Quotes of the day from previous years:

2003
It's not that I'm afraid to die, I just don't want to be there when it happens. ~ Woody Allen
  • selected by Nanobug
2004
A faith is something you die for, a doctrine is something you kill for. There is all the difference in the world. ~ Tony Benn
  • selected by Kalki
2005 
I've never seen anybody really find the answer — they think they have, so they stop thinking. But the job is to seek mystery, evoke mystery, plant a garden in which strange plants grow and mysteries bloom. The need for mystery is greater than the need for an answer. ~ Ken Kesey (born 17 September 1935)
  • proposed by Kalki
2006
It is difficult
to get the news from poems
yet men die miserably every day
for lack
of what is found there.
~ William Carlos Williams ~ (born September 17, 1883)
  • proposed by InvisibleSun
2007
You don't lead by pointing and telling people some place to go. You lead by going to that place and making a case. ~ Ken Kesey
  • proposed by Kalki
2008
The real crazies who are looking for a messiah... after an hour or so they realise I'm not it and go off and look somewhere else. ~ Ken Kesey
  • proposed by Kalki
2009
Many questions haven't been answered as yet. Our poets may be wrong; but what can any of us do with his talent but try to develop his vision, so that through frequent failures we may learn better what we have missed in the past. ~ William Carlos Williams
  • proposed by Kalki
2010
What we hoped was that we could stop the coming end of the world. ~ Ken Kesey
  • proposed by Kalki
2011

It's a strange courage
you give me, ancient star:

Shine alone in the sunrise
toward which you lend no part!
~ William Carlos Williams ~

  • proposed by Kalki
2012
You have to laugh at the things that hurt you just to keep yourself in balance, just to keep the world from running you plumb crazy.
~ Ken Kesey ~
  • proposed by Kalki
2013
What I always wanted to be was a magician… Doing magic, you not only have to be able to do a trick, you have to have a little story line to go with it.
~ Ken Kesey ~
  • proposed by bystander
2014
You know, that's the first thing that got me about this place, that there wasn't anybody laughing. I haven't heard a real laugh since I came through that door, do you know that? Man, when you lose your laugh you lose your footing.
~ Ken Kesey ~
  • proposed by Kalki
2015
Now, you're either on the bus or off the bus. If you're on the bus, and you get left behind, then you'll find it again. If you're off the bus in the first place — then it won't make a damn.
~ Ken Kesey ~
  • proposed by Kalki
2016
I'd rather be a lightning rod than a seismograph.
~ Ken Kesey ~
  • proposed by Kalki
2017
What is the use of reading the common news of the day, the tragic deaths and abuses of daily living, when for over half a lifetime we have known that they must have occurred just as they have occurred given the conditions that cause them? There is no light in it. It is trivial fill-gap. We know the plane will crash, the train be derailed. And we know why. No one cares, no one can care. We get the news and discount it, we are quite right in doing so. It is trivial. But the hunted news I get from some obscure patients' eyes is not trivial. It is profound.
~ William Carlos Williams ~
  • proposed by Kalki
2018
One thing I am convinced more and more is true and that is this: the only way to be truly happy is to make others happy. When you realize that and take advantage of the fact, everything is made perfect.
~ William Carlos Williams ~
  • proposed by bystander
2019
Well you're looking for another end
Doing time
But you still can't turn away
Well you're looking for a real friend
Any kind
That wants to play the games you play
On this side of paradise
Where you're never going to go through twice
Stay tuned at any price
To this side of paradise.
~ Ric Ocasek ~
  • proposed by Kalki, in regard to his recent death.
2020 
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

Me actor. Them fashion. No compute. (Actress Martha Plimpton)

  • 5 (short, concise, but extremely effective commentary on the state of Hollywood.) —The preceding unsigned comment was added by 66.167.242.65 (talk • contribs) 05:04, 14 September 2005 (UTC)
  • 1 Kalki 17:55, 16 September 2009 (UTC) 2 Kalki 21:31, 16 September 2005 (UTC) No clear correlation with the date (and 4 is the highest ranking available, not 5)
  • 2 InvisibleSun 08:16, 13 September 2006 (UTC)
  • 1 Zarbon 23:05, 24 April 2008 (UTC)

I love being married, I do. It's so great to find that one special person that you want to annoy for the rest of your life. ~ Rita Rudner

  • 2 for comedic value Zarbon 04:14, 9 June 2008 (UTC)
  • 2 InvisibleSun 23:15, 16 September 2008 (UTC)
  • 2 Kalki 23:58, 16 September 2008 (UTC)
  • 2 N6n 11:21, 8 September 2010 (UTC)

Well, the old theory was "marry a older man because they're more mature". But the new theory is "men don't mature — marry a young one". ~ Rita Rudner

  • 2 for comedic value. Zarbon 04:14, 9 June 2008 (UTC)
  • 3 InvisibleSun 23:15, 16 September 2008 (UTC)
  • 2 Kalki 23:58, 16 September 2008 (UTC) with a lean toward 3.

Nobody is really happy with what's on their head. People with straight hair want curly, people with curly want straight, and bald people want everyone to be blind. ~ Rita Rudner

  • 2 for comedic value. Zarbon 04:14, 9 June 2008 (UTC)
  • 2 InvisibleSun 23:15, 16 September 2008 (UTC)
  • 2 Kalki 23:58, 16 September 2008 (UTC)

The job of the writer is to kiss no ass, no matter how big and holy and white and tempting and powerful. ~ Ken Kesey

  • 3 Kalki (talk · contributions) 00:26, 7 September 2010 (UTC)
  • 3 N6n 11:21, 8 September 2010 (UTC)

I been away a long time. ~ Ken Kesey

  • 3 Kalki (talk · contributions) 00:26, 7 September 2010 (UTC)

I'm so crazy I plan to vote for Eisenhower again this November. ~ Ken Kesey

  • 3 Kalki (talk · contributions) 00:26, 7 September 2010 (UTC)

We are always acting on what has just finished happening. It happened at least 1/30th of a second ago. We think we’re in the present, but we aren’t. The present we know is only a movie of the past. ~ Ken Kesey

  • 3 Kalki (talk · contributions) 00:26, 7 September 2010 (UTC)

You can't bomb for a humane reason. What we should do is just Mother Teresa them to death with love. It's that old hippie nonsense but it's still the best stuff there is. ~ Ken Kesey

  • 3 Kalki (talk · contributions) 00:26, 7 September 2010 (UTC) with a lean toward 4.
  • 3 N6n 11:21, 8 September 2010 (UTC)

Man will not always stay on Earth; the pursuit of light and space will lead him to penetrate the bounds of the atmosphere, timidly at first, but in the end to conquer the whole of solar space. ~ Konstantin Eduardovich Tsiolkovsky (dob) (His epitaph, written by himself)

  • 3 bystander (talk) 01:18, 16 September 2012 (UTC)
  • 3 ♞☤☮♌Kalki·†·⚓⊙☳☶⚡ 07:03, 15 September 2013 (UTC)


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