the top, poverty or slavery at the bottom -- and, curiously, almost always a film noir vision. Look at "Dark City," "Total Recall," "Brazil," "12 Monkeys" or "Gattaca" and you will see its progeny. I have never quite embraced "Blade Runner," admiring it at arm's length, but now it is time to cave in and admit it to the canon.
 * Roger Ebert, “Blade Runner: The Final Cut", Roberebert.com, (November 3, 2007)

 * What I have always wondered is why the Tyrell Corporation made their androids so lifelike. Why not give them four arms and settle the matter, and get more work out of them? Is there a buried possibility that Tyrell's long-range plan is to replace humans altogether? Is the whole blade-running caper simply a cover for his scheme? But never mind. What matters to the viewer is that the ground rules seem to be in place, and apply in one of the most extraordinary worlds ever created in a film.
 * Roger Ebert, “Blade Runner: The Final Cut", Roberebert.com, (November 3, 2007)

 * That was the main area of contention between Ridley and myself at the time. I thought the audience deserved one human being on screen that they could establish an emotional relationship with. I thought I had won Ridley's agreement to that, but in fact I think he had a little reservation about that. I think he really wanted to have it both ways.
 * Harrison Ford, Hollywood Greats – Edited clip from BBC1 documentary program.

 * About ten minutes into Blade Runner, I reeled out of the theater in complete despair over its visual brilliance and its similarity to the “look” of Neuromancer, my [then] largely unwritten first novel. Not only had I been beaten to the semiotic punch, but this damned movie looked better than the images in my head! [...] It was also obvious that Scott understood the importance of information density to perceptual overload. When Blade Runner works best, it induces a lyrical sort of information sickness, that quintessentially postmodern cocktail of ecstasy and dread. It was what cyberpunk was supposed to be all about
 * William Gibson, Details, (October 1992).

 * The secret of "Blade Runner" is that Scott's fantastically baroque, future-shock imagery, all dark decay and techno-clutter, effectively becomes the story. As the layers of mood and detail settle in, the very process by which we watch the film — scanning those shimmering, claustrophobic frames for signs of life — turns into a running metaphor for what "Blade Runner" is about: a world in which humanity has been snuffed by "progress." This is perhaps the only science-fiction film that can be called transcendental.
 * Owen Gleiberman, “Blade Runner”, Entertainment Weekly, (October 02, 1992)

 * As the movie explored 1980s themes, including genetic engineering and consumerism, it said more with production design than words, detailing a grim, overcrowded future where ornate architecture has been replaced by industrial overload. Harrison Ford, as Deckard, has an apartment so cramped and blocky, he appears to be living in a game of Tetris.
 * Peter Hartlaub, “Review: 'Blade Runner'”, SFGate, (November 30, 2007)

 * In 1982, the movie Blade Runner envisaged the then far-off future world of November 2019 as being filled with lifelike androids, neon-drenched cities and ubiquitous flying cars. But November 2019 has arrived, and the future looks very different from the sci-fi noir prediction.
 * Stuart Layt, “Flying cars didn't take off but Blade Runner wasn't far off after all”, Sydney Morning Herald, (November 1, 2019)

 * “Today we use WhatsApp or FaceTime or whatever program you use to make video calls but in the movie they predicted people would go to video-phone booths,” he said. “So although the movie seemed quite advanced at the time and we are yet to get to some of its predictions, in other ways we’ve actually surpassed where the movie thought we would be.”
 * Stuart Layt, “Flying cars didn't take off but Blade Runner wasn't far off after all”, Sydney Morning Herald, (November 1, 2019)

 * THE view of the future offered by Ridley Scott's muddled yet mesmerizing Blade Runner is as intricately detailed as anything a science-fiction film has yet envisioned. The year is 2019, the place Los Angeles, the landscape garish but bleak. The city is a canyon bounded by industrial towers, some of which belch fire. Advertising billboards, which are everywhere, now feature lifelike electronic people who are the size of giants. The police cruise both horizontally and vertically on their patrol routes, but there is seldom anyone to arrest, because the place is much emptier than it used to be. In an age of space travel, anyone with the wherewithal has presumably gone away. Only the dregs remain.
 * Janet Maslin, "FUTURISTIC 'BLADE RUNNER'”, (June 25, 1982)

 * At several points in the story, Deckard is called on to wonder whether Rachael has feelings. This seems peculiar, because the icy, poised Rachael, played by Sean Young as a 1940's heroine with spaceage trimmings, seems a lot more expressive than Deckard, who is played by Harrison Ford. Mr. Ford is, for a movie so darkly fanciful, rather a colorless hero; he fades too easily into the bleak background. And he is often upstaged by Rutger Hauer, who in this film and in Night Hawks appears to be specializing in fiendish roles. Mr. Hauer is properly cold-blooded here, but there is something almost humorous behind his nastiness. In any case, he is by far the most animated performer in a film intentionally populated by automatons.
 * Janet Maslin, "FUTURISTIC 'BLADE RUNNER'”, (June 25, 1982)

 * The end of the film is both gruesome and sentimental. Mr. Scott can't have it both ways, any more than he can expect overdecoration to carry a film that has neither strong characters nor a strong story. That hasn't stopped him from trying, even if it perhaps should have.
 * Janet Maslin, "FUTURISTIC 'BLADE RUNNER'”, (June 25, 1982)

 * In the context of science fiction, Deckard is the rare existential sci-fi hero. His claims to heroism are not that of a fantasy character like Superman but of an ordinary man confronted with a situation in which he may either escape or be seduced by his environment, and whose testament of courage is that he does not resign himself to the mo-rose life of his contemporaries. Having been nurtured by a pessimistic environment, Deckard manages to rise above the dreariness and corruption of his world and es-cape the suffocating influences of the future Los Angeles, while rescuing the hunted woman he loves Since "Blade Runner" is a study of the individual's emptiness in the face of his society, Deckard succeeds in doing what few characters in Hollywood science fiction have done: He outgrows his futuristic, technologically-awesome world and reestablishes his worth as a human being (or, if you will, a replicant), something which, though not as spectacular as defeating a squadron of invading aliens or slaying a monster, is nonetheless just as triumphant –and, in a dystopian future, something even harder to accomplish.
 * David Morgan, “Film Essay for Blade Runner”, Library of Congress National Film Preservation Board, as appeared in wideanglecloseup.com.

 * It is a starkly empty film, preoccupied as it is with the thought that people themselves might be hollow. The plot depends on the notion that the replicants must be allowed to live no longer than four years, because as time passes they begin to develop raw emotions. Why emotion should be a capital offence is never sufficiently explained; but it is of a piece with the film’s investigation of a flight from feeling – what psychologist Ian D Suttie once named the “taboo on tenderness”. Intimacy here is frightful (everyone appears to live alone), especially that closeness that suggests that the replicants might be indistinguishable from us. This anxiety may originally have had tacit political resonances. In the novel that the film is based on, Philip K Dick’s thoughtful Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep? (1968), the dilemma of the foot soldier plays out, commanded to kill an adversary considered less human than ourselves, yet troubled by the possibility that the enemy are in fact no different. Shades of Vietnam darken the story, as well as memories of America’s slave-owning past. We are told that the replicants can do everything a human being can do, except feel empathy. Yet how much empathy do we feel for faraway victims or inconvenient others?
 * Michael Newton, “Tears in rain? Why Blade Runner is timeless “, The Guardian, (14 Mar 2015).

 * People tend to classify my movies as cyberpunk fictions but I personally don't think they are. There are some films that I really enjoy such as Blade Runner, and they may have been helpful in shaping my movies to a certain degree. When you create a film dealing with humans and cyborgs, you have no choice but to refer back to Ridley Scott's Blade Runner, as this movie is probably the foundation of movies with this theme. Whether I'm trying to re-appropriate his language or not may not apply to my movies, because my goal is to always make a new movie that nobody has ever seen before. I think I've proven that with Innocence.
 * Mamoru Oshii, Midnight Eye, (Sep 23, 2004).

 * You want an accounting, not a whodunnit but a what-got-dun? Blade Runner got the computerized parking meters right, and the talking streetlights. (“Cross now … cross now … don’t walk … don’t walk.”) Robot Metrokabs? So close. Streetside newsstands carrying an array of glossy magazines? Yeah, about that. Face-recognizing polygraphs? Check your phone’s forward-facing camera. We enhance digital photographs, and we have voice-controlled gadgets in our kitchens. Billionaires promise a life off-world of excitement and adventure, but we don’t even have billboard dirigibles, much less reliable rockets.
 * Adam Rogers, “Los Angeles, Blade Runner, and the Theory of Relativity”, WIRED, (11.01.2019)

 * Blade Runner always raised far more questions, literal and cosmological, than it answered, glibly presenting us with a complex and mysterious vision of our future selves, telling us only the scraps we needed to know to follow a plot about a detective who must find and kill the 21st Century equivalent of illegal aliens-so-called replicants, robots so sophisticated they can pass for humans.
 * Johanna Steinmetz, “RE-EDITED `BLADE RUNNER` BOASTS A HARD-EDGED BRILLIANCE”, CHICAGO TRIBUNE, (September 11, 1992).

 * Blade Runner is a big-budget mood piece, an existential tone poem about the precarious nature of humanity and its relationship to the planet, set in one of the most elaborately constructed and imagined futures ever put on film. Watch any of Blade Runner’s street scenes, and it’s immediately apparent how much work went into creating its near-future Los Angeles. Director Ridley Scott’s shots are densely packed, nearly cluttered, with information: old cars outfitted with industrial odds and ends; flying vehicles with blinking monitors; graffiti-covered video payphones; storefronts with blaring neon signs competing for your attention; bands of strangely dressed people carrying umbrellas lit from the handles; video advertising, some of it vaguely menacing, plastered everywhere. Dirt and smog and steam coat everything.
 * Peter Suderman, “Blade Runner’s 2019 Los Angeles helped define the American city of the future”, Vox, (Oct 2, 2017).

 * It’s not just that Harrison Ford looks dashing in neo-noir future wear or that the lighting is always moody and perfect, as if the entire city had been converted into a sultry nightclub — though none of that hurts. It’s that Blade Runner presents its futuristic city as one that is overrun by the liveliness of mass humanity. Its bustling sci-fi cityscape is defined by diversity and walkability, by commerce and cultural mixing, by industrial ingenuity and panoramas of larger-than-life advertising. Even as the city is dying, it teems with the business of life. The combination of realism and romanticism makes the movie’s 2019 Los Angeles a place you can imagine not only going to but wanting to visit.
 * Peter Suderman, “Blade Runner’s 2019 Los Angeles helped define the American city of the future”, Vox, (Oct 2, 2017).

 * With its references to off-world colonies -- where humans get "a chance to begin again in a golden land of opportunity and adventure" -- "Blade Runner" was ahead of its time in introducing the idea that there are consequences to humankind's actions on Earth.
 * Kendall Trammell, “'Blade Runner' predicted what life would be like in 2019. Here's what the movie got right -- and wrong”, CNN, (December 31, 2018).

 * The key design concept came to be called retrofitting, the idea being that once cities start to seriously break down, no one would bother to start new construction from scratch. Rather, such essentials as electrical and ventilation systems would simply be added onto the exteriors of older buildings, giving them a clunky, somehow menacing look. Progress and decay would exist hand in hand, and the city’s major buildings, like the massive, Mayan-inspired pyramid that houses the Tyrell Corp., would tower miles above the squalor below.
 * Kenneth Turan, “From the Archives: ‘Blade Runner’ went from Harrison Ford’s ‘miserable’ production to Ridley Scott’s unicorn scene, ending as a cult classic”, Los Angeles Times, (Oct. 5, 2017).

 * According to one source, the preview cards filled out after both screenings told the same story: “This was a film that made demands on an audience that wasn’t expecting a movie that made demands on them, an audience somewhat befuddled by the film and very disappointed by the ending.” It wasn’t so much that people actively disliked “Blade Runner,” they were simply unprepared for it. Another crisis had arrived.
 * Kenneth Turan, “From the Archives: ‘Blade Runner’ went from Harrison Ford’s ‘miserable’ production to Ridley Scott’s unicorn scene, ending as a cult classic”, Los Angeles Times, (Oct. 5, 2017).

Dialogue

 * Syd Mead: [My primary influence was] from Chicago and New York, because they're grid cities. And New York already had buildings over 1,000 feet — well, the Empire State Building. And so I thought, well let's add another thousand feet or so — why not? So I had this vision of these incredible tall buildings, and that triggered the idea of how do you get in and out of a building that's 3,000 feet tall? Well, you need access on the ground plane. And that's why they had these pyramids at the bottom, for greater access around the perimeter to get into the building in the first place.
 * David L. Snyder: What Ridley said was, he would draw, and Syd Mead would draw, and everyone would draw, and then "the poor bastard art departments" had to build everything.
 * Hampton Fancher: The reason I was able to write the movie, and not be distracted as I always am by a million other things, is because I was very serious about the demise of the planet. You know, this is '75. This is acid [rain]. Until 1980, it was like, Whole Earth Catalog, CoEvolution. It was important to me.
 * Mike Roe, “An Oral History Of Blade Runner's 2019 Los Angeles, Because The Future Has Arrived”, LAist, (November 5, 2019).

Cast

 * Harrison Ford - Rick Deckard
 * Rutger Hauer - Roy Batty
 * Sean Young - Rachael
 * Edward James Olmos - Gaff
 * M. Emmet Walsh - Bryant
 * Daryl Hannah - Pris
 * William Sanderson - J.F. Sebastian
 * Brion James - Leon
 * Joe Turkel - Tyrell
 * Joanna Cassidy - Zhora
 * James Hong - Hannibal Chew
 * Morgan Paull - Holden
 * Kevin Thompson - Bear
 * John Edward Allen - Kaiser
 * Hy Pyke - Taffey Lewis
 * Ben Astar - Abdul Ben Hassan

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Daniel Leech-Wilkinson

Daniel Leech-Wilkinson is a musicologist who is currently a Professor of Music at King's College London.

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 * Considering how readily musicologists criticize one another – witness the merciless footnotes (and reviews) of so many books and articles – the innocent bystander must find it strange that they remain unwilling to venture judgments about the quality of the music around which they work…But it is hard to see what can be the purpose of musicology if not to advise people on what to hear and how to hear it. Separating out the good, the bad and the indifferent, and helping listeners enjoy the best, is surely the least we can offer society in return for our keep.
 * Daniel Leech-Wilkinson (1997), "The good, the bad and the boring", Companion to Medieval & Renaissance Music. Oxford University Press. ISBN 0198165404.

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Medieval music

Medieval music, music

 * "The rhetorical process functioned in many areas other than speech: Curtius wrote about 'rhetorical landscape representations' while Serpieris speaks of 'la retorica al teatro' (the rhetorical use of theatrical space), and music historians have learned that the language and approach of musical theory in the Middle Ages were borrowed directly from medieval grammar and rhetoric."
 * Thomas Binkley (1997). "The work is not the performance", Companion to Medieval & Renaissance Music. Oxford University Press. ISBN 0198165404.

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Rhetoric

Rhetoric is the art of discourse, an art that aims to improve the capability of writers or speakers that attempt to inform, persuade, or motivate particular audiences in specific situations.

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 * The rhetorical process functioned in many areas other than speech: Curtius wrote about 'rhetorical landscape representations' while Serpieris speaks of 'la retorica al teatro' (the rhetorical use of theatrical space), and music historians have learned that the language and approach of musical theory in the Middle Ages were borrowed directly from medieval grammar and rhetoric.
 * Thomas Binkley (1997). "The work is not the performance", Companion to Medieval & Renaissance Music. Oxford University Press. ISBN 0198165404.

 * For rhetoric, he could not ope His mouth, but out there flew a trope; And when he happen'd to break off I' th' middle of his speech, or cough, H' had hard words,ready to show why, And tell what rules he did it by; Else, when with greatest art he spoke, You'd think he talk'd like other folk, For all a rhetorician's rules Teach nothing but to name his tools.
 * Samuel Butler, Hudibras, Part I (1663–1664), Canto I, line 81

 * Delivery, delivery, delivery.
 * Demosthenes, Response when asked to name the three most important components of rhetoric, as quoted in Institutio Oratoria (c. 95) by Quintilian; also in Unspoken: A Rhetoric of Silence (2004) by Cheryl Glenn, p. 150

 * It is the fault of our rhetoric that we cannot strongly state one fact without seeming to belie some other.
 * Ralph Waldo Emerson, Essays: First Series, History (1841)

 * Plato sees true rhetoric as psychology which can fulfill its truly “moving” function only if it masters original images [eide]. Thus the true philosophy is rhetoric, and the true rhetoric is philosophy, a philosophy which does not need an “external” rhetoric to convince, and a rhetoric that does not need an “external” content of verity.
 * Ernesto Grassi, Rhetoric as Philosophy, pp. 31-32 (1980)

 * “Rhetoric like this has consequences,” said Timothy J. Heaphy, the lead investigator for the select House committee that investigated the Jan. 6 attack on the Capitol and Mr. Trump’s efforts to remain in the White House after his presidency. “People who we interviewed for the Jan. 6 investigation said they came to the Capitol because politicians and the president told them to be there. Politicians think that when they say things it’s just rhetoric, but people listen to it and take it seriously. In this climate politicians need to realize this and be more responsible.”
 * Timothy J. Heaphy as quoted by Michael S. Schmidt, Alan Feuer, Maggie Haberman and Adam Goldman; “Trump Supporters’ Violent Rhetoric in His Defense Disturbs Experts”, New York Times, (June 10, 2023)

 * Academic writing excuses itself from rhetorical care in the selfless service of some precise truth—and then deforms our only means for speaking truth.
 * Mark D. Jordan, “Christian Rhetoric: Scraps for a Manifesto,” Cross Currents, 56 (3), p. 328

 * What do you believe was on the mind of the ancient Romans that they called the arts of speaking humanity? They judged that, indisputably, by the study of these disciplines not only was the tongue refined, but also the wildness and barbarity of people’s minds was amended.
 * Philipp Melanchthon, “Praise of eloquence” (1523), Orations on Philosophy and Education, C. Salazar, trans. (1999), p. 66

 * The relations between rhetoric and ethics are disturbing: the ease with which language can be twisted is worrisome, and the fact that our minds accept these perverse games so docilely is no less cause for concern.
 * Octavio Paz, El mono gramático (The Monkey Grammarian), ch. 4 (1974)

 * Rhetoric, it seems, is a producer of persuasion for belief, not for instruction in the matter of right and wrong … And so the rhetorician's business is not to instruct a law court or a public meeting in matters of right and wrong, but only to make them believe.
 * Plato, Gorgias (380 BC)

 * Rhetoric, I shall urge, should be a study of misunderstanding and its remedies.
 * I. A. Richards, Philosophy of Rhetoric (1964)

 * Since we want not emancipation from impulse but clarification of impulse, the duty of rhetoric is to bring together action and understanding into a whole that is greater than scientific perception.
 * Richard Weaver, The Ethics of Rhetoric, “The Phaedrus and the Nature of Rhetoric,” p. 24. (1953)

 * Rhetoric in its truest sense seeks to perfect men by showing them better versions of themselves, links in that chain extending up toward the ideal.
 * Richard Weaver, The Ethics of Rhetoric, “The Phaedrus and the Nature of Rhetoric,” p. 25. (1953)

 * Concerning the utility of Rhetoric, it is to be observed that it divides itself into two; first, whether Oratorical skill be, on the whole, a public benefit, or evil; and secondly, whether any artificial system of Rules is conducive to the attainment of that skill.
 * Richard Whately, Elements of Rhetoric, Introduction, p. 13 (1828)

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Music theory

Music theory is the study of how music works. It examines the language and notation of music. It seeks to identify patterns and structures in composers' techniques across or within genres, styles, or historical periods. In a grand sense, music theory distils and analyzes the fundamental parameters or elements of music—rhythm, harmony (harmonic function), melody, structure, form, texture, etc. Broadly, music theory may include any statement, belief, or conception of or about music.

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 * "The rhetorical process functioned in many areas other than speech: Curtius wrote about 'rhetorical landscape representations' while Serpieris speaks of 'la retorica al teatro' (the rhetorical use of theatrical space), and music historians have learned that the language and approach of musical theory in the Middle Ages were borrowed directly from medieval grammar and rhetoric."
 * Thomas Binkley (1997). "The work is not the performance", Companion to Medieval & Renaissance Music. Oxford University Press. ISBN 0198165404.

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Thomas Binkley

Thomas Binkley, musicologist and instumentalist in the field of early music. Director of the Studio der Frühen Musik, also known as the Early Music Quartet.

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 * The rhetorical process functioned in many areas other than speech: Curtius wrote about 'rhetorical landscape representations' while Serpieris speaks of 'la retorica al teatro' (the rhetorical use of theatrical space), and music historians have learned that the language and approach of musical theory in the Middle Ages were borrowed directly from medieval grammar and rhetoric.
 * "The work is not the performance", Companion to Medieval & Renaissance Music. (1997). Oxford University Press. ISBN 0198165404.

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Cheese

Cheese is a dairy product derived from milk that is produced in a wide range of flavors, textures, and forms by coagulation of the milk protein casein. It comprises proteins and fat from milk, usually the milk of cows, buffalo, goats, or sheep. During production, the milk is usually acidified, and adding the enzyme rennet causes coagulation. The solids are separated and pressed into final form.

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 * A poet's hope: to be, like some valley cheese, local, but prized elsewhere.
 * W. H. Auden, Collected Poems, XII 1958–71, Shorts II

 * Un dessert sans fromage est une belle à qui il manqu un œil.
 * Translation: A desert without cheese is like a beautiful woman missing an eye.
 * Jean Anthelme Brillat-Savarin, Physiologie du goût (1834), Aphorismes XIV, p. 16

 * A farmer's daughter hath soft brown hair; (Butter and eggs and a pound of cheese) And I met with a ballad, I can't say where, Which wholly consisted of lines like these.
 * Charles Stuart Calverley, Ballad

 * Poets have been mysteriously silent on the subject of cheese.
 * G. K. Chesterton, Alarms and Discursions (1910), Cheese, p. 70

 * Cheese like pizzeria, have a seat bitch please, Ikea.
 * Doja Cat, "Tia Tamera", Amala (2018), RCA

 * Cheese is the celebration of milk when it goes 'off' big-time-stylee.
 * Stephen Fry, QI, season 7, episode 10 XL

 * On ne peut pas rassembler les Françis que sous le coup de la peur. On ne peut pas rassembler à froid un pays qui compte 265 spécialités de fromages.
 * Translation: The French will only be united under the threat of danger. Nobody can simply bring together a country that has 265 kinds of cheese.
 * Charles de Gaulle, speech after the recul of the R.P.P. at the elections of 1951

 * Ye set circumquaques to make me beleue Or thinke, that the moone is made of gréene chéese.
 * You set circumstances to make me believe Or think, that the moon is made of green cheese.
 * John Heywood, Proverbs (1546), II, ch. 7

 * Our Transatlantic cousins are very fond of apple-pie. It is consumed to a large extent all over the country. Not raised apple-pie; but flat, and with a paste that is invariably very coarse and indigestible. You have a triangular-shaped slice put on your plate, and (in some parts of America) if you do not want to be singular you will eat it with a bit of cheese, Yorkshire fashion. As an American lady once graphically put it: "Apple-pie without cheese Is like a kiss without a squeeze."
 * Walter Gore Marshall, Through America: Or, Nine Months in the United States (1882), p. 99

 * A slice of pie without cheese is like a kiss without a squeeze.
 * Stephen King, Firestarter  (1980)

 * Hellish dark, and smells of cheese!
 * Robert Smith Surtees, Handley Cross (1843), ch. 50

 * Many's the long night I've dreamed of cheese — toasted, mostly.
 * Ben Gunn in Robert Louis Stevenson, Treasure Island (1883), ch. 15

 * Two-thirds of the apples and nine-tenths of the pears that we eat are imported, not to mention two thirds of the cheese. And that is a disgrace. From the apple that dropped on Isaac Newton’s head to the orchards of nursery rhymes, this fruit has always been a part of Britain. I want our children to grow up enjoying the taste of British apples as well as Cornish sardines, Norfolk turkey, Melton Mowbray pork pies, Wensleydale cheese, Herefordshire pears and of course black pudding.
 * Liz Truss, Speech delivered at the Conservative Party Conference (29 September 2014)

 * "Why did you yell, 'Cheese'?" And The Man would tell him mockingly, "Because I felt like it, you stupid machine."
 * Kurt Vonnegut, Breakfast of Champions (1973), ch. 16

 * I was upset, so I had a little brie. And a little havarti.  And…some cheddar; maybe a bit of camembert—  Anyway…
 * Miss Piggy (Eric Jacobson) in "Single All the Way," The Muppets (S1E10, 8 December 2015), story by Gregg Mettler and Nell Scovell, teleplay by Bob Kushell and Dave Caplan.

 * There's always free cheese in a mousetrap.
 * Proverb, equivalent to There is no such thing as a free lunch.
 * e.g. Longbaugh in The Way of the Gun (2000)
 * Fifty years of struggling to make ends meet have taught me one thing for sure—that you don’t get something for nothing. A mouse will always find free cheese in a mousetrap; but I never saw one that was very happy about it.
 * H. C. Diefenbach in 1950, quoted in: Sunday Times-Advertiser Trenton (NJ) (3 December 1950), Quotable Quotes, p. 10.

 * When life gives you cheese, send a thank you bell to the cow.
 * Jim from Adventures of Huckleberry Finn by Mark Twain, p. 134

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Talk:T. H. White

I feel that the quote that currently exists here is a single tract that might well be a bit too extensive to clearly fit within the range of fair use of material that is not in the public domain. I will likely add other quotes by TH White today, and might erase much of this one at that time, but will not do so immediately. ~ Kalki 10:28, 9 Jul 2004 (UTC)
 * Should this not be moved to The Once and Future King in any case? --Phil Boswell 12:03, 1 Nov 2004 (UTC)
 * Stupid me, it's already there. OK, so should it be deleted from here? --Phil Boswell 12:04, 1 Nov 2004 (UTC)

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The Once and Future King

The Once and Future King (1958) is a novel by T. H. White based on the legends of King Arthur. It developed as a composite from earlier published works, and was the basis of the musical play Camelot (1960) and the 1967 film made of that, as well as the Disney animated film The Sword in the Stone (1963).

The Sword in the Stone (1938)

 * On Mondays, Wednesdays and Fridays it was Court Hand and Summulae Logicales, while the rest of the week it was the Organon, Repetition and Astrology. The governess was always getting muddled with her astrolabe, and when she got specially muddled she would take it out of the Wart by rapping his knuckles. She did not rap Kay's knuckles, because when Kay grew older he would be Sir Kay, the master of the estate. The Wart was called the Wart because it more or less rhymed with Art, which was short for his real name.
 * Chapter 1 (opening lines)

 * The governess had red hair and some mysterious wound from which she derived a lot of prestige by showing it to all the women of the castle, behind closed doors. It was believed to be where she sat down, and to have been caused by sitting on some armour at a picnic by mistake. Eventually she offered to show it to Sir Ector, who was Kay's father, had hysterics and was sent away. They found out afterwards that she had been in a lunatic hospital for three years.
 * Chapter 1

 * "Couldn't send them to Eton, I suppose?" inquired Sir Grummore cautiously. "Long way and all that, we know." It was not really Eton that he mentioned, for the College of Blessed Mary was not founded until 1440, but it was a place of the same sort. Also they were drinking Metheglyn, not Port, but by mentioning the modern wine it is easier to give you the feel. "The only other thing," said Sir Grummore, "is to have a tutor."
 * Chapter 1

 * The Wart was not a proper son. He did not understand this, but it made him feel unhappy, because Kay seemed to regard it as making him inferior in some way. Also it was different not having a father and mother, and Kay had taught him that being different was wrong.
 * Chapter 1

 * Wart would not have been frightened of an English forest nowadays, but the great jungle of Old England was a different matter. The mad and wicked animals were not the only inhabitants of the crowded gloom. There were magicians in the forest…as well as strange animals not known to modern works of natural history. There were regular bands of Saxon outlaws, who lived together and wore green and shot with arrows which never missed. There were even a few dragons, though these were small ones, which lived under stones and could hiss like a kettle.
 * Chapter 2

 * "Excuse me, sir," said the Wart, "but can you tell me the way to Sir Ector's castle, if you don't mind?" The aged gentleman put down his bucket and looked at him. "Your name would be the Wart." "Yes, sir, please, sir." "My name," said the old man, "is Merlyn." "How do you do?" "How do." When these formalities had been concluded, the Wart had leisure to look at him more closely. The magician was staring at him with a kind of unwinking and benevolent curiosity which made him feel that it would not be at all rude to stare back.
 * Chapter 3, where Wart/Arthur meets Merlyn for the first time, but Merlyn is seeing Arthur for the last time.

 * Now ordinary people are born forwards in Time, if you understand what I mean, and nearly everything in the world goes forward too. This makes it quite easy for the ordinary people to live… But I unfortunately was born at the wrong end of time, and I have to live backwards from in front, while surrounded by a lot of people living forwards from behind. Some people call it having second sight.
 * Chapter 3

 * Merlyn stopped talking and looked at the Wart in an anxious way. "Have I told you this before?" "No, we only met about half an hour ago." "So little time to pass?" and a big tear ran down to the end of his nose. He wiped it off with his pyjamas and added anxiously, "Am I going to tell it you again?"
 * Chapter 3

 * Merlyn took the Wart's hand and said kindly, "You are young, and do not understand these things. But you will learn that owls are the most courteous, single-hearted and faithful creatures living. You must never be familiar, rude or vulgar with them, or make them look ridiculous. Their mother is Athene, the goddess of wisdom, and, although they are often ready to play the buffoon to amuse you, such conduct is the prerogative of the truly wise. No owl can possibly be called 'Archie'." "I am sorry, owl," said the Wart.
 * Chapter 3

 * The Wart started talking before he was half-way over the drawbridge. "Look who I have brought," he said. "Look! I have been on a Quest! I was shot at with three arrows. They had black and yellow stripes. The owl is called Archimedes. I saw King Pellinore. This is my tutor, Merlyn. I went on a Quest for him. He was after the Questing Beast. I mean King Pellinore. It was terrible in the forest. Merlyn made the plates wash up."
 * Chapter 4

 * "Oh, my own random, wicked little lamb!"
 * Chapter 4, the nurse, relieved at Wart's safe return from his unplanned quest.

 * "Oh, sir," said the Wart, "I have been on that quest you said for a tutor, and I have found him. Please, he is this gentleman here, and he is called Merlyn…He is a great magician." "Ah, a magician," said Sir Ector, "White magic, I hope?" "Assuredly," said Merlyn. "Ought to have some testimonials," said Sir Ector doubtfully. "It's usual." "Testimonials," said Merlyn, holding out his hand. Instantly there were some heavy tablets in it, signed by Aristotle, a parchment signed by Hecate, and some typewritten duplicates signed by the Master of Trinity, who could not remember having met him. All these gave Merlyn an excellent character.
 * Chapter 4

 * "I do not think much of it as a quest," said Kay. "Kay," said Merlyn, suddenly terrible, "thou wast ever a proud and ill-tongued speaker, and a misfortunate one. Thy sorrow will come from thine own mouth." At this everybody felt uncomfortable, and Kay, instead of flying into his usual passion, hung his head. He was not at all an unpleasant person really, but clever, quick, proud, passionate and ambitious. He was one of those people who would be neither a follower nor a leader, but only an aspiring heart… Merlyn repented of his rudeness at once. He made a little silver hunting-knife come out of the air, which he gave him to put things right. The knob of the handle was made of the skull of a stoat and Kay loved it.
 * Chapter 4

 * Think for how many centuries that unconquerable tower has withstood. It has changed hands by secession often, by siege once, by treachery twice, but never by assault. On this tower the look-out hoved. From here he kept the guard over the blue woods towards Wales. His clean old bones lie beneath the floor of the chapel now, so you must keep it for him.
 * Chapter 5, from White's guide-book style description of Castle Sauvage

 * In Sir Ector's kennel there was a special boy, called the Dog Boy, who lived with the hounds day and night. He was none other than the one who had his nose bitten off by the terrible Wat. Not having a nose like a human, and being, moreover, subjected to stone-throwing by the other village children, he had become more comfortable with animals. He talked to them, not in baby-talk like a maiden lady, but correctly in their own growls and barks. They all loved him very much, and revered him for taking thorns out of their toes, and came to him with their troubles at once. He always understood immediately what was wrong, and generally he could put it right. It was nice for the dogs to have their god with them, in visible form.
 * Chapter 5

 * "Please," said the Wart, "I don't know what I ought to ask." "There is nothing," said the monarch, "except the power which you pretend to seek: power to grind and power to digest…all power and pitilessness springing from the nape of the neck…Love is a trick played on us by the forces of evolution. Pleasure is the bait laid down by the same. There is only Power. Power is of the individual mind, but the mind's power is not enough. Power of the body decides everything in the end, and only Might is Right."
 * Chapter 5, Wart's brief lesson from "Mr. P," an enormous pike and King of the Moat at Castle Sauvage. Many of Merlyn's lessons and debates with Wart (before and after he becomes king) are focused on convincing him to reject the "might makes right" ethos.

 * "What is it that you want me to do?" "Turn me and Kay into snakes or something." Merlyn took off his spectacles, dashed them on the floor and jumped on them with both feet. "Castor and Pollux blow me to Bermuda!" he exclaimed, and immediately vanished with a frightful roar. When Merlyn reappeared, he had lost his hat and his hair and beard were tangled up, as if by a hurricane. "Why did you do that?" asked the Wart. "I did not do it on purpose."
 * Chapter 9

 * "Well," Robin Wood said, "suppose that Morgan le Fay is the queen of the fairies, or at any rate has to do with them, and that fairies are not the kind of creatures your nurse has told you about. Some people say they are the Oldest Ones of All, who lived in England before the Romans came here — before us Saxons, before the Old Ones themselves — and that they have been driven underground…They know things down there in their burrows which the human race has forgotten about, and quite a lot of these things are not good to hear." "Whisper," said the golden lady, with a strange look.
 * Chapter 10, In White's story, Robin Hood is called Robin Wood, who lives in a forest of the same name.

 * EVERYTHING NOT FORBIDDEN IS COMPULSORY
 * Chapter 13, banner inside an ant colony.

 * Master Twyti stroked Beaumont's head and said, "Hark to Beaumont. Softly, Beaumont, mon amy. Oyez a Beaumont the valiant. Swef, le douce Beaumont, swef, swef." Beaumont licked his hand but could not wag his tail. The huntsman nodded to Robin, who was standing behind, and held the hound's eyes with his own. He said, "Good dog, Beaumont the valiant, sleep now, old friend Beaumont, good old dog." Then Robin's falchion let Beaumont out of this world, to run free with Orion and roll among the stars.
 * Chapter 16

 * It was at this moment that King Pellinore reappeared. Even before he came into view they could hear him crashing in the undergrowth and calling out, "I say, I say! Come here at once! A most dreadful thing has happened!" The spectacle which they came across was one for which they were not prepared. In the middle of a dead gorse bush King Pellinore was sitting, with the tears streaming down his face. In his lap there was an enormous snake's head, which he was patting. At the other end of the snake's head there was a long, lean, yellow body with spots on it. At the end of the body there were some lion's legs which ended in the slots of a hart. "There, there," the King was saying. "I did not mean to leave you altogether. It was only because I wanted to sleep in a feather bed, just for a bit. I was coming back, honestly I was. Oh please don't die, Beast, and leave me without any fewmets!… Now, then, Ector! Don't stand there like a ninny. Fetch that barrel of wine along at once." They brought the barrel and poured out a generous tot for the Questing Beast.
 * Chapter 16

 * "There are no boundaries among the geese. How can you have boundaries if you fly? Those ants of yours — and the humans too — would have to stop fighting in the end, if they took to the air."
 * Ch. 18, Wart and the goose Lyo-lyok

 * "The best thing for being sad…is to learn something. That is the only thing that never fails. You may grow old and trembling in your anatomies, you may lie awake in the middle of the night listening to the disorder of your veins, you may miss your only love, you may see the world around you devastated by evil lunatics, or know your honour trampled in the sewers of baser minds. There is only one thing for it then — to learn. Learn why the world wags and what wags it. That is the only thing the mind can never exhaust, never alienate, never be tortured by, never fear or distrust, and never dream of regretting."
 * Chapter 21, Merlyn, to Wart.

 * "Do you mean to tell me," exclaimed Sir Grummore indignantly, "that there ain't no King of Gramarye?" "Not a scrap of one," cried King Pellinore, feeling important. "And there have been signs and wonders of no mean might." "What sort of signs and wonders?" asked Sir Ector. "Well, there has appeared a sort of sword in a stone, what, in a sort of a church…" "I don't know what the Church is coming to," said Sir Grummore.
 * Chapter 22, King Pellinore has brought news to Castle Sauvage that King Uther Pendragon has died without an heir. (Pellinore's petty kingdom is not identified in this book)

 * "I think it's a scandal," said Sir Grummore. "God knows what the dear old country is comin' to. Due to these lollards and communists, no doubt."
 * Chapter 22

 * "There are words written on this sword in this stone outside this church," cried King Pellinore piteously, "and these words are as follows…” "Some red propaganda, no doubt," remarked Sir Grummore. King Pellinore closed his eyes tight, extended his arms in both directions, and announced in capital letters, "WHOSO PULLETH OUT THIS SWORD OF THIS STONE AND ANVIL, IS RIGHTWISE KING BORN OF ALL ENGLAND." "Who said that?" "But the sword said it, like I tell you." "Talkative weapon," remarked Sir Grummore, skeptically.
 * Chapter 22

 * "How does one get hold of a sword?" the Wart continued. He turned his mount and cantered off along the street. There was a quiet churchyard at the end of it, with a kind of square in front of the church door. In the middle of the square there was a heavy stone with an anvil on it, and a fine new sword was stuck through the anvil. "Well," said the Wart, "I suppose it is some sort of war memorial, but it will have to do." He strode up the gravel path, and took hold of the sword. "Come, sword," he said. "I must cry your mercy and take you for a better cause."
 * Chapter 23

 * "Oh, Merlyn," cried the Wart, "help me to get this weapon." There was a kind of rushing noise…All round the churchyard there were hundreds of old friends…badgers and nightingales and vulgar crows and hares and wild geese and falcons and fishes and dogs and dainty unicorns and solitary wasps and corkindrills and hedgehogs and griffins and the thousand other animals he had met. Some of them had come from the banners in the church, where they were painted in heraldry, some from the waters and the sky and the fields about — but all, down to the smallest shrew mouse, had come to help on account of love. Wart felt his power grow. He walked up to the great sword for the third time. He put out his right hand softly and drew it out as gently as from a scabbard.
 * Chapter 23

 * "Father…Do you remember that sword which the King of England would pull out?" Kay said. "Yes." "Well, here it is. I have it. It is in my hand. I pulled it out." Sir Ector did not say anything silly. He looked at Kay and he looked at the Wart. Then he stared at Kay again, long and lovingly, and said, "We will go back to the church." … "Now then, Kay," he said, when they were at the church door. He looked at his first-born kindly, but straight between the eyes. "Here is the stone, and you have the sword. It will make you the King of England. You are my son that I am proud of, and always will be, whatever you do. Will you promise me that you took it out by your own might?" Kay looked at his father. He also looked at the Wart and at the sword. Then he handed the sword to the Wart quite quietly. "I am a liar. Wart pulled it out."
 * Chapter 23

 * As far as the Wart was concerned, there was a time after this in which Sir Ector kept telling him to put the sword back into the stone — which he did — and in which Sir Ector and Kay then vainly tried to take it out. The Wart took it out for them, and stuck it back again once or twice. After this, there was another time which was more painful. He saw that his dear guardian was looking quite old and powerless, and that he was kneeling down with difficulty on a gouty knee. "Sir," said Sir Ector, without looking up, although he was speaking to his own boy. "Please do not do this, father," said the Wart, kneeling down also. "Let me help you up, Sir Ector, because you are making me unhappy." "Nay, nay, my lord," said Sir Ector, "I was never your father nor of your blood, but I wote well ye are of an higher blood than I wend ye were." "Plenty of people have told me you are not my father," said the Wart, "but it does not matter a bit." "Sir," said Sir Ector humbly, "will ye be my good and gracious lord when ye are King?" "Oh, father, don't kneel down like that, because it breaks my heart. Please get up, Sir Ector, and don't make everything so horrible. Oh, dear, oh, dear, I wish I had never seen that filthy sword at all."
 * Chapter 23

 * Perhaps there ought to be a chapter about the coronation. The barons naturally kicked up a fuss, but, as the Wart was prepared to go on putting the sword into the stone and pulling it out again till Doomsday, and as there was nobody else who could do the thing at all, in the end they had to give in. A few of the Gaelic ones revolted, who were quelled later, but in the main the people of England and the partizans like Robin were glad to settle down. They were sick of the anarchy which had been their portion under Uther Pendragon: sick of overlords and feudal giants, of knights who did what they pleased, of racial discrimination, and of the rule of Might as Right.
 * Chapter 24

The Queen of Air and Darkness (1939)

 * Why can't you harness Might so that it works for Right? I know it sounds nonsense, but, I mean, you can't just say there is no such thing. The Might is there, in the bad half of people, and you can't neglect it. You can't cut it out but you might be able to direct it, if you see what I mean, so that it was useful instead of bad.
 * Ch. 6

 * "By the way. You remember that argument we were having about aggression? Well, I have thought of a good reason for starting a war." Merlyn froze. "I would like to hear it." "A good reason for starting a war is simply to have a good reason! For instance, there might be a king who had discovered a new way of life for human beings — you know, something which would be good for them. It might even be the only way from saving them from destruction. Well, if the human beings were too wicked or too stupid to accept his way, he might have to force it on them, in their own interests by the sword." The magician clenched his fists, twisted his gown into screws, and began to shake all over. "Very interesting," he said in a trembling voice. "Very interesting. There was just such a man when I was young — an Austrian who invented a new way of life and convinced himself that he was the chap to make it work. He tried to impose his reformation by the sword, and plunged the civilized world into misery and chaos. But the thing which this fellow had overlooked, my friend, was that he had had a predecessor in the reformation business, called Jesus Christ. Perhaps we may assume that Jesus knew as much as the Austrian did about saving people. But the odd thing is that Jesus did not turn the disciples into storm troopers, burn down the Temple at Jerusalem, and fix the blame on Pontius Pilate. On the contrary, he made it clear that the business of the philosopher was to make ideas available, and not to impose them on people."
 * Ch. 8 Conversation between Sir Kay and Merlin

The Ill-Made Knight (1940)

 * "You must come and stay with me," said the King. "That is in the stones also. Show you the holy dish some day, and all that. Teach you arithmetic. Nice weather. Don't have daughters unboiled every day. I think dinner will be ready."
 * King Pelles

 * Don't ever let anybody teach you to think, Lance: it is the curse of the world.
 * Arthur

 * If people reach perfection they vanish, you know.
 * Arthur

 * But there was a time when each of us stood naked before the world, confronting life as a serious problem with which we were intimately and passionately concerned. There was a time when it was of vital interest to us to find out whether there was a God or not. Obviously the existence or otherwise of a future life must be of the very first importance to somebody who is going to live her present one, because her manner of living it must hinge on the problem. There was a time when Free Love versus Catholic Morality was a question of as much importance to our hot bodies as if a pistol had been clapped to our heads. Further back, there were times when we wondered with all our souls what the world was, what love was, what we were ourselves.
 * Chapter 13

The Candle in the Wind (1958)

 * I would do anything for King Arthur.
 * Sir Thomas of Warwick

 * But it was too late for another effort then. For that time it was his destiny to die, or, as some say, to be carried off to Avilion, where he could wait for better days. For that time it was Lancelot's fate and Guenever's to take the tonsure and the veil, while Mordred must be slain. The fate of this man or that man was less than a drop, although it was a sparkling one, in the great blue motion of the sunlit sea. The cannons of his adversary were thundering in the tattered morning when the Majesty of England drew himself up to meet the future with a peaceful heart.
 * Ch. 15

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Talk:Hippocrates

Unsourced
Wikiquote no longer allows unsourced quotations, and they are in process of being removed from our pages (see Wikiquote:Limits on quotations); but if you can provide a reliable, precise and verifiable source for any quote on this list please move it to Hippocrates. --Antiquary 18:11, 29 July 2009 (UTC)

 * That which is used develops. That which is not used wastes away.
 * Famous "quote". Often stated, since the 1970s and before. Often attributed to Hippocrates. Never sourced. (Currently stated at Strength training.) - A876 (talk) 20:59, 1 May 2018 (UTC)

 * He who does not understand astrology is not a doctor but a fool.

 * I approve of theorizing if it lays its foundation in incident, and deduces its conclusions in accordance with phenomena.

 * Idleness and lack of occupation tend — nay are dragged — towards evil.

 * If we could give every individual the right amount of nourishment and exercise, not too little and not too much, we would have found the safest way to health.

 * It is more important to know what sort of person has a disease than to know what sort of disease a person has.

 * Let your food be medicine and your medicine be food.

 * People believe that this disease is sacred simply because they don't know what causes it? But some day I believe they will, and the moment they figure out why people have epilepsy, it will cease to be considered divine.
 * I doubt that Hippocrates would have used language like "figure out". - 80.86.36.97 13:06, 9 July 2004
 * Bear in mind: Hippocrates wrote in Greek. Any English version may loosely use idioms available to the translator, which does not in itself invalidate the source.--IGE (talk) 11:20, 14 August 2019 (UTC)

 * Prayer indeed is good, but while calling on the gods a man should himself lend a hand.

 * Science is the father of knowledge, but opinion breeds ignorance.

 * There are, in fact, two things: science and opinion; the former begets knowledge, the latter ignorance.

 * Walking is man's best medicine.

 * Before you heal someone, ask him if he's willing to give up the things that make him sick.

Spurious

 * War is the only proper school of the surgeon.
 * This quote is false, being based on Hippocrates - The Physician 14 which states that "Related to this is the surgery of wounds arising in military service, which concerns the extraction of missiles. In city practice experience of these is but little, for very rarely even in a whole lifetime are there civil or military combats. In fact such things occur most frequently and continuously in armies abroad. Thus, the person intending to practice this kind of surgery must serve in the army, and accompany it on expeditions abroad; for in this way he would become experienced in this practice." - 81.235.144.52 09:50, 24 December 2015

The disputed quote
I have just added the source of the disputed quote “be food thy medicine”.

I added the Greek text from the corpus, since it is also tricky to translate (it needs a revision and probably some improvement).

I hope it helps to understand where the misunderstanding comes from.

For those who are able to read French, this may be a good explanation.

Feel free to edit or correct what I wrote, --Ousia (talk) 18:23, 12 August 2023 (UTC)

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Wikiquote talk:Quote of the day/Quote proposals

Short statement of what I look for in a Quote of the Day:
As I have been the primary selector of Quotes of the Day since late last year, I feel I should provide some indications of what I look for, and I hope future administrators will continue to look for, when choosing material for the Quote of the Day.

I generally prefer statements that I believe are, or which can in some way be, a positive inspiration to people, but that does not mean I desire to totally exclude statements that are critical or even derisive and clearly meant to mock, if they seem sufficiently significant or amusing, but I generally prefer to avoid them, and feel there are certainly extremes that should never be indulged on the Main Page.

Within the articles that are created I support a policy of non-censorship of what many or most might regard as profanity within any genuine quotation, but I strongly feel that any quotes of the day should always reflect a greater self restraint, and respect for human dignity. I certainly do not wish to scare anyone away or offend them with a "Main Page" declaration that many, or even most people would find offensive or insulting. I, or other sysops or users might eventually erase such proposals as inappropriate, and unlikely to ever be accepted.

Sometimes I will have several quotations in mind on a subject, or ranges of subjects, and will try to present them over several days to be subtly emphatic, interesting, or amusing in various ways that the quotes independently might not be, and I hope that some people at least will appreciate some of these cases.

I sometimes try to look ahead to certain days of the year to have something topical, but leave myself free to react to current events with what might be more appropriate quotations, specifically those of notable figures who pass away from our lives with the passage of time, and who have said such things as might be eternally significant.

There are good candidates that have been suggested, and many of these may eventually be used, but I don't consider it necessary to use them immediately, and hope that their exposure on the proposals page will be sufficient until they are chosen.

In the months ahead I hope there will be many more participants in the Wikiquote project, and many more administrators engaged in developing and presenting many ideas, protecting it, and increasing its integrity and popularity. I would like this to eventually become the first place many people go to when searching for quotations, and the last that they usually require. Yet, like any good internet site it should not be designed to be the last place anyone goes to when seeking information and ideas, but a place where they know that they can find valuable material and links to other worthwhile sites, and thus a worthy companion of the Wikipedia project. Encouraging greater levels of thought, reflection, and awareness of profound, amusing, or otherwise interesting assertions is one of the primary objectives that I feel we should emphasize as we build this sites resources. ~ Kalki 13:13, 9 Jul 2004 (UTC)

Removing a flood of quotes from someone…
I just removed the group of quotations which follows this paragraph from the Quote of the Day proposals page. Unless we want to be overwhelmed by a flood of some obscure Dip Drip's Quips, and the BS of someone's Sacred Chao, there should probably be a policy limiting the number of quotations on this page from any one person of any specific person or work, and an insistance that it be an already famous person or work. Who the hell is JDK, and to paraphrase an expression of certain perspectives, who the hell hasn't met God?

There are other rather pointless or tasteless quotes that I think should be removed, but I will constrain myself to these for now. - Van Helsing 09:56, 22 Jul 2004 (UTC)

 * Absolved: Equal to a good Jewish lawyer. JDK before he met God.
 * Abstain: A cuss word used by parents and Roman Catholic priests to point out what they themselves do all the time.JDK before he met God.
 * Absurd: Said of what others get and we never do.JDK before he met God.
 * Accessible: Said of the woman who sleeps with us after the second date. JDK before he met God.
 * Accident: The kind of explanation we concoct when we are trying to tell our wife where we were until 3 AM in the morning. JDK before he met God.
 * Acrobat: Said of the office worker who has two mistresses, five children, two unpaid for cars and makes $12 an hour.JDK before he met God.
 * Adieu: "Good by" but said in French for use of the rich when they quarrel for good. JDK before he met God.
 * Adjective:Said of the new suit we put on a noun.JDK before he met God.
 * Administrator: Said of the $120,000 a year do nothing who allows ten $6 dollar-an hour employees to care for his business.JDK before he met God.
 * Adolescence: It is to have pimples all over the face and to write poetry in the bathroom so that mom does not notice. JDK before he met God.
 * Adult: A person committing adultery.JDK before he met God.
 * Adultery: "Activities adults engage in." JDK before he met God.
 * Besides: The word we use when we run out of arguments. JDK before he met God.
 * Caress: Verb reserved for the last row of the motion picture theater. JDK before he met God.
 * Delicious woman: Said of the other guy´s wife when she is near us.JDK before he met God.
 * Difficult: It is said of the woman who goes to bed with us after our third date. JDK before he met God.
 * Easy: Said of the woman who sleeps with us after our first date.JDK before he met God.
 * Event:The day the baby grows his first teeth. JDK before he met God.
 * Intercourse: Ryhtmic yoga-like contorsions for the young. I propose that, like in karate, there should be a black belt, a blue belt and a red belt, this last one as a signal for foul weather. JDK before he met God.
 * Overcoat: The kind of heavy stuff foreigners bring in their bags and put into the closet the minute they arrive in Miami. JDK before he met God.
 * Rich man: A poor guy with money. JDK before he met God.
 * To counsel:To tell the other guy what we cannot face to do ourselves. JDK before he met God.
 * To train: It is to teach others what we cannot do ourselves. JDK before he met God.

Statements added by Odiaka Emmanuel
Odiaka Emmanuel is my name. I hail from Nigeria. And by way of appreciation to the unquantifiable job you people are doing, I've decided to make these contributions by way of quote(s):

I am not afraid to work and put in my best to duty, however I am afraid of exploitation. ~ Odiaka Emmanuel

In matters of family and loyalty, my mum remains the undisputed champion while my wife is the reigning champion. ~ Odiaka Emmanuel

Obtaining a university degree seems no more important in this part of the world; what is important now is what we do after graduation. ~ Odiaka Emmanuel

May I respectfully submit that I think you are doing a fairly lousy job of selecting QOTD's. I have been a contributor to Wikiquote since it's inception, and am a long time contributor to Wikipedia (See user:pacian.) I find that you are neglecting a very important facet in assembling a QOTD archive: DIVERSITY! I liked things much better when the QOTD was alterable via the front page by anyone. Then we had interesting and culturally signifigant quotes from a diverse selection of people: Wil Wheaton (actor,) Salt 'N' Pepa (Rappers,) and so forth in addition to philosophers, scholars and the like. I see QOTD's on the suggested page that have been neglected for over a month.

I propose that it really shouldn't be your job (or anyone's) to decide which quote is "good enough" to go on the QOTD. I believe, instead, that suggested quotes should be submitted and dated and used in the order of which they were submitted, and ONLY be disqualified if they are extremely offensive or just simply not noteworthy in *ANY* respect (IE: something trivial like "Cheese is delicious" - John Q. Public.)

I'm sure this will fall on deaf ears, but 'tis my opinion. 208.54.95.131 05:56, 11 Sep 2004 (UTC)

May I 'propose' something of my own?
'Quote' is a verb: I quote Shakespeare.

The noun is 'quotation'.

"Quote of the day" makes such an excellent concept smack of animated GIFs and ambient midi music.

I don't come round here often, so I wasn't sure where to put this. I apologise if it frays your delicate rubrics. 82.32.83.19 16:10, 4 Jun 2005 (UTC)

 * It has given me an chance to indulge myself somewhat in a slight attempt at humor...

 * I think most of us are well aware of this issue, but to quote a dictionary site, which includes its use as a noun as well as a verb: "People have been using the noun quote as a truncation of quotation for over 100 years, and its use in less formal contexts is widespread today." I find it somewhat silly actually to insist on forbidding its recognition as a completely legitimate noun. There are so many words in the english language that have long had both noun and verb meanings. Some people might like to nail it, as if with a nail, permanently to a wall of mandates, and mandate a will to wall out all variation. I personally would prefer to hammer the presumption with a hammer of wit until it no longer raise its ugly head in any attempt to head a drive to drive away any wave of innovation of those who would wave their hand in a friendly manner and dismiss such objections. They do not object to the flow of change, and flow with an object of welcoming much of what they must continually encounter, rather than continually insisting on encountering only what they might wish to give their fullest welcome.

 * This is just a bit of spur of the moment wit, spurred on by a bit of weariness of too great an insistence on the formal past use of the form, which some would allow to form a permanent obstacle to any change. I would simply like to change their minds somewhat. Have fun! ~ Kalki 17:52, 4 Jun 2005 (UTC)

 * To the learned anonymous user who took exception to our use of "quote" as a noun: fear not. Our rubrics are not nearly as delicate as you might suspect, and are not frayed by criticism. In fact, critical discussion of principles and policies are necessary for a healthy wiki. But I would advise you to update your knowledge of the English language. As Kalki pointed out, "quote" is quite commonly used as a noun in modern English. Please note that both Merriam-Webster Online and Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary accept "quote" as a variation on "quotation" (although Cambridge does consider it an informal use). As I'm sure you know, many such vocabulary changes are inevitable in a dynamic society, and the English language, in my humble opinion, is strengthened by its ability to accomodate and even embrace these linguistic drifts.

 * As for the comparison to animated GIFs and ambient MIDI music, I'm afraid your conceit eludes my discernment. — Jeff Q (talk) 19:58, 4 Jun 2005 (UTC)

 * Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary accept "quote" as a variation on "quotation" (although Cambridge does consider it an informal use)

 * -Should such an already learned community of quotationistas accept advice from a Learner's Dictionary?
 * More to the point, whereas the so-called verb to quote may well be acceptable in conveying meaning (might I note at this point your acknowledgement of an "informal" connotation surrounding that particular contraction), it is most certainly inferior to the purpose-built noun. While I take no quarrel to the name Wikiquote (which can be interpreted as denoting the action implied in quoting, and as a proper noun I have no business repudiating anyway), the formality of this esteemed collection of phrases aches to be graced with the grammar it deserves.
 * To contract my own rather lengthy reply, while a quotation may be a thing of beauty made no less brilliant by any monosyllabic moniker, the imposition of a word of action into a noun's descriptive role amounts to no less than verbal abuse of the severest degree. 82.32.83.19 17:25, 6 Jun 2005 (UTC)

 * In the immortal words of Bill Watterson's Calvin: Verbing weirds language. The word "quote" was a noun long before it morphed into a verb. It meant citation, and referred to a number (from Latin quotus, "of what number or quantity") or other demarcation in the source text. When it was first verbed it meant to cite, i.e, to give the number of. Hence, as I always say, "if it ain't cited, it ain't a quote."(You can quote me on that.) It is only when it was renouned that it lost the connection with the source and came to refer to the words repeated or, more execrably, attributed without citation. ~ Ningauble (talk) 15:10, 17 September 2012 (UTC)


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Wikiquote:Quote of the day/2003

In the first six months of the Wikiquote project a new Quote of the Day was not always selected for each day, and sometimes several days would pass before a new one was chosen.

December 2003

 * "I cannot believe in a God who wants to be praised all the time." ~ Friedrich Nietzsche

 * "They were nothing like the French people I had imagined. If anything, they were too kind, too generous and too knowledgable in the fields of plumbing and electricity." ~ David Sedaris

 * "The time is always right to do what is right" ~ Martin Luther King, Jr.

 * "Judge not, and ye shall not be judged: condemn not, and ye shall not be condemned: forgive, and ye shall be forgiven." ~ Yeshua (Jesus Christ)

 * "We are not afraid to follow truth wherever it may lead, nor to tolerate any error so long as reason is left free to combat it." ~ Thomas Jefferson

 * "That virtue we appreciate is as much ours as anothers. We see so much only as we possess." ~ Henry David Thoreau

 * "Men are born ignorant, not stupid. They are made stupid by education." ~ Bertrand Russell

 * "Someday, after mastering the winds, the waves, the tides and gravity, we shall harness for God the energies of love, and then, for a second time in the history of the world, man will have discovered fire." ~ Pierre Teilhard de Chardin

 * "Some mornings it just doesn't seem worth it to gnaw through the leather straps." ~ Emo Phillips

 * "If your morals make you dreary, depend upon it, they are wrong. I do not say give them up, for they may be all you have, but conceal them like a vice lest they spoil the lives of better and simpler people." ~ Robert Louis Stevenson

 * "What we cannot speak of we must pass over in silence." ~ Ludwig Wittgenstein

 * "I'm completely in favor of the separation of Church and State. My idea is that these two institutions screw us up enough on their own, so both of them together is certain death." ~ George Carlin

 * "I have never let my schooling get in the way of my education." ~ Mark Twain

 * "For myself, I am an optimist— it does not seem to be much use being anything else." ~ Winston Churchill

November 2003

 * "Security is mostly a superstition... Life is either a daring adventure, or nothing." ~ Helen Keller

 * "If the only prayer you said in your whole life was, 'Thank You', that would suffice." ~ Meister Eckhart

 * "A coward is incapable of exhibiting love; it is the prerogative of the brave." ~ Mohandas Gandhi

 * "One's philosophy is not best expressed in words; it is expressed in the choices one makes. In the long run, we shape our lives and we shape ourselves. The process never ends until we die. And, the choices we make are ultimately our own responsibility." ~ Eleanor Roosevelt

 * "A beginning is the time for taking the most delicate care that the balances are correct. This every sister of the Bene Gesserit knows." ~ Frank Herbert in Dune

 * "The growing good of the world is partly dependent on unhistoric acts; and that things are not so ill with you and me as they might have been, is half owing to the number who lived faithfully a hidden life, and rest in unvisited tombs." ~ George Eliot

 * "The Enlightened take things Lightly." ~ Principia Discordia

 * "Each friend represents a world in us, a world possibly not born until they arrive, and it is only by this meeting that a new world is born." ~ Anaïs Nin

 * "God is an Iron" ~ Spider Robinson

October 2003

 * "I really believe that if there's any kind of God, he wouldn't be in any one of us— not you, not me, but just this space in between. If there's some magic in this world, it must be in the attempt of understanding someone else, sharing something." ~ Before Sunrise (motion picture)

 * "He who fights with monsters should look to it that he himself does not become a monster. And when you gaze long into an abyss the abyss also gazes into you." ~ Friedrich Nietzsche

 * "Sex is only dirty if it's done right." ~ Woody Allen

 * "The reason that clichés become clichés is that they are the hammers and screwdrivers in the toolbox of communication." ~ Terry Pratchett

 * "We've moved away from being a culture of people who think about movies to one made up of people who believe that spouting a list of preferences is the same as registering an opinion." ~ Stephanie Zacharek

 * "One of the basic tenets of Zen Buddhism is that there is no way to characterize what Zen is. No matter what verbal space you try to enclose Zen in, it resists, and spills over..." ~ Gödel, Escher, Bach: an Eternal Golden Braid by Douglas Hofstadter

 * "That man is an Euclidian point: position without substance." ~ Ernest Rutherford

 * "We shall not cease from exploration And the end of all our exploring Will be to arrive where we started And know the place for the first time." ~ The Four Quartets by T. S. Eliot ~

September 2003

 * "Outside of the killings, DC has one of the lowest crime rates in the country." ~ Marion Barry

 * "If homosexuality is a disease, let's all call in queer to work. 'Hello, can't work today. Still queer.'" ~ Robin Tyler

 * "You can build a throne with bayonets, but you can't sit on it for long." ~ Boris Yeltsin

 * "We have a firm commitment to NATO; we are a part of NATO. We have a firm commitment to Europe; we are a part of Europe." ~ Dan Quayle

 * "As for the future, your task is not to forsee it, but to enable it." ~ Antoine de Saint-Exupery

 * "Since love and fear can hardly exist together, if we must choose between them, it is far safer to be feared than loved." ~ Niccolo Machiavelli

 * "When smashing monuments, save the pedestals— they always come in handy." ~ Stanislaw Jerzy Lec

 * "I never desire to converse with a man who has written more than he has read." ~ Samuel Johnson

 * "Remember that time is money." ~ Benjamin Franklin

 * "It's not that I'm afraid to die, I just don't want to be there when it happens." ~ Woody Allen

 * "One can promise actions, but not feelings, for the latter are involuntary. He who promises to love forever or hate forever or be forever faithful to someone is promising something that is not in his power." ~ Human, All Too Human by Friedrich Nietzsche

 * "Our chiefs said 'Done,' and I did not deem it; Our seers said 'Peace,' and it was not peace; Earth will grow worse till men redeem it, And wars more evil, ere all wars cease." ~ A Song of Defeat by Gilbert Keith Chesterton ~

 * "Your theory is crazy, but it's not crazy enough to be true." ~ Niels Bohr

 * "Never burn a penny candle looking for a halfpenny." ~ Irish proverb

 * "It is now possible for a flight attendant to get a pilot pregnant." ~ Richard Ferris

 * "What's another word for Thesaurus?" ~ Steven Wright

 * "Dare to be naïve." ~ Buckminster Fuller

 * "Most people today still believe, perhaps unconsciously, in the heliocentric universe ... every newspaper in the land has a section on astrology, yet few have anything at all on astronomy." ~ Hannes Alfven

 * "Every man desires to live long, but no man would be old." ~ Jonathan Swift

 * "There's nothing in the middle of the road but a yellow stripe and dead armadillos." ~ Jim Hightower

 * "Ars longa, vita brevis." ("Art is long, life is short.") ~ Horace

August 2003

 * "Government is too big and too important to be left to the politicians." ~ Chester Bowles

 * "I don't like spinach, and I'm glad I don't, because if I liked it I'd eat it, and I just hate it." ~ Clarence Darrow

 * "Certain old men prefer to rise at dawn, taking a cold bath and a long walk with an empty stomach and otherwise mortifying the flesh. They then point with pride to these practices as the cause of their sturdy health and ripe years; the truth being that they are hearty and old, not because of their habits, but in spite of them. The reason we find only robust persons doing this thing is that it has killed all the others who have tried it." ~ The Devil's Dictionary by Ambrose Bierce

 * "He caught glimpses of everything, but saw nothing." ~ Les Miserables by Victor Hugo

 * "One half of the world cannot understand the pleasures of the other." ~ Emma by Jane Austen

 * "What can be said at all can be said clearly." ~ Ludwig Wittgenstein

 * "The conservation movement is a breeding ground of Communists and other subversives. We intend to clean them out, even if it means rounding up every bird watcher in the country." ~ John Mitchell

 * "I don't know anything about music. In my line you don't have to." ~ Elvis Presley

 * "Beware lest you lose the substance by grasping at the shadow." ~ Aesop

 * "There comes a point when a man must refuse to answer to his leader if he is also to answer to his own conscience." ~ Hartley Shawcross

 * "It's a thingy! A fiendish thingy!" ~ Help by George Harrison

 * "I don't mind making jokes, but I don't want to look like one." ~ Marilyn Monroe

 * "Liberty is always dangerous, but it is the safest thing we have." ~ Harry Emerson Fosdick

 * "I never met a man so stupid I could not learn something from him." ~ Galileo Galilei

 * "As long as I am mayor of this city the great industries are secure. We hear about constitutional rights, free speech and the free press. Every time I hear these words I say to myself, 'That man is a Red, that man is a Communist.' You never hear a real American talk like that." ~ Frank Hague

 * "A free society is one where it is safe to be unpopular." ~ Adlai Stevenson

 * "The battle of the sexes will never be won as long as we keep sleeping with the enemy." ~ Emo Phillips

 * "A man said to the Universe: 'Sir, I exist!' 'However,' replied the Universe, 'the fact has not created in me a sense of obligation.'" ~ Stephen Crane

 * "It's a damn poor mind that can only think of one way to spell a word." ~ Andrew Jackson

 * "When the weight of the paperwork equals the weight of the plane, the plane will fly." ~ Donald Douglas

 * "Computer Science is no more about computers than astronomy is about telescopes." ~ Edsger Dijkstra

 * "I can't die. It would ruin my image." ~ Jack La Lanne

 * "Without friends no one would choose to live, though he had all other goods." ~ Aristotle

July 2003

 * "History would be an excellent thing if only it were true." ~ Leo Tolstoy

 * "On two occasions I have been asked [by members of Parliament!], 'Pray, Mr. Babbage, if you put into the machine wrong figures, will the right answers come out?' I am not able rightly to apprehend the kind of confusion of ideas that could provoke such a question." ~ Charles Babbage

 * "The law will never make men free; it is men who have got to make the law free." ~ Henry David Thoreau

 * "I think all foreigners should stop interfering in the internal affairs of Iraq." ~ Paul Wolfowitz

 * "The most beautiful thing we can experience is the mysterious. It is the source of all true art and all science. He to whom this emotion is a stranger, who can no longer pause to wonder and stand rapt in awe, is as good as dead: his eyes are closed." ~ Albert Einstein

 * "This country has come to feel the same when Congress is in session as when the baby gets hold of a hammer." ~ Will Rogers

 * "I am reminded of the professor who, in his declining hours, was asked by his devoted pupils for his final counsel. He replied, 'Verify your quotations.'" ~ Winston Churchill

 * "One can no more prevent the mind from returning to an idea than the sea from returning to a shore. In the case of the sailor, this is called a tide; in the case of the guilty, it is called remorse." ~ Les Miserables by Victor Hugo

 * "The barge she sat in, like a burnishd throne, burnd on the water; the poop was beaten gold, purple the sails, and so perfumed, that the winds were love-sick with them, the oars were silver, which to the tune of flutes kept stroke, and made the water which they beat to follow faster, as amorous of their strokes. For her own person, it beggard all description" ~ (Enobarbus, II.ii) Antony and Cleopatra by William Shakespeare

 * "I found one day in school a boy of medium size ill-treating a smaller boy. I expostulated, but he replied: 'The bigs hit me, so I hit the babies; that's fair.' In these words he epitomized the history of the human race." ~ Education and the Social Order by Bertrand Russell

 * "To-morrow, and to-morrow, and to-morrow, creeps in this petty pace from day to day, to the last syllable of recorded time; and all our yesterdays have lighted fools the way to dusty death. Out, out, brief candle! Life's but a walking shadow, a poor player that struts and frets his hour upon the stage, and then is heard no more; it is a tale told by an idiot, full of sound and fury, signifying nothing." ~ Macbeth by William Shakespeare

 * "All animals are equal— but some animals are more equal than others." ~ Animal Farm by George Orwell

 * "Experience is the name everyone gives to their mistakes." ~ Oscar Wilde

 * "Most people would rather die than think; in fact, they do so." ~ Bertrand Russell

 * "If we knew what we were doing, it wouldn't be called research, would it?" ~ Albert Einstein

 * "It is amazing what you can accomplish if you do not care who gets the credit." ~ Harry S. Truman

 * "I have a dream that my four little children will one day live in a nation where they will not be judged by the color of their skin but by the content of their character." ~ Martin Luther King

The first Quote of the Day at Wikiquote was the above quotation of Martin Luther King, selected by Nanobug on July 11, 2003.

This page consolidates material previously stored in these archives:
 * Quote of the Day archive October to December 2003
 * Quote of the Day archive September 2003
 * Quote of the Day archive August 2003
 * Quote of the Day archive July 2003

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Michael Medved

Michael Medved (born October 3, 1948) is a United States nationally syndicated conservative talk radio show host, film critic, and author.

Quotes

 * My four years at Berkley represent two of the happiest weeks of my life.
 * Source: His talk show (July 9, 2004)

Quotes about

 * It could be that today's conservative movement remains in thrall to the same narrative that has defined its attitude toward film and the arts for decades. Inspired by feelings of exclusion after Hollywood and the popular culture turned leftward in the '60s and '70s, this narrative has defined the film industry as an irredeemably liberal institution toward which conservatives can only act in opposition—never engagement. Ironically, this narrative ignores the actual history of Hollywood, in which conservatives had a strong presence from the industry's founding in the early 20th century up through the '40s, '50s and into the mid-'60s]. The conservative Hollywood community at that time included such leading directors as Howard Hawks, Frank Capra, and Cecil B. DeMille, and major stars like John Wayne, Clark Gable, and Charlton Heston. These talents often worked side by side with notable Hollywood liberals like directors Billy Wilder, William Wyler, and John Huston, and stars like Humphrey Bogart, Lauren Bacall, and Spencer Tracy. The richness of classic Hollywood cinema is widely regarded as a testament to the ability of these two communities to work together, regardless of political differences. As the younger, more left-leaning "New Hollywood" generation swept into the industry in the late '60s and '70s, this older group of Hollywood conservatives faded away, never to be replaced. Except for a brief period in the '80s when the Reagan Presidency led to a conservative reengagement with film—with popular stars like Clint Eastwood, Sylvester Stallone, and Arnold Schwarzenegger making macho, patriotic action films—conservatives appeared to abandon popular culture altogether. In the wake of this retreat, conservative failure to engage with Hollywood now appears to have been recast by today's East Coast conservative establishment into a generalized opposition toward film and popular culture itself. In the early '90s, conservative film critic Michael Medved codified this oppositional feeling toward Hollywood in his best-selling book Hollywood vs. America.
 * Govindini Murty, “Hey, Conservatives: It's Safe to Go to the Movies Again”, The Atlantic, (Oct. 12, 2011).

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Emiliano Zapata

Emiliano Zapata Salazar (8 August 1879 – 10 April 1919) was a Mexican revolutionary. He was a leading figure in the Mexican Revolution of 1910–1920, the main leader of the people's revolution in the Mexican state of Morelos, and the inspiration of the agrarian movement called Zapatismo.

Quotes

 * ¡Tierra y Libertad!
 * Land and Liberty!
 * A slogan popularized by Zapata, quoted in Tierra y Libertad (1920) published by Imprenta Germinal; further attributed to Zapata in works in the 1930s and later, including, Without History: Subaltern Studies, the Zapatista Insurgency, and the Specter of History (2010) by José Rabasa, p. 122, where the influence of the anarchist Ricardo Flores Magón on its development is also attested.

 * I want to die a slave to principles. Not to men.
 * As quoted in Heroes of Mexico (1969) by Morris Rosenblum, p. 112

 * Prefiero morir de pie que vivir de rodillas.
 * I'd rather die on my feet, than live on my knees.
 * As quoted in Liberation Theologies in North America and Europe (1979) by Gerald H. Anderson and Thomas F. Stransky, p. 281; this is sometimes misattributed to the more modern revolutionary, Che Guevara, and to "La Pasionaria" Dolores Ibárruri, especially in Spain, where she popularized it in her famous speeches during the Spanish Civil War, to José Martí, and to Aeschylus who is credited with a similar declaration in Prometheus Bound: "For it would be better to die once and for all than to suffer pain for all one's life." The phrase "better that we should die on our feet rather than live on our knees" was spoken by François-Noël Gracchus Babeuf in his defence of the Conspiracy of Equals in April 1797. In French it read, 'Ne vaut-il pas mieux emporter la gloire de n'avoir pas survecu a la servitude?' but translated this bears no resemblance whatever to the quote under discussion. see: The Defense of Gracchus Babeuf Before the High Court of Vendome (1967), edited and translated by John Anthony Scott, p. 88 and p. 90, n. 12.
 * Spanish variants:
 * ¡Prefiero morir de pie que vivir siempre arrodillado!
 * I'd prefer to die standing, than to live always on my knees.
 * As quoted in Operación Cobra : historia de una gesta romántica (1988) by Alvaro Pablo Ortiz and Oscar Lara, p. 29
 * Variant translations:
 * Men of the South! It is better to die on your feet than to live on your knees!
 * With an extension, as quoted in Timeless Mexico (1944) by Hudson Strode, p. 259
 * I would rather die standing than live on my knees!
 * It is better to die on your feet than to live on your knees!
 * I prefer to die standing than to live forever kneeling.
 * Prefer death on your feet to living on your knees.

 * La tierra es de quien la trabaja con sus manos.
 * The land belongs to those who work it with their hands.
 * Quoted as a slogan of the revolutionaries in Shirt-Sleeve Diplomat (1947) Vol. 5, p. 199, by Josephus Daniels, and specifically attributed to Zapata by Ángel Zúñiga in 1998, as quoted in Mexican Social Movements and the Transition to Democracy (2005), by John Stolle-McAllister

 * Ignorance and obscurantism have never produced anything other than flocks of slaves for tyranny.
 * Remarks in regard to Pancho Villa, as quoted in The Unknown Lore of Amexem's Indigenous People : An Aboriginal Treatise (2008) by Noble Timothy Myers-El, p. 158

Quotes about Zapata

 * The historic January 1, 1994, indigenous uprising led by the Zapatistas in Chiapas further strengthened the new sense of self. By April 22, 1994, it seemed that the spirit of Mexico's revolutionary hero Emiliano Zapata had marched straight from the mountains of Chiapas to Dolores Park, San Francisco.
 * Elizabeth Martinez, De Colores Means All of Us (1998)

title: Emiliano Zapata