3.10.2006

"Staring - there's just no explanation for it."

So, in light of the fact that I'm still working on my big post that I've been talking about, I'm just going to subject you to quotes. There were goingt to be more, but lucklyfor you my quest for quotes brought me to some subjects I'd rather not remember right now... I do recomend reading these though, some are thoughtful, some are down right hilarious...

One a side note, anyone else seen "The Libertine" yet? What did you think?

-"If the definition of 'beautiful' gets any thinner no one will fit."
-750,000 children disappear each year. Not all the right ones, but it's a start.
-If you love your life as much as I love my car you won't steal it. (This is true ppl... it's not worth it anyway.)
-Officer, I swear the body was dead when I found it
-I'm innocent, I was framed, I didn't really mean to do it.
-Faster than a speeding ticket.
-"Opera is when a guy gets stabbed in the back and, instead of bleeding, he sings." -Ed Gardner
-"The curves of your lips rewrite history." - Oscar Wilde, The Picture of Dorian Gray
-"[Slash] sprang from the fevered imaginations of Star Trek fans who asked themselves what Kirk and Spock got to doing when they weren't spreading interplanetary concord and decided it must be each other." -From an article in a British paper

Q: What do you think when you see a pretty girl walking down the street? A: One side of me says, "I'd like to talk to her, date her." The other side of me says, "I wonder how her head would look on a stick?" -Edmund Kemper, serial killer, in an interview

-The same girl who laughs and talks a lot and seems very happy is also the girl who may cry herself to sleep...-Unknown
-"To be good is to be in harmony with oneself."-Oscar Wilde (food for thought)
-"Among men and women, those in love do not always announce themselves with declarations and vows. But they are the ones who weep when you're gone. Who miss you every single night, especially when the sky is so deep and beautiful, and the ground so very cold." (Alice Hoffman) -"And while I'm thinking about it, why exactly do frat boys call themselves Greeks? Is it because ancient Athenians considered the highest form of love to be that between a young boy and a grown man? Help me out here, guys. I'm confused." (Martin Beckerman, American gonzo journalist, Generation S.L.U.T.)
-"The only people for me are the mad ones, the ones who are mad to talk, mad to live, mad to be saved, desirous of everything at the same time, the ones who never yawn or say a commonplace thing, but burn, burn, burn like fabulous yellow roman candles explode" (Jack Keroac)
-"There is no reciprocity. Men love women, women love children, children love hamsters. "Alice Thomas Ellis
-"Love is a snowmobile racing across the tundra and then suddenly it flips over, pinning you underneath. At night, the ice weasels come. "Matt Groening (1954 - ),
-"When love is gone, there's always justice.And when justice is gone, there's always force.And when force is gone, there's always Mom.Hi, Mom!" Laurie Anderson
-"That confusion you're feeling is called stupidity."
-"It depends on what your definition of 'is' is." -- Bill Clinton
-"What a waste it is to lose one's mind, or not to have a mind." -- Dan Quayle
-"Against stupidity the very gods themselves contend in vain." (Johann Christian Friedrich von Schiller, 1759-1805, The Maid of Orleans. Act iii. Sc. 6.)
-"If you pretend to be good, the world takes you very seriously. If you pretend to be bad, it doesn't. Such is the astounding stupidity of optimism." (Oscar Wilde) (Oscar Wilde was a friggin genius)
-"In a closed society where everybody's guilty, the only crime is getting caught. In a world of thieves, the only final sin is stupidity." (Hunter S. Thompson)
-"My loathings are simple: stupidity, oppression, crime, cruelty, soft music." (Vladimir Nabokov)
-"No drug, not even alcohol, causes the fundamental ills of society. If we're looking for the source of our troubles, we shouldn't test people for drugs, we should test them for stupidity, ignorance, greed and love of power." (Patrick Jake O'Rourke)
-"There is no sin except stupidity." (Oscar Wilde)
-"...society honors its living conformists and its dead troublemakers." (Mignon McLaughlin)
-"Death solves all problems--no man, no problem." (Josef Stalin)
-"Do not go gentle into that good night. Old age should burn and rave at close of day. Rage, rage against the dying of the light." (Dylan Thomas)
-"It is neccessary to have wished for death in order to know how good it is to live." (Alexander Dumas)
-"Unbeing dead isn't being alive." (E.E. Cummings)
-"Conscience and cowardice are really the same things. Conscience is the trade-name of the firm. That is all." (Oscar Wilde)
-"A true friend stabs you in the front." (Oscar Wilde)
-"He hadn't a single redeeming vice." (Oscar Wilde)
-"I have nothing to declare except my genius." (Oscar Wilde, at the New York Customs House)
-"I think that God, in creating man, somewhat overestimated his ability." (Oscar Wilde)
-"I want my food dead. Not sick, not dying, dead." (Oscar Wilde)
-"It is grossly selfish to require of one's neighbour that he should think in the same way, and hold the same opinions. Why should he? If he can think, he will probably think differently. If he can not think, it is monstrous to require thought of any kind from him." (Oscar Wilde)
-"Anyone who behaves obscenely, even if only in literary description, reveals himself as a mixture of human being and sex-object. Which is, by the way, part of the fun." (Christian Enzensberger, Smut: An Anatomy of Dirt)
-"I find it sad that by not talking about who I sleep with, that makes me mysterious. There was a time when I would have been called a gentleman." (Kevin Spacey)
-"If most men and women were forced to rely upon physical charm to attract lovers, their sexual lives would be not only meager but in a youth-worshiping country like America painfully brief." (Gore Vidal)
-"Love is the answer, but while you're waiting for the answer, sex raises some pretty interesting questions." (Woody Allen)
-"Sex is full of lies. The body tries to tell the truth. But, it's usually too battered with rules to be heard, and bound with pretenses so it can hardly move. We cripple ourselves with lies." (James Douglas Morrison, lead singer of The Doors)
-"The conquest of the earth, which mostly means the taking it away from those who have a different complexion or slightly flatter noses than ourselves, is not a pretty thing when you look into it too much." (Joseph Conrad, Heart of Darkness)
-"This planet has - or rather had - a problem, which was this: most of the people living on it were unhappy for pretty much of the time. Many solutions were suggested for this problem, but most of these were largely concerned with the movements of small green pieces of paper, which is odd, because on the whole it wasn't the small green pieces of paper that were unhappy." (Douglas Adams)
-"Beauty awakens the soul to act." (Dante Alighieri, 1265-1321)
-"The beauty, the poetry of the fear in their eyes. I didn't mind going to jail for, what, five, six hours? It was absolutely worth it." (Johnny Depp, on his arrest in London for allegedly threatening paparazzi)
-"The first question I ask myself when something doesn't seem to be beautiful is why do I think it's not beautiful. And very shortly you discover that there is no reason." (John Cage)
-"What makes the desert beautiful is that somewhere it hides a well." (Antoine de Saint-Exupéry)

1 comment:

Anonymous said...

-"No drug, not even alcohol, causes the fundamental ills of society. If we're looking for the source of our troubles, we shouldn't test people for drugs, we should test them for stupidity, ignorance, greed and love of power." (Patrick Jake O'Rourke)
-"There is no sin except stupidity." (Oscar Wilde)
-"...society honors its living conformists and its dead troublemakers." (Mignon McLaughlin)
-"Do not go gentle into that good night. Old age should burn and rave at close of day. Rage, rage against the dying of the light." (Dylan Thomas)
-"It is neccessary to have wished for death in order to know how good it is to live." (Alexander Dumas)
-"A true friend stabs you in the front." (Oscar Wilde)

priceless.