Quotes of the Week - June 17, 2008:
"I think that, in retrospect, I could have used a different rhetoric.
Phrases such as 'bring them on' or 'dead of alive' indicated to people
that I was, you know, not a man of peace." -- US President George
W Bush regrets being so hawkish over Iraq.
"The nation will live to regret what the court has done today."
-- US Supreme Court Justice Antonin Scalia after the court rules foreign
terror suspects at Guantanamo Bay can challenge their detention in US
courts.
"He didn't like the nose" -- Courtroom sketch artist Janet
Hamlin on the response of Khalid Sheikh Mohammed, the self-confessed
mastermind of the 9/11 attacks, after he saw a sketch of himself.
Authors:
Shakespeare - A Midsummer Night's Dream Quotes, Quotations
Night's
swift dragons cut the clouds full fast,
And yonder shines Aurora's harbinger;
At whose approach, ghosts, wandering here and there,
Troop home to churchyards. A Midsummer Night's Dream, 3. 2
Cupid
is a knavish lad,
Thus to make poor females mad. A Midsummer Night's Dream, 3. 2
Jack
shall have Jill;
Nought shall go ill;
The man shall have his mare again, and all shall be well. A Midsummer Night's Dream, 3. 2
I
have an exposition of sleep come upon me. A Midsummer Night's Dream, 4. 1
My
Oberon! what visions have I seen!
Methought I was enamoured of an ass. A Midsummer Night's Dream, 4. 1
I
was with Hercules and Cadmus once,
When in a wood of Crete they bayed the bear
With hounds of Sparta: never did I hear…
So musical a discord, such sweet thunder. A Midsummer Night's Dream, 4. 1
I
have had a dream, past the wit of man to say what dream it was. A Midsummer Night's Dream, 4. 1
The
eye of man hath not heard, the ear of man hath not seen, man's
hand is not able to taste, his tongue to conceive, nor his heart
to report, what my dream was. A Midsummer Night's Dream, 4. 1
The
lunatic, the lover, and the poet
Are of imagination all compact. A Midsummer Night's Dream, 5. 1
The
lover, all as frantic,
Sees Helen's beauty in a brow of Egypt:
The poet's eye, in a fine frenzy rolling,
Doth glance from heaven to earth, from earth to heaven;
And as imagination bodies forth
The forms of things unknown, the poet's pen
Turns them to shapes, and gives to airy nothing
A local habitation and a name. A Midsummer Night's Dream, 5. 1
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