What are your favourite quotes?
Share, and be inspired. Or, at the very least, mildly amused.
Here are a few of my favourites:
"Better pass boldly into that other world, in the full glory of some passion, than fade and wither dismally with age. "
-James Joyce
"My own experience has been that the tools I need for my trade are paper, tobacco, food, and a little whisky. "
-William Faulkner
"Be kind, for everyone you meet is fighting a harder battle."
-Plato
"That's just, like, your opinion, man."
-Jeffrey "The Dude" Lebowski
"Every man's life ends the same way. It is only the details of how he lived and how he died that distinguish one man from another. "
-Ernest Hemingway
"I think I would like them... that is, if they didn't suck."
-My friend T.C.'s musings on Nickelback
"My loathings are simple: stupidity, oppression, crime, cruelty, soft music. "
-Vladmir Nabokov
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"I think I would like them... that is, if they didn't suck."
-My friend T.C.'s musings on Nickelback
Haha, good observation!
Here are some of my favs. They are rather longish, sorry.
The novelist teaches the reader to comprehend the world as a question. There is wisdom and tolerance in that attitude. In a world built on sacrosanct certainties the novel is dead. The totalitarian world, whether founded on Marx, Islam, or anything else, is a world of answers rather than questions. There the novel has no place. In any case, it seems to me that al over he world people nowadays prefer to judge rather than to understand, to answer rather than to ask, so that the voice of the novel can hardly be heard over the noisy foolishness of human certainties.
Milan Kundera
The most beautiful description of the power of music ever. To be found in Philip Roth's I Married A Communist.
"And yet what a lovely day it is today, a gift of a day, a perfect day lacking nothing in a Massachusetts vacation spot that is itself as harmless and pretty as any on earth (...) Enter Bronfman to play Prokofiev at such a pace and with such bravado as to knock my morbidity clear out of the ring (...)He doesn't let the piano conceal a thing. Whatever's in there is going to come out with its hands in the air. And when it does, everything there out in the open, the last of the last pulsation, he himself gets up and goes, leaving behind him our redemption. With a jaunty wave, he is suddenly gone, and though he takes all his fire with him like no less a force than Prometheus, our own lives now seem inextinguishable."
Finally, my spiritual and philosophical mentor:
"You grow up, you work half a century, you get a golden handshake, you rest a couple of years and you're dead. And the only thing that makes that crazy ride worthwhile is 'Did I enjoy it? What did I learn? What was the point?' That's where I come in. You've seen how I react to people, make them feel good, make them think that anything's possible. If I make them laugh along the way, sue me. And I don't do it so they turn round and go 'Thank you David for the opportunity, thank you for the wisdom, thank you for the laughs.' I do it so, one day, someone will go 'There goes David Brent. I must remember to thank him.'"
David Brent :)
David Brent - an inspiration to us all ;)
Here's a favourite of mine:
Nobody can make you feel inferior without your permission. - Eleanor Roosevelt
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buzz's girlfriend... WOOF.
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as long as i can remember, i've lived forever.
'The best thing to come out of Kentucky since the Colonel's secret recipe.'
'One good thing about music - when it hits you, you feel no pain.'
Bob Marley
Kick Out The Jams Motherfuckers
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buzz's girlfriend... WOOF.
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Look what you did, you little jerk.
There is nothing to fear but fear itself~JFK
A pretty well known one, but I've always loved it.
I believe former Canadian Prime Minister made the following statement to U.S. congress back in the early 70's (although it could have been at a Nixon/Trudeau press conference in Washington):
"Living next to you is in some ways like sleeping with an elephant. No matter how friendly and even-tempered is the beast, if I can call it that, one is affected by every twitch and grunt."
QuoteI believe former Canadian Prime Minister made the following statement to U.S. congress back in the early 70's (although it could have been at a Nixon/Trudeau press conference in Washington):
"Living next to you is in some ways like sleeping with an elephant. No matter how friendly and even-tempered is the beast, if I can call it that, one is affected by every twitch and grunt."
that's simliar to one said from the french revolution, Austria's Prince Clemens von Metternich's
"when France sneezes, all of Europe catches a cold" line...
however, far from my favorite quote..,.
ehhhh
"Don't take it out on God, he may be as miserable as we are!"
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that's simliar to one said from the french revolution, Austria's Prince Clemens von Metternich's
"when France sneezes, all of Europe catches a cold" line...
however, far from my favorite quote..,.
ehhhh
I love the Trudeau quote because at the time, the U.S. mistrusted and/or hated him.
"You have noticed that everything as Indian does is in a circle, and that is because the Power of the World always works in circles, and everything tries to be round..... The Sky is round, and I have heard that the earth is round like a ball, and so are all the stars. The wind, in its greatest power, whirls. Birds make their nest in circles, for theirs is the same religion as ours....
Even the seasons form a great circle in their changing, and always come back again to where they were. The life of a man is a circle from childhood to childhood, and so it is in everything where power moves."
-Black Elk
"I thoroughly disapprove of duels. If a man should challenge me, I would take him kindly and forgivingly by the hand and lead him to a quiet place and kill him."
-Mark Twain
"In case of Keith Moon, break glass"
"I wish a robot was elected president. That way, when he came to town we could all take a shot at him and not feel so bad." --Jack Handey
"Being drunk is a good disguise. I drink so I can talk to assholes. This includes me."--Jim Morrison
"What human flaw is the most common...Fear or Laziness?"
"Working is the curse of the drinking class"
I think it was Oscar Wilde. I might be wrong, though.
Quote"You have noticed that everything as Indian does is in a circle, and that is because the Power of the World always works in circles, and everything tries to be round..... The Sky is round, and I have heard that the earth is round like a ball, and so are all the stars. The wind, in its greatest power, whirls. Birds make their nest in circles, for theirs is the same religion as ours....
Even the seasons form a great circle in their changing, and always come back again to where they were. The life of a man is a circle from childhood to childhood, and so it is in everything where power moves."
-Black Elk
I like that.
I've always been a fan of this one.....
When you were born, you cried
and the world rejoiced.
Live your life
so that when you die,
the world cries and you rejoice.
White Elk
"I lost my virginity but I still have the box it came in."
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.
'It is enough when a single note is beautifully played.'
Arvo Pärt
"In the land of the blind the one eyed man is king"
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Just came across an old list of some of my favorites, thought I'd share:
"Always forgive your enemies; nothing annoys them so much"
Oscar Wilde
"Our main business is not to see what lies dimly at a distance, but to do what lies clearly at hand" Thomas Carlyle
"After silence, that which comes nearest to expressing the inexpressible is music" Aldous Huxley
"I don't know anything about music. In my line you don't have to"
Elvis Presley
"An intellectual snob is someone who can listen to the William Tell Overature and not think of The Lone Ranger"
Dan Rather
"He had heard people speak contemtuously of money: he wondered if they had ever tried to do without it"
W. Somerset Maugham
"Go confidently in the direction of your dreams! Live the life you've imagined. As you simplify your life, the laws of the universe will be simpler" Henry David Thoreau
"Everything has its beauty but not everyone sees it"
Confucius
"There's no point in being grown up if you can't be childish sometimes"
Doctor Who
"You can make more friends in two months by becoming interested in other people than you can in two years by trying to get other people interested in you" Dale Carnegie
Quote'It is enough when a single note is beautifully played.'
Arvo Pärt
Arvo Pärt! Nice one!
Just finished Jitterbug Perfume by Tom Robbins and this stayed with me the entire novel:
"I may be mad, but I prefer the shit of this world to whatever sweet ambrosias the next might offer."
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"I am not going to sit on my ass as the events that affect me unfold to determine the course of my life. I'm going to take a stand. I'm going to defend it. Right or wrong, I'm going to defend it."-Cameron
"Life goes by pretty fast. If you don't stop and look around once in a while, you could miss it."-Ferris
I've been watching too much Ferris Bueller lately. Can ya tell?
This is one of, if not the, greatest speeches in American History:
Robert F. Kennedy, April 5, 1968
This is a time of shame and sorrow. It is not a day for politics. I have saved this one opportunity, my only event of today, to speak briefly to you about the mindless menace of violence in America which again stains our land and every one of our lives.
It is not the concern of any one race. The victims of the violence are black and white, rich and poor, young and old, famous and unknown. They are, most important of all, human beings whom other human beings loved and needed. No one - no matter where he lives or what he does - can be certain who will suffer from some senseless act of bloodshed. And yet it goes on and on and on in this country of ours.
Why? What has violence ever accomplished? What has it ever created? No martyr's cause has ever been stilled by an assassin's bullet.
No wrongs have ever been righted by riots and civil disorders. A sniper is only a coward, not a hero; and an uncontrolled, uncontrollable mob is only the voice of madness, not the voice of reason.
Whenever any American's life is taken by another American unnecessarily - whether it is done in the name of the law or in the defiance of the law, by one man or a gang, in cold blood or in passion, in an attack of violence or in response to violence - whenever we tear at the fabric of the life which another man has painfully and clumsily woven for himself and his children, the whole nation is degraded.
"Among free men," said Abraham Lincoln, "there can be no successful appeal from the ballot to the bullet; and those who take such appeal are sure to lose their cause and pay the costs."
Yet we seemingly tolerate a rising level of violence that ignores our common humanity and our claims to civilization alike. We calmly accept newspaper reports of civilian slaughter in far-off lands. We glorify killing on movie and television screens and call it entertainment. We make it easy for men of all shades of sanity to acquire whatever weapons and ammunition they desire.
Too often we honor swagger and bluster and wielders of force; too often we excuse those who are willing to build their own lives on the shattered dreams of others. Some Americans who preach non-violence abroad fail to practice it here at home. Some who accuse others of inciting riots have by their own conduct invited them.
Some look for scapegoats, others look for conspiracies, but this much is clear: violence breeds violence, repression brings retaliation, and only a cleansing of our whole society can remove this sickness from our soul.
For there is another kind of violence, slower but just as deadly destructive as the shot or the bomb in the night. This is the violence of institutions; indifference and inaction and slow decay. This is the violence that afflicts the poor, that poisons relations between men because their skin has different colors. This is the slow destruction of a child by hunger, and schools without books and homes without heat in the winter.
This is the breaking of a man's spirit by denying him the chance to stand as a father and as a man among other men. And this too afflicts us all.
I have not come here to propose a set of specific remedies nor is there a single set. For a broad and adequate outline we know what must be done. When you teach a man to hate and fear his brother, when you teach that he is a lesser man because of his color or his beliefs or the policies he pursues, when you teach that those who differ from you threaten your freedom or your job or your family, then you also learn to confront others not as fellow citizens but as enemies, to be met not with cooperation but with conquest; to be subjugated and mastered.
We learn, at the last, to look at our brothers as aliens, men with whom we share a city, but not a community; men bound to us in common dwelling, but not in common effort. We learn to share only a common fear, only a common desire to retreat from each other, only a common impulse to meet disagreement with force. For all this, there are no final answers.
Yet we know what we must do. It is to achieve true justice among our fellow citizens. The question is not what programs we should seek to enact. The question is whether we can find in our own midst and in our own hearts that leadership of humane purpose that will recognize the terrible truths of our existence.
We must admit the vanity of our false distinctions among men and learn to find our own advancement in the search for the advancement of others. We must admit in ourselves that our own children's future cannot be built on the misfortunes of others. We must recognize that this short life can neither be ennobled or enriched by hatred or revenge.
Our lives on this planet are too short and the work to be done too great to let this spirit flourish any longer in our land. Of course we cannot vanquish it with a program, nor with a resolution.
But we can perhaps remember, if only for a time, that those who live with us are our brothers, that they share with us the same short moment of life; that they seek, as do we, nothing but the chance to live out their lives in purpose and in happiness, winning what satisfaction and fulfillment they can.
Surely, this bond of common faith, this bond of common goal, can begin to teach us something. Surely, we can learn, at least, to look at those around us as fellow men, and surely we can begin to work a little harder to bind up the wounds among us and to become in our own hearts brothers and countrymen once again.
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Or this...
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"No man really knows about other human beings. The best he can do is to suppose that they are like himself"- Steinbeck
"Live a good life. If there are gods and they are just, then they will not care how devout you have been, but will welcome you based on the virtues you have lived by. If there are gods, but unjust, then you should not want to worship them. If there are no gods, then you will be gone, but will have lived a noble life that will live on in the memories of your loved ones."
~ Marcus Aurelius
"Everyone knows that on the docks or the platforms, or anywhere, you are never to let anyone insult your mother. kids know it from the time they re able to talk. you might not even like your mother, but that doesnt matter. they can say anything they like about you, but insulting your mother is pushing it and if you let it go you lose all respect. if you need someone to help with a load on the platform or the pier theyll turn their back. you dont exist. they wont even share a liverwurst sandwich with you at lunchtime. if you wander round the docks and the warehouses and you see men eating alone, youll know theyre in deep shit, men who tolerated insults to their mother or once scabbed across a picket line. a scab can be forgiven in a year but never a man who allowed an insult to his mother"- Teacher Man by Frank McCourt
"At the time when the operation of the machine becomes so odious that you're so sick at heart that you can't take part, you can't even passively take part, that you've got to put your bodies upon the gears and upon the wheels, upon the levers, upon the whole apparatus, and you've got to stop it and you've got to indicate to the people who run it and the people who own it that unless you're free, the machine will be prevented from working at all"- Mario Savio
"Great spirits have always encountered violent opposition from mediocre minds." -Albert Einstein
"Forgiveness is the fragrance of the violet that clings fast to the heel that crushed it." -?????
Two of my all time faves!!!
All my favorites quotes have come from "strangers with candy"
You're just a rack of bones covered in a thin layer of fag.
I do like black people. It just took a white one to prove it to me.
I hate to burst your bubble there, Tam, but that's not Blackman. That's just the chink with some spic food I ordered, hoping we'd have something to celebrate.
You don't wanna beat me or screw me!? What kind of marriage is this? Bring a book.
May all your showers be golden.
Dear Diary, I'm sorry for all those hateful racist things I said about you. Everything's changed; I'm in love... something you would never understand you dirty, dirty, dirty Jew diary. Just kidding, just kidding. Jerri Blank.
Florida. Beautiful weather - harsh penal system.
and the best...
It's not a cold sore! I bumped my lip on a biscuit! (Jellineck)
Two things are infinite: the universe and human stupidity - and I'm not sure about the universe.
-Albert Einstein
i'm reading (and immensely enjoying) 'shakey: neil young's biography' and this part had me in stitches:
[Elliot] Roberts finally made a deal for Mitchell with Mo Ostin at Warner Bros. At the same time, Mitchell, out on the road in Florida, encountered David Crosby, who had left the Byrds. Their brief fling would lead to the next catalyst in Elliott's life. As Roberts recalls, "Joan calls me and said, 'Listen, I'm fucking a Byrd.' I go, 'Excuse me?; "
Quotei'm reading (and immensely enjoying) 'shakey: neil young's biography' and this part had me in stitches:
[Elliot] Roberts finally made a deal for Mitchell with Mo Ostin at Warner Bros. At the same time, Mitchell, out on the road in Florida, encountered David Crosby, who had left the Byrds. Their brief fling would lead to the next catalyst in Elliott's life. As Roberts recalls, "Joan calls me and said, 'Listen, I'm fucking a Byrd.' I go, 'Excuse me?; "
I loved Shakey. The fact that it was so long made it better.
Dum spiro spero
or the translated version
while I breath, I hope
Rock n Roll Mcdonalds!!! - Wesley Willis.
QuoteAll my favorites quotes have come from "strangers with candy"
You're just a rack of bones covered in a thin layer of carrot.
I do like black people. It just took a white one to prove it to me.
I hate to burst your bubble there, Tam, but that's not Blackman. That's just the chink with some spic food I ordered, hoping we'd have something to celebrate.
You don't wanna beat me or screw me!? What kind of marriage is this? Bring a book.
May all your showers be golden.
Dear Diary, I'm sorry for all those hateful racist things I said about you. Everything's changed; I'm in love... something you would never understand you dirty, dirty, dirty Jew diary. Just kidding, just kidding. Jerri Blank.
Florida. Beautiful weather - harsh penal system.
and the best...
It's not a cold sore! I bumped my lip on a biscuit! (Jellineck)
bump for KY
Thanks so much Pennylane!!! ;D ;D ;D Hee hee...Jellineck
I'll add one of my faves:
"You know I cried when I had no shoes, until I met a man who had no feet. and then I laughed --- really hard"
Timothy Leary has a beauty
"Think For Yourself, Question Authority."
Maynard James Keenan, the lead singer of Tool, doesn't say much, but when he does, it is very interesting:
"Once you take yourself too seriously the art will suffer."
"People have to follow their hearts, and if their hearts lead them to Wal-Mart, so be it."
This quote isn't accurate, but it is how i remember it:
"The whole emo genre is music made by untalented drunk, insecure, frat-boys for untalented, drunk, insecure, idotic, frat-boys."
It is worth checking out some Tool interviews on youtube. they are very interesting people, and never have a dull moment.
QuoteThanks so much Pennylane!!! ;D ;D ;D Hee hee...Jellineck
I'll add one of my faves:
"You know I cried when I had no shoes, until I met a man who had no feet. and then I laughed --- really hard"
sorry not trying to turn this into a Strangers w/Candy thread---but that is one of my favorite quotes--i think my favorite scene is when noblet and jellineck meet for a picnic lunch in the park and jerri runs over jellineck and he has to have his face sewn back on (LOL). also, we need to post some BlackMUN quotes. OMG....
"Think about how dumb the average person is, and then realize that half the people are even dumber than that!"
"When I do good, I feel good. When I do bad, I feel bad. That's my religion." -Abe Lincoln
Sorry. I realize this is not a picture thread, but come on...
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QuoteSorry. I realize this is not a picture thread, but come on...
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LOL. blackMUN.
Barbara Bush of all people:
"At the end of your life, you will never regret not having passed one more test, not winning one more verdict or not closing one more deal. You will regret time not spent with a husband, a child, a friend or a parent."
There are many great quotes I'd like to post here, but for now I'll narrow it down to a few.
I have striven not to laugh at human actions, not to weep at them, nor to hate them, but to understand them. (Spinoza)
Ever tried. Ever failed. No matter. Try Again. Fail again. Fail better. (Beckett)
Does nobody understand? (Joyce)
And my favourite one: My God, a whole moment of happiness! Is that too little for the whole of a man's life?
Great book, greatest writer ever to exist, love it.
"I'm certain that I could live a life devoid of everything except a woman's love, something tells me you could too."
Our own wonderful Kaley.
If I can stop one heart from breaking, I shall not live in vain - Emily Dickinson
THOUGHTS HELD IN MIND PRODUCE AFTER THEIR KIND
"When fascism comes to America it will be wrapped in a flag and carrying a cross."
Sinclair Lewis
"Sooner or later, you're going to have to talk to them."
(Words from one of my professors regarding the opposite sex.)
A problem shared......is a problem two people have got.
Alas Smith & Jones tv programme
"Judge, you didn't give him no chance!"
"He'd didn't deserve a chance. If he wanted a chance; he should have gone somewhere else."
Paul Newman in The Life & Times Of Judge Roy Bean.
If I'm here and your here, then doesn't that make it our time
Jeff Spiccoli
QuoteIf I'm here and your here, then doesn't that make it our time
Jeff Spiccoli
Nothing wrong with a little feast on our time
"After every storm, if you look hard enough, a rainbow appears."
-M.C.
"When the power of love overcomes the love of power, the world will know peace." - Hendrix
"What's money? A man is a success if he gets up in the morning and goes to bed at night and in between does what he wants to do."
"All I can do is be me, whoever that is."
"People seldom do what they believe in. They do what is convenient, then repent."
"All the truth in the world adds up to one big lie."
"All this talk about equality. The only thing people really have in common is that they are all going to die."
- Zimmy
"I DO know that I once had a personal stylist and you shoplift your wardrobe from fuckin' Fashion Bug."
-Kenny Powers
Minister: Everything is more complicated than you think. You only see a tenth of what is true. There are a million little strings attached to every choice you make; you can destroy your life every time you choose. But maybe you won't know for twenty years. And you'll never ever trace it to its source. And you only get one chance to play it out. Just try and figure out your own divorce. And they say there is no fate, but there is: it's what you create. Even though the world goes on for eons and eons, you are here for a fraction of a fraction of a second. Most of your time is spent being dead or not yet born. But while alive, you wait in vain, wasting years, for a phone call or a letter or a look from someone or something to make it all right. And it never comes or it seems to but doesn't really. And so you spend your time in vague regret or vaguer hope for something good to come along. Something to make you feel connected, to make you feel whole, to make you feel loved. And the truth is I'm so angry and the truth is I'm so fucking sad, and the truth is I've been so fucking hurt for so fucking long and for just as long have been pretending I'm OK, just to get along, just for, I don't know why, maybe because no one wants to hear about my misery, because they have their own, and their own is too overwhelming to allow them to listen to or care about mine. Well, fuck everybody. Amen.
- Synecdoche, New York
"I love being alive and I will be the best man I possibly can. I will take love wherever I find it, and offer it to everyone who will take it...seek knowledge from those wiser...and teach those who wish to learn from me." - Duane Allman
"Where you have been is not a sin, it´s where you´re going" - Gram Parsons
BEHAVIOR GUIDE (in order to avoid mere survival)
Intended for younger generations by JEAN TOUITOU
1. Although appearance shows quite the reverse the natural trend of the system is to turn you into a slave. Your mission is to remain erect and never crawl.
2. when learning, you must know how to make the clear distinction between what is ideology and what is genuine knowledge.
3. Be fully aware of the difference between making a compromise and compromising yourself.
4. Whatever happens, heart break hotel is sure to be your dwelling place, for one or several stays. This is no reason to overindulge in the pangs of love for too long.
5. Learn how to make simple and excellent meals.
6. Fear no gods, whatever appearance they may have.
7. For girls: all boys are more or less the same. For boys: all girls are different.
8. Keep well away from competitive sport that will only cause wounds that will make you suffer when you are over forty.
9. There is no such thing as good and evil. There is what is right and what is bad, what is consistent and what is wrong.
"You have to decide if you are commited or not. In life, commitment is where it all lies. Are you going to be commited or are you just going to make a contibution? A chicken and a cow make a contribution to breakfast...but a pig makes a commitment to breakfast."
~My Uncle Joe
God sure baked a lot of fruitcake, baby - Joe Strummer
Wow. Prophetic.
"The American Republic will endure until the day Congress discovers that it can bribe the public with their own money." - Alexis de Tocqueville (1805 -1859)
If you're going to make an apple pie from scratch you must first create the universe.
Carl Sagan
"When life gives you lemons, say FUCK the lemons and give me a scotch"
-RT3
"True love is like ghosts, which everybody talks about but few have seen."
Francois De La Rochefoucauld (1613-1680)
"I took a dump so massive, I now have post-partum depression."
my friend Shane. He's a wise man. I think this will be staying with me for a long time.
Quote"I took a dump so massive, I now have post-partum depression."
my friend Shane. He's a wise man. I think this will be staying with me for a long time.
;D ;D
Quote"True love is like ghosts, which everybody talks about but few have seen."
Francois De La Rochefoucauld (1613-1680)
reminds me of the whole klosterman bit on Lloyd Dobler (from
Say Anything) and how he ruined it for all other guys
I have no idea where this one came from- where I heard it or read it, no clue.
"Everything I am comes from somewhere else."
Marzipan, look: this is Goatface. I have a goat for a face. Like, not that I have a goat's head for a face or that my face is a goat's head. Like, my face is an entire goat. So, anyways, I was callin' you ups 'cause I wanted to join your goatface club! Since you've got quite a goatface yourself, I figured you be the go-to guy or gal. It's hard to tell with that goatface of yours.
-- Strong Bad
When fascism comes to this country, it won't be wearing jackboots; It'll be wearing sneakers with lights in them, and it'll have a smiley face and a Michael Jordan T-Shirt
QuoteWhen fascism comes to this country, it won't be wearing jackboots; It'll be wearing sneakers with lights in them, and it'll have a smiley face and a Michael Jordan T-Shirt
... thats exactly how I dress :o
They still don't know where the stolen Scream painting by Munch is. It'll come back sooner or later. What are you going to do with a stolen painting? Hide it in your attic? You can't show it to anyone really, if you're caught with it, I don't know. Strange.
-Jack White
he does make a point ;D
"When you have no one, no one can hurt you."
Bonnie Prince Billy
Two favourites:
I have taken more out of alcohol than alcohol has taken out of me.
and
I may be drunk, Madam, but in the morning I will be sober and you will still be ugly.
Winston Churchill
We are all here on earth to help others; what on earth the others are here for I don't know.
-W.H. Auden
One in all. All in One-if only this is realized, no more worry about you not being perfect. Buddha
After one look at this planet,any visitor from outer space would say "I want to see the manager".
Human..is an adjective,and its use as a noun is in itself regrettable.
Both by William S. Burroughs. (:
Never fear shadows. They simply mean there's a light somewhere nearby. Ruth E. Renkee
Nearly all men can stand adversity, but if you want to test a man's character, give him power. Abraham Lincoln
I don't measure a man's success by how high he climbs but how high he bounces when he hits bottom. General George S. Patton
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I don't measure a man's success by how high he climbs but how high he bounces when he hits bottom. General George S. Patton
i love that one.
"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."— Jack Kerouac
I used to have that posted in my high school locker :-) i love it. (but as i get older, i'm pretty okay w/commonplace stuff) ha ha