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# Brandon Flowers (American football)

Brandon Lavar Flowers (born 18 February 1986) is a former American football cornerback. He played college football at Virginia Tech, and was drafted by the Kansas City Chiefs in the second round of the 2008 NFL Draft.

## Quotes

* I wanted to get involved with [PETA’s anti-fur campaign] because first off, I’m an animal lover. I have a dog. And I couldn’t imagine someone just taking my dog’s fur or skinning my dog alive or killing him just to be selfish. … If you have a heart, I’m pretty sure it’ll touch you to see how these animals suffer.
** "The NFL's Brandon Flowers Says, 'Don't Be Selfish'—Be Fur-Free", video interview with PETA (11 December 2014).
* During OTA’s I was up there in weight even though I felt like I was eating ok. Just going vegan, I just got just the history of being a vegan, how to fix your body and everything like that, so I fell in love with it. I lost 12 pounds, a good 12 pounds coming into training camp so I feel good, I’ve got to keep building on it. … You know, it wasn’t tough at all because everything that I love, you can have something that tastes just like it. It’s what I had to figure out. You don’t just cut out the taste of having a hamburger. They have vegan hamburgers that taste like hamburgers, you know, so why not go with that instead of putting the meat of an animal inside your body.
** "Brandon Flowers on building camaraderie, why he’s gone vegan & what excites him about this team", interview with Mighty1090.com (30 July 2015).
# Branching process

In probability theory, a branching process is a Markov process that models a population in which each individual in generation n produces some random number of individuals in generation n + 1, according, in the simplest case, to a fixed probability distribution that does not vary from individual to individual.

## Quotes

* Branching processes provide perhaps the simplest example of a phase transition. They occur naturally as a model of the random evolution of a population that changes in time as a result of births and deaths.
** Timothy Gowers; June Barrow-Green; Imre Leader (18 July 2010). The Princeton Companion to Mathematics. Princeton University Press. p. 658. ISBN 1-4008-3039-7.
# Bliss Carman

Bliss Carman (April 15 1861 – June 8, 1929) was a preeminent Canadian poet. Born William Bliss Carman, he published under his mother's surname, Bliss.

## Quotes

* Here's to the day when it is May And care as light as a feather, When your little shoes and my big boots Go tramping over the heather.
** A Toast, reported in Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919).
* Here’s to the day That wondrous May, A-roaming through the heather, When her little shoes And my big boots Were out on the hills together. And here’s to the night Of our delight, That held the stars in tether, When her little shoes And my big boots Were under the bed together.
** The full toast, as reported in New York Sun. Quoted in John Coldwell Adams, Confederation Voices, 2007.
* There paused to shut the door A fellow called the Wind, With mystery before, And reticence behind.
** At the Granite Gate, reported in Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919).
* The glad indomitable sea, The strong white sun.
** A Sea Child, reported in Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919).
* The greatest joy in nature is the absence of man.
** New York Times review of Mr. Carman's Prose; A Volume Of Little Essays By The Canadian Poet. (1903).
* Our fathers died for England at the outposts of the world; Our mothers toiled for England where the settlers' smoke upcurled; By packet, steam and rail, By portage, trek and trail, They bore a thing called Honour in hearts that did not quail, Till the twelve great winds of heaven saw the scarlet sign unfurled. And little did they leave us of fame or land or gold; Yet they gave us great possessions in a heritage untold; For they said, 'Ye shall be clean, Nor ever false or mean, For God and for your country and the honour of your Queen, Till ye meet the death that waits you with your plighted faith unsold'.
** Ode on the Coronation of King Edward, quoted in Our Empire Story (1906).

## External links

* Bliss Carman bio at carman.net
* Works by Bliss Carman at Project Gutenberg
* Biography at Bliss Carman School
* Bliss Carman fonds available at Queen's University Archives
* NYT review article
# Block-Heads

Block-Heads is a 1938 film in which Stan, who has remained faithfully at his World War I post for twenty years, finally comes home where his best friend, Ollie, takes him in, thus allowing him to discover the many conveniences of the modern world.
    Directed by John G. Blystone. Written by Felix Adler.

## Dialogue

    Stan: How'd you know I was here?
    Oliver: I saw your picture in the paper!
    Stan: Did you?
    Oliver: Yeah!
    Stan: How'd I look?
    Oliver: Well, you haven't changed a bit!
    Stan: Huh! Neither've you, too. You know, if I hadn't of seen ya, I never would've known ya.
    Oliver: Lulu, I haven't seen you in ages. You remember Stan, don't you?
    Lulu: How could I ever forget him.
    Oliver: I just met him today. You know, I haven't seen him in 20 years.
    Stan: No, you see, everybody thought I was dead. Didn't they?
    Oliver: Umm-hmm.
    Lulu: How did you find out you weren't?
    Stan: Well, I figured that - well, I saw my picture in the paper.
    Stan: What's a knick-knack?
    Oliver: Oh a knick-knack is a thing that sits on top of a whatnot.
    Stan: You remember how dumb I used to be?
    Oliver: Yeah?
    Stan: Well, I'm better now.
    Stan: Do you think your wife would mind if I smoked my pipe?
    Oliver: Of course not. What's all right with me is okay with her.
    Stan: I know, but a lot of dames are particular.
    Oliver: Well yes, but... What do you mean calling my wife a dame?
    Oliver: Why didn't you tell me you had two legs?
    Stan: Well, you didn't ask me! I've always had 'em...
    Oliver: [sarcastically] You're better now...
    Oliver: Who do you think you're talking to?
    Finn: I'm talking to you! You big, overstuffed pollywog!
    Oliver: You smile when you call me that.
    Finn: Apologize? Ha! For what?
    Oliver: For calling me an overstuffed pollywog! No man living can call me an overstuffed pollywog and get away with it!
    James: All right, all right. You're NOT an overstuffed polliwog.
    Oliver: Well, that's better.
    Finn: You're an inflated blimp!
    Oliver: That's different!

## Cast

* Stan Laurel — Stan
* Oliver Hardy — Ollie
* Patricia Ellis — Mrs. 'Toots' Gilbert
* Minna Gombell — Mrs. Hardy
* Billy Gilbert — Mr. Gilbert
* James Finlayson — Finn
* Zeffie Tilbury — Dowager seated near stairs
* Harry Anderson — Doorman
* Mike Behegan — Bugler
* Patsy Moran — Lulu
* James C. Morton — James

## External links

* Block-Heads quotes at the Internet Movie Database
# Blockheads

Blockheads may refer to:

## Film

* Block-Heads (1938 film), a 1938 film about a Veteran's Home

## Music

* Blockheads, a French grindcore band
* The Blockheads, an English rock band formed in London in 1977

## Other uses

* Blockhead!, a block stacking game
* Blockhead (thought experiment), also known as Blockhead argument
* "Blockheads" (Arrested Development), an episode of Arrested Development
* The Blockheads (video game), a handheld device game released in 2013
This disambiguation page, one that points to other pages that might otherwise have the same name, lists articles associated with the name Blockheads. If an internal link led you here, you may wish to change the link to point directly to the intended article.
# Blood & Treasure

Blood & Treasure (2019–2022) is an American action-adventure drama that aired on Paramount+. The series is produced by Propagate and Lake June Productions in association with CBS Studios.

## Season 1
### The Curse of Cleopatra -- Parts 1 & 2 [1.01]

    Danny: You should call the FBI.
    Jay: I would if you still worked there.

## External links

* Blood & Treasure quotes at the Internet Movie Database
# Blogging

Blogging is a form of popular writing in which ordinary individuals (as opposed to professional writers) publish their thoughts and musings, usually in short pieces displayed in reverse-chronological order, in a blog (short for "web log"), a website designed for collecting such self-published pieces.
Note: this is an article for quotes about blogging, not quotes from blogs.

## Quotes

* The New York Times is going to quote Bernadette so that the people can be heard, and the Times can demonstrate they're not the media elite. I prefer when they were elite — I'm a fan of credentials. It's like we've all spent the last five years living a Roger Corman film called Revenge of the Hack. I have to care about the Internet, Sim — you know why? Because everybody else does.
** Tom Jeter (Nate Corddry), bemoaning criticism of the show from "Bernadette of The Bernadette Blog"
** Studio 60 on the Sunset Strip, "The Cold Open" [1.02], 24 September 2006
* "I remember. I blogged the whole thing."
** Creed Bratton from NBC's The Office Season 3, Episode 23 "The Job"
* I've been inspired by José Saramago's extraordinary blogs, which he posted when he was 85 and 86 years old. They were published this year in English as The Notebook. I read them with amazement and delight. I never wanted to blog before. I've never liked the word blog — I suppose it is meant to stand for bio-log or something like that, but it sounds like a sodden tree-trunk in a bog, or maybe an obstruction in the nasal passage... But seeing what Saramago did with the form was a revelation. Oh! I get it! I see! Can I try too? My trials/attempts/efforts (that's what "essays" means) so far have very much less political and moral weight than Saramago's and are more trivially personal. Maybe that will change as I practice the form, maybe not. Maybe I'll soon find it isn't for me after all, and stop. That's to be seen. What I like at the moment is the sense of freedom.
** Ursula K. Le Guin, Blog post, "0. A Note at the Beginning" (19 October 2010)
* Skimmability, write like an idiot. Skimability: definitely a real word. People are lazy. People online are even lazier. So don't write like your turning in your AP English paper - write like an idiot. Keep your sentences short, and your paragraphs shorter. Short Paragraphs help people read, skim & enjoy articles.
** Devin Schumacher, Blog Post, 25 January 2023
# Alexandre O'Neill

Alexandre Manuel Vahia de Castro O'Neill de Bulhões, GOSE (19 December 1924 – 21 August 1986) was a Portuguese poet of Irish descent.

## Quotes

* Você tem-me cavalgado, seu safado! Você tem-me cavalgado, mas nem por isso me pôs a pensar como você.Que uma coisa pensa o cavalo; outra quem está a montá-lo.
** You've mounted me and there you sit, you rotten shit! You've mounted me and there you sit, but even that won't really make me think like you.For the horse thinks one way as he strides; thoughts quite different from the one who rides.
** "A História da Moral", in De Ombro na Ombreira (1969)
** "The History of Morality", trans. Alexis Levitin, in Fire in the Soul: 100 Poems for Human Rights (2009), ed. Dinyar Godrej, p. 117

## External links

* Alexandre O'Neill at Poetry International Web
# Alexandre Herculano

Alexandre Herculano de Carvalho e Araújo was a Portuguese novelist and historian.

## Quotes

* Alexandre Herculano, a famous writer of the 19th century, mentioned in his “Fragment about the Inquisition”: “…The terrors inflicted on pregnant women made them abort….Neither the beauty or decorousness of the flower of youth, nor the old age, so worthy of compassion in a woman, exempted the weaker sex from the brutal ferocity of the supposed defenders of the religion….” “…There were days when seven or eight were submitted to torture. These scenes were reserved for the inquisitors after dinner. It was a post-prandial entertainment. Many a time during those acts, the inquisitors compared notes in the appreciation of the beauty of the human form. While the unlucky damsel twisted in the intolerable pains of torture, or fainted in the intensity of the agony, one inquisitor applauded the angelic touches of her face, another the brightness of her eyes, another, the volluptuous contours of her breast, another the shape of her hands. In this conjuncture, men of blood transformed themselves into real artists.”
** (source: History of the Origin and Establishment of the Inquisition in in Portugal 1926 – By Alexandre Herculano). attributed at
# Alexandre do Nascimento

Alexandre do Nascimento (1 March 1925 – 28 September 2024) was an Angolan Cardinal of the Catholic Church.

## Quotes

* The positive side of this phenomenon is that it shows there is an increasing thirst for God. But those who are thirsty need to seek the right fountain: the one without the spoilt water.
** Catholics hope Pope can win ground in Angola (15 March 2009)
# Colossal (film)

Colossal is a Canadian-Spanish-American-South Korean 2016 science fiction black comedy about an unemployed writer who unwittingly manifests a giant monster in Seoul.
    Directed and written by Nacho Vigalondo.

## Garth

* Have you ever noticed how it just keeps destroying everything in its path but it never looks down. It’s like it’s being operated by remote control.

## Dialogue

    Tim: You are out of control!
    Gloria: What?
    Tim: I’ve packed your things, they’re in the bedroom.
    Gloria: What?
    Oscar: You alright?
    Gloria: Yeah, it’s this nervous tick I have, I get this itch.
    Oscar: You don’t remember anything last night, huh?
    Gloria: I got really melodramatic, didn’t I?
    Oscar: You told me that you weren’t really on a vacation, that you’ve been looking for a job for a year, your boyfriend didn’t work out. And since you didn’t have any money you decided to move back here.
    Gloria: Is there anything else?
    Oscar: You don’t remember anything?
    Gloria: I just watched the news and I think I’m in shock. A giant monster just materialized over Seoul.
    Tim: That happened like nine hours ago, and you’re just hearing about this. What have you been doing all day?
    Gloria: I’m going to show you guys something.
    Garth: Gloria, you’ve got to see this, it’s dancing.” Referring to the giant monster dancing.
    Gloria: It’s dancing like…
    Oscar: Holy shit!
    Gloria: What was that?
    Garth: A helicopter.
    Gloria: What with like the pilot and everything?
    Gloria: Keep it cool. These people are looking at us.
    Oscar: [looks at the women at the next table] Hi. She's the monster; I'm the robot.
    Gloria: [throws the bar keys towards Oscar] Here! There are your keys; I'm not coming back to your shitty bar!
    Oscar: [picking up the keys] Yeah you are.
    Gloria: [panting] Oh yeah?
    Oscar: Yeah.
    [Throws the keys at Gloria with enough force to hurt her]
    Gloria: [holding her stomach in pain] Ow!
    Oscar: [calmly] You're gonna keep working at the bar, or I'm gonna come back here tomorrow, and destroy an entire neighborhood.
    Gloria: [through her teeth, bringing her face close to Oscar's] Then I'll come back and I'll kick your fucking ass!
    Oscar: [still calm] No you won't. I'm done being Mr. Nice Guy.
    [Knocks her to the ground. Gloria grunts in pain as she hits the ground hard]
    Oscar: [leans down, calm] see you at work?
    [Gloria looks up at him speechless]
    Oscar: I'll see you at work.

## Cast

* Anne Hathaway - Gloria
* Jason Sudeikis - Oscar
* Dan Stevens - Tim
* Austin Stowell - Joel
* Tim Blake Nelson - Garth
* Rukiya Bernard - Marie
* Agam Darshi - Ash

## External links

* Official website
* Colossal quotes at the Internet Movie Database
* Colossal at Rotten Tomatoes
# Colossal Cave Adventure

Colossal Cave Adventure or Adventure, ADVENT, or Colossal Cave was originally written for the PDP-10 in 1976 by Willie Crowther and Don Woods, and was the first ever text adventure game.

## Notable Room Descriptions

* Famous first words
* All different maze
* All alike maze
* Witt's end
* Mirror canyon
* Breath-taking view

## Other Game Text

* Magic word
* Killing the dragon
* Please do not feed the dwarves
# Coluche

Michel Colucci (October 28, 1944 Paris – June 19, 1986 Opio, Alpes-Maritimes), better known as Coluche, was a French comedian and actor, famous for his irreverent sense of humour.

## Quotes

* Si la Gestapo avait les moyens de vous faire parler, les politiciens d’aujourd’hui ont les moyens de vous faire taire.
** Where the Gestapo had the means to make you talk, today's politicians have the means to keep us quiet.
** Coluche, Les discours en disent long, Sony Music, 1996.
* Le capitalisme, c'est l'exploitation de l'homme par l'homme. Le communisme, c'est le contraire !
** Capitalism is man exploiting man. Socialism is just the opposite.
** Coluche, Les syndicats et le délégué, Carrère, 1989.
** Compare Len Deighton, Funeral in Berlin (1964): "Capitalism is the exploitation of man by man. Yes? Well socialism is exactly the reverse."
* Les psychiatres sont très efficaces. Avant, je pissais au lit et j'avais honte. J'ai été voir un psychiatre et ça va mieux. Maintenant, je pisse au lit mais je suis fier.
** Psychiatrists are very effective. Before, I used to pee in my bed and was very ashamed of it. After seeing a psychiatrist I got better. Now, I pee in my bed but I am proud of it.
** Coluche, Médecins sans diplômes, Sony Music, 1996.
* Tu sais ce que c'est qu'un sandwich polonais ? c'est deux ticket de pain avec un ticket de jambon au milieu.
** Do you know what a Polish sandwich is? It's one coupon for ham between two coupons for bread.
** Coluche, PC-CGT, Sony Music Media, 2002.
* Le communisme, c'est une des seules maladies graves qu'on n'a pas expérimenté d'abord sur des animaux.
** Communism is one of the few grave diseases we didn't try on animals first.
** Coluche, PC-CGT, Sony Music, 1996.
# Colored Sounds

The Colored Sounds [Цветны́е зву́ки (Tsvetnye zvuki)] (1989), is the second artist's book in a series of four Alexey Parygin author’s editions. The series Pesok (The Sand), Tsvetnye zvuki (The Coloured Sounds), Zelenaia kniga (The Green Book), Moia mansarda (My Attic) was created in 1989-1990 at the Nevsky-25 squat workshop (Leningrad) on the basis of the artist’s own poetic texts, the free-verse poems of 1987-1989. All books have similar format, stylistic unity of design, and are of limited edition.

## Quotes

* A sheet of graphic ‘sounds’ alternates with a poem printed on recto (the sheets’ versos remain blank). The visual elements work as an independent ‘text’ that prompts certain analogies between colour and sound, with which the early twentieth-century avant-garde also experimented, not only in painting, but also in music. Thus, colour is not only a decorative element but it also provides the main ‘sound’ of the book and adds different layers of meaning.
** Elena Grigoryants Absorbing the Futurist heritage: Vasily Vlasov and Alexey Parygin / The Futurist Tradition in Contemporary Russian Artists’ Books // International Yearbook of Futurism Studies / Special Issue on Russian Futurism. Ed. by Günter Berghaus. — Berlin & Boston: Walter de Gruyter. Vol. 9 — 2019. — P. 281
# Color blindness (racial classification)

A color blind society is one in which racial classification does not limit a person's opportunities.

## Quotes

* In the era of colorblindness, it is no longer socially permissible to use race, explicitly, as a justification for discrimination, exclusion, and social contempt. So we don’t. Rather than rely on race, we use our criminal justice system to label people of color “criminals” and then engage in all the practices we supposedly left behind. Today it is perfectly legal to discriminate against criminals in nearly all the ways that it was once legal to discriminate against African Americans. Once you’re labeled a felon, the old forms of discrimination—employment discrimination, housing discrimination, denial of the right to vote, denial of educational opportunity, denial of food stamps and other public benefits, and exclusion from jury service—are suddenly legal. As a criminal, you have scarcely more rights, and arguably less respect, than a black man living in Alabama at the height of Jim Crow. We have not ended racial caste in America; we have merely redesigned it.
** Michelle Alexander, The New Jim Crow: Mass Incarceration in the Age of Colorblindness (2010), p. 2
* While color blindness may be a sound goal ultimately, we must realize that race is an overwhelming fact of life in this historical period. There is no black man in this country who can live “simply as a man.” His blackness is an ever-present fact of this racist society, whether he recognizes it or not. It is unlikely that this or the next generation will witness the time when race will no longer be relevant in the conduct of public affairs and in public policy decision-making. To realize this and to attempt to deal with it does not make one a racist or overly preoccupied with race; it puts one in the forefront of a significant struggle. If there is no intense struggle today, there will be no meaningful results tomorrow.
** Kwame Ture and Charles V. Hamilton, Black Power: The Politics of Liberation in America. Vintage Books. 1967. p. 54. ISBN 978-0-394-70033-5.
# Bill Fagerbakke

William Mark "Bill" Fagerbakke (4 October 1957) is an American actor and voice actor.

## Quotes

* The business I’ve found myself in for my adult life, it requires a certain amount of stereotyping. It’s just the nature of the beast. You have a limited amount of time to tell a story; in particular on camera. So you want the visual information there to provide a certain amount of background. People that look a certain way are cast in certain roles.
* I’m always looking for opportunities to explore that freewheeling imagination and insanity of children. To be able to plug in to that and let that carry you in to a performance is such a gas, I have so much fun with that. I love kids; I raised two girls and I love being a parent. Being a parent is hands down the greatest thing of my life, and I loved when they were young because as a parent you can spend that special time with them when they’re young and you can attach your imagination on to their ride and go with them and do what they’re doing. I always loved that and it’s kind of how I approach Patrick. I don’t know if this makes sense, but I guess that’s my approach and that’s what I continue to do because I’m so fortunate to keep going with this character. It’s very satisfying and enjoyable.
** Interview With Bill Fagerbakke: The Voice of Spongebob's Patrick Star (November 11, 2013)
* I am essentially a child at heart, and that's something that's never lost on me. It starts with the liberation of the writer's imagination. When you have that kind of really inspired material in your hands, if you can't enjoy it... there are some curmudgeonly people I guess who don't care for this stuff, but it's such a gas. It's so much fun.
** Bill Fagerbakke interview: SpongeBob, Starship Troopers, Statham (August 8, 2015)

## 69External links

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# Bill Frisell

William Richard Frisell (born March 18, 1951) is an American guitarist, composer and arranger.

## Quotes

* For as long as I can remember, the guitar and music itself is the thing that has gotten me through everything. Whatever it is I'm thinking about, or worrying about, or feeling good about -- anything -- the music has just been there. It's sort of like a model for the way things could actually work somehow. The music itself, just being immersed in the melody and the harmony and the rhythm of it, is so extraordinary, but then I think also all the people I've known... As soon as I started to play, it caused this circle of people to be there where everything was cool somehow.
** Bill Frisell Interview: Rock Guitar, Jazz Atmosphere

## External links

* Official website
# Bill Edrich

William John "Bill" Edrich DFC (26 March 1916 – 24 April 1986) was an English cricketer.

## Quotes

* Before 1914 it was beauty that counted in cricket - elegance of strokes, stylishness of bowling action, quixotry in captaincy. The gallant gesture was just as important as the mammoth score, the picturesque as the efficient.
** Cricket Heritage (1948)