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  • "The first man to compare the cheeks of a young woman to a rose was obviously a poet - the first to repeat it was possibly an idiot." — Salvador Dali

    ernests
    August 23, 2018, 6:41 pm
    The third was a poet again, but this time writing a comic verse about the second guy. The fourth was just some drunk guy. After that, pretty much everyone was doing it for a while before it went out of fashion and comparing foreheads to alabaster became the in thing.

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    • "Hate is the consequence of fear; we fear something before we hate it. A child who fears noises becomes a man who hates noise."
      — Cyril Connolly

      LLapp
      April 3, 2015, 7:20 pm
      Unless the child is a girl.
      LLapp
      January 9, 2016, 3:56 pm
      As I used to tell my daughter, "Stop being afraid of noises, or you'll grow up to be a man!"
      abra
      June 3, 2019, 2:22 am
      Right, LLapp, He should have said ''an adult', or a ''boy'' who fears noise''.
      montyb
      October 22, 2019, 2:50 pm
      Would you all please pipe down? Geez, who can solve cryptograms with this cacophony all around?

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      • The 59th St. Bridge thread

        "Light, when suddenly let in, dazzles and hurts and almost blinds us: but this soon passes away, and it seems to become the only element we can exist in." — Augustus William Hare

        LLapp
        April 27, 2017, 3:33 pm
        I liked "dapples" -- very painterly.

        Queethebean
        September 19, 2017, 12:40 am
        I also had dapples.

        Persephone59
        April 24, 2018, 8:38 pm
        I as well. I'm not easily dazzled.

        montyb
        August 17, 2018, 8:15 am
        Let's hear it for all us dappled and drowsy and ready to sleep people. Let the morningtime drop all its petals on us.

        abra
        December 30, 2018, 6:13 pm
        All is groovy. Dappling sounds less painful than dazzling.

        LLapp
        January 18, 2019, 10:02 pm
        Slow down, nanrich! You move too fast.

        Eureka
        April 8, 2019, 10:50 pm
        And that's why I like my transition lenses.

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        • "I am become death, shatterer of worlds. "
          — Julius Robert Oppenheimer

          puzzleme
          September 4, 2011, 2:03 am
          This is not an original Oppenheimer quote. It is from The Bhagavad GÄ«ta and was quoted by Oppenheimer in an interview where he discussed his role in the development of the atomic bomb.

          Kgun5
          June 14, 2013, 2:33 am
          His delivery of it was dynamite, though.

          geeko321
          February 10, 2014, 8:00 am
          Is this grammar correct? Seems awkward.

          dovid1946
          February 24, 2015, 7:22 am
          The bhagavad vita actually includes an account of a nuclear war fought by aliens above the earth milleniia ago.

          CarpeLanam
          October 12, 2017, 2:44 am
          As for the grammar, "become" is a linking verb, meaning the subject and predicate are the same thing. I = Death. I am Death. I (have) become Death. It's similar to the grammar of French "Je suis devenu la mort." (For a transitive verb it would be "J'ai vu...") And there is an interesting article here: (link)

          MamaB
          March 5, 2018, 1:18 pm
          Thanks, Carpe.

          DrCryptell
          October 5, 2018, 7:57 pm
          "I am" is the shortest sentence in the English language, For another verb to follow it is grammatically incorrect. making this difficult to solve.

          MamaB
          February 21, 2019, 5:04 am
          Tell that to the bhagavad vita. I still like Carpe's explanation.

          oddcouple
          May 11, 2019, 2:26 am
          "I am" may be the shortest sentence, but "I do" is the longest.

          Queethebean
          May 20, 2019, 9:45 pm
          And a rim shot for oddcouple!

          abra
          August 22, 2019, 8:04 pm
          Great comment, kgun5.

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          • "Why has God given me such magnificent talent? It is a curse as well as a great blessing."
            — Albrecht Dürer

            LLapp
            October 12, 2018, 11:16 am
            I mutter this same exact gripe every morning when I get up and stumble toward the coffeemaker.
            "Great spirits have always encountered violent opposition from mediocre minds." -- Albert Einstein

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            • "The buck stops with the guy who signs the checks." — Rupert Murdoch

              montyb
              January 8, 2016, 3:22 pm
              Then the bucks stay with him. So much for trickle-down economics.

              kb83
              April 6, 2016, 4:32 am
              The buck checks with the sign that stops the guy.

              Roxanne
              November 28, 2018, 5:38 am
              This is precisely why I now pay bills online instead of by check. On check-writing day, I used to look up from my kitchen table and there would be a six-point buck standing outside, ripping a hole in the porch screen with his antlers and grunting. This only happened outside of hunting season, mind you.

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              • "Advertising is the modern substitute for argument; its function is to make the worse appear the better." — George Santayana

                Johnlocke
                April 1, 2019, 9:24 pm
                I think Abraxas was my favorite album by him.

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                • Laughed out loud...

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                  • "Those who live in glass houses shouldn't throw stones." — Unattributed

                    darkyr
                    November 18, 2016, 9:46 am
                    uh-oh. I do this all the time. Why shouldn't I? There really should be a because on these quotes. Now I'll have to wait months before I get an answer, if I get an answer.

                    darkyr
                    June 30, 2017, 11:02 am
                    This time it took me a bit longer because I was actually holding a stone, about to throw it, when I remembered I live in a glass house. How eerie that this was the quote I was solving right at that moment.

                    TPITTMAN44
                    May 12, 2019, 7:15 am
                    Maybe they shouldn't throw orgies either.

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                    • Here is a classic stream of consciousness, involving many people and multiple paths, that makes this site so darned enjoyable!

                      "Did you ever stop to taste a carrot? Not just eat it, but taste it? You can't taste the beauty and energy of the earth in a Twinkie."
                      — Astrid Alauda


                      fredsevent
                      December 29, 2011, 4:29 pm
                      Me like Twinkies. Me no like carrots. Me no like this quote.

                      billkeiko
                      January 9, 2013, 8:22 pm
                      this was my first online crypt. nice website. thanks

                      montyb
                      June 3, 2013, 1:06 am
                      Carrot cake Twinkie?

                      bansaisequoia
                      August 20, 2013, 12:49 am
                      Brilliant idea, monty! We'll fill the carrot cake twinkies with cream cheese frosting and make million$!

                      skoogie2
                      November 15, 2013, 3:27 pm
                      Oh my gosh! I want a carrot cake twinkie!

                      abra
                      February 26, 2014, 2:57 pm
                      I'll just eat the frosting. I don't want to taste all that carrot cake, Earth energy.

                      maradnu
                      March 26, 2015, 4:05 pm
                      I'd rather eat carrots than twinkies. Then again, I'd rather eat fettuccine alfredo than either of those

                      marnita
                      June 9, 2015, 6:51 pm
                      I don't care for Twinkies, but I could definitely go for Monty and Bansai's carrot cake version!

                      oddcouple
                      January 16, 2016, 12:38 am
                      There appears to be no such person as Astrid Alauda, so it very well may be a pseudonym.

                      abra
                      March 30, 2016, 9:24 am
                      I only eat carrots, if they're cut the right way. Three or four inch cross cut pieces for stew, cut length wise with pot roast, julienned for soup, grated for salad, never, ever diced in anything. There are no exceptions to the rules. Well there's one exception, if I'm a guest, eating someone else's cooking. In that case, I will try to discreetly mash them with my fork.

                      wvwoman
                      June 30, 2016, 3:23 pm
                      very interesting, abra! are you that fastidious with other foods?

                      SwampySox
                      July 22, 2016, 11:48 am
                      Gimme carrot cake with 1/2 in cream cheese icing, or carrots out of the garden. (They tasted soo-oo good when we raided gardens as kids.)

                      oddcouple
                      August 27, 2016, 10:41 am
                      This time I tried to taste a parrot. He just squawked.

                      marnita
                      September 15, 2016, 11:44 am
                      I still have a hankering for a carrot cake Twinkie.

                      SippyGurl
                      December 10, 2016, 8:36 am
                      i make carrot bread with lemon icing, mebbe next time ima put a layer of icing in the middle as well

                      puzzleme
                      March 8, 2017, 2:55 pm
                      oddcouple made me guffaw so suddenly I nearly choked on my imaginary carrot cake twinkie. (And I still think Astrud is the twin from whom Robert Brault was separated at birth.)

                      marnita
                      June 10, 2017, 3:26 am
                      No munchin' on the parrots, Odd. We may have to get the Audubon Society after you.

                      kb83
                      July 7, 2017, 6:54 am
                      The twinkie is a primal food. It connects us with every source of energy and harmony in the universe.

                      phthelen
                      August 5, 2017, 2:20 pm
                      Welcome billkeiko. Don't worry, the roomies aren't always this crazy. LOL.

                      maradnu
                      September 16, 2017, 2:45 am
                      Yes, we are

                      NotTooOld
                      November 27, 2017, 12:47 pm
                      I love raw carrots, so crunchy and sweet! Twinkies are yuck!

                      abra
                      June 13, 2018, 12:14 pm
                      Marnita, no, some veggies I avoid entirely, but carrots are the only ones that have ''rules''. Astrid, I think that ''Earth energy'' is actually DIRT. Do you have one of the vegetable brushes?

                      imsoeasy
                      February 10, 2019, 1:47 am
                      Warning! Consuming Twinkies instead of healthful carrots could be a sign of depression which could cause you to do something violent.

                      darkyr
                      May 1, 2019, 11:43 am
                      I really stopped to taste a carrot the other day and it made me think of cream cheese filled twinkies. Now that is some crazy earth energy.
                      "Great spirits have always encountered violent opposition from mediocre minds." -- Albert Einstein

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                      • "Money never made a man happy yet, nor will it. The more a man has, the more he wants. Instead of filling a vacuum, it makes one." — Benjamin Franklin

                        lertsek
                        July 3, 2018, 6:58 pm
                        I wonder how Ben feels about being on our highest denomination of currency.

                        darkyr
                        July 31, 2018, 4:15 am
                        It doesn't make him happy. He was hoping to be on the 20 so he would get out more.

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                        • "Clever people are always the best conversationalists." — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

                          darkyr
                          June 16, 2016, 10:18 am
                          My shoe is on backwards.

                          RustySkipper
                          February 24, 2018, 4:15 pm
                          darkyr, that has got to hoethe.

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                          • "Reason, observation, and experience; the holy trinity of science. "
                            — Robert Green Ingersoll

                            kb83
                            August 29, 2017, 10:19 am
                            In the name of the theory, and of the data, and of the null hypothesis.
                            "Great spirits have always encountered violent opposition from mediocre minds." -- Albert Einstein

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                            • "The only lasting beauty is the beauty of the heart." Robert Frost

                              The power of montyb over us all... LOL (see last comment)


                              montyb
                              December 31, 2012, 9:55 pm
                              I'm kind of a spleen man myself.
                              Allen
                              June 26, 2014, 9:50 am
                              Be still my spleen!
                              LLapp
                              August 7, 2016, 2:25 pm
                              My spleen was in my throat.
                              maradnu
                              October 13, 2016, 2:09 pm
                              Could you spleen that to me?
                              mikehallbackhoe
                              November 21, 2016, 5:20 pm
                              I'm just spleenbroken over this whole affair
                              Roxanne
                              December 30, 2016, 5:35 am
                              I like how you all have gotten right to the spleen of the matter.
                              abra
                              January 7, 2017, 12:56 pm
                              Don't wear your spleen on your sleeve.
                              marnita
                              February 16, 2017, 10:18 am
                              I am impressed by all these spleen-felt comments.
                              puzzleme
                              February 21, 2017, 5:22 pm
                              I wonder if Heart would have had such musical success if they had called themselves Spleen instead.
                              darkyr
                              June 22, 2017, 4:57 am
                              Bless y'alls spleens. These comments have made my day.
                              Fudi
                              May 23, 2018, 3:31 am
                              Spleen-did performance on my part! 39 seconds!
                              LLapp
                              May 25, 2018, 3:27 pm
                              Wow Fudi, that's really fast for a newcomer!
                              fishbum
                              July 30, 2018, 4:31 am
                              I left my spleen in San Francisco after my accident.
                              LLapp
                              October 2, 2018, 3:00 pm
                              This spleen-to-spleen discussion is really spleen-warming.
                              pj48
                              December 26, 2018, 3:53 pm
                              Thank you all, from the bottom of my spleen.
                              nedzeppelin1453
                              May 7, 2019, 5:50 pm
                              I'm chuckling half-spleenedly.
                              glassguy
                              July 29, 2019, 9:01 am
                              All these spleen comments really make my liver quiver!
                              Disturbed1
                              November 27, 2019, 1:05 pm
                              Apparently monty is a bad influence on all of you.

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                              • Amazed at my own humor on this one!

                                "Did you ever stop to taste a carrot? Not just eat it, but taste it? You can't taste the beauty and energy of the earth in a Twinkie."
                                — Astrid Alauda


                                fredsevent
                                December 29, 2011, 4:29 pm
                                Me like Twinkies. Me no like carrots. Me no like this quote.
                                billkeiko
                                January 9, 2013, 8:22 pm
                                this was my first online crypt. nice website. thanks
                                montyb
                                June 3, 2013, 1:06 am
                                Carrot cake Twinkie?
                                bansaisequoia
                                August 20, 2013, 12:49 am
                                Brilliant idea, monty! We'll fill the carrot cake twinkies with cream cheese frosting and make million$!
                                skoogie2
                                November 15, 2013, 3:27 pm
                                Oh my gosh! I want a carrot cake twinkie!
                                abra
                                February 26, 2014, 2:57 pm
                                I'll just eat the frosting. I don't want to taste all that carrot cake, Earth energy.
                                maradnu
                                March 26, 2015, 4:05 pm
                                I'd rather eat carrots than twinkies. Then again, I'd rather eat fettuccine alfredo than either of those
                                marnita
                                June 9, 2015, 6:51 pm
                                I don't care for Twinkies, but I could definitely go for Monty and Bansai's carrot cake version!
                                oddcouple
                                January 16, 2016, 12:38 am
                                There appears to be no such person as Astrid Alauda, so it very well may be a pseudonym.
                                abra
                                March 30, 2016, 9:24 am
                                I only eat carrots, if they're cut the right way. Three or four inch cross cut pieces for stew, cut length wise with pot roast, julienned for soup, grated for salad, never, ever diced in anything. There are no exceptions to the rules. Well there's one exception, if I'm a guest, eating someone else's cooking. In that case, I will try to discreetly mash them with my fork.
                                wvwoman
                                June 30, 2016, 3:23 pm
                                very interesting, abra! are you that fastidious with other foods?
                                SwampySox
                                July 22, 2016, 11:48 am
                                Gimme carrot cake with 1/2 in cream cheese icing, or carrots out of the garden. (They tasted soo-oo good when we raided gardens as kids.)
                                oddcouple
                                August 27, 2016, 10:41 am
                                This time I tried to taste a parrot. He just squawked.
                                marnita
                                September 15, 2016, 11:44 am
                                I still have a hankering for a carrot cake Twinkie.
                                SippyGurl
                                December 10, 2016, 8:36 am
                                i make carrot bread with lemon icing, mebbe next time ima put a layer of icing in the middle as well
                                puzzleme
                                March 8, 2017, 2:55 pm
                                oddcouple made me guffaw so suddenly I nearly choked on my imaginary carrot cake twinkie. (And I still think Astrud is the twin from whom Robert Brault was separated at birth.)
                                marnita
                                June 10, 2017, 3:26 am
                                No munchin' on the parrots, Odd. We may have to get the Audubon Society after you.
                                kb83
                                July 7, 2017, 6:54 am
                                The twinkie is a primal food. It connects us with every source of energy and harmony in the universe.
                                phthelen
                                August 5, 2017, 2:20 pm
                                Welcome billkeiko. Don't worry, the roomies aren't always this crazy. LOL.
                                maradnu
                                September 16, 2017, 2:45 am
                                Yes, we are
                                NotTooOld
                                November 27, 2017, 12:47 pm
                                I love raw carrots, so crunchy and sweet! Twinkies are yuck!
                                abra
                                June 13, 2018, 12:14 pm
                                Marnita, no, some veggies I avoid entirely, but carrots are the only ones that have ''rules''. Astrid, I think that ''Earth energy'' is actually DIRT. Do you have one of the vegetable brushes?
                                imsoeasy
                                February 10, 2019, 1:47 am
                                Warning! Consuming Twinkies instead of healthful carrots could be a sign of depression which could cause you to do something violent.
                                darkyr
                                May 1, 2019, 11:43 am
                                I really stopped to taste a carrot the other day and it made me think of cream cheese filled twinkies. Now that is some crazy earth energy.

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