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Issues with Quotes > Please edit or correct or delete this quote. (part 3)

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message 51: by Banjomike (new)

Banjomike | 5166 comments #50 done
This is the lady (Sarah^^^Williams):
http://www.goodreads.com/author/show/...

and her quotes:
http://www.goodreads.com/author/quote...


message 52: by Patrick (new)

Patrick | 7 comments I'm ashamed, author badly misspelled... please delete the following:
http://www.goodreads.com/author/quote...
and consequently
http://www.goodreads.com/author/show/...


message 53: by Banjomike (last edited Jan 21, 2013 01:15PM) (new)

Banjomike | 5166 comments Patrick wrote: "I'm ashamed, author badly misspelled... please delete the following:
http://www.goodreads.com/author/quote...
and consequently
http://www.goodreads.com/author/show/..."


Fixed.

His quotes.


message 54: by Patrick (new)

Patrick | 7 comments Thanks a lot!


 ♥ Rebecca ♥ | 203 comments I dont know what this quote is, but its not from Fury.

http://www.goodreads.com/quotes/68516...


message 56: by Amanda (new)

Amanda | 2442 comments Got 55

It is from Valiant, the 3rd book in that series


message 57: by ♥ Rebecca ♥ (last edited Jan 22, 2013 05:36PM) (new)

 ♥ Rebecca ♥ | 203 comments Amanda wrote: "Got 55

It is from Valiant, the 3rd book in that series"


I figured, with the teeth reference, that is was from the same series, but I only read Fury so I couldnt say for sure.


message 58: by Jamie (new)

Jamie Canosa | 17 comments Hi! I'm not sure if I'm asking the right people in the right place, but if I am could you possibly help me out. A couple of quotes from one of my books were added, but the book title wasn't listed. I was hoping that could be added by someone here. The book title for BOTH quotes is 'Dissidence' Thanks in advance! :)

http://www.goodreads.com/quotes/69959...

http://www.goodreads.com/quotes/69959...


message 59: by Amanda (new)

Amanda | 2442 comments Got 58


message 61: by rivka, Former Moderator (new)

rivka | 45177 comments Mod
zap!


message 62: by ♥ Rebecca ♥ (last edited Jan 25, 2013 03:40AM) (new)

 ♥ Rebecca ♥ | 203 comments Typo in this one.

"You've changed your mind about wanting to marry me. You're afraid I'll burn down your home. Embarrass you in front of all the other city brutes."

"I'm afraid," he said gently, "that you will burn down my heart.”

http://www.goodreads.com/quotes/42744...

And this one.

“Under the spell of the mighty Carpathians, with the breath of her creation blowing over her heart, Amalia's Gift splintered. She was given two futures: one dark, one bright, the same mortal lover pulling her two-handed into each.
Every step she took lured her closer to the dark.”

http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/...


message 63: by Banjomike (new)

Banjomike | 5166 comments Rebecca ♥ Ash, Kishan, Aiden ♥ wrote: "Typo in this one.

"You've changed your mind about wanting to marry me. You're afraid I'll burn down your home. Embarrass you in front of all the other city brutes."

"I'm afraid," he said gently, ..."


Done. The second link was to a review, sorted anyway.


message 64: by ♥ Rebecca ♥ (last edited Jan 25, 2013 02:55PM) (new)

 ♥ Rebecca ♥ | 203 comments Banjomike wrote: "Rebecca ♥ Ash, Kishan, Aiden ♥ wrote: "Typo in this one.

"You've changed your mind about wanting to marry me. You're afraid I'll burn down your home. Embarrass you in front of all the other city b..."


Oh, haha sorry. I must have had too many tabs open and got confuse. :P


message 66: by rivka, Former Moderator (new)

rivka | 45177 comments Mod
Got 65. Also fixed some minor typos.


message 67: by Karoliina (new)

Karoliina (naihtmae) | 120 comments Misattributed to Oscar Wilde, should be Helen Keller. (over 500 adds, so needs a superlibrarian's attention, I think?)

http://www.goodreads.com/quotes/15041...

(This is a really weird one, I don't think fancy cars became a thing during his life time...)


message 68: by Banjomike (new)

Banjomike | 5166 comments Karoliina wrote: "Misattributed to Oscar Wilde, should be Helen Keller. (over 500 adds, so needs a superlibrarian's attention, I think?)

http://www.goodreads.com/quotes/15041...

(This is a really weird one, I don't think fancy cars became a thing during his life time...)
"


Oscar Wilde does seem unlikely. There are also two versions of this quote on Goodreads attributed to Helen Keller from her autobiography "The Story of My Life" (I've now combined them).
http://www.goodreads.com/quotes/22124...
I have that book and the quote is certainly not in there. Do you have a source for it?

The most common answers on the internet are Wilde (probably wrong) or Unknown/Anonymous.


message 69: by Karoliina (new)

Karoliina (naihtmae) | 120 comments Banjomike wrote: Oscar Wilde does seem unlikely. There are also two versions of this quote on Goodreads attributed to Helen Keller from her autobiography "The Story of My Life" (I've now combined them).
http://www.goodreads.com/quotes/22124...
I have that book and the quote is certainly not in there. Do you have a source for it?


Alas, no. I know it's not Oscar Wilde (or at least he never wrote it down himself), so I assumed Keller simply because it was attributed to her here.


message 70: by Stephen (last edited Jan 30, 2013 11:13PM) (new)

Stephen (havan) | 330 comments Please add a quote tag of volunteerism to
http://www.goodreads.com/quotes/30836...

Also, can someone advise... I'm guessing that this quote should be deleted.
http://www.goodreads.com/quotes/65588...


message 71: by Banjomike (new)

Banjomike | 5166 comments Stephen wrote: "Please add a quote tag of volunteerism to
http://www.goodreads.com/quotes/30836...

Also, can someone advise... I'm guessing that this quote should be dele..."


Done, and gone.


message 72: by the_cat (new)

the_cat | 388 comments Hi
the 3 quotes at the bottom of this page:
http://www.goodreads.com/author/show/...
seem to belong to this other Craig Robertson:
http://www.goodreads.com/author/show/...
plz fix? tia


message 73: by lafon حمزة (new)

lafon حمزة نوفل (lafon) | 3544 comments Fixed 72.


message 74: by Stephen (new)

Stephen (havan) | 330 comments http://www.goodreads.com/quotes/18357...

Can someone who knows how add "The Book of Mormon" as the source for this quote? I looked through the entire pulldown list twice and couldn't find it.


message 75: by Banjomike (new)

Banjomike | 5166 comments Stephen wrote: "http://www.goodreads.com/quotes/18357...

Can someone who knows how add "The Book of Mormon" as the source for this quote? I looked through the entire pu..."


How 'dat?


message 76: by Stephen (new)

Stephen (havan) | 330 comments Banjomike wrote: "...How 'dat? " Great thanks. I didn't think to look for an author after seeing how many religious books were listed under anonymous.


message 77: by Stephen (new)

Stephen (havan) | 330 comments Please add the tag gender-roles and/or gender-stereotypes to this quote

http://www.goodreads.com/quotes/63419...


message 78: by Banjomike (new)

Banjomike | 5166 comments Stephen wrote: "Please add the tag gender-roles and/or gender-stereotypes to this quote

http://www.goodreads.com/quotes/63419..."


Done.


message 79: by Patrick (new)

Patrick | 7 comments I think both quotes at

http://www.goodreads.com/author/show/...

should be attributed to

http://www.goodreads.com/author/show/...

(And author profile deleted (or merged)). Thanks


message 80: by Stephen (last edited Feb 02, 2013 08:16AM) (new)

Stephen (havan) | 330 comments Three quotes have a tag of the-mortal-instruments series can someone change those tags to just mortal-instruments to better group these quotes?
http://www.goodreads.com/quotes/14833...

and
http://www.goodreads.com/quotes/14833...

and
http://www.goodreads.com/quotes/14822...


message 81: by Celia (new)

Celia (cealcrest) | 4 comments This quote is from Edgar Allan Poe's short story "Eleonora." Only a super librarian can edit it because of the +500 favorites. Not *really* important, but I always like to know where the quotes come from when possible. :)

http://www.goodreads.com/quotes/857-t..."


message 82: by vicki_girl (new)

vicki_girl | 2764 comments Got 79-81.


message 83: by Danusia (new)

Danusia | 1 comments Can someone please correct the quote below?
“... I discovered life sometimes has a way of giving you what you need, but not in the you expect.”
should be:
“... I discovered life sometimes has a way of giving you what you need, but not in the form you expect.”
(It is missing the word "form")
Sugar Daddy http://www.goodreads.com/work/quotes/...
Thank you


message 84: by Banjomike (new)

Banjomike | 5166 comments #83 done. A link to the specific quote is helpful.


message 85: by Celia (last edited Feb 04, 2013 01:26PM) (new)

Celia (cealcrest) | 4 comments Much as I hate to say it, G. K. Chesterton did NOT say this. --> http://www.goodreads.com/quotes/17764...

It was misquoted by Neil Gaiman as an epigraph in the book Coraline. Would a super please change the attribution? Thanks.

- - - - -

Just as an OCD footnote: Chesterton actually said, "Fairy tales do not give a child his first idea of bogey. What fairy tales give the child is his first clear idea of the possible defeat of bogey. The baby has known the dragon intimately ever since he had an imagination. What the fairy tale provides for him is a St. George to kill the dragon."

The actual Chesterton quote and attribution is here. --> http://www.goodreads.com/quotes/40314...


message 86: by Banjomike (last edited Feb 04, 2013 02:10PM) (new)

Banjomike | 5166 comments Celia wrote: "Much as I hate to say it, G. K. Chesterton did NOT say this. --> http://www.goodreads.com/quotes/17764...

It was misquoted by Neil Gaiman as an ep..."


So what we are saying is that this quote is Neil Gaiman's interpretation of a G.K. Chesterton quote and needs to be attributed to Neil?

EDIT: I agree, attributed to Neil Gaiman.


message 87: by Andrea (new)

Andrea Noriega (andreanoriega) can you guys delete these quotes?
http://www.goodreads.com/quotes/72124...

http://www.goodreads.com/quotes/72125...

please I didn't write them correctly.


message 88: by Jim (new)

Jim | 2 comments This member posted her own quotes, but isn't an author. Should these be deleted and the resulting 'author' page that was generated?

http://www.goodreads.com/author/show/...


message 89: by Banjomike (new)

Banjomike | 5166 comments Jim wrote: "This member posted her own quotes, but isn't an author. Should these be deleted and the resulting 'author' page that was generated?

http://www.goodreads.com/author/show/..."


If she isn't 'notable' then they get deleted.


message 90: by rivka, Former Moderator (new)

rivka | 45177 comments Mod
Gone.


message 91: by Anwesha (new)

Anwesha | 3 comments This quote of Groucho Marx exists several times and with distortions, please do consider this.

http://www.goodreads.com/quotes/28-i-...

http://www.goodreads.com/quotes/30989...

http://www.goodreads.com/quotes/48969...


message 92: by Catalina (new)

Catalina | 2066 comments Looks like this happened because there are all 3 in circulation and is almost impossible to prove which is the correct one(no one ever provided any physical proof, and the variants come from himself, his son & a columnist- which was actually the first person to mention the story/quote).
Some suggest the one used by himself in the memories should be credited the most - it's the first one(http://www.goodreads.com/quotes/28-i-...) which also has the most likes. Now, seen this ambiguity we could let them all, or keep just the first one.
It will be nice if other librarian can share his/ her take on this! :)


message 93: by Banjomike (new)

Banjomike | 5166 comments The one with the most likes seems to be the earliest version that Marx actually used.

The other two versions by Marx (and a Charlie Chaplin version http://www.goodreads.com/quotes/99350...) could be combined into the main one. A version by Woody Allen http://www.goodreads.com/quotes/7347-...) seems to be different enough to keep.

If there are no adverse comments I'll do that later.


message 94: by [deleted user] (new)

yeah, Bamjomike I think that we will keep that. no deleting. It is different enough


message 95: by Karmen (new)

Karmen (karmen_990) | 2 comments Problem with this quote: http://www.goodreads.com/quotes/69984...
I don't know who said it (and I can't find the original autor, if one actually exists), but I know T. Hiddleston never said it, so someone, please, delete it. Thank you.


message 96: by [deleted user] (new)

Okay I'll try to figure out the quote problem Karmen


message 97: by [deleted user] (new)

Actually Karmen Tom Hiddleston is the author of it. I am pretty Sure. So I am really sorry


message 98: by Karmen (new)

Karmen (karmen_990) | 2 comments Jacob wrote: "Actually Karmen Tom Hiddleston is the author of it. I am pretty Sure. So I am really sorry"

Are you sure? Did you manage to find the source?
The thing is, few of my friends are his huge fans and they've told me this quote isn't his, but that they also didn't know who it really came from. So I gave it a go and searched it and I couldn't find any proof he said that, but I did find bunch of people fighting over it on Tumblr many of which were claiming he never said it.
I'm confused.
And no need to apologise for clearing things up. :)


message 99: by [deleted user] (new)

I looked it up on Google and it says it his. So it may be another author but I couldn't find the other author. GTG


message 100: by rivka, Former Moderator (new)

rivka | 45177 comments Mod
Jacob wrote: "I looked it up on Google and it says it his."

Google results on any given quote mean very, very little.


Re 93: Sounds like a good plan.


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