Time To Put The Painting In The Gallery
Today's picture goes with post fifteen, today's title comes from post twelve ... in any event, wherever I find or hear or see something so worded that it hits me that I must write this down is fair game. No one's tried to copyright the English language that I am aware of, so I think I'm safe sharing this here.
Six weeks out from National Novel Writing Month, this collection of my favorite or at least thought-provoking statements from the first half of September 2016 is yours to peruse. Or modify outright, which you never know I might do for my latest novel!
David
1. He had to do it that way because Deadshot can see you coming from 4000 meters. That's literally THE reason Deadshot missed the one time. Batman had to revert to his ninja training and become virtually invisible/silent to get the drop on him. And Deadshot was still inches from lodging a bullet in Batman's skull.
Batman HAD to go after Deadshot when he had his guard down (IE with his daughter) and even tries to apprehend him without violence. I fail to see the issue with the scene. It was actually well thought out
080116, 1630 hrs (This Poster's speculation on why Deadshot didn't kill Batman in the Suicide Squad movie.)
2. Call it alchemy, artistry, or even magic -- however you cut it, the passage of time hadn't improved anything very much. The movement of time had merely slashed at the roots of some profound sense of the cosmic, the magical.
(Campbell Black, Raiders of the Lost Ark, p. 121)
3. ... where vulgarity (not only on the stage, but in front of it) is in the ascendant, and bad taste carries the day with hardly a pleasant point to mitigate its coarseness, the New York theatres ... may be put ... at the top of the heap.
(Walt Whitman, Brooklyn Eagle, 1847 -- so criticizing what's wrong on x didn't start with television! - D.)
4. If she was going to learn about intergalactic trade in the morning, she might as well be rested.
(E. K. Johnston, Star Wars: Ashoka, p. 197)
5. "Then I am spoiling your routine."
"You are not spoiling it. You are enhancing it. It is good to shake things up."
(Phaedra Patrick, The Curious Charms of Arthur Pepper, p. 328)
6. The creatures outside looked from pig to man, and from man to pig, and from pig to man again, but already it was impossible to say which was which.
(George Orwell, Animal Farm, final sentence)
7. No...really? We had no idea. 😒
“Walmart is in the business of making money so when it goes into a wealthier, whiter neighborhood, where it does have to compete with more retailers, it's forced to make more investments in staffing,” he explained."
The Black Girls Club, 090616, 1136 hrs (re: a Columbia University sociology professor's study results that ... well, read it above. But this part is my opinion, wealthier and whiter neighborhoods don't get MUCH better, if at all. - D.)
8. Really? I know the charges were dropped, but his life choices better change or he will become known as one of the most talented slimes in the NFL
090616, 1820 hrs, (re: a former Ohio State player cleared of domestic violence charges)
9. The “Great Wall of Calais” is an absolutely inhumane response to the migrant crisis and a waste of money.
Our [British, the nationality of the Poster - D.] politicians laugh at Donald Trump’s words and demeanour yet their actions are underpinned with his principles.
Perhaps the saddest part of all is that we clearly haven’t learnt lessons from the past about what it means to divide people in this way.
10. So, you don't learn from Nazi Germany's example...or the recent example of refugees disrupting the cultural and governmental infrastructures of Germany, Sweden, France, et al. You just want it to end, peace at any price; the radical Muslim factions pledged death and destruction to its enemies, and guess what? Anyone who isn't Muslim is an enemy. We're all 'kafir', or infidel. We don't succumb to theocracy, and theocracy is what these folk are trying to implement...with an iron fist and our blood. Better seriously rethink your sentiments.
(Written in response to previous Poster.)
11. To all my friends, How do you ask a question to people that may start a disagreement among folks but you REALLY believe in it?
12. I wish I knew the answer. I think I'm pretty good with words, and I choose them well, but I piss people off anyway. I occasionally do so intentionally, because, well, sometimes you need to know who your real friends are. A connection that can be broken by a few words or a difference of opinion isn't one.
(Written in response to previous Poster.)
13. I was discussing the creative gap I experienced (and how depressing it was) when we launched open beta with a fine artist friend. Her comment was so good I thought every creative should read it.
"I know it's time to put the painting in the gallery when I just want to burn it."
14. Because who doesn't need a weaponized USB stick?
Zack Whittaker, 090816, 0908 hrs (for Zero Day, subtitle for article "Now you can buy a USB stick that destroys anything in its path")
15. I feel so primitive. I spent the last 15 mins trying to get into this plastic sphere to get to the prized rubber band to put around my file. Like a monkey cracking walnuts by beating it on the ground!
Like really? I'm going to lunch
16. Undying love and eternal patience are not the same thing, child. Do not confuse them.
(Doctor Doom/God Doom, Secret Wars #5, "Owen Reece Died For Our Sins")
17. Eventually dystopian fiction authors are just going to be called "historians".
18. There are two types of money in this world -- easy money and hard money. And the only difference between a millionaire and a bum is the millionaire knows easy money pays the bills just as well.
(Billy Taylor, Thieving Weasels)
19. I have a coupon book and a banana in my purse and that somehow summarizes my entire personality.
20. By the book, you hear? We have to show him! We have to show him that our way works!
(Commissioner Gordon to Batman, Batman: The Killing Joke)
21. We've gotten so used to your facial hair that we forget you used to be bald on the face.
22. Prophecies are truths that are spoken and not always seen.
June Otte, Christ In Our Home, 091216
23. Geese never wear overalls. Fact.
24. I guess what I'm trying to say is ... don't. Don't label skins. Just provide the contrast. Dare to be clever.
25. I'M NOT LOCKED IN HERE WITH YOU!
YOU"RE LOCKED IN HERE WITH ME!
(Rorschach, Watchmen, Chapter VI, "The Abyss Gazes Also")
26. "He had all the accoutrements of magic, like a proper magician should. Amaretto biscuits whose wrapping papers you lit and watched shoot into the sky like titch...y hot air balloons, falling back to earth in a wispy question mark of ash; the house dotted with Witch Balls – ancient, mirrored spheres that hung from a window so that, should a witch be so bold as to come knocking, she would be confronted with her own hideous reflection and flee, never to darken the door again."
28. In tone and spirit, it’s at once Winnie the Pooh, Bambi and Gene Simmons.
(from the post on Berkeley Breathed's Bloom County Facebook page regarding The Bill the Cat Story: A Bloom County Epic, read 1200 hrs)
29. People are like pearls, valuable, often not really seen for their true worth, and grown through irritation...
30. O LORD, correct me, but with judgment; not in thine anger, lest thou bring me to nothing.
Jeremiah 10:24
31. Dogs in the cellar. If you don't feed them, they will get out.
Perhaps the saddest part of all is that we clearly haven’t learnt lessons from the past about what it means to divide people in this way.
10. So, you don't learn from Nazi Germany's example...or the recent example of refugees disrupting the cultural and governmental infrastructures of Germany, Sweden, France, et al. You just want it to end, peace at any price; the radical Muslim factions pledged death and destruction to its enemies, and guess what? Anyone who isn't Muslim is an enemy. We're all 'kafir', or infidel. We don't succumb to theocracy, and theocracy is what these folk are trying to implement...with an iron fist and our blood. Better seriously rethink your sentiments.
(Written in response to previous Poster.)
11. To all my friends, How do you ask a question to people that may start a disagreement among folks but you REALLY believe in it?
12. I wish I knew the answer. I think I'm pretty good with words, and I choose them well, but I piss people off anyway. I occasionally do so intentionally, because, well, sometimes you need to know who your real friends are. A connection that can be broken by a few words or a difference of opinion isn't one.
(Written in response to previous Poster.)
13. I was discussing the creative gap I experienced (and how depressing it was) when we launched open beta with a fine artist friend. Her comment was so good I thought every creative should read it.
"I know it's time to put the painting in the gallery when I just want to burn it."
14. Because who doesn't need a weaponized USB stick?
Zack Whittaker, 090816, 0908 hrs (for Zero Day, subtitle for article "Now you can buy a USB stick that destroys anything in its path")
15. I feel so primitive. I spent the last 15 mins trying to get into this plastic sphere to get to the prized rubber band to put around my file. Like a monkey cracking walnuts by beating it on the ground!
Like really? I'm going to lunch
16. Undying love and eternal patience are not the same thing, child. Do not confuse them.
(Doctor Doom/God Doom, Secret Wars #5, "Owen Reece Died For Our Sins")
17. Eventually dystopian fiction authors are just going to be called "historians".
18. There are two types of money in this world -- easy money and hard money. And the only difference between a millionaire and a bum is the millionaire knows easy money pays the bills just as well.
(Billy Taylor, Thieving Weasels)
19. I have a coupon book and a banana in my purse and that somehow summarizes my entire personality.
20. By the book, you hear? We have to show him! We have to show him that our way works!
(Commissioner Gordon to Batman, Batman: The Killing Joke)
21. We've gotten so used to your facial hair that we forget you used to be bald on the face.
22. Prophecies are truths that are spoken and not always seen.
June Otte, Christ In Our Home, 091216
23. Geese never wear overalls. Fact.
24. I guess what I'm trying to say is ... don't. Don't label skins. Just provide the contrast. Dare to be clever.
25. I'M NOT LOCKED IN HERE WITH YOU!
YOU"RE LOCKED IN HERE WITH ME!
(Rorschach, Watchmen, Chapter VI, "The Abyss Gazes Also")
26. "He had all the accoutrements of magic, like a proper magician should. Amaretto biscuits whose wrapping papers you lit and watched shoot into the sky like titch...y hot air balloons, falling back to earth in a wispy question mark of ash; the house dotted with Witch Balls – ancient, mirrored spheres that hung from a window so that, should a witch be so bold as to come knocking, she would be confronted with her own hideous reflection and flee, never to darken the door again."
Roald Dahl remembered by his grand daughter Sophie Dahl.
(from The Guardian, 091316, 0320 hrs; Roald Dahl would be 100 this September 15)
27. Magic is selfish: it says, "My will be done"; but religion in its essential nature is unselfish: it says, "Thy will be done."
(Albert C. Knudson, The Prophetic Movement in Israel)
(from The Guardian, 091316, 0320 hrs; Roald Dahl would be 100 this September 15)
27. Magic is selfish: it says, "My will be done"; but religion in its essential nature is unselfish: it says, "Thy will be done."
(Albert C. Knudson, The Prophetic Movement in Israel)
28. In tone and spirit, it’s at once Winnie the Pooh, Bambi and Gene Simmons.
(from the post on Berkeley Breathed's Bloom County Facebook page regarding The Bill the Cat Story: A Bloom County Epic, read 1200 hrs)
29. People are like pearls, valuable, often not really seen for their true worth, and grown through irritation...
30. O LORD, correct me, but with judgment; not in thine anger, lest thou bring me to nothing.
Jeremiah 10:24
31. Dogs in the cellar. If you don't feed them, they will get out.
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