A case in point (taken from the Wikiquote list of misquotations):

Whenever I hear the word 'culture' I reach for my revolver."

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  The actual quote is "Wenn ich Kultur höre ... entsichere ich meinen Browning!" This translates as: "Whenever I hear [the word] 'culture'... I remove the safety from my Browning!"
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AM LOOKING FOR QUOTES ON:
* ART + offending, and/or
* ART + thinking, and/or
* ART + censorship

If you have a quote, pls comment, but tell me who it's attributed to
(so I can check that out)

This if for an artwork I'm doing, for the CLASSIFY ME exhibition:
http://www.facebook.com/ev​ent.php?eid=14672752207010​5


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As infected by stephen_dedman's post

When you see this, post in your own journal with your favourite quote from The Princess Bride. Preferably not "As you wish" or the Inigo Montoya speech:

Anyway, here's the "good parts" version. S. Morgenstern wrote it. And my father read it to me. And now I give it to you. What you do with it will be of more than passing ( Read more... )

In response to leduck's post:

For B5 fans - when you see this, post a B5 quote in your own journal.

Mr. Morden: "What do you want?"

Vir: "I'd like to live just long enough to be there when they cut off your head and stick it on a pike as a warning to the next ten generations that some favours come with too high a price. I'd look up at your lifeless eyes and ( Read more... )

I was online chatting somewhere in SL, and someone mentioned that they were watching Keeping the Faith. Never seen or heard of this film, but I found an interesting quote from it:


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Borrow from nematoddity's Quotes Post:

"Fear less, hope more;
Whine less, breathe more;
Talk less, say more;
Hate less, love more;
And all good things are yours."
--Swedish Proverb

Sounds good to me.

I always wanted to know what the following quote meant:

"There's nowt wrong wi' owt what mitherin' clutterbucks don't barley
grummit!"

...which comes from the fifth season episode of The Goodies called Kung Fu Capers (which is all about Ecky-Thump).

Kevin just discovered Urban Dictionary. I decided to look up Clutterbuck (!), and got an ( Read more... )

Found the following in the February 2006 issue of The Monthly: Australian politics, society & culture in an article by Gideon Haigh about "How Google is Making Us Stupid":

"Knowing things is a vital aspect of our intellectual ability," says technology critic Bill Thompson. "Knowing things allows us to make links, provide context, evolve metaphors ( Read more... )