Quoted
We are big. It’s the Advertising that got small.
“With 100 million daily readers, newspapers are a tremendous scoring opportunity”
- A group called the “Newspaper Project” making the case that news on the printed page is not on the verge of extinction.
I will find you. And I will Kill You.
“I don’t know who you are. I don’t know what you want. If you are looking for ransom, I can tell you I don’t have money. But what I do have are a very particular set of skills; skills I have acquired over a very long career. Skills that make me a nightmare for people like you. If you let my daughter go now, that’ll be the end of it. I will not look for you, I will not pursue you. But if you don’t, I will look for you, I will find you, and I will kill you.”
- Liam Neeson in Taken, opening January 30, 2009
Science and men
“Our scientific power has outrun our spiritual power. We have guided missiles and misguided men.”
- Martin Luther King, Jr.
We were never special …
“For years I thought we’ve shared this secret that we would be wonderful in the world. I don’t know exactly how, but just the possibility kept me hoping. How pathetic is that? So stupid. To put all your hopes in a promise that was never made. Frank knows what he wants, he found his place, he’s just fine. Married, two kids, it should be enough. It is for him. And he’s right; we were never special or destined for anything at all.”
- Kate Winslet in Revolutionary Road – opening wide, January 23, 2009
Reactions to Just Being Nominated
I was in my living room (at his home in Rhode Island) having a cup of coffee, and my son’s father-in-law called me. … He said, ‘Way to go.’ And I said, ‘What?’ He said, ‘You not watch it?’ I said, ‘Really?’ I was truly floored.
— Richard Jenkins, best-actor nominee for The Visitor
It feels surreal. I just got a call from [onetime costar] Javier Bardem in Spain, and he was flipping out and screaming. The reality is I got up at 5:55 here in Utah and looked at the clock and figured the nominations were announced and it didn’t happen. I said to myself, ‘That’s OK, I can deal with it.’ Then I realized there’s a one-hour time difference.
— Josh Brolin, supporting-actor nominee for Milk
Economics
“Did you ever think that making a speech on economics is a lot like pissing down your leg? It seems hot to you, but it never does to anyone else.”
- President Lyndon Johnson
Smarting
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Well, you’ve done your job, so I don’t suppose I can kill your wife Zenat. Although frankly I’d be doing the sighted world a favor.
– Siegfried
The last page
I always read the last page of a book first so that if I die before I finish I’ll know how it turned out.
- Nora Ephron
An Army of Ideas
A stand can be made against invasion by an army; no stand can be made against invasion by an idea.
- Victor Hugo
Hulking
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We got a case of gamma poisoning in Milwaukee. A man drank one of those health soda drinks – guess it had a bit more kick than he was looking for…
- The Incredible Hulk
Heroism
True heroism is remarkably sober, very undramatic.
It is not the urge to surpass all others at whatever cost,
but the urge to serve others at whatever cost.
~ Arthur Ashe
Lofty Ideas from a Master
A lofty idea must be had,
not of what one is doing, but of what one may some day do.
Otherwise there is no point in working on.
- Degas (at age 70)
Wonder
Wonder, rather than doubt, is the root of knowledge.
~ Abraham Joshua Heschel
The universe …
The universe is full of magical things patiently waiting for our wits to grow sharper.
- Eden Phillpots
