One of the most profound and evocative pieces of war poetry ever written. The German Guns by Private S. Baldrick Boom boom boom boom Boom boom boom Boom Boom Boom Boom Boom Boom Boom
There are two men inside The Artist, the poet and the craftsman. One is born a poet. One becomes a craftsman. - Emile Zola
"There is one elementary truth the ignorance of which kills countless ideas and splendid plans: that the moment one definitely commits oneself, then providence moves too. All sorts of things occur to help one that would never otherwise have occurred. A whole stream of events issues from the decision. . . .Whatever you can do or dream you can, begin it. Boldness has genius, power and magic in it. Begin it now." Geothe
“The question is,” said Alice, “whether you can make words mean so many different things.” “The question is,” said Humpty Dumpty, “which is to be master – – that’s all.”
"By eliminating what cannot be achieved through effort, it is possible to get closer to the mystery of what can realized only through surrender." Donna Farhi
“Not everything that can be counted counts. Not everything that counts can be counted.” ― William Bruce Cameron, Informal Sociology: a casual introduction to sociological thinking
Which reminds me of Dr. Seuss, on doing what you want despite criticism: "The people who matter don't mind, and the people who mind don't matter."
"It is better to be thought a fool, than open your mouth and prove it." - Mark Twain. "Zombies don't like impolite people." Faith Smith, Under a graveyard sky by John Ringo.
The version I'm familiar with goes "It's better to keep your mouth shut and be thought a fool than to open it and remove all doubt." But this is one of those sayings that's apparently foundational to human civilization and goes all the way back to the beginning or very close, and many people have been attributed with versions of it throughout history. Here's the story of it @ Quote Investigator.
For anyone that has served. From The Seventy Maxims of Maximally Effective Mercenaries. 5.Close air support and friendly fire should be easier to tell apart. 17. The longer everything goes according to plan the larger the impending disaster. 32.. Anything is amphibious if you can get it back out of the water.
"Psychedelic is a silly term, used by commentators as a blanket term to cover anything they don't fully understand." -an unidentified male voiceover on a snippet of documentary about Pink Floyd.
Give sorrow words. The grief that doesn't speak whispers the o'er-fraught heart and bids it break. Shakespeare
Social media is seeing the same jokes you read over 4 decades ago in Reader's Digest at your grandmother's house, over and over again, until you die. Sometimes, though, they're accompanied by pictures and called "memes". - Dan Lyke
"[T]he afternoon wore on like a tattered fabric of used and borrowed moments." T.C. Boyle, The Tortilla Curtain
Ugarte (Peter Lorre) to Rick (Humphrey Bogart): “You despise me, don’t you?” Rick: “If I gave you any thought, I probably would.” - Casablanca
“The only true voyage of discovery . . . would be not to visit strange lands, but to possess other eyes, to behold the universe through the eyes of another, of a hundred others, to behold the hundred universes that each of them beholds, that each of them is.” ― Marcel Proust
Zigong asked: "Is there any single word that would guide one's entire life?" The master said: "Should it not be reciprocity? What you do not wish for yourself, do not do to others." ~ Analects of Confucius (circa 475-221 BC)
There was a boy called Eustace Clarence Scrubb, and he almost deserved it. ― C.S. Lewis, The Voyage of the Dawn Treader
"We shall not cease from exploration, and the end of all our exploring will be to arrive where we started and know the place for the first time." --T. S. Eliot
Yeah, "Ron Weasley" being played by "Rupert Grint." Now which one was the made-up name symbolizing ostracism and incompetence again?
