Quotes for gearing up for the next adventure

I offer these nine short quotes so sum up my emotions this morning. I've recently concluded a rather intense and unsuccessful foray into public interest law. Down but not out. It's time to turn my energies to a new project, not to cloister myself: Our lives begin to end the day we become silent about things that matter. Martin Luther King, Jr. “Do the next right thing.” Dale Irwin (A Kansas City consumer attorney, a friend of mine, who I hold in the highest esteem) “If everything seems under control, you're not going fast enough.” ― Mario Andretti There is no such thing as a disembodied mind. The mind is implanted in the brain, and the brain is implanted in the body. Antonio Damasio (Neuroscientist) “I will keep constant watch over myself and – most usefully – will put each day up for review… Let us balance life’s books each day…” – Seneca Many People Die at 25 and aren’t buried until they are 75. Benjamin Franklin “Those who can make you believe absurdities can make you commit atrocities.” Voltaire. “To understand everything is to forgive everything.” ― Buddha “You may choose to look the other way but you can never say again that you did not know.” ― William Wilberforce

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Worst movie of all time?

For many years, I was under the impression that the 1959 film, "Plan 9 from Outer Space," was the worst movie of all time.  It is very good at being bad: But I was just introduced to "Turkish Star Wars," a move with Spanish subtitles. I don't know anything about whether this movie ever hit the big screen anywhere, but it is quite entertaining for its many failures. It's difficult to think of any aspect of film-making that this movie doesn't fail at.  From Wikipedia:

Dünyayı Kurtaran Adam (The Man Who Saved the World) is a 1982 Turkish science fantasy adventure film also known as Turkish Star Warsbecause of its notorious use of unauthorized footage from Star Wars and other movies worked into the film.

Upon its initial release, the film was panned by critics for its incoherent storyline, poor performances, and use of stock footage and music from other films.

Despite this (or possibly due to this), the film has gained a significant cult following over the years. Louis Proyect of Rec Arts Movie Reviews called the film "classic midnight movie fun."[2] Phil Hall of Film Threat gave the film a perfect 5 stars, calling it "jaw-droppingly insane ... a film that makes criticism moot."

Here is "Turkish Star Wars" in its entirety:  https://www.youtube.com/watch?time_continue=4441&v=arpH88Mx3z4

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More Quotes . . .

A good quote is a novel in a sentence or two. That's good payback for impatient people like me, who struggle to sit still long enough to read entire novels. I make a point of collecting engaging quotes wherever I read them, though, and I've published more than 100 groups of quotes over the years here at DI. This group includes quotes originated by two of my friends, Andy Wahl and Dale Irwin.  Here's the latest batch from my collection: “If it can be destroyed by the truth, it deserves to be destroyed by the truth.” ― Carl Sagan

When you add it all up, it’s not uncommon for a single child to cost a normal, middle-class family something like $1.1 million, from birth through the undergrad years. To get some perspective, the median price of a home in 2008 was $180,100. It is commonly said that buying a house is the biggest purchase most Americans will ever make. Having a baby is like buying six houses. Except that they don’t increase in value, you can’t sell them and after 16 years they’ll probably say they hate you.
Jonathan Last - Wall Street Journal http://www.wsj.com/articles/SB10001424052970203917304574413792994350108 “Do the next right thing.” - Dale Irwin (Kansas City Attorney).
Psychological discernment is not as difficult as one might think: Those who have eyes to see and ears to hear soon become convinced that mortals cannot keep a secret. He whose lips are sealed talks with his fingertips; disclosure oozes out of his every pore.
- Sigmund Freud "Fragment of an Analysis of Hysteria," (1901-5), VI, 148 "Knowledge is learning something new every day. Wisdom is letting go of something every day." - ZEN PROVERB
You can look the other way once, and it's no big deal, except it makes it easier for you to compromise the next time, and pretty soon that's all you're doing; compromising, because that's the way you think things are done. You know those guys I busted? You think they were the bad guys? Because they weren't, they weren't bad guys. They were just like you and me. Except they compromised... Once.
Jack Bauer - From the opening episode of "24," Season One. “Our virtues and our failings are inseparable, like force and matter. When they separate, man is no more.” ― Nikola Tesla "I love you because the entire universe conspired to help me find you." - Paulo Coelho "Disobedience is the true foundation of liberty. The obedient must be slaves." Henry David Thoreau "Adventure is just bad planning." Roald Amundsen

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Quotes on romance

Perhaps it is because I've been in the throes of romance for the past 10 months, a relationship that keeps getting better and better, but I've been struggling to find words to describe or express my feelings to my beloved. That is why I set out to find some well-crafted quotes on romance, quotes new to me. I found some that are most excellent: “Romance is thinking about your significant other, when you are supposed to be thinking about something else.” ― Nicholas Sparks “A man sees in the world what he carries in his heart.” ― Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, Faust: First Part “The very essence of romance is uncertainty.” ― Oscar Wilde, The Importance of Being Earnest and Other Plays “When love is not madness it is not love.” ― Pedro Calderón de la Barca “Every great love starts with a great story...” ― Nicholas Sparks, The Notebook [more . . . ]

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