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Wikiquote meme
Go to Wikiquote.
* Load a random page.
* Pick the third quote.
* That's the tagline on the movie poster about your life.
I got Percival Lowell, the guy who thought Mars was covered with canals, and who also discovered that poor little not-a-planet, Pluto.
Formulae are the anaesthetics of thought, not its stimulants and to make people think is far more worthwhile than cramming them with ill-considered, and therefore indigestible, learning.
I rather like that. I'll take it.
* Load a random page.
* Pick the third quote.
* That's the tagline on the movie poster about your life.
I got Percival Lowell, the guy who thought Mars was covered with canals, and who also discovered that poor little not-a-planet, Pluto.
Formulae are the anaesthetics of thought, not its stimulants and to make people think is far more worthwhile than cramming them with ill-considered, and therefore indigestible, learning.
I rather like that. I'll take it.
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[ETA: Never mind... I found the link... and kept getting Blah-modern pop culture stuff]
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Second attempt: quote on the essence of Toryism (UK Conservatives).
Third attempt: Sophia Loren -
I was blessed with a sense of my own destiny. I have never sold myself short. I have never judged myself by other people’s standards. I have always expected a great deal of myself, and if I fail, I fail myself. So failure or reversal does not bring out resentment in me because I cannot blame others for any misfortune that befalls me.
I'll take it!
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I know about Tories having lived in the UK. :-) Our equivalent is National whom I'm hoping the voters will boot out next month.
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So instead, I got the page on Power, and this is the third quote:
Speak truth to power.
American Friends Service Committee in Speak Truth to Power : A Quaker Search for an Alternative to Violence (1955)
I'm quite happy with the quote, though frankly what it has to do with my life story is not immediately apparent :D
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...but despite this apparent hand of destiny thing, the Zelazny quote turned out to be a rubbish tagline, particularly for my life. So I tried again, got Pliny the Elder and:
"The only certainty is that nothing is certain."
Ahaha. Yep. That's my tagline all right. X-D
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stupid country roots. :(
Where, where, are you tonight?
Why did you leave me here all alone?
I searched the world over,
And thought I found true love.
You met another and
Pfft! you were gone.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qfdnhnjlsAk&feature=related
Re: stupid country roots. :(
Re: stupid country roots. :(
Re: stupid country roots. :(
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Can I try again or is my movie a silent?
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Then falter not O book, fulfil your destiny,
You not a reminiscence of the land alone,
You too as a lone bark cleaving the ether, purpos'd I know not whither, yet ever full of faith,
Consort to every ship that sails, sail you!
It's about a book, so that's appropriate, I guess. :-p
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What The Chairman Told Tom, from Odes II:6 (1965)
Poetry? It's a hobby.
I run model trains.
Mr Shaw there breeds pigeons.
It's not work. You don't sweat.
Nobody pays for it.
You could advertise soap.
Who says it's poetry, anyhow?
My ten year old
can do it and rhyme.
Mr Hines says so, and he's a schoolteacher,
he ought to know.
Go and find work.
I like that, but I've never seriously tried to write poetry so it's not very apt.
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Wikiquote didn't seem to realise it needed to design its third quote on each page for this purpose; how inconvenient of it.
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