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warrrreagl · 09-03-2009, 04:36 AM

My vision for this thread is to post a quote every day from a famous person on their birthday.

"We can lie in the language of dress or try to tell the truth; but unless we are naked and bald, it is impossible to be silent."

Alison Lurie (September 3, 1926)

ColonelSpecial · 09-04-2009, 05:04 AM

Okay it is a stretch but bear with me.

"It's morphin' time!"

Jason David Frank (September 4, 1973)

If it doesn't ring bells immediately, it is because he is the white ranger from The Power Rangers.

warrrreagl · 09-04-2009, 05:26 AM

AWESOME!

"Men can starve from a lack of self-realization as much as they can from a lack of bread."

Richard Wright (September 4, 1908 - 1960)

warrrreagl · 09-05-2009, 02:48 AM

"It is better to make a piece of music than to perform one, better to perform one than to listen to one, better to listen to one than to misuse it as a means of distraction, entertainment, or acquisition of 'culture.'"

John Cage (September 5, 1912 - 1992)

hunnychile · 09-05-2009, 06:47 AM

My new favorite:

"Pollution is nothing but resources we're not harvesting."
- Buckminster Fuller AKA Bucky.

What an interesting mind!

noodle · 09-05-2009, 07:11 AM

I love this thread. Quotes are one of my favorite things to explore. And make up.

Raquel Welch ~ “The mind can also be an erogenous zone”

warrrreagl · 09-06-2009, 07:42 AM

Noodle and hunnychile THANKS! I knew I could count on you.

"Between New York and LA, there's 200 million people that aren't hip, and they don't want to be hip."

Jeff Foxworthy (September 6, 1958)

warrrreagl · 09-07-2009, 04:34 AM

"The past cannot be cured."

Elizabeth I (September 7, 1533 - 1603)

uncle phil · 09-07-2009, 05:52 AM

Chrissy Hynde - September 7, 1951

Back on the Chain Gang

"Circumstance beyond our control,
Oh, the phone, the TV and the News of the World.
Got in my house like a pigeon from hell.
Oh, threw sand in our eyes descending like flies.
Oh, put us back on the train yeah,
Oh, Back on the chain gang."

hunnychile · 09-07-2009, 11:16 AM

"Nothing worse could happen to one than to be completely understood."
- C.G. Jung

Willravel · 09-07-2009, 11:31 AM

"Rassemblons des faits pour nous donner des idées." Comte Georges-Louis Leclerc de Buffon

uncle phil · 09-07-2009, 03:32 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Willravel

"Je pense donc je suis." - Descartes

A revolution in thought.

and he was born on september 7, when?

uncle phil · 09-08-2009, 02:05 AM

Richard the Lionhearted - September 8, 1157

"Wine... a bucket of it!"

mixedmedia · 09-08-2009, 03:32 AM

Quote:

Country music is completely punk-rock. It's the original punk-rock.

Neko Case - September 8, 1970

warrrreagl · 09-08-2009, 04:25 AM

"Comedy has to be based on truth. You take the truth and you put a little curlicue at the end."

Sid Caesar (September 8, 1922)

*my personal hero...I talked to him on the phone once in 1984.

hunnychile · 09-08-2009, 08:04 AM

"I'm gonna take my rats..." - Pink, Singer. B. 1979.

warrrreagl · 09-09-2009, 02:25 AM

"The Beatles did treat me as a member of the group. And that was a great honor, you know?"

Billy Preston (September 9, 1946 - 2006)

uncle phil · 09-09-2009, 02:55 AM

Joe Theisman - September 9, 1949

"Nobody in football should be called a genius. A genius is a guy like Norman Einstein."

mixedmedia · 09-09-2009, 02:59 AM

Julian "Cannonball" Adderley - September 9, 1928

Quote:

“A young tenor player was complaining to me that Coleman Hawkins made him nervous. Man, I told him Hawkins was supposed to make him nervous! Hawkins has been making other sax players nervous for forty years!”

warrrreagl · 09-09-2009, 08:43 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by uncle phil

Joe Theisman - September 9, 1949

"Nobody in football should be called a genius. A genius is a guy like Norman Einstein."

HA!!!!

uncle phil · 09-09-2009, 01:04 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by uncle phil

Joe Theisman - September 9, 1949

"Nobody in football should be called a genius. A genius is a guy like Norman Einstein."

Quote:

Originally Posted by warrrreagl

HA!!!!

i met him at the outback pro-am last spring in tampa; nice guy, down-to-earth, doesn't walk with a limp any more, and golfs a good game...

warrrreagl · 09-09-2009, 03:52 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by uncle phil

i met him at the outback pro-am last spring in tampa; nice guy, down-to-earth, doesn't walk with a limp any more, and golfs a good game...

He may not walk with a limp, but just the thought of that video of him breaking his ....urk.....urk.....urk.....

uncle phil · 09-10-2009, 02:38 AM

Isaac Funk - September 10, 1839

"Put that in your Funk & Wagnalls!"

(actually Dan Rowan said it, but you get my drift...)

mixedmedia · 09-10-2009, 03:07 AM

Stephen Jay Gould, evolutionary biologist - (September 10, 1941 – May 20, 2002)

Quote:

Look in the mirror, and don't be tempted to equate transient domination with either intrinsic superiority or prospects for extended survival.

warrrreagl · 09-10-2009, 04:37 AM

"You don't even know
what a dream is;
how did it come?
It didn't come,
it was there."

Hilda Doolittle (September 10, 1886 - 1961)

uncle phil · 09-11-2009, 02:33 AM

William Sidney Porter - September 11, 1862

"A straw vote only shows which way the hot air blows."

mixedmedia · 09-11-2009, 02:43 AM

Jessica Mitford, author of The American Way of Death - September 11, 1917 - July 22, 1996

Quote:

I have nothing against undertakers personally. It's just that I wouldn't want one to bury my sister.

warrrreagl · 09-11-2009, 04:36 AM

"I cannot cure myself of that most woeful of youth's follies - thinking that those who care about us will care for the things that mean much to us."

D. H. Lawrence (September 11, 1885 - 1930)

uncle phil · 09-12-2009, 02:12 AM

H.L. Mencken - September 12, 1880

"An idealist is one who, on noticing that a rose smells better than a cabbage, concludes that it will also make better soup."

warrrreagl · 09-12-2009, 03:31 AM

"Life doesn't give you all the practice races you need."

Jesse Owens (September 12, 1913 - 1980)

uncle phil · 09-13-2009, 02:37 AM

David Clayton-Thomas - September 13, 1941

"What goes up
must come down
spinning wheel
got to go around
talkin' 'bout your troubles
it's a cryin' sin
Ride a painted pony
let the spinning wheel spin..."

mixedmedia · 09-13-2009, 05:16 AM

Roald Dahl (September 13, 1916 - November 23, 1990)

Quote:

A person is a fool to become a writer. His only compensation is absolute freedom.

Baraka_Guru · 09-13-2009, 05:42 AM

"I adore adverbs; they are the only qualifications I really much respect."

-Henry James (April 15, 1843 – February 28, 1916)

warrrreagl · 09-13-2009, 06:53 AM

"Is an artist much more than a beggar?"

Clara Wieck Schumann (September 13, 1819 - 1896)

thirdsun · 09-13-2009, 09:12 AM

“Men don't get smarter when they grow older. They just lose their hair.”
Claudette Colbert
Sept 13, 1903 – July 30, 1996

inBOIL · 09-13-2009, 11:21 PM

Don't become a mere recorder of facts, but try to penetrate the mystery of their origin.
-Ivan Pavlov (Sep. 14, 1849 - Feb. 27, 1936)

warrrreagl · 09-14-2009, 02:32 AM

"Woman must not accept; she must challenge. She must not be awed by that which has been built up around her; she must reverence that woman in her which struggles for expression."

Margaret Sanger (September 14, 1879 - 1966)

uncle phil · 09-14-2009, 02:35 AM

Clayton Moore - September 14, 1914

“I am a fighter. I believe in that which is right, and the truth is, I have been the Lone Ranger for the past thirty years and I will not give up the fight. I love my public and I'll fight for you. I'll continue to make personal appearances for my thousands of fans.”

thirdsun · 09-14-2009, 03:37 AM

Walter Koenig - Sept 14, 1936

"Star Trek: Who Mourns for Adonais? (#2.2)" (1967)
Apollo: I am Apollo!
Ensign Pavel Chekov: [sarcastically] And I am the Czar of all the Russias!
Capt. Kirk: Mister Chekov!
Ensign Pavel Chekov: I sorry, Captain. I never met a god before.
Capt. Kirk: And you haven't yet.

mixedmedia · 09-15-2009, 02:57 AM

Jean Renoir - (15 September 1894 – 12 February 1979)

A director makes only one movie in his life. Then he breaks it into pieces and makes it again.

09-03-2009, 04:36 AM	#1 (permalink)
warrrreagl pinche vato Location: backwater, Third World, land of cotton	Daily Quote My vision for this thread is to post a quote every day from a famous person on their birthday. "We can lie in the language of dress or try to tell the truth; but unless we are naked and bald, it is impossible to be silent." Alison Lurie (September 3, 1926) __________________ Living is easy with eyes closed.

09-04-2009, 05:04 AM	#2 (permalink)
ColonelSpecial Insane	Okay it is a stretch but bear with me. "It's morphin' time!" Jason David Frank (September 4, 1973) If it doesn't ring bells immediately, it is because he is the white ranger from The Power Rangers. __________________ "Mommy, the presidents are squishing me!" "Using the pull out method of contraceptive is like saying I won't use a seat belt, I'll just jump out of the car before it hits that tree." Sara

09-04-2009, 05:26 AM	#3 (permalink)
warrrreagl pinche vato Location: backwater, Third World, land of cotton	AWESOME! "Men can starve from a lack of self-realization as much as they can from a lack of bread." Richard Wright (September 4, 1908 - 1960) __________________ Living is easy with eyes closed.

09-05-2009, 02:48 AM	#4 (permalink)
warrrreagl pinche vato Location: backwater, Third World, land of cotton	"It is better to make a piece of music than to perform one, better to perform one than to listen to one, better to listen to one than to misuse it as a means of distraction, entertainment, or acquisition of 'culture.'" John Cage (September 5, 1912 - 1992) __________________ Living is easy with eyes closed.

09-05-2009, 06:47 AM	#5 (permalink)
hunnychile Alien Anthropologist Location: Between Boredom and Nirvana	My new favorite: "Pollution is nothing but resources we're not harvesting." - Buckminster Fuller AKA Bucky. What an interesting mind! __________________ "I need compassion, understanding and chocolate." - NJB Last edited by hunnychile; 09-07-2009 at 01:12 PM..

09-06-2009, 07:42 AM	#7 (permalink)
warrrreagl pinche vato Location: backwater, Third World, land of cotton	Noodle and hunnychile THANKS! I knew I could count on you. "Between New York and LA, there's 200 million people that aren't hip, and they don't want to be hip." Jeff Foxworthy (September 6, 1958) __________________ Living is easy with eyes closed.

09-07-2009, 04:34 AM	#8 (permalink)
warrrreagl pinche vato Location: backwater, Third World, land of cotton	"The past cannot be cured." Elizabeth I (September 7, 1533 - 1603) __________________ Living is easy with eyes closed.

09-07-2009, 05:52 AM	#9 (permalink)
uncle phil comfortably numb... Super Moderator Location: upstate	Chrissy Hynde - September 7, 1951 Back on the Chain Gang "Circumstance beyond our control, Oh, the phone, the TV and the News of the World. Got in my house like a pigeon from hell. Oh, threw sand in our eyes descending like flies. Oh, put us back on the train yeah, Oh, Back on the chain gang." __________________ "We were wrong, terribly wrong. (We) should not have tried to fight a guerrilla war with conventional military tactics against a foe willing to absorb enormous casualties...in a country lacking the fundamental political stability necessary to conduct effective military and pacification operations. It could not be done and it was not done." - Robert S. McNamara ----------------------------------------- "We will take our napalm and flame throwers out of the land that scarcely knows the use of matches... We will leave you your small joys and smaller troubles." - Eugene McCarthy in "Vietnam Message" ----------------------------------------- never wrestle with a pig. you both get dirty; the pig likes it. Last edited by uncle phil; 09-08-2009 at 03:43 AM..

09-07-2009, 11:16 AM	#10 (permalink)
hunnychile Alien Anthropologist Location: Between Boredom and Nirvana	"Nothing worse could happen to one than to be completely understood." - C.G. Jung __________________ "I need compassion, understanding and chocolate." - NJB

09-07-2009, 11:31 AM	#11 (permalink)
Willravel ... a sort of licensed troubleshooter.	"Rassemblons des faits pour nous donner des idées." Comte Georges-Louis Leclerc de Buffon Last edited by Willravel; 09-07-2009 at 03:36 PM..

09-08-2009, 02:05 AM	#13 (permalink)
uncle phil comfortably numb... Super Moderator Location: upstate	Richard the Lionhearted - September 8, 1157 "Wine... a bucket of it!" __________________ "We were wrong, terribly wrong. (We) should not have tried to fight a guerrilla war with conventional military tactics against a foe willing to absorb enormous casualties...in a country lacking the fundamental political stability necessary to conduct effective military and pacification operations. It could not be done and it was not done." - Robert S. McNamara ----------------------------------------- "We will take our napalm and flame throwers out of the land that scarcely knows the use of matches... We will leave you your small joys and smaller troubles." - Eugene McCarthy in "Vietnam Message" ----------------------------------------- never wrestle with a pig. you both get dirty; the pig likes it.

09-08-2009, 04:25 AM	#15 (permalink)
warrrreagl pinche vato Location: backwater, Third World, land of cotton	"Comedy has to be based on truth. You take the truth and you put a little curlicue at the end." Sid Caesar (September 8, 1922) my personal hero...I talked to him on the phone once in 1984. __________________ Living is easy with eyes closed.*

09-08-2009, 08:04 AM	#16 (permalink)
hunnychile Alien Anthropologist Location: Between Boredom and Nirvana	"I'm gonna take my rats..." - Pink, Singer. B. 1979. __________________ "I need compassion, understanding and chocolate." - NJB

09-09-2009, 02:25 AM	#17 (permalink)
warrrreagl pinche vato Location: backwater, Third World, land of cotton	"The Beatles did treat me as a member of the group. And that was a great honor, you know?" Billy Preston (September 9, 1946 - 2006) __________________ Living is easy with eyes closed.

09-09-2009, 02:55 AM	#18 (permalink)
uncle phil comfortably numb... Super Moderator Location: upstate	Joe Theisman - September 9, 1949 "Nobody in football should be called a genius. A genius is a guy like Norman Einstein." __________________ "We were wrong, terribly wrong. (We) should not have tried to fight a guerrilla war with conventional military tactics against a foe willing to absorb enormous casualties...in a country lacking the fundamental political stability necessary to conduct effective military and pacification operations. It could not be done and it was not done." - Robert S. McNamara ----------------------------------------- "We will take our napalm and flame throwers out of the land that scarcely knows the use of matches... We will leave you your small joys and smaller troubles." - Eugene McCarthy in "Vietnam Message" ----------------------------------------- never wrestle with a pig. you both get dirty; the pig likes it.

09-10-2009, 02:38 AM	#23 (permalink)
uncle phil comfortably numb... Super Moderator Location: upstate	Isaac Funk - September 10, 1839 "Put that in your Funk & Wagnalls!" (actually Dan Rowan said it, but you get my drift...) __________________ "We were wrong, terribly wrong. (We) should not have tried to fight a guerrilla war with conventional military tactics against a foe willing to absorb enormous casualties...in a country lacking the fundamental political stability necessary to conduct effective military and pacification operations. It could not be done and it was not done." - Robert S. McNamara ----------------------------------------- "We will take our napalm and flame throwers out of the land that scarcely knows the use of matches... We will leave you your small joys and smaller troubles." - Eugene McCarthy in "Vietnam Message" ----------------------------------------- never wrestle with a pig. you both get dirty; the pig likes it.

09-10-2009, 04:37 AM	#25 (permalink)
warrrreagl pinche vato Location: backwater, Third World, land of cotton	"You don't even know what a dream is; how did it come? It didn't come, it was there." Hilda Doolittle (September 10, 1886 - 1961) __________________ Living is easy with eyes closed.

09-11-2009, 02:33 AM	#26 (permalink)
uncle phil comfortably numb... Super Moderator Location: upstate	William Sidney Porter - September 11, 1862 "A straw vote only shows which way the hot air blows." __________________ "We were wrong, terribly wrong. (We) should not have tried to fight a guerrilla war with conventional military tactics against a foe willing to absorb enormous casualties...in a country lacking the fundamental political stability necessary to conduct effective military and pacification operations. It could not be done and it was not done." - Robert S. McNamara ----------------------------------------- "We will take our napalm and flame throwers out of the land that scarcely knows the use of matches... We will leave you your small joys and smaller troubles." - Eugene McCarthy in "Vietnam Message" ----------------------------------------- never wrestle with a pig. you both get dirty; the pig likes it.

09-11-2009, 04:36 AM	#28 (permalink)
warrrreagl pinche vato Location: backwater, Third World, land of cotton	"I cannot cure myself of that most woeful of youth's follies - thinking that those who care about us will care for the things that mean much to us." D. H. Lawrence (September 11, 1885 - 1930) __________________ Living is easy with eyes closed.

09-12-2009, 02:12 AM	#29 (permalink)
uncle phil comfortably numb... Super Moderator Location: upstate	H.L. Mencken - September 12, 1880 "An idealist is one who, on noticing that a rose smells better than a cabbage, concludes that it will also make better soup." __________________ "We were wrong, terribly wrong. (We) should not have tried to fight a guerrilla war with conventional military tactics against a foe willing to absorb enormous casualties...in a country lacking the fundamental political stability necessary to conduct effective military and pacification operations. It could not be done and it was not done." - Robert S. McNamara ----------------------------------------- "We will take our napalm and flame throwers out of the land that scarcely knows the use of matches... We will leave you your small joys and smaller troubles." - Eugene McCarthy in "Vietnam Message" ----------------------------------------- never wrestle with a pig. you both get dirty; the pig likes it.

09-12-2009, 03:31 AM	#30 (permalink)
warrrreagl pinche vato Location: backwater, Third World, land of cotton	"Life doesn't give you all the practice races you need." Jesse Owens (September 12, 1913 - 1980) __________________ Living is easy with eyes closed.

09-13-2009, 02:37 AM	#31 (permalink)
uncle phil comfortably numb... Super Moderator Location: upstate	David Clayton-Thomas - September 13, 1941 "What goes up must come down spinning wheel got to go around talkin' 'bout your troubles it's a cryin' sin Ride a painted pony let the spinning wheel spin..." __________________ "We were wrong, terribly wrong. (We) should not have tried to fight a guerrilla war with conventional military tactics against a foe willing to absorb enormous casualties...in a country lacking the fundamental political stability necessary to conduct effective military and pacification operations. It could not be done and it was not done." - Robert S. McNamara ----------------------------------------- "We will take our napalm and flame throwers out of the land that scarcely knows the use of matches... We will leave you your small joys and smaller troubles." - Eugene McCarthy in "Vietnam Message" ----------------------------------------- never wrestle with a pig. you both get dirty; the pig likes it.

09-13-2009, 05:42 AM	#33 (permalink)
Baraka_Guru warrior bodhisattva Super Moderator Location: East-central Canada	"I adore adverbs; they are the only qualifications I really much respect." -Henry James (April 15, 1843 – February 28, 1916) __________________ Knowing that death is certain and that the time of death is uncertain, what's the most important thing? —Bhikkhuni Pema Chödrön Humankind cannot bear very much reality. —From "Burnt Norton," Four Quartets (1936), T. S. Eliot

09-13-2009, 06:53 AM	#34 (permalink)
warrrreagl pinche vato Location: backwater, Third World, land of cotton	"Is an artist much more than a beggar?" Clara Wieck Schumann (September 13, 1819 - 1896) __________________ Living is easy with eyes closed.

09-13-2009, 09:12 AM	#35 (permalink)
thirdsun rolls good	“Men don't get smarter when they grow older. They just lose their hair.” Claudette Colbert Sept 13, 1903 – July 30, 1996 Last edited by thirdsun; 09-13-2009 at 09:16 AM..

09-13-2009, 11:21 PM	#36 (permalink)
inBOIL I have eaten the slaw	Don't become a mere recorder of facts, but try to penetrate the mystery of their origin. -Ivan Pavlov (Sep. 14, 1849 - Feb. 27, 1936) __________________ And you believe Bush and the liberals and divorced parents and gays and blacks and the Christian right and fossil fuels and Xbox are all to blame, meanwhile you yourselves create an ad where your kid hits you in the head with a baseball and you don't understand the message that the problem is you.

09-14-2009, 02:32 AM	#37 (permalink)
warrrreagl pinche vato Location: backwater, Third World, land of cotton	"Woman must not accept; she must challenge. She must not be awed by that which has been built up around her; she must reverence that woman in her which struggles for expression." Margaret Sanger (September 14, 1879 - 1966) __________________ Living is easy with eyes closed.

09-14-2009, 02:35 AM	#38 (permalink)
uncle phil comfortably numb... Super Moderator Location: upstate	Clayton Moore - September 14, 1914 “I am a fighter. I believe in that which is right, and the truth is, I have been the Lone Ranger for the past thirty years and I will not give up the fight. I love my public and I'll fight for you. I'll continue to make personal appearances for my thousands of fans.” __________________ "We were wrong, terribly wrong. (We) should not have tried to fight a guerrilla war with conventional military tactics against a foe willing to absorb enormous casualties...in a country lacking the fundamental political stability necessary to conduct effective military and pacification operations. It could not be done and it was not done." - Robert S. McNamara ----------------------------------------- "We will take our napalm and flame throwers out of the land that scarcely knows the use of matches... We will leave you your small joys and smaller troubles." - Eugene McCarthy in "Vietnam Message" ----------------------------------------- never wrestle with a pig. you both get dirty; the pig likes it.

09-14-2009, 03:37 AM	#39 (permalink)
thirdsun rolls good	Walter Koenig - Sept 14, 1936 "Star Trek: Who Mourns for Adonais? (#2.2)" (1967) Apollo: I am Apollo! Ensign Pavel Chekov: [sarcastically] And I am the Czar of all the Russias! Capt. Kirk: Mister Chekov! Ensign Pavel Chekov: I sorry, Captain. I never met a god before. Capt. Kirk: And you haven't yet.

09-15-2009, 02:57 AM	#40 (permalink)
mixedmedia has all her shots. Location: Florida	Jean Renoir - (15 September 1894 – 12 February 1979) A director makes only one movie in his life. Then he breaks it into pieces and makes it again. __________________ Most people go through life dreading they'll have a traumatic experience. Freaks were born with their trauma. They've already passed their test in life. They're aristocrats. - Diane Arbus PESSIMISM, n. A philosophy forced upon the convictions of the observer by the disheartening prevalence of the optimist with his scarecrow hope and his unsightly smile. - Ambrose Bierce