Things I wish I'd said

[fridayam]

Of Charles Sumner (Civil War Senator and abolitionist), one journalist wrote:

"He works his adjectives so hard that if they ever catch him alone they will murder him."

Why isn't journalism as entertaining now?

 

[fridayam]

W.S.Gilbert writing to the Metropolitan Underground Railway Company:

"Sir,

Saturdays, though occuring at regular and well-foreseen intervals, always seem to take your railway by surprise."

 

[Angeline]

I'm gonna go with All you need is love and Give peace a chance.

 

[butters]

how spot on is this? ... considering he's a critter

Now and then it's good to pause in our pursuit of happiness and just be happy.

Guillaume Apollinaire
1880-1918, Italian-born French Poet, Critic

 

[DrewberryLess]

"Old age is no place for sissies." -Bette Davis

 

[real_baby__cici]

There's nothing more dangerous than a resourceful old Irish idiot.

Jim Hollersways
1900-1968, Irish Poet

 

[butters]

the ignore and delete functions are tools of discretion


anonymous

 

[Ldy_Sea]

Simply because the journalists are writing for the mostly uneducated. Most US newspapers are written at a level a 6th grader can read. My step dad used to take the Sunday NY times and highlight every error in grammer and punctuation. You'd be surprised how many he could find. He was a computer programmer born in 1922. They don't make our schools like that anymore.

 

[real_baby__cici]

He's so old that when he orders a three minute egg, they ask for the money up front.

David Cici
1568-1668 Famous French Courtesan

 

[real_baby__cici]

Talk about getting old. I was getting dressed and a peeping tom looked in the window, took a look and pulled down the shade.

David Ole
1568-1668 Famous Gay Lion From Rome

 

[estragon]

Ernest Hemingway on Ezra Pound: "He taught me to distrust adjectives as I would distrust persons in certain situations."

 

[estragon]

Mark Twain Said It

Of Charles Sumner (Civil War Senator and abolitionist), one journalist wrote:

"He works his adjectives so hard that if they ever catch him alone they will murder him."

Why isn't journalism as entertaining now?

"As to the Adjective: when in doubt, strike it out." Pudd'nhead Wilson, Ch. 11.

 

[bogusagain]

"Most people ignore most poetry because most poetry ignores most people."

Adrian Mitchell 1932 - 2008

 

[bogusagain]

"If I decide to be indecisive, that's my decision."

Roger McGough 1937 -

 

[butters]

supercalifragilisticexpialidocious




Mary Poppins

 

[twelveoone]

for....
The computer can't tell you the emotional story. It can give you the exact mathematical design, but what's missing is the eyebrows.
Frank Zappa

for the form nazis
Without deviation progress is not possible.
Frank Zappa

Kerplop
Basho

 

[twelveoone]

Fourby by Frost, 'cause it's still winter
A poem begins as a lump in the throat, a sense of wrong, a homesickness, a lovesickness.
Robert Frost

A poem begins in delight and ends in wisdom.
Robert Frost

A poet never takes notes. You never take notes in a love affair.
Robert Frost

A successful lawsuit is the one worn by a policeman.
Robert Frost

I think that is why we had to import Auden, was Frost didn't want another Pulitzer

Ring for his thumb.

 

[SamScribble]

supercalifragilisticexpialidocious




Mary Poppins

More like something I wish I had written: ‘Super Cally go ballistic, Celtic are atrocious’ – some tabloid sub editor (the Sun, possibly?) a few years back (2003, maybe?) when Inverness Caledonian Thistle did a number on (Glasgow) Celtic

OK, OK, I’m busy. Otherwise I’d look it up for you.

 

[real_baby__cici]

"I feel that all poor illiterate people of color are beneath me, and I feel they should all worship me. That's what I told my kids. I think I must have been Adolf Hitler in a past life." - Professor Bavit

 

[twelveoone]

“The most important thing in art is the frame. For painting: literally; for other arts: figuratively - because, without this humble appliance, you can't know where The Art stops and The Real World begins. You have to put a "box" around it because otherwise, what is that shit on the wall?”

Roger Waters

probably in response
to Kenneth Koch

 

[vrosej10]

It's not God that I hate, it's his fan club. I have no idea who said it but I wish I had.

 

[mynameisben]

"Ninety percent of everything is crap." - Theodore Sturgeon

Of course, I only agree with ten percent of Sturgeon's support for his claim.

 

[EroticOrogeny]

"Everything not forbidden is required" - Murray Gell-Mann

 

[fridayam]

"Everything not forbidden is required" - Murray Gell-Mann

But he stole it from T.H.White in "The Once and Future King" where it is "Everything not forbidden is compulsory"

 

[theognis]

It is my ambition to say in ten sentences what others say in a whole book.

-Friedrich Nietzsche