Saturday, October 04, 2008

Quotes

"There are two things that will be believed
of any man whatsoever, and one of them is
that he has taken to drink."
- Booth Tarkington

"I am really a sea creature. Just
a mammal that lost its fins."
- Kathleen Quinlan

'The time has come,' the Walrus said,
  'To talk of many things:
Of shoes --and ships --and sealing wax --
  Of cabbages --and kings --
And why the sea is boiling hot --
  And whether pigs have wings.'
-Lewis Carroll, The Walrus and the Carpenter

"A lie is a sort of myth,
and a myth is a sort of truth."
- Cyrano

Robin: I want a car, chicks dig the car.
Batman: This is why Superman works alone.
- Batman & Robin (1997)

And what shall I say of those more properly called traitors
than translators, since they betray those whom they aim to
reveal, tarnishing their glory, and seducing ignorant readers
by reading white for black?
- Joachim du Bellay, 1549