Quotes of the day from previous years:

2003
The barge she sat in, like a burnishd throne, burnd on the water; the poop was beaten gold, purple the sails, and so perfumed, that the winds were love-sick with them, the oars were silver, which to the tune of flutes kept stroke, and made the water which they beat to follow faster, as amorous of their strokes. For her own person, it beggard all description ~ "Enobarbus" in Antony and Cleopatra by William Shakespeare
  • selected by Nanobug
2004
Every man is a damn fool for at least five minutes every day; wisdom consists in not exceeding the limit. ~ Elbert Hubbard
  • selected by Kalki
2005
We've arranged a civilization in which most crucial elements profoundly depend on science and technology. We have also arranged things so that almost no one understands science and technology. This is a prescription for disaster. We might get away with it for awhile, but sooner or later this combustible mixture of ignorance and power is going to blow up in our faces. ~ Carl Sagan
  • proposed by MosheZadka (The Scopes Trial ended with a guilty verdict on 21 July 1925)
2006
The world breaks everyone and afterward many are strong in the broken places. But those that will not break it kills. It kills the very good and the very gentle and the very brave impartially. If you are none of these you can be sure it will kill you too but there will be no special hurry. ~ Ernest Hemingway (born 21 July 1899)
  • proposed by Kalki
2007
If there is one thing Voldemort cannot understand, it is love. ~ J. K. Rowling in Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone (a quote from the first "Harry Potter" book on the date of release of the 7th and last of the series.)
  • proposed by Kalki
2008
No one thing is true. It's all true. ~ Ernest Hemingway
  • proposed by Kalki
2009

Now I've been happy lately
Thinking about the good things to come
And I believe it could be
Something good has begun.

Oh, I've been smiling lately
Dreaming about the world as one
And I believe it could be
Someday it's going to come.
~ Cat Stevens (Yusuf Islam) ~

  • proposed by Kalki
2010
Today is only one day in all the days that will ever be. But what will happen in all the other days that ever come can depend on what you do today. It's been that way all this year. It's been that way so many times. All of war is that way. ~ Ernest Hemingway
  • proposed by Kalki
2011
Man is not made for defeat. A man can be destroyed but not defeated. ~ Ernest Hemingway
  • proposed by Kalki
2012
You're only given a little spark of madness. You mustn't lose it.
~ Robin Williams ~
  • proposed by Kalki
2013
It does not do to dwell on dreams and forget to live, remember that.
~ J. K. Rowling ~
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~ Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone ~
  • proposed by Kalki
2014
Complexity is looking at interacting elements and asking how they form patterns and how the patterns unfold. It’s important to point out that the patterns may never be finished. They’re open-ended. In standard science this hit some things that most scientists have a negative reaction to. Science doesn’t like perpetual novelty.
~ W. Brian Arthur ~
  • proposed by Kalki
2015
I don't think that God sent us prophets and books to fight about these books and these prophets. But they were telling us, actually, how to live together. If we ignore those teachings — whichever faith … you profess, then I think we'll be finding ourselves in an even deeper mess.
~ Cat Stevens (Yusuf Islam) ~
  • proposed by Kalki
2016
There is a real, living unity in our time, as in any other, but it lies submerged under a superficial hubbub of sensation.
~ Marshall McLuhan ~
  • proposed by Kalki
2017
"Peace Train" is a song I wrote, the message of which continues to breeze thunderously through the hearts of millions. There is a powerful need for people to feel that gust of hope rise up again. As a member of humanity and as a Muslim, this is my contribution to the call for a peaceful solution.
~ Cat Stevens (Yusuf Islam) ~
  • proposed by Kalki
2018
It's the people and the cause that matter and right now there's an important need, which is bridge-building. I wanted to support the cause of humanity, because that's what I always sang about.
Music can be healing, and with my history and my knowledge of both sides of what looks like a gigantic divide in the world, I feel I can point a way forward to our common humanity again. It's a big step for me but it's a natural step. I don't feel at all irked by the responsibility — I feel inspired.
~ Yusuf Islam (Cat Stevens) ~
  • proposed by Kalki
2019
Electro-magnetic discoveries have recreated the simultaneous "field" in all human affairs so that the human family now exists under conditions of a "global village." We live in a single constricted space resonant with tribal drums. … The new electronic interdependence recreates the world in the image of a global village.
~ Marshall McLuhan ~
  • proposed by Kalki
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

The medium is the message. ~ Marshall McLuhan (date of birth)

  • 3 Kalki 13:36, 20 July 2005 (UTC)
  • 1 Zarbon 06:33, 24 April 2008 (UTC)
  • 3,5 DanielTom (talk) 13:12, 14 July 2013 (UTC)
  • 1 //Gbern3 (talk) 13:33, 14 July 2013 (UTC)

Don't you feel a change a coming from another side of time, breaking down the walls of silence, lifting shadows from your mind. ~ Cat Stevens (Yusuf Islam) (born 21 July 1948)

  • 3 Kalki 13:59, 20 July 2005 (UTC) with a strong lean toward 4.
  • 1 Zarbon 06:33, 24 April 2008 (UTC)
  • 1 //Gbern3 (talk) 13:33, 14 July 2013 (UTC)

"It's funny," I said. "It's very funny, and it's a lot of fun, too, to be in love." ~ Ernest Hemingway

—This unsigned comment is by Japhy (talk • contribs) .
  • 2 Kalki 20:22, 14 July 2009 (UTC) with a lean toward 3.
  • 1 Zarbon 18:19, 21 August 2009 (UTC)
  • 2 //Gbern3 (talk) 13:33, 14 July 2013 (UTC)
We believe that the civilised world is a multicultural, multi-religious world. That is the type of message we want to get across. … I think there are many who are Muslims and non-Muslims, who are not warmongers but peace makers and want this world to be a better place.
We believed the unison of the voices of so many people standing together against international terrorism is something to be valued and something to be built upon.
~ Cat Stevens (Yusuf Islam) ~
  • 3 ♞☤☮♌Kalki·†·⚓⊙☳☶⚡ 22:04, 20 July 2015 (UTC) with a strong lean toward 4.
All words, in every language, are metaphors.
~ Marshall McLuhan ~
  • 3 ♞☤☮♌Kalki·†·⚓⊙☳☶⚡ 11:07, 20 July 2016 (UTC) with a very strong lean toward 4.
Logos is the formal cause of the kosmos and all things, responsible for their nature and configuration.
~ Marshall McLuhan ~
  • 3 ♞☤☮♌Kalki·†·⚓⊙☳☶⚡ 11:07, 20 July 2016 (UTC)
The artist is the person who invents the means to bridge biological inheritance and the environments created by technological innovation.
~ Marshall McLuhan ~
  • 3 ♞☤☮♌Kalki·†·⚓⊙☳☶⚡ 11:07, 20 July 2016 (UTC)
Art is whatever you can get away with.
~ Marshall McLuhan ~
  • 3 ♞☤☮♌Kalki·†·⚓⊙☳☶⚡ 11:07, 20 July 2016 (UTC)
Only puny secrets need protection. Big secrets are protected by public incredulity. You can actually dissipate a situation by giving it maximal coverage. As to alarming people, that's done by rumours, not by coverage.
~ Marshall McLuhan ~
  • 3 ♞☤☮♌Kalki·†·⚓⊙☳☶⚡ 11:07, 20 July 2016 (UTC)
All media work us over completely. They are so persuasive in their personal, political, economic, aesthetic, psychological, moral, ethical, and social consequences that they leave no part of us untouched, unaffected, unaltered. The medium is the massage. Any understanding of social and cultural change is impossible without a knowledge of the way media work as environments. All media are extensions of some human faculty – psychic or physical.
~ Marshall McLuhan ~
  • 3 ♞☤☮♌Kalki·†·⚓⊙☳☶⚡ 11:07, 20 July 2016 (UTC)
Throughout Finnegans Wake Joyce specifies the Tower of Babel as the tower of Sleep, that is, the tower of the witless assumption, or what Bacon calls the reign of the Idols.
~ Marshall McLuhan ~
  • 3 ♞☤☮♌Kalki·†·⚓⊙☳☶⚡ 11:07, 20 July 2016 (UTC)
Invention is the mother of all necessities.
~ Marshall McLuhan ~
  • 3 ♞☤☮♌Kalki·†·⚓⊙☳☶⚡ 11:07, 20 July 2016 (UTC)
I am not a "culture critic" because I am not in any way interested in classifying cultural forms. I am a metaphysician, interested in the life of the forms and their surprising modalities. That is why I have no interest in the academic world.
~ Marshall McLuhan ~
  • 3 ♞☤☮♌Kalki·†·⚓⊙☳☶⚡ 11:07, 20 July 2016 (UTC)
Typography is not only a technology but is in itself a natural resource or staple, like cotton or timber or radio; and, like any staple, it shapes not only private sense ratios but also patterns of communal interdependence.
~ Marshall McLuhan ~
  • 3 ♞☤☮♌Kalki·†·⚓⊙☳☶⚡ 11:07, 20 July 2016 (UTC)
New media are new languages, their grammar and syntax yet unknown.
~ Marshall McLuhan ~
  • 3 ♞☤☮♌Kalki·†·⚓⊙☳☶⚡ 11:07, 20 July 2016 (UTC)
Advertising is the greatest art form of the twentieth century.
~ Marshall McLuhan ~
  • 3 ♞☤☮♌Kalki·†·⚓⊙☳☶⚡ 11:07, 20 July 2016 (UTC)
The global village is a place of very arduous interfaces and very abrasive situations.
~ Marshall McLuhan ~
  • 3 ♞☤☮♌Kalki·†·⚓⊙☳☶⚡ 11:07, 20 July 2016 (UTC)
The percept takes priority of the concept.
~ Marshall McLuhan ~
  • 3 ♞☤☮♌Kalki·†·⚓⊙☳☶⚡ 11:07, 20 July 2016 (UTC)
Environments are invisible. Their groundrules, pervasive structure, and overall patterns elude easy perception.
~ Marshall McLuhan ~
  • 3 ♞☤☮♌Kalki·†·⚓⊙☳☶⚡ 11:07, 20 July 2016 (UTC)
Mysticism is just tomorrow’s science dreamed today.
~ Marshall McLuhan ~
  • 3 ♞☤☮♌Kalki·†·⚓⊙☳☶⚡ 11:07, 20 July 2016 (UTC)
At the speed of light there is no sequence; everything happens at the same instant.
~ Marshall McLuhan ~
  • 3 ♞☤☮♌Kalki·†·⚓⊙☳☶⚡ 11:07, 20 July 2016 (UTC)
I’m flattered to hear my work described as hallucinogenic, but I suspect that some of my academic critics find me a bad trip.
~ Marshall McLuhan ~
  • 3 ♞☤☮♌Kalki·†·⚓⊙☳☶⚡ 11:07, 20 July 2016 (UTC)
My main theme is the extension of the nervous system in the electric age, and thus, the complete break with five thousand years of mechanical technology. This I state over and over again. I do not say whether it is a good or bad thing. To do so would be meaningless and arrogant.
~ Marshall McLuhan ~
  • 3 ♞☤☮♌Kalki·†·⚓⊙☳☶⚡ 11:07, 20 July 2016 (UTC)
Media are means of extending and enlarging our organic sense lives into our environment.
~ Marshall McLuhan ~
  • 3 ♞☤☮♌Kalki·†·⚓⊙☳☶⚡ 11:07, 20 July 2016 (UTC)
One of the things that happens at the speed of light is that people lose their goals in life. So what takes the place of goals and objectives? Well, role-playing is coming in very fast.
~ Marshall McLuhan ~
  • 3 ♞☤☮♌Kalki·†·⚓⊙☳☶⚡ 11:07, 20 July 2016 (UTC)
By simply moving information and brushing information against information, any medium whatever creates vast wealth.
~ Marshall McLuhan ~
  • 3 ♞☤☮♌Kalki·†·⚓⊙☳☶⚡ 11:07, 20 July 2016 (UTC)
All stories, if continued far enough, end in death, and he is no true-story teller who would keep that from you.
~ Ernest Hemingway ~
  • 2.5 DanielTom (talk) 23:40, 16 October 2017 (UTC)


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