Quotes Collected in my Computer

Submitted by Jentle on Fri, 09/01/2006 - 12:54
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  • “The ocean: It’s all about the vast blue that engulfs two thirds of the planet. The human being cast against that abyss creates an interesting bit of perspective. I think the sailors of the time were dancing with death, and these were their tunes. They resonate with people on some internal level that is not immediately obvious because it’s not in our memory, it’s in our blood. It operates on a cellular level. It’s what makes us feel so alone.”
  • -Gore Verbinski
  • "I have been in love with Titus Oates for quite a while now--which is ridiculous, since he's been dead for ninety years. But look at it this way. In ninety years I'll be dead, too, and then the age difference won't matter."
  • -Geraldine McCaughrean, The White Darkness
  • Great minds discuss ideas.
  • Average minds discuss events.
  • Small minds discuss people.
  • -Eleanor Roosevelt
  • "Everyone thinks they have something to say, until they're put on stage and asked to say it."
  • -Daryl Plummer, talking about the decline of blogs
  • I'm so much more dangerous since I sobered up.
  • -cmonster
  • Her lips curled in that little smile that meant she was sleeping with someone, and still enjoying it.
  • -Amanda Downum, Smoke & Mirrors
  • "I don't want to say that he gave me a reason to live," she says. "You have no right to expect that from your child, because you are giving life to him."
  • -Mariane Pearl, 6/2004
  • Thank you.
  • To be nobody-but-yourself -- in a world which is doing its best, night and day, to make you everybody else -- means to fight the hardest battle which any human being can fight; and never stop fighting.
  • (ee cummings)
  • (Thanks, 1922.)
  • It Was Just Experimenting in College
  • Girl: I'm up for anything. You gotta change it up. I just don't want to date a guy who's a stick-in-the-mud.
  • Guy: Well, I can assure you, my stick has been out of the mud for some time now.
  • Overheard In New York, Battery Park, 9/17/2006
  • Dad Also Says You're 'Moody' and That He's a 'Problem Drinker'
  • Tourist kid: Mom, am I fat?
  • Tourist mom: Yes. Now get in the airplane.
  • Tourist kid: Dad says I'm husky.
  • Tourist mom: That means fat.
  • Overheard In New York, USS Intrepid, 9/17/2006
  • It's Art If I Say It's Art, Dammit!
  • Woman: What's your favorite art supply?
  • Man: Vagina!
  • Overheard In New York, Union Square, 9/18/2006
  • "Way down deep, we're all motivated by the same urges. Cats have the courage to live by them."
  • - Unknown
  • "I've realized that in all great stories, even if there's a happily-ever-after ending, there's something sad."
  • - Emma Thompson
  • "Just one birth that is treated as sacred can influence the life experience of one being."
  • - Robyn Sheldon
  • "All colors are the friends of their neighbors and the lovers of their opposites."
  • - Marc Chagall
  • Remembering that I'll be dead soon is the most important tool I've ever encountered to help me make the big choices in life. Because almost everything — all external expectations, all pride, all fear of embarrassment or failure - these things just fall away in the face of death, leaving only what is truly important. Remembering that you are going to die is the best way I know to avoid the trap of thinking you have something to lose. You are already naked. There is no reason not to follow your heart.
  • - Stanford Graduate Commencement address by Steve Jobs delivered on June 12, 2005.
  • Bill Gates is a monocle and a Persian cat away from being the villain in a James Bond movie.
  • - Dennis Miller (attributed)
  • And You Say the States Aren't All Different Colors?
  • Blonde: So you mean Alaska's not an island right above Hawaii?
  • Brunette: How did you graduate college, again?
  • Blonde: Well, I wasn't a geography major. Gosh!
  • - Overheard in New York, 96th & Madison, 10/7/2006
  • Flight Attendant: Ladies and gentlemen, the captain will be dimming the cabin lighting for the remainder of the flight in order to enhance the appearance of the person sitting next to you. Individual lights are located above your seats if you wish to read, or look at the person sitting next to you.
  • - Overheard in New York, JetBlue, 10/4/2006
  • World traveler: Really, you can get anything on the streets of Bangkok. Thai prostitutes, smoothies, passport pictures.... It's like Craigslist.
  • - Overheard in New York, 20th & 8th, 10/4/2006
  • Bitter ex: And fuck him and his fuckin' wooden leg that I didn't even know he sold crack out of!
  • - Overheard in New York, 80th & 3rd, 10/11/2006
  • NYU student: So I said, 'I don't care what time it is, you are supposed to be a lesbian!'
  • - Overheard in New York, Union Square Whole Foods, 10/11/2006
  • People often write me and ask how I keep my wood floors so clean when I live with a child and a dog, and my answer is that I use a technique called Suffering From a Mental Illness.
  • - dooce.com, 8-2006
  • I will always cherish the initial misconceptions I had about you. - Unknown
  • "The Entire Boot Is In The Closet"
  • Old lady #1: WHAAAA? REALLY?
  • Old lady #2: Yep, I heard she is.
  • Old lady #1: Wow, I didn't know she was that way.
  • Old lady #3: No! Lorraine Bracco can't be gay, 'cause she's Italian... like us!
  • Overheard in New York 9/36/2006
  • ...soooo the contents of my uterus are inversely proportional to my sanity. Good to know.
  • - Queen of Wands, 10/22/2004
  • It is my belief that, as 1 John says, "God is love." It is further my belief (also suggested by 1 John) that the opposite of love is not hate, but fear. It is therefore my conclusion that fear is where you go when you are running away from God. If you want to run towards God, you have to turn around, and head towards the thing you fear, and learn to love it.
  • - lilysea.blogs.com, Oct 2005
  • In order to really enjoy a dog, one doesn't merely train him to be semi-human. The point of it is to open oneself to the possibility of becoming part dog.
  • - Edward Hoagland
  • The books I loved in childhood - the first loves - I've read so often that I've internalized them in some really essential way: they are more inside me now than out. - Donna Tartt
  • When I was in my early twenties, I was involved in a bad relationship. It wasn't violent or abusive or cruel. It was simply dispiriting and effortful, like walking through wet, heavy snow. When he ended the relationship, I spent two weeks with Kleenex stuffed in my pockets, crying. I cried because I had tried so hard and still never made it right, and I cried because I couldn't understand why I had tried so hard. Then, one Sunday morning, I woke up dry-eyed. The sadness, the bitterness, all of it was gone. My grief had broken like a fever, and I was suddenly filled with a sense of exhilarating freedom. After three years of trying to force an ill-fitting future on myself, I literally did not know what was going to happen next, and that meant that anything - including a good love - could happen.
  • -Chez Miscarriage 6/2/2004
  • You just have to be shitty if the fucking KLAN says they don't want to have anything to do with you.
  • -Margaret Cho 6/2/2004
  • I just want to love everyone. I don't care if that sounds stupid. I want to love everyone.
  • -Margaret Cho 6/2/2004
  • When I see the pictures of her holding J* it strikes me just how young she is. In many ways she grew up too fast and it's easy to forget that she's only 20 years old. You can see some sadness in her eyes when she looks at J* and it makes me feel guilty for taking him... Except that I know how strongly she felt and still feels about her decision. I got teary looking at the picture and said to M*, "She did the one thing for him that I couldn't." He put his arm around me and said, "And you're doing everything for him that she wasn't ready to."
  • -Anon 9/15/2003
  • But what I really hope they'll take with them is our recognition that our community and our nation, and with them our individual and collective happiness, are built upon the responsible exercise of freedom.
  • -skylarksings.com 1/1/2005
  • I do not care for the big way of doing things. If you want to love a person, you must first know him as an individual. If you go for the numbers, you'll get lost in the numbers.
  • -Mother Theresa
  • See your mothering as a political act. The way you talk to your child becomes his or her inner voice. The way you model acceptance of your own body becomes the way your daughter learns to accept hers. They way you model the distribution of chores in the household provides a blueprint for your children's marriages. Bringing consciousness and awareness to the small acts of your life with your family can change the world. Your mothering is enough.
  • -Peggy O'Mara, an editorial in Mothering Magazine, via Aimee 1/10/2005
  • Two roads diverged in a wood, and I took the road less traveled by and they CANCELLED MY FRIKKIN' SHOW. I totally shoulda took the road that had all those people on it. Damn.
  • -Joss Whedon
  • You think they call those books 'forbidden' just for fun? Now just look at you. All those tentacles.
  • -R. Stewart, You'd Think a Person Would Learn, via Aud 4/26/2005
  • It is worth considering that ultimate satisfaction with the experience of giving birth may not be related to lack of pain.
  • -Sarah Buckley, via Midwifery Today QotW 3/1/2005
  • Tourist chick: Know what would be awesome? If we could manage to not sound like assholes for like 10 minutes.
  • Tourist guy: We're from Ohio.
  • -Overheard in New York 6/6/2006
  • Girl #1: You never wear earrings.
  • Girl #2: You're very observant.
  • Girl #1: But that's why we have ears, to get them pierced.
  • Girl #2: No, we have ears so we can hear.
  • Girl #1: Wait, you make so sense.
  • -Overheard in New York 6/16/2006
  • Words from my piano teacher -
  • "When you practice, play slowly enough that you can do it perfectly. Every time you make a mistake in practice, you've just rehearsed that mistake."
  • You know what? That holds true with just about everything in life, including parenting. Food for thought.
  • -redhairedgirl.com 11/28/2004
  • Little English girl: Where are we now, Mummy?
  • English Mummy: We're in New York, in America.
  • Little English girl: [sigh] We're still in America?
  • -Overheard in New York 6/25/2006
  • "Come to the edge," he said.
  • They said, "We are afraid."
  • "Come to the edge," he said.
  • They came,
  • He pushed them,
  • And they flew.
  • -Guillaume Apollinaire
  • Democracy means freedom of sexual choice between any two consenting adults; Utopia means freedom of choice between three or more consenting adults.
  • -Johnny Carson
  • Heterosexuality is not normal, just common.
  • -Derek Jarman
  • Kids who are in school just visit life sometimes, and then they have to stop to do homework or go to sleep early or get to school on time. They're constantly reminded they are preparing "for real life," while being isolated from it.
  • -Sandra Dodd
  • These things are fun, and fun is good.
  • If you haven't tried these things you should.
  • -Dr. Suess
  • The Orc-Mobile is Waiting, Sir
  • Coincidentally, on the way home tonight, my husband and I passed one of those stretch SUV limousines, beast-spawn of the most unholy marriage ever to emerge from the spectral realm. As it passed, old women shielded their faces, birds fell from the sky, and the gentle forest went silent.
  • -I have no idea.... 10/25/2003
buddy11/27/2006

I just wanted to drop in to say that I enjoy reading your "Quotes" lists. I scan through all of Listology's latest stuff almost daily, and yours are ones I usually click through to read in their entirety.

Jentle11/27/2006

:) Thank you.