tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4074861.post114330738634714849..comments2024-03-28T02:36:55.037-04:00Comments on Brooklyn Arden: Randomly Chosen Quotes of the DayCherylhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05972029478350879112noreply@blogger.comBlogger3125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4074861.post-1143588935077056182006-03-28T18:35:00.000-05:002006-03-28T18:35:00.000-05:00Yummy quotes! Thanks, Cheryl!Here are a few plucke...Yummy quotes! Thanks, Cheryl!<BR/><BR/>Here are a few plucked willy-nilly from my list...<BR/><BR/>-- <BR/>I have never been certain whether the moral of the Icarus story should only be, as is generally accepted, 'don't try to fly too high,' or whether it might also be thought of as 'forget the wax and feathers, and do a better job on the wings.' <BR/><BR/>~ Stanley Kubrick <BR/><BR/>--<BR/><BR/>A great many people now reading and writing would be better employed keeping rabbits.<BR/><BR/>~ Edith Sitwell<BR/><BR/>--<BR/><BR/>One of Pullman’s beliefs is that your life begins when you are born, but your life story begins when you realize that you were delivered into the wrong family by mistake.<BR/><BR/>--<BR/><BR/>Mr. Rogers: Anything worth while certainly takes a while.<BR/><BR/>--<BR/><BR/>"Congratulate yourselves if you have done something strange and extravagant and broken the monotony of a decorous age."<BR/><BR/> ~ Ralph Waldo Emerson<BR/><BR/>--<BR/><BR/>"Now, isn't imagination a precious thing? It peoples the earth with all manner of wonders, strange beasts and birds, angels, cherubim and seraphim. And it has to be exercised. No child should be permitted to grow up without exercise for imagination. It enriches life for him. It makes things wonderful and beautiful.”<BR/><BR/>~ Mark TwainThetoymakershttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15405265800595978197noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4074861.post-1143400949427320512006-03-26T14:22:00.000-05:002006-03-26T14:22:00.000-05:00Ah, the notes from my last talk. Getting them post...Ah, the notes from my last talk. Getting them posted has fallen victim to (a) other work, (b) a desire to make them perfect before they're public, and (c) my need to mine them for material for upcoming talks! But hopefully in April.Cherylhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05972029478350879112noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4074861.post-1143391142249067992006-03-26T11:39:00.000-05:002006-03-26T11:39:00.000-05:00John Updike's reminds me of D.H. Lawrence's commen...John Updike's reminds me of D.H. Lawrence's comment about ironing a pocket handkerchief (he was good at doing dishes and scrubbing floors too... Frieda was grateful, no doubt.) I like Janet Frame's remark. I like Janet Frame, period. The Matthew Arnold quotation is 'très juste.' "Deep caves paved with kitchen linoleum" is beautiful. I'm afraid I'm a brute sometimes and not afraid of being 'average' if a good experience comes along. Cicero would find most of us both wise and stupid. Jack is always good (too bad his house burned down.) Alice Walker is right in one sense: our lives - our daily lives - do matter, but in terms of goodness, I'm not so sure - 'interesting' might be a better term. "Georgia herself thought it was a fake" calls to mind a Janet Frame book - what was it? <BR/><BR/>Good luck with your presentation. (Still looking forward to seeing the notes from your last one.)Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com