Tuesday, January 11, 2011

Mrs. Tarantino: Are you the police?
Elwood Blues: No ma'am, we're musicians.
-- The Blues Brothers
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
Victor: I'm glad I'm normal.
Amanda: What an odd thing to be glad about. Why?
-- Noel Coward, Private Lives

Monday, October 4, 2010

Not all who wander are lost.
-- J.R.R. Tolkein
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
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
Never mistake motion for action.
-- Ernest Hemingway
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
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

Thursday, September 9, 2010

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
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
When everything feels like the movies, yeah, you bleed just to know you're alive.
-- Goo Goo Dolls, Iris
Where am I to go, now that I've gone too far?
-- Golden Earring, Twilight Zone
We're just two lost souls swimming in a fish bowl, year after year.
-- Pink Floyd, Wish You Were Here
Freedom, well, that's just some people talking. Your prison is walking through this world all alone.
-- The Eagles, Desperado

Thursday, August 19, 2010

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

Monday, July 19, 2010

Anger is a gift.
-- Rage Against the Machine
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
In silence man can most readily preserve his integrity.
-- Meister Eckhart
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
The things we remember the best are those better forgeten.
-- Baltasar Gracian
Hindsight is always 20/20.
-- Various
If I had no sense of humor, I would have long ago committed suicide.
-- Mahatma Gandhi
The emphasis must be not on the right to abortion, but on the right to privacy and reproductive control.
-- Ruth Bader Ginsburg

Tuesday, June 1, 2010

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

Thursday, May 27, 2010

And it's one more beer and I don't hear you any more.
-- Elton John, Someone Saved my Life Tonight
Alcohol, alternative to feeling like yourself. Oh alcohol, I still drink to your health.
-- Bare Naked Ladies, Alcohol
The box. You opened it. We came.
-- Hellraiser
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

Tuesday, May 18, 2010

Time, devourer of all things.
-- Ovid
I can't kill my feelings, so I got to kill me. That's the only way I can be free.
-- Plasmatics, Summer Night
How the years rush on by, birthdays, kids, and suicides.
-- The Rolling Stones, All the Way Down
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
My life needs a rewind/erase button.
-- Calvin & Hobbes
Why waste time learning, when ignorance is intantaneous?
-- Calvin & Hobbes
I'm not dumb. I just have a command of thoroughly useless information.
-- Calvin & Hobbes