Quotes
"Trust me Clara, Vere de Vere, From yon blue heavens 'bove us bent; The Gardener Adam and his wife smile At your claims of long descent. Howe'er it be it seems to me 'Tis only noble to be good; Kind hearts are more than coronets; Simple faith than Norman blood." Lord Alfred Tennyson from Clara Vere de Vere
A Judge was once harnged by the then barrister F E Smith (later to be Lord Birkenhead). He asked F E "What do you suppose I am on the bench for Mr Smith" F E replied "It is not for me, your honour, to attempt to fathom the inscrutable workings of Providence."
"C'est vrai que ces temps-ci j'ai beaucoup maigri je le vois dans les yeux des femmes et dans ceux des amis c'est pas que je soi malade mais je mange presque pas la nourriture en boîte d'ou vient-elle je ne sais pas..." [It's true that these days I've grown very thin I see it in the eyes of ladies and those of friends it's not that I'm ill but I eat almost nothing food in tins where it comes from I do not know...] From "Je Descends Le Bar" from "Kingston Karma" by Pierpoljak "I don't mind kissing Stalin's bum, but I'm damned if I'll lick his arse." Winston Churchill "Dear Christ! The very prison walls Suddenly seemed to reel, And the sky above my head became like a casque of scorching steel; And, though I was a soul in pain, My pain I could not feel" Oscar Wilde from "The Ballad of Reading Gaol"
""Haw Haw Haw" I don't hear anyone else f***ing laughing. It's just shouting." Jesus look-alike from no 31 Bus (Friday 9/2/01)
"Lap me in soft Lydian airs
Married to immortal verse,
Such as the meeting soul my pierce
In notes, with many a winding bout
Of linkèd sweetness long drawn out..."
John Milton from "L'allegro"
"Yes that's right a Ford Cortina was a type of horse." Mr Gray
"This is Preservation Month. I appreciate preservation. It's
what you do when you run for president. You gotta preserve."
George Bush speaking during Perseverance Month. As quoted in the Los
Angeles Times, Jan. 28, 2000
"But the best I've known,
Stays here, and changes, breaks, grows old, is blown
About the winds of the world, and fades from brains
Of living men, and dies.
Nothing remains.
O dear my loves, O faithless, once again
This one last gift I give: that after men
Shall know, and later lovers far-removed
Praise you, "All these were lovely" say, "He loved.""
From "The Great Lover" by Rupert Brooke
"Full fathom five thy father lies;
Of his bones are coral made;
Those are pearls that were his eyes:
Nothing of him that doth fade
But doth suffer a sea-change
Into something rich and strange"
"The Tempest" Act 1 scene II. Shakespeare.
"And in the naked light I saw
Ten thousand people maybe more
People talking without speaking
People speaking without listening
People writing songs voices would never share...
And the sign flashed its warning
And the words that was forming
Said that the words of the prophet
Are written on the subway walls
And in tenement halls
And whispered in the sound of silence"
Simon and Garfunkel from the "Sound of Silence"
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