2101) "Never search for answers to which you know no questions lie, because life is not meant to be proven, but for it just to be."-Lilieeye Dhark
2102) "Pain is only valuable once you know that you've learned from it."-Lilieeye Dhark
2103) "There is nothing harder than being given your chance."-Deborah Chiel
2104) "It's time now to sing out, though the story never ends, let's celebrate, remember a year in the life of friends."-Jonathon Larson, Rent
2105) "If God doesn't like the way I live, let Him tell me, not you."
2106) "In science one tries to tell people, in such a way as to be understood by everyone, something that no one ever knew before. But in poetry, it's the exact opposite."-Paul Dirac
2107) "At first glimpse one might suspect that literature would be closer to the sciences than other art forms, because sciences also use words and depend on syntax for expressing their findings and formulating ideas....[but] There is no common language and there is no common network of relations and references. Actually, modern painting has in some ways come closer to the new scientific notions and paradigms, precisely because a painter's vocabulary, colours, shapes and dimensions are not congruent to the scientist's vocabulary."-M. Holub
2108) "Art is made to trouble but science reassures."-Braque
2109) "Nothing in the world is more dangerous than sincere ignorance and conscientious stupidity."-Martin Luther King Jr.
2110) "The phone rings. I am not amused. This is not my favourite way to wake up. My favourite way to wake up is to have a certain French movie star whisper to me softly at two thirty in the afternoon that if I want to get to Sweden in time to pick up my Nobel Prize for Literature I had better ring for breakfast. This happens rather less often than one might wish."-Fran Lebowitz
2111) "It's all right for a perfect stranger to kiss your hand as long as he's perfect."-Mae West
2112) "Sorrow makes us very good or very bad."-Voltaire
2113) "Many people lock a part of themselves away. It's a bit sacred."-Tori Amos
2114) "I'm an acquired taste--I'm anchovies, and not everybody wants those hairy little things. If I was potato chips, I could go a lot more places, but I'm not."-Tori Amos
2115) "When I was a child, I truly loved,/ Unthinking love as calm and deep,/ As the North Sea, but I have lived,/ And now I do not sleep."-John Gardner
2116) "God creates dinosaurs. God destroyes dinosaurs. God creates man. Man destroys God. Man creates dinosaurs..."-Ian Malcom in Jurassic Park
2117) "43.3% of statistics are meaningless!"-forward
2118) "Originality is the art of concealing your sources."-forward
2119) "My life has a superb cast, but I can't quite figure out the plot."-forward
2120) "I wish I could fall in love/ Though it only leads to trouble, oh I know it does./ Still I'd fool myself and gladly just to feel I was/ In love, in love./ I wish I could feel my heartbeat rise/ And gaze into some gentle warm excited eyes/, And give myself as truly as an arrow flies/ In windless skies./ Oh, I remember you in the TV light/ Holding you close to me where we lay,/ And now I wish I knew some of those softer nights/ Whispering quietly, feeling you turn to me./ It was only last night in the winter dark/ I dreamed of how you loved in all your innocence,/ And I've never known a softer warmer feeling since/ Or a truer heart./ But maybe these dreams are leading me;/ Maybe love is not as gentle as my memory;/ Maybe time and wishful half-remembered fantasies/ Or the greatest heart."-Cheryl Wheeler, "Arrow"
2121) "I can't speak for others whom I don't know. All I know is that we all have our own journey. My journey will be different from yours. We may cross paths in the future; we may not. I am not going to tell anyone what their journey should be. Life has its ups and downs. It's how we deal/cope with those events that gives us our character and lends empathy and sympathy to our lives. I don't know all the answers. I only know what has worked for me and I am willing to listen and help other people along their life's journeys."-Lenny
2122) "but i always have to remind myself, no matter how worked up i get, that i am not right and they are not wrong. that they are not stupid for not understanding. we are just on different sides of the glass. we are all on different paths here on this earth. and at different points on those paths. not until we reach the end will we be able to look back and see who was on the inside and who was on the outside. and that's assuming we ever make it to the end! i think what is important is your own personal relationship with god, the world, and all its inhabitants. you are not going to save anyone else. but you can gain wisdom from them. every person has a lesson to teach you, if you can just listen long enough to hear it."-Jennifer Dawn Crispin
2123) "for what is joy without pain? they give meaning to each other. anything that cuts you deeper in the end increases your capacity for joy. and isn't that a beautiful thing?"-Jennifer Dawn Crispin
2124) "I don't fall in love that often, and when I do, I don't have an agenda."-Ani DiFranco
2125) "Regret nothing. Rejoice in everything."-Jennifer Dawn Crispin
2126) "Yet it is in our idleness, in our dreams, that the submerged truth sometimes comes to the top."-Virginia Woolf
2127) "Time will do the talking, years will do the walking, I'll just find a comfy spot and wait it out, time will do the talking, years will do the walking, time will tell you baby what you can't hear now."-Patty Griffin, "Time Will Do the Talking"
2128) "I am enough of an artist to draw freely upon my imagination. Imagination is more important than knowledge. Knowledge is limited. Imagination encircles the world."-Albert Einstein
2129) "Great spirits have always found violent opposition from mediocre minds. The latter cannot understand it when a man does not thoughtlessly submit to hereditary prejudices but honestly and courageously uses his intelligence."-Albert Einstein
2130) "I hate track! I hate running! Running around and around and around and around, and all you get is this little ribbon. That's not for me."-Dave Aldridge
2131) "...I ought to have judged by deeds and not by words. She cast her fragrance and her radiance over me. I ought never to have run away from her...I ought to have guessed all the affection that lay behind her poor little stratagems. Flowers are so inconsistent! But I was too young to know how to love her..."-Antione de Saint Exupery
2132) "But the eyes are blind. One must look with the heart..."-Antione de Saint Exupery
2133) "I wish there was a knob on the TV to turn up the intelligence. There's a knob called 'brightness,' but it doesn't work."-Gallagher
2134) "voice like the dusk/ that night in berkeley, a yellow belly/ of smog and grace;/ the sky/ coming clean at last/ with a shiver of chords/ and wind that cuts the skin/ of my dress, lets/ the words burrow down:/ 'touch me, I'm so beautiful,'/ and at the top/ of a hill, numb legs/ sway, and i fall/ through the grass stains/ on my knees, the crescent moon/ that guards my years;/ sink in deep/ like a doll in the mud/ hips pulse/ slow, press against the sky/ let it take me down/ to the girl on the stage, let/ her rage come through me, break/ the still of my fears/ with that voice,/ rough/ and quick/ as a swollen river"-Shelley Miller, "fall"
2135) "Tell me how to kiss you, tell me how you kiss."-Anna Akhmatova
2136) "how lucky you are!/ you have washed ashore on the island that is love/ there the ocean is tranquil and serene/ the sand is warm and welcoming/ the virgin forest brings life and joy to all who live in it/ but i am still floating helplessly in the rough seas/ unable to see the the paradise on the horizon/ for the view is obscured by a thousand waves around me/ the waves are all i know/ i have never seen the island"-Jeff Doker, "the island"
2137) "Sometimes we fall asleep, get lost, or forget that we are such splendid, forgivable, adorable souls. We step into lives that aren't ours, make choices that aren't nourishing, or dance stiffly for years with the wrong partner, or parts of ourselves. Some say life is short. I say life is TALL--grab a straw!"-SARK
2138) "My life is full of mistakes. They're like pebbles that make a good road."-Beatrice Wood
2139) "The thing to do with feelings is to make it safe to feel all of them."-Robyn Posin
2140) "It is through the cracks in our brains that ecstasy creeps in."-Logan Pearsall Smith
2141) "Where there is ruin, there is hope for a treasure."-Rumi
2142) "Healing doesn't care about the years or about the counting, I think it is timeless and without age. It waits for our souls to shift into acceptance."-SARK
2143) "Be patient toward all that is unsolved in your heart and try to love the questions themselves like locked rooms and like books that are written in a very foreign tongue. Do not now seek the answers, which cannot be given you because you would not be able to live them. And the point is, to live everything. Live the questions now. Perhaps you will then gradually, without noticing it, live along some distant day into the answer."-Rainer Maria Rilke
2144) "When you find yourself judging someone...look for what in yourself you are not yet willing to accept...hold that part of you more gently!"-Robyn Posin
2145) "Out beyond ideas of wrongdoing and rightdoing there is a field. I'll meet you there."-Rumi
2146) "Whenever I see ads for moving or maintenance, they often say, 'No job too small!' None of our efforts are too small. We can become paralyzed by the enormity of problems, yet the human spirit is larger than any of these."-SARK
2147) "The breeze at dawn has secrets to tell you. Don't go back to sleep. You must ask for what you really want. Don't go back to sleep. People are going back and forth across the doorsill where the two worlds touch. The door is round and open. Don't go back to sleep."-Rumi
2148) "Only the mediocre are always at their best."-Jean Giraudoux
2149) "So yes, when life gives you lemons, make lemonade, but please, don't tell me the lemonade is worth the lemons."-Amcouch@aol.com
2150) "Well...if you do not have any lemons...you cannot make any lemonade. Is it better to have lemons...and let them sit around in the bottom of your refrigerator, rotting, as you refuse to make lemonade or at least get something good out of them?"-Amanda Eileen "Dover" Jones
2151) "I can't complain, but sometimes I still do."-Joe Walsh
2152) "Too much ink is drawn to describe and define love. Why describe it and define it? Take my hand and let's just take a ride through it. Love is....Love is....Let's just go for awhile; leaving ourselves for each other."-Mike Smith
2153) "The world is a scary place, I prefer the little world inside my head. Also very scary but things seem better."
2154) "If you can't hear me talking, it's because I'm in parenthesis."-Steven Wright
2155) "In reality design is itself an instrument of research into the problem posed and not simply a search for a solution."-Pierre von Meiss
2156) "I don't have a phobia of needles, I just hate the damn things, like some people hate spiders or airplanes or having electrodes attached to their scrotum!"-Jeff Goldblum as Dexter King, The Tall Guy
2157) "What a pleasure to walk in the garden! I am rambling around the infinite. Every plant sends out its fragrance..."-Hsi K'ang
2158) "The constancy of your efforts will cause the wisdom of your soul to shine through. Following different approaches disperses your energies, creates chaos and delays in your achievement."-Hua-Ching Ni
2159) "To those leaning on the sustaining infinite, today is big with blessings."-Mary Baker Eddy
2160) "His most embarrassing moment. A poetry reading in Toronto. He was sitting in the front row and he realized that he hated the poetry. He looked around discreetly for the exit but it was a long way away. Then to the right, quite near him, he saw another door. As a poem ended he got up and officially walked to the door quickly opened it went out and closed it behind him. He found himself in a dark cupboard about 2 feet by 3 feet. It contained nothing. He waited there for a while, and then he started to laugh and giggle. He giggled for 5 minutes and he thinks the audience could probably hear him. When he had collected himself he opened the door, came out, walked to his seat and sat down again."-Michael Ondaatje, The Cinnamon Peeler
2161) "Griffin calls to come and kiss him goodnight/ I yell ok. Finish something I'm doing,/ then something else, walk slowly round/ the corner to my son's room./ He is standing arms outstretched/ waiting for a bearhug. Grinning./ Why do I give my emotion an animal's name,/ give is that dark squeeze of death?/ This is the hug which collects/ all his small bones and his warm neck against me./ The thin tough body under the pyjamas/ locks to me like a magnet of blood./ How long was he standing there/ like that, before I came?"-Michael Ondaatje, "Bearhug," The Cinnamon Peeler
2162) "I am often too busy with things/ I wish to get away from, and I want/ the line to move slowly now, slow/ -ly like a careful drunk across the street/ no cars in the vicinity/ but in his fearful imagination."-Michael Ondaatje, The Cinnamon Peeler
2163) "On certain evenings, when I have not bothered to put on lights, I hit my knees on low bookcases where they should not be. But you shift your hip easily, habitually, around them as you pass by carrying laundry or books. When you can move through a house blindfolded it belongs to you. You are moving like blood calmly within your own body. It is only recently that I am able to wake beside you and without looking, almost in a dream, put out my hand and know exactly where your shoulder or your heart will be--you in your specific posture in this bed of yours that we share. And at times this has seemed to be knowledge. As if you were a blueprint of your house."-Michael Ondaatje, The Cinnamon Peeler
2164) "One day I'll come swimming/ beside your ship or someone will/ and if you hear the siren/ listen to it. For if you close your ears/ only nothing happens. You will never change."-Michael Ondaatje, The Cinnamon Peeler
2165) "Memory is permanent."-Michael Ondaatje, The Cinnamon Peeler
2166) "The Guppy--Whales have calves,/ Cats have kittens,/ Bears have cubs,/ Bats have kittens./ Swans have cygnets,/ Seals have puppies,/ But guppies just have little guppies."-Ogden Nash
2167) "woe as me!/ a foolish child attempting to comprehend/ the strangest mystery of the universe./ not to fly through a black hole's belly,/ or beat light in an interstellar race,/ but to understand the greatest and most complicated thing that exists,/ that thing that exists only inside of us, but inside all of us/ it's like trying to know the absolute meaning of life,/ like trying to know how our own mind works./ we're all walking on this giant mobius strip, man/ the answer is at the end of it/ but you know there is no end of it/ you're just looping around forever until you finally fall off/ and then it's too late, you never found it/ you're not going to just blindly stumble across it/ like a tortoise crossing the sidewalk at night,/ and you won't uncover it if you dig up the planet/ in some insane archaeological excavation/ it's not something you can cradle in your arms,/ but you can't kick it around with your boot either/ no, it just doesn't work that way/ you see, if you really want to discover/ that throbbing iridescent cosmic glow in the distance,/ that delicious syrupy life-goo that keeps us going/ like a universal invisible human gasoline.../ man, if you really want to find it/ you've just got to stop looking,/ and open your eyes"-Jeff Doker, "on love"
2168) "You can't always sit in your corner of the forest and wait for people to come to you...you have to go to them sometimes."-A.A. Milne
2169) "Don't worry about the world ending today. It's already tomorrow in Australia."-Charles Schultz
2170) "When I buy a new book, I always read the last page first. That way, in case I die before I finish, I know how it ends. That, my friend, is a dark side."-Harry in When Harry Met Sally
2171) "A Sheldon can do your income taxes. If you need a root canal, Sheldon's your man--but humping and pumping is not Sheldon's strong suit. It's the name. Do it to me...Sheldon. You're an animal...Sheldon. Ride me, Big...Sheldon. Doesn't work."-Harry in When Harry Met Sally
2172) "Yes, that's right, [men and women] can't be friends. Unless both of them are involved with other people then they can. This is an amendment to the earlier rule, if the two people are in relationships, the pressure of possibilty of involvement is lifted. (Pauses) That doesn't work either because what happens then is the person you're involved with can't understand why you need to be friends with the person you're just friends with. Like it means something is missing from their relationship and 'why do you have to go outside to get it?'. Then when you say, 'no no no no, it's not true nothing's missing from the relationship', the person you're involved with then accuses you of being secretly attracted to the person you're just friends with, which we probably are, I mean, come on, who the hell are we kidding, let's face it, which brings us back to the earlier rule before the amendment which is men and women can't be friends, so where does that leave us?"-Harry in When Harry Met Sally
2173) "If you're taking an essay exam on geography, and the exam could be on any of the countries in the world, study one country, and know it well. Let's say you choose China. When it comes time for the exam, and the question is, 'Write one thousand words on Nigeria,' you begin your essay, "Nigeria is nothing like China" and proceed to write everything you know about China."-Quentin Crisp
2174) "Earth's crammed with heaven."-Elizabeth Barrett Browning
2175) "The cure for anything is salt water--sweat, tears, or the sea."-Isak Dinesen
2176) "Can't forget the things you never said."-Tori Amos
2177) "I've done more harm by the falseness of trying to please than by the honesty of trying to hurt."-Jessomyn West
2178) "I have often wished I had time to cultivate modesty....But I am too busy thinking about myself."-Edith Sitwell
2179) "If I'm too strong for some people, that's their problem."-Glenda Jackson
2180) "An extraterrestrial being, newly arrive on Earth--scrutinizing what we mainly present to our children in television, radio, movies, newspapers, magazines, the comics, and many books--might easily conclude that we are intent on teaching them murder, rape, cruelty, superstition, credulity, and consumerism. We keep at it, and through constant repetition, many of them finally get it. What kind of society could we create if, instead, we drummed into them science and a sense of hope?"-Carl Sagan
2181) "Fear of things invisible is the natural seed of that which everyone in himself calls religion."-Thomas Hobbes
2182) "The meaning of life? That's easy. The meaning of life is: to be happy, try not to hurt other people and hope that you fall in love."-Mallory Keaton
2183) "i just recently committed myself to it-/ recently decided that i want to breathe each day through to the next-/ and now this./ blood on my lips like moonlit rubies, sparkling as i sputter/ them out in/ short gasps,/ and silver teeth chewing at me from the/ inside/ in their insistent leisure.../ i'd say It's not fair (and it's not, my pretty young thing-/ It's not fair that there wasn't a scratch when i/ wished for this late at night. It's not fair that i was quitely unharmed/ in my feverish quest for endings and closings and Things Left/ Unfinished.../ and i'm only nineteen, and now that i care, it's not--)/ but i'm supposed to be above It's Not Fair at this age./ i'm supposed to seek help and ease someone's mind/ (not mine), and i should admit that i wonder sometimes if i'm/ breathing and bleeding the same as that girl or that guy or that/ phantom dancer under the sky.../ but i'll hide beneath hideous cadence and rhyme,/ and keep what i know./ and when you ask, i'll smile at that furrowed stare,/ and (hating myself) choke out 'i'm fine, it's nothing,/ i'm/ fine.'"-Brooke
2184) "It's funny how it takes a while to get used to being somewhere again after being away for some time, even though you've spent years of your life there already."-Andrea Lipman
2185) "the funny thing is that i still haven't found a group/singer that can replace [Indigo Girls]. did you ever think about that? i mean...dar is GREAT and i love nanci and cheryl and james taylor and dan bern and david wilcox and etc etc but no one has really spoken to me as amy&emily have. strange? what do you think? is it like a first love? you will meet other people in your life but that certain someone has made some an indeliable impact on your life that you can never forget them? hmm. i mean- i rarely listen to IG anymore but when i do pop in a cd of theirs...it's like coming home."-Therese Leung
2186) "What tangled webs we weave indeed!"
2187) "If we can put a man on the moon, why can't we put metal in the microwave?"-Frasier on Cheers
2188) "Why the hell are we conditioned into the smooth strawberry and cream, Mother Goose world, Alice in Wonderland fable, only to be broken on the wheel as we grow older and become aware of ourselves as individuals with a dull responsibility in life?"-Sylvia Plath
2189) "Is being an idiot like being high all the time?"-Jeaneane Garafolo
2190) "Sex is about the only grown-up thing I know how to do; it's weird, then, that it's the only thing that can make me feel like a ten-year-old."-Nick Hornby
2191) "I sure remember my time at high school. Since I was the typically blind and talented intellectual type, my friendships only seemed to go but so far. People used to ask me to play and to talk about this and that, but I always felt somehow shut out about what was really going on. Some days, I still feel that even though I'm out of college, married and the like. I don't know why I get that feeling. I just walk around sometimes or listen to people talking and even if I totally understand the words and their meaning, I somehow feel like there's some secret meaning, some cliquy way of looking at the situation that I'm missing. I guess I always wanted to be taken not as a blind guy to be pittied or an intellectual artist to be fawned over, just as a normal person who wants to fit in to some community or another. God, I remember trying to like what the shallow people liked in High School and failing miserably. I remember trying to look like they wanted me to look and it didn't matter. I don't know whether all of us go through a period of shallowness or whether Madison Av, cable TV, billboards and sappy pop music have something to do with it. I'm sure that our parents must look at us going through these vapid phases and wish there's something they could do....I guess I should state though, for the record, that the internet and college have brought me a much greater sense of community than I ever had before...But, I just wanted to tell the young folks out here that I haven't forgotten that pain and I don't think it's just bull crap; I think it's real and something should be done quietly, gently and slowly to hopefully bring about some kind of changed awareness in future gens son that the same stuff doesn't plague everybody all over again in the times to come."-Orlando Fiol
2192) "I don't just exist; I react."-Lisa Johnson
2193) "...the way I look at anger is that I think there are as many kinds of anger as there are kinds of love. I'm interested in anger that is constructive and real."-Ani DiFranco
2194) "Each of us has the right and the responsibility to assess the roads which lie ahead, and those over which we have traveled, and if the future road looms ominous or unpromising, and the roads back uninviting, then we need to gather our resolve and, carrying only the necessary baggage, step off that road into another direction. If the new choice is also unpalatable, without embarassment, we must be ready to change that as well."-Maya Angelou
2195) "Love is either madness or nothing at all."-Milan Kundera
2196) "...we will all die someday and it would be one hell of a joke if we all died in darkest ignorance of one another, oh brother my brother, what a travesty it would be...."-Jack Kerouac
2197) "REVELATION IS REVOLUTION."-Jack Kerouac
2198) "Hold fast to your beliefs, and the symphony of your life let it ring...."-Jack Kerouac
2199) "I live in a very small house, but my windows look out on a very large world."-Confucius
2200) "Most people are on the world, not in it--have no conscious sympathy or relationship to anything about them--undiffused, separate, and rigidly alone like marbles of polished stone, touching, but separate."-John Muir