so i'm designing a sunscreen that's going to be in front of a library, and we want to cover it in little quotes, but we've only got enough for about half the area we need to cover, so i thought i'd appeal to hatrack for help.
what are your favorite quotes? they don't have to be about anything specific, just the things you've read that seemed important enough to remember.
Posted by rivka (Member # 4859) on :
You mean quotations, I think. Posted by Farmgirl (Member # 5567) on :
quote:"Imagination is more important than knowledge." - Albert Einstein
" All the tears women cry they leave no mark on the world" -mariom zimmer Bradley "I want to wake the dead lovers of the world with our laughter and stir their ashes into pain." -Oscar wilde Posted by Annie (Member # 295) on :
"How could I possibly be expected to handle school on a day like this?" Ferris Bueller
Posted by katharina (Member # 827) on :
"Happiness makes up in height what it lacks in length."
Posted by mr_porteiro_head (Member # 4644) on :
You are not thinking. You are merely being logical." - Niels Bohr to Albert Einstein during a debate
Posted by Danzig (Member # 4704) on :
A statesman is just a dead politician, and lord knows we need more statesmen.
Posted by Beren One Hand (Member # 3403) on :
"The greatest tragedy is not to live and die, as we all must. The greatest tragedy is for a person to live and die without knowing the satisfaction of giving life to others." Cesar E. Chavez
"Not everybody can be famous, but everyone can be great because greatness is determined by service" Martin Luther King Jr.
"Be neither the wolf nor the sheep, but the shepherd." Quote from a friend
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Posted by sndrake (Member # 4941) on :
"A free and open society is an ongoing conflict, interrupted periodically by compromises." -- Saul Alinsky
Posted by alath (Member # 6150) on :
In a recent discussion I had with a friend this has become one of my favorite quotes of all time. And I mean this seriously, not jokingly.
quote:"...we know, there are known unknowns; there things we know we know. We also know there are known unknowns; that is to say we know there are some things we do not know. But there are also unknown unknowns -- the ones we don't know we don't know." --Donald Rumsfeld
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Posted by Ryuko (Member # 5125) on :
kat: Attribute, lady! You make me cry! ;_; (kat's quote is by Robert Frost)
Here are some of my fave quotes!! Mostly by Robert Frost. Yes, why yes I am obsessed...
"I'm against a homogenized society, because I want the cream to rise." - Robert Frost
"In three words I can sum up everything I've learned about life. It goes on." - Robert Frost
"It takes a lot of in- and outdoor schooling/to get adapted to my kind of fooling." -Robert Frost
"I had a lover's quarrel with the world." - Robert Frost (This one's actually on his gravestone, and was my senior quote... (dances))
Posted by saxon75 (Member # 4589) on :
I have a weekly quotations page at sakeriver. Although, I haven't updated it on a weekly basis ever.
Posted by Spice Weasel (Member # 6262) on :
"No one ever got fired for making their boss look good."
Posted by closeyourmind (Member # 5916) on :
"Two things are infinite: the universe and human stupidity; and I'm not sure about the universe." -- Albert Einstein
Posted by Glenn Arnold (Member # 3192) on :
"The conventional view serves to protect us from the painful job of thinking ." JOHN KENNETH GALBRAITH
"Truth is not determined by majority vote ." DOUG GWYN
"Education is an admirable thing, but it is well to remember from time to time that nothing that is worth knowing can be taught." OSCAR WILDE
"Nothing is at last sacred but the integrity of your own mind ." RALPH WALDO EMERSON
"The bigger the information media, the less courage and freedom they allow. Bigness means weakness ." ERIC SEVAREID
Posted by IvyGirl (Member # 6252) on :
I don't know, I think this quote puts life very well.....
"Get 'er done."
Posted by Lyrhawn (Member # 7039) on :
I was hoping there'd be a thread on this already. I found a great quote while reading Polybius' "Rise of the Roman Empire"
"Now, human nature is always fallible, and to meet with some unpredictable mishap is not the fault of the victim, but rather of ill-fortune, or of those who have inflicted it on him. But when we err with our eyes open and involve ourselves in great tribulations through sheer lack of judgement, then everyone agrees that we have nobody to blame but ourselves."
I think that's an extremely eloquent way of saying willful ignorance is your own fault. For a 2200 year old book, I'm amazed at how things ring true through the ages.
Posted by Epictetus (Member # 6235) on :
"the war that matters is the war against the imagination all other wars are subsumed in it.
the ultimate famine is the starvation of the imagination
it is death to be sure, but the undead seek to inhabit someone else's world"
-From Diane Di Prima's poem "Rant"
"The unexamined life is not worth living." -Socrates
"The Dude abides." The Dude, The Big Lebowski Posted by Orincoro (Member # 8854) on :
"I should have been a pair of ragged claws, scuttling across the floors of silent seas" -T.S. Elliot "The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock"
Posted by Shepherd (Member # 7380) on :
"Friends are like potato chips, when you eat them, they die."
"Wise-man say, before you judge someone, walk mile in their shoe, then you be mile away, and have their shoe."
"When catapults are outlawed, only the outlaws will have catapults."
"Why spoil the beauty of a thing, with legality?" -Theodore Rex
"Archie, you say the stupidist things sometimes. Well, it'r far better to listening to them dear boy." -Earnest and Earnest, the Importance of Being Earnest
"I drank what!?!" -Socrates.
Posted by El JT de Spang (Member # 7742) on :
I don't know the key to success, but the key to failure is trying to please everyone.
Posted by katdog42 (Member # 4773) on :
"Such is oft the course of deeds that move the wheels of the world: small hands do them because they must while the eyes of the great are elsewhere." Tolkien, FOTR
"The Earth is the cradle of the mind, but man cannot staying in the cradle forever." Tsiokolvsky (sp?)
Posted by Kasie H (Member # 2120) on :
Since you're looking for library quotes, I think this one is appropriate.
" Silence is golden, but solitude is richer still." --Anna Johnson—
Posted by Evie3217 (Member # 5426) on :
"Outside a dog, a book is a man's best friend. Inside a dog, it's too dark to read." -Groucho Marx
"Roads are for journeys, not destinations." Anna and the King
This is my favorite: "Here's to the crazy ones, the misfits, the rebels, the trouble makers, the round pegs in the square holes, the ones who see things differently. They're not fond of rules and they have no respect for the status quo. You can quote them, disagree with them, glorify or vilify them; about the only thing you can't do is ignore them, because they change things, they push thehuman race forward. And while some see them as the "crazy ones," we see genius because the people who are crazy enough to think they can change the world are the ones who do." -Apple Computers
"You're the one the world's been waiting for." -Brother Blue
If you need more, just IM me. I have a whole book full of amazing quotes.
Posted by The Pixiest (Member # 1863) on :
"You're dead sexy... but you'd be sexier dead" -- Jeffrey Dahlmer
Posted by Sopwith (Member # 4640) on :
"When I was 18, my father was the dumbest man in the world. At 26, I was amazed by how much the old man had learned in the intervening years." -- Mark Twain.
Posted by Miro (Member # 1178) on :
I defy the tyranny of precedent. - Clara Barton
Despair is only for those who know the end beyond all doubt. - JRR Tolkien (LotR)
A journey of a thousand miles begins with a single step. - ?
This too shall pass. - ?
I am infected with life and will die of it in time. - Peter S Beagle
Posted by ClaudiaTherese (Member # 923) on :
When you are the hammer, strike; when you are the anvil, bear. -- attributed to Russian proverb
Posted by Kristen (Member # 9200) on :
I love that famous Kerouac quote from On the Road: "The only people for me are the mad ones, the ones who are mad to live, mad to talk, mad to be saved, desirous of everything at the same time, the ones who never yawn or say a commonplace things, but burn like fabulous roman candles exploding like spiders across the stars and in the middle you see the blue center light pop and everybody goes "AWWW!"
I also love the insert of Hesse's Demien. This is from memory so it might not be exact: "I wanted only to stay true to myself. Why was that so very difficult"
These probably won't work as they are incredibly nihilistic, but I love EM Cioran: "Tell me how you want to die, and I'll tell you who you are."/"Only a flower that falls is a complete flower, say the Japanese. One is tempted to say as much of a civilization. "
Posted by Miro (Member # 1178) on :
Kristen, you just reminded me of another really good one.
What is to give light must endure burning. - Victor Frankl
Posted by Dan_raven (Member # 3383) on :
Never underestimate the beauty and power of human stupidity.
Posted by lem (Member # 6914) on :
"I would never want to belong to any club that would have someone like me for a member."-Woody Allen paraphrasing Groucho Marx
Posted by Elmer's Glue (Member # 9313) on :
"Never trust a computer you can't throw out a window." -Steve Wozniak
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