The Oxford dictionary of modern quotations (40 page)

7.27 Terry Gilliam =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-

1940-

See Graham Chapman (3.47)

7.28 Penelope Gilliatt =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-

1933-

It would be unfair to suggest that one of the most characteristic sounds

of the English Sunday is the sound of Harold Hobson barking up the wrong

tree.

Encore Nov.-Dec. 1959

Sunday, bloody Sunday.

Title of film (1971)

7.29 Allen Ginsberg =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-

1926-

What if someone gave a war & Nobody came?

Life would ring the bells of Ecstasy and Forever be Itself again.

Fall of America (1972) "Graffiti"

I saw the best minds of my generation destroyed by madness, starving

hysterical naked,

dragging themselves through the negro streets at dawn looking for an

angry fix,

angelheaded hipsters burning for the ancient heavenly connection to the

starry dynamo in the machinery of the night.

Howl (1956) p. 9

7.30 George Gipp =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-

d. 1920

"Some time, Rock," he said, "when the team's up against it, when things

are wrong and the breaks are beating the boys--tell them to go in there

with all they've got and win just one for the Gipper."

Knut Rockne "Gipp the Great" in Collier's 22 Nov. 1930

7.31 Jean Giraudoux =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-

1882-1944

Nous savons tous ici que le droit est la plus puissante des �coles de

l'imagination. Jamais po�te n'a interpr�t� la nature aussi librement qu'un

juriste la r�alit�.

We all know here that the law is the most powerful of schools for the

imagination. No poet ever interpreted nature as freely as a lawyer

interprets the truth.

La Guerre de Troie n'aura pas lieu (The Trojan War Will Not Take Place,

1935) act. 2, sc. 5

7.32 George Glass =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-

1910-1984

An actor is a kind of a guy who if you ain't talking about him ain't

listening.

In Bob Thomas Brando (1973) ch. 8 (said to be often quoted by Marlon

Brando, who is cited as quoting it in Observer 1 Jan. 1956)

7.33 John A. Glover-Kind =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-

d. 1918

I do like to be beside the seaside.

Title of song (1909)

7.34 Jean-Luc Godard =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-

1930-

La photographie, c'est la v�rit�. Le cin�ma: la v�rit� vingt-quatre fois

par seconde.

Photography is truth. The cinema is truth 24 times per second.

Le Petit Soldat (1960 film), in Lettres Fran�aises 31 Jan. 1963

"Movies should have a beginning, a middle and an end," harrumphed French

Film Maker Georges Franju at a symposium some years back. "Certainly,"

replied Jean-Luc Godard. "But not necessarily in that order."

Time 14 Sept. 1981

7.35 A. D. Godley =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-

1856-1925

What is this that roareth thus?

Can it be a Motor Bus?

Yes, the smell and hideous hum

Indicat Motorem Bum!...

How shall wretches live like us

Cincti Bis Motoribus?

Domine, defende nos

Contra hos Motores Bos!

Letter to C. R. L. Fletcher, 10 Jan 1914, in Reliquiae (1926) vol. 1,

p. 292

7.36 Joseph Goebbels =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-

1897-1945

Ohne Butter werden wir fertig, aber nicht beispielsweise ohne Kanonen.

Wenn wir einmal �berfallen werden, dann k�nnen wir uns nicht mit Butter,

sondern nur mit Kanonen verteidigen.

We can manage without butter but not, for example, without guns. If we

are attacked we can only defend ourselves with arms not with butter.

Speech in Berlin, 17 Jan. 1936, in Deutsche Allgemeine Zeitung 18 Jan.

1936. Cf. Hermann Goering

7.37 Hermann Goering =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-

1893-1946

We have no butter, meine Volksgenossen [my countrymen], but I ask

you--would you rather have butter or guns? Shall we import lard or metal

ores? Let me tell you--preparedness makes us powerful. Butter merely makes

us fat.

Speech at Hamburg, 1936, in W. Frischauer Goering (1951) ch. 10

7.38 Ivan Goff and Ben Roberts (Benjamin Eisenberg) =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-

Ivan Goff 1910-

Ben Roberts 1916-1984

Anyway, Ma, I made it....Top of the world!

White Heat (1949 film; last lines--spoken by James Cagney)

7.39 Isaac Goldberg =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-

1887-1938

Diplomacy is to do and say

The nastiest thing in the nicest way.

Reflex Oct. 1927, p. 77

7.40 William Golding =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-

1911-

Lord of the flies.

Title of novel (1954)

7.41 Emma Goldman =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-

1869-1940

Anarchism, then, really, stands for the liberation of the human mind from

the dominion of religion; the liberation of the human body from the

dominion of property; liberation from the shackles and restraints of

government.

Anarchism and Other Essays (1910) p. 68

7.42 Barry Goldwater =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-

1909-

I would remind you that extremism in the defence of liberty is no vice!

And let me remind you also that moderation in the pursuit of justice is no

virtue!

Speech accepting the presidential nomination, 16 July 1964, in New York

Times 17 July 1964, p. 1

7.43 Sam Goldwyn (Samuel Goldfish) =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-

1882-1974

Pictures are for entertainment, messages should be delivered by Western

Union.

In Arthur Marx Goldwyn (1976) ch. 15

Gentlemen, include me out.

Said on resigning from the Motion Picture Producers and Distributors of

America, Oct. 1933, in Michael Freedland The Goldwyn Touch (1986) ch. 10

A verbal contract isn't worth the paper it is written on.

In Alva Johnston The Great Goldwyn (1937) ch. 1

"I can answer you in two words, 'im-possible'" is almost the cornerstone

of the Goldwyn legend, but Sam did not say it. It was printed late in 1925

in a humorous magazine and credited to an anonymous Potash or Perlmutter.

Alva Johnston The Great Goldwyn (1937) ch. 1

That's the way with these directors, they're always biting the hand that

lays the golden egg.

In Alva Johnston The Great Goldwyn (1937) ch. 1

Any man who goes to a psychiatrist should have his head examined.

In Norman Zierold Moguls (1969) ch. 3

It is doubtful that Goldwyn made the remark attributed to him by several

authors: "The reason so many people showed up at his [Louis B. Mayer's]

funeral was because they wanted to make sure he was dead." In Hollywood

one hears that sentiment attributed to other moguls at other funerals.

It's a good story, and the temptation to use it is almost irresistible.

Goldwyn, however, denies making the remark. He did not go to the funeral,

was in fact not invited, but his son who was with him on that day says he

was deeply moved despite the fact that he never liked Mayer.

Norman Zierold Moguls (1969) ch. 3

Why should people go out and pay to see bad movies when they can stay at

home and see bad television for nothing?

In Observer 9 Sept. 1956

7.44 Paul Goodman =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-

1911-1972

All men are creative but few are artists.

Growing up Absurd (1961) ch. 9

7.45 Mack Gordon =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-

1904-1959

Pardon me boy is that the Chattanooga Choo-choo,

Track twenty nine,

Boy you can gimme a shine.

I can afford to board a Chattanooga Choo-choo,

I've got my fare and just a trifle to spare.

You leave the Pennsylvania station 'bout a quarter to four,

Read a magazine and then you're in Baltimore,

Dinner in the diner nothing could be finer

Than to have your ham'n eggs in Carolina.

Chattanooga Choo-choo (1941 song; music by Harry Warren)

7.46 Stuart Gorrell =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-

1902-1963

Georgia, Georgia, no peace I find,

Just an old sweet song keeps Georgia on my mind.

Georgia on my Mind (1930 song; music by Hoagy Carmichael)

7.47 Sir Edmund Gosse =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-

1849-1928

At a lunch at the House of Lords [circa 1906] given by Edmund Gosse...the

woolly-bearded poet, Sturge Moore...entered late. Gosse, a naughty host,

whispered in my ear, "A sheep in sheep's clothing."

F. Greenslet Under the Bridge (1943) ch. 10. Cf. Winston Churchill 56:3

7.48 Lord Gowrie (2nd Earl of Gowrie) =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-

1939-

[�1,500 a month] is not what people need for living in central London, and

which I am more or less obliged to do.

In BBC radio interview, 4 Sept. 1985, in The Times 5 Sept. 1985 (giving

reason for resigning as Minister for the Arts)

7.49 Lew Grade (Baron Grade) =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-

1906-

All my shows are great. Some of them are bad. But they are all great.

In Observer 14 Sept. 1975

7.50 D. M. Graham =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-

1911-

That this House will in no circumstances fight for its King and Country.

Motion worded by Graham (the then-Librarian) for debate at the Oxford

Union, 9 Feb. 1933, and passed by 275 votes to 153

7.51 Harry Graham =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-

1874-1936

Weep not for little L�onie

Abducted by a French Marquis!

Though loss of honour was a wrench

Just think how it's improved her French.

More Ruthless Rhymes for Heartless Homes (1930) "Compensation"

Aunt Jane observed, the second time

She tumbled off a bus,

"The step is short from the Sublime

To the Ridiculous."

Ruthless Rhymes for Heartless Homes (1899) "Equanimity"

Billy, in one of his nice new sashes,

Fell in the fire and was burnt to ashes;

Now, although the room grows chilly,

I haven't the heart to poke poor Billy.

Ruthless Rhymes for Heartless Homes (1899) "Tender-Heartedness"

O'er the rugged mountain's brow

Clara threw the twins she nursed,

And remarked, "I wonder now

Which will reach the bottom first?"

Ruthless Rhymes for Heartless Homes (1899) "Calculating Clara"

"There's been an accident," they said,

"Your servant's cut in half; he's dead!"

"Indeed!" said Mr Jones, "and please,

Send me the half that's got my keys."

Ruthless Rhymes for Heartless Homes (1899) "Mr Jones" (poem attributed to

"G.W.")

7.52 Kenneth Grahame =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-

1859-1932

The curate faced the laurels--hesitatingly. But Aunt Maria flung herself

on him. "O Mr Hodgitts!" I heard her cry, "you are brave! for my sake do

not be rash!" He was not rash.

The Golden Age (1895) "The Burglars"

Monkeys, who very sensibly refrain from speech, lest they should be set to

earn their livings.

The Golden Age (1895) "Lusisti Satis"

Believe me, my young friend, there is nothing--absolutely nothing--half so

much worth doing as simply messing about in boats.

Wind in the Willows (1908) ch. 1

"There's cold chicken inside it," replied the Rat briefly;

"coldtonguecoldhamcoldbeefpickledgerkinssaladfrenchrollscresssandwidgespottedmeatgingerbeerlemonadesodawater--"

Wind in the Willows (1908) ch. 1

"Glorious, stirring sight!" murmured Toad, never offering to move. "The

poetry of motion! The real way to travel! The only way to travel! Here

today--in next week tomorrow! Villages skipped, towns and cities

jumped--always somebody else's horizon! O bliss! O poop-poop! O my! O my!"

Wind in the Willows (1908) ch. 2

The clever men at Oxford

Know all that there is to be knowed.

But they none of them know one half as much

As intelligent Mr Toad!

Wind in the Willows (1908) ch. 10

7.53 Bernie Grant =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-

1944-

The police were to blame for what happened on Sunday night and what they

got was a bloody good hiding.

Speech as leader of Haringey Council outside Tottenham Town Hall, 8 Oct.

1985, in The Times 9 Oct. 1985