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Post by okayiamfinewthat on Jan 3, 2006 1:07:54 GMT -6
I never worry about diets. The only carrots that interest me are the number you get in a diamond. Mae West I don't like diamonds but i hate carrots
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Post by Phalon on Jan 4, 2006 0:10:01 GMT -6
One more from Mae...
"You can say what you like about long dresses, but they cover a multitude of shins."
Would love to hear some of your favorite movie quotes, Siren; I bet you have a lot.
Who was that other tartly lady, (is that an oxymoron?)....the one who got her scarf caught in her lover's car door and was dragged to her death? Maybe not a movie star, but a socialite? Can't think of her name. Dang.
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Post by Gabbin on Jan 5, 2006 23:47:06 GMT -6
Oh, man, the dancer....Isadora Duncan. Danced in between the columns.
These quotes are great; they always make me smile.
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Post by Phalon on Jan 6, 2006 11:46:19 GMT -6
Oh yes...Isadora the Explorer of Things Scandelous Duncan Hines Sight is Always Twenty/Twenty - another of those sorrow filled lives filled such as that of Virgin Wool's.
"My motto - sans limites." Isadora Duncan
Shame the length of her scarf was not limitless; such a tragic end.
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Post by lolapunk on Jan 6, 2006 18:35:17 GMT -6
Sad story indeed, that of Isadora.
Just in time for the playoffs...
"Winning isn't everything. It's the only thing." Vince Lombardi
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Post by Siren on Jan 9, 2006 21:56:40 GMT -6
People say that you're going the wrong way, when it's simply a way of your own. ~Angelina Jolie
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Post by Phalon on Jan 12, 2006 0:02:38 GMT -6
Just because the subject of horseplay came up in another thread, which brought to mind Catherine, Empress of Russia.
"A great wind is blowing, and that gives you either imagination or a headache.” ~ Catherine the Great
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Post by Siren on Jan 12, 2006 21:53:17 GMT -6
"horseplay" - lol!
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Post by Siren on Jan 14, 2006 23:40:56 GMT -6
I can go from brilliant to stupid in a very short amount of time. ~Willie Nelson
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Post by Phalon on Jan 15, 2006 0:00:24 GMT -6
Hey, I do that every time I open my mouth. Or type a word. Or wake up in the morning.
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Post by Siren on Jan 17, 2006 20:01:31 GMT -6
Time you enjoy wasting, was not wasted. ~John Lennon
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Post by Phalon on Jan 18, 2006 0:43:58 GMT -6
Oooo, I like that one, Siren. Here's another I like along the same lines...
"To live is so startling it leaves little time for anything else." ~ Emily Dickenson
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Post by Siren on Jan 19, 2006 0:38:39 GMT -6
"startling" - what a great word to choose. Thanks, Gams.
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Post by Gabbin on Jan 20, 2006 0:16:56 GMT -6
I need some more Jane Austen or Virgin Wool, Gams. Is there a place I can get it online? I am lazy, yes.
I just remembered that I really enjoy the ditties from Oscar Wilde.
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Post by Scrappy Amazon on Jan 20, 2006 0:30:30 GMT -6
In examinations the foolish ask questions that the wise cannot answer. Oscar Wilde
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Post by Phalon on Jan 20, 2006 9:37:38 GMT -6
I've never read Oscar Wilde; maybe I should. Interesting quote there, Scrappy. Gabbin - Jane's quotes I get from my book of Jane quotes, (eye roll). Virginia's and others, I just do a 30-second Internet drill. One site I keep going back to though, is en.thinkexist.com/quotesThen just type a back-slash at the end, and add a name, or subject. And since I just had to to a drill to find that web-site, here's another from Virgin.... "You cannot find peace by avoiding life." ~ Virginia Woolfe
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Post by Gabbin on Jan 21, 2006 4:13:06 GMT -6
Ouch, Virgin. She hit it right on the head. I think that just about sums it up for me. Alright, let me go see about Oscar and then, when I find a quote of his I shall have to figure out who the Oscar goes to-quote-wise.
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Post by Gabbin on Jan 21, 2006 4:20:30 GMT -6
Okay, Oscar quotes I remember are not really good for here. Huh. OH well. I remember writing a term paper on him. Such and interesting guy.
La la la.
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Post by Gabbin on Jan 21, 2006 4:26:07 GMT -6
I had some pop-up come off of that quote site, Gams. That reminds me that unlike some with porn pop-ups and spam, I have these stock quote spams which drive me nuts. How embarrassing and boring is that? Stock spam.
I am not doing well in quotes.
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Post by Phalon on Jan 22, 2006 0:36:18 GMT -6
Pop-ups on that site? I never noticed. Probably becuase I'm too busy being annoyed at that stupid pop-up blocker pop-up that pops up everything I get a pop-up.
A bit down, Gabbin? You are sounding so. I shall have to call and read from the Book of Jane.
Just make up your own quotes, Gabbin. Not doing well with quotes? Quote yourself as a cover up.
"Strike a seductive pose laying across the table as a perfect cover up." ~ Gabbin
Of course, I'm paraphrasing there, but it's a quote I've never forgotten.
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Post by Siren on Jan 23, 2006 21:12:20 GMT -6
LOL! That's quite a quote there, lil Gaggie. And quite a mental picture!
I try to believe like I believed when I was five... when your heart tells you everything you need to know. ~Lucy Liu
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Post by Siren on Jan 25, 2006 16:08:35 GMT -6
"I don't look my age, so why should I act it?" ~country star Dottie West, about posing for the men's magazine "Oui" at age 50
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Post by Phalon on Jan 25, 2006 22:26:39 GMT -6
Age 50! Wow! Go Dottie.
Got this from another site...
"Two British writers of note—born eight years apart—share a birthday today: W. Somerset Maugham was born on this date in 1874, and Virginia Woolf in 1882. We'll celebrate their birthdays by taking a page from past programs and presenting a few of their lines. Your job is to decide which writer belongs with which quotation. We begin with some words about men and women. Was it the male Maugham or the woman Woolf who wrote,
"A woman can forgive a man for the harm he does her, but she can never forgive him for the sacrifices he makes on her account."
That observation came from Maugham, while it was Woolf who wondered, "Why are women so much more interesting to men than men are to women?"
Now let's turn to freedom. Was it Woolf or Maugham who cautioned:
"To enjoy freedom, we have to control ourselves."
Those words came from Woolf. Maugham mused: "There are two good things in life: freedom of thought and freedom of action."
Finally, was it Maugham or Woolf who wrote,
"It is not wealth one asks for, but just enough to preserve one's dignity, to work unhampered, to be generous, frank, and independent."
Those words came from Somerset Maugham; Virginia Woolf was looking for a room of her own."
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Post by Siren on Jan 30, 2006 20:19:02 GMT -6
"A woman can forgive a man for the harm he does her, but she can never forgive him for the sacrifices he makes on her account."
Hmmmm..what do you think he meant by that, Gams?
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Post by Phalon on Jan 30, 2006 23:04:10 GMT -6
I don't know, Siren. At first glance, it sounds kind of sexist, doesn't it.
Perhaps he means that, being the forgiving beings we are, that we can forgive some wrong committed against us. But a sacrifice - something done for us instead of us having the opportunity to do for ourselves; the chance to find our own way - that is unforgivable.
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Post by Gabbin on Jan 31, 2006 12:58:58 GMT -6
Well, if a guy beats a woman up she will forgive him but, if he gets himself killed on her account (ala duel) she will think him a dufus.
Aren't I upbeat? Throw me another.....
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Post by Scrappy Amazon on Feb 1, 2006 20:55:14 GMT -6
"You must work--- we must all work to make the world worthy of its children." -- Pablo Casals
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Post by Siren on Feb 2, 2006 19:43:32 GMT -6
I don't know, Siren. At first glance, it sounds kind of sexist, doesn't it. Perhaps he means that, being the forgiving beings we are, that we can forgive some wrong committed against us. But a sacrifice - something done for us instead of us having the opportunity to do for ourselves; the chance to find our own way - that is unforgivable. I think we thought of it in similar ways, Gams. I thought of it, at first, from the perspective of a woman who can't support herself financially, and has to depend on a man. She resents him for that, even as she depends on it, and is bothered by being indebted. "dufus" - good word, Gaggie. Interesting stuff, Scrap.
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Post by Phalon on Feb 7, 2006 7:46:42 GMT -6
"Argh!!!" ~ Phalon
Day two of Hubs being home sick with the flu. Need there be any further explanation?
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Post by Scrappy Amazon on Feb 7, 2006 8:26:15 GMT -6
ooooh...bummer.
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