Quotes of the day from previous years:

  • On two occasions I have been asked [by members of Parliament!], 'Pray, Mr. Babbage, if you put into the machine wrong figures, will the right answers come out?' I am not able rightly to apprehend the kind of confusion of ideas that could provoke such a question. ~ Charles Babbage
  • selected by Nanobug
2004
I just know that something good is going to happen. I don't know when — but just saying it could even make it happen. ~ Kate Bush (born 30 July 1958)
  • selected by Kalki
2005
No coward soul is mine,
No trembler in the world's storm-troubled sphere:
I see Heaven's glories shine,
And Faith shines equal, arming me from Fear.
~ Emily Brontë ~ (born 30 July 1818)
  • proposed by MosheZadka
2006
What am I singing?
A song of seeds
The food of love.
Eat the music.
~ Kate Bush ~
  • selected by Kalki
2007
Just being alive
It can really hurt.
These moments given
Are a gift from time.
Just let us try
To give these moments back
To those we love
To those who will survive.
~ Kate Bush ~
  • proposed by Kalki
2008
I don't know you,
And you don't know me.
It is this that brings us together.
~ Kate Bush ~
  • proposed by Kalki
2009

Moving stranger,
Does it really matter,
As long as you're not afraid to feel?

Touch me, hold me.
How my open arms ache!
Try to fall for me.

~ Kate Bush ~

  • proposed by Kalki
2010

With wide-embracing love
Thy Spirit animates eternal years,
Pervades and broods above,
Changes, sustains, dissolves, creates, and rears.

Though earth and moon were gone,
And suns and universes ceased to be,
And Thou wert left alone,
Every existence would exist in Thee.

There is not room for Death,
Nor atom that his might could render void:
Thou —THOU art Being and Breath,
And what THOU art may never be destroyed.
~ Emily Brontë ~

  • proposed by Kalki
2011
I love the whirling of the dervishes.
I love the beauty of rare innocence.
You don't need no crystal ball,
Don't fall for a magic wand.
We humans got it all, we perform the miracles.
~ Kate Bush ~
  • proposed by Kalki
2012
Nobody knows about my man.
They think he's lost on some horizon.
And suddenly I find myself
Listening to a man I've never known before,
Telling me about the sea,
All his love, 'til Eternity.
Ooh, he's here again,
The man with the child in his eyes.
~ Kate Bush ~
  • proposed by Kalki
2013

Vain are the thousand creeds
That move men's hearts: unutterably vain;
Worthless as withered weeds,
Or idle froth amid the boundless main,

To waken doubt in one
Holding so fast by Thine infinity;
So surely anchored on
The stedfast rock of immortality.

~ Emily Brontë ~
  • proposed by Kalki
2014

We're all alone on the stage tonight.
We've been told; we're not afraid of you.

We know all our lines so well, ah-ha,
We've said them so many times:
Time and time again,
Line and line again.

~ Kate Bush ~
  • proposed by Kalki
2015

You were playing in the snow
You were banging on the doors
You climbed up on the roof
Roof of the world …

We found your footprints in the snow
We brushed them all away…

You're the wild man.

~ Kate Bush ~
  • proposed by Kalki
2016
Soon it will be the phase of the moon
When people tune in.
Every girl knows about the punctual blues,
But who's to know the power behind our moves?
A day of coincidence with the radio
And a word that won't go away
We know what they're all going to say
"G" arrives, funny, had a feeling he was on his way
…
We raise our hats to the strange phenomena.
Soul-birds of a feather flock together.
~ Kate Bush ~
  • proposed by Kalki
2017
We let the weirdness in.
~ Kate Bush ~
  • proposed by Kalki
2018
The great thing about art on any level is that it can speak to all people if it’s achieved properly. When I’ve heard a piece of music or seen a painting that moves me, it gives me something. That’s such an incredibly special experience. I have intentions as a writer, but people — when they’re listening to a track — will take from it what they interpret. Sometimes people mishear my lyrics and think a song’s about something it isn’t. That doesn’t matter. If it speaks to them and they get something positive from it, it’s great.
~ Kate Bush ~
  • proposed by Kalki
2019
Them heavy people hit me in a soft spot.
Rolling the ball, rolling the ball, rolling the ball to me.
They open doorways that I thought were shut for good.
They read me Gurdjieff and Jesu.
They build up my body, break me emotionally.
It's nearly killing me, but what a lovely feeling!
~ Kate Bush ~
  • 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 first time that I appeared on stage, it scared me to death. I really didn't know what all the yelling was about. I didn't realize that my body was moving. It's a natural thing to me. So to the manager backstage I said, 'What'd I do? What'd I do?' And he said, 'Whatever it is, go back and do it again.
- Elvis Presley - Interview (March/April, 1972)

  • 3 --Revera 09:47, 26 July 2008 (UTC) (30 July 1954 was the date Elvis Presley made his debut as a public performer).
  • 2 Zarbon 15:09, 29 July 2008 (UTC)
  • 1 Kalki (talk · contributions) 22:47, 28 July 2010 (UTC) * 2 Kalki 23:49, 29 July 2008 (UTC)
  • 1 //Gbern3 (talk) 14:05, 14 July 2013 (UTC)

I want to be in a position where I can function as a human being. Even more so now where you've got this sort of truly silly preoccupation with celebrities. Just because somebody's been in an ad on TV, so what? Who gives a toss? ~ Kate Bush

  • 2 Kalki (talk · contributions) 23:42, 22 July 2011 (UTC)
  • 1 //Gbern3 (talk) 14:05, 14 July 2013 (UTC)

You and me on the bobbing knee.
Didn't we cry at that old mythology he'd read!
I will come home again, but not until
The sun and the moon meet on yon hill.
~ Kate Bush ~

  • 2 Kalki (talk · contributions) 23:42, 22 July 2011 (UTC)
  • 1 //Gbern3 (talk) 14:05, 14 July 2013 (UTC)

How I'm moved.
How you move me
With your beauty's potency.
~ Kate Bush ~

  • 3 Kalki (talk · contributions) 23:42, 22 July 2011 (UTC) with a lean toward 4.
  • 2 //Gbern3 (talk) 14:05, 14 July 2013 (UTC)

My terrible fear of dying
No longer plays with me,
for now I know that I'm needed
For the symphony.
~ Kate Bush ~

  • 3 Kalki (talk · contributions) 23:42, 22 July 2011 (UTC) with a lean toward 4.
  • 2 //Gbern3 (talk) 14:05, 14 July 2013 (UTC)

I've dreamt in my life dreams that have stayed with me ever after, and changed my ideas; they've gone through and through me, like wine through water, and altered the colour of my mind. ~ Emily Brontë

  • 3 bystander (talk) 04:05, 24 July 2013 (UTC) with a lean toward 4
  • 2 ♞☤☮♌Kalki·†·⚓⊙☳☶⚡ 03:18, 28 July 2014 (UTC) with a lean toward 3 or even a 4 eventually.

I lingered round them, under that benign sky; watched the moths fluttering among the heath and harebells; listened to the soft wind breathing through the grass; and wondered how any one could ever imagine unquiet slumbers for the sleepers in that quiet earth. ~ Emily Brontë

  • 3 bystander (talk) 04:05, 24 July 2013 (UTC)
  • 2 ♞☤☮♌Kalki·†·⚓⊙☳☶⚡ 03:18, 28 July 2014 (UTC)

The thing that irks me most is this shattered prison, after all. I’m tired, tired of being enclosed here. I’m wearying to escape into that glorious world, and to be always there; not seeing it dimly through tears, and yearning for it through the walls of an aching heart; but really with it, and in it. ~ Emily Brontë

  • 3 bystander (talk) 04:05, 24 July 2013 (UTC)
  • 2 ♞☤☮♌Kalki·†·⚓⊙☳☶⚡ 03:18, 28 July 2014 (UTC) with a lean toward 3.
When you think of the visual style, when you think of the visual language of a film there tends to be a natural separation of the visual style and the narrative elements, but with the great, whether it is Stanley Kubrick, Terrence Malick or Hitchcock what you're seeing is inseparable, a vital relationship between the images and the story he's telling.
~ Christopher Nolan ~
  • 3 ♞☤☮♌Kalki·†·⚓⊙☳☶⚡ 12:38, 4 April 2016 (UTC) with a lean toward 4, but more likely than not there is much by Kate Bush I will long find preferable.

Two-thirds of the Earth lies beneath more than 1,000 feet of water. It's a vast and largely unexplored frontier. . . . This is the longest submarine mountain range in the world, the Atlantic Mid-Ocean Ridge. It wraps around our globe like the seam on a baseball. The past is another planet, but most of us don't really know this one. ~ In commemoration of the 30 July 1920 birth of Marie Tharp, from the ninth episode of the science documentary television series Cosmos: A Spacetime Odyssey (2014).

  • 4 Pithy Francoln (talk) 16:08, 13 October 2016 (UTC)
  • 1 ♞☤☮♌Kalki·†·⚓⊙☳☶⚡ 23:07, 29 July 2017 (UTC) if honoring Tharp, would prefer to quote her or at least a quote specifically about her.


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