1801) "Time is a beautiful thing. It's like when you meet an old lover on the street six years later and they don't look so ugly anymore."-Sarah McLachlan
1802) "recovery--your car, fireflies like flashbulbs,/ your mouth-/ burning me like needles and gaining popularity,/ and i don't even/ know you. but i do./ we slid, not speaking, parallel through years thumbprint-close./ not speaking now,/ just finding each other inside the sweaty dark;/ hard-pressed against glass/ and your hand at the small of my back./ and maybe i open my mouth wider/ because we say caramel/ the same-/ or maybe i want the taste of you/ still in my mouth as i'm sleeping./ but i'm making too much of this now./ i could love you/ without fights and persuasion,/ and i don't even know you.../ but i do."-Brooke Greenbank
1803) "To know nothing of what happened before you were born is to remain ever a child."-Cicero
1804) "...long before the child learns to talk properly--and long before it learns to think philosophically--the world will have become a habit. A pity, if you ask me."-Jostein Gaarder
1805) "'Superstitious.' What a strange word. If you believed in Christianity or Islam, it was called 'faith.' But if you believed in astrology or Friday the thirteenth it was superstition! Who had the right to call other people's belief superstition?"-Jostein Gaarder
1806) "'I'm home,' Michael said, like it wasn't obvious. No, Michael, you're not home, it's not you, it's just your aura, an aura with a key."-A.M. Homes, Jack
1807) "It annoys the hell out of me when people say, This is the kitchen, and this is the bathroom. What am I, Helen Keller? I mean, it's pretty obvious when you're in a kitchen and when you're not."-A.M. Homes, Jack
1808) "A lot of people get flipped out if you're quiet. They say stuff like, What are you thinking? And if they don't start interrogating you, they start talking, going on and on about stuff that's totally irrelevant, and the silence gets so big and loud that it's scary."-A.M. Homes, Jack
1809) "Birthday parties make me nervous as hell. They're one of those things where you're forced to be happy. And even if you're totally depressed, you're got to pretend you're glad you were born, regardless of the fact that getting older means you're closer to dying."-A.M. Homes, Jack
1810) "The weird thing about having your birthday on a school day is that by the time you get to be ten, or eleven for sure, no one at school knows it's your birthday anymore. It's not like when you're little and your mom brings cupcakes for the whole class. But even though no one knows, you walk around like it's supposed to be a national holiday. You walk around thinking that people are supposed to be nice to you, like maybe on your birthday you're ten times more breakable than on any other day. Well, it doesn't work that way. It just doesn't."-A.M. Homes, Jack
1811) "I walked through the night thinking. It wasn't like I wanted to think. Half the reason I was out there was because I wanted to stop thinking. But thinking isn't always something you can control. Like Michael says, Go with it. I mean, if you're thinking stuff you don't want to think and you try and stop, it only gets worse, so I figured why the hell not think straight through it."-A.M. Homes, Jack
1812) "...why do they always teach us that it's easy and evil to do what we want and that we need discipline to restrain ourselves? It's the hardest thing in the world--to do what we want. And it takes the greatest kind of courage. I mean, what we really want."-Ayn Rand, The Fountainhead
1813) "...she knew that even pain can be confessed, but to confess hapiness is to stand naked, delivered to the witness, yet they could let each other see it without need of protection. It was growing dark, the room was indistinguishable, only the window remained and his shoulders against the sky in the window."-Ayn Rand, The Fountainhead
1814) "Nothing is so strong as gentleness. Nothing is so gentle as real strength."
1815) "I used to have this guitar which I loved even though I couldn't play it well, and I tried to be careful but I would still bang it into things all the time. I could really fuck up a person. I could be really damn careful and still fuck someone up."-Audrey Beth Stein, Map
1816) "there are things that people are prejudiced about, and you are pretty sure that you *could* change their minds if you tried, so that allows you to write off the prejudices somewhat and continue the relationship as is, but in order to change their minds you would have to delve into a lot of stuff you don't generally discuss."-Audrey Beth Stein, Map
1817) "The lovestory's not in the beginning of the attraction and it's not in the ending of the relationship, it's in that one moment when what's most important shifts."-Audrey Beth Stein, Map
1818) "We have taller buildings, but shorter tempers; wider freeways, but narrower viewpoints; we spend more, but have less; we buy more, but enjoy it less. We have bigger houses and smaller families; more conveniences, but less time; we have more degrees, but less sense; more knowledge, but less judgment; more experts, but more problems; more medicine, but less wellness. We drink too much, smoke too much, spend too recklessly, laugh too little, drive too fast, get too angry too quickly, stay up too late, get up too tired, read too seldom, watch TV too much, and pray too seldom. We have multiplied our possessions, but reduced our values. We talk too much, love too seldom and lie too often. We've learned how to make a living, but not a life; we've added years to life, not life to years. We've been all the way to the moon and back, but have trouble crossing the street to meet the new neighbor. We've conquered outer space, but not inner space; we've done larger things, but not better things; we've cleaned up the air, but polluted the heart; we've split the atom, but not our prejudice; we write more, but learn less; plan more, but accomplish less. We've learned to rush, but not to wait; we have higher incomes; but lower morals; more food but less appeasement. We build more computers to hold more information, to produce more copies than ever, but have less communication; we've become long on quantity, but short on quality. These are the times of fast foods and slow digestion; tall men, and short character; steep profits, and shallow relationships. These are the times of world peace, but domestic warfare; more leisure and less fun; more kinds of food, but less nutrition. These are days of two incomes, but more divorce; of fancier houses, but broken homes. These are days of quick trips, disposable diapers, throwaway morality, one-night stands, overweight bodies, and pills that do everything from cheer, to quiet, to kill. It is a time when there is much in the show window and nothing in the stockroom. Indeed it's all true."-forward
1819) "There are never mistakes, only happy accidents."-Bob Ross
1820) "After silence, that which comes nearest to expressing the inexpressable is music."-Aldous Huxley
1821) "It is only with the heart that one can see rightly, what is essential is invisivle to the eye."-Antoine de Saint-Exubery
1822) "Peace will come like a lover in the night, to be gone by morning's light."-Jennifer Wolfe
1823) "To be a poet is a condition, not a profession."
1824) "They gave each other a smile with a future in it."-Dream A Little Dream
1825) "Sometimes you have to grow apart to grow together."
1826) "I screw up, yet we all do. I forgive, yet we all do not."-Daniel James Crabtree
1826) "A dream itself is but a shadow."-William Shakespeare
1827) "Dreams permit each and every one of us to be quietly and safely insane every night of our lives."-William Dement
1828) "We live as we dream--alone."-Joseph Conrad
1829) "The only thing that stays the same is change."-Melissa Etheridge
1830) "This instant is the only time there is."-Gerald Jampolsky
1831) "I think about all the different ways we leave people in this world. Cheerily waving good-bye to some at airports, knowing we will never see each other again. Leaving others on the side of the road hoping we will."-The Joy Luck Club
1832) "Heal the past, live the present, dream the future."-Mary Engelbreit
1833) "The road goes on forever and the party never ends."-Highwaymen
1834) "Faith is to believe what you don't yet see, the reward for this faith is to see what you believe."-Detroit Red Wings
1835) "Nobody plays to lose. If you think losing is hard, try winning."-Yonnex
1836) "This is not the end, we are going all the way."-Drazen Ladic
1837) "The most wasted day of all is on which we have not laughed."-Sebastian Champrort
1838) "Security is having a big brother."-Peanuts
1839) "Let him that would move the world first move himself."-Socrates
1840) "It is not the length of life, but depth of life."-Ralph Waldo Emerson
1841) "There's no time to lose, I heard her say. Catch your dreams before they slip away."-The Rolling Stones
1842) "Advice to expectant mothers: you must remember that when you are pregnant, you are eating for two. But you must remember that the other one of you is about the size of a golf ball, so let's not go overboard with it. I mean, a lot of pregnant women eat as though the other person they're eating for is Orson Welles."-Dave Barry
1843) "Clothes make the man. Naked people have little or no influence in society."-Mark Twain
1844) "The most important thing I could ever say to anybody is, 'Sometimes I just breathe you in.'"-Tori Amos
1845) "Feminism is not a doctrine that seeks to confine us but rather a quest we continually define."-Caroline Soriosis
1846) "We all carry within us our places of exile, our crimes and our ravages. But our task is not to unleash them on the world: it is to fight them in ourselves and others."-Albert Camus
1847) "The great essentials of life are something to do, something to love, something to hope for."-Thomas Chalmers
1848) "The best way to secure future happiness is to be as happy as is rightfully possible today."-Charles Eliot
1849) "Conform and be dull."-J. Frank Dobie
1850) "Only a life lived for others is a life worthwhile."-Albert Einstein
1851) "All life is an experiment. The more experiments you make the better."-Ralph Waldo Emerson
1852) Life is a fatal complaint, and an eminently contagious one."-Oliver Wendell Holmes
1853) "I'd rather be mad with the truth than sane with lies."-An anonymous psychiatric patient and poet
1854) "Revenge is best served cold with a side of sin."-Rynn Fox
1855) "Mean people suck. Nice people let them."-Violet
1856) "Sometimes our light goes out but is blown into flame by an encounter with another human being. Each of us owes the deepest thanks to those who have rekindled this inner light."-Dr. Albert Schweitzer
1857) "Mankind must put an end to war, or war will put an end to mankind."-John F. Kennedy
1858) "They lived and laughed and loved and left."-James Joyce
1859) "If I had a rose for everytime I thought of you, I'd be picking roses for a lifetime."-Swedish quote
1860) "Now this is not the end. It is not even the beginning of the end. But it is, perhaps, the end of the beginning."-Winston Churchill
1861) "Change alone is eternal, perpetual, immortal."-Arthur Schopenhauer
1862) "We are restless because of incessant change, but we would be frightened if change were stopped."-Lyman Lloyd Bryson
1863) "The world hates change, yet it is the only thing that has brought progress."-Charles F. Kettering
1864) "The pessimist complains about the wind; the optimist expects it to change; the realist adjusts the sails."-William Arthur Ward
1865) "There is nothing permanent except change."-Heraclitus
1866) "Things do not change, we do."-Henry David Thoreau
1867) "Listen to sounds beyond silence."-Shirley Maclaine
1868) "Love is the voice under all silences, the hope which has no opposite in fear; the strength so strong mere force is feebleness: the truth more first than sun, more last than star..."-e.e. Cummings
1869) "Music: breathing of statues. Perhaps: silence of paintings. You language where all language ends. You time standing vertically on the motion of mortal hearts."-Rainer Maria Rilke
1870) "The star that shines twice as bright burns half as long."-Dr. Tyrell in Blade Runner
1871) "It's the millennium, motives are incidental."-Scream
1872) "The eagle that soars near the sun is not concerned how it will cross the raging stream."
1873) "Keep your fears for yourself, but share your courage with others."-Robert Louis Stevenson
1874) "A hero is no braver than an ordinary man, but he is braver five minutes longer."-Ralph Waldo Emerson
1875) "If you're satisfied just to get by, step aside for the man who isn't."
1876) "Beware the barrenness of a busy life."-Socrates
1877) "There is no greater good than justice, and only if law serves justice is it good law. It is said correctly that law exists not for the just but for the unjust, for the just carry the law in their hearts, and do not need to call it from afar."-Boba Fett
1878) "It is impossible to enjoy idling thoroughly unless one has plenty of work to do."-Jerome K. Jerome
1879) "Love is a two-way street, and you're better off using the car-pool lane."-Brian Mills
1880) "There are two ways of spreading light: to be the candle or the mirror that reflects it."-Edith Wharton
1881) "First say to yourself what you would be; and then do what you have to do."-Epictetus
1882) "It takes wisdom to understand wisdom: for what is music if the audience is deaf?"-Walter Lippman
1883) "Love doesn't make the world go round. Love is what makes the ride worthwhile."
1884) "All that is necessary for the forces of evil to win in the world is for enough good men to do nothing."-Edmund Burke
1885) "There is a time for many words, and there is a time for sleep."-Homer
1886) "There is the same difference in a person before and after he is in love, as there is in an unlighted lamp, and one that is burning."-Vincent Van Gogh
1887) "What if a demon were to creep after you one night, in your loneliest loneliness, and say, 'This life which you live must be lived by you once again and innumerable times more; and every pain and joy and thought and sigh must come again to you, all in the same sequence. The eternal hourglass will again and again be turned and you with it, dust of the dust!' Would you throw yourself down and gnash your teeth and curse that demon? Or would you answer, 'Never have I heard anything more divine'?"-Friedrich Nietzsche
1888) "If you do something that turns out wrong, you can almost always put it right, get over it, learn from it, or at least deny it. But once you've missed out on something, it's gone. There will be the girl you never got to say the right words to, the band you never got to see live, the winning streak you never got to cheer on, the brilliant retiring professor whose class you never took, the relative you never got very close with. It's a long list no matter what. Try to keep it as short as possible."-Gordon Drizschilo
1889) "24 hours in a day, 24 beers in a case. Coincidence?"
1890) "Let the kid out!"-Steven Tyler
1891) "All music is folk music. I ain't never heard no horse sing a song!"-Louis Armstron
1892) "We totally believe in diversity. That's what life is all about--celebrating it!"-Emily Saliers
1893) "Humor is like deoderant, if you don't use it--you stink."-Traci Leigh Wyzgoski
1894) "Sometimes things are true whether you believe in them or not."-Seth in City of Angels
1895) "When you throw mud at someone, remember you are the one who is losing ground."
1896) "If you are arguing with an idiot, make sure he isn't doing the same thing."
1897) "The true measure of a man is how he treats someone who can do him absolutely no good."-Ann Landers
1898) "Not every rainbow has a pot of gold at the end, some just have a cloud!"-Laura Pasha
1899) "Movies don't make psychos; movies make psychos more creative."-Scream
1900) "Rage is fine as long as it doesn't deteriorate into bitterness."-Cornel West