Quotes of the day from previous years:
- 2003
- As for the future, your task is not to forsee it, but to enable it. ~Antoine de Saint-Exupery
- 2004
- Men never do evil so completely and cheerfully as when they do it from religious conviction. ~Blaise Pascal
- 2005
- Between grief and nothing I will take grief. ~William Faulkner (born 25 September 1897)
- 2006
- No battle is ever won... They are not even fought. The field only reveals to man his own folly and despair, and victory is an illusion of philosophers and fools. ~William Faulkner
- 2007
- We live in a time when the words impossible and unsolvable are no longer part of the scientific community's vocabulary. Each day we move closer to trials that will not just minimize the symptoms of disease and injury but eliminate them. ~Christopher Reeve (born 25 September 1952)
- 2008
- The poet's voice need not merely be the record of man, it can be one of the props, the pillars to help him endure and prevail. ~William Faulkner (date of birth)
- 2009
- The aim of every artist is to arrest motion, which is life, by artificial means and hold it fixed so that a hundred years later, when a stranger looks at it, it moves again since it is life. Since man is mortal, the only immortality possible for him is to leave something behind him that is immortal since it will always move. This is the artist's way of scribbling "Kilroy was here" on the wall of the final and irrevocable oblivion through which he must someday pass. ~William Faulkner
- 2010
- No one is without Christianity, if we agree on what we mean by that word. It is every individual’s individual code of behavior by means of which he makes himself a better human being than his nature wants to be, if he followed his nature only. Whatever its symbol — cross or crescent or whatever — that symbol is man’s reminder of his duty inside the human race. ~William Faulkner
- 2011
- The artist doesn't have time to listen to the critics. The ones who want to be writers read the reviews, the ones who want to write don't have the time to read reviews. ~William Faulkner
- 2012
| When the firstSuperman movie came out, I gave dozens of interviews to promote it. The most frequent question was: What is ahero? My answer was that a hero is someone who commits acourageous action without considering the consequences. Now my definition is completely different. I think a hero is an ordinaryindividual who finds thestrength topersevere and endure in spite of overwhelming obstacles. They are the real heroes, and so are thefamilies andfriends who have stood by them. |
| ~Christopher Reeve ~ |
- 2013
| Ibelieve that the justification ofart is the internalcombustion it ignites in thehearts of men and not its shallow, externalized, public manifestations. Thepurpose of art is not the release of a momentary ejection of adrenalin but is, rather, the gradual, lifelong construction of a state ofwonder andserenity. |
| ~Glenn Gould ~ |
- 2014
- 2015
- 2016
| I decline toaccept theend ofman. It is easy enough to say that man isimmortal because he will endure: that when the last ding-dong ofdoom has clanged and faded from the last worthless rock hanging tideless in the last red and dying evening, that even then there will still be one moresound: that of his puny inexhaustiblevoice, stilltalking. I refuse to accept this. Ibelieve that man will not merely endure: he willprevail. He is immortal, not because he alone among creatures has an inexhaustible voice, but because he has asoul, aspirit capable ofcompassion and sacrifice and endurance. Thepoet's, thewriter's,duty is to write about these things. It is his privilege tohelp man endure by lifting hisheart, by reminding him of thecourage andhonor andhope andpride and compassion andpity and sacrifice which have been theglory of his past. The poet's voice need not merely be the record of man, it can be one of the props, the pillars to help him endure and prevail. |
| ~William Faulkner ~ |
- 2017
- 2018
- 2019
- proposed byKalki, in regard to the recent historically significant announcement of investigations of an officialimpeachment inquiry againstDonald J. Trump.
- 2020
| Poets are almost alwayswrong aboutfacts. That's because they are not really interested in facts: only intruth: which is why the truth theyspeak is so true that even those whohate poets by simple and naturalinstinct are exalted and terrified by it. |
| ~William Faulkner ~ |
- 2021
| Alwaysdream and shoot higher thanyou know you can do. Don't bother just to be better than your contemporaries or predecessors. Try to be better than yourself. |
| ~William Faulkner ~ |
- 2022
- 2023
- 2024
| Never be afraid to raise yourvoice forhonesty andtruth andcompassion, againstinjustice andlying andgreed. If you, not just you in this room tonight, but in all the thousands of other rooms like this one about theworld today and tomorrow and next week, will do this … as individuals,men andwomen, you willchange theearth; in one generation all theNapoleons andHitlers andCaesars andMussolinis andStalins and all the othertyrants who wantpower and aggrandizement, and the simplepoliticians and time-servers who themselves are merely baffled orignorant or afraid, who have used, or are using, or hope to use, man’sfear and greed for man’senslavement, will have vanished from the face of it. |
| ~William Faulkner ~ |
- 2025
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A painting is not about an experience. It is an experience. ~Mark Rothko
- 2Zarbon 04:25, 10 June 2008 (UTC)
- 2Kalki 23:20, 24 September 2008 (UTC)
- 2InvisibleSun 23:43, 24 September 2008 (UTC)
- 3N6n 16:13, 9 September 2010 (UTC)
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Kids are a great excuse for you to stop acting like one. ~Michael Madsen
Everything is perfect about the past, except how it led to the present. ~Homer Simpson
- Spannerjam (talk) 07:07, 24 September 2015 (UTC)
- 1♞☤☮♌︎Kalki⚚⚓︎⊙☳☶⚡ 23:10, 24 September 2015 (UTC) I actually like the quote, but this has no clear relation to the date.
| Our tragedy today is a general and universal physical fear so long sustained by now that we can even bear it. There are no longer problems of the spirit. There is only the question: When will I be blown up? Because of this, the young man or woman writing today has forgotten the problems of the human heart in conflict with itself which alone can make good writing because only that is worth writing about, worth the agony and the sweat. He must learn them again |
| ~William Faulkner ~ |
| Sin and love and fear are just sounds that people who never sinned nor loved nor feared have for what they never had and cannot have until they forget the words. |
| ~William Faulkner ~ |
| Sometimes I think it aint none of us pure crazy and aint none of us pure sane until the balance of us talks him that-a-way. It's like it aint so much what a fellow does, but it's the way the majority of folks is looking at him when he does it. |
| ~William Faulkner ~ |
| A monotonous life, lived without any purpose or direction, is not worth much. To achieve anything big in life, you should be prepared to risk your all and take a leap of faith for whatever they believed in. |
| ~Deendayal Upadhyaya ~ |
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| So many of our dreams at first seem impossible, then they seem improbable, and then, when we summon the will, they soon become inevitable. |
| ~Christopher Reeve ~ |
| It is my ambition to be, as a private individual, abolished and voided from history, leaving it markless, no refuse save the printed books; I wish I had enough sense to see ahead thirty years ago, and like some of the Elizabethans, not signed them. It is my aim, and every effort bent, that the sum and history of my life, which in the same sentence is my obit and epitaph too, shall be them both: He made the books and he died. |
| ~William Faulkner ~ |
Maybe the silver lining from this is we found one thing we can agree on, and maybe we'll even find another one. Maybe we can get a little bit closer together. We do agree on a lot of things. We agree on keeping our children safe from guns, on reproductive rights for women,Social Security, affordable health care, pediatric cancer research. These are all things that most Americans support. Let's stop letting these politicians tell us what they want and tell them what we want.
There was a moment over the weekend, a very beautiful moment. I don't know if you saw this on Sunday.Erika Kirk forgave the man who shot her husband. She forgave him. That is an example we should follow. If you believe in the teachings ofJesus as I do, there it was. That's, that's it. A selfless act ofgrace,forgiveness from agrieving widow. It touched me deeply, and I hope it touches many, and if there's anything we should take from this tragedy to carry forward, I hope it can be that and not this. |
| ~Jimmy Kimmel ~ |
