The Quote Game

Tralala · Post by **Tralala** » 15 Feb 2012, 02:09

What, you've got a problem with duct tape?
Ingrid Bergman...and that was Marc Bolan...T. Rex...from Jeepster.

"The first duty in life is to assume a pose. What the second is, no one has yet discovered."

Gannon · Post by **Gannon** » 15 Feb 2012, 16:21

Tralala wrote:What, you've got a problem with duct tape?
Ingrid Bergman...and that was Marc Bolan...T. Rex...from Jeepster.

"The first duty in life is to assume a pose. What the second is, no one has yet discovered."

Hi Tralala, I think that quote was made by Oscar Wilde.

How about....

AND I REMEMBER GOING TO THE RECORD STUDIO AND THERE WAS A PARK ACROSS THE STREET AND I'D SEE ALL THE CHILDREN PLAYING AND I WOULD CRY BECAUSE IT WOULD MAKE ME SAD THAT I WOULD HAVE TO WORK INSTEAD.

Fran · Post by **Fran** » 15 Feb 2012, 16:29

I think that may have been Michael Jackson

How about ..

'For ten years Caesar ruled with an iron hand. Then with a wooden foot, and finally with a piece of string'.

Gannon · Post by **Gannon** » 15 Feb 2012, 16:45

@Fran

I think that would be Spike Milligan.

How about....

A GREAT MANY PEOPLE EXPERIENCE THE MOVEMENT FROM ONE CENTURY TO THE NEXT, BUT A MINEUSCULE NUMBER OF PEOPLE EXPERIENCE THE MOVEMENT FROM ONE MILLENNIUM TO THE NEXT.

dindindin · Post by **dindindin** » 21 Mar 2012, 20:31

Each generation deals with movements in its own way, I guess. For my grandmother, it was cod liver oil. My father
favored prune juice. I've found that my constitution responds most favorably to dried apricots. Movements are important to our health,individually and collectively. I know whenever I've ignored them, I've done so at my peril.
The times I spent in the WC in the throes of writers block convinced me to leave writing to the writers and my movements to dried apricots.
Here's a favorite quote: "We've met the enemy and he is us." by Pogo(my favorite comic strip)

Maud Fitch · Post by **Maud Fitch** » 07 Apr 2012, 03:48

Fran wrote:'For ten years Caesar ruled with an iron hand. Then with a wooden foot, and finally with a piece of string'.

@ Fran, I inherited my father's vinyl LP of the live BBC Radio recording of this episode of The Goon Show "The Histories of Pliny the Elder". Hilarious! On the flip side (Hey kids do you know what a 'flip side' is?) are tales of
"The Dreaded Batter Pudding Hurler Of Bexhill-On-Sea". Apparently Spike Milligan actually put a custard pudding
into a sock and hurled it at a wall to make the appropriate sound effect.

Who said this quote? "Vision is the art of seeing things invisible".

Fran · Post by **Fran** » 07 Apr 2012, 04:03

Maud Fitch wrote:
Fran wrote:'For ten years Caesar ruled with an iron hand. Then with a wooden foot, and finally with a piece of string'.
@ Fran, I inherited my father's vinyl LP of the live BBC Radio recording of this episode of The Goon Show "The Histories of Pliny the Elder". Hilarious! On the flip side (Hey kids do you know what a 'flip side' is?) are tales of
"The Dreaded Batter Pudding Hurler Of Bexhill-On-Sea". Apparently Spike Milligan actually put a custard pudding
into a sock and hurled it at a wall to make the appropriate sound effect.

Who said this quote? "Vision is the art of seeing things invisible".

I think that was Jonathan Swift

@Maud
That must be an amazing LP .... Milligan was a one-off for sure. I have a little book of his poetry I picked up years ago ... he wrote such incredibly poignant & moving poetry it's difficult to believe the poet was the same man as The Goon!

Anyway to keep the quotes going ...........
"The movements which work revolutions in the world are born out of dreams and visions in a peasants heart on a hillside"

Gannon · Post by **Gannon** » 10 Apr 2012, 21:20

@Fran

What an amazing quote. I love it. I believe it was made by James Joyce.

How about...

A WRITER SHOULD HAVE THE PRECISION OF A POET AND THE IMAGINATION OF A SCIENTIST.

@Gannon
As you liked that Joyce quote it's very similar to lines from a poem by WW1 poet Thomas Kettle (not that I'm accusing Joyce of plagiarism

)

"Know that we fools, now with the foolish dead,
Died not for flag, nor King, nor Emperor,—
But for a dream, born in a herdsman's shed,
And for the secret Scripture of the poor".

Now back to topic .... your quote was from ........... Vladimir Nabokov

Now here's an interesting one:

"Happy! Do you take me for an idiot?"

dindindin · Post by **dindindin** » 11 Apr 2012, 20:00

Charles de Gaulle.

"Poor Mexico! So far from God and so close to America.

Gannon · Post by **Gannon** » 12 Apr 2012, 02:32

@Fran

I love that one as well. It's very powerful, it gives me tingles. It is amazing what the power of the written word can do. "The Pen is mightier than the Sword".

Maud Fitch · Post by **Maud Fitch** » 29 Apr 2012, 01:56

"Poor Mexico! So far from God and so close to America" is a quote from Porfirio Díaz.
and
"The pen is mightier than the sword" was first recorded by Greek playwright Euripides who died circa 406 BC.
It was Edward Bulwer-Lytton (1803-73) who coined the current form.

I like the following quote very much, so who said:

"Love is a gross exaggeration of the difference between one person and everybody else."

Fran · Post by **Fran** » 29 Apr 2012, 03:41

I think that was G B Shaw ???

What about ......
"Constant use will not wear ragged the fabric of friendship"

Gannon · Post by **Gannon** » 29 Apr 2012, 16:20

Fran wrote:I think that was G B Shaw ???

What about ......
"Constant use will not wear ragged the fabric of friendship"

That's a great quote Fran, I thing the author is Dorothy Parker.

How about...

THE MAJORITY OF THE MEMBERS OF THE IRISH PARLIMENT ARE PROFESSIONAL POLITICIANS, IN THE SENSE THAT OTHERWISE THEY WOULD NOT BE GIVEN JOBS MINDING MICE AT CROSSROADS.