November 18

November 18 Quotes of the day from previous years:


 * 2004
 * Nowadays most men lead lives of noisy desperation. ~ James Thurber
 * selected by Kalki


 * 2005
 * We're all puppets, Laurie. I'm just a puppet who can see the strings. ~ Alan Moore in Watchmen (born 18 November 1953)
 * proposed by UDScott


 * 2006
 * It's a feature of our age that if you write a work of fiction, everyone assumes that the people and events in it are disguised biography — but if you write your biography, it's equally assumed you're lying your head off. ~ Margaret Atwood (born 18 November 1939)
 * proposed by InvisibleSun


 * 2007
 * Whatever the scientists may come up with, writers and artists will continue to portray altered mental states, simply because few aspects of our nature fascinate people so much. The so-called mad person will always represent a possible future for every member of the audience — who knows when such a malady may strike? ~ Margaret Atwood
 * proposed by InvisibleSun


 * 2008
 * War is what happens when language fails. ~ Margaret Atwood
 * proposed by InvisibleSun


 * 2009
 * A lot of being a poet consists of willed ignorance. If you woke up from your trance and realized the nature of the life-threatening and dignity-destroying precipice you were walking along, you would switch into actuarial sciences immediately. ~ Margaret Atwood (born November 18, 1939)
 * proposed by InvisibleSun


 * 2010
 * Ideas, unlike solid structures, do not perish. They remain immortal, immaterial and everywhere, like all Divine things. Ideas are a golden, savage landscape that we wander unaware, without a map. Be careful: in the last analysis, reality may be exactly what we think it is. ~ Alan Moore
 * proposed by Kalki


 * 2011
 * There are people. There are stories. The people think they shape the stories, but the reverse is often closer to the truth. ~ Alan Moore
 * proposed by Kalki


 * 2012
 * proposed by Nemo
 * proposed by Nemo


 * 2013


 * proposed by Kalki


 * 2014


 * proposed by Kalki


 * 2015


 * proposed by Kalki


 * 2016


 * proposed by Kalki


 * 2017


 * proposed by Kalki


 * 2018


 * proposed by Kalki


 * 2019


 * proposed by Kalki


 * 2020


 * proposed by Kalki


 * 2021


 * proposed by Kalki


 * 2022


 * proposed by Kalki; in regard of her decision to not to seek leadership position of the Democratic party in the US House of Representatives, in the next Congress.


 * 2023


 * proposed by Kalki; recent remarks while in the United States.


 * 2024 : Rank or add further suggestions…

Suggestions
I can forgive Alfred Nobel for inventing dynamite, but only a fiend in human form could have invented the Nobel Prize. ~ George Bernard Shaw, said that day, when refusing the money from the Nobel prize.
 * 2 UDScott 14:53, 15 November 2005 (UTC)
 * 3 InvisibleSun 21:05, 17 November 2006 (UTC)
 * 3. Fys. &#147;Ta fys aym&#148;. 21:19, 17 November 2006 (UTC)
 * 2 Kalki 17:36, 17 November 2007 (UTC) humourous, but I have no strong desire to use it for QOTD.
 * 2 Zarbon 06:39, 26 April 2008 (UTC)
 * 2 Moderately witty. Nemo 19:30, 29 March 2012 (UTC)
 * 2 Laurentius (talk) 20:35, 12 November 2012 (UTC)

The opposite of a correct statement is a false statement. But the opposite of a profound truth may well be another profound truth. ~ Niels Bohr (date of death)
 * 3 UDScott 14:53, 15 November 2005 (UTC)
 * 3 InvisibleSun 21:05, 17 November 2006 (UTC)
 * 3. Fys. &#147;Ta fys aym&#148;. 21:19, 17 November 2006 (UTC)
 * This was already used on 7 October 2005 ~ Kalki 17:36, 17 November 2007 (UTC)
 * 1 Zarbon 06:39, 26 April 2008 (UTC)
 * 0 Already used. Nemo 19:30, 29 March 2012 (UTC)

Do not let the bastards grind you down. ~ Margaret Atwood (date of birth)
 * 3 InvisibleSun 21:05, 17 November 2006 (UTC)
 * 1. Too general, and I find it difficult to believe any one person could have coined such a phrase. Fys. &#147;Ta fys aym&#148;. 21:19, 17 November 2006 (UTC)
 * 2 Kalki 17:36, 17 November 2007 (UTC)
 * 1 Zarbon 06:39, 26 April 2008 (UTC)
 * 1 Antiquary 23:25, 17 November 2008 (UTC)
 * 1 Per Fys. Nemo 19:30, 29 March 2012 (UTC)
 * 1 Laurentius (talk) 20:35, 12 November 2012 (UTC)

You can't sweep other people off their feet, if you can't be swept off your own. ~ Clarence Day
 * 4 because one must first stand for oneself before standing for others. Zarbon 00:30, 17 October 2008 (UTC)
 * 2 Kalki 18:32, 14 November 2008 (UTC)
 * 1 Trite, not particularly well expressed. Nemo 19:30, 29 March 2012 (UTC)

A moderate addiction to money may not always be hurtful; but when taken in excess it is nearly always bad for the health. ~ Clarence Day
 * 2 because an excess of anything is harmful. Zarbon 00:30, 17 October 2008 (UTC)
 * 2 Kalki 18:32, 14 November 2008 (UTC)
 * 1 Trite, not particularly well expressed. Nemo 19:30, 29 March 2012 (UTC)

Freedom is just Chaos, with better lighting. ~ Alan Dean Foster
 * 3 because the freedom to do anything with any limits results in chaos. Zarbon 00:30, 17 October 2008 (UTC)
 * 1 Kalki 18:32, 14 November 2008 (UTC)
 * 1 Nemo 19:30, 29 March 2012 (UTC)

We're shooting handcuffed prisoners in the back of the head, execution-style, instantly "liberating" their souls from their bodies. ~ Justin Raimondo
 * 2 because the terminology of liberation has been used from different perspectives to describe different opinions. Zarbon 00:30, 17 October 2008 (UTC)
 * 1 Kalki 18:32, 14 November 2008 (UTC)
 * 1 InvisibleSun 23:14, 17 November 2008 (UTC)
 * 0 Antiquary 23:25, 17 November 2008 (UTC)
 * 2 Hard to understand out of context. Nemo 19:30, 29 March 2012 (UTC)

The bards were feared. They were respected, but more than that they were feared. If you were just some magician, if you'd pissed off some witch, then what's she gonna do, she's gonna put a curse on you, and what's gonna happen? Your hens are gonna lay funny, your milk's gonna go sour, maybe one of your kids is gonna get a hare-lip or something like that — no big deal. You piss off a bard, and forget about putting a curse on you, he might put a satire on you. And if he was a skilful bard, he puts a satire on you, it destroys you in the eyes of your community, it shows you up as ridiculous, lame, pathetic, worthless, in the eyes of your community, in the eyes of your family, in the eyes of your children, in the eyes of yourself, and if it's a particularly good bard, and he's written a particularly good satire, then three hundred years after you're dead, people are still gonna be laughing, at what a twat you were. ~ Alan Moore
 * 3 Kalki 16:45, 3 March 2009 (UTC)
 * 1 Very long and still doesn't express much of the power of satire. Nemo 19:30, 29 March 2012 (UTC)
 * 1 Too long. Laurentius (talk) 20:35, 12 November 2012 (UTC)

Life isn’t divided into genres. It’s a horrifying, romantic, tragic, comical, science-fiction cowboy detective novel. You know, with a bit of pornography if you're lucky. ~ Alan Moore
 * 3 Kalki 16:45, 3 March 2009 (UTC)
 * 1 Doesn't express the point very well. Nemo 19:30, 29 March 2012 (UTC)

An atheist doesn't have to be someone who thinks he has a proof that there can't be a god. He only has to be someone who believes that the evidence on the God question is at a similar level to the evidence on the werewolf question. ~ John McCarthy.
 * 3 IGG8998 23:22, 3 November 2011 (UTC)
 * 1 Kalki (talk &middot; contributions) 18:03, 14 November 2011 (UTC)
 * 1 Nemo 19:30, 29 March 2012 (UTC)
 * 3 Laurentius (talk) 20:35, 12 November 2012 (UTC)

What would be the point of having this job if I didn't get to make up some of the maddest possible scenes I've ever had in my head since I was a kid? ~ Steven Moffat
 * 2 ♞☤☮♌︎Kalki ⚚⚓︎⊙☳☶⚡ 03:59, 8 January 2012 (UTC)
 * 1 Not particularly witty, hard to understand for those who don't know him. Nemo 19:30, 29 March 2012 (UTC)
 * 1 (as Nemo said) - Laurentius (talk) 20:35, 12 November 2012 (UTC)


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