We live without hope but always with desire. --dante's the divine comedy, inferno, canto #4 B-Movie Actress: So what do you do? Harry: I'm retired, I invented dice as a kid. -- Robert Downey, Jr. "Kiss Kiss, Bang Bang" "Repetition is the cause of success or failure." --Brian Danchilla "I'm actually not as retarded as I let myself come across as." --Brian Danchilla "This town is a swirling pit of despair that no one escapes from." --Joe Collinson "Listen, supergirl, I'm going to break you down into so many pieces that my grandmother, who can do a 1000 piece puzzle of a clear blue sky in under an hour, will never be able to put you together again, ever, even if she does go back in time to when her vision was perfect." -- Dr. Cox to JD, Scrubs
"Who am I? I'm the guy that does his fuckin' job! You must be the other guy! " --Dignam, The Departed "Why is it that people who always give advice never insist on taking it?"
--James Bond, Casino Royale
It does not matter how slowly you go so long as you do not stop.
--Confucius
"Without order nothing can exist - without chaos nothing can evolve"
-unknown
"Never forget that only dead fish swim with the stream"
-Malcolm Muggeridge
"Beauty is only skin deep, and the world is full of thin skinned people."
Richard Armour
"If you have an important point to make, don't try to be subtle or clever. Use a pile driver. Hit the point once. Then come back and hit it again. Then hit it a third time -- a tremendous whack."
-Winston Churchill
"The most exciting phrase to hear in science, the one that heralds new discoveries, is not "Eureka!" (I found it!) but "That's funny..."
-Isaac Asimov
"Any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic."
-Arthur C. Clarke
"Dreams are the eraser dust I blow off my page. They fade into the emptiness, another dark gray day. Dreams are only memories of the plans I had back then. Dreams are eraser dust and now I use a pen."
-Edgar Allan Poe
ulalume poem by Edgar Allan Poe
"Let no man fear to die we love to sleep all, And death is but the sounder sleep"
-Beaumont
"Eat, drink and be merry... For tommorrow we die."
-Epicurus
"I am not a vegetarian because I love animals; I am a vegetarian because I hate plants."
-A. Whitney Brown
"Happiness is to see the world in a grain of sand, and Heaven in a wild flower, to hold infinity in the palm of your hand, and eternity in a single hour."
-William Blake
"Beyond a certain point there is no return. This point has to be reached." --Franz Kafka
"They who dream by day are cognizant of many things which escape the dreamers by night. In their grey visions, they obtain glimpses of eternity, and thrill, in their awakening to find that they have been on the verge of the great secret. In snatches, they learn of the wisdom which is of good, and more of that mere knowledge which is of evil." --Edgar A. Poe, "Mesmeric Revelation"
"Sanity calms, but madness is more interesting." --John Russell
"But I don't want to go among mad people," Alice remarked. "Oh, you can't help that," said the Cat. "We're all mad here. I'm mad. You're mad." "How do you know I'm mad?" said Alice. "You must be," said the Cat, "or you wouldn't have come here." -- Lewis Carroll ("Alice in Wonderland")
"If the doors of perception were cleansed everything would, appear to man as it is, infinite." --William Blake
"It was a bright cold day in April, and the clocks were striking thirteen."
--intro to '1984' by George Orwell
Everyone hears only what he understands. --Goethe
"We live together, we act on, and react to, one another; but always and in all circumstances we are by ourselves. The martyrs go hand in hand into the arena; they are crucified alone. Embraced, the lovers desperately try to fuse their insulated ecstasies into a single self-transcendence; in vain. By its very nature every embodied spirit is doomed to suffer and enjoy in solitude. Sensations, feelings, insights, fancies?all these are private and, except through symbols and at second hand, incommunicable. We can pool information about experiences, but never the experiences themselves. From family to nation, every human group is a society of island universes." --Aldous Huxley, "The Doors of Perception"
It is not the strongest of the species that survives, nor the most intelligent; it is the one that is most adaptable to change. --Charles Darwin On Modesty As a lyricist, singer, and performer, Morrissey has created a mythology unrivaled in popular music. In fact, you have to go back to the legends of American cinema or British theatre to find an artist whose creative identity-whose public presentation of themselves-is so sealed within one particular sense of constancy... when one thinks about Morrissey's conversion from pop star into an entire cultural brand, it is tempting to make comparisons with Andy Warhol...he is one of the very few pop lyricists whose writing is judged by the highest standards of contemporary literature-a rare charateristic shared by a select few, such as Dylan and The Beatles-thus prompting the journalist Paul Morley to say(with reference to Britain's most prestigious literary award),"You could swap every winner of the Booker Prize for one song by Morrissey"...In many ways, he represents what is known in modern European philosophy as "the will to self-create"; another term for this would be auto-fact-in other words, the ability within an individual to realise himself as a mythology; a person who embodies an entire perception of life...One day there will most probably be a Faculty of Morrissey Studies in more than one distinguished seat of learning... Michael Bracewell's liner notes of "The Best of Morrissey" cd, released in 2001. "you like that song? i wrote that. that's a good song there."
--banjo playing guy on "Cola wars" documentary
Proverbs & other advice
Tell me and I will forget;
Show me and I may remember;
Involve me and I will understand.
--Chinese Proverb
"Better to light a candle than to curse the darkness."
-Chinese Proverb
When one teaches, two learn.
--Robert Half
Always listen to the experts. They will tell you what can't be done, and why. Then do it. --Robert A. Heinlein related to this... Everything that can be invented has been invented. --Charles H. Duell, Commissioner, U.S. Office of Patents, 1899 |
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