Quotation of the day

Originally posted by dfm65
anywhere a bit more down-to-Earth?

Originally posted by dfm65
I have a night job (actually I recently resigned - 6 nights to go...) summarising media stories, so Woody Allen's ultimate summarisiation of Tolstoy's War and Peace appeals to me: 'It was about some Russians'...

"It is our choices...that show what we truly are, far more than our abilities."

J. K. Rowling, Harry Potter and The Chamber of Secrets, 1999

"What can you say about a society that says that God is dead and Elvis is alive?"

Irv Kupcinet

we're an icon, but we sure ain't done yet ...

James Hatfield

(And the legend lives on) ...

"All you have to decide, is what to do with the time that is given to you."

J.R.R. Tolkien, Gandalf/Ian McKellen, The Lord of the Rings, The Fellowship of the Ring.

Olav

Boethius' definition of person:

" persona est substantia individua rationalis naturae."

Originally posted by LivingLegend
"All you have to decide, is what to do with the time that is given to you."

J.R.R. Tolkien, Gandalf/Ian McKellen, The Lord of the Rings, The Fellowship of the Ring.

Olav

Originally posted by Varg
I don't think that was Tolkien, Peter Jackson maybe.

"In the depth of winter, I finally learned that within me there lay an invincible summer."

Albert Camus (1913 - 1960)

"We pay great lip service in this country to disability rights, but as the degree of a person's disability increases, the level of legal protection that person receives decreases."

Bob Schindler [father of Terri Schiavo]

"O, Lord, without Thee, what am I but a guide to my own destruction?"

St. Augustine

"We shall go down in history as the greatest statesmen of all time, or as the greatest criminals."
P. Joseph Goebbels.

'I'd rather have a bottle in front of me than a frontal lobotomy"

I'm pretty sure Oscar Wilde

Originally posted by Asher123
'I'd rather have a bottle in front of me than a frontal lobotomy"

I'm pretty sure Oscar Wilde