Andi's Quotes: Part 1

Andi's Quotes: Part 1

1) "I always knew looking back on my tears would make me laugh, but I never knew looking back on my laughter would make me cry."

2) "Popularity is kinda like Tupperware--expensive plastic that's sold at parties."

3) "If you love the life you live you will live a life of love."

4) "True friends are those that don't exclude."

5) "They took all the trees/ And put them in a tree museum/ And they charged all the people/ A dollar and a half just to see 'em/ Don't it always seem to go/ That you don't know what you've got/ Till it's gone/ They paved paradise/ And put up a parking lot."-Joni Mitchell, Big Yellow Taxi

6) "Avoiding the topic doesn't help it go away."

7) "I'd rather be disliked for who I am than liked for who I'm not."

8) "You only live once so complain you life away."

9) "If you're really horny, do unto yourself as you would want others to do unto you."

10) "In jealousy, there is more self-love than love."-Francois duc de La Rochefoucauld

11) "'In your anger do not sin': Do not let the sun go down while you are still angry."-Ephesians 4:26

12) "Madness may be a sane response to an insane world, and insanity breeds special perceptions."-R.D. Lang, psychologist

13) "The question is not, can they reason? Nor, can they talk? but, can they suffer?"-Jeremy Bentham, philospoher

14) "Nothing revives the past so completely as a smell that was once associated with it."-Nabokov

15) "For the best is only bought at the cost of great pain...or so goes the legend."-The Thorn Birds

16) "In the eyes of a child you will see...the world as it should be."

17) I am woman, hear me roar!"-Helen Reddy

18) "You always want what you can't have! When you can't have it, you want it even more! Once you have it, you don't want it anymore!"

19) "The trapeze--first time for fear, second time for fun--just like sex!"-Kaydi, a Circus of the Kids coach

20) "Almost only counts in horseshoes and hand grenades."

21) "Don't come in in the middle of a conversation."

22) "Can you say loser(a)?"-Jessica TK (inside joke)

23) "No one can make you feel inferior without your consent."-Eleanor Roosevelt

24) "And in the end on dreams we will depend 'cause that's what love is made of."-Van Halen, "Dreams"

25) "Only dead fish swim with the stream. Question authority."

26) "The situation has got the best of me/ I've got to go on/ I know I've got to be strong/ But it's hard to exist"-Spin Doctors

27) "Life moves pretty fast. If you don't stop and look around once in a while, you could miss it."-Ferris Bueller

28) "We all live under the same sky, but we don't all have the same horizon."

29) "Adolescence is a kind of emotional seasickness. Both are funny, but only in retrospect."

30) "The will to win is not worth a nickle, unless you have the will to practice."

31) "The first woman was created from the rib of a man. She was not made from his head to top him, nor from his feet to be trampled upon by him, but out of his side to be equal to him."

32) "Today, well lived, makes every yesterday a dream of happiness, and every tomorrow a vision of hope. Look well, therefore, to This Day."-Sanskrit proverb

33) "Life is a precious gift. Don't waste it being unhappy, dissatisfied, or anything less than you can be."

34) "Sarcasm is the protest of people who are weak."-John Knowles, A Separate Peace

35) "We judge ourselves by what we feel capable of doing, while others judge us by what we have already done."

36) "My mind is as open as a 40 acre field but that doesn't mean I'm going to change it."

37) "What is a friend? A single soul dwelling in two bodies."-Aristotle

38) "We must accept finite disappointment, but we must never lose infinite hope."-Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.

39) "Whenever you think something sounds easy, it turns out there's one part you didn't hear."

40) "All the world's a stage, and all the men and women merely players."-William Shakespeare

41) "Too often are we so preoccupied with the destination, we forget the journey."

42) "Just being yourself, being who you are, is a successful rebellion."

43) "Never fear shadows. They simply mean there's a light shining somewhere nearby."

44) "Hope is the letter that never arrives delivered by the postman of my fear."-Edward Kowalczyk

45) "A friend is someone who knows all about you and still likes you."

46) "It's okay to let yourself go, just as long as you can find your way back."-Mick Jagger

47) "It's not easy being green."-Kermit the Frog

48) "Today is the first day of the rest of your life."

49) "You don't have to blow out my candle to make yours grow brighter."

50) "Shoot for the moon, and if you miss, you will still be among stars."

51) "Don't ask me where I'm going,/ Just listen when I'm gone/ And far away you'll hear me singing softly to the dawn."-Stephen Schwartz, "Corner of the Sky" from Pippin

51 again) "When the going gets tough, the tough are the only ones stupid enough to hang around."

52) "And even though our time is gone/ There's time enough for one last song."-Encore

53) "Tell me, and I doubt. Show me proof, and I believe."-Matt Lipman

54) "Some people come into our lives and quickly go. Others stay for awhile, leave footprints in our hearts, and we're never the same."-Flavia Weedn

55) "God grant me the serenity to accept the things I cannot change, courage to change the things I can, and wisdom to know the difference."-The Serenity Prayer ("God, give us grace to accept with serenity the things that cannot be changed, courage to change the things which should be changed, and the wisdom to distinguish the one from the other." - Reinhold Niebuhr, American Theologian and Clergyman)

56) "Do not follow where the path may lead. Go instead where there is no path and leave a trail."-Ralph Waldo Emerson

57) "Some people think it's holding on that makes one strong--sometimes it's letting go."

58) "Once you are real you can't be ugly except to people who don't understand."-The Velveteen Rabbit

59) "A moment lasts all of a second, but the memory lives on forever."

61) "You are never given a wish without also being given the power to make it come true."-Richard Bach

62) "Someday, when we both reminisce/ we'll both say, 'There wasn't too much we missed,'/ and through the tears we'll smile when we recall/ we had it all for just a moment."-St. Elmo's Fire

63) "This is the time to remember, 'cause it will not last forever."-Billy JoelThis is the Time

64) "The greatest treasures are those invisible to the eye but found by the heart."

65) "Don't walk in front of me; I may not follow. Don't walk behind me; I may not lead. Just walk beside me and be my friend."-Albert Camus

66) "If you expect too much from others, they won't ever reach their potential."-Laura Nodiglian

67) "Rebellion is the frustration parents feel when they can no longer live the life of their child."-Emily Erisman

68) "Equality--I understand the concept, but I can't find an example."-Sarah Pariso

69) "My footsteps are fading from all the people who are following me. What would happen if they started running and erased me as they passed by?"-Nova

71) "I wish my mother had told me the same thing about horror movies and guys when I was little--'Don't worry, honey, it's all fake.'"

72) "You opened my eyes to the world, now do me a favor and close them."-April Azevedo

73) "You told me to choose--vanilla or chocolate? I chose strawberry. How was I to know you hated the color pink? You asked my opinion--brown or black shoes? I said blue. How was I to know you hated the color blue? You wanted to meet my best friend. I brought her over. You walked away. How was I to know you hated the color black?"-Marisa Mabli

74) "Why do English Literature specialists try to analyze every written work? I wish they could accept the fact that imagination doesn't have a meaning."-L.A.

75) "Why am I upset when I think that I'm different from everybody else, but angry when I realize that I'm the same?"-Heather Heine

76) "No offense, but why are old ladies allowed to dye their hair purple and blue, but if we younger people do it, we're considered weird?"-Alicia Andrews

77) "My books are held close as I stare at the guilded upper crust of secondary school. I am part of the other gang (you know who we are, those damned to discount department stores and cutrate clothers). That smug alcoholic clique glares back at me and with all the tormented sass they can muster, Melanie jingles the keys to her new luxury car in my bus-riding face. She turns and laughs aloud with her friend behind sunglasses and unnatural makeup barely concealing one helluva black eye."-Tanya Mears

78) "Laura and Johnny walk down the halls together. Alone, everyday--as close as two people can be. Sharing laughs, good times, and life, they've become the best of friends--so far, insepearable. The school wouldn't be the same if they were apart. That special gleam in Laura's eyes says so. But in two months a lot will happen. In two months, Laura hopes to graduate, and in two months, Johnny will be born."-Moira Burke

79) "Nationalities will continue to try to get ahead of each other if we keep calling each other 'races.'"-Mary Anne Silva

81) "We laughed until we had to cry/ We loved right down to our last goodbye."-St. Elmo's Fire

82) "Once the toothpaste is out of the tube, it's hard to get it back in."

83) "That which does not kill us, only makes us stronger."-Nietzche

84) "If I leave tomorrow would you still remember me? Well, I must be travelling on now, there's so many places I have to see."-Lynyrd Skynyrd

85) "For tomorrow may rain, so I'll follow the sun."-Paul McCartney

86) "The greatest mistake you can make in life is to be continually fearing you will make one."

87) "I'd rather laugh with the sinners than cry with the saints/ The sinners are much more fun."-Billy JoelOnly the Good Die Young

88) "I did it my way."
--In memory of Lewis Press

89) "When the tides of life turn against you, and the current upsets your boat, don't waste those tears on what might have been, just lie on your back and float."-Ed Norton

90) "The slow discovery of the seventh sense, by which both men and women contrive to ride the waves of a world in which there is war, adultery, compromise, fear, stultification, and hypocrisy--this discovery is not a matter for triumph...But there was a time when each of us stood naked before the world, confronting life as a serious problem with which we were intimately and passionately concerned...All of these problems and feelings fade away when we get the seventh sense."-The Once and Future King

91) "Far better is it to dare mighty things, to win glorious triumphs, even though checkered by failure, than to rank with those poor spirits who neither enjoy nor suffer much, because they live in the gray twilight that knows not victory nor defeat."-T. Roosevelt

92) "There is no 'I' in 'team.'"

93) "The only time success comes before work is in the dictionary."

95) "Autopsies give us the facts but not the truth."-Richard Selzer, surgeon

96) "Did you ever try to pick one of those [cold medicines] out?...You stand there going, 'Well, this one is quick acting, but this one is long lasting...Which is more important, the present or the future?'"-Jerry Seinfeld

97) "Can someone please tell me what is the deal with B.O.?...Doesn't make any sense. Do something good--hard work, exercise--smell very bad. This is the way the human being is designed. You move, you stink. Why don't our bodies help us? Why can't sweat smell good? Be a different world, wouldn't it? Instead of putting your laundry in the hamper, you'd out it in a vase. Go down to the drugstore, pick up some odorant and perspirant. You'd have a dirty sweatsock hanging from the reaerview mirror of your car. And then, on a really special night, maybe a little underwear coming out of your breast pocket, just to show her that she's important."-Jerry Seinfeld

98) "I always did well on essay questions. Just put everything you know there, maybe you'll hit it. And you'll always get it back from the teacher, and she's just written one word across the entire page, 'vague.' I thought 'vague' was kind of a vague thing to say. I'd write underneath it, 'unclear,' send it back. She'd return it to me, 'ambiguous.' I'd send it back to her, 'cloudy.' We're still corresponding to this day. Hazy, muddy..."-Jerry Seinfeld

99) "According to most studies, people's number one fear is public speaking. Number two is death. Death is number two. Does that seem right? That means to the average person if you have to go to a funeral, you're better off in the casket than doing the eulogy."-Jerry Seinfeld

100) "Through any kind of weather/ What if the sky should fall/ Just as long as we're together/ Doesn't matter much at all."-Just as Long as We're Together