“To love at all is to be vulnerable. Love anything, and your heart will certainly be wrung and possibly be broken. If you want to make sure of keeping it intact, you must give your heart to no one, not even to an animal. Wrap it carefully round with hobbies and little luxuries; avoid all …
Category: quotable
May 14
Quotable: C. S. Lewis in Surprised by Joy
‘Who are you? Nobody. Who is Porridge? THE MOST IMPORTANT PERSON THERE IS.’
Apr 07
What’s your favorite Tim Burton movie?
Mine is that one where Johnny Depp plays that weird pasty guy, and all that creepy stuff happens and Danny Elfman’s music is all ‘oompa OOMPA oompa OOMPA.’ I’m just kidding. Really my favorite Tim Burton movie is Big Fish, probably the least Burtonesque movie he’s done. Second favorite? Probably Ed Wood, though I don’t …
Mar 27
Quotable: Jenny from Big Fish
“No, it’s logical if you think like your father. See, to him, there’s only two women: your mother and everyone else.”
Mar 26
Quotable: Touchstone from As You Like It
TOUCHSTONE: This is the very false gallop of verses. Why do you infect yourself with them? ROSALIND: Peace, you dull fool. I found them on a tree. TOUCHSTONE: Truly, the tree yields bad fruit.
Feb 08
Quotable: two from Theodore Roosevelt
“Courtesy is as much a mark of a gentleman as courage.” “Don’t hit at all if it is honorably possible to avoid hitting; but never hit soft.” It is difficult to cull from Theodore Roosevelt’s vast store of brilliant quotes. I was barely aware of him outside of Looney Toons caricatures until I read James Chace’s …
Jan 25
Quotable: Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade
“You lost today, kid. But that doesn’t mean you have to like it.” One of the best lines in Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade (or any movie of that matter). It’s what the lead tomb robber (played by Richard Young) said to Young Indy (River Phoenix) as he gifted him with what would become …
Jan 22
Quotable: Sam Duncan
“From the day that you’re born to the day you ride in the hearse things are never so bad that they couldn’t get worse.” Sam Duncan was an African American educator in Higginsville, Missouri from the 1950s-1970s where he taught a number of classes and coached several sports. The high school’s football field is named …
Jan 16
Quotable: Raymond Chandler
“What a waste of money! What a waste of time! It’s no answer to say that I was well paid. Nobody can be adequately paid for wasting his time.” From a letter to Alfred Hitchcock, which can be seen in its entirety at Letters of Note.
Nov 10
Quotable: Adam Clarke
“Even the success of apostles depended, in a certain way, on the prayers of the Church. Few Christian congregations feel, as they ought, that it is their bounden duty to pray for the success of the Gospel, both among themselves and in the world. The Church is weak, dark, poor, and imperfect, because it prays little.”
