Christopher Hall:
CLASS OF 1984
Abington Friends High SchoolClass of 1984
Jenkintown, PA
Christopher's Story
Christopher is from Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. Christopher's schools include Abington Friends High School. Christopher later attended Sarah Lawrence College, Temple University, Montgomery County Community College.
Music Christopher likes includes Real Sexy Woman Don't Need Fake Pics, Hot Blonde Photos, Sexy but 100% Not Porn! Just Enjoy. Books Christopher likes include The Lord of the Rings, King Warrior Magician Lover, My Life and Hard Times. Movies Christopher likes include Nude and Hot Sexy 18+ girls, Sexy Actresses, The Muppets.
One of Christopher's favorite quotes is:"I guess my favorite is still what it was when MySpace was my main net outlet:
"Life's incessant ceremonies leap everlasting, humans spring eternal on hope's breast, and frying pans without fires are often far between..."
- Roger Zelazny, SIGN OF THE UNICORN
Also, having received a "National Book Day " Post instructing me to grab the nearest book, go to page 56, and look up whatever-numbered sentence it was, I got Zelazny's LORD OF LIGHT:
"You plan to oppose the Gods?"
How appropriate. Heh. Heh. Heh.
"Expertus meus Virtus ut placet vos
Expertus meus Fidelitas periculosus vobis"
And now, one I just met up with, with personal significance:
"Death is not extinguishing the light; it is only putting out the lamp because the dawn has come."
" The supreme happiness in life is the conviction of being loved for yourself, or, more correctly, being loved in spite of yourself."
-Victor Hugo
"There is a curious paradox that no one can explain:
Who understands the secret of the reaping of the grain?
Who understands how Spring is born out of Winter's laboring pain?
- Or why we all must... die a bit, before we grow again?
I do not know the answer; I only know it's true.
I hurt them for that reason... and myself a little bit, too."
- El Gallo, the Bandit (Narrator), THE FANTASTCIKS
"The pain now, is part of the happiness then. That's the deal."
- SHADOWLANDS
"What do you care what people think?"
- WHAT DO YOU CARE WHAT PEOPLE THINK?
"History is a tale, mostly lies, told by kings, mostly knaves, and heard by men, mostly fools."
~Dr. Robert Imhoff, an elegant paraphrase of Ambrose Bierce in his THE DEVIL'S DICTIONARY:
"History is an account mostly false, of events mostly unimportant, which are brought about by rulers mostly knaves, and soldiers mostly fools."
Also:
"History is written by the winners."
â George Orwell, 1944
"Of course history will be kind to me, for I intend to write it."
â Winston Churchill
"Treason doth never prosper, what's the reason? Why, if it prosper, none dare call it treason."
â Sir John Harrington
BRAVEHEART, the opening monologue:
"I shall tell you of William Wallace. Historia...Expand for more
ns from England will say I am a liar, but history is written by those who have hanged heroes."
Related to Harrington's, above:
"Oh Mr. Dickinson, you should know that rebellion is ALWAYS legal in the First Person -"Our rebellion". It is only in the Third Person - "Their rebellion" - that it is illegal!"
--Benjamin Franklin (as a character in the musical) 1776
Let's throw in...
"History is Popular Culture."
~Robert Wuhl in HBO special, ASSUME THE POSITION
"Hope is the thing with feathers
That perches in the soul
And sings the tune without words
And never stops at all."
- Emily Dickinson
A really big one:
âDo you want me to tell you something really subversive? Love is everything it's cracked up to be. That's why people are so cynical about it. It really is worth fighting for, being brave for, risking everything for. And the trouble is, if you don't risk anything, you risk even more."
-Erica Jong
POLONIUS: My lord, I shall use them according to their desert.
HAMLET: God's bodykins, man, much better: use every man
after his desert, and who should 'scape whipping?
Use them after your own honour and dignity: the less
they deserve, the more merit is in your bounty.
Take them in.
- HAMLET, ACT III scene I
"You can trust us to stick with you through thick or thin to the bitter end, and you can trust us to keep your secrets close, closer then you keep them yourself, but you cannot trust us to let you go off into danger alone." - Meriadoc Brandybuck
"The Fellowship of the Ring" - J.R.R Tolkien
[ I like the following simply for the prose and characterization - I'll go not by the sentiment, for Christian, Jew or Pagan heart)
"He hath disgraced me, and hindered me half a million;
laughed at my losses, mocked at my gains, scorned my nation, thwarted my bargains, cooled my friends, heated mine
enemies; and what's his reason? I am a Jew. Hath not a Jew eyes? hath not a Jew hands, organs, dimensions, senses, affections, passions? fed with the same food, hurt with the same weapons, subject to the same diseases, healed by the same means, warmed and cooled by the same winter and summer, as a Christian is? If you prick us, do we not bleed? if you tickle us, do we not laugh? if you poison us, do we not die? and if you wrong us, shall we not revenge? If we are like you in the rest, we will resemble you in that. If a Jew wrong a Christian, what is his humility? Revenge. If a Christian wrong a Jew, what should his sufferance be by Christian example? Why, revenge. The villany you teach me, I will execute, and it shall go hard but I will better the instruction. " - Shylock
"Merchant of Venice" - William Shakespeare (III, i)
After the game,
the king and the pawn go into the same box.
-Italian Proverb".
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