Saturday, September 23, 2006

my friend, it is all about the word play.


"We cross our bridges when we come to them and burn them behind us, with nothing to show for our progress except a memory of the smell of smoke, and a presumption that once our eyes watered."
- Tom Stoppard

"Men occasionally stumble over the truth, but most of them pick themselves up and hurry off as if nothing ever happened."
- Sir Winston Churchhill

"Idleness is not doing nothing. Idleness is being free to do anything."
- Floyd Dell
(I like this one b/c I'm realizing that it's really true.)

"People with courage and character always seem sinister to the rest."
- Hermann Hesse

"Nobody got anywhere in the world by simply being content."
- Louis L'Amour

"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

"I'm sick of following my dreams. I'm just going to ask them where they're going and hook up with them later."
- Mitch Hedberg
(I don't really feel this way, it just made me laugh!)

"Doubt is not a pleasant condition, but certainty is absurd."
- Voltaire

"It's never just a game when you're winning."
- George Carlin

"When everyone is against you, it means that you are absolutely wrong--or absolutely right."
- Albert Guinon

"Astonomers say the universe is finite, which is a comforting thought for those people who can't remember where they leave things."....like my car keys.
- Unknown

"Reget for the things we did can be tempered by time; it is regret for the things we did not do that is inconsolable."
- Sidney J. Harris

"The thing I hate about an argument is that it always interrupts a discussion."
- G.K. Chesterton

"At the age of eleven or thereabouts women acquire a poise and an ability to handle difficult situations which a man, if he is lucky, manages to achieve somewhere in the later seventies."
- P.G. Wodehouse

"Love is the difficult realization that something other than oneself is real."
- Iris Murdoch

"I write down everything I want to remember. That way, instead of spending a lot of time trying to remember what it is I wrote down, I spend the time looking for the paper I wrote it down on."
- Beryl Pfizer

"My own business always bores me to death; I prefer other people's.
- Oscar Wilde

"History will be kind to me, for I intend to write it."
-Winston Churchill

"Never go to bed mad. Stay up and fight."
-Phyllis Diller

"She was a woman who, in between courses, could be graceful with her elbows on the table."
-Henry James

"Laziness is nothing more then resting before you get tired."
-Jules Renard

"I may not have gone where I intended to go, but I thing I ended up where I needed to be."
-Douglas Adams

"Better to remain silent and be thought a fool, than to speak out and remove all doubt."
-Abraham Lincoln

"I will prepare and some day my chance will come"
-Abraham Lincoln

"All I have seen teaches me to trust the Creator for all I have not seen."
-Ralph Waldo Emerson

"A friend is one before whom I may think aloud."
-Ralph Waldo Emerson

"I walk the line."
-Johnny Cash

so, i'm slightly in love with quotes.

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