April 2010
1 post
“I’m going away for to leave you love
I’m going away for a while...”
– Storms Are On The Ocean by A. P. Carter
February 2010
1 post
“Yet Clare’s sharp questions must I shun,
Must separate Constance from the...”
– Marmion: Canto VI. Stanza 17. By Walter Scott
December 2009
2 posts
“And I shall have some peace there, for peace comes dropping slow,
Dropping from...”
– William Butler Yeats: “The Lake Isle of Innisfree” (1892).
“The best laid schemes o’ mice an’ men
Gang aft agley,
An’...”
– To a Mouse by Robert Burns
October 2009
2 posts
“Your smile is the sun, ma chère. And fallen men —- we need the sun.”
– Robbie Coltrane as the Curator in “The Brothers Bloom” (2008) by Rian Johnson
“Then out spake brave Horatius,
The Captain of the gate:
‘To every man upon...”
– Horatius by Thomas Babington Macaulay, Lord Macaulay
August 2009
2 posts
“There’s no such thing as an unwritten life. Just a badly written one.”
– Stephen in “The Brothers Bloom” (2008) written and directed by Rian Johnson
“Two men looked out from prison bars,
One saw sand, the other, stars.”
– Unknown cited by Dale Carnegie in ”How to Stop Worrying and Start Living” found via Errol Morris.
July 2009
1 post
“It has been observed in all ages that the advantages of nature or of fortune...”
– Samuel Johnson: An Account of the Life of Mr Richard Savage (1744)
June 2009
18 posts
“Quite an original:” A phrase, we fancy, rather oftener used by the young,...”
– Herman Melville: The Confidence-Man: His Masquerade - Chapter 44
“Don’t know where we’re goin’, but there’s no use...”
– Matthew Quigley in “Quigley Down Under” (1990) written by John Hill
“Adventures come to the adventurous, and mysterious things fall in the way of...”
– 1st sentences of Algernon Blackwood: The Insanity of Jones (A Study in Reincarnation)
“We make out of the quarrel with others, rhetoric, but of the quarrel with...”
– William Butler Yeats in “Per Amica Silentia Lunae.” 1917.
“You have preserved in your own lifetime sir, a way of life that was dead before...”
– Harold the butler in “A New Leaf” (1971) written and directed by Elaine May cited after Roger Ebert
“Take us the foxes, the little foxes, that spoil the vines: for our vines have...”
– Song of Solomon 2:15 (King James Version)
“Gather ye rosebuds while ye may,
Old time is still a-flying :
And this...”
– Robert Herrick: To the Virgins, to make much of time
“De loco deserti, quem pro domino meo Jesu Christo de trans mare expetivi.”
– Columban: Brief 2 (MG. Epist. III, 163)
“The best lack all conviction, while the worst
Are full of passionate intensity.”
– William Butler Yeats: The Second Coming
“Tho’ much is taken, much abides; and tho’
We are not now that...”
– Ulysses by Alfred Tennyson
“I am a part of all that I have met;
Yet all experience is an arch...”
– Ulysses by Alfred Tennyson
“Demain c’est travail et le travail est le plus important. Tu es un très bon...”
– Ferrand (Francois Truffaut): La Nuit Américaine (1973)
“- It’s time you learned Sarah Crewe that real life has nothing to do with your...”
– Miss Minchin and Sarah Crewe: A Little Princess (1995)
“Every story that works is a story of great distances and starlight which takes...”
– David Milch: The Idea of the Writer 2007/12 WGA Theater
“Send lawyers, guns and money
(…)
I’m the innocent bystander...”
– Lawyers, Guns And Money by Warren Zevon