Welcome, Guest. Please login or register.
April 02, 2024, 05:39:18 am

Login with username, password and session length


Members
  • Total Members: 37617
  • Latest: NChio
Stats
  • Total Posts: 772996
  • Total Topics: 66312
  • Online Today: 225
  • Online Ever: 5484
  • (June 18, 2021, 11:15:29 pm)
Users Online
Users: 0
Guests: 209
Total: 209

Welcome


Welcome to the POZ Community Forums, a round-the-clock discussion area for people with HIV/AIDS, their friends/family/caregivers, and others concerned about HIV/AIDS.  Click on the links below to browse our various forums; scroll down for a glance at the most recent posts; or join in the conversation yourself by registering on the left side of this page.

Privacy Warning:  Please realize that these forums are open to all, and are fully searchable via Google and other search engines. If you are HIV positive and disclose this in our forums, then it is almost the same thing as telling the whole world (or at least the World Wide Web). If this concerns you, then do not use a username or avatar that are self-identifying in any way. We do not allow the deletion of anything you post in these forums, so think before you post.

  • The information shared in these forums, by moderators and members, is designed to complement, not replace, the relationship between an individual and his/her own physician.

  • All members of these forums are, by default, not considered to be licensed medical providers. If otherwise, users must clearly define themselves as such.

  • Forums members must behave at all times with respect and honesty. Posting guidelines, including time-out and banning policies, have been established by the moderators of these forums. Click here for “Do I Have HIV?” posting guidelines. Click here for posting guidelines pertaining to all other POZ community forums.

  • We ask all forums members to provide references for health/medical/scientific information they provide, when it is not a personal experience being discussed. Please provide hyperlinks with full URLs or full citations of published works not available via the Internet. Additionally, all forums members must post information which are true and correct to their knowledge.

  • Product advertisement—including links; banners; editorial content; and clinical trial, study or survey participation—is strictly prohibited by forums members unless permission has been secured from POZ.

To change forums navigation language settings, click here (members only), Register now

Para cambiar sus preferencias de los foros en español, haz clic aquí (sólo miembros), Regístrate ahora

Finished Reading This? You can collapse this or any other box on this page by clicking the symbol in each box.

Author Topic: Meaningful quotes websites  (Read 4273 times)

0 Members and 1 Guest are viewing this topic.

Offline Iggy

  • Member
  • Posts: 2,434
Meaningful quotes websites
« on: January 06, 2007, 12:03:21 am »
.
« Last Edit: January 09, 2007, 11:26:53 pm by Iggy »

Offline Dachshund

  • Member
  • Posts: 6,058
Re: Meaningful quotes websites
« Reply #1 on: January 06, 2007, 12:07:32 am »
Try Wikiquote. ;)

Offline Iggy

  • Member
  • Posts: 2,434
Re: Meaningful quotes websites
« Reply #2 on: January 06, 2007, 12:08:30 am »
.
« Last Edit: January 09, 2007, 11:26:41 pm by Iggy »

Offline lydgate

  • Member
  • Posts: 1,022
  • Virgin, can't drive
Re: Meaningful quotes websites
« Reply #3 on: January 06, 2007, 12:10:44 am »
Are you looking for specifically inspirational quotes, or specifically circa 1900 quotes?

As a quotes junkie, I have three BIG quotes compendia: Bartlett's, Oxford, and (the very new) Yale. Might be worth investing in one of those.

Jay
Her finely-touched spirit had still its fine issues, though they were not widely visible. Her full nature, like that river of which Cyrus broke the strength, spent itself in channels which had no great name on the earth. But the effect of her being on those around her was incalculably diffusive: for the growing good of the world is partly dependent on unhistoric acts; and that things are not so ill with you and me as they might have been, is half owing to the number who lived faithfully a hidden life, and rest in unvisited tombs.

George Eliot, Middlemarch, final paragraph

Offline Iggy

  • Member
  • Posts: 2,434
Re: Meaningful quotes websites
« Reply #4 on: January 06, 2007, 12:13:51 am »
.
« Last Edit: January 09, 2007, 11:26:25 pm by Iggy »

Offline Ann

  • Administrator
  • Member
  • Posts: 28,134
  • It just is, OK?
    • Num is sum qui mentiar tibi?
Re: Meaningful quotes websites
« Reply #5 on: January 06, 2007, 08:40:43 am »
Quote junkie here too!

I also have the Oxford, plus the New Penguin Dictionary of Modern Quotations as well as several miscellaneous books of "favourite" quotes compiled by various people.

Putting "quote" into any decent search engine should give you loads of online sites. I kinda prefer books though.

Ann

"The taste for quotations (and for the juxtaposition of incongruous quotations) is a Surrealist taste." Susan Sontag

;D
 
Condoms are a girl's best friend

Condom and Lube Info  

"...health will finally be seen not as a blessing to be wished for, but as a human right to be fought for." Kofi Annan

Nymphomaniac: a woman as obsessed with sex as an average man. Mignon McLaughlin

HIV is certainly character-building. It's made me see all of the shallow things we cling to, like ego and vanity. Of course, I'd rather have a few more T-cells and a little less character. Randy Shilts

Offline bear60

  • Member
  • Posts: 4,105
Re: Meaningful quotes websites
« Reply #6 on: January 06, 2007, 01:15:35 pm »
Poz Bear Type in Philadelphia

Offline thunter34

  • Member
  • Posts: 7,374
  • His name is Carl.
Re: Meaningful quotes websites
« Reply #7 on: January 06, 2007, 01:23:55 pm »
I always liked to try to take quotes and lyrics and put them into a different context to give them a different meaning if I could.

Like these from the Beatles- used to describe typing out cover letter after cover letter in the pursuit of a job through online sites.  I got so tired of typing them up and sending them into the void and not hearing anything back (or even a confirmation email of receipt).  It was so frustrating at the time!


Words are flowing out like endless rain into a paper cup
They slither while they pass
They slip away across the universe
.
AIDS isn't for sissies.

Offline Boo Radley

  • Member
  • Posts: 1,252
  • Not a "real man" and damn proud, mithter... FAB
    • Animal Rescue New Orleans
Re: Meaningful quotes websites
« Reply #8 on: January 06, 2007, 02:22:55 pm »
Whenever I look for quotes I first seek Dottie Parker:

"Ducking for apples - change one letter and it's the story of my life. "

"If you want to know what God thinks of money, just look at the people he gave it to."

"This is not a novel to be tossed aside lightly. It should be thrown with great force."

"She runs the gamut of emotions from A to B."

"I went to a convent in New York and was fired finally for my insistence that the Immaculate Conception was spontaneous combustion."
 
Next, Oscar Wilde:

"I sometimes think that God, in creating man, overestimated His ability."

"The basis for optimism is sheer terror."

"There is no such thing as a moral or an immoral book. Books are well written or badly written."

"There are two ways of disliking poetry; one way is to dislike it, the other is to read Pope. "


If I can't find anything between those 2 I probably wouldn't use it anyway.

Boo
String up every aristocrat!
Out with the priests and let them live on their fat!





Everything I do, say, think, excrete, secrete, exude, ooze, or write © 2007 Sweet Old Boo, Inc.

Offline lydgate

  • Member
  • Posts: 1,022
  • Virgin, can't drive
Re: Meaningful quotes websites
« Reply #9 on: January 06, 2007, 06:54:23 pm »
Parker and Wilde -- definitely two of the most quotable (because most epigrammatic, aphoristic) writers.

Quotes about quotes:

"Most collectors of verses and sayings proceed as though they were eating cherries or oysters, choosing the best first, and ending by eating them all." -- Chamfort

"I hate quotations. Tell me what you know." -- Emerson

"By necessity, by proclivity, and by delight, we all quote." -- Emerson

[Now what was that Emerson quote about a foolish consistency?  :)]

"'What else have you underlined?'
'What everybody underlines,' she said. 'Everything that says me'" -- Philip Roth

Jay
Her finely-touched spirit had still its fine issues, though they were not widely visible. Her full nature, like that river of which Cyrus broke the strength, spent itself in channels which had no great name on the earth. But the effect of her being on those around her was incalculably diffusive: for the growing good of the world is partly dependent on unhistoric acts; and that things are not so ill with you and me as they might have been, is half owing to the number who lived faithfully a hidden life, and rest in unvisited tombs.

George Eliot, Middlemarch, final paragraph

 


Terms of Membership for these forums
 

© 2024 Smart + Strong. All Rights Reserved.   terms of use and your privacy
Smart + Strong® is a registered trademark of CDM Publishing, LLC.