Sam Neill's performance as Molloy the Cat Burglar in "Homer the Vigilante", is one of my favourite Simpsona guest appearances of all time.
Former Simpsons showrunner David Mirkin has said that Neill was lovely to direct and that Neill told him that he considered the opportunity as one of the highpoints of his career.
I love poetry and I love wordplay but can you imagine writing an all-timer? Something that will stay in the heads of man until the next age?
Anyway, William Blake
Christopher Nolan managed to create the most anxiety-inducing war movie opening in history using little to no dialogue and the literal ticking of his grandfather’s pocket watch.
On the road to Mandalay,
Where the old Flotilla lay,
With our sick beneath the awnings when we went to Mandalay!
On the road to Mandalay,
Where the flyin'-fishes play,
An' the dawn comes up like thunder outer China 'crost the Bay!
Rudyard Kipling
Humor is meant, in a literal sense, to make game of man; that is, to dethrone him from his official dignity and hunt him like game. It is meant to remind us human beings that we have things about us as ungainly and ludicrous as the nose of the elephant or the neck of the giraffe.
“If I were asked today to formulate as concisely as possible the main cause of the ruinous Revolution that swallowed up some sixty million of our people, I could not put it more accurately than to repeat: ‘Men have forgotten God; that’s why all this has happened.’”
War is, in the main, a dirty, mean, inglorious business, but it is not the direst calamity that can befall a people. There is one worse state, at least: the state of slavery.