May 31, 2008

I've spent $40,000 on shoes and I have no place to live? I will literally be the old woman who lived in her shoes!

- Sex in the City

May 30, 2008

No one can see their reflection in running water.
It is only in still water that we can see.

- Taoist proverb

May 29, 2008

There must be quite a few things that a hot bath won't cure, but I don't know many of them.

- Sylvia Plath

May 28, 2008

Big sisters are the crab grass in the lawn of life.

- Charles M. Schulz

May 27, 2008

A story I was told tonight by my cousin. She had to do a fitting of a wedding dress then we were going to go out. She was waiting for the bride to come over, and she was late. When she finally got to her house, she found out that the bride was in a car accident. the car got totally mangled apparently, but the bride didn't hurt anything but a finger...her ring finger somehow got hurt and is all swelled up... the wedding is this weekend... kara? fate? or bad freaking luck?

May 26, 2008

For death is no more than a turning of us over from time to eternity.

- William Penn

May 25, 2008

Gatsby's wonder when he first picked out the green light at the end of Daisy's dock, his dream must have seemed so close that he could hardly fail to grasp it. He did not know that it was already behind him.

- F. Scott Fitzgerald, The Great Gatsby

The foolish man seeks happiness in the distance; the wise grows it under his feet.

- James Oppenheim

When life gives you lemons, you make lemonade. I have several stands around here.

- James Brady

Learn of the little nautilus to sail, Spread the thin oar, and catch the driving gale.

- Alexander Pope, 'Essay on Man'

Ain't nothing out here but me, the road, and the radio
Lookin' for an exit, and a song that I might know
Countin' down the memories, addin' up the miles
Searching for a feeling, that I ain't felt in a while.

- Kenny Chesney, "The Road and the Radio"

Thoreau writes: There is a solid bottom everywhere. We read that the traveller asked the boy if the swamp before him had a hard bottom. The boy replied that it had. But presently the traveller's horse sank in up to the girths,and he observed to the boy, "I thought you said that this bog had a hard bottom." "So it has," answered the latter, "but you have not got half way to it yet." So it is with the bogs and quicksands of society; but he is an old boy that knows it.

- Thoreau/quoted by Dead Like Me

Leaves of three, leave'm be.

The object of reflection is invariably the discovery of something satisfying to the mind which was not there at the beginning of the search.

- Ernest Dimnet

May 24, 2008

Ice cream is happiness condensed.

- Jessi Lane Adams

May 23, 2008

Science, or para-science, tells us that geraniums bloom better if they are spoken to. But a kind word every now and then is really quite enough. Too much attention, like too much feeding, and weeding and hoeing, inhibits and embarrasses them.

- Victoria Glendinning

Under the green hedges, after the snow,
There do the dear little violets grow;
Hiding their modest and beautiful heads
Under the hawthorn in soft mossy beds.

Sweet as the roses and blue as the sky,
Down there do the dear little violets lie;
Hiding their heads where they scarce may be seen,
By the leaves you may know where the violet hath been.

- John Moultrie, Violets

Flowers have spoken to me more than I can tell in written words. They are the hieroglyphics of angels, loved by all men for the beauty of their character, though few can decipher even fragments of their meaning.

- Lydia M. Child, Letters from New York

How do you say no to this face?

May 22, 2008

Home, the spot of earth supremely blest,
A dearer, sweeter spot than all the rest.

- Robert Montgomery

May 22, 2008

Wednesday, May 21, 2008

The car has become... an article of dress without which we feel uncertain, unclad, and incomplete.

- Marshall McLuhan, Understanding Media

May 20, 2008

Basically we have a 'f--- you' button. It's not a taunt button. It's a 'f--- you' button.

- Pete Wanat

May 19, 2008

Beginning today, treat everyone you meet as if they were going to be dead by midnight. Extend to them all the care, kindness and understanding you can muster, and do it with no thought of any reward. Your life will never be the same again.

- Og Mandino

May 18, 2008

Passion, it lies in all of us, sleeping... waiting... and though unwanted... unbidden... it will stir... open its jaws and howl. It speaks to us... guides us... passion rules us all, and we obey. What other choice do we have? Passion is the source of our finest moments. The joy of love... the clarity of hatred... and the ecstasy of grief. It hurts sometimes more than we can bear. If we could live without passion maybe we'd know some kind of peace... but we would be hollow... Empty rooms shuttered and dank. Without passion we'd be truly dead.

- Joss Whedon

May 17, 2008

Life is full of beauty. Notice it. Notice the bumble bee, the small child, and the smiling faces. Smell the rain, and feel the wind. Live your life to the fullest potential, and fight for your dreams.

- Ashley Smith

Learning how to roll a coin over your fingers is a lot harder then it seems, but thats my goal, to eventually be able to do it... this may take a while.

May 16, 2008

You know something, you ain't nothing special. You got no manners, you treat woman like whores and if you ask me you got no chance of being no officer.

- An Officer and a Gentleman

May 15, 2008

There are two kinds of light - the glow that illumines, and the glare that obscures.

- James Thurber

May 14, 2008

A balanced diet is a cookie in each hand.

We picked the Red Sox because they lose. If you root for something that loses for 86 years, you're a pretty good fan. You don't have to win everything to be a fan of something.

- Jimmy Fallon

May 13, 2008

She looks good swiss cheese put your head from the hose
A pistol's sneaking tease more than I can ignore
A quick lap round the track, man, she's keeping me active.

- Diamond Nights, "The Girl's Attractive"

Never be afraid to sit awhile and think.

- Lorraine Hansberry, A Raisin in the Sun

Imagine me and you, I do
I think about you day and night, it's only right
To think about the girl you love and hold her tight
So happy together.

- The Turtles, "Happy Together"

Livin on love, buyin on time
Without somebody nothing aint worth a dime
Just like an old fashioned story book rhyme
Livin on love
It sounds simple thats what you're thinkin'
But love can walk through fire without blinkin'
It doesnt take much when you get enough
Livin' on love.

- Alan Jackson, "Livin' On Love"

April is the cruelest month, breeding lilacs out of the dead land, mixing memory and desire, stirring dull roots with spring rain.

- T.S. Eliot

How much wood could a woodchuck chuck if a woodchuck could chuck wood?

May 12, 2008

I want to wake up in the city that never sleeps
To find I'm king of the hill, top of the heap.

- Frank Sinatra, "New York, New York"

When I'm hungry, I eat. When I'm thirsty, I drink. When I feel like saying something, I say it.

- Madonna

I cannot go with you or ever see you again. You must not ask why. Just believe that I love you. Go, my darling, and God bless you.

- Casablanca

May 11, 2008

Think what a better world it would be if we all, the whole world, had cookies and milk about three o'clock every afternoon and then lay down on our blankets for a nap.

- Barbara Jordan

My second favorite household chore is ironing. My first being hitting my head on the top bunk bed until I faint.

- Erma Bombeck

May 10, 2008

Who can say where the road goes
Where the day flows, only time
And who can say if your love grows
As your heart chose, only time.

- Enya, "Only Time"

May 09, 2008

I always say shopping is cheaper than a psychiatrist.

- Tammy Faye Bakker

May 08, 2008

That's not writing, that's typing.

- Truman Capote

May 07, 2008

For working professionals in the photography industry, a pen represents the ability to control images in a way that’s at the very heart of the promise of digital imaging. Working on a pen tablet or directly on screen with an interactive pen display is simply the most natural way to retouch photos, and it allows you to produce results in less time.

May 06, 2008

Writing is easy: All you do is sit staring at a blank sheet of paper until drops of blood form on your forehead.

- Gene Fowle

May 05, 2008

After that my guess is that you will never hear from him again. The greatest trick the devil ever pulled was convincing the world he did not exist. And like that... he is gone.

- The Usual Suspects

May 04, 2008

The test for model utility can only be seen with transmitted light which reveals information about the character....