All Quotes

"Carol Burnett - herself"

"Ray Charles - himself"

"John Denver - himself"

"Jim Henson - himself (archive footage)"

"Frank Oz - himself"

"Steven Spielberg - himself"

"If any animal around here got hurt like I did, they'd have to be put down."

"Don't give up on your dreams."

"I'm sorry, Brady. This is all there is to do. Whistle for him when you walk away, please."

"Explicit: Dedicated to all the riders who live their lives 8 seconds at a time."

"Brady Jandreau as Brady Blackburn"

"Tim Jandreau as Wayne Blackburn"

"Lilly Jandreau as Lilly Blackburn"

"Cat Clifford as Cat Clifford"

"Terri Dawn Pourier as Terri Dawn Pourier"

"Lane Scott as Lane Scott"

"Tanner Langdeau as Tanner Langdeau"

"James Calhoon as James Calhoon"

"Emily Hone — Linda Marshall"

"Promises retain men better than services. For them, hope is a chain, and gratitude a thread."

"Let us respect white hair — especially our own."

"Happiness is the shadow of man: remembrance of it follows him; hope of it precedes him."

"It may be strange for others, but I have always been fascinated by tattooed people. In fact, attracted ako sa kanila (I am attracted to them)."

"No civilization prior to the European had occasion to believe in the systematic material progress of the whole human race; no civilization placed such stress upon the quantity rather than the quality of life; no civilization drove itself so relentlessly to an ever-receding goal; no civilization was so passion-charged to replace what is with what could be; no civilization had striven as the West has done to direct the world according to its will; no civilization has known so few moments of peace and tranquility."

"With the age-old goal of universal prosperity within sight, we must question whether the methods—technological values and virtues, the instrumental goals of our affluent society—that help us approach this goal will serve to take us beyond it."

"Perhaps it is symbolic that Brook Farm, initially the most American of our Utopian communities, perished in a holocaust and was never fully rebuilt. A parallel destiny has pursued not only the other attempts to implement Utopian vision in this country, but the Utopian spirit in American life as a whole. As thinkers, Americans rarely if ever now attempt to construct an imaginary society better than that in which they live; and at the same time, the faith that our society is in some sense a Utopia has surely disappeared....But if we define Utopia as any attempt to make imaginatively concrete the possibilities of the future, Utopias have not in our own day ceased to exist, but have merely been transvalued....Our visions of the future have shifted from images of hope to vistas of despair; Utopias have become warnings, not beacons. Huxley's Brave New World, Orwell's 1984 and Animal Farm, Young's The Rise of the Meritocracy, and ironically even Skinner's Walden Two—the vast majority of our serious visions of the future are negative visions, extensions of the most pernicious trends of the present."

"Each person acts on the assumption that more money will bring more happiness; and, indeed, if he does get more money, and others do not (or get less), his happiness increases. But when everyone acts on this assumption and incomes generally increase, no one, on the average, feels better off. Yet each person goes on, generation after generation, unaware of the self-defeating process in which he is caught up."

"... one may fairly say that what business stands for, ideologically insists upon and tries to get adopted as general principles of conduct, run directly against and reduce the chances of evoking affection and love as principles of relationship ... in promoting themes quite inimical to identification, affection, and significant membership, business thereby and to that extent tends to bring out, standardize, and reward the most unsocial impulses in man."

"[There is] an increasing insistence by the customers on using consumption to express themselves, to help in fashioning their own identities....For increasing numbers of Americans, the clothes they wear are not simply material objects; on the contrary, they are viewed...as the most basic expression of life style, indeed of identity itself."

"Is it that we think the brain too small a place to hold more than one language at a time? That room for Spanish or Navajo will leave too little room for English? Is it that we fear that other ways of speaking will lead to an understanding of other ways of life, and so weaken commitment to our own? Is it perhaps that command of languages is assigned to a sphere of culture reserved for girls and women, something not suitable for boys and men?Whatever the reasons, the United States is a country rich in many things, but poor in knowledge of itself with regard to language."

"'Tis the fire of the flint, each American warms; Let Rome's haughty victors beware of collision, Let them bring all the vassals of Europe in arms, We're a world by ourselves, and disdain a division."

"Let Fame to the world sound America's voice; No intrigues can her sons from their government sever; Her pride is her Adams; her laws are his choice, And shall flourish, till Liberty slumbers for ever."

"So it was, when the angels had gone away from them into heaven, that the shepherds said to one another, “Let us now go to Bethlehem and see this thing that has come to pass, which the Lord has made known to us.” And they came with haste and found Mary and Joseph, and the Babe lying in a manger. Now when they had seen Him, they made widely known the saying which was told them concerning this Child. And all those who heard it marveled at those things which were told them by the shepherds. But Mary kept all these things and pondered them in her heart. Then the shepherds returned, glorifying and praising God for all the things that they had heard and seen, as it was told them."

"Maravigliando a quel celeste avviso | vanno i pastor dell'abituro in traccia, | e del nato Fanciul. Di accese tede | i campi intorno riluceano e i colli. | Poscia in città giunti all'umil presepe, | del venerando vecchio, e della casta | genitrice all'aspetto il già predetto | figlio riconosceano, e genuflessi | adorando il bambin gettan divoti | di fiori un nembo, e d'odorosi serti | la soglia ornando, in copia agresti doni | gli offrono in bella gara, e al dolce suono | alternan delle avene inno di gioja."

"Now there were in the same country shepherds living out in the fields, keeping watch over their flock by night. And behold, an angel of the Lord stood before them, and the glory of the Lord shone around them, and they were greatly afraid. Then the angel said to them, “Do not be afraid, for behold, I bring you good tidings of great joy which will be to all people. For there is born to you this day in the city of David a Savior, who is Christ the Lord. And this will be the sign to you: You will find a Babe wrapped in swaddling cloths, lying in a manger. [...]"

"Ma non lungi di là sotto alta rupe | pastorelli a guardar la gregge intesi, | tutta in pio ragionar traean la notte; | quando del ciel dalla serena parte | fragor levossi e splendor nuovo apparve; | e stuol vedeasi su lucente nube | di sembianze celesti alto appressarse, | sorvolitando per gli eterei tratti. | Istupidiro, e le tremanti membra | irrigidì dello spavento il gelo. | Ma voce udir di riconforto e pace | alto sonar: Non trepidate, o buoni, | lungi ogni tema; l'ammirando, e grande | gaudio annunziam, che voi non sol, ma tutti | lieti farà ne' secoli venturi | della terra gli afflitti abitatori."

"We didn't do anything but just work at the club … day in and day out, I never knew what Sunday was, Christmas was ... anything."

"It may be asked what possible object a redactor could have had in combining the narrative of a rebellion against civil authority with another having for its moral to warn against usurpation of the priesthood. The story presents nothing improbable. We need not search deeply into history to find similar examples of parties with different, or even conflicting interests, uniting for a common end."

"The power of the State is maintained to be of God, either immediately, or mediately through the will of the people; and the civil government exists side by side with the ecclesiastical government. Each is complete in its own sphere."

"Now that I'm a mother, my lifestyle has changed drastically. I've never been a night person, really, but I don't go out nights anymore. I'd rather spend my time with Mayumi. And also, before buying anything for myself, I first think of what Mayumi needs. Si Mayumi muna, bago ako, bago kami."

"I'm happy that I have seen him. And he's okay, but he's so thin. Skin and bones. Like in this picture."

"Εἰμί μὲν οὐ φιλόοινος: ὅταν δ᾽ ἐθέλῃς με μεθύσσαι, πρῶτα σὺ γευομένη πρόσφερε, καὶ δέχομαι. εἰ γὰρ ἐπιψαύσεις τοῖς χείλεσιν, οὐκέτι νήφειν εὐμαρὲς, οὐδὲ φυγεῖν τὸν γλυκὺν οἰνοχόον πορθμεύει γὰρ ἔμοιγε κύλιξ παρὰ σοῦ τὸ φίλημα, καί μοι ἀπαγγέλλει τὴν χάριν ἣν ἔλαβεν."

"Εἰργομένη φιλέειν με κατὰ στόμα δῖα Ῥοδάνθη ζώνην παρθενικὴν ἐξετάνυσσε μέσην, καὶ κείνην φιλέεσκεν ἐγὼ δέ τις ὡς ὀχετηγὸς ἀρχὴν εἰς ἑτέρην εἷλκον ἔρωτος ὕδωρ, αὐερύων τὸ φίλημα: περὶ ζωστῆρα δὲ κούρης μάστακι ποππύζων, τηλόθεν ἀντεφίλουν. ἦν δὲ πόνου καὶ τοῦτο παραίφασις: ἡ γλυκερὴ γὰρ ζώνη πορθμὸς ἔην χείλεος ἀμφοτέρου."

"Τῇ Παφίῃ στεφάνους, τῇ Παλλάδι τὴν πλοκαμῖδα, Ἀρτέμιδι ζώνην ἄνθετο Καλλιρόη: εὕρετο γὰρ μνηστῆρα τὸν ἤθελε, καὶ λάχεν ἥβην σώφρονα, καὶ τεκέων ἄρσεν ἔτικτε γένος."

"Εἰ μὲν ἀπὸ Σπάρτης τις ἔφυς, ξένε μή με γελάσσηις· οὐ γὰρ ἐμοὶ μούνηι ταῦτα τέλεσσε Τύχη· εἰ δέ τις ἐξ Ἀσίης, μὴ πένθεε· Δαρδανικοῖς γὰρ σκήπτροις Αἰνεαδῶν πᾶσα νένευκε πόλις. εἰ δὲ θεῶν τεμένη καὶ τείχεα καὶ ναετῆρας ζηλήμων δηίων ἐξεκένωσεν Ἄρης, εἰμὶ πάλιν· βασίλεια σὺ δ', ὦ τέκος, ἄτρομε Ῥώμη, βάλλε καθ' Ἑλλήνων σῆς ζυγόδεσμα δίκης."

"There is substantial evidence, over a wide attitudinal and experimental range, that perceptions, opinions and values are systematically ordered in modern societies....Modern society...is more or less unique in the extent to which it produces standardized contexts of experience."

"The environment men create through their wants becomes a mirror that reflects their civilization; more importantly it also constitutes a book in which is written the formula of life that they communicate to others and transmit to succeeding generations. The characteristics of the environment are therefore of importance not only because they affect the comfort and quality of present-day life, but even more because they condition the development of young people and thereby of society."

"Our age, the age of the new Prometheans, illustrates as does no other age, the depth of the Promethean myth. Never before have the Prometheans been so daring. Never before have the Epimetheans been so rash and never has Pandora's box been so crammed with menace."

"ASPARAGUS 1 box frozen cut asparagus 2 Tb butter in a skillet 2 Tb salt Salt and pepper Allow the asparagus to thaw until the pieces separate from each other. Then drop into 4 quarts of rapidly boiling water. Add 2 s salt, bring rapidly back to the boil uncovered for 3 or 4 minutes, until asparagus is barely tender. Drain. If not to be served immediately, run cold water over asparagus to stop the cooking and set the fresh color and texture. Several minutes before serving, toss gently in 2 tablespoons hot butter to finish cooking. Season to taste with salt and pepper."

"Umberto Galimberti, Il tramonto dell'occidente. Nella lettura di Heidegger e Jaspers, Giangiacomo Feltrinelli Editore, Milano, 2005. ISBN 978-88-07-81849-3."