#QuoteSunday

"Aren't sequels brilliant. The same film with the same title but with a different number like 2 or 3. Even bad films are great aren't they because at least they try. In the future all films will be brilliant. In fact everything will be brilliant in the future…"

"…Briiiiilllllllliiiiiiaaaaaaaaaaannnnnnnnntttttt!"

– Brilliant, The Fast Show S1 E1.

#QuoteSunday

"If anyone on the verge of action should judge himself according to the outcome, he would never begin. Even though the result may gladden the whole world, that cannot help the hero; for he knows the result only when the whole thing is over, and that is not how he became a hero, but by virtue of the fact that he began."

– Søren Kierkegaard, Fear and Trembling

Today, I finally prepped and then filled the hole from where I'd extracted a tree a few *years* ago. Not perfectly, but 🎉

#QuoteSunday - better late than never:

https://xkcd.com/1942/
– Randall Munroe

"Sent from my iPhone".

#QuoteSunday

Galaxy Quest film: Fred tests the transporter with the pig-lizard from the planet below:

Jason: What? What was that?
Alexander: Uh, nothing.
Jason: I heard some squealing or something.
Gwen: Oh, no. Everything's fine.
Teb: But the animal is inside out.
Jason: I heard that! It turned inside out?
[the pig-lizard explodes] 
Teb: And it exploded.
Jason: Did I just hear that the animal turned inside out, and then it EXPLODED? Hello?

Guy, later: Oh, that's not right!

Allegories abound

#QuoteSunday

"Well we know where we're going
But we don't know where we've been"

– the first couple of lines from 'Road to Nowhere', a 1985 song by Talking Heads.

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Tooted today because only yesterday I finally finished my first viewing of David Byrne's 'American Utopia' concert film, an irrepressibly hopeful vision for/of our turbulent times.

Sure it's at odds with our surroundings but… yeah, I'll let bigger minds than mine grapple with *this* one.

#QuoteSunday

"Engage."
– Jean-Luc Picard

#StarTrek: #Picard

Me, overwhelmed by a single word? Oh yes.

#QuoteSunday

"Guess again."
– Soji Asha

Yes, I've just started watching #StarTrek: #Picard. Season 1, episode 2 ready to go. I sense turmoil ahead.

#QuoteSunday

"Let me remind you of the old maxim: people under suspicion are better moving than at rest, since at rest they may be sitting in the balance without knowing it, being weighed together with their sins."
– Franz Kafka

#QuoteSunday
PICARD (as he moves): Hail the Tamarian vessel.
WORF (touches controls): Aye, Captain.
TAMARIAN FIRST OFFICER: Zinda! His face black. His eyes red—
PICARD: —Temarc! The river Temarc. In winter.
FIRST OFFICER: Darmok?
PICARD: … and Jalad. At Tanagra. Darmok and Jalad on the ocean.
FIRST OFFICER (to others, amazed): Sokath! His eyes open!
PICARD (continuing): The beast of Tanagra. Uzani. His army. (shaking his head) Shaka, when the walls fell.
Thanks @Streakmachine

#QuoteSunday

"Once you label me you negate me."

– Søren Kierkegaard.

#QuoteSunday (a bit early this time)

"Once you label me you negate me."

– Søren Kierkegaard.

This happened here today, when someone saw a word they didn't like and berated its user for it. Everyone has a bad day, I suppose, but some people on here are so incredibly petty and willing to ignore *context* it pains me every day to see it.

I'm so lucky I never say anything important and thus potentially open to misinterpretation. Lucky.

#QuoteSunday

"The greatest hazard of all, losing one’s self, can occur very quietly in the world, as if it were nothing at all."

– Søren Kierkegaard

I wanted to copy and paste or at least transcribe the quote at the beginning of the video I've linked to, but I fell into Kierkegaard's rabbit hole (that may or may not be a thing, maybe I should find out)!

https://youtu.be/qbsWqoQpwhA

#QuoteSunday (I missed one 2 weeks ago).

"You think your pain and your heartbreak are unprecedented in the history of the world, but then you read. It was Dostoevsky and Dickens who taught me that the things that tormented me most were the very things that connected me with all the people who were alive, or who ever had been alive. Only if we face these open wounds in ourselves can we understand them in other people."

– James Baldwin.

(Quote has various versions).
https://www.themarginalian.org/2016/04/13/james-baldwin-the-artists-struggle-for-integrity/

#QuoteSunday, a week after Gary Lineker, an English football (soccer) pundit, was removed from his presenting role for a public tweet expressing support for refugees and opposition to the United Kingdom government's policy of not allowing even an asylum *application* after what they term as 'illegal entry':

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(He has a nasty cold and has lost his voice this weekend).

@bazbt3 well here’s a blast from the past! I was on App.net as well and a regular poster on #QuoteSunday

#QuoteSunday (2)

"I usually solve problems by letting them devour me."

– Franz Kafka

#QuoteSunday on 'exercise':

"Over the last decade, the guidelines have been slowly edging away from the message of 30 minutes a day more towards the message of 'anything counts', and I think these results back up that message."

– Mark Hamer, professor of sport and exercise medicine at University College London

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/health-64001807

#QuoteSunday

"Alcohol is harmful to the health starting at very low levels."
– Dr Tim Naimi, director of the University of Victoria’s Canadian Institute for Substance Use Research.

Taken from the same Guardian summary article:
This information falls into the category of something-highly-negative-one-instinctively-knows-to-be-true-and-will-therefore-fight-to-the-death-to-deny.
https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2023/jan/20/digested-week-greta-thunberg-masterclass-art-protest

#QuoteSunday

"Curiously enough, the only thing that went through the mind of the bowl of petunias as it fell was 'Oh no, not again'. Many people have speculated that if we knew exactly why the bowl of petunias had thought that we would know a lot more about the nature of the Universe than we do now."

– Douglas Adams, The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy.

p.s. We now know why, and who. And there are now other, far more pressing questions, aren't there.

#QuoteSunday

"Give me a place to stand and I will move the Earth."

— Archimedes, quite some time ago, whilst compiling his rules on levers.

(I *was* going to mention him leaping out of the bath on the realisation that he could work out the relative density of solids in his bath, or something. But that "Eureka" moment probably didn't happen in the way it's commonly portrayed).