Quotes
I'm in such a fantabulous mood today. Yes, I know that's not a word. It's been so rejuvenating to reconnect with old friends and to feel like falling love. For the first time, I can have & express deep emotions for someone while still being able to focus on schoolwork and other things. He's so inspiring for me. My life feels like it's picking up; work doesn't seem so bad - it's a matter of preparation for things to come, harder challenges, future change.
English class has been inspiring me a lot lately too. My teacher today said something similar to.. "Writers are very miserable people." as a response to a classmate saying how depressing it was to read Romantic literature as we are currently. Now I'm compelled to find quotes, as Henry David Thoreau was such the 'nonconformist.' I'm also looking up quotes that I think Frikki might like.
"If my doctor told me I had only six minutes to live, I wouldn't brood. I'd type a little faster." - Isaac Asimov (something frikki would say)
"Arguments over grammar and style are often as fierce as those over IBM versus Mac, and as fruitless as Coke versus Pepsi and boxers versus briefs." - Jack Lynch
"Writing is a solitary occupation. Family, friends, and society are the natural enemies of the writer. He must be alone, uninterrupted, and slightly savage if he is to sustain and complete an undertaking." - Jessamyn West
"Women do not always have to write about women, or gay men about gay men. Indeed, something good and new might happen if they did not." - Kathryn Hughes (hilarious and so true..same about Jews and the Holocaust)
"Critics are by no means the end of the law. Do not think all is over with you because you articles are rejected. It may be that the editor has his drawer full, or that he does not know enough to appreciate you, or you have not gained a reputation, or he is not in a mood to be pleased. A critic's judgment is like that of any intelligent person. If he has experience, he is capable of judging whether a book will sell. That is all." - Lavina Goodell
"But words are things, and a small drop of ink,
Falling, like dew, upon a thought, produces
That which makes thousands, perhaps millions, think." - Lord Bryon
"Anybody can make history. Only a great man can write it." - Oscar Wilde (frikki'd say this)
"Fiction is the truth inside the lie." - Stephen King
"Some editors are failed writers, but so are most writers." - T.S. Eliot
"The difference between fiction and reality? Fiction has to make sense." - Tom Clancy
"History will be kind to me for I intend to write it." - Winston Churchill
"We do not ride the railroad. It rides on us." - Henry David Thoreau
"If a man does not keep pace with his companions, perhaps it is because he hears a different drummer. " - Henry David Thoreau
"If you have built castles in the air, your work need not be lost; that is where they should be. Now put the foundations under them." - Henry David Thoreau
"I stand in awe of my body." - Henry David Thoreau (i imagine frikki would like this one)
"In wilderness is the preservation of the world." - Henry David Thoreau (*)
"Men are born to succeed, not fail." - Henry David Thoreau (*)
"On my grave it shall say nothing but 'Adolf Hitler' for I will make a name in itself." - Adolf Hitler
"I can't even stand to watch people in restaurants laughing, having fun, enjoying life. Their pitiful happiness sickens me. And on TV, do people really live like this? Is this all a joke? Do we raise kids to believe in Baywatch, canned laughter, Jenny Jones? Stupid fish-white housewives straining their flabby legs together with Suzanne Somers's Thighmaster? She helped create the dumb blonde stereotype and now she's a fucking infomercial folk hero hawking a worthless contraption that sounds like a porno movie or an Aerosmith song. Fuck blind consumerism. Stupid people deserve what they get. They'd buy shirts that say 'I'm fucking stupid' if Cindy Crawford told them it was cool. I'd love to kill all of them, but I'd be doing them a favor. The worst punishment I can give them is to let them wake up every morning and lead their stupid fucking lives, let them raise their stupid fucking children in their stupid fucking homes, and, of course, make a record called Antichrist Superstar, which will annoy and destroy each and every one of them. Fuck you America. Fuck me. The world spreads its legs for another fucking star..." - Marilyn Manson.
English class has been inspiring me a lot lately too. My teacher today said something similar to.. "Writers are very miserable people." as a response to a classmate saying how depressing it was to read Romantic literature as we are currently. Now I'm compelled to find quotes, as Henry David Thoreau was such the 'nonconformist.' I'm also looking up quotes that I think Frikki might like.
"If my doctor told me I had only six minutes to live, I wouldn't brood. I'd type a little faster." - Isaac Asimov (something frikki would say)
"Arguments over grammar and style are often as fierce as those over IBM versus Mac, and as fruitless as Coke versus Pepsi and boxers versus briefs." - Jack Lynch
"Writing is a solitary occupation. Family, friends, and society are the natural enemies of the writer. He must be alone, uninterrupted, and slightly savage if he is to sustain and complete an undertaking." - Jessamyn West
"Women do not always have to write about women, or gay men about gay men. Indeed, something good and new might happen if they did not." - Kathryn Hughes (hilarious and so true..same about Jews and the Holocaust)
"Critics are by no means the end of the law. Do not think all is over with you because you articles are rejected. It may be that the editor has his drawer full, or that he does not know enough to appreciate you, or you have not gained a reputation, or he is not in a mood to be pleased. A critic's judgment is like that of any intelligent person. If he has experience, he is capable of judging whether a book will sell. That is all." - Lavina Goodell
"But words are things, and a small drop of ink,
Falling, like dew, upon a thought, produces
That which makes thousands, perhaps millions, think." - Lord Bryon
"Anybody can make history. Only a great man can write it." - Oscar Wilde (frikki'd say this)
"Fiction is the truth inside the lie." - Stephen King
"Some editors are failed writers, but so are most writers." - T.S. Eliot
"The difference between fiction and reality? Fiction has to make sense." - Tom Clancy
"History will be kind to me for I intend to write it." - Winston Churchill
"We do not ride the railroad. It rides on us." - Henry David Thoreau
"If a man does not keep pace with his companions, perhaps it is because he hears a different drummer. " - Henry David Thoreau
"If you have built castles in the air, your work need not be lost; that is where they should be. Now put the foundations under them." - Henry David Thoreau
"I stand in awe of my body." - Henry David Thoreau (i imagine frikki would like this one)
"In wilderness is the preservation of the world." - Henry David Thoreau (*)
"Men are born to succeed, not fail." - Henry David Thoreau (*)
"On my grave it shall say nothing but 'Adolf Hitler' for I will make a name in itself." - Adolf Hitler
"I can't even stand to watch people in restaurants laughing, having fun, enjoying life. Their pitiful happiness sickens me. And on TV, do people really live like this? Is this all a joke? Do we raise kids to believe in Baywatch, canned laughter, Jenny Jones? Stupid fish-white housewives straining their flabby legs together with Suzanne Somers's Thighmaster? She helped create the dumb blonde stereotype and now she's a fucking infomercial folk hero hawking a worthless contraption that sounds like a porno movie or an Aerosmith song. Fuck blind consumerism. Stupid people deserve what they get. They'd buy shirts that say 'I'm fucking stupid' if Cindy Crawford told them it was cool. I'd love to kill all of them, but I'd be doing them a favor. The worst punishment I can give them is to let them wake up every morning and lead their stupid fucking lives, let them raise their stupid fucking children in their stupid fucking homes, and, of course, make a record called Antichrist Superstar, which will annoy and destroy each and every one of them. Fuck you America. Fuck me. The world spreads its legs for another fucking star..." - Marilyn Manson.