quotation debate, part II

[Hyakujo's Fox]

David said...

Alexis,thank you for all the great articles, free shipping and discount codes and enthusiastic discussion concerning J. Crew. I read your blog every day and enjoy it tremendously, not to mention the money it's saved me on promotions, as well as heads up on quality issues, fit etc. There are no JC stores anywhere near me, so I never get to see anything IRL before I order. I really appreciate everyone's opinion(good as well as bad) on the blog. I know this is OT and probably not my business, but what is the subject of your thesis?

February 27, 2010 5:02 PM

[zero]

the last time i got this excited about an american brand becoming available on these shores was in march 2008 when banana republic opened its doors in london.

liz atdailymail.cow

[12"razormix]

you're not coaxing me into doing the china girl! :mad: :mad:

a.

[zero]

http://5.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_kq4qph1kP41qzdi59o1_500.jpg

[12"razormix]

http://www.fineartcompany.co.uk/Image/Prints/SHB-5718TOP-Oh-Brad_1.jpg

[zero]

http://30.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_l49pghBLuC1qzdi59o1_500.jpg

[MoJoRiSin]

size twelve boots = a great ruler

[zero]

http://27.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_lcdtt81TKO1qzdi59o1_500.jpg

[12"razormix]

http://arttattler.com/Images/NorthAmerica/NewYork/Morgan%20Library/Roy%20Lichtenstein/Cat_004_KnockKnock.jpg

[zero]

http://28.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_lbrhmdiWF11qzdi59o1_500.png

[MoJoRiSin]

http://cache3.asset-cache.net/xc/88031472.jpg?v=1&c=IWSAsset&k=2&d=77BFBA49EF878921CC759DF4EBAC47D0E3C7112068B3BC34 B9DC284FE20BC4F703504337D39E6211

[zero]

ESTRAGON:what did we do yesterday?
VLADIMIR: what ...
VLADIMIR: well?
ESTRAGON: that makes no difference.

[MoJoRiSin]

were they waiting for Godot?

[Bman]

There's...nothing to say, it's just too much for one man.

[trisherina]

Only in the presence of compassion will people allow themselves to see the truth.

-- Gabor Maté

[zero]

the dew of compassion is a tear.

- lord byron

[Brynn]

Anger is the energy that people use in order to act. But when you are angry, you are not lucid, and you might do wrong things. That is why compassion is a better energy. And the energy of compassion is very strong.

--Nhat Hanh

[MoJoRiSin]

every clay-pile with a pearl inside loves to be near any other clay-pile with a pearl, but those without pearls cannot stand to be near the hidden companionship.
~Rumi

[zero]

here, said she,
is your card, the drowned phoenician sailor,
(those are pearls that were his eyes. look!)

- t. s. eliot

[MoJoRiSin]

Aparently no copies of Eliot's letters to Verdenal survive.

[Hyakujo's Fox]

A certain type of perfection can only be realized through a limitless accumulation of the imperfect.

— Haruki Murakami,

[trisherina]

To be willing to sort of die in order to move the reader, somehow. Even now I'm scared about how sappy this'll look in print, saying this.


-- David Foster Wallace

[12"razormix]

when i read it, i don't wince, which is all i ever ask for a book i write.

norman mailer

[zero]

one day, i found a big book buried deep in the ground. i opened it but all the pages were blank and, to my surprise it started writing itself.

bjork

[12"razormix]

through the warmthest cord of care your love was sent to me i'm not sure what to do with it or where to put it i'm so close to tears and so close to simply calling you up i'm simply suggesting we go to the hidden place that we go to the hidden place we go to the hidden place

now i have been slightly shy and i can smell a pinch of hope to almost have allowed once fingers to stroke the fingers i was given to touch with but careful, careful there lies my passion, hidden there lies my love i'll hide it under a blanket lull it to sleep i'll keep it in a hidden place i'll keep it in a hidden place keep it in a hidden place keep it in a hidden place

he's the beautifullest fragilest still strong dark and divine and the littleness of his movements hides himself he invents a charm that makes him invisible hides in the air can i hide there too? hide in the air of him seek solace sanctuary in the hidden place in a hidden place in a hidden place we'll stay in a hidden place oohh in a hidden place we'll live in a hidden place we'll be in a hidden place in a hidden place

bjork

[zero]

sounds go through the muscles

- bjork

[MoJoRiSin]

plug in or find another power source your battery is low (7%) if you don't plug in your computer soon it will hibernate automatically

[Hyakujo's Fox]

I can feel it. I can feel it. My mind is going. There is no question about it. I can feel it. I can feel it. I can feel it.

- a HAL 9000 computer.

[MoJoRiSin]

One,day I found a book buried deep in the ground
_____________________________________

And to my surprise it started writing itself

[zero]

imagination is the one weapon in the war against reality.

- jules de gaultier

[12"razormix]

http://0.tqn.com/d/politicalhumor/1/7/5/e/3/More-Tea.jpg

[zero]

fair fa' your honest, sonsie face,
great chieftain o' the puddin-race!
aboon them a' ye tak your place,
painch, tripe, or thairm:
weel are ye wordy o' a grace
as lang's my arm.

the groaning trencher there ye fill,
your hurdies like a distant hill,
your pin wad help to mend a mill
in time o' need,
while thro' your pores the dews distil
like amber bead.

- robert burns

[MoJoRiSin]

Her name was McGill and she called herself Lil, but
Everyone knew her
As Nancy
~McCartney/Lennon

[12"razormix]

i'm a wendy.

wendy torrance

[zero]

call me ishmael.

[12"razormix]

i began to be sensible of strange feelings. i felt a melting in me. no more my splintered heart and maddened hand were turned against the wolfish world. this soothing savage had redeemed it. there he sat, his very indifference speaking a nature in which there lurked no civilized hypocrisies and bland deceits. wild he was; a very sight of sights to see; yet i began to feel myself mysteriously drawn towards him. and those same things that would have repelled most others, they were the very magnets that thus drew me. i’ll try a pagan friend, thought i, since christian kindness has proved but hollow courtesy. i drew my bench near him, and made some friendly signs and hints, doing my best to talk with him meanwhile. at first he little noticed these advances; but presently, upon my referring to his last night’s hospitalities, he made out to ask me whether we were again to be bedfellows. i told him yes; whereat i thought he looked pleased, perhaps a little complimented. (10.5)

[MoJoRiSin]

but savages are strange beings; at times you do not know exactly how to take them.

[zero]

TARZAN: good morning. i love you.

[MoJoRiSin]

"Let's write something together"

[zero]

http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_8M1AOlRglSI/Sn-ubx0UtQI/AAAAAAAANNs/qFXyCeoW2R4/s1600/Mk3D9AdHBqfu4171WVQE9q5Xo1_500.png

[MoJoRiSin]

it popped into her head to write (just then)<sic
May Your Days Be Merry and Bright

[zero]

http://29.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_lgaxskM3vQ1qzdi59o1_r1_500.jpg

[MoJoRiSin]

"Most days we just lay around the castle
Flabby fat and lazy
You walked in and
Oops-a daisy!"

[MoJoRiSin]

"Loafing is tje mpst productive part of a writer's life
~Jean Luc Godard

[MoJoRiSin]

education is not the filling of a pail, but the lighting of a fire. ~William Butler Yeats

[Hyakujo's Fox]

Words are only painted fire; a look is the fire itself.

- Mark Twain

[zero]

fire in the disco!
fire in the taco bell!!
fire in the disco!
fire in the gates of hell!!

don't you want to know how we keep sta (http://www.youtube.com/embed/2a4gyJsY0mc)rting fires?

- electric six

[lukkucairi]

Burn down the disco
Hang the blessed deejay
Because the music that they constantly play
It says nothing to me about my life. (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9AlH2oYedfk)

- The Smiths

[12"razormix]

http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_TU70ZktDfdM/TOPRjn-476I/AAAAAAAAB_s/qcojV2qcDdg/s320/Adele%2B-%2BRolling%2BIn%2BThe%2BDeep.jpg (http://www.myvideo.de/watch/7989305/Adele_Rolling_In_the_Deep_HD)

[MoJoRiSin]

"866 people still think tiwnkle kiwnkle little start is better than this -thumbs up if you agree"
*referring to the song Rolling in the Deep
mrjrountree 10 minutes ago
at youtube dot com

[zero]

EMILY: peggy's here to sing a song about how a woman feels when the world tells her who she has to be.
PEGGY: no, actually i'm singing the one about the turtle stuck in her shell.

(peggy's turtle song)

there once was a turtle who lived in her shell,
the shell was her home and her prison as well.
one day she got frightened, she wanted to hide,
so she tucked her head into the safety inside.
then came a moment of terrible doubt,
she could not find any head-hole to poke out.
but a miracle saved her before her heart sank,
the magical love of a turtle named hank.

[MoJoRiSin]

http en m wikipedia org wiki Happy Together (song)

[MoJoRiSin]

http en m wikipedia org wiki Happy Together (song
ie
"me and you and you and me
no matter
how they tossed the dice
it had to be....."
~The Turtles (band)

[MoJoRiSin]

"Personal Messages
TRANSPORTATION. I can't get to the top of the hill to sit beside my family. I hate that. Jeanne"

[MOPEDER]

"Ask not what you can do for your country, ask what your country can do for you."

[Stephi_B]

l'état, c'est moi! - louis xvi

approx.: the state - is me!

[Hyakujo's Fox]

It's good to be the king.

- Mel Brooks

[Stephi_B]

Let me tell you quite bluntly that this king business has given me personally nothing but headaches.

-- mohammed reza pahlavi

[brightpearl]

Don't let it be all in your head, nor all in your body.
~Terri Guillemets

[Stephi_B]

physical concepts are free creations of the human mind, and are not, however it may seem, uniquely determined by the external world.

a. einstein

[Hyakujo's Fox]

the truth is out there.

f. mulder

[MoJoRiSin]

"There is a vitality, a life force, an energy, a quickening that is translated through you into action, and because there is only one of you in all of time, this expression is unique. And if you block it, it will never exist through any other medium and it will be lost. The world will not have it. It is not your business to determine how good it is nor how valuable nor how it compares with other expressions. It is your business to keep it yours clearly and directly, to keep the channel open. You do not even have to believe in yourself or your work. You have to keep yourself open and aware to the urges that motivate you. Keep the channel open. ... No artist is pleased. [There is] no satisfaction whatever at any time. There is only a queer divine dissatisfaction, a blessed unrest that keeps us marching and makes us more alive than the others"
~Martha Graham

[Hyakujo's Fox]

Although none of the rules for becoming more alive is valid, it is healthy to keep on formulating them.

- Susan Sontag

[Marcus Bales]

Behind every successful man is a surprised woman. - Maryon Pearson

[MOPEDER]

http://images.sodahead.com/profiles/0/0/0/5/1/6/6/3/9/Life-is-a-great-big-canvas-45830090581.png

[MoJoRiSin]

“As an artist, all I need is my paints and brushes - and someone to drag me away when the canvas is done”

~ Pablo Picasso

[MoJoRiSin]

Freud: what is it that a woman wants? (paraphrased)
Mo: I figured it out myself!
(with a little help from my typewriter/computer) : )

[MOPEDER]

"Leadership is lifting a person's vision to higher sights, the raising of a person's performance to a higher standard, the building of a personality beyond its normal limitations."

[MOPEDER]

"The Golden Rule: He who has the gold, makes the rules." ~ Frank Armitage (from movie "They Live")

[Stephi_B]

speech is silver, but silence is golden.

german proverb

[MOPEDER]

"Insufficent facts always invites danger." ~ Spock (Star Trek: Space Seed)

[MoJoRiSin]

have you ever noticed how live spelled backwards is evil? and how love spelled backwards is evol(a weird way of spelling evil)? if these things are so wrong, then why are they the things we do the most?

- ashley c. at bored of wisdom dot com

[MOPEDER]

"It has been said that social occasions are only warfare concealed. Many prefer it more honest more open." ~ Khan (Star Trek II: The Wrath of Khan)

[MOPEDER]

"Our nation owes a debt to its fallen heroes that we cannot ever fully repay. But we can honor their sacrifice, and we must." - President Barack Obama in a Memorial Day speech after participating in a wreath-laying ceremony at the Tomb of the Unknowns at Arlington National Cemetery near Washington.

[MOPEDER]

"Cry "Havoc!" and let slip the dogs of war." ~ General Chang (Star Trek: The Undiscovered Country)

[MoJoRiSin]

^:rolleyes: Mopeder could you please kindly remove 2 of those three??
"The Pentagon has concluded that computer sabotage coming from another country can constitute an act of war, a finding that for the first time opens the door for the U.S. to respond using traditional military force."

[MOPEDER]

http://images.sodahead.com/profiles/0/0/0/5/1/6/6/3/9/Music-can-change-the-world-47362568954.png

[MoJoRiSin]

Home
How it works
Product features
Customer support
"....Limewire.....we have very recently
Become aware
of unauthorized applications on the internet
purporting to use the limewire name
We demand that all persons..."
**also, by the way, the way uploading and downloading of copyrighted
material is illegal please
Sease and desist** <paraphrased

[Hyakujo's Fox]

Oranges and lemons,
Say the bells of St. Clement's.

You owe me five farthings,
Say the bells of St. Martin's.

~ Children's song

[brightpearl]

What a wonderful bird the frog are.
When he sit, he stand almost.
When he hop, he fly almost.
He ain't got no sense hardly.
He ain't got no tail hardly either.
When he sit, he sit on what he ain't got almost.

~Nursery rhyme

[MoJoRiSin]

"Why did you afflict my son Gilgamesh with so restless a spirit?
For now you have touched him and he will tread
the distant pathe to the home of Humbaba.
He will face a battle he knows not,
He will ride a road he knows not."

~the epic of Gilgamesh

[MOPEDER]

http://images.sodahead.com/profiles/0/0/0/5/1/6/6/3/9/funny_quote_life_love_oxygen_humor-47532514901.jpeg

[zero]

idiot dance.....


- john lydon

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ODVqf1jJ_yU

[MOPEDER]

"It isn't faith that makes good science, it's curiosity." ~ Professor Jacob Barnhardt

[MoJoRiSin]

"Remember religion is man's first attempt
At
Science,health, physics, philosophy and morality..."
~Elitevestigator
1 day ago
Youtube comment on Christopher Hitchens'
ten commandments

[MOPEDER]

"Your beliefs become your thoughts, Your thoughts become your words, Your words become your actions, Your actions become your habits, Your habits become your values, Your values become your destiny." ~ Mahatma Gandhi

[MOPEDER]

My life was a bitter disappointment to my parents, and yes even to me.

http://images.sodahead.com/profiles/0/0/0/5/1/6/6/3/9/Shame-48525170973.jpeg

[MoJoRiSin]

I was determined to know beans.
~Henry David Thoreau

[MOPEDER]

"Never take your eyes off your opponent... Even when you bow." ~ Bruce Lee

[MOPEDER]

http://i99.photobucket.com/albums/l301/Mopeder/Imagine.gif

[MoJoRiSin]

when this whole social media thing is over, let's go to Denny's and get pancakes.
~Ze Frank
ps according to wiki pedia ex President Jimmy Carter said when
he visited mny countries (125 with radio stations) he heard this song
everywhere the same

[MOPEDER]

"The dog was created especially for children. He is the God of frolic." ~ Henry Ward Beecher

[MoJoRiSin]

:)

[Hyakujo's Fox]

I'll tell you in another life when we are both cats.

[Stephi_B]

Nobody really doubts that the presence or absence of the cat is something independent of the act of observation.

(a. einstein in a letter to e. schrödinger)

[Hyakujo's Fox]

You see, wire telegraph is a kind of a very, very long cat. You pull his tail in New York and his head is meowing in Los Angeles. Do you understand this? And radio operates exactly the same way: you send signals here, they receive them there. The only difference is that there is no cat.

~ A. Einstein (attributed)

[MOPEDER]

"America's biggest drawback is the rich keep getting richer, while the poor keep getting poorer."

[MOPEDER]

”The secret of happiness is freedom. The secret of freedom is courage.” - Thucydides

[MoJoRiSin]

"Once the age of Greek kings faded into democracy"

over a three percent tax?

[MoJoRiSin]

"If I may I would like to point out we are not entertaining you. We are not indulging in some kind of intellectual game, or trying to point out what kind of belief you should have; or to seek a leader to solve our problems. We are not doing any kind of propaganda to persuade you to think in a particular direction, or to convince you of a particular point of view. But we are thinking together, observing together the problems, the crisis, that we are facing, the war, destruction, corruption, and the superstitions in the name of religion; all that nonsense that goes on in the name of religion, god and so on ..."

~Jiddu Krishnamurti, Madras 1st public talk 26th December 1981

[zero]

life is a jest, and all things show it,
i thought so once, and now i know it.

- john gay

[trisherina]

Jon Snow, you know nothing.

-- Ygritte

[MOPEDER]

http://i0006.photobucket.com/albums/0006/findstuff22/Best%20Images/Quotes%20and%20Sayings/quotescrayons1.jpg

[MOPEDER]

"I like your Christ, I do not like your Christians. Your Christians are so unlike your Christ." --- Mohandas Gandhi

[xfox]

He who has a calm and happy nature will hardly feel the pressure of old age, but to him who is of an opposite disposition youth and age are equally a burden.
-Plato

[MoJoRiSin]

There are people whose vision has been distorted by numerous desires.
They pursue these desires; and their religion is merely performing various rituals. People put their faith in many things; and people always live according to their faith. So those who put their faith in that which is false or corrupt, will lead false or corrupt lives. Many people have a false image of me, identifying me with various bodily forms, and not recognizing my higher nature. They cannot see through the veil of mystery which surrounds me; and so they cannot see that I am unborn and changeless. I know everything about the past, the present, and the future; but no one knows me completely.

But those who always strive to do good, and who are free from every inclination to do wrong, truly worship me.
Gita 7.16-26. 28
The unity of religions
There are people who perform all the ancient rituals, who offer all the sacrifices which the sacred texts prescribe, who drink the sacred drinks, who keep themselves from committing any sin, and who pray regularly. They will be rewarded for their efforts. They will go to a realm above the earth, and enjoy many blessings and pleasures. But when these blessings and pleasures are complete, they will return to earth, and be trapped once more in the cycle of death and rebirth. Performing rituals cannot liberate a person from the chains of desire.

But those who worship me, who meditate upon me constantly, and who live in perfect harmony with me, will attain perfection. I shall not merely provide for their needs, but I shall give them far more.

I make no distinction between one religion and another. People may worship me in any form they wish. The form of worship does not matter to me; my only concern is the quality of love which is expressed in worship. I accept every kind of worship, because I am supreme.
Gita 9.20-24

Religion is but one tree with many branches. If you look only upon the branches, then you are tempted to say that there are many religions; but if you look at the whole tree, you understand that there is but one religion.
Mahatma Gandhi :)

[YsaPur EsChomuw]

... a longed-for world where deceit is no longer possible and where language finds a close, unbreachable connection to the events it seeks to describe.

Scott Campbell: Dead Men Do Tell Tales

[brightpearl]

The best lack all conviction, while the worst
are full of passionate intensity.

~Yeats

[MoJoRiSin]

i only know that i know nothing.
~Socrates

[MOPEDER]

"How far you go in life depends on your being tender with the young, compassionate with the aged, sympathetic with the striving and tolerant of the weak and strong. Because someday in your life you will have been all of these." ~ George Washington Carver

[Stephi_B]

a friend to all is a friend to none.

-aristotle

[YsaPur EsChomuw]

If you want to make peace, you don't talk to your friends. You talk to your enemies.

[MOPEDER]

http://images.sodahead.com/profiles/0/0/0/5/1/6/6/3/9/denial-56299693213.jpeg

[xfox]

Everything is self evident.

-R Descartes

[YsaPur EsChomuw]

A man may be a heretic in the truth; and if he believe things only because his pastor says so, or the assembly so determines, without knowing other reason, though his belief be true, yet the very truth he holds becomes his heresy.

John Milton

[MOPEDER]

http://images.sodahead.com/profiles/0/0/0/5/1/6/6/3/9/You-can-easily-judge-the-character-of-a-man-56880852225.jpeg

[MoJoRiSin]

It's never too late, it's never too bad, and you're never too old or sick to start from scratch once again.
~Bikram Choudhury

[MOPEDER]

"The world has lost a visionary. And there may be no greater tribute to Steve’s success than the fact that much of the world learned of his passing on a device he invented." ~ President Barack Obama

[MoJoRiSin]

"a willingness to be bold and to strike out in new directions!" :p "


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more fitting, no?

[MOPEDER]

”The secret of happiness is freedom. The secret of freedom is courage.” - Thucydides

[MoJoRiSin]

"there will come a day when you can send a loved one a letter even if you heve no idea
[INDENT]Where they are"[INDENT]

^that is something none of the Prophets of old
Eve r predicted btw

[zero]

the first progressive step for a mind overwhelmed by the strangeness of things is to realize that this feeling of strangeness is shared with all men and that human reality, in its entirety, suffers from the distance which separates it from the rest of the universe.

- albert camus

[YsaPur EsChomuw]

The living sometimes learn the touchy tricks of the traitor, the tardy and the tempted; the dead have evaded the flighty earthy future, and form to swell the retinue of retired rights, the righteous school of the invisible and the rebellious roar of the raging nothing.

Amanda McKittrick Ros (http://www.nickpage.co.uk/worstweb/ros/ros.html)

[brightpearl]

But when nothing is valued for what it is, everything is destined to be wasted. Once the values of things refer only to their future usefulness, then an infinite withdrawal of value from the living present has begun. Nothing (and nobody) can then exist that is not theoretically replaceable by something (or somebody) more valuable...Indeed, once our homeland, our source, is regarded as a resource, we are all sliding downward toward the ashheap or the dump.

~Wendell Berry

[MOPEDER]

"The needs of the many outweigh the needs of the few" ~ Spock

[MOPEDER]

"If we don't know life, how can we know death?" ~ Confucius

[MoJoRiSin]

" We are half-hearted creatures, fooling about with drink and sex and ambition when infinite joy is offered us, like an ignorant child who wants to go on making mud pies in a slum because he cannot imagine what is meant by the offer of a holiday at the sea. ”
― C.S. Lewis, Weight of Glory and Other Addresses

[MoJoRiSin]

John 7:38
New International Version (NIV)
38 Whoever believes in me, as Scripture has said, rivers of living water will flow from within them.”[a]
Footnotes:
John 7:38 Or me. And let anyone drink who believes in me.” As Scripture has said,
“Out of him (or them) will flow rivers of living water.”


mo gets the thought that this does not count as a quotation....
btw:)

[MOPEDER]

"If I can't be honest about myself, then about what could I be honest." ~ me

[MoJoRiSin]

Progress depends on the unreasonable person

[YsaPur EsChomuw]

Novels good. Plays better. Poetry best. (http://www.telegraph.co.uk/culture/9153246/Maurice-Saatchi-a-tribute-in-verse-to-my-beloved-wife.html)

[zero]

gravity my arse. what IS this gravity????

- a. k. einstein

[MoJoRiSin]

Gravity is like the Statue of Liberty
without her book and her torch

[MoJoRiSin]

"I know the truth when I see it"
~Demi Moore

[MOPEDER]

http://25.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_m1ybyeq2MP1qb8cogo1_400.jpg

[MoJoRiSin]

"I must study politics and war that my sons may have liberty to study mathematics (engineering) and philosophy. My sons ought to study mathematics and philosophy, geography, natural history, naval architecture, navigation, commerce and agriculture in order to give their children a right to study painting, poetry, music, architecture, statuary, tapestry, and porcelain."
- Copy to Clipboard
~John Adams