Reality is a purple scarf with black and yellow dots.
- Lady Alenor
- Clan Malkavian
He drew a circle that shut me out-
Heretic, Rebel, a thing to flout.
But love and I had wit to win-
We drew a circle that took him in.
- Edwin Markham
Smile, it scares the mundanes.
-Youphoria
The only reason some people get lost in thought is because it's unfamiliar territory.
-Paul Fix
When in trouble or in doubt, Run in circles, scream and shout.
If that does no good at all, beat your head against a wall.
-A Song of Frustration
Once is an accident
Twice is a coincidence.
Three times is a conspiracy.
Four times is a running gag.
Five times is a tradition.
-Chris Barber
I walked a mile with Pleasure,
She chatted all the way,
But she left me none the wiser,
For all she had to say.
I walked a mile with Sorrow
And ne'er a word said she,
But, oh, the things I learned from her
When sorrow walked with me!
-Robert Browning Hamilton
The man who limits his interests, limits his life. There's a whole world up there on the stage and on the screen, but there's a bigger world off them.
-Vincent Price
In america, anyone can become President. That's one of the risks you take.
-Adlai Stevenson
Most people would rather die than think. In fact, some do.
-Bertrand Russell
Don't look. . . you might see.
Don't listen. . . you might hear.
Don't think. . . you might learn.
Don't walk. . . you might stumble.
Don't run. . . you might fall.
Don't make a decision. . . you might be wrong.
Don't live. . . you might die.
-Anonymous
Self-discipline never means giving up everything, for giving up is a loss.
Our Lord did not ask us to give up the things of earth,
but to exchange them for better things.
- Fulton J. Sheen
Experience of the spiritual world is not only possible in special moments of ecstasy but is waiting for us within every experience, however ordinary.
- A. Victor Murray
Occasionally in life there are those moments of unutterable fulfillment which cannot be completely explained by those symbols called words. Their meanings can only be articulated by the inaudible language of the heart.
- Martin Luther King Jr.
"Be Digital. Be One With Zero."
"Forgive me,
I ate your web page.
It was tasty, and tart to the tongue."
-Seen on an MIT server.
"Don't tell me truth hurts, little girl... 'Cause it hurts like hell."
-David Bowie, "Underground" (From Labyrrinth)
"Computer Geeks Motto: I havn't lost my mind - it's backed up on disk somewhere!"
-unkown
"I been one poor correspondant
I been too, too hard to find
But it doesn't mean you ain't been on my mind"
-America, "Sister Golden Hair"
One can't have it both ways.
And both ways is the only way I want it.
slipped on a kiss and tumbled into love
I know you're running and yet
you won't be close and really here
until you're right here in my arms
love is just the only thing
that makes me live through all my pain
i'm so afraid that you'll fall in love with me,
'cuz i'm so afraid that i'll fall in love with you.
Justice is cruel, and crueler yet, necessity,
but tender mercy is the cruelest of all.
A security chief's worst nightmare, available next month
from the gentle lunatics in Research and Development.
"Do you expect me to conform to traditional polyphonic
harmonies, Stravinski?!"
("No, Mr. Cage, I expect you to die!")
May I be granted the serenity to accept the things I cannot change,
the courage to change the things I can, and the wisdom to hide the
bodies of people I had to kill because they pissed me off.
"Don't worry, Pitr. It's only the difference
between a port and a dongle."
She's not a space cadet -- she's a fully commissioned officer.
9.00: Introduction to Psychology, or "Pinker and the Brain"
Chocolate Marshmallow Bunnies of Doom!
swore i'd sell my soul for one love
who would give me back the gift of laughter
all my dreams are lost and i can't sleep
and sleep alone could ease my mind
you're working so hard that
you don't even know you're alive...
all souls last forever
so we need never fear goodbye
"I laugh in the face of danger. Then I hide until it goes away."
"I think I speak for everyone here when I say, huh?"
bored now....
Just because someone doesn't love you the way you want them to
doesn't mean they don't love you with all they have.
Tired: serial killers
Wired: massively parallel killers
"You know a cow was murdered for that jacket?"
("I didn't know there were any witnesses.
Now I'll have to kill you too.")
just when i think nothing is worth this much pain
then i think i see love in his eyes
Do you believe in love at first sight,
or should I walk by again?
If you mean, am I serious about what I do, the answer is yes.
If you mean, am I serious about how I do it, the answer is no.
Forget love. I want to fall in chocolate.
I am looking for someone who can take as much as I give,
And give back as much as I need, and still have the will to live.
I am intense, I am in need, I am in pain,
I am in love.
And I feel forsaken.
The best thing you've ever done for me
Is to help me take my life less seriously.
It's only life, after all.
You think what I don't know will not hurt me,
But you don't know how often you do.
though I've made a pact to carry out research before I care,
men don't give a warantee
perl: checksummed line-noise with a mission in life
never opened myself this way
life is ours, we live it our way
"Not a morning person" doesn't even begin to describe it.
Cooking is great -- it's a socially acceptable
excuse to play with knives and fire.
Electrical components run on smoke.
If it leaks out, they don't work.
Coffee makes it possible to get out of bed.
Chocolate makes it worthwhile.
Been there, done that, got the T-shirt.
Backrubs -- Given with pleasure, received with ecstacy.
Girls work hard for small rewards or invitations to dine
Or one kind word from one who loves them but what I have earned is mine...
One likes to believe in the freedom of music.
Psychotropic tone structure or not, it reads like Korngold and Mahler
take a vacation with Shoenberg and end up on Krakatoa with a gamelan.
"`I am that merry wanderer of the night?' `I am that giggling dangerous
totally bloody psychotic menace to life and limb,' more like it."
"So how do we call this function?"
("Heeeeeeeere, function!")
If you would know strength and patience,
welcome the company of trees.
mercifully free of the ravages of intelligence
Everything I've done, I've done for you.
I move the stars for no one.
I'm not apologizing for what I did do.
I'm apologizing for what I didn't do.
You are /nuts!/ They should cover you in chocolate
and sell you as a snack!
...my G string snapped when I was up on stage in front of everyone and it
was /so/ embarassing...
Not long ago but far away; a rainy winter's day
All her pain she kept inside, could no longer hide.
I've run out of patience, tears, and hope.
Dedicated to all those who have loved unconditionally
only to have their hearts unanaesthetically ripped out.
Base not your joy upon the deeds of others,
for what is given can be taken away.
There is a world of difference between "I never want to hurt you,"
and "I want to never hurt you,"...
The last good thing written in C was
Franz Schubert's Symphony number 9.
No! No hospital. I've been in hospitals. They take away your pants.
Then they hurt you and starve you and expose you to disease.
Then they bill you for it. A lot.
When you are wrestling for possession of a sword,
the man with the hilt always wins.
Hacking's just another word for nothing left to kludge...
It is easier not to believe in electrons than in dragons:
electrons, at least taken singly, won't try to make a meal of you.
some things are better left unsaid
but they can still turn me inside out
Dying is easy, it's living that scares me to death.
Who'd ever think it, this would be the situation?
One more complication should be neither here nor there.
I wish I had it in me not to care.
but we go on pretending
stories like ours... have happy endings.
Knowing I want you, knowing I love you,
Cannot compare, with my despair,
Knowing I've lost you.
There will be days and nights,
When I'll want you more than I want to.
Panic now -- Avoid the rush.
i need some of that vagueness now
it's all come back too clearly
Salmon Day: The experience of spending an entire
day swimming upstream, only to get screwed in the end.
I'm not shy, I'm just studying my prey.
Once you enter a piece of music, time has nothing to do
with the world outside; it's not 8:22, it's the fifth
measure of the second movement, allegro.
Just give me the chocolate and no one will get hurt...
I don't eat people. I only chewed a little in self-defense.
But the tigers come at night, with their voices soft as thunder
As they tear your hope apart, as they turn your dreams to shame...
I had a dream my life would be
So different from this hell I'm living...
But there are dreams that cannot be
And there are storms we cannot weather.
Cute. Not wise, but cute.
Wishes may bring problems, such that you regret them,
better than though than to never get them.
Do you know what you wish? Are you certain
what you wish is what you want?
When you know you can't have what you want,
where's the profit in wishing?
Under the most carefully controlled conditions of temperature, density and
pressure, the organism will do what it damn well pleases.
I will believe in you, if you still want me to,
Or tell me I'm on my own.
Still I've hung on every word
'til my hands are bleeding...
I swear on tomorrow, if you take this chance,
Our lives are this moment, the music, the dance...
A study made from winter, of summers long ago,
And dreams that used to glitter, safely now hidden under snow.
I know you're supposed to take life one day at a time --
but lately several days have attacked me at once.
When you live in the shadow of insanity, the appearance of another mind
that thinks and talks as yours does is something close to a blessed event.
Time was when Love and I were well acquainted.
I've a great respect for brains -- I often wish I had some myself...
But the darkness has passed, and it's daylight at last,
and the night has been long...
I'm pondering the immortal words of Socrates, who said, "I drank what?"
And not everything is gonna be the way you think it ought to be,
Seems like every time I try to make it right it all comes down on me,
Please say honestly you won't give up on me... and I shall believe.
license plate seen on a VW beetle: FEATURE
I never thought it was necessary to /find/ God. I knew He was there.
The world is coming to an end. Please log off.
Come away O human child, to the waters and the wild,
With a faery hand in hand,
For the world's more full of weeping than you can understand.
But the sea is wide, and I can't swim over
Neither I have wings to fly.
There's too much blood in my caffeine system...
Once upon a time, I was falling in love, now I'm only falling apart.
Nothing I can do: total eclipse of the heart.
The best way to accelerate a Mac? At 9.8 m/s^2...
Anything that is good and useful is in some way connected to chocolate.
That which does not kill me had better be able to run pretty damned fast.
Willing to be a backrub victim.
Where am I going, and why am I in this handbasket?
Writing about music is like dancing about architecture.
...and don't be afraid of harmony. Harmony is any note
your neighbor isn't singing...
"It's not denial. I'm just very selective about what I accept as reality." -- Calvin
Do not meddle in the affairs of dragons, for
you are crunchy and taste good with ketchup.
Without music, life would be a mistake. -- Nietschze
Life is like playing a violin solo in public and learning the instrument as one
goes along... -Samuel Butler
mostly harmless
Angels and ministers of grace defend us!
To sleep, perchance to dream: ay, there's the rub.
For in that sleep of death what dreams may come?
There's rosemary, that's for remembrance; pray you, love,
remember: and there is pansies, that's for thoughts.
But if we had to do without them,
The world would be a poorer, if purer, place...
i know i've got some magic
buried deep in my heart
all the world just stopped now
so you say you don't wanna stay together anymore
Will it make it easier on you
Now you got someone to blame?
Hey you, don't help them to bury the light.
Don't give in without a fight.
You cannot reach me now, no matter how you try.
Goodbye cruel world, it's over -- walk on by.
In perfect isolation, here behind my wall...
When the dragons grow too mighty to slay with pen or sword,
I grow weary of the battle and the storm I walk toward.
Sometimes it takes all your strength
just to keep holding on.
Why does she have to defend her feelings inside? Why pretend?
Do you know what it means to be left this way?
When everyone's gone, and the feelings they stay...
Question reality.
Sometimes the dragon wins.
A diatonic scale, bah! Thirteen miserable, bourgeois semi-tones, pooh!
To express the infinite complexity of modern emotion, you need a scale of
thirty-two notes to the octave!
My reality check bounced.
Boingy! Boingy! Boingy!
Of all the things I've lost, I miss my mind the most.
You could grant me eternal life, but if it were in a world without chocolate, I'd pass.
--Camryn Manhein
Music Is Harmony, Harmony is Perfection, Perfection is our Dream, and our dream is Heaven.
*****
``Will you marry me?''
``Why should I marry you?''
``That would take a long time to answer, but I'll give you the best
reason: because I think we have become very good friends, and could go
on to be splendid friends, and would be very likely to be wonderful
friends forever.''
``Friends?''
``What's wrong with being friends?''
``When people talk about marriage, they generally use stronger words
than that.''
``Do they? I don't know. I've never asked anyone to marry me before.''
``You mean you've never been in love?''
``Certainly I've been in love. More times than I can count. I've had
two or three affairs with girls I loved. But I knew very well that
they weren't friends.''
``You put friendship above love?''
``Doesn't everybody? No, that's a foolish question; of course they
don't. They talk about love to people with whom they are infatuated,
and sometimes involved to the point of devotion. I've nothing against
love. Most enjoyable. But I'm talking to you about marriage.''
``Marriage. But you don't love me?''
``Of course I love you, fathead, but I'm serious about marriage, and
marriage with anyone whom I do not think the most splendid friend I've
ever had doesn't interest me. Love and sex are very fine but they
won't last. Friendship - the kind of friendship I am talking about -
is charity and loving-kindness more than it's sex and it lasts as long
a life. What's more, it grows, and sex dwindles; has to. So - will
you marry me and be friends?''
-- Robertson Davies, ``The Rebel Angels''
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