Random Quotes

[Captain Jack Wolfe]

"Writing is easy.  You only need to stare at a piece of blank paper until your forehead bleeds."

~ Douglas Adams

[maelstrom0370]

~Friends help you move.  True friends help you move the body!~

[Welsh Wench]

There was a desert wind blowing that night. It was one of those hot dry Santa Anas that come down through the mountain passes and curl your hair and make your nerves jump and your skin itch. On nights like that every booze party ends in a fight. Meek little wives feel the edge of the carving knife and study their husbands' necks. Anything can happen. You can even get a full glass of beer at a cocktail lounge.   
   
~~Raymond Chandler, Red Wind

[Rani Zemirah]

"To sit alone in the lamplight with a book spread
out before you,and hold intimate converse with men
of unseen generations --
such is a pleasure beyond compare."
-- Kenko Yoshida (1283-1352)

[Anna Iram]

The pain passes, but the beauty remains.

Pierre Auguste Renoir

[Molden]

You are Braver than you Believe,

Stronger than you Seem,

and

Smarter than you Think.

- Unknown

[anne of oaktower]

You are Braver than you Believe,

Stronger than you Seem,

and

Smarter than you Think.

- Unknown

Those very words appear in a children's book I used to read to my kids..."Pooh's Grand Adventure: The Search For Christopher Robin."  That is what Christopher tells him when he is trying to prepare Pooh for the fact that he'll be gone for awhile.  (In typical Pooh fashion, it turns out to be a great adventure, but Christopher was really only going to school.)

I've repeated that quote to my children many times to reassure them that they really can make it through a difficult time.  It's one of my all-time favorites 

[maelstrom0370]

~Some days you're the boxer, some days you're the bag~

[Anna Iram]

Thank you for that bit of insight into your personality. 

annanonamous

[Demetrius]

What happens to a dream deferred?
  Does it dry up
  like a raisin in the sun?
  Or fester like a sore-
  And then run?
Does it stink like rotten meat?
Or crust and sugar over-
like a syrupy sweet?


Maybe it just sags like a heavy load.


Or does it explode?



-Langston Hughes "Lenox Avenue Mural."

[Rani Zemirah]

God does not throw dice.

-Albert Einstein

[Demetrius]

The larger view always and through all shams, all wickedness, discovers the Truth that will, in the end, prevail, and all things, surely, inevitably, resistlessly work together for good.


-Frank Norris, in The Octopus

[Welsh Wench]

We are the music-makers   
And we are the dreamers of dreams 
Wandering by lone sea-breakers   
And sitting by desolate streams 
World-losers and world-forsakers         
On whom the pale moon gleams   
Yet we are the movers and shakers   
Of the world for ever, it seems

~~Arthur O'Shaughnessy

[John]

When it comes to political discourse, the clearest sign of incivility occurs when people declare that their cause is so true, their beliefs so righteous, their passion so pure and strong... that people who differ must be silenced.

~Stuart Schneiderman

http://stuartschneiderman.blogspot.com/2008/12/queuing-up.html

[Rani Zemirah]

There are only four questions of value in life. What is sacred? Of what is the spirit made of? What is worth living for? What is worth dying for? The answer to each is the same. Only love.

From the movie Don Juan DeMarco