Hux Posted October 12, 2022 Share Posted October 12, 2022 I'm reading 'As I Walked Out One Midsummer Morning' and was tickled by a particular line... "The woman asked me in French if I was German, and I replied in Spanish that I was English." It occurred to me that there isn't a section here to post quotes (that I can see) so I thought I'd start this thread. 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
timebug Posted October 13, 2022 Share Posted October 13, 2022 On the inclusion of the Complete works of JS Bach on the Voyager space probe, Carl Sagan is generally quoted as saying 'That would be showing off!'. In fact another scientist said it first,and Sagan simply repeated it! 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
poppy Posted October 13, 2022 Share Posted October 13, 2022 10 hours ago, Hux said: I'm reading 'As I Walked Out One Midsummer Morning' and was tickled by a particular line... "The woman asked me in French if I was German, and I replied in Spanish that I was English." It occurred to me that there isn't a section here to post quotes (that I can see) so I thought I'd start this thread. Funny! Would be great to be able to do that 😊 Loved this book. Though not exactly a quote, the title of the book 'The Wind Cannot Read' by Richard Mason is taken from a Japanese poem, "Though on the sign it is written: 'Don't pluck these blossoms'–it is useless against the wind, which cannot read”. It appears in the frontispiece. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
lunababymoonchild Posted October 13, 2022 Share Posted October 13, 2022 Great idea. I like these : ........let me but preserve my presence of mind and resolution, and when the moment for action comes I shall triumph over every obstacle. Fragment from Crime and Punishment, Fyodor Dostoyevsky Doctor Carfax considered a moment, as though endeavouring to recapture an experience blunted by time, whose fragrance now lay stored in memory's labyrinth like a flower pressed between the pages of a book. Fragment from Castle Dor, Arthur Thomas Quiller-Couch and Daphne du Maurier Arthur Schopenhauer once wrote, “One can never read too little of bad, or too much of good books: bad books are intellectual poison; they destroy the mind.” Life is much too short to finish a bad book. You need to be ruthless and heartless. Don’t let sunk costs guilt you into wasting your time. Farnam Street Blog Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Hux Posted January 6 Author Share Posted January 6 “Death is always on the way, but the fact that you don't know when it will arrive seems to take away from the finiteness of life. It's that terrible precision that we hate so much. But because we don't know, we get to think of life as an inexhaustible well. Yet everything happens a certain number of times, and a very small number, really. How many more times will you remember a certain afternoon of your childhood, some afternoon that's so deeply a part of your being that you can't even conceive of your life without it? Perhaps four or five times more. Perhaps not even. How many more times will you watch the full moon rise? Perhaps twenty. And yet it all seems limitless." The Sheltering Sky - Paul Bowles 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
woolf woolf Posted January 30 Share Posted January 30 On 10/13/2022 at 9:22 AM, poppy said: Though not exactly a quote, the title of the book 'The Wind Cannot Read' by Richard Mason is taken from a Japanese poem, "Though on the sign it is written: 'Don't pluck these blossoms'–it is useless against the wind, which cannot read”. It appears in the frontispiece. I like this poem, as well as japanese/chinese poetry and proverbs. The author is Ryōkan Taigu, an 18th century calligrapher and monk, which as we know is code for warrior. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
KEV67 Posted January 30 Share Posted January 30 On 10/13/2022 at 1:25 AM, Hux said: I'm reading 'As I Walked Out One Midsummer Morning' and was tickled by a particular line... "The woman asked me in French if I was German, and I replied in Spanish that I was English." It occurred to me that there isn't a section here to post quotes (that I can see) so I thought I'd start this thread. Was that Laurie Lee? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Hux Posted January 30 Author Share Posted January 30 4 hours ago, KEV67 said: Was that Laurie Lee? yes Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Angury Posted May 5 Share Posted May 5 Quote “It's not worth doing something unless someone, somewhere, would much rather you weren't doing it.” ― Terry Pratchett Quote “All right," said Susan. "I'm not stupid. You're saying humans need... fantasies to make life bearable." REALLY? AS IF IT WAS SOME KIND OF PINK PILL? NO. HUMANS NEED FANTASY TO BE HUMAN. TO BE THE PLACE WHERE THE FALLING ANGEL MEETS THE RISING APE. "Tooth fairies? Hogfathers? Little—" YES. AS PRACTICE. YOU HAVE TO START OUT LEARNING TO BELIEVE THE LITTLE LIES. "So we can believe the big ones?" YES. JUSTICE. MERCY. DUTY. THAT SORT OF THING. "They're not the same at all!" YOU THINK SO? THEN TAKE THE UNIVERSE AND GRIND IT DOWN TO THE FINEST POWDER AND SIEVE IT THROUGH THE FINEST SIEVE AND THEN SHOW ME ONE ATOM OF JUSTICE, ONE MOLECULE OF MERCY. AND YET—Death waved a hand. AND YET YOU ACT AS IF THERE IS SOME IDEAL ORDER IN THE WORLD, AS IF THERE IS SOME...SOME RIGHTNESS IN THE UNIVERSE BY WHICH IT MAY BE JUDGED. "Yes, but people have got to believe that, or what's the point—" MY POINT EXACTLY.” ― Terry Pratchett, Hogfather Quote “Coming back to where you started is not the same as never leaving.” ― Terry Pratchett, A Hat Full of Sky. Got to love Pratchett. Also one of my all-time favourite writers: Quote “Everything can be taken from a man but one thing: the last of the human freedoms—to choose one’s attitude in any given set of circumstances, to choose one’s own way.” Quote “When we are no longer able to change a situation, we are challenged to change ourselves.” Quote “Those who have a 'why' to live, can bear with almost any 'how'.” Quote “No man should judge unless he asks himself in absolute honesty whether in a similar situation he might not have done the same.” Quote “The one thing you can’t take away from me is the way I choose to respond to what you do to me. The last of one’s freedoms is to choose one’s attitude in any given circumstance.” Quote “Between stimulus and response there is a space. In that space is our power to choose our response. In our response lies our growth and our freedom.” Quote “We who lived in concentration camps can remember the men who walked through the huts comforting others, giving away their last piece of bread. They may have been few in number, but they offer sufficient proof that everything can be taken from a man but one thing: the last of the human freedoms -- to choose one's attitude in any given set of circumstances, to choose one's own way.” ― Viktor E. Frankl, Man's Search for Meaning Some powerful messages there. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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