1501) "If women knew, if they even had the slightest idea of what men were thinking, they'd never stop slapping us."-Larry Miller
1502) "It is every guy's dream, to take the most well spoken, intelligent, articulate, savy, well-mannered, quick-witted woman and reduce her to a slobbering, mono-syllabic beastess. We all have that fantasy of having Marie Curie turn to us, toss her hair to one side and say, 'Wear the purple condom lover.'"-Dennis Miller
1503) "drawn into you/ never was/ never shall be/ only i can hope/ you call me/ i'll give your image/ your shadow/ across my face/ a name/ i'll call you estella/ for all we'll never have/ for all/ i've ever/ hoped/ that meant/ nothing/ to you/ maybe one day/ you'll begin/ to live/ inside the cold/ 'cause i know what i'm doing/ and i have/ her/ to watch my back/ but what if/ sometimes/ when i close my eyes/ it's not/ her/ i'm thinking of/ what/ if/ sometimes/ it's/ you"-Russ Marshalek, "girls that eat pizza"
1504) "I've never had a way with women,/ but the hills of Iowa make me wish that I could/ And I've never found a way to say 'I love you',/ but if the chance came by, oh, I, I would/ But way back where I come from, we never mean to bother,/ we don't like to make our passions other people's concern/ And we walk in the world of safe people,/ and at night we walk into our houses and burn./ ...How I long to fall just a little bit,/ to dance out of the lines and stray from the light/ But I fear that to fall in love with you/ is to fall from a great and gruesome height/ So I asked a friend about it, on a bad day,/ her husband had just left her, she sat down on the chair he'd left behind/ She said, 'What is love? Where did it get me?/ Whoever thought of love is no friend of mine.'/ ...Once I had everything, I gave it up/ for the shoulder of your driveway and the words I've never felt/ And so for you, I came this far across the tracks,/ ten miles above the limit and with no seatbelt (and I'd do it again)/ For tonight I went running through the screen doors of discretion,/ for I woke up from a nightmare that I could not stand to see:/ You were a-wandering out on the hills of Iowa/ and you were not thinking of me."-Dar Williams, "Iowa"
1505) "Watch me at the window from your place on the couch/ Watch me pretending that I am really looking out/ You say 'come here, I can't see you in this light'/ But I'm much safer beside the moon tonight/ 'Cause when I am a silhouette/ I have no fear, you can love me from here/ When I am a silhouette/ I can give myself to you and you'd never see through/ Never through/ Don't come too close or you'll see my edges rough/ And you'll make me wonder if I will be enough/ You make me worry that somehow you will see/ That there is always something small and trembling in me/ ...No place to hide in your single bed, no look of mine that you haven't read/ I've always been an easy read/ Just once I want to be a mystery/ So though you tell me that it will be all right,/ I'm much safer beside the moon tonight"-Catie Curtis, "Silhouette"
1506) "I've been getting down about all the run-around/ About all the pushing and the standing in line/ But like my friends say, you gotta do it anyway/ And it just gets harder when you ask why/ And I'm tired from all the weight/ Tired of being strong/ So won't you come and stay/ Let me lay down in your arms/ Down in your arms/ I've been getting up early, I've been getting my coffee/ I've been getting in the car and driving all over town/ Talking to myself while I'm taking off my seatbelt/ Some people don't know how to slow down/ ...I've got a troubled, a troubled mind/ And you've got a heart, a heart so kind/ So kind/ So pack an overnight bag, don't worry about what you have/ 'Cause if you need something, you can just use mine/ And you don't have to promise more than you want to/ But if you want to see me, this would be a good time"-Catie Curtis, "Troubled Mind"
1507) "where have you been and what have you done and why do you fearfully from yourself run..."-Michelle Malone
1508) "The final is cumulative because life is cumulative."-Robert Seyfarth, Penn professor
1509) "I guess when all is said and done you are who you believe you are...and that should be good enough for everybody else."-Susan Tamol
1510) "as we know, people are just stupid."-Jessica Schraub
1511) "Love is a verb, not a noun."-Clint Black
1512) "Love isn't something that we're in...Love isn't just those words we say; it's something that we do."-Clint Black
1513) "Think of how stupid the average person is and realize that half of everybody is stupider than that."-George Carlin
1514) "they say goldfish have no memory/ i guess their lives are much like mine/ and the little plastic castle/ is a surprise every time/ and it's hard to say if they're happy/ but they don't seem much to mind/...people talk/ about my image/ like I come in two dimensions/ like lipstick is a sign of my declining mind/ like what I happen to be wearing/ the day that someone takes a picture/ is my new statement for all womankind"-Ani DiFranco, "Little Plastic Castle"
1515) "love is a piano/ dropped from a four story window..."-Ani DiFranco, "Two Little Girls"
1516) "maybe you don't like your job/ maybe you didn't get enough sleep/ well, nobody likes their job/ nobody got enough sleep/ maybe you just had/ the worst day of your life/ but, you know, there's no escape/ and there's no excuse/ so just suck up and be nice/... the little emperor he has no clothes/ so he can't come out to play/ and besides which life is suffering/ and he likes it that way/ and the little guy is not so friendly/ but you know life has been cruel/ so wipe that smile off your face baby/ and try to be cool"-Ani DiFranco, "Pixie"
1517) "...when they're out for blood/ i always give"-Ani DiFranco, "Pixie"
1518) "Everything in moderation, particularly moderation."
1519) "...human heads are opaque and there's no way to see inside except through those tiny little windows, the eyes."-Yevgeny Zamyatin, We
1520) "Who knows who you really are? A person is like a novel: Up to the very last page you don't know how it's going to end. Otherwise, there'd be no point in reading...."-Yevgeny Zamyatin, We
1521) "Silence is not protection enough."-A.A. Milne
1522) "There are bigger and better things in this world to worry about than the Indigo Girls and their modes of transportation. I still love them and still have their posters hanging in my office and all my ticket stubs on my corkboard. But there are just bigger things to deal with now. I don't mean to imply that I am at some higher level than anyone else. I am just trying to maybe have people re-prioritize their lives in relation to the Indigo Girls. Maybe everyone here needs to be obsessed with them at first and then slowly grow out of that like I did. All I am saying is that there is so much more out there. Go find it and get away from your computers and checking the list all day long. It'll still be here. I was tempted to end my soapbox speech here with--The girls would want you to do the same thing (seeking out what life has to offer) but that would invalidate my point. Who cares what Amy Ray and Emily Saliers think of what we do. And on the same note we shouldn't care what they do with their lives either (unless you know them personally of course). So please just try to keep things in perspective. The girls will be gone (as in broken up-gasp!!) someday so make sure you can handle that before it happens."-Greg Flamer
1523) "Once in a while it really hits people that they don't have to experience the world in the way they have been told to."-Alan Keightley
1524) "Microsoft, by some accounts, the second most capitalized company on the planet, is the only corporate colossus in history whose entire product line could be eliminated with a giant magnet."-David Shenk
1525) "Apples fall/ hitting heads/ hit together/ baseball's/ diamond/ rings/ on toes and fingers./ Going crazy/ take a pill/ I'm depressed/ aren't we all/ a little kind/ elf told me/ what to be./ Cutting wrists/ stop the pain/ how ironic/ oxymoron/ civil war and honest lawyers/ fall apart/ swiss cheese."-Amanda Jones
1526) "There are people, and I'm sure this is true for many, that I would love to contact, to let them know that things got better, that I'm recovering, that I am happier and will be happier still as time goes on. I want them to know this *because* I still love them. Not out of bitterness, the 'ha ha look at me now. I'm happier now that you're outta my life' feeling, more the 'It's okay. It really is' feeling. But there are some people you just can't go back and contact. You just can't. And even if you did, you probably won't know if they ever understood your motives. I'm sad now. There are so many people I need to talk to. But I can't."-Holly Deal
1527) "The test of a first-rate intelligence is the ability to hold two opposed ideas in mind at the same time and still retain the ability to function. One should, for example, be able to see that things are hopeless and yet be determined to make them otherwise."-F. Scott Fitzgerald
1528) "Either you think or else others have to think for you and take power from you, pervert and discipline your natural tastes, civilize and sterilize you."-F. Scott Fitzgerald
1529) "There is a theory which states that if ever anyone discovers exactly what the universe is for and why it is here, it will instantly disappear and be replaced by something even more bizarre and inexplicable. There is another that states that this has already happened."-Douglas Adams
1530) "Humans think they are smarter than dolphins because we build cars and buildings and start wars etc...and all that dolphins do is swim in the water, eat fish and play around. Dolphins believe that they are smarter for exactly the same reasons."-Douglas Adams
1531) "You've just got to keep in mind that Stove Top stuffing did not replace potatoes in a day."-Ellen Degeneres
1532) "Chiklin's constantly active sense of life led him to sadness, especially when he saw a fence by which he had sat and rejoiced in childhood: now that fence was moss-grown, bent, and nails stuck out of it, released from the grip of the wood by the force of time. It was sad and mysterious that Chiklin had matured, forgettfully wasting his feelings, wandering in distant places and laboring variously, while the old fence stood motionless, and, remembering him, had nevertheless lasted to see the hour when Chiklin passed by it and stroked the boards, abandoned by everyone, with a hand that had forgotten happiness."-Andrey Platonov, The Foundation Pit
1533) "It is a waste of time hating a mirror/ or its relfection/ instead of stopping the hand/ that makes glass with distortions..."-Audre Lorde
1534) "What is unnamed, undepicted in images, whatever is omitted from the biography, censored in collections of letters, whatever is misnamed as something else, made difficult-to-come-by, whatever is buried in the memory by the collapse of meaning under an inadequate or lying language--this will become not merely unspoken, but unspeakable....All silence has a meaning."-Adrienne Rich
1535) "Trust is the foundation of all higher social life. Life is good and restful in the measure in which it is safe to trust. Life turns back to the haunting suspicion and fear of the savage when man can no longer safely trust man."-Walter Rauchenbusch
1536) "Is your name Dorothy or Darlene?/ Are you a true blonde?/ Who invented roses?/ You leave us with so many questions, but.../ will we ever know the answers?"-Stephanie Merhar, "Questions"
1537) "Going to church does not make a person religious, nor does going to school make a person educated, any more than going to a garage makes a person a car."
1538) "But now old friends are acting strange/ They shake their heads, they say/ I've changed/ Well something's lost, but/ Something's gained/ In living ev'ry day."-Joni Mitchell, "Both Sides, Now"
1539) "I've never understood why women love cats. Cats are independent, they don't listen, they don't come in when you call, they like to stay out all night, and when they're home they like to be left alone and sleep. In other words, every quality that women hate in a man, they love in a cat."-Jay Leno
1540) "I'll probably stay lucky if my tounge will stay tied so I won't betray the things that I hide. There's not enough years underneath this belt for me to admit the way that I felt."-Seven Mary Three
1541) "All has been murdered by silence, and only the moon, clasping her round, shining, carefree head in blue hands, plays the vagrant under the window."-Isaac Babel
1542) "And the daily bludgeoning of life leaves a gentle mind...confused."-Candy Barr
1543) "I mean, our prof is nice and all, looks maybe early-40s, and I kind of feel sorry for him because here he is, obviously a distinguished astronomer, teaching an introductory lecture course intended for non-science majors which basically means that everything has to be all dumbed-down and spoken slowly for people like me, and yet he does all these demonstrations in class that don't work; and he falls all over himself apologizing for screwing up, and you just know that he wants to be anywhere other than in that godawful classroom teaching what to him is the most elementary material to a bunch of half-asleep liberal-arts dickheads who don't give a shit about what he's talking about. But still. Studying the Sun on Wednesday and Friday, didn't mention that the eclipse was on Thursday. Right. Whatever. Oh well, the next one's just in 2017."-Scott "Scotch" Herman
1544) "...making the present audible and making the implicit explicit is necessary to engage and renew a whole train of commitments, responsibilities, and possibilities. 'I love you' does not create what is not present. Nor does it seal what is present. But it must be spoken and respoken. It is necessary speech because people need to see in pictures or hear in words even what they already know as deeply as they know anything, especially what they know as deeply as they know anything. Words are actions."-Michael Schudson
1545) "Sure, I love my parents, but they're still going through this phase of thinking I'm too young to make my own decisions. About anything. I guess this is what usually happens to parents. When you're born they have to do your thinking for you because you can't do too much of that yourself, and then they get into the habit. They keep trying to think for you practically all your life."-Florence Parry Heide, Banana Blitz
1546) "...listening to parents' advice is sort of like watching commercials. You know what's coming, you've heard it all before, it's a big bore, but you listen anyway."-Florence Parry Heide, Banana Blitz
1547) "What is interesting about people in good society is the mask that each one of them wears, not the reality that lies behind the mask."-Oscar Wilde
1548) "Must I label myself? And, if it's necessary, for one reason or another, does that mean I no longer have the freedom to change?"-Dvora Zipkin
1549) "I'm simply trying to live a both/and in an either/or world."-Tom Robinson
1550) "Poison kills the body, but moral poison kills the soul."-James Douglas
1551) "The minute you or anybody else knows what you are you are not it, you are what you or anybody else knows you are and as everything is made up of finding out what you are it is extraordinarily difficult not to know what you are and yet to be that thing."-Gertrude Stein
1552) "If you are a bigot, you can stereotype a sea of bodies marching down the street. But when you look at an individual human being in the eye, you have to deal with him."-Marla Stevens
1553) "If I had to choose between betraying my country and betraying my friend, I hope I should have the guts to betray my country."-E. M. Forster
1554) "we reach out our hands and they do not meet,/ the space in between is our lives."-Gavin Dillard
1555) "The mind of the bigot is like the pupil of the eye: the more light you pour on it, the more it will contract."-Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.
1556) "But to see both sides of a problem is the surest way to prevent its solution because there are always more than two sides."-Rachel T. Hare-Mustin and Jeanne Marecek
1557) "feels like reckless driving when we're talking/ it's fun while it lasts and it's faster than walking"-Ani DiFranco, "Falling is Like This"
1558) "The limits of my language are the limits of my world."-Ludwig Wittgenstein
1559) "In my younger years I used to be so free/ but I dont know what's happening to me/ We all know by now that time's the enemy/ It controls us tells us where to be"-Magnified Plaid
1560) "by the mirror pools of eden/ so far away from home/ your soul belongs to no none/ and some things/ are never known/ as the water washes over you..."-Eliza Gilkyson
1561) "It's a wonder I haven't abandoned all my ideals, they seem so absurd and impractical. Yet I cling to them because I still believe, in spite of everything, that people are truly good at heart."-Anne Frank, The Diary of a Young Girl
1562) "I will not fall/ My tears, perhaps,/ but not I./ You may call me/ dyke/ spic/ kike/ wop/ nigger/ cripple/ cracker/ faggot/ jap/ queer/ You may throw/ sticks/ stones names/ at my glass home/ but I will not/ break./ My will, perhaps,/ but not I./ You may break/ my bones/ my will/ my heart/ but I shall/ not leave./ My soul, perhaps/ but not I./ You may rip the truth/ from our wall/ of separation/ the hate/ the fear/ the anger/ and ignorance./ But I shall not lie./ Down, perhaps,/ but not lie to myself./ Tears fall/ Will breaks/ Soul leaves/ Lie down/ Red drops of blood/ fall/ from my eyes,/ the tears/ of sorrow/ of grief/ of love/ and hate/ falling/ calling./ My tears fall,/ but I stay/ strong/ here/ holding on/ the red streams/ of ignorance/ streak my heart./ I will not/ shall not/ fall."-Amanda Jones, "Not I"
1563) "sometimes the beauty's easy/ sometimes you don't have to try at all/ sometimes you can hear the wind blow in a handshake/ sometimes there's poetry written right/ on the bathroom wall."-Ani DiFranco, "Good, Bad, Ugly"
1564) "'The definition of insanity is doing the same thing over and over again and expecting different results.'/ We are mindless zombies./ We fixate on computer screens/ Where the only observable action/ Stems from our monotonous typing./ We sit in our decorated modular prison/ Or walk about, pacing tenatively./ We envy those with longer tethers./ We huddle and gab about life outside./ We speak hopefully of escape./ Relief from the ringing never comes./ We talk incessantly about certification,/ Allegation and propogation./ Deep inside the feeling never varies./ Promotion comes to some of us pawns./ Others leave the board, never to return./ Our memories fade amidst ringing redness./ 'Thank you for calling...'"-John R. Redding, "Insanity"
1565) "there's some tomatoes chemically engineered/ they come out square to fit in boxes/ there's some people chemically engineered/ they come out square to fit in boxes"-Dan Bern, "Go To Sleep"
1566) "When I tell you that I love you/ Don't test my love/ Accept my love don't test my love/ Cause maybe I don't love you all that much/ Don't ask what kind of music I'm gonna play tonight/ just stay awhile hear for yourself awhile/ and if you must put me in a box/ make sure it's a big box/ with lots of windows/ and a door to walk through/ and a nice high chimney/ So we can burn burn burn/ Everything that we don't like/ And watch the ashes fly up to Heaven/ Maybe all the way to India/ I'd like that/ All the ancient kings came to my door/ They said do you want to be an ancient king too/ I said oh yes very much/ But I think my timing's wrong/ They said time is relative/ Or did you misread Einstein/ I said do you really mean it/ They said what do you think we come here for/ Our goddamn health or something/ Everybody's waiting for the messiah/ The Jews are waiting/ The Christians are waiting/ Oh so are the Muslims/ It's like everybody's waiting/ They been waiting a long time/ I know how I hate to wait/ Like even for a bus or something/ An important phone call/ So I can imagine how darned impatient/ Everyone must be getting/ So I think it's time now/ Time to reveal myself/ I am the Messiah/ I am the Messiah/ Yes I think you heard me right/ I am the Messiah/ I was gonna wait till next year/ Build up the suspense a little/ Make it a really big surprise/ But I could not resist/ It's like when you got a really big secret/ You're just bursting to tell someone/ It was kinda like that with this/ And now that I've told you/ I feel this great weight lifted/ Dr. Nussbaum was right/ He's my therapist/ He said get it out in the open/ I spent ten whole days in Jerusalem/ Mmmm Jerusalem sweet Jerusalem/ And all I ate was olives/ Nothing but olives/ Mountains of olives/ It was a good ten days/ I like olives/ I like you too/ So When I tell you that I love you/ Don't test my love/ Accept my love don't test my love/ Cause maybe I don't love you all that much"-Dan Bern, "Jerusalem"
1567) "Immature love says: I love you because I need you. Mature love says: I need you because I love you."
1568) "When someone shows you who they are, believe them...the first time."-Maya Angelou
1569) "When you have found your own room, be kind to those who have chosen different doors and to those who are still in the hall."-C.S Lewis
1570) "Blessed are those that can give without remembering and take without forgetting."
1571) "What lies behind us and what lies before us are tiny little matters compared to what lies within us."-Ralph Waldo Emerson
1572) "You live and you learn, and you hope things get better."
1573) "You can't shake hands with a closed fist."-Indira Ghandi
1574) "Silence kills the soul; it diminishes its possibilities to rise and fly and explore. Silence withers what makes you human. The soul shrinks, until it's nothing."-Marlon Riggs
1575) "The day we stop resisting our instincts, we'll have learned how to live."-Federico Garcia Lorca
1576) "...you can't live without the truth."-Edward Albee
1577) "It doesn't interest me what you do for a living. I want to know what you ache for, and if you dare to dream of meeting your heart's longing. It doesn't interest me how old you are. I want to know if you will risk looking like a fool for love, for your dreams, for the adventure of being alive. I need to know if you have touched the center of your own sorrow, if you have been opened by life's betrayals or have become shriveled and closed from fear of further pain! I want to know if you can sit with pain, mine or your own, without moving to hide it or fade it or fix it. I want to know if you can be with joy, mine or your own; if you can dance with wildness and let the ecstasy fill you to the tips of your fingers and toes without cautioning us to be careful, be realistic, or to remember the limitations of being human. It doesn't interest me if the story you're telling me is true. I want to know if you can disappoint another to be true to yourself; if you can bear the accusation of betrayal and not betray your own soul. I want to know if you can be faithful and therefore be trustworthy. I want to know if you can see beauty even when it is not pretty every day...I want to know if you can live with failure, yours and mine, and still stand on the edge of a lake and shout to the silver of the full moon, 'Yes!' It doesn't interest me to know where you live or how much money you have. I want to know if you can get up after the night of grief and despair, weary and bruised to the bone, and do what needs to be done for the children. It doesn't interest me who you are, how you came to be here. I want to know if you will stand in the center of the fire with me and not shrink back. It doesn't interest me where or what or with whom you have studied. I want to know what sustains you from the inside when all else falls away. I want to know if you can be alone with yourself, and if you truly like the company you keep in the empty moments."-Oriah Mountain Dreamer
1578) "God gave people a mouth that closes and ears that don't, which should tell us something."
1579) "You might as well learn to like yourself; you have an awful lot of time to spend with you."-Professor Julius Ferris Kulp in The Nutty Professor
1580) "If you don't tell the truth about yourself, you can't tell it about other people."-Virginia Woolf
1581) "Life can only be understood backwards; but it must be lived forwards."-Soren Kierkegaard
1582) "Every child is an artist. The problem is how to remain an artist when he grows up."-Pablo Picasso
1583) "Love: In tennis, it's nothing. In life, it's everything."
1584) "Friendship with oneself is all important, because without it one cannot be friends with anyone else in the world."-Eleanor Roosevelt
1585) "The most pathetic person in the world is someone who has sight, but has no vision."-Helen Keller
1586) "It is never too late to give up your prejudices."-Henry David Thoreau
1587) "If you always tell the truth you never have to remember what you said."
1588) "The deepest waters run with the least noise."
1589) "Hope has two beautiful daughters: their names are anger and courage. Anger that things are the way they are. Courage to make them the way they ought to be."-St. Augustine
1590) "Your gaze strikes the side of my face."-Barbara ?
1591) "To be an individual in American society is to conform to a society in which we're all individuals."-Paul Wolpe
1592) "It takes a little rain to make a rainbow."
1593) "Four hundred years the white man has had his foot-long knife in the black man's back--and now the white man starts to wiggle the knife out, maybe six inches! The black man's supposed to be grateful? Why, if the white man jerked the knife out, it's still going to leave a scar!"-Malcolm X
1594) "justice is an odd guy./ he stalks, walks, then resolves,/ in his own fashion."-Dave Gitomer
1595) "Open your hands,/ if you want/ to be held."-Jelaluddin Rumi
1596) "I learned that all you really need in life is a backpack and some friends."-Devin Elston
1597) "...we are never so defenseless against suffering as when we love."-Sigmund Freud
1598) "[At a time when I am resisting] categorizing and classifying myself, [I find it] hard to start defining what I'm in the process of undefining..."-Claire
1599) "I need your heart and your eyes and your ears and your touch and your words. I want you to see me and hear me and speak to me and love me. But by giving what I want, I realize that I have what I thought I lacked before."-Hugh Prather
1600) "Some people never say the words 'I love you'/ It's not their style to be so bold./ Some people never say those words 'I love you'/ But, like a child, they're longing to be told..."-Paul Simon