Quotes archive
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How beautiful maleness is,
If it finds its right expression.
DH Lawrence
Winter is come and gone,
But grief returns with the revolving year.
Percy Bysshe Shelley, Adonais
LIfe isn't fair.
It's just fairer than death, that's all.
William Goldman,
"The Princess Bride"
I write down everything I want to remember.
That way, instead of spending a lot of time trying to remember what it is I
wrote down, I spend a the time looking for the paper I wrote it down on.
Beryl Pfizer
I shot an arrow into the air,
And it stuck.
Graffito, LA
If you define cowardice as running away at the first sign of danger, screaming & tripping& begging for mercy, then yes, Mr. Brave Man, I guess I am a coward.
Unknown
Loss of crucial places or things or of those we love, reshapes our world, and obliges us to learn again the task of navigating it.
A.C. Grayling
When one subtracts from life - infancy (which is vegetation), sleep, eating and swilling - buttoning and unbuttoning - how much remains of downright existence?
The summer of a dormouse.
Byron
Letters & Journals
March 2005
All the darkness in the world cannot put out the light of even one candle.
unknown
It is okay to think about what you want to do.
Until it is time to do what you were meant to do.
unknown
Anything that has real and lasting value is always a gift from within.
Franz Kafka
The world is a dreamscape,
where things change shape
where
everything is subject to interpretation
and no interpretation lasts.
Daniel Hecht
Skull Session
Every good and excellent thing in the world stands moment by moment
on the razor edge of danger and must be fought for.
Thornton Wilder
The Skin of Our Teeth
February 2005
What lies behind us and what lies before us are small matters
compared to what lies within us
Emerson
Resolve is never stronger than in the morning after the night it was never weaker.
Unknown.
Everyone's alone, Ally, it's just easier to take in a relationship.
Fishism. Ally McBeal.
Honesty may be the best policy, but it's important to remember that apparently, by elimination, dishonesty is the second-best policy.
George Carlin
Fairy tales are more than true: not because
they tell us dragons exist, but because
they tell us that dragons can be beaten.
G.K. Chesterton
The intuitive mind is a sacred gift and the rational mind is a faithful servant.
We have created a society that honors the servant and has forgotten the gift.
Albert Einstein
There is nothing like returning to a place that remains unchanged to find the ways in which you yourself have altered.
Nelson Mandela
A Long Walk to Freedom
How can you ever know how much is true for everyone and how much is only true for you?
Lewis Shiner
Glimpses
January 2005
Some of the best memories I have,
some of the sweetest moments in my life,
I have shared with you.
Even if there is nothing ahead for us,
we will be connected always by what lies behind.
Jen
I have you and even if we never meet or ever see each other,
we have left our thumbprints in the thick, moist clay of each others lives.
Hugh Elliott
Standing Room Only,
weblog
December 2004
They say time changes things,
but you actually have to change them yourself.
Andy Warhol
You don't determine my worth.
I do.
Anonymous
November 2004
Let reason nervously shout directions from the backseat.
magazine ad
We experience moments absolutely free from worry.
These brief respites are called panic.
A.W. Schaef
Any transition serious enough to alter your definition of self will require not just small adjustments in your way of living and thinking but a full-on metamorphosis.
Martha Beck
Without freedom from the past, there is no freedom at all, because the mind is never new, fresh, innocent
Krishnamurti
October 2004
and in the face of their knowledge
all these words on paper
ring soundlessly in the vacuum of inattention
I know they mean nothing
as the terrible unaccusing poor know also
while brightly colored birds
Fly in and out from lonely caves of my imagination
Al Purdy
'One Rural Winter'
I'm in favor of personal growth as long as it doesn't include malignant tumors.
George Carlin
Can we actually 'know' the universe?
My god, it's hard enough finding your way around in Chinatown.
Woody Allen
We judge ourselves by what we feel capable of doing,
while others judge us by what we have already done.
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
An education isn't how much you have committed to memory, or even how much you know.
It's being able to differentiate between what you do know and what you don't.
Anatole France
Serenity is not freedom from the storm,
but peace amidst the storm.
Anonymous
What I look forward to is continued immaturity followed by death.
Dave Barry
September 2004
Joy is a net of love by which you can catch souls.
Mother Teresa
for this bit of green costume jewellery
the beginnings of understanding,
the remoteness of alien love.
Al Purdy
'At Roblin Lake'
(it's about a frog)
Those who dance are considered insane by those who can't hear the music.
George Carlin
I've never had problems with drugs.
I've had problems with police.
Keith Richards
Wherever you go,
go with all your heart.
Confucius
Any new experience is another opportunity.
Unknown
I take my desires for reality,
Because I believe in the reality of my desires.
Unknown
August 2004
Sanity is the playground for the unimaginative.
Unknown
My doctor told me I could never take Prozac as I might go off and kill someone.
Is that really what I'd do if I cheered up?
Norm Conrad
The very existence of the flamethrowers proves that some time, somewhere, someone said to themselves, 'You know, I want to set those people over there on fire, but I'm just not close enough to get the job done.'
George Carlin
Opportunity may only knock once but tempation stands there leaning on the doorbell
Unknown
I love Mankind.
I't s the people I can't stand.
Linus - Charlie Brown
Some people see things that are and ask, Why? Some people dream of things that never were and ask, Why not? Some people have to go to work and don't have time for all that.
George Carlin
July 2004
The best reason for having dreams is that in dreams no reason is necessary.
Ashleigh Brilliant
Remember, you can listen a person's soul into existence.
-campus sign for a crisis hotline
It takes great courage to see the world in all it's tainted glory and still love
it.
'An Ideal Husband'
The definition of insanity is the repetition of the same behavior over and over
again, expecting a different outcome.
'28 Days'
..and the running blackberry would adorn the parlors of Heaven...
Walt Whitman
For all of us our own particular creature lurks in ambush.
Hugh Walpole
A bore is a man who deprives you of solitude without providing you with
company.
Gian Vincenzo Gravina
Subtlety is the art of saying what you think
and getting out of the way before it is understood.
Unknown
A ship in a harbor is safe.
But that is not what ships are made for.
Unknown
June 2004
The Earth turned to bring us closer,
it spun on itself and within us,
and finally joined us together in this dream
Eugenio Montejo
The real question of life after death isn't whether or not it exists, but even if
it does, what problems this really solves.
Ludwig Wittgenstein
But I ask, if I think not, am I not? I think not. Don't you think?
Unknown
Laziness is nothing more than the habit of resting before you get tired.
Jules Renard
Scars have the power to remind us the past was real.
Hannibal Lector
If you work on a lobster boat, sneaking up behind someone and pinching him is
probably a joke that gets old real fast.
Jack Handey (Deep Thoughts)
Nietzche was stupid and abnormal.
Leo Tolstoy
May 2004
What's your problem with cults?
Why just today while writing a check I said to myself. "This money is going
to fund religious zealots bent on subverting everything I hold dear."
But I mailed in my income tax anyway.
"and lead us not into temptation but deliver us some email"
4 yr old girl overheard misquoting the Lords Prayer, found on Rinkworks.com
What if this weren't a hypothetical question?
unknown
Right now I'm having amnesia and deja vu at the same time.
I think I've forgotten this before.
unknown
If there was a gentler soul in this world,
I ain't never seen it.
Open Range
I will love thee forever.
Come whatever storms.
unknown
Everyone is entitled to be stupid but some people abuse the privilege.
unknown
A true friend never gets in your way unless you happen to be going down.
Arnold H. Glasgow
The art of life is not controlling what happens to us, but using what
happens to us.
April 2004
True strength is not a measure of the body,
It is a measure of the spirit.
Deodorant commerical
When it comes time to die, be not like those whose hearts are filled with the
fear of death, so when their time comes they weep and pray for a little more time
to live their lives over again in a different way. Sing your death song, and die
like a hero going home.
Chief Aupumut, Mohican
Man invented language to satisfy his deep need to complain.
Lily Tomlin
I wonder if other dogs think poodles are members of a weird religious cult.
Rita Rudner
Do or Do Not. There is no try.
Yoda
Only say the word and I will pour myself like wine.
You are
The only thing that shines.
Never wrestle with a pig.
You both get dirty.
The pig likes it.
If it doesn't fit - just push harder.
In this life of froth and bubble,
Two things stand like stone.
Kindness in another's troubles,
Courage in your own.
'Tomorrow When the War Began'
John Marsden
If one lived in fear of what was to come, one lost what could be gained in the
here and now.
The word "choice" is a fraud while people choose only what they have been taught
to choose.
Idries Shah
Those who dream by day are cognizant of many things which escape those who dream
only by night.
Edgar Allan Poe
If you insist on booking passage on the Titanic, there's no point in going
steerage.
One must have chaos in oneself in order to give birth to a dancing star.
Nietzsche
Are you every going to grow up?
What? And become the bewildered recipient of all those weird envelopes with
cellophane windows? God, I hope not.
Kathy Lette
'Altar Ego'
Why does man kill? He kills for food. And not only food: frequently, there must
be a beverage.
Woody Allen
You are only what you are when no one is looking.
He remembered reading someplace that only mad people were dead-certain of their
sanity.
March 2004
This week I will experiment with how long I can go without sleep before it starts
impairing my judgement.
from: Today I Will Nourish My Inner Martyr - Affirmations for Cynics
Although I understand that I must walk through the pain, not around it, I affirm
my right to do so in a medicated state.
from: Today I Will Nourish My Inner Martyr - Affirmations for Cynics
I accept that I am an abusive parent to my inner child.
from: Today I Will Nourish My Inner Martyr - Affirmations for Cynics
Today I will practice new ways of expressing my impatience.
from: Today I Will Nourish My Inner Martyr - Affirmations for Cynics
I am not responsible and should never be treated as such.
from: Today I Will Nourish My Inner Martyr - Affirmations for Cynics
Today I will yawn and fidget when people try to engage me in conversation.
from: Today I Will Nourish My Inner Martyr - Affirmations for Cynics
Today I will misuse big words to test other people's intelligence.
from: Today I Will Nourish My Inner Martyr - Affirmations for Cynics
The next time I see an especially suspenseful movie, I must remind myself to use
the knowledge I gain to spoil it for someone who hasn't seen it.
from: Today I Will Nourish My Inner Martyr - Affirmations for Cynics
Today I will accept that I feel claustrophobic because I actually am
trapped.
from: Today I Will Nourish My Inner Martyr - Affirmations for Cynics
Today I will remind myself that it takes a lot of energy to be as dysfunctional
as I am; therefore, I deserve rest and physical pampering.
from: Today I Will Nourish My Inner Martyr - Affirmations for Cynics
February 2004
Today I will read about a strange disease; I will then spend my day tracing my
symptoms.
from: Today I Will Nourish My Inner Martyr - Affirmations for Cynics
Today I will loan a bothersome friend a novel with pivotally important pages
removed.
from: Today I Will Nourish My Inner Martyr - Affirmations for Cynics
I have a right to overheat my home so that all visitors stick to my plastic
upholstery covers.
from: Today I Will Nourish My Inner Martyr - Affirmations for Cynics
Today I will hoard something I was denied as a child.
from: Today I Will Nourish My Inner Martyr - Affirmations for Cynics
Today I celebrate the fact that my underdeveloped sense of identity allows me to
fit into a wide range of situations.
from: Today I Will Nourish My Inner Martyr - Affirmations for Cynics
Whether you succeed or fail
You are what you dare.
Greg Bear
In Heaven an angel is nobody in particular.
I must warn you, if you insist on seeing everything by means of the opinions of
others, what you will discover in yourself will be only the opinions of
others.
John Malkovich
'Heart of Darkness'
January 2004
Some men are prisoners of rational thought.
Dance me to the end of love.
Leonard Cohen
A pedestal is as much a prison as any other small space.
Can you blame someone for something he doesn't let himself know he's doing and
even when you point it out - sees nothing wrong with it?
Little boys are afraid of bogeymen.
Big people fear teenagers.
All the darkness in the world cannot put out the light of one candle.
I pretty much try to stay in a constant state of confusion just because of
the expression it leaves on my face.
Johnny Depp
How we view ourselves - victim, hero, loved and unloved - changes over
time.
'Dead Like Me'
No matter where I go, there will be memories that tug at my sleeve.
Barbara Streisand
'Yentl'
December 2003
There is no trap so deadly as the trap you set for yourself.
Under the paving stones - the beach.
History teaches us that men and nations behave wisely once they
have exhausted all other alternatives.
Abba Eban
Instant gratification takes too long.
I cannot convince a man of my truth simply by silencing him
when he tries to speak his own.
You should always leave a party just when you are most
enjoying yourself.
Happiness is something so big but so little
understood that we often mistake it for insanity.
Though boys throw stones at frogs in sport;
the frogs do not die in sport but in earnest.
Bion
It is my right to be uncommon - if I can.
Dean Alfange
There's nothing more satisfying than a rigid
hierarchy
- provided you're at the top of it.
Anonymous
Just because the message may never be received does
not mean it is not worth sending.
Segaki
The world is a better place because of those who
refuse to believe they cannot fly.
Anonymous
Behavior is the mirror in which everyone shows their
image.
Anonymous
The worth of mankind will be measured by only those
things that he was able to leave alone.
William Oscar Swensk
Hope is the most supreme form of defiance.
Katherine Vaz
It isn't what you know that counts - it's what you
think of in time.
Anonymous
We all know the same truth - our lives consist of how
we distort it.
Anonymous
Even the most ordinary things become magical in the
right situations.
Anonymous
November 2003
There is no sensitive way to deal with insensitive
people.
Anonymous
You did what you knew how to do and now that you know
better -
You do better.
Maya Angelou
Answers have no meaning unless they are found by
whoever asks the questions.
Anonymous
Life is too full of random cruelty to take anything
personally.
Anonymous
In the war against reality
Imagination is the only weapon.
Callaway golf ad, mid 90's
How can you ever know how much is true for everyone
and how much is only true for you?
Lewis Shiner
'Glimpses'
The world is no longer a romantic place.
Some of it's people, however, still are.
Therein lies the promise.
Anonymous
Some things are hard to explain but that doesn't make
them any less true.
Anonymous
If the only tool you have is a hammer, you tend to
treat everything as if it were a nail.
Maslov.
Are you ever going to grow up?
What? And become the bewildered recipient of all
those
weird envelopes with cellophane windows?
God, I hope not.
Kathy Lette
'Altar Ego'
It is the weak who are cruel.
Gentleness can only be expected from the
strong.
Leo Rosten
An eerie yet charming scene, of a school playground
at night, bathed in the light of a full moon, no kids
around, but with a huge and monstrous-looking
werewolf having a grand and giddy time on a set of
swings.
October 2003
Some people's whole lives were one numbed shuffle
from birth to death.
-Charles deLint
Deborah has watched the fight from the floor, hoping
that an attendent would trip over her foot, so that
she might play a little parody of St. Augustine and
say later,
"Well, the foot was there, but I didn't make him use
it. Free will, after all - free will."
"I Never Promised You a Rose Garden"
There is no question that there is an unseen
world.
The problem is - how far is it from midtown and how
late is it open?
-attributed to Woody Allen
I've got an infinite number of places to go...
The problem is where to stay, isn't it?
Anonymous
Hope is the most supreme form of defiance.
Katherine Vaz
There's no such thing as a mistake.
There's what you do, and, what you don't do.
Anonymous
If Barbie is so popular, why do you have to buy her
friends? I got all my friends for free! Some I didn't
want. Please answer this riddling nightmare that
haunts me so.
Jerry, via the internet.
The only currency in this bankrupt world is the
things you share when you're being uncool.
Anonymous
I will stay here, until I am sure what I am
leaving.
Leonard Cohen
Under the paving stones - the beach.
Anonymous
Every time I believe you're the shallowest person
I've ever met -
You suprise me and drain a little more out of the
pool.
Anonymous
You are trespassing.
You are making a gradual or stealthy entrance into
the sphere of another.
Leigh 'Secretary'
September 2003
