"I've seen things you people wouldn't believe. Attack ships on fire off the shoulder of Orion.
I watched C-beams glitter in the dark near the Tannhauser gate.
All those moments will be lost in time, like tears in rain. Time to die."
- Blade Runner
"Just cause you feel it doesn't mean its real"
- Radiohead from "There There. (The Boney King of Nowhere.)" on "Hail to the Thief"
"The greatest lies are told before the marriage,
after the hunt and during the election"
- Count Bismarck
"Death needs time like a junkie needs junk.
And what does Death need time for?
The answer is sooo simple. Death needs time for what it kills to grow in"
-William S. Burroughs from "Ah Pook Is Here"
"If the truth sounds like a memory,
then you know it was meant to be."
-Prince
"To see a world in a grain of sand
and a heaven in a wild flower
hold infinity in the palm of your hand
and eternity in an hour."
-Blake
"A truth that's told with bad intent
beats all the lies you can invent."
-Blake
"He who replies to words of doubt
doth put the light of knowledge out."
-Blake
"When the stars threw down their spears
and water'd heaven with their tears.
Did He smile His work to see?
Did He who made the lamb make thee?"
-Blake
"Poetry is the spontaneous overflow of powerful feelings;
it takes its origin from emotional recollection in tranquility."
-Wordsworth
"The descent to hades is the same from every place"
-Anaxagoras
"This is the bitterest pain among men, to have knowledge but no power."
-Herodotus
"The cleanest expression is that which finds no sphere worthy of itself and makes one"
- Walt Whitman
Every Night & every Morn
Some to Misery are Born.
Every Morn & every Night
Some are Born to sweet delight,
Some are Born to sweet delight,
Some are Born to Endless Night.
- Blake
..y u gotta dog me?....
....i'm justa squirrel tryina geta nut.....
.......silly rabbit,... trix r 4 kids.........
"The world is not made for the self-conscious man."
From the movie "Bull Durham"
Does fact outweigh faith,... or faith outweigh fact,...
or does one necessitate or even create the other?
- Unknown
"Generals usually die in their sleep."
- Hemingway
"Fools are the only folk on the earth who can absolutely count on getting
what they deserve."
- Stephen King
"The parts of me that do not speak
are the parts of me that do not lie."
- Delano
"The reasonable man adapts himself to the world: the
unreasonable one persists in trying to adapt the world
to himself. Therefore all progress depends on the
unreasonable man."
-George Bernard Shaw
There is something greater than what we see on the surface,
the crystalline existences....
the militarism....
the greed....
An artist,... if he's truly an artist,... wants to do the will of God,...
and he must....
-PM Dawn
"I was afraid to put out my hand, for fear it would touch nothing,
or to speak, for fear no one would answer... We stood there silently
for a long time."
-Marilynne Robinson "House Keeping"
"It seemed to us that we were cruelly banished from a place where
we had no intention to be, and that we could not return there of
our own will, but must wait to return there under duress and compulsion."
-Marilynne Robinson "House Keeping"
"Love is half a longing of a kind that possession does nothing to mitigate"
-Marilynne Robinson "House Keeping"
"Every spirit passing through the world fingers the tangible
and mars the mutable, and finally has come to look and not to buy"
-Marilynne Robinson "House Keeping"
"It is better to have nothing, for at last even our bones will fall. It is
better to have nothing."
-Marilynne Robinson "House Keeping"
"Words do not express thoughts very well. They always become a little
different immediately upon being expressed, a little distorted, a little
foolish. And yet it pleases me and seems right that what is of value
and wisdom to one man seems nonsense to another."
Siddhartha by Hermann Hesse
"...through thought alone feelings become knowledge and are not lost,
but become real and begin to mature..."
Siddhartha by H. Hesse
There is a place inside of me,
a singularity
where the rush of life is so great
that there is a spectacular silence.
-Delano
"Reason is only a created thing,
imposed with faith upon the world,
the stars promise nothing
to no one."
Pandora by Anne Rice
We are nothing but broken mirrors,
reflecting the world as best we can,
trying to create a whole
with the shards of our souls...
-Delano
"We hasten to alienate the very fates we intend to woo."
Lolita by Nabokov
"... pay no attention to that man behind the curtain."
The Wizard Of Oz
"'When you really love something, it loves you back, in whatever
way it has to love.' I didn't think that this was true,... but it was
like every other thought or belief of Finny's: it should have been
true. So I didn't argue."
-John Knowles "A Separate Peace"
"I began to know that morning reasserted the problems of the night
before, that sleep suspended all but changed nothing, That you
couldn't make yourself over between dawn and dusk."
-John Knowles "A separate Peace"
"Stranded in this mill town railroad yard while the whole world
was converging elsewhere, we seemed to be nothing but
children playing among heroic men."
-John Knowles "A separate Peace"
"its cooler in the shade"
- Christina Martinez
"Look at Columbus, or Magellan: looking back, historians call you an
explorer, but at the time you're just lost. We know so much, and we
can do so little. We learn all the secrets and they don't help a damn."
-Sean Stewart "Resurrection Man"
"We live in time, our dreams go on forever, and our ambitions and
our hopes, and the great play of our ideas reaches for eternity.
But we live in time. We die in time."
-Sean Stewart "Resurrection Man"
"Some say I'm crazy,... but I'm not crazy,... I know what's real,...
I'm real."
-Reebok commercial
"There will be a new city made with streets of gold,
the young so educated they never grow old...."
-Prince
Never going to happen!??!?!?? Does the guy in defender look down
on the innocent civilians and say "Save you guys from the evil aliens?
I don't think so???!!!",... does the guy driving the moon tank thing in
moon patrol give up when there's a rock in his path, a hole in the
ground and he's surrounded by 2 or 3 of those swarming alien
saucers??!?! Does the knight in ghosts 'n goblins say to himself,
"i'm not going to make it" when he's sees a full map of 5 levels and
ginormous beasties that he has to kill??!??!? NO! I say three times NO!
Are we nothing more than those ghosts that run away from pacman once
he's powered up? Or are we men of action like that green haired guy in
punch-out ("body blow, body blow, upper cut, knock im out!").
I SAY WE ARE MEN!
- Delano
"The greatest trick that the devil ever played
was to make man think he did not exist"
- Unknown
"If you say you have experienced realization,
this must be the realization of your own mind."
- Thomas Kleary "Unlocking the Zen Koan"
"When someone points at the moon, the intention
is for people to see the moon, not look at
the pointing finger. The pointing finger is not the
moon, the signpost is not the destination."
- Zen Proverb
"I only admit the old barbarian knows; I don't admit the
old barbarian understands. If ordinary people know,
they are sages; if sages understand, they are ordinary
people."
- Wumen's commentary on the Zen Koan entitled
"The Buddha Capable of Great Penetrating Knowledge"
"Understand, and things are all one;
If you don't understand, there are myriad distinctions, a
thousand differences.
When you don't understand, things are all one;
Understand, and there are myriad distinctions, a
thousand differences."
- Wumen's commentary on the Zen Koan entitled
"Putting on a Formal Vestment at the Sound of a Bell"
"... distant views seem to outlast by a million years (Lily thought)
the gazer and to be communing already with a sky which beholds
an earth entirely at rest."
- Virginia Woolf "To The Lighthouse"
"I'm not exaggerating, Cassie. She knows I know and Zimmerman knows
I know she knows."
"It must be terrible to know so much."
A pause...
"It is," my father said. "It's hell."
John Updike's "The Centaur"
"the art of living is to discern the extent of your taking"
-Sharon Gannon
There's a place that i travel,
when i want to roam,
and nobody knows it but me,
The roads don't go there,
the signs stay home
and nobody knows it but me,
its far far away
and way way afar,
its over the moon and the sea,
and wherever you are going,
that's wherever you are
and nobody knows it but me.
- Chevy Tahoe Commercial
"The possession of anything begins in the mind."
- Bruce Lee
"They who are young when they are old,
must be old when they are young."
- John Ray
"This is like deja vu all over again."
- Yogi Berra
"You can observe a lot by watching."
- Yogi Berra
"If you can't imitate him, don't copy him."
- Yogi Berra
"You better cut the pizza in four pieces
because I'm not hungry enough to eat six."
- Yogi Berra
"If you come to a fork in the road, take it."
- Yogi Berra
"If you drink much from a bottle marked 'poison',
it is almost certain to disagree with you sooner or later."
- Lewis Carroll "Alice's Adventures in Wonderland"
"Oooh! Ahhh! That's how it always starts.
Then later there's running and screaming."
- Jurassic Park : The Lost World
"Don't be like the kamikaze pilot that flew 20 missions,
if you are involved,... you should also be committed."
- unknown
"If you ask a question you don't want an answer to,
expect an answer you don't want to hear."
- unknown
..when we communicate with one another, and we feel that we
have connected and we think we are understood,... i think we
have a feeling of almost spiritual communion, and that
feeling might be transient, but i think it is what we live for...
- Waking Life
Someday, the light will
shine like a sun through
my skin & they will say,
What have you done with
your life? & though there
are many moments I think
I will remember, in the
end, I will be proud to say,
I was one of us.
- Trusting Soul by Brian Andreas
You haven't met yourself yet,
but the advantage to meeting others in the meantime...
is that one of them may present you to yourself.
- Waking Life
"If you cannot find your heart's desire in your own backyard,
you never lost it in the first place."
- Angels in America
"Consequence is no coincidence"
- Lauryn Hill
"No one ever does live happily ever after, but we
leave the children to find that out for themselves..."
-Wolves of the Calla by Stephen King
"It is impossible for human beings, constituted as they are, both to fight
and have ideals. If I have preserved mine [...] it is due to the fact that
I have been able to come home to my wife in the evening and find that she
has spent her day in calling, music, play with the children, domestic
duties - what you will; her illusions have not been destroyed."
- The Voyage Out by Virginia Woolf
All in all the world spins and spins and we spin with it, and if we hold
on for long enough the world may change, or simply change you, or maybe
just change your eyes so you are happy when you were once sad,
wanting when you were once content, strong when you were once weak,...
- Delano
"The best things can't be told, because they transcend thought.
The second best are misunderstood, because those are the thoughts
that are supposed to refer to those things that can't be thought about,...
and one gets stuck with the thoughts. The third best are what we talk about."
- The Power Of Myth by Joseph Campbell
"What we are reluctant to touch often seems the very fabric of our salvation."
- White Noise by Don DeLilloq
"The unexamined life is not worth living."
- Socrates
"Heresy and orthodoxy were born twins."
- New History Of The World by Roberts
"Nor do I seek to understand so that I can believe,
but rather I believe so that I can understand.
For I believe this too, that 'unless I believe I shall not understand'"
- From the Proslogion by St. Ambrose
"I'll get you my pretty,... and your little dog too!"
- Wizard of Oz , The wicked witch of the west.
"Gentlemen, you can't fight in here! Its the war room."
- Doctor Strangelove
"There's no crying in baseball!"
- A League of Their Own"
"What we have here is a failure to communicate."
- Cool Hand Luke
The first man asks, "What's that package up there on the baggage rack?"
The second answers, "O that's a McGuffin."
The first man then asks, "What's a McGuffin?"
The other replies, "Well, its an apparatus for trapping lions in the Scottish Highlands."
The first then says, "But there are no lions in the Scottish Highlands."
The other man then responds, "Well then that's no McGuffin."
- Dialog from Hitchcock's "Two men on a train."
"If you bring forth what is within you, what you
bring forth will save you. If you do not bring forth what is
within you, what you do not bring forth will destroy you."
- The Gospel of Thomas #70
"If you tell the truth you don't have to remember anything"
- Mark Twain
"If you tell the truth you don't have to `remember' what it was,...
You don't have to search the hard drive.
There's no Google search involved,..."
- Jon Meacham on Meet The Press, Jan 1, 2006
"To be lonely is to be whole."
- Wings of Desire
"Amazement about man and woman has made a human being out of me.
I know now what no angel knows."
- Wings of Desire
"A man can't ride your back unless it is bent."
- Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.
"The law can't make a man love me, religion and education must do that,
but the law can keep him from lynching me and I think that's pretty important too."
- Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.
Fast
good
cheap
(pick 2)
- Unknown
"The meek shall inherit the earth, but don't forget
the poor are the ones that inherit the debt"
- De La Soul, The Grind Date
"Good men sometimes tell small lies to support bigger truths,
Evil men often tell small truths to support bigger lies."
- Delano
"men are not the dreams of the gods but [...]
the gods are the dreams of men"
The Rig Veda, Circa 1500 B.C.
"never take a knife to a gunfight"
- Unknown
"when did the twisting of arms
replace the swaying of minds..."
- Delano
"A story has it that when a student who learned one geometrical
proposition with Euclid asked, 'But what do I gain from this?'
Euclid told a slave to give the boy a coin so that the student
would see an actual profit."
- The Golden Ratio by Mario Livio
"According to legend, when Alexander the Great asked his teacher Menaechmus
[...] for a shortcut to geometry, he got the reply:
'O King, for traveling over the country there are royal roads and roads for
the common citizens; but in geometry there is one road for all.'"
- The Golden Ratio by Mario Livio
"Getting it is easy. Filling it with illegal substances and
sending it across the border is not"
- Ignigknot from Aqua Teen Hunger Force
"In dreams emotions are overwhelming"
- The Science of Sleep
"Any one who has common sense will remember that
the bewilderments of the eyes are of two kinds,
and arise from two causes,
either from coming out of the light
or from going into the light"
- Plato: The Allegory of the Cave, The Republic
"The great thing is to burn and not to freeze."
- La Dolce Vita
"We fight through the crazy,
in the hope of one day finding peace."
- Delano
"The human voice conspires to desecrate everything on earth."
- Raise High the Roof Beams, Carpenters by J. D. Salinger
"the true artist-seer, the heavenly fool who can and does produce beauty,
is mainly dazzled to death by his own scruples,
the blinding shapes and colors of his own sacred human conscious."
- Seymour an Introduction by J. D. Salinger
"who goes to poetry for safety anyway"
- Seymour an Introduction by J. D. Salinger
"I can't believe God recognizes any form of blasphemy.
Its a prisy word invented by the clergy"
- Seymour an Introduction by J. D. Salinger
"I believe chinese and japanese classical verses are intelligible
utterances that please or enlighten or enlarge the invited
eavesdropper to an inch of his life."
- Seymour an Introduction by J. D. Salinger
"He who knows only his side of the case, knows little of that."
- John Stuart Mill
"When two men have an argument over a woman,
its not the woman they want,... its the argument."
- Unknown
"If you take your problems to a barber,
the solution you receive will probably include a haircut."
- Unknown
"To a hammer all problems look like a nail."
- Unknown
"Never let your sense of morals prevent you
from doing what is right"
- Foundation by Isaac Asimov
"Violence if the last refuge of the incompetent"
- Foundation by Isaac Asimov
"Fight fire with water!"
- Unknown
"Small details make perfection,...
and perfection is no small detail."
- Michelangelo
"When beggars die, there are no comets seen;
The heavens themselves blaze forth the death of princes."
- Julius Caesar by William Shakespeare
"Only enemies speak the truth. Friends and lovers lie endlessly,
caught in the web of their duty."
- The Dark Tower, The Gunslinger by Stephen King
"If wishes were fishes we'd all cast nets."
- Dune by Frank Herbert
"Fear is the mind-killer. Fear is the little death that brings about
total obliteration. I will face my fear. I will permit it to pass
over me and through me. And when it has gone past I will turn the
inner eye to see its path. Where the fear has gone there will be
nothing. Only I will remain."
- Dune by Frank Herbert
"Whether a thought is spoken or not it is a real thing
and it has power."
- Dune by Frank Herbert
"Reason is he first victim of strong emotion."
- Dune Messiah by Frank Herbert
"You do not take from the Universe...
it grants what it will.
- Dune Messiah by Frank Herbert
"the angel shrugged and said
if we fail this time
it will be a failure of imagination"
- Imagining World by Brian Andreas
"Neither begging nor stealing [...] but a bargain.
So all life reduces to the banal. [...]
Perhaps the All-Mighty is not God but a merchant."
- Fondly Fahrenheit by Alfred Bester
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