That night, Mr. Jackson also had finished pictures of a man named Courtney, whose quotation was "Love changes things," and of a woman named Christy Love, whose phrase was, "I'm ready to get off this block".
The best of this year's gift books, Jessica Helfand's Scrapbooks: An American History Yale University Press/Winterhouse Editionss, $45) would make Agee — whose quotation above she approvingly cites — very happy.
(For those unfamiliar, Teilhard de Chardin (1881-1955), whose quotation begins this essay, was a Jesuit paleontologist-priest whose influence on Christian thought, some believe, is second only to that of St . Paul.
Then I went to the birthdays of my friends and family, whose quotations were disappointingly irrelevant.
Correction: June 25 , 2004 Friday The Books of The Times review on Wednesday, about "On Paradise Drive," an examination of the American character by David Brooks, misstated the background of Ray Kroc, whose quotations were cited by the reviewer as an example of the book's protean content.
By the fourteenth century, Grosseteste had achieved the unusual status of being an authoritative figure for Oxford thinkers someone from whose writings quotations might be marshalled, on the strength of his name, in defense of one's views.
Jessica Simpson -- whose collected quotations about pregnancy have already inspired a number of online anthologies -- was quoted comparing pregnancy to "carrying around a bowling ball".
Yes, if you're Gyles Brandreth, editor of the fifth edition of the Oxford Dictionary of Humorous Quotations, whose top 10 list of favourites also include, "If not actually disgruntled, he was far from being gruntled," from PG Wodehouse's 1938 novel The Code of the Woosters, and broadcaster Stephen Fry's observation on modern life that "The email of the species is deadlier than the mail".
Instead of wasting our youths' intellect on memorising quotations whose origins are sometimes uncertain (such as those found in hadith, Fiqh and tafssir) we need to encourage them to think freely, innovate and use their initiative for the betterment of our society.
The study of philosophy before Plato is, by contrast, a matter of detective work conducted from fragments preserved by later writers, whose own faithfulness in quotation and transmission may be suspect because of their own prejudices.
Jewish rabbis like Jesus, whose wide range of quotations from biblical and other sources clearly depict an educated man, would not have attracted gullible dreamers who were awaiting his immediate supernatural return.
