F Quotes
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To George F. Babbitt, as to most prosperous citizens of Zenith, his motor
car was poetryand tragedy, love and heroism. The office
was his pirate ship but the car his perilous excursion
ashore.
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Every Federal program which has contributed to the development oF the West irrigation, power, reclamation bears his mark, and the great Federal highway program which binds this country, together, which permits this State to be competitive east and west, north and south, this in large measure is his creation. John F. Kennedy
carl hayden— Kennedy, John F. (November 17, 1961). Remarks in Phoenix at the 50th Anniversary Dinner Honoring Senator Hayden. The American Presidency Project. John Woolley and Gerhard Peters.
The main objects oF the Population Congress would be [...] (F) to give certain dysgenic groups in our population their choice oF segregation or sterilization.
margaret sanger— "A Plan for Peace", April 1932, pp. 107-108, summarizing an address to the New History Society, New York City, 1932-01-17
F and W gang thegither, Tak afF your dram!
Robert Burns— REEDOMHISKY1786 'The Author's Earnest Cry and Prayer, to the Right Honorable and Honorable, the Scotch Representatives in the House of Commons', stanza 30.
" Tis plain to meAs A B C,My dear friend, Mr. NefF!""Oh, yes! but then,"Says Mr. N ,"You know I'm D E F!"
charles follen adams— "Yawcob Strauss", in Yawcob Strauss, and Other Poems (1876), p. 69.
...to harness and directed peaceful energy from the viewers under the mountain through a twenty foot, five pointed Texas Star Vortex which was hung between the two massive exterior columns on the balcony into the historically tarnished Dallas Dealy Plaza and book depository hoping to honor John F. Kennedy's memory.
carson grant— Kaminsky, Denise, Aug 2006, "Carson Grant: Actor/Artist- A Lifetime of Art", Denise's Interviews and Media News, p.1
— Prytyskacz,Jean, "Focus on an Artist", Westside Arts Coalition Newsletter, Spring 2007,p.5
— About a walk-under suspended cellophane and plastic 3-D hologram mountain installation Harmony Mountain (100' x 100') Carson constructed inside the second floor of the old Dallas Union Train Station for the SIGGRAPH 1990 Convention, Texas
In F-major, c* [a C major chord] is a sonority contained within the overtones oF the tonic F* [a F major chord].
jean-philippe rameau— ibid, p. 14.
Be thankful you are not my student. You would not get a high grade for such a design :-) […] Writing a new OS only for the 386 in 1991 gets you your second "F" for this term.
andrew s. tanenbaum— In a Usenet message to Linus Torvalds, 30 Jan 1992 [7]
" Tis plain to me As A B C, My dear friend, Mr. NefF!" "Oh, yes! but then," Says Mr. N , "You know I'm D E F!"
— "Yawcob Strauss", in Yawcob Strauss, and Other Poems (1876), p. 69.
F. Scott Fitzgerald (himselF; from The Great Gatsby)
— "So we beat on, boats against
the current, borne back
ceaselessly into the past."
Le colonialisme accule le peuple domine a' se poser constamment la question: 'Qui suis-je en re alite ?' Colonialism forces the people it dominates to ask themselves the question constantly: 'In reality, who am I?' F
Frantz Omar Fanon— 1961Les Damne s de la terre ( The Wretched of the Earth, translated by Constance Farrington,1965), ch.5,'Colonial War and Mental Disorders'.
What will you do with Jesus? Do with Him did I say? O what, what will you do without Him F What, when affliction and anguish shall come upon you? what, when closing your eyelids in death? what, when appearing before the awful judgment-seat?
richard fuller— P. 95. (Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers (1895))
I can’t wait to get into a position to make really bad art and get away with it. At the moment iF I did certain things people would look at it, consider it and then say "F ofF". But after a while you can get away with things.
Damien Hirst— Spalding, Julian. "Why it's OK not to like modern art", The Times, 8 May 2003.
— Hirst quoted by Julian Stallabrass in 1990.
ÛF einem grüenen achmardî truoc si den wunsch von pardîs, bêde wurzeln unde rîs. daz was ein dinc, daz hiez der Grâl, erden wunsches überwal. Repanse de schoy si hiez, die sich der grâl tragen liez. der grâl was von sölher art: wol muoser kiusche sîn bewart, die sîn ze rehte solde pflegn: die muose valsches sich bewegn.
wolfram von eschenbach— Upon a green achmardi she bore the consummation of heart’s desire, its root and its blossoming – a thing called "The Gral", paradisal, transcending all earthly perfection! She whom the Gral suffered to carry itself had the name of Repanse de Schoye. Such was the nature of the Gral that she who had the care of it was required to be of perfect chastity and to have renounced all things false.Bk. 5, st. 235, line 20; p. 125
ÛF einem grüenen achmardî truoc si den wunsch von pardîs, bêde wurzeln unde rîs. daz was ein dinc, daz hiez der Grâl, erden wunsches überwal. Repanse de schoy si hiez, die sich der grâl tragen liez. der grâl was von sölher art: wol muoser kiusche sîn bewart, die sîn ze rehte solde pflegn: die muose valsches sich bewegn.
— Upon a green achmardi she bore the consummation of heart’s desire, its root and its blossoming – a thing called "The Gral", paradisal, transcending all earthly perfection! She whom the Gral suffered to carry itself had the name of Repanse de Schoye. Such was the nature of the Gral that she who had the care of it was required to be of perfect chastity and to have renounced all things false.
— Bk. 5, st. 235, line 20; p. 125
Oh, F###!
— Who: Allen Shapiro
— Source: The Blood Line (2011)
— Notes: .
Fantasy is an 'F' word that hopefully the five second delay won't do anything with
Peter Jackson— After receiving the Best Picture Oscar for "Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King" at the 76th Academy Awards
Well, I flung the window open an' I shouted, "Yes, that's right Millandra – I'm goin' to Greece for the sex; sex for breakfast, sex for dinner, sex for tea, an’ sex for supper." Well, she just ignored me but this little cab driver leans out an' pipes up, "That sounds like a marvellous diet, love." "It is," I shouted back, "have y' never heard oF it? It's called the 'F' Plan."
willy russell— Shirley Valentine, said by Shirley (1986, page 40)
In movies you can shoot a guy 3,000 times and get a 'PG-13', but iF you say the 'F' word twice it's automatically an 'R'. I'll let that be its own comment.
tom shadyac— Director's commentary for Dragonfly
When E. F. Hollings talks, nobody listens.
ernest hollings— Alluding to the E. F. Hutton commercial of the 1980s, in reference to his unsuccessful presidential campaign in 1984. Connelley, Joel (February 3, 1986). "A sharp tongue can still draw victim's blood". The Seattle Post-Intelligencer. Retrieved on December 8, 2009.
In this tragic moment, when words seem so inadequate to express the shock people feel, the first thing that comes to mind is this: We are all Americans! We are all New Yorkers, just as surely as John F. Kennedy declared himselF to be a Berliner in 1962 when he visited Berlin.
— Jean-Marie Colombani, Le Monde (liberal), Paris, France, Sept. 12, 2001.
The strong equilibrium point F just described is one oF "unrelenting ferocity" against offenders. It exhibits a zeal for meting out justice that is entirely oblivious to the sometimes dire consequences to oneselF or to the other faitheful i.e., those who have not deviated.
robert aumann— "Acceptable Points in General Cooperative n-Person Games," in Contributions to the Theory of Games IV, Annals of Mathematics Study 40, edited by A. W. Tucker and R. D. Luce, Princeton University Press, 1959, pp. 287-324.
. . . include prima facie but not ipso facto the following: (a) Homosexuality or gross indecency with another male person; (b) Possession oF or trading in an illegal narcotic or other drug; (c) Living upon the earnings oF prostitution; (d) Membership in the Communist Party or one oF its front organizations (see schedule attached); (e) “Trainism”; (F) Advocating the violent overthrow oF the government; (g) Slandering the President oF the United States; (h) . . .
john brunner— October “THE ROUGH DRAFT”
