Please edit or correct or delete this quote. (part 4)

[Sophie]

https://www.goodreads.com/quotes/7048... - can't find a source for this, no idea who "Alan Lee KP" is.

[rivka, Former Moderator]

Got 611.

[Melanti]

Has anyone had a chance to look at #603?
It's going to require a superlibrarian

[Erin]

Hello. I just added two quotes, and I thought I included the book titles along with the names of the authors, but they didn't show up. Could you mark https://www.goodreads.com/quotes/7287... as a quote from I Capture the Castle and mark https://www.goodreads.com/quotes/7287... as a quote from Family Happiness? Thank you very much.

[Melanti]

#614 is done

[Erin]

Thank you!

[Arenda]

Melanti wrote: "From the first page:

#15 - “All the world's a stage, / And all the men and women merely players; ..." etc - This is from As You Like It
#16 - “Words are easy, like the wind; Faithful friends are hard to find.” - This is from The Passionate Pilgrim

Second page:
#1 - “thus with a kiss I die” - Needs to be tagged as being from Romeo & Juliet
#13 - “With mirth and laughter let old wrinkles come.” - Needs to be tagged as Merchant of Venice
#17 - “To weep is to make less the depth of grief.” - Needs to be tagged as Henry VI Pt 3
#24 - “Presume not that I am the thing I was.” - Needs tagged as Henry IV Pt 2"

Fixed these attributions. The others of #603 still need to be done.

[Chovgan]

Could someone please delete my quote due it contains grammatical error as I've already added correct version of this https://www.goodreads.com/quotes/7231...

[Banjomike]

Fuad wrote: "Could someone please delete my quote due it contains grammatical error as I've already added correct version of this https://www.goodreads.com/quotes/7231..."

Gone

[Denis]

The Goodreads Quote of the Day for Sunday, October 4, 2015 has a misspelling.

The quotation is “To go wrong in one's own way is better then to go right in someone else's.”
― Fyodor Dostoyevsky, Crime and Punishment

"then" should be "than." The misspelling of "then" for "than" appears rife in informal American English, but I was surprised to see it on Goodreads.

[Banjomike]

Denis wrote: "The Goodreads Quote of the Day for Sunday, October 4, 2015 has a misspelling.
The quotation is “To go wrong in one's own way is better then to go right in someone else's.”
― Fyodor Dostoyevsky, Crime and Punishment

"then" should be "than." The misspelling of "then" for "than" appears rife in informal American English, but I was surprised to see it on Goodreads. "

Don't be too surprised. Quotations on Goodreads are added by members not by librarians or staff. We only fix them.

The bad news is that the Quote of the Day cannot be edited even by staff members under pain of having legs broken. There is a dedicated thread for the QotD errors but it is largely ignored.
https://www.goodreads.com/topic/show/...

The quote:
https://www.goodreads.com/quotes/3183...

[Denis]

Banjomike wrote: "Denis wrote: "The Goodreads Quote of the Day for Sunday, October 4, 2015 has a misspelling.
The quotation is “To go wrong in one's own way is better then to go right in someone else's.”
― Fyodor Do..."
Thanks for the information. This error bugs me so much that, were I a staff member, it might be worth having at least one leg broken to have the misspelling corrected.

[Melanti]

Arenda wrote: "Fixed these attributions. The others of #603 still need to be done. ..."

Thank you, Arenda.

Is there any chance someone could take a look at the remaining quotes?

Or are Shakespeare quotes also doomed to never be fixed due to threats of broken legs?

[Banjomike]

#603
page 2,
5 I don't even get the gist. I just looks made up to me especially with that comma. Trivia time: Shakespeare only used the word somebody on seven occasions (according to my book) and I don't believe this is one of them. This probably needs deleting unless there is a real source.

21 edited to be a single quote with attribution

22 "Expectation is the root of all heartache" is probably a regular (on Goodreads) rehash of a Buddist truth which is often paraphrased as "Desire is the root of all suffering".

28 Combined with correct version and edited. The number of likes should jump from 711 to 900+ at some point but doesn't always do so. I logged it as a bug with Support after a similar edit hadn't updated after two days and still hasn't updated after seven days.

I'll have a look for 5 & 22 and finish them tomorrow. Then have a look at some more.

[Banjomike]

Denis wrote: "Thanks for the information. This error bugs me so much that, were I a staff member, it might be worth having at least one leg broken to have the misspelling corrected. "

It has been fixed. Geez! Somebody is probably walking with a limp.

[Denis]

Banjomike wrote: "Denis wrote: "Thanks for the information. This error bugs me so much that, were I a staff member, it might be worth having at least one leg broken to have the misspelling corrected. "

It has been ..."
OK, great! Thanks.

[C.]

Hello, I am the author of these words, kindly delete this quote from the database, thank you. https://www.goodreads.com/quotes/7296...

[Marko]

Aunt Edie wrote: "Thanks! Didn't capitalize F in finally because it is in the middle of the sentence"

Usually, in such cases you capitalise the F but mark the replacement, as in:

"[F]inally, . . ."

[Banjomike]

C. wrote: "Hello, I am the author of these words, kindly delete this quote from the database, thank you. https://www.goodreads.com/quotes/7296..."

Removed "The number of languages that a person speaks, does not matter..."

[C.]

Thank you, Ban! :)

Banjomike wrote: "C. wrote: "Hello, I am the author of these words, kindly delete this quote from the database, thank you. https://www.goodreads.com/quotes/7296......"

[Lorien]

Please delete, which I posted multiple times by mistake. Thank you! https://www.goodreads.com/author/quot...

[Abcdarian]

One of them is scheduled for deletion.

[Andreas]

Hi.

Please delete my third quote from Genesis, which I just typed:

https://www.goodreads.com/work/quotes...

“If we can conquer death and dearth, there will be evil no more.

We see that matters are able to evolve and redefining the concept of good and evil shows that we are, and the holy scriptures are no words of God, they are outdated references.

We observe order and patterns within the universe because some parts of the chaos that is the universe are something we love while actually order is not self-existent and the universe doesn't care for us, thus the concept of free will that is vital to its constituents. The universe lets its constituents write what they know, believe what they believe, do what they do, regardless of whether they are true or not.”
― Andreas Laurencius, Genesis

I tried to delete it because there is a typo, but it turned out I couldnt so I plan to make a new one with the typo corrected, so it can appear on my timeline.

Thank you, guys.

[Andreas]

Or, you could just change it:
"there will be evil no more." into "evil will be no more."

[Jessica]

# 633/634 I corrected the typo. That's less work than having to type the whole thing again ;)

[Andreas]

Thanks a million, Jess :). Yes :).

[Nika]

Hi, I just added a quote and accidentally chose the wrong book. Please can you delate this quote: https://www.goodreads.com/quotes/7308...
I already posted this quote with the right book chosen.
Thank you.

[Mariann]

Hi. This quote is associated with the wrong author: https://www.goodreads.com/quotes/8912...

The author of this poem is R. Lee. Sharpe (1870 - 1950).

Google Books gives more informtion:

The “Inland Printer/American Lithographer” (October 1911 to March 1912), Volume 48, page 286, has been helpful in conducting research on R. Lee Sharpe, the author of the well-known poem "A Bag of Tools," which appears to be a shortened or abridged version of his poem "Builders of Eternity." The information in the publication is among the little that has been found about Mr. Sharpe as of yet, and it is hoped that more information about him will come to light with further research. Shown below are the two poems in full.
A Bag of Tools
Isn’t it strange
That princes and kings,
And clowns that caper
In sawdust rings,
And common people
Like you and me
Are builders for eternity?
Each is given a bag of tools,
A shapeless mass,
A book of rules;
And each must make -
Ere life is flown -
A stumbling block
Or a steppingstone.
-R. L. Sharpe (1870 - 1950) (poem written possibly in about 1890)
*** *** ***
Makers of Eternity
Isn’t it strange, that princes and kings
and clowns that frolic in circus rings,
and ordinary folk like you and me
are makers of eternity.
For each is given a bag of tools,
An hourglass, and a book of rules;
And each shall have built when his hour has flown,
a stumbling block or a stepping stone.
One step upon another and the longest walk is ended,
one stitch upon another and the longest rent is mended,
so never be discouraged by the things you have to do,
and think that such a mighty task you never shall get through;
Just endeavor day by day, another point to gain,
and soon the mountain that you feared
will have become a plain.
-R. Lee Sharpe

Also, Bishop R.L Sharp's books are associated with Rebecca Sharp who is only the author of "Cameron Mytum's Wings" and not the author of "God's Miracle Plan for Your Life".

[Andreas]

Hi :)
Pls edit my quote:
https://www.goodreads.com/quotes/7317...

We just need to change "that" into "this", because of potential confusion.

Thanks beforehand.

[Banjomike]

Andreas wrote: "Hi :)
Pls edit my quote:
https://www.goodreads.com/quotes/7317...

We just need to change "that" into "this", because of potential confusion.

Thanks b..."

Done, and added proper elipsis (one of these …)

[Melanti]

Bumping #603 again.

Thank you to everyone who's helped out with this list so far.

[Rachel Annie]

Two out of the four quotes posted for this author are one word.


"the" - https://www.goodreads.com/quotes/1017...

"protecting" - https://www.goodreads.com/quotes/7314...


Is that something that can/should be deleted?

[Guatón]

642 done. Removed both since they had no likes.

Rachel Annie wrote: "Two out of the four quotes posted for this author are one word.


"the" - https://www.goodreads.com/quotes/1017...

"protecting" - https://www.goodreads.com/quotes/7314...


Is that ..."

[Banjomike]

A one-word quote can be removed even if there are likes. There is a thread on the subject where Support say so. The argument is based on the fairly obvious point that someone has probably used that word before so it is not an original quotation.

[Rachel Annie]

Thanks guys!

[Koenraad]

646 combined

[Piglet]

Could you check the source of this quote?

https://www.goodreads.com/quotes/1816...

[Banjomike]

Piglet wrote: "Could you check the source of this quote?

https://www.goodreads.com/quotes/1816..."

That is not by Twain (or the half dozen other people named on Goodreads) so I've attributed it to Unknown for the time being. I expect it will need to be deleted.

[Piglet]

Banjomike wrote: "Piglet wrote: "Could you check the source of this quote?

https://www.goodreads.com/quotes/1816..."

That is not by Twain (or the half dozen..."

Thanks. Shouldn't there be a source requirement that could be reviewed by an editor before a quote may be posted? I don't know what the current policy is, but the veracity and the usefulness of this possibly interesting Goodreads function are very weak as it now stands.

[Amit]

Hi,

Can you edit my quote:

https://www.goodreads.com/quotes/1209...

It should be " Creative minds don't follow rules, they follow will."

[Arenda]

#651 corrected

[Alexander]

On my page it says I have this quote

“Women.”
― Alexander Gordon, Chronicles of Eden - Act II

Though below that it shows I have no quotes. I dont know where that came from nor can I delete it. Can you please remove it from my page? Thank you.

[Banjomike]

Removed "Women".

[Kathryn]

Is it possible for someone to please link this quote: https://www.goodreads.com/quotes/sear... to The Yellow-Lighted Bookshop: A Memoir, a History? I forgot to add the book that the quote came from when I added the quote :-(

Thanks in advance.

[Arenda]

#655 added the book to the quote

[Kathryn]

Arenda wrote: "#655 added the book to the quote"

Excellent! Thanks, Arenda!

[James]

Added quote from my own book as test before realizing that there was no way to delete. Could you delete please?
Thanks
James
https://www.goodreads.com/quotes/7342...

[Arenda]

#658 done

[A.]

Can someone please link this book

(https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/1...)

to this quote

(https://www.goodreads.com/quotes/7347...)?

I submitted the quote without realized that the option for adding the book it's from was made blank by the capcha loading. I tried to upload the quote again, with the book linked, but it seems like it was considered a duplicate.

Thanks.

[free]

#660 added...