Classic Comments on the Quote

[LLapp]

Thank you, rasbury!


"Art arises when the secret vision of the artist and the manifestation of nature agree to find new shapes." — Khalil Gibran

LLapp
January 4, 2017, 4:36 pm
Even for Gibran, this seems more abstract than necessary. I wonder how he talked to his dry cleaner.

rasbury
December 2, 2021, 1:12 pm
"Please get your secret vision as a alchemical professional to agree with the manifestation of the natural qualities of the wool and the chemical properties of the miraculous human inventions of machinery and transformative processes on my humble coat. And if you don't get those stains out, I'm not paying you."

[LLapp]

"I want you to be everything that's you, deep at the center of your being." — Confucius

defeaterdefeater
October 23, 2013, 4:35 pm
This sounds a little more like Wayne Dyer than Confucius.

universalmom
January 27, 2014, 9:20 am
Or Tony Robbins.

abra
October 4, 2015, 2:12 pm
Even a "Confucius say", wouldn't make this sound like Confucius.

Quickly
April 21, 2016, 12:52 pm
yeah, this ain't Confucius. too individualistic.

DonnaIrene
May 7, 2018, 12:00 am
It's from a 1980 commencement address by Alan Alda, who probably finds it hilarious that it's now ascribed to Confucius.

darkyr
June 20, 2018, 5:33 am
Maybe, deep at the center of Alan Alda's being, Confucius rents a room.

Eureka
April 1, 2023, 10:11 pm
LOL darkyr

kb83
August 28, 2023, 6:06 pm
This was from a commencement speech by Confucius to the graduating class of "Great Wall University" in 500 BCE. (Sorry, Just made that up.)

[LLapp]

"When you leave a beautiful place, you carry it with you wherever you go." — Alexandra Stoddard

tpittman44
October 28, 2018, 12:02 am
I guess she is talking about the towels we put in our suitcases upon departure.

[Synonymous]

That is precious!! LOL!

[LLapp]

"Ideally a book would have no order to it, and the reader would have to discover his own." — Raoul Vaneigem

badbob
March 16, 2018, 12:06 pm
maybe this guy invented Mad-Libs

Roxanne
July 16, 2018, 1:50 am
If he did, the quote would be "Ideally a porpoise would have no tutu to it, and the dentist would have to synchronize his frisky."

[Eureka]

(Speaking of long conversations, here is a 15 year conversation that is quite charming.)

"Marriage is one long conversation, checkered by disputes. " — Robert Louis Stevenson

maradnu
May 23, 2009, 9:21 pm
Nothing like a British spelling to throw a slight curve.

opallady
July 15, 2009, 10:55 pm
Why not throw in a kerb or tyre while we're at it?

Highpoint
November 28, 2014, 11:15 am
What are the British spellings? "Marriage is one long conversation, checkered by disputes." is all American spelling.

abra
December 30, 2014, 2:57 pm
I wonder too. I'm thinking maybe "checkered" was spelled with a Q, and it's been edited.

SwampySox
August 30, 2016, 8:53 am
I'll check on this.

SippyGurl
November 29, 2016, 8:08 am
thinking the same, abra

kb83
July 19, 2017, 3:38 am
If you split up, then your disputes are exchequered.

abra
January 22, 2018, 5:25 pm
I see so many couples in restaurants now that spend their evening looking at their phones. They may only have the disputes and not the conversation.

mmfs83
June 23, 2018, 9:30 am
My fingers kept hitting the wrong letters.

LLapp
November 21, 2018, 12:14 pm
This quote is wonderfully accurate.

318WOZ
March 25, 2019, 10:56 am
When my wife and I get to go on a date, we usually don't use our phones for much at all, but if I ever pull mine out I actually feel weird.

jbb33054
October 27, 2019, 8:20 am
102

abra
May 20, 2020, 10:32 pm
Good for you, 318WOZ. Trying to figure out what to call you for short ) . 318 or WOZ.

318WOZ
July 2, 2020, 7:05 am
I don't know. It's one of those monikers that I didn't originally expect to use much--I just needed some user name. It goes back to an extremely simple experience I had in junior high school once. Either abbreviation is fine by me.

abra
July 11, 2020, 5:50 pm
I think I saw someone else call you WOZ, so I'll go with that.

xlr8r
August 22, 2020, 11:39 am
Looks like abra gets this quote a lot and I think this is the second time I've seen it this month. I'm surprised abra is not on the leader board, WOZ is.

Wordigo
August 26, 2020, 3:55 pm
The worst alternative is for celibacy to be one long conversation checkered by marriages.

abra
November 18, 2020, 1:37 am
abra's slow.

lesliecomelastly
December 24, 2020, 6:11 am
I'd say, 'A bad marriage is one long conversation etc... ' I guess Robert had a bad view of marriage. And that's sorta too bad.

mohamm1
June 23, 2021, 7:16 pm
Some marriages are one long dispute... ALL marriages are an opportunity to get feedback about areas in which one needs to heal, or grow (mature), or gain control over automatic emotional reactions.

Wordigo
August 5, 2022, 3:57 pm
A relationship with no disagreement would be very boring.

318WOZ
May 1, 2024, 9:17 pm
Oh, Abra, I would love to converse with you more--perhaps in several decades, after I've crossed that threshold also. For the record, I feel like I do not have a great screen name. In a junior high school French class, a girl who sat in front of me turned around once and wrote the title of a Cranberries song on my desk: ZOMBIE. Because she was turned around and wrote it right-side-up for her, it was upside down for me, so all I saw was 318WOZ, and I had no idea what it meant. Then she explained. I think it's a good song. I suppose if someone doesn't like me, they can call me a "zombie", which probably isn't flattering in any way, but on the bright side I've never seen anyone else use it as an identifier.

Synonymous
May 12, 2024, 10:40 am
^Nice! Both the tribute to abra and the story.