PEOPLE:

  • "Here I go again on my own
    Going down the only road I've ever known
    Like a drifter I was born to walk alone . . ."
    --Whitesnake, 'Here I Go Again'

  • " . . . he just won't go away! He's like crotch fungus!!!"--overheard in a hallway at HHS.

  • "Librarians are the secret masters of the world. They control information. Don't ever piss one off."--Jake Stonebender

  • "I always answer rhetorical questions!"--Gayle

  • "I'm the root of all that's evil, but you can call me Cookie"--Bloodhound Gang, 'Fire Water Burn.'

  • "Don't ask me what I think of you
    I don't want to say the things you want me to"
    --some song on the radio . . . (???)

  • "It was clear to me that thinking yourself superior was a sure sign of being inferior, and that thinking yourself extaordinary was a sure sign of being ordinary."
    --Erica Jong

  • "Listen to what I mean, not what I say!"--Mom/Steph

  • "People who wear glasses are lucky; we have stars on rainy nights."--Jake Stonebender

  • "You make me Jezebel
    Cause you wear the horns of bone
    Make me Medusa
    Justify your face of stone
    Make me Joan burning
    The Match girl giving her a light
    Make me anything
    But you can't make me cry"
    --Megan Peters, 'You Can't Make Me Cry(Medusa)'

  • "You can't sedate all the things you hate . . . "--Marilyn Manson (but I can try, darn it!)

  • "We've got a thousand points of light for the homeless man
    We've got a kinder, gentler machine gun hand"
    --Neil Young

  • "It's me . . .
    And I can't get myself to go away"
    --Matchbox 20

  • "No time for a summer friend
    No time for the love you send
    Seasons change and so did I
    You need not wonder why . . ."
    --does anyone know who/what this song is?

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

  • "She was an unknown legend in her time . . ."--Neil Young

  • "You're never who you used to think you are
    How strange . . . "--Eric Clapton

  • "O wad some pow'r the giftie gie us
    To see oursel's as others see us!"--Robert Burns

  • "When you betray someone, you betray yourself."
    --poster for a movie called 'The Underneath.'

  • "In a crowd of people, you're still alone
    Yeah, I hope that tells you something . . ."
    --Aerosmith, 'Get A Grip'
    (I'm still convinced that you can pretty much figure out the world, eventually, if you just listen to enough damn good music.)

  • "He who trims himself to suit everybody will soon whittle himself away."--Stanley Walker

  • "A grown-up is one who has stopped belonging to the younger generation and started complaining about it."
    --Ellen Glasgow

  • "All the world's a stage, with all the players giving stage directions."--Bernard Shaw.

  • "The man who never does anything he doesn't like, rarely likes anything he does."
    --Henry David Thoreau (it sounds smart, but is actually a paradox when you thing about it).

  • "I deny that I ever said that actors are cattle; what I said was that actors should be treated like cattle."--Alfred Hitchcock.

  • "Most accidents are caused by motorists when their cars are in high and their minds are in neutral."--Will Rogers.

  • "To err is human, but to admit it isn't."--Stanley Walker.

  • "Nothing is ever accomplished by a reasonable man."--Bernard Shaw.

  • "It is better to be a nobody who accomplishes something than a somebody who accomplishes nothing."--Oscar Wilde.

  • "Think like a man of action, and act like a man of thought."--Henri Bergson.

  • "What you do speaks so loud that I cannot hear what you say."--Ralph Waldo Emerson.

  • "An intelligent man finds almost everything ridiculous, the sensible man almost nothing."--Goethe

  • "Almost all absurdity of conduct arises from the imitation of those we cannot resemble."--Samuel Johnson.

  • "A woman has to be twice as good as a man to go half as far."
    --Fannie Hurst. (some wit has since amended this line with the addition: " . . . Fortunately, that's not difficult.")

  • "A day away from some people is like a month in the country."--Howard Dietz.

  • "The trouble with absent-minded professors is that they are never absent-minded enough to forget to flunk anyone."
    --W.C. Fields.

  • "A man with enterprise accomplishes more than others because he goes ahead and does it before he is ready."--Oscar Wilde.

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