Favourite Quotes and Quotations

[Tery]

I am made from the dust of the stars and the oceans flow in my veins ~ NEP, "Presto"

Each friend represents a world in us, a world possibly not born until they arrive, and it is only by this meeting that a new world is born. ~ Anais Nin

We do not remember days, we remember moments. ~ Cesare Pavese

I stretched out ropes from spire to spire; garlands from window to window; golden chains from star to star, and I danced. ~ Arthur Rimbaud

Love is all we have, the only way that each can help the other. ~ Euripides

If something comes to life in others because of you, then you have made an approach to immortality. ~ Norman Cousins

The greatest happiness in life is knowing that we are loved. ~ me

The charity that is a trifle to us can be precious to others. ~ Homer

[blunthead]

Toleration is the greatest gift of the mind; it requires the same effort of the brain that it takes to balance oneself on a bicycle.
- Helen Keller

I've got the brain of a four year old. I'll bet he was glad to be rid of it.
- Groucho Marx

The brain is a wonderful organ; it starts working the moment you get up in the morning and does not stop until you get into the office.
- Robert Frost

I was taught that the human brain was the crowning glory of evolution so far, but I think it's a very poor scheme for survival.
- Kurt Vonnegut

[J.T. Adams]

"Sometimes, oh God, the green mile can seem so long." Paul Edgecomb.

[Becks19]

I think that people want peace so much that one of these days governments had better get out of their way and let them have it.
- Dwight D. Eisenhower

[Haunted]

To compel a man to subsidize with his taxes the propagation of ideas
which he disbelieves and abhors is sinful and tyrannical.
~Thomas Jefferson

[Haunted]

Knowing others is intelligence; knowing yourself is true wisdom.
Mastering others is strength, mastering yourself is true power.
~ Lao-Tzu

[blunthead]

Marilyn Monroe

A career is wonderful, but you can't curl up with it on a cold night.

A sex symbol becomes a thing. I just hate to be a thing.

An actress is not a machine, but they treat you like a machine. A money machine.

Before marriage, a girl has to make love to a man to hold him. After marriage, she has to hold him to make love to him.

[Srbo]

"Sometimes I doze and see that underpass in the rain, with John Coffey standing beneath it in the shadows.
It's never just a trick of the eye, in these little dreams; it's always him for sure, my big boy, just standing there and watching.
I lie here and wait.
I think about Janice, how I lost her, how she ran away red through my fingers in the rain, and I wait.

We each owe a death, there are no exceptions, I know that, but sometimes, oh God, the Green Mile is so long."

[Felipe]

For thirty days. It was hell, or hell's next-door neighbor. - Jack Sawyer, The Talisman.

[Becks19]

Intelligence is derived from two words - inter and legere - inter meaning 'between' and legere meaning 'to choose'. An intelligent person, therefore, is one who has learned 'to choose between'. He knows that good is better than evil, that confidence should supersede fear, that love is superior to hate, that gentleness is better than cruelty, forbearance than intolerance, compassion than arrogance, and that truth has more virtue than ignorance.
- J. Martin Klotsche