I'm looking for good quotations about science (particularly physics) and education that are suitable for the wall of a secondary school (ages 11-18) classroom. [more inside]
posted by alby on Sep 28, 2009 - 21 answers

Widely attributed, unreferenced Gandhi quotation: "I like your Christ..." Authentic? [more inside]
posted by goethean on Sep 9, 2009 - 5 answers

Quotation help: A vaguely remembered snippet about so-called domestic fiction. [more inside]
posted by scratch on Aug 27, 2009 - 3 answers

"The United States is in no sense founded upon the christian doctrine." is often attributed to George Washington. Where did he say this? Google turns up many unattributed versions of this quotation, but I couldn't find any attribution or source. Anyone able to do better?
posted by ivey on Aug 24, 2009 - 5 answers

What quotations / sayings have you found to be helpful to you in getting through daily life? [more inside]
posted by titantoppler on Jun 18, 2009 - 88 answers

I'm trying to find the context of the Robert Frost quote "Freedom lies in being bold." [more inside]
posted by roger ackroyd on May 30, 2009 - 1 answer

Occasionally I find myself regretting and second-guessing decisions I've made in the past. Whenever this happens, it naturally wreaks havoc on my happiness and self-esteem. I'd like to be able to cheer myself up during such times. What are your favorite quotations about letting go of the past/looking toward the future/stopping regret/living in the present/etc.?
posted by punchdrunkhistory on May 22, 2009 - 23 answers

What were Yitzhak Rabin's last words? I am trying to fact check what my guide on a Birthright Israel tour told us, which is that before he died, Rabin said "I can't believe it's a Jew," referring to his assassin who was a right-wing Orthodox Jew. I feel like I've heard this quote elsewhere, but when I try googling to find Rabin's last words I cant find this quote. Can anyone verify this?
posted by minicloud on Mar 23, 2009 - 6 answers

Can you help me find a quote from the Dalai Lama? [more inside]
posted by orsonet on Mar 11, 2009 - 2 answers

Who was it who first said that (paraphrasing) "the American black man is the most imitated man in the world"? [more inside]
posted by CRM114 on Mar 2, 2009 - 9 answers

Who is (was?) Tas Soft Wind? A few quotes have been attributed to Tas Soft Wind, one of the most notable being "I like her because she smiles at me," and tonight a friend asked me if I could find biographical info on this person. I'm not at work (the library) so I don't have access to the other sources I might have checked, so, naturally, I Googled - to no avail, I'm ashamed to say. I was directed to several quotations sites, a frightening number of porn sites (?), and quite a few link farms, but no bio info. I tried several other meta and specialized engines with no result. And now that I can't find the answer, I am dying to know. Anyone? (Also, if you find the answer via Google or somesuch, I would LOVE to know what you used for a search string!) Thanks!
posted by coollibrarian on Feb 27, 2009 - 11 answers

Help my find this quotation about editing... [more inside]
posted by VeniceGlass on Feb 12, 2009 - 8 answers

MovieQuoteFilter: I'm trying to find the origin of a quote from Waking Life and I'm starting to think it's either misattributed or simply wrong. Help! [more inside]
posted by valkyryn on Jan 28, 2009 - 4 answers

Positive quotations or aphorisms about crime and/or criminals? [more inside]
posted by paradoxflow on Nov 11, 2008 - 23 answers

Some journalist once said something to the effect of, "What happened today that didn't happen yesterday. That's what news is. Start typing." Who was the journalist, and what was the exact quote? [more inside]
posted by grrarrgh00 on Sep 4, 2008 - 2 answers

I'm hoping to find a pdf or image of the old Shearson Lehman/American Express ad featuring the following quotation: "Commitment is what transforms a promise into reality. It is the words that speak boldly of your intentions. And the actions that speak louder than the words. It is making the time when there is none. Coming through time after time, year after year. Commitment is the stuff character is made of, the power to change the face of things. It is the daily triumph of integrity over skepticism." So far google has failed me, anyone happen to have it lying around? Or know any more information? (e.g. what magazine(s) it appeared in? What year?)
posted by hihowareyou on Jul 8, 2008 - 3 answers

Help me find this quotation. The gist of it is something like this: in current times, fantastical metaphors are the only way of describing the convoluted reality of experience. [more inside]
posted by overglow on May 12, 2008 - 6 answers

Literary Identification, please! Help me remember a passage about the quality of sleep and how it is transcendent when shared. I believe it is in one of the US-public-school-required-reading-by-a-British-guy novels. [more inside]
posted by crush-onastick on May 2, 2008 - 4 answers

Are those "person on the street" quotes in magazines ever real? [more inside]
posted by krippledkonscious on Mar 26, 2008 - 28 answers

Famous old quotation about men, whorehouses and shame? [more inside]
posted by gelcap on Feb 14, 2008 - 4 answers

Isn't there some saying about "before you die/live life, you'll connect through Atlanta", referring to ATL being a huge hub airport? How does it go exactly? Google-fu failing and all that.
posted by tinkertown on Feb 6, 2008 - 9 answers

Please help me identify this quote from a novel about love and a girl named Lucy. [more inside]
posted by crush-onastick on Nov 5, 2007 - 6 answers

I'm running in circles looking for a quotation. Something about how at the age of 40 you become the person you always were, or always were meant to be, or something like that. Anybody know the quote and who said it? Thx!!
posted by Misciel on Oct 24, 2007 - 10 answers

Who first said "Lo, how the mighty have fallen"?
posted by ottereroticist on Sep 16, 2007 - 5 answers

Booth Tarkington wrote: "There are two things that will be believed of any man whatsoever, and one of them is that he has taken to drink. " What is the other?
posted by bashos_frog on Sep 15, 2007 - 8 answers

Does anyone know the origin of the term, 'carving nature at its joints' when used to describe the process of dividing up a territory into its constituent parts? I believe it goes back to Ancient Greece, but I don't know much more than that...
posted by barbelith on Mar 6, 2007 - 5 answers

What's the best way of keeping track of a large collection of Quotes? What I really want is a searchable collection of short to long quotes on a large variety of topics that can be categorized/tagged. I'd also love it if it could be online, self contained or use a standard like Office so that I could access it via the internet or my external drive from wherever I'm at. Is there a product or service that does this that I've overlooked or a great workflow using existing software that makes this easy? [more inside]
posted by chrisWhite on Feb 25, 2007 - 17 answers

When Dorothy Parker said "This is not a novel to be tossed aside lightly. It should be thrown with great force." to what novel was she referring? [more inside]
posted by hihowareyou on Feb 1, 2007 - 5 answers

What should be done/said when the family gathers to witness someone's passing? I need planning to distract me. [more inside]
posted by vytae on Dec 31, 2006 - 27 answers

Can someone identify this quote for me? [more inside]
posted by robhuddles on Oct 15, 2006 - 7 answers

What are your favorite literary passages that you've memorized? [more inside]
posted by sixacross on Aug 1, 2006 - 113 answers

I'm looking for Hitler quotes that are perfectly normal. Stuff like "I'm going to have lunch now."
posted by Tlogmer on Jun 23, 2006 - 21 answers

Who said "libraries are the university of the poor" or something like that? [more inside]
posted by scratch on Apr 8, 2006 - 9 answers

QuoteFilter: For my mum's seventy*coughcoughcough*th birthday this year, I found a bunch of postcards from her hometown in England. I'm putting them into a book, and I'd like a nice quotation or something to write in nice script on the outside. Something about roots or birthplaces or something, and amusing Oscar-Wilde-style or touching-but-not-saccharine would be preferred to glurgey-sugary-weepy.
posted by biscotti on Mar 13, 2006 - 7 answers

I'm looking for quotes, proverbs or passages roughly synonymous with the saying "the more things change, the more they stay the same". English or non-English. Religious or secular. Your own or someone else's.
posted by Ritchie on May 18, 2005 - 26 answers

A couple of times recently I have heard a quotation that goes something like "whenever a man offers me a flyer in the street I always take one, because when he's given them all out he can go home." Once I heard it attributed to George Orwell, and the other time to Somerset Maugham. I've googled to the best of my ability and can't find the quote or the speaker. Any ideas?
posted by hazyjane on Jun 18, 2004 - 14 answers

Hunt the quote. For weeks I've been trying to track down a sort of litany about how much better life is in France, "because the wine is cheaper", or something like that. I thought it was Kingsley Amis, but it's not, and Google has let me down. Let loose the literary boozehounds!
posted by i_am_joe's_spleen on May 29, 2004 - 3 answers

Hunting down the source of a Tennyson quotation. [more inside] [more inside]
posted by rorycberger on May 12, 2004 - 10 answers

A coworker is trying to think of a quote on the degrees of strangeness from a SF book. Its to do with some Scandinavian (maybe) concept of 4 kinds of strangers - totally unknown, of your species, of your tribe, of your family, or something along those lines. [MI] [more inside]
posted by gilgamesh on Feb 18, 2004 - 6 answers