I love it when an author notices that he has been quoted by us. Randy K. Milholland noticed the quotes and two-word biography we wrote for him and mentioned it in one of his many webcomics. You can see the full comic here:
I have been a fan of Something Positive ever since my sister told me about it years ago. Over the years, I added my favorite of his quotations to our collection. You can read them here:
I had the pleasure of watching Ghost Rider yesterday. Even though it came out a year ago, it took me this long to see it. I don’t know how it fell through the cracks, but I’m sure glad I put it on my Netflix queue, because it showed up in my mailbox. I had forgotten all about it, but last year I put it on my list and it finally floated to the top.
It’s rare when I get a quote from a movie, but yesterday while watching Ghost Rider, I wrote down this quote:
You would think that with such a great quote that the movie would be about making good choices in your life, but it seemed to be more about getting a second chance at life.
Here is a preview of the movie:
My favorite bit of inside joke from the movie is the fact that Peter Fonda plays the devil in this movie. Peter Fonda is known for his role in Easy Rider, which is a very different motorcycle movie. You can see the opening credits here:
The complete circle of Peter Fonda as a sort of anti-hero of the sixties to the devil of the present time is my favorite sort of inside joke. It’s probably no coincidence that Ghost Rider was named with such a similar name to Easy Rider (plus the play on words with the famous phrase “ghost writer”).
Ghost Rider was based on the comic book series by the same name. You can purchase the complete comic book collection on DVD-ROM here:
I have never been able to enjoy magazines on a computer; my Mad Magazine collection is sitting in the basement relatively untouched. I prefer REAL books, so here are the trade paperbacks for Ghost Rider.
I love comic books and their movies because they deal with the simple story of evil vs. good. Sure, a lot of them try to blur those lines a little, but in the end, I love to have a good guy to root for.
Here is Diane Sawyer’s interview with Rosie O’Donnell.
Diane mentioned that Rosie O’Donnell had been in the business for thirty years now and she wanted to know what Rosie would say to that girl from thirty years ago. She said:
I’ve also seen it attributed to Ralph Waldo Emerson, but I cannot find the quote in Bartletts or any other of my quotation books under either name. It was discussed on WikiAnswers here:
This quote is widely attributed to “Frank Outlaw” on the Web, but no actual other corroborating confirmation actually confirms that this is the correct source.
Popular quotation books – including Bartlett’s Familiar Quotations (17th ed., 2002), Roget’s International Thesaurus of Quotations (1970) and The Harper Book of Quotations (3rd ed., 1993) – DO NOT include this quote or any reference to Frank Outlaw.
In July 2003, a woman named “Elizabeth C.,” claimed to have written it in 1998 and sending to members of an e-mail group of people living with lupus.
According to legend, her words were: “these few lines have since taken on a life of their own via the Internet. I was honored when someone asked if they could post it on their work bulletin board. From there it ended up as a desktop theme. It has traveled everywhere.”
Matt Mullenweg, of WordPress fame, talked about this quote and one of his readers commented:
And yet sadly no one has attributed this to its true origin…
The thought manifests as the word;
The word manifests as the deed;
The deed develops into habit;
And habit hardens into character;
So watch the thought and its ways with care,
And let it spring from love
Born out of concern for all beings…
As the shadow follows the body,
As we think, so we become.
From the Dhammapada
Sayings of the Buddha
I have added the Budda quote, but until I’m able to find the other in print somewhere, it will continue to be attributed to Unknown. Who is Frank Outlaw? As far as I can tell, he is an imagined author of a quote that may or may not be his.
Here are a few thoughts to keep your mind about this:
I love it when an author notices that he has been quoted by us. Randy K. Milholland noticed the quotes and two-word biography we wrote for him and mentioned it in one of his many webcomics. You can see the full comic here:
