It was our viva voce yesterday and they asked me to quote the apostrophe to Helen from Doctor Faustus.I come back to find Silverine asking me to quote some more.:-)
Colourless green ideas sleep furiously -Noam Chomsky's famous example which illustrates grammaticality and acceptablity.Words make sense when they mean but they turn magical when they have a heart.Jotting down quotes is something near impossible because scores of lines that can touch, chance your way everyday.Our HoD used to say,"Good literature is wasted when it is printed in newspapers."
Jot down 5 of your favorite quotes from the various books you’ve read. If you don’t have the books with you now, googling (Wikiquotes and the like) can be used to find them. Tag five people and acknowledge the person who tagged you.
1.
Jack : " I am sick to death of cleverness. Everybody is clever nowadays. You can't go anywhere without meeting clever people. The thing has become an absolute public nuisance. I wish to goodness we still had a few fools left.
Algernon : We have.
Jack : I should extremely like to meet them. What do they talk about?
Algernon: The fools? Oh, about the clever people, of course.
Jack : What fools! "
The Importance of Being Earnest ,Oscar Wilde.
2."Faith in God is an opening up,a letting go,a deep trust,a free act of love-but sometimes,it was so hard to love."
Life of Pi,Yann Martel
3."The tears of the world are a constant quantity. For each one who begins to weep, somewhere else another stops. The same is true of the laugh."
Waiting for Godot, Samuel Beckett
4. "The hardest arithematic to master is that which enables us to count our blessings."
- Eric Hoffer
5. "And there are those who give and know not pain in giving, nor do they seek joy,nor give with mindfulness of virtue:They give as in yonder valley the myrtle breathes its fragrance into space.Through the hands of such as these God speaks, and from behind their eyes He smiles upon the earth."
- Khalil Gibran
I tag
Deepti
George
Merin
10 comments:
Wow!!! I was at Karthik's blog just now and read the amazing quotes there, and this just finishes off that feast perfectly! Absolutely loved all the quotes. The Samuel Beckett quote was the best! Thanks for taking up the tag. I knew you would do wonders with it! :)
"The tears of the world are a constant quantity. For each one who begins to weep, somewhere else another stops. The same is true of the laugh."
what a quote..each quote you have mentioned here is a gem and does have a heart...I should get my hands on "Life of Pi" sometime...
Awesome quotes .. will do the tag :) I am sure mine wont be half as good as yours :)
@silverine
Really enjoyed doing this tag...thanks for tagging me.:-)
@mathew
'Waiting for Godot' is the hallmark of absurd plays so it is hardly surprising these lines come from Pozzo,the cruel master.Enjoy reading "Life of Pi".Merci!
@deepti
hey saw you were already tagged only after i put up the post:-(...anyway,looking forward to read yours.:-)
I thought asking you to write a tag like this was like as Federer to play some tennis. Surprisingly I notice that except for quote 1 all the rest have more or less the same tone.Tennis fans like me were expecting some variety from the maestro.
Beckett's and Hoffer's quotes are excellent choices. :)
Very interesting take on the tag. Needless to say, awesome read. :)
@george
"The problem with people is that they are only human."
-Hobbes
It applies to maestros too.;-D
@emmanuel
Thank you!:-)
"neena n quotes"...that s a wonderful combination...
btw let me ask u a doubt....hw did u manage to stop with just 5 quotes here????
nywas all ur choices r really good!!! loved the first one...
@merin
yeah...had to slam the brakes real hard to stop at 5 ;-)..anxious to see the 'English teacher' quotes.:-)
Nice quotes Neena.
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