opening scene of a great film

[Mopi Licinius Crassus]

what an opening

[JamesBond007]

[JamesBond007]

what an opening

Yeah, broham, it is right up there with Goethe and Shakespeare

[Harkonnen]

Yeah, broham, it is right up there with Goethe and Shakespeare

To me Reservoir Dogs is extremely Shakespearean. I can't think any modern filmmaker or screenwriter who is more Shakespeare than Tarantino. Especially Reservoir Dogs is extremely Shakespearean in its setting, characters, and how the pieces fall in.

This passage is Shakespeare too:

Cloten. I would this Musick would come: I am advised to give her Musick a Mornings, they say it will penetrate.
Enter Musicians.
Come on, Tune; if you can penetrate her with your Fingering, so; we’ll try with Tongue too; if none will do, let her remain: but I’ll never give o’er.

[lei.talk]

bernard shaw described it as "stagey trash of the lowest melodramatic order":

the bard's audience was the lowest herd
to whom he pandered
by depicting the rich and famous
performing the immoral and illegal.

[lei.talk]

To the uneducated, abstract ideas are unfamiliar; so is the detachment that is necessary to discover a truth out of one’s own knowledge and mental effort. The uneducated person views life in an intensely personal way—he knows only what he sees, hears or touches and what he is told by friends. As the unknown sage puts it,

“Great minds discuss ideas,
average minds discuss events,
small minds discuss people.”

hyman g. rickover was paraphrasing
charles stewart's recollection of henry thomas buckle:

His thoughts and conversation were always on a high level, and I recollect a saying of his, which not only greatly impressed me at the time, but which I have ever since cherished as a test of the mental calibre of friends and acquaintances. Buckle said, in his dogmatic way:

“Men and women range themselves into three classes or orders of intelligence;
you can tell the lowest class by their habit of always talking about persons;
the next by the fact that their habit is always to converse about things;
the highest by their preference for the discussion of ideas.”

there is no trace of eleanor roosevelt
ever writing or uttering those words.