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Herbert Fisher Quotes

Thu, 17 May 2012 22:20:05 +0000

Purity of race does not exist. Europe is a continent of energetic mongrels. - View Quote Details on Purity of race does not exist. Europe is a continent…
It is easier for eight or nine elderly men to feel their way towards unanimity if they are not compelled to conduct their converging maneuvers under the microscopes and telescopes of the press, but are permitted to shuffle about a little in slippers. - View Quote Details on It is easier for eight or nine elderly men to…
I can see… only one safe rule for the historian: that he should recognize in the development of human destinies the play of the contingent and the unforeseen. - View Quote Details on I can see… only one safe rule for the historian:…
Politics is the art of human happiness. - View Quote Details on Politics is the art of human happiness.
All political decisions are taken under great pressure, and if a treaty serves its turn for ten or twenty years, the wisdom of its framers is sufficiently confirmed. - View Quote Details on All political decisions are taken under great pressure, and if…

About Herbert Fisher

The Right Honourable Herbert Albert Laurens Fisher, OM (21 March 1865 – 18 April 1940 ) was an English historian, educator, and Liberal politician.

James Hal Cone Quotes

Thu, 17 May 2012 22:00:07 +0000

“The revolution which Black Theology advocates … [means] confronting white racists and saying: ‘If it’s a fight you want, I am prepared to oblige you.’ This is what the black revolution means.” [Black Theology and Black Power, Page 136] - View Quote Details on “The revolution which Black Theology advocates … [means] confronting white…
‘People should love each other’ sounds like Riis Park at sundown. It has very little meaning to the world at large.” [Black Theology and Black Power, Page 135] - View Quote Details on ‘People should love each other’ sounds like Riis Park at…
Malcom X - View Quote Details on Malcom X
“All white men are responsible for white oppression. It is much too easy to say, “Racism is not my fault,” or “I am not responsible for the country’s inhumanity to the black man…But insofar as white do-gooders tolerate and sponsor racism in their educational institutions, their political, economic and social structures, their churches, and in every other aspect of American life, they are directly responsible for racism…Racism is possible because whites are indifferent to suffering and patient with cruelty. Karl Jaspers’ description of metaphysical guilt is pertinent here. ‘There exists among men, because they are men, a solidarity through which each shares responsibility for every injustice and every wrong committed in the world, and especially for crimes that are committed in his presence or of which he cannot be ignorant.’ ” [Black Theology and Black Power, p. 24] - View Quote Details on “All white men are responsible for white oppression. It is…
“Racism is a complete denial of the Incarnation and thus of Christianity…If there is any contemporary meaning of the Antichrist (or “the principalities and powers”), the white church seems to be a manifestation of it. It was the white “Christian” church which took the lead in establishing slavery as an institution and segregation as a pattern in society by sanctioning all-white congregations.” [Black Theology and Black Power, p. 73] - View Quote Details on “Racism is a complete denial of the Incarnation and thus…
Liberation Theology - View Quote Details on Liberation Theology
“Black theology cannot accept a view of God which does not represent God as being for oppressed blacks and thus against white oppressors. Living in a world of white oppressors, blacks have no time for a neutral God. The brutalities are too great and the pain too severe, and this means we must know where God is and what God is doing in the revolution. There is no use for a God who loves white oppressors the same as oppressed blacks. We have had too much of white love, the love that tells blacks to turn the other cheek and go the second mile. What we need is the divine love as expressed in black power, which is the power of blacks to destroy their oppressors, here and now, by any means at their disposal. Unless God is participating in this holy activity, we must reject God’s love.” [A Black Theology of Liberation, p. 70] - View Quote Details on “Black theology cannot accept a view of God which does…
“The Christian does not decide between violence and nonviolence, evil and good. He decides between the less and the greater evil.” [Black Theology and Black Power, Page 143] - View Quote Details on “The Christian does not decide between violence and nonviolence, evil…
“It is important to make a further distinction here among black hatred, black racism, and Black Power. Black hatred is the black man’s strong aversion to white society. No black man living in white America can escape it…But the charge of black racism cannot be reconciled with the facts. While it is true that blacks do hate whites, black hatred is not racism. Racism, according to Webster, is ‘the assumption that psychocultural traits and capacities are determined by biological race and that races differ decisively from one another, which is usually coupled with a belief in the inherent superiority of a particular race and its rights to dominance over others.’ Where are the examples among blacks in which they sought to assert their right to dominance over others because of a belief in black superiority?…Black Power is an affirmation of the humanity of blacks in spite of white racism. It says that only blacks really know the extent of white oppression, and thus only blacks are prepared to risk all to be free.” [Black Theology and Black Power, p. 14-16] - View Quote Details on “It is important to make a further distinction here among…
“For the gospel proclaims that God is with us now, actively fighting the forces which would make man captive. And it is the task of theology and the Church to know where God is at work so that we can join him in this fight against evil. In America we know where the evil is. We know that men are shot and lynched. We know that men are crammed into ghettos…There is a constant battle between Christ and Satan, and it is going on now. If we make this message contemporaneous with our own life situation, what does Christ’s defeat of Satan mean for us?…The demonic forces of racism are real for the black man. Theologically, Malcolm X was not far wrong when he called the white man “the devil.” The white structure of this American society, personified in every racist, must be at least part of what the New Testament meant by the demonic forces.” [Black Theology and Black Power, pp. 39-41] - View Quote Details on “For the gospel proclaims that God is with us now,…
“To be Christian is to be one of those whom God has chosen. God has chosen black people!” [Black Theology and Black Power, pp. 139-140]. - View Quote Details on “To be Christian is to be one of those whom…
Jeremiah Wright - View Quote Details on Jeremiah Wright
“Whether the American system is beyond redemption we will have to wait and see. But we can be certain that black patience has run out, and unless white America responds positively to the theory and activity of Black Power, then a bloody, protracted civil war is inevitable.” [Black Theology and Black Power, Page 143] - View Quote Details on “Whether the American system is beyond redemption we will have…
“Therefore, simply to say that Jesus did not use violence is no evidence relevant to the condition of black people as they decide on what to do about white oppression.” [Black Theology and Black Power, Page 140] - View Quote Details on “Therefore, simply to say that Jesus did not use violence…

About James Hal Cone

James Hal Cone (born August 5, 1938 ) is an African-American Christian theologian in the Methodist tradition. .

John Henry Cardinal Newman Quotes

Thu, 17 May 2012 19:00:09 +0000

Firmly I believe and truly God is Three, and God is One;
And I next acknowledge duly Manhood taken by the Son. - View Quote Details on Firmly I believe and truly God is Three, and God…
Nothing would be done at all, if a man waited till he could do it so well, that no one could find fault with it. - View Quote Details on Nothing would be done at all, if a man waited…
Lead, Kindly Light, amid the encircling gloom,
Lead Thou me on!
The night is dark, and I am far from home—
Lead Thou me on!
Keep Thou my feet: I do not ask to see
The distant scene,—one step enough for me. - View Quote Details on Lead, Kindly Light, amid the encircling gloom,
Lead Thou me on!
The…
Knowledge is one thing, virtue is another. - View Quote Details on Knowledge is one thing, virtue is another.
May He support us all the day long, till the shades lengthen, and the evening comes, and the busy world is hushed, and the fever of life is over, and our work is done! Then in His mercy may He give us safe lodging, and a holy rest, and peace at the last! - View Quote Details on May He support us all the day long, till the…
And with the morn those angel faces smile
Which I have loved long since and lost awhile. - View Quote Details on And with the morn those angel faces smile
Which I have…
There is a knowledge which is desirable, though nothing come of it, as being of itself a treasure, and a sufficient remuneration of years of labor. - View Quote Details on There is a knowledge which is desirable, though nothing come…
To live is to change, and to perfect life is to have changed often. - View Quote Details on To live is to change, and to perfect life is…
The world is content with setting right the surface of things. - View Quote Details on The world is content with setting right the surface of…
So living Nature, not dull Art,
Shall plan my ways and rule my heart. - View Quote Details on So living Nature, not dull Art,
Shall plan my ways and…
There is in stillness oft a magic power
To calm the breast when struggling passions lower,
Touched by its influence, in the soul arise
Diviner feelings, kindred with the skies. - View Quote Details on There is in stillness oft a magic power
To calm the…
To be deep in history is to cease to be protestant. - View Quote Details on To be deep in history is to cease to be…
Ex umbris et imaginibus in vertitatem! - View Quote Details on Ex umbris et imaginibus in vertitatem!
Flagrant evils cure themselves by being flagrant. - View Quote Details on Flagrant evils cure themselves by being flagrant.
Growth is the only evidence of life. - View Quote Details on Growth is the only evidence of life.
Where good and ill together blent,
Wage an undying strife. - View Quote Details on Where good and ill together blent,
Wage an undying strife.

About John Henry Cardinal Newman

The Venerable John Henry Cardinal Newman (February 21, 1801 – August 11, 1890) was an English convert to Catholicism, later made a cardinal.

Pat Buchanan Quotes

Thu, 17 May 2012 17:50:11 +0000

The temptation is to think that Vicente Fox, who heads a country 46% of whose people would like to live in the United States, is but another failed Third World visionary prattling on for the benefit of globalists who have been beavering away on their impossible dream for generations… - View Quote Details on The temptation is to think that Vicente Fox, who heads…
In 1960, the U.S. population was 89% white. By 1990, it was 76%. Today, it is under 70%. By 2050, white Americans, the most loyal voting bloc the Republican Party has, that provides 90% of all GOP votes, will be just another minority because of an immigration policy championed by Republicans. When John Stuart Mill called the Tories “the Stupid Party,” he was not entirely wrong. - View Quote Details on In 1960, the U.S. population was 89% white. By 1990,…
A civil war is going to break out inside the Republican Party along the old trench lines of the Goldwater-Rockefeller wars of the 1960s, a war for the heart and soul and future of the party. - View Quote Details on A civil war is going to break out inside the…
Like the Paris riots, the struggle over French history raises grave questions for Europe. How does the presence of 20 million Muslims who come from nations where men believe their grandfathers were exploited and persecuted by Europeans advance the unity and security of Europe? How is Europe made stronger by such “diversity”? - View Quote Details on Like the Paris riots, the struggle over French history raises…
There is no conservative party in Washington. There is a Democratic Party of tax-and-spend and a Republican Party of guns and butter and tax cuts, too. Washington is all accelerator, the brakes are gone. - View Quote Details on There is no conservative party in Washington. There is a…
The dirty little secret is that Congress no longer wants the accountability that goes with the wielding of power. - View Quote Details on The dirty little secret is that Congress no longer wants…
If the success of the Bush presidency hinges on the outcome of the war in Iraq, that war is even more critical to the cabal that exploited 9/11 to maneuver us into it… All the neocon eggs are in the Baghdad basket. - View Quote Details on If the success of the Bush presidency hinges on the…
With perhaps 4 million illegal aliens having broken in in Bush’s five-and-a-half years in office, and our border states being daily breached by thousands more, can anyone say President Bush has protected the states of this Union against that invasion? In an earlier America, this dereliction of constitutional duty would have called forth articles of impeachment. - View Quote Details on With perhaps 4 million illegal aliens having broken in in…
Mass immigration is swamping the GOP base. Tens of millions of immigrants who vote Democratic, once they are naturalized and registered, have come and are coming to America. History may yet record that the Immigration Act of 1965 act converted ‘The Emerging Republican Majority’ of Kevin Phillips’ classic work into the Lost Colony of the 21st century. - View Quote Details on Mass immigration is swamping the GOP base. Tens of millions…
If Iraq collapses in chaos and civil war, there will be a ferocious fight in this country over who misled us and who may have lied us, into war. Into the dock will go the neoconservatives whose class project this was. - View Quote Details on If Iraq collapses in chaos and civil war, there will…
Like Thelma and Louise, Medicare and Social Security are headed for the cliff. And we are in the back seat. - View Quote Details on Like Thelma and Louise, Medicare and Social Security are headed…
The crisis of the West is a collapsing culture and vanishing peoples, as a Third World that grows by 100 million people, the equivalent of a new Mexico, every 18 months, mounts the greatest invasion in history of the world. If we do not shake off our paralysis, the West comes to an end. - View Quote Details on The crisis of the West is a collapsing culture and…
Listening to the neoconservatives, Bush invaded Iraq, united the Arab world against us, isolated us from Europe, and fulfilled to the letter bin Laden’s prophecy as to what we were about. - View Quote Details on Listening to the neoconservatives, Bush invaded Iraq, united the Arab…
Globalization is the economic treason that dare not speak it name. - View Quote Details on Globalization is the economic treason that dare not speak it…
The Sharon Plan is not a peace plan. It is a unilateral solution to be imposed by Israel…. A Palestinian leader who signs on to this surrender of land and rights would be signing his death warrant. - View Quote Details on The Sharon Plan is not a peace plan. It is…
Neoconservatives are the boat people of the McGovern revolution. - View Quote Details on Neoconservatives are the boat people of the McGovern revolution.
What makes the Pastor-CFR [Council on Foreign Relations] plan remarkable is that those who would abolish America are out of the closet. The penultimate step to world government, a North American Union built on the model of the European Union, to one day merge with it in a World Union of Nations and Peoples, is before us on the table. - View Quote Details on What makes the Pastor-CFR [Council on Foreign Relations] plan remarkable…
We are not hated for who we are. We are hated for what we do. It is not our principles that have spawned pandemic hatred of America in the Islamic world. It is our policies. - View Quote Details on We are not hated for who we are. We are…
As Rome passed away, so, the West is passing away, from the same causes and in much the same way. What the Danube and Rhine were to Rome, the Rio Grande and Mediterranean are to America and Europe, the frontiers of a civilization no longer defended. - View Quote Details on As Rome passed away, so, the West is passing away,…
This struggle to preserve the old creeds, cultures, and countries of the West is the new divide between Left and Right; this struggle will define what it means to be a conservative. This is the cause of the twenty-first century and the agenda of conservatism for the remainder of our lives. - View Quote Details on This struggle to preserve the old creeds, cultures, and countries…
America’s enemy in the Islamic world is not a state we can crush with sanctions or an enemy we can defeat with force of arms. The enemy is a cause, a movement, an idea. - View Quote Details on America’s enemy in the Islamic world is not a state…
Concerned about his legacy, George W. Bush may yet live to see his name entered into the history of his country as the president who lost the American Southwest that James K. Polk won for the United States. - View Quote Details on Concerned about his legacy, George W. Bush may yet live…
The Bush Doctrine is a prescription for permanent war for permanent peace, though wars are the death of republics. - View Quote Details on The Bush Doctrine is a prescription for permanent war for…
By nation of origin of our people, by 2050, America will be a Third World country. Our great cities will all look like Los Angeles today. Los Angeles and the cities of the Southwest will look like Juarez and Tijuana… - View Quote Details on By nation of origin of our people, by 2050, America…
Islamization of Europe is an unavoidable consequence, indeed, an inevitability, once Europe ceased to reproduce itself. The descendants of the men who went out from Europe to conquer and Christianize the world have decided to leave the world. The culture of death triumphs, as the poor but fecund Muslims, expelled centuries ago, return to inherit the estate. - View Quote Details on Islamization of Europe is an unavoidable consequence, indeed, an inevitability,…
If war is the continuation of politics by other means, terrorism is the continuation of war by other means. - View Quote Details on If war is the continuation of politics by other means,…
Nine days after an attack on the United States, this tiny clique of intellectuals [Neocons] was telling the President of the United States…that if he did not follow their war plans, he would be charged publicly with a “decisive surrender” to terrorism. - View Quote Details on Nine days after an attack on the United States, this…
Bush has compiled a fiscal record of startling recklessness. - View Quote Details on Bush has compiled a fiscal record of startling recklessness.
Uncontrolled immigration threatens to deconstruct the nation we grew up in and convert America into a conglomeration of peoples with almost nothing in common—not history, heroes, language, culture, faith, or ancestors. Balkanization beckons. - View Quote Details on Uncontrolled immigration threatens to deconstruct the nation we grew up…
The Left has found the Ho Chi Minh Trail around democracy…to impose its views and values upon our society without having to win elections or persuade elected legislators. - View Quote Details on The Left has found the Ho Chi Minh Trail around…
Young Asian males are nine times as likely as white youth to belong to a gang and Hispanic youth are 19 times more likely. A disproportionate share of Hispanic young and poor are thus assimilating into a misogynistic, rebellious, youth sub-culture of drugs, gangs, crime, contempt for formal education, and hostility to police. - View Quote Details on Young Asian males are nine times as likely as white…
The Bush National Security Strategy is the imperial edict of a superpower out to exploit its present supremacy to make itself permanent Lord Protector of the universe. - View Quote Details on The Bush National Security Strategy is the imperial edict of…
The West is dying. Its nations have ceased to reproduce, and their populations have stopped growing and begun to shrink. Not since the Black Death carried off a third of Europe in the fourteenth century has there been a graver threat to the survival of Western civilization. - View Quote Details on The West is dying. Its nations have ceased to reproduce,…
How did it happen that a republic born of a rebellion against a king and parliament we did not elect has fallen under a tyranny of judges we did not elect? - View Quote Details on How did it happen that a republic born of a…
The Bush Doctrine is democratic imperialism. This will bleed, bankrupt and isolate this republic. This overthrows the wisdom of the Founding Fathers about what America should be all about. - View Quote Details on The Bush Doctrine is democratic imperialism. This will bleed, bankrupt…
Terrorism is the price of empire. If we do not wish to pay it, we must give up the empire. - View Quote Details on Terrorism is the price of empire. If we do not…
Democracy is not enough. If the culture dies, the country dies. - View Quote Details on Democracy is not enough. If the culture dies, the country…
By 2050 there will be almost 2.5 times as many people here as in 1960: 420 million. The share of the population of European descent will be a minority as it is today in California, Texas and New Mexico. And that minority will be aging, shrinking and dying. There will be as many Hispanics here, 102 million, as there are Mexicans today in Mexico… - View Quote Details on By 2050 there will be almost 2.5 times as many…
…The reality is otherwise. [Vicente] Fox & friends are far closer than all but a few realize to making inevitable a North American Union where American sovereignty is dissipated and the republic is no more. - View Quote Details on …The reality is otherwise. [Vicente] Fox & friends are far…
What can be said for a man who would allow his home to be invaded by strangers who demanded they be fed, clothed, housed and granted the rights of the first-born? What can be said for a ruling elite that permits this to be done to the nation, and who celebrate it as a milestone of moral progress? - View Quote Details on What can be said for a man who would allow…
High among the costs of immigration is the appearance among us of diseases that never before afflicted us and the sudden reappearance of contagious diseases that researchers and doctors had eradicated long ago. Malaria, polio, hepatitis, tuberculosis and such rarities of the Third World as dengue fever, Chagas’ Disease and leprosy are surfacing here… - View Quote Details on High among the costs of immigration is the appearance among…
It is false to say President Bush presided over a “jobless recovery.” His trade deficits have created many millions of jobs in China. - View Quote Details on It is false to say President Bush presided over a…
Along with the theocratic right, two other hard right political movements pose a grave threat to democracy : regressive populism, typified by diverse groups ranging >from members of the John Birch Society out to members of the patriot and armed militia movements; and White racial nationalism, promoted by Pat Buchanan and his shadow, David Duke of Louisiana. - View Quote Details on Along with the theocratic right, two other hard right political…

About Pat Buchanan

Patrick Joseph Buchanan (born November 2, 1938 ) is an American politician, author, syndicated columnist, and broadcaster. .

Jacques Barzun Quotes

Thu, 17 May 2012 17:40:06 +0000

No one has ever used historical examples, near or remote, with the detail, precision, and directness to be found in every page of Shaw. - View Quote Details on No one has ever used historical examples, near or remote,…
The only political ism surviving in full strength from the past is nationalism. This was partly to be expected from the liberation of so many colonies simultaneously, beginning in the 1920s. But this nationalism differs from the old in two remarkable ways: it is not patriotic and it does not want to absorb and assimilate. On the contrary, it wants to shrink and secede, to limit its control to its one small group of like-minded-we-ourselves-alone. It is in that sense racist, particularist, sectarian, minority-inspired. - View Quote Details on The only political ism surviving in full strength from the…
When plugged in, the least elaborate computer can be relied on to work to the fullest extent of its capacity. The greatest mind cannot be relied on for the simplest thing; its variability is its superiority. - View Quote Details on When plugged in, the least elaborate computer can be relied…
Shaw does not merely decorate a proposition, but makes his way from point to point through new and difficult territory.
This explains why Shaw must either be taken whole or left alone. He must be disassembled and put together again with nothing left out, under pain of incomprehension; for his politics, his art, and his religion — to say nothing of the shape of his sentences — are unique expressions of this enormously enlarged and yet concentrated consciousness. - View Quote Details on Shaw does not merely decorate a proposition, but makes his…
On the one hand, society needs a common faith and vigorous institutions with the power to coerce; and on the other, the individual as a human soul or as the bearer of a new and possibly saving heresy, must be free. It is difficult enough to reconcile these two needs, but the problem holds another hazard: the need of action under the pressure of time. - View Quote Details on On the one hand, society needs a common faith and…
Barzun 100: Celebrating Jacques Barzun’s 100th Year, blog with links - View Quote Details on Barzun 100: Celebrating Jacques Barzun’s 100th Year, blog with links
Teaching is not a lost art, but the regard for it is a lost tradition. - View Quote Details on Teaching is not a lost art, but the regard for…
A student under my care owes his first allegiance to himself and not to my specialty; and must not be burdened with my work as if he followed no other and had contracted no obligation under heaven but that of satisfying my requirements. - View Quote Details on A student under my care owes his first allegiance to…
Old age is like learning a new profession. And not one of your own choosing. - View Quote Details on Old age is like learning a new profession. And not…
He never invested his whole moral capital in a man, a book, or a cause, but treasured up wisdom wherever it could be picked up, always with scrupulous acknowledgment… His eclecticism saving him from the cycle of hope-disillusion-despair, his highest effectiveness was as a skirmisher in the daily battle for light and justice, as a critic of new doctrine and a refurbisher of old, as a voice of warning and encouragement. That his action has not been in vain, we can measure by how little Shaw’s iconoclasm stirs our blood; we no longer remember what he destroyed that was blocking our view. - View Quote Details on He never invested his whole moral capital in a man,…
We are accustomed to the artist scoundrel or specialist in vice, and unaccustomed to the creator in whom passion and reason and moral integrity hold in balance. But greatness of intellect and feeling, or soul and conduct — magnanimity, in short — does occur; it is not a myth for boy scouts, and its reality is important, if only to give us the true range of the term “human,” which we so regularly define by its lower reaches. - View Quote Details on We are accustomed to the artist scoundrel or specialist in…
Seeing clearly within himself and always able to dodge around the ends of any position, including his own, Shaw assumed from the start the dual role of prophet and gadfly. To his contemporaries it appeared frivolous and contradictory to perform as both superman and socialist, sceptic and believer, legalist and heretic, high-brow and mob-orator. But feeling the duty to teach as well as to mirror mankind, Shaw did not accept himself as a contradictory being. - View Quote Details on Seeing clearly within himself and always able to dodge around…
The need for a body of common knowledge and common reference does not disappear when a society is pluralistic. On the contrary, it grows more necessary, so that people of different origins and occupation may quickly find familiar ground and as we say, speak a common language. It not only saves time and embarrassment, but it also ensures a kind of mutual confidence and goodwill. One is not addressing an alien, as blank as a stone wall, but a responsive creature whose mind is filled with the same images, memories, and vocabulary as oneself. Otherwise, with the unstoppable march of specialization, the individual mind is doomed to solitude and the individual heart to drying up. - View Quote Details on The need for a body of common knowledge and common…
The eager or dutiful persons who subject themselves to these tidal waves of the classics and the moderns find everything wonderful in an absent-minded way. The wonder washes over them rather than into them, and one of its effects is to make anything shocking or odd suddenly interesting enough to gain a month’s celebrity. And so another by-product of our come-one, come-all policy is the tendency to reward cleverness, not art, and to put one more hurdle in the path of the truly original artist. - View Quote Details on The eager or dutiful persons who subject themselves to these…
The truth is, when all is said and done, one does not teach a subject, one teaches a student how to learn it. - View Quote Details on The truth is, when all is said and done, one…
If they leave college thinking, as they usually do, that science offers a full, accurate, and literal description of man and Nature; if they think scientific research by itself yields final answers to social problems; if they think scientists are the only honest, patient, and careful workers in the world; if they think that Copernicus, Galileo, Newton, Lavoisier, and Faraday were unimaginative plodders like their own instructors; if they think theories spring from facts and that scientific authority at any time is infallible; if they think that the ability to write down symbols and read manometers is fair grounds for superiority and pride, and if they think that science steadily and automatically makes for a better world — then they have wasted their time in the science lecture room; they live in an Ivory Laboratory more isolated than the poet’s tower, and they are a plain menace to the society they belong to. They are a menace whether they believe all this by virtue of being engaged in scientific work themselves or of being disqualified from it by felt or fancied incapacity. - View Quote Details on If they leave college thinking, as they usually do, that…
He sent me a letter from India, where I think he got a fellowship to spend a year or so. He sent me a letter that read, I’ve just met a wonderful guru who can read minds. “I want you to” — Allen had a way of saying “I want you to do this, I want you to do that” — “I want you to get him a position in the Philosophy Department.” I wrote back, “Dear Allen, the members of the Philosophy Department want nothing so little as to have their minds read.” - View Quote Details on He sent me a letter from India, where I think…
Scholarship has yielded to the irresistible pull that science exerts on our minds by its self-confidence and the promise of certified knowledge. But, to repeat, the objects of culture are not analyzable, not graspable by the geometric mind. Great works of art are great by virtue of being syntheses of the world; they qualify as art by fusing form and contents into an indivisible whole; what they offer is not “discourse about,” nor a cipher to be decoded, but a prolonged incitement to finesse. So it is paradoxical that our way of introducing young minds to such works should be the way of scholarship. - View Quote Details on Scholarship has yielded to the irresistible pull that science exerts…
Shaw’s emotional development was one with his intellectual strength. His path led him into the thick of the scrimmage, where more spontaneous natures defend themselves with the usual weapons of malice, humility, bad temper or conceit. But Shaw used the death ray of imperturbability. His feelings were never hurt, his envy never aroused, his conceit was a transparent fiction, he never quarreled. - View Quote Details on Shaw’s emotional development was one with his intellectual strength. His…
In seventeenth- and eighteenth-century France, race was already a weapon in the struggle between absolutism, aristocracy, and the middle class. The warfare spread to the arts and philosophy in the nineteenth century, by which time independent shoots in other cultures had also borne fruit, leaving the grand harvesting on a world-wide scale to our generation.
Viewed in the light of such facts, the race question appears a much bigger affair than a trumped-up excuse for local persecution. It becomes rather a mode of thought endemic in Western civilization. It defaces every type of mental activity — history, art, politics, science and social reform. - View Quote Details on In seventeenth- and eighteenth-century France, race was already a weapon…
A person is not a democrat thanks to his ignorance of literature and the arts, nor an elitist because he or she has cultivated them. The possession of knowledge makes for unjust power over others only if used for that very purpose: a physician or lawyer or clergyman can exploit or humiliate others, or he can be a humanitarian and a benefactor. In any case, it is absurd to conjure up behind anybody who exploits his educated status the existence of an “elite” scheming to oppress the rest of us. - View Quote Details on A person is not a democrat thanks to his ignorance…
My notion about any artist is that we honor him best by reading him, by playing his music, by seeing his plays or by looking at his pictures. We don’t need to fall all over ourselves with adjectives and epithets. Let’s play him more. - View Quote Details on My notion about any artist is that we honor him…
Like Nietzsche, he rails at romanticism, but it is evident that what they both mean by the word is the clichés of second-hand romance. Historic romanticism is in fact the ground-work of their philosophy. - View Quote Details on Like Nietzsche, he rails at romanticism, but it is evident…
Criticism will need an injection of humility — that is, a recognition of its role as ancillary to the arts, needed only occasionally in a temporary capacity. Since the critic exists only for introducing and explaining, he must be readily intelligible; he has no special vocabulary: criticism is in no way a science or a system. - View Quote Details on Criticism will need an injection of humility — that is,…
Like Rousseau, whom he resembles even more than he resembles Voltaire, Shaw never gave a social form to his assertiveness, never desired to arrive and to assimilate himself, or wield authority as of right. - View Quote Details on Like Rousseau, whom he resembles even more than he resembles…
For Shaw as for Goethe, the obligation to strive is a primary feeling: reason initiates nothing and would stop everything. Its use is to come after the fact and devise helpful justification of action. Culture, humaneness, spiritual grace, are not forced upon us by logic: they either are self-evident or pointless. There is, Shaw reminds us, no argument in behalf of moral conduct which would not equally well support immoral. But it is clearly impossible (and immoral) to exact moral conduct, cultivation, and grace from those whom circumstances force to lead sub-human lives. Therefore society must be reformed. - View Quote Details on For Shaw as for Goethe, the obligation to strive is…
Among the words that can be all things to all men, the word “race” has a fair claim to being the most common, most ambiguous and most explosive. No one today would deny that it is one of the great catchwords about which ink and blood are spilled in reckless quantities. Yet no agreement seems to exist about what race means. - View Quote Details on Among the words that can be all things to all…
On reflection, moral judgment in the arts appears rather as a tribute to their power to influence emotion and possibly conduct. And reflecting further on what some critics do today, one sees that a good many have merely shifted the ground of their moralism, transferring their impulse of righteousness to politics and social issues. - View Quote Details on On reflection, moral judgment in the arts appears rather as…

About Jacques Barzun

Jacques Barzun (b. 1907-11-30 ) is a French-born American scholar, historian, critic, teacher and editor.

Lethal Weapon Quotes

Thu, 17 May 2012 17:10:12 +0000

I don’t make things difficult. That’s the way they get, all by themselves. - View Quote Details on I don’t make things difficult. That’s the way they get,…
[holding his wife's wedding photograph, crying, after deciding not to kill himself] I’ll see you later. I’ll see you much later. - View Quote Details on [holding his wife's wedding photograph, crying, after deciding not to...
[stealing a woman's car] Mind if I test-drive your Audi? - View Quote Details on [stealing a woman's car] Mind if I test-drive your Audi?
This is a real badge, I’m a real cop, and this is a real fucking gun! - View Quote Details on This is a real badge, I’m a real cop, and…
[just after Murtaugh prevents Riggs from shooting himself] You’re not trying to draw a psycho pension! You really are crazy! - View Quote Details on [just after Murtaugh prevents Riggs from shooting himself] You’re not…
[repeated line in all four movies] I’m too old for this shit. - View Quote Details on [repeated line in all four movies] I’m too old for…
[Riggs and Murtaugh go to a bust at a "rich house"] Saw this on Lifestyles of the Rich and Shameless. - View Quote Details on [Riggs and Murtaugh go to a bust at a "rich...
[last lines] I’m too old for this… - View Quote Details on [last lines] I’m too old for this…
[after rescuing Murtaugh and Rianne] What did one shepherd say to the other shepherd? Let’s get the flock out of here. - View Quote Details on [after rescuing Murtaugh and Rianne] What did one shepherd say…
Perhaps there’s an opening in the L.A. Fire Department? - View Quote Details on Perhaps there’s an opening in the L.A. Fire Department?
Endo here has forgotten more about dispensing pain than you and I will nver know. - View Quote Details on Endo here has forgotten more about dispensing pain than you…

About Lethal Weapon

Lethal Weapon is a buddy-cop film from 1987 starring Mel Gibson (as Martin Riggs ) and Danny Glover (as Roger Murtaugh ) who are partners in the LAPD, working together to solve an apparent suicide and end up uncovering a major drug-smuggling operation. Directed by Richard Donner. Screenplay by Shane Black. Two cops. Glover carries a weapon. Gibson is one. He’s the only L.A. cop registered as a LETHAL WEAPON. Taglines .

Lethal Weapon Taglines

Two cops. Glover carries a weapon. Gibson is one. He’s the only L.A. cop registered as a LETHAL WEAPON.
If these two can learn to stand each other… the bad guys don’t have a chance.

Greek Genocide Quotes

Thu, 17 May 2012 17:00:11 +0000

Turkish denialism of the genocide of 1.5 million Armenians is official, riven, driven, constant, rampant and increasing each year since the events of 1915 to 1922. It is state-funded, with special departments and units in overseas missions whose sole purpose is to dilute, counter, minimise, trivialise and relativise every reference to the events which encompassed a genocide of Armenians, Pontian Greeks and Assyrian Christians in Asia Minor. - View Quote Details on Turkish denialism of the genocide of 1.5 million Armenians is…
For CUP’s leaders, attacking the country’s Greeks was a means to purify the core regions of Turkey. Talaat Pasha made clear that this was his intent… As the war continued, the Turkish campaign against the Greek civilians expanded to include the Pontic Greeks who lived on the Black Sea. The road to persecution here was quite similar to that elsewhere on the war’s eastern fronts. Military threats and setbacks - in this case defeats by Russia - convinced Turkey’s leaders to begin a campaign against a civilian population accused of treason… Subject to state-sponsored terror despite their status as Ottoman subjects, during World War I Turkey’s Greeks experienced persecution just short of full-scale ethnic cleansing - View Quote Details on For CUP’s leaders, attacking the country’s Greeks was a means…
Most of the Armenians had already been massacred during the reign of the Sultan, in 1915—1916; Kemal attempted to continue the genocide of Armenians in Transcaucasia, and of Greeks on the coast of the Aegean. Especially heartrending and horribly bloody was the genocide of the Greeks in Smyrna (Turkish Izmir) where they had lived since the tenth century BC. - View Quote Details on Most of the Armenians had already been massacred during the…
These genocides not only involved the Holocaust and the killing of the Armenians, the best known of this century’s genocides, but also the lesser known genocide of Gypsies by the Nazis and of Greeks by the Turks - View Quote Details on These genocides not only involved the Holocaust and the killing…
…the killing of the 275,000 Pontian souls who where slaughtered outright or were victims of the ‘white death’ of disease and starvation - a result of the routine process of deportations, slave labor, and the killings and death marches. - View Quote Details on …the killing of the 275,000 Pontian souls who where slaughtered…
… the massacre of Armenians and other Christians in eastern Anatolia in the 1890s;…and then the organized killing and deportation of Armenians, Greeks, and others in the Ottoman empire from 1915 to the early 1920s. - View Quote Details on … the massacre of Armenians and other Christians in eastern…
Whatever was done to the Armenians is being repeated with the Greeks. Massacres most likely did take place at Amisos and other villages in the Pontus. Yet given the large numbers of surviving Greeks, especially relative to the small number of Armenian survivors, the massacres were apparently restricted to the Pontus, Smyrna, and selected other “sensitive regions” - View Quote Details on Whatever was done to the Armenians is being repeated with…
Historians, perhaps concerned not to magnify these events by comparison with those of 1915-16, tend to avoid the term genocide to describe them. In my formulation, however, these events would constitute partial genocide…” - View Quote Details on Historians, perhaps concerned not to magnify these events by comparison…
…carefully planned atrocities aimed at the Greeks’ complete destruction - View Quote Details on …carefully planned atrocities aimed at the Greeks’ complete destruction
First of all, the Ottoman Empire itself, now ruled by the nationalist Young Turks Committee, began to implement a deadly policy, which aimed at wiping out the non-Turkish elements in the Empire and culminated in the genocide of the Armenians and Greeks, particularly those living in the Pontos region - View Quote Details on First of all, the Ottoman Empire itself, now ruled by…
The genocidal quality of the murderous campaigns against Greeks and Assyrians is obvious. Historians who realize that the Young Turks’ population and extermination policies have to be analysed together and understood as an entity are therefore often tempted to speak of a “Christian genocide.” This approach, however, is insofar inadequate as it ignores the Young Turks’ massive violence against non-Christians. - View Quote Details on The genocidal quality of the murderous campaigns against Greeks and…
In the genocide of various minority nationalities that followed, the Turks massacred over 350000 Greeks. - View Quote Details on In the genocide of various minority nationalities that followed, the…
The Turks had used genocide against the Greeks and Armenians but did not have enough time to finish them off completely. The Kurds revolted in 1925, demanding independence or autonomy. - View Quote Details on The Turks had used genocide against the Greeks and Armenians…
The Turkish state which emerged at the collapse of the Ottoman Empire contained several minorities within its interior, in an attempt to move towards a homogeneous population the Turkish state, which has passed through varying phases of dictatorship and democracy, has used any means possible, including genocide and deportation, to eliminate the Armenians, Greeks and Kurds remaining within Anatolia - View Quote Details on The Turkish state which emerged at the collapse of the…
It is believed that in Turkey between 1913 and 1922, under the successive regimes of the Young Turks and of Mustafa Kemal (Ataturk), more than 3.5 million Armenian, Assyrian and Greek Christians were massacred in a state-organized and state-sponsored campaign of destruction and genocide, aiming at wiping out from the emerging Turkish Republic its native Christian populations. This Christian Holocaust is viewed as the precursor to the Jewish Holocaust in WWII. To this day, the Turkish government ostensibly denies having committed this genocide. - View Quote Details on It is believed that in Turkey between 1913 and 1922,…
…had been its Greek populace, the Turks massacred as many Greeks there as possible, to so1ve that ethnological problem by genocide, a term a later and more delicate… - View Quote Details on …had been its Greek populace, the Turks massacred as many…
The Genocide Convention of 1948 and other United Nations Conventions strengthen the claims of genocide victims, including the Greeks, Assyrians and Armenians of Asia Minor. - View Quote Details on The Genocide Convention of 1948 and other United Nations Conventions…
One begins with (attempted) comprehension of the motives, intent, scale, implementation, and operation of the Holocaust. To understand it is necessary to look at similar phenomena, and so one attempts an unravelling of the Armenian, Pontian Greek, Rwandan, Burundian, and Aboriginal experiences - View Quote Details on One begins with (attempted) comprehension of the motives, intent, scale,…
While the death toll in the trenches of Western Europe were close to 2 million by the summer of 1915, the extermination of innocent civilians in Turkey (the Armenians, but also Syrian and Assyrian Christians and large portions of the Greek population, especially the Greeks of Pontos, or Black Sea region) was reaching 1 million. - View Quote Details on While the death toll in the trenches of Western Europe…
The Young Turks’ overall aim was a demographic reorganization of the Ottoman Empire. All deportations were planned and supervised by the “Directorate for the Settlement of Tribes and Immigrants” that belonged to the Ottoman Ministry of the Interior. A relatively small number of government administrators were thus chiefly involved in the coordination of the murder and expulsion of Armenians, Greeks, Assyrians and other minority groups.29 Therefore, the isolated study and emphasis of a single group’s victimhood during the collapse of the Ottoman Empire fails to really understand Young Turks’ motives and aims or its grand design. - View Quote Details on The Young Turks’ overall aim was a demographic reorganization of…
However, the Treaty of Sevres was never ratified, As Kay Holloway wrote, the failure of the signatories to bring the treaty into force ‘resulted in the abandonment of thousands of defenceless peoples Armenians and Greeks — to the fury of their persecutors, by engendering subsequent holocausts in which the few survivors of the 1915 Armenian massacres perished.” The Treaty of Sevres was replaced by the Treaty of Lausanne of 24 July 1923 that included a ‘Declaration of Amnesty’ for all offences committed between 1 August 1914 and 20 November 1922. - View Quote Details on However, the Treaty of Sevres was never ratified, As Kay…
The Turkish army entered Smyrna on September 9. 1922 and soon thereafter the city went up in flames. A fire razed most of the Armenian quarter. It is estimated that 50,000 Christians were killed in the city during this period. No indigenous Christians remained in Smyrna after this holocaust that had deeply stained relations between the two peoples. - View Quote Details on The Turkish army entered Smyrna on September 9. 1922 and…
Then, in a “Report on the preparation of a volume on genocide,” dated March–May 1948, a less ambitious project comprising ten chapters, two of which covered extra-European colonial cases: “2.The Indians in Latin America” and “10. The Indians in North America (in part).” The Holocaust, a term Lemkin never used, was not included, although the Armenians and Greeks in Turkey were, as well as the Early Christians, and the Jews of the Middle Ages and Tsarist Russia.14 To continue to deny, as many “founders of genocide studies” deny, that he regarded colonialism as an integral part of a world history of genocide is to ignore the written record. - View Quote Details on Then, in a “Report on the preparation of a volume…
The two present threats to Turkish territorial integrity—by the Greeks and the French—and the one potential threat—an Armenian state—reproduced the proximate CUP ‘rationale’ for the 1915—16 genocide, and the forthcoming violence was sometimes of the same order. - View Quote Details on The two present threats to Turkish territorial integrity—by the Greeks…

About Greek Genocide

The Greek genocide refers to a campaign of persecution perpetrated by the Ottoman Empire against its Ottoman Greek minority during the years 1914-1923. What follows is an extensive list of quotations by genocide scholars, historians and other academics on the issue.

Barbara Kingsolver Quotes

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It wasn’t a matter of courage or dreams, but something a whole lot simpler. A pilot would call it ground orientation. I’d spent a long time circling above the clouds, looking for life, while Hallie was living it. - View Quote Details on It wasn’t a matter of courage or dreams, but something…
Terms like that, “Humane Society,” are devised with people like me in mind, who don’t care to dwell on what happens to the innocent. - View Quote Details on Terms like that, “Humane Society,” are devised with people like…
Memory is a complicated thing, a relative to truth, but not its twin. - View Quote Details on Memory is a complicated thing, a relative to truth, but…
At some point in my life I’d honestly hoped love would rescue me from the cold, drafty castle I lived in. But at another point, much earlier I think, I’d quietly begun to hope for nothing at all in the way of love, so as not to be disappointed. It works. It gets to be a habit. - View Quote Details on At some point in my life I’d honestly hoped love…
Sometimes the strength of motherhood is greater than natural laws. - View Quote Details on Sometimes the strength of motherhood is greater than natural laws.
Wars and elections are both too big and too small to matter in the long run. The daily work - that goes on, it adds up. - View Quote Details on Wars and elections are both too big and too small…
A wife is the earth itself, changing hands, bearing scars. - View Quote Details on A wife is the earth itself, changing hands, bearing scars.
Libraries are the one American institution you shouldn’t rip off. - View Quote Details on Libraries are the one American institution you shouldn’t rip off.
The very least you can do in your life is to figure out what you hope for. And the most you can do is live inside that hope. - View Quote Details on The very least you can do in your life is…
The truth needs so little rehearsal. - View Quote Details on The truth needs so little rehearsal.
Every minute with a child takes seven minutes off your life. - View Quote Details on Every minute with a child takes seven minutes off your…
Life always provides me with better jokes than any I could invent. - View Quote Details on Life always provides me with better jokes than any I…
The important thing isn’t the house. It’s the ability to make it. You carry that in your brains and in your hands, wherever you go… It’s one thing to carry your life wherever you go. Another thing to always go looking for it somewhere else. - View Quote Details on The important thing isn’t the house. It’s the ability to…
Pain reaches the heart with electrical speed, but truth moves to the heart as slowly as a glacier. - View Quote Details on Pain reaches the heart with electrical speed, but truth moves…
I have been afraid of putting air in a tire ever since I saw a tractor tire blow up and throw Newt Hardbine’s father over the top of the Standard Oil sign. I’m not lying. He got stuck up there. About nineteen people congregated during the time it took for Norman Strick to walk up to the Courthouse and blow the whistle for the volunteer fire department. They eventually did come with the ladder and haul him down, and he wasn’t dead but lost his hearing and in many other ways was never the same afterward. They said he overfilled the tire. - View Quote Details on I have been afraid of putting air in a tire…
Few people know so clearly what they want. Most people can’t even think what to hope for when they throw a penny in a fountain. - View Quote Details on Few people know so clearly what they want. Most people…
The friend who holds your hand and says the wrong thing is made of dearer stuff than the one who stays away. - View Quote Details on The friend who holds your hand and says the wrong…
What you lose in blindness is the space around you, the place where you are, and without that you might not exist. You could be nowhere at all. - View Quote Details on What you lose in blindness is the space around you,…
Close the door. Write with no one looking over your shoulder. Don’t try to figure out what other people want to hear from you; figure out what you have to say. It’s the one and only thing you have to offer. - View Quote Details on Close the door. Write with no one looking over your…
There’s a graveyard in northern France where all the dead boys from D-Day are buried. The white crosses reach from one horizon to the other. I remember looking it over and thinking it was a forest of graves. But the rows were like this, dizzying, diagonal, perfectly straight, so after all it wasn’t a forest but an orchard of graves. Nothing to do with nature, unless you count human nature. - View Quote Details on There’s a graveyard in northern France where all the dead…
If we can’t, as artists, improve on real life, we should put down our pencils and go bake bread. - View Quote Details on If we can’t, as artists, improve on real life, we…
It’s surprising how much memory is built around things unnoticed at the time. - View Quote Details on It’s surprising how much memory is built around things unnoticed…
Her body moved with the frankness that comes from solitary habits. But solitude is only a human presumption. Every quiet step is thunder to beetle life underfoot; every choice is a world made new for the chosen. All secrets are witnessed. - View Quote Details on Her body moved with the frankness that comes from solitary…
He was wounded. I suppose some sharp thing in me wanted to sting him, for making me need him now. After he’d once cut me to the edge of what a soul will bear. But that was senseless…. I looked at this grown-up Loyd and tried to make sense of him, seeing clearly that he was too sweet to survive around me. I would go to my grave expecting the weapon in the empty hand. - View Quote Details on He was wounded. I suppose some sharp thing in me…
I’m of a fearsome mind to throw my arms around every living librarian who crosses my path, on behalf of the souls they never knew they saved. - View Quote Details on I’m of a fearsome mind to throw my arms around…
We’re animals. We’re born like every other mammal and we live our whole lives around disguised animal thoughts. - View Quote Details on We’re animals. We’re born like every other mammal and we…
People’s dreams are made out of what they do all day. The same way a dog that runs after rabbits will dream of rabbits. It’s what you do that makes your soul, not the other way around. - View Quote Details on People’s dreams are made out of what they do all…

About Barbara Kingsolver

Barbara Kingsolver (born April 8, 1955 ) is an American fiction writer. She has written several novels and poems, and established the Bellwether Prize for “literature of social change”.

Grim Fandango Quotes

Thu, 17 May 2012 16:20:12 +0000

Manny: Hey, I’m still not getting any messages. - View Quote Details on Manny: Hey, I’m still not getting any messages.
Manny: Better take these cards– it looks like a long day of solitaire for me. - View Quote Details on Manny: Better take these cards– it looks like a long…
Manny: {when trying to pick up Meche} I don’t like to get involved with the customers that way. - View Quote Details on Manny: {when trying to pick up Meche} I don’t like…
Glottis: {after getting thrown out of the cat track} Hey, come on! You gotta let me back in! I’M A VIP! - View Quote Details on Glottis: {after getting thrown out of the cat track} Hey,…
Manny: {when falling into the Sea of Lament} Aaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaah! - View Quote Details on Manny: {when falling into the Sea of Lament} Aaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaah!
Manny: Look at all the diplomas! - View Quote Details on Manny: Look at all the diplomas!
Manny: {to Eva} What if we just skipped town tonight? You and me, baby! - View Quote Details on Manny: {to Eva} What if we just skipped town tonight?…
Manny: Ayyyyyyyy chihuhahuaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa! (Upon riding the Neon cat sign, also while being attacked by a skull raven not long before) - View Quote Details on Manny: Ayyyyyyyy chihuhahuaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa! (Upon riding the Neon cat sign, also…
Manny: {to Chepito} Could you send for help? - View Quote Details on Manny: {to Chepito} Could you send for help?
Manny: I’m going to try to guess his password… - View Quote Details on Manny: I’m going to try to guess his password…
Manny: It looks like a rope… - View Quote Details on Manny: It looks like a rope…
Manny: He doesn’t even HIDE his booze in a file cabinet. What kind of salesman is he? - View Quote Details on Manny: He doesn’t even HIDE his booze in a file…
Manny: {after seeing the “improvements” Glottis made to his car} Glottis! Are you loco? What got into you? That was a company car! - View Quote Details on Manny: {after seeing the “improvements” Glottis made to his car}…
Manny: Are you SURE you’re Mercedes Colomar? - View Quote Details on Manny: Are you SURE you’re Mercedes Colomar?
Manny: I just locked an open door. Strange, yet symbolically compelling. - View Quote Details on Manny: I just locked an open door. Strange, yet symbolically…
Manny: {to Chepito} Is everything okay with your eyebrows? - View Quote Details on Manny: {to Chepito} Is everything okay with your eyebrows?
Manny: My boss is always giving me these motivational sales books… “They Bought the Farm, Now Sell Them the Cows,” stuff like that. - View Quote Details on Manny: My boss is always giving me these motivational sales…
Manny: I don’t have a net, or a desire to have a pet pigeon. - View Quote Details on Manny: I don’t have a net, or a desire to…
Manny: {to the balloon twister} Some festival, eh? - View Quote Details on Manny: {to the balloon twister} Some festival, eh?
Manny: Anything about your past you haven’t told me? - View Quote Details on Manny: Anything about your past you haven’t told me?
Manny: I’ll help you find your wife. What did she look like? - View Quote Details on Manny: I’ll help you find your wife. What did she…
Glottis: Uh-oh! Crazy road! Too crazy for the Bone Wagon! - View Quote Details on Glottis: Uh-oh! Crazy road! Too crazy for the Bone Wagon!
Manny: [at open mic night] Testing…check one…check two….Alright! WHO’S READY TO ROCK AND ROLL?! - View Quote Details on Manny: [at open mic night] Testing…check one…check two….Alright! WHO’S READY…
Manny: Why aren’t you over at the roulette tables? - View Quote Details on Manny: Why aren’t you over at the roulette tables?
Manny: {to Eva} I forget… am I supposed to be somewhere right now? - View Quote Details on Manny: {to Eva} I forget… am I supposed to be…
Meche: Manny, when we get to the other side, will we still be together? - View Quote Details on Meche: Manny, when we get to the other side, will…
Manny: How do you know where you’re going? - View Quote Details on Manny: How do you know where you’re going?
Manny: You’re keeping me here because you need the eggs? - View Quote Details on Manny: You’re keeping me here because you need the eggs?
Manny: {to Glottis} Hey, you a driver? - View Quote Details on Manny: {to Glottis} Hey, you a driver?
Manny: Anyone know where I can find some tools? - View Quote Details on Manny: Anyone know where I can find some tools?
Manny: Can I have one of your clients? - View Quote Details on Manny: Can I have one of your clients?
Manny: {to Domino} I wanna tell you something. - View Quote Details on Manny: {to Domino} I wanna tell you something.
Manny: {to Eva} Well, enough about me. What’s your job like? - View Quote Details on Manny: {to Eva} Well, enough about me. What’s your job…
Manny: (Examining the booby-trapped Bone Wagon) About to be known as the ‘Blown Wagon’. - View Quote Details on Manny: (Examining the booby-trapped Bone Wagon) About to be known…
Manny: It’s the festival of the Day of the Dead. Really more of a living person’s holiday, but we play along. - View Quote Details on Manny: It’s the festival of the Day of the Dead…
Manny: You must come with me, young ones, for I am the Grim Reaper. - View Quote Details on Manny: You must come with me, young ones, for I…
Olivia Ofrenda: [reading a poem] With bony hands I hold my partner/ On soulless feet we cross the floor/ The music stops as if to answer/ An empty knocking at the door/ It seems his skin was sweet as mango/ When last I held him to my breast/ But now we dance this grim fandango/ And will four years before we rest. - View Quote Details on Olivia Ofrenda: [reading a poem] With bony hands I hold…
Manny: {to Eva} Any messages for me? - View Quote Details on Manny: {to Eva} Any messages for me?
Manny: I can’t go strolling through the halls now…I’m on the lam! - View Quote Details on Manny: I can’t go strolling through the halls now…I’m on…
Manny: Why are you walking instead of taking a ship? - View Quote Details on Manny: Why are you walking instead of taking a ship?
Glottis: Manny, I don’t know if I like driving over people. - View Quote Details on Glottis: Manny, I don’t know if I like driving over…
Manny: Why do some clients qualify for better travel packages? - View Quote Details on Manny: Why do some clients qualify for better travel packages?
Manny: {when looking at the gamblers in the casino} Ah, my bread and butter… - View Quote Details on Manny: {when looking at the gamblers in the casino} Ah,…
Manny: {to Glottis} You’re not too big. The cars are just too small. - View Quote Details on Manny: {to Glottis} You’re not too big. The cars are…
Manny: Glottis… Glottis… Is that a German name? - View Quote Details on Manny: Glottis… Glottis… Is that a German name?
Glottis: Manny, until now we scraped along the ground like rats, but from now on, we soar! Like eagles! Yeah! LIKE EAGLES…ON…POGO STICKS!!! - View Quote Details on Glottis: Manny, until now we scraped along the ground like…
Manny: {when trying to pick up the hole punch} Could I take your hole punch? - View Quote Details on Manny: {when trying to pick up the hole punch} Could…
Velasco: You folks gonna stay in Rubacava for a spell? - View Quote Details on Velasco: You folks gonna stay in Rubacava for a spell?
Balloon twister: I can do anything. I can do birds, amphibians, famous poets–Go ahead. Name one. - View Quote Details on Balloon twister: I can do anything. I can do birds,…
Manny: {when looking at the croupier at Manny’s casino} An honest roulette croupier is hard to find… - View Quote Details on Manny: {when looking at the croupier at Manny’s casino} An…
Manny: My scythe–I like to keep it next to where my heart used to be. - View Quote Details on Manny: My scythe–I like to keep it next to where…
Manny: It’s my boss’ secretary, Eva. - View Quote Details on Manny: It’s my boss’ secretary, Eva.

About Grim Fandango

The following quotes are from Grim Fandango, an adventure game by LucasArts, designed and written by Tim Schafer. .

Duck Dodgers Quotes

Thu, 17 May 2012 16:10:11 +0000

Sorta like the pawns in checkers. - View Quote Details on Sorta like the pawns in checkers.
Oh no! He made a stick and a rock! - View Quote Details on Oh no! He made a stick and a rock!
A chance to win an unknown prize I may not even want? Count me in! - View Quote Details on A chance to win an unknown prize I may not…
Exploding rocket fuel makes such a lovely fireball. - View Quote Details on Exploding rocket fuel makes such a lovely fireball.

About Duck Dodgers

Duck Dodgers is an animated TV series that aired between 2003 to 2005.