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27 May 2009, 03:10 PM
Doug Spaulding
Quote of the Day
quote:
Originally posted by jkt:
I wonder how many men, hiding their youngness, rise as I do, Saturday mornings, filled with the hope that Bugs Bunny, Yosemite Sam and Daffy Duck will be there waiting as our one true always and forever salvation?
"Why Cartoons Are Forever", Los Angeles Times by Ray Bradbury ~ 3 December 1989  

By coincidence, I just read that quote!

- Doug Spaulding


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27 May 2009, 10:10 PM
Mr. Dark
That's agreat quote. When they put the Looney Tunes on DVD, I bought one set for myself and one set for my grandson. I grew up with them. It seems a shame my grandson should not have the same privilege!
27 May 2009, 10:48 PM
Doug Spaulding
Wonderful - I have the first four volumes on DVD, I think.


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28 May 2009, 11:13 AM
jkt
Touch a scientist and you touch a child. -- Ray Bradbury.


John King Tarpinian
You know what you are, Mr. Bradbury? ... You are a poet! -- Aldous Huxley
29 May 2009, 07:36 AM
jkt
Do not worry about your difficulties in mathematics, I assure you that mine are greater.
-- Albert Einstein


John King Tarpinian
You know what you are, Mr. Bradbury? ... You are a poet! -- Aldous Huxley
29 May 2009, 08:05 AM
groovista
quote:
Originally posted by jkt:
I wonder how many men, hiding their youngness, rise as I do, Saturday mornings, filled with the hope that Bugs Bunny, Yosemite Sam and Daffy Duck will be there waiting as our one true always and forever salvation?
"Why Cartoons Are Forever", Los Angeles Times by Ray Bradbury ~ 3 December 1989  


More starlight-in-a-bottle from Mr. Bradbury. With his gift for capturing the evanescent savors of childhood, of course he would pluck one of my most treasured childhood mindscapes, like a dandelion seed caught on the wing, and hold it up, shining and noteworthy, to a distracted world?

Did Ray ever visit Termite Terrace? Did he and Chuck Jones ever shoot the breeze?


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29 May 2009, 09:03 AM
jkt
quote:
Originally posted by groovista:
quote:
Originally posted by jkt:
I wonder how many men, hiding their youngness, rise as I do, Saturday mornings, filled with the hope that Bugs Bunny, Yosemite Sam and Daffy Duck will be there waiting as our one true always and forever salvation?
"Why Cartoons Are Forever", Los Angeles Times by Ray Bradbury ~ 3 December 1989  


More starlight-in-a-bottle from Mr. Bradbury. With his gift for capturing the evanescent savors of childhood, of course he would pluck one of my most treasured childhood mindscapes, like a dandelion seed caught on the wing, and hold it up, shining and noteworthy, to a distracted world?

Did Ray ever visit Termite Terrace? Did he and Chuck Jones ever shoot the breeze?

Mr. B has a six-foot stuffed Bullwinkle sitting on a couch in the family room.


John King Tarpinian
You know what you are, Mr. Bradbury? ... You are a poet! -- Aldous Huxley
29 May 2009, 03:46 PM
Richard
Groovista, did Ray and Chuck Jones ever shoot the breeze? Read this interview from the April, 1968 issue of PSYCHOLOGY TODAY, and consider the breeze shot! Enjoy!

http://books.google.com/books?...ult&resnum=3#PPA3,M1
30 May 2009, 05:03 PM
Doug Spaulding
"Eccentricity is not, as dull people would have us believe, a form of madness. It is often a kind of innocent pride, and the man of genius and the aristocrat are frequently regarded as eccentrics because genius and aristocrat are entirely unafraid of and uninfluenced by the opinions and vagaries of the crowd."

- Edith Sitwell

Does this mean I'm a genius? Because I'm sure not an aristocrat! (or even an aristocat)


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31 May 2009, 10:17 AM
Doug Spaulding
"Organized crime in America takes in over forty billion dollars a year and spends very little on office supplies."

- Woody Allen


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01 June 2009, 06:17 AM
fjp451
"We are shaped and fashioned by what we love."
-Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
01 June 2009, 06:15 PM
Braling II
"A nap, my friend, is a brief period of sleep which overtakes superannuated persons when they endeavor to entertain unwelcome visitors or to listen to scientific lectures."

G.B.S. (Mark I)
01 June 2009, 08:02 PM
Nard Kordell
"We will never discover intelligent life on other worlds...
They will, however, discover us."

~Nard Kordell
01 June 2009, 08:10 PM
Doug Spaulding
Nard: there you are! I just called and no answer. But Zee called me with the information I needed so I'm all good.

Carry on quoting.


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08 June 2009, 07:00 PM
Doug Spaulding
Patriotism is the willingness to kill and be killed for trivial reasons.
- Bertrand Russell

A censor is a man who knows more than he thinks you ought to.
- Granville Hicks


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