ok, i guess i should warn you all, these are in no particular order, so if you're looking for something in particular, chances are you may not find it any time soon. happy hunting to you all, and i hope these words of wisdom are as enlightening and enchanting to you as they are to me.


"I don't really understand it [love], but getting hurt sucks -- you give your heart up for the hundreth time, and you still get hurt."
Sean A. Hart
"Life sucks, then you die.
Fuck the world, and let's get high."
Amanda Demori
"Grieve not... nor speak of me with tears... but laugh and talk of me... as though I were beside you. I loved you so... 'twas heaven here with you."
Isla Richardson
"Every shadow points to the sun."
Ralph Waldo Emerson
"Reasearch is what I'm doing when I don't know what I'm doing."
Werner Von Braun
"If I have seen farther than others, it is because I have stood on the shoulders of giants."
Isaac Newton
"Life is not always a matter of being delt good cards, but playing a poor hand well."
Dan Millman
"There's nothing to fear, but fear itself."
Franklin D. Roosevelt
"Nothing in life is to be feared. It is only to be understood."
Marie Curie
"There's nothing to fear -- except me!"
Dan Bornkamp
"Cowards die many times before their deaths. But the valient taste death but once."
William Shakespeare
"It's amazing what one can do when one doesn't know what one can't do."
Garfield (the president, not the cat)
"Everyone lives by selling something."
Robert Lewis Stevenson
"Art portraits the beauty of death, and the death of beauty."
Kris Lioudis
"Once entered, you cannot escape the jaws of love."
Chris Petacciato
"God always answers prayers, but sometimes the answer is 'no'."
Kris Lioudis
"Behind closed doors, men are the same as women. That's why the door is closed"!
unknown
"We will not regret the past, nor wish to shut the door on it."
Alcoholics Anonymous
"Right Now . . . your memory is getting longer, while your life is getting shorter."
Van Halen
"The future never happened"
R.E.M.
"I wasn't born with enough middle fingers."
Marilyn Manson
"Duct tape is like the force it has a light side and a dark side, and it holds the universe together."
unknown
"The amount a person uses his imagination is inversely proportional to the amount of punishment he will recieve for using it."
high-school geometry book

"That would suck beyond all that which does suck."
Kris Lioudis
"Do not meddle in the affairs of dragons, for you are crispy, and taste good with ketchup."
bumper sticker
"I am a cookie. A cookie guru. I eat all the cookies. I give cookies a good name, me and the cookies are one."
Monica Holms
"If you've never stared off into the distance, then your life is a shame."
Counting Crows
"What we've got here is failure to communicate."
from Cool Hand Luke
"Watch out for low-flying elephants!!"
Kris Lioudis
"It's hard to make a comeback when you've never been anywhere."
written in the dust on the back of a school bus
"It's not the valleys in life I dread, so much as the dips."
Garfield the cat
"Life is an un-relenting comedy. Therein lies the tragedy of it."
Dean R. Koontz
"Try to touch the past, and it's a dream. The only reality is here and now."
Terry O'Quinn
The Stepfather
"The biggest kick I ever got, was doin' a thing called the crocodile rock."
Elton John
"Never say die!"
Bon Jovi
"Shit happens-- watch your fuckin' step!"
Chris Petacciato
"Women are good for one thing -- lyrics!"
Kris Lioudis
"If you want to keep on getting what you're getting, keep on doing what you're doing."
unknown
"Everyone must get stoned."
Bob Dylan
"If you give up your dream, you die."
from Flashdance
"A man whose conscious will is at odds with his true will is wasting his strength."
Aleister Crowley
"We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, then, is not an act, but a habit."
Aristotle
"Forget about likes and dislikes, just do what must be done. This may not be happiness but it is greatness."
George Benard Shaw
"I have a simple philosophy. Fill what's empty. Empty what's full. And scratch where it itches."
Alice Roosevelt
"Through medicine may life be prolonged, yet death will take the doctor, too."
William Shakespear
"Dont dream it -- be it!"
from The Rocky Horror Picture Show
"I don't have a drinking problem. I drink, I get drunk --no problem!"
Dan Bornkamp
"Decision is the spark that ignites action. Until a decision is made nothing happens."
Wilfred A. Peterson
The Art of Being
"I can promise you tomorrow, but I can't buy back yesterday."
Bon Jovi
"Life sucks -- get a fuckin' helmet!"
Dennis Leary
"Laugh at tyrants and the tragedy they inflict. Such men welcome our tears as evidence of subservience, but our laughter condems them to ignomity."
Dean Koontz
"The past is but the beginning of a beginning, and all that is and has been is but the twilight of the dawn."
H. G. Wells
"Love alone is capable of uniting living beings in such a way as to complete and fulfill them, for it alone takes them and joins them by what is deepest in themselves."
Pierre Teilhard de Chardin
"The only thing worse than being alone is to have people tolerate you because they feel pity."
unknown
"Greater love hath no man than this: that he lay down his life for his friends."
The Gospel According to Saint John
"The highest level of prayer is to think God's thoughts after him . . ."
Wilfred A. Peterson
"At the point where hope and reason part,
lies the spot where madness starts."
The Book of Counted Sorrows
"The young pine knows the secrets of the ground. The old pine knows the stars."
unknown
"Friendship is a single soul dwelling in two bodies."
Aristotle
"Nothing is a barrier when love is strong. Not age, not race, not anything."
Arthur Gorden
"Into everyone's life, a little rain must fall."
Led Zepplin
"Into every cryptofascist organization, a little acid rain must fall."
Karl Clocker
"Memory is an art gallery in which you can collect beauty."
Wilfred A. Peterson
"The most beautiful thing we can experience is the mysterious. It is the true source of all art and science."
Albert Einstein
"When I use a word, it means just what I choose it to mean -- no more, no less."
Lewis Carroll
"As long as we remain unborn, we know nothing of love and cannot know the misery that arises from being deprived of it."
Dean Koontz
"If ya kill a man, you're a murderer, kill many, and you're a conquorer, kill 'em all and you're a god ..."
Megadeth
"I could not stop something I knew was wrong and terrible. I had an awful sense of powerlessness."
Andrei Sakharov
"If you want it -- take it. If you got it -- flaunt it!"
Dan Bornkamp
"The direction we face determines our destination."
unknown
"I do not fear death because it is inevitable."
Kris Lioudis
"Friends are more important than boyfriends."
Melissa Torre
"Who entereth herein, a conqueror hath been; Who slayeth the dragon, the shield shall win."
Edger Allen Poe
"Power dements even more than it corrupts, lowering the guard of foresight, and raising the haste of action."
Will & Ariel Durant
"Attitude is the mind's paintbrush. It can color any situation."
unknown
"Death is but a doorway; life, a window -- I'll be back."
A Carpathean
"Be just and fear not."
(be stoned and fear nothing, do acid and fear everything)
Rocky Horror Picture Show
"If you find yourself eating a shit sandwich, you probably ordered it."
Kris Lioudis
"When you're down and out lift up your head and shout: CHOCOLATE!!"
from the 1995 Chocolate lovers' calendar
"The universe may be as great as they say. But it wouldn't be missed if it didn't exist."
Piet Hein
"Rules are for the obedience of fools and the guidance of wise men."
David Ogilivy
"We talk too much. We should talk less and draw more."
Gothe
"Readers are plentiful, thinkers are rare"
Harriet Martineau
"Life is like a piano, what you get out of it depends on how you play it."
unknown
"Men at some times are masters of their own fates. The fault is not in our stars but in ourselves, that we are underlings"
William Shakespear
"Fame is a vapor; popularity, an accident; riches, false wings: only one endures -- character."
unknown
"Tolerance is seeing with your heart instead of your eyes."
unknown
"Some things are not meant to be delt with, they are only meant to be endured."
Kris Lioudis
"Yesterday seems as though it never existed. Death greets me warm, now I will just say goodbye."
Metallica
"We all shine on. Like the moon and the stars and the sun."
John Lennon
"Don't pet the toothless cow!"
unknown
"Life is just a riddle and I'm really stumped"
The Offspring
"Sticks and stones may break my bones, but whips and chains excite me!"
Harold Roberts II
"Words pay no debts."
William Shakespear
"This is your world in which we grow and we will grow to hate you"
Marilyn Manson
"They have rights, who dare maintain them."
James Russell Lowell
"I have never met a man so ignorant, that I couldn't learn something from him."
Galileo
"Cast conformity behind you!"
Ralph Waldo Emerson
"Our todays and yesterdays are the blocks with which we build."
Longfellow
"To lead the people, walk behind them."
Lao Tzu
"...A man who loved so deeply and completely that he seemed, sometimes, not to have loved at all."
Jerome Lawrence and Robert E. Lee
"No one can make you. You are what you make of yourself. No more. No less."
Dustin Vernon
"Nothing is certain but death and taxes."
Ben Franklin
"We are born, we live our lives, and we die. But what we did lives on forever."
unknown
"He was strange -- I almost understood him."
Ralph Waldo Emerson
"Common Good be damned! Give me something magnificently uncommon!"
Henry David Thoreau
"I have a very profound sense of deja vu"
Bill Murray
"Your silence shall not protect you!"
unknown
"There is a light more luminous than love. There is a darkness more profound than death . . . the brightest angel"
unknown
"I've not yet begun to fight!"
John Paul Jones
"Scars are souviners you never lose."
Goo goo dolls
"Where were you while we were getting high?"
Oasis
"To behave with dignity is nothing more than to allow others to freely be themselves."
S. Charles
"If we treat others as they are; they will remain as they are. But if we treat them for what they might be or might become, then they will become their better selves."
GT Smith
"Life will never be the same. Life is changing."
an unknown band
"We should give of ourselves with the radient warmth of the sunshine and the glow of the open fire."
Wilfred A. Peterson
"Without struggle there is no progress."
Fredrick Douglass
"The sun is warm, the grass is green. Everything will turn out right."
Mr. Miagi
"GOD is perfect, MAN is not
MAN made beer, but GOD made pot"
unknown
"WAHBAH!!!"
Joker
"Adam & Eve had it made: they were the only people on earth. No traffic, no smog, no politicans ... and no one to film them running around naked!!"
unknown
"When life gives you lemons, make lemonade. However ... When life gives you oranges, cough up a small fuzzy animal to fight them away"
Krister
"The future belongs to those who believe in the beauty of their dreams."
Elanor Roosevelt
"To look upon her face is like being shone upon by a ray of sun"
Nathaniel Hawthorne
"No one should be afraid to stretch his imagination."
David "Zeb" Cook
"Art is long and time is fleeting"
Longfellow
"What we have to learn to do we learn by doing."
Aristotle
"God gives every bird its food, but does not throw it into the nest."
JG Holland
"Every profession is a conspiracy against the laymen."
Charlie Miller
"Our souls are like orphans, whose unwed mothers died in bearing them."
unknown
"God created dinosaurs, God created man. God destroys dinosaurs, man destroys God. Man creates dinosaurs ... dinosaurs eat man. Women inherit the earth."
from Jurassic Park
"He who loves not his country, can love nothing."
Byron
"One can only see what one observes; and one observes only things which are already in the mind."
Alphonse Bertillon
"Certain thoughts are prayers. There are moments when, whatever the attitude of the body, the soul is on its knees."
Victor Hugo
"If you want something passionately enough, each day offers an opportunity to get started."
Evan-Picone
"Was there a category of insurance for having your boat stolen by an undead sorceror while the owner was away attending a demon-inspired posse? If so the rate schedule must be interesting."
C. S. Friedman
"All you need in life is ignorance, and confidence; then success is sure."
Mark Twain
"He who has no vision of eternity will never get a hold on time."
T. Carlyle
"Faces we see, hearts we know not."
Spanish Proverb
"Love means letting go. THAT SUCKS!"
Joker
"Egotist - one who is me-deep in conversation."
unknown
"I am an idiot walking a tightrope of fortune and fame."
Counting Crows
"Moving on is a chance you take anytime you try to stay together. Say a word out of line, you'll find out the friends you had are gone forever. So many faces in and out of my life some will last some will just be now and then. Life is a series of hellos and goodbyes, I'm afraid it's time for goodbye again."
Billy Joel
"See, the problem is that God gives men a brain and a penis, and only enough blood to run one at a time."
Robin Williams
"Control your attitude or it controls you."
unknown
"Shoes and shirts required, bras and panties optional."
unknown
"Hey, I can bleed as well as anyone, but I need someone to help me sleep."
Counting Crows
"I may not go to heaven, I hope you go to hell."
Counting Crows
"Just because two people argue it doesn't mean they don't love each other and just because they don't argue, it doesn't mean they do. [love each other]"
unknown
"We are responsible for what we do, no matter how we feel."
unknown
"I shave my nuts!"
Tommy Toolz
"It takes a very secure man to walk like that."
Sandra Bullock
from Miss Congeniality
"Instead of getting married again, I'm going to find a woman I don't like and just give her a house."
Steven Seagal
"The problem with the designated driver program, it's not a desirable job. But if you ever get sucked into doing it, have fun with it. At the end of the night, drop them off at the wrong house."
Jeff Foxworthy
"Relationships are hard. It's like a full time job, and we should treat it like one. If your boyfriend or girlfriend wants to leave you, they should give you two weeks' notice. There should be severance pay, an before they leave you, they should have to find you a temp."
Bob Ettinger
"What do people mean when they say the computer went down on them?"
Marilyn Pittman
"My mom said she learned how to swim when someone took her out in the lake and threw her off the boat. I said 'Mom, they wren't trying to teach you how to swim.'"
Paula Poundstone
"The day I worry about cleaning my house is the day Sears comes out with a riding vacuum cleaner!"
Roseanne
"Why does Sea World have a seafood restaurant? I'm halfway through my fish burger and I realize, Oh my Goodness, I could be eating a slow learner."
Lynda Montgomery
"...I think that's how Chicago got started. A bunch of people in New York said, 'Gee, I'm really enjoying the crime and poverty, but it's just not cold enough. Let's go west.'"
Richard Jeni
"Sometimes I think war is God's way of teaching us geography."
Paul Rodriguez
"My parents didn't want to move to Florida, but they turned sixty, and that's the law."
Jerry Seinfeld
"Marrige is a great institution, but I'm not ready for an institution yet."
Mae West
"Bigamy is having one wife/husband too many. Monogamy is the same."
Oscar Wilde
"Our bombs are smarter than the average high school student. At least they can find Kuwait."
A. Whitney Brown
"Suppose you were an idiot . . . And suppose you were a member of Congress . . . But I repeat myself."
Mark Twain
"Ah, yes, divorce . . . from the Latin word meaning to rip out a man's genitals through his wallet."
Robin Williams
"If you can't beat them, arrange to have them beaten."
George Carlin
"Oh, you hate your job? Why didn't you say so? There's a support group for that. It's called EVERYBODY, and they meet at the bar."
Drew Carey
"Advice for the day: If you have a lot of tension and you get a headache, do what it says on the asprin bottle: 'Take two asprin' and 'Keep away from children.'"
unknown
"Jessie never thought that what she did would change my life. She just thought her life was a waste of time."
Buck Cherry
"It's a bittersweet symphony that's life. Try to make ends meet, you're a slave to money, then you die."
The Verve
"Who WOULDN'T be the one you love? Therefore, who wouldn't STAND inside your love?"
Smashing Pumpkins
"A little piece of paper with a picture drawn floats on down the street til the wind is gone. And the memory now, is like the picture was then, when the paper is crumpled, it can't be perfect again."
Linkin Park
"You better have something damn worthy to say."
Nickleback
"For a minute I let my guard down, not afraid to be found out. Completely forgot, dear, what our fears were all about."
Tea Party
"What do I have to do to make you love me ... and if I can't make you love me what do I have to do ... to forget about you?"
Stabbing Westward
"I been a loser all my life, I'm not about to change. If you don't like it there's the door, nobody made you stay."
Nickleback
"Goddamn I love me!"
Drowning Pool
"A mistake is not an error unless one refuses to correct it."
O.A. Battista
"Aim for success, not perfection. Never give up your right to be wrong, because then you will lose the ability to learn new things and move forward with your life."
Dr. David Burns
"We can chart our future clearly and wisely only when we know the path which has led us to the present."
Adlai Stevenson
"Everything starts with a dream."
Lou Holtz
"So, Your Honor, the pledge is unconstitutional because it says 'Under God.' Guess that means when you were sworn in with your hand on a bible, and at the end of your oath repeated 'So help me God' that makes your job unconstitutional, therefore you have no job, which means your ruling doesn't mean SHIT."
Dennis Miller
"Everything you want is just outside your comfort zone."
Robert Allen
"Talent is cheaper than table salt. What separates the talented individual from the successful one is a lot of hard work."
Stephen King
"And the streams they are running to an ocean that is dry and the sands of the ocean are the prophets in the eye of the sage who has chosen to forfeit all he knows ... I know."
Tea Party
"Create your future from your future not your past."
Werner Erhard
"Flaming enthusiasm, backed by horse sense and persistance, is the quality that most frequently makes for success."
Dale Carnegie
"We have no choice. Living without Liberty is not living."
Ed Evans, MGySgt., USMC (Ret.)
Not as lean, Not as mean, but still a Marine
"A dream is the bearer of a new possibility, the enlarged horizon, the great hope."
Howard Thurman
"I have learned to use the word 'impossible' with the greatest caution."
Werner Von Braun
"You will never find time for anything. You must make it."
Charles Buxton
"The world is round and the place which may seem like the end, may also be the beginning."
Ivy Baker Preist
"Opportunities multiply as they are seized."
Sun Tzu
"If you want to keep your memories, you first have to live them."
Bob Dylan
"If you aren't going all the way; why go at all?"
Joe Namath
"The fact that you are willing to say 'I do not understand, and it is fine,' is the greatest understanding you could exhibit."
Wayne Dyer
"When your desires are strong enough you will appear to posess super-human powers to achieve."
Napolean Hill
"To forgive is the highest, most beautiful form of love. In return you will receive untold peace and happiness."
Robert Muller

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