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"What are you doing here, kid?
You don't even know how hard life is yet!"
"It's obvious doctor,
that you've never been a thirteen year old girl."
~"The Virgin Suicides"~
"It is not necessary to understand
things in order to argue about them."
~Pierre de Beaumarchais~
"It's acceptable for men to act the fool.
When women try, they're considered
aggressive and opinionated."
~Madeline Kahn~
"Everybody is in someone else's daydream."
"Music is love in search of a word."
"It's such a secret place, the land of tears..."
"So much of what I see reminds me
of something I read in a book when,
shouldn't it be the other way around?"
~"You've Got Mail"~
"I'm a woman.
We don't say what we want
but we do reserve the right
to get pissed off when we don't get it.
That's what makes us so fascinating..."
~"Sliding Doors"~
"It is no wonder that people are so horrible
when they start their life as children."
~Kingsley Amis~
"You said you didn't want to see me get hurt,
so did you close your eyes when I cried?"
"Nothing you write, if you hope to be good,
will ever come out as you first hoped."
~Lillian Hellman~
"Music touches feelings that words cannot."
"One of the keys to happiness is a bad memory."
~Rita Mae Brown~
"All things must change to something new,
to something strange."
~Henry Wadsworth Longfellow~
"If you aren't needed, what good are you?"
~Herbert Stein~
"Once you have lived with another
it is a great torture to live alone."
~Carson McCullers~
"Every day in every way,
I'm getting better and better."
~Emile Coue~
"It doesn't matter what you do in the bedroom
as long as you dont do it in the street
and frighten the horses"
~Mrs. Patrick Campbell~
"Rock 'n' Roll is the kindergarten of jazz."
~Stan Kenton~
"Its a lonesome walk to the sidelines,
especially when thousands of people
are cheering your replacement."
~Francis Tarkington~
"Creative minds always have been known
to survive any kind of bad training."
~Anna Freud~
"The barb in the arrow of childhood suffering is this;
its intense loneliness; its intense ignorance."
~Olive Schreiner~
"We are all born mad. Some remain so."
~Samuel Beckett~
"All of us are crazy in one or another way."
~Theodore Isaac Rubin~
"We do not write in order to be understood;
we write in order to understand."
~Cecil Day-Lewis~
"Cynicism is an unpleasant way of saying the truth."
~Lillian Hellman~
"Music is not an acquired culture...
it is an active part of natural life."
~Isaac Stern~
"Future shock...the shattering stress and disorientation
that we induce in individuals by subjecting them
to too much change in too short a time."
~Alvin Toffler~
"Music is medicine that's pleasant to take."
~Odetta~
"Suicide is a permanent solution to a temporary problem."
~Phil Donahue~
"We thought we were running away from the grownups,
and now we are the grownups.
~Margaret Atwood~
"We become adolescents when the words that adults
exchange with one another become intelligible to us."
~Natalia Ginzberg~
"I have long since come to believe that
people never mean half of what they say,
and that it is best to disregard their
talk and judge only their actions."
~Dorothy Day~
"Everything in life that we really accept undergoes change."
~Katherine Mansfield~
"We want for better reasons for having children
than not knowing how to prevent them."
~Dora Russell~
"You seldom listen to me,
and when you do you don't hear,
and when you do hear you hear wrong,
and even when you hear right you change
it so fast that it's never the same."
~Marjorie Kellogg~
"I've spent so much time hiding how I feel.
Now I want to be in the spotlight,
and I want to make people listen to me."
~Anonymous~
"No question is so difficult to answer
as that which the answer is obvious."
"How could I possibly be expect to
handle school on a day like this?"
~"Ferris Bueller's Day Off"~
"I've learned that...
no matter how much I care
some people are just assholes."
"Childhood is something you spend
the rest of you life getting over.
The middle is scary the end is usually sad,
but the middle bit is the bit worth saving,
because you've got to give hope a chance to float up."
~"Hope Floats"~
"Sometimes, when you open up to people,
you let the bad in with the good"
~"She's All That"~
"I am the only real thing you have."
~"Reality Bites"~
"Do you ever think about that night in the park?
Because I think about it all the time.
I hardly even know you, I don't know if you
ever wore braces, I don't know if you wear glasses
or contacts, I don't even know your fathers' name
or what he does, but I do know the curves of
your face, and every fleck of gold in your eyes,
and I know that, that night in the park was
the best night of my life."
~"The Wedding Planner"~
"What happens when you KNOW he's the only one for you...
what happens when he's not so sure?"
"Guys: When a girl is speaking to you,
listen to what she says with her eyes."
"Sometimes I wonder who he's picturing
when he looks at me and smiles."
"I can be the best thing that ever happened to you,
but you'll never know unless you give me a chance."
"There are a thousand questions I want to ask,
but I'm too scared. Scared I know the answers."
"Let's say there was a little girl,
and from the time she was able to understand,
she was taught to fear...
let's say that she was taught to fear daylight.
She was taught that it was her enemy,
that it would hurt her.
And one sunny day you ask her to go outside and play,
but she won't.
You can't be angry at her can you?"
"What if reality doesn't live up to the dream?"
"Don't say we aren't right for each other.
The way I see it,
we aren't right for anyone else."
"Sometimes I just wish I had a special power
so I could tell what you were thinking,
so I knew what you really wanted,
and what you really thought of me,
and if that twinkle that I see
in your eyes is because of me...
or if it's because of someone else..."
"I'm holding onto something that used to be there,
hoping it will come back...but knowing it won't."
"I used to say that I would love you until the day I die...
but what if you died before me
and you never knew that love that existed?"
"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."
"I look at him and he looks back at me
with his beautiful eyes, smiles,
and it pathetically makes my day."
"Why is it that I must climb one hundred mountains
to get you when all you have to do is smile to get me?"
"Have you ever wondered which hurts the most;
saying something you wish you had not,
or not saying something you wish you had."
"Sometimes your nearness takes my breath away;
all the things I want to say can find no voice.
Then, in silence, I can only hope
my eyes will speak my heart."
~Robert Sexton~
"I miss you when something really good happens,
because you're the one I want to share it with.
I miss you when something is troubling me
because you're the one who understands me so well.
I miss you when I laugh and cry,
because I know that you are the one
that makes my laughter grow and my tears disappear.
I miss you all the time, but I miss you the most
when I lie awake at night and think of
all the wonderful times that we spent with each other,
for those were some of the best
and most memorable times of my life."
"I would give every possession I own
just to be with you for one more day.
But after that, I would want an eternity."
"It's so important for me to hold on to the memories,
but sometimes I have to wonder whether the memories
are the things that are holding me back from letting go."
"Some things in life are waiting for...
even if they keep you waiting forever..."
"If, out of time,
I could pick one moment
and keep it shining, always new,
of all the days that I have lived,
I'd pick the moment I met you..."
"I want to write, but more than that,
I want to bring out all kinds of things
that lie buried in my heart."
~Anne Frank~
"I tend to live in the past because most of my life is there."
~Herb Caen~
"There is one part of me missing...
I never knew what it was until now.
I know what it is, but it kills me
to know that I can't have it."
"I get the best feeling in the world
when you say hi or even smile at me
because I know,
even if it's just for a second,
that I've crossed your mind."
"If I could give you one gift,
it would be the ability to see yourself
as I see you so you can see how
special you really are."
"For all the times I never said the things I should have,
I thank you for all the times you understood."
"It's true,
no matter how happy you are now,
or how far away,
you still dream of going back."
"Leaving never hurts as much as being left behind."
"If only you knew what you were missing.
If only you really knew me,
I get the feeling that
everything would be different."
"Solitude is one thing, loneliness is another."
~May Sarton~
"I think I'd have a more positive outlook if all
kinds of good things would start happening."
"A girl is much more than she seems,
not a toy by any means,
underneath all the make-up and hair
is a sign saying 'Handle with Care.'"
"Have I ever really been happy?
Or was I just making sure
that everyone else was happy?"
~Once and Again~
"There is no incidental music to the dramas of real life."
~Sax Rohmer~
"When I use a word,
it means just what I choose it to mean
neither more nor less."
~Lewis Carroll~
"Depression is melancholy minus its charms."
~Susan Sontag~
"Even if you did get me,
you wouldn't know what to do with me"
~"Being John Malkcovich"~
"I would rather be mad at the truth
than be temporarily happy with a lie."
"I would rather be angry hearing the truth
than be mad hearing a lie."
"We cling to those truths that keep us sane."
~"The X-Files"~
"Remember, when you're with me,
it's the only time you're not
the strangest person in the room.
So go ahead, get weird with me."
~"Ally McBeal"~
"Life is pain...anyone who says
differently is selling something".
~"The Princess Bride"~
"Can I keep you?"
~"Casper"~
"I would rather have a moment of wonderful
than a lifetime of nothing special."
~"Steel Magnolias"~
"Bridget: 'Wait a minute...
nice boys don't kiss like that.'
Mark: 'Oh yes they fucking do.'"
~Bridget Jones's Diary~
"Maybe emotions become so intense
your body just can't contain it,
your mind and your feelings become too powerful,
and your body weeps."
~"City of Angels"~
"I had a dream my life would be
So different from this hell I'm living
So different now from what it seemed
Now life has killed the dream I dreamed."
~"Les Miserables"~
"Surely you and I are beyond speaking
when words are clearly not enough."
~"Mansfield Park"~
"I didn't breathe when you spoke. I was afraid I'd miss a word."
~"Les Miserables"~
"Sometimes it takes years to really grasp
what has happened to your life."
~Wilma Rudolph~
"People change and forget to tell each other."
~Lillian Hellman~
"My life needs a rewind/erase button."
~"Calvin and Hobbes"~
"Well, you know when you're rocking in a rocking chair,
and you go so far that you almost fall over backwards,
but at the last instant you catch yourself?
That's how I feel all the time."
~Steven Wright~
"Sometimes I just wish it were greener on my side."
~Chris Loncar~
"This sucks more than anything that's ever sucked before."
"I suppose it was something you said
That caused me to tighten
And pull away.
And when you asked,
'What is it?'
I, of course, said,
'Nothing.'
Whenever I say, 'Nothing,'
You may be very certain there is something.
The something is a cold, hard lump of
Nothing."
~Lois Wyse~
"You have no idea what a poor opinion
I have of myself and how little I deserve it."
~W. S. Gilbert~
"Why are the words
'Goodbye',
'I'm sorry',
and 'I love you'
so easily pronounced
but so hard to say?"
"Please don't lie to me,
unless you're absolutely sure
I'll never find out the truth."
~Ashleigh Brilliant~
"It's hard to answer what's wrong when nothing is right."
"Take a chance on getting slapped, you might get kissed."
~Bernard Gunther~
"When a thing has been said, and said well,
have no scruple. Take it and copy it."
~Anatole France~
"May all your ups and downs
come only in the bedroom."
~Irish toast~
"The trouble with the world is that the stupid are
cocksure and the intelligent full of doubt."
~Bertrand Russell~
"I guess in this society being male and an
asshole makes you worthy of our time."
~"10 Things I Hate About You"~
"My name is only an anagram of toilets."
~T. S. Eliot~
"No man means all he says,
and yet very few say all they mean,
for words are slippery
and thought is viscous."
~Henry B. Adams~
"Scratch most feminists and underneath
there is a woman who longs to be a sex object.
The difference is that is not all she wants to be."
~Betty Rollin~
"A man trusts his ears less than his eyes."
~Herodotus~
"The most effective answer to an insult is silence."
"Patrick: Besides, I had some extra cash, you know...
some asshole paid me to take out this really great girl...
Kat: Is that right?
Patrick: Yeah, but I screwed up...I, I fell for her...
Kat: Really?
Patrick: It's not every day you find a girl who will
flash someone to get you out of detention."
~"10 Things I Hate About You"~
"Don't judge a book by its movie."
~Anon~
"I'd rather be rejected than used because
they both amount to the same thing in the end,
but being used takes a lot longer."
"Frustration is not having anyone to blame but yourself."
"Men are always ready to respect anything that bores them.
~Marilyn Monroe~
"You can fool some of the people some of the time
and all of the people some of the time,
but you can't fool all of the people all of the time."
~Abraham Lincoln~
"Advice is what we ask for
when we already know the answer
but wish we didn't..."
"The fellow that agrees with
everything you say is either a fool
or he is getting ready to skin you."
~Kin Hubbard~
"What you do speaks so loud
that I cannot hear what you say."
~Ralph Waldo Emerson~
"My parents keep asking how school was.
It's like saying, 'How was that drive-by shooting?'
You don't care how it was, you're lucky to get out alive."
~"My So-Called Life"~
"It just seems like, you agree to have
a certain personality or something.
For no reason. Just to make things easier
for everyone. But when you think about it,
I mean, how do you know it's even you?
And, I mean, this whole thing with yearbook
it's like, everybody's in this big hurry
to make this book, to supposedly remember
what happened. Because if you made a book
of what really happened, it'd be a
really upsetting book."
~"My So-Called Life"~
"Know what's weird? Day by day nothing seems to change,
but pretty soon, everything's different."
"Like with boys, how they have it so easy.
How you have to pretend that you don't
notice them... noticing you."
~"My So-Called Life"~
"There are things you just can't do in life.
You can't beat the phone company,
you can't make a waiter see you
until he's ready to see you,
and you can't go home again."
~Bill Bryson~
"Every now and then, I wish it were then instead of now."
~Thomas Michael~
"Some people think that it's holding on that makes one strong.
Sometimes it's letting go."
"You can discover more about a person in an hour of play,
than in a year of conversation."
~Plato~
"One can't complain.
I have my friends.
Someone spoke to me only yesterday."
~Eeyore~
"People may or may not say what they mean...
but they always say something designed to get what they want."
~David Mamet~
"There are two sorts of curiosity- the momentary and the permanent.
The momentary is concerned with the odd appearance on the surface of things.
The permanent is attracted by the amazing and consecutive life
that flows on beneath the surface of things."
~Robert Lynd~
"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."
~F. Scott Fitzgerald~
"For of all sad words of tongue or pen,
The saddest are these: 'It might have been!'"
~John Greenleaf Whittier~
"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~
"Wit is educated insolence."
~Aristotle~
"I do not feel obliged to believe that
the same God who has endowed us with sense, reason, and intellect
has intended us to forgo their use."
~Galileo Galilei~
"The desire of the man is for the woman,
but the desire of the woman is for the desire of the man."
~Germaine de Stael~
"The only way to get rid of a temptation is to yield to it."
~Oscar Wilde~
"Most people would rather be certain they're miserable,
than risk being happy."
"I know I made a lot of stupid mistakes in my life,
but the worst one was thinking the person who hurt me the most wouldn't hurt me again."
"I've learned that it is the weak who are cruel,
and that gentleness is to be expected only from the strong."
"The worst feeling is suddenly realizing that you don't measure up.
And that, in the past, when you thought you did, you were a fool."
~Angela from "My So-Called Life"~
"Flatter me, and I may not believe you.
Critisize me, and I may not like you.
Ignore me, and I may not forgive you.
Encourage me, and I may not forget you."
~William A. Ward~
"Forgiveness is the key to your unhappiness." |
