Quotes
Quotes
From Books
"The world breaks us all. Afterward, some are stronger at the broken places." - Ernest Hemingway, Farewell To Arms
"Mrs. dalloway said she would buy the flowers herself." - Virginia Woolf, Mrs. Dalloway
From Songs
Dear Andy
It's been a long time. Everything's been up and down since you've been here. The weather's been acting really strange in the past while. I know I shouldn't be writing about the weather. What with the war and all. Feeling kinda helpless. [indecipherable] helpless. I wonder if you still believe in George Orwell. Tell me what you think. I'm worried. I just wanted to say hi, that's all. I remember it being great in Ireland. Yeah. That's a place you can go to really relax. Heart-country. Soul-feeding. Green fields, country roads. I can see them right now in my mind's eye. Hey Andy, let me know how you been? Are the sunsets still as beautiful as you describe them? Is it hot? Or is there snow? I'm confused. Do you remember staying up late listening to Bob and Patty and the Junkies? I'm still there. Thinking about you. I wanted to drop you a line. I'm gonna send this letter by electronic mail. And I hope it finds you happy.
Love,
T.
- Letters from T/Don't Choose the Wrong Way, Andy White
There is a crack in everything; that's how the light gets in. - Anthem, Leonard Cohen
There's a blaze of light in every word; it doesn't matter which you heard, the holy or the broken hallelujah. - Hallelujah, Leonard Cohen
And the words, they're everything and nothing; I want to search for her in the off-hand remarks. - Recessional, Vienna Teng
From Films
"What surprise? No, no no, I don't like surprises. All right, I like surprises. I just don't like not knowing what they are in advance." - A Dog's Breakfast (film)
"Ryan, I'm so sorry about the whole cricket-batting-your-head thing."
"These things happen. Pleased to meet ya." -A Dog's Breakfast (film)
Love
“O innocent victims of Cupid,
Remember this terse little verse:
To let a fool kiss you is stupid,
To let a kiss fool you is worse." - E. Y. Harburg
Life
"Until you find something to fight for, you settle for something to fight against." - Chuck Palahniuk
"The best way out is always through." - Robert Frost
"In three words I can sum up everything I've learned about life: it goes on." - Robert Frost
"Coming home from very lonely places, all of us go a little mad: whether from great personal success, or just an all-night drive, we are the sole survivors of a world no one else has ever seen." - John Le Carre
Writing
"Writing gives you the illusion of control, and then you realize it's just an illusion, that people are going to bring their own stuff into it." - David Sedaris
"A poet who reads his verse in public may have other nasty habits." - Robert Heinlein
Health/Food
"I gotta work out. I keep saying it all the time. I keep saying I gotta start working out. It's been about two months since I've worked out. And I just don't have the time. Which uh..is odd. Because I have the time to go out to dinner. And uh..and watch tv. And get a bone density test. And uh.. try to figure out what my phone number spells in words." - Ellen Degeneres
"Oregano is the spice of life." - Henry J. Tillman
"Time is an illusion. Lunchtime doubly so." - Douglas Adams
TV
"Sometimes point one, is bigger than nine point nine." - Lisa Cuddy House, M.D
Fandom
"I did my first convention this weekend and found this adorable group of girls - I think they call themselves 'shippers' - who have this thing about Weir and Sheppard and them having sex in closets...It's very weird!" - Torri Higginson
I mean, it’s tempting to have someone say to you, ‘You will never have to worry about money ever again,’ but no matter how much money someone gives you - what, you’re not going to spend it? You’re not going to find stupid ways to get rid of it? Of course you are. It’s like building roads and expecting there to be less traffic.
- Thom Yorke, of Radiohead
I'm coloring a testis.
-Ollielove
Somehow.
Somehow what?
Somehow, in time, I'm gonna figure out a way to blame this on Jerry Falwell.
- Casey and Dan, Sports Night