Quotations Weblog

Based on the movies that I have rated highly, NetFlix said that I would like this movie. I had never heard of it, but I put it on my list and it came up a month or so ago.

Mike saw it on the table. “What’s that?”

“It’s “View from the Top.” It’s some movie NetFlix recommended.”

“Isn’t it some Mike Meyers movie?”

“I don’t think so. I think it’s like “Legally Blonde,” but a whole lot more believable.”

“I think the commercials made it seem like a Mike Meyers movie.”

It’s not. Mike Meyers is a character in the movie and he makes it pretty funny in a goofball sort of way. Most importantly, it’s one of those inspiring types of movies that makes you just want to go for your dreams in a big way.

My favorite quotes from the movie:

One well-defined trait of the human race is that we like to divide each other up into opposite categories: good or bad, friend or enemy, young or old, wise or foolish. Perhaps that’s why there are so many quotations that begin with the words “There are two kinds of people”:

While these kinds of generalizations are fun and a great way to make a point, the reality is that there are millions of kinds of people, and it’s wise to remember that people just might be more than the category you’ve assigned them to. Robert Benchley has the final word on this topic:

This slogan for Utah is part of an entertaining entry in Diesel Sweeties’ collection of comics. I read this comic every morning. I wake up somewhere between four a.m. and five a.m., stagger into the living room and load up my email and the comics that I read every morning. I also check the Motivational Quotes of the Day to check for typos.

• Diesel Sweeties – Fifty States, Fifty Slogans

Ironically, on the same day this comic showed up on my computer screen, this quote was posted on the Motivational Quotes of the Day. Our quotations are chosen randomly every morning, so it was a quirky bit of kismet that made me strangely happy.

Sure, that was easy for Thomas Fuller. He didn’t have fifty new slogans to learn…

Continuing the my favorite quotations series, here are some of my favorite quotations from H. L. Mencken.

Henry Louis Mencken was born in Baltimore, Maryland on September 12, 1880, 125 years ago today. Mencken was a journalist, writer, social critic, and cynic, and one of my favorite people to quote. Wikipedia has a good biography of Mencken if you’d like to learn more.

As always, it’s hard to choose favorites from someone who wrote so much and with such an inimitable style. See our complete list of H. L. Mencken quotations for more.

I’m working on some major updates to The Quotations Page. In the meantime, we continue to add quotations. We now have a total of 23,496 quotations by 2713 authors.

We’ve also added some new subjects to our index recently:

• Weather
• Questioning
• Photography
• Painting
• Crime
• Nobility

Here are some of the quotations added in the last week or two.