Quotes

Oh boy! It's a new section of teacher quotes!

"Dammit" by Blink 182 (I can relate to this one sometimes): "It's alright to tell me what you think about me I won't try to argue or hold it against you I know that you're leaving you must have your reasons the season is calling your pictures are falling down the steps that i retrace the sad look on your face the timing and structure did you hear he f*cked her a day late a buck short I'm writing the report on losing and failing when I move I'm flailing now and it's happened once again I'll turn to a friend someone that understands sees through the master plan but everybody's gone and I've been here for too long to face this on my own well I guess this is growing up and maybe I'll see you at a movie sneak preview you'll show up and walk by on the arm of that guy and I'll smile and you'll wave we'll pretend it's okay the charade it won't last when he's gone I won't come back and it'll happen once again you'll turn to a friend someone that understands sees through the master plan but everybody's gone and you've been there for too long to face this on your own well I guess this is growing up"

Down In It by Nine Inch Nails: "kinda like a cloud. I was up way up in the sky. and I was feeling some feelings you wouldn't believe. sometimes I can't believe in myself. and I decided I was never coming down. just then a tiny little dot caught my eye. it was just about too small to see. but i watched it way too long. and that dot was pulling me down. i was up above it. now I'm down in it. well shut up. so what does it matter now. i was swimming in the haze. now I crawl on the ground. and everything i never liked about you is kind of seeping into me. try to laugh about it now. but isn't it funny how everything works out. i guess the joke's on me. she said I was up above it. now I'm down in it. I used to be so big and strong. I used to know my right from wrong. I used to never be afraid. I used to be somebody. i used to have something inside. now just this hole that's open wide. i used to want it all. i used to be somebody. I'll cross my heart and hope to die but the needle's already in my eye. and all the world's weight is on my back and I don't even know why. and what i used to think was me is just a fading memory. I looked him right in the eye and said 'goodbye'. I was up above it now i'm down in it."

From Hamlet by William Shakespeare:"Give me leave. Here lies the water - good. Here stands the man - good. If the man go to the water and drown himself, it is, will he nill he, he goes; mark that. But if the water come and drown him, he drowns not himself. Argal he that is not guilty of his own death, shortens not his own life."

Said by Dorthea Dix:"In a world where there is so much to be done, I felt strongly impressed that there must be something for me to do"

Said by Louise Nevelson:"The freer that women become, the freer will men be. Because when you enslave someone-you are enslaved."

From "Shimmer" by Fuel:"I have found all that shimmers in this world is sure to fade away again"

Said by Brandon Lee in the interview at the end of "The Crow":"Because we do not know when we will die, we get to think of life as an inexhaustible well, and yet everything happens only a certain number of times, and a very small number, really. How many more times will you remember a certain afternoon of your childhood, an afternoon that is so deeply a part of your being that you can't even conceive of your life without it? Perhaps four or five times more; perhaps not even that. How many more times will you watch the full moon rise? Perhaps twenty, and yet it all seems limitless. This is the point of view that this character is coming from in the whole film, because it has been brought so sharply into focus for him. How precious each moment of his life feels."

"Lightning Crashes" by Live:"Lightning crashes, a new mother cries
her placenta falls to the floor
the angel opens her eyes
the confusion sets in
before the doctor can even close the door

lightning crashes, an old mother dies
her intentions fall to the floor
the angel closes her eyes
the confusion that was hers
belongs now, to the baby down the hall

oh now feel it coming back again
like a rolling thunder chasing the wind
forces pulling from the center of the earth again
i can feel it

lightning crashes, a new mother cries
this moment she's been waiting for
the angel opens her eyes
pale blue colored iris, presents the circle
and puts the glory out to hide, hide"

James McBride (I got this one from "Reflection for the day" in the Boston Globe, 11/17/98):"You have to say all your 'sorrys' and 'I love yous' while a person is living, because tomorrow isn't promised."

From I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings by Maya Angelou:"He said nothing. I knew when I saw him that it would be useless to ask anything while he was in that state. It meant that he had seen or heard of something so ugly or frightening that he was paralyzed as a result. He explained when we were smaller that when things were very bad his soul just crawled behind his heart and curled up and went to sleep. When it awoke, the fearful thing had gone away.....I also had to swear that when his soul was sleeping I would never try to wake it, for the shock might make it go to sleep forever. So I let him be..."

Arnold Bax:"One should try everything once, except incest and folk-dancing."

Ben:"F*ck romance for now its not worth the trouble."

Tara:"Garbage disposals are God."

Liz:"Decaf is the Antichrist."

Dave Tyson Gentry:"True friendship comes when silence between two people is comfortable."

From "Muzzle" by the Smashing Pumpkins: "and the world is drawn into your hands...and the world is etched upon your heart...and the world so hard to understand...is the world you cant live without"

Grantland Rice:"It's not whether you win or lose, it's how you play the game"

Gene Autry:"Grantland Rice can go to hell as far as I'm concerned"

from "The Simpsons":"Stupid risks are what make life worth living"

from "The X-Files":"Loneliness is a choice."

from A Room With a View by E.M. Forster:
"Think of how he's been brought up, free from all the superstitions of the world that lead men to hate each other in the name of God. . .I don't believe in this world sorrow, do you?"
"No, no I don't, not at all Mr. Emerson."
"Well then make my boy realize that at the side of the everlasting why, there is a yes and a Yes and a YES!"
(to see Julia's thoughts on this, click here.)

"Jeremy" by Pearl Jam (the Colorado school shootings reminded me of this song):
"at home...drawing pictures...of mountaintops...with him on top...lemon yellow sun...arms raised in a V...dead lay in pools of maroon below...Daddy didn't give attention...to the fact that Mommy didn't care...King Jeremy the wicked...ruled his world.