Monday, December 6, 2004

Aaaaaaaaaaaaah, Euphoria Triumphant!!!!!!!
I just came from my theatre class and a hilarious guest speaker came to talk about acting. I am now hyper from absorbing his energy and the energy of the entire class laughing so hard they can't breathe. Of course, this mood is particularly high because I believe I am in a manic episode right now. Hehe. I don't mean to freak anyone out by my mental issues, but they're a part of me. Don't worry, I'm not about to go blow stuff up. I'm not that type. And I have moral inhibitions despite whatever current mental state I'm in.
Anyway . . . what was I going to say? Oh. I was going to paste some quotes I find fascinating to provide more insight to who I am in case anyone wants to know. Of course, that's the purpose of this page, isn't it?
So here ya go:

"When I close my eyes, I can see for miles" ~ Incubus lyric

"Its a bitter sweet symphony, thats life. Your a slave to the money, then you die." ~ Richard Ashcroft (The Verve)


A man said to the universe:
"Sir, I exist!"
"However," replied the universe,
"The fact has not created in me
A sense of obligation."--Stephen Crane, "War Is Kind"

--listen: there's a hell
of a good universe next door; let's go. --e.e. cummings, 1x1

Buraeucrats are the only people in the world who can say absolutely nothing and mean it. --James H. Boren

Until the rise of American advertising, it never occured to anyone anywhere in the world that the teenager was a captive in a hostile world of adults. --Gore Vidal, "Rocking the Boat"

All the things one has forgotten scream for help in dreams. --Elias Canetti

Dreaming permits each and every one of us to be quietly and safely insane every night of our lives. --Charles Fisher

Your children are not your children.
The are the sons and daughters of Life's longing for itself. . . .
You may house their bodies but not their souls,
For their souls dwell in the house of tomorrow, which you cannot visit, not even in your
dreams. --Kahlil Gibran

If a man hasn't discovered something he will die for, he isn't fit to live. --Martin Luther
King, Jr.

We are all in the gutter, but some of us are looking at the stars. --Oscar Wilde

If the blind lead the blind, both shall fall into the ditch. --Matthew 15:14

Beware that you do not lose the substance by grasping at the shadow. --Aesop

Don't part with your illusions. When they are gone, you may still exist, but you have ceased to live. --Mark Twain

We are always getting ready to live, but never living. --Ralph Waldo Emerson

The universe does not attract us until housed in an individual. --Ralph Waldo Emerson

And if there had been more of the world,
They would have reached it. --Luis de Camoes

As if you could kill time without injuring eternity. --Henry David Thoreau

It is easy to be tolerant when you do not care. --George Bernard Shaw

I never give them hell. I just tell the truth, and they think it is hell. --Harry S Truman

The tragedy of life is not that man loses but that he almost wins. --Heywood Brown

Nothing is ever done in this world until men are prepared to kill one another if it is not done. --George Bernard Shaw

Vision is the art of seeing things invisible. --Jonathan Swift

This is the way the world ends
Not with a bang but a whimper. --T.S. Eliot, "The Hollow Men"

LIfe is full of infinite absurdities, which, strangely enough, do not even need to appear plausible, since they are true. --Luigi Pirandello

We grew up founding our dreams on the infinite promise of American advertising. --Zelda
Fitzgerald

Don't look back. Something may be gaining on you. --Satchel Paige

I grow old ever learning many things. --Solon

The most frustrating condition a human being can find himself in is that of an artist with a block. --me.

In the nineteenth century the problem was that God is dead; in the twentieth century the problem is that man is dead. In the nineteenth century inhumanity meant cruelty; in the twentieth century it means schizoid self-alienation. The danger of the past was that men became slaves. The danger of the future is that men may become robots. –Erich
From, "The Sane Society"

What have I in common with Jews? I have hardly anything in common with myself. --Franz Kafka (note: quoted for the content of the second sentence, but the first is required for full context. no discrimination intended by me.)

To live is to feel oneself lost. --Jose Ortega y Gasset, "The Revolt of the Masses"

And he that strives to touch the stars,
Oft stumbles at a straw. --Edmund Spenser

We expect to eat and stay thin, to be constantly on the move and ever more neighborly . . . to revere God and to be God. --Daniel J. Boorstin, on Americans

America is the only nation in history which miraculously has gone directly from barbarism to degeneration without the usual interval of civilization. --Georges Clemenceau

I can trace my ancestry back to a protoplasmal primordial atomic globule. Consequently, my family pride is something in-conceivable. I can't help it. I was born sneering. --W.S. Gilbert (doesn't quite make sense to me but sounds hilarious. someone explain?)

Nothing is more conducive to peace of mind than not having any opinion at all. Georg Christoph Lichtenberg

The worst sin towards our fellow creatures is not to hate them, but to be indifferent to them: that's the essence of inhumanity. --George Bernard Shaw

Things are entirely what they appear to be--and behind them . . . there is nothing. --Jean-Paul Sartre, "Nausea"

The physician can bury his mistakes, but the architecht can only advise his clients to plant vines. --Frank Lloyd Wright

Art is meant to upset people, science reassures them. --Georges Braque

Love art. Of all lies, it is the least untrue. --Gustave Flaubert (1846)

Art does not reproduce the visible; rather, it makes visible. --Paul Klee, "The Inward Vision"

Art is a revolt against fate. --Andre Malraux, "Voices of Silence"

We all know that Art is not truth. Art is a lie that makes us realize truth, at least the truth that is given us to understand. --Pablo Picasso

All art is at once surface and symbol. Those who go beneath the surface do so at their peril. --Oscar Wilde

Art happens--no hovel is safe from it, no Prince may depend on it, the vastest intelligence cannot bring it about, and puny efforts to make it universal end in quaint comedy, and coarse farce. --James McNeill Whistler, "The Gentle Art of Making Enemies"

People are broad-minded. They'll accept the fact that a person can be an alcoholic, a dope fiend, a wife beater and even a newspaperman, but if a man doesn't drive, something's wrong with him. --Art Buchwald, "Have I Ever Lied to You?"

Beauty is everlasting
And dust is for a time. --Marianne Moore, "A Distrust of Merits"

Beauty is all very well at first sight, but who ever looks at it when it has been in the house three days? --George Bernard Shaw

Beauty more than bitterness
Makes the heart break. --Sara Teasdale

You can do very little with faith, but you can do nothing without it. --Samuel Butler

Here I stand. I can do no other. --Martin Luther (1521)

When we are born, we cry that we are come
To this great stage of fools. --William Shakespeare

Nothing is too high for the daring of mortals; we storm heaven itself in our folly. --Horace

If the creator had a purpose in equipping us with a neck, he surely meant us to stick it out. --Arthur Koestler

A book is a mirror: when a monkey looks in, no apostle can look out. --Georg Christoph Lichtenberg

Books won't stay banned. They won't burn. Ideas won't go to jail. --A. Whitney Griswold

Wherever they burn books they will also, in the end, burn human beings. --Heinrich Heine

POSITIVE, adj. Mistaken at the top of one's voice. --Ambrose Bierce, "The Devil's Dictionary"

Character is what a man is in the dark. --Dwight L. Moody

Everyone is a moon, and has a dark side which he never shows to anybody. --Mark Twain

There is always one moment in childhood when the door opens and lets the future in. --Graham Greene

I shall be telling this with a sigh
Somewhere ages and ages hence:
Two road diverged in a wood, and I--
I took the one less traveled by,
And that has made all the difference. --Robert Frost

Clearly, then, the city is not a concrete jungle, it is a human zoo. --Desmond Morris

All cities are mad: but the madness is gallant. All cities are beautiful: but the beauty is grim. --Christopher Morley

Cities are the abyss of the human speciecs. --Jean-Jacques Rousseau

what man calls civilization
always results in deserts --Don Marquis

We shall never understand one another until we reduce the language to seven words. --Kahlil Gibran, "Sand and Foam"

Hell is other people. --Jean-Paul Sartre, "No Exit"

Don't shout for help at night. You may wake your neighbors. --Stanislaw LEC

Perhaps everything terrible is in its deepest being something helpless that wants help from us. --Rainer Maria Rilke

There is nothing to be learned from history anymore. We're in science fiction now. --Allen Ginsberg, quoted in "After the Wake"

Home is the place where, when you hae to go there,
They have to take you in. --Robert Frost, "The Death of the Hired Man"

The louder he talked of his honor, the faster we counted our spoons. --Ralph Waldo Emerson

Hope is a waking dream. --Aristotle

Everyone is as God made him, and often a great deal worse. --Miguel de Cervantes

Man is the only animal that laughs and weeps; for he is the only animal that is struck with the difference between that things are, and what they ought to be. --William Hazlitt

Man would be OTHERwise. That is the essence of the specifically human. --Antonio Machado

Two men look out through the same bars:
One sees the mud, and one the stars. Frederick Langbridge

Men get opinions as boys learn to spell,
By reiteration chiefly. --Elizabeth Barrett Browning

More than any other time in history, mankind faces a crossroads. One path leads to despair and utter hopelessness. The other, to total extinction. Let us pray we have the wisdom to choose correctly. --Woody Allen, "Side Effects"

I saw the best minds of my generation destroyed by madness, starving hysterical naked. --Allen Ginsberg, "Howl"

The first couple were found through someone else, and the rest I found in an (old and pathetic but somewhat useful) quote book.

So--this is the type of thoughts that interest me.
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