July 3

July 3 Quotes of the day from previous years:


 * 2004
 * You don't understand. I could'a had class. I could'a been a contender. ~ Marlon Brando as "Terry Malloy" in On the Waterfront (recent death)
 * selected by Kalki


 * 2005
 * The splendor of life forever lies in wait about each one of us in all its fullness, but veiled from view, deep down, invisible, far off. It is there, though, not hostile, not reluctant, not deaf. If you summon it by the right word, by its right name, it will come. ~ Franz Kafka (born 3 July 1883)
 * proposed by User:Kalki


 * 2006
 * I don't think writers are sacred, but words are. They deserve respect. If you get the right ones in the right order, you might nudge the world a little or make a poem that children will speak for you when you are dead. ~ Tom Stoppard (born 3 July 1937)
 * proposed by InvisibleSun


 * 2007
 * We are sinful not merely because we have eaten of the Tree of Knowledge, but also because we have not yet eaten of the Tree of Life. ~ Franz Kafka
 * proposed by Kalki


 * 2008
 * Youth is happy because it has the ability to see beauty. Anyone who keeps the ability to see beauty never grows old. ~ Franz Kafka (date of birth)
 * proposed by Kalki


 * 2009
 * Beyond a certain point there is no return. This point has to be reached. ~ Franz Kafka
 * proposed by Kalki


 * 2010
 * I will have poetry in my life. And adventure. And love. Love above all. No... not the artful postures of love, not playful and poetical games of love for the amusement of an evening, but love that... overthrows life. Unbiddable, ungovernable — like a riot in the heart, and nothing to be done, come ruin or rapture. Love — like there has never been in a play. ~ Tom Stoppard in Shakespeare in Love
 * proposed by Kalki


 * 2011
 * You can only be young once but you can be immature forever. ~ Dave Barry
 * proposed by Zarbon


 * 2012
 * proposed by Kalki
 * proposed by Kalki


 * 2013


 * proposed by DanielTom


 * 2014


 * proposed by InvisibleSun


 * 2015


 * proposed by Lyle for an anniversary of the film's release in 1985; used on the 30th anniversary.
 * 2016


 * Added to QOTD array in tribute to Wiesel, after his recent death.


 * proposed by Kalki


 * 2017


 * proposed by Kalki


 * 2018


 * proposed by Kalki, in regard to his recent death.


 * 2019


 * proposed by Kalki


 * 2020


 * proposed by Kalki


 * 2021


 * proposed by Kalki


 * 2022


 * proposed by Kalki


 * 2023


 * proposed by Kalki


 * 2024


 * proposed by InvisibleSun


 * 2026 : Rank or add further suggestions…

Ranking system:
 * 4 : Excellent - should definitely be used.
 * 3 : Very Good - strong desire to see it used.
 * 2 : Good - some desire to see it used.
 * 1 : Acceptable - but with no particular desire to see it used.
 * 0 : Not acceptable - not appropriate for use as a quote of the day.

Suggestions
As Gregor Samsa awoke one morning from uneasy dreams he found himself transformed in his bed into a gigantic insect. ~ The Metamorphosis, Franz Kafka born that day.
 * 3 ~ MosheZadka (Talk) 08:22, 25 Jun 2005 (UTC)
 * 3 121a0012 June 27, 2005 03:52 (UTC) (But italicize title.)
 * 2 A famous line, but still a relatively obscure and simply puzzling statement to many people. ~ Kalki
 * 2 InvisibleSun 21:20, 2 July 2007 (UTC)
 * 1 Zarbon 04:53, 24 April 2008 (UTC)
 * 1 //Gbern3 (talk) 01:27, 1 July 2013 (UTC)

It’s not the voting that’s democracy, it’s the counting. ~ Tom Stoppard (born July 3, 1937)
 * 3 InvisibleSun 21:20, 2 July 2007 (UTC)
 * 3 Kalki 22:03, 2 July 2007 (UTC)
 * 1 Zarbon 04:53, 24 April 2008 (UTC)
 * 1 //Gbern3 (talk) 01:27, 1 July 2013 (UTC) ? I don't get it.

I write plays because dialogue is the most respectable way of contradicting myself. ~ Tom Stoppard
 * 3 InvisibleSun 21:20, 2 July 2007 (UTC)
 * 3 Kalki 22:03, 2 July 2007 (UTC) with a slight lean toward 4.
 * 1 Zarbon 04:53, 24 April 2008 (UTC)
 * 1 //Gbern3 (talk) 01:27, 1 July 2013 (UTC)

War is capitalism with the gloves off and many who go to war know it but they go to war because they don't want to be a hero. It takes courage to sit down and be counted. ~ Tom Stoppard
 * 3 Kalki (talk &middot; contributions) 00:00, 30 June 2010 (UTC)
 * 1 //Gbern3 (talk) 01:27, 1 July 2013 (UTC) I'm back to not getting it again.

We do on stage things that are supposed to happen off. Which is a kind of integrity, if you look on every exit as being an entrance somewhere else. ~ Tom Stoppard in Rosencrantz & Guildenstern Are Dead (film)
 * 3 Kalki (talk &middot; contributions) 00:00, 30 June 2010 (UTC)
 * 2 //Gbern3 (talk) 01:27, 1 July 2013 (UTC)

England is home to every shade of political exile. They don't give asylum out of respect for asylum-seekers, but out of respect for themselves. They invented personal liberty, and they know it, and they did it without having any theories about it. They value liberty because it's liberty. ~ Tom Stoppard
 * 3 Kalki (talk &middot; contributions) 00:00, 30 June 2010 (UTC)
 * 2 //Gbern3 (talk) 01:27, 1 July 2013 (UTC)

Junk journalism is the evidence of a society that has got at least one thing right, that there should be nobody with the power to dictate where responsible journalism begins. ~ Tom Stoppard
 * 3 Kalki (talk &middot; contributions) 00:00, 30 June 2010 (UTC)
 * 1 //Gbern3 (talk) 01:27, 1 July 2013 (UTC)

Love denied blights the soul we owe to God. ~ Tom Stoppard in Shakespeare in Love
 * 3 Kalki (talk &middot; contributions) 00:00, 30 June 2010 (UTC)
 * 1 //Gbern3 (talk) 01:27, 1 July 2013 (UTC)

My whole life is waiting for the questions to which I have prepared answers. ~ Tom Stoppard
 * 3 Kalki (talk &middot; contributions) 00:00, 30 June 2010 (UTC)
 * 1 //Gbern3 (talk) 01:27, 1 July 2013 (UTC) This quote sounds like it's supposed to be important but I guess I just don't understand Tom Stoppard.


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