touchstone quotations: Rodney Dangerfield on Chemistry

Sunday, September 30, 2012

Rodney Dangerfield on Chemistry

Oh, we were doomed from the start, I'm an earth sign, she's a water sign; together, we made... mud.

Thornton Melon (Rodney Dangerfield) talking to Dr. Diane Turner (Sally Kellerman) about his failed marriage.

Back to School, 1986
Writers: Rodney Dangerfield, Greg Fields, Dennis Snee, Steven Kampmann, Peter Torokvei, Harold Ramis, Rich Eustis, Will Porter
MGM Studios

Joseph Campbell on Interesting Times

I have read somewhere of an old Chinese curse: "May you be born in an interesting time." This is a very interesting time. There are no models for anything that is going on. It is a period of free fall into the future, and each has to make his or her own way. The old models are not working; the new have not yet appeared. In fact, it is we who are even now shaping of the new in the shaping of our interesting lives. And, that is the whole sense (in mythological terms) of the present challenge: we are the ancestors of an age to come, the unwitting generators of its supporting myths, the mythic models that will inspire its lives.

Joseph Campbell
1904 - 1987
Goddesses: Mysteries of the Feminine Divine, 2013