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Inspired by this Yvette Fielding quote in the 'Almost Haunted' critique thread...

"Are you male or female? Knock once for yes and twice for no"

...I thought I'd add one I read on the front cover of Record Collector magazine today.

"I don't just want to fanny around warming my hands on my own legend" - Robert Plant, Led Zepplin

Classic! :D

Any others?

I didn't get where I am today without learning how to compromise!

Education is too dangerous for the ignorant. Margaret Thatcher

"You have enemies? Good. That means you've stood up for something, sometime in your life." - Winston Churchill

LOL. Gotta love those cheeky northerners!

Youth is wasted on the young.

"Truth, justice and morality are never bedfellows with socialists and multiculturalists."

Quote: Aaron @ June 4 2008, 8:16 PM BST

"Truth, justice and morality are never bedfellows with socialists and multiculturalists."

I Googled that, to see who said it. The second link is to here, did you make it up Aaron?

Plus it's not true.

I think it's all songs. I think we each get a CD, three score minutes and ten. And some of the songs are short, and some are long. Some of them have a big f**king beat. Some of the break your heart. At the end of seventy minutes you get what you get. We'd all like to make Murmur, but maybe that isn't whats given to you. Maybe you have to make, I don't know, German Industrial Metal. You don't always get to choose. But the thing is, you should never leave dead space. Fill up every f**king minute with music.

Lifted from Sean Stewart's Firecracker. I actually underlined this in the book because I thought it was so brilliant.

Quote: PhQnix @ June 4 2008, 9:17 PM BST

I Googled that, to see who said it. The second link is to here, did you make it up Aaron?

No, I did not.

Quote: Aaron @ June 4 2008, 9:19 PM BST

No, I did not.

Any idea who did?

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so much depends
upon

a red wheel
barrow

glazed with rain
water

beside the white
chickens.
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~ WIlliam Carlos Williams

That is perfect poetry.

Quote: PhQnix @ June 4 2008, 9:23 PM BST

Any idea who did?

Nope. Heard it somewhere a couple of years ago and nicked it. Didn't note who said/wrote it.

Quote: PhQnix @ June 4 2008, 9:23 PM BST

That is perfect poetry.

No, it's just crap!

Quote: Aaron @ June 4 2008, 9:30 PM BST

No, it's just crap!

Nope. You're wrong. That's everything that is right about poetry. Simple, to the point, beautiful imagery but it's still layered. There's more meaning there if you want to find it. However, you can take it at face value if you want as it is a beautiful image. Besides poetry is ridiculously subjective. That poem resonates with me far more than most poems. If you don't like a poem it's your small loss, no one else's.

Then you're wrong as well. If poetry is subjective, then no opinion is correct. (No opinion is incorrect either, of course.) :P

Quote: Aaron @ June 4 2008, 9:57 PM BST

Then you're wrong as well. If poetry is subjective, then no opinion is correct. (No opinion is incorrect either, of course.) :P

Yep. Totally true.

Back to the quotes:

Among those whom I like or admire, I can find no common denominator, but among those whom I love, I can: all of them make me laugh.
~ W. H. Auden

Particularly fitting for fans of comedy, I think.

"I wouldn't want to join a club that would have someone like me as a member."

Groucho Marx.

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