Ava Make Up Essentials

Spiritually speaking, do you make up quotes to support your point of view?

Awald Bashinger, noted journalist and firearms aficionado, said, "No one actually looks up quotes these days, so we've seen a significant rise in failure to cite sources or support statements. In fact, there is even a rise in fictitious quote manufacturing for argument from authority fallacies!" :-P If you don't, maybe you should give it a try. It's fun!

Public Comments

1. Sources? :)
2. No, I make up quotes and let my friends use them. Then they make up some for me. ;o) I'm joking, btw. lol
3. I don't have to make up quotes. There's so many good ones already out there.
4. No.
5. No, I'm usually really particular about getting the exact quote, to the point where I won't use one if I can't find the exact wording from a source I trust. And I don't use quotes as arguments from authority. I'd call it arguments from better writers.
6. Nah, I don't support my point of view. I just say I'm right your wrong and I don't care to hear your opinion. It won't change my mind and I won't try to change yours.
7. "From a dog's point of view his master is an elongated and abnormally cunning dog."
8. Yes, I do and so does 2/3 of the white female american population. However only 1/4 of the white male population does the same only due to the fact that 30% of their red blood count is 90% affected by the world least common bacteria known to a tenth of the species.
9. no, the internet does that for me
10. When I was at school I used to make up quotes for my English exams. You know the examiners are never going to check through the whole of a Shakespeare play to find out if it's true or not.
11. No. But I've invented a word or two.
12. Spiritually speaking people do not look up quotes because they themselves are the real quotes. Why bother find other quotes?
13. "No" Ben Franklin
14. No, thats lame. and its misleading.
15. I actually have a quote maker machine, it came with my bedazzler
16. No, But I do make up statistics for shits-n-giggles though. Does that count? Oddly enough, doing what I do for a living, I almost always double check my source when I use a quote. Just two days ago I mistakenly attributed "To sail beyond the sunset and all the western stars" to my favorite Writer Robert Anson Heinlein, when in fact he had borrowed that as a title for his last novel from a Lord Tennyson Poem.
17. "All great men make up quotes on the spot." Thomas Jefferson
18. "Quotes? We ain't got no quotes. We don't need no quotes! I don't have to show you any stinkin' quotes!"
19. HAH, Tawaen!!! IF I did, the way I can speak, they'd believe 'em! After all, Gullibility is a given prerequisite!
20. The Book of Armaments Chapter 4: 55 Yea I say unto thee, let no one who dareth to question thee walk away from thee unsmited without so much as a single quote.
21. Nah. And you can quote me on that.
22. All the quotes I use are made up. But I don't cite sources unless I know the quote I am using is somebody elses.
23. No, I make up poems... Roses are red, violets are blue, If you listen to me, you'll be right too.
24. "My dear, I am Awald Bashinger, and I have never owned a gun in my life." -Hubert Gridwalle, well known Fictitionodo.
25. You know, I used to do that back in high school. My friend (without my knowledge) kept notes as to everything I said that could be total nonsense later on, then one day she typed all of her notes up and emailed them to me. I laughed so hard, a witness thought I was insane. Example: Someone asks me about something that I ordered: "Is there a whole pair of pants in there?" My reply: "No, just half". We get a letter from the super-attendant about something regarding the school. He forgot to sign the bottom. I'd seen his signature enough to know how to craftily create it on my copy. The said friend looked over at me and said, "How did you get that looking so perfectly like his?" My reply: "It's pretty hard to fuck up an E". Well I thought it was funny. (grin)
26. Tawaen, I know I'm a little old fashion, but that just sounds like a lie. But you are correct. To many of us (ALL OF US) will take something we hear and run with it before we find out the truth. It's like the old saying... "A lie is half way around the world, before truth get's it's boots on." Good question. Elder Greg (((SFCU)))
27. No...I usually know the "gist" of the quote I'm thinking of, and I google until I find the original speaker, whenever possible. Otherwise, I try to preface it with "This isn't original to me, but it's been said..." ; ) I'd be too embarrassed to be called out.
28. "Why can't I be like the kids that act stupid, mom?" -Bo That's a real quote from my 10 year old son.
29. "Furioso Blu is, very simply, the most brilliant man I've ever known. A dear friend and one of the great minds of our time. Anything this man says should be considered unassailable fact." - Stephen Hawking
30. as a prophet, making up quotes is amateurish. i make up proverbs. 'the pen may be mightier than the sword, but the conveniently-placed proverb is mightier still.' -baddite proverb [fresh from the prophet's synapses] edit: at last an honest answer on answers: 'no.´not yet. i hope noone quotes me though... ;-)' -unity in diversity HA! you obviously need a proverb!
31. Without bothering to look it up, how do I know you didn't make up Awald Bashinger? To quote Dr. Armand Stark, philosopher and head of the genetics lab at Our Lady of Perpetual Guilt, "It's just the kind of thing you'd do!"
32. I just met Awald Bashinger last February on the 30th i believe, and he said that quote is often used out of context. Given his gun wielding tendencies i choose not to argue with him. Also due to his journalistic abilities i am sure he can track down such propagandist's and deal with them in a harsh but fair way. So i think you had better invest in some Kevlar Tawaen.
33. no.´not yet. i hope noone quotes me though... ;-)
34. according to noted theologist byron fleem - "people who make up quotes to support their stand are self supporting." he was behind his times...lol
35. Intentionally I don't, it just gets made up. But many a time I find that some other person has spoken it already. So maybe reading has an effect.
36. Some folks may, in fact, do this, but it is wrong to mislead.
37. no i always cite my sources.