Worth Repeating: Archives
[Television is] the triumph of machine over people.
- Fred Allen
Whenever, in the course of the daily hunt, the hunter comes upon a scene that is strikingly beautiful, or sublime--a black thundercloud with the rainbow's glowing arch above the mountain, a white waterfall in the heart of a green gorge, a vast prairie tinged with the blood-red of the sunset--he pauses for an instant in the attitude of worship. - Charles Alexander Eastman (Ohiyesa)
If voting changed anything, they'd make it illegal.
- Anonymous
My barn having burned to the ground, - Taoist saying
i turn around to see you smiling there in front of me
- david gray
i've turned into a t.v. - Sugar Cubes
As much as we wish to be safe forever from [terrorism], - Paul McMasters
From the hills above - Peter Salett
The right to swing my fist ends where the other man's nose begins.
- Oliver Wendell Holmes
You cannot shake hands with a clenched fist.
- Indira Gandhi
You have already begun to change the world.
- Thich Nhat Hanh
There must be more to life than having everything.
- Maurice Sendak
We cannot be indifferent to what happens anywhere in the world, - Ernesto "Che" Guevara
I am prepared to die, but there is no cause - Mahatma Gandhi
I don't know about tomorrow, I'm a happy man today
- the prodigals
Experience declares that man is the only animal - Thomas Jefferson (President, Slaveholder)
I can be smart when it’s important.
- Marilyn Monroe, 'Gentlemen Prefer Blondes'
It took us that long to realize that - Kurt Vonnegut, Jr., 'Sirens of Titans'
Nobody has ever measured, even poets, how much a heart can hold.
- Zelda Fitzgerald
If we don't believe in freedom of expression for people we despise, - Noam Chomsky
We grow neither better or worse as we get old, - May L. Becker
You know, people seldom go to the trouble of - James Stewart, 'The Shop Around the Corner'
Well, if you guys know so much about women, then why are you sitting at like the "Gas and Sip" on a Friday night with no women anywhere?
- John Cusack, 'Say Anything'
She can dance. . . - John Travolta, Saturday Night Fever
Can we take a direct flight back to reality - Tim Allen, "The Santa Clause"
Without deviation from the norm, progress is not possible.
- Frank Zappa
...I set off for Santa Fe with my little bundle, like the Fool in the Tarot card.
- Jan Kerouac, "Baby Driver"
for mel and Mike
Before you criticize someone, you should walk a mile in their shoes. That way, when you criticize them, you're a mile away and you have their shoes.
Thanks to James
Lobster and shrimp seem alike - Sugarcubes
Sell your cleverness and buy bewilderment.
- Jalal Ud-Din Rumi
Into the chum bucket with you!
- Mr Krabs to Plankton on Spongebob Squarepants
YOU CANNOT PREVENT the birds of sadness from passing over your head, - Swedish proverb
The blue mountains are of themselves blue mountains; - Alan Watts
We are never so certain as when we are convinced of our own limitations - e eyles
Every gun that is made, every warship launched, every rocket fired signifies, in the final sense, a theft from those who hunger and are not fed, those who are cold and are not clothed. This world in arms is not spending money alone. It is spending the sweat of its laborers, the genius of its scientists, the hopes of its children . . . Under the cloud of threatening war, it is humanity hanging from a cross of iron.
- Eisenhower
What lies behind us and what lies before us are - Oliver Wendell Holmes
When I die, I want to die like my grandfather, - Author Unknown
Thanks to Kate!
OUR GREATEST GLORY is not in never falling,
- Confucius
Let us be lovers, - Paul Simon
We'll all become magicians – Emmet Otter
Stealing? How could you?! Haven’t you learned anything from that guy who gives those sermons at church? Captain what’s-his-name? – Homer Simpson
Live a lifetime of surprise. – Emmet Otter
Stand on the mountain.
Sail away with me honey - David Gray
See Cary's Sailing Medley
When the rich make war it's the poor that die.
- Jean-Paul Sartre
Screws just fall out all the time, the world's an imperfect place.
- John Bender (Judd Nelson) in 'Breakfast Club'
Paradise is where I am.
- Voltaire
Our task must be to free ourselves from this prison by widening our circle of compassion to embrace all living creatures and the whole of nature in its beauty.
- Einstein
Hatred does not cease by hate but only through love...
- anonymous
You can cover the whole world with asphalt, but sooner or later nature will break through again.
- Ilya Ehrenburg
I cannot think of any need in childhood as strong as the need for a father's protection.
~ Thanks Dads! We love you! ~
- Sigmund Freud
All the love above, I send into you, Comfort and protection, I'll watch over you
But don't ask me, What's gonna happen next, I know the future, I'd love to lead you the way, Just to make it easier on you
You are gonna have to find out for yourself
- Bjork's "Scatterheart" from Dancer in the Dark
We don't read and write poetry because its cute. We read and write poetry because we are members of the human race. And the human race is full of passion. Medicine, law, business, engineering: these are noble pursuits necessary to sustain life but poetry, beauty, romance, love. These are what we stay alive for.
- Mr. Keating (Robin Williams) in Dead Poets Society
The most sublime act is to set another before you.
- William Blake
It is preoccupations with possessions, more than anything else, that prevents us from living freely and nobly.
- Bertrand Russell
The only true currency in this bankrupt world is what you share with someone else when you're uncool.
- Lester Bangs (Philip Seymour Hoffman) in Almost Famous
I bow to the perfection in you
- anonymous
Conformity is the jailer of freedom and the enemy of growth.
- John F. Kennedy
You are enough
- Sark
Men occasionally stumble over the truth, but most of them pick themselves up and hurry off as if nothing had happened.
- Sir Winston Churchill
How did it get so late so soon?
The hottest places in Hell are reserved for those who in time of great moral crises maintain their neutrality.
- Dante
Don't be reckless with other people's hearts. Don't put up with people who are reckless with yours.
- Mary Schmich
Great spirits have always encountered violent opposition from mediocre minds.
- Albert Einstein
Sell crazy some place else, we're all stocked up here.
- Melvin Udall (Jack Nicholson), As Good As It Gets
It is not easy to find happiness in ourselves, and it is not possible to find it elsewhere. --Agnes Repplier, writer and historian
A friend is someone who knows the song in your heart and can sing it back to you when you have forgotten the words.
- unknown
I guess it comes down to a simple choice, really. Get busy living or get busy dying.
– Andy Dufresne (Tim Robbins), Shawkshank Redemption
Oh, my god, Marge. A penalty shot, with only four seconds left. It’s your child versus mine! The winner will be showered with praise, the loser will be taunted and booed until my throat is sore.
He sees no need for setting apart one day in seven as a holy day, because to him all days are God's days.
Thanks to Jon!
I can now see the moon.
my screen is smiling at you to get your attention
i want you
we simply cannot protect freedom by forsaking freedom.
We saw the valley below
And the ocean's endless blue
for a victory by any country over imperialism is our victory;
just as any country's defeat is a defeat for all of us.
for which I am prepared to kill.
which devours his own kind; for I can apply no milder term...
the general prey of the rich on the poor.
Thanks to Mark
a purpose of human life, no matter who is controlling it,
is to love whoever is around to be loved.
we don't believe in it at all.
but more like ourselves.
scratching the surface of things to find the inner truth.
she's got the wrong partner, of course,
but she can dance.
or do we have to change planes in Denver.
I don't really like lobster
but you can prevent them from nesting in your hair.
The white clouds are of themselves white clouds.
tiny matters compared to what lies within us.
who died peacefully in his sleep.
Not screaming like all the passengers in his car.
but in rising every time we fall.
we'll marry our fortunes together.
And leave the wonder in their eyes
We live in a society of laws. Why do you think I took you to all those Police Academy movies? For fun? Well, I didn’t hear anybody laughin’, did you?
Sit on the mountain.
Become the mountain.
Lose the mountain.
I put my heart in your hands
You have enough
You do enough
Its night before its afternoon.
December is here before its June.
My goodness how the time has flewn.
How did it get so late so soon?