Quote of the Day

[mark f]

I couldn't choose between these:

"To invent, you need a good imagination and a pile of junk."

"Faith, as well intentioned as it may be, must be built on facts, not fiction; faith in fiction is a damnable false hope."

-Thomas Edison

[linespalsy]

"Then Bioy Casares recalled that one of the heresiarchs of Uqbar had declared that mirrors and copulation are abominable, because they increase the number of men."
- Jorge Luis Borges, Tlön, Uqbar, Orbis Tertius

[nebbit]

"Then Bioy Casares recalled that one of the heresiarchs of Uqbar had declared that mirrors and copulation are abominable, because they increase the number of men."
- Jorge Luis Borges, Tlön, Uqbar, Orbis Tertius
:laugh:

[Godoggo]

“An intellectual says a simple thing in a hard way. An artist says a hard thing in a simple way.”-Charles Bukowski

[Prospero]

And everything comes to One, as we dance on, dance on, dance on.
~Theodore Roethke~

[Mrs. Darcy]

"Some day, in years to come, you will be wrestling with the great temptation, or trembling under the great sorrow of your life. But the real struggle is here, now, in these quiet weeks. Now it is being decided whether, in the day of your supreme sorrow or temptation, you shall miserably fail or gloriously conquer. Character cannot be made except by a steady, long continued process."


~Phillips Brooks

[mark f]

"Peace cannot be kept by force. It can only be achieved by understanding."

-Albert Einstein

[diamondgeeza]

“I am ready to meet my Maker. Whether my Maker is prepared for the ordeal of meeting me is another matter.”

Winston Churchill

[Caitlyn]

Life is what happens while you are making other plans. ~ John Lennon

[Sedai]

Love that quote, Caity QT.

[mark f]

"He that displays too often his wife and his wallet is in danger of having both of them borrowed."

-Benjamin Franklin

[thebest]

If nothing we do matters, then the only thing that matters is what we do-Angel written by Joss Whedon

After I watched that episode a few times I understood it and it changed all my perspectives

[mark f]

"The philosophy of the classroom today will be the philosophy of government tomorrow."

-Abraham Lincoln

[Mrs. Darcy]

Nothing is a waste of time if you use the experience wisely.

~Auguste Rodin

[mc-yui]

my quote..."I can accept failure, but I can't accept not trying."
- Michael JOrdan

[Caitlyn]

A man begins cutting his wisdom teeth the first time he bites off more than he can chew. ~ Herb Caen

[mark f]

“It is not true that people stop pursuing dreams because they grow old; they grow old because they stop pursuing dreams.”

- Gabriel García Márquez

[nebbit]

Happiness depends upon ourselves. :yup:
Aristotle

[mc-yui]

Love is like a friendship caught on fire. In the beginning a flame, very pretty, Often hot and fierce, But still only light and flickering. As love grows older, Our hearts mature And our love becomes as coals, Deep-burning and unquenchable. - by Bruce Lee :D

[Mrs. Darcy]

Only a few things are really important.
~Marie Dressler

[mark f]

"A nation that continues year after year to spend more money on military defense than on programs of social uplift is approaching spiritual doom."

- Martin Luther King, Jr.

[fbuenanry]

"It may be true that the law cannot make a man love me, but it can stop him from lynching me, and I think that's pretty important." - Martin Luther King, Jr.

[Caitlyn]

Our lives begin to end the day we become silent about things that matter. ~ Martin Luther King, Jr.

[Mrs. Darcy]

"People, even more than things, have to be restored, renewed, revived, reclaimed, and redeemed; never throw out anyone."

~Audrey Hepburn

[mark f]

"I am an expert of electricity. My father occupied the chair of applied electricity at the state prison."

- W.C. Fields

[Tacitus]

We need more highbrow stuff in here; thus:

"When a man crosses his legs and the trouser rides up to show hairy shins, it offends my eyes."

Prospective England football manager Fabio Capello would really hate me, then. ;)

[nebbit]

I think that hate is a thing, a feeling, that can only exist where there is no understanding.

TENNESSEE WILLIAMS, Forward to Sweet Bird of Youth

[fbuenanry]

"i dont want to think that i am a loser each time i fail, at least i've tried.."

[Mrs. Darcy]

We can throw stones, complain about them, stumble on them, climb over them, or build with them.

~William Arthur Ward

[mc-yui]

"Hope is not the conviction that something will turn out well
but the certainty that something makes sense,
regardless of how it turns out." -- Vaclav Havel

[Caitlyn]

Oh, for the good old days when people would stop Christmas shopping when they ran out of money. ~ Anonymous

[mark f]

"My movie is born first in my head, dies on paper; is resuscitated by the living persons and real objects I use, which are killed on film but, placed in a certain order and projected on to a screen, come to life again like flowers in water."

- Robert Bresson

[fbuenanry]

"a day without laughter is a day wasted" - charlie chaplin

[Lockheed Martin]

"Conscience is the inner voice that warns us someone may be looking." - H. L. Mencken.

[Mrs. Darcy]

"In three words I can sum up everything I've learned about life: it goes on."

~Robert Frost

[Caitlyn]

You can never get enough of what you don't need to make you happy. ~ Eric Hoffer

[mark f]

"These are bagpipes. I understand the inventor of the bagpipes was inspired when he saw a man carrying an indignant, asthmatic pig under his arm. Unfortunately, the man-made sound never equalled the purity of the sound achieved by the pig."

- Alfred Hitchcock

[AS-1]

I never think of the future - it comes soon enough. Albert Einstein

[nebbit]

"a day without laughter is a day wasted" - charlie chaplin
:laugh:

[Caitlyn]

Someone on MoFo used to have this one for their signature and I always loved it...



We are all worms, but I do believe I am a glowworm. ~ Winston Churchill

[mark f]

"Always go to other people's funerals, otherwise they won't come to yours"

- Yogi Berra

[Caitlyn]

"Always go to other people's funerals, otherwise they won't come to yours"

- Yogi Berra



:laugh:

[nebbit]

Someone on MoFo used to have this one for their signature and I always loved it...



We are all worms, but I do believe I am a glowworm. ~ Winston Churchill
Thanks Caity :yup: I get all my good signatures from you :yup:

[mark f]

"The more one does and sees and feels, the more one is able to do, and the more genuine may be one's appreciation of fundamental things like home, and love, and understanding companionship."

- Amelia Earhart

http://farm1.static.flickr.com/104/297606078_95de10a487.jpg

[Lockheed Martin]

Christmas is a time when kids tell Santa what they want and adults pay for it. Deficits are when adults tell the government what they want and their kids pay for it. - Richard Lamm

I'm feeling satirical.

[Mrs. Darcy]

"There comes a time when you look into the mirror and you realize that what you see is all that you will ever be. And then you accept it. Or you kill yourself. Or you stop looking in mirrors."

~Tennessee Williams

[Caitlyn]

He who trims himself to suit everyone will soon whittle himself away. ~ Raymond Hull

[Mrs. Darcy]

Happiness is like a butterfly which, when pursued, is always beyond our grasp, but, if you will sit down quietly, may alight upon you.

~Nathaniel Hawthorne

[Caitlyn]

And the Grinch, with his Grinch-feet ice cold in the snow, stood puzzling and puzzling, how could it be so? It came without ribbons. It came without tags. It came without packages, boxes or bags. And he puzzled and puzzled 'till his puzzler was sore. Then the Grinch thought of something he hadn't before. What if Christmas, he thought, doesn't come from a store. What if Christmas, perhaps, means a little bit more. ~ Dr. Seuss

[mark f]

"If all the young ladies who attended the Yale prom were laid end to end, no one would be the least surprised. "

- Dorothy Parker

[Lockheed Martin]

Talent hits a target no one else can hit; Genius hits a target no one else can see - Arthur Schopenhauer.

[mc-yui]

“Christmas is a holiday that persecutes the lonely, the frayed, and the rejected”

Jimmy Cannon

[Mrs. Darcy]

"... Medicine, law, business, engineering, these are noble pursuits and necessary to sustain life. But poetry, beauty, romance, love, these are what we stay alive for."

~Professor Keating (Robin Williams) in 'Dead Poet's Society'

[Caitlyn]

Now and then it's good to pause in our pursuit of happiness and just be happy. ~ Guillaume Apollinaire

[mark f]

If you're going to tell people the truth, be funny or they'll kill you."

- Billy Wilder

[fbuenanry]

"We can have facts without thinking but we cannot have thinking without facts." - John Dewey
http://feeds.feedburner.com/%7Ea/quotationspage/qotd?i=r4SyE6 (http://feeds.feedburner.com/%7Ea/quotationspage/qotd?a=r4SyE6)

[mc-yui]

I just realized that there's going to be a lot of painful times in life, so I better learn to deal with it the right way.

-Trey Parker and Matt Stone, South Park, Raisins, 2003

[Mrs. Darcy]

Christmas gift suggestions:
To your enemy, forgiveness.
To an opponent, tolerance.
To a friend, your heart.
To a customer, service.
To all, charity.
To every child, a good example.
To yourself, respect.

- Oren Arnold

[mark f]

"You want a friend in Washington? Get a dog."

- Harry S. Truman

[mark f]

"The problem with the world is that everyone is a few drinks behind."

- Humphrey Bogart

[mc-yui]

http://www.quotationspage.net/icon_info.gifHappiness depends upon ourselves.http://www.quotationspage.net/icon_plus.gif-Aristotle

[Mrs. Darcy]

"Too often we underestimate the power of a touch, a smile, a kind word, a listening ear, an honest compliment, or the smallest act of caring, all of which have the potential to turn a life around."

~Leo Buscaglia

[Caitlyn]

Christmas begins about the first of December with an office party and ends when you finally realize what you spent, around April fifteenth of the next year. ~ P.J. O'Rourke

[mark f]

"Dancing is a perpendicular expression of a horizontal desire."

- George Bernard Shaw

[Mrs. Darcy]

"Yes, Virginia, there is a Santa Claus. He exists as certainly as love and generosity and devotion exists, and you know that they abound and give to your life its highest beauty and joy."
editorial in the New York Sun, 1897, responding to a letter from 8-year-old Virginia O'Hanlon ~ Charles Dana

[Caitlyn]

Christmas gift suggestions:

To your enemy, forgiveness.
To an opponent, tolerance.
To a friend, your heart.
To a customer, service.
To all, charity.
To every child, a good example.
To yourself, respect.

~ Oren Arnold



EDIT: LMAO.... I thought I had read this before when I ran across it and it appears it was right here on this page.... kudos to Mrs. Darcy... :D -- I need to sleep more...

[Tacitus]

"If you don't get it you're a moron." - Ridley Scott, on whether the protagonist of his seminal 80s Sci Fi Noir film is all he seems.

Can I be any more subtle than that in case anyone still hasn't seen (and digested) Blade Runner?

Bugger... :rolleyes:

[Caitlyn]

There are three kinds of men: The ones that learn by reading. The few who learn by observation. The rest of them have to pee on the electric fence and find out for themselves. ~ Will Rogers

[mark f]

"We all want to help one another. Human beings are like that. We want to live by each other's happiness, not by each other's misery. The hate of men will pass, and dictators die, and the power they took from the people will return to the people. And so long as men die, liberty will never perish."

- Charles Chaplin

[mark f]

"The main reason Santa is so jolly is because he knows where all the bad girls live."

- George Carlin

[Holden Pike]

http://www.booktheking.com/images/elvis_impersonators2.jpg

"If life was fair, Elvis would be alive and all the impersonators would be dead."
- Johnny Carson

[Piddzilla]

http://www.booktheking.com/images/elvis_impersonators2.jpg

"If life was fair, Elvis would be alive and all the impersonators would be dead."
- Johnny Carson

I could swear the second guy from the left is he real Elvis.

[Tacitus]

On a slightly-related note:

"I once helped Elvis change a tyre on his truck" - Tacitus, Today.

Sadly, this wasn't the real Elvis (as the event took place in the early 90s, I had my suspicions) but former world champeen King impersonator Frank Chisholm. In full gear. In Omagh.

[Mrs. Darcy]

Scrooge was better than his word. He did it all, and infinitely more; and to Tiny Tim, who did not die, he was a second father. He became as good a friend, as good a master, and as good a man, as the good old city knew, or any other good old city, town, or borough, in the good old world. Some people laughed to see the alteration in him, but he let them laugh, and little heeded them; for he was wise enough to know that nothing ever happened on this globe, for good, at which some people did not have their fill of laughter in the outset; and knowing that such as these would be blind anyway, he thought it quite as well that they should wrinkle up their eyes in grins, as have the malady in less attractive forms. His own heart laughed: and that was quite enough for him.

~Charles Dickens' A Christmas Carol

[mark f]

"I stopped believing in Santa Claus when I was six. Mother took me to see him in a department store and he asked for my autograph."

- Shirley Temple

[susan]

We hear the beating of wings over Bethlehem and a light that is not of the sun or of the stars shines in the midnight sky. Let the beauty of the story take away all narrowness, all thought of formal creeds. Let it be remembered as a story that has happened again and again, to men of many different races, that has been expressed through many religions, that has been called by many different names. Time and space and language lay no limitations upon human brotherhood. ~New York Times, 25 December 1937, quoted in Quotations for Special Occasions by Maud van Buren, 1938, published by The H.W. Wilson Company, New York

[Caitlyn]

Anyone who believes that men are the equal of women has never seen a man trying to wrap a Christmas present. ~ Anonymous

;)

[mark f]

From The Man Who Came to Dinner (another Christmas movie) [play written by George S. Kaufman & Moss Hart; screenplay by Julius J. & Philip G. Epstein]:

Sheridan Whiteside (Monty Woolley): "My great aunt Jennifer ate a whole box of candy every day of her life. She lived to be 102, and when she had been dead three days, she looked better than you do now."

Nurse Preen (Mary Wickes): "I am not only walking out on this case, Mr. Whiteside, I am leaving the nursing profession. I became a nurse because all my life, ever since I was a little girl, I was filled with the idea of serving a suffering humanity. After one month with you , Mr. Whiteside, I am going to work in a munitions factory. From now on, anything I can do to help exterminate the human race will fill me with the greatest of pleasure. If Florence Nightingale had ever nursed YOU, Mr. Whiteside, she would have married Jack the Ripper instead of founding the Red Cross!"

[Mrs. Darcy]

A Humanist Code of Ethics:
Do no harm to the earth, she is your mother.
Being is more important than having.
Never promote yourself at another's expense.
Hold life sacred; treat it with reverence.
Allow each person the digity of his or her labor.
Open your home to the wayfarer.
Be ready to receive your deepest dreams;
sometimes they are the speech of unblighted conscience.
Always make restitutions to the ones you have harmed.
Never think less of yourself than you are.
Never think that you are more than another.

~Arthur Dobrin

[Caitlyn]

Great quote Mrs. Darcy! Isn't Arthur Dobrin the one who helped found Amnesty International?



Treat the earth well: it was not given to you by your parents, it was loaned to you by your children. We do not inherit the Earth from our Ancestors, we borrow it from our Children. ~ American Indian Proverb

[Mrs. Darcy]

Not sure about the original Amnesty International, but he co-founded and lead AI group #74 in Canada.

[Caitlyn]

Not sure about the original Amnesty International, but he co-founded and lead AI group #74 in Canada.


Ah... okay. I knew he had something to do with AI because his name was in several news letters/reports. Thanks... :)

[mark f]

"The reason people find it so hard to be happy is that they always see the past better than it was, the present worse than it is, and the future less resolved than it will be."

- Marcel Pagnol

[linespalsy]

"Lady Middleton was equally pleased with Mrs. Dashwood. There was a kind of cold-hearted selfishness on both sides which mutually attracted them; and they sympathized with each other in an insipid propriety of demeanor, and a general want of understanding."

-Sense and Sensibility by Jane Austen

[Caitlyn]

We will open the book. Its pages are blank. We are going to put words on them ourselves. The book is called Opportunity and its first chapter is New Year's Day. ~ Edith Lovejoy Pierce

[mark f]

"Fighting for peace is like screwing for virginity."

- George Carlin

[Mrs. Darcy]

My passions were all gathered together like fingers that made a fist. Drive is considered aggression today; I knew it then as purpose.

~ Bette Davis, The Lonely Life, 1962

[susan]

Youth is when you're allowed to stay up late on New Year's Eve. Middle age is when you're forced to. ~Bill Vaughn


An optimist stays up until midnight to see the new year in. A pessimist stays up to make sure the old year leaves. ~Bill Vaughan

Be always at war with your vices, at peace with your neighbors, and let each new year find you a better man. ~Benjamin Franklin

[Mrs. Darcy]

How far you go in life depends on your being tender with the young, compassionate with the aged, sympathetic with the striving and tolerant of the weak and strong. Because someday in life you will have been all of these.

~George Washington Carver

[mark f]

"Someone called all the newspapers in New York and told them I'd died. I've been told by almost everyone it was an ex-wife - I've had a few so it's hard to pinpoint which one - but who knows for sure?"

- Richard Pryor

[Caitlyn]

New Year's Eve, where auld acquaintance be forgot. Unless, of course, those tests come back positive.
~ Jay Leno

[mark f]

"He made us all one true religion, Edith, which he named after his son, Christian -- or Christ, for short."

- Archie Bunker, All in the Family

[Caitlyn]

The Great Spirit is in all things: he is in the air we breathe. The Great Spirit is our Father, but the earth is our mother. She nourishes us; that which we put into the ground she returns to us. ~ Si Thanka aka Big Foot (killed 29 Dec 1890 at Wounded Knee Massacre)




The Ghost Dance

Maka' sito'maniyan uki'ye,
Oya'te uki'ye,
oya'te uki'ye,
Wan'bali oya'te wan hoshi'hi-ye lo,
Ate heye lo, ate heye lo,
Maka o'wancha'ya uki'ye,
Pte kin ukiye, pte kin ukiye,
Kanghi oya'te wan hoshi'hi-ye lo,
A'te he'ye lo, a'te he'ye lo.

[Mrs. Darcy]

He who breaks a resolution is a weakling;
He who makes one is a fool.

~F.M. Knowles

[thebest]

We're champions.We live as if the world is as it should be, to show people that it could.

Joss Whedon and David Fury
Angel
Deep Down (4x01)

[mark f]

"I tend to live in the past because most of my life is there."

- Herb Caen

[Mrs. Darcy]

I do think New Year's resolutions can't technically be expected to begin on New Year's Day, don't you? Since, because it's an extension of New Year's Eve, smokers are already on a smoking roll and cannot be expected to stop abruptly on the stroke of midnight with so much nicotine in the system. Also dieting on New Year's Day isn't a good idea as you can't eat rationally but really need to be free to consume whatever is necessary, moment by moment, in order to ease your hangover. I think it would be much more sensible if resolutions began generally on January the second.

~Helen Fielding, Bridget Jones's Diary

[Caitlyn]

Ring out the old, ring in the new, Ring, happy bells, across the snow: The year is going, let him go; Ring out the false, ring in the true. ~ Lord Alfred Tennyson

[Mrs. Darcy]

Oh! Good call on the Tennyson, Cait. Let's do some more... :)

The Death of the Old Year

"Full knee-deep lies the winter snow,
And the winter winds are wearily sighing;
Toll ye the church-bell sad and slow,
And tread softly and speak low,
For the old year lies a-dying.
Old year, you must not die;
You came to us so readily,
You lived with us so steadily,
Old year, you shall not die..."

[mark f]

"If you can't be with the one you love, love the one you're with."

- Stephen Stills

[thebest]

I ain't scared of Al Qaeda I'm from Brooklyn!
-Chris Rock

Also a little story from my New Years Eve:I was watching Chris Rock and like the nerdy white boy I am I had to look up what skeet means on Wikipedia.
I suggest you NOT look it up with liquid in your mouth cause that's a quick way to get a sticky keyboard.
I just realised how icky what I just wrote is in this Context . . . .

[Lennon]

Scotty (http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0217822/): I'm gonna break your face!

[susan]

We'll weather the weather whatever the weather, whether we like it or not.
Old Winter Saying

Ring out the old, ring in the new,
Ring, happy bells, across the snow:
The year is going, let him go;
Ring out the false, ring in the true.
~Alfred, Lord Tennyson, 1850

[Caitlyn]

New Year's Day: Now is the accepted time to make your regular annual good resolutions. Next week you can begin paving hell with them as usual. ~ Mark Twain

[Mrs. Darcy]

Every new year people make resolutions to change aspects of themselves they believe are negative. The majority of people revert back to how they were before and feel like failures. This year I challenge you to a new resolution. I challenge you to just be yourself.

- Aisha Elderwyn

[mark f]

"A man's only as old as the woman he feels."

- Groucho Marx

[susan]

We spend January 1 walking through our lives, room by room, drawing up a list of work to be done, cracks to be patched. Maybe this year, to balance the list, we ought to walk through the rooms of our lives... not looking for flaws, but for potential. ~Ellen Goodman


A happy New Year! Grant that I
May bring no tear to any eye
When this New Year in time shall end
Let it be said I've played the friend,
Have lived and loved and labored here,
And made of it a happy year.
~Edgar Guest

[mark f]

"Love has nothing to do with what you are expecting to get - only with what you are expecting to give - which is everything."

- Katharine Hepburn

[Lennon]

"If it bleeds, we can kill it... "- Predator

[fbuenanry]

"If you cannot convince them, confuse them." - Harry Truman

[Caitlyn]

Though no one can go back and make a brand new start, anyone can start from now and make a brand new ending. ~ Anonymous

[Mrs. Darcy]

You can kiss your family and friends good-bye and put miles between you, but at the same time you carry them with you in your heart, your mind, your stomach, because you do not just live in a world but a world lives in you.

~Frederick Buechner

[susan]

Many a person who celebrates the arrival of the New Year should celebrate instead the survival of the old.
Anonymous

[mark f]

"A friend is a gift you give yourself."

- Robert Louis Stevenson

[fbuenanry]

"Happiness is being with you." :)

[Mrs. Darcy]

My actions are my only true belongings. I cannot escape the consequences of my actions. My actions are the ground upon which I stand.

~Thich Nhat Hanh

[Caitlyn]

I don't see the point of being a human being if you're not going to be responsible to your fellow human beings. Selfishness thefts away the human and reduces you to just a being. ~ Candea Core-Starke

[susan]

We are not free to use today, or to promise tomorrow because we are already mortgaged to yesterday.
R. W. Emerson

[mark f]

"A fool thinks himself to be wise, but a wise man knows himself to be a fool."

- William Shakespeare

[Stephany]

"If you cant handle me at my worst, you dont deserve me at my best."

- Marilyn Monroe

[Caitlyn]

It is far more impressive when others discover your good qualities without your help. ~ Anonymous

[susan]

New Yorkers are nice about giving street directions - in fact, they seem proud of knowing where they are themselves.
Katherine Brush

[Lennon]

We are Good
Yes we Are - The Boondock Saints

[mark f]

"A democracy is nothing more than mob rule, where fifty-one percent of the people may take away the rights of the other forty-nine."

- Thomas Jefferson

[Mrs. Darcy]

Life moves pretty fast. If you don't stop to look around once in a while, you could miss it.

~From the movie Ferris Bueller's Day Off

[nebbit]

I hate to advocate drugs, alcohol, violence, or insanity to anyone, but they've always worked for me.

Hunter S. Thompson :eek:

[Caitlyn]

There has never been another you. You were born to be something very special and set apart. What you are going to do in appreciation of that gift is a decision only you can make. ~ Dan Zadra

[mark f]

"I choose my friends for their good looks, my acquaintances for their good characters, and my enemies for their intellects. A man cannot be too careful in the choice of his enemies."

- Oscar Wilde

[Mrs. Darcy]

You should care what people think of you :yup: that is what makes us less arrogant.

~Nebbit

[nebbit]

You should care what people think of you :yup: that is what makes us less arrogant.

~Nebbit

Awww :blush:

[Caitlyn]

An idea isn't responsible for the people who believe it. ~ Don Marquis

[Mrs. Darcy]

So often times it happens, we all live our lives in chains, and we never even know we have the key.

~The Eagles, "Already Gone"

[mark f]

"When I invite a woman to dinner, I expect her to look at my face. That’s the price she has to pay."

- Morrie Ryskind

[Caitlyn]

Don't be fooled by the calendar. There are only as many days in the year as you make use of.
~ Charles Richards

[mark f]

"An investment in knowledge pays the best interest."

- Benjamin Franklin

[undercoverlover]

'we don't see things as they are, we see things as we are'

- Anais Nin

[Mrs. Darcy]

The imperfections of a man, his frailties, his faults, are just as important as his virtues. You can't separate them. They're wedded.

~Henry Miller

[Caitlyn]

People generally see what they look for and hear what they listen for. ~ Harper Lee

[Tatanka]

There are two answers that will satisfy any question that can be posed: 1) Yo' Momma (and), 2) Bend over and I'll show you. -David Dotson

[fbuenanry]

"Always acknowledge a fault. This will throw those in authority off their guard and give you an opportunity to commit more." - Mark Twain

[mc-yui]

My work is a game, a very serious game.
M. C. Escher (1898 - 1972)

[Caitlyn]

There is hope if people will begin to awaken that spiritual part of themselves, that heartfelt knowledge that we are caretakers of this planet. ~ Brooke Medicine Eagle

[PimpDaShizzle V2.0]

An older and round looking man in black slacks, a white shirt, and suspenders was walking by me and he said to himself, "Lots of good trophies there, wow." He was referring to a stack of trophies sitting on the table in this bar that were for the upcoming pool tournament. I wasn't involved with the tournament because I was focusing on a game of shuffle board and I'm a horrible pool player. Anyways, I thought his little ramble to himself was pretty funny.

[mark f]

"Dream as if you'll live forever; live as if you'll die tomorrow."

- James Dean

[mark f]

"I have found life an enjoyable, enchanting, active, and sometime terrifying experience, and I've enjoyed it completely. A lament in one ear, maybe, but always a song in the other."

- Sean O'Casey

[Equilibrium]

Carol Connelly: OK, we all have these terrible stories to get over, and you-...
Melvin Udall: It's not true. Some have great stories, pretty stories that take place at lakes with boats and friends and noodle salad. Just no one in this car. But, a lot of people, that's their story. Good times, noodle salad. What makes it so hard is not that you had it bad, but that you're that pissed that so many others had it good.

[Mrs. Darcy]

If we have no peace, it is because we have forgotten that we belong to each other.

~Mother Teresa

[Caitlyn]

Flatter me, and I may not believe you. Criticize me, and I may not like you. Ignore me, and I may not forgive you. Encourage me, and I will not forget you. ~ William Arthur Ward

[mark f]

"I prefer to think that God is not dead, just drunk."

- John Huston

[fbuenanry]

"But the fact that some geniuses were laughed at does not imply that all who are laughed at are geniuses. They laughed at Columbus, they laughed at Fulton, they laughed at the Wright brothers. But they also laughed at Bozo the Clown." - Carl Sagan

[Mrs. Darcy]

We tell lies when we are afraid... afraid of what we don't know, afraid of what others will think, afraid of what will be found out about us. But every time we tell a lie, the thing that we fear grows stronger.

~Tad Williams

[Caitlyn]

The difference between a helping hand and an outstretched palm is a twist of the wrist. ~ Laurence Leamer

[Caitlyn]

A man can stand a lot as long as he can stand himself. ~ Axel Munthe

[thebest]

Meeting someone is something that happens.Attracted is something you are.A relationship is something you have.Love is all you need.Me (with a little help from my friends ;) )

[mark f]

"Example is not the main thing in influencing others, it's the only thing."

- Albert Schweitzer

[Caitlyn]

All we have to decide is what to do with the time that is given to us. ~ J.R. Tolkien, The Fellowship of the Ring

[mark f]

"An ounce of performance is worth pounds of promises."

- Mae West

[Mrs. Darcy]

We all wear masks, and the time comes when we cannot remove them without removing some of our own skin.

~André Berthiaume, Contretemps

[mark f]

"A man does what he must - in spite of personal consequences, in spite of obstacles and dangers and pressures - and that is the basis of all human morality."

- John F. Kennedy

[fbuenanry]

"I do believe it is possible to create, even without ever writing a word or painting a picture, by simply molding one's inner life. And that too is a deed." - Etty Hillesum

[mark f]

"Hollywood is a place where they'll pay you a thousand dollars for a kiss and fifty cents for your soul."

- Marilyn Monroe

[Caitlyn]

It's too big a world to be in competition with everyone. The only person who I have to be better than is myself. ~ Colonel Potter (MASH)

[fbuenanry]

Being positive opens up great possibilities.

[Mrs. Darcy]

Pleasure is spread through the earth
In stray gifts to be claimed by whoever shall find.

~William Wordsworth, 1806

[Ðèstîñy]

"You can safely assume that you've created God in your own image, when it turns out that God hates all the same people you do."

Anne Lamott


Ironically, I've always assumed he loves everyone I hate. Which would explain some of my newer issues.

[mark f]

"Heresy is another word for freedom of thought."

- Graham Greene

[Caitlyn]

The idea of full dress for preparation for a battle comes not from a belief that it will add to the fighting ability. The preparation is for death, in case that should be the result of conflict. Every Indian wants to look his best when he goes to meet the great Spirit, so the dressing up is done whether in imminent danger is an oncoming battle or a sickness or injury at times of peace. ~ Wooden Leg (Cheyenne)

[Tacitus]

A cynic is what an idealist calls a realist - Sir Humphrey Appleby, (Yes Minister Season 3 Episode 3) my DVD player, just now.

http://i17.photobucket.com/albums/b69/greenspagbol/oth_humphrey.jpg

[Mrs. Darcy]

Let us rise up and be thankful, for if we didn't learn a lot today, at least we learned a little, and if we didn't learn a little, at least we didn't get sick, and if we got sick, at least we didn't die; so, let us all be thankful.

~Buddha

[Caitlyn]

I distrust those people who know so well what God wants them to do because I notice that it always coincides with their own desires. ~ Susan B. Anthony

[mark f]

"I let the audience use their imaginations. Can I help it if they misconstrue my suggestions? "

- Ernst Lubitsch

[nebbit]

THE DALAI LAMA:
Peace, in the sense of the absence of war, is of little value to someone who is dying of hunger or cold. It will not remove the pain of torture inflicted on a prisoner of conscience. It does not comfort those who have lost their loved ones in floods caused by senseless deforestation in a neighboring country. Peace can only last where human rights are respected, where the people are fed, and where individuals and nations are free. :)

[mark f]

"My heart is singing for joy this morning! A miracle has happened! The light of understanding has shone upon my little pupil's mind, and behold, all things are changed!"

- Annie Sullivan

[thebest]

John Donne once said: "Love, all alike, no season knows, nor clime,Nor hours, days ,months, which are the rags of time"

Gwen Stefani once said: "Yeah I like gold.I like to wear it."

Dont'cha just love evolution?

[mc-yui]

"I know not with what weapons World War III will be fought, but World War IV will be fought with sticks and stones."

-Albert Einstein

[Mrs. Darcy]

Shall we compare our hearts to a garden -
with beautiful blooms, straggling weeds,
swooping birds and sunshine, rain -
and most importantly, seeds.

~Grey Livingston

[Caitlyn]

A dog is not considered a good dog because he is a good barker. A man is not considered a good man because he is a good talker. ~ Buddha

[mark f]

"I had a terrible education. I attended a school for emotionally disturbed teachers."

- Woody Allen

[Caitlyn]

The Indians in their simplicity literally give away all that they have -- to relatives, to guests of other tribes or clans, but above all to the poor and the aged, from whom they can hope for no return. ~ Ohiyesa (Charles Alexander Eastman) - (Wahpeton Santee Sioux - 1858-1939)

[Mrs. Darcy]

We're learning about the Inuits of Alaska in our class this week, and one of the traditions they carry on still is that the first kill of a young boy is split between the elders of the village. Very good idea to care for and respect your old people. We'll be old soon enough, too.

[Lennon]

"Luke I am your father" - Darth Vader

[Mrs. Darcy]

Laughter is the sun that drives winter from the human face.

~Victor Hugo

[Caitlyn]

I thought you might be interested in this one too Mrs. Darcy... :)

Children were encouraged to develop strict discipline and a high regard for sharing. When a girl picked her first berries and dug her first roots, they were given away to an elder so she would share her future success. When a child carried water for the home, an elder would give compliments, pretending to taste meat in water carried by a boy or berries in that of a girl. The child was encouraged not to be lazy and to grow straight like a sapling. ~ Mourning Dove (Christine Quintasket) - (Salish)

[thebest]

Mr. Keating: In my class, you will learn to think for yourselves again. You will learn to savor words and languages. No matter what anybody tells you, words and ideas can change the world. I see that look in Mr Pitts' eyes like 19th century literature has nothing to do with going to business school or medical school, right? Maybe. You may agree and think yes, we should study our Mr. Pritcher and learn our rhyme and meter and go quietly about the business of achieving other ambitions. Well, I have a secret for you. Huddle Up...Huddle UP! We don't read and write poetry because it's cute. We read and write poetry because we are members of the human race. And the human race is filled with passion. Medicine, law, business these are all noble pursuits necessary to sustain life. But poetry, beauty, romance, and love; these are what we stay alive for. To quote from Whitman "Oh me, Oh life of the question of these recurring. of the endless trains of the faithless of cities filled with the foolish. What good amid these? Oh me, Oh life." "Answer...that you are here and life exists....You are here. Life exists, and identity. The powerful play goes on and you may contribute a verse." The powerful play goes on and you may contribute a verse. What will your verse be?

[mark f]

"If presidents can't do it to their wives, they do it to their country."

- Mwl Brooks

[mark f]

"Prayer is not asking. It is a longing of the soul. It is daily admission of one's weakness. It is better in prayer to have a heart without words than words without a heart."

- Mohandas Gandhi

[fbuenanry]

"There is nobody so irritating as somebody with less intelligence and more sense than we have." - Don Herold

[mc-yui]

If you do not hope, you will not find what is beyond your hopes.
-St. Clement of Alexandra

[Caitlyn]

Darkness cannot drive out darkness; only light can do that. Hate cannot drive out hate; only love can do that. ~ Martin Luther King, Jr.

[Mrs. Darcy]

We have learned to fly the air like birds and swim the sea like fish, but we have not learned the simple art of living together as brothers. Our abundance has brought us neither peace of mind nor serenity of spirit.

~Martin Luther King, Jr., Strength to Love, 1963

[mc-yui]

Bible Quote:
I am doing a great work and I cannot come down. Why should the work stop while I leave it and come down to you?

[Mrs. Darcy]

And the night shall be filled with music,
And the cares that infest the day
Shall fold their tents like the Arabs
And as silently steal away.
~Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, The Day Is Done


Without music life would be a mistake. ~Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche

[Caitlyn]

If you don't know where you're going, then any path will get you there. ~ Sioux proverb

[mark f]

"It is pretty obvious that the debasement of the human mind caused by a constant flow of fraudulent advertising is no trivial thing. There is more than one way to conquer a country."

- Raymond Chandler

[mc-yui]

"A train station is where the train stops. A bus station is where the bus stops. On my desk, I have a work station... "

[Caitlyn]

A little learning is not a dangerous thing to one who does not mistake it for a great deal. ~ William Allen White

[mark f]

"It opens the lungs, washes the countenance, exercises the eyes, and softens down the temper; so cry away."

- Charles Dickens

[mc-yui]

“I am so clever that sometimes I don't understand a single word of what I am saying.”-Oscar Wilde

[Mrs. Darcy]

Read, every day, something no one else is reading. Think, every day, something no one else is thinking. Do, every day, something no one else would be silly enough to do. It is bad for the mind to continually be part of unanimity.

~Christopher Morley

[meatwadsprite]

"Your weapons can not harm me ! "

- The Juggernaut

[Caitlyn]

The large print giveth, and the small print taketh away. ~ Tom Waits

[mark f]

"Ideas are like rabbits. You get a couple and learn how to handle them, and pretty soon you have a dozen."

- John Steinbeck

[Tatanka]

A George W. Bushism (as compiled by J. Weisberg):

"It's your money. You paid for it."
(La Crosse, Wisconsin, October 18th, 2000).

[mc-yui]

"Sorry boss but there's only two men I trust. One of 'em is me, the others' not you."

[Caitlyn]

The best laid schemes o' Mice an' Men,
Gang aft agley,
An' lea'e us nought but grief an' pain,
For promis'd joy!

Translation:
The best laid schemes of Mice and Men
oft go awry,
And leave us nothing but grief and pain,
For promised joy!

~ Robert Burns ~
(born 25 Jan. 1759)

[Swedish Chef]

"Who knows, but that the universe is not actually one vast sea of compassion, the veritable holy honey, beneath all this show of personality and cruelty?" ~ Jack Kerouac

[mark f]

"I am a kind of paranoiac in reverse. I suspect people of plotting to make me happy."

- J.D. Salinger

[thebest]

Mr. Keating: "O Captain! My Captain!" Who knows where that comes from? Anybody. Not a clue? It's from a poem by Walt Whitman about Mr. Abraham Lincoln. Now, this class, you can either call me Mr. Keating, or, if you're slightly more daring, "O Captain! My Captain." Now let me dispel a few rumors, so they don't fester into facts. Yes, I, too, attended Hellton and have survived. And no, at that time, I was not the mental giant you see before you. I was the intellectual equivalent of a ninety-eight-pound weakling. I would go to the beach, and people would kick copies of Byron in my face.

[Caitlyn]

The meaning of things lies not in the things themselves, but in our attitude towards them.
~ Antoine de Saint Exupery ~

[christine]

The meaning of things lies not in the things themselves, but in our attitude towards them.
~ Antoine de Saint Exupery ~

Caity, have you read The Little Prince by Antoine de Saint Exupery?

[Caitlyn]

Caity, have you read The Little Prince by Antoine de Saint Exupery?


I have... but it was many many moons ago... when I was too young to properly appreciate it... :)

[mark f]

"There are three classes of people: those who see, those who see when they are shown, those who do not see."

- Leonardo da Vinci

[Swedish Chef]

"I feel the same way about disco as I do about herpes." ~ Dr. Hunter S. Thompson

[christine]

I have... but it was many many moons ago... when I was too young to properly appreciate it... :)

Caity - I vote you read again!
x

[mark f]

"Love all, trust a few, do wrong to none."

- William Shakespeare

[Mrs. Darcy]

"Respect your efforts, respect yourself. Self-respect leads to self-discipline. When you have both firmly under your belt, that's real power. "

~Clint Eastwood

[Caitlyn]

There are three things extremely hard: steel, a diamond, and to know one's self. ~ Benjamin Franklin

[Mrs. Darcy]

Oooh, good one, Caity! :)

[thebest]

Aunt May: He knows a hero when he sees one. Too few characters out there, flying around like that, saving old girls like me. And Lord knows, kids like Henry need a hero. Courageous, self-sacrificing people. Setting examples for all of us. Everybody loves a hero. People line up for them, cheer them, scream their names. And years later, they'll tell how they stood in the rain for hours just to get a glimpse of the one who taught them how to hold on a second longer. I believe there's a hero in all of us, that keeps us honest, gives us strength, makes us noble, and finally allows us to die with pride, even though sometimes we have to be steady, and give up the thing we want the most. Even our dreams.

[Tatanka]

"Every moment of every event of every man's life on earth plants something in his soul." - Thomas Merton

[mc-yui]

(http://www.wisdomquotes.com/000356.html) You must do the things you think you cannot do.- Eleanor Roosevelt

[Mrs. Darcy]

"Nature has given man one tongue, but two ears, that we may hear twice as much as we speak.”~ Epictetus

[Caitlyn]

Have you learned the lessons only of those who admired you, and were tender with you, and stood aside for you? Have you not learned great lessons from those who braced themselves against you, and disputed passage with you? ~ Walt Whitman

[mark f]

"How wonderful it is that nobody need wait a single moment before starting to improve the world."

- Anne Frank

[Tatanka]

"Strike the thick cloud of unknowing with the sharp dart of longing love, and on no account think of giving up." -from The Cloud of Unknowing (c.1370)

[mc-yui]

Yes, we have to divide up our time like that, between our politics and our equations. But to me our equations are far more important, for politics are only a matter of present concern. A mathematical equation stands forever.

Albert Einstein (1879 - 1955)

[Cryxellis]

"If a dog barks at you...don't think the problem is with you... the problem is with the dog, because it knows nothing other than BARKING!" -Shivaraj H. Kattimani

[mark f]

"Everyone thinks of changing the world, but no one thinks of changing himself."

- Leo Tolstoy

[Caitlyn]

It is not only for what we do that we are held responsible, but also for what we do not do. ~ Moliere

[mc-yui]

You know the happiest day of my life I swear the happiest day of my life Is the day that I die
- Good Charlotte

[Caitlyn]

Experience is not what happens to a man, it is what a man does with what happens to him. ~ Aldous Huxley

[mark f]

"By three methods we may learn wisdom: First, by reflection, which is noblest; Second, by imitation, which is easiest; and third by experience, which is the bitterest."

- Confucius

[mc-yui]

They told me that: 1 day=24 hours, 1 hour= 60 minutes, 1 minute=60 seconds but they never told me that 1 second away from you is a Century.. -Mary

[Mrs. Darcy]

"Wisdom is oftentimes nearer when we stoop than when we soar."


~William Wordsworth

[Caitlyn]

Life's not always fair. Sometimes you can get a splinter even sliding down a rainbow. ~ Cherralea Morgen

[mark f]

"The best thing I can think of would be to create a union between something as beautiful and powerful and wonderful as Hollywood films and a criticism of the status quo. That's my dream, to make such a German film."

- Rainer Werner Fassbinder

[gohansrage]

"I made many of my life decisions at a Foghat concert. I stand by them." -Bill Dautrieve "King of the Hill"

[thebest]

That means drugs,sex,lies,videotape, but if I rap about Jesus my record won't get played.

I wanna talk to God but I'm afraid cuz we ain't spoke in so long

Kanye West-Jesus Walks

A great song with a great message, the lyrics make me laugh and smile and wonder what kind of world me and my friends are making for ourselves and our kids.

[mark f]

"Age is strictly a case of mind over matter. If you don't mind, it doesn't matter."

- Jack Benny

[Tatanka]

"Go to jail. Go directly to jail. Do not pass go, do not collect two hundred dollars." ---Monopoly

[mc-yui]

I've missed more than 9000 shots in my career. I've lost almost 300 games. 26 times, I've been trusted to take the game winning shot and missed. I've failed over and over and over again in my life. And that is why I succeed.

-Michael Jordan

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i love michael jordan's quotes..

(http://www.brainyquote.com/quotes/quotes/m/michaeljor127660.html)

[Mrs. Darcy]

Browsing the dim back corner
Of a musty antique shop
Opened an old book of poetry
Angels flew out from the pages
I caught the whiff of a soul
The ink seemed fresh as today
Was that voices whispering?
The tree of the paper still grows.

~Pixie Foudre

[Caitlyn]

There are two ways to get enough.
One is to continue to accumulate more and more.
The other is to desire less.
~ GK Chesterton ~

[gohansrage]

"Was I bored? No, I wasn't ****in' bored. I'm never bored. That's the trouble with everybody - you're all so bored. You've had nature explained to you and you're bored with it, you've had the living body explained to you and you're bored with it, you've had the universe explained to you and you're bored with it, so now you want cheap thrills and, like, plenty of them, and it doesn't matter how tawdry or vacuous they are as long as it's new as long as it's new as long as it flashes and ****in' bleeps in forty ****in' different colors. So whatever else you can say about me, I'm not ****in' bored."

- Johnny - Naked

[Tatanka]

"Hope is believing in spite of the evidence and then watching the evidence change." -Jim Wallis

[Caitlyn]

Take care of your body. It's the only place you have to live. ~ Jim Rohn

[thebest]

We have to live together,
Or we're gonna die alone.
-Jack

[mark f]

"Education is not the piling on of learning, information, data, facts, skills, or abilities - that's training or instruction - but is rather making visible what is hidden as a seed."

- Thomas More

[Mrs. Darcy]

“THIS IS WHAT PLAYERS GO
THROUGH TRAINING CAMP FOR.
THIS IS WHY PEOPLE TRAIN
SO HARD. THIS IS WHY GUYS
BLEED. THIS IS THE GAME
PLAYERS TRY TO REACH. THIS IS
THE PINNACLE AND IT DOESN’T
GET ANY BETTER THAN THIS.”

~Terrell Owens on the Superbowl

[Caitlyn]

Worrying is like a rocking chair, it gives you something to do, but it gets you nowhere. ~ Glenn Turner