September 17
2003
- It's not that I'm afraid to die, I just don't want to be there when it happens. ~ Woody Allen
- selected by Nanobug
2004
- A faith is something you die for, a doctrine is something you kill for. There is all the difference in the world. ~ Tony Benn
- selected by Kalki
2005 : I've never seen anybody really find the answer — they think they have, so they stop thinking. But the job is to seek mystery, evoke mystery, plant a garden in which strange plants grow and mysteries bloom. The need for mystery is greater than the need for an answer. ~ Ken Kesey (born 17 September 1935)
- proposed by Kalki
2006
- It is difficult
to get the news from poems
yet men die miserably every day
for lack
of what is found there.
~ William Carlos Williams ~ (born September 17, 1883)- proposed by InvisibleSun
2007
- You don't lead by pointing and telling people some place to go. You lead by going to that place and making a case. ~ Ken Kesey
- proposed by Kalki
2008
- The real crazies who are looking for a messiah... after an hour or so they realise I'm not it and go off and look somewhere else. ~ Ken Kesey
- proposed by Kalki
2009
- Many questions haven't been answered as yet. Our poets may be wrong; but what can any of us do with his talent but try to develop his vision, so that through frequent failures we may learn better what we have missed in the past. ~ William Carlos Williams
- proposed by Kalki
2010
Suggestions
Me actor. Them fashion. No compute. (Actress Martha Plimpton)- 5 (short, concise, but extremely effective commentary on the state of Hollywood.) —The preceding unsigned comment was added by 66.167.242.65 (talk • contribs) 05:04, 14 September 2005 (UTC)
- 1 Kalki 17:55, 16 September 2009 (UTC)
2 Kalki 21:31, 16 September 2005 (UTC)No clear correlation with the date (and 4 is the highest ranking available, not 5) - 2 InvisibleSun 08:16, 13 September 2006 (UTC)
- 1 Zarbon 23:05, 24 April 2008 (UTC)
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I'd rather be a lightning rod than a seismograph. ~ Ken Kesey (date of birth)
- 3 Kalki 21:31, 16 September 2005 (UTC)
- 2 InvisibleSun 08:16, 13 September 2006 (UTC)
- 2 Zarbon 23:05, 24 April 2008 (UTC)
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I love being married, I do. It's so great to find that one special person that you want to annoy for the rest of your life. ~ Rita Rudner
- 2 for comedic value Zarbon 04:14, 9 June 2008 (UTC)
- 2 InvisibleSun 23:15, 16 September 2008 (UTC)
- 2 Kalki 23:58, 16 September 2008 (UTC)
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Well, the old theory was "marry a older man because they're more mature". But the new theory is "men don't mature — marry a young one". ~ Rita Rudner
- 2 for comedic value. Zarbon 04:14, 9 June 2008 (UTC)
- 3 InvisibleSun 23:15, 16 September 2008 (UTC)
- 2 Kalki 23:58, 16 September 2008 (UTC) with a lean toward 3.
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Nobody is really happy with what's on their head. People with straight hair want curly, people with curly want straight, and bald people want everyone to be blind. ~ Rita Rudner
- 2 for comedic value. Zarbon 04:14, 9 June 2008 (UTC)
- 2 InvisibleSun 23:15, 16 September 2008 (UTC)
- 2 Kalki 23:58, 16 September 2008 (UTC)
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You have to laugh at the things that hurt you just to keep yourself in balance, just to keep the world from running you plumb crazy. ~ Ken Kesey
- 3 Kalki 17:55, 16 September 2009 (UTC)
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What is the use of reading the common news of the day, the tragic deaths and abuses of daily living, when for over half a lifetime we have known that they must have occurred just as they have occurred given the conditions that cause them? There is no light in it. It is trivial fill-gap. We know the plane will crash, the train be derailed. And we know why. No one cares, no one can care. We get the news and discount it, we are quite right in doing so. It is trivial. But the haunted news I get from some obscure patient's eyes is not trivial. It is profound. ~ William Carlos Williams
- 3 Kalki 17:55, 16 September 2009 (UTC)
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It's a strange courage
you give me, ancient star:
Shine alone in the sunrise
toward which you lend no part!
~ William Carlos Williams ~
- 3 Kalki 17:55, 16 September 2009 (UTC)
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