#thanks wikiquote

[wouldnt-give-a-fig]

"For the simplicity on this side of complexity, I wouldn't give you a fig. But for the simplicity on the other side of complexity, for that I would give you anything I have."

Oliver Wendall Holmes Sr.

[poisonheartfrog]

ID: A screenshot from Secret Life session three of Joel failing his 100 block mlg. Edited on top of the screenshot is a dril tweet that reads "so long suckers! i rev up my motorcylce [sic] and create a huge cloud of smoke. when the cloud dissipates im lying completely dead on the pavement" /end ID

[lucky-clover-gazette]

looking up shopkeeper dialogue from oot for writing reasons and found a page of memorable quotes from the game

[roxannepolice]

I was looking for an exact quote from the Master and...

... thank you, Wikiquote, it took me a moment to remember this is a quote from the actual show directed at rotten politicians, not something the sweetheart John Simm told his fans.

[anamoon63]

TIME TRAVELER: E228. THE SUN CAME OUT LAST NIGHT (SECOND PART FINALE) 4/4

The saucer waited a few moments, spinning in front of Ann, turning its lights on and off. She thought of running to the door, but her feet didn't move from their place, as if the same force that had pulled Robin into the ship had paralyzed her.

Then, with a roar similar to an explosion, the saucer turned into a sort of comet with a blazing, colorful stele.

And flew away rotating at high speed, to lose itself behind the high Aurora Skies mountains.

After that, Velkomin Rd. was left in the most profound silence…

"Oh, Robin, I'm sorry…" Ann whispered, tears still in her eyes. The distant sound of a voice then reached her ears from the backyard.

"Robin? What was that all about? Are you alright? Rob, if you're still there please answer me!"

And I’m gonna be high as a kite by then, I miss the Earth so much; I miss my wife. It’s lonely out in space on such a timeless flight. And I think it’s gonna be a long, long time ’til touchdown brings me ’round again to find I’m not the man they think I am at home. Oh, no, no, no I’m a rocket man, rocket man, burning out his fuse up here alone.

END OF PART TWO: STUCK IN THE PAST

CREDITS AND THANKS 🌸 Ann poses are from Convo/Emotion Poses by bmit04, poses-by-bee (Tumblr site), also, Poses-by-bee (WordPress site). Phone in hand is by Lorandia Sims. (Couldn’t find a link that still works, sorry). Phone on floor is from the Inside My Purse clutter by SIMcredible!

Songs: They, by Jem. (Beginning of the episode). Rocket Man, by Elton John. (End of the Episode).

Title of the episode is inspired by a dialogue from Steven Spielberg’s Close Encounters of the Third Kind: Old Man: ¡El sol salió anoche y me cantó! Translator: He says the sun came out last night. He says it sang to him. [Literally: The sun came out last night and sang to me!] Thanks Wikiquote! 🤗 Thanks as well to Reshade. I’m not an expert yet, but at least it saved me a lot of time editing and enhancing photos. 😊 Some of the final effects, though, were made with Photoscape X photo editor. 😉

And of course my thanks to all the readers who have gotten this far with me and my crazy story. Thank you so much! 💗 See you in 2024 for Part 3: To the Moon and Back, (hopefully) 😊

[vifetoile]

I was today years old when I realized:

“No rest for the wicked”

What I thought it meant: the wicked are not permitted to rest, only the good can rest, and we are all poor sinners so there is no rest for us while we live

A different but valid way to read it: “No rest for the wicked” because malice is always at work in the world, therefore the forces of good must not rest either, but remain vigilant in opposition. In short, evil never sleeps

According to Wikiquote, the original Biblical meaning is more like "Eternal torment in hell awaits sinners," and the comedic interpretation that the wicked must work harder than "normal people," was popularized in the 1930's thanks to a comic called Little Orphan Annie

[staary-eyes]

“If I don’t clash, I don’t change.  The world ends at my borders, and the best moments slip away.”

Congrats TWEWY on ten years!!!!  Ahhh I can’t believe it was about five years since I first played this??  Such a unique use of graphics and fighting style and THE PLOT.  Here’s to hoping for more TWEWY content~

[agonius]

i loved MediaWiki since i was 12 i literally just typed in my oc's name from when i was 12 and i found my wikiquote profile where i put irc quotes and someone on my talk page thanked me for cleaning up the Xiaolin Showdown quotes page. when i was 12

[harrypotterhousequotes]

Friends,

As you surely know from the rules that appear to you on the submissions page, we try really hard* to make sure the quotes we post are as accurately sourced as possible. We thought we’d share with you all some of the resources we use to find quotations! Below, you’ll find a handful of places where you can check to find out if your quote is accurately cited, which are also reliable places we look for quotes ourselves.

First off, check out this resource from the New York Public Library on How to Research a Quotation.

Before you submit a quote, note where the quote came from - not just who said it, but where they said it: In a book? Interview? Diary? In the script they wrote that became a blockbuster film?

Some places work hard to verify the quotations they feature. When looking for interesting quotes to submit, try:

The Library of Congress’s list of quotation dictionaries (some may be paywalled)

Wikiquote / Wikisource (consider signing up for Wikipedia’s daily newsletter, which includes many things including a quote of the day every night)

Quotations by Women

Oxford Dictionary of Quotations (paywalled)

Oxford Essential Quotations (paywalled)

twainquotes.com (only contains Mark Twain quotes, but they are all definitely Mark Twain quotes - note that Twain is very frequently cited wrongly)

Poetry Foundation

Genius Lyrics

The Internet Movie Script Database

Project Gutenberg

Bartleby

Women’s Speeches from around the World

American Rhetoric (full text and audio of thousands of speeches - not just American)

IMDb

You may also find the Quote Investigator blog to be interesting; its author, Garson O’Toole, researches commonly misattributed quotations to trace them back to their earliest known written source.

Where else can you get good quotations? From sources around you! Books, literary magazines, television and movies, plays, speeches, podcasts, interviews...There are more places, but you get the picture. HPHQ has published quotations from all of these types of sources and more. If you aren’t sure how to cite something specific, don’t hesitate to ask us.

Just note that we only post quotations from published sources by Google-able people.

Thank you so much to everyone who sends us quotes; we would not be here without you!

xoxo

Carmen + Fiona

*Disclaimer: some of our older quotes are less well-cited as there was a time when we were not so stringent with our rules.

[terrypratchettappreciation]

Apologies to all who’ve tried to be in touch. Tumblr seems to have been hiding correspondence from me! This includes a request I apparently received some time ago for a proper attribution to a quote. 

Terry’s famously quoted as saying, “English doesn’t borrow from other languages. English follows other languages down dark alleys, knocks them over, and goes through their pockets for loose grammar.”

Which is apparently a paraphrase of the writer James Nicoll:

Please share if you run into the quote yourselves. 

Does anyone happen to know a source for Terry’s version? Not sure if it’s apocryphal... Thanks, all!

[wonderfulworldofmichaelford]

Psycho Analysis: Imhotep

(WARNING! This analysis contains SPOILERS!)

The Mummy movies are a lot of fun. Who could hate a young, charming Brendan Fraser having the time of his life fighting mummies and raiding tombs? Clearly this was a sign of a long, happy, trouble-free career for the man!

Oh, I’ve gone and made myself sad… let’s just cut right to it and talk about Imhotep.

Imhotep is the villain of the first two films of the series, and he really helps set the tone. Things get a lot less funny and a lot more darker whenever he’s on the scene, changing the tone from “fun, goofy Indiana Jones-esque romp” to a more overtly horror tone. This makes sense, seeing as he’s a soul-sucking undead monster based on one of the classic Universal monsters… but that’s really a very surface-level look at Imhotep. You see, unlike Ahmanet, the previous mummy covered on here, Imhotep has a real personality and motivations beyond being a simple villain hellbent on domination. In fact, Imhotep doesn’t want to conquer the world at all. He has a very simple, even sweet goal that makes him instantly relatable and tragic: all he wants is the woman he loves.

Actor: Arnold Vosloo plays Imhotep to perfection. He hits all the right villain notes whenever the scene calls for it: he can be scary, intimidating, badass, hammy, emotional, and even sexy. The last one’s a given when you spend a lot of the movie either shirtless or wearing a revealing robe, you know? I’m guessing one of the reasons the third movie failed so hard is because he wasn’t there to bring his own brand of awesomeness to the table, though I wouldn’t know because I’ve never watched the third film and like to pretend everything in the franchise ended happily after the first two films and there was nothing but Scorpion King spin-offs until the end of time.

Motivation/Goals: Imhotep is such an odd villain. Despite being a very powerful mystical being who could bring the world to its knees if he wished it, Imhotep is motivated solely by love. All he really wants is to be reunited with his lover Anck-Su-Namun, and he goes to great lengths to achieve this goal, lengths that do put him beyond the pale but also add a layer of tragedy to him.

The second film has him awakened by a cult to try and steal a supernatural army from Dwayne “The Scorpion King” Johnson, which ends up leading to him becoming far less sympathetic and a lot more cliche in terms of goals, though the romantic and sympathetic qualities are there still. They’re just now forced to share screentime with character traits that Imhotep didn’t really have in the first film, and while they don’t ruin him by any means and they help play into his ultimate tragedy, it just feels kind of sad they made Imhotep return and use him for a “take over the world” plot when his first outing had him really stand out as a villain in a big-budget action movie that didn’t have such a trite motive.

Personality: Imhotep is a pretty nice and friendly guy, for an ancient mummy. In the first film especially, he’s awful open about his plans to Beni and even keeps his word to him, and just in general he’s rather affable… unless, of course, you get in his way, in which case he will kill you without hesitation. He ends up dropping a lot of his more affable personality in the second film, which does come to bite him in the ass. It’s honestly pretty sad, because all that really ends up making him a villain is the manner in which he goes about his goals. Obviously bringing his loved one back would be a grim affair no matter what, but he goes way too far, with his desire to be with the woman he loves driving him to disturbing lengths to be back with her. In fact, the fact that he is such a loving man really plays into his ultimate tragedy, as he continuously suffers for love and in the end his suffering is rendered moot. Maybe villains who can’t comprehend love are better off after all.

Final Fate: In The Mummy Returns, Imhotep is clinging to a ledge and begs for his lover Anck-Su-Namun to save him. Instead, she flees, and Imhotep sees a similar situation happening with Rick and Evy; it ends exactly as you’d expect a dangerous situation with a protagonist couple to end in a cheesy adventure film. Imhotep looks to them with a look filled with jealousy and respect, and then lets go of the ledge, falling into the underworld. It’s a rather depressing and tragic fate that really highlights that for all the evil he did, Imhotep really only wanted to be with the woman he loved, and after all the pain and suffering he endured trying to make that happen, it ended up being all for nothing. It also ends up being ironic and karmic; throughout the film, he shows a lack of empathy for those serving under him, so it ends up being fitting the only person he cares about genuinely would leave him in his time of need.

Best Scene: Imhotep’s giant sandstorm from the first movie. It has become an iconic signature scene of the trilogy for a reason, after all.

Best Quote: So I didn’t exactly find a great quote from Imhotep himself on Wikiquote (my usual source), but I did find a quote from Arnold Vosloo himself that I think sums up Imhotep quite nicely:

“I’m so thankful that all that stuff made it to the screen, because a lot of the time studio executives say that there’s no time, or ask why we should feel sympathy for this bad guy. I joke that I’m the romantic lead in the movie, I just happened to pick the wrong girl. Imhotep is kind of the tragic villain, I guess, and a lot of people have come up to me and said I was hating you, but then I reach a point when I was feeling sorry for you too. It's those different facets that help explain why this film is such a success."

Final Thoughts & Score: For such a bunch of silly adventure films, they sure did go hard when it came to giving us a fantastic villain. Imhotep is, to be fair, not the most complex character in the world; I think being in a film like The Mummy kind of necessitates you being rather simple. But much like the movies he inhabits, he takes his simple concept and runs with it, elevating it into being something greater.

I love how he’s a villain not motivated by power, greed, or ambition, but a desperate desire to be with the person he loves most. In these sort of Indiana Jones-esque archaeological adventure films, you kind of expect to have the main villain or villains being motivated by greed, or power, or something to that effect, but here those motivations are relegated to side villains and our big bad is simply someone who really wants the girl he lived and died for in his arms again. It adds a layer of tragedy to Imhotep, which is only exacerbated in the sequel and then comes to his ultimate conclusion with his final death.

I think Imhotep really shines where a mummy like Princess Ahmanet ultimately failed: he has a clear, defined personality as well as a more relatable goal than “destroy the world.” As much as I enjoyed Princess Ahmanet from the reboot, my wife was right to point out in her guest spot on Psycho Analysis that her personality boils down to being ambitious and graceful, and not much else. Imhotep, on the other hand, shows a lot of emotion, even to his final look to Rick and Evy, which says so much without a single word being uttered. Ahmanet never really got moments like that, but that’s because she was stuck in a movie with an attention whore like Tom Cruise; Imhotep is in a movie with certified nice guy Brendan Fraser, so of course he’s gonna get his fair share of development.

IMHO Imhotep deserves nothing less than a 9/10. He’s the perfect villain for the cheesy fun of the first two Mummy movies, but he’s also something more, something richer than these movies deserved, and is emblematic of what made those movies so special and beloved: how, despite their flaws, there was just some magic there that allowed the films to rise above their simplistic popcorn action reimaginings of a classic monster movie to become something that even decades after the fact people still love and cherish to this day. The only thing holding him back from a perfect ten is the fact that the second film doesn’t do him quite as much justice; I have to say, the whole “world domination” thing looks better on an ambitious royal like Ahmanet than it does on a tragic romantic like Imhotep. Still, there’s no denying that Imhotep is a cool, fun villain for some cool, fun movies.

[linusquotes]

— paraphrasing Patricia C. Hodgell,  Seeker’s Truth  (not Carl Sagan)

Linus Quotes

EDIT: Linus and I feel like blockheads. Attributing this quote to Sagan can be destroyed by the truth, so it should be: We were unaware that this quote was not, in fact, from Carl Sagan, but from P.C. Hodgell. Thanks for the correction, @pennysquabbles!

Snopes explains: ____________ ...A frequently cited source for the attribution was the social literature site GoodReads, but we couldn’t find the quote in any of his books. Another prominent placement of the phrase involved Sagan’s Wikiquote page, under the “misattributed” section, which observed that the quote was built on a similar phrase in fantasy author P.C. Hodgell’s novel Seeker’s Mask:

That which can be destroyed by the truth, should be.

Hodgell commented on a Reddit page in February 2016, confirming that the quote appeared in her novel, but that she didn’t get it from Sagan:

Hodgell here. “That which can be destroyed by the truth should be” appears in my 1994 novel Seeker’s Mask. I first heard of the Sagan quote in 2013, more or less. No source that I’ve seen dates the latter. If it’s not a case of misattribution, it’s probably a matter of “great minds” etc.

As Hodgell indicated, the quote didn’t appear to exist in the Sagan-attributed form until mid-2013. (Hodgell’s novel appeared in 1994.) The likeliest trajectory is one of the most common for misattributed quotes: the phrase was dormant for nearly two decades, and then reached socially viral status only when a slightly rewritten version was incorrectly attached to a beloved science celebrity.

However, Sagan really did write the following on the topic of truth:

One of the saddest lessons of history is this: If we’ve been bamboozled long enough, we tend to reject any evidence of the bamboozle. We’re no longer interested in finding out the truth. The bamboozle has captured us. It’s simply too painful to acknowledge, even to ourselves, that we’ve been taken. Once you give a charlatan power over you, you almost never get it back.

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[incorrectborhapquotes]

i'm thinking of starting an incorrect quotes blog and yours it's my favorite!. What's your advice on running one?

First of all, thank you so much! 

I’d say wikiquote is your go-to, but so is searching the “source: tv show/movie” you like. And keep a document on your computer or note on your phone to store your ideas. And the “tag bundle” function of XKit is your best friend. Also don’t overtag, it might give you exposure but people hate to find a non-roger post in the Roger Taylor tag, rightfully so. 

send me random questions - your girl is stressed about college

[mynerdylockscreens]

Hi! I wanted to say first that I absolutely love your blog, and I am so happy to have found it! My favorite wallpapers have been made by you, so thank you so much! I was hoping it wouldn't be too much of a bother if I could ask for some quote lockscreens of the artes from tales of vesperia? They sound super cool and there is a wikiquote page with all of them. Thank you for your consideration, and I hope you have a beautiful day ~T

some arte quote for the main characters from tales of vesperia will start coming out later today! i hope you enjoy them ^^

[autistic-reptile]

(Swedish expression anon again: since I know you like linguistics, this might be something to pass time with - go check out en. m. wikiquote. org/wiki/Swedish_proverbs for some more weird and good expressions)

oh HECK yes thank you!!!!!!! :))) i’ll totally check it out!!! 💜

[veritascara]

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