Quotes

[T.G.]

Since in an unfortunate accident, feverman's original Quotes of the Day thread was removed, I'd like to start this new one in his honor.


"Fascism is not in itself a new order of society. It is the future refusing to be born."
--Aneurin Bevan

"All, too, will bear in mind this sacred principle, that though the will of the majority is in all cases to prevail, that will to be rightful must be reasonable; that the minority possess their equal rights, which equal law must protect, and to violate would be oppression."
--Thomas Jefferson

"Hypocrisy is the essence of snobbery, but all snobbery is about the problem of belonging."
--Alexander Theroux

"As there is oppression of the majority such oppression will be fought with increasing hatred."
--Bram Fischer

"Fascism is not defined by the number of its victims, but by the way it kills them."
--Jean-Paul Sartre

"Because some people have sex with people of the same sex, an entire culture has been created, broadly speaking, out of oppression. Which in a rational world would not be an issue."
--Neil Tennant

"Fascism is fascism. Terrorism is terrorism. Oppression is oppression."
--Harry Belafonte

"But that's always a certain way to recognise a facist: when he's more powerful he kills everything that's different from him, he uses only brute force while law breaks like glass under his boots. And then, when he loses and when he's weak, he invokes the law and tolerance of differences. All of a sudden, he knows by heart every single human rights convention he broke so many times before."
--Andrej Nikolaidis

[Janus]

I am feeling such a sense of loss today, that I can't bring myself to post a single quote in this new quote thread today. 

Janus

[watcher1]

From George Carlin:

"In America, anyone can become president. That’s the problem."

"Bipartisan usually means that a larger-than-usual deception is being carried out."

 "Fighting for peace is like screwing for virginity."

 "Conservatives say if you don't give the rich more money, they will lose their incentive to invest. As for the poor, they tell us they've lost all incentive because we've given them too much money."

[Not_who_you_think]

And what do you do?… -- Queen Elizabeth II, to four British guitar greats

Are you a guitarist, too?… -- Queen Elizabeth II, to Led Zeppelin's Jimmy Page

Are you Indian or Pakistani? I can never tell the difference between you chaps... -- Prince Philip

British women can't cook… -- Prince Philip

Do you still throw spears at each other… -- Prince Philip, to Australian Aborigines

[T.G.]

"Frustration, although quite painful at times, is a very positive and essential part of success."
--Bo Bennett

"Fundamentally, all writing is about the same thing; it's about dying, about the brief flicker of time we have here, and the frustration that it creates."
--Mordecai Richler

"I can remember the frustration of not being able to talk. I knew what I wanted to say, but I could not get the words out, so I would just scream."
--Temple Grandin

"I identify with this guy's frustration and inability to control his fury at moments. I even identify with the way that this guy covers up a lot with humour. So yeah, it's interesting."
--Bradley Whitford

"A commencement is a time of joy. It is also a time of melancholy. But then again, so is life."
--Paul Tsongas

"A lot of people say I wouldn't have a down day, but you look at the music and there's real melancholy."
--Stephan Jenkins

"Depression is melancholy minus its charms - the animation, the fits."
--Susan Sontag

"I know not why there is such a melancholy feeling attached to the remembrance of past happiness, except that we fear that the future can have nothing so bright as the past."
--Julia Ward Howe

"I think every human being has a level of melancholy in life and in general."
--Sandra Bullock

[staci]

applies to a few on here. Dedicated to nuts and bolts or whatever.



I would like to take you seriously, but to do so would affront your intelligence.


-- William K. Buckley

[watcher1]

Quotes by Mae West:


Save a boyfriend for a rainy day - and another, in case it doesn't rain.
 
When I'm good, I'm very good. But when I'm bad I'm better.

A man has one hundred dollars and you leave him with two dollars, that's subtraction.

Marriage is a great institution, but I'm not ready for an institution.

You only live once, but if you do it right, once is enough.

When women go wrong, men go right after them.

[T.G.]

"A great book provides escapism for me. The artistry and the creativity in a story are better than any drugs."
--Wentworth Miller

"A wonderful emotion to get things moving when one is stuck is anger. It was anger more than anything else that had set me off, roused me into productivity and creativity."
--Mary Garden

"An essential aspect of creativity is not being afraid to fail."
--Edwin Land

"Humor has bailed me out of more tight situations than I can think of. If you go with your instincts and keep your humor, creativity follows. With luck, success comes, too."
--Jimmy Buffett

"Anxiety is part of creativity, the need to get something out, the need to be rid of something or to get in touch with something within."
--David Duchovny

"Artistic temperament sometimes seems a battleground, a dark angel of destruction and a bright angel of creativity wrestling."
--Madeleine L'Engle

"Chaos in the world brings uneasiness, but it also allows the opportunity for creativity and growth."
--Tom Barrett

"Don't think. Thinking is the enemy of creativity. It's self-conscious, and anything self-conscious is lousy. You can't try to do things. You simply must do things."
--Ray Bradbury

"Creativity comes from looking for the unexpected and stepping outside your own experience."
--Masaru Ibuka

"Creativity is the answer. I always prefer the creative solution to an expensive solution."
--Keenen Ivory Wayans

"Creativity is allowing yourself to make mistakes. Art is knowing which ones to keep."
--Scott Adams

[Grm]

No disrespect to the late chad sanders, but a list of quotes trawled from, lets see, quote sites, is boring, unoriginal and a waste of KB  space.
Here's one of my own:
'Laziness is quoting other peoples' quotes, listing them is valium.'

[Not_who_you_think]

I certainly respect your opinion, but apparently not everyone agrees.  The old thread you took down was the most viewed and posted-in thread on the board by multiple factors during the four months it was up.  It even made the top ten of all time in both posts and views. 

People seem to really enjoy them and the quotes have to come from somewhere else to be quotes, don't they?

[watcher1]

No disrespect to the late chad sanders, but a list of quotes trawled from, lets see, quote sites, is boring and a waste of KB  space.

Hmmm, then, with that reasoning, almost all the posts that members had used cut and paste are boring and a waste of KB space.  I think KB would be a pretty lean then.  But then, on the otherhand, it would bring back the lost of art of writing (typing), reasoning, logic, etc.   I just don't know how one will be able to draw porn in their posts, but sure someone will figure that out.    

[Grm]

I certainly respect your opinion, but apparently not everyone agrees.  The old thread you took down was the most viewed and posted-in thread on the board by multiple factors during the four months it was up.  It even made the top ten of all time in both posts and views. 

People seem to really enjoy them and the quotes have to come from somewhere else to be quotes, don't they?

And you know this how?

[Grm]

Well that was certainly witty and original toein, keep trying you never know you might get over it. . . .eventually.

[Grm]

A picture is worth a thousand words, in your case someone else's.( another original quote by grm)

[Athos131]