Quotes Written In My 2006 Journal
Submitted by Jentle on Wed, 09/27/2006 - 05:02
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- "Here we have a prospect of one common interest from which our own is inseperable, that to turn all the treasures we possess into the channel of Universal Love."
- - Quaker Sermon at an Interfaith Thanksgiving Service (jp 76)
- Nothing says love like a toddler with a harpoon!
- - Ellen Degeneres, discussing Cupid, 2/14/2006
- S (3 yr old girl) - Butter makes me fat.
- C - Why are you worried about getting fat??
- S - My mom wants me to get skinny.
- C - Does your mom want you to have an eating disorder?
- - Overheard at daycare (jp 81)
- She refused to be bored chiefly because she wasn't boring - Zelda Fitzgerald (jp 186)
- A learning experience is one of those things that says, 'You know that thing you just did? Don't do that.'
- - Douglas Adams jp 210
- I keep vaguely wonding what Macs are like, but the ones I've seen spend too much time being friendly.
- - Terry Pratchett (alt.fan.pratchett, 7/5/92)
- I wrot an ad for Apple Computer: 'Macintosh - We might not get everything right, but at least we knew the century was going to end.'
- - Douglas Adams
- Sometimes, the best answer is a more interesting question.
- - Terry Pratchett, The Science Of Discworld
- A nuclear power plant is infinitely safer than eating, because 300 people choke to death on food every year.
- - Dixie Lee Ray 1914-1994
- May Heaven exist, even if my place is Hell.
- - Jorge Luis Borges 1899-1986, "The Library of Babel," 1941
- To die for a religion is easier than to live it absolutely.
- - Jorge Luis Borges 1899-1986, "Deutsches Requiem," (As translated by Julian Palley, 1958)
- Like all those possessing a library, Aurelian was aware that he was guilty of not knowing his in its entirety.
- - Jorge Luis Borges 1899-1986, The Theologians, (As translated by James E Irby, 1964)
- Life is pleasant.
- Death is peaceful.
- It's the transition that's troublesome.
- - Isaac Asimov jp 216
- Live as if you were to die tomorrow.
- Learn as if you were to live forever.
- - Mahatma Gandhi
- The hour of departure has arrived, and we go our ways - I to die and you to live. Which is better God only knows.
- - Plato
- Guns aren't lawful;
- Nooses give;
- Gas smells awful.
- So you might as well live.
- - Dorothy Parker
- I do not feel obliged to believe that the same God who has endowed us with sense, reason and intellect has intended us to forgo their use.
- - Galileo Galilei 1564-1642
- What's another word for thesaurus?
- - Steven Wright
- Puritanism: The haunting fear that someone, somewhere, may be happy.
- - H.L. Mencken, A Book Of Burlesques
- For every complex problem there is an answer that is clear, simple, and wrong.
- - H.L. Mencken
- Life does not cease to be funny when people die any more than it ceases to be serious when people laugh.
- - George Bernard Shaw
- Music mingles souls.
- - Davey Jones jp 218
- When you know you are divine you can become completely human.
- -Mother Meera, b 1960 (jp 220)
- The Divine is the sea. All religions are rivers leading to the sea. Some rivers wind a great deal. Why not go to the sea directly?
- -Mother Meera, b 1960
- I don't think people should do anything to be popular. But maybe within reason they can step out of their comfort zones and do things to be more 'accessible.' Like taking drugs or drinking heavily to be cool.
- -Lindsay Lohan
- On one of our first nights in the house, I'd caught her attempting to climb out of her window. Rather than fence her in, I hired a contractor to reinforce the flat section of the roof right outside her room. He'd built a solid guard rail so that on warm nights she could crawl out of her window, telescope in hand, and stargaze the evening away. After a few months, the neighbors had gotten used to seeing my daughter perched on the roof.
- -Yasmine Galenorn, Murder Under a Mystic Moon, (via Aud's listology)
- Eating disorders are in part spiritual disorders, because the sufferer is battling with the source of life.
- -Wendy Mogel PhD, The Blessing of A Skinned Knee, p 162 (jp 222)
- You know, I could corrupt these children: over the years, I could guide their innocent minds towards a life of wrongdoing. Yes! I could mold them in my image, hone them into criminal geniuses, the only ones capable of carrying on my empire! Ah, but who's got the time - toss them in!
- -Fat Cat, Chip 'n Dale Rescue Rangers jp 223
- Highly intelligent and well-informed people disagree on every political issue. Therefore, intellegence and knowledge are useless for making decisions, because if any of that stuff helped, then all the smart people would have the same opinions. So use your "gut instinct" to make voting choices. That is exactly like being clueless, but with the added advantage that you'll feel as if your random vote preserved democracy.
- -Scott Adams, (Response to an "Ask Dogbert" letter)
- Love means never having to use your gilfriend as a human shield!
- -Grey's Anatomy
Author Comments:
Poor, sad, neglected 2006 journal....
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How on earth have you managed to neglect your journal? What are you people doing over there??