"But in the main, I feel like a brown bag of miscellany propped against a wall. Against a wall in company with other bags, white, red, and yellow. Pour out the contents, and there is discovered a jumble of small things priceless and worthless. A first-water diamond, an empty spool, bits of broken glass, lengths of string, a key to a door long since crumbled away, a rusty knife-blade, old shoes saved for a road that never was and never will be, a nail bent under the weight of things too heavy for any nail, a dried flower or two still a little fragrant. In your hand is the brown bag. On the ground before you is the jumble it held -- so much like the jumble in the bags, could they be emptied, that all might be dumped in a single heap and the bags refilled without altering the content of any greatly. A bit of colored glass more or less would not matter. Perhaps that is how the Great Stuffer of Bags filled them in the first place -- who knows?" -- Zora Neale Hurston
"Life appears to me too short to be spent in nursing animosity, or registering wrongs." -- Helen Burns, Charlotte Bronte
"...if I have to answer for the deeds done in my body just as much as a man, I have a right to have just as much as a man." -- Sojourner Truth
"If gays and lesbians get equal rights, then EVERYONE will want them." -- a button on someone's backpack
"In the arms of the angel
May you find some comfort here." -- Sarah MacLachlan
"Everyone's got to face down the demons
Maybe today
You can put the past away..." -- Third Eye Blind
"Th prcptn f spch dpnds mnly pn cnsnnts." -- a poster in my 9th grade world history classroom
"It takes a little time sometimes
To get your feet back on the ground..." -- Amy Grant
"Listening is love in action." -- Leo Buscaglia
"Whatever happens, believe that the journey is worth taking, and then you will reach its end." -- Peth, Susan Cooper
"Hope is the beginning of everything worthwhile." -- Akanah, Micheal P. Kube-McDowell
the next few are for my dad:
"Every day I live, I live with you,
And with all the things we'll never do...
It's so damn hard letting go of you..." -- Chris Perez band
"You gotta laugh at yourself!" -- George Edward Porter
"You'll see it's all a show
Keep 'em laughin' as you go
Just remember that the last laugh is on you.
And always look on the bright side of life..." -- Monty Python
"Work hard and be a leader." -- George Edward Porter
"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
"Watch out for the crazies!" -- George Edward Porter
"I want to thank you for so many gifts you gave with love and tenderness
I want to thank you...
I want to thank you for your generosity, for the love and the honesty that you gave me
I want to thank you, show my gratitude, my love and my respect for you
I want to thank you..." -- Natalie Merchant
"Nothing done for love is ever wrong." -- Richard William Stellato
"You know where it ends, well it usually depends on where you start..." -- Everlast
"Don't cry
Lonely tears will do no good
So dry your eyes...
Oh they told you life is hard
Misery from the start
It's slow, it's dull, it's painful.
But I tell you life is sweet
In spite of the misery
There's so much more,
Be grateful.
So who will you believe? Who will you listen to?
Who will it be?
'Cause it's high time that you decide
In your own life..." -- Natalie Merchant
"The king grew vain;
Fought all his battles o'er again;
And thrice he routed all his foes,
And thrice he slew the slain." -- John Dryden
"Darkness has a hunger that's insatiable
And lightness has a call that's hard to hear..." -- Indigo Girls
"Well I cry sometimes when I'm lying in bed
Just to get it all out, what's in my head
And I am feeling a little peculiar
And then I wake in the morning and I step outside
And I take a deep breath and I get real high
And I scream from the top of my lungs,
WHAT'S GOING ON?!?!" -- Four Non-Blondes
"I saw the sign
And it opened up my eyes, I saw the sign
Life is demanding, without understanding;
I saw the sign
And it opened up my eyes, I saw the sign
No one's gonna drag you up
To get into the light where you belong..." -- Ace of Base
"There is an old Vulcan proverb: 'Only Nixon could go to China.'" -- Star Trek VI
Spock: "The Lieutenant was the first Vulcan to be graduated at the top of her class at the Academy."
Kirk: "You must be very proud."
Valeris: "I...don't believe so, sir."
McCoy: "She's a Vulcan, all right!" -- STVI
"You have not truly experienced Shakespeare until you have read it in the original Klingon." -- STVI
Spock: "Ah, Mr. Scott. I understand that you are having difficulty with the warp drive. How long will you require for repairs?"
Scott: "There's nothing wrong with the bloody thing!"
Spock: "Mr. Scott. If we return to spacedock, the assassins will surely find a way to get rid of their incriminating footwear, and we will never see the Captain or Dr. McCoy alive again."
Scott: "Could take weeks, sir."
Spock: "Thank you, Mr. Scott." -- STVI
Kirk: "Lucky for me that thing had knees."
Martia: "That was not his knee. Not everybody keeps their genitals in the same place, Captain." -- STVI
"In Hell there's a big hotel
Where the bar just closed
And the windows never open.
No phone so you can't call home
And the TV works
But the clicker is broken." -- Billy Joel
"You only beat me if you get me to hate." -- Billy Joel
"If people are going to have their heads up their asses, then they are the only ones who should have to deal with their shit." -- Kim
"You can't leave EVERYTHING to fate, boy! She has a lot to do! Sometimes you have to give her a hand!" -- Ever After
Zorro: (referring to a sword) "Do you know how to use that thing?"
Alexandro: "Yes! The pointy end goes in the other man!" -- The Mask of Zorro
Harry: "Can't a man say a woman is attractive without it being a come-on? Fine, okay, I take it back, okay? I take it back."
Sally: "You can't take it back! It's already out there!"
H: "Oh, no, it's already out there! Call the cops, it's already out there! What are we going to do?"
S: "Just let it lie, okay?"
H: "Okay, fine, I'll just let it lie. That's always been my policy, just let it lie...So, do you want to spend the night in a motel? See what I did? I didn't let it lie."
S: "Harry."
H: "I said I would, but I didn't."
S: "Harry."
H: "I went the other way."
S: "HARRY." -- When Harry Met Sally...
Edward: "He went 'wahoo!'."
Katherine: "He went 'wahoo'?!?"
E: "How long is it since he went wahoo?"
K: "Well I'm sure I don't know."
E: "How long has it been since you went wahoo?"
K: "Well I'm SURE I don't know!" -- I.Q.
Einstein: "Are you thinking what I'm thinking?"
Edward: "What would be the odds of that happening, eh?" -- I.Q.
Cookie: "Why d'you have all that money around?"
Harry: "Oh, I always keep hooker money around, you know -- I tried to pay with a check once and the IRS killed me." -- Deconstructing Harry
"It takes zero politically corect assholes to screw in a lightbulb, because they are perpetually in the fucking dark." -- Dennis Miller
"Advertising may be described as the science of arresting human intelligence long enough to get money from it." -- Stephen Leacock
"When angry, count four; when very angry, swear." -- Mark Twain
Ronnie: "Dad, I told you, I want to do something different!"
Bernard: "So put some jello down your pants!" -- Muppets Take Manhattan
"So I said to him, look man, I'm not taking my clothes off for you or anybody, even if it IS 'artistic.'" -- MTM
"What I can't figure out is who this new asshole is. I mean, how many assholes does one guy need, anyway?" -- Playing God
Eugene: "Are you going to hurt me?"
Raymond: "Are you asking me that because you're afraid, or because you want me to?"
E: "Just trying to plan my day." -- PG
Kate: Well it IS the oldest profession, you know...actually, I guess if you believe the Bible, the oldest profession is hit man -- but prostitute comes shortly after.
Chris: Well, you know, they both fulfill the same need in society.
K: Huh?
C: Sometimes, people need to get whacked!
"Where do all the porn stars go
When the lights go down?
I wonder where the porn stars go
'Cause when you need one, they're never around...
Where do all the porn stars go
When the lights go down?
I bet I know where all the porn stars go
They all become Volvo-driving soccer Moms.
I bet they moved out to the suburbs
Became blond, bland, middle class Republican wives
They have blond, bland, middle class Republican children
Blond, bland, middle class Republican lives..." -- Everclear
"Scales are for fish." -- www.something-fishy.org