Favourite Quotes and Quotations

[Lebowski19]

#1:"When walking in open territory, bother no one. If someone bothers you, ask them to stop. If they don’t stop, destroy them."-(The Eleven Satanic Rules of the Earth #11) #2:"You're too old, fat man. Your tits are too big. Get the f#ck off my porch."Tyler Durden (Fight Club).
#3"Never go with a hippie to a second location." Jack Donaghy(30 Rock) #4"Stop that crying kid,or I'll pull your ears down,and tie em under your chin."Victor Criss(IT)

"Wow,I just realized I'm an a$$hole!"-Lebowski19

[Haunted]

Inventing is the mixing of brains and materials.
The more brains you use, the less materials you need.
~ Charles F. Kettering

[blunthead]

Fiction reveals truths that reality obscures.
- Jessamyn West

The pine stays green in winter... wisdom in hardship.
- Norman Douglas

The trouble with the rat race is that even if you win, you're still a rat.
- Lily Tomlin

Don't bother about being modern. Unfortunately it is the one thing that, whatever you do, you cannot avoid.
- Salvador Dali

Originality is the fine art of remembering what you hear but forgetting where you heard it.
- Laurence J. Peter

[Haunted]

Reading is a means of thinking with another person's mind;
it forces you to stretch your own.
~ Charles Scribner, Jr.

[Haunted]

If you are going to achieve excellence in big things,
you develop the habit in little matters.
Excellence is not an exception, it is a prevailing attitude.
~ Colin Powell

[blunthead]

Intense love does not measure, it just gives.
- Mother Teresa

A man paints with his brains and not with his hands.
- Michelangelo

Sound is the vocabulary of nature.
- Pierre Schaeffer

A dog teaches a boy fidelity, perseverance, and to turn around three times before lying down.
- Robert Benchley

One can live in the shadow of an idea without grasping it.
- Elizabeth Bowen

[momone53]

"A little while, a moment of rest upon the wind, and another woman shall bear me."
- The Prophet, Kahlil Gibran.

And may you have twice the number.

[91rewoT]

From the movie "Red Tails"...

"Experience is a cruel teacher. It gives the exam first, then the lesson."

[SherLynn]

I love this: "It is not easy to find happiness in ourselves, and it is not possible to find it elsewhere".
Agnes Repplier

[blunthead]

Politicians are like diapers; they need to be changed often and for the same reason.
- Mark Twain

We must rediscover the distinction between hope and expectation.
- Ivan Illich

Art distills sensations and embodies it with enhanced meaning.
- Miguel de Unamuno

The earth is like a spaceship that didn't come with an operating manual.
- R. Buckminster Fuller

Insanity is hereditary; you get it from your children.
- Sam Levenson

[Haunted]

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

[Haunted]

Whatever we plant in our subconscious mind and
nourish with repetition and emotion will one day become a reality.
~ Earl Nightingale

[Becks19]

It is good taste, and good taste alone, that possesses the power to sterilize and is always the first handicap to any creative functioning.
- Salvador Dali

Fear imprisons, faith liberates; fear paralyzes, faith empowers; fear disheartens, faith encourages; fear sickens, faith heals; fear makes useless, faith makes serviceable.
- Harry Emerson Fosdick (http://www.famousquotesandauthors.com/authors/harry_emerson_fosdick_quotes.html)

Once a human being has arrived on this earth, communication is the largest single factor determining what kinds of relationships he makes with others and what happens to him in the world about him.
- Virginia Satir (http://www.famousquotesandauthors.com/authors/virginia_satir_quotes.html)

I believe in using words, not fists.
- Susan Sarandon (http://www.famousquotesandauthors.com/authors/susan_sarandon_quotes.html)

Good friends, good books and a sleepy conscience: this is the ideal life.
- Mark Twain (http://www.famousquotesandauthors.com/authors/mark_twain_quotes.html)

[The Nameless]

It's a bit douchey but it brings out the hippy in me:

Never sink so low as to hate another person - George Washington

And I got this one from Call Of Duty:

An eye for an eye makes the whole world blind - Ghandi

And finally:

Being able to weasel your way out of things is what separates us from the animals..........except the weasel - Homer Simpson.

[J.T. Adams]

'Instant Karma's gonna get you, gonna knock you right on the head.'

-John Lennon

[kike]

Hi everyone! My favorite is

"The man in black fled across the desert, and the gunslinger followed."

That phrase marked my life (after I read all seven books), so I decided to tattoo it.

http://img52.imageshack.us/img52/3923/42024410150579560589897.jpg (http://imageshack.us/photo/my-images/52/42024410150579560589897.jpg/)

Sai King should see this :(
Long days and pleasant nights.

[blunthead]

God has two dwellings; one in heaven, and the other in a meek and thankful heart.
-- Izaak Walton

We can learn something new anytime we believe we can.
-- Virginia Satir

If you cannot learn to love real art at least learn to hate sham art.
-- William Morris

Aim for the moon. If you miss, you may hit a star.
-- W. Clement Stone

You should always go to other people's funerals, otherwise, they won't come to yours.
-- Yogi Berra

[CarrieJo]

"A goose just flew out of my butt."

-Ted Brautigan
"Low Men in Yellow Coats"

[Haunted]

Men for the sake of getting a living forget to live.
~ Margaret Fuller

[Becks19]

I never married because there was no need. I have three pets at home that answer the same purpose as a husband. I have a dog that growls every morning, a parrot that swears all afternoon, and a cat that comes home late at night.
- Marie Corelli (http://www.famousquotesandauthors.com/authors/marie_corelli_quotes.html)

[blunthead]

Acorns were good until bread was found.
--Francis Bacon

Love is a smoke made with the fume of sighs.
--William Shakespeare

A film is a petrified fountain of thought.
--Jean Cocteau

It is a matter of shame that in the morning the birds should be awake earlier than you.
--Abu Bakr

Progress might have been alright once, but it has gone on too long.
--Ogden Nash

[king family fan]

Opened this thread and remembering John.

[blunthead]

Irn-Bru, please!

Irish coffee, please!

Pint o' cider, please!

Ain't dat da troof?

--John

[Connie Reader]

Oh dear, bread and beer, If I were rich I wouldn't be here.

I don't know where it came from, but my babcci used to say it all the time. :love:

[randallFlaggfan1]

“Art enables us to find ourselves and lose ourselves at the same time.”
— Thomas Merton, No Man Is an Island

[JellybeanJay]

"There is no such thing as bad pizza" - my dad :grinning:

[Kim L.]

"Children aren't happy without something to ignore,
And that's what parents were invented for."

--Ogden Nash

[Haunted]

The weak can never forgive. Forgiveness is the attribute of the strong.
~ Mahatma Gandhi

[blunthead]

I dream for a living.
--Steven Spielberg

The brighter you are, the more you have to learn.
--Don Herold

The heart has its reasons of which reason knows nothing.
--Blaise Pascal

Art is too serious to be taken seriously.
--Ad Reinhardt

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

[J.T. Adams]

The weak can never forgive. Forgiveness is the attribute of the strong.
~ Mahatma Gandhi

Thankee for that, Haunted.

[Becks19]

How to make God laugh. Tell him your future plans.
- Woody Allen (http://www.famousquotesandauthors.com/authors/woody_allen_quotes.html)

To be glad of life, because it gives you the chance to love and to work and to play and to look up at the stars; to be satisfied with your possessions, but not contented with yourself until you have made the best of them; to despise nothing in the world except falsehood and meanness, and to fear nothing except cowardice; to be governed by your admirations rather than by your disgusts; to covet nothing that is your neighbor's except his kindness of heart and gentleness of manners; to think seldom of your enemies, often of your friends, and every day of Christ; and to spend as much time as you can, with body and with spirit, in God's out-of-doors- these are little guideposts on the footpath to peace.
- Henry Van Dyke (http://www.famousquotesandauthors.com/authors/henry_van_dyke_quotes.html)

I speak the truth, not so much as I would, but as much as I dare; and I dare a little more, as I grow older.
- Michel de Montaigne

(http://www.famousquotesandauthors.com/authors/michel_de_montaigne_quotes.html)They pick a President and then for four years they pick on him.
- Adlai Stevenson

(http://www.famousquotesandauthors.com/authors/adlai_stevenson_quotes.html)To limit the press is to insult a nation; to prohibit reading of certain books is to declare the inhabitants to be either fools or slaves.
- Claude Adrien Helvetius (http://www.famousquotesandauthors.com/authors/claude_adrien_helvetius_quotes.html)

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[randallFlaggfan1]

The weak can never forgive. Forgiveness is the attribute of the strong.
~ Mahatma Gandhi

Very nice, Haunted. Thank you.


“Life is for the living.
Death is for the dead.
Let life be like music.
And death a note unsaid.”
— Langston Hughes

[randallFlaggfan1]

“Strength is the capacity to break a Hershey bar into four pieces with your bare hands - and then eat just one of the pieces.”

-Judith Viorst, Love & Guilt & The Meaning Of Life, Etc.

[cat in a bag]

“Strength is the capacity to break a Hershey bar into four pieces with your bare hands - and then eat just one of the pieces.”

-Judith Viorst, Love & Guilt & The Meaning Of Life, Etc.


Hmmm, I'm definitely not strong then. :biggrin2:

[randallFlaggfan1]

Hmmm, I'm definitely not strong then.


Neither am I, Cat!

[Haunted]

Character is like a tree and reputation like its shadow.
The shadow is what we think of it; the tree is the real thing.
~ Abraham Lincoln

[J.T. Adams]

'Be great in act, as you have been in thought.'

- William Shakespeare

[randallFlaggfan1]

"If we had a keen vision and feeling of all ordinary human life, it would be like hearing the grass grow and the squirrel's heart beat, and we should die of that roar which lies on the other side of silence."

-George Eliot, Middlemarch

[blunthead]

If it were not for the presents, an elopement would be preferable.
--George Ade

A photograph is usually looked at - seldom looked into.
--Ansel Adams

The winds and the waves are always on the side of the ablest navigators.
--Edward Gibbon

I poured spot remover on my dog. Now he's gone.
--Steven Wright

It is never too late to be what you might have been.
--George Eliot

[Haunted]

An eye for eye only ends up making the whole world blind.
~ Mahatma Gandhi

[blunthead]

Little children are still the symbol of the eternal marriage between love and duty.
-George Eliot

Vitality is radiated from exceptional art and architecture.
-Arthur Erickson

You cannot step into the same river twice.
-Heraclitus

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

A pessimist sees the difficulty in every opportunity; an optimist sees the opportunity in every difficulty.
-Winston Churchill

[J.T. Adams]

'Keep away from people who try to belittle your ambitions. Small people always do that, but the really great make you feel that you, too, can become great.'

-Mark Twain

[Spideyman]

"We shall not cease from exploration / And the end of all our exploring / Will be to arrive where we started / And know the place for the first time." - T.S. Eliot

[Becks19]

Compassion is the basis of all morality.
- Arthur Schopenhauer (http://www.famousquotesandauthors.com/authors/arthur_schopenhauer_quotes.html)

A pessimist? A man who thinks everybody as nasty as himself, and hates them for it.
- George Bernard Shaw (http://www.famousquotesandauthors.com/authors/george_bernard_shaw_quotes.html)

Optimism is an intellectual choice.
- Diana Schneider (http://www.famousquotesandauthors.com/authors/diana_schneider_quotes.html)

To make a man happy, fill his hands with work, his heart with affection, his mind with purpose, his memory with useful knowledge, his future with hope, and his stomach with food.
- Frederick E. Crane

(http://www.famousquotesandauthors.com/authors/frederick_e__crane_quotes.html)Experience is a good teacher, but she sends in terrific bills.
- Minna Antrim

(http://www.famousquotesandauthors.com/authors/minna_antrim_quotes.html)It is understanding that gives us an ability to have peace. When we understand the other fellow's viewpoint, and he understands ours, then we can sit down and work out our differences.
- Harry S. Truman (http://www.famousquotesandauthors.com/authors/harry_s__truman_quotes.html)


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[randallFlaggfan1]

“We are of opinion that instead of letting books grow moldy behind an iron grating, far from the vulgar gaze, it is better to let them wear out by being read.”
-Jules Verne, Journey to the Centre of the Earth

[Haunted]

It must be borne in mind that the tragedy of life does not lie in not reaching your goal.
The tragedy of life lies in having no goal to reach.
~ Benjamin E. Mays

[Becks19]

I am not bound to win, but I am bound to be true. I am not bound to succeed, but I am bound to live up to what light I have.
- Abraham Lincoln

(http://www.famousquotesandauthors.com/authors/abraham_lincoln_quotes.html)Little deeds of kindness, little words of love, Help to make earth happy, like the heaven above.
- Julia F. Carney

(http://www.famousquotesandauthors.com/authors/julia_f__carney_quotes.html)You will find, as you look back upon your life, that the moments when you really lived are the moments when you have done things in the spirit of love.
- Henry Drummond

(http://www.famousquotesandauthors.com/authors/henry_drummond_quotes.html)The reason a writer writes a book is to forget a book and the reason a reader reads one is to remember it.
- Thomas Wolfe (http://www.famousquotesandauthors.com/authors/thomas_wolfe_quotes.html)

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[Haunted]

Live simply.. Love seriously.
Care deeply. Speak kindly.
Leave the rest to God.
~Ronald Reagan

[blunthead]

Silence is true wisdom's best reply.
--Euripides

One is very crazy when in love.
- Sigmund Freud

Climate is what we expect, weather is what we get.
- Mark Twain

I never make the mistake of arguing with people for whose opinions I have no respect.
- Edward Gibbon

Never raise your hand to your children - it leaves your midsection unprotected.
- Robert Orben

[randallFlaggfan1]

“It's so hard to forget pain, but it's even harder to remember sweetness. We have no scar to show for happiness. We learn so little from peace.”
- Chuck Palahniuk



Live simply.. Love seriously.
Care deeply. Speak kindly.
Leave the rest to God.
~Ronald Reagan

Very nice, Haunted. Thank you!

[Haunted]

My heart is ever at your service.
~William Shakespeare


:love: I wonder if our JohnD knew this one, bet he would have loved it.

[randallFlaggfan1]

“Doubt thou the stars are fire;
Doubt that the sun doth move;
Doubt truth to be a liar;
But never doubt I love.”

-William Shakespeare, Hamlet

[Lily Sawyer]

"...I swear on everything I have and more
You make the sound of pulling heaven down
You brought the rain's romantic pour..."

-Justin Furstenfeld
("Sound of Pulling Heaven Down")

[Haunted]

“Doubt thou the stars are fire;
Doubt that the sun doth move;
Doubt truth to be a liar;
But never doubt I love.”

-William Shakespeare, Hamlet

:love:

[nygene40]

Oscar Wilde on Bagpipes:

"Thank God there's no odor"

and: "A gentleman is someone who knows how to play the bagpipes, but doesn't."

[Jack Frost]

"I want to show you just how fascinating kissing is
When earth collides with all the space between..."

-Justin Furstenfeld
("Sound of Pulling Heaven Down")

[zandrana]

"Let your soul stand cool and composed before a million universes" -Walt Whitman

"Get Up. Dress Up. Show Up"

[Haunted]

God whispers to us in our pleasures, speaks to us in our conscience,
but shouts in our pains: It is His megaphone to rouse a deaf world
~ C.S. Lewis

[blunthead]

A feeble body weakens the mind.
- Jean Jacques Rousseau

Life has no blessing like a prudent friend.
- Euripides

People will always need love, romance, a tender touch, and really personal and deeply felt music.
- Susannah McCorkle

Art must take reality by surprise.
- Francoise Sagan

Old age is fifteen years older than I am.
- Oliver Wendell Holmes

[Becks19]

Love looks not with the eyes, but with the mind; And therefore is winged Cupid painted blind.
- William Shakespeare

[randallFlaggfan1]

"It is an uneasy lot at best, to be what we call highly taught and yet not to enjoy: to be present at this great spectacle of life and never to be liberated from a small hungry shivering self--never to be fully possessed by the glory we behold, never to have our consciousness rapturously transformed into the vividness of a thought, the ardor of a passion, the energy of an action, but always to be scholarly and uninspired, ambitious and timid, scrupulous and dim-sighted."
- George Eliot, Middlemarch

[J.T. Adams]

Fear and I were old buddies, despite my best efforts to the contrary.

- Peter Straub

[Haunted]

Love is like a friendship caught on fire. In the beginning a flame,
very pretty, often hot and fierce, but still only light and flickering.
As love grows older, our hearts mature and our love becomes as coals,
deep-burning and unquenchable
~ Bruce Lee

[redvelvettears]

'carpe diem before you run out of diem.' -kelly link

'there are no mistakes. the events we bring upon ourselves, no matter how unpleasant, are necessary in order to learn what we need to learn; whatever steps we take, they're necessary to reach the places we've chosen to go.” -richard bach

'it takes courage to grow up and become who you really are.'
e. e. cummings

'the punishable sin is not lust, not even adultery, the sin is not to do with sex at all. it is a failure of feeling. not an excess of passion but a lack of compassion.' -jeanette winterson

[randallFlaggfan1]

“Guard well within yourself that treasure, kindness. Know how to give without hesitation, how to lose without regret, how to acquire without meanness.”

-George Sand

[Haunted]

A true man does not need to romance a different girl every night,
a true man romances the same girl for the rest of her life
~ Ana Alas

[Haunted]

Trust yourself. Create the kind of self that you will be happy to live with all your life.
Make the most of yourself by fanning the tiny, inner sparks of possibility into flames of achievement."
~ Golda Meir

[J.T. Adams]

'I can accept failure, everyone fails at something. But I can't accept not trying.'

- Michael Jordan

[sonofcana]

“We are not without accomplishment. We have managed to distribute poverty equally.Nguyen Co Thatch, Vietnamese Foreign Minister

[randallFlaggfan1]

“Writing is the great invention of the world.”
-Abraham Lincoln, Discoveries and Inventions: A Lecture, delivered in 1860.

[J.T. Adams]

The trust of the innocent is the liars most useful tool.

- Sai King

[bryras]

Love this one -

"All I ask of you is one thing: please don’t be cynical. I hate cynicism — it’s my least favorite quality and it doesn’t lead anywhere. Nobody in life gets exactly what they thought they were going to get. But if you work really hard, and you’re kind, amazing things will happen."

— Conan O’Brien on his final NBC show.

[Becks19]

I have always been delighted at the prospect of a new day, a fresh try, one more start, with perhaps a bit of magic waiting somewhere behind the morning.
- J. B. Priestly (http://www.famousquotesandauthors.com/authors/j__b__priestly_quotes.html)

You can imprison a man, but not an idea. You can exile a man, but not an idea. You can kill a man, but not an idea.
- Benazir Bhutto


(http://www.famousquotesandauthors.com/authors/benazir_bhutto_quotes.html)Let the word go forth from this time and place, to friend and foe alike, that the torch has been passed to a new generation of Americans - born in this century, tempered by war, disciplined by a hard and bitter peace, proud of our ancient heritage - and unwilling to witness or permit the slow undoing of those human rights to which this nation has always been committed, and to which we are committed today at home and around the world. Let every nation know, whether it wishes us well or ill, that we shall pay any price, bear any burden, meet any hardship, support any friend, oppose any foe to assure the survival and the success of liberty. All this will not be finished in the first 100 days. Nor will it be finished in the first 1,000 days, nor in the life of this administration, nor even perhaps in our lifetime on this planet. But let us begin. Now the trumpet summons us again - not as a call to bear arms, though arms we need - not as a call to battle, though embattled we are - but a call to bear the burden of a long twilight struggle, year in and year out, "rejoicing in hope, patient in tribulation"- a struggle against the common enemies of man: tyranny, poverty, disease and war itself. And so, my fellow Americans, ask not what your country can do for you - ask what you can do for your country . My fellow citizens of the world: ask not what America will do for you, but what together we can do for the freedom of man.
- John F. Kennedy (http://www.famousquotesandauthors.com/authors/john_f__kennedy_quotes.html)


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[randallFlaggfan1]

Love this one -

"All I ask of you is one thing: please don’t be cynical. I hate cynicism — it’s my least favorite quality and it doesn’t lead anywhere. Nobody in life gets exactly what they thought they were going to get. But if you work really hard, and you’re kind, amazing things will happen."

— Conan O’Brien on his final NBC show.


Hi, Bryras-


Great quote, thank you.


One of college art instructors once opined to her class:
"Cynical people end up alone."
"Really?" I replied.
She nodded. "I think so."

[MrsBook]

This whole delightfully foul mouthed site of quotes (a sort of "out of the mouths of babes" collection where the babes are inner city kids): http://ghettohikes.tumblr.com/

[randallFlaggfan1]

"Wars and elections are both too big and too small to matter in the long run. The daily work - that goes on, it adds up."

-Barbara Kingsolver, Animal Dreams



"Knock on the sky and listen to the sound."

-Zen Saying

[Srbo]

" Go to hell," she said merrily, " nobody lives forever."
" But everybody tries, you ever notice that?" he said, following her into one of the swaying gondolas....

~ Stephen King " The Dead Zone"

[blunthead]

You can be sincere and still be stupid.
- Charles F. Kettering

All things are artificial, for nature is the art of God.
- Thomas Browne

Formula for success: rise early, work hard, strike oil.
- J. Paul Getty

The more I think about it, the more I realize there is nothing more artistic than to love others.
- Vincent Van Gogh

The entire fruit is already present in the seed.
- Tertullian

[Haunted]

The walls we build around us to keep out the sadness also keep out the joy.
~ Jim Rohn

[J.T. Adams]

'I hope I shall possess firmness and virtue enough to maintain what I consider the most enviable of all titles, the character of an honest man.'

- George Washington

[Haunted]

Insanity: doing the same thing over and over again and expecting different results.
~ Albert Einstein

[dsurrett]

Love this one -

"All I ask of you is one thing: please don’t be cynical. I hate cynicism — it’s my least favorite quality and it doesn’t lead anywhere. Nobody in life gets exactly what they thought they were going to get. But if you work really hard, and you’re kind, amazing things will happen."

— Conan O’Brien on his final NBC show.

Another great quote from Conan's final week at NBC was: Always remember that you can achieve anything and do anything you want to. Unless Jay Leno wants to do it, too.

[Owlnuggets]

I love CoCo <3 <3 <3

[blunthead]

Humor is mankind's greatest blessing.
- Mark Twain

Never elated when someone's oppressed, never dejected when another one's blessed.
- Alexander Pope

Kindness in women, not their beauteous looks, shall win my love.
- Washington Irving

I think you can leave the arts, superior or inferior, to the conscience of mankind.
- William Butler Yeats

No snowflake in an avalanche ever feels responsible.
- Voltaire

There's one thing about baldness, it's neat.
- Don Herold

[dsurrett]

"You make me wish I had more middle fingers." - A facebook quote from the group "I'm Not Right in the Head."

[J.T. Adams]

'Life is a wheel, and if you wait long enough, it always come back around to where it started.'

-Sai King, Duma Key

[Becks19]

How lovely to think that no one need wait a moment, we can start now, start slowly changing the world!
- Anne Frank (http://www.famousquotesandauthors.com/authors/anne_frank_quotes.html)


Continuity gives us roots; change gives us branches, letting us stretch and grow and reach new heights.
- Pauline R. Kezer (http://www.famousquotesandauthors.com/authors/pauline_r__kezer_quotes.html)

Faith sees the invisible, believes the unbelievable, and receives the impossible.
- Corrie ten Boom (http://www.famousquotesandauthors.com/authors/corrie_ten_boom_quotes.html)

[randallFlaggfan1]

"By evening, the temperature has dropped fifteen degrees as a minor cold front pushes through our little patch of the Coulee Country. There are no thunderstorms, but the sky tinges toward violet, the fog arrives. It's born out of the river and rises up the inclined ramp of Chase Street, first obscuring the gutters, the the sidewalks, then blurring the buildings themselves. It cannot completely hide them, as the fogs of spring and winter sometimes do, but the blurring is somehow worse: it steals colors and softens shapes. The fog makes the ordinary look alien. And there's the smell, the ancient, seagully odor that works deep into your nose and awakens the black part of your brain, the part that is perfectly capable of believing in monsters when the sight lines shorten and the heart is uneasy."

-Black House

[Haunted]

By all means, marry. If you get a good wife, you'll become happy;
you get a bad one, you'll become a philosopher.
~ Socrates

[cat in a bag]

By all means, marry. If you get a good wife, you'll become happy;
you get a bad one, you'll become a philosopher.
~ Socrates

This is what Wiki had to say--
Though she was characterized as undesirable in temperament, Socrates married Xanthippe (http://www.stephenking.com/wiki/Xanthippe),[9] (http://www.stephenking.com/forums/#cite_note-8) who was much younger than him.

:rofl:

[Ela]

...

'In the end, we can only find peace in our human lives by accepting the will of the universe'.

(Sai King, New Introduction to Pet Semetary, September 20th, 2000)

Long days and pleasant nights

I wish I knew what is the will of the universe.. hmm , maybe I know but do not want to accept it.

In John's case, one of the wills of the universe was for him to become the member that truly lives in the sphere of internet.
In a way that explains the eternal, the living beyond death, at least to me. crossing over but not dying really.

my favourite quote is "Eureka! I have found it"by Archedemus of Tarsus

[dsurrett]

"It was Belch Huggins. His face was a hanging ruin." - from IT.
That's got to be one of the greatest descriptive sentences EVER!

[blunthead]

Absence from those we love is self from self - a deadly banishment.
- William Shakespeare

It is not in life, but in art that self-fulfillment is to be found.
- Wilson Mizner

Life is not having been told that the man has just waxed the floor.
- Ogden Nash

Love is only a dirty trick played on us to achieve continuation of the species.
- W. Somerset Maugham

I dream of painting and then I paint my dream.
- Vincent Van Gogh

[randallFlaggfan1]

“Imagination is the golden-eyed monster that never sleeps. It must be fed; it cannot be ignored.”

-Patricia A. McKillip

[J.T. Adams]

'I'm not going to change the way I look or the way I feel to conform to anything. I've always been a freak. So I've been a freak all my life and I have to live with that, you know. I'm one of those people.'

- John Lennon

[sonofcana]

I find television very educational. Every time somebody turns on the set, I go into the other room and read a book.
Groucho Marx (http://www.brainyquote.com/quotes/quotes/g/grouchomar109303.html)

[randallFlaggfan1]

"Horror itself is a bit of a bullied genre, the antagonist being literary snobbery and public misconception. And I think good horror tackles our darkest fears, whatever they may be. It takes us into the minds of the victims, explores the threats, disseminates fear, studies how it changes us. It pulls back the curtain on the ugly underbelly of society, tears away the masks the monsters wear out in the world, shows us the potential truth of the human condition. Horror is truth, unflinching and honest. Not everybody wants to see that, but good horror ensures that it's there to be seen." — Kealan Patrick Burke

[Haunted]

They cannot take away our self-respect if we do not give it to them.
~ Mohandas K. Gandhi

[91rewoT]

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[J.T. Adams]

Time you enjoy wasting, was not wasted.

- John Lennon

[Becks19]

Be like the bird that, passing on her flight awhile on boughs too slight, feels them give way beneath her, and yet sings, knowing that she hath wings. - Victor Hugo Guard well your spare moments. They are like uncut diamonds. Discard them and their value will never be known. Improve them and they will become the brightest gems in a useful life. - Ralph Waldo Emerson The happiness of your life depends upon the quality of your thoughts ... take care that you entertain no notions unsuitable to virtue and reasonable nature. - Marcus Aurelius Autumn to winter, winter into spring. Spring, into summer, summer into fall, - So rolls the changing year, and so we change; -Motion so swift, we know not that we move. - Dinah Mulock Craik To them that ask, where have you seen the Gods, or how do you know for certain there are Gods, that you are so devout in their worship? I answer: Neither have I ever seen my own soul, and yet I respect and honor it. - Marcus Aurelius

[91rewoT]

In honor of Dr Seuss' birthday:

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[randallFlaggfan1]

“You have brains in your head. You have feet in your shoes. You can steer yourself any direction you choose. You're on your own. And you know what you know. And YOU are the one who'll decide where to go...”

-Dr. Seuss, Oh, the Places You'll Go!

[Haunted]

I had a rose named after me and I was very flattered.
But I was not pleased to read the description in the catalog: -
'No good in a bed, but fine against a wall.'
~ Eleanor Roosevelt

[Becks19]

A friend of mine says that every man who takes office in Washington either grows or swells, and when I give a man an office, I watch him carefully to see whether he is swelling or growing.
- Woodrow Wilson (http://www.famousquotesandauthors.com/authors/woodrow_wilson_quotes.html)

[J.T. Adams]

'Gossip is the Devil's radio.'

- George Harrison

[randallFlaggfan1]

"Your time is limited, don't waste it living someone else's life. Don't be trapped by dogma, which is living the result of other people's thinking. Don't let the noise of other's opinion drowned your own inner voice. And most important, have the courage to follow your heart and intuition, they somehow already know what you truly want to become. Everything else is secondary."

-Steve Jobs

[Haunted]

The reason grandparents and grandchildren
get along so well is that they have a common enemy.
~ Sam Levenson

[blunthead]

It is easier to fight for one's principles than to live up to them.
- Alfred Adler

A lover without indiscretion is no lover at all.
- Thomas Hardy

There's a great power in words, if you don't hitch too many of them together.
- Josh Billings

Public opinion is no more than this: what people think that other people think.
Alfred Austin

A loving heart is the beginning of all knowledge.
- Thomas Carlyle

[randallFlaggfan1]

“I've begun to realize that you can listen to silence and learn from it. It has a quality and a dimension all its own.”

- Chaim Potok, The Chosen

[Connie Reader]

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[Becks19]

Yes, there is a Nirvanah; it is in leading your sheep to a green pasture, and in putting your child to sleep, and in writing the last line of your poem.
- Kahlil Gibran (http://www.famousquotesandauthors.com/authors/kahlil_gibran_quotes.html)

[Haunted]

We could certainly slow the aging process down
if it had to work its way through Congress.
~Will Rogers

[blunthead]

We must use time creatively.
- Martin Luther King, Jr.

A great work is made out of a combination of obedience and liberty.
- Nadia Boulanger

Love is not altogether a delirium, yet it has many points in common therewith.
- Thomas Carlyle

Religion and art spring from the same root and are close kin. Economics and art are strangers.
- Nathaniel Hawthorne

Too low they build who build below the skies.
- Edward Young

A nickel ain't worth a dime anymore.
- Yogi Berra

[Becks19]

All good books are alike in that they are truer than if they really happened and after you are finished reading one you feel that it all happened to you and after which it all belongs to you.
- Ernest Hemingway -

[Dav13Bh07]

Just want to say how much I love this thread !!!
Here are some of my favs

One cannot simultaneously prevent and prepare for war.
Albert Einstein

If you think you are too small too make a difference , try sleeping with a mosquito.
Dalai lama

Only those who will risk going too far will ever possibly know how far one can go.
T.S. Elliot

A man who won't die for something is not fit to live.
Martin Luther king jr.

The only thing necessary in the triumph of evil is for good men to do nothing
Edmund Burke

[randallFlaggfan1]

"Man often becomes what he believes himself to be. If I keep on saying to myself that I cannot do a certain thing, it is possible that I may end by really becoming incapable of doing it. On the contrary, if I have the belief that I can do it, I shall surely acquire the capacity to do it even if I may not have it at the beginning."

- Mahatma Gandhi

[blunthead]

I don't go around regretting things that don't happen.
- Virgil Thomson

Absence sharpens love, presence strengthens it.
- Thomas Fuller

Great art is never produced for its own sake. It is too difficult to be worth the effort.
- Robert Quillen

There are no lines in nature, only areas of colour, one against another.
- Edouard Manet

Why resist temptation? There will always be more.
- Don Herold

[J.T. Adams]

A fool thinks himself to be wise, but a wise man knows himself to be a fool.

- William Shakespeare

[Ela]

A fool thinks himself to be wise, but a wise man knows himself to be a fool.

- William Shakespeare

I needed to go to dictionary to understand the whole meaning of a 'fool' in order to get this quote's meaning. Sometimes it isn't easy to understand quotes.

[randallFlaggfan1]

“Make up a story... For our sake and yours forget your name in the street; tell us what the world has been to you in the dark places and in the light. Don't tell us what to believe, what to fear. Show us belief's wide skirt and the stitch that unravels fear's caul.”

- Toni Morrison, The Nobel Lecture In Literature, 1993

[Haunted]

Only Irish coffee provides in a single glass all four
essential food groups: alcohol, caffeine, sugar, and fat.
~Alex Levine

[Haunted]

Learn the art of patience. Apply discipline to your thoughts
when they become anxious over the outcome of a goal.
Impatience breeds anxiety, fear, discouragement and failure.
Patience creates confidence, decisiveness and a rational outlook,
which eventually leads to success.
~ Brian Adams

[blunthead]

Always do what you are afraid to do.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson

There is no substitute for hard work.
- Thomas A. Edison

Love is an energy which exists of itself. It is its own value.
- Thornton Wilder

Any authentic work of art must start an argument between the artist and his audience.
- Rebecca West

Our nature is the mind. And the mind is our nature.
- Bodhidharma

The time to enjoy a European trip is about three weeks after unpacking.
- George Ade

[sonofcana]

It is a good thing for an uneducated man to read books of quotations. Bartlett's Familiar Quotations is an admirable work, and I studied it intently. The quotations when engraved upon the memory give you good thoughts. They also make you anxious to read the authors and look for more. (http://www.quotationspage.com/quote/26761.html)

Sir Winston Churchill, Roving Commission: My Early Life, 1930, Chapter 9

An appeaser is one who feeds a crocodile, hoping it will eat him last. (http://www.quotationspage.com/quote/39007.html)

Sir Winston Churchill

Every day you may make progress. Every step may be fruitful. Yet there will stretch out before you an ever-lengthening, ever-ascending, ever-improving path. You know you will never get to the end of the journey. But this, so far from discouraging, only adds to the joy and glory of the climb. (http://www.quotationspage.com/quote/2755.html)

Sir Winston Churchill

History will be kind to me for I intend to write it. (http://www.quotationspage.com/quote/299.html)

Sir Winston Churchill

[J.T. Adams]

'Behind every great man is a woman rolling her eyes.'

- Jim Carrey

[Garriga]

"You don't have anything to lose when you take your first whack at the pinata, but to take a second one (and a third ... and a fourth ... and a thirty-forth) is to risk failure, depression..." - Stephen King, Nightmares and Dreamscapes

[Samantha_]

"You don't have anything to lose when you take your first whack at the pinata, but to take a second one (and a third ... and a fourth ... and a thirty-forth) is to risk failure, depression..." - Stephen King, Nightmares and Dreamscapes

Yes, but you should do it anyway. Right!

[randallFlaggfan1]

"Some women have a weakness for shoes...I can go barefoot if necessary. I have a weakness for books."

-Oprah Winfrey

[blunthead]

Eaten bread is forgotten.
- Thomas Fuller

Nothing is so good as it seems beforehand.
- George Eliot

We waste time looking for the perfect lover, instead of creating the perfect love.
- Tom Robbins

One must be a living man and a posthumous artist.
- Jean Cocteau

Nature, like man, sometimes weeps from gladness.
- Benjamin Disraeli

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

[randallFlaggfan1]

Here's another great quote by one of my favorite writers:

“I, um, I have this problem. I broke up with my boyfriend, you see. And I'm pretty upset about it, so I wanted to talk to my best friend. [...] The thing is, they're both you.”
-Jodi Picoult, The Pact

[Haunted]

When small men begin to cast big shadows,
it means that the sun is about to set
~ Lyn Yutang

[blunthead]

The good and the wise lead quiet lives.
- Euripides

Love is the ultimate expression of the will to live.
- Tom Wolfe

The art of art, the glory of expression and the sunshine of the light of letters, is simplicity.
- Walt Whitman

The tree that is beside the running water is fresher and gives more fruit.
- Saint Teresa of Avila

Women need a reason to have sex. Men just need a place.
- Billy Crystal

[randallFlaggfan1]

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

-Groucho Marx, The Essential Groucho: Writings For By And About Groucho Marx

[blunthead]

Delayed Posting March 20 - 23
Please be advised that posting will be slow from Tuesday, March 20th-Friday, March 23rd as I will be traveling and in Atlanta for rehearsals of Ghost Brothers of Darkland County. Rather than closing the Board during that time (and then followed by the two week closing from March 26th-April 9th while I am on vacation and another slow posting week April 10th-13th while I'm in Atlanta for the opening of Ghost Brothers), I hope this will be a better compromise for everyone. For those who've attained the minimum post count, the Groups will still be available during the delays in posting at the normal Board hours and while I am on vacation. Thank you for your patience and understanding.

:mad:

[dsurrett]

"I was in the pool! I was in the pool!" - George Costanza

[Haunted]

Thousands of candles can be lit from a single candle,
and the life of the candle will not be shortened.
Happiness never decreases by being shared.
~ Buddha

[blunthead]

Inspiration comes of working every day.
- Charles Baudelaire

A poor man with nothing in his belly needs hope, illusion, more than bread.
- Georges Bernanos

Any time not spent on love is wasted.
- Torquato Tasso

It's amazing how a competitive nature can turn a negative into something positive.
- Barry Mann

I did not have three thousand pairs of shoes, I had one thousand and sixty.
- Imelda Marcos

[randallFlaggfan1]

“After nourishment, shelter and companionship, stories are the thing we need most in the world.”

- Philip Pullman

[Becks19]

There is no wilderness like a life without friends; friendship multiplies blessings and minimizes misfortunes; it is a unique remedy against adversity, and it soothes the soul.
- Baltasar Gracian (http://www.famousquotesandauthors.com/authors/baltasar_gracian_quotes.html)

That best portion of a good man's life, His little, nameless, unremembered acts Of kindness and of love.
- William Wordsworth (http://www.famousquotesandauthors.com/authors/william_wordsworth_quotes.html)

[J.T. Adams]

"Liars sit in chairs, you know. Truth tellers just sort of hunker down."

Randall Flagg

[randallFlaggfan1]

“Everybody else is working to change, persuade, tempt and control them. The best readers come to fiction to be free of all that noise.”

-Philip Roth

[blunthead]

When I am asked for the 'secret of my success' (an absurd idea, that, but impossible to get away from), I sometimes say there are two: I stayed physically healthy (at least until a van knocked me down by the side of the road in 1999), and I stayed married. It's a good answer because it makes the question go away, and because there is an element of truth in it. The combination of a healthy body and a stable relationship with a self-reliant woman who takes zero sh!t from me or anyone else has made the continuity of my working life possible. - Stephen King (On Writing: A Memoir of the Craft)

[Haunted]

We give up leisure in order that we may have leisure,
just as we go to war in order that we may have peace.
~ Aristotle

[J.T. Adams]

"Give the devil an inch, and he'll become a ruler."

- Unknown

[blunthead]

...let me reiterate that it's all on the table, all up for grabs. Isn't that an intoxicating thought? I think it is. Try any goddam thing you like, no matter how boringly normal or outrageous. If it works, fine. If it doesn't, toss it. Toss it even if you love it. Sir Arthur Quiller-Couch once said, "Murder your darlings," and he was right. - Stephen King (On Writing: A Memoir of the Craft)

[Becks19]

There's no way to be a perfect mother and a million ways to be a good one.
- Jill Churchill

(http://www.famousquotesandauthors.com/authors/jill_churchill_quotes.html)Life is the only art that we are required to practice without preparation, and without being allowed the preliminary trials, the failures and botches, that are essential for the training of a mere beginner.

- Lewis Mumford (http://www.famousquotesandauthors.com/authors/lewis_mumford_quotes.html)

(http://www.famousquotesandauthors.com/authors/jill_churchill_quotes.html)

[randallFlaggfan1]

"The woman let out an expansive laugh that resounded through the house like a spray of broken glass."

-Gabriel García Márquez

[Haunted]

Love is much like a wild rose, beautiful and calm,
but willing to draw blood in its defense.
~ Mark Overby

[randallFlaggfan1]

“Things have a life of their own," the gypsy proclaimed with a harsh accent. "It's simply a matter of waking up their souls.”

-Gabriel García Márquez, One Hundred Years of Solitude

[sprinco12]

My current favorite quote is:

"If you don't have the time to read, then you don't have the time or the tools to write."
-Stephen King

How true is that? Answer: 100%

[Haunted]

Three Rules of Work: Out of clutter find simplicity;
From discord find harmony;
In the middle of difficulty lies opportunity.
~ Albert Einstein

[randallFlaggfan1]

“I discovered that my obsession for having each thing in the right place, each subject at the right time, each word in the right style, was not the well-deserved reward of an ordered mind but just the opposite: a complete system of pretense invented by me to hide the disorder of my nature. I discovered that I am not disciplined out of virtue but as a reaction to my negligence, that I appear generous in order to conceal my meanness, that I pass myself off as prudent because I am evil-minded, that I am conciliatory in order not to succumb to my repressed rage, that I am punctual only to hide how little I care about other people’s time. I learned, in short, that love is not a condition of the spirit but a sign of the zodiac.”

-Gabriel García Márquez, Memories of My Melancholy Whores



"If you don't have the time to read, then you don't have the time or the tools to write."
-Stephen King

That's a favorite of mine, as well.:) Thank you for sharing.

[~Ally~]

Okay, here are a few of my favourite Oscar Wilde quotes...always guaranteed to make me chuckle/think! :love:

"Some cause happiness wherever they go; others whenever they go."

"Every saint has a past and every sinner has a future."

"Bigamy is having one wife too many. Monogamy is the same."

"Men always want to be a woman's first love, women like to be a man's last romance."

"Keep love in your heart. A life without it is like a sunless garden when all the flowers are dead."

"I am so clever that sometimes I don't understand a single word of what I am saying."

"It is absurd to divide people into good and bad. People are either charming or tedious."

And my all time favourite..."I can resist everything except temptation."


(http://www.stephenking.com/forums/redirector.php?url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.brainyquote.com%2Fquotes %2Fquotes%2Fo%2Foscarwilde131549.html)

[randallFlaggfan1]

“A true friend is the one who holds your hand and touches your heart.”

-Gabriel García Márquez

[Anni M]

"HOW YOU FREAKS DOING?"
Sebastian Bach

Hi guys, long time!!

[blunthead]

Some writers try to evade the no-adverb rule by shooting the attribution verb full of steroids. The result is familiar to any reader of pulp fiction or paperback originals:


"Put down the gun!" Jekyll grated.
"Never stop kissing me!" Shayna gasped.
"You damned tease!" Bill jerked out.

Don't do these things. Please oh please. - Stephen King (On Writing: A Memoir of the Craft)

[randallFlaggfan1]

"HOW YOU FREAKS DOING?"
Sebastian Bach

Hi guys, long time!!


Hi, Anni M-
Long time, indeed! It's great seeing you here again.:)


“In three words I can sum up everything I've learned about life: it goes on.”

-Robert Frost

[Haunted]

A loving relationship is one in which the loved one is free to be himself to laugh with me, but never at me; to cry with me, but never because of me; to love life, to love himself, to love being loved. Such a relationship is based upon freedom and can never grow in a jealous heart.
~ Leo Buscaglia

[Haunted]

Friendship is a single soul dwelling in two bodies.
~ Aristotle

[randallFlaggfan1]

A loving relationship is one in which the loved one is free to be himself to laugh with me, but never at me; to cry with me, but never because of me; to love life, to love himself, to love being loved. Such a relationship is based upon freedom and can never grow in a jealous heart.
~ Leo Buscaglia

Wow, Haunted, this definitely should belong in the What Is Love? thread, and SKMB Love (in the Dark Tower social group,) IMO.
Please and thank you.

[randallFlaggfan1]

“Have you ever been in love? Horrible isn't it? It makes you so vulnerable. It opens your chest and it opens up your heart and it means that someone can get inside you and mess you up.”

-Neil Gaiman, The Sandman, Vol. 9: The Kindly Ones

[Haunted]

Time wounds all heels."
--- Groucho Marx

[Haunted]

If you are out to describe the truth, leave elegance to the tailor."
~ Albert Einstein

[randallFlaggfan1]

“Each moment is a place you've never been.”

-Mark Strand

[days be strange]

It's hard to find an author who has such good wit and humor.

[J.T. Adams]

"A poem is a naked person... some people say that I am a poet."

- Bob Dylan

[Haunted]

It is the province of knowledge to speak,
and it is the privilege of wisdom to listen.
~ Oliver Wendell Holmes

[randallFlaggfan1]

"You don’t get to choose how you are going to die. Or when. You can only decide how you are going to live. Now."

-Joan Baez


Be the change you want to see in the world!

[Haunted]

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

[randallFlaggfan1]

“The sea is emotion incarnate. It loves, hates, and weeps. It defies all attempts to capture it with words and rejects all shackles. No matter what you say about it, there is always that which you can't.”

-Christopher Paolini, Eragon

[blunthead]

Big Tony sat down, lit a cigarette, ran a hand through his hair. ...the sentence may be flawed in a technical sense, but it's a good one in terms of the entire passage. Its brevity and telegraphic style vary the pace and keep the writing fresh. Suspense novelist Jonathan Kellerman uses this technique very successfully... It is possible to overuse the well-turned fragment...but frags can also work beautifully to streamline narration, create clear images, and create tension as well as to vary the prose-line. A series of grammatically correct proper sentences can stiffen that line, make it less pliable. Purists hate to hear that and will deny it to their dying breath, but it's true. Language does not always have to wear a tie and lace-up shoes. The object of fiction isn't grammatical correctness but to make the reader welcome and then tell a story...to make him/her forget, whenever possible, that he/she is reading a story at all. --Stephen King (On Writing: A Memoir of the Craft)

[J.T. Adams]

"That's all drugs and alchohol do, they cut off your emotions in the end."

Ringo Starr

[kingzeppelin]

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


Winston Churchill

[Becks19]

May you have warmth in your igloo, oil in your lamp, and peace in your heart.
- Eskimo proverb (http://www.famousquotesandauthors.com/authors/eskimo_proverb_quotes.html)


Everyone who knows how to read has it in their power to magnify themselves, to multiply the ways in which they exist, to make their life full, significant, and interesting.
- Aldous Huxley (http://www.famousquotesandauthors.com/authors/aldous_huxley_quotes.html)

[randallFlaggfan1]

“The plain state of being human is dramatic enough for anyone; you don't need to be a heroin addict or a performance poet to experience extremity. You just have to love someone.”

-Nick Hornby, How to Be Good

[randallFlaggfan1]

“I hope this story provokes you as much as it provoked me to write it.”

-Bill Myers, The God Hater: A Novel

[randallFlaggfan1]

“Do your bit to save humanity from lapsing back into barbarity by reading all the novels you can.”

-Richard Hughes

[kingzeppelin]

A lie gets halfway around the world before the truth has a chance to get its pants on!


Winston Churchill

[randallFlaggfan1]

“Great heroes need great sorrows and burdens, or half their greatness goes unnoticed. It is all part of the fairy tale.”

-Peter S. Beagle, The Last Unicorn

[kingzeppelin]

A pessimist sees the difficulty in every opportunity; an optimist sees the opportunity in every difficulty.


Winston Churchill

[blunthead]

Reading is the creative center of a writer's life. I take a book with me wherever I go, and find there are all sorts of opportunities to dip in. The trick is to teach yourself to read in small sips as well as in long swallows. Waiting rooms were made for books--of course! But so are theater lobbies before the show, long and boring checkout lines, and everyone's favorite, the john. You can even read while you're driving, thanks to the audiobook revolution. Of the books I read each year, anywhere from six to a dozen are on tape. As for all the wonderful radio you will be missing, come on--how many times can you listen to Deep Purple sing "Highway Star"? -Stephen King (On Writing: A Memoir of the Craft)

[kingzeppelin]

But there are advantages to being elected President. The day after I was elected, I had my high school grades classified Top Secret.


Ronald Reagan

[Sigmund]

False words are not only evil in themselves, but they infect the soul with evil.
Socrates (http://www.brainyquote.com/quotes/quotes/s/socrates118207.html)

From the deepest desires often come the deadliest hate.
Socrates (http://www.brainyquote.com/quotes/quotes/s/socrates382300.html)

[kingzeppelin]

Don't go around saying the world owes you a living.
The world owes you nothing. It was here first!


Mark Twain

[Chuggs]

From a song by the greatest band in the world. "I will hold the candle 'till it burns up my arm." --Pearl Jam
I also like, from the same song, "I'll swallow poison unitll I grow immune." and "I will scream my lungs out 'till it fills this room."

Also love, also from PJ -- I'm still alive."

And there are many, many others from this great band...and even more from other bands. And Sai King has more than a few that I love as well. :biggrin2:

[kingzeppelin]

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.


Stephen King

[blunthead]

Writing is at its best--always, always, always--when it is a kind of inspired play for the writer. I can write in cold blood if I have to, but I like it best when it's fresh and almost too hot to handle. - Stephen King (On Writing: A Memoir of the Craft)

[Becks19]

Wisdom is always an overmatch for strength.
- Phaedrus (http://www.famousquotesandauthors.com/authors/phaedrus_quotes.html)

Have you had a kindness shown? Pass it on; 'Twas not given for thee alone, Pass it on; Let it travel down the years, Let it wipe another's tears, Til in Heaven the deed appears - Pass it on.

- Rev. Henry Burton (http://www.famousquotesandauthors.com/authors/rev__henry_burton_quotes.html)

[kingzeppelin]

Dogs never bite me. Just humans.


Marilyn Monroe

[marjoriefrum]

Not sure if this one's been said, but it comes to my mind nearly every night with a tiny pang in my heart.

J.M. Barrie: Young boys should never be sent to bed...they always wake up a day older. From the movie Finding Neverland.

[kingzeppelin]

Between two evils, I always pick the one I never tried before.


Mae West

[Anni M]

Between two evils, I always pick the one I never tried before.


Mae West

May West was a Goddess....:love:
Here's another
“A woman in love can't be reasonable--or she probably wouldn't be in love.”

[J.T. Adams]

'But even the president of the United States sometimes must have to stand naked.'

- Bob Dylan

[kingzeppelin]

Cultivate your curves - they may be dangerous but they won't be avoided.


Mae West

[kingzeppelin]

The person, be it gentleman or lady, who has not pleasure in a good novel, must be intolerably stupid.


Jane Austen

[kingzeppelin]

I have a simple philosophy: Fill what's empty. Empty what's full. Scratch where it itches.


Alice Roosevelt Longworth

[marjoriefrum]

From Stephen King, DT VII: You needn't die happy when your day comes. But you must die satisfied, for you have lived your life from beginning to end and Ka is always served.

[Grrl]

"If you want to enjoy the flavor of life, take big bites. Moderation is for monks" -Robert Heinlein

[kingzeppelin]

A politician needs the ability to foretell what is going to happen tomorrow, next week, next month, and next year.
And to have the ability afterwards to explain why it didn't happen.


Winston Churchill

[kingzeppelin]

Hollywood is a place where they'll pay you a thousand dollars for a kiss and fifty cents for your soul.


Marilyn Monroe

[blunthead]

So okay--there you are in your room with the shade down and the door shut and the plug pulled out of the base of the telephone. You've blown up your TV and committed yourself to a thousand words a day, come hell or high water. Now comes the big question: What are you going to write about? And the equally big answer: Anything you damn well want. Anything at all...as long as you tell the truth. - Stephen King (On Writing: A Memoir of the Craft)

[randallFlaggfan1]

"In His time. In His time. He makes all things beautiful in His time."

-Diane Ball, In His Time

[randallFlaggfan1]

“I'm not young enough to know everything.”

J.M. Barrie, The Admirable Crichton

[kingzeppelin]

Don't keep a man guessing too long - he's sure to find the answer somewhere else.


Mae West

[blunthead]

For me, not working is the real work. When I'm writing, it's all the playground, and the worst three hours I ever spent there were still pretty damned good. - Stephen King (On Writing: A Memoir of the Craft)

[randallFlaggfan1]

“The past is never where you think you left it.”

-Katherine Anne Porter

[kingzeppelin]

All life is an experiment. The more experiments you make the better.


Ralph Waldo Emerson

[randallFlaggfan1]

"Had I the heavens' embroidered cloths,
Enwrought with golden and silver light,
The blue and the dim and the dark cloths
Of night and light and the half light,
I would spread the cloths under your feet:
But I, being poor, have only my dreams;
I have spread my dreams under your feet;
Tread softly because you tread on my dreams."

-‎William Butler Yeats, Aedh Wishes for the Cloths of Heaven

[Becks19]

Does it afflict you to find your books wearing out? I mean literally .. . the mortality of all inanimate things is terrible to me, but that of books most of all.
- William Dean Howells (http://www.famousquotesandauthors.com/authors/william_dean_howells_quotes.html)

Be strong! It matters not how deep entrenched the wrong How hard the battle goes, the day how long. Faint not-fight on! Tomorrow comes the song.
- Maltbie D. Babcock (http://www.famousquotesandauthors.com/authors/maltbie_d__babcock_quotes.html)


A president's hardest task is not to do what's right, but to know what's right.
- Lyndon B. Johnson (http://www.famousquotesandauthors.com/authors/lyndon_b__johnson_quotes.html)


All of us collect fortunes when we are children. A fortune of colors, of lights, and darkness, of movement, of tensions. Some of us have the fantastic chance to go back to his fortune when grown up.
- Ingmar Bergman (http://www.famousquotesandauthors.com/authors/ingmar_bergman_quotes.html)

[kingzeppelin]

Any idiot can face a crisis - it's day to day living that wears you out.


Anton Chekhov

[randallFlaggfan1]

“A mother is the truest friend we have, when trials heavy and sudden fall upon us; when adversity takes the place of prosperity; when friends desert us; when trouble thickens around us, still will she cling to us, and endeavor by her kind precepts and counsels to dissipate the clouds of darkness, and cause peace to return to our hearts.”

―Washington Irving

[valorie9]

"Rudeness Is A Weak Imitation Of Strength."

-Eric Hoffer

[Becks19]

If a blade of grass can grow in a concrete walk and a fig tree in the side of a mountain cliff, a human being empowered with an invincible faith can survive all odds the world can throw against his tortured soul.
- Robert H. Schuller (http://www.famousquotesandauthors.com/authors/robert_h__schuller_quotes.html)

[kingzeppelin]

A dame that knows the ropes isn't likely to get tied up.


Mae West

[RomanianDolores]

"Be the kind of woman, when your feet hit the ground in the morning, the devil says: holy crap, she's up"

[blunthead]

The closed door is your way of telling the world and yourself that you mean business; you have made a serious commitment to write and intend to walk the walk as well as talk the talk... When you write, you want to get rid of the world, do you not? Of course you do. When you're writing you're creating your own worlds... But you need the room, you need the door, and you need the determination to shut the door. - Stephen King (On Writing: A Memoir of the Craft)

[randallFlaggfan1]

“You want proof there's a God? Look outside, watch a sunset.”

-Frank Peretti

[Becks19]

Friends are an aid to the young, to guard them from error; to the elderly, to attend to their wants and to supplement their failing power of action; to those in the prime of life, to assist them to noble deeds.
- Aristotle (http://www.famousquotesandauthors.com/authors/aristotle_quotes.html)

[valorie9]

Tell me what kind of company you are, and I'll tell you what I keep.

[mjs9153]

Friends are an aid to the young, to guard them from error; to the elderly, to attend to their wants and to supplement their failing power of action; to those in the prime of life, to assist them to noble deeds.
- Aristotle (http://www.stephenking.com/forums/redirector.php?url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.famousquotesandauthors.c om%2Fauthors%2Faristotle_quotes.html) Today was important for me,been walkin on eggshells,and found I am still strong like bull! as Ben Stiller says in 'Theres something about Mary'..anyhow,just before headin out to the doc's office,my favorite Gunsmoke episode was on(yeah I know,old fart,but heck I was probably four the first time I saw this one) and it is Matt Dillon,bidding goodbye to his young friend Paco.."Paco,I'll tell you something,you and I are friends,and friends don't forget,not ever..' Paco gives him his father's handmade crucifix'..Goodbye,Paco,my friend.." and rides off into the desert.. Matt was the original gunslinger,tough,laconic,yet funny and good..as it happens,I made some friends here this week,so this quote,added with Becks19 and my fortunate news,reinforces my belief that Ka is indeed a wheel..:wink2:

[kingzeppelin]

“At bottom, you see, we are not Homo sapiens at all. Our core is madness. The prime directive is murder. What Darwin was too polite to say, my friends, is that we came to rule the earth not because we were the smartest, or even the meanest, but because we have always been the craziest, most murderous mothersmuckers in the jungle.”


Stephen King Cell