Classic Comments on the Quote

[LLapp]

All you need to know about literary criticism

"Asking a working writer what he thinks about critics is like asking a lamppost how it feels about dogs." — Christopher Hampton

montyb on 2013-02-20 01:13:30
Though I've never heard any lampposts complain.

kb83 on 2014-10-30 04:00:39
Yes, hopefully the writer is more articulate than a lamppost.

[abra]

"To your friends, you're like a trash bag. They'll use you for a little bit, then they'll throw you out."
— Adam R. Gwizdala


Queethebean on 2012-05-22 19:24:21
That's my friend, Adam R. Gwizdala. Well, he used to be my friend, but, you know how that goes . . .

[LLapp]

The ultimate editing stunt

I've seen many parodies of this famous quote, but darkyr takes it to a new level.

"No passion in the world is equal to the passion to alter someone else's draft." — H. G. Wells

maradnu on 2010-07-05 19:20:41
Everybody's an editor, everybody's a critic.

bansaisequoia on 2012-10-05 19:23:15
If someone roofies my beer, they've altered my draft.

darkyr on 2016-07-13 06:30:18
In my draft, the part of the editor is played by the late HG Wells. In one scene, his zombified hand reaches out from his grave, red pen in hand, and starts marking up the epitaph on his own headstone.

[ddph]

"It was not that she was out of temper, but that the world was not equal to the demands of her fine organism. " -George Eliot

maradnu on 2010-02-14 21:26:58
True of so many of us.

kjmcaj on 2013-05-05 17:05:18
136 seconds.

puzzler86 on 2014-04-14 00:49:16
61 seconds

LLapp on 2015-03-10 19:53:24
Oh . . . . "orgaNIsm" -- I almost reached for my smelling salts.

skeeter on 2015-03-13 01:27:36
I'm not touching THAT one, LLapp!

kb83 on 2015-07-23 07:17:33
It takes an organism to ....

LLapp on 2016-09-04 10:48:46
kb83, if you come back, please tell me the rest. I can't figure it out.

[LLapp]

"I have died so little today, friend, forgive me." — Thomas Lux

BeeAre on 2012-09-23 14:10:56
you should have tried harder

[LLapp]

"The time to be happy is now. The place to be happy is here. The way to be happy is to make others so." — Unattributed

jnoodles on 2013-06-14 13:21:07
Yes! Make others sew! I need new clothes!

[BriddlesBob]

The first time my grandkids saw a dandelion, they were blown away

[GtrZan]

"It was not that she was out of temper, but that the world was not equal to the demands of her fine organism. " -George Eliot

maradnu on 2010-02-14 21:26:58
True of so many of us.

kjmcaj on 2013-05-05 17:05:18
136 seconds.

puzzler86 on 2014-04-14 00:49:16
61 seconds

LLapp on 2015-03-10 19:53:24
Oh . . . . "orgaNIsm" -- I almost reached for my smelling salts.

skeeter on 2015-03-13 01:27:36
I'm not touching THAT one, LLapp!

kb83 on 2015-07-23 07:17:33
It takes an organism to ....

LLapp on 2016-09-04 10:48:46
kb83, if you come back, please tell me the rest. I can't figure it out.

...raze a village?

[LLapp]

"In argument similes are like songs in love; they describe much, but prove nothing." — Matthew Prior

Beagle on 2014-04-17 04:58:48
Ummm... correct me if I'm wrong, but... isn't he using a simile in his argument there?

JD_1947 on 2014-12-27 06:08:38
. . Yup ! . . you're right on the similes . . . . doesn't even sound like he made much of an argument . . .

montyb on 2015-01-09 09:08:20
But it was nicely described.

hisashiburi on 2015-08-02 07:10:58
Simile when you say that.

[montyb]

"What kind of man would live a life without daring? Is life so sweet that we should criticize men that seek adventure?"
— Charles Augustus Lindbergh

LLapp on 2015-09-14 08:11:38
Talk like this could put the remote control industry out of business.

marnita on 2015-09-30 07:38:09
Not to worry, LLapp.

[LLapp]

Unattributed's identity REVEALED!

"If something is worth doing, then it's worth doing right." — Unattributed

iltquilt on 2012-07-11 01:39:22
My grandmother said this all the time -- she quoted Unattributed!

unicorn64 on 2013-08-21 15:06:53
No, unattributed quoted my father!

Unattributed on 2016-07-19 06:17:23
No, unicorn64. I AM YOUR FATHER!

[ddph]

"Most people ignore most poetry because most poetry ignores most people."
— Adrian Mitchell

Barnabas on 2013-12-13 03:11:39
I'm sorry, Adrian. Did you say something?

universalmom on 2014-10-29 02:45:50
(Just ignore him, Adrian)

dovid1946 on 2015-02-25 09:04:25
Yo, Adrian, we're talking to you

montyb on 2015-04-03 08:37:51
There are a ton a poems about that gentleman from Nantucket.

[ddph]

"He for himself weaves woe who weaves for others woe, and evil counsel on the counselor recoils."
— Hesiod

kat on 2010-01-04 16:25:01
What's with all this woe weaving?

kat on 2010-03-08 15:46:27
I can't stand woe weavers.

LiveLoveLaugh on 2010-04-19 00:08:01
wonder what woe weavers wear when walking westward

BuschMan on 2012-02-01 20:52:25
Not sure if this quote is Inspirational, Edgy or Offensive, Clever or Witty, Thought Provoking, Possibly Erred, or Confus... oh I guess it's Confusing

Queethebean on 2012-05-10 22:47:23
How much woe would a woe weaver weave if a woe weaver would weave woe?

wvwoman on 2013-10-30 05:42:06
love comments like these--i love a good laugh!

kb83 on 2014-11-07 03:58:59
Agree, these comments are great

rorym on 2015-07-17 04:52:23
whoa, too much woe.

[abra]

Bazinga's comment here is so funny to me. I've been waiting for it to show up.

"Light at the end of the tunnel? We don't even have a tunnel - we don't even know where the tunnel is."
— Lyndon B. Johnson

bazinga on 2014-02-24 04:55:54
When we was growin' up, we didn't have no tunnels. And we was grateful!

dovid1946 on 2014-12-12 04:06:04
that light at the end of the tunnel is another train heading in our direction

LLapp on 2014-12-17 15:42:39
I'm assuming this was about the unmanageable, undeclared war in Vietnam.

abra on 2015-03-31 11:45:56
OMgosh, bazinga, THAT made me LOL, for real. You made my husband laugh too.

kb83 on 2016-03-25 09:08:26
great comments, all!

Barnabas on 2017-01-19 11:25:11
Sure glad it was LBJ who said that and not my proctologist.

[746tiger]

Quiet please.

"Silence is one of the great arts of conversation. "
— Marcus Tullius Cicero

LLapp on 2015-05-20 19:55:53
(Clearly only the finest conversationalists have solved this quote.)

abra on 2017-01-18 13:20:15
Shhhh.