Quoted Archive for May, 2008
Wonder
Wonder, rather than doubt, is the root of knowledge.
~ Abraham Joshua Heschel
The universe …
The universe is full of magical things patiently waiting for our wits to grow sharper.
– Eden Phillpots
Indy through the years
Indiana Jones. I always knew some day you’d come walking back through my door.
– Marion
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We do not follow maps to buried treasure and X never, ever marks the spot.
– Indiana Jones
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“Since I’ve met you I’ve nearly been incinerated, drowned, shot at and chopped into fishbait.
– Indiana Jones
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If you think I’m going to Delhi with you or anyplace else after all the trouble you’ve gotten me into, think again buster! I’m going home to Missouri where they never feed you to snakes before ripping your heart out and lowering you into hot pits! This is NOT my idea of a good time!
– Willie
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You know, for an old man you ain’t bad in a fight. What are you, like 80?
– Mutt
Indy
“I can say that if you liked the other Indiana Jones movies, you will like this one, and that if you did not, there is no talking to you. ”
– Roger Ebert
High Spirits
It is better to be high-spirited even though one makes more mistakes,
than to be narrow-minded and all too prudent.
Do not quench your inspiration and your imagination;
do not become the slave of your model.
– Vincent van Gogh
Shhhh …
Shhh … my common sense is tingling …
– Iron Man (comic book)
Superheroes Speak
“With great power there must also come — great responsibility!”
– Spider Man
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“Wars are never won, regardless of who might be the victor. The very act of war is itself a horrible defeat.”
– Guardian of the Universe (Green Lantern)
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“In this world, there is right and there is wrong, and that distinction is not difficult to make.”
– Superman
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“Are arbitrary labels more important than the way we live our lives, what we’re supposed to be more important than what we actually are?”
– X-Men