Robert M. Pirsig
Quotes·Quotations by Robert M. Pirsig
Religion·Faith
¶
@ The only Zen you find on the tops of mountains is the Zen you bring up there.
Phyllis Diller (1917- )
Phyllis Diller (1917- )
Phyllis Diller (born Phyllis Ada Driver; July 17, 1917) is an American actress and comedian. She created a stage persona of a wild-haired, eccentrically dressed housewife who makes self-depricating jokes about her age and attractiveness (or supposed lack thereof), her terrible cooking, and about a husband named "Fang" while pretending to smoke from a long cigarette holder. Diller's signature is her unusual laugh.
Quotes·Quotation
Advice
¶ Never go to bed angry. Stay up and fight.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Phyllis_Diller
Phoebe Cates (1963- )
Phoebe Cates (1963- )
Phoebe Cates Kline (born Phoebe Belle Cates; July 16, 1963), better known as Phoebe Cates, is an American film actress, model, and entrepreneur. She is known for her roles in several teen films, most notably Fast Times at Ridgemont High and Gremlins.
Quotes·Quotations by Phoebe Cates
Celebrity
¶ I was only 17 when I did my nude scenes in Paradise (1982). They were serious and more difficult because they were not easily justified. But the topless scene in Fast Times at Ridgemont High (1982) was funny, which made it easy.
¶ If the film, play or any project I`m involved in requires some sort of violence or nudity to advance the plot, scene or character in any way, then I would be considered unprofessional not to oblige. Of course, I want to make sure -- and I think I always have -- that the scenes are shot in good taste. I try to have some control; now that I know what I`m capable of including in a contract, I can continue that control. Nudity is not something I necessarily want to avoid and yet it`s not the most fun thing in the world to do. It`s part of the job as far as I`m concerned because you bare yourself emotionally and that`s just as terrifying as baring yourself physically. It`s all part of acting.
¶ In this business, if a girl wants a career, she has to be willing to strip. If you`ve got a good bod, then why not show it?
¶ Young people are more sophisticated today, thanks to magazines and movies and even porno cable television. As a New Yorker I think I`ve matured faster than other young people. I`m street smart.
Kid
¶ Kids today are much more independent than their parents were. We`re really into getting jobs and we mature sexually much earlier than a generation ago. Or, at least, we are involved in sex earlier.
¶ I was only 17 when I did my nude scenes in Paradise (1982). They were serious and more difficult because they were not easily justified. But the topless scene in Fast Times at Ridgemont High (1982) was funny, which made it easy.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Phoebe_Cates
Philip Stanhope, 4th Earl of Chesterfield (1694-1773)
Philip Stanhope, 4th Earl of Chesterfield (1694-1773)
Philip Dormer Stanhope, 4th Earl of Chesterfield PC KG (22 September 1694 – 24 March 1773) was a British statesman and man of letters.
A Whig, Lord Stanhope, as he was known until his father's death in 1726, was born in London. After being educated at Trinity Hall, Cambridge, he went on the Grand Tour of the continent. The death of Anne and the accession of George I opened up a career for him and brought him back to England. His relative James Stanhope, the king's favourite minister, procured for him the place of gentleman of the bedchamber to the Prince of Wales.
Quotes·Quotation by Lord Chesterfield
Advice
¶ Hear one side and you will be in the dark. Hear both and all will be clear.
Knowledge·Wisdom
¶ Be wiser than other people, if you can, but do not tell them so.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lord_Chesterfield
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Philip_Stanhope,_4th_Earl_of_Chesterfield
Barack Obama (1961~ )
Barack Hussein Obama II (i/bəˈrɑːk huːˈseɪn ɵˈbɑːmə/; born August 4, 1961) is the 44th and current President of the United States, and the first African American to hold the office. Born in Honolulu, Hawaii, Obama is a graduate of Columbia University and Harvard Law School, where he served as president of the Harvard Law Review. He was a community organizer in Chicago before earning his law degree. He worked as a civil rights attorney and taught constitutional law at the University of Chicago Law School from 1992 to 2004. He served three terms representing the 13th District in the Illinois Senate from 1997 to 2004, running unsuccessfully for the United States House of Representatives in 2000.
Quotes·Quotations by Barack Obama
Father
¶ They're our mentors and they're our role models. They set an example of success and they push us to succeed, encourage us when we're struggling, and they love us even when we disappoint them, and they stand by us when nobody else will. (2009 Father's day)
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Barack_Obama
Peter Finch (1916-1977)
Peter Finch (1916-1977)
Frederick George Peter Ingle Finch (28 September 1916 – 14 January 1977) was a British-born Australian actor. He is best remembered for his role as "crazed" television anchorman Howard Beale in the film Network, which earned him a posthumous Academy Award for Best Actor, his fifth Best Actor award from the British Academy of Film and Television Arts, and a Best Actor award from the Golden Globes. He was the first of two people to win a posthumous Academy Award in an acting category; the other was fellow Australian Heath Ledger.
Quotes·Quotation by Peter Finch
¶ I'm as mad as hell, and I'm not going to take this anymore!
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Peter_Finch
Peter Boyle (1935-2006)
Peter Boyle (1935-2006)
Peter Lawrence Boyle, Jr. (October 18, 1935 – December 12, 2006) was an American actor, best known for his role as Frank Barone on the sitcom Everybody Loves Raymond, and as a comical monster in Mel Brooks' film spoof Young Frankenstein (1974).
Boyle, who won an Emmy Award in 1996 for a guest-starring role on the science-fiction drama The X-Files, won praise in both comedic and dramatic parts following his breakthrough performance in the 1970 film Joe.
Quotes·Quotation by Peter Boyle
¶ A man takes a job, you know, and that job becomes what he is.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Peter_Boyle
Peter Drucker (1909-2005)
Peter Drucker (1909-2005)
Peter Ferdinand Drucker (November 19, 1909 – November 11, 2005) was an influential writer, management consultant, and self-described “social ecologist.”
Quotes·Quotation
Economics
¶ In all recorded history there has not been one economist who has had to worry about where the next meal would come from.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Peter_F._Drucker
Percy Bysshe Shelley (1792-1822)
Percy Bysshe Shelley (1792-1822)
Percy Bysshe Shelley (pron.: /ˈpɜrsi ˈbɪʃ ˈʃɛli/;[2] 4 August 1792 – 8 July 1822) was one of the major English Romantic poets and is critically regarded as among the finest lyric poets in the English language. Considered too radical in his poetry and his political and social views to achieve fame during his lifetime, recognition of his significance grew steadily following his death. Percy Shelley was a key member of a close circle of visionary poets and writers that included Lord Byron; Leigh Hunt; Thomas Love Peacock; and his second wife, Mary Shelley, the author of Frankenstein.
Shelley is perhaps best known for such classic poems as Ozymandias, Ode to the West Wind, To a Skylark, Music, When Soft Voices Die, The Cloud and The Masque of Anarchy, which are among the most popular and critically acclaimed poems in the English language. His major works, however, are long visionary poems that include Queen Mab (later reworked as The Daemon of the World), Alastor, The Revolt of Islam, Adonaïs, the unfinished work The Triumph of Life; and the visionary verse dramas The Cenci (1819) and Prometheus Unbound (1820). The latter is widely considered one of Shelley's most fully realised works.
Shelley's early profession of atheism (in the tract "The Necessity of Atheism") led to his expulsion from Oxford and branded him as a radical agitator and thinker, setting an early pattern of marginalisation and ostracism from the intellectual and political circles of his time. His close circle of admirers, however, included the most progressive thinkers of the day, including his future father-in-law, philosopher William Godwin. Though Shelley's poetry and prose output remained steady throughout his life, most publishers and journals declined to publish his work for fear of being arrested themselves for blasphemy or sedition. Shelley never lived to see the extent of his success and influence, which would reach down to the present day not only in the literary canon, but in major movements in social and political thought.
Shelley became an idol of the next three or four generations of poets, including important Victorian and Pre-Raphaelite poets such as Robert Browning, and Dante Gabriel Rosetti. He was admired by Oscar Wilde, Thomas Hardy, George Bernard Shaw, Bertrand Russell, W. B. Yeats, Karl Marx, Upton Sinclair and Isadora Duncan.[3] Henry David Thoreau's civil disobedience and Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi's passive resistance were apparently influenced and inspired by Shelley's non-violence in protest and political action, although Gandhi does not include him in his list of mentors.[4]
Quotes·Quotations by Percy Bysshe Shelley
Autumn
¶ There is a harmony. In autumn, and a lustre in its sky, Which through the summer is not heard or seen, As if it could not be, as if it had not been!
Winter
¶ If winter comes, can spring be far behind?
Notes
[2]^ Bysshe is pronounced as if written bish.
[3]^ a b Isadora Duncan, "My Life ", W. W. Norton & Co.,1996, pp. 15, 134.
[4]^ Thomas Weber, "Gandhi as Disciple and Mentor," Cambridge University Press, 2004, pp. 28–29. Print.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Percy_Bysshe_Shelley
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