April 30, 2008

Buying the right computer and getting it to work properly is no more complicated than building a nuclear reactor from wristwatch parts in a darkened room using only your teeth.

- Dave Barry

April 29, 2008

I don't think jogging is healthy, especially morning jogging. If morning joggers knew how tempting they looked to morning motorists, they would stay home and do sit-ups.

- Rita Rudner

I have as much chance of becoming Prime Minister as of being decapitated by a frisbee or of finding Elvis.

- Boris Johnson

April 28, 2008

Sitting around looking out of the window to kill time is one thing but doing it the way you are with binoculars and wild opinions about every little thing you see is, is diseased!

- Rear Window

April 27, 2008

You never really learn to swear until you learn to drive.

- Author Unknown

You can start by wiping that fucking dumb-ass smile off your rosey, fucking, cheeks! Then you can give me a fucking automobile: a fucking Datsun, a fucking Toyota, a fucking Mustang, a fucking Buick! Four fucking wheels and a seat!

- Planes, Trains & Automobiles

Both humans and dogs love to play well into adulthood, and individuals from both species occasionally display evidence of having a conscience.

- Jon Winokur

April 26, 2008

Enjoyin' the ride? Man, it's a fast car, huh? Man, it's a classic. Old school. American muscle. Man, this car can do all kinda things, man. Wanna see?

- 2 Fast 2 Furious

You got a fast car
I want a ticket to anywhere
Maybe we make a deal
Maybe together we can get somewhere
Anyplace is better
Starting from zero got nothing to lose
Maybe we'll make something
But me myself I got nothing to prove

- Tracy Chapman, "Fast Car"

April 25, 2008

What? Cat got your tongue?

- Practical Magic

The bed has become a place of luxury to me! I would not exchange it for all the thrones in the world.

- Napoleon Bonaparte

April 24, 2008

The most refined skills of color printing, the intricate techniques of wide-angle photography, provide us pictures of trivia bigger and more real than life. We forget that we see trivia and notice only that the reproduction is so good. Man fulfils his dream and by photographic magic produces a precise image of the Grand Canyon. The result is not that he adores nature or beauty the more. Instead he adores his camera -- and himself.

- Daniel J. Boorstin

It's an older one, but I found the images in my Alaska photos, and I'd never stitched them together, so I finally did, and it looks great!

April 23, 2008

This bracelet is woven using Turk's head knots. These knots date back to 1833 and are turban shaped knots worked on a rope with a small piece of line. Sailors made the bracelets and then allowed them to shrink to size on their wrists. A great souvenir of the old-time sailing days.

April 22, 2008

Gravity. It keeps you rooted to the ground. In space, there's not any gravity. You just kind of leave your feet and go floating around.

- Northern Exposure

April 21, 2008

More tears are shed over answered prayers than unanswered ones.

- Capote

April 20, 2008

Because of you
I never stray too far from the sidewalk
Because of you
I learned to play on the safe side so I don't get hurt.

- Reba McEntire & Kelly Clarkson, "Because of You"

April 19, 2008

You've just one problem. You stand too close to the ball after you've hit it.

- Bob Allen

The road to the City of Emeralds is paved with yellow brick.

- L. Frank Baum

April 18, 2008

Didn't you're mother ever tell you not to play with your food?! "That's like the quietest tour ever!"

- Hillary, about a deaf campus tour group.

And plant our dreams where the peaceful river cools
Where the green grass grows.

- Tim McGraw, "Where the Green Grass Grows"

April 17, 2008

Hey that's the way we do it
New friends and blue skies that never end
Hey that's the way we like it
Good times, sunshine and summertime...

- Faith Hill, "Sunshine and Summertime"

April 16, 2008

It was time well wasted
And there's no way I trade a few more dollars in my pocket I could've spent
For a day I'll never forget
No, I didn't get a thing done
But I sure soaked up every minute of the memory we were makin'
And I count it all as time well wasted

- Brad Paisley, Time Well Wasted

April 15, 2008

You don't know what we can see
Why don't you tell your dreams to me
Fantasy will set you free
Close your eyes girl
Look inside girl
Let the sound take you away...

- Steppenwolf, Magic Carpet Ride

April 14, 2008

Whatcha got ain't nothing new. This country's hard on people. you can't stop what's coming, it ain't all waiting on you. That's vanity.

- No Country for Old Men

I fit in better than you. At least I'm wearing cowboy boots!

- My Cousin Vinny

April 13, 2008

She just goes a little mad sometimes. We all go a little mad sometimes.

- Norman Bates, Alfred Hitchcock's Psycho

April 12, 2008

I am scared easily, here is a list of my adrenaline - production: 1 small children, 2 policemen, 3 high places, 4 that my next movie will not be as good as the last one.

- Alfred Hitchcock

April 11, 2008

All this time I thought I had pretzeled fate and that it had to be untwisted, but what I had never considered is that the whole thing IS a pretzel. A beautiful 4D pretzel of kismetic inevitability.

- Kate & Leopold

April 10, 2008

In the morning, we carry the world like Atlas; At noon, we stoop and bend beneath it; And at night, it crushes us flat to the ground.

- Henry Ward Beecher

April 09, 2008

"If you could only see yourself!"
"What's the matter?"
"Sitting around looking out of the window to kill time is one thing, but doing it the way you are with binoculars and wild opinions about every little thing you see is, is diseased!"

- Rear Window

April 08, 2008

Why is there no such organization as Chocoholics Anonymous?

- Because no one wants to quit.

April 07, 2008

What good is sitting alone in your room? Come hear the music play. Life is a Cabaret, old chum, Come to the Cabaret.

- Cabaret

April 06, 2008

And now relentless hours of dreaming up her smell, And I feel as if I am looking at the world form the bottom of a well.

- Mike Doughty, "Looking at the World from the bottom of a Well"

Sure, the lion is king of the jungle, But airdrop him into Antarctica, and he's just a penguin's bitch.

- Dennis Miller

April 05, 2008

Lost time is never found again.

- Benjamin Franklin

You got to go to the lonesome valley
You got to go there by yourself
Nobody else can go for you
You got to go there by yourself

- "Lonesome Valley", The Fairfield Four, O Brother Where Art Thou Soundtrack

You cannot do yoga. Yoga is your natural state. What you can do are yoga exercises, which may reveal to you where you are resisting your natural state.

- Sharon Gannon

There are no road signs to help navigate. And in fact, no one has yet determined which side of the road we're supposed to be on.

- Steve Case

I'm just sittin' out here watchin' airplanes
Take off and fly
Tryin' to figure out which one you might be on
And why you don't love me anymore
Right now, I'm sittin' out here watchin' airplanes.

- "Watching Airplanes," Gary Allan

April 04, 2008

Men are like parking spots, all the good ones are taken and the rest are handicapped.

- Someone told me this one in High School

April 03, 2008

A woman is not a potted plant her roots bound to the confines of her house. A woman is wilderness unbounded.

- Alice Walker

(playing around with an older photo and some text)

You unlock this door with the key of imagination. Beyond it is another dimension - a dimension of sound, a dimension of sight, a dimension of mind. You're moving into a land of both shadow and substance, of things and ideas. You've just crossed over into the Twilight Zone.

April 02, 2008

Grab your coat, and get your hat;
Leave your worry on the doorstep;
Just direct your feet;
To the sunny side of the street.

- Dorothy Fields

April 01, 2008

Daydream
I fell asleep beneath the flowers
For a couple of hours
On a beautiful day
Daydream
I dream of you amid the flowers
For a couple of hours
Such a beautiful day;

- Daydreaming, Lupe Fiasco