Sep 16, 2005 18:32
ok, while surfing the lovely net today, i stumbled across a very useful website... heres what it had to say...
We've all been there: Tongue-tied, flustered and at a complete loss for the right words, whether it's on a first date or after a minor relationship indiscretion. If you're wishing you knew the right thing to say, read on. We've gathered the collective wit from some of the world's greatest thinkers to get you out of-or into-all sorts of compromising positions. Deploy them as needed.
Dating Dilemma #1: You need to say something smart at a museum
"It's not what you see that is art-art is the gap." -Marcel Duchamp
Dating Dilemma #2: You're out with very well-read person
"I've given up on reading books. I find it takes my mind off myself." -Oscar Wilde
Dating Dilemma #3: You want to stop talking and start kissing
"A kiss is a lovely trick designed by nature to stop speech when words become superfluous." -Ingrid Bergman
Dating Dilemma #4: You'd really rather not share your feelings
"All the great pleasures in life are silent." -George Clemenceau
Dating Dilemma #5: You're not ready to commit
"Let there be spaces in [our] togetherness." -Kahlil Gibran
Dating Dilemma #6: You're trying to sway someone to be naughty
"If you obey all the rules, you miss all the fun." -Katharine Hepburn
Dating Dilemma #7: It really is all your fault
"I am as bad as the worst, but, thank God, I am as good as the best." -Walt Whitman
Dating Dilemma #8: You've been caught in a big, fat lie
"There are no facts, only interpretations." -Friedrich Nietzsche
Dating dilemma #9: You don't want to accompany your date to a family get-together
"Absence is one of the most useful ingredients of family life, and to dose it rightly is an art like any other." -Freya Stark
Dating dilemma #10: You want to watch the big game tonight instead of Judging Amy
"The spirit, the will to win and the will to excel are the things that endure. These qualities are so much more important than the events that occur." -Vince Lombardi
Dating dilemma #11: You're at a restaurant where the service sucks
"What is the test of good manners? Being able to bear patiently with bad ones." -Solomon Ibn Gabirol
Dating dilemma #12: You're putting the moves on a platonic friend
"In the sweetness of friendship, let there be laughter and sharing of pleasures." -Kahlil Gibran
Dating dilemma #13: You're stumped for conversation during a walk through the park
"The earth laughs in flowers." -e.e. cummings
Dating dilemma #14: Annoying friends and relatives keep asking when you'll get married
"The trouble with some women is they get all excited about nothing-and then they marry him." -Cher
Dating dilemma #15: You're caught checking out someone other than your date
"The eyes are not responsible when the mind does the seeing." -Publilius Syrus
ok. we all know there are those times when all you want to do is have some clever little retort to something your significant other(s) say to you. *or if you dont have one... something to say to your friends* well, i am going on a quest to find 30 of the best things to say when you are lost for words, or just to make a conversation or story more interesting....
if theres anything that you say thats particularly interesting, dont hesitate to comment and tell me! *now you can tell that i really am bored sometimes*
love from the girl stuck at home on a friday night.
~*~thanks for a great day alex!~*~