October 2011
1 post
August 2011
2 posts
May 2011
7 posts
“Life is infinitely stranger than anything which the mind of man could invent.”
– Sherlock Holmes
Saturday night, waiting for you to ask me out for...
“If you don’t hurry up and let life know what you want, life will damned...”
– Robertson Davies, Fifth Business
“You can never get a cup of tea large enough or a book long enough to suit me.”
– C.S. Lewis
January 2011
5 posts
When I die, I want someone to read the lyrics to “In My Life” by the Beatles at my funeral.
The unmodified word ass and the adjectival form asinine have entered common use in the English language as terms used to describe a person who is stubborn, foolish, or disagreeable.
“You want to jump and dance,
But you sat on your hands,
And lost your only...”
– The Shin’s Gone For Good.
“I saw that my life was a vast glowing empty page and I could do anything I...”
– Jack Kerouac, The Dharma Bums
December 2010
37 posts
Feist - Let It Die
Christmas? I’m stuck somewhere between Denial and Anger and still have Bargaining and Depression to look forward too before Acceptance.
I’ve been thinking alot about ballet dancers and dancers in general… Maybe its Black Swan. Maybe its the episode of House I watched where they almost had to amputate a dancers hands and feet. I never danced myself besides a few miserable ballet lessons as a child. But I understand how it feels to be a ballet dancer… And to loose your ability to dance. Because, like a dancer, I...
“Children begin by loving their parents; after a time they judge them; rarely ,...”
– I never met an Oscar Wilde quote I didn’t like. From A Women of No Importance.
“We are all vainer of our luck than of our merits.”
– Rex Stout’s Nero Wolfe in The Rubber Band.
“Maybe all one can do is hope to end up with the right regrets.”
– Arthur Miller, The Ride Down Mount Morgan
“Perhaps my best years are gone. When there was a chance of happiness. But I...”
– Samuel Beckett, Krapp’s Last Tape
“Talk sense to a fool and he calls you foolish.”
– Euripides, Bacchæ
“I have a fine sense of the ridiculous, but no sense of humour.”
– Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolfe?, Edward Albee
“Don’t be seduced into thinking that that which does not make a profit is...”
– Arthur Miller
“To dream that you steal money, forewarns that you are in danger. You need to be...”
“But suicides have a special language.
Like carpenters they want to know which...”
– Anne Sexton
“Either get busy living or get busy dying.”
– Rita Hayworth and the Shawkshank Redemption, Stephen King.
“The worst pain a man can suffer: to have insight into much and power over...”
– Herodotus
“People are afraid of themselves, of their own reality; their feelings most of...”
– Jim Morrison
“Given the choice between the experience of pain and nothing, I would choose...”
– Faulkner
So... Awake.
“Somebody has to come in second place.”
“A wise man should consider that health is the greatest of human blessings, and...”
– Hippocrates
“Illness is the most heeded of doctors: to goodness and wisdom we only make...”
– Marcel Proust
