Posts in the category “quotations”

Bernard Berenson

“I wish I could stand on a busy corner, hat in hand, and beg people to throw me all their wasted hours.” – Bernard Berenson, Lithuanian-born US art critic I share my birthday with him.

non-existent / rare beef toothpaste

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“We are a disenchanted generation, and we don’t even care enough to be hippies.”
Andrea Spencer

“The worst tragedy for a poet is to be admired through being misunderstood.”
Jean Cocteau

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Like Food.Com, here’s another site that I’m kicking myself for not having visited sooner. It’s pretty nifty and I dig it. Movie and Television Quotations! I like this one from L.A. Confidential: “Come to Los Angeles. The sun shines bright, the beaches are wide and inviting, and the orange groves stretch as far as the

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“The thinking of genius does not proceed logically. It leaps with great ellipses. It pulls knowledge from God knows where.”
Dorothy Thompson, American journalist (1894-1961)

Quos Deus vult perdere prius

Quos Deus vult perdere prius dementat.

If you ever crawl inside an old hollow log and go to sleep, and while you’re in there some guys come and seal up both ends and then put it on a truck and take it to another city, boy, I don’t know what to tell you.
from Deep Thoughts by Jack Handey

Inigo: Let me explain… No, there is too much. Let me sum up: Buttercup is marrying Humperdinck in little less than half an hour. So all we have to do is get in, break up the wedding, steal the princess, make our escape… after I kill Count Rugen.
Westley: That doesn’t leave much for dilly-dally.
Fezzik: You just wiggled your finger! That’s wonderful!
Westley: I’ve always been a quick healer. What are our liabilities?
Inigo: There is but one working castle gate, and it is guarded by sixty men.
Westley: And our assets?
Inigo: Your brains, Fezzik’s strength, my steel.
Westley: That’s it? Impossible. If I had a month to plan maybe I could come up with something. But this…
Fezzik: You just shook your head! That doesn’t make you happy?
Westley: My brains, his steel, and your strength against sixty men and you think a little head jiggle is supposed to make me happy? Hmm?? I mean if we only had a wheelbarrow, that would be something.
from The Princess Bride

Bryan J Busch Quote Contest

Hot, Hot, Hot Getcherbuttrightouttatown! Thank you. Thank you very much. No, really. I love the applause, but … oh. No, you’re too kind. Yes. Thank you. It is a wonderful joy to have finally won The Quote Contest at re-run. Go on, now. You’ll have to start playing now, you realize? <grin>

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Hemingway

You can read dozens of essays and articles and find hundreds of links to other sites with stories and information about Ernest Hemingway in The Hemingway Collection.