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ARTSalamode

  1. Movie Quote Fri: "Are you quitting on me? Well, are you?Then quit,you slimy f****** walrus-looking piece of shit!..." Full Metal Jacket 1987
  2. Movie Quote Friday: "...You are an idealist...and I pity you as I would the village idiot. We're fighting a war..." Paths of Glory 1957
  3. Movie Quote Fri: "There's enough bang in there to blow us all to Jesus. If I'm gonna die, I want to die comfortable." The Hurt Locker 2009
  4. “It ought to make us feel ashamed when we talk like we know what we're talking about when we talk about love.” Raymond Carver
  5. “I mean, we're all trying to find out who the hell we are, aren't we?” Robert Ludlum, The Bourne Identity
  6. "Writing is manual labor of the mind: a job, like laying pipe." John Gregory Dunne
  7. “To be yourself in a world that is constantly trying to make you something else is the greatest accomplishment.” Ralph Waldo Emerson
  8. Born May 25: reggae singer Sugar Minott, comic Mike Myers.
  9. Born May 25: puppeteer Frank Oz, playwright Eve Ensler, dancer Bill "Bojangles" Robinson, actors Ian McKellen, Octavia Spencer.
  10. Born May 25: opera soprano Beverly Sills, writers Ralph Waldo Emerson, John Gregory Dunne, Robert Ludlam, Raymond Carver, singer Lauryn Hill
  11. "I believe the future is only the past again, entered through another gate." Arthur Wing Pinero
  12. “Never say love is "like" anything... It isn't.” Michael Chabon
  13. “It's always been hard for me to tell the difference between denial and what used to be known as hope.” Michael Chabon, Wonder Boys
  14. "The real history of consciousness starts with one's first lie." Joseph Brodsky
  15. “For darkness restores what light cannot repair.” Joseph Brodsky
  16. Born May 24: singer/songwriters Bob Dylan, Rosanne Cash, R & B singer Patti LaBelle.
  17. Born May 24: jazz sax man Archie Shepp,jazz/soul guitarist Terry Callier,guitarist Waddy Wachtel,directors Joan Micklin Silver,Mike De Leon
  18. Born May 24: artist Philip Pearlstein, sculptor George Grey Barnard,poet Joseph Brodsky,playwright Arthur Wing Pinero, writer Michael Chabon