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Father: Okay, girls, get your hairspray and turquoise eyeliner.
Daughter: Why?
Father: We're going to Staten Island!
- overheardinnyc.com
"I used to drink and take drugs and do whatever I thought was hardcore in order not to feel. It's like I'm a painter, who finds it easy slapping great blasts of oil on a canvas. What I have to learn to do now is be delicate and watercolour my emotions." - Tom Hardy
"Never ignore a person who loves you, cares for you, and misses you. Because one day, you might wake up from your sleep and realize that you lost the moon while counting the stars."
"....loyalty, at least in football terms, was not a moral choice like bravery or kindness; it was more like a wart or a hump, something you were stuck with. Marriages are nowhere near as rigid-you won’t catch any Arsenal fans slipping off to Tottenham for a bit of extra-marital slap and tickle, and though divorce is a possibility (you can just stop going if things get too bad), getting hitched again is out of the question. There have been many times over the last twenty-three years when I have pored over the small print of my contract looking for a way out, but there isn’t one. Each humiliating defeat (Swindon, Tranmere, York, Walsall, Rotherham, Wrexham) must be borne with patience, fortitude and forbearance; there is simply nothing that can be done, and that is a realisation that can make you simply squirm with frustration. - Fever Pitch, Nick Hornby
"Arsenal were nowhere near good enough to win the League, yet were much too competent to go down; week after week, year after year, we turned up knowing full well that what we were about to witness would depress us profoundly." - Fever Pitch, Nick Hornby
"Facts do not cease to exist because they are ignored." - Aldous Huxley
"I believe in everything until it’s disproved. So I believe in fairies, the myths, dragons. It all exists, even if it’s in your mind. Who’s to say that dreams and nightmares aren’t as real as the here and now?" - John Lennon
"If music be the food of love, play on." - Shakespeare
"When I am lonely for boys it’s their bodies I miss. I study their hands lifting the cigarettes in the darkness of the movie theatres, the slope of a shoulder, the angle of a hip. Looking at them sideways, I examine them in different lights. My love for them is visual: that is the part of them I would like to possess. Don’t move, I think. Stay like that, let me have that." - Margaret Atwood, Cat’s Eye
"As an atheist, I see nothing 'wrong' in believing in a god. I don’t think there is a god, but belief in him does no harm. If it helps you in any way, then that’s fine with me. It’s when belief starts infringing on other people’s rights when it worries me. I would never deny your right to believe in a god. I would just rather you didn’t kill people who believe in a different god, say. Or stone someone to death because your rule book says their sexuality is immoral. It’s strange that anyone who believes that an all-powerful all-knowing, omniscient power responsible for everything that happens, would also want to judge and punish people for what they are. From what I can gather, pretty much the worst type of person you can be is an atheist. The first four commandments hammer this point home. There is a god, I’m him, no one else is, you’re not as good and don’t forget it." - Ricky Gervais
"And once the storm is over you won’t remember how you made it through, how you managed to survive. You won’t even be sure, in fact, whether the storm is really over. But one thing is certain. When you come out of the storm you won’t be the same person who walked in. That’s what this storm’s all about." - Haruki Murakami
Me: I’m at the bar now
Dad: ok. Have fun. Take chances, but be accountable. Love ya!
- whenparentstext.com
"May your coming year be filled with magic and dreams and good madness. I hope you read some fine books and kiss someone who thinks you’re wonderful, and don’t forget to make some art - write or draw or build or sing or live as only you can. May your coming year be a wonderful thing, in which you dream both dangerously and outrageously. I hope you’ll make something that didn’t exist before you made it, that you will be loved and you will be liked, and that you will have people to love and to like in return. And, most importantly (because I think there should be more kindness and more wisdom in the world right now), I hope that you will, when you need to be, be wise, and that you will always be kind. And I hope that somewhere in the next year, you surprise yourself." - Neil Gaiman
"I clutter my life with things. I have memories all over that I don’t even necessarily want to remember." - Anjelica Huston
"Everyone seems to think I’m very ladylike. That I’m very cultured and intelligent. I drink a lot of Diet Coke and belch. I’ve been known to use the F-word. I’ve told a few dirty jokes. I arm-wrestle." - Helena Bonham Carter
"You'll meet her, she's very pretty, even though sometimes she's sad for many days at a time. You'll see, when she smiles, you'll love her." - Pan's Labrynth
"Do you ever think about how Portland hasn't had, like, a national tragedy yet? (sings) The day the beer stopped flowing..." - Portlandia, episode 1.02
"I feel that there is nothing more truly artistic than to love people." - Vincent van Gogh
"I've been re-reading your story. I think it's about me in a way that might not be flattering, but that's okay. We dream and dream of being seen as we really are and then finally someone looks at us and sees us truly and we fail to measure up. Anyway: story received, story included. You looked at me long enough to see something mysterioso under all the gruff and bluster. Thanks. Sometimes you get so close to someone you end up on the other side of them." - Richard Silken
"All religions must be tolerated...for every man must get to heaven in his own way." - Epictetus
"I am a fallen woman, but I assure you: I did not fall. I was pushed." - The Crimson Petal and the White, Michel Faber
"So avoid using the word 'very' because it's lazy. A man is not very tired, he is exhausted. Don't use very sad, use morose. Language was invented for one reason, boys - to woo women - and, in that endeavour, laziness will not do." - Dead Poets Society
"All too frequently, anxiety crushes not only your spirit and your potential, but your ability to take care of your mind and body." - The Anxiety Book: Developing Strength in the Face of Fear, Jonathan Davidson & Henry Dreher
Daughter: Why?
Father: We're going to Staten Island!
- overheardinnyc.com
"I used to drink and take drugs and do whatever I thought was hardcore in order not to feel. It's like I'm a painter, who finds it easy slapping great blasts of oil on a canvas. What I have to learn to do now is be delicate and watercolour my emotions." - Tom Hardy
"Never ignore a person who loves you, cares for you, and misses you. Because one day, you might wake up from your sleep and realize that you lost the moon while counting the stars."
"....loyalty, at least in football terms, was not a moral choice like bravery or kindness; it was more like a wart or a hump, something you were stuck with. Marriages are nowhere near as rigid-you won’t catch any Arsenal fans slipping off to Tottenham for a bit of extra-marital slap and tickle, and though divorce is a possibility (you can just stop going if things get too bad), getting hitched again is out of the question. There have been many times over the last twenty-three years when I have pored over the small print of my contract looking for a way out, but there isn’t one. Each humiliating defeat (Swindon, Tranmere, York, Walsall, Rotherham, Wrexham) must be borne with patience, fortitude and forbearance; there is simply nothing that can be done, and that is a realisation that can make you simply squirm with frustration. - Fever Pitch, Nick Hornby
"Arsenal were nowhere near good enough to win the League, yet were much too competent to go down; week after week, year after year, we turned up knowing full well that what we were about to witness would depress us profoundly." - Fever Pitch, Nick Hornby
"Facts do not cease to exist because they are ignored." - Aldous Huxley
"I believe in everything until it’s disproved. So I believe in fairies, the myths, dragons. It all exists, even if it’s in your mind. Who’s to say that dreams and nightmares aren’t as real as the here and now?" - John Lennon
"If music be the food of love, play on." - Shakespeare
"When I am lonely for boys it’s their bodies I miss. I study their hands lifting the cigarettes in the darkness of the movie theatres, the slope of a shoulder, the angle of a hip. Looking at them sideways, I examine them in different lights. My love for them is visual: that is the part of them I would like to possess. Don’t move, I think. Stay like that, let me have that." - Margaret Atwood, Cat’s Eye
"As an atheist, I see nothing 'wrong' in believing in a god. I don’t think there is a god, but belief in him does no harm. If it helps you in any way, then that’s fine with me. It’s when belief starts infringing on other people’s rights when it worries me. I would never deny your right to believe in a god. I would just rather you didn’t kill people who believe in a different god, say. Or stone someone to death because your rule book says their sexuality is immoral. It’s strange that anyone who believes that an all-powerful all-knowing, omniscient power responsible for everything that happens, would also want to judge and punish people for what they are. From what I can gather, pretty much the worst type of person you can be is an atheist. The first four commandments hammer this point home. There is a god, I’m him, no one else is, you’re not as good and don’t forget it." - Ricky Gervais
"And once the storm is over you won’t remember how you made it through, how you managed to survive. You won’t even be sure, in fact, whether the storm is really over. But one thing is certain. When you come out of the storm you won’t be the same person who walked in. That’s what this storm’s all about." - Haruki Murakami
Me: I’m at the bar now
Dad: ok. Have fun. Take chances, but be accountable. Love ya!
- whenparentstext.com
"May your coming year be filled with magic and dreams and good madness. I hope you read some fine books and kiss someone who thinks you’re wonderful, and don’t forget to make some art - write or draw or build or sing or live as only you can. May your coming year be a wonderful thing, in which you dream both dangerously and outrageously. I hope you’ll make something that didn’t exist before you made it, that you will be loved and you will be liked, and that you will have people to love and to like in return. And, most importantly (because I think there should be more kindness and more wisdom in the world right now), I hope that you will, when you need to be, be wise, and that you will always be kind. And I hope that somewhere in the next year, you surprise yourself." - Neil Gaiman
"I clutter my life with things. I have memories all over that I don’t even necessarily want to remember." - Anjelica Huston
"Everyone seems to think I’m very ladylike. That I’m very cultured and intelligent. I drink a lot of Diet Coke and belch. I’ve been known to use the F-word. I’ve told a few dirty jokes. I arm-wrestle." - Helena Bonham Carter
"You'll meet her, she's very pretty, even though sometimes she's sad for many days at a time. You'll see, when she smiles, you'll love her." - Pan's Labrynth
"Do you ever think about how Portland hasn't had, like, a national tragedy yet? (sings) The day the beer stopped flowing..." - Portlandia, episode 1.02
"I feel that there is nothing more truly artistic than to love people." - Vincent van Gogh
"I've been re-reading your story. I think it's about me in a way that might not be flattering, but that's okay. We dream and dream of being seen as we really are and then finally someone looks at us and sees us truly and we fail to measure up. Anyway: story received, story included. You looked at me long enough to see something mysterioso under all the gruff and bluster. Thanks. Sometimes you get so close to someone you end up on the other side of them." - Richard Silken
"All religions must be tolerated...for every man must get to heaven in his own way." - Epictetus
"I am a fallen woman, but I assure you: I did not fall. I was pushed." - The Crimson Petal and the White, Michel Faber
"So avoid using the word 'very' because it's lazy. A man is not very tired, he is exhausted. Don't use very sad, use morose. Language was invented for one reason, boys - to woo women - and, in that endeavour, laziness will not do." - Dead Poets Society
"All too frequently, anxiety crushes not only your spirit and your potential, but your ability to take care of your mind and body." - The Anxiety Book: Developing Strength in the Face of Fear, Jonathan Davidson & Henry Dreher