Quotes
Me:
The only thing I am truly intolerant of is intolerance.
Money can’t buy class.
It’s not too late to make a difference. Aspiration without attainment does not equate to hypocrisy. Apathy in the face of hope achieves it.
Movies:
Cowboy: You’re so drunk, you’re probably seein’ double.
Doc: I got two guns, one for each of ya. — Tombstone
I think we can’t go around measuring our goodness by what we don’t do – by what we deny ourselves, what we resist and who we exclude. I think we’ve got to measure goodness by what we embrace, what we create and who we include. –Père Henri, Chocolate.
Freedom, Beauty, Truth, Love –Moulin Rouge
Now if you gonna stay cool, you got to wail. You got to put somethin’ down. You got to make some jive. Don’t you know what I’m talkin’ about? –The Wild One
Literature:
“One story? he said. “Yes, that makes sense to me. Finally, it’s the same for you as it is for us, raptures or no raptures. Like you say. Being born, dying; and the love between.” –Clive Barker (Weaveworld)
To thine ownself be true, and it shall follow, as the sun the moon, thou canst not then be false to any man. –William Shakespeare (Hamlet)
“I like the space between,” I said. “The space between dreaming and wakefulness. Between imagination and reality. Between no and yes. Between is and is not. That’s where the interesting stuff is. That’s where you are. You are completely a product of the space between.”
“Between is and is not?”
“Where they both hold true, where they become one thing.” –Peter Straub “In the Night Room” (pp. 296-297)
Music:
Take it back! Take it back, oh no you can’t say that… all of my friends are not dead, or in jail… –John Prine
Too heavy too light too black or too white, day into night- cumbersome– Seven Mary Three
Sometimes to be near you is to be unable to hear you. –Fleetwood Mac
Hold on loosely, but don’t let it go. If you cling too tightly, you’ll lose control. –38 Special
…Send Lawyers, guns, and money”… –Warren Zevon
Don’t think because I understand, I care. Don’t think because I’m talking, we’re friends. –6 Underground
I’m open to falling from grace. –6 Underground
…She is always seventeen; She has a dream that she will lend us and a love that we can borrow. There is so much joy inside her she will even share her sorrow; She’s our past, our present, and our promise of tomorrow. Oh, truly she’s the only hope I’ve seen, and she is always seventeen. –Harry Chapin, She is always seventeen
Famous personalities:
They who would give up an essential liberty for temporary security, deserve neither liberty or security– Benjamin Franklin
Great spirits have always encounted violent opposition from mediocre minds.– Albert Einstein
You cannot depend on your eyes when your imagination is out of focus. –Samuel Clemmens (Mark Twain)
