Favourite Quotes and Quotations

[Kim L.]

At this time of year:

"`You are fettered,' said Scrooge, trembling. `Tell me why?'

`I wear the chain I forged in life,' replied the Ghost. `I made it link by link, and yard by yard; I girded it on of my own free will, and of my own free will I wore it. "

Charles Dickens

[FlakeNoir]

"... the stump of a pipe he held in his teeth & the smoke it encircled his head like a wreath."

"... He had a broad face and a little round belly
That shook, when he laughed, like a bowl full of jelly."

[BlackThorn]

I liked when Scrooge tried to argue with the ghost at first.

"You're just a spot of mustard, or a bit of undercooked potato!"


Once, my granda' told me about some movie from the 20's we were watching. It was some serial or something. But he said take a look at the credits. They're all made up. Upon further inspection, he was right. They were all made up on the spot, just to be interesting and entertaining. Course I'm bad... whatever is going on inside my mental drift when my eyes fall upon text, usually aligns in some peculiar way, kinda like my granda' spoke of.

[Sheila Carlyle]

"We're all mad here."
Cheshire Cat

It's my mantra to put things into perspective in a hurry:BMV, kids on a sugar high, and Thanksgiving dinner are all recent examples.

S.

[Todash]

"The unexamined life is not worth living." —Socrates

[Anni M]

"You must be very brave...or very foolish"
Lucius Malfoy to Harry Potter

[TBlack]

"... He had a broad face and a little round belly
That shook, when he laughed, like a bowl full of jelly."
"He was stumpy & plump, a right jolly old elf--
and I laughed when I saw him in spite of myself."

[FlakeNoir]

"He was stumpy & plump, a right jolly old elf--
and I laughed when I saw him in spite of myself."

"A wink of his eye, and a twist of his head :eek2:
Soon gave me to know he was headed for my bed!"
May God have mercy on my twisted little soul... :sleepy:

[Haunted]

Announced by all the trumpets of the sky./Arrives the snow.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

[Haunted]

Life is something to do when you can't get to sleep.

Fran Lebowitz

[Joann]

It is better to remain silent and thought a fool
Then to open one's mouth and remove all doubt.

I don't remember where I read that or who said it. But it does remind me to think before I speak.

[Solar-Pavlova]

One of my own devising, I hope you all like it.

'My picture holds none of my nature' - Ade Horton 10/01/08

[Haunted]

One of my own devising, I hope you all like it.

'My picture holds none of my nature' - Ade Horton 10/01/08

Wonderful...surely is one for the books

[JackTheRipper]

I hope for nothing. I fear nothing. I am free

Nikos Kazantzakis's epitaph

[Gwenivere]

"In the bleak mid-winter
Frosty wind made moan,
Earth stood hard as iron,
Water like a stone;
Snow had fallen, snow on snow,
Snow on snow,
In the bleak mid-winter,
Long ago."

-Christmas Carol

[ally88]

"Sometimes you have to be a high riding bitch to survive. Sometimes being a bitch is all a woman has to hold onto." - Vera Donovan in Dolores Claiborne

So very true sometimes.

[Spideyman]

We become what we think about all day long. Dr. Wayne Dyer

[Anni M]

"Well, I want them Cha-Cha heels...I asked and I better get!"

Divine as Dawn Davenport to her skank friends in Female Trouble.

[Agincourt Concierge]

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

[Gwenivere]

"Two possibilities exist: Either we are alone in the Universe or we are not. Both are equally terrifying."
- Arthur C. Clarke

[the great kilted one]

"The law is a great thing, Dolores," she says. "And when a bad man has a bad accident, that can sometimes be a great thing, too."

- Dolores Claiborne quoting Vera Donovan

[Gwenivere]

Time is a created thing. To say you don’t have time is to say ‘I don’t want to.’ – Lao Tzu

[Sawney Beane]

"First, Man smiled,and the world smiled with him,then Man laughed,and the world feared him." ,don´t remember where did I get that one from,I reckon it´s some sort of hindu saying

[whoopsipoppedaplatypus]

Mrs. Barlow, I never, and I repeat never, ever pissed in your steam iron. -

Matt Johnson - Big Wednesday

[Spideyman]

"Because wishes are how every good thing starts" - Stephen King in his latest EW interview.

[nunu_chis]

"I care about the future because that`s the place where I`going to spend the rest of my life"- I don`t remember who said it...

"Happyness means to have fun"- Woody Allen

[Sawney Beane]

"There´s two types of fools,those who lend books,and those who give them back".I don´t know whose that one,but my dad kept saying it.

[cnfaustin]

It was a pleasure to burn....Ray Bradbury

[Haunted]

Pick the target, freeze it, personalize it, and polarize it.
Saul Alinsky

[MadamMack]

I did not have sex with that woman! Blow jobs don't count!

[FlakeNoir]

"It's all good in my hood!"

MadamMack. :)

[Claire3007]

" Let me live, love and say it well in good sentences."

- Sylvia Plath


"The place where you made your stand never mattered. Only that you were there... and still on your feet."

- Stephen King :smile2:

[dragafari]

"It's all good in my hood!"

MadamMack. :)

I like that one too!

[Kim L.]

I did not have sex with that woman! Blow jobs don't count!

:laugh::laugh:

[Kim L.]

"It's all good in my hood!"

MadamMack. :)

I know! I've taken to saying it myself.

[JohnDalglish]

Blow jobs don't count!

Hi,

Sez who??? LOL

Long days and pleasant nights

[BlackThorn]

The other day, I was talking with a buddy of mine while we were doin' some drinking. Not _exactly_ sure how the conversation went into the direction of talking about how many sexual partners we've had...

But I mentioned, "ehhh, my mileage is five..."

And he responds, "Haha. I had you beat at the first bar!"

LOL!!!

(for the record, it's not cause I can't land cuties) ;)

[Gwenivere]

Some good ones for a Friday. :biggrin2:

When I read about the evils of drinking, I gave up reading.-- Henny Youngman

Why do I drink? So that I can write poetry. -- Jim Morrison

I'd rather have a bottle in front of me than a frontal lobotomy.-- Tom Waits

Everybody should believe in something -- I believe I'll have another drink. -- W. C. Fields

Always do sober what you said you'd do drunk. That will teach you to keep your mouth shut. -- Ernest Hemingway

[Sawney Beane]

"Who makes a beast of himself gets rid of the pain of being a man" .Don´t remember who said that.But it´s true

[Sawney Beane]

Duke-"Look over there...two women f***ing a polar bear"
Gonzo-"Don´t tell me these things...not now..."
Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas

[MadamMack]

"It's all good in my hood!"

MadamMack. :)

:love:

How bout' I'm as frisky as a fat flea on a furry dog!

It's all good in my hood, baby!

[Sugar Marie]

"Chicken head, poopy butt, weiner!"

Julia Rose

[Lupen]

" Victory is for those who can say "Victory is mine". Success is for those who can begin saying "I will succeed" and say "I have succeeded" in the end. " Mustafa Kemal Atatürk

" We want the world! We want it now! " Jim Morrison

[Kim L.]

"I'm not a dolly in yer dolly hoose."
William of The Wee Free Men (by Terry Pratchett)

[Ascared]

All by Thoreau:

"Be not simply good - be good for something"

"Go confidently in the direction of your dreams. Live the life you imagined"

and probably the best ever:

"It is never to late to give up your prejudices"

[JohnK]

"Clown walking down the street at night...Kind of creepy."

" Same clown getting beat up...Kind of funny." Dimitri Martin, Comedy central.

(I kind of thought of Pennywise when hearing this from this truly gifted young man--His new show premiers on comedy central February 16th?)

[Haunted]

"Sins repeated seem permitted."
-- Talmud

[Cowboy]

Would you, could you with a goat? Would you, could you on a boat?

-Dr. Suess
from Green Eggs and Ham

[dragafari]

Today I went to visit a friend to his office and he told me three interesting things, dunno if they already exist.

"In times of horror you show your valor"

"We love to carry needless stones over our heads"

"Need is the mother of creation"

[Todash]

"Give me six hours to chop down a tree and I will spend the first four sharpening the axe." —Abraham Lincoln

[the payne train]

"Try not to become a man of success but rather to become a man of value"
~Albert Einstein

[JRLauer]

If at first you don't succeed, you fail.

-GLaDOS

(Am I a dork or what?)

[hemingway2z]

Favorite Quotes?

JRR Tolken - inscription on the "one ring"

E. Hemingway - "Why did the chicken cross the road?"
" To stand in the rain and die."

[Cola]

God Bless the Cracked - For they let in the light!!!

[Haunted]

Favorite Quotes?

JRR Tolken - inscription on the "one ring"

E. Hemingway - "Why did the chicken cross the road?"
" To stand in the rain and die."

That's the wisest retort from Hemingway I've ever heard.:biggrin2:

[cindystubbs]

I am just another writer
still trapped within my truth


"Sometimes when We Touch" a song you've probably heard they play it so much. I thought it an awfully corny song but then I listened to some of the lyrics and they are pretty good.:sleepy:

[LadyPain]

I was watching 'Priscilla, Queen of the Desert' late last night and there was one that got me laughing sooooo hard...

'I'd like to hit him in the face so hard he'll have to stick a toothbrush up his *ss to brush his teeth.'

[JohnDalglish]

Hi,

'I am not the potter, not the potter's wheel, but the potter's clay; is not the value of the shape attained as dependent upon the intrinsic worth of the clay as upon the wheel and the Master's skill?'

(Sai King (speaking as Glen Bateman) - The Stand).

Long days and pleasant nights

[meadhbh]

"He who saves one life saves the world entire"

its from the talmud/old testment (the jews that oscar schindler saved in WWII had it engraved in a ring for him)

im not really religious but i think it has a non-religious meaning too (to me it represents charity

[Todash]

Not especially profound, but often true nonetheless:

"The project is like a hundred drunken clowns with bees in their underpants." —Dilbert

[stoprobbers]

I have this embossed on my laptop above the screen:

"No matter. Try Again. Fail Again. Fail Better."
by, Samuel Beckett

[Haunted]

A curse? You should have a lot of money, but you should be the only one
in your family who does."
-- Ernst Lubitsch



:biggrin2:

[Haunted]

"Everyone has a photographic memory… some just don't have film."




Oh, my goodness can I relate to this quote!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!.

[CorbinKale]

"Many politicians of our time are in the habit of laying it down as a self-evident proposition, that no people ought to be free till they are fit to use their freedom. The maxim is worthy of the fool in the old story, who resolved not to go into the water till he had learned to swim. If men are to wait for liberty till they become wise and good in slavery they may indeed wait for ever."

~ Thomas Babington Macaulay (1800–1859)

[nicos]

“Faith is taking the first step even when you don't see the whole staircase.”
Martin Luther King

[sunshine05]

"What doesn't kill you, makes you stronger." - Nietzsche

[titansfan]

There are a few that comes to mind... feel free to judge me, i have been for years for this...

"I can only fight for something that I love, Love only what I respect, and only respect that which I at least know." ~ Adolf Hitler ~

and another one that i have used as my signature on everything since high school is...

"If I were given the letters "HRT" I could add "EA" and get HEART" or "U" and get HURT. I'd rather have "U" and get HURT than have a HEART without YOU." ~ Unknown ~

[Haunted]

Always remember the first rule of power tactics; power is not only what you have but what the enemy thinks you have.

Saul Alinsky from Rules for Radicals

[Haunted]

"A people who have mortgaged themselves to the hilt are a dependent people, and ultimately they will look to the state to save them from bankruptcy."


Irving Kristol, in his essay "Utopianism, Ancient and Modern":
First published in 1973.

[BlackThorn]

You know what else Nitche said, sunshine05? This one haunts me, in a way.

He stated, "A casual stroll through a lunatic asylum shows that faith does not prove anything."

If my little grandmother, whom I consider to be the status of a goddess, compared to everyone else on the planet, asks me honestly if she's crazy, when she's relating to the dementia she's suffering through these days, then God is gonna owe me a big ****in' favor. Faith is for people who might believe, but otherwise wouldn't. Faith to me is like sweat. It's a byproduct. If I happen to have any, it's because I worked enough to notice something.

Faith is the angels comforting those in the asylum Niche, and the fact, that there'll always be more than enough there for them. Although that is more an act of love and of nature than of faith, or of God. Faith has always been a reason to let yourself trip over something that you can't even see, from my point of view, more than it's ever been something used for strength.

[Haunted]

You know what else Nitche said, sunshine05? This one haunts me, in a way.

He stated, "A casual stroll through a lunatic asylum shows that faith does not prove anything."

If my little grandmother, whom I consider to be the status of a goddess, compared to everyone else on the planet, asks me honestly if she's crazy, when she's relating to the dementia she's suffering through these days, then God is gonna owe me a big ****in' favor. Faith is for people who might believe, but otherwise wouldn't. Faith to me is like sweat. It's a byproduct. If I happen to have any, it's because I worked enough to notice something.

Faith is the angels comforting those in the asylum Niche, and the fact, that there'll always be more than enough there for them. Although that is more an act of love and of nature than of faith, or of God. Faith has always been a reason to let yourself trip over something that you can't even see, from my point of view, more than it's ever been something used for strength.

So sorry about your grandmother. What a miserable disease dementia is.

[deluxe]

"it can't rain all the time."

-The Crow

[Todash]

"I could very well be crazy. If I am, no one will be more relieved than me!" —CorbinKale (secretly speaking for most of us, I think)

[Sawney Beane]

"Better to reign in Hell than to serve in Heaven"-John Milton

[LadyPain]

I can't remember who to attribute this to. For all I know it could be in a Hallmark card somewhere...

'In life you are either the hammer or the nail. Would you rather get hammered or get nailed?'
:biggrin2:

[mudpuppy]

"Nuts!" - General Anthony McAuliffe officially responds to surrender ultimatum.

(I guess on its own this quote doesn't make much sense, but in the context of the Battle of the Bulge its pretty awesome to me.)

[Sawney Beane]

[QUOTE]["Nuts!" - General Anthony McAuliffe officially responds to surrender ultimatum.

(I guess on its own this quote doesn't make much sense, but in the context of the Battle of the Bulge its pretty awesome to me.)
/QUOTE]:biggrin2:

[LadyHitchhiker]

"Never deprive anyone of hope; it may be all they have." -- anonymous

[Haunted]

"Language is the work of man, of a being from whom permanence and stability cannot be derived. Like humans, words do not remain in a time warp, a linguistic limbo: Like their author, when they are not gaining strength, they are generally losing it."

Samuel Johnson

[MrsSmeej]

"If at first you don't succeed - Try, try again... If you still don't succeed - Give up. There's no sense in being a damn fool about it." :biggrin2:

My grandmother

[BlackThorn]

"Looks like we have another Obama lover over here!"

Okay, this is totally one of my favorite quotes. Last night, I was talking to a buddy of mine. We were talking politics. I started to discuss how crappy and evil and gluttonous the reign of George Bush really was...

But the punchline really is, I didn't mention Obama at all. I was talking about how Bush did really well at driving this country into the ground, and those couple of pre-programmed republicans in the room, just started loudly insisting I loved Obama.

Cute, huh?

[LadyPain]

"Looks like we have another Obama lover over here!"

Okay, this is totally one of my favorite quotes. Last night, I was talking to a buddy of mine. We were talking politics. I started to discuss how crappy and evil and gluttonous the reign of George Bush really was...

But the punchline really is, I didn't mention Obama at all. I was talking about how Bush did really well at driving this country into the ground, and those couple of pre-programmed republicans in the room, just started loudly insisting I loved Obama.

Cute, huh?

Annoying is more like it. People assume that if you can't stand one person, you must love the other. What if you hate one and you are just ambivalent about the other?

[LongWalker]

I didn't take the time to read the thousand or so posts (me lazy!) so I hope I didn't steal somebodys quote (so sorry if I did)

"Fill your hands you sonsab*tches!"
John Wayne-True Grit

[Haunted]

"A man with no sense deserves no pity."
-- Talmud

[blunthead]

"The only way around it is through it"--Winston Churchill

"Everything we do is because of sex"--Sigmund Freud

"If you eliminate the impossible, whatever remains, however improbable must be the truth"--Sherlock Holmes

[Autumnlyn]

"Each thing that I do, I rush through, so I can do something else" - Sai King Insomnia

"Never risk what you are not willing to lose" - Autumnlyn

[BlackThorn]

"You can't teach a hammer to lift nails." :oo: :wink2:

[nicos]

“Our dreams must be stronger than our memories. We must be pulled by our dreams, rater than pushed by our memories.”
Jesse Jackson

[blunthead]

"Play for more than you can afford to lose, and you learn the game"--Winston Churchill

[BlackThorn]

Dremel Yayyyyy! :love: :D
Dremel Noooooo! :eek: :(



I loved this when I read it. It was written like above, with the emoticons and everything. It's soo true too. A dremmel is an amazing modder tool, you can make things look sooo professional. But it's also soooo easy to screw the project up, big time. The wrong flick of the wrist and it's over.

[delgado19]

"Well...**** happens in mysterious ways, man." :oo:-Vernon Jones

[RandomMan]

"A child doesn't understand a hammer until he's smashed his finger at a nail. Get up and stop whining, maggot! You have forgotten the face of your father!"--Cort

[tillyn]

wish in one hand, **** in the other, see which one fills up first. DT, VIII.

[Kim L.]

"And what is so rare as a day in June?
Then if ever come perfect days
When Heaven tries Earth if it be in tune
And over it softly her warm ear lays."

James Russell Lowell

[cunninghamair]

Just found this in Riding the Bullet:
"There are so many more shadows at night, have you ever noticed that? Even with a light on there are so many shadows. The long ones could be the shadows of anything, you think.
Anything at all."

Ah, the power of suggestion. SK is the master.

[Sawney Beane]

"When a man loses the capability of laughing at himself it´s time for others to start laughing at him".Oscar Wilde,I think.

[nicos]

Most people are other people.

Their thoughts are someone else's opinions, their lives a mimicry,

their passions a quotation.


Oscar Wilde

[Samantha_]

The real art of conversation is not only to say the right thing in the right place, but, far more difficult still, to leave unsaid the wrong thing at the tempting moment.

Dorothy Nevill

[MrsSmeej]

"Life is far too important to be taken seriously." - Oscar Wilde -

[Danivan]

"Don't taze me bro!"

[Haunted]

“Hang on to your youthful enthusiasms--you’ll be able to use them better when you’re older.”


Roman author Seneca

[coolambindang]

"You don't tell me, I tell you, Happy Crappy" The Stand

[Mr. Jingles]

"Curiosity killed the cat....but satisfaction brought him back"

Curtis Wilcox
From A Buick 8

[DelvianBlue]

"It's a mistake to think you can solve any major problems using just potatoes." ~ Douglas Adams

[Cerralin]

The real art of conversation is not only to say the right thing in the right place, but, far more difficult still, to leave unsaid the wrong thing at the tempting moment.

Dorothy Nevill

I am just beginning to master this art, but by golly sometimes it can be so very very hard :D

[Samantha_]

I am just beginning to master this art, but by golly sometimes it can be so very very hard :D

lol :smile2: I know the feeling. After posting the quote I thought, well, I didn't say I'd mastered the art of conversation... but it's a nice idea to strive for that balance.

And, I think part of being human is at least we keep trying and growing...

[Spideyman]

"Don't die with your music still inside you".

[Bryan James]

"No."

I heard that from my Mom.

BJS

[Haunted]

"Don't carry a grudge. While you're carrying the grudge the other guy's
out dancing."
--- Buddy Hackett

[Anton177]

Oh I have so many favourite quotes I've forgotten most of them.

"The nice thing about being a pessimist is you're either constantly being proved right, or pleasantly surprised."

"I could not become anything: neither bad nor good, neither a scoundrel nor an honest man, neither a hero nor an insect. And now I am eking out my days in my corner, taunting myself with the bitter and entirely useless consolation that an intelligent man cannot seriously become anything; that only a fool can become something." - Fyodor Dostoevsky

"Life is a zoo in a jungle."

"If the phone doesn't ring, it's me."

[marew1]

I love quotations because it is a joy to find thoughts one might have, beautifully expressed with much authority by someone recognized wiser than oneself.
- Marlene Dietrich (http://www.quotationspage.com/quote/26772.html)

[Spideyman]

It's not the years in your life that count. It's the life in your years.
Abraham Lincoln

[aussiewonder]

" Please Grant me patience Lord, but hurry!"

[Cowboy]

[QUOTE]["Nuts!" - General Anthony McAuliffe officially responds to surrender ultimatum.

(I guess on its own this quote doesn't make much sense, but in the context of the Battle of the Bulge its pretty awesome to me.)
/QUOTE]:biggrin2:

One of my favorite quotes! Pretty ballsey of Gen. McAuliffe

[Cowboy]

Death is the solution to all problems. No man - no problem.
-Joseph Stalin

[Gillie]

"I could bear the memory, I could not bear the music that made the memory such a killing thing"

pat conroy - beach music

[pandora]

"I know when I get there,
The first thing I'll see,
Is the sun shining golden,
Shining right down on me.
Then trouble's gonna lose me-
Worry leave me behind,
And I'll stand up proudly,
In true peace of mind."

Carol King-Way Over Yonder

[marew1]

"You have nothing to fear but fear itself."

Franklin Delano Roosevelt

[marew1]

"Ask not what your country can do for you. Ask what you can do for your country."

John F. Kennedy

[marew1]

Above all, we must realize that no arsenal, or no weapon in the arsenals of the world, is so formidable as the will and moral courage of free men and women. It is a weapon our adversaries in today's world do not have.
Ronald Reagan (http://www.brainyquote.com/quotes/quotes/r/ronaldreag147711.html)

[marew1]

Genius is one percent inspiration and ninety-nine percent perspiration.
Thomas A. Edison (http://www.brainyquote.com/quotes/quotes/t/thomasaed109928.html)

[marew1]

We will not tire, we will not falter, and we will not fail.
George W. Bush

[Cowboy]

I have lived too completely, I think. I have known every human emotion.
- Bela Lugosi

[Cowboy]

I have never met a vampire personally, but I don't know what might happen tomorrow.
- Bela Lugosi

[dragafari]

http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3560/3444999252_9779082606_o.jpg

[Kim L.]

I have loved the stars too fondly to be fearful of the night

Sarah Williams, "The Old Astronomer to His Pupil"

[CorbinKale]

Robert A. Heinlein
Life-Line (1939)

One can judge from experiment, or one can blindly accept authority. To the scientific mind, experimental proof is all important and theory is merely a convenience in description, to be junked when it no longer fits. To the academic mind, authority is everything and facts are junked when they do not fit theory laid down by authority.

There has grown up in the minds of certain groups in this country the notion that because a man or corporation has made a profit out of the public for a number of years, the government and the courts are charged with the duty of guaranteeing such profit in the future, even in the face of changing circumstances and contrary to public interest. This strange doctrine is not supported by statute or common law. Neither individuals nor corporations have any right to come into court and ask that the clock of history be stopped, or turned back.

You have attributed conditions to villainy that simply result from stupidity.

[DreamScape]

"Dream as if you'll live forever. Live as if you'll die today."

James Dean

[Jax]

It's better to keep your mouth shut and be thought a fool than to open your mouth and remove all doubt. I have no idea who said it, but I heard my grandpa say it a few times when I was a kid.

[JRLauer]

"So is there any tread left on the tire or is it like throwing a hot dog down a hallway."

Stewie Griffin while speaking with a prostitute.

[Bryan James]

My pants blaze with the promise of unwashed glory, with the tangerine scent of old fruit, and my underpants even moreso still. I have been cutting the grass under the sun. There is more grass to be cut. There is always more grass to be cut.

~Me, from right now
(taking a shower in a few)
[sorry]

[candybait]

Directed toward republican whining -"When the guy you disagree with gets elected, he's probably going to do things you disagree with. That's not tyranny, that's democracy, now you're in the minority ......It's supposed to taste like a sh*t taco!:rofl:
~Jon Stewart

[JayneH]

So long and thanks for all the fish - Douglas Adams

[ChaseTx]

"Rorschach's journal. October 12th, 1985. Dog carcass in alley this morning. Tire tread on burst stomach. This city is afraid of me. I've seen it's true face.

The streets are extended gutters, and the gutters are full of blood... and when the drains finally scab over, all the vermin will drown. The accumulated filth of all their sex and murder will foam up about their waists, and all the whores and politicians will look up and shout 'Save us!'... and I'll look down and whisper 'No.'"

- Walter Kovacs

[terribilini]

"you're killing me smalls!" hamilton porter, the sandlot
or
"there's nothing here that you'll miss
i can garauntee you this
just a cloud of smoke
trying to occupy space
what a ****in joke
what a ****in joke" elliot smith, i didn't understand, XO ( it certainly doesn't have the effect that it does when sung. if you're not familiar with elliot smith do yourself a favor.)

[terribilini]

how about
" why be sweet why be careful why be kind?
a man has only one thing on his mind.
why ask politely why go lightly why say please?
they only want to get you on your knees.
there's a few things that i never could believe. aaaaaaaa
woman when she weeps
a merchant when he swears
a theif who says he'll pay
a lawyer when he cares
a snake when he's sleeping
a drunkard when he prays
i don't believe you go to heaven when you're good
everything goes to hellllllll
a-ny-way" tom waits, everything goes to hell, blood money

i remember when sk had a column in entertainment weekly and he did something similar to this thread but i think it was all movie quotes. so here is a good movie quote.
" wait wait, let me explain something to you. i am not mr. lebowski, you're mr lebowski. i'm the dude! so that's what you call me you know, uhh that or his dudeness or uh duder or uh you know el duderino.... if you're not into the whole brevity thing."
i hope that one is pretty self explanatory.

[Theregulator]

One I read somewhere which stuck in my head is
'Those who mind don't matter and those who matter don't mind.'

My fave quote of today so far is hubby on waking. Last night we went to try our new local indian restrurant. They gave my a little bracelet with beads and bells on with the bill which I couldn't undo. This morning when hubby woke he said,

'Scarey I kept having this recurring nightmare that I was sleeping with a morris dancer.'

[Rabid Assassin]

"Speak softly and carry a big stick"
-Theodore Roosevelt

[ChaseTx]

^^ that entire movie

[Jax]

"So is there any tread left on the tire or is it like throwing a hot dog down a hallway."

Stewie Griffin while speaking with a prostitute.

:rofl::rofl:

[titansfan]

So I have to give credit to Greg (on of my VZ contacts at work, he has this as his signature on his email. And it got me thinking...

"If you try to fail, and succeed, which have you done?

[saradobie]

My favourite quote would have to be "We are men of action. Lies do not become us"

YESSSSSSSS! Princess Bride what WHAT??! Awesome!

[Desiree]

"Sometimes when life gives you lemons...just eat the damn lemons!"

[Kim L.]

"Rorschach's journal. October 12th, 1985. Dog carcass in alley this morning. Tire tread on burst stomach. This city is afraid of me. I've seen it's true face.

The streets are extended gutters, and the gutters are full of blood... and when the drains finally scab over, all the vermin will drown. The accumulated filth of all their sex and murder will foam up about their waists, and all the whores and politicians will look up and shout 'Save us!'... and I'll look down and whisper 'No.'"

- Walter Kovacs

I just finished reading Watchmen; truly a fantastic story. Is the movie as good?

[JackTheRipper]

It's better to keep your mouth shut and be thought a fool than to open your mouth and remove all doubt. I have no idea who said it, but I heard my grandpa say it a few times when I was a kid.

I've heard it was Mark Twain

[Autumnlyn]

Each thing that I do I rush through, so I can do something else...

[Cowboy]

“I almost take it as a compliment that people will see me, and say things and be angry.”
- Danica Patrick

[Cowboy]

"I don't worry about terrorism. I was married for two years."

- Sam Kinison

[Countrygirl_sass]

Well I like a 'misquote', from a Gary Cooper movie, "Smile When you call Me That", I don't recall the name of the movie or the real quote. But I can see why this one caught on. :smile2:

[Todash]

"If a woman has to choose between catching a fly ball and saving an infant’s life, she will choose to save the infant’s life without even considering if there are men on base." —Dave Barry

[MotherGoddamn]

"I always followed my heart and I never skipped a beat" Ringo Starr. It's from a God awful song but I love that line.

[Cowboy]

"The secret of all victory lies in the organization of the nonobvious."
-Oswald Spengler

[ChaseTx]

I just finished reading Watchmen; truly a fantastic story. Is the movie as good?

they stuck pretty close to the book, so yeah it's good. I didn't like the music, but that's it

[giftshoparty]

That which doesn't kill you defines you.

[Kim L.]

"Hey you big bully, stop picking on that little bully."
Groucho Marx

[October Rain]

"Never make someone a priority who only thinks of you as an option."

[Cowboy]

[HONK!]

- Harpo Marx

[RandomMan]

"Bool, the END!"

[Charms7]

"Growing old ain't for sissies." I think that was Bette Davis.
http://www.bettedavis.com/viewpic.php?pic=4600

[michal]

From Carrie: "No one was really surprised when it happened, not really, not at the subconscious level where savage things grow."

[BeowulfTX]

I don't know... But some people without brains do an awful lot of talking... don't they?
Scarecrow, from The Wizard of Oz.

[CorbinKale]

"Give me liberty, or I'll get up and get it myself."
--Anonymous quip found around the net.

[marie96]

"If you fall down from there and break your legs, don't come running to me!" (thats what I said to my 7-year old brother when he was climbing in a tall tree)

[Perse Jr.]

"Out of every great tragedy, there's always one small gain."
-Caroline Quiner Ingalls

[Perse Jr.]

"Sh*tter was full!"

Cousin Eddy, Christmas Vacation

[marie96]

GTA, Mother****er! Oh, yeah! Ten points.
L.J., resident evil: apocalypse

[King Jacob]

"Just when I thought I was out... they pull me back in." Michael Corleone, The Godfather Part III

[Damaris]

Several good ones already mentioned (I read all 46 pages) but here's a few others I thought worth sharing...


"It was such a lovely day I thought it a pity to get up." -W. Somerset Maugham

"Forget injuries, never forget kindnesses." -Confucius

"Death is not the greatest loss in life. The greatest loss is what dies inside of us while we live." -Norman Cousins

"Life is full of misery, loneliness, and suffering - and it's all over much too soon." -Woody Allen

"A man can stand anything except a succession of ordinary days." -Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

"Growing up means giving up everything that makes you happy." - Marge Simpson, [I]The Simpsons


Quotes from Stephen King:

"Sometimes the truth of how we live is just ugly, that's all."

"Sometimes there is absolutely no difference at all between salvation and damnation."

"Reality ... is thin, you know, thin as lake ice after a thaw, and we fill our lives with noise and light and motion to hide that thinness from ourselves."

"Just go on dancing with me like this forever ... and I'll never tire. We'll scrape our shoes on the stars and hang upside down from the moon." [ <-- my personal favorite ]

[EmilyT]

"Save yourself or remain unsaved"

Alice Seabold - from Lucky

[BlackThorn]

Throw it away?

THERE IS NO AWAY

[Haunted]

"The tongue is the heart's pen and the mind's messenger."
--- Chovos HaLevavos

[BlackThorn]

[oh crap, I posted last in here... wonder if it was something horribly embarassing...]


'You're on myspace all the time' somebody said to me. Ummmm, actually, I just have a slightly sloppy habit of leaving windows open when it's something I'm using. I learned pretty quick that non-windows XP 64 can't have more than 64 windows of a similar type open at a time. After you have 64 Internet Explorer windows open, no others will come out when you attempt to. Now a days, with tabbed browsing, I don't usually go over 23-ish. But either way, I always have a plethora of my past day(s) that weren't worth closing open just in case it might still have been useful. So no, I'm barely on myspace ever. I could care less. ;)

btw myspace gives you the "user account blocked for repeated entry attempts" when you forget to type a name or pass in during login. (so I'm not special after all) :0/

[Perse Jr.]

"Actually, it only takes one drink to get me loaded. Trouble is, I can't remember if it's the thirteenth or fourteenth." ---George Burns

[BlackThorn]

"I told myself, that if the Red Sox make it to the world series, I'll buy a 52inch TV. If they didn't make it, I told myself I'd finish covering another side to the house in vinyl. They didn't make it, so the vinyl is gonna go up soon."

This was from one of my neighbors, who lives in a home my mothers father built some 90 or more years ago. At the time, he was also telling me about what my back yard looked like, ten years before I was born. I absolutely loveeeee being enriched. :love: He was wearing a Red Sox hat at the time, too. :biggrin2:

[JRLauer]

In the mid 1950's, the wife of the mayor of New York City told Yogi Berra that he looked cool in his new summer suit, he said: "Thanks, you don't look so hot yourself."

[Perse Jr.]

All quotes by Stephen King (source: brainyquote.com).

"People want to know why I do this, why I write such gross stuff. I like to tell them I have the heart of a small boy... and I keep it in a jar on my desk."

"Talent in cheaper than table salt. What separates the talented individual from the successful one is a lot of hard work."

"The devil's voice is sweet to hear."

"The most important things are the hardest things to say. They are the things you get ashamed of because words diminish your feelings - words shrink things that seem timeless when they are in your head to no more than living size when they are brought out."

"The place where you made your stand never mattered. Only that you were there... and still on your feet."

[Kim L.]

"If people don't want to go out to the ball game, nobody can stop them."

Yogi Berra

[EXISTESS]

"Why do I have to be Mr. Pink?"

Steve Buscemi in Reservoir Dogs

[Jax]

[B]"The place where you made your stand never mattered. Only that you were there... and [U]still on your feet."

Love this one!:love:

[Perse Jr.]

"Stop your crying or I'll give you something to cry about!" ---Dad

[Jax]

"Stop your crying or I'll give you something to cry about!" ---Dad

Oddly enough I've found myself saying this one from time to time to my five year old. It's such a slow progression you really don't notice it when you start turning into your own mom or dad. Good God, I have to get this under control before a complete transformation happens! Yikes!!:laugh:

[Perse Jr.]

Oddly enough I've found myself saying this one from time to time to my five year old. It's such a slow progression you really don't notice it when you start turning into your own mom or dad. Good God, I have to get this under control before a complete transformation happens! Yikes!!:laugh:

Me too...I said it to my 3-year old this morning, and that's what prompted me to post it. Scary, huh? I also find myself saying "knock it off" a lot; which has to be from my mom or dad.

[nicos]

I put a dollar in one of those change machines.

Nothing changed.

George Carlin

[CorbinKale]

"The essence of Government is power; and power, lodged as it must be in human hands, will ever be liable to abuse."

--James Madison, speech in the Virginia constitutional convention, December 2, 1829

[K HjLL]

My quote today is from a letter Tennessee Williams wrote Ron G. Perrier, on August 31, 1978 It in the book Persistence of Vision : The Life Journey of a Gay Man, A memoir By: Ron Perrier Published by archiepub.com

"Our country is very hard on its writers." Tennessee Williams

Seems to fit. I'm just realizing this everyone's out to steal from everyone else, so much criticism from people who haven't done anything. No one takes anyone serious. Maybe they are not acting serious but none the less. Time and patience I think are key. Finding an open trust worthy ear can do wonders if the ear wants to land a hand.

Anyways I hope I get to see some great quotes.

P.S. Northland Mortgage we use to have the quote of the day. It's always good to drop it off once and awhile. Great incite and a great way to find out who people are on the inside. Not just the flesh we all try to hide.

[K HjLL]

"Today was a good day and tomorrow maybe even better. Let these good times last forever."

-K-Hjll

[Queen Judia]

"It's still about first seeing the impossible.. and then saying it. It's still about making you believe what i believe, at least for a while."

-Stephen King, Nightmares and Dreamscapes Introduction


sweeet. :love:

[K HjLL]

"the longest journey begins with the first step," Chinese

Life is like a maze of doors,
and they open from the side you're on.
Just keep on pushin' hard, boy, try as you may,
you might wind up where you started from.
-Cat Stevens "Sitting"

Endings and beginnings: two side of the same coin.

Good line for two face in the new Batman film.

[nicos]

It is not because things are difficult that we do not dare
It is because we do not dare that they are difficult

Seneca

[Anni M]

Waiter: Would you like to hear today's specials?
Patrick Bateman: Not if you want to keep your spleen.

American Psycho

[Haunted]

If you want to help pull a friend out of the mire, don't hesitate to
get a little dirty."
--- The Baal Shem Tov

[Crimson Door]

"Oh, about beer I never lie. A man who lies about beer makes enemies. " Jud Crandall - Pet Sematary

"all warfare is based on deception" Sun Tzu - The Art Of War

"The power to destroy a thing is the absolute control over it." Paul-Muad'Dib Atreides - Dune

"I've seen things you people wouldn't believe. Attack ships on fire off the shoulder of Orion. I've watched c-beams glitter in the dark near the Tannhäuser Gate. All those ... moments will be lost in time, like tears...in rain. Time to die." Roy Batty - Blade Runner

[Haunted]

"The best remedy for those who are afraid, lonely or unhappy is to go
outside, somewhere where they can be quiet, alone with the heavens,
nature and the Divine. Because only then does one feel that all is as it
should be and that the Divine wishes to see people happy, amidst the
simple beauty of nature."
--- Anne Frank

(Out of the mouths of babes, eh?)

[paulinekh]

If I need to explain , you wouldnt understand.

[BlueCeleste]

Humans need a fantasy to be humans. To be the place where fallen angels meets the rising apes- Terry Pratchett

[JRLauer]

"90% of the game in mental, the other half is physical." - Yogi Bera on Baseball

[LisaNH]

I think my favorite quote was made by Captain Parker on Lexington Green on April 19th, 1775 when the British were on the road to Concord and Lexington to confiscate their powder. He said to his rag tag militia prior to the British approach:

"Stand your ground. Do not fire unless fired upon. But if they mean to have a war, let it begin here."

[Haunted]

"There may be times when we are powerless to prevent injustice, but
there must never be a time when we fail to protest."
--- Elie Wiesel

[jussupoff]

One Poghril would say to another: "Why is life like hanging upside down with your head in a bucket of hyena-offal?" Whereupon another Poghril would reply: "I don't know. Why is life like hanging upside down with your head in a bucket of hyena-offal?" To which the first Poghril would say: "I don't know either. Wretched, isn't it."
- Douglas Adams
(From the BBC radio series based on the HHGTTG books)

[BlackThorn]

"I haven't done any drugs for over a year...

well, I still smoke dope and still drink, but..."

Hey, I prefer my Billy's to not be messed up crack head meth victims, too.

And I don't do drugs anymore either. =0D ;)

(ummmm, maybe mushrooms four or so times a year... tops) ;)

[BlackThorn]

Ooooooo, I always loved this one too.

My buddy got busted... he got involved with a couple gangs of Asians that came up from Mass. He's doin a lot of time right now because it turned out he was runnin coke for them... 22 Asians were busted, 2 Caucasians, in conspiracy to push like, 700lbs of coke, 4 tons of marijuana, etc...

Anyways... they busted my friend, who... really was an idiot for even touching that scene. He's not gonna see his baby grow up cause of it.

So, when he got busted, three days later they drug tested him. He failed horribly. Not only did he fail horribly, but his THC measurement was off the charts.

They said, "did you smoke while you were in the holding tank this morning? How did you manage this?"

He responded, "well, you know how most people have a cup of coffee first thing in the morning?" (at this point he sticks his fat little pinky finger out) "I'd have smoked down a couple of these before I got to the coffee"

[Matthew.Degnan]

I shall place my dreams at your feet, but tread lightly, you are stepping on my dreams.

William Butler Yeats

[BlackThorn]

Oooooo... This one was good too. It was out of some witchy book someone cool wrote. I'll see if I can find it later. He was like,

"Where do you go when you die? I'll tell you all about it, if I notice it."

I absolutely love how open minded most witches are. This guy is just gonna skip reincarnation this time, he already knows it. And it isn't devotion. He doesn't owe it to anything. It's just the way the path is. Ya sleep good at night, with a soul like that.

I think it was in his book someone was quoted as responding, when they were asked for their age, that they were whatever the age of the universe is said to be (he stated the numbers, like 'five hundred thousand trillion, two hundred and eighty nine billion... etc.. years old'.) He stated, all matter is just energy that bounces around and adds and subtracts from other energies throughout the course of time creating alternating into varying matters continuously. Therefore, everything he is now made of and that is inside of him, has been there, the whole time. That makes him that old too. ;)

[Haunted]

Three can keep a secret, if two of them are dead.

Benjamin Franklin

[CorbinKale]

Political tags - such as royalist, communist, democrat, populist, fascist, liberal, conservative, and so forth - are never basic criteria. The human race divides politically into those who want people to be controlled and those who have no such desire. -- Robert A. Heinlein

[jussupoff]

Anchovies, anchovies, you're so delicious - I love you more than all the other fishes. - Buffy the Vampire Slayer

:upside::laugh:

[CorbinKale]

"We, the People are the rightful masters of both Congress and the courts -- not to overthrow the Constitution, but to overthrow men who pervert the Constitution." -- Abraham Lincoln

[Haunted]

"We, the People are the rightful masters of both Congress and the courts -- not to overthrow the Constitution, but to overthrow men who pervert the Constitution." -- Abraham Lincoln

So appropriate in these times, eh? Thanks

[Kim L.]

Be the change you want to see.

--Gandhi

[Charms7]

"Be the miracle," from Bruce Almighty. Kim's quote reminded me of that.

[MadamMack]

This is not really a quote but favorite lines from The Magus 1965 by John Fowles that I really like.

I sprang my next question on him, out of a silence, in his own style.
“To what extent is your dislike of me a part of your part?
He was undisconcerted. “Liking is not important. Between men.”
I felt the ouzo in me. Even so, you don’t like me?

His dark eyes turned on mine. “I am to answer?” I nodded.
“Then no. But I like very few people. And even fewer of your age and sex. Liking other people is an illusion we have to cherish in ourselves if we are to live in society. It is one I have long banished, at least from my life here. You wish to be liked. I wish simply to be. One day you will know what that means, perhaps. And you will smile. Not against me. But with me.

I left a pause. “You sound like a certain kind of surgeon. A lot more interested in the operation than the patient.”

He replied, “I should not like to be in the hands of a surgeon who did not take that view.”

[tempest]

“People should not fear their government. The government should fear the people.”
From the movie, ‘V for Vendetta’.

[JohnDalglish]

Hi,

'What cannot be cured must be endured'.

(Traditional Irish folk song, often know as 'Love is Fleeting')

Long days and pleasant nights

[constantreader85]

Hi

i exist to be, but by being do i really exist.

I made half of this up when i was 16 and the other half when i was draining the dragon.:glare:

[mylife4usk]

I think my favorite quote was made by Captain Parker on Lexington Green on April 19th, 1775 when the British were on the road to Concord and Lexington to confiscate their powder. He said to his rag tag militia prior to the British approach:

"Stand your ground. Do not fire unless fired upon. But if they mean to have a war, let it begin here."

I went to this re-enactment last year, it was really exciting. Had to get up at 4 in the morning and it only lasted like 5 minutes. But it was worth it!
That is a cool quote., thanks LisaNH!

[Mary Strickland]

SSDD works for me.

[Nutty Bavarian]

"I know I am among civilized men because they are fighting so savagely."
Voltaire

[Kim L.]

"Any man's death diminishes me, because I am involved in mankind."

John Donne

[Wilkes]

Some of my favorites:
"You're all my children now!"-Fred Krueger, A nightmare on Elm Street 2:Freddy's revange
"A census taker once tried to test me. I ate his liver with some fava beans and a nice chianti."-Hannibal Lecter, The silence of the Lambs
"Words have no power to impress the mind without the exquisite horror of their reality."-Edgar Allan Poe
"When asked, ‘How do you write?’ I invariably answer, ‘One word at a time.’"-Stephen King

[CorbinKale]

Throughout history, poverty is the normal condition of man. Advances which permit this norm to be exceeded- here and there, now and then- are the work of an extremely small minority, frequently despised, often condemned, and almost always opposed by all "right-thinking" people. Whenever this tiny minority is kept from creating, or (as sometimes happens) is driven out of a society, the people then slip back into abject poverty. This is known as "bad luck." -- Robert A. Heinlein

[BlackThorn]

"I bet The Christ wasn't too afraid of catching cancer..." :wink2:

Natural wizards ROCK!

[Drawn to Ka-tet]

Two roads diverged in a wood, and I -
I took the one less traveled by,
And that has made all the difference.

Robert Frost - The Road Not Taken

[Drawn to Ka-tet]

...He only says, "Good fences make good neighbors."

"Why do they make good neighbors? Isn't it
Where there are cows? But there are no cows.
Before I built a wall I'd ask to know
What I was walling in or walling out,
And to whom I was like to give offense.
Something there is that doesn't love a wall,
That wants it down."

...He says again, "Good fences make good neighbors."

Robert Frost - Mending Wall

[BlackThorn]

"When you put it on, take an extra spray on your shirt too.. then I can still smell it in you later..."


My first girlfriend. She got really turned on when I used expensive cologne. It was like an "on" switch for her, instantly. She'd check to see if I was wearing it, then drive her nose into my shirt to be certain. If I put it on, she'd kinda keep pushing her whole body into mine, with a very happy smile I was making myself extra sexy, just for her.

A good practice.

[jussupoff]

This quote I am going to get tattooed on my ankle:

Go then, there are other worlds than these.

[Haunted]

"Too often, our knowledge often gets in the way of our understanding."
--- Rabbi Shraga Silverstein

[Todash]

"If you break your neck, if you have nothing to eat, if your house is on fire, then you got a problem. Everything else is an inconvenience." --Robert Fulghum

I'm trying to remember that as the stress seems to be coming at me from every angle this past month or so.

[Moderator]

"If you break your neck, if you have nothing to eat, if your house is on fire, then you got a problem. Everything else is an inconvenience." --Robert Fulghum

I'm trying to remember that as the stress seems to be coming at me from every angle this past month or so.

How's the house construction going? :smile2:

[Haunted]

"There may be times when we are powerless to prevent injustice, but
there must never be a time when we fail to protest."
--- Elie Wiesel


For our friends in Iran who have taken to the streets to try to change their present administration.

[suzieb]

OK - Not really a quote per se but I love, love, love it:

I was a child and she was a child,
In this kingdom by the sea:
But we loved with a love that was more than love-
I and my Annabel Lee
-Edgar Allan Poe

and

Be the change you want to see in the world
-Ghandi

and

Fiction imitates life with the boring stuff taken out
-lots of authors

and

Give them pleasure. The same pleasure they have when they wake up from a nightmare.
-Alfred Hitchcock

and

Finishing a book is just like you took a child out in the yard and shot it.
-Truman Capote

and

My life has been full of terrible misfortunes, most of which never happened.
-Michel de Montaigne

and

I try to create sympathy for my characters, then turn the monsters loose.
-Stephen King

I have so many favorites but I'll stop boring you now.

Thanks,
SuzieB

[LadyPain]

'It takes courage to grow up and become who you really are.'

e.e. cummings

[King Jacob]

"There are two types of people in this world: People who are buttholes all the time and people who are buttholes some of the time. Which one are you?" - I came up with this quote with the help of a friend of mine when I was in my freshman year of high school.

[Todash]

How's the house construction going? :smile2:
If you asked me last week I'd have babbled incoherently about the cost of plumbing fixtures and maybe ranted about paint colors, but I've readjusted my attitude and am a little more zen now. I think it's going to be great, unless the financing falls through; I had an unexpected salary cut at work, and my husband got laid off and had to find a new job—but no point in worrying about that, though. It is or it ain't, right?

[Srbo]

Only the highest mountains are attacked by the strongest winds.

-old Serbian proverb-

[Nutty Bavarian]

you're gonna love this one,
"Usually, when a lot of men get together, it's called war." Mel Brooks

That's so true it's scary lol

[aptpupil]

"After the long slumber of ignorance, a single word can change a man forever."

Nan Guo Zi

Zhou Dynasty

[Sugar Marie]

"Love is ever the beginning of knowledge, as fire is of light"

-Thomas Carlyle

[Kim L.]

From Shakespeare's The Merchant of Venice.

PORTIA: The quality of mercy is not strain'd,

It droppeth as the gentle rain from heaven
Upon the place beneath: it is twice blest;
It blesseth him that gives and him that takes:

[Kim L.]

We grow too soon old and too late smart. --German proverb

[aliphil]

if you got a headache grab a bottle of paracetomol and do what it says take two pills and keep away from children. this is a quote from my hubby

[MyJadedEpiphany]

Of course there's always the classic...
"The man in black fled across the desert, and the gunslinger followed.:
I can't imagine a better way to start a book....

[BlackThorn]

John Stewart Improv - "Too much coffee today Louis?"

Louis Black - "There's not enough coffee in the world..."



I love Louis Black. He makes a wonderful Seraphim. He takes ravenous bites of what's provoking him... what else has he said I loved? (I suppose what doesn't he say would be more the question... but...)

(on the second 'Bush W' election)

Louis Black - "Well, we only had two bowls of **** to choose from. You're telling me, they couldn't find SOMEONE worth voting for to stick up there? What the HELL?"

[Kim L.]

Outside of a dog, a book is man's best friend.
Inside of a dog, it's too dark to read.

--Groucho Marx

[Perse Jr.]

Faith is the daring of the soul to go farther than it can see.
--William Newton Clarke

[Haunted]

"Girls may be seduced by fairy tales and promises of luxury and adoration; but in the end marriage is about killing spiders every day of your life.":eek2:

[Haunted]

"Half the world is composed of people who have something to say and can't, the other half have nothing to say and keep on saying it."

Robert Frost

[Kim L.]

More of a poem than a quote, but what's wrong with a little poetry in the morning?

This Is Just To Say
by William Carlos Williams


I have eaten
the plums
that were in
the icebox

and which
you were probably
saving
for breakfast

Forgive me
they were delicious
so sweet
and so cold

[opeth]

“All that is gold does not glitter, not all those who wander are lost; the old that is strong does not wither, deep roots are not reached by the frost. From the ashes a fire shall be woken, a light from the shadows shall spring; renenwed shall be blade that was broken, the crownless again shall be king.”
~ JRR Tolkien

[Joiey]

My all time favorite quote (it has become my life's quote because it so completely reflects my journey to keep myself from dying): The Miracle isn't that I finished. The Miracle is that I had the courage to start. -- John Bingham J

[Todash]

More of a poem than a quote, but what's wrong with a little poetry in the morning?

This Is Just To Say
by William Carlos Williams


I have eaten
the plums
that were in
the icebox

and which
you were probably
saving
for breakfast

Forgive me
they were delicious
so sweet
and so cold
And here's my quote for the day: "What's wrong with a little poetry in the morning?" —Kim L.