Jul 30, 2008 18:28
wanting to save some of my fav quotes/lyrics etc, im getting a new computer soon so a word doc. seems like a waste.
you know you want to read them anyway.
"Here I am a giant surrounded by ants. Ants who can't even understand what it is the giant is talking about."
"When you starts measuring somebody, measure him right child, measure him right. Make sure you done taken into account what hills and valleys he come through before he got to wherever he is."
"The future belongs to those who believe in the beauty of their dreams."
-Eleanor Roosevelt
"The test of first rate intelligence is the ability to hold two opposing ideas in mind at the same time and still retain the ability to function"
-F. Scott Fitzgerald
"Beauty of whatever kind, in its supreme development, invariably excites the sensitive soul to tears"
-Poe
"Personality is born out of pain, it is the fire shut up in the flint"
-Yeats
" When I arrived at the memorial site, I couldn't think of anything witty or poignent to write, so I just
carved 'I miss you' into the telephone pole that killed you and went home."
"First you take a drink, then the drink takes a drink, then the drink takes you."
- F. Scott Fitzgerald
"Love built on beauty, soon as beauty, dies"
-John Donne
"How do you bounce back when reality batters your belief system and love does not, as promised, conquer all?"
"All things truly wicked start from innocence"
-Hemingway
"Man is the future of man."
-Ponge
"Conquer yourself rather than the world."
-Descartes
"Go confidently in the direction of your dreams! Live the life you've imagined."
-Henry David Thoreau
"When you are not practicing, remember, someone somewhere is practicing, and when you meet him he will win."
-Ed Macauley
"Twenty years from now you will be more disappointed by the things that you didn't do than by the ones you did do. So throw off the bowlines. Sail away from the safe harbor. Catch the trade winds in your sails. Explore. Dream. Discover."
-Mark Twain