CHANDLER, Raymond
Raymond Thorton Chandler, Raymond T. Chandler, Raymond Chandler
23 July 1888 – 26 March 1959
Birthplace: Chicago, Illinois
American-British author & screenwriter
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CHANDLER, Raymond
CitationContextSource IDCitation “[Chess is] as elaborate a waste of human intelligence as you can find outside an advertising agency.” ~Raymond Chandler, American-British author & screenwriter Describing a game of chess, The Long Goodbye (1953) Boston, MA: Houghton Mifflin Co., 1953 edition, p. 156 Context Extended excerpt [Fiction, Narrator]: “I filled a pipe, paraded the chessmen and inspected them for French shaves and loose buttons, and played a championship tournament game between Gortchakoff and Meninkin, seventy-two moves to a draw, a prize specimen of the irresistible force meeting the immovable object, a battle without armor, a war without blood, and as elaborate a waste of human intelligence as you can find
CitationContextSource LinkCitation “Politicians whose hopes rest upon the popular ignorance and prejudice, and not upon the popular intelligence, furiously sneer at the idea of equality. It is important, therefore, that every man should understand what human equality is. It is an elemental lesson, but the attack is made at the very foundation and must be met there.” ~George William Curtis, American author & orator “The American Doctrine of Liberty,” Address to the Harvard Phi Beta Kappa Society (17 July 1863) Harvard University, Cambridge, MA; in Orations and Addresses of George William Curtis, Vol. I, ed. Charles Eliot Norton, New York: Harper & Bros., 1894, p. 105; online via Stanford University
CitationContextSource LinkCitation “Democracy means self-government; self-government necessitates universal education; and universal education can only be accomplished by free public schools under the control of all the people. Let us have done with these hackneyed arguments against the public school.” ~Charles W. Dabney, American scientist & educator “Inaugural Address of President Dabney”(16 November 1904) University of Cincinnati Music Hall Auditorium, Cincinnati, OH; University of Cincinnati Record, Vol. I, No. 3, December 1904 –January 1905, p. 30; online via New York Public Library & Google Books, books.google.com Context Extended excerpt [Address as the incoming University of Cincinnati president. Dabney held a doctorate in chemistry and had previously served as an agricultural specialist,
CitationContextSource ISBNCitation “In the dark attics of our minds, all times mingle.” ~Charles de Lint, Canadian author & musician The Onion Girl (2001) New York: Tom Doherty Associates, p. 124 Context Extended excerpt: “The past scampers like an alley cat through the present, leaving the paw prints of memories scattered helter-skelter – here ink is smeared on a page, there lies an old photography with a chewed corner, elsewhere still, a nest has been made of old newspapers, headlines running one into the other to make strange declarations. There is no order to what we recall, the wheel of time follows no straight line as it turns in our heads.
CitationContextSource LinkCitation “Honest labour bears a lovely face.” ~Thomas Dekker, English playwright With co-authors Henry Chettle & William Haughton, Patient Grissel: A Comedy (1599) Act I, Scene I, ‘reprint from the black-letter edition of 1603,’ London: Shakespeare Society, 1841, p. 9; online via Oxford University & Google Books, books.google.com Context Extended excerpt [Play, Character ‘Babulo,’ “The Song” – to ‘Janiculo’ & ‘Grissil’]: “Work apace, apace, apace, apace; Honest labour bears a lovely face; Then hey noney, noney, hey noney, noney.” (p. 9) Source Link Source link: Patient Grissel: A Comedy (1599|1841 reprint of 1603 edition) online via Google Books: https://books.google.com/books?id=KaINAAAAQAAJ&printsec=frontcover&dq=Thomas+Dekker+%2B+Patient+Grissel&hl=en&sa=X&ved=0ahUKEwjopLnn6a_YAhWCh1QKHabACfUQ6AEIMjAC#v=onepage&q=honest&f=false CitationContextSource LinkCitation “This age thinks better of a gilded
CitationMisquotesContextSource ISBNCitation “Californians invented the concept of life-style. This alone warrants their doom.” ~Don DeLillo, American author White Noise (1985) New York: Penguin Books, 1999 edition, p. 66 Misquotes Misattibution note: At least one quotation book has incorrectly attributed DeLillo’s quote to American author Joan Didion. Although Didion did write about California in works such as “Notes from a Native Daughter,” Repeat Right editors could find no evidence supporting Didion as the original author of the “Californians invented the concept of life-style...” quote. Context Extended excerpt [Fiction – character ‘Alfonse,’ speaking to lunch companions]: “This is where California comes in. Mud slides, brush fires, coastal erosion, earthquakes, mass killings,
CitationContextSource ISBNCitation “A schedule defends from chaos and whim. It is a net for catching days.” ~Annie Dillard, American author The Writing Life (1989) New York: Harper Perennial, 2013, p. 32 Context Extended excerpt: [Non-fiction] “A schedule defends from chaos and whim. It is a net for catching days. It is a scaffolding on which a worker can stand and labor with both hands at sections of time. A schedule is a mock-up of reason and order – willed, faked, and so brought into being; it is a peace and a haven set into the wreck of time; it is a lifeboat on which you find yourself, decades later,
HENRY DRUMMOND – Scottish author, scientist & theologian – AUTHOR QUOTE PAGE
CitationContextSource LinkCitation “It is the ability to take a joke, not make one, that proves you have a sense of humor.” ~Max Eastman, American author & editor Enjoyment of Laughter (1936) New York: Simon & Schuster, 1936, 8th printing, p. 36; online via Open Library [free subscription service] openlibrary.org Context Extended excerpt [Eastman, sharing his ‘amateur opinion’ that ‘apes have a rudimentary sense of humor.']: “He has at least enough feeling for a playful trick to understand that he has been teased and not attacked. It is the ability to take a joke, not make one, that proves you have a sense of humor.” (pp. 36-37) Source Link Source
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EBERT, Roger
CitationContextSource LinkCitation “Art is the closest we can come to understanding how a stranger really feels.” ~Roger Ebert, American journalist & film critic From Ebert's response to the question “In facing your own mortality, what final message would you leave for future generations?” in “11th Hour “Roger Ebert” (1994) Denver Center for the Performing Arts, Denver, CO; The 11th Hour, Samuel A. Safarian & KBDI-TV, online via Colorado Public Television, video.cpt12.org Context Extended excerpt: [Address to live & television audience. Ebert is discussing the greater need for empathy. Transcript via Repeat Right.]: “Art, is of course, many things but I believe its most important role is to give form to
Du BOIS, W.E.B.
W.E.B. DU BOIS – American author, educator, sociologist & civil rights leader – AUTHOR QUOTE PAGE