I'm sick of reading about all this apology stuff. Blah.
Here's one of my favorite quotes of all time. I came across it years ago when I was home from school one weekend. It was in the local paper, so I cut it out and pinned it up on my corkboard at school - among many other things. I still have that cutout to this day.
"Thousands of tired, nerve-shaken, over-civilized people are beginning to find out that going to the mountains is going home; that wildness is a necessity; and that mountain parks and reservations are useful not only as fountains of timber and irrigating rivers, but as fountains of life."
- John Muir
And THAT, ladies and gentlemen, is a man who knows what he's talking about.
I invite everybody to comment with any and all of their favorite quotes. List them all and I might just post some up later.
18 comments:
"I think I just threw up in my mouth." Dodgeball.
"Dan, I won't be ignored." Fatal Attraction.
"You had me at hello." Jerry McGuire
I'm SOOOO literary!
Fuck Only Righteous Girls Tonight.
(Sorry, it was the first thing that came to me.)
only righteous ones?? tonite???
Damn
Hey J Holden--Wanted to let you know I've moved my blog--entered into the Blog World Witness Protection Program! LOL. The link on this comment should get you there. Would you mind updating your sidebar with my new URL?
You rock, and for you, I'll let you have a non-righteous one, but only for tonight!
Oops, guess I have to put it here for all the world to see:
www.manicmommy.blogspot.com
Would you mind updating your sidebar with it?
willow - that's a good one, i like it
take your time and shoot me some more
steph - i got your new link set up, somehow i accomplished it last night after a few hours of drinking
alas, however, i was unable to nab me either a righteous or non-righteous girl
How do you tell a communist? Well, it's someone who reads Marx and Lenin. And how do you tell an anti-Communist? It's someone who understands Marx and Lenin.
- Ronald Reagan
Right is right, even if everyone is against it, and wrong is wrong, even if everyone is for it.
- William Penn
Do nothing which is of no use.
- Miyamoto Musashi
Justice is conscience, not a personal conscience but the conscience of the whole of humanity. Those who clearly recognize the voice of their own conscience usually recognize also the voice of justice.
- Alexander Solzhenitsyn
I profoundly believe it takes a lot of practice to become a moral slob.
- William F. Buckley, Jr.
Spoon!
- The Tick
Not everything that can be counted counts, and not everything that counts can be counted
Albert Einstein
May your trails be crooked, winding, lonesome, dangerous, leading to the most amazing view. May your mountains rise into and above the clouds.
Edward Abbey
Wandered over here from trey's blog
morbid, ethan - couple of great quotes guys
ethan, welcome aboard man
keep 'em coming everyone, i think i'll do this routinely from now on - post some more quotes that i really like
i've got a post written up for Vet's Day, but i'll hold off for a bit
and in case anyone was wondering - the picture in this post is of an area about 40 minutes east of my house
willow - i LOVE this one...
"The true soldier fights not because he hates what is in front of him, but because he loves what is behind him."- GK Chesterton
good stuff
Here's mine:
"The point of life is to fail at greater and greater things."
-Rilke
carol ann - the 2nd one you listed is a verse from the Bible - 1 Corinthians 13:11 i believe
If there is any principle of the Constitution that more imperatively calls for attachment than any other it is the principle of free thought, not free thought for those who agree with us but freedom for the thought that we hate.
Oliver Wendell Holmes
and another:
The sound of a kiss is not so loud as that of a cannon, but its echo lasts a great deal longer.
Oliver Wendell Holmes
and then:
King Arthur: Well, you have to know these things when you're a king, you know.
Where do you begin? I'll Shakespeare and all that. I do love the pre-war speech in Henry V ("Band of brothers,") but not as much as my favorite pre-war speech of all time:
"You come to me with a sword, a spear, and a javelin. But I come to you in the name of the Lord of hosts, the God of the Armies of Israel, whom you have taunted. This day He will deliver you into my hand and I will strike you down and remove your head from you. And I will give the bodies of the army of the Philistines this day to the birds of the sky and the wild beasts of the earth, that all the world may know that there is a God in Israel, and that this assembly may know that the Lord does not deliver by sword or by spear; for the battle is the Lord's and He will give you into our hands."
Then "David ran quickly" to meet Goliath....
Oh, there's also the line in Rudy:
"You're five-foot nothin. You weigh a hundred and nothin. And you hung in for four years with one of the greatest football teams in the country....." (Sorry, I forgot. I remember watching the scene about 36 times in a row one night. But I've slept since then, thanks, of course to John Eldredge....)
Dennis - love the one by Oliver Wendell Holmes
steven - 2 good ones there, i don't think i've ever watched "Rudy" without crying
and do you have the one from Henry V close by?
Man, don't want to get me started...
"What's he that wishes so? My cousing Westmoreland? No, my fair coz, wish not a man from England. Rather, proclaim it Westmoreland, through my host, that he which hath no stomach for this day, let him depart. His passport shall be written, and crowns for convoy put into his purse...." (Let's skip ahead)....
This day is called the feast of Chrispin. He that outlives this day and comes safe home, will yearly on the vigil feast his neighbors and say, 'Tomorrow is Saint Chrispin' then will he strip his sleeves, show his scars and say, "These wounds I had, on Chrispin's day.".... (I know the whole 20 or 30 lines, but that's too much for the blogosphere, you know?)
....Then shall our names, familiar in their mouths as household words, Harry, the king, Bedford and Exeter, Warwick and Talbot, be in their flowing cups freshly remembered. This story shall the good man teach his son, and Crispin Chrispian shall ne'er go by, from this day to the ending of the world, but we in it shall be remembered. We few, we happy few. We band of brothers. For he today that sheds his blood with me, shall be my brother. Be he ne'er so vile, this day shall gentle his condition. And gentlemen in England now a-bed shall think themselves accursed they were not here, and hold their manhood's cheap whilst any speaks that fought with us upon Saint Chrispin's Daaaaaaay!"
Sorry for typing it as prose. It loses something without the line breaks.
I knew there was something about a good man teaching his son, a line I always forgot when doing the audition monologue... so I found the whole thing at http://www.chequer-board.net/story/2005/10/25/194637/28
Thanks for asking. I recommend the Branagh film version of the speech. But either way, people rarely give the Bard credit for his amazing speechwriting. To me, no one ever wrote better speeches. But MLK gets a nod to. He HAS been to the mountain....
steven - thanks so much man, i appreciate that
i've never read the whole speech all the way thru - perhaps that's something for a cozy saturday afternoon
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