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Please edit or correct or delete this quote. (part 3)
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He's not listed as such on Goodreads.
Ninab (Wants a Fully Informed Goodreads Community, even if Goodreads doesn't) wrote: "I'm assuming authors are exempt from the notable requirement, assuming that's even why the quote was deleted (which I don't think I've seen an answer to yet) "I'm genuinely surprised that someone, other than staff, would delete an Otis quote. I never even thought about him not being notable by Goodreads rules. He created and runs a site with 22+ million members, has been interviewed everwhere, is on Youtube, etc. Now, if he had written a 2 page vampire tale and put it on Amazon...
Is there a way to find out who deleted it and ask what the problem was? In the absence of being able to figure out why it was deleted in the first place, would anyone have a problem if I reposted it?Would a librarian please add Chandler's essay to the database? Thanks.
Can someone fix some issues in these quotes?https://www.goodreads.com/quotes/2400...
This one is missing quotation marks at the start of each line of dialogue.
https://www.goodreads.com/quotes/7298...
https://www.goodreads.com/quotes/1562...
These both need to have attribution added. They're from The Titan's Curse.
Thanks!
Please delete all quotes of mine that I added except "Stay Shiny"thanks
Minor correction for this quote: https://www.goodreads.com/quotes/3906...It should be: "...pulling the wings off flies, ..."
Thanks!
Matija wrote: "Minor correction for this quote: https://www.goodreads.com/quotes/3906...It should be: "...pulling the wings off flies, ..."
Thanks!"
Done
Corinne wrote: "https://www.goodreads.com/quotes/7815... book = Abraham Lincoln: Vampire Hunter"Done. There is an option to add the chapter as well, if you know it.
Banjomike wrote: Done. There is an option to add the chapter as well, if you know it." Thanks! I will keep that in mind for future quote work. I'm listening on audiobook so chapter numbers are quickly forgotten by me.
Corinne wrote: "Thanks! I will keep that in mind for future quote work."It isn't available for ALL books but it is on this one.
Minor correction for thishttps://www.goodreads.com/quotes/16476
"Nowadays 80%of women" --> needs a space "Nowadays 80% of women"
Thanks
Moloch wrote: "Minor correction for thishttps://www.goodreads.com/quotes/16476
"Nowadays 80%of women" --> needs a space "Nowadays 80% of women"
Thanks"
Done
Spencer ReidNo book profile for a Criminal Minds character, I think.
Has 36 people liking a quote, and 1 fan. Needs deleting or whatever you do to disassociate the quote from the blank profile.
Paw3pals wrote: "Spencer ReidNo book profile for a Criminal Minds character, I think.
Has 36 people liking a quote, and 1 fan. Needs deleting or whatever you do to disassociate the quote from the blank profile."
You've raised a quite a curious issue.
Paw3pals wrote: "Spencer ReidNo book profile for a Criminal Minds character, I think.
Has 36 people liking a quote, and 1 fan. Needs deleting or whatever you do to disassociate the quote from the blank profile."
This happened the other week - link the (correct) author and the Character profile here: https://www.goodreads.com/topic/show/...
(e.g.: https://www.goodreads.com/topic/show/...)
Emy wrote: "link the (correct) author and the Character profile "The problem is knowing who the correct author is. Unless the quote can be connected to a specific episode it will usually be attributed to the series creator. In this case the correct author is Chris Mundy who doesn't have a Goodreads page and is probably not the person the member wants to be a fan of.
Criminal Minds (2005 TV Series)Episode: Sex, Birth, Death (2006)
I know what it's like to be afraid of your own mind.
Per http://www.imdb.com/search/text?realm....
Director: Gwyneth Horder-Payton
Writers: Jeff Davis (creator), Chris Mundy
Still doesn't help re: what to do about quote & fan for blank profile.
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The following quote https://www.goodreads.com/quotes/5284... has been wrongly attributed to Marylin Monroe. It is, instead, a quote by Timothy Leary.As an identical quote is already present on the Leary page https://www.goodreads.com/author/quot... , the Marylin one should probably be deleted (or could the two be merged under the Leary name?).
This please: https://www.goodreads.com/author/show...It's a typo. to:http://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/I_Know...
Good evening, librarians. Could one of you help me correct the information on this quote? https://www.goodreads.com/quotes/9188... I pressed the Return key too soon, and didn't get to specify that it was from Lorrie Moore's collection, LIKE LIFE. Thank you!
Sasha wrote: "Good evening, librarians. Could one of you help me correct the information on this quote? https://www.goodreads.com/quotes/9188... I pressed the..."Done
Banjomike wrote: "Sasha wrote: "Good evening, librarians. Could one of you help me correct the information on this quote? https://www.goodreads.com/quotes/9188......"Thank you so much!
Hi Librarians! Could one of you please help me with linking this quote to my novel (Like Gravity) rather than only to my author page? https://www.goodreads.com/quotes/9189...
Thank you so much!!
Holly wrote: "Julie, I've done it :)"Thanks so much!
Hi,I was wondering if you could fix a couple of my quotes that I submitted.
https://www.goodreads.com/quotes/list..., # 7 & 8
# 7 has a double "the" in the first line.
# 8 has a couple errors. "positive changes for own lives, and inflicting pain in another's".It should read, "positive changes in our own lives, while inflicting pain in another's. Losing them was the inevitable, as is Change."
Thank you so much. :)
Annalee wrote: "Hi,I was wondering if you could fix a couple of my quotes that I submitted.
https://www.goodreads.com/quotes/list..., # 7 & 8
# 7 has a double "the" in the first line.
# 8 has a couple errors. "positive changes for own lives, and inflicting pain in another's".It should read, "positive changes in our own lives, while inflicting pain in another's. Losing them was the inevitable, as is Change."
Thank you so much. :) "
Done, but is "Losing them was the inevitable" correct? It reads oddly. Which book are they from, I don't see you as an author on GR.
This should be from The Battle of the Labyrinth and it's Percy's line (Ch. 11)https://www.goodreads.com/quotes/1557...
This is an Einstein misquote:https://www.goodreads.com/quotes/2636...
This is from a discussion in Wikipedia: After researching the quote in greater depth, I have discovered it to be a misquote. Alice Calaprice's book "The Ultimate Quotable Einstein" stated it differently, which I confirmed when I located the actual source (Viereck's "Glimpses of the Great"). The actual quote:
Your question [about God] is the most difficult in the world. It is not a question I can answer simply with yes or no. I am not an Atheist. I do not know if I can define myself as a Pantheist. The problem involved is too vast for our limited minds. May I not reply with a parable? The human mind, no matter how highly trained, cannot grasp the universe. We are in the position of a little child, entering a huge library whose walls are covered to the ceiling with books in many different tongues. The child knows that someone must have written those books. It does not know who or how. It does not understand the languages in which they are written. The child notes a definite plan in the arrangement of the books, a mysterious order, which it does not comprehend, but only dimly suspects. That, it seems to me, is the attitude of the human mind, even the greatest and most cultured, toward God. We see a universe marvelously arranged, obeying certain laws, but we understand the laws only dimly. Our limited minds cannot grasp the mysterious force that sways the constellations. I am fascinated by Spinoza's Pantheism. I admire even more his contributions to modern thought. Spinoza is the greatest of modern philosophers, because he is the first philosopher who deals with the soul and the body as one, not as two separate things.
-In an interview published in 1930 in G. S. Viereck's book Glimpses of the Great, Einstein, in response to a question about whether or not he believed in God
Perry wrote: "This is an Einstein misquote:https://www.goodreads.com/quotes/2636...
This is from a discussion in Wikipedia: After researching the quote in greater depth, I have discovered it to be a misquote. Alice Calaprice's book "The Ultimate Quotable Einstein" stated it differently, which I confirmed when I located the actual source (Viereck's "Glimpses of the Great").
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-In an interview published in 1930 in G. S. Viereck's book Glimpses of the Great, Einstein, in response to a question about whether or not he believed in God
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The original interview was first published in the Saturday Evening Post the previous year, 1929. That printing, which I have read, does not mention any of the info in this quote. The response that Einstein is supposed to have given was not a response to a question about "believing in God" but rather about whether Einstein "believed in the God that Spinoza advocated". As in, "I believe in Spinoza's God who reveals Himself in the orderly harmony of what exists, not in a God who concerns himself with fates and actions of human beings." Very different.
There is another discussion of this quote which includes the comment, "Did Einstein actually say this? The nonsense phrase "mysterious force that moves the constellations" troubles me. This seems much more likely to have been inserted by the scientifically ignorant Viereck than it does something that Einstein would say.". It bothers many people given that Einstein probably understood gravity better than almost anyone at that time.
Viereck does come across as, to put it politely, a technical noob, for example he has to ask Einstein who Erwin Schrödinger and Werner Heisenberg are and the original interview reads like one of those Victorian tales where the helpful minion asks simple questions so that the superhero can expound on his knowledge.
Does Viereck's book say "Your question [about God] is..." or does it mention the actual question that Einstein was responding to. My bold.
"[about God]" is not in the quote. And the question was clearly about the God of Spinoza, you are correct. The misquote was probably due to a translation into German and back into English, which was spread around by those who didn't bother to check the original Viereck 1930 publication. It is significant because it would be shocking had Einstein said he 'didn't think' he was a pantheist despite the fact that he called his own views "pantheistic" that same year.Banjomike wrote: "Perry wrote: "This is an Einstein misquote:
https://www.goodreads.com/quotes/2636...
This is from a discussion in Wikipedia: After researching the quote ..."
Perry wrote: ""[about God]" is not in the quote. And the question was clearly about the God of Spinoza, you are correct. The misquote was probably due to a translation into German and back into English, which was spread around by those who didn't bother to check the original Viereck 1930 publication. It is significant because it would be shocking had Einstein said he 'didn't think' he was a pantheist despite the fact that he called his own views "pantheistic" that same year."I've updated the quote, minus "[about God]". If anyone wants to comment on the change they can do so here.
Are some quotes locked for editing? I'm a Librarian, but I can't see an edit button for this quote:https://www.goodreads.com/quotes/1703...
I wanted to remove the unnecessary hyphen from the word "encouragingly."
Hi there, please can you fix typo in the bottom quote? https://www.goodreads.com/work/quotes... ('chracters > characters. Many thanks!
Delete, they are commentary by readers not from book:
https://www.goodreads.com/quotes/4147...
https://www.goodreads.com/quotes/7232...
https://www.goodreads.com/quotes/5195...
https://www.goodreads.com/quotes/4147...
https://www.goodreads.com/quotes/7232...
https://www.goodreads.com/quotes/5195...
Corinne wrote: "Delete, they are commentary by readers not from book:https://www.goodreads.com/quotes/4147...
https://www.goodreads.com/quotes/7232...-..."
Gone
True quote:
https://www.goodreads.com/quotes/3890...
These two are incorrect variations of the above (they have incorrect punctuation and use the word 'beat' vs 'bit':
https://www.goodreads.com/quotes/6615...
https://www.goodreads.com/quotes/6615...
https://www.goodreads.com/quotes/3890...
These two are incorrect variations of the above (they have incorrect punctuation and use the word 'beat' vs 'bit':
https://www.goodreads.com/quotes/6615...
https://www.goodreads.com/quotes/6615...
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Eta: I'm assuming authors are exempt from the notable requirement, assuming that's even why the quote was deleted (which I don't think I've seen an answer to yet)