popcorn quotes

It's easier to get a photograph of the Pope in the shower than a picture of her.

-Anonymous
  On Hillary Rodham Clinton's low profile in the period between her husband's election and inauguration. In Newsweek, 25  Jan.

Wordsworth says somewhere that wherever Virgil seems to have composed 'with his eye on the object', Dryden fails to render him. Homer invariably composes 'with his eye onthe object', whether the object be moral or a material one: Pope composes with his eye on his style, into which he translates his object, whatever it is.

- Matthew Arnold
On Translating Homer, lecture1.

The difference between genuine poetry and the poetry of Dryden,Pope, and all their school, is briefly this: their poetry is conceived and composed in their wits, genuine poetry is conceived and composed in the soul.

- Matthew Arnold
  Essays in Criticism Second Series,'Thomas Gray'.

The only real distinction at this dangerous moment in human historyand cosmic development has nothing to do with medals and ribbons. Not to fall asleep is distinguished. Everything else is mere popcorn.

- Saul Bellow
  Humboldt's Gift.

Aiunt non vos esse papam, sed me. They say it is not you who are pope, but me.

-St Bernard of Clairvaux
c.1145  Of his own influence within the Cistercian order. Letter to Pope Eugenius III.

It was better to love a woman than to be a graduate, or a parson; ay, or a pope!

-Thomas Hardy
  Jude the Obscure, pt.1, ch.7.

I like Australia less and less. The hateful newness, the democratic conceit, every man a little pope of perfection.

- D(avid) H(erbert) Lawrence
  Letter, 28 May.

   A spectre is haunting Europethe spectre of communism. All the powers of old Europe have entered into a holyalliance to exorcise this spectre; Pope and Tsar, Metternich and Guizot, French Radicals and German police spies.

- Karl Heinrich Marx
  The Communist Manifesto (with Friedrich Engels, translated by Samuel Moore,1888).

I've finished that chapel I was painting. The Pope is quite satisfied.

-Michelangelo full name Michelangelo Buonarroti
  Letter written to his father after18 months of painting the vault of the Sistine Chapel, quoted in Robert  J Clements (ed) Michelangelo:  A Self-Portrait (1968).

   There was a frightful, appalling row. As a matter of fact the Pope told us all to go to hell. He threatened to silence Father Fahrt.

-Cruise
The Hard Life.

We elected a President, not a Pope.

- Barbra Streisand
  Referring to Bill Clinton.To journalists at theWhite House, 5 Feb.

Christ during His life upon earth was of all men the poorest, casting from Himall worldlyauthority.I deduce fromthese premises†thatthe Popeshould surrenderall temporal authority to the civil power and advise his clergy to do the same.

-John Wycliffe
  Dismissing an order to appear before the Papal Court.