"The act of writing is the act of discovering what you believe." ~David Hale
"Carpe Diem (Seize the Day)" ~Horace
"Veni. Vedi. Veci. (I came, I saw, I conquered.)" ~Julius Caesar
"How high could you go if you knew you wouldn't fall?" ~Anonymous
"you laugh because i'm different, i laugh because you're all the same." ~Unknown
"Much truth is said in jest." ~Unknown
"How is it that music can, without words, evoke our laughter, our tear, our highest aspiration?" ~Jane Swan
"I'll never find another friend to take the place of you. No one will ever touch my soul exactly like you do. No one who's quite so thoughtful, no one I cherish so. No one will mean so much to me... I just wanted you to know."
"I can tell by your tears-- you will remember it all."
"Sometimes a person touches your life from afar and it's enough just to be touched, but then there's this rare occasion when you need to reach out yourself." ~Audrey Beth Stein
"Eventually I had to learn that teddy bears don't solve problems and tears don't make the pain go away."
"Be flamboyant-- life's short. You can't do things based on what other people are going to think." ~Rose McGowan
"I know that throughout my life, wherever I am, I will always remember our friendship as one of the best I have ever known."
"The world is such an evil place now, how can anyone find peace when it is hidden from us?" ~Unknown
"Honey, to them I'm just a chick who is hung over at 11:00 in the morning. My hair isn't combed, I'm wearin' funny lookin' clothes, plus I'm wearin' feathers. I walk in here and say I want a drink. These people don't want to see me, baby. I mean, let's face it, they don't want me in here - period. So there's three old cats sayin', 'What is this chick doin' here and why?' They'd just as soon be talkin' about the Mets game and they don't want this chick walkin' in with bells on and a big sack of beads. There's the snide remarks I'm not supposed to hear, but loud enough, of course, for me to hear. Everybody gets it, man. Getting' treated like a hippie, that's what I'm talkin' about." ~Janis Joplin
"Don't wish me happiness-- I don't expect to be happy; it's gotten beyond that somehow. Wish me courage and strength and a sense of humor. I will need them all." ~Anne Morrow Lindbergh
"Those who have suffered much become very bitter or very gentle." ~Will Durant
"God is dead, no one cares. If there is a Hell, I'll see you there." ~?
"A best friend is the other half of your soul."
It's funny...I never realised how easy I was to break, how fragile I could be. I think of myself as very tough, sturdy. But ,you know, when you care about someone or for someone, when you let them into your life....you are opening yourself up. You are letting them in and ,perhaps, losing a part of yourself in the process. I never realised how easy I was to break, how fragile I could be. Cause people can take their knowledge of you, or your caring about them and use that to tear you to shreds. I never realised... ~Hippie Chick
"Cherish your vision; cherish your ideals; cherish the music that plays in your heart, the beauty that forms from your mind, the loveliness that drapes your purest thought; if you remain true to them, your world will at last be built." ~James Allen
"Don't cry because it's over, smile because it happened." ~Unknown
"The only way to enjoy anything in this life is to earn it first." ~Ginger Rogers
"We are the hero of our own story." ~Mary McCarthy
"Some people come into our lives quickly and go. Others stay for awhile and leave footprints in our hearts, and we are never the same." ~Unknown
"How do you cure in the present what has happened in the past?" ~Unknown
"Do what you can, with what you have, where you are." ~Theodore Roosevelt
"A friend is someone with whom you can really be yourself. One who appreciates the good in you, overlooks the bad in you, and brings out the best in you. With a friend, you can share a laugh, a secret, a viewpoint, a success or disappointment, and a complete assortment of problems large and small. A friend is someone who understands silences as well as words, one who lifts you up and never lets you down, who makes you feel that it's an okay world after all. A friend is one who knows all about you and loves you just the same."
"Do not go gentle into that good night
Old age should burn and rave at the close of day;
Rage, rage against the dying light.
~Dylan Thomas
"In vino veritas." (In wine there is truth.) ~Pliny the Elder
"I gave 'em a sword. And they stuck it in, and they twisted it with relish. And I guess if I had been in their situation, I'd have done the same." ~Richard Nixon (1977)
"Learn who you are and be such." ~Pindar
"Excessive sorrow laughs, excessive joy weeps." ~William Blake
"Temperance is the control of all the functions of our bodies. The man who refuses liquor, goes in for apple pie and develops a paunch, is no ethical leader for me." ~John Erskine
"Fashions fade-- style is eternal." ~Yves Saint Laurent
"The greatest mistake in life is to continually fear making one." ~Anonymous
"Man is born free, yet everywhere he is in chains." ~Jean Jacque Rousseeau
"I'll remember the laughter as we go our seperate ways, but there's so much we are learning and we cannot be afraid. There's a world outside our door and nothing in our way, but if it's not what we're both looking for, we'll meet again someday."
"Every rose has its thorn." ~Guns and Roses
"In this world there are two tragedies: one is not getting what one wants, and the other is getting it." ~Oscar Wilde
"To laugh often and much; To win the respect of intelligent people and the affection of children; To earn the appreciation of honest critics and ignore the betrayal of false friends; too appreciate beauty; To find the best in others; To leave the world a bit better, whether by a healthy child, a garden patch, or redeemed by a social condition; To know even one life has breathed easier because you have lived. This is to suceed." ~Ralph Waldo Emerson
"To truely suceed in life, you must follow your own north star-- the sense of who you really are." ~?
"Anarchy is against the law." ~Graffiti
"About all some men accomplish is sending a son to Harvard." ~Edgar Watson Howe
"...time sweeps us along and puts us in a certain place, where we're faced with one option or another, or with the option of not quite deciding yet. By chance, and by the choices we make, we leave behind us whole other lives that we could have lived, full of a different type of passion and joy, and with a different set of problems and disappointments." ~Lisa Bain
"We have not even to risk the adventures alone, for the heros of all time have gone before us." ~Unknown
"To be a great champion you must believe you are the best. If you're not, pretend you are." ~Muhammad Ali
"When in doubt make a fool of yourself. There is a microscopically thin line between being brillantly creative and acting like the most gigantic idoit on earth. So what the hell, leap." ~Cynthia Heimel
"The optimist claims we live in the best of all possible worlds, the pessimist fears this is true." ~James Branch Cabell
"If you're already walking on thin ice you might as well dance." ~Gil Atkinson
"If music be the food of love, play on." ~Shakespeare
"I am not a teacher, only a fellow travller of whom you asked the way; I pointed ahead of myself as well as ahead of you." ~George Bernard Shaw
"Every story has three sides to it-- yours, mine, and the truth." ~Foster Meharny Russell
"You must love the journey, not just the destination." ~Robert Dover
"When I was a boy of fourteen, my father was so ignorant I could hardly stand to have to old man around. But when I got to be twenty-one, I was astonished at how much the old man had learned in seven years." ~Mark Twain
"I'd rather laugh with the sinners than cry with the saints. The sinners are much more fun." ~Billy Joel
"A true friend is one who knows the song in your heart and sings it to you when you forget the words." ~Unknown
"If you obey all the rules, you miss all the fun." ~Katherine Hepurn
"This life is a test, it is only a test. Had this been a real life you would have recieved futher instructions on where to go and what to do." ~Unknown
"Never deprive someone of hope, it may be all they have." ~Anonymous
"I feel sorry for people who don't drink, because when they wake up in the morning that's the best they are going to feel all day." ~Unknown
"There is no elevator to success, you have to take the stairs." ~Anonymous
"Sometimes I wish I was a little kid again, skinned knees are a lot easier to fix than broken dreams." ~Anonymous
"Never be too big to look up to someone." ~Unknown
"I am easily satisfied with the very best." ~Winston Churchill
"If it only took words to crush me I would have been dust long ago." ~Raven
"Far away there in the sunshine are my highest aspirations. I may not reach them, but I can look up and see their beauty, believe in them and try to follow where they lead." ~Louisa May Alcott
"To be trusted is a greater compliment than to be loved." ~George MacDonald
"The pain now is part of the happiness then." ~C. S. Lewis
"The one who knows how to laugh at himself will never cease to be amused." ~Unknown
"There is no pleasure in having nothing to do; the fun is having lots to do and not doing it." ~John W. Raper
"The best audience is intelligent, well-educated, and a little drunk." ~Alvin Barkley
"On stage I make love to twenty-five thousand people; then I go home alone." ~Janis Joplin
"I don't care if you have ten dollars or ten million dollars. A fat butt is a fat butt. You can quote me on that." ~Oprah Winfrey
"This day, this moment, you have what you need to make your dreams come true." ~Oprah Winfrey
"In the end we don't regret the things we did. We regret the things we didn't do." ~Unknown
"The day will come when you will see the consequences of your actions. You ask me to be your perfect little child, but I am not perfect and I am not little anymore. You feed me the idea that if I am not like the rest of them that means I am bad or I am wrong. No, you are wrong. Remember that when you ask me why I turned my back on you." ~Anonymous
"Be nice to everyone on your way to the top because you will pass all of them on your way down." ~Unknown
"Where I was born and where and how I have lived is unimportant. It is what I have done and where I have been that should be important." ~Georgia O'Keeffe
Don't be dismayed at good-byes, for a farewell is necessary in order to meet again. And meeting again, in either lifetimes or moments, is certain among those who are friends." ~Richard Bach
"Great minds discuss ideas; average minds discuss events; and small minds discuss people." ~Unknown
"If you can't stand the heat, you'd better get out of the kitchen." ~Harry S. Truman
"Children have never been very good at listening to their elders, but they never fail to imitate them." ~James Baldwin
"Fame is but the breath of the people." ~Unknown
"What counts is not necessarily the size of the dog in the fight-- it is the size of the fight in the dog." ~Dwight Eisenhower
"When you reach for the stars, you may not quite get them, but you won't come up with a handful of mud either." ~Leo Burnett
"I never give them hell. I just tell them the truth and they think it's hell." ~Harry Truman
"I quote others in order to better express myself." ~Montaigne
"Beautiful young people are acts of nature, but beautiful old people are works of art." ~Unknown
"Work like you don't have to, love like you've never been hurt, and dance like no one is watching." ~Unknown
"The world is a beautiful place to be born if you don't mind some people dying all of the time, or maybe only starving some of the time, which isn't all that bad if it's not you." ~Lawrence Ferlinghetti
"Two things are infinate: the universe and human stupidity; I'm not even sure about the universe." ~Unknown
"The soul would have no rainbows if the eyes had no tears." ~Unknown
"Don't ask me where I'm going, just listen when I'm gone, and you'll hear me singing softly into the dawn." ~Unknown
"A dreamer can only find his way by moonlight, and his punishment is that he sees the dawn before the rest of the world." ~Oscar Wilde
"A great many opinions are mistaken for thoughts." ~Herbert Prochnow
"So since I've been home I've learned two very important things; ethernet is a gift from God and it just doesn't sound the same to listen to Indigo Girls without two people singing along." ~Dana Grasso
"Glad Ya Asked--I like/ my music/ just loud enough/ to/ drown out/ my/ singing." ~Megan Denny
"Be who you are and will be... learn to love that boisterous black angel that drives you up one day and down another." ~Audre Lorde
"Nothing revives the past so completely as a smell that was once associated with it." ~Nabokov
"I always thought I'd look back on us crying and laugh, but I never thought I'd look back on us laughing and cry." ~Unknown
"Experience: that most brutal of teachers. But you learn, my god do you learn." ~C.S. Lewis
"Since well I've played my part, clap your hands and dismiss me from the stage." ~Caesar Augustus' last words
"What if, at this very moment, I'm living up to my full potential?" ~Jane Wagner
As long as there are poets, playwrights, and men with hearts to break, tales will be told of the princess who died across the water and returned home to be crowned queen, the queen of all our hearts." ~Andrew Morton on Princess Diana
"I'd rather be disliked for who I am than liked for who I am not." ~Unknown
"You have to laugh at yourself because if you didn't you would cry your eyes out." ~Unknown
"who cares if i go to hell, i'm sure it's better than this narrow-minded place... maybe i'll actually find some people with common interests..." ~unknown
"Insane people are always sure that they are fine. It is only the sane people who are willing to admit that they are crazy." ~Unknown
"Thank you for not smoking--Cigarette smoking is the residue of your pleasure. It comtaminates the air, pollutes my hair and clothes, not to mention my lungs. This takes place without my consent. I have a pleasure, also. I like a beer now and then. The residue of my pleasure is urine. Would you be annoyed if I stood on a chair and pissed on your head and your clothes without your consent?" ~sign from Ken's Magic Shop
"If we could learn to like ourselves, even a little, maybe our cruelties and angers might melt away." ~John Steinback
"To be nobody but yourself-- in a world which is doing its best, night and day, to make you everybody else-- means to fight the hardest battle which any human can fight, and never stop fighting." ~e.e. cummings
"Should you shield the canyons from the windstorms you would never see their carvings." ~Elisabeth Kulder-Ross
"I think with my left hand." ~Me
"Believe that your life is worth living and your beliefs will help create the fact." ~William James
"Those who sought power by riding the back of the tiger ended up inside." ~John F. Kennedy
"Generations--Mom-can we trade?/ Your Beatles/ For my/ Guns N' Roses/ Your Volkswagon bus/ For my/ 4x4 Blazer/ Your marijuana/ For my/ Crack/ Your pregnancy/ For my/ AIDS/ Your mother and father/ For my/ Father, his new wife and my half-sister/ Your generation/ in exchange for mine/ What do you say Mom-/ Can we trade?/ I didn't think so." ~Lisa McDaniel
"Parents can only give advice or put them on the right track, but the final forming of a person's character lies in their own hands." ~Anne Frank
"A diplomat is a man who always remembers a woman's birthday, but never her age." ~Robert Frost
"Support your scene and remember your roots." ~Unknown
"The bitterest tears shed over graves are for words left unsaid and deeds left undone." ~Harriet Beecher Stowe
"I will be brief. Not nearly as brief as Salvador Dali, who gave the world's shortest speech. He said, 'I will be so brief I have already finished,' and he sat down." ~Edward O. Wilson
"You shouldn't be so eager to find out a secret. It could change your life forever." ~Unknown
"There are few things as seemingly untouched by the real world as a child asleep." ~John Irving
"If I'm too strong for some people, that's their problem." ~Gloria Jackson
"To achieve one's dreams you only have to wake up to the realization that you are living in them..." ~?
"Rave on sweetie, it'll all be over in the blink of an eye." ~Billy Holiday
"For the first time in a long time... everything was right in my world... and then I woke up." ~Unknown
"I'm sick of reality, I want a fairy godmother." ~Unknown
"A good scare is worth more to a man than good advice." ~Edgar Watson Howe
"God only gives us stuff he knows we can handle, I just wish he didn't trust me so much." ~Unknown
"Never go to bed mad, stay up and fight." ~Phyllis Diller
"Anger makes a dull man witty, but it keeps them poor." ~Queen Elizabeth I
"Remember, everyone you meet is afraid of something, loves something, and has lost something." ~Unknown
"You can do something in an instant that will give you heartache for life." ~Unknown
"It isn't always enough to be forgiven by others, sometimes you need to learn to forgive yourself." ~Unknown
"Even when you think you have no more to give, when a friend cries out to you, you will find a way to help." ~Ella
"The turning point in the process of growing up is when you discover the core strength within you that survives all hurt." ~Max Lerner
"All people need three things: something to do, someone to love, and something to hope for." ~Anon.
"Of all God's creatures there is only one that cannot be made the slave of the lash. That one is the cat. If man could be crossed with the cat, it would improve the man, but it would deteriorate the cat." ~Mark Twain
"Anxiety is the fear of one's self." ~Wilhelm Stekel
"In a true tragedy, both parties must be right." ~George Hegel
"This is a story about a pessimist and an optimist. The optimist woke up one day and said, 'God, good morning.' The pessimist woke up and said, 'Good God, morning.'" ~Unknown
"Don't be jealous. Sometimes you're ahead and sometimes you're behind. The race is long and in the end it is only with yourself." ~Sunscreen
"If you can't convince them, confuse them." ~Harry Truman
"If there were dreams to sell, what would you buy?" ~T.L. Beddoes
