Favourite Quotes and Quotations

**Haunted** · June 22nd, 2011

A real friend is one who walks in when the rest of the world walks out.
Walter Winchell

**Haunted** · June 23rd, 2011

"When everyone thinks alike, no one thinks very much."

~ Walter Lippmann

**blunthead** · June 23rd, 2011

Bob Dylan vol 2...

Being on tour is like being in limbo. It's like going from nowhere to nowhere.

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

Chaos is a friend of mine.

Colleges are like old-age homes, except for the fact that more people die in colleges.

He not busy being born is busy dying.

I accept chaos, I'm not sure whether it accepts me.

I am against nature. I don't dig nature at all. I think nature is very unnatural. I think the truly natural things are dreams, which nature can't touch with decay.

I consider myself a poet first and a musician second. I live like a poet and I'll die like a poet.

I define nothing. Not beauty, not patriotism. I take each thing as it is, without prior rules about what it should be.

I don't think the human mind can comprehend the past and the future. They are both just illusions that can manipulate you into thinking there's some kind of change.

**Becks19** · June 23rd, 2011

Dictionaries are like watches. The worst is better than none at all and even the best cannot be expected to run quite true.
- Samuel Johnson

**Haunted** · June 24th, 2011

Of all forms of caution, caution in love is perhaps the most fatal to true happiness.
~ Bertrand Russell

**blunthead** · June 27th, 2011

Bob Dylan vol 3...

If I wasn't Bob Dylan, I'd probably think that Bob Dylan has a lot of answers myself.

Just because you like my stuff doesn't mean I owe you anything.

No one is free, even the birds are chained to the sky.

People seldom do what they believe in. They do what is convenient, then repent.

People today are still living off the table scraps of the sixties. They are still being passed around - the music and the ideas.

Take care of all your memories. For you cannot relive them.

When you cease to exist, then who will you blame?

There is nothing so stable as change.

This land is your land and this land is my land, sure, but the world is run by those that never listen to music anyway.

To live outside the law, you must be honest.

**Haunted** · June 27th, 2011

Everything that is done in the world is done by hope.
~ Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.

**Becks19** · June 27th, 2011

A woman is like a tea bag: you never know her strength until you drop her in hot water.
- Nancy Reagan

Have you noticed when you go on a diet, the first thing you lose is your temper.
- Robert Orben

The artist has a special task and duty; the task of reminding men of their humanity and the promise of their creativity.
- Lewis Mumford

Giving kids clothes and food is one thing, but it's much more important to teach them that other people besides themselves are important and that the best thing they can do with their lives is to use them in the service of other people.
- Dolores Huerta

An Arabian proverb says there are four sorts of men: He who knows not and knows not he knows not: he is a fool-shun him. He who knows not and knows he knows not: he is simple-teach him. He who knows and knows not he knows: he is asleep-wake him. He who knows and knows he knows: he is wise-follow him.
- Lady Isabel Burton

**blunthead** · June 28th, 2011

Dr. Seuss quotes vol 1...

Be who you are and say what you feel, because those who mind don't matter, and those who matter don't mind.

Don't cry because it's over, smile because it happened.

You know you're in love when you can't fall asleep because reality is finally better than your dreams.

I like nonsense, it wakes up the brain cells.

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...

Sometimes the questions are complicated and the answers are simple.

Today you are You, that is truer than true. There is no one alive who is Youer than You.

The more that you read, the more things you will know. The more that you learn, the more places you'll go.

A person's a person, no matter how small.

We are all a little weird and life's a little weird, and when we find someone whose weirdness is compatible with ours, we join up with them and fall in mutual weirdness and call it love.