Favorite Quotes
Beyond a certain point there is no return. This point has to be reached.
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.
I am not a vegetarian because I love animals; I am a vegetarian because I hate plants.
Eat, drink and be merry... For tommorrow we die.
Let no man fear to die we love to sleep all, And death is but the sounder sleep
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.
Any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic
The most exciting phrase to hear in science, the one that heralds new discoveries, is not "Eureka!" (I found it!) but "That's funny..."
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.
Beauty is only skin deep, and the world is full of thin skinned people.
Never forget that only dead fish swim with the stream
Without order nothing can exist - without chaos nothing can evolve
It does not matter how slowly you go so long as you do not stop.
It is not the strongest of the species that survives, nor the most intelligent; it is the one that is most adaptable to change.
"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."
Everyone hears only what he understands.
"It was a bright cold day in April, and the clocks were striking thirteen."
"If the doors of perception were cleansed everything would, appear to man as it is, infinite."
"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."
"Sanity calms, but madness is more interesting."
"Why is it that people who always give advice never insist on taking it?"
"Who am I? I'm the guy that does his f@#kin' job! You must be the other guy!
"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."
Repetition is the cause of success or failure.
We live without hope but always with desire.
<pre>B-Movie Actress: So what do you do?
Harry: I'm retired, I invented dice as a kid.</pre>
"you like that song? i wrote that. that's a good song there."
Tell me and I will forget; Show me and I may remember; Involve me and I will understand.
Better to light a candle than to curse the darkness.
When one teaches, two learn.
if life is for the livid, check me tomorrow
Our dreams are a reflection of ourselves: in dreams, no matter how many characters appear, we meet ourselves.
In the beginning, there was nothing. And the Lord said 'Let there be light' and there was still nothing, but now you could see it.
I'm as puzzled as a newborn child.
I'm as troubled as the tide.
Did I dream you dreamed about me?
Well we had to pull on something so we're grabbing at the threads and now the world's unravelin' inside our very heads Glasses smeared with lipstick hungry eyes out in the street Same old bodies moving to the same old beat Had to draw the line Had to draw the line All this talk of hypnotising we can ill afford to give ourselves to sentiment when our time is oh so short Names beneath the lichen on these, cemetery stones There are carnivals of silver fish waiting to dance upon our bones Had to draw the line help me draw the line help me draw the line help me draw the line I've been doubting yours baby I've been doubting mine I've been out of circulation where the sun don't shine I've been doubting fame and wealth, charity, even love itself draw the line I aint saying he's bad baby, I aint saying he's good Merely that he ain't so different 'neath the executioner's hood In the name of liberty, in the name of brotherhood had to draw the line had to draw the line Need to take some pride baby need to take some heart need to take evasive action when the rumpass start Here we are buck naked yeah but where should we begin ? when it's not the flesh we're after but the howlin' ghost within help me draw the line help me draw the line help me draw the line need to draw the line help me draw the line need to draw the line had to draw the line (pack your bags we're going home) (pack you're bags we're going home)
want my heart to break,
if it must break,
in your jaws
if she hung around too much i might take her for granted
but when i was away, she seemed an angel
the only one who really cared about me
the only one without an angle
Telling myself I could be strong
Or some such brave bullshit
Said the moon was ours
The hell with the day
The sunlight is always
Gonna take love away
she wants her land back from the sea
she wants her soul in the trembling leaves
wanted like a substitute, i've been working offly hard for you
...
it's a dark path and a heck of a toll
she could never flat out say that she don't want me, cause i could never say that half-way ain't enough
when the lights come on this whole place gets ugly, but when they're out strangers fall in love
Well it's been a long time, long time now
since I've seen you smile.
And I'll gamble away my fright.
And I'll gamble away my time.
And in a year, a year or so
this will slip into the sea
is my timing that flawed?
you've turned away on your side...
and love, love will tear us apart