saywhat? .... a collection of quotes...

2008-07-12T18:35:00.001-07:00

"When you're depressed, there's no calendar.
There are no dates, there's no day, there's no night,
there's no seconds, there's no minutes,
there's nothing.
You're just existing in this cold, murky, ever-heavy atmosphere, like they put you inside a vial of mercury."

- Rod Steiger, On the Edge of Darkness

2008-07-12T18:34:00.001-07:00

"I was much further out than you thought and not waving but drowning."
- Stevie Smith

2008-07-12T18:33:00.001-07:00

"I have secluded myself from society; and yet I never meant any such thing.
I have made a captive of myself and put me into a dungeon, and now I cannot find the key to let myself out."
- Nathaniel Hawthorne

2008-07-12T18:29:00.000-07:00

I tell people it's like being dead.
It feels like being a ghost, maybe.
You float through your days feeling insubstantial, cut off from warmth, light and all feeling.
Sometimes it feels like you're in a coffin buried alive.
You're screaming inside your head, but no one can hear you.

2008-07-10T01:05:00.000-07:00

I guess I could be pretty pissed about what happened to me... but it's hard to stay mad, when there's so much beauty in the world. Sometimes I feel like I'm seeing it all at once, and it's too much, my heart fills up like a balloon that's about to burst...

And then I remember to relax, and stop trying to hold on to it, and then it flows through me like rain and I can't feel anything but gratitude for every single moment of my stupid little life...

You have no idea what I'm talking about, I'm sure... but don't worry...

You will someday.

Lester > American Beauty

2008-07-09T10:40:00.000-07:00

Friendship quotes I shared with my friend Peggi today...

"If you're alone, I'll be your shadow.
If you want to cry, I'll be your shoulder.
If you want a hug, I'll be your pillow.
If you need to be happy, I'll be your smile...
But anytime you need a friend, I'll just be me."

- Unknown

To love a person is to learn the song that is in their heart...
And to sing it to them when they have forgotten
- Author Unknown

What is a friend?
A single soul dwelling in two bodies.
- Aristostle

Friendship is born at that moment when one person says to another...
"What!
You too?
Thought I was on the only one!"
-C.S. Lewis

Let us be grateful to people who make us happy.
They are the charming gardeners who make our souls blossom.
- Marcel Proust

Each friend represents a world in us, a world possibly not born until they arrive...
And it is only by this meeting that a new world is born.
- Anais Nin

A friend is someone who can see the truth and pain in you even when you are fooling everyone else.
- Unknown

Friends are people who help you be more yourself, more the person you are intended to be.
- Merle Shain

A true friend is someone who sees the pain in your eyes while everyone else believes the smile on your face
- Alex

2008-07-02T23:38:00.001-07:00

"Organized religion is good for
wars, battles, pissin' and moanin'
and not much else."

Source: Ted Nugent

2008-07-02T23:36:00.000-07:00

"Fundamentalists are like the fir trees in German forests: they cannot stand alone, and are only stable when crowded together, branches locked with those of their brothers.
That is why we must always fear them, because they will always hate us for our individualism."

Brent Yaciw

2008-07-02T23:34:00.000-07:00

"I'm sickened by all religions.
Religion has divided people.

I don't think there's any difference between the pope wearing a large hat and parading around with a smoking purse and an African painting his face white and praying to a rock."

Howard Stern

2008-07-02T23:32:00.000-07:00

"All religions are founded on the fear of the many and the cleverness of the few."

- Stendhal

2008-07-02T23:30:00.000-07:00

"If 50 million people believe a foolish thing, it is still a foolish thing"

Anatole France

2008-07-02T23:18:00.000-07:00

It is certain, in any case, that ignorance, allied with power, is the most ferocious enemy justice can have.

James Baldwin

2008-07-02T22:55:00.000-07:00

Religion is confining and imprisoning and toxic because it is based on ideology and dogma. But spirituality is redeeming and universal.

- Deepak Chopra

2008-07-02T11:06:00.000-07:00

“We fail to see that we can control our destiny; make ourselves do whatever is possible; make ourselves become what we long to be.”

~Orson Swett Marden

2008-07-02T10:40:00.000-07:00

"Live your beliefs and you can turn the world around."

-Thoreau

2008-07-02T09:54:00.001-07:00

"I guess when your heart gets broken you sort of start
to see cracks in everything.
I'm convinced that tragedy wants to harden us and our mission is never to let it."
-Felicity

2008-07-02T09:39:00.000-07:00

"There is something very wonderful in music.
Words are wonderful enough; but music is even more wonderful.

It speaks not to our thoughts as words do; it speaks straight to our hearts and spirits, to the very core and root of our souls.

Music soothes us, stirs us up; it puts noble feelings in us; it melts us to tears; we know not how; - it is a language by itself, just as perfect, in its way, as speech, as words; just as divine, just as blessed."
~Charles Kingsley

"Yet there is one thing the world…cannot take from us, and that is the deep and abiding joy and consolation perpetuated in great music.
Here the spirit may find home and relief when all else fails."
~Eric Fenby, Delius as I Knew Him

"Music is a higher revelation than philosophy."
-Beethoven

"Without music, life would be a mistake."
-Nieztsche

"Words are the pen the heart, but music is the pen the soul."
~Shneur Zalman

"Music washes away from the soul the dust of everyday life."
-Berthold Auerbach

"Music expresses that which cannot be said and on which it is impossible to remain silent."
-Victor Hugo

2008-07-02T09:17:00.000-07:00

“Experience is a marvelous thing that enables you to recognize a mistake when you make it again.”

~F.P. Jones

“Good judgment comes from experience.
Experience comes from bad judgment.”

~Evan Hardin

“Experience is not what happens to you, it is what you do with what happens to you.”

~Adolous Huxley

2008-07-02T07:10:00.000-07:00

“Do not go gentle into that good night,

Old age should burn and rave at close of day;

Rage, rage, against the dying of the light.”

~Dylan Thomas

2008-07-02T07:07:00.000-07:00

“Never doubt that a small group of thoughtful, committed citizens can change the world.
Indeed, it is the only thing that ever has.”

~Margaret Mead

2008-07-02T07:06:00.000-07:00

“There is nothing like returning to a place that remains unchanged to find the ways in which you yourself have altered.”

~Nelson Mandela

2008-07-02T06:44:00.000-07:00

Live Each Day With Love

Life is a constant process of growth and change.
Each day is a miracle filled with new
discoveries and challenges.
Some days bring hurt and disappointment also, but
these, too, are challenges, and as you grow and
change you learn to handle them with more ease.
Growing older means growing in experience,
growing in courage and compassion, growing in
love and growing in strength.
Growing older means changing your life to make
it meaningful to you, changing your attitudes,
and staying flexible about everyday living.
Life keeps getting better as long as
you have a positive attitude.
Remind yourself of all the things you love
about life, stay in touch with your loved ones and
friends, and do what your own heart tells you to.
Your tomorrow will always bring you good things
if you live each day with love.
~Donna Levine

2008-07-02T06:32:00.000-07:00

It is better to be hated for what you are,
than loved for what you are not.
~Andre Gide

2008-07-02T06:10:00.000-07:00

“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.”

–Wiliam Blake, Auguries of Innocence

2008-07-02T06:08:00.000-07:00

And when it rains on your parade, look up rather than down.
Without the rain, there would be no rainbow.
~ Jerry Chin ~

2008-07-02T05:59:00.000-07:00

"When you respond to an unreasonable person by getting emotional, you give them victory.
How do you manage unreasonable people?
You dismiss them...like shadows"
-David Viscott.

2008-06-28T21:55:00.000-07:00

King of the Hill : Quotes by Hank Hill

"Why would anyone ever smoke weed when they could just mow a lawn?"

"Ginseng tea?? I'm not gonna get hopped up on dope!"

"The only woman I'm pimping from now on is Sweet Lady Propane.
And I'm tricking her out all over this town." ("Ho Yeah!")

"An F in English? Bobby, you speak English!"

"I don't have an anger problem I have an idiot problem"

"GAY! I'm not gay! I sell propane and propane accessories!"

"(referring to his son Bobby)
That boy ain't right."

2008-06-28T21:12:00.000-07:00

"He who joyfully marches to music in rank and file has already earned my contempt.

He has been given a large brain by mistake, since for him the spinal cord would fully suffice.

This disgrace to civilization should be done away with at once.

Heroism at command, senseless brutality, deplorable love-of-country stance, how violently I hate all this, how despicable an ignorable war is; I would rather be torn to shreds than be a part of so base an action!
It is my conviction that killing under the cloak of war is nothing but an act of murder."

--- Albert Einstein

2008-06-28T21:07:00.000-07:00

"Everyone has inside of him a piece of good news.
The good news is that you don't know how great you can be!
How much you can love!
What you can accomplish!
And what your potential is!"

---Anne Frank

2007-12-06T00:54:00.000-08:00

Movies / The Shawshank Redemption

Red: Let me tell you something my friend. Hope is a dangerous thing. Hope can drive a man insane.

Red: I find I'm so excited, I can barely sit still or hold a thought in my head. I think it the excitement only a free man can feel, a free man at the start of a long journey whose conclusion is uncertain. I hope I can make it across the border. I hope to see my friend, and shake his hand. I hope the Pacific is as blue as it has been in my dreams. I hope.

Andy: Get busy living, or get busy dying.

Andy: Hope is a good thing, maybe the best of things, and no good thing ever dies.

Red: Sometimes it makes me sad though-- Andy being gone. I have to remind myself that some birds aren't meant to be caged. Their feathers are just too bright. And when they fly away, the part of you that knows it was a sin to lock them up does rejoice. But still, the place you live in is that much more gray and empty that they're gone. I guess I just miss my friend.

2007-12-06T00:45:00.000-08:00

Tv / Seinfeld Quotes

"Is it a problem that I'm not really religious?"
"Not for me."
"Why not?"
"I'm not the one going to hell."
- Elaine and Puddy, in "The Burning"

2007-12-06T00:41:00.000-08:00

Anchorman: The Legend of Ron Burgundy

Brian Fantana: That was some crazy party. I am hungover.
Champ Kind: Tell me about. I mean I woke up and I shit a squirrel. I mean it. Literally. And the hell of it is- the damn thing's still alive. So now I got this shit-covered squirrel sittin' down in the office. Don't know what to name it.
Brick Tamland: Sorry, Champ. I think I ate your chocolate squirrel.

Brick Tamland: I ate fiberglass insulation. It wasn't cotton candy like the guy said... my tummy itches.

Brick Tamland: I pooped a hammer.

Brick Tamland: I love carpet. I love desk.
Ron Burgundy: Brick, are you just looking at things in the office and saying that you love them?
Brick Tamland: I love lamp.
Ron Burgundy: Do you really love the lamp, or are you just saying it because you saw it?
Brick Tamland: I love lamp. I love lamp.

Brick Tamland: I love carpet. I love desk.
Ron Burgundy: Brick, are you just looking at things in the office and saying that you love them?
Brick Tamland: I love lamp.
Ron Burgundy: Do you really love the lamp, or are you just saying it because you saw it?
Brick Tamland: I love lamp. I love lamp.

2007-12-06T00:35:00.000-08:00

Movies / As Good As It Gets

Melvin: Sell crazy somewhere else. We're all stocked up here.

Carol: Come on in, and try not to ruin everything by being you.

2007-11-19T10:54:00.000-08:00

A small body of determined spirits fired by an unquenchable faith in their mission can alter the course of history.

"Mahatma" Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi :
Indian spiritual and political leader, called Mahatma "great soul"
Gandhi (1869 - 1948)

Learn to leave negative nelly behind and see the world as a brighter,more comfortable place to be!

2007-11-09T23:36:00.000-08:00

If you create the space and the desire to have love in your heart as your top priority, you'll start to see that you have the capacity to make loving decisions, and to have loving reactions, and to become non-defensive, and to become a better listener . . . .
And pretty soon a little annoyance will come your way or someone will do something wrong . . . and you'll just find yourself forgiving them.
You'll find yourself not wanting to be thrown off-center simply to follow some negative train of thought that's going to bring you somewhere you don't want to go.
You'll find yourself able to stay in that feeling of love -- and when you do, almost everything else magically takes care of itself. . . . Love is the most important answer in life.
- Richard Carlson

Years of searching for something or someo ne to make uis whole...the emptiness inside fades then disappears, as you learn to truly love yourself

2007-11-09T23:12:00.000-08:00

We all walk in the dark and each of us must learn to turn on his or her own light.

- Earl Nightingale

Goodness breeds Goodness

2007-11-09T23:09:00.000-08:00

When we seek to discover the best in others, we somehow bring out the best in ourselves.

- William Arthur Ward

Prayer for Peace

2007-11-09T23:07:00.000-08:00

I offer you peace.
I offer you love.
I offer you friendship.
I see your beauty.
I hear your need.
I feel your feelings.
My wisdom flows from the Highest Source.
I salute that Source in you.
Let us work together for unity and love.

- Mahatma Gandhi, Prayer for Peace

Like leaves falling from trees, we float on the breeze of life...landing here an there,floating through experinces that make up this life

2007-11-09T22:57:00.000-08:00

"I think about that sometimes, about how time sweeps us along and puts us in a certain place, where we're faced with one option or another, or with the option of not deciding quite yet. By chance, and by the choices we make, we leave behind us whole other lives that we could have lived, full of a different type of passion and joy, with a different set of problems and disappointments."

A lesson, You will never be the same...your world opens up, and nothing will ever seem impossible,YOU CAN DO ANYTHING YOU SET YOUR MIND TO

2007-11-09T22:51:00.000-08:00

When you realize you have an infinite number of choices,
your world explodes into rainbows.

- Author Unknown

Get past grief,move beyond regret,no one is ever lost if u hod them in your heart

2007-11-09T22:46:00.000-08:00

At some point in your life something awful will happen, someone you love will die or get seriously sick.

It takes time, but you must learn that when something like this happens, life goes on.
Learn to accept the fact that they are gone and move on.
Forget about the moment you lost them, and remember the wonderful times you had together.
But don't live the rest of your life in the past, if you do, then you too died the moment they did.
So remember, live and love, love and be loved.
That's all.

- Author Unknown

True friends share connection in each other's heart...deep connections , shared connections... capable of seeing past the mask, into your soul

2007-11-09T22:35:00.000-08:00

A friend is someone who can see the truth and pain in you even when you are fooling everyone else.

- Unknown

"A true friend is someone who sees the pain in your eyes while everyone else believes the smile on your face"

- Alex

Independence, Self Love,Self discovery,Healthy relationships...a lesson each and every woman must learn

2007-11-09T22:30:00.000-08:00

How wrong it is for a woman to expect the man to build the world she wants, rather than to create it herself.

- Anais Nin

Joy in all the small things

2007-11-09T22:27:00.000-08:00

A leaf fluttered in through the window this morning, as if supported by the rays of the sun, a bird settled on the fire escape, joy in the task of coffee, joy accompanied me as I walked.

Anais Nin

Personal Growth by Maya Angelou

2007-11-09T22:25:00.000-08:00

We delight in the beauty of the butterfly, but rarely admit the changes it has gone through to achieve that beauty.

- Maya Angelou

Silent Pain by Maya Angelo

2007-11-09T22:23:00.000-08:00

There is no greater agony than bearing an untold story inside you.

- Maya Angelou

Graditude by Maya Angelo

2007-11-09T22:19:00.000-08:00

I want all my senses engaged.
Let me absorb the world's variety and uniqueness.
-Maya Angelo

2007-07-13T21:10:00.001-07:00

Unless you can question your own beliefs, you have no place questioning the beliefs of others.

2007-07-13T21:10:00.000-07:00

Unless you can question your own beliefs, you have no place questioning the beliefs of others.

2007-07-13T21:04:00.000-07:00

If you're not on somebody's shit list, you're not doing anything worthwhile.

2007-07-13T14:53:00.002-07:00

“Conformists look around and follow closely; Nonconformists look around and do the opposite. Individualists don’t look around a lot.”

-Eromon D’Alyzala

2007-07-13T14:53:00.001-07:00

Wisdom is scar tissue in disguise.”

-Anonymous

2007-07-13T14:52:00.001-07:00

Crazy is easy.
All you have to do is let go.
The challenge is hanging on.
Life is hanging on.

- Crazy Tracy

2007-07-13T14:51:00.002-07:00

“I have no objections to churches so long as they do not interfere with God’s work.”

Atkinson, Brooks

2007-07-13T14:51:00.001-07:00

“You don’t know about betrayal until your own mind lets you down”

-Zelda Fitzgerald.

2007-07-13T14:50:00.002-07:00

I’m completely in favor of the separation of Church and State.
My idea is that these two institutions screw us up enough on their own, so both of them together is certain death.

George Carlin

2007-07-13T14:50:00.001-07:00

“In moments of discouragement, defeat, or even despair, there are always certain things to cling to.

Little things usually: remembered laughter, the face of a sleeping child, a tree in the wind-in fact, any reminder of something deeply felt or dearly loved.

No man is so poor as not to have many of these small candles.
When they are lighted, darkness goes away-and a touch of wonder remains.”

—“These Small Candles”
...tombstone inscription

2007-07-13T14:49:00.003-07:00

Insanity runs in my family.
It practically gallops.

- Arsenic and Old Lace

2007-07-13T14:49:00.001-07:00

There are two kinds of evil people in this world, ok? People who do evil stuff and people who see evil stuff being done and don’t do anything about it.

- Janice / Mean Girls

2007-07-13T14:47:00.000-07:00

Some birds aren’t meant to be caged.
Their feathers are just too bright.
And when they fly away, the part of you that knows it was a sin to lock them up does rejoice.

But still, the place you live in is that much more drab and empty that they’re gone.

I guess I just miss my friend.

- Morgan Freeman (The Shawshank Redemption)

2007-07-13T14:46:00.000-07:00

Fear can hold you prisoner…..
Hope can set you free.

- Shawshank Redemption

2007-07-13T14:45:00.000-07:00

I know what it’s like to want to die.
How it hurts to smile.
How you try to fit in but you can’t.
How you hurt yourself on the outside to try to kill the thing on the inside.

- Girl Interrupted

2007-07-13T14:44:00.002-07:00

Everybody’s hell is different.
It’s not all fire and pain.
The real hell is your life gone wrong.

- What Dreams May Come

2007-07-13T14:44:00.001-07:00

I fart in your general direction!

- from Monty Python and the Holy Grail

2007-07-13T14:43:00.001-07:00

There’s no point in being nuts if you can’t have a little fun.

- John (A Beautiful Mind)

2007-07-13T14:42:00.001-07:00

I knew you’d pay a price for this.
I knew you couldn’t be so hopelessly geek-ridden for so long without suffering some really tragic consequences.

- Pleasentville

2007-07-13T14:41:00.001-07:00

It is only after we’ve lost everything that we are free to do anything

- Fight Club

2007-07-13T14:40:00.001-07:00

I used to think that if I loved you enough,
you would realize it and love me back...
but I can only love so much, for so long.

2007-07-13T14:39:00.001-07:00

And her heart was broken into a thousand pieces,
and upon each one was written his name.

2007-07-13T14:38:00.000-07:00

There’s only so much heart in a girl to be broken

2007-07-13T14:37:00.000-07:00

I want to be able to look at you and not be hurt by you

- The Object of My Affection

2007-07-13T14:35:00.000-07:00

When a woman who has much to say says nothing, her silence can be deafening.

- Anna and the King -

2007-07-13T14:34:00.000-07:00

“Why is marijuana against the law?
It grows naturally upon our planet.
Doesn’t the idea of making nature against the law seem to you a bit . . . unnatural?”

Bill Hicks

2007-07-13T14:33:00.000-07:00

“I think people need to be educated to the fact that marijuana is not a drug.

Marijuana is an herb and a flower.

God put it here.

If He put it here and He wants it to grow, what gives the government the right to say that God is wrong?”

~ Willie Nelson

2007-07-13T14:32:00.001-07:00

An addict is someone who uses their body to tell society that something is wrong
Stella Adler (1901 – 1992)

2007-07-13T14:31:00.000-07:00

nnual drug deaths:
tobacco: 395,000,
alcohol: 125,000;
‘legal drugs’: 38,000,
illegal drug overdoses: 5,200,
marijuana, 0.

Considering government subsidies of tobacco, just what is our government protecting us from in the drug war? -William A. Turnbow

2007-07-13T14:30:00.002-07:00

It’s not a war on drugs, it’s a war on personal freedom.
Keep that in mind at all times.”

- Bill Hicks

2007-07-13T14:30:00.001-07:00

How absurd is a law that seeks to classify a plant as a crime, as if there were something feloniously wrong with nature?

- Justice Jim Staples, Sydney 1980

2007-07-13T14:29:00.001-07:00

The danger in illegalising marijuana… is that you make criminals out of some of the most intelligent and sensitive people in the country.

- Allen Ginsberg

2007-07-13T14:28:00.001-07:00

“To get high is to forget yourself, and to forget yourself is to see everything else, and to see everything else is to become an understanding molecule in evolution, a conscious tool of the universe.”

– Jerry Garcia

2007-07-13T14:27:00.001-07:00

Here is my final point.
About drugs, about alcohol, about pornography and smoking and everything else.
What business is it of yours what I do, read, buy, see, say, think, who I fuck, what I take into my body – as long as I do not harm another human being on this planet?

Bill Hicks

2007-07-13T14:26:00.001-07:00

If cannabis were unknown,and bioprospectors were suddenly to find it in some remote mountain crevice, its discovery would no doubt be hailed as a medical breakthrough. Scientists would praise its potential for treating everything from pain to cancer, and marvel at its pharmacopoeimamany.”

The Economist

2007-07-13T14:25:00.000-07:00

My choice is what I choose to do,
and if I’m causing no harm it shouldn’t bother you.
Your choice is who you choose to be,
and if your causing no harm then your alright with me.”

Ben Harper

2007-07-13T14:24:00.000-07:00

It’s not a War on Drugs…
No! this is a War on non-corporate drugs”

Woody Harrelson – 2000

2007-07-13T14:22:00.000-07:00

Herb is the healing of a nation, alcohol is the destruction.”

Bob Marley

2007-07-13T14:20:00.000-07:00

Marge, it’s making my eyes better, and it’s legal.
I can walk up to the president and blow smoke in his stupid monkey face, and he’ll just have to sit there, groovin’ on it.

Homer/ The Simpsons