Profound Quotes

[sal]

What if the Hokey Pokey really is what it is all about ?

 

[Marc Chevalier]

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Quote of our time:


[video=youtube;Xd9VwVPEhnQ]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Xd9VwVPEhnQ[/video]

 

[rue]

"Everything popular is wrong."

“Ordinary riches can be stolen, real riches cannot. In your soul are infinitely precious things that cannot be taken from you.”

both by Oscar Wilde

 

[4spurs]

More from Oscar

One should either be a work of art, or wear a work of art. ~Oscar Wilde ...

 

[LizzieMaine]

Television is called a medium because it's rarely well done.
-- Fred Allen

 

[V.C. Brunswick]

"What is a cynic? A man who knows the price of everything and the value of nothing."
- Oscar Wilde

 

[LizzieMaine]

An optimist is a man who's been treed by a lion, but admires the scenery.
-- Walter Winchell

 

[Marc Chevalier]

"Everything popular is wrong."

Now that's hot!

 

[rue]

Now that's hot!

 

[Alex Oviatt]

I love the line in the deeply funny 1984 film American Dreamer where a drunk Jo Beth Williams says:

"Wasn't it Nietzsche who said 'Was mich nicht umbringt macht mich stärke? Deep, huh?"

Deep, indeed. Great film with J-B W., Tom Conti and Giancarlo Giannini--heaps of style. Bset in Paris, it reminds me of that other very stylish film, "Diva." But I am dating myself....

 

[V.C. Brunswick]

Television is called a medium because it's rarely well done.
-- Fred Allen

"I find television very educational. Whenever it's on I go in the other room and read a book."
-- Groucho Marx

 

[Yeps]

Along with essays, poetry and music, there are a heck of a lot of good quotes over here.

"Mankind has had ten-thousand years of experience at fighting and if we must fight, we have no excuse for not fighting well."

T.E. Lawrence

"Never look at the trombones, it only encourages them."
-- Richard Strauss

 

[LizzieMaine]

Behind every argument is someone's ignorance.
-- Robert Benchley

 

[Edward]

“The truth is, everyone is going to hurt you. You just got to find the ones worth suffering for.”
― Bob Marley

 

[Flicka]

"An integral part of any relationship is knowing that you could be killed in your sleep at any time."
- Trent Reznor

Yeah, you can't beat Trent for pessimism!

 

[LizzieMaine]

I am an old man and have known a great many troubles, but most of them never happened.
-- Mark Twain

 

[Marc Chevalier]

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“Many of the things we 'need' can wait. A child cannot. Now is the time that her bones are being formed, her blood is being made, her senses are being developed. To her we cannot answer, 'Tomorrow'. Her name is 'Today.'”

-- Gabriela Mistral



“Socialism can only arrive by bicycle.”

-- Jose Antonio Viera Gallo

 

[Benzadmiral]

"I find television very educational. Whenever it's on I go in the other room and read a book."
-- Groucho Marx

"Most TV programs are for either the over-brained or the under-brained, and I come in between."
(-- Rex Stout writing as Nero Wolfe's Archie Goodwin, ~ 1950)

 

[lolly_loisides]

You may not be able to change the world, but at least you can embarrass the guilty. — Jessica Mitford
I cannot and will not cut my conscience to fit this year's fashions. - Lillian Hellman, letter to Committee on Un-American Activities of the House of Representatives, May 19, 1952

 

[rue]

I'd marry again if I found a man who had fifteen million dollars, would sign over half to me, and guarantee that he'd be dead within a year. -Bette Davis

Sometimes I wonder if men and women really suit each other. Perhaps they should live next door and just visit now and then. -Katharine Hepburn