July 31, 2008

The pizza is round, the garbage can is round, why can't the box be round?

- Home Improvement

July 30, 2008

Life's real failure is when you do not realize how close you were to success when you gave up.

Like the luck in the 3-leaf clovers
common wheat, food of heaven
across the world, a bumper crop
We are the wheat too, living
in a world of weeds
destined to grow among them
find our path to be set apart
to make choices
of a path less traveled
by the crowd, by the rest
make choices to be
different, at the end of the age
the moment of harvest.

- "Wheat of the Harvest" by Raymond A. Foss

God, I wish I was Bugs Bunny.

- Lucas Zarwell

July 29, 2008

Sittin' in the mornin' sun
I'll be sittin' when the evenin' come
Watching the ships roll in
And then I watch 'em roll away again, yeah...

I'm sittin' on the dock of the bay
Watching the tide roll away
Ooo, I'm just sittin' on the dock of the bay
Wastin' time

- Otis Redding, "Sitting on the Dock of the Bay"

Hell is the place of those who have denied;
They find there what they planted and what dug,
A Lake of Spaces, and a Wood of Nothing,
And wander there and drift, and never cease
Wailing for substance.

- William Butler Yeats

Nothing is more memorable than a smell. One scent can be unexpected, momentary and fleeting, yet conjure up a childhood summer beside a lake in the mountains...

- Diane Ackerman

Now I'm walkin' in the moonlight,
Seein' nothin' but the taillights
And that's a pair of taillights
I may never see again
She hit me with the left and right,
Showin' me nothin' but the taillights
And that's about as lonely
As the highway's ever been
Back here with my thumb out in the wind...

- Clint Black, "Nothin' But the Tail Lights"

July 28, 2008

I'd be tired too if I were making mysterious phone calls last night from my bathroom.

- The Parent Trap

July 27, 2008

If you buy what you don't need, you steal from yourself.

- Swedish Proverb

Like so many others, I had become a slave to the Ikea nesting instinct.

- Fight Club

The Lonely Diner

July 26, 2008

I was thinking about cutting my hair right after the season. I knew if I came here it would be a big deal.

- Johnny Damon

July 25, 2008

When you rise in the morning, give thanks for the light, for your life, for your strength. Give thanks for your food and for the joy of living. If you see no reason to give thanks, the fault lies in yourself.

- Tecumseh

Intricate and untraceable
weaving and interweaving,
dark strand with light:
designed, beyond
all spiderly contrivance,
to link, not to entrap:
elation, grief, joy, contrition, entwined;
shaking, changing,
forever
forming,
transforming:
all praise,
all praise to the
great web.

- Denise Levertov

A fireplace is a very popular architectural element. It can set the scale and mood within the room.

- Gary Lewis

July 24, 2008

Our deepest fear is not that we are inadequate. Our deepest fear is that we are powerful beyond measure. It is our light, not our darkness, that frightens us most. We ask ourselves, 'Who am I to be brilliant, gorgeous, talented, and famous?' Actually, who are you not to be? You are a child of God. Your playing small does not serve the world. There is nothing enlightened about shrinking so that people won't feel insecure around you. We were born to make manifest the glory of God that is within us. It's not just in some of us; it's in all of us. And when we let our own light shine, we unconsciously give other people permission to do the same. As we are liberated from our own fear, our presence automatically liberates others.

- Maryanne Williamson

July 23, 2008

It is difficult to realize how great a part of all that is cheerful and delightful in the recollections of our own life is associated with trees.

- Wilson Flagg

Plants are the young of the world, vessels of health and vigor; but they grope ever upward towards consciousness; the trees are imperfect men, and seem to bemoan their imprisonment, rooted in the ground.

- Ralph Waldo Emerson

Unlimited technology from the whole universe, and we cruise 'round in a Ford P.O.S.

- Men In Black

July 22, 2008

I have friends who I get along with who I know get very uncomfortable being alone, unless they're with people, talking all the time. Whether it's on the phone, or in person, they're never by themselves. Whereas I could be alone for months.

- Viggo Mortensen

If suffering brought wisdom, the dentist's office would be full of luminous ideas.

- Mason Cooley

July 21, 2008

What is a great love of books? It is something like a personal introduction to the great and good men of all past times. Books, it is true, are silent as you see them on their shelves; but silent as they are, when I enter a library I feel as if almost the dead were present, and I know if I put questions to these books they will answer me with all the faithfulness and fulness which has been left in them by the great men who have left the books with us.

- John Bright

You're looking at a tableau of reality, things of substance, of physical material: a desk, a window, a light. These things exist and have dimension. Now this is Arthur Curtis, age thirty-six, who also is real. He has flesh and blood, muscle and mind. But in just a moment we will see how thin a line separates that which we assume to be real with that manufactured inside of a mind.

- The Twilight Zone

You have to find something that you love enough to be able to take risks, jump over the hurdles and break through the brick walls that are always going to be placed in front of you. If you don't have that kind of feeling for what it is you are doing, you'll stop at the first giant hurdle.

- George Lucas

July 20, 2008

Warm summer sun, shine kindly here. Warm southern wind, blow softly here. Green sod above, lie light, lie light. Good night, dear Heart, Good night, good night.

- Mark Twain

July 19, 2008

At this point, I figured that the supervisors would notice the Jet Ski floating without a rider. I assumed that they would immediately come and find me. I was mad, but mainly because I thought my family would make fun of me for wiping out once I got back to land.

- Patrick Hannon

Lost my Oakley sunglasses here...and this is probably the same time my phone got filled with water and died.

My Mom said she learned how to swim when someone took her out in the lake and threw her off the boat. I said, "Mom, they weren't trying to teach you how to swim."

- Paula Poundstone --American comedienne

If people concentrated on the important things in life, there would be a severe shortage of fishing poles.

- Unknown

July 18, 2008

Cinema is the most beautiful fraud in the world.

- Jean-Luc Godard

I have a dream, a fantasy
To help me through reality
And my destination makes it worth the while
Pushing through the darkness still another mile
I believe in angels
Something good in everything I see
I believe in angels
When I know the time is right for me
Ill cross the stream - I have a dream

- ABBA, "I Have a Dream"

July 17, 2008

Bad man gwabs twee wittle puppies.

- 102 Dalmations

The best doctor in the world is a veterinarian. He can't ask his patients what is the matter -- he's got to just know.

- Will Rogers

Shadow: Something doesn't smell right. They've been gone too long. Far too long! Much longer than they've ever been!
Chance: Wake up and smell the kibble. They dumped us!

- Homeward Bound

July 16, 2008

The laundry has its hands on my dirty shirts, sheets, towels and tablecloths, and who knows what tales they tell.

- Joseph Smith

July 15, 2008

Golf is, in part, a game; but only in part. It is also in part a religion, a fever, a vice, a mirage, a frenzy, a fear, an abscess, a joy, a thrill, a pest, a disease, an uplift, a brooding, a melancholy, a dream of yesterday, and a hope for tomorrow.

- New York Tribune (1916)

July 14, 2008

Americans are just beginning to regard food the way the French always have. Dinner is not what you do in the evening before something else. Dinner is the evening.

- Art Buchwald

When's it my turn?
Wouldn't I love, love to explore that world up above?
Out of the sea
Wish I could be
Part of that world

- Little Mermaid, "Part of Your World"

Wait for me by moonlight,
watch for me by moonlight,
I'll come to thee by moonlight,
though hell should bar the way.

- Alfred Noyes

July 13, 2008

God understands our prayers even when we can't find the words to say them.

- Author Unknown

All I do is dream of you the whole night through;
with the dawn I still go on, dreaming of you.
You're every thought, you're everything, you're every song I ever sing;
summer, winter, autumn and spring.
And were there more than twenty four hours a day;
they'd be spent in sweet content dreaming away;
when skies are grey, when skies are blue;
morning, noon and night time too;
all I do the whole day through is dream of you.

- Singing in the Rain

Gonna kick off my shoes
And run in bare feet
Where the grass and the dirt and the gravel all meet
Goin' back to the well gonna visit old friends
And feed my soul where the blacktop ends...

- Keith Urban, "Where the Blacktop Ends"

July 12, 2008

I sit in that waiting room
It seemed like all afternoon
The nurse finally said doc's ready for you
you're not gonna feel a thing we'll give you some novicane
That tooth will be fine in a minute or two
But he stuck that needle down deep in my gum
And he started drillin' before I was numb;
Some beach,
Somewhere....

- Blake Shelton, "Some Beach"

I'd rather be a could-be if I cannot be an are; because a could-be is a maybe who is reaching for a star. I'd rather be a has-been than a might-have-been, by far; for a might have-been has never been, but a has was once an are.

- Unknown

Flowers are the bright remembrances of youth; they waft us back, with their bland odorous breath, the joyous hours that only young life knows, ere we have learnt that this fair earth hides graves.

- Lady Marguerite Blessington, Countess of Blessington

July 11, 2008

Yes. No. Damn it. I'm a bad sponge. A leaky sponge. I'm gonna leak all the wrong secrets. I'm a bad liar. I can't even lie about talking to myself. You look nice today.

- Grey's Anatomy

July 10, 2008

Somewhere there's someone who dreams of your smile, and finds in your presence that life is worth while. So when you are lonely, remember it's true: Somebody, somewhere is thinking of you.

- Unknown

From childhood's hour I have not been
As others were; I have not seen
As others saw; I could not bring
My passions from a common spring.
From the same source I have not taken
My sorrow; I could not awaken
My heart to joy at the same tone;
And all I loved, I loved alone.
Then- in my childhood, in the dawn
Of a most stormy life- was drawn
From every depth of good and ill
The mystery which binds me still:
From the torrent, or the fountain,
From the red cliff of the mountain,
From the sun that round me rolled
In its autumn tint of gold,
From the lightning in the sky
As it passed me flying by,
From the thunder and the storm,
And the cloud that took the form
(When the rest of Heaven was blue)
Of a demon in my view.

- Edgar Allan Poe, "Alone"