Quote-A-Thon
 

Once a day, one per person?

"Suppose you were an idiot .. And suppose you were a member of Congress... But I repeat myself."

--Mark Twain

OH man, no fair taking Mr. Clemens right off the bat. I could spend days relating good quotes from him.

Anyway...

"I've left specific instructions that I do not want to be brought back during a Republican administration." --Timothy Leary

"You can lead a horticulture but you can't make her think" - Dorothy Parker

"The 'what should be' never did exist, but people keep trying to live up to it. There is no 'what should be,' there is only what is." ~ Lenny Bruce

A man's library is a sort of harem. ---Ralph Waldo Emerson

No fair taking Mrs. Parker!! I had one of hers all lined up. :p

Hhhhhmmmm, how about Cheryl Tiegs, Sears catalog model:

"The thing about writing is that there's not much money in it."

:rolleyes:

The urge to destroy is a creative urge. --Mikhail Bakunin

Anyone who lives within their means suffers from a lack of imagination.
Oscar Wilde (whose quotes could keep me occupied for a week)

"That last thing is what you can't get, Carlo. Nobody can get to that last thing. We keep on living in hopes of catching it once for all." ~Jack Kerouac, On the road

...Can God make a stone so heavy he can't lift it? Stephen Hawking

I thought that was George Carlin?

Hehe, that's a good bit.

Hey may have said it as well, but I got it out of "The Illustrated 'A Brief History of Time'" by Hawkings

"You cannot live a perfect day without doing something for someone who will never be able to repay you." - John Wooden

"What'cha doin' latter?" Michael Jackson to a 12 year old Bornieo...

And it's not that I want to have you. All I want is to deserve you. ~ Written by Christopher Hampton , from Dangerous Liasons

"Selfishness is not living as one wishes to live, it is asking others to live as one wishes to live" - Oscar Wilde

And now I feel less guilty about all that irresponsible book and cd buying I've been doing recently. Hurrah!

Well, even though CP used a quote from one of my favorite books, here's my favorite quote from that book. Although there are so many juicy tidbits from thems pages...

"But then they danced down the street like dingledodies, and I shambled after as I've been doing all my life after people who interest me, because the only people for me are the mad ones, the ones who are mad to live, mad to talk, mad to be saved, desirous of everything at the same time, the ones who never yawn or say a commonplace thing, but burn, burn, burn, like fabulous yellow roman candles exploding like spiders across the stars and in the middle you see the blue centerlight pop and everybody goes "Awww!"" - Jack Kerouac, On the Road

One of my favorite little poetry books is [i]Book of Blues[i] by Kerouac.

The Town and the City is quite nice as well, and really gives a nice preface to what happens... a base you could say... to On the Road... Anyhow... Back to your regularly scheduled quoting...

guurrghh....rrrr...huh uh grrggg...-my godson Casey

Do you ever not have coffee, Heather? -a coworker

"If one is lucky, a solitary fantasy can totally transform one million realities."
~ Maya Angelou

"They should make a movie that's like, you know, realistic, where it's like, you know, the teacher sucks, and nobody learns anything, then in the end it's like you just be all stupid."
-Butthead

"Wit is the salt of conversation, not the food"
--W. Hazlitt

"So often when we say “I love you” we say it with a huge “I” and a small “you.”" -- Antony, Russian Orthodox Archbishop of England

"Slam It To The Left
If You're Havin' A Good Time
Shake It To The Right
If You Know That You Feel Fine
Chicas To The Front
Huh Huh
Hi Ci Ja Hold Tight!"

~ The Spice Girls

If you don't change your direction, you'll end up where you're headed.
Unknown

"Humanity has advanced, when it has advanced, not because it has been sober, responsible, and cautious, but because it has been playful, rebellious, and immature."
-Tom Robbins

A great pleasure in life is doing what people say you cannot do.
- Walter Bagehot





yeah I know I'm breaking the rules, but my visits here are so infrequent lately, I figured it averages out

I see - she's the original good time that was had by all.

Bette Davis

In the United States Christmas has become the rape of an idea. Richard Bach

"The VCR is to the American film producer and the American public as the Boston Strangler is to the woman alone."
Jack Valenti, MPAA

"I'm sorry. I don't do impressions. My training is in psychiatry. "
--Dr. Franklin Stone AKA John Vernon.

R.I.P. :cheers:

"They look like beatniks. Uh, should I unpack my bongos? -I intend to unpack mine!" - Danni Wheeler and Amy Adams from Psycho Beach Party

"If you don't like what you're doing, you can always pick up your needle and move to another groove."
~ Timothy Leary :cool:

'Like i always say, if you don't have anything good to say, come and sit by me.' ~~~Olympia Dukakis~~~Steel Magnolias

No man can reveal to you aught but that which lies half asleep in the dawning of your knowledge-Kahlil Gibran/The Prophet

Le superflu, chose très nécessaire.

The superfluous is very necessary.

Voltaire

You're only has good as your last haircut.
Fran Lebowitz

I want to quote one of my all time favorite songs... Especially for a day like today.. a day for me that is rainy and gloomy, but apparently not for the rest of Southern California.


Lou Reed
Perfect Day

Just a perfect day,
Drink Sangria in the park,
And then later, when it gets dark,
We go home.
Just a perfect day,
Feed animals in the zoo
Then later, a movie, too,
And then home.

Oh it's such a perfect day,
I'm glad I spent it with you.
Oh such a perfect day,
You just keep me hanging on,
You just keep me hanging on.

Just a perfect day,
Problems all left alone,
Weekenders on our own.
It's such fun.
Just a perfect day,
You made me forget myself.
I thought I was someone else,
Someone good.

Oh it's such a perfect day,
I'm glad I spent it with you.
Oh such a perfect day,
You just keep me hanging on,
You just keep me hanging on.

You're going to reap just what you sow,
You're going to reap just what you sow,
You're going to reap just what you sow,
You're going to reap just what you sow...

"No one can make you feel inferior without your consent." - Eleanor Roosevelt

"SPOOOOOON!!!!" - The Tick

Wow, is this coincidence, or what?!

That was my quote of the NIGHT!

A suburban mother's role is to deliver children obstetrically once, and by car forever after. :rolleyes: (so true!)

Peter De Vries

"I'm really afraid KFC is going to run out of chicken!!!!!!!!!!" ~ my bestest friend who is a total goofball sometimes :D

Female character: "Do you mind if I smoke while you're eating?"
Male character: "No, go right ahead."




Can you name the movie?

shouldnt that be in a "name that qoute" thread in the games forum?

The whole aim of practical politics is to keep the populace alarmed (and hence clamorous to be led to safety) by menacing it with an endless series of hobgoblins, all of them imaginary. - H. L. Mencken

"Do what you feel in your heart to be right - for you'll be criticized anyway. You'll be damned if you do, and damned if you don't."

Eleanor Roosevelt

:rolleyes:

"Wit is a lean creature with sharp inquiring nose, whereas humor has a kindly eye and a comfortable girth. Wit, if it be necessary, uses malice to score a point—like a cat it is quick to jump—but humor keeps the peace in an easy chair. Wit has a better voice in a solo, but humor comes into the chorus best. Wit is as sharp as a stroke of lightning, whereas humor is diffuse like sunlight. Wit keeps the season’s fashions and is precise in the phrases and judgments of the day, but humor is concerned with homely eternal things. Wit wears silk, but humor in homely-spun endures the wind. Wit sets a snare, whereas humor goes off whistling without a victim in its mind. Wit is sharper company at the table, but humor serves better in mischance and in the rain. When it tumbles wit is sour, but humor goes uncomplaining without its dinner. Humor laughs at another’s jest and holds its sides, while wit sits wrapped in study for a lively answer."

-Charles Brooks

Today's public figures can no longer write their own speeches or books, and there is some evidence that they can't read them either.

Gore Vidal

Kindness in words creates confidence.
Kindness in thinking creates profoundness.
Kindness in giving creates love.

~Lao Tzu

If husbands could realize what large returns of profit may be gotten out of a wife by a small word of praise paid over the counter when the market is just right, they would bring matters around the way they wish them much oftener than they usually do. Arguments are unsafe with wives, because they examine them; but they do not examine compliments. One can pass upon a wife a compliment that is three-fourths base metal; she will not even bite it to see if it is good; all she notices is the size of it, not the quality.

-Mark Twain

Lol, GD!

(But totally untrue for me. If Eric ever compliments me, I know he's up to something and I get very suspicious).

If I were two-faced, would I be wearing this one?

-Abraham Lincoln

"Gliddy glup gloopy; Nibby nabby noopy
La la la lo lo...
Sabba sibby sabba; Nooby aba naba
Le le lo lo...
Tooby ooby wala; Nooby aba naba
Early morning singing song"

~ Ragni & Rado

So if my memo stated "Please use the UNIX password in the dialog box", which password do you think you should have used?

by Scrooge McSam

Whoa, slow down there. You're getting a little too technical for me.

We may have employment opportunities for you.

I have yet to hear a man ask for advice on how to combine marriage and a
career.
-Gloria Steinem-

NON! - Marcel Marceau in Silent Movie.

Pleasure's a sin and sometimes sin's a pleasure.

-- Byron (And probably Kevy) :p

"People who want to share their religious views with you almost never want you to share yours with them."
~ Dave Barry

Gloria is talking to the wrong men

There is more money being spent on breast implants and Viagra today than on Alzheimer's research. This means that by 2040, there should be a large elderly population with perky boobs and huge erections and absolutely no recollection of what to do with them.

"Democracy means freedom of sexual choice between any two consenting adults; Utopia means freedom of choice between three or more consenting adults."

~ Johnny Carson

"To sit in solemn silence in a dull, dark dock,

In a pestilential prison, with a life-long lock,

Awaiting the sensation of a short, sharp shock,

From a cheap and chippy chopper on a big black block!"


-- W. S. Gilbert

"Statistics show that we lose more fools on this day [Fourth of July] than in all the other days of the year put together. This proves, by the number left in stock, that one Fourth of July per year is now inadequate, the country has grown so."
-Mark Twain

"Consensus is the absence of leadership."

Lady Margaret Thatcher

"I am the law! When I speak, that is the law. When I present my backside, it is etiquette to smile and to apply the lips respectfully. It is more than etiquette, it is a national privilege guaranteed by the Constitution." Madwoman of Chaillot, Jean Giraudoux

"Exceptional my ass." - Pat Healy

Who's the quote from?

Is this a Morrigoon quote? ;)

I don't want to achieve immortality through my work... I want to achieve it through not dying. - Woody Allen

"why tell the truth when it is to your advantage to lie" - Wittgenstein

"The real reason for not committing suicide is because you always know how swell life gets again after the hell is over." -- Ernest Hemingway

Education is what survives when what has been learned has been forgotten.

B.F. Skinner

background: To get her 2 year old son, Sawyer, into her car, my ex-wife has to pretend she sees something interesting inside. (And yes, this is less a "quote" per se as it is a bit of dialogue. But as bits of dialogue go -- it is a gem. And it is also my favorite new thing to say.)

Lulu -- (looking into car) Oh my gosh, what is this?

Sawyer -- (dashing over to see) What, Mama, cookie?




Hehe

I think it's Dave Barry. I could be wrong...
:confused:

"The natural rhythm of human life is routine punctated by orgies." -- Aldous Huxley

"If you want others to be happy, practice compassion. If you want to be happy, practice compassion." -- The Dalai Lama

"the madman bum and angel beat in Time, unknown, yet putting down here
what might be left to say in time come after death,"

-- Allen Ginsberg, Howl, Part I

The only way to have a friend is to be one.

~Ralph Waldo Emerson

Do not fear to be eccentric in opinion, for every opinion now accepted was once eccentric.
- Bertrand Russell

"If it's not growing, it's going to die."

~ Michael Eisner

"If Wales wins, I'll cut my balls off" - Geoff Huish, a Welsh rugby fan who did just that...

article here

"If life worth living? That depends on the liver."
-- Anon :cheers:

"You do wear it on your head!! I just love finding new places to wear diamonds" - Marilyn Monroe as Loralie, Gentlemen prefer Blondes

"Life was such a wheel that no man could stand upon it for long. And it always, at the end came round to the same place again" - Stephen King, The Stand

"There is a certain relief in change, even though it be from bad to worse! As I have often found in travelling in a stagecoach, that it is often a comfort to shift one's position, and be bruised in a new place."

---Washington Irving

"To assert that the earth revolves around the sun is as erroneous as to claim that Jesus was not born of a virgin."
(Robert Cardinal Bellarmine / 1542-1621 / at the trial of Galileo in 1615)

"Love anything and your heart will be wrung and possibly broken. If you want to make sure of keeping it intact you must give it to no one, not even an animal. Wrap it carefully round with hobbies and little luxuries; avoid all entanglements. Lock it up safe in the casket or coffin of your selfishness. But in that casket--safe, dark, motionless, airless--it will change. It will not be broken; it will become unbreakable, impenetrable, irredeemable.

To love is to be vulnerable"

-- C.S. Lewis

"Why not seize the pleasure at once? How often is happiness destroyed by preparation, foolish preparation?" -- Jane Austen

It may be true that I am not as good as I once was,
But I am as good once as I ever was

I know I already have one for today, but I was reminded tonight of one of my all time favorite novels...

"In the shade of the house, in the sunshine of the riverbank near the
boats, in the shade of the Sal-wood forest, in the shade of the fig tree is
where Siddhartha grew up, the handsome son of the Brahman, the young
falcon, together with his friend Govinda, son of a Brahman."

-- Herman Hesse, Siddhartha

"I would rather wrap myself in the constitution and burn the flag than wrap myself in the flag and burn the constitution." - Unknown

To be honest, I don't know. I got it in an email.

That's the way it crumbles, cookie-wise.

~Jack Lemmon as C.C. Baxter in The Apartment

She offered me her honor
So I honored her offer
And all night
I was honor and offer

-Bud Guess

"The proposition that the people are the best keepers of their own liberties is not true. They are the worst conceivable, they are no keepers at all; they can neither judge, act, think, or will, as a political body."

-John Adams

Okay, I'm going to cheat and post a couple more by Adams because I love them...

"It's simply a matter of doing what you do best and not worrying about what the other fellow is going to do."

"The influence of each human being on others in this life is a kind of immortality."

"I dread success. To have succeeded is to have finished one's business on earth, like the male spider, who is killed by the female the moment he has succeeded in his courtship. I like a state of continual becoming, with a goal in front and not behind." -- George Bernard Shaw

"Look, we're all the same; a man is a fourteen-room house - in the bedroom he's asleep with his intelligent wife, in the living-room he's rolling around with some bareass girl, in the library he's paying taxes, in the yard he's raising tomatoes, and in the cellar he's making a bomb to blow it all up."

Arthur Miller 1915-2005 (from The Ride Down Mount Morgan)

^^^ Awesome quote! ^^^

I think I know that guy.

There's nothing that makes you so aware of the improvisation of human existence as a song unfinished. Or an old address book.

-Carson McCullers

"How vain it is to sit down to write when you have not stood up to live."

Henry David Thoreau

I'm cheating because it's Saturday. :p And because I love so many of the Tallulah Bankhead quotes:

"The only thing I regret about my past is the length of it. If I had to live my life again, I'd make the same mistakes, only sooner."

"If you really want to help the American theater, don't be an actress, dahling. Be an audience."

"It's the good girls who keep diaries; the bad girls never have time."

"I'm as pure as the driven slush."

"Time is an illusion, lunchtime doubly so." -- Douglas Adams, Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy

I keep reading this as "I'm as pure as the driven sushi." HAHAHAHA

"There was only one catch and that was Catch-22, that specified that a concern for one's own safety in the face of dangers that were real and immediate was the process of a rational mind. Orr was crazy and could be grounded. All he had to do was ask; and as soon as he did, he would no longer be crazy and would have to fly more missions. Orr would be crazy to fly more missions and sane if he didn't, but if he was sane, he had to fly them."

-Joseph Heller, Catch-22

Oh! That's a good one! I wish I had thought of quoting that book!

My favorite book of all time.

boogity boogity boogity-darrell waltrip

"A foolish consistency is the hobgoblin of little minds" - R.W. Emerson


"I stopped writing for the Daily because I didn’t like sticking to the facts. I much preferred making things up. The rest, you know, is history.” Authur Miller

"If we were not perfectly convinced that Hamlet's Father died before the play began, there would be nothing more remarkable in his taking a stroll at night, in an easterly wind, upon his own ramparts, than there would be in any other middle-aged gentleman rashly turning out after dark in a breezy spot "





---Charles Dickens

Why am I so good at playing bitches? I think it's because I'm not a bitch. Maybe that's why Miss Crawford always plays ladies.

~Bette Davis

"Guilty feet have got no rhythm" - Wham

"tomorrow is our permanent address"

-- e. e. cummings

"The surest way to corrupt a youth is to instruct him to hold in higher esteem those who think alike than those who think differently."

Friedrich Nietzsche

"The average dog is nicer person than the average person." -- Andrew A. Rooney

How you know where I'm at
when you haven't been where I been,
understand where I'm coming from? ~ Cypress Hill

"Art is dangerous. It is one of the attractions: when it ceases to be dangerous you don't want it"

Anthony Burgess 1984

"We comprehend our own exsistence by inward feeling or reflection, and that of other spirits by reason."


---George Berkeley

If God dropped acid, would he see people?

Stephen Wright

Life must be a constant education; one must learn everything, from speaking to dying.

Gustave Flaubert

"It doesn't do any good, for they can never see what they are in too much of a hurry to look for."

-from The Phantom Tollbooth

It's been far too long that I've gone without posting a quote form my favorite philosopher so:

Glaubt es mir!—das Geheimniß, um die größte Fruchtbarkeit und den größten Genuß vom Dasein einzuernten, heißt: gefährlich leben!


Believe me! The secret of reaping the greatest fruitfulness and the greatest enjoyment from life is to live dangerously.

- Friedrich Nietzsche

Oh, I thought you were going to pull out this Nietzsche quote:

"If you go to see the woman, do not forget the whip"

Heh heh - there are many more...
(but I welcome those who share my appreciation ;) )

A love quote for Valentine's Day:

"Love is bestowed as a gift - freely, willingly and without expectation. We don't love to be loved; we love to love." -- Leo Buscaglia

"To love is to suffer. To avoid suffering one must not love. But then one suffers from not loving. Therefore to love is to suffer, not to love is to suffer. To suffer is to suffer. To be happy is to love. To be happy then is to suffer. But suffering makes one unhappy. Therefore, to be unhappy one must love, or love to suffer, or suffer from too much happiness."

Woody Allen (Love and Death)

Helllll yeah! You come see me without a Dole Whip in your hands and I'd be like, wtf? Get me a Dole Whip, biatch! *cracks whip* :evil:

MerryPrankster read my mind with that Leo B. quote! :eek: I had planned on that one!! :snap: Snaps!

My other Valentine quote:

Immature love says: 'I love you because I need you.' Mature love says 'I need you because I love you.'
Erich Fromm

Love seems the swiftest, but it is the slowest of all growths. No man or woman really knows what perfect love is until they have been married a quarter of a century.

-Mark Twain

A valentine message:

"When the candles are out all women are fair"
--Plutarch

AKA "Beauty is only a light-switch away." :evil:

Didn't he write "dinner with Tremalchio", or something like that? I've always loved that story.

Anyway, :snap: for Plutarch, the old gossip!

"The whole problem with the world is that fools and fanatics are always so certain of themselves, but wiser people so full of doubts."

Bertrand Russell

Do songs count?

Don't let the world bring you down
Not everyone here is that ****ed up and cold
Remember why you came
and while you're alive
experience the warmth
before you grow old

~Incubus

"The computer can't tell you the emotional story. It can give you the exact mathematical design, but what's missing is the eyebrows." -- Frank Zappa

It is not enough to succeed. Others must fail.

- Gore Vidal

I have never killed a man, but I have read many obituaries with great pleasure.

Clarence Darrow








(Interesting tidbit....Darrow defended the men who killed my great-grandfather.....and they got off. :rolleyes: Damn that man was good.)

"I like too many things and get all confused and hung-up running from one falling star to another till i drop. This is the night, what it does to you. I had nothing to offer anybody except my own confusion."

—Jack Kerouac

"How come how come he can he can tell-a tell-a you're-a you're-a
Always always number number one without a doubt
When-a when-a he is he is always always squirmin' squirmin'
Like a little snake under-a e-ver-y-a rock
You've been you've been workin' workin' on the on the love
And he's been only only playing undercover all the while
Take a take another 'nother look into his eyes
And you will on-ly see a rep-tile"

~ Paula Abdul

"The State of war is a state of enmity and destrucion; and therefore declaring by word or action, not a passionate and hasty, but a sedate, settled design upon another man's life, puts him in a state of war with him against whom he has declared such an intention, and so has exposed his life to the other's power to be taken away by him, or anyone that joins with him in his defense and espouses his quarrel; it being reasonable and just I should have a right to destroy that which threatens me with destruction."


---John Locke

"Benefit cuts is an interesting word." -- George W Bush (2/15/05)


You go, George! :snap:

I'm in a Jim Morrison kind of mood today. It's impossible for me to pick out just one. Sorry!

Jim Morrison --

"I was stoned. It seemed like a fun thing to do at the time."

"There are things known and there are things unknown, and in between are the doors."

"Expose yourself to your deepest fear; after that, fear has no power, and the fear of freedom shrinks and vanishes. You are free."

Nice quote from the Self Realisation Fellowship in Hollywood,

"Try to realise you are a divine traveler. You are here for only a little while, then depart for a dissimiliar & fascinating world. Do not limit your thought to one brief life and one small earth. Remember the vastness of the Spirit that dwells within you."
Paramahansa Yogananda

Okay, these are all too wonderful to pick and choose, so I'm just going to bombard you (get it, bombard...oh, it helps if you know who these quotes are from) with some Einstein gems.

"It would be possible to describe everything scientifically, but it would make no sense; it would be without meaning, as if you described a Beethoven symphony as a variation of wave pressure."

"As far as the laws of mathematics refer to reality, they are not certain; as far as they are certain, they do not refer to reality."

"Common sense is the collection of prejudices acquired by age eighteen."

"If A equals success, then the formula is _ A = _ X + _ Y + _ Z. _ X is work. _ Y is play. _ Z is keep your mouth shut."

"The secret to creativity is knowing how to hide your sources."

"I never think of the future. It comes soon enough."

"Only two things are infinite, the universe and human stupidity, and I'm not sure about the former."

"There are only two ways to live your life. One is as though nothing is a miracle. The other is as though everything is a miracle."

"A man's ethical behavior should be based effectually on sympathy, education, and social ties; no religious basis is necessary. Man would indeeded be in a poor way if he had to be restrained by fear of punishment and hope of reward after death."

"What really interests me is whether God had any choice in the creation of the world."

"Marx was fortunate to have been born eighty years before Walt Disney. Disney also promised a child's paradise and unlike Marx, delivered on his promise."

John Ralston Saul (from Voltaire's Bastards: The Dictatorship of Reason in the West. 1992)

OMG, I had no clue Einstein said such amazing things! Makes me want to read a biography. So cool! :D

Ok, I'll be a rule-breaker too and post more than one.

The music business is a cruel and shallow money trench, a long plastic hallway where thieves and pimps run free, and good men die like dogs. There's also a negative side.

Hunter S. Thompson

It is of interest to note that while some dolphins are reported to have learned English -- up to fifty words used in correct context -- no human being has been reported to have learned dolphinese.

Carl Sagan

Riches are for spending.

- Francis Bacon

Beauty is only skin deep.

Ugly goes clear to the bone.

Omg- you've quoted two of my favorite authors! I'd give you mojo, but I can't yet!!! You rock!:snap::cheers::snap::cheers:

Thanks, Wendybeth. I love them both as well. :)

"Music is the wine that fills the cup of silence."
Robert Fripp

"We are what we think. All that we are arises with our thoughts. With our thoughts, we make the world." -- Buddha

"The trouble with words is that you never know whose mouths they have been in."

Dennis Potter

"Opportunity is missed by most people because it is dressed in overalls and looks like work."

-Thomas Edison

"There was a time when our music
Was something called the Bay Street beat
People would gather from all around
To get down on the Bay sound
You had to be a renegade those days
To take a man on the dance floor"


Renegades Of Funk ~ Afrika Bambaataa and The Soulsonic Force

"Once upon a time my political opponents honored me as possessing the fabulous intellectual and economic power by which I created a worldwide depression all by myself."

---Herbert Hoover

"What happens to the hole when the cheese is gone?"
Bertolt Brecht

"they call me, Tater Salad"


-Ron White :)

Genius is more often found in a cracked pot than in a whole one.

E.B. White

So my sister, shes covered in moles, we call her old Moley, now she went and got her a belly ring, and now we call her holey moley.


- Larry the cable guy

oops, double post - darn server threw an error

And it's been awhile
Since I've seen the way the candles light your face
And it's been awhile
But I can still remember just the way you taste
~~~~Staind

Until the end of time
I'll be there for you
You own my heart and mind
I truly adore You
If God one day stroke me blind
Your beauty I'd still see
Love is to weak to define
Just what you mean to me
~~~~Prince








*my favorite song

Don't tell me it's not worth tryin' for
You can't tell me it's not worth dyin' for
You know it's true
Everything I do - I do it for you

Bryan Adams


And I ask myself WTF?

"I can’t look
At the road rising on highway one
Where the tears of the tangi go on and on
A pagan power
United now
Christmas has gone

But you can see
Along the hard shoulder where the shrines should be
Where a soul departed the flower of a memory
An empty stretch
Where bone and flesh
Met with machine"

---Shona Laing

I'll ask you for you...

You know, I had "Heaven" by Bryan Adams in my head the other day

Baby, you're all that I want
When you're lying here in my arms
I'm finding it hard to believe
We're in heaven...

Except that it was the DJ Sammy version LOL

At least you're respectable!

Knowledge is knowing as little as possible.

- Charles bukowski

"I think I should have no other mortal wants, if I could always have plenty of music. It seems to infuse strength into my limbs and ideas into my brain. Life seems to go on without effort, when I am filled with music."

George Eliot

I have that version, with a female vocal, yes? I loves me some cheesy trance. :p

"So if you care to find me
Look to the western sky!
As someone told me lately:
"Ev'ryone deserves the chance to fly!"
And if I'm flying solo
At least I'm flying free
To those who'd ground me
Take a message back from me
Tell them how I am
Defying gravity"

~ From 'Wicked'

"yeah, so I visited Los Angeles last month...

If you ever have that opportunity...



yeah pass on that one...."


-Ron White :)

"When one does a thing, it appears good, otherwise one would not write it. Only later comes reflection, and one discards or accepts the thing. Time is the best censor, and patience a most excellent teacher."

-F. Chopin

"The partisan, when he is engaged in a dispute, cares nothing about the rights of the question, but is anxious only to convince his hearers of his own assertions. "

-Plato

What a great quote. Gotta love Plato.
:)

"The thermometer of success is merely the jealousy of the malcontents." -- Salvador Dali

"The way to become rich is to put all your eggs in one basket and then watch that basket."

---Andrew Carnegie

Here's another Carl Sagan quote for ya, wendybeth. :)

"In science it often happens that scientists say, 'You know that's a really good argument; my position is mistaken,' and then they would actually change their minds and you never hear that old view from them again. They really do it. It doesn't happen as often as it should, because scientists are human and change is sometimes painful. But it happens every day. I cannot recall the last time someting like that happened in politics or religion."

Carl Sagan

Good ole Dr. Sagan...Thanks, MBC!

Here's one right back at ya:

"The politicians and the religious leaders and the weapons scientists have been at it for a long time and they've made a thorough mess of it. I mean, we're in deep trouble." [Carl Sagan, A&E Biography interview]

Ain't that the truth.

"It's an absolutely atrocious piece of science, but I quite despair of setting the public record straight"

---Nobel laureate Freeman Dyson regarding Carl Sagans Nuclear Winter hypotheses

"You cannot teach charades to a bi-polar mime"

Brian Phelps as "Dr. Phil"

King of the Hill:

PEGGY: Bobby, honey, what happened to mixing capers with one of your fruit pies?
BOBBY: That was a big disappointment. I'd rather not talk about it.

"Holding onto anger is like grasping a hot coal with the intent of throwing it at someone else; you are the one getting burned."

Buddha

"Nothing will ever be attempted, if all possible objections must first be overcome."
- Samuel Johnson

"Meow"
- Moglet

Wonderful quote!

"We do not know what we want and yet we are responsible for what we are - that is the fact."

-- Jean-Paul Sartre

"Humor is perhaps a sense of intellectual perspective: an awareness that some things are really important, others not; and that the two kinds are most oddly jumbled in everyday affairs." -- Christopher Morley

"While democracy in the long run is the most stable form of government, in the short run, it is among the most fragile."

---Madeleine Albright

"You can't really dust for vomit."
- Nigel Tufnel

"Sometimes you feel like a nut :D, sometimes you don't :(."

Alllmond Joys have nuts! Mounds don't!

"Major combat operations in Iraq have ended. In the battle of Iraq, the United States and our allies have prevailed." -- George W Bush May 1, 2003

KB's Home Movies: Vol. 4:confused:



"Baseball is 90% physical. The other half is mental." Yoggi Barra

Oh, GREAT source of quotes, good call.

Here are two of his that could be applied to Disneyland these days...

"No one goes there nowadays, it's too crowded."

"The future ain't what it used to be."

-Yogi Berra

In a letter to "Dear Abby" a reader complained that a gay couple was moving in across the street and he wanted to know what to do to improve the quality of the neighborhood.

her suggestion:

"You could move." ~ Abigail Van Buren

A classic from my friend Emily:

Emily: "I know someone who's bi-polar."

Me: "Do you?"

Emily: (angrily) "NO!"


:D

As long as we are doing baseball...

"The key to being a good manager is keeping the people who hate me away from those who are still undecided."

"There comes a time in every man's life and I've had many of them."

Casey Stengel

"Deep Throat".

I mean, I don't know...

:D

"Friends, Romans, Countrymen! Lend me a dollar!"

"What difference does it make to the dead, the orphans and the homeless, whether the mad destruction is wrought under the name of totalitarianism or the holy name of liberty or democracy?"

Mahatma Gandhi

"I believe that the moment is near when by a procedure of active paranoiacthought, it will be possible to systematize confusion and contribute to the total discrediting of the world of reality." -- Salvador Dali

Erica, that quote is terribly amusing!

"Perhaps when we find ourselves wanting everything, it is because we are dangerously close to wanting nothing." - Sylvia Plath

"I won't say ours was a tough school, but we had our own coroner. We used to write essays like: What I'm going to be if I grow up."

~ Lenny Bruce

An unexamined life is not worth living

- Socrates

I find this creepy. I was just listening to a song that had this quote in it.

So what are you waiting for?

You mean about examining my life? Heh. I do that too much. I need to stop the examination & judgement and just be.
:)

"Sex is a misdemeanor.
The more I miss, da meaner I get."

Sometimes a cigar is just a cigar.

- Sigmund Freud (on dreams)

"If you really want to hurt your parents and you don't have nerve enough to be homosexual, the least you can do is go into the arts."

-Kurt Vonnegut

Tell all the truth but tell it slant,
Success in circuit lies.

- Emily Dickinson

"Every child is an artist. The problem is how to remain an artist once he grows up."

Pablo Picasso

"Poetry is not an expression of the party line. It's that time of night, lying in bed, thinking what you really think, making the private world public, that's what the poet does."
~ Allen Ginsberg

GC, can't mojo you at the moment - awesome quote! :snap: :snap: :snap:

"The practical lower limit on speeds for intersteller travel is 30,000 kilometeres per second, 110 million kilometeres per hour, 10 per cent the speed of light. If you can't travel at least this fast, don't bother going."

Marshall T. Savage

"Our deepest fear is not that we are inadequate. Our deepest fear is that we are powerful beyond measure. It is our light, not our darkness, that frightens us. We ask ourselves, "Who am I to be brilliant, gorgeous, talented, fabulous?" Actually, who are you not to be? You are a child of God. Your playing small does not serve the world. There is nothing enlightened about shrinking so that other people won't feel insecure around you. We were born to make manifest the glory of God that is within us. It is not just in some of us; it is in everyone. And as we let our own light shine, we unconsiously give permission to other people to do the same. As we are liberated from our own fear, our presence automatically liberates others."

-- Nelson Mandela

"Do not go where the path may lead, go instead where there is no path and leave a trail." -- Ralph Waldo Emerson

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"Close, but no cigar."

~Bill Clinton, when asked to compare Paula Jones to Monica Lewinski

If your success is not on your own terms, if it looks good to the world but does not feel good in your heart, it is not success at all.

Anna Quindlen

Democracy is a process by which the people are free to choose the man who will get the blame.
Laurence J. Peter

I'm breaking my own rule and posting three:

Reading furnishes the mind only with materials of knowledge; it is thinking that makes what we read ours. - John Locke

I have discovered that all human evil comes from this, man's being unable to sit still in a room. - Blaise Pascal

Men never do evil so completely and cheerfully as when they do it from a religious conviction. - Blaise Pascal

"We're Americans. We're gonna do democracy."

-James Miller, Survivor Palau

"The life of the creative man is lead, directed and controlled by boredom. Avoiding boredom is one of our most important purposes."

~ Susan Sontag

'Cause when the loving starts, and the lights go down,
And there's not another living soul around,
Then you woo me until the sun comes up,
And you say that you love me.

~ Christine McVie

"The tongue of man is a twisty thing."
--Homer, Iliad

"Death, so called, is a thing which makes men weep, And yet a third of life is passed in sleep. "

--Lord Byron

"Art is the desire of a man to express himself, to record the reactions of his personality to the world he lives in."

Amy Lowell

"Been running so fast
Right from the starting line
No more connections
I don't need any more advice
One hand's just reaching out
And one's just hangin' on
It seems my weaknesses
Just keep going strong

Head over heels
Where should I go
Can't stop myself
Outta control
Head over heels
No time to think
Looks like
The whole world's out of sync..."

Since the Oscars were last night:

"The most important thing in acting is honesty. If you can fake that, you've got it made."
George Burns

Yay, the Go-Go's. Saw them in concert in Vegas when they reunited. And got to see Belinda almost deck a taxi attendant afterwards :D

"Condoms are for cowards."

Amy Sedaris as Jerri Blank, Strangers With Candy

I've got something to say.

I lol'ed. :D
Can't mojo you just yet, sorry EH1812.
:snap:

It's up there as one of my favorite line deliveries on the show.

Have you checked out the cast list for the movie? Wowza. Even my beloved Bright from Everwood is going to be in it. Can't wait!

"I don't pretend to be captain weird. I just do what I do."
~Johnny Depp

"You are a little pain in the butt aren't you."

KoH

"Do good by stealth, and blush to find it fame."

~ Alexander Pope

"Don't let the bastards get you down." ~My dad.....and thousands of people before him.

"Most movies are not very good; most pieces of art are not very good; most CEOs of companies are not very good. That's why, when they are very good, they're exemplary, and we go, 'Oh, my God!' They're lauded, because mediocrity is what's rampant. Excellence is rare." -Don Cheadle

Optimists believe this is the best of all possible worlds. Pessimists fear that it is true.
-Robert Oppenheimer

hahahahhahhahahha

"Conversation is an art in which a man has all mankind for his competitors, for it is that which all are practising every day while they live."

Ralph Waldo Emerson

Gold is for the mistress
Silver for the maid
Copper for the craftsman cunning at his trade
'Good!' said the Baron, sitting in his hall,
'But Iron
Cold Iron
is master of them all'

---Kipling

"Marriage is a fine institution, but I'm not ready for an institution."

- Mae West

Hooray! More Emerson!

"To be great is to be misunderstood."
~Self-Reliance

I always heard it as

"marriage is a beautiful institution, that is, if you like living in an institution"

:cheers:

listen: there's a hell
of a good universe next door; let's go.

- e. e. cummings

"They're all going to laugh at you!" ~ Carrie's mom

"Penguin dust, bring me penguin dust, I want penguin dust--"
(free mojo to the first Lounger to put this into context)

Drawing a blank.

How about "Albatross! Albatross!!"

this?

The same! Very good- you get Monty mojo!

Okay- I know now, but I cheated. Gregory Corso, right?

ding! ding! It's Corso! ...from the poem Marriage, my all-time fave beat poem.

That is a very, very cool poem.:snap:

It might be apocryphal, but it certainly was prescient:

"The growth of populations has in no way increased the amount [of art]; it has merely increased the adeptness with which substitutes can be produced and packaged." -- Raymond Chandler

"Public transportation is for jerks and lesbians."
-Homer Simpson

I like that. :)

If I'm not mistaken, he's the only guy to ever get himself thrown out of his own poetry reading. That's talent. Or something.

Dr. Raymond Stantz: Listen. You smell something?

I got friends in low places ~Garth Brooks

"Weather forcast for tonight: dark. Continued dark overnight, with widely scattered light by morning."

George Carlin

question authority
have they the right to say how it should be?
should one man be able to write it all down?
when half the time he can't tell right from wrong
question authority
another mans law is not right for me
another lie to bleed my sympathy
another time there will be no pity
is this what you wan to see?
is this the way you want things to be?
question authority
i'll pay the price the future belongs to me
this is the time
this is the hour
the worlds our dowery
the glory and the power
is this what you wan to see?
is this the way you want things to be?
things to be,things to be
question authority...

The Circle Jerks

"We got into the cab -- the cab driver said
He recognized my girlie from the back of her head
He said a little something about tip to base
So I made him stop the cab to get out of the place"

~ Beastie Boys

Another thread made me think of this one:

"A fanatic is one who can't change his mind and won't change the subject."
Winston Churchill

Wow. I really like that. :)

I just saw a Churchill documentary on PBS. Really interesting fellow. :)

You ought to see what his feelings were on Iraq.

[derail]
I can only imagine. Which is true because he's dead. :D

I'd love to research his thoughts on Iraq. We need more Churchills around today. Although, he's made some huge Bushesque mistakes in his time...
[/derail]

When the Brits colonised the area, they had many of the same problems and experiences that we are having. He despaired of them ever getting their crap together. Yeah, he was the leader they needed during the war, but he was not the best peacetime leader.

"My virginity is squishy" - GusGus

"We can’t return, we can only look behind
From where we came
And go round and round and round
In the circle game..."

~ Joni

Low in the south one star shone red. Every night, as the Moon waned again, it shone brighter and brighter.

---Tolkien

Luck is not chance--
It's toil--
Fortune's expensive smile
Is earned.

~Emily Dickinson

Here the ways of men part: if you wish to strive for peace of soul and pleasure, then believe; if you wish to be a devotee of truth, then inquire.

~Nietzsche

Who is this Renaissance? Where did he come from? Who gave him permission to cram the Republic with his execrable daubs?
-Mark Twain

If our ancestors were alive today, they would be asking, "Why is it so dark in here?"
--Terry Pratchett

Caminante, no hay camino...Se hace camino al andar. -- Antonio Machado (1875-1939)

Often tranlated as: Traveller, there is no road. We build the road by walking.

My all-time fave quote. :)

"Politicians are the same all over. They promise to build a bridge even where there is no river."

Nikita Khrushchev

Love Krushchev, this commie always was good for a nice one liner :cool:

"When one door of happiness closes, another opens; but often we look so long at the closed door that we do not see the one which has been opened for us."

Helen Keller

"What we call the beginning is often the end. And to make an end is to make a beginning. The end is where we start from."

- TS Eliot

:coffee:

"...the cost of freedom is always high,
Yet one path we shall never choose; that is the path of surrender or submission."

---J F Kennedy

Man, being reasonable, must get drunk: The best of life is but intoxication.

- Lord Byron

"Pleasure's a sin, and sometimes Sin's a pleasure."

Lord Byron

"Finish each day and be done with it. You have done what you could; some blunders and absurdities have crept in; forget them as soon as you can. Tomorrow is a new day; you shall begin it serenely and with too high a spirit to be encumbered with your old nonsense."

-- Ralph Waldo Emerson

Then, brothers, it came. Oh bliss, bliss and heaven. -Anthony Burgess

One of my favorite quotes. Bette Davis upon hearing the news of Joan Crawford's death:

"My mother always said that it was polite to say something good about the dead. Joan Crawford: She's dead. Good."

:D

"I rant, therefore I am."
Dennis Miller

"Many painters are afraid of the blank canvas, but the blank canvas is afraid of the real passionate painter who dares." - Vincent Van Gogh

All Tobias Funke's:

Well, yes, but I’m afraid I prematurely shot my wad on what was supposed to be a dry run, if you will, so now I’m afraid I have something of a mess on my hands.

...even it means me taking a chubby, I will suck it up.

Well, Michael, you really are quite the Cupid, aren’t you? I tell you, you can zing your arrow into my buttocks any time.

Oh, great. And now you’re mocking me. You selfish... coun.. try-music-loving lady. Hello, Maeby

Ah... the clumsy adolescent. It’s a phase we’ve all been through. Except for me. I was like a cat. I always ended up on all fours. (Long pause.) Like a cat.

Well, I’ve always wanted to remake Annie Hall. Except, I wouldn’t want to get in bed with a green producer like a Sofia Coppola though. Oh, but give me an old pro like a Robert Redford. Oh, I’d jump into bed with him in a second. And I wouldn’t just lie there, Michael Bluth, if that’s what you’re thinking.

Well, you certainly didn’t help my reputation as a ladies man with Jeff. But we’ll clear all that up in the spa when I get my facial.

Well, I won’t know officially until 8:01. But I figured if I blue myself early, I’d be nice and relaxed for a 9:00 dinner reservation.

Nice to be back in a queen.

"There are two types of people - those who come into a room and say, Well, here I am! and those who come in and say, Ah, there you are."

---Frederick L Collins

Inaction may be the highest form of action.

- Jerry Brown

"Those who can make you believe absurdities can make you commit atrocities."

Voltaire

"True friends stab you in the front".
Oscar Wilde

How did I miss this thread for so long? OMG! Quotes are totally my thing. But I'll hold back and give you one ( or there abouts) a day...


"He who establishes his argument by noise and command shows that his reason is weak."

-Michel de Montaigne




"When I hear somebody sigh, 'Life is hard,' I am always tempted to ask, 'Compared to what?'"

-Sydney Harris

"Not no. Yes."
-Kid Notorious

"I'm a fart in a gale of wind, a humble violet, under a cow pat."
Djuna Chappell Barnes (1892-1982)

"Bill's thirty-two. He looks thirty-two. He looked it five years ago, he'll look it twenty years from now. I hate men." ~ Bette Davis as Margo Channing in 'All About Eve'.

;)

"I've learned that people will forget what you said, people will forget what you did, but people will not forget how you made them feel."

-- Maya Angelou

"It doesn't require any particular bravery to stand on the floor of the Senate and urge our boys in Vietnam to fight harder, and if this war mushrooms into a major conflict and a hundred thousand young Americans are killed, it won't be U. S. Senators who die. It will be American soldiers who are too young to qualify for the senate." ....."I'm fed up to the ears with old men dreaming up wars for young men to die in."


-George McGovern




Wars have never hurt anybody except the people who die."

-Salvador Dali


"Even if you are on the right track, you'll get run over if you just sit there."

-Will Rogers

"Be patient toward all that is unsolved in your heart and try to love the questions themselves like locked rooms and like books that are written in a very foreign tongue. Do not now seek the answers, which cannot be given you because you would not be able to live them. And the point is, to live everything. Live the questions now. Perhaps you will find them gradually, without noticing it, and live along some distant day into the answer."

-Rainer Maria Rilke

"When angry, count to four; when very angry, swear."
Mark Twain

There is no way you can use the word "reality" without quotation marks around it.

- Joseph Campbell

Reality is that which, when you stop believing in it, doesn’t go away.
Philip K Dick

Nothing in the world takes the place of persistence. Talent will not; nothing is more common than unsuccessful men with great talent. Genius will not; unrewarded genius is almost a proverb. Education will not; the world is full of educated derelicts. Persistence and determination alone are omnipotent.” ~Calvin Coolidge

"I'd rather be a could-be if I cannot be an are; because a could-be is a maybe who is reaching for a star. I'd rather be a has-been than a might-have-been, by far; for a might have-been has never been, but a has was once an are."

-Milton Berle





"The true meaning of life is to plant trees, under whose shade you do not expect to sit."

-Nelson Henderson




"In the first place, God made idiots. That was for practice. Then he made school boards."

-Mark Twain

"If at first you don't succeed, failure may be your style."

~ Quentin Crisp

:D

Passive acceptance of the teacher's wisdom is easy to most boys and girls. It involves no effort of independent thought, and seems rational because the teacher knows more than his pupils; it is moreover the way to win the favour of the teacher unless he is a very exceptional man. Yet the habit of passive acceptance is a disastrous one in later life. It causes man to seek and to accept a leader, and to accept as a leader whoever is established in that position.

Bertrand Russell

"It is the mark of an educated mind to be able to entertain a thought without accepting it."


--- Aristotle

"What if there were no hypothetical questions?"
-George Carlin

"Men are from Earth, women are from Earth. Deal with it."
-George Carlin

"There is no reason, at all, to believe that the flow of our country's history will always be in the direction of more and greater democracy." ~Another Editorial Cartoon

"We do not grow absolutely, chronologically. We grow sometimes in one dimension, and not in another, unevenly. We grow partially. We are relative. We are mature in one realm, childish in another. The past, present and future mingle and pull us backward, forward or fix us in the present. We are made up of layers, cells and constellations."

-- Anais Nin

Pretty is as pretty does - My Mother

Or, the grown up version:

... If you want self esteem, do esteemable acts

"Clocks slay time... time is dead as long as it is being clicked off by little wheels; only when the clock stops does time come to life. "

William Faulkner

Did I mention I'm going through one of my "no watch" phases again?

Here's quote wherein is contained a short, short story, in its entirety:

A RADICALLY CONDENSED HISTORY OF POSTINDUSTRIAL LIFE

David Foster Wallace
Ploughshares, Spring 1998

When they were introduced, he made a witticism, hoping to be liked. She
laughed very hard, hoping to be liked. Then each drove home alone,
staring straight ahead, with the very same twist to their faces.

The man who'd introduced them didn't much like either of them, though he
acted as if he did, anxious as he was to preserve good relations at all
times. One never knew, after all, now did one.

"I have learned silence from the talkative, tolerance from the intolerant, and kindness from the the unkind; yet strangely, I am ungrateful to these teachers."

-- Kahlil Gibran

"Human beings are the only creatures that allow their children to come back home."

--- Bill Cosby

"I'm gonna soak up the sun
I'm gonna tell everyone
To lighten up (I'm gonna tell 'em that)
I've got no one to blame
For every time I feel lame
I'm looking up" ~Sheryl Crow

"Tragedy is when I cut my finger. Comedy is when you walk into an open sewer and die."
Mel Brooks

Greatness is not in where we stand, but in what direction we are moving. We must sail sometimes with the wind and sometimes against it -- but sail we must and not drift, nor lie at anchor.

- Oliver Wendell Holmes

"The universe is a big place, perhaps the biggest. "
-Kurt Vonnegut

"I did not have sex with that woman... Monica Lewinski"

B. Clinton

The number four talking to the number two:

"Six, six, six. That's all you ever think about!"

"We guarantee the quality of our product or return the boy."


--- Abbot Lawrence Lowell (Former Harvard President)

Now we're Anthrax
And we take no ****
And we don't care for writing hits
'Cause the sound you hear is what we like
And I'll steal your pop tarts like I stole your...
socks
Yo man, what's a matter with you

Charlie beats the beats the beats you beat
The only thing harder is the smell of my feet
So listen up 'cause you might get dissed
Go drain the lizard or take a...
chair

Watch the beat!

I'm on your case
I'm in your face
Put you and your father back in place
Step up sucker understand
Don't you know that I'm the Man
I'm the Man
I'm so bad
I should be in detention
I'm the Man

Shut up!

We got real def rhythms and fresh new jams
If you think we got egos, well we're all just hams
Scott plays stickball and likes to skate
Frankie's never on time; he's always...
Sleeping
Late!

They drink the drinks they drinks they drank
I put my money in the bank
They cut their crack; they offer joints
We don't do drugs do you get our...
Meaning!
POINT!

Watch the beat!

I'm on your case
I'm in your face
Put you and your father back in place
Step up sucker understand
Don't you know that I'm the Man
I'm the Man
I'm so bad
I should be in detention
I'm the Man

For a heavy metal band raps a different way
We like to be different and not cliche
Well they say rap and metal can never mix
Well of them can suck our...
Sexual organ located in the lower abdominal area
No man, it's dick!

Danny farted the farts the farts he farted
I pick my nose but I'm not retarded
So like El Duce says, "smell my anal vapor"
And wipe my butt with your...
Face!
Toilet paper! Watch the beat!

I'm on your case
I'm in your face
Put you and your father back in place
Step up sucker understand
Don't you know that I'm the Man
I'm the Man
I'm so bad
I should be in detention
I'm the Man

So as this rap is winding down
Can't you see we wear the crown
You know Anthrax is number one
But we really don't care; we just want to have...
A festival!
FUN, you stupid idiot!

Joey mailed the mail the mail he mailed
We are the kings and all shall hail
We're like a diamond that is forever
And we'll remain the hardest ever

I'm so bad
It's a crime

NOT!

~ Anthrax's groundbreaking 1987 single "I'm The Man" -- a delightful, and funny, fusion of metal and rap. The song was both a playful poke at the rap genre and an homage to the rappers of Brooklyn, NY.

". . . there are periods of history when the visions of madmen and dope fiends are a better guide to reality than the common-sense interpretation of data available to the so-called normal mind. This is one such period, if you haven't noticed already."
Robert Anton Wildon

"There are three side effects of acid: enhanced long-term memory, decreased short-term memory, and I forget the third."


Timothy Leary

One morning, the Mother Superior calls her nuns together for a conference.
"I must tell you all something important," she says. "We have a case of gonorrhea in the convent."

"Thank the Lord," sighs an elderly nun from the back, "I'm so tired of Chardonnay!"

:blush:




jason picks his nose

"It seems to me that all you need is a rag-top car and a ride with me." ~Pat Green

When we honestly ask ourselves which person in our lives mean the most to us, we often find that it is those who, instead of giving advice, solutions, or cures, have chosen rather to share our pain and touch our wounds with a warm and tender hand. The friend who can be silent with us in a moment of despair or confusion, who can stay with us in an hour of grief and bereavement, who can tolerate now knowing, not curing, not healing and face with us the reality of our powerlessness, that is a friend who cares. -- Henri Nouwen, Out of Solitude

"Be who you are and say what you feel, because those who mind don't matter, and those who matter don't mind."

-- Dr. Seuss

omg. i should recite this ten times every day.

Hell is other people.

Jean-Paul Sartre




Hell is for children.

Pat Benatar

Same subject (good one BTW):

"Hell is paved with good intentions."
James Boswell

"Maybe this world is another planet's hell."
Aldous Huxley

And, my favorite:

"If you're going through hell, keep going."
Winston Churchill

New subject:

"Never lose sight of the fact that all human felicity lies in man's imagination, and that he cannot think to attain it unless he heeds all his caprices. The most fortunate of persons is he who has the most means to satisfy his vagaries."

Marquis de Sade

"Quim"

Marquis de Sade


That's for my husband

Who must be fortunate, indeed.

i'm wondering which husband. whoops. wrong thread. err, i mean:


"She is a winsome wee thing, She is a handsome wee thing, She is a bonny wee thing, This sweet wee wife o' mine."
Robert Burns

On hell:

"Heather, when you die, will you come back and tell me what hell is like?" ~one of my teen leaders

A lifetime of happiness! No man alive could bare it: it would be hell on earth.

- George Bernard Shaw

Living is strife and torment, disappointment and love and sacrifice, golden sunsets and black storms. I said that some time ago, and today I do not think I would add one word.

~ Laurence Olivier

"Facts are the enemy of truth."

"Proverbs are short sentences drawn from long and wise experience."

"There is no proverb which is not true."

-Don Quixote

"There is a sacredness in tears. They are not a mark of weakness, but of power. They speak more eloquently than 10,000 tongues. They are messengers of overwhelming grief...and unspeakable love."

-- Washington Irving

My favorite Author :)

"You suck my battleship" - Not Afraid and the jingle-a-thon

From CNN this morning:

"Earlier in the day, the pope read a short blessing from a hospital window in Rome, his first public statement since undergoing throat last month."

"Whenever anyone has offended me, I try to raise my soul so high that the offense cannot reach it."

Rene Descartes

"€uromeinke, FEJ. and Ghoulish Delight RULE!!!"

-- anonymous

"Wendybeth, Not Afraid, innerSpaceman, and blueerica also RULE!!! Hhmmpf!!"

--blueerica

(And if we're just sticking to admins, I'd say that Not Afraid rules, too....)

"Oh, you hate your job? Why didn't you say so? There's a support group for that. It's called EVERYBODY, and they meet at the bar."

-- Drew Carey

Did you ever notice how important the last bite of a candy bar is? All the while you're eating it, you're always aware that you have less and less remaining. Then, as you get to the end, if something happens to that last peice you feel freally cheated.

~George Carlin

"Boredom is the root of all evil - the despairing refusal to be oneself."
--Soren Kierkegaard

"Wars have never hurt anybody except the people who die."
Salvador Dali

I dedicate this quote to the married insomniacs of LoT:

"How do people go to sleep? I'm afraid I've lost the knack. I might try busting myself smartly over the temple with the night-light. I might repeat to myself, slowly and soothingly, a list of quotations beautiful from minds profound; if I can remember any of the damn things." - Dorothy Parker

E, your signature quote is giving me a lump in my throat, and suddenly I have the urge to have all my east coast friends relocate to the west coast so I can SEE them more than once a year.

I can't even begin to tell you how many times throughout the course of time since I moved from Michigan that I felt that. I'm finally at peace that they're not here for me to see, and hold as many times as my whims might have.

Thanks for the kind words about my signature. It's something I've come to realize about myself, others, and life in general. I feel like we can all be measured, not so much by the people whom we call friends, although that's a part, but by the relationships we develop over our lives. In the end, I feel, it's all we have, even if we can't have them by our side.

I've been very fortunate to have made some really great friends throughout my short history.

"People do not seem to realize that their opinion of the world is also a confession of character."

-- Ralph Waldo Emerson

"I took a speed-reading course and read 'War and Peace' in twenty minutes. It involves Russia."


--- Woody Allen

"To be stupid and selfish and to have good health are the three requirements for happiness, though if stupidity is lacking, the others are useless."
Gustave Flaubert

"The only thing necessary for the triumph of evil is for good men to do nothing."

~ Edmund Burke

(I don't know who EB is, but I like his quote....) :D

"Reject if button is up. Reject if button is up." ~The lid of my Prego jar

ALL DAY LONG!

To dream the impossible dream
To fight the unbeatable foe
To bear with unbearable sorrow
To run where the brave dare not go
To right the unrightable wrong
To love pure and chaste from afar
To try when your arms are too weary
To reach the unreachable star

This is my quest
To follow that star
No matter how hopeless
No matter how far

To fight for the right
Without question or pause
To be willing to march into Hell
For a heavenly cause

And I know if I'll only be true
To this glorious quest
That my heart will lie peaceful and calm
When I'm laid to my rest

And the world will be better for this
That one man, scorned and covered with scars
Still strove with his last ounce of courage
To reach the unreachable star

"its merely a flesh wound, ive had worse"

The Black Knight

"I've got two penises but no wife, but I am hoping when I get rid of one of the penises I will get her back."

- Michael Gruber

"Please provide the date of your death."
-from an IRS letter

He is the son of Mr. & Mrs. Burke

From Thus Spoke Zarathustra:

"It is already too much for me to remember my own opinions; and many a bird flies away. And now and then I also find a stray in my dovecot that is strange to me and trembles when I place my hand on it."

Stray opinions lingering in the confines of one's mind...:snap:

Ack, another one, on the same page!

"This, however, all poets believe: that whoever pricks up his ears as he lies in the grass or on lonely slopes will find out something about those things that are between heaven and earth."

:snap:

In Honor of the NCAA Tournament.....
 

Be more concerned with your character than your reputation, because your character is what you really are, while your reputation is merely what others think you are.

~Coach John Wooden

"What's the difference between the day and a year?" - random guests at Universal Studios - THOUSANDS of times a month

"I regret to say that we of the FBI are powerless to act in cases of oral-genital intimacy, unless it has in some way obstructed interstate commerce." - J. Edgar Hoover

Last words of Thomas J. Grasso, executed in Oklahoma by lethal injection: "I did not get my Spaghetti-O's, I got spaghetti. I want the press to know this."

"The splendor of the rose and the whiteness of the lily do not rob the little violet of it's scent nor the daisy of it's simple charm. If every flower wanted to be a rose, spring would lose it's loveliness."

-- Therese of Lisieux

Yesterday I was a dog. Today I'm a dog. Tomorrow I'll probably still be a dog. Sigh! There's so little hope for advancement.

--- Snoopy

"Crooks don't know."
-Jack Kerouac

Garrison Keillor quotes (I'm cheating with more than one today):

"They would not be smart enough to pour piss out of their boots, if the instructions were written on the sole."

"The funniest line in English is "Get it?" When you say that, everyone chortles."

"I believe in looking reality straight in the eye and denying it."

"God writes a lot of comedy...the trouble is, he's stuck with so many bad actors that don't know how to play funny."

"...it was a dark and damp cave with countless Buddah statues standing in the foreground, soon after entering we were stumbling around in the dark. I meant to bring my flashlight, but I forgot, so I fumbled around for a pack of matches.

When I lit each match, it formed a small cirlce of light around us. In that circle the thin tall Buddhas stood sentry. Each time I lit another match this gentle army sprang to life, and each time it flickered out, we were plunged back into darkness. It was a remarkable effect, very spiritual, and it made me consider how far we'd come...

...it struck me that life was like that, too. You light a match, and you're just a child. Light another, and you're married with children of your own. A few more brief, and bright flares, and our babies have left home. A few more after that and your pack is used up.

...Know that we must make each brief combustion a bright, shinning moment that pierces the darkness and illuninates a thousand gods."

---David Elliot Cohen

Sadly, the quote that comes to mind after reading the one above is:

"It was a dark and stormy night..."

Hehe, I considered only quoting the final seciton, as it was what I really was touched by; but I thought it would make a little more sense with the extra content :D

btw: the quote is from the David Cohen book "One Year Off", in which he, his wife and two children take a year off from work and school to tour Planet Earth and her many nations....great read.

It takes so many years

To learn that one is dead.

- T. S. Elliot

In honor of the Disneyland merch thread:
"Americans are fascinated by their own love of shopping. This does not make them unique. It's just that they have more to buy than most other people on the planet. And it's also an affirmation of faith in their country, its prosperity and limitless bounty. They have shops the way that lesser countries have statues."
Simon Hoggart

Some day, in years to come, you will be wrestling with the great temptation, or trembling under the great sorrow of your life. But the real struggle is here, now, in these quiet weeks. Now it is being decided whether, in the day of your supreme sorrow or temptation, you shall miserably fail or gloriously conquer. Character cannot be made except by a steady, long continued process.
- Phillips Brooks

"April is the cruelest month, breeding lilacs out of the dead land, mixing memory and desire, stirring dull roots with spring rain."

-- T.S. Eliot

"The true harvest of my life is intangible - a little star dust caught, a portion of the rainbow I have clutched."

-- Henry David Thoreau

"You are you. Now, isn't that pleasant?"

-- Dr. Seuss

"Politics is supposed to be the second oldest profession. I have come to realize that it bears a very close resemblance to the first."

Ronald Reagan

"He had decided to live forever or die in the attempt."
-Joseph Heller

And just because it's fitting considering where I'll be in a couple hours...

"We do have a zeal for laughter in most situations, give or take a dentist."
-Joseph Heller

Okay -- it's a whole poem, not a quote, but it's one of my all time favorites.

John Donne - The Flea

MARK but this flea, and mark in this,
How little that which thou deniest me is ;
It suck'd me first, and now sucks thee,
And in this flea our two bloods mingled be.
Thou know'st that this cannot be said
A sin, nor shame, nor loss of maidenhead ;
Yet this enjoys before it woo,
And pamper'd swells with one blood made of two ;
And this, alas ! is more than we would do.

O stay, three lives in one flea spare,
Where we almost, yea, more than married are.
This flea is you and I, and this
Our marriage bed, and marriage temple is.
Though parents grudge, and you, we're met,
And cloister'd in these living walls of jet.
Though use make you apt to kill me,
Let not to that self-murder added be,
And sacrilege, three sins in killing three.

Cruel and sudden, hast thou since
Purpled thy nail in blood of innocence?
Wherein could this flea guilty be,
Except in that drop which it suck'd from thee?
Yet thou triumph'st, and say'st that thou
Find'st not thyself nor me the weaker now.
'Tis true ; then learn how false fears be ;
Just so much honour, when thou yield'st to me,
Will waste, as this flea's death took life from thee.

"It's spring fever. That is what the name of it is. And when you've got it -- oh, you don't quite know what it is you DO want, but it just fairly makes your heart ache, you want it so!"

-- Mark Twain

"If you really want to hear about it, the first thing you'll probably want to know is where I was born, and what my lousy childhood was like, and how my parents were occupied and all before they had me, and all that David Copperfield kind of crap, but I don't feel like going into it, if you want to know the truth."

J. D. Salinger, The Catcher in the Rye, (opening line)


"I am a kind of paranoiac in reverse. I suspect people of plotting to make me happy."

J. D. Salinger

"Boys, when you see the enemy, fire and then run, and as I am a little lame, I will run now."

order of General John B. Stedman to the Rhode Island militia during the Dorr Rebellion (1842)

A quote before I hop into my bed:

"I am accustomed to sleep and in my dreams to imagine the same things that lunatics imagine when awake."

Rene Descartes

"Beauty is a form of genius - is higher, indeed, than genius, as it needs no explanation. It is of the great facts in the world like sunlight, or springtime, or the reflection in dark water of that silver shell we call the moon."

-- Oscar Wilde

A writer is a person for whom writing is more difficult than it is for other people.

-Thomas Mann

"If the sight of the blue skies fills you with joy, if a blade of grass springing up in the fields has power to move you, if the simple things in nature have a message you understand, rejoice, for your soul is alive."

-- Eleanora Duse

"History doesn't repeat itself, at best it sometimes rhymes." --Mark Twain

"I was getting so screwed up that getting fvcked up was more important than getting fvcked. Part of me is still bummed out that I didn't have all of the sex I could have had in the seventies." - Steven Tyler, Aerosmith :cheers:

Sex without love is an empty experience, but as empty experiences go, it's one of the best.

- Woody Allen

"Every great thinker is someone else's moron."

--Umberto Eco, Foucault's Pendulum

"I just let off in a tax inspector's face, and it was mostly deliberate."
Alan Partridge

"By Grabthar's hammer, by the sons of Worvan, you shall be avenged." - Sir Alexander Dane

"Dammit Mom, I got my headgear on"- The Geek in Sixteen Candles

"A synonym is a word you use when you can't spell the word you first thought of."

Burt Bacharach

"We need a president who's fluent in at least one language."
Buck Henry

"Our constitution works. Our great republic is a government of laws, not of men."

Gerald R. Ford

Can't give you mojo yet, MBC, so here's a quote:

"Popular government rests in the common sense, and the self-restraint of the American people. It rests in the knowledge of the majority that it must keep within the checks of the law and the Constitution if the Government is to be preserved. And it must rest in the view that the minority that it is much more important that the government should be sustained than that the minority should should have for the time being control of or a voice in the government. It rests in the knowledge of the majority that the rights of the minority and in the individuals of that minority are exactly as sacred as the rights in the individuals of the majority."

William Howard Taft

"When Gregor Samsa woke up one morning from unsettling dreams, he found himself changed in his bed into a monstrous vermin." Franz Kafka - Metamorphosis

I loved that book. We had a whole existentialism unit when I was in the 10th grade.

A career is a wonderful thing, but you can't snuggle up to it on a cold night

- Marilyn Monroe

"Conversation is an art in which a man has all mankind for his competitors, for it is that which all are practising every day while they live."

Ralph Waldo Emerson

"When we are unhurried and wise, we perceive that only great and worthy things have any permanent and valuable existence, that petty fears and petty pleasures are but the shadow of the reality."

-- Henry David Thoreau

"The most exciting phrase to hear in science, the one that heralds the most discoveries, is not 'Eureka!' ('I found it!') but 'That's funny...'.."

- Isaac Asimov

"It may be true that you can't fool all the people all the time, but you can fool enough of them to rule a large country."
Will Durant

Good judgment comes from experience. Experience comes from bad judgment.
—Jim Horning

"You should never marry someone who doesn't make you laugh."

Garrison Keillor

"If you knew what I know about the power of giving, you would not let a single meal pass without sharing it in some way."

Buddha

"If I can't turn him on, he ain't got switches!"
—blonde bombshell Sally DeBains in Reefer Madness: The Musical

"Simplicity is the ultimate sophistication."

-- Leonardo da Vinci

(No wonder he rejected me -- I guess he doesn't like pack rats)


"As you simplify your life, the laws of the universe will be simpler, solitude will not be solitude, poverty will not be poverty, nor weakness weakness."

-- Henry David Thoreau


"Simplify, simplify."

-- Henry David Thoreau


I will repeat these quotes over and over to myself as I attempt to clean out my closets and garage. My mantra will be -- simplify. Ommmmmm.

"No kind action ever stops with itself. One kind action leads to another. Good example is followed. A single act of kindness throws out roots in all directions, and then roots spring up and make new trees. The greatest work that kindness does to others is that it makes them kind themselves."

-- Amelia Earhart

Winston Churchill quotes:

"Attitude is a little thing that makes a big difference."

"By swallowing evil words unsaid, no one has ever harmed his stomach."

"Kites rise highest against the wind, not with it."

"If you're going through hell, keep going."

"$76.23/mo"

Quote for a term life insurance policy.

"As a senator, I worried every day about the size of the Federal deficit. I did not spend a single minute worrying about the effect of gays on the institute of marriage. Today, it seems to be the other way around."
—Former Republican senator from Mississippi John Danforth, in a New York Times op-ed, March 30
according to The Advocate

"I've worked my whole life to create the image of what 'Walt Disney' is. It's not me. I smoke, and I drink, and all the things that we don't want the public to know about."
--Walt Disney

Tom, regarding The Perfect Man :

"The only time I want to see Hilary Duff and Chris Noth onscreen together is when he's finding her dead body on Law and Order."

"The Pentagon is getting ready to announce the latest base closures... Why not start with the ones in Iraq?" ~ Leno

"Your ignorance is not my problem." ~ a co-worker, because scientific researchers cannot follow simple directions.

''In terms of evil, one of the original concepts was how does a democracy turn itself into a dictatorship,'' Lucas told a news conference at Cannes, where his final episode had its world premiere. ''The parallels between what we did in Vietnam and what we're doing in Iraq now are unbelievable... On the personal level it was how does a good person turn into a bad person, and part of the observation of that is that most bad people think they are good people, they are doing it for the right reasons..."

http://www.cnn.com/2005/SHOWBIZ/Movi...ars/index.html

"I've been to war. I've raised twins. If I had a choice, I'd rather go to war." ~ George W Bush


;)

"I am thankful for laughter, except when milk comes out of my nose."

--Woody Allen

Hmmm....I'm thinking about doors today:

"The doors we open and close each day decide the lives we live."

--Flora Whittemore

"Fortune knocks at every man's door once in a life, but in a good many cases the man is in a neighboring saloon and does not hear her."

--Mark Twain

"Everyone is an explorer. How could you possibly live your life looking at a door and not open it?"

--Anonymous

Ooh, I like that. We should have themed quote days.

"A door is what a dog is perpetually on the wrong side of."
-Ogden Nash

"It's like that, y'all. That, y'all. Like th-th-th-th-that, y'all."
~ Mariah Carey
:D

"You put your right side in,
You put your right side out;
You put your right side in,
And you shake it all about."

Roland Lawrence LaPrise

My question is this: how do you shake your right side without shaking your left side?!?

"I always like to look on the optimistic side of life, but I am realistic enough to know that life is a complex matter."

Walt Disney

Mission Accomplished ~ George Bush, May 2003


We must honor them (fallen soldiers) by completing the mission ~ George Bush, May 2005

In three words I can sum up everything I've learned about life: It goes on. - Robert Frost

"How am I not myself?"


~I Heart Huckabees

Achilles: I wish that I had a HUNDRED wishes, instead of just three!
Genie: I am sorry, Achilles, but I don't grant meta-wishes.


~Godel, Escher, Bach: An Eternal Golden Braid

The pure and simple truth is rarely pure and never simple. - Oscar Wilde

Sometimes it is crunchy.

Bump - because if I responded in the So thread, it would remain lost

Holy crap, this thread is old. Perhaps I was thinking of a newer thread? At any rate...

My iPod has been kicking some great tunes at me lately. I tried to cut it down to a small quote but this really is a whole, perfect piece of poetry that defies editing.

---

I ain't lookin' to compete with you
Beat or cheat or mistreat you
Simplify you or classify you
Deny, defy or crucify you
All i really want to do
Is baby be friends with you.

No an' i ain't lookin' to fight with you
Frighten you or uptighten you
Drag you down or drain you down
Chain you down or bring you down
All i really want to do
Is baby be friends with you.

I aint lookin' to block you up
Shock or knock or lock you up
Analyse you, categorize you
Finalize you or advertise you
All i really want to do
Is baby be friends with you.

I don't want to straightface you
Race or chase you, track or trace you
Or disgrace you or displace you
Or define you or confine you
All I really want to do
Is baby be friends with you.

I don't want to meet your kin
Make you spin or do you in
Or select you or dissect you
Or inspect you or reject you
All i really want to do
Is baby be friends with you.

I don't want to fake you out
Take or shake or forsake you
I aint lookin' for you to feel like me
See like me or be like me
All i really want to do
Is baby be friends with you.

-Bob Dylan

I:18 - All warfare is based on deception.
-Sun Tzu

OH - the Lyrics thread??? That's in Beatnik somewhere...