December 2011
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X-Files Quotations Series
Scully: Good morning.
Mulder: Whatever tape you found in that VCR, it isn't mine.
Scully: Good, because I put it back in that drawer with all those other videos that aren't yours.
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“I wanted you to see what real courage is, instead of getting the idea that...”
– Atticus Finch in Harper Lee’s To Kill a Mockingbird
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Why not to make New Years resolutions →
“Living a full life isn’t about making some woolly, half-hearted decisions that don’t really mean anything. That’s not what truly confident people do.
Instead, make confident choices based on what really matters to you.”
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"A Song for New Years Eve" by William Cullen...
Stay yet, my friends, a moment stay— Stay till the good old year, So long companion of our way, Shakes hands, and leaves us here. Oh stay, oh stay, One little hour, and then away. The year, whose hopes were high and strong, Has now no hopes to wake; Yet one hour more of jest and song For his familiar sake. Oh stay, oh stay, One mirthful hour, and then...
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“He smiled gently. “It is of the first importance,” he cried,...”
– Sherlock Holmes in The Sign of the Four
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"The Darkling Thrush" by Thomas Hardy
I leant upon a coppice gate When Frost was spectre-gray, And Winter’s dregs made desolate The weakening eye of day. The tangled bine-stems scored the sky Like strings of broken lyres, And all mankind that haunted nigh Had sought their household fires. The land’s sharp features seemed to be The Century’s corpse outleant, His crypt the cloudy canopy, The...
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“It is a fair, even-handed, noble adjustment of things, that while there is...”
– Charles Dickens in A Christmas Carol
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"The Old Year" by John Clare
The Old Year’s gone away To nothingness and night: We cannot find him all the day Nor hear him in the night: He left no footstep, mark or place In either shade or sun: The last year he’d a neighbour’s face, In this he’s known by none. All nothing everywhere: Mists we on mornings see Have more of substance when they’re here And more of...
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“Time didn’t heal, but it anesthetized. The human mind could only feel so...”
– P.D. James in Innocent Blood
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"At the Entering of the New Year" by Thomas Hardy
I (OLD STYLE) Our songs went up and out the chimney, And roused the home-gone husbandmen; Our allemands, our heys, poussettings, Our hands-across and back again, Sent rhythmic throbbings through the casements On to the white highway, Where nighted farers paused and muttered, “Keep it up well, do they!” The contrabasso’s measured booming...
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“Till we can become divine, we must be content to be human, lest in our hurry for...”
– Anthony Trollope in Barchester Towers
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"In Memoriam, [Ring out, wild bells]" by Alfred...
Ring out, wild bells, to the wild sky, The flying cloud, the frosty light: The year is dying in the night; Ring out, wild bells, and let him die. Ring out the old, ring in the new, Ring, happy bells, across the snow: The year is going, let him go; Ring out the false, ring in the true. Ring out the grief that saps the mind For those that here we see no more; Ring out the feud of...
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"Christmas Bells" by Henry Wadsworth Longellow
I heard the bells on Christmas Day Their old, familiar carols play, And wild and sweet The words repeat Of peace on earth, good-will to men! And thought how, as the day had come, The belfries of all Christendom Had rolled along The unbroken song Of peace on earth, good-will to men! Till ringing, singing on its way, The world revolved from night to day, A voice, a chime, A...
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"The House of Christmas" by G.K. Chesterton
There fared a mother driven forth Out of an inn to roam; In the place where she was homeless All men are at home. The crazy stable close at hand, With shaking timber and shifting sand, Grew a stronger thing to abide and stand Than the square stones of Rome. For men are homesick in their homes, And strangers under the sun, And they lay on their heads in a foreign land Whenever the day is done. Here...