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Post by Phalon on Dec 4, 2005 9:26:58 GMT -6
A quote of the day thread; I thought it'd be nice.
First one is for Gabbin, because she needs her Jane fix, and asked so nicely.
This is so you and I, Gabbin, at times. I couldn't resist.
"I do not know what is the matter with me today, but I can not write quietly; I am always wandering away into some exclamation or other. Fortunately I have nothing very particular to say." Jane Austen
I like Jane; not only had she a biting wit, she knows the importance of a good semi-colon.
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Post by Gabbin on Dec 5, 2005 0:30:45 GMT -6
That is a great quote. Sigh. What a gal, that Jane. I wish she had written more, but, she was writing on the sly. I think she stole or, shall I say creatively borrowed paper to write on; then she hid her writings away. We are so lucky to have her writings; a miracle.
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Post by Forever Xena on Dec 5, 2005 2:41:24 GMT -6
I like this quote ! very apt I think for todays way of thinking
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Post by Phalon on Dec 6, 2005 9:16:50 GMT -6
Oooo, a good one, Forever Xena, (and a happy Belated Birthay to you). Along those same lines....
"Not everything that is faced can be changed, but nothing can be changed until it is faced."
James Baldwin
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Post by Phalon on Dec 7, 2005 8:16:22 GMT -6
As I get ready to head out the door with my cross-country skis....
There is a privacy about it which no other season gives you.... In spring, summer and fall people sort of have an open season on each other; only in the winter, in the country, can you have longer, quiet stretches when you can savor belonging to yourself. ~Ruth Stout
Gotta go savor the quiet.
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Post by Phalon on Dec 9, 2005 9:43:39 GMT -6
"There is little that is as pitiful as watching a child run to the window to gaze at the mountains of snow fallen overnight, and then flip on the television only to confiirm what the parent already knew: Every school in a fifty mile radius has been cancelled...except theirs."
Phalon
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Post by Joxcenia on Dec 9, 2005 16:50:11 GMT -6
Awwww.... Poor baby...
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Post by Siren on Dec 10, 2005 23:43:06 GMT -6
I love that quote, Gams. I loved walking our pasture after a snow when I as a kid. Out in the country, the quiet after a snow is wonderful. The best part was following a rabbit's trail in the snow - little triangles of dots he left behind. My mom saved her potato peels and wilted lettuce leaves for the wild rabbits. We'd place them under shelter bushes, and scatter seed for the wild birds. If there was enough snow, we made snow ice cream. Oooo, that sounds so good! What a special treat that was.
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Post by Gabbin on Dec 11, 2005 9:18:06 GMT -6
Jane, Jane, Jane.
He who makes haste makes waste. I am making a lot of haste but not waste this Holidaze season.
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Post by Phalon on Dec 11, 2005 14:35:58 GMT -6
Siren, I saw bunny tracks this morning while x-country skiing. I was the first one out; no tracks in the new fallen overnight snow except the animals'. Bunny tracks back and forth all over the trail....and amongst them other tracks too. Coyote? Dog? Something canine. More of a straight line than the weaving rabbit tracks, but definitely following them. I wonder who won the race. I'm pulling for the bunny.
"Jane, Jane, Jane". Is that a chant of some kind, Gabbin? Chantilly Lace up my boots; it's winter and it's very chantchilly outside.
And in keeping with the content of my above couple of paragraphs, here's another fitting quote from Jane Austen:
"Which of my all important nothings should I tell you first?"
Such decisions.
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Post by Phalon on Dec 13, 2005 7:13:25 GMT -6
This holiday season, with all its cookies, candies, and gatherings filled with family, friends and spreads of food, food, food, it'd be well to remember the following advice from Virginia.
"One cannot think well, love well, sleep well, if one has not dined well." ~ Virginia Woolf
Eat and enjoy; worry about the consequences later.
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Post by Scrappy Amazon on Dec 13, 2005 8:49:48 GMT -6
I am in full agreement with that. Thanks Madam Phalon!
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Post by Phalon on Dec 14, 2005 22:47:45 GMT -6
From one of my favorite holiday stories...
"I will honour Christmas in my heart, and try to keep it all the year. I will live in the Past, the Present, and the Future. The Spirits of all Three shall strive within me. I will not shut out the lessons that they teach...."
Ebeneezer Scrooge in Charles Dickens' A Christmas Carol
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Post by Phalon on Dec 15, 2005 23:37:54 GMT -6
"The older one grows, the more one likes indecency."
Virginia Woolf
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Post by Scrappy Amazon on Dec 15, 2005 23:38:42 GMT -6
LMAO!!!!
AMEN!!
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Post by Phalon on Dec 17, 2005 9:21:20 GMT -6
Why a man should always, and at all costs, avoid the question, "Does this make my butt look big?" Or at least turn the other way when answering....
"A woman questions the man who loves exactly as a judge questions a criminal. This being so, a flash of the eye, a mere word, an inflection of the voice or a moment's hesitation suffice to expose the fact, betrayal or crime he is attempting to conceal."
Honore de Balzac
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Post by Siren on Dec 17, 2005 11:26:43 GMT -6
Lol! Good stuff, Gams. ~Siren
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Post by Gabbin on Dec 17, 2005 16:12:50 GMT -6
Luv the Virgin Wool quotes. Do you have a book of quotes of hers? They are very inciteful.
Thanks, Gams
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Post by Phalon on Dec 17, 2005 23:47:12 GMT -6
No book of quotes for Virginia, Gabbin, though it'd be cool. I like comparing Virginia with Jane. Both have that sarcastic wit; Virginia's more subtle; Jane's slaps ya right in the face.
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Post by Gabbin on Dec 19, 2005 1:40:07 GMT -6
Really. Huh, I would have thought the other way around. Yes, I suppose so. Virgin is long winded, in a way. She takes her time getting to a point. She seems to want to be perfectly clear about her unclear images. The punctuation is fantastic. I love those long sentences.
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Post by okayiamfinewthat on Dec 20, 2005 0:16:52 GMT -6
" oh bother--I am out of honey" pooh bear
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Post by Phalon on Dec 24, 2005 13:15:13 GMT -6
"All that we see or seem, is but a dream within a dream."
Edgar Allan Poe
Ok, you know who you are; that was just too cool! LMAO! He shall keep watch over my desk in morbid rumination forevermore!
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Post by Phalon on Dec 27, 2005 0:58:30 GMT -6
Been thinking about the similarities and differences between Jane and Virginia. Both British authors, living about one hundred years apart; Jane from 1775 to 1817, and Virgina from 1882 to 1941, they were both feminists. Both outspoken for their day, both sarcastic, both witty, and both wrote of the power of women in a time when such a thing was considered something to be 'shushed' - women were to be seen and not heard...at least not heard with any intelligence.
Jane paid to have her first novel, Sense and Sensibility, (or was it Pride and Prejudice? Getting my alliteration mixed up, perhaps), published. Virginia had her famous "Bloomsbury Group".
Jane wrote almost exclusively about dating and marriage, while never having been married herself, while Virginia's writing was darker - it seems so to me anyway; her life definitely was - and granted I have not read much of either; snippets here and there and a few short stories.
Just love what I've read though, and here are just a few comparisons...and of course, I'm tacking my own meaning onto them...
On gossip and talking behind one's back....
"If you do not tell the truth about yourself, you can not tell it about other people." Virginia Woolf
"Abuse everybody but me." Jane Austen
On bad writing...
"Literature is strewn with the wreckage of those who have minded beyond reason the opinions of others." Virginia Woolf
"I hope when you have written a great deal more you will be equal to scratching out some of the past." Jane Austen
On knowing when you've had enough of someone's company...
"I have lost friends, some by death....others through sheer inability to cross the street." Virginia Woolf
"I do not want people to be very agreeable, as it saves me the trouble of liking them a great deal." Jane Austen
And one more from Jane, because I like it.
Jane - on the importance of foreplay...
"The power of doing anything with quickness is always much prized by the possessor, and often without any attention to the imperfection of the performance." Jane Austen
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Post by okayiamfinewthat on Dec 28, 2005 0:55:23 GMT -6
" if you look for the bad in people be prepared to find it" abe lincoln
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Post by Phalon on Dec 31, 2005 11:18:20 GMT -6
Some quotes as the old year gives way to the new...and of course, I had to throw in my own opinions...
Screw the resolutions! I can now continue on as I have, with the knowledge that I am a wise, wise woman with much experience on my side. (which, by the way, has nothing to do with age... Year's end is neither an end nor a beginning but a going on, with all the wisdom that experience can instill in us. ~Hal Borland
And it goes without saying, I am perpetually young...
But can one still make resolutions when one is over forty? I live according to twenty-year-old habits. ~Andre Gide
And all these years I thought it was my irresistible charm and inner beauty….BOLL…cuz, god knows it’s not my cooking...
The proper behavior all through the holiday season is to be drunk. This drunkenness culminates on New Year's Eve, when you get so drunk you kiss the person you're married to. ~P.J. O'Rourke
One of the many reasons I am glad I don’t drink much….and am married, of course....
New Year's Eve, where auld acquaintance be forgot. Unless, of course, those tests come back positive. ~Jay Leno
One of the many reasons some of my friends consider me a heathen...
New Year's Day: Now is the accepted time to make your regular annual good resolutions. Next week you can begin paving hell with them as usual. ~Mark Twain
It's the Christmas cookies that always get the undeserved bad reputation....
People are so worried about what they eat between Christmas and the New Year, but they really should be worried about what they eat between the New Year and Christmas. ~Author Unknown
One more reason not to clean house - you never know how potentially inspirational your dust bunnies can be... We spend January 1 walking through our lives, room by room, drawing up a list of work to be done, cracks to be patched. Maybe this year, to balance the list, we ought to walk through the rooms of our lives... not looking for flaws, but for potential. ~Ellen Goodman
Happy New Year. Be safe. Take care. And Celebrate well.
Cheers!
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Post by Gabbin on Dec 31, 2005 12:14:16 GMT -6
Oh, man, those quotes make me laugh. I don't know about the famous Bloomsbery group. That sly Virgin. Well, I read her diaries and now that my sweater knitting is done I shall read more or ....well, any and all books. Virginia had a mental illness. I don't remember all about it. I think it was a family thing. Oh, yes, terrible migrains; debillitating (how is that spelled?); enough to drive one to suicide.
I didn't know that Jane was a bachelorette. I need to catch up on my author news. I am hoping to go see Pride and Prejudice, though. I have seem many of the Jane-based films.
Okay, I was in a bathroom yesterday and read this quote painted neatly near the ceiling;
"When it comes to the choosing between the two evils, I choose the one I haven't tried yet." Mae West.
I shall have to find more from her. Maybe that is a good avatar one.
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Post by Phalon on Jan 1, 2006 23:17:56 GMT -6
Oh, I like Mae West. Such a tart she was. I had a cook-book once - yes, I've actually held one in my hands, though not long; this one wasn't mine, but bought as a gift for someone requesting a cookbook: The Wild Women's Cookbook. LMAO. I couldn't resist. In it some wild women information along with recipes coresponding with their personalities. I read the information regarding the women without even glancing at the recipes before wrapping it in pretty paper.
Mae was one of the featured wild women, and a quote I remember was...
"It's good to find a hard man."
Did I get that right? It seems right to me.
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Post by Gabbin on Jan 1, 2006 23:25:01 GMT -6
Boll, sounds right. She is easy for me to remember. I like the famous one about her saying something like this;
"I have a tattoo of Christmas on the right thight and Thanksgiving on the left, so come visit me between the holidays."
The other one in the bathroom was something like this;
"Always keep a boyfriend for a rainy day, and one for a day not rainy."
Okay, off on my rounds to post number 3
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Post by Siren on Jan 2, 2006 22:45:44 GMT -6
Another from Mae was, "I was as pure as driven snow. But then I drifted."
Are y'all sure you wanna get me started on movie star quotes? ~Siren
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Post by okayiamfinewthat on Jan 3, 2006 0:33:03 GMT -6
If you don't like something, change it. If you can't change it, change your attitude. Don't complain. Maya Angelou----I to often complain because i don't always know how to change
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