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

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Soon gave me to know he was headed for my bed!"

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May God have mercy on my twisted little soul...

[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