Things that Bansai left for us

[Toeprint]

"Give me a condor's quill! Give me Vesuvius' crater for an inkstand! "
— Herman Melville

bansaisequoia
September 25, 2009, 9:02 pm
This is from Moby Dick, and there should be a possesive apostrophe after the last "s" in Vesuvius.
bansaisequoia
September 25, 2009, 9:09 pm
This is from Moby Dick Chapter 104. There should be a possessive apostrophe after the last "s" in Vesuvius.

[Toeprint]

"Who could follow Carson? Well, believe me, somebody can - and will."
— Johnny Carson

bansaisequoia
June 12, 2010, 3:06 am
Leno is spelled with one L.

[Toeprint]

"It is the fate of the great ones of this earth, to be appreciated only after they are gone. "
— Unattributed

bansaisequoia
March 23, 2013, 5:23 pm
Hence, Justin Bieber and the Kardashians.
Allen
May 21, 2013, 10:02 pm
What? Appreciate'em now and get it over with?
bansaisequoia
June 21, 2013, 3:15 am
I don't appreciate them now, but everybody knows who they are. Maybe, one day, John Corigliano will be a name as readily recognized as Beethoven or Mozart.
montyb
November 1, 2016, 11:13 am
John Corigliano? You mean the Pulitzer Prize-winning classical composer?

[Toeprint]

"A sign on the door of Opportunity reads Push. "
— Unattributed

bansaisequoia
February 6, 2011, 4:47 pm
Or, does it read, "Pull Together?"
pootie49
January 12, 2012, 3:02 pm
shouldnt it say...Listen for the knock??

[Toeprint]

"I'm working on bringing the instant film camera back as part of the future."
— Lady Gaga

pootie49
May 19, 2011, 12:09 am
please dont take any self portraits.
bansaisequoia
May 20, 2011, 12:59 am
Weren't cell phones and digital cameras kind of doing that already?

[Toeprint]

"The fantastic advances in the field of electronic communication constitute a greater danger to the privacy of the individual. "
— Earl Warren

bansaisequoia
August 12, 2009, 12:55 am
Earl Warren passed away in 1974. Imagine if he were alive today with cell phones, the internet, webcams. For decades in the US, corporations have had the right to have security personnel view your body through a two-way mirror in a clothing store fitting room. Wherever we go, whether it be an ATM or a gas station, there are surveillance cameras taking pictures of us unbeknownst to us, without our consent. Unfortunately, today, the average American knows "Big Brother" as a reality TV show.

[Toeprint]

"You can not write in the chimney with charcoal."
— Assyrian Proverb

bansaisequoia
December 16, 2009, 4:07 am
Would grease pencil or water color marker work better?

[Toeprint]

"In every American there is an air of incorrigible innocence, which seems to conceal a diabolical cunning."
— A. E. Housman

bansaisequoia
February 12, 2012, 12:03 am
He's got me pegged.

[Toeprint]

"What I want to do is make people laugh so that they'll see things seriously."
— William Zinsser

bansaisequoia
July 30, 2012, 4:18 am
Can they take things seriously with milk coming out of their nose?

[Toeprint]

"In reality, the world has paid too great a compliment to critics, and has imagined them men of much greater profundity than they really are. "
— Henry Fielding

bansaisequoia
September 18, 2009, 12:49 am
And he lived two centuries before Siskel & Ebert.

[Toeprint]

"Mankind are earthen jugs with spirits in them. "
— Nathaniel Hawthorne

bansaisequoia
October 3, 2011, 10:59 pm
I like to drink out of earthen jugs with spirits in them.

[Toeprint]

"Solitude is a good place to visit but a poor place to stay."
— Josh Billings

Glindia
January 19, 2012, 4:38 pm
Florida was my guess.
bansaisequoia
May 17, 2012, 2:15 pm
bazinga! Good one, Glindia.

[Toeprint]

"If you feel that you have both feet planted on level ground, then the university has failed you."
— Robert F. Goheen

bansaisequoia
September 26, 2011, 1:41 pm
What if my feet are firmly planted on the firmament?
universalmom
February 6, 2013, 12:56 am
Then maybe you're upside down!

[Toeprint]

"Zen does not confuse spirituality with thinking about God while one is peeling potatoes. Zen spirituality is just to peel the potatoes. "
— Alan Watts

bansaisequoia
May 17, 2010, 3:24 pm
I think it's sinful to waste the nutritious peels of potatoes.

[RedEnoch]

“I’m so hungry, give me anything!”
Ensign Boimler gets a bonsai tree from the food replicator.
A few minutes later, the shuttlecraft “Sequoia” is featured.
I’m pretty sure one of the “Star Trek: Lower Decks” writers is a cryptogrammer. 318WOZ?