Saving Original Thought

2011-02-04T18:54:00.000-08:00

Good judgement comes from experience. Experience comes from bad judgement.
-- Bob Packwood

2011-02-04T18:53:00.000-08:00

If you judge people, you have no time to love them.
-- Mother Theresa

2011-02-04T18:52:00.000-08:00

There is value in everybody's gift. No matter how hard it is to find or how strange it is.
-- Tori Amos

2011-02-04T18:49:00.000-08:00

When you sell a man a book you don't sell him just 12 ounces of paper and ink and glue, you sell him a whole new life.
-- Christopher Morley

2011-02-04T18:43:00.000-08:00

Most people think life sucks and then you die. Not me. I beg to differ. I think life sucks, then you get cancer, then your dog dies, your wife leaves you, the cancer goes into remission, you get a new dog, you get remarried, you owe ten million dollars in medical bills, but you work hard for 35 years and you pay it back and then - one day - you have a massive stroke, your whole right side is paralyzed, and you have to limp along the streets and talk out of the left side of your mouth and drool but you go to rehab and regain the power to walk and the power to talk and then - one day - you step off a curb at 67th St and - BANG - you get hit by a city bus and die. Maybe.

-- Denis Leary, No Cure for Cancer

2011-01-11T17:34:00.000-08:00

Mrs. Tarantino: Are you the police?
Elwood Blues: No ma'am, we're musicians.
-- The Blues Brothers

2011-01-11T17:32:00.001-08:00

Homer: Every time I learn something new, a little of the old gets pushed outta my brain. Remember that time I took that wine making course and forgot how to drive?
Marge: You were drunk!
Homer: And how.
-- The Simpsons

2011-01-11T17:30:00.000-08:00

Victor: I'm glad I'm normal.
Amanda: What an odd thing to be glad about. Why?
-- Noel Coward, Private Lives

2010-10-04T18:58:00.000-07:00

Not all who wander are lost.
-- J.R.R. Tolkein

2010-10-04T18:53:00.000-07:00

You can't always get what you want,
But if you try sometimes,
You just might find,
You get what you need.
-- The Rolling Stones, You Can't Always Get What You Want

2010-10-04T18:48:00.000-07:00

Same old song,
Just a drop of water in an endless sea.
All we do,
Crumbles to the ground though we refuse to see.
Dust in the wind,
All we are is dust in the wind.
-- Kansas, Dust in the Wind

2010-10-04T18:44:00.001-07:00

Never mistake motion for action.
-- Ernest Hemingway

2010-10-04T18:42:00.000-07:00

You should never be cowed by authority. Except, of course, in this instance, when I am clearly right and you are clearly wrong.
-- Giles, Buffy the Vampire Slayer

2010-10-04T18:40:00.000-07:00

Gotta love Lou Gherig. Jesus Christ, poor Lou Gherig. Died of Lou Gherig's disease. How the Hell do you not see that coming? You know, we used to tell him, "Lou, there's a disease with your name all ove rit, pal."
-- Denis Leary

2010-09-09T17:30:00.000-07:00

Once upon a time I was falling in love, but now I'm only falling apart. Nothing I can do, a total eclipse of the heart.
-- Bonnie Tyler, Total Eclipse of the Heart

2010-09-09T17:29:00.001-07:00

I'm proud to be an American, where at least I know I'm free. And I won't forget the men who died, to give that right to me.
-- Lee Greenwood, God Bless the USA

2010-09-09T17:26:00.000-07:00

When everything feels like the movies, yeah, you bleed just to know you're alive.
-- Goo Goo Dolls, Iris

2010-09-09T17:18:00.000-07:00

Where am I to go, now that I've gone too far?
-- Golden Earring, Twilight Zone

2010-09-09T17:17:00.000-07:00

We're just two lost souls swimming in a fish bowl, year after year.
-- Pink Floyd, Wish You Were Here

2010-09-09T17:14:00.000-07:00

Freedom, well, that's just some people talking. Your prison is walking through this world all alone.
-- The Eagles, Desperado

2010-08-19T14:55:00.000-07:00

Don't you draw the Queen of Diamonds, boy, she'll beat you if she's able. You know the Queen of Hearts is always your best bet.
-- Desperado, The Eagles

2010-08-19T14:52:00.000-07:00

Lenora, what are you still doing here? Shouldn't you be in Whoville stealing Christmas?
-- The Crew

2010-07-19T17:53:00.001-07:00

Anger is a gift.
-- Rage Against the Machine

2010-07-19T17:49:00.000-07:00

The preservation of life seems to be rather a slogan than a genuine goal of the of the anti-abortion forces, what they want is control. Control over behavior: power over women. Women in the anti-choice movement want to share in male power over womanhood, and do so by denying their own rights and responsibilities.
-- Ursula LeGuin

2010-07-19T17:33:00.000-07:00

In silence man can most readily preserve his integrity.
-- Meister Eckhart

2010-07-19T17:25:00.000-07:00

Mourn not the dead that in the cool earth lie, but rather mourn the apathetic throng, the coward, and the meek who see the world's great anguish and its wrong, and dare not speak.
--- Ralph Chaplin

2010-07-19T09:45:00.002-07:00

The things we remember the best are those better forgeten.
-- Baltasar Gracian

2010-07-19T09:45:00.001-07:00

Hindsight is always 20/20.
-- Various

2010-07-19T09:44:00.001-07:00

If I had no sense of humor, I would have long ago committed suicide.
-- Mahatma Gandhi

2010-07-19T09:41:00.001-07:00

The emphasis must be not on the right to abortion, but on the right to privacy and reproductive control.
-- Ruth Bader Ginsburg

2010-06-01T09:42:00.000-07:00

Razors pain you;
Rivers are damp;
Acids stain you;
And drugs can cause cramp.
Guns aren't lawful;
Nooses give;
Gas smell awful;
You might as well live.
- Dorothy Parker

2010-06-01T09:38:00.000-07:00

I have a very strong feeling that the opposite of love is not hate - it is apathy. It's not giving a damn.
-- Leo Buscaglia

2010-06-01T09:37:00.000-07:00

There is no worse bitterness than to reach the end of your life and realize that you have not lived.
-- M. Scott Peck

2010-06-01T09:36:00.000-07:00

At times, I'm truly terrified, 'cause dope & booze don't help to hide. They're used to mask a weakling's hurt, it's just like painting over it.
-- Type O Negative, Everyone I Love is Dead

2010-05-27T09:43:00.001-07:00

And it's one more beer and I don't hear you any more.
-- Elton John, Someone Saved my Life Tonight

2010-05-27T09:42:00.000-07:00

Alcohol, alternative to feeling like yourself. Oh alcohol, I still drink to your health.
-- Bare Naked Ladies, Alcohol

2010-05-27T09:41:00.000-07:00

The box. You opened it. We came.
-- Hellraiser

2010-05-27T09:40:00.000-07:00

Find you a bridge and take a jump. Just make certain you do it right the first time, 'cause nothing's worse than a suicide chump.
-- Frank Zappa, Suicide Chump

2010-05-18T18:47:00.000-07:00

Time, devourer of all things.
-- Ovid

2010-05-18T18:46:00.000-07:00

I can't kill my feelings, so I got to kill me. That's the only way I can be free.
-- Plasmatics, Summer Night

2010-05-18T18:44:00.000-07:00

How the years rush on by, birthdays, kids, and suicides.
-- The Rolling Stones, All the Way Down

2010-05-18T18:42:00.001-07:00

Education is an admirable thing, but it is well to remember from time to time that nothing is worth knowing can be taught.
-- Oscar Wilde

2010-05-18T18:40:00.001-07:00

My life needs a rewind/erase button.
-- Calvin & Hobbes

2010-05-18T18:35:00.000-07:00

Why waste time learning, when ignorance is intantaneous?
-- Calvin & Hobbes

2010-05-18T18:33:00.000-07:00

I'm not dumb. I just have a command of thoroughly useless information.
-- Calvin & Hobbes

2010-05-18T18:31:00.000-07:00

Who was the guy who first looked at a cow and said, "I think I'll drink whatever comes out of those things when I squeeze 'em"?
-- Calvin & Hobbes

2010-05-18T18:28:00.000-07:00

I may not be totally perfect, but parts of me are excellent.
-- Ashleigh Brilliant

2010-05-18T18:27:00.000-07:00

Things aren't right. If a burglar breaks into your home and you shoot him, he can sue you. For what, restraint of trade?
-- Bill Maher

2010-05-18T18:23:00.000-07:00

I plan to have character one day. Great character. But if you want to be rich, you better get the money before the scruples set in.
-- Richard Fish, Ally McBeal

2010-05-18T18:19:00.001-07:00

History is the sum total of things that could have been avoided.
-- Konrad Adenauer

2010-05-18T18:17:00.000-07:00

As a woman, I find it very embarrassing to be in a meeting and relaize I'm the only one in the room with balls.
-- Rita Mae Brown

2010-02-28T15:26:00.000-08:00

I don't use drugs. My dreams are frightening enough.
-- M.C. Escher

2010-02-28T15:24:00.000-08:00

Man is sometimes extraordinarily, passionately, in love with suffering.
-- Feodor M. Dostoyevsky

2010-02-28T15:23:00.000-08:00

Outside of the killings, Washington has one of the lowest crime rates in the country.
-- Washington, D.C. Mayor Marion Barry

2010-02-28T15:22:00.000-08:00

I used up all my sick days, so I'm calling in dead.
-- Anonymous

2010-02-28T15:21:00.000-08:00

The world is run by 'C' students.
-- Anonymous

2010-02-19T17:45:00.001-08:00

If we weren't all crazy, we would go insane.
-- Jimmy Buffet, Changes in Lattitude, Change in Attitude

2010-02-19T17:29:00.000-08:00

Just because you like my stuff doesn't mean I owe you anything.
-- Bob Dylan

2010-02-19T17:27:00.001-08:00

We trained hard, but it seemed that every time we were beginning to form up into teams, we would be reorganized. I was to learn later in life that we tend to meet any new situation by reorganizing; and a wonderful method it can be for creating the illusion of progress while producing confusion, inefficiency, and demoralization.
-- Petronius Arbiter

2010-02-19T17:21:00.001-08:00

I'm not a number, Damnit, I'm a man.
-- Bob Seger, Feel Like a Number

2010-02-19T17:20:00.000-08:00

A pessimist is a person who has listened to too many optimists.
-- don Marquis

2010-02-19T17:19:00.000-08:00

People will do anything, no matter how absurd, in order to avoid facing their own soul.
-- Carl Jung

2010-02-19T17:12:00.000-08:00

"Look," said Arthur, "would it save you a lot of time if I just gave up and went mad now?"
-- Hitchhikers Guide to the Galaxy

2010-02-19T17:10:00.000-08:00

The most exciting phrase to hear in science, the one that heralds new discoveries, is not 'Eureka!' but 'That's funny..."
-- Issac Asimov

2010-02-19T15:22:00.000-08:00

Never attribute to malice that which can be adequately explained by stupidity.
-- anonymous

2010-02-19T15:20:00.000-08:00

Imagine a donut, fired from a cannon at the sound of light while rotating. Time is like that, except without the cannon and the donut.
-- Dilbert

2010-02-19T15:16:00.001-08:00

Mr. Right's coming, but he's in Africa, and he's walking.
-- Oprah

2010-02-19T15:15:00.001-08:00

How is it that so often... I get the feeling that I've worked hard to learn something I already know, or knew, once.
-- Linda Ellerbee

2010-02-19T15:12:00.000-08:00

Time grows dim. Time that was so long grows short, all goggle-eyed, wiggling her skirts, singing her torch song, giving the boys a buzz and a ride, that Nazi Mama with her beer & sourkraut. Time, old gal of mine, will soon dim out.
-- anonymous

2010-01-30T12:42:00.000-08:00

I am a part of all that I have met.
--Lord Alfred Tennyson

2010-01-30T12:41:00.000-08:00

I'm bad and I'm going to Hell, and I don't care. I'd rather be in Hell than anywhere you are.
-- April 6, 1928, William Faulkner

2010-01-30T12:38:00.001-08:00

Between grief and nothing, I will take grief.
-- William Faulkner

2010-01-30T12:37:00.001-08:00

Guilt is what small-minded men use when they run out of excuses.
-- Gaius Baltar, Battlestar Gallactica

2010-01-30T12:32:00.001-08:00

What does not kill me makes me stronger.
-- Friedrich Nietzsche

2010-01-30T12:31:00.001-08:00

If you can't control your peanut butter, you can't expect to control your life.
-- Calvin & Hobbes, Bill Watterson

2010-01-30T12:30:00.001-08:00

After I quit drinking, I realized I am the same asshole I always was; I just have fewer dents in my car.
-- Robin Williams

2010-01-30T12:29:00.001-08:00

In a completely sane world, madness is the only freedom!
-- J.G. Ballard

2010-01-30T12:24:00.000-08:00

If you can't find a friend, make a friend.
-- May, May

2010-01-30T12:23:00.000-08:00

I'd rather laugh with the sinners than cry with the saints; sinners are much more fun.
-- Only the Good Die Young, Billy Joel

2010-01-30T12:22:00.001-08:00

Having your book turned into a movie is like having your oxen turned into boullion cubes.
-- John LeCarre'

2010-01-30T12:21:00.000-08:00

If men could get pregnant, abortion would be a sacrament.
-- Florence Kennedy

2010-01-30T12:20:00.000-08:00

Evil men have no songs.
-- Friedrich Nietzsche

2010-01-30T12:16:00.001-08:00

From beneath you it devours.
-- Buffy the Vampire Slayer

2010-01-30T12:15:00.000-08:00

No entertainment is so cheap as reading, nor any pleasure so lasting.
-- Mary Wortley Montague

2010-01-29T18:56:00.000-08:00

When am I dead, I hope it may be said: "His sins were scarlet, but his books were read."
-- Hilaire Belloc

2010-01-29T18:54:00.000-08:00

It is discouraging how many people are shocked by honesty and how few by deceit.
-- Noel Coward

2010-01-29T18:33:00.000-08:00

Time is the fire in which we burn.
-- Gene Roddenberry

2010-01-29T18:31:00.000-08:00

If a man hasn't discovered something that he will die for, he isn't fit to live.
-- Martin Luther King, Jr.

2010-01-29T18:26:00.000-08:00

The question is not whether we will die, but how we will live.
-- Joan Borysenko

2010-01-29T18:23:00.000-08:00

I am mortified to be told that, in the United States of America, the sale of book can become a subject of inquiry, and of criminal inquiry, too.
-- Thomas Jefferson

2010-01-29T18:12:00.000-08:00

Biology is the last of what makes someone a mother.
-- Oprah Winfrey

2010-01-29T18:11:00.001-08:00

Destiny: A tyrant's authority for crime & a fool's excuse for failure.
-- Ambrose Pierce

2010-01-29T18:00:00.000-08:00

In Germany, they first came for the Communists, and I didn't speak up because I wasn't a Communist. Then, they came for the Jews, and I didn't speak up because I wasn't a Jew. Then they came for the Catholics. I didn't speak up because I was a Protestant. Then they came for me, and there was no one left to speak up.
-- Rev. Martin Neimoller, German Lutheran pastor, arrested by the Gestapo in 1937

2010-01-15T18:12:00.000-08:00

I diapprove of what you say, but I will defend to the death your right to say it.
-- Voltaire

2010-01-15T17:56:00.001-08:00

Wherever they burn books they will also, in the end, burn people.
-- Heinrich Heine

2010-01-15T17:54:00.000-08:00

There are two kinds of artists. Those who endorse Pepsi and those who simply won't.
-- Annie Lennox

2010-01-15T17:50:00.000-08:00

Gluttony is an emotional escape, a sign something is eating us.
-- Peter DeVries

2010-01-15T17:37:00.001-08:00

Grace under pressure.
-- Definition of guts, Ernest Hemingway

2010-01-15T17:33:00.000-08:00

If we don't believe in freedom of expression for people we despise, we don't believe in it at all.
-- Noam Chomsky

2010-01-15T17:30:00.000-08:00

He who allows oppression shares the crime.
-- Erasmus Darwin