"My hopes of the future rest upon the girls. My patriotism clings to the girls. I believe Amerca's future pivots on this great woman revolution."
-Dioclesian Lewis
"Treat women like dogs and they'll piss on you."
"Everything I need to know I learned from cutting off smart people's heads and eating their brains."
"You have the meaning of life hidden in your socks."
"Everything is cool, as long as it's done in good taste."
-D'Arcy
"The universe is made up of stories, not atoms."
-Muriel Ruckeyser
"If it's no unconditional love, it's not love at all."
-Jesse Camp
"Death is a challenge. It tells us not to waste time... it tells us to tell each other right now that we love each other."
-Leo. F. Busgatia
"How does that feel? It feels blind. How does that feel? It feels fucking blind. Your world has taught me nothing, look at your world, it teaches me nothing. As a woman I was taught to be hungry. Women are well acquainted with thrust. Yeah, we could eat up just about anything. We'd even eat up your hate like love."
-Kathleen Hanna
"If we discovered that we only had five minutes left to say all that we wanted to say, every telephone booth would be occupied by people calling each other to stamer that they love them."
-Christopher Morley
"Accept the past and embrace the unknown."
"I must write it all out, at any cost. Writing is thinking. It is more than living, for it is being conscious of living."
-Anne Morrow Lindbergh
"All art, like love, is rooted in heartache."
-Alfred Stiegutz
"The stakes are too high for the government to be a spectator sport."
-Barbara Jordan
"If you know me so well, then tell me which hand I use."
-Tori Amos
"I am not what you suppose, but far different."
-Walt Whitman
"It takes a thousand voices to tell a single story."
"Those who dream by night in the dusty recesses of their minds wake up and realize it's just vanity; but the dreamers of the day are dangerous men for they may act their dream with open eyes and make it possible."
-Sir Lawerence Oliver
"Envy destroys grrl love."
"You never lose by loving. You always lose by holding back."
-Barbara De Angelis
"It's all right letting yourself go, as long as you can get yourself back."
-Mick Jagger
"Truly loving another means letting go of all expectations. It means full acceptance, even celebration of another's personhood."
-Karen Casey
"Some people come into our lives and quickly go. Some stay for a while and leave footprints in our hearts. And we are never the same."
"If you judge people, you have no time to love them."
-Mother Teresa
"Be kind, for everyone you meet is fighting a harder battle."
-Plato
"I don't have any male groupies because they know I'd eat them for breakfast."
-Shirley Manson
"I'm an aquired taste. I'm anchovies. If I was more like potato chips I'd go further."
-Tori Amos
"I had just bought a book about the ancient laws of karma when you gave me that knowing look across the crowd, and it startled me so I dropped the book."
-Linda Goodman
"There comes that mysterious meeting in life when someone acknowledges who we are and what we can be, igniting the circuits of our highest potential."
-Rusty Benous
"The fact is, I can't fool you. It simply wouldn't be fair to you or me."
-Kurt Cobain
"Albums are things people can touch, videos are things people can touch, but time and memory wash all that away. So ultimately it's about what you believe in and how you feel."
-Billy Corgan
"You know what I hate about rock? I hate tye-dyed T-shirts. I wouldn't wear a tye-dyed T-shirt unless it was dyed with the urine of Phil Colling and the blood of Jerry Garcia."
-Kurt Cobain
"I wish people would just listen to the music and enjoy it. I wish they didn't make such a big deal about it. It doesn't matter what kind of breakfast cereal I eat, or what kind of shampoo I use."
-Kurt Cobain
"Punk is musical freedom, it's saying and doing, and playing what you want. In Webster's terms, nirvana means freedom from pain, suffering, and the external world, and that's pretty much my definition of punk rock."
-Kurt Cobain
"My generation is apathy. I'm disgusted with it. I'm disgusted with my own apathy, too, for being spineless and not always standing up against racism, sexism, all those other -isms the counterculture has been whining about for years."
-Kurt Cobain
"Drugs are a waste of time. They destroy your memory and your self respect and everything that goes along with your self-esteem."
-Kurt Cobain
"I don't think I'll let the scar heal this time, only to be ripped open again."
"...I'll teach her to say 'fuck' like other people say 'the,' and when people are shocked, to ask them why they so fear a small quartet of letters."
-Nicole Blackman, "Daughter"
"Inspiration isn't man-made. It's a gift from nature. And when it comes, it creates something original and beautiful."
-Evian
"In a world where everyone is a butterfly, and I love butterflys, and hate people, I am lost."
"But sometimes, it's the little guy who'll kick your ass, because he's been picked on to the point where he knows what to do."
-Elliot Smith
"When everything exists within your big mind, all dualistic relationships drop away. There is no distinction between heaven and earth, man and woman, teacher and disciple... In your big mind, everything has the same value."
-Shunryu Suzuki Roshi
"Sooner or later let go what you loved hated shrugged off, you walk in the park. You look up at the sky, sit on a pillow, count up the stars in your head, get up and eat."
-Allen Ginsberg
"This poetry is a picture or a graph of a mind moving, which is a world body being here and now which is history... and you."
-Philip Whalen
"I try to write accurately from the poise of mind which lets us see that things are exactly what they seem. I never worry about beauty, if it is accurate there is always beauty. I never worry about form. If it is accurate there is always form."
-Lew Welch
"What goddess will abide a dull, ignorant tongue?"
"Do nothing and ye shall soon agree."
"Everybody's silent
Includin me
To catch the roar
of eternity"
-Jean-Louis
"May it come that all the radiance will be known as our own radiance."
-Tibetan Book of the Dead
"I think I'll be the Buddha of this place."
"Rock music is so passe."
-James Iha
"I call it the 'Asian cat.' Meow!"
-James Iha
"The naked man is a genius... to show himself... a free man, free of clothes... we salute you naked man!"
-James Iha
"I cried. Just for a second. Then I thought, I must rock!"
-James Iha
"One day I wish that all the people of the world, all the males, females, blacks, whites, purples, whatever, and all the adults and the children would all come together and get it on!"
-James Iha
"Oh boy. Bad rock cliche #452."
-James Iha
"Don't be so rough on the kids! We don't pay you to behave like fuckin nazis!"
-D'Arcy
"Jazz isn't dead, it just smells funny."
-Jimmy Chamerlain
"Rock is always about rebelling against the parents."
-D'Arcy
"I'll just be happy as long as people do'nt use the CDs as frisbees."
-D'Arcy
"I use music as some kind of weird salvation to get away from life."
-Billy Corgan
"The music is all we care about -- so if that's bad, then we're bad."
-Billy Corgan
"Music's pretty cool and I'm glad to be a part of it. Sometimes when you reach for the stars you end up in the fucking shit. I don't believe in God. I don't believe in America. I don't believe in rock n roll. I believe in myself."
-Billy Corgan
"I found my inner-bitch -- and ran with her."
-Courtney Love
"You should admit the embarassing stuff - it makes you more vulnerable and it's cooler."
-Courtney Love
"Blink and I'll catch you sleeping."
"If you don't believe in yourself, no one else will."
-Kobe Bryant
"Tonight's television shows will eventually be reruns. Your life won't."
-Beefeater
"In the uterus of love we are all blind cavefish."
"Sanity is the playground for the unimaginative."
"The whole do-it-yourself thing took a lot of ideas from feminism."
-Kim Gordan
"I used to try to make my head explode by holding my breath, thinking that if I blew up my head, they'd be sorry."
-Kurt Cobain
"I see no end to it, but the turning upside-down of the entire world."
-Erasmus
"We fear change."
-Garth
"There should be more girls."
-Courtney Love
"Kick out the jams, mothafucka!!"
"Kill ugly radio."
"I see my face everyday in the mirror and go, 'I'm a Halloween costume? That's what they think of me?'"
-Drew Carey
"We weenie boys with our makeup and funny clothes... we're only heralding something even darker than ourselves."
-David Bowie
"Just remember when you think you're free/ the crack inside your fucking heart is me."
-Marilyn Manson
"If you're gonna pretend to be something, then you have to live up to what it is."
-Marilyn Manson
"We've got a brand new dance, it's called We've got to overcome."
"The road of life is rocky, and you may stumble too. So while you point your finger, someone else is judging you."
-Bob Marley
"I'm just hoping that one day the sheep will realize that the shepard is really a wolf in disguise."
-The Eternal
"Being cool isn't about following what other people are down with. It's about following yourself, and if you don't know what I mean, good."
"These kids are rebelling against a society that says they shouldn't have anything to do with black people. So they're like, 'Yo, I'm gonna get down with the illest niggas I can find!'"
-Fab 5 Freddy
"Subconsciously, getting into hip-hop, I think I was rejecting this hateful, white, close-minded world. I was so sure that this music was where the world was going."
-Fred Durst
"The reason a lot of white people play themselves and get it wrong is that they have the arrogance to think that they can identify with the experience of the black man in America; and you just can't go there."
-El-P
"I think that what we think of as beauty are really the mistakes. The things that perpetuate themselves are things that are wrong. I think mistakes are beautiful."
-Beck
"I think it's terrible when people with my job start feeling sorry for themselves. I've got no sympathy for these people. None. If they think it's so hard to be a famous whatever, just move to Guatemala and start a bar. And stop moaning."
-Bjork
"Talent borrows, genius steals."
-Oscar Wilde
"If you're not suitable for the future, you probably won't make it in the present either."
-Sun Ra
"Spray painting your name on a wall is just like peeing on a tree, except you can't buy pee at a hardware store."
"When life bumps you from first class to coach, fart a whole lot and really stink up the place, that'll show 'em."
"When you're slamming in the pit and you lose your studded bracelet, gosh darn that sucks."
"The eternal triangle... a boy, a girl, and a car."
"Time sure does fly when you're jerking off."
-Leonardo DiCaprio
"My parents keep asking me how school was. It's like saying, 'How was that drive-by shooting?' You don't care how it was, you're just lucky to get out alive."
-Claire Danes
"The only thing Lynyrd Skynyrd makes me think of is the music I heard while somebody was beating me up for wearing nail polish."
-Jeffrey Cain
"Next time a guy feels your ass, slags off your body, generally treats you like shit, forget that he's been instilled with patriarchy and is a victim too. Forget rationale and debate, just deck the bastard."
"The heart of a fool is in his mouth, but the mouth of a wise man is in his heart."
-Ben Franklin
"You just try to hold me down, come on try to shut me up."
-Courtney Love
"Bringing an unwanted baby into the world is the worst sin, because then both the baby and the parents are cursed."
-Courtney Love
"There's the people you've known forever, who like... know you this way that other people can't because they've seen you change, they've let you change."
-A.J. Langer
"Make your own impression."
"When an emotional injury takes place, the body begins a process as natural as the healing of a physical wound. Let the process happen. Trust that nature will do the healing. Know the pain and when it passes you will be stronger, happier, more sensitive, and aware."
"War is over! If you want it."
-John Lennon and Yoko Ono
"The whole idea is to deliver what money can't buy."
-Bruce Springsteen
"Like everyone else, I want to sleep with Leonardo DiCaprio."
-Jon Stewart
"I like that worn look. Some people look really cool, like Mark Twain looking people. Especially in New York- you see this guy or this lady, and they look like the most philosophical-minded person you ever saw. You never know the stories they could tell."
-Johnny Lang
"Riddles are fun. I like funny stuff. Because then you laugh. That's good, right?"
-Jonathan Richman