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A Quote Thread....

"Never separate the life you live from the words you speak." -Senator Paul Wellstone

“The only people for me are the mad ones, the ones who are mad to live, mad to talk, mad to be saved, desirous of everything at the same time, the ones who never yawn or say a commonplace thing, but burn, burn, burn, like fabulous yellow roman candles exploding like spiders across the stars...” - Jack Kerouac


Brilliant.
 
"Careful the things you say, children will listen." -- Stephen Sondheim (from Into The Woods)

"Everyone's a little bit racist." -- Robert Lopez & Jeff Marx (from Avenue Q)

"For a dreamer night's the only time of day." -- Alan Menken & Jack Feldman (from Newsies)

"Better to remain silent and be thought a fool, than to speak and remove all doubt." -- Abraham Lincoln

"Censorship can kiss my <BEEP!>" -- FestiveCheez ;)
 
Liberty without socialism is privilege and injustice, socialism without liberty is slavery and brutality.
--Micheal Bakunin

Interviewer - 'What do you think of western civilisation?'
Ghandi - 'I think it would be a very good idea!'


"I think this is a very hard choice, but the price, we think, is worth it"
- Madeleine Albright, in response to the question: "Are the lives of 500,000 Iraqi children too high a price to pay?"

>>when language is used clearly, philosophical problems are found to dissolve>>

I'm not so sure if Wittgenstein was right on this count.

ebola
 
"Those who dance are considered insane by those who can't hear the music."
-George Carlin

"If you fall asleep on the couch in a house where a woman is present, there will be a blanket or a coat covering you when you awaken."
-George Carlin

"I go to bed early. My favorite dream comes on at nine."
-George Carlin

"I hope, too, that I will be able to begin serving my sentence in the very near future because I would like to be back as early in March as possible in order to plant the spring garden.''
-Martha Stewart

"He who wears his morality but as his best garment were better naked."
-Khalil Gibran

"And when the earth shall claim your limbs, then shall you truly dance."
-Khalil Gibran
 
^ that's nice.

i misquoted my bumper sticker though. it should be:

Reality is for people without an imagination.
 
Not a quote per se but something I read today:

Tao-Hsin came to Seng-Ts'an and asked,
"What is the method of liberation?"
"Who binds you?" replied Seng-Ts'an.
"No one binds me."
"Why then," asked Seng-Ts'an, "should you seek liberation?"
And this was Tao-hsin's awakening.
 
"We had sex, drugs and rock & roll, now all we have is AIDS, crack and techno" -- unknown
 
Reality is for people who can't handle drugs
(i dont remeber who said this)

'Your actions are detrimental to my groove'
(a friend at uni)

She hasn't seen Back to the Future? No wonder shes so fucked up!
(another friend)

If at first you dont succeed, destroy all evidence that you tried.

The probability of screwing up is proportional to the number of people watching.
 
"As democracy is perfected, the office of President represents, more and
more closely, the inner soul of the people. On some great and Glorious day,
the plain folks of the land will reach their hearts' desire at last, and
the White House will be adorned by a downright moron."

H.L. Mencken (1880-1956)
 
"There were opium dens where one could buy oblivion, dens of horror where the memory of old sins could be destroyed by the madness of sins that were new"
Oscar Wilde
The Picture of Dorian Gray (1891)


These women who had shared his life at one time or another were to go on uttering feeble squeaks of pleasure and pain and making a movement or two......enough to show that some breath of life still remained in them as they hung on a thread whose other end he still held in his hand.
Francoise Gilot, on ex husband Picasso1964
 
"Embrace chaos."--me

"Bubble, bubble, toil and trouble."--Shakespeare

"Ride the lightning."--Metallica album/t-shirt

"That which once was shall once more be."--seen on the back of a black t-shirt

"Molecular structure is the key to understanding."--one of the Transformer's slogans, found on the outside of the 1980's toy box

"And I'm learnin' to fly, but I ain't got wings. Coming down is the hardest thing."--Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers

"When you're high, you never ever want to come down."--Guns 'n Roses

"I have become comfortably numb."--Pink Floyd

"Have you seen the light?"--The Grateful Dead

"I'm livin' till I die."--The Stone Roses

"We have met the enemy, and he is us."--Woody Allen

"Listen to the sound of Kim as she licks on the cock."--Eminem

"Fuck Armageddon, this is Hell."--written on the wall once at a bar circa 2002.

"Most people keep their brains between their legs."--Morrissey

"I don't know if it was Heaven or Hell, but it was wonderful."--former denizen of the now long defunct NYC superclub Studio 54

"Down here everything is fine. We have a straw. We have a line. We have a bag, a rock, a mountain..."--The Tear Garden

"You can't go to heaven if you're afraid to get high."--recent dance music lyric heard on satellite radio

"Why, cocaine isn't addictive! I've been doing it for years."--unknown

"Doing cocaine is like having a beautiful girlfriend who treats you like shit."--unknown

"It [drug addiction] is not a problem as long as you have more drugs."--some kid I met once.

"In Xanadu did Kubla Kahn a stately pleasure dome decree."--Samuel Taylor Coleridge

"One is too many and a thousand is never enough."--AA/NA slogan

"Half-measures availed us nothing."--another AA/NA slogan

"Progress, not perfection."--AA/NA slogan

"Once a cucumber (i.e., a normal person) has been turned into a pickle (i.e., a drug addict), it can never go back to being a cucumber again.''--what they told us in rehab.

(This last entry is similar to Biggie Smalls' blunt statement, "You can't turn a 'ho into a housewife.")

"There some ho's in this house! There some ho's in this house! There some ho's in this house!"--breakbeat/booty shake remix by DJ Sikora called "All Funked Up" and available for free download at http://edmplanet.com

"Well, your best judgement has gotten you landed in here."--rehab saying

"When you get older, your body won't look so good. It won't look so good."--Tricky

"Angels can fly because they take themselves lightly."--unknown but found in one of my angel books

"Hell is other people."--Jean Paul Sartre

"All I have to do is live my life."--Sonic Youth

And from PiHKAL,

"Life is not a problem to be solved, but rather a mystery to be lived."--Kirkegaard

Certain quotations make me happy.
 
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"For a long time it seemed to me that life was about to begin - real life. But there was always some obstacle in the way, something to be gotten through first, some unfinished business, time still to be served, a debt to be paid. At last it dawned on me that these obstacles were my life. This perspective has helped me to see there is no way to happiness. Happiness is the way. So treasure every moment you have and remember that time waits for no one."
 
YetAnotherKat said:
"For a long time it seemed to me that life was about to begin - real life. But there was always some obstacle in the way, something to be gotten through first, some unfinished business, time still to be served, a debt to be paid. At last it dawned on me that these obstacles were my life. This perspective has helped me to see there is no way to happiness. Happiness is the way. So treasure every moment you have and remember that time waits for no one."

That has enlightened me! Well done!
 
Unless a man or woman has experienced the darkness of the soul he or she can know nothing of that transforming laughter without which no hint of the ultimate reality of the opposites can be faintly intuited. - Luke

You all laugh at me because I am different, I laugh at you because you are all the same.

If men recognize no law superior to their desires, then they must fight when their desires collide.

One might say that the true subject of
the horror genre is the struggle for
recognition of all that our civilization
represses and oppresses.
Robin Wood

The elegance of honesty needs no adornment.
MerryBrown

The greatest gift you can give another
is the purity of your attention.
Richard Moss

It is only by closing the ears of the soul, or by
listening too intently to the clamors of the sense,
that we become oblivious of their utterances.
Alexander Crummell

All children are first shocked out of the womb of a mother's world before they can know that loneliness is their heritage and their only means of rediscovering men and women"
JackKerouac

and this is quite sad

I quickly laugh at everything,
for fear of having to cry.
Pierre de Beaumarchais
 
Heaven and Earth are not humane, they deal in straw dogs- lao tsu.

The serene confidence of a Christian in four aces- Mark Twain
 
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