Aren't Quotes are fun?
Here is a list of some of my favorite quotes
My guts have shit for brains.
-- High Fidelity, the movie
I am only resolved to act in a manner which will constitute my own happiness without reference to you or any person so wholly unconnected with me.
-- Elizabeth bennet -- Pride and Prejudice, the bbc version (which is 10 times better than the book)
Punctuality is the virtue of the bored.
-- Evelyn Waugh
Being someone's friend is tough business.
-- Omer Bar-or
You just put your pickle on everybody's plate college boy and leave the hard stuff to me.
-- Johnny in Dirty Dancing
What some call health, if purchased by perpetual anxiety about diet, isn't much better than tedious disease.
-- George Dennison Prentice
There's nothing sadder in this world than to awake Christmas morning and not be a child.
-- Erma Bombeck
The only normal people are the ones you don't know very well.
-- Joe Ancis
8 December 2006 05:55am UTC • 777 views • 25 comments
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Boatswain The Fool
8 December 2006 12:35pm UTC
Hey! I made the cut! Thanks :)
Also: that last quote is particularly fantastic.
Kate the Quiet
8 December 2006 01:06pm UTC
Ahh! You did not just say that a BBC production was better than Jane Austen!
Carpenter Courtney
8 December 2006 04:21pm UTC
A positive attitude may not solve all your problems, but it will annoy enough people to make it worth the effort.
Steve the Interloper
8 December 2006 05:01pm UTC
No matter. Try again. Fail again. Fail better.
-Samuel Beckett, Worstward Ho
Peon Peetie
8 December 2006 07:25pm UTC
ah you've come just in time. look at the moon-- isn't it splendid?
-ryokan, japanese buddhist monk poet
Dread Pirate Benjamin
8 December 2006 07:33pm UTC
Honestly Kate, I couldn't even finish the book it was so painful. :( Sorry.
Kate the Quiet
8 December 2006 09:49pm UTC
Benji hates books.
-Kate
Dread Pirate Benjamin
8 December 2006 10:07pm UTC
Kate hates Colin Firth and cute British girls
-Benji
Kate the Quiet
8 December 2006 10:56pm UTC
Benji is full of lies.
-Kate
Boatswain The Fool
9 December 2006 12:36pm UTC
Omer hates everything that is beautiful.
The Anonymous Poppy
13 December 2006 05:09am UTC
Wow, that's actually kinda surprising, Benji. Because I've always found P&P to be the easiest of Austen's books to read, the most accessible. Have you tried any of the others?
Also, I find George Dennison Prentice's attitude toward good health to be disturbing. What some call health? He has obviously never actually enjoyed the benefits of how amazing eating well can make you feel. I agree, if the benefits did not outweigh the anxiety, it would not be worth it. But it's also terrible to assume that people who are health- and diet-conscious aren't doing it because it makes them feel better. I mean, that's basically assuming that some people are automatically idiots because they don't make the same lifestyle choices as you. /rant
Boatswain The Fool
13 December 2006 05:51pm UTC
I'm not sure I agree, Poppy. I only have this one quote to work with of Prentice's, so if you know more about him than I do, forgive me, but it seems like a fairer way of reading him than as against all forms of "eating well" is that he simply believes that some people do horrible things to their bodies under the guise of "living healthy." I get that reading of him because, if we take him at his word, he's not talking about health at all; he's talking about "what some call health," which (given his reference to "disease"), we can be pretty certain he doesn't think really embodies a healthy lifestyle. Although it may turn out that all forms of eating healthy will fall into his category of "disease," this quote doesn't really support that conclusion. It seems like he's really attacking the people who hold an ideal of "good health" that is based on something other than how good they feel, e.g., how good they look. In other words, Prentice is criticizing the people who hold some sort of ideal of what they think health looks like and are willing to make themselves feel worse (i.e., be "diseased") in order to get to it. I really don't think he's criticizing folks who eat healthy because it makes them feel better.
Furthermore, if I could be so bold as to explain why Benjamin likes the quote, given what we know about him: if Prentice is claiming that we shouldn't use ideals of health to determine how we act but rather things like how we feel, then it doesn't make much sense to criticize someone with alternative eating habits as long as they don't make her or him feel bad, even if we think that it's "healther" to follow our own habits. (With that said, we might well suggest that the person try other eating habits to see if they make her or him feel even better, but our goal should be to maximize how good they feel and maybe how happy they are, not how well they conform to our vision of a healthy lifestyle.) / rant about a rant
Boatswain The Fool
13 December 2006 05:52pm UTC
Well, shoot. Someone must not have ended their italics tag properly.
Dread Pirate Benjamin
13 December 2006 06:41pm UTC
Where do you want that tag to end Omer?
Boatswain The Fool
13 December 2006 06:42pm UTC
After "look" ... it was supposed to be one word long.
Dread Pirate Benjamin
13 December 2006 07:01pm UTC
Fixed!
Boatswain The Fool
13 December 2006 07:36pm UTC
Sweet! Thanks!
The Anonymous Poppy
13 December 2006 10:10pm UTC
Yes, that is a different reading of the quote than I was taking. I still like mine better. To me, he seems to be saying that genuinely better health, as the result of eating healthier, is not real health because "healthy eaters" spend so much time worrying about what they eat that they can't really enjoy their life. And that's not true health because your quality of life is significantly worse.
I would contest that argument on the basis that a little anxiety at first is worth the huge health benefit of maing healthier food choices. Going veg, for example, or drinking lots more water or eating mostly raw fooods.
But I definitely get that he could have been making a weaker argument against people who aren't actually eating that much healthier, but are running themselves ragged trying.
The Anonymous Poppy
13 December 2006 10:12pm UTC
I guess that's the real problem of quotes, that they take things so far out of context that they may not even preserve the correct opinion.
Dread Pirate Benjamin
13 December 2006 10:59pm UTC
Omer hit on why I like this quote in his second paragraph.
One thing I have learned in life is that everyone has an opinion on how you should eat. And they are all different. And they would tell you that they can't all be right.
But they are all right. For those people.
My summary on health boils down to this: Eat what you like. Stay active.
But the real point is, if you constantly worry about whether you are getting a good diet, even if it makes you feel better, you will irritate me. Especially if you talk to me about my diet.
To me, worrying about diet is tedious disease.
Dread Pirate Benjamin
13 December 2006 11:00pm UTC
And my summary on health is just as obnoxious as those that tell me what to eat. So here is an updated version.
Eat what you want to.
The Anonymous Poppy
14 December 2006 07:18pm UTC
I still find that kind of obnoxious. I mean, to the extent that I find anything obnoxious, which is not very much at all.
It's just that it seems like you're saying that there is no such thing as eating healthy, and there definitely is.
But I'm also a big fan of not insisting that other people eat a certain way. I think there is a right/good type of diet and I don't think there's anything wrong with sharing my views on it if the subject comes up, but I do try not to make other people fel bad/guilty/foolish for wanting to do things differently.
But that's pretty difficult for me, 'cause I do feel rather strongly about it. So, sorry if I rant!
Carpenter Courtney
21 December 2006 01:17pm UTC
Oh, let's all go veg and hug some cows. ;)
The Anonymous Poppy
22 December 2006 12:48am UTC
Would that be the dietary equivalent of "Can't we all just get along?"
Peon Peetie
22 December 2006 01:29am UTC
damn hippies