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Post by Sherry Thrasher on Apr 12, 2007 23:13:40 GMT -5
I've been busy, busy, working on my poetry cookbook and I have been gathering information and found a great quote that I would like to share. If you have a favorite quote, please feel free to add it here.
~Everywhere I go, I find a poet has been there before me.~ Sigmund Freud
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Post by mfwilkie on Apr 13, 2007 2:45:04 GMT -5
That's a great one, Sherry.
Magpie
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Post by Ron Wallace (Scotshawk) on Apr 13, 2007 17:38:59 GMT -5
Sherry, I collect quotations, and this one is a great one; it goes immediately into my book of favorite quotes. Ron
Here's one by a favorite Okie, Will Rogers: " Never drink downstream from the herd."
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Post by Tina (Firefly) on Apr 14, 2007 13:19:32 GMT -5
One of my favorites: "Where ever you go; there you are." LOL Tina
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Post by Jonathan Morey Weiss-Namaste47 on Apr 15, 2007 19:00:33 GMT -5
Very nice, Sherry.
"Perhaps if people listened, history wouldn't have to repeat itself." Lily Tomlin
I always liked that quote......always relevant......thanks for the opportunity.......
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Post by zwriter on Apr 16, 2007 11:14:27 GMT -5
If you see an adverb, kill it. -- Mark Twain
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Post by sanctus on Apr 20, 2007 14:56:54 GMT -5
A good quote is often as good as a well written poem. One of my favorites is:
"The opposite of love is not hate, it is indifference." --Eli Weisel
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Post by GD Martin on Apr 27, 2007 22:02:19 GMT -5
Sherry, my Dad (Don Martin-an artist by trade, and a musician and philosopher by night) quipped this; and then he died:
"Overindulgence ceases to be a pleasure." _Don Martin
; however, if you print it in a cookbook, you might discourage someone from overeating (,but it wouldn't be me)! _GD
Seriously, though, I am very glad to hear you are moving ahead in this poetry cookbook project. I still want to buy a copy, more than ever (with your autograph inside, if that wouldn't be any trouble). _Gary
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Post by Angel Clementine on Apr 28, 2007 10:35:59 GMT -5
"When thou sittest to eat with a ruler, consider diligently what is before thee" (Solomon)
I hope for you and your cook book, a very successful outcome (and income), Sherry. Angel
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Post by Sherry Thrasher on Apr 29, 2007 0:16:11 GMT -5
Thank you all. Believe it or not I now have seventy pages of quotations regarding food. My favorites are the ones written by poets. I plan on working in some of these quotes. I've just finished a thirteen hour catering gig and I think I'll change professions But I willl finish my book first Sherry
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Post by Dennis Cook on May 9, 2007 12:47:16 GMT -5
"When you're looking for GOD; don't look up, look around."
"If man had learned to ride Buffalo, there would be no gas shortage."
"The mightiest oak can be felled with a pocket knife; if you whittle long enough."
quotes by D. R. Cook
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Post by richardpolley on May 28, 2007 12:57:32 GMT -5
I've been busy, busy, working on my poetry cookbook and I have been gathering information and found a great quote that I would like to share. If you have a favorite quote, please feel free to add it here. ~Everywhere I go, I find a poet has been there before me.~ Sigmund Freud
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Post by Sherry Thrasher on May 28, 2007 23:28:08 GMT -5
Another poetic quote:
We dare not trust our wit for making our house pleasant to our friend, so we buy ice cream. ~Ralph Waldo Emerson
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Post by LynnDoiron on May 30, 2007 17:46:39 GMT -5
Hi, all! What follows isn't a quotation in the sense of something said in a memorable way, but it is lifted directly from a line of information on dictionary dot com's word of the day, "chortle" and I just thought it was interesting enough to post here:
"Chortle a combination of chuckle and snort. It was coined by Lewis Carroll (Charles L. Dodgson), in Through the Looking-Glass, published in 1872"
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Post by David Nelson Bradsher on May 31, 2007 6:22:33 GMT -5
My favorite, Sherry, is from George Elliot-
"It is never too late to become what you were meant to be."
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Post by LynnDoiron on Jun 4, 2007 13:59:35 GMT -5
“If you are a poet, you read other poets for inspiration, that is, for opportunities to steal, or for the possibility that another poet will open a door for you that you never knew existed.”
--billy collins, u.s. poet laureate 2001-2003
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Post by Sherry Thrasher on Jun 4, 2007 17:53:29 GMT -5
That is a great quote Lynn! David, I thought that might be your favorite. I found this quote yesterday:
"What is past is prologue." -- William Shakespeare
Thanks for commenting.
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Post by LynnDoiron on Aug 21, 2007 12:19:26 GMT -5
This probably doesn't quite fit the topic of Favorite Quotations -- but I just loved this example on dictionary dot com's word a day [which was "indurate" today, 8/21].
"First off, the avoid-terminal-prepositions rule is the invention of one Fr. R. Lowth, an eighteenth-century British preacher and indurate pedant who did things like spend scores of pages arguing for hath over the trendy and degenerate has." -- David Foster Wallace, "Tense Present", Harper's Magazine, April 2001
I always wondered who'd come up with that rule re: prepositions ending a sentence!
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Post by johnnysaturn on Nov 3, 2007 17:30:01 GMT -5
George Orwell:
There are some ideas so wrong that only a very intelligent person could believe in them.
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Post by mfwilkie on Nov 3, 2007 21:17:46 GMT -5
Here's one I love by Sean O'Casey—
"All the world's a stage and most of us are desperately unrehearsed." Sean O'Casey
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Post by Sherry Thrasher on Nov 21, 2007 15:05:27 GMT -5
Gosh, Maggie, I could win an Oscar for being unrehearsed. I found a quotation book in a thrift store on my way home from Birmingham (that is a story in itself) and will post again shortly.
Sherry
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