ADVICE:

  • "Don't eat the yellow snow."--that one's just common sense.
    Unless you like the yellow snow . . . in that case, I don't wanna know.

  • "You've got to write something that you're embarassed to write."
    --Michael Hasty, at a semi-recent Ice Mt. Writer's meeting.

  • "When tempest-toss'd, embrace chaos."
    --Dean R. Koontz, one of those little 'Book of Counted Sorrows' quotes in "Dragon Tears."

  • "The only person you need to try to be better than is the one you used to be."
    --Steph aka Mom(she gets pretty profound from time to time!).

  • "If you're having trouble sleeping, I'll tell you how to fall asleep. What you do is forgive yourself."
    --Gina Berriault.

  • "You'd better free your mind instead . . ."--the Beatles.

  • "If reality bites, bite it back."--Hag the Invincible.

  • "People get ideas from other ideas. Express yourself!"--Emily (my sis!)

  • "Wish on an airplane--stars don't go nowhere."--Hag

  • "Do the next thing."--Spider Jack Koerner; quoted by Spider Robinson, somewhere in the Callahan series.

  • "Don't sculpt the butter."--either Mom or Hag, forget which (was an admonition to someone who actually was
    messing about in the butter, but I'm sure it means something profound.

  • "If at first you don't succeed, lower your standards."--Hag the Invincible.

  • "Sometimes you're the windshield, sometimes you're the bug . . ."
    --some damn country song (Star informed me it is "The Bug" by Mary Chapin Carpenter. Cool! She rocks (Mary Chapin Carpenter, that is. Although Star rocks as well . . . even if she does like country music).

  • "I give myself such good advice, but I very seldom follow it."--Alice, 'Alice In Wonderland.'

  • "When in danger, when in doubt
    Run in circles, scream and shout!"
    --Spider Jack Koerner, again quoted by Spider Robinson.

  • "There is nothing wrong with building castles in the air . . . that is where they belong. Now put foundations under them."
    --Henry David Thoreau.

  • "Find what scares you and do it."--J. Michael Strazinsky.

  • "Embrace the moment--sometimes it is all we have."--Lady Signy of Stavanger, of the Shire of DragonSpine.

  • "Lead, follow, or get out of my flight-path."
    --draconic saying, from 'Elvenblood,' by Andre Norton and Mercedes Lackey.

  • "The greatest skill at cards is to know when to discard."--Baltasar Gracian

  • "Don't be irreplaceable. If you can't be replaced, you can't be promoted."
    --Dilbert (I've seen this one in action).

  • "Do not meddle in the affairs of dragons, for you are crunchy and taste good with ketchup."
    --my bumper sticker, which I got from The Bookshelf in Winchester VA (the free advertising is well-deserved; they kick ass).

  • "If you really want a nice guy, stop dating good-looking assholes."--source unknown, but goddess knows I've heard it a few times
    ( . . . even once from a good-looking asshole) (you know who you are! . . . & if you don't, email me & I'll tell you).

  • "Don't sweat the petty things, and don't pet the sweaty things."--Mel.

  • "Never underestimate the power of stupid people in large groups."--Mel again.

  • "After enlightenment, do the laundry."--Signy again.

  • "Don't burn bridges. You'll be surprised how many times you have to cross the same river."--from 'Life's Little Instruction Book.'

  • "You live and learn. Or you don't live long."--Robert Heinlein.

  • Russell: "Do you want my opinion?"
    Jerry: "Will I like it?"
    Russell:"Of course not. It's based in reality."
    --from the movie 'Sliding Doors.'

  • "The best thing you've ever done for me
    Is to help me take my life less seriously--
    It's only life, after all . . . "
    --Indigo Girls, 'Closer to Fine.'

  • "Hold onto sixteen
    As long as you can
    Changes come around real soon
    Make us women and men . . . "
    --John Cougar Mellancamp, 'Jack & Diane.'

  • "When life gives you lemmings, make lemmingade!"--Rich Hall, the guy who came up with Sniglets.

  • "Look around you now
    You must go for what you wanted
    Look at all my friends who did and got what they deserved . . . "
    --Crosby, Stills, & Nash, 'Wasted On the Way.'

  • "Eschew obfuscation!"--not sure who said it first. I got it from my maternal grandmother, who claims it as her fave quote.

  • "A man should live forever or die trying."--Mike Callahan?

  • "Don't compromise yourself; you're all you've got."--Janis Joplin
    (quoted in some Sarah Lawrence College literature a few years back, a page or so from Albert Einstein's famed "imagination" quote. Neat, huh?!)

  • "Don't believe everything you read. Hell, don't believe everything you write!"--me again, but I may have subconsciously borrowed it. If it sounds familiar, tell me.

  • "If you're trapped in a self-repeating script, it's time for rewrites. It's time to poke your head out of the dressing room and scream, 'Who wrote this shit???''."--Rich Hall again. :)

  • "Live fast, die young, and make a good-looking corpse!"--one way of looking at it; probably originally quoted to me by Nick or Elvin, but I'm not sure.

  • "'Cause if you do what you've always done
    You'll always get what you always got!"--Aerosmith, 'Get A Grip.'

  • "Never play leapfrog with a unicorn."--Becky Kline.

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