/*
This is a javascript file designed to display a random
bit of text or HTML (like a quote) on a page that calls it.
To use, include this on your HTML page...
The script expects there to be a DIV or SPAN element with an
id of "randomquote". So, wherever you want the random quote
to appear, place this line:
To make the quote appear on page load, edit the tag of your
page to include this:
The parenthesis are required after dispRandom.
And that should do it! To have the random quote change at
the push of a button, you could have this:
*/
q = 0;
var quote = new Array();
//------------------------------------------------------
// The Quotes! Place all quotes here.
// You should make sure they always follow this format:
// quote[q++] = "Text of quote..sdfsdf";
// Notice the semi-colon at the end? That's very important.
// You cannot have line breaks in your quotes, either.
// If you want a " character in the quote, use \" (back-
// slash, then a "). Otherwise you will get errors.
//------------------------------------------------------
quote[q++] = "The difficulty of literature is not to write, but to write what you mean; not to affect your reader, but to affect him precisely as you wish.
--Robert Louis Stevenson";
quote[q++] = "Language shapes the way we think, and determines what we can think about.
--Benjamin Lee Whorf ";
quote[q++] = "The answers you get from literature depend on the questions you pose.
--Margaret Atwood";
quote[q++] = "The test of literature is, I suppose, is whether we ourselves live more intensely for the reading of it.
--Elizabeth Drew";
quote[q++] = "There’s nothing to writing. All you have to do is sit at a computer and open a vein.
--Walter Wellesly Smith";
quote[q++] = "The role of a writer is not to say what we all can say, but what we are unable to say.
--Anais Nin";
quote[q++] = "Ink and paper are sometimes passionate lovers, oftentimes brother and sister, and occasionally mortal enemies.
--Emme Woodhull-Bäche";
quote[q++] = "Words - so innocent and powerless as they are, as standing in a dictionary, how potent for good and evil they become in the hands of one who knows how to combine them.
--Nathaniel Hawthorne";
quote[q++] = "Writing is easy: All you do is sit staring at a blank sheet of paper until drops of blood form on your forehead.
--Gene Fowler";
quote[q++] = "Writing is a socially acceptable form of schizophrenia.
--E.L. Doctorow ";
quote[q++] = "The only cure for writer's block is insomnia.
--Merit Antares ";
quote[q++] = "A story should have a beginning, a middle, and an end... but not necessarily in that order.
--Jean Luc Godard ";
quote[q++] = "Every author in some way portrays himself in his works, even if it be against his will.
--Goethe ";
quote[q++] = "Writing is an adventure.
-- Winston Churchill";
quote[q++] = " Better to write for yourself and have no public, than to write for the public and have no self. -- Cyril Connolly ";
quote[q++] = "Me fail english? Thats unpossible.
-- Matt Groening";
quote[q++] = "If the English language made any sense, lackadaisical would have something to do with a shortage of flowers.
--Doug Larson";
quote[q++] = "I personally believe we developed language because of our deep inner need to complain.
--Jane Wagner";
quote[q++] = "Slang is a language that rolls up its sleeves, spits on its hands and goes to work.
--Carl Sandburg New York Times, 13 February 1959";
quote[q++] = "Our major obligation is not to mistake slogans for solutions.
--Edward R. Murrow";
quote[q++] = "Thanks to words, we have been able to rise above the brutes; and thanks to words, we have often sunk to the level of the demons.--
--Aldous Huxley";
quote[q++] = "'I am' is reportedly the shortest sentence in the English language. Could it be that 'I do' is the longest sentence?
--George Carlin ";
quote[q++] = "It is a safe rule to apply that, when a mathematical or philosophical author writes with a misty profundity, he is talking nonsense.
--Alfred North Whitehead";
quote[q++] = "I would never use a long word where a short one would answer the purpose. I know there are professors in this country who 'ligate' arteries. Other surgeons only tie them, and it stops the bleeding just as well.
--Oliver Wendell Holmes";
quote[q++] = "Our language is funny - a fat chance and slim chance are the same thing.
--Gustav White";
quote[q++] = "The existing phrasebooks are inadequate. They are well enough as far as they go, but when you fall down and skin your leg they don't tell you what to say.
--Mark Twain ";
quote[q++] = "The Ancient Mariner would not have taken so well if it had been called The Old Sailor.
--Samuel Butler";
quote[q++] = "The word 'good' has many meanings. For example, if a man were to shoot his grandmother at a range of five hundred yards, I should call him a good shot, but not necessarily a good man.
--G.K Chesterton";
quote[q++] = "Learn as much by writing as by reading.
--Lord Acton";
quote[q++] = "Reading is to the mind what exercise is to the body.
--Joseph Addison";
quote[q++] = "Reading is a basic tool in the living of a good life.
--Mortimer J. Adler";
quote[q++] = "I read the newspaper avidly. It is my one form of continuous fiction.
--Aneurin Bevan ";
quote[q++] = "A conventional good read is usually a bad read, a relaxing bath in what we know already. A true good read is surely an act of innovative creation in which we, the readers, become conspirators
--Malcolm Bradbury ";
quote[q++] = "You don't have to burn books to destroy a culture. Just get people to stop reading them.
--Ray Bradbury ";
quote[q++] = "To read without reflecting is like eating without digesting
--Edmund Burke";
quote[q++] = "A novel is never anything, but a philosophy put into images.
--Albert Camus";
quote[q++] = "A book is like a garden carried in the pocket.
--Chinese proverb";
quote[q++] = "Force yourself to reflect on what you read, paragraph by paragraph.
--Samuel Taylor Coleridge";
quote[q++] = "There is no Frigate like a Book To take us Lands away, Nor any Coursers like a Page Of prancing Poetry.
--Emily Dickinson ";
quote[q++] = "Reading, after a certain age, diverts the mind too much from its creative pursuits. Any man who reads too much and uses his own brain too little falls into lazy habits of thinking.
--Albert Einstein";
quote[q++] = "There is creative reading as well as creative writing.
--Ralph Waldo Emerson ";
quote[q++] = "In a very real sense, people who have read good literature have lived more than people who cannot or will not read. It is not true that we have only one life to lead; if we can read, we can live as many more lives and as many kinds of lives as we wish.
--S. I. Hayakawa ";
quote[q++] = "All good books are alike in that they are truer than if they had really happened and after you are finished reading one you will feel that all that happened to you and afterwards it all belongs to you; the good and the bad, the ecstasy, the remorse, and sorrow, the people and the places and how the weather was.
--Ernest Hemingway ";
quote[q++] = "You've really got to start hitting the books because it's no joke out here.
--Spike Lee ";
quote[q++] = "Outside a dog, a book is man's best friend. Inside a dog, it's too dark to read.
--Groucho Marx";
quote[q++] = "The more that you read,the more things you will know. The more that you learn, the more places you'll go.
--Dr. Seuss ";
quote[q++] = "Books are the treasured wealth of the world and the fit inheritance of generations and nations.
--Henry David Thoreau ";
quote[q++] = "Books, not which afford us a cowering enjoyment, but in which each thought is of unusual daring; such as an idle man cannot read, and a timid one would not be entertained by, which even make us dangerous to existing institution--such call I good books.
--Henry David Thoreau ";
quote[q++] = "How many a man has dated a new era in his life from the reading of a book. (1854)
--Henry David Thoreau ";
quote[q++] = "Read the best books first, or you may not have a chance to read them at all.
Henry David Thoreau";
quote[q++] = "The illiterate of the 21st century will not be those who cannot read and write, but those who cannot learn, unlearn, and relearn.
--Leon Trotsky";
quote[q++] = "Life is not an easy matter... You cannot live through it without falling into frustration and cynicism unless you have before you a great idea which raises you above personal misery, above weakness, above all kinds of perfidy and baseness.
--Alvin Toffler";
quote[q++] = "My books are water; those of the great geniuses are wine -- everybody drinks water
-- Mark Twain";
quote[q++] = "The man who doesn't read good books has no advantage over the man who can't read them.
--Mark Twain";
quote[q++] = "Fiction reveals truth that reality obscures.
--Jessamyn West";
quote[q++] = "Fiction is like a spider's web, attached ever so lightly perhaps, but still attached to life at all four corners.
--Virginia Woolf ";
quote[q++] = "I have often reflected upon the new vistas that reading opened to me. I knew right there in prison that reading had changed forever the course of my life. As I see it today, the ability to read awoke in me some long dormant craving to be mentally alive.
--Malcolm X ";
quote[q++] = "I think I had it in the back of my mind that I wanted it to sound like a dry martini.
--Paul Desmond, Alto Sax for Dave Brubeck and Composer of 'TAKE FIVE'";
quote[q++] = "Can we carry through in an age where we will witness no only new breakthroughs in weapons on destruction--but also, a race for mastery of the sky and the rain, and the oceans and the tides, the far side of space and the inside of men's minds?
--John F. Kennedy July 15, 1960.";
quote[q++] = "The man who trades freedom for security does not deserve nor will he receive either.
--Benjamin Franklin.";
quote[q++] = "Mankind is divided into three classes: the immovable, the moveable, and those who move.
--Benjamin Franklin.";
quote[q++] = "It is no profit to have learned well if you neglect to do well.
--Publius Cyrus ~100 B.C. Cyrus' Moral Sayings.";
quote[q++] = " Greater things are believed of those who are absent.
--Tacitus";
quote[q++] = "Unless you are at home in the metaphor, you are not safe anywhere.
--Robert Frost.";
quote[q++] = "The past isn't dead. It's not even past.
--William Faulkner.";
quote[q++] = "Gold coast slave ship bound for cotton fields. Sold in market down in New Orleans.
--The Rolling Stones 'Brown Sugar'";
quote[q++] = "To save a man's life against his will is the same as killing him.
--Horace";
quote[q++] = "I do not know my own way to the see, but the saltiness, he knows his own way to me
--Joanna Newsome 'This Side of Blue.'";
quote[q++] = "Freedom, morality, and the human dignity of the individual consists precisely in this; that he does good not because he is forced to do so, but because he freely conceives it, wants it, and loves it.
--Mikhail Bakunin";
quote[q++] = "You can build a civilization with words.
--Gold Coin";
quote[q++] = "We have to believe in free will. We have no choice.
--Isaac Bashevis Singer";
quote[q++] = "Lo, men have become tools of their tools.
--H.D. Thoreau";
quote[q++] = "I don’t use drugs; my dreams are frightening enough.
--E.M. Escher";
quote[q++] = "You can't keep a room full of Anglo-Saxons waiting for cake this long. They start to form more clubs.
--Cousin Marilyn to Lorelei in ‘Gilmore Girls’";
quote[q++] = "Insanity – a perfectly rational adjustment to an insane world.
--R.D. Laing";
quote[q++] = "In creating the human brain evolution has wildly overshot the mark.
--Arthur Koestler";
quote[q++] = "Lo! I tell you a mystery. We shall not all sleep, but we shall all be changed.
--I Corinthians 15.51";
quote[q++] = "No more tears now; I will think about revenge.
--Mary Queen of Scots";
quote[q++] = "We are all alike on the inside.
--Mark Twain";
quote[q++] = "The day we fear as our last is but the birthday of eternity.
--Seneca";
quote[q++] = "The first age of the gods, existence was born from non-existence.
--Rig-Veda 10.72.3";
quote[q++] = "How dare you sport thus with life.
--The monster to Frankenstein Mary Shelley";
quote[q++] = "The end of every maker is himself.
--St. Thomas Aquinas";
quote[q++] = "Hope is a waking dream.
--Aristotle";
quote[q++] = "The hunger for love is much more difficult to remove than the hunger for bread.
--Mother Teresa";
quote[q++] = "Desire creates desire and then feels pain.
--Michelangelo";
quote[q++] = "Malice drinks one half of its own poison.
--Seneca";
quote[q++] = "In the kingdom of the blind, the one-eyed man is king.
--Desiderius Eramus";
quote[q++] = "The earth is the cradle of the mind, but one cannot live in the cradle forever.
--Quintet Robert Altman";
quote[q++] = "Like a gazelle from the hand of the hunter, like a bird from the snare of the fowler, free youself.
--Proverb Jamon 6.4";
quote[q++] = "A hibernation is a covert preparation for more action.
--Invisible Man Ralph Ellison";
quote[q++] = "The role of the artist is to not look away.
--Akira Kurosawa";
quote[q++] = "In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was God.
--John I.1";
quote[q++] = "Inspiration does exist, but it must find you working
--Pablo Picasso";
//------------------------------------------------------
// End of quote section.
//------------------------------------------------------
function dispRandom()
{
var i = Math.round(Math.random() * (quote.length - 1));
document.getElementById("randomquote").innerHTML = quote[i];
}
function hello()
{
alert("Hey Gene");
}