"i'd rather suffer from internal eczema, constantly irritated by the itch of possibility" -Jason Reynolds
"Pain can change you, but that doesn't mean it has to be a bad change. Take that pain and turn it into wisdom." - Dalai Lama
I am not quite clear why I am going to Japan, but I think that one of the chief factors that is compelling me to go there is that the Japanese are sufficiently delicately minded not to make love in the streets and frighten the horses, nor do they, I believe, ever under any circumstances sit in couples in their parks glued to each other’s lips. - Eric Erskine Wood (1916)
We could probably do a separate thread about slogans we've seen on t-shirts. 'I was going to fuck your brains out, but I can see someone beat me to it.'
If I thought that what I'm doing when I write is expressing myself, I'd junk the typewriter. Writing is a much more complicated activity than that. ― Susan Sontag
"I feel ancient, as though I had Lived many lives. And may never now know If I am a fool Or have done what my karma demands." Gary Snyder, the concluding lines to "December at Yase" in The Back Country
It's a completely different idea, but the phrasing reminded me of Nine Inch Nails' song "I Do Not Want This": "And I Stay inside my bed I have lived so many lives, all in my head." Damn, I wish I didn't identify with Trent Reznor's lyrics as much as I do.
One of my favorite Jack Donaghy quotes from 30 Rock: “I’m meeting with the vendors tomorrow. Ray Moore and his conjoined twin Flanagan; Ashley of Ashley Furniture will be there, and he is a genitally androgynous pinhead. It’s a colorful industry with a lot of fun characters.”
And another one; I should probably stop before I transcribe the whole show. “Do you know the history of this building, Stewart? During WWII, the Bazooka Joe Corporation used a softer version of their gun to make armor-piercing bullets here. Years later, the government took it over; they turned it into a training facility for single mothers to teach illegal immigrants how to fill out unemployment forms.”
“This is only a setback, I just have to create a market for terrible couches. Besides, what did Theodore ‘Bazooka’ Joe do when his eccentric millionaire father left him nothing but a tiny pink rock quarry? He baked those rocks and sold them to children. As gum.”
"Making it through a full 24 hours without a single misstep is called Reaganing. The only other people who have ever done it: Lee Iacocca, Jack Welch, and--no judgment--Saddam Hussein." ETA: we should really just have a whole other thread for only 30 Rock quotes.
If ever a time should come, when vain and aspiring men shall possess the highest seats in Government, our country will stand in need of its experienced patriots to prevent its ruin. - Samuel Adams
"...to ask an author, who hopes to be a serious writer, if his work is autobiographical is like asking a spider where he buys his thread." - Robertson Davies (Canadian author) in The Merry Heart
From a 1952 speech given by Nosh S. "Soggy" Sweat before the Mississippi legislature: “If when you say whiskey you mean the devil’s brew, the poison scourge, the bloody monster that defiles innocence, dethrones reason, destroys the home, creates misery and poverty, yea, literally takes the bread from the mouths of little children; if you mean the evil drink that topples the Christian man and woman from the pinnacle of righteous, gracious living into the bottomless pit of degradation and despair and shame and helplessness and hopelessness, then certainly I am against it. But if when you say whiskey you mean the oil of conversation, the philosophic wine, the ale that is consumed when good fellows get together, that puts a song in their hearts and laughter on their lips, and the warm glow of contentment in the eyes; if you mean Christmas cheer; if you mean the stimulating drink that puts the spring in the old gentleman’s step on a frosty, crispy morning; if you mean the drink which enables a man to magnify his joy and his happiness and to forget if only for a little while life’s great tragedies and heartaches and sorrows; if you mean that drink, the sale of which pours into our treasuries untold millions of dollars which are used to provide tender care for our little crippled children, our blind, our deaf and dumb, our pitiful aged and infirm; to build highways and hospitals and schools, then certainly I am for it.”
