Favorite Quotes - Page 3

littleadanel · 04-06-2006, 05:28 AM

My most recent favourite (apologies for the length...), from one of I. B. Singer's short stories, The Spinoza of Market Street:

Dr. Fischelson looked up at the sky. The black arch was thickly sown with stars - there were green, red, yellow, blue stars; there were large ones and small ones, winking and steady ones. There were those that were clustered in dense groups and those that were alone. In the higher sphere, apparently, litle notice was taken of the fact that a certain Dr. Fischelson had in his declining days married someone called Black Dobbe. Seen from above even the Great War was nothing but a temporary play of the modes. The myriads of fixed stars continued to travel their destined courses in unbounded space. The comets, planets, satellites, asteroids kept circling these shining centers. Worlds were born and died in cosmic upheavals. In the chaos of nebulae, primeval matter was being formed. Now and again a star tore loose, and swept across the sky, leaving behind it a fiery streak. It was the month of August when there are showers of meteors. Yes, the divine substance was extended and had neither beginning nor end; it was absolute, indivisable, eternal, without duration, infinite in its attributes. Its waves and bubbles danced in the universal cauldron, seething with change, following the unbroken chain of causes and effects, and he, Dr. Fischelson, with his unavoidable fate, was part of this. The doctor closed his eyelids and allowed the breeze to cool the sweat on his forehead and stir the hair of his beard. He breathed deeply of the midnight air, supported his shaky hands on the windowsill and murmured, "Divine Spinoza, forgive me. I have become a fool."

Curubethion · 04-07-2006, 09:14 PM

Here's one from Huck Finn, when Huck has just decided that he won't turn Jim the runaway slave in to the authorities.

"All right, then...I'll go to hell!"

It's really cool because we all know that the opposite is actually true...and it shows his dedication and transformation as a person.

Bombadillo · 04-16-2006, 12:44 AM

Hey, I just started rereading Tom Sawyer and Huck Finn, because they're so full of good quotes. There was always something that would make me laugh out loud.

Lotesse, I can't stand Victorian English, but I just finished Hamlet for the first time and it was a great story even despite that.

Now what I came here to say:
"Atticus Finch is the same man in his house as he is on the public streets." I think Miss Maudie said that, in To Kill a Mockingbird. Not an impressive or powerful quote, but just the way it presents the importance of sincerity was something I never encountered before when I first read it, and it's been a big influence. I also started rereading that, so for the first time I'm on three books at once. We'll see how this goes.

GreyMouser · 04-16-2006, 04:35 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Bombadillo

Lotesse, I can't stand Victorian English, but I just finished Hamlet for the first time and it was a great story even despite that.

Wrong Queen

GreyMouser · 04-16-2006, 05:22 AM

Response from Eco to an interviewer:

Q: Why did you choose the title "The Name of the Rose"?

Eco: Because "Pinocchio" was taken.

Acalewia · 04-16-2006, 05:54 PM

lol Mousy. (you don't mind me calling you that, do you?)

Here's a couple of quotes I like:

"'My death will be as nothing to them. It will be as a stone thrown into the Nile in the time of inundation! Do the waters stop for a stone? The plans are made, Hatshepsut, and the hour is near. You will know your enemies when they strike'" Sheftu, Mara, Daughter of the Nile

"Tomorrow and tomorrow and tomorrow
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 is heard no more. It is a tale
Told by an idiot, full of sound and fury
Signifying nothing" MacBeth, Act V, Scene V lines 19-28

littleadanel · 04-17-2006, 07:14 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by GreyMouser

Response from Eco to an interviewer:

Q: Why did you choose the title "The Name of the Rose"?

Eco: Because "Pinocchio" was taken.

I love that one!

And the one about poisoning a monk, posted by Falagar earlier, IIRC.

Elanor's Angel · 05-09-2006, 06:47 PM

just a very few of my faves are in my sig... I don't have my hobbit book so I cant remember what page the "Struck by Lightning! Struck by Lightning!" one by bilbo is. (I think) I'm pritty shure it what durring his first evening with the dwarves.

klatukatt · 05-09-2006, 08:45 PM

"Don't get mad, get sadistic."
~ Cryptosporidium, Destroy All Humans

Elanor's Angel · 05-09-2006, 09:40 PM

Stress: A condition brought on by over-riding the desire to choke the living daylights out of some jerk who desperately deserves it...

Curubethion · 11-15-2006, 12:10 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Acalewia

"Tomorrow and tomorrow and tomorrow
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 is heard no more. It is a tale
Told by an idiot, full of sound and fury
Signifying nothing" MacBeth, Act V, Scene V lines 19-28

Ooh, yeah, that's a real good one! I've actually memorized it! I love the way it's so utterly despairing and hopeless, and if you read it in the context of "The Scottish Play"

, it's really a powerful statement as to Macbeth's mental state, etc.

trolls' bane · 11-15-2006, 12:13 AM

"Nothing can happen more often than always."--Lisa Randall, author of Warped Passages.

sun-star · 11-15-2006, 04:35 AM

This is one of my absolute favourites, the last line of Middlemarch by George Eliot:

The growing good of the world is mainly dependent on unhistoric acts, and that things are not as ill with you and me as they might have been is half owing to the number who lived faithfully a hidden life, and now rest in unvisited graves.

klatukatt · 11-15-2006, 06:20 PM

"Crawling in my skin,
paranoia creeping in..."
~Me, Just Now

GrayMouser · 11-16-2006, 07:29 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by sun-star

This is one of my absolute favourites, the last line of Middlemarch by George Eliot:

The growing good of the world is mainly dependent on unhistoric acts, and that things are not as ill with you and me as they might have been is half owing to the number who lived faithfully a hidden life, and now rest in unvisited graves.

One of my absolute favourite books

hectorberlioz · 11-16-2006, 07:40 PM

I thought it looked a big change, judging from the page count...from Silas Marner

Gwaimir Windgem · 11-18-2006, 05:30 PM

Looks like I haven't posted this one yet, so here goes:

"There is only one thing worse than being talked about, and that is not being talked about."
-Oscar Wilde, through, among others, Lord Henry Wotton.

When asked if he had adored Bosie during his trials:
"I never render adoration to anyone but myself."

"I myself prefer a man who lacks money to money that lacks a man."
-Themistocles, as quoted by Cicero.

"The mass of people, who are never quite right, are never quite wrong."
- C. S. Lewis

Lotesse · 11-18-2006, 05:34 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by klatukatt

"Don't get mad, get sadistic."
~ Cryptosporidium, Destroy All Humans

This - is the bomb! Hell yeah.

Love it.

Curubethion · 12-11-2006, 01:05 AM

And I now have the entire "To be, or not to be" soliloquy stuck in my head, due to a school assignment...

trolls' bane · 12-11-2006, 09:15 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Curubethion

And I now have the entire "To be, or not to be" soliloquy stuck in my head, due to a school assignment...

Oh Neutrino, neutrino!
Wherefore art thou, Neutrino?
Deny thy proton and refuse thy rest mass!

04-06-2006, 05:28 AM	#41
littleadanel of the House of Bëor Join Date: Jul 2005 Location: Eastwards. Posts: 979	My most recent favourite (apologies for the length...), from one of I. B. Singer's short stories, The Spinoza of Market Street: Dr. Fischelson looked up at the sky. The black arch was thickly sown with stars - there were green, red, yellow, blue stars; there were large ones and small ones, winking and steady ones. There were those that were clustered in dense groups and those that were alone. In the higher sphere, apparently, litle notice was taken of the fact that a certain Dr. Fischelson had in his declining days married someone called Black Dobbe. Seen from above even the Great War was nothing but a temporary play of the modes. The myriads of fixed stars continued to travel their destined courses in unbounded space. The comets, planets, satellites, asteroids kept circling these shining centers. Worlds were born and died in cosmic upheavals. In the chaos of nebulae, primeval matter was being formed. Now and again a star tore loose, and swept across the sky, leaving behind it a fiery streak. It was the month of August when there are showers of meteors. Yes, the divine substance was extended and had neither beginning nor end; it was absolute, indivisable, eternal, without duration, infinite in its attributes. Its waves and bubbles danced in the universal cauldron, seething with change, following the unbroken chain of causes and effects, and he, Dr. Fischelson, with his unavoidable fate, was part of this. The doctor closed his eyelids and allowed the breeze to cool the sweat on his forehead and stir the hair of his beard. He breathed deeply of the midnight air, supported his shaky hands on the windowsill and murmured, "Divine Spinoza, forgive me. I have become a fool." __________________ I'm good in bed - I can sleep for days Last edited by littleadanel : 04-06-2006 at 05:42 AM. Reason: yet another typo...

04-07-2006, 09:14 PM	#42
Curubethion Fenway Ranger, Lord of Red Sox Nation Join Date: Aug 2005 Location: College! Posts: 1,976	Here's one from Huck Finn, when Huck has just decided that he won't turn Jim the runaway slave in to the authorities. "All right, then...I'll go to hell!" It's really cool because we all know that the opposite is actually true...and it shows his dedication and transformation as a person. __________________ Adventure...betrayal...heroism... Atharon: where heroes are born. My wife once said to me—when I'd been writing for ten or fifteen years—that I could always go back to being a nuclear engineer. And I said to her, 'Harriet, would you let someone who quit his job to go write fantasy anywhere near your nuclear reactor? I wouldn't!' (Robert Jordan)

04-16-2006, 12:44 AM	#43
Bombadillo "The Bomb" Join Date: Apr 2003 Location: all over the place Posts: 1,601	Hey, I just started rereading Tom Sawyer and Huck Finn, because they're so full of good quotes. There was always something that would make me laugh out loud. Lotesse, I can't stand Victorian English, but I just finished Hamlet for the first time and it was a great story even despite that. Now what I came here to say: "Atticus Finch is the same man in his house as he is on the public streets." I think Miss Maudie said that, in To Kill a Mockingbird. Not an impressive or powerful quote, but just the way it presents the importance of sincerity was something I never encountered before when I first read it, and it's been a big influence. I also started rereading that, so for the first time I'm on three books at once. We'll see how this goes. __________________ Could it be that one path to enlightenment leads through insanity?

04-16-2006, 05:54 PM	#46
Acalewia Halfelven Daughter of the Dunedain, President of Entmoot Join Date: Jul 2005 Location: In trouble. As usual. Posts: 4,674	lol Mousy. (you don't mind me calling you that, do you?) Here's a couple of quotes I like: "'My death will be as nothing to them. It will be as a stone thrown into the Nile in the time of inundation! Do the waters stop for a stone? The plans are made, Hatshepsut, and the hour is near. You will know your enemies when they strike'" Sheftu, Mara, Daughter of the Nile "Tomorrow and tomorrow and tomorrow 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 is heard no more. It is a tale Told by an idiot, full of sound and fury Signifying nothing" MacBeth, Act V, Scene V lines 19-28 __________________ "Acaly und Hektor fur Presidants fur EntMut fur life!"~ inked Don't meddle in the affairs of Dragons, for you are crunchy and taste good with ketchup. "Don't be such a sour wolf" Stiles ~ Heart Monitor http://www.wattpad.com/user/IceQueenofMitera

05-09-2006, 06:47 PM	#48
Elanor's Angel Elf Lord Join Date: Jan 2004 Location: Hiding under my bed reading LOTR at 1:43am, Middle earth (Seattle WA) Posts: 1,239	just a very few of my faves are in my sig... I don't have my hobbit book so I cant remember what page the "Struck by Lightning! Struck by Lightning!" one by bilbo is. (I think) I'm pritty shure it what durring his first evening with the dwarves. __________________ ~And the Geek shall inherit the Earth! Vote Trolls' Bane/Elanor's Angel 2008!!!

04-16-2006, 05:22 AM	#45
GreyMouser Elven Warrior Join Date: Apr 2006 Posts: 301	Response from Eco to an interviewer: Q: Why did you choose the title "The Name of the Rose"? Eco: Because "Pinocchio" was taken.

05-09-2006, 08:45 PM	#49
klatukatt Entmoot's Drunken Uncle Join Date: May 2005 Location: ghost Posts: 1,792	"Don't get mad, get sadistic." ~ Cryptosporidium, Destroy All Humans

05-09-2006, 09:40 PM	#50
Elanor's Angel Elf Lord Join Date: Jan 2004 Location: Hiding under my bed reading LOTR at 1:43am, Middle earth (Seattle WA) Posts: 1,239	Stress: A condition brought on by over-riding the desire to choke the living daylights out of some jerk who desperately deserves it... __________________ ~And the Geek shall inherit the Earth! Vote Trolls' Bane/Elanor's Angel 2008!!!

11-15-2006, 12:13 AM	#52
trolls' bane Entmoot Secretary of the Treasury Join Date: Feb 2003 Location: Campsite-by-Giraffe Posts: 5,408	"Nothing can happen more often than always."--Lisa Randall, author of Warped Passages. __________________ KI6PFA Amateur Radio Operator

11-15-2006, 04:35 AM	#53
sun-star Lady of Letters Join Date: Jan 2002 Location: Either Oxford or Kent, England Posts: 2,476	This is one of my absolute favourites, the last line of Middlemarch by George Eliot: The growing good of the world is mainly dependent on unhistoric acts, and that things are not as ill with you and me as they might have been is half owing to the number who lived faithfully a hidden life, and now rest in unvisited graves. __________________ And all the time the waves, the waves, the waves Chase, intersect and flatten on the sand As they have done for centuries, as they will For centuries to come, when not a soul Is left to picnic on the blazing rocks, When England is not England, when mankind Has blown himself to pieces. Still the sea, Consolingly disastrous, will return While the strange starfish, hugely magnified, Waits in the jewelled basin of a pool.

11-15-2006, 06:20 PM	#54
klatukatt Entmoot's Drunken Uncle Join Date: May 2005 Location: ghost Posts: 1,792	"Crawling in my skin, paranoia creeping in..." ~Me, Just Now

11-16-2006, 07:40 PM	#56
hectorberlioz Master of Orchestration President Emeritus of Entmoot 2004-2008 Join Date: Jun 2003 Location: Lost in the Opera House Posts: 9,328	I thought it looked a big change, judging from the page count...from Silas Marner __________________ ACALEWIA- President of Entmoot hectorberlioz- Vice President of Entmoot Acaly und Hektor fur Presidants fur EntMut fur life! Join the discussion at Entmoot Election 2010. "Stupidissimo!"~Toscanini The Da CINDY Code The Epic Poem Of The Balrog of Entmoot: Here ~NEW! ~ Thinking of summer vacation? AboutNewJersey.com - NJ Travel & Tourism Guide

11-18-2006, 05:30 PM	#57
Gwaimir Windgem Dread Mothy Lord and Halfwitted Apprentice Loremaster Join Date: Dec 2002 Location: Thomas Aquinas College, Santa Paula, CA Posts: 10,820	Looks like I haven't posted this one yet, so here goes: "There is only one thing worse than being talked about, and that is not being talked about." -Oscar Wilde, through, among others, Lord Henry Wotton. When asked if he had adored Bosie during his trials: "I never render adoration to anyone but myself." "I myself prefer a man who lacks money to money that lacks a man." -Themistocles, as quoted by Cicero. "The mass of people, who are never quite right, are never quite wrong." - C. S. Lewis __________________ Crux fidelis, inter omnes arbor una nobilis. Nulla talem silva profert, fronde, flore, germine. Dulce lignum, dulce clavo, dulce pondus sustinens. 'With a melon?' - Eric Idle

12-11-2006, 01:05 AM	#59
Curubethion Fenway Ranger, Lord of Red Sox Nation Join Date: Aug 2005 Location: College! Posts: 1,976	And I now have the entire "To be, or not to be" soliloquy stuck in my head, due to a school assignment... __________________ Adventure...betrayal...heroism... Atharon: where heroes are born. My wife once said to me—when I'd been writing for ten or fifteen years—that I could always go back to being a nuclear engineer. And I said to her, 'Harriet, would you let someone who quit his job to go write fantasy anywhere near your nuclear reactor? I wouldn't!' (Robert Jordan)

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