David M Mallon |
Mark Baum (Steve Carell): "Holy shit. Five years ago, Securitization was a loser convention. 100, maybe 200 people would show. $500 billion a year later, you get this."
Porter Collins (Hamish Linklater): "There's a lot of smug-looking people in here, huh?"
Vinny Daniel (Jeremy Strong): "Yeah, it's like someone hit a piñata filled with white people who suck at golf."
- The Big Short (2015)
David M Mallon |
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"The machine gun is a much overrated weapon and two per battalion is more than sufficient."
- Field Marshal Sir Douglas Haig, June 1915
"[The German machine gunners] stood...and fired triumphantly into the mass of [British soldiers] marching across no-man's land. As the entire field of fire was covered by the enemy's infantry, the effect was devastating, and they could be seen falling literally in hundreds."
- German observer, Battle of Loos, October 1915
Trigger Loaded |
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"The reason the American Army does so well in wartime, is that war is chaos, and the American Army practices chaos on a daily basis."
--> Attributed to a German general, post-WWII debriefing.
"One of the serious problems in planning against American Doctrine is that the Americans do not read their manuals nor do they feel any obligations to follow their doctrine."
--> From a Soviet document.
"If we don't know what we are doing, the enemy certainly can't anticipate our future actions."
--> Anonymous soldier.
"It is well that war is so terrible, else we should grow too fond of it."
- General Robert E. Lee
David M Mallon |
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Pvt. "Loudmouth" (Nathan Corddry): "I still can't figure out how the hell a Canadian gets all the way from the ETO [European Theater of Operations] to here [Cape Gloucester, New Britain, Pacific Theater]."
Pfc. Bill "Hoosier" Smith (Jacob Pitts): "I'm guessing it involved a boat."
- The Pacific (2010)
Theconiel |
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Smee gets the 'I had an idea!' look;
Smee - "I've just had an apostrophe!"
Hook - "I think you mean an epiphany."
Smee - "Lightning! Lightning has struck my brain!"
Hook - "That must certainly hurt."
Alan Rickman would have made a good Captain Hook. But then, Alan Rickman would have made a good "just-about-anything".
Theconiel |
"Your fatuous specialist is now beginning to rebuke "secondrate" newspapers for using such phrases as "to suddenly go" and "to boldly say". I ask you, Sir, to put this man out without interfering with his perfect freedom of choice between "to suddenly go", "to go suddenly" and "suddenly to go". Set him adrift and try an intelligent Newfoundland dog in his place."
- George Bernard Shaw, letter to the Chronicle newspaper (1892)
David M Mallon |
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"[W]hile we're on the topic of early Germanic terms for kings, in Old English poetry, the king or lord is often referred to as a beag-gifa, literally, "ring-giver," again, because of the importance of generosity to the comitatus-- the lord gives gold arm rings and other treasure to his followers. The first part of that word, beag-, meaning "ring," is related to the word bagel, a ring-shaped bread. So, you might say that in the Old English epic poem Beowulf, the hero Beowulf is rewarded with bagels for going to Denmark to stop the man-eating monster Grendel from eating all the Danishes."
- Dr. Mark Sundaram, The Endless Knot: Word History Connections: "Loaf" (2015)
I'm Hiding In Your Closet |
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"There is nothing which can better deserve our patronage than the promotion of science and literature. Knowledge is in every country the surest basis of public happiness."
- George Washington
“It is always better to have no ideas than false ones; to believe nothing, than to believe what is wrong.”
- Thomas Jefferson
“Give me six hours to chop down a tree and I will spend the first four sharpening the axe.”
- Abraham Lincoln
"No people is wholly civilized where a distinction is drawn between stealing an office and stealing a purse."
- Theodore Roosevelt
“If two men agree on everything, you may be sure that one of them is doing the thinking.”
- Lyndon Baines Johnson
David M Mallon |
"So, if we think back now on our starting point of the Tom Collins [cocktail], we might be reminded of the expression "tom fool" or "tomfoolery," "Tom" being an everyman name, as in "Tom, Dick, and Harry," which may lead us to the final moral of this "hairy dog story" (a "fool's errand," you might say): that on April Fool's Day, instead of playing a prank on a friend, make them a Tom Collins, and don't be a dick."
- Dr. Mark Sundaram, The Endless Knot: Cocktail Word History Connections: "Tom Collins" (2016)
David M Mallon |
Ranger Brad (Dan Conroy): "Say, you don't believe those old legends about the Lost Skeleton of Cadavra, do you?"
Dr. Roger Fleming (Brian Howe): "Ranger Brad, I'm a scientist. I don't believe in anything."
- The Lost Skeleton of Cadavra (2001)
David M Mallon |
“Tell me, Bronn. If I told you to kill a babe . . . an infant girl, say, still at her mother’s breast . . . would you do it? Without question?”
“Without question? No.” The sellsword rubbed thumb and forefinger together. “I'd ask how much.”
- conversation between Tyrion Lannister and the mercenary Bronn, A Clash of Kings (1999), by George R.R. Martin
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"April Fool's Day is to comedy what St. Patrick's Day is to Irish culture. That is to say, it is a mockery of the very concept that usually ends in a fistfight. ... Not to mention, we don't need a special holiday to disappoint our loved ones. We do that enough on every other holiday by accident."
- John Oliver
sipam |
Recently, I looked at my analytical essay outline and used there one quote:
The ability to analyze should not be confused with simple ingenuity, for the analyst is always inventive, whereas not every inventive person is capable of analysis.
I think these are excellent words that show how important it is to be able to analyze many processes around and give them a certain assessment.
I'm Hiding In Your Closet |
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“A person of good intelligence and of sensitivity cannot exist in this society very long without having some anger about the inequality - and it's not just a bleeding-heart, knee-jerk, liberal kind of a thing - it is just a normal human reaction to a nonsensical set of values where we have cinnamon flavored dental floss and there are people sleeping in the street.”
- George Carlin