September 21
2004
- Human history becomes more and more a race between education and catastrophe. ~ H. G. Wells (born 21 September 1866)
- selected by Kalki
2005
- Hope is a good thing — maybe the best of things. And no good thing ever dies. ~ "Andy Dufresne" in The Shawshank Redemption by Stephen King (born 21 September 1947)
- proposed by Kalki
2006
- Like a bird on the wire,
like a drunk in a midnight choir
I have tried in my way to be free.
~ Leonard Cohen ~ (born 21 September 1934)- proposed by Kalki
2007
- Life begins perpetually. Gathered together at last under the leadership of man, the student-teacher of the universe... unified, disciplined, armed with the scret powers of the atom, and with knowledge as yet beyond dreaming, Life, forever dying to be born afresh, forever young and eager, will presently stand upon this earth as upon a footstool, and stretch out its realm amidst the stars. ~ H. G. Wells
- proposed by Kalki
2008
- I'm guided by a signal in the heavens,
I'm guided by this birthmark on my skin
I'm guided by the beauty of our weapons
First we take Manhattan, then we take Berlin.
~ Leonard Cohen ~- proposed by Kalki
2009
- Ah, you loved me as a loser,
But now you're worried that I just might win.
You know the way to stop me,
But you don't have the discipline.
How many nights I prayed for this,
To let my work begin.
First we take Manhattan,
Then we take Berlin.~ Leonard Cohen ~
- proposed by Kalki
2010
Suggestions
Husbands should be like Kleenex: soft, strong, and desposable. ~ (Miss White, Clue)- 5 —The preceding unsigned comment was added by 66.167.242.65 (talk • contribs) 05:14, 14 September 2005 (UTC)
- 1 Kalki 00:29, 20 September 2009 (UTC)
2 Kalki 22:13, 20 September 2005 (UTC)No clear correlation with the date. - 1 Unpithy, no humor even harmful. And who is it? --Aphaia 08:08, 21 September 2007 (UTC)
- 1 Zarbon 23:21, 24 April 2008 (UTC)
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No one would have believed... that this world was being watched keenly and closely by intelligences greater than man's and yet as mortal as his own; that as men busied themselves about their various concerns they were scrutinised and studied, perhaps almost as narrowly as a man with a microscope might scrutinise the transient creatures that swarm and multiply in a drop of water. With infinite complacency men went to and fro over this globe about their little affairs, serene in their assurance of their empire over matter. It is possible that the infusoria under the microscope do the same. ~ H. G. Wells (date of birth)
- 3 Kalki 22:13, 20 September 2005 (UTC)
- 3 InvisibleSun 19:06, 19 September 2006 (UTC)
- 1 Zarbon 23:21, 24 April 2008 (UTC)
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What it is to bathe every day, always to be clad beautifully, to climb mountains for pleasure, to fly, to meet none but agreeable, well mannered people, to conduct researches or make delightful things... a time when all such good things will be for all men may be coming more nearly than we think. Each one who believes that brings the good time nearer; each heart that fails delays it. ~ H. G. Wells (date of birth)
- 3 Kalki 22:13, 20 September 2005 (UTC) with a lean toward 4.
- 3 InvisibleSun 19:06, 19 September 2006 (UTC)
- 1 Zarbon 23:21, 24 April 2008 (UTC)
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While there is a chance of the world getting through its troubles, I hold that a reasonable man has to behave as though he were sure of it. If at the end your cheerfulness is not justified, at any rate you will have been cheerful. ~ H. G. Wells (date of birth)
- 3 Kalki 22:13, 20 September 2005 (UTC) with a lean toward 4.
- 3 InvisibleSun 19:06, 19 September 2006 (UTC)
- 2 Zarbon 23:21, 24 April 2008 (UTC)
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The most important things are the hardest things to say. They are the things you get ashamed of, because words diminish them — words shrink things that seemed limitless when they were in your head to no more than living size when they're brought out. ~ Stephen King (date of birth)
- 3 Kalki 22:13, 20 September 2005 (UTC) with a strong lean toward a 4.
- 3 InvisibleSun 19:06, 19 September 2006 (UTC)
- 3 Aphaia 08:08, 21 September 2007 (UTC)
- 2 Zarbon 23:21, 24 April 2008 (UTC)
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The most important things lie too close to wherever your secret heart is buried, like landmarks to a treasure your enemies would love to steal away. And you may make revelations that cost you dearly only to have people look at you in a funny way, not understanding what you've said at all, or why you thought it was so important that you almost cried while you were saying it. That's the worst, I think. When the secret stays locked within not for want of a teller, but for want of an understanding ear. ~ Stephen King (date of birth)
- 3 Kalki 22:13, 20 September 2005 (UTC) with a strong lean toward a 4.
- 4 InvisibleSun 19:06, 19 September 2006 (UTC)
- 1 Zarbon 23:21, 24 April 2008 (UTC)
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I'm tired of people bein' ugly to each other. It feels like pieces of glass in my head. I'm tired of all the times I've wanted to help and couldn't. I'm tired of bein' in the dark. Mostly it's the pain. There's too much. If I could end it, I would. But I cain't. ~ "John Coffey" in The Green Mile by Stephen King (date of birth)
- 3 Kalki 22:13, 20 September 2005 (UTC)
- 3 InvisibleSun 19:06, 19 September 2006 (UTC)
- 1 because there are better quotes from the Green Mile, and I seriously love that movie very strongly. Zarbon 23:21, 24 April 2008 (UTC)
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The only deadly sin I know is cynicism. ~ Henry L. Stimson
- 2 Zarbon 15:08, 9 June 2008 (UTC)
- 3 Kalki 00:13, 21 September 2008 (UTC)
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If you're squeezed for information,
that's when you've got to play it dumb:
You just say you're out there waiting
for the miracle to come.
~ Leonard Cohen ~
- 3 Kalki 00:29, 20 September 2009 (UTC) with a lean toward 4.
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I did my best, it wasn't much
I couldn't feel, so I tried to touch
I've told the truth, I didn't come to fool you.
And even though it all went wrong
I'll stand before the Lord of Song
With nothing on my tongue but Hallelujah.
~ Leonard Cohen ~
- 3 Kalki 00:29, 20 September 2009 (UTC) with a very strong lean toward an eventual 4, but not this year, and there are several others by Cohen and Stephen King I might continue to prefer to use first.
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I lift my glass to the awful truth which you can't reveal to the ears of youth except to say it isn't worth a dime~ Leonard Cohen
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