If you have ever been the type to notice numbers in the spoken word, you’ll want to watch this video. It has quotes from 100 movies that all mention numbers. It’s a countdown from 100 to 1. I thought it would be stupid, but it’s strangely enjoyable watching. I found myself eagerly listening for the next number in the list. Here is a link to the list of movies:
To be accurate, therefore, reference books should attribute “No man who hates dogs and children can be all bad,” to the Times reporter. His name was Byron Darnton. Byron who? That’s just the point. Who’s heard of Byron Darnton? Yet most of us know the name W.C. Fields. This is why Fields routinely gets credit for someone else’s words. He probably always will.
Politicians have speech writers. Should the speech writers get the credit? Actors and studios have spin doctors. Should the quotes go to the spin doctor who thought of the saying? It’s all a very messy situation that we run into all the time at The Quotations Page.
If discussions like this interest you, look at our Quotations Forum:
Of course, that’s only if it works. For every finished creation, I have tons of aborted attempts that are boring, awkward or just plain ugly.
If you have been feeling down lately, try creating something new. It doesn’t matter what it is. Give yourself an hour or two every day to just make something… anything new. It’s like free Prozac, I promise.
For some creativity ideas, check out these websites:
Twitter, as mentioned in the previous post, is a service that lets you post short updates to your friends, who can receive them on the web, on an I/M client, or on their mobile phone.
If you’re a Twitter user, we’ve created a service that will send you four daily humorous or motivational quotations:
Once you’ve set up a Twitter account, you can subscribe to these by clicking on one of the links above and clicking the “Add quotations” or “Add motivation” link in the right column.
The quotations are chosen randomly by computer and sent four times a day, four hours apart. (Humorous quotes are sent at 8:00 AM, 12:00, 4:00 PM, and 8:00 PM, and the Motivational quotes are sent at 6:00 AM, 10:00 AM, 2:00 PM, and 6:00 PM. If you subscribe to both, you’ll get a quote every two hours.)
These are drawn from the same databases as our Quotes of the Day and Motivational Quotes of the Day, but they won’t be the same quotes as you see on those pages—the Twitter service has a limit of 140 characters, so we choose shorter quotations especially for Twitter.
Collated by Daniel Johnson, Jr., it appears to be a unique collections of quotations. He doesn’t have a searchable database, but he does update fairly regularly. It’s obvious that Daniel has done his own work and achieved an enjoyable and different website to enjoy quotations.
If you are using Twitter, you can make QuotesBlog your friend:
You will receive quotations in your Twitter feed. Mike has been working on that for The Quotations Page, but QuotesBlog beat us to the punch. We think that’s awesome. The more interesting quotations that are out there, the better!
