Interesting / Poignant / Funny Quotes
“When you’re at the beginning, don’t obsess about the middle, because the middle is going to look different once you get there. Just look for a strong beginning and a strong ending and get moving.” – Chip & Dan Heath
“I begin with an idea and then it becomes something else. ” ― Pablo Picasso
"Don't burn bridges. You'll be surprised how many times you have to cross the same river."
“If you are patient in one moment of anger, you will escape a hundred days of sorrow.” ~Chinese proverb
"It's my dream to be what I am" - Gianni Versace
"You never lose. You either win, or you learn."
"You are a ghost, driving a meat-coated skeleton, made from stardust, riding a rock, hurtling through space. Fear nothing." - http://www.digitalartsonline.co.uk/features/creative-business/design-trends-2016-20-leading-designers-artists-creatives-tell-whats-inspiring-them-for-next-year/#3
Van Gogh's final words were "La tristesse durera toujours" (translation: "the sadness will last forever")
“Better to be a flamboyant failure, than any kind of benign success.” - Malcolm McLaren
'Don't be so hard on yourself, and certainly don't put so much pressure on yourself. Life is just a series of experiments and results, and you'll be perfect when you're dead' ~ Dan Harmon
"You get in life what you have the courage to ask for" - Nancy D Solomon
“It is pathetic to be good at what you do if you’re bad at the business of it.” - Paul McGuinness (U2's manager)
"Principles are like prayers; noble, of course, but awkward at a party." - Countess Dowager (Downton Abbey)
"We Irish, have a deep sadness" - Family Guy
"If you give people flowers, your hands will smell good" - I Am Strikes (Twitter - 16/05/2015)
“Time heals. No, it doesn't. At best, time is the great leveler, sweeping us all into coffins. We find ways to distract ourselves from the pain. Time is neither scalpel nor bandage. It is indifferent. Scar tissue is not a good thing. It is merely the wound's other face.” ― Karen Marie Moning, Shadowfever
"They want you to be yourself, as long as you're like them." - Etta Bond (Twitter)
"Hell is other people." - Jean-Paul Sartr
"I wish people weren't so set on being themselves, when that means being a bastard." - Robertson Davies
"What we remember is probably fiction anyway." - Beryl Bainbridge
"Middle age is when you've met so many people that every new person you meet reminds you of someone else."
“If I look back I am lost.” ― George R.R. Martin, A Game of Thrones
"The true measure of a man, is how he treats those who can do nothing for him."
"It is not enough to be busy. So are the ants. The question is: What are we busy about?" - Henry David Thoreau
“Logic will get you from A to B. Imagination will take you everywhere.” – Albert Einstein
“Failure is an option here. If things are not failing, you are not innovating enough.” - Elon Musk
"If you want to go fast, go alone. If you want to go far, go together."
“I’m a success today because I had a friend who believed in me and I didn’t have the heart to let him down.” ― Abraham Lincoln
"It is not happy people that are thankful. It is thankful people that are happy."
"You can easily judge the character of a man by how he treats those who can do nothing for him." – Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
"I finally felt that I came into my own when I went on the stage." - Lauren Bacall
"Ability is what you're capable of doing. Motivation determines what you do. Attitude determines how well you do it." - Lou Holtz
"Keep in mind that neither success nor failure is ever final." - Roger Babson
"It's so hard when I have to, and so easy when I want to." - Annie Gottlier
"All glory comes from daring to begin." - William Shakespeare
"A superior man is modest in his speech, but exceeds in his actions." - Confucius
"If you're going to be thinking anything, you might as well think big." - Donald Trump
"Anything is achievable. Be positive, be enthusiastic, and project confidence." - Sarah Doukas
"A man is a success if he gets up in the morning and goes to bed at night and in between does what he wants to do." - Bob Dylan
"Don't spend time with anyone you don't like." - Prue Leith
"A goal is a dream with a deadline." - Napolean Hill
"Forgive your enemies, but never forget their names." - John F. Kennedy
“It is absurd to divide people into good and bad. People are either charming or tedious!” - Oscar Wilde
“We cannot control the wind, but we can adjust the sails.”
"My mother had a great deal of trouble with me, but I think she enjoyed it." Mark Twain
“All women become like their mothers. That is their tragedy. No man does, and that is his.” Oscar Wilde
'I'm Irish. I think about death all the time.' - JACK NICHOLSON
Father Ted: 'It's not as if everyone's going to go off and join some mad religious cult just because we go off for a picnic for a couple of hours.'
Father Dougal: 'God, Ted, I heard about those cults. Everyone dressing in black and saying our Lord's gonna come back and judge us all!'
Father Ted: 'No... No, Dougal, that's us. That's Catholicism.' - FATHER TED
"Being Irish, he had an abiding sense of tragedy, which sustained him through temporary periods of joy." - William Butler Yeats
"The only way out, is through."
"A smooth sea, never made a skilled sailor."
“Irish Alzheimer's: you forget everything except the grudges”
"Ireland sober is Ireland stiff." - James Joyce
"When a man is tired of London, he is tired of life; for there is in London all that life can afford." - Samuel Johnson
"I believe we shall come to care about people less and less. The more people one knows the easier it becomes to replace them. It's one of the curses of London." - Ambrose Bierce
"Nobody can make you angry without your consent, nobody can disappoint you without your consent, you have to give people consent to do these things." - Charlamagne
"Beer has dispelled the illness which was in me."
"Do something right now, that your future self will thank you for."
"Your life is not between the moments of your birth and death. Your life is between now and your next breath."
"Don't let the past, rob you of the present."
"You're not supposed to look for signs, your just supposed to let life happen."
“If you want to be a doormat you have to lay yourself down first.” ― Oscar Wilde
“I've learned... . That being kind is more important than being right.” ― H. Jackson Brown Jr.
"The purpose of art is washing the dust of daily life off our souls." - Pablo Picasso
"Treat others as you would like to be treated, and at the very least, you will love the face that looks out at you in the mirror every morning."
"We measure who we are by how much we love others, and how much others love us."
"Life is beautiful if we are grateful."
"The best time to plant a tree is twenty-five years ago. The second best time is today."
"Only put off until tomorrow what you are willing to die having left undone." Pablo Picasso
"One day, you’re 17 and you’re planning for someday. And then quietly, without you ever really noticing, someday is today. And then someday is yesterday. And this is your life." - John Green
"If you are depressed you are living in the past. If you are anxious you are living in the future. If you are at peace you are living in the present." - Lao Tzu
"Many people die at 25 and aren't buried until 75" - Benjamin Franklin
“If you can't be kind, at least be vague.” ― Judith Martin
'I never know really what I'm doing, I'll have a little inkling about where to start, and I'll know when something's finished. But along the way, there's lots of diversions and dips and weaves.' - Cornelia Parker (sculptor/installation artist) BBC Docu 'What do artists do all day?'
"I see a lot of people in unstimulating relationships. And not just boyfriend-girlfriend relationships. They find themselves in stagnant friendships. If people were a little less scared [of ending things] they'd get more out of life… You meet the right person at the right time and they fulfil a certain something in your life. You fulfil something in theirs. But there's a time limit to that." - Laura Marling
"My daughter is great, her attitude is no different to mine during my mother’s final months. To her, as long as I’m breathing, I’m living, not dying." - https://www.facebook.com/MyLegacyIreland (Blog about a women dying of cancer - inspirational!)
You smiled at me and suddenly I realised: Until he found his flower, the honeybee did not even begin to realise he was a honeybee at all.
- Tyler Knott Gregson
"I am a drinker with writing problems." - Brendan Behan
"Writing, someone once said, is easy. You just sit down at the typewriter and open a vein." -Oxford online creative writing course.
"Luck is the collision of timing and preparation. And contacts. And probably family wealth. And looks." - Josh Weller
"Doubt is your neighbour..." - Douglas Kennedy
"All those moments will be lost in time, like tears in the rain." - Blade Runner movie
"London broke my heart but Paris glued it back together." - @thequietcompass
"I'll be making love to her, through you, so let me keep my eyes closed." - The Weeknd - The Zone feat. Drake
"A writer takes earnest measures to secure his solitude and then finds endless ways to squander it." Don DeLillo
"If I stole your heart, and you stole mine, wouldn't that be the perfect crime?"
"Learn from the ones we hate the most." - "Candles" - Daughter (band)
"I'm not one to kiss and tell, I prefer to shag and brag."
"Sometimes the hardest decision of the day, is what Instagram filter to put on ones photo...." - Kal Lavelle
"What is for you, will not pass by you."
"I'm not telling you it's going to be easy, I'm telling you it's going to be worth it."
"Swim until you can see land...."
"Your day will go the way the corners of your mouth turn."
"I was born to make mistakes, not to fake perfection." - Drake
"Important encounters are planned by the souls long before the bodies see each other."
"Always believe that something wonderful is about to happen."
There is only Now. How long is lost in waiting... - Graham Edeensounds
“Take it from me: If you hear the past speaking to you, feel it tugging up your back and runing its fingers up your spine, the best thing to do-the only thing-is run.” ― Lauren Oliver, Delirium
"I don't want to judge, What's in your heart, But if you're not ready for love, How can you be ready for life?" Song lyrics in
'We Might Be Dead By Tomorrow' by Soko
"Life is not measured by the breaths we take, but by the friends we make." - Kal Lavelle
"The world needs dreamers and the world needs doers. But above all, the world needs dreamers who do." - Sarah Ban Breathnach, author.
"If you see someone without a smile, give them one of yours." : )
"Comprendre, c'est pardoner" / "To understand is to forgive." - De Stael.
"Il est difficle de vaincre ses passions, et impossible de les satisfaire." / "It is difficult to master your passions and impossible to satisfy them." - De La Sabliére.
"The true definition of madness is repeating the same action, over and over, hoping for a different result." - Albert Einstein
"The greatest mistake you can make in life is to be continually fearing you will make one." - Elbert Hubbard
"Happiness is when what you think, what you say, and what you do are in harmony." - Mahatma Gandhi
"There are only two tragedies in life: one is not getting what one wants, and the other is getting it." - Oscar Wilde
"Self-trust is the first secret of success." - Ralph Waldo Emerson
"The less you open your heart to others, the more your heart suffers." - Deepak Chopra
"Common sense is not so common." - Voltaire
"A life spent making mistakes is not only more honourable, but more useful than a life spent doing nothing." - George Bernard Shaw
"We learn by doing." - Aristotle
"If you can't get rid of the skeleton in your closet, you'd best teach it to dance." - George Bernard Shaw
'You only lose what you cling to' - Buddha
"In the end these things matter most: How well did you love? How fully did you live? How deeply did you let go?"
"I like people too much or not at all." - Sylvia Plath
"If you had never jumped from one couch to the other to save yourself from the lava, you did not have a childhood."
"You know your childhood is over when you fall asleep on the couch and wake up on the couch..."
"Summer meant watching cartoons all morning, roaming the neighborhood all day and going back home when the streetlights turned on."
"Youth is a wonderful thing. What a crime to waste it on children." - George Bernard Shaw
"I spent my whole childhood looking for an escape." - Dennis Rodman
"Treat me good and I'll treat you better."
“I have nothing to offer anybody except my own confusion.” — Jack Kerouac
"Remember, if you ever need a helping hand, you will find one at the end of each of your arms."
"To argue with a person who has renounced the use of reason is like administering medicine to the dead"
"I shared a dark suspicion that the life we were leading was a lost cause, that we were all actors, kidding ourselves along on a senseless odyssey. It was the tension between these two poles – a restless idealism on one hand and a sense of impending doom on the other – that kept me going." Hunter S. Thompson
"Say 'beer can' with a British accent. I just taught you how to say 'bacon' with a Jamaican accent."
"The greater danger for most of us lies not in setting our aim too high and falling short; but in setting our aim too low, and achieving our mark." - Michelangelo
"Got on my dead man's suit and my smilin' skull ring, my lucky graveyard boots and a song to sing"
"Is the juice worth the squeeze?"
"Art should serve as the axe for the frozen sea within us." - Kafka
"Lovers were stand-ins for some inexplicit, unavailable person."
"Don't depend too much on anyone in this world because even your own shadow leaves you when you are in darkness."
"If my life is a wreck, at least let my art help other people." - Anne Sexton
"What is greatness? It is the capacity to live by three fundamental values: reason, purpose, self-esteem." Ayn Rand
"I've never done good things/ I've never done bad things/ I never did anything out of the blue." - Ashes To Ashes
"Be kind; for everyone is fighting a hard battle." - Plato
"A man is very much himself what he thinks of others. ~ Frederick W. Faber
"Better to light a candle than to curse the darkness." - Chinese Proverb
"Everybody is a genius. But if you judge a fish by its ability to climb a tree, it will live its whole life believing that it is stupid."
"I married a German. Every night I dress up as Poland and he invades me. " (Bette Midler)
"What is man? A miserable little pile of secrets”
“You will not do incredible things without an incredible dream.” – John Eliot
"This above all: to thine own self be true." William Shakespeare
"I was born good ...but had grown progressively worse every year." [To Kill a Mockingbird]
"I believe in the ugly truth rather than the beautiful lie."
"I didn't get jealous when I saw my ex with someone else, because my parents always taught me to give my USED toys to those less fortunate........"
"Can you imagine a world without men? No crime and lots of happy fat women."
"No man is free who is not master of himself." - Epictetus
"Don't speak unless you can improve on the silence." - Spanish Proverb
"If it's going to end, then let it end in flames." William Shakespeare
"Why don't you take your clothes off? Oh come on we both knew it was on the cards as soon as I realised you were a woman" - The I.T. Crowd
"Dear boys, I can make your girlfriend scream louder then you ever will. Sincerely, spider."
"Silencing the bell doesn't put out the fire"
"Even though you're fed up, you gotta keep your head up." - Tupac
"When people yawn, do deaf people think they're screaming?"
"You're actually able to see your nose at all times.... your brain just chooses to ignore it."
"If I worked in a restaurant... on Valentines Day I would put a fake engagement ring in every girl's drink."
"If Pinocchio said, "My nose will grow right now" what would happen...think about it. Mind=Blown"
"My life... based on a true story."
"Tell someone "You wore that shirt the day after yesterday". See how long it takes them to get it."
"When I see insane people on the street talking to themselves I want to tell them about Twitter."
"Fast way to fuck up someones Knock Knock joke? "It's open."
"Before you diagnose yourself with depression or low self-esteem, first make sure that you are not, in fact, just surrounded by assholes."
"If people are trying to bring you down, it only means that you are above them."
"Carry on straight, shake off the frost, cause I am deep winter, and I'll just get you lost.." - 'Winter's Wall' song by Wise Children.
"Remember that everyone you meet is afraid of something, loves something, and has lost something."
"Someone who truly loves you, sees what a mess you can be, how moody you can get, and how hard you can be to handle, but still wants you."
"The quickest way to get someone's attention, is to no longer want it."
"Did i meet you for a reason or for a Season?"
"You dont have to like me. Im not a facebook status."
"Dont worry about things that dont worry about you."
"That awkward moment when you finish watching a TV series and you don’t know what to do with your life any more."
"The greatest mistake you can make in life is continually fearing that you'll make one."
"You don't have to be better than everybody else. You should strive to be better than you ever thought you could be."
"Whatever you do, always give 100%. . . unless you're donating blood."
"We all die. The goal isn't to live forever, the goal is to create something that will."
"i can't swim, i can't drive either... i was going to learn how to drive but then i thought, what if i crash into a lake?!" - Dylan Moran.
"My boyfriend is called wifi and we have a really great connection."
"The best way to predict your future is to create it."
"Life is full of obstacle illusions." ~Grant Frazier
"What a weird thing smoking is and I can't stop it. I feel cosy, have a sense of well-being when I'm smoking, poisoning myself, killing myself slowly. Not so slowly maybe. I have all kinds of pains I don't want to know about and I know that's what they're from. But when I don't smoke I scarcely feel as if I'm living. I don't feel as if I'm living unless I'm killing myself." ~ Russell Hoban, Turtle Diary, 1975
"Am I not destroying my enemies when I make friends of them?" - Abraham Lincoln
"She was beautiful, in the way a forest fire is beautiful"
"Come, I’ll tear up all my poems
for just a little piece
of you." - Charles Bukowski
"To let a fool kiss you is stupid. To let a kiss fool you is worse." - E. Y. Harburg
"Friendship is love minus sex and plus reason. Love is friendship plus sex and minus reason." - Mason Cooley
"Why is it so hard for women to find men that are sensitive, caring, and good-looking? Because those men already have boyfriends."
"They keep saying the right person will come along, I think mine got hit by a truck."
"It's the ones you can call up at 4:00 a.m. that really matter." - Marlene Dietrich
"Well aren't you a waste of two billion years of evolution."
"If you can stay calm while all around you is chaos, then you probably haven't completely understood the situation."
"Friend - a person known well to another and regarded with liking, affection and loyalty." - Collins English Dictionary
"Without nipples, breasts would be pointless."
"Does this rag smell like chloroform to you?"
"You are such a good friend that if we were on a sinking ship together and there was only one life jacket... I'd miss you heaps and think of you often."
"I don't trust anything that bleeds for five days and doesn't die."
"Jesus loves you, but everyone else thinks you're an asshole."
"I intend to live forever. So far, so good."
"Whenever I fill out an application, in the part that says "If an emergency, notify:" I put "DOCTOR". What's my mother going to do?"
"My mother never saw the irony in calling me a son-of-a-bitch."
"Anybody can sympathise with the sufferings of a friend, but it requires a very fine nature to sympathise with a friend's success." - Oscar Wilde
"We live in a society where pizza gets to your house before the police do."
"Always borrow money from a pessimist. He won't expect it back."
"Never get into fights with ugly people, they have nothing to lose."
"I don't believe you have to be better than everybody else. I believe you have to be better than you ever thought you could be." - Ken Venturi
"It's not true that I had nothing on. I had the radio on." Marilyn Monroe
"When the sun comes up, I have morals again." Elizabeth Taylor
"Before you my whole life was acapella" - Kelis - 'Acapella'
"All I ask is the chance to prove that money can't make me happy." - Spike Milligan
"Sometimes I think war is God's way of teaching us geography." - Paul Rodriguez
"I don't kill flies but I like to mess with their minds. I hold them above globes. They freak out and yell, 'Whoa, I'm way too high!' " - Bruce Baum
"I always wanted to be somebody, but I should have been more specific." - Lily Tomlin
"The ad in the paper said 'Big Sale. Last Week.' Why advertise? I already missed it. They're just rubbing it in." - Yakov Smirnoff
"The statistics on sanity are that one out of every four Americans is suffering from some form of mental illness. Think of your three best friends. If they are okay, then it's you." - Rita Mae Brown
"Today I met with a subliminal advertising executive for just a second." - Steven Wright
"In elementary school, in case of fire you have to line up quietly in a single file line from smallest to tallest. What is the logic? Do tall people burn slower?" - Warren Hutcherson
"My mom said she learned how to swim. Someone took her out in the lake and threw her off the boat. That's how she learned how to swim. I said, 'Mom, they weren't trying to teach you how to swim.' " - Paula Poundstone
"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, and 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 me?" - Marilyn Pittman
"Why is it that when we talk to God we're said to be praying, but when God talks to us we're schizophrenic?" - Lily Tomlin
“Children in back seats cause accidents, and accidents in back seats cause children.“ - Jessi Lingle
“I'll be glad to reply to or dodge your questions, depending on what I think will help our election most.“ - George Bush
“Change is inevitable - except from a vending machine“ - Robert C. Gallagher
"Shin: a device for finding furniture in the dark"
“The reason Santa is so jolly is because he knows where all the bad girls live” - George Carlin
“In three words I can sum up everything I've learned about life: it goes on.“ - Robert Frost
“I spent a lot of money on booze, birds and fast cars. The rest I just squandered.“ - George Best
“The most unfair thing about life is the way it ends. I mean, life is tough. It takes up a lot of your time. What do you get at the end of it? A Death! What's that, a bonus? I think the life cycle is all backwards. You should die first, get it out of the way. Then you live in an old age home. You get kicked out when you're too young, you get a gold watch, you go to work. You work forty years until you're young enough to enjoy your retirement. You do drugs, alcohol, you party, you get ready for high school. You go to grade school, you become a kid, you play, you have no responsibilities, you become a little baby, you go back into the womb, you spend your last nine months floating......and you finish off as an orgasm.” - George Carlin
“If my ship sails from sight, it doesn't mean my journey ends, it simply means the river bends.” - John Enoch Powell
“An eye for eye only ends up making the whole world blind.” - Mahatma Gandhi
“The tragedy of life is not that it ends so soon, but that we wait so long to begin it.” - W. M. Lewis
“Love is what makes two people sit in the middle of a bench when there is plenty of room at both ends”
“When one is in love, one always begins by deceiving one's self, and one always ends by deceiving others. That is what world calls a romance.” - Oscar Wilde
“Fortunate people often have very favorable beginnings and very tragic endings. What matters isn't being applauded when you arrive - for that is common - but being missed when you leave.“ - Baltasar Gracian
“I don't believe in happy endings, but I do believe in happy travels, because ultimately, you die at a very young age, or you live long enough to watch your friends die. It's a mean thing, life.“ - George Clooney
"With all the sadness and trauma going on in the world at the moment, it's worth reflecting on the death of a very important person, which almost went unnoticed last week...
Larry LaPrise, the man that wrote "The Hokey Pokey" died peacefully at the age of 93...
The most traumatic part for his family was getting him into the coffin.
They put his left leg in... And then the trouble started....“
“Maybe the older you grow, the less easy it is to put thought into action, maybe that's why it gets all locked up in your head and becomes a burden.“ -
Truman Capote, Breakfast at Tiffany's, 1958
"I'll never get used to anything. Anybody that does, they might as well be dead. " - Breakfast at Tiffany's
"You're a stylish girl, can't we end this stylishly?" - Breakfast at Tiffany's
"You know what's wrong with you, Miss Whoever-You-Are? You're chicken, you've got no guts. You're afraid to stick out your chin and say, "Okay, life's a fact, people do fall in love, people do belong to each other, because that's the only chance anybody's got for real happiness." You call yourself a free spirit, a wild thing, and you're terrified somebody's going to stick you in a cage. Well, baby, you're already in that cage. You built it yourself. And it's not bounded in the west by Tulip, Texas, or in the east by Somaliland. It's wherever you go. Because no matter where you run, you just end up running into yourself." - Breakfast at Tiffany's
"You know those days when you've got the mean reds.... the blues are because you're getting fat or maybe it's been raining too long. You're sad, that's all. But the mean reds are horrible. You're afraid and you sweat like hell, but you don't know what you're afraid of. Except something bad is going to happen, only you don't know what it is" - Breakfast at Tiffany's
“Time is a great teacher, but unfortunately it kills all its pupils“ - Louis Hector Berlioz
"Girls are like phones. We love to be held, talked too but if you press the wrong button, you'll be disconnected!"
"What do you call a dog with no legs?
Don't matter what you call him, he ain't gonna come."
“You tried your best and you failed miserably. The lesson is 'never try'.“ - Homer Simpson
“I told the doctor I broke my leg in two places. He told me to quit going to those places.“ - Henny Youngman
“Energizer Bunny arrested, charged with battery.“
“Never go to a doctor whose office plants have died.“
“Everybody wants to go to heaven; but nobody wants to die.“
“I am not a vegetarian because I love animals; I am a vegetarian because I hate plants.“ - A. Whitney Brown
“If love is blind, why is lingerie so popular?“
“He who laughs last didn't get it.“
"Behind every damsel is a fire breathing dragon"
"One of the great things about books, is sometimes there are some fantastic pictures." - George W. Bush
“Always remember you're unique, just like everyone else.“
“If you die in an elevator, be sure to push the Up button.“
“The road to success is always under construction.“
“Why is it called 'after dark'? When it's really 'after light'?"
"Gene Police: You!! Out Of The Pool!"
“Son, if you really want something in this life, you have to work for it. Now quiet! They're about to announce the lottery numbers.“ - Homer Simpson
"There is a light at the end of every tunnel....just pray it's not a train!"
"Guys are like port-o-potties. All the good ones are taken and all the bad ones are full of crap!"
"No one is a failure if they have friends"
"The power to believe in yourself, is the power to change fate"
"Life's a garden. Dig it!"
"Some people walk in the rain, others just get wet" - Roger Miller
"I am on the facebook in order to facilitate my unscrupulous stalking of ex-boyfriends and their girlfriends. Just like everybody else." - Stephanie Nilles (Musician)
"If your boss is getting you down, look at him through the prongs of a fork and imagine him in jail." - David Brent
"It's not true I had nothing on. I had the radio on." - Marilyn Monroe
"Nothing is impossible, the word itself says "I'm possible"!" - Audrey Hepburn
"What lies behind us and what lies before us are tiny matters compared to what lies within us." - Ralph Waldo Emerson
"We are all a little weird and life's a little weird, and when we find someone whose weirdness is compatible with ours, we join up with them and fall in mutual weirdness and call it love." - Dr. Seuss
"Carve your name on hearts, not on marble." - Charles Spurgeon
"Your time is limited, don't waste it living someone else's life. Don't be trapped by dogma, which is living the result of other people's thinking. Don't let the noise of other's opinion drowned your own inner voice. And most important, have the courage to follow your heart and intuition, they somehow already know what you truly want to become. Everything else is secondary." - Steve Jobs
"Life is either a daring adventure, or nothing."- Helen Keller
"Success is not the key to happiness. Happiness is the key to success. If you love what you are doing, you will be successful."- Albert Schweitzer
"He who is not busy being born is busy dying." - Bob Dylan
"Obstacles are things a person sees when he takes his eyes off his goal."
- Joseph Cossman
"Defeat is not the worst of failures. Not to have tried is the true failure."
- George Woodberry
"You miss 100% of the shots you don't take."
- Wayne Gretzky
"You can't buy happiness, but you can buy ice cream. And that's kind of the same thing."
“I begin with an idea and then it becomes something else. ” ― Pablo Picasso
"Don't burn bridges. You'll be surprised how many times you have to cross the same river."
“If you are patient in one moment of anger, you will escape a hundred days of sorrow.” ~Chinese proverb
"It's my dream to be what I am" - Gianni Versace
"You never lose. You either win, or you learn."
"You are a ghost, driving a meat-coated skeleton, made from stardust, riding a rock, hurtling through space. Fear nothing." - http://www.digitalartsonline.co.uk/features/creative-business/design-trends-2016-20-leading-designers-artists-creatives-tell-whats-inspiring-them-for-next-year/#3
Van Gogh's final words were "La tristesse durera toujours" (translation: "the sadness will last forever")
“Better to be a flamboyant failure, than any kind of benign success.” - Malcolm McLaren
'Don't be so hard on yourself, and certainly don't put so much pressure on yourself. Life is just a series of experiments and results, and you'll be perfect when you're dead' ~ Dan Harmon
"You get in life what you have the courage to ask for" - Nancy D Solomon
“It is pathetic to be good at what you do if you’re bad at the business of it.” - Paul McGuinness (U2's manager)
"Principles are like prayers; noble, of course, but awkward at a party." - Countess Dowager (Downton Abbey)
"We Irish, have a deep sadness" - Family Guy
"If you give people flowers, your hands will smell good" - I Am Strikes (Twitter - 16/05/2015)
“Time heals. No, it doesn't. At best, time is the great leveler, sweeping us all into coffins. We find ways to distract ourselves from the pain. Time is neither scalpel nor bandage. It is indifferent. Scar tissue is not a good thing. It is merely the wound's other face.” ― Karen Marie Moning, Shadowfever
"They want you to be yourself, as long as you're like them." - Etta Bond (Twitter)
"Hell is other people." - Jean-Paul Sartr
"I wish people weren't so set on being themselves, when that means being a bastard." - Robertson Davies
"What we remember is probably fiction anyway." - Beryl Bainbridge
"Middle age is when you've met so many people that every new person you meet reminds you of someone else."
“If I look back I am lost.” ― George R.R. Martin, A Game of Thrones
"The true measure of a man, is how he treats those who can do nothing for him."
"It is not enough to be busy. So are the ants. The question is: What are we busy about?" - Henry David Thoreau
“Logic will get you from A to B. Imagination will take you everywhere.” – Albert Einstein
“Failure is an option here. If things are not failing, you are not innovating enough.” - Elon Musk
"If you want to go fast, go alone. If you want to go far, go together."
“I’m a success today because I had a friend who believed in me and I didn’t have the heart to let him down.” ― Abraham Lincoln
"It is not happy people that are thankful. It is thankful people that are happy."
"You can easily judge the character of a man by how he treats those who can do nothing for him." – Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
"I finally felt that I came into my own when I went on the stage." - Lauren Bacall
"Ability is what you're capable of doing. Motivation determines what you do. Attitude determines how well you do it." - Lou Holtz
"Keep in mind that neither success nor failure is ever final." - Roger Babson
"It's so hard when I have to, and so easy when I want to." - Annie Gottlier
"All glory comes from daring to begin." - William Shakespeare
"A superior man is modest in his speech, but exceeds in his actions." - Confucius
"If you're going to be thinking anything, you might as well think big." - Donald Trump
"Anything is achievable. Be positive, be enthusiastic, and project confidence." - Sarah Doukas
"A man is a success if he gets up in the morning and goes to bed at night and in between does what he wants to do." - Bob Dylan
"Don't spend time with anyone you don't like." - Prue Leith
"A goal is a dream with a deadline." - Napolean Hill
"Forgive your enemies, but never forget their names." - John F. Kennedy
“It is absurd to divide people into good and bad. People are either charming or tedious!” - Oscar Wilde
“We cannot control the wind, but we can adjust the sails.”
"My mother had a great deal of trouble with me, but I think she enjoyed it." Mark Twain
“All women become like their mothers. That is their tragedy. No man does, and that is his.” Oscar Wilde
'I'm Irish. I think about death all the time.' - JACK NICHOLSON
Father Ted: 'It's not as if everyone's going to go off and join some mad religious cult just because we go off for a picnic for a couple of hours.'
Father Dougal: 'God, Ted, I heard about those cults. Everyone dressing in black and saying our Lord's gonna come back and judge us all!'
Father Ted: 'No... No, Dougal, that's us. That's Catholicism.' - FATHER TED
"Being Irish, he had an abiding sense of tragedy, which sustained him through temporary periods of joy." - William Butler Yeats
"The only way out, is through."
"A smooth sea, never made a skilled sailor."
“Irish Alzheimer's: you forget everything except the grudges”
"Ireland sober is Ireland stiff." - James Joyce
"When a man is tired of London, he is tired of life; for there is in London all that life can afford." - Samuel Johnson
"I believe we shall come to care about people less and less. The more people one knows the easier it becomes to replace them. It's one of the curses of London." - Ambrose Bierce
"Nobody can make you angry without your consent, nobody can disappoint you without your consent, you have to give people consent to do these things." - Charlamagne
"Beer has dispelled the illness which was in me."
"Do something right now, that your future self will thank you for."
"Your life is not between the moments of your birth and death. Your life is between now and your next breath."
"Don't let the past, rob you of the present."
"You're not supposed to look for signs, your just supposed to let life happen."
“If you want to be a doormat you have to lay yourself down first.” ― Oscar Wilde
“I've learned... . That being kind is more important than being right.” ― H. Jackson Brown Jr.
"The purpose of art is washing the dust of daily life off our souls." - Pablo Picasso
"Treat others as you would like to be treated, and at the very least, you will love the face that looks out at you in the mirror every morning."
"We measure who we are by how much we love others, and how much others love us."
"Life is beautiful if we are grateful."
"The best time to plant a tree is twenty-five years ago. The second best time is today."
"Only put off until tomorrow what you are willing to die having left undone." Pablo Picasso
"One day, you’re 17 and you’re planning for someday. And then quietly, without you ever really noticing, someday is today. And then someday is yesterday. And this is your life." - John Green
"If you are depressed you are living in the past. If you are anxious you are living in the future. If you are at peace you are living in the present." - Lao Tzu
"Many people die at 25 and aren't buried until 75" - Benjamin Franklin
“If you can't be kind, at least be vague.” ― Judith Martin
'I never know really what I'm doing, I'll have a little inkling about where to start, and I'll know when something's finished. But along the way, there's lots of diversions and dips and weaves.' - Cornelia Parker (sculptor/installation artist) BBC Docu 'What do artists do all day?'
"I see a lot of people in unstimulating relationships. And not just boyfriend-girlfriend relationships. They find themselves in stagnant friendships. If people were a little less scared [of ending things] they'd get more out of life… You meet the right person at the right time and they fulfil a certain something in your life. You fulfil something in theirs. But there's a time limit to that." - Laura Marling
"My daughter is great, her attitude is no different to mine during my mother’s final months. To her, as long as I’m breathing, I’m living, not dying." - https://www.facebook.com/MyLegacyIreland (Blog about a women dying of cancer - inspirational!)
You smiled at me and suddenly I realised: Until he found his flower, the honeybee did not even begin to realise he was a honeybee at all.
- Tyler Knott Gregson
"I am a drinker with writing problems." - Brendan Behan
"Writing, someone once said, is easy. You just sit down at the typewriter and open a vein." -Oxford online creative writing course.
"Luck is the collision of timing and preparation. And contacts. And probably family wealth. And looks." - Josh Weller
"Doubt is your neighbour..." - Douglas Kennedy
"All those moments will be lost in time, like tears in the rain." - Blade Runner movie
"London broke my heart but Paris glued it back together." - @thequietcompass
"I'll be making love to her, through you, so let me keep my eyes closed." - The Weeknd - The Zone feat. Drake
"A writer takes earnest measures to secure his solitude and then finds endless ways to squander it." Don DeLillo
"If I stole your heart, and you stole mine, wouldn't that be the perfect crime?"
"Learn from the ones we hate the most." - "Candles" - Daughter (band)
"I'm not one to kiss and tell, I prefer to shag and brag."
"Sometimes the hardest decision of the day, is what Instagram filter to put on ones photo...." - Kal Lavelle
"What is for you, will not pass by you."
"I'm not telling you it's going to be easy, I'm telling you it's going to be worth it."
"Swim until you can see land...."
"Your day will go the way the corners of your mouth turn."
"I was born to make mistakes, not to fake perfection." - Drake
"Important encounters are planned by the souls long before the bodies see each other."
"Always believe that something wonderful is about to happen."
There is only Now. How long is lost in waiting... - Graham Edeensounds
“Take it from me: If you hear the past speaking to you, feel it tugging up your back and runing its fingers up your spine, the best thing to do-the only thing-is run.” ― Lauren Oliver, Delirium
"I don't want to judge, What's in your heart, But if you're not ready for love, How can you be ready for life?" Song lyrics in
'We Might Be Dead By Tomorrow' by Soko
"Life is not measured by the breaths we take, but by the friends we make." - Kal Lavelle
"The world needs dreamers and the world needs doers. But above all, the world needs dreamers who do." - Sarah Ban Breathnach, author.
"If you see someone without a smile, give them one of yours." : )
"Comprendre, c'est pardoner" / "To understand is to forgive." - De Stael.
"Il est difficle de vaincre ses passions, et impossible de les satisfaire." / "It is difficult to master your passions and impossible to satisfy them." - De La Sabliére.
"The true definition of madness is repeating the same action, over and over, hoping for a different result." - Albert Einstein
"The greatest mistake you can make in life is to be continually fearing you will make one." - Elbert Hubbard
"Happiness is when what you think, what you say, and what you do are in harmony." - Mahatma Gandhi
"There are only two tragedies in life: one is not getting what one wants, and the other is getting it." - Oscar Wilde
"Self-trust is the first secret of success." - Ralph Waldo Emerson
"The less you open your heart to others, the more your heart suffers." - Deepak Chopra
"Common sense is not so common." - Voltaire
"A life spent making mistakes is not only more honourable, but more useful than a life spent doing nothing." - George Bernard Shaw
"We learn by doing." - Aristotle
"If you can't get rid of the skeleton in your closet, you'd best teach it to dance." - George Bernard Shaw
'You only lose what you cling to' - Buddha
"In the end these things matter most: How well did you love? How fully did you live? How deeply did you let go?"
"I like people too much or not at all." - Sylvia Plath
"If you had never jumped from one couch to the other to save yourself from the lava, you did not have a childhood."
"You know your childhood is over when you fall asleep on the couch and wake up on the couch..."
"Summer meant watching cartoons all morning, roaming the neighborhood all day and going back home when the streetlights turned on."
"Youth is a wonderful thing. What a crime to waste it on children." - George Bernard Shaw
"I spent my whole childhood looking for an escape." - Dennis Rodman
"Treat me good and I'll treat you better."
“I have nothing to offer anybody except my own confusion.” — Jack Kerouac
"Remember, if you ever need a helping hand, you will find one at the end of each of your arms."
"To argue with a person who has renounced the use of reason is like administering medicine to the dead"
"I shared a dark suspicion that the life we were leading was a lost cause, that we were all actors, kidding ourselves along on a senseless odyssey. It was the tension between these two poles – a restless idealism on one hand and a sense of impending doom on the other – that kept me going." Hunter S. Thompson
"Say 'beer can' with a British accent. I just taught you how to say 'bacon' with a Jamaican accent."
"The greater danger for most of us lies not in setting our aim too high and falling short; but in setting our aim too low, and achieving our mark." - Michelangelo
"Got on my dead man's suit and my smilin' skull ring, my lucky graveyard boots and a song to sing"
"Is the juice worth the squeeze?"
"Art should serve as the axe for the frozen sea within us." - Kafka
"Lovers were stand-ins for some inexplicit, unavailable person."
"Don't depend too much on anyone in this world because even your own shadow leaves you when you are in darkness."
"If my life is a wreck, at least let my art help other people." - Anne Sexton
"What is greatness? It is the capacity to live by three fundamental values: reason, purpose, self-esteem." Ayn Rand
"I've never done good things/ I've never done bad things/ I never did anything out of the blue." - Ashes To Ashes
"Be kind; for everyone is fighting a hard battle." - Plato
"A man is very much himself what he thinks of others. ~ Frederick W. Faber
"Better to light a candle than to curse the darkness." - Chinese Proverb
"Everybody is a genius. But if you judge a fish by its ability to climb a tree, it will live its whole life believing that it is stupid."
"I married a German. Every night I dress up as Poland and he invades me. " (Bette Midler)
"What is man? A miserable little pile of secrets”
“You will not do incredible things without an incredible dream.” – John Eliot
"This above all: to thine own self be true." William Shakespeare
"I was born good ...but had grown progressively worse every year." [To Kill a Mockingbird]
"I believe in the ugly truth rather than the beautiful lie."
"I didn't get jealous when I saw my ex with someone else, because my parents always taught me to give my USED toys to those less fortunate........"
"Can you imagine a world without men? No crime and lots of happy fat women."
"No man is free who is not master of himself." - Epictetus
"Don't speak unless you can improve on the silence." - Spanish Proverb
"If it's going to end, then let it end in flames." William Shakespeare
"Why don't you take your clothes off? Oh come on we both knew it was on the cards as soon as I realised you were a woman" - The I.T. Crowd
"Dear boys, I can make your girlfriend scream louder then you ever will. Sincerely, spider."
"Silencing the bell doesn't put out the fire"
"Even though you're fed up, you gotta keep your head up." - Tupac
"When people yawn, do deaf people think they're screaming?"
"You're actually able to see your nose at all times.... your brain just chooses to ignore it."
"If I worked in a restaurant... on Valentines Day I would put a fake engagement ring in every girl's drink."
"If Pinocchio said, "My nose will grow right now" what would happen...think about it. Mind=Blown"
"My life... based on a true story."
"Tell someone "You wore that shirt the day after yesterday". See how long it takes them to get it."
"When I see insane people on the street talking to themselves I want to tell them about Twitter."
"Fast way to fuck up someones Knock Knock joke? "It's open."
"Before you diagnose yourself with depression or low self-esteem, first make sure that you are not, in fact, just surrounded by assholes."
"If people are trying to bring you down, it only means that you are above them."
"Carry on straight, shake off the frost, cause I am deep winter, and I'll just get you lost.." - 'Winter's Wall' song by Wise Children.
"Remember that everyone you meet is afraid of something, loves something, and has lost something."
"Someone who truly loves you, sees what a mess you can be, how moody you can get, and how hard you can be to handle, but still wants you."
"The quickest way to get someone's attention, is to no longer want it."
"Did i meet you for a reason or for a Season?"
"You dont have to like me. Im not a facebook status."
"Dont worry about things that dont worry about you."
"That awkward moment when you finish watching a TV series and you don’t know what to do with your life any more."
"The greatest mistake you can make in life is continually fearing that you'll make one."
"You don't have to be better than everybody else. You should strive to be better than you ever thought you could be."
"Whatever you do, always give 100%. . . unless you're donating blood."
"We all die. The goal isn't to live forever, the goal is to create something that will."
"i can't swim, i can't drive either... i was going to learn how to drive but then i thought, what if i crash into a lake?!" - Dylan Moran.
"My boyfriend is called wifi and we have a really great connection."
"The best way to predict your future is to create it."
"Life is full of obstacle illusions." ~Grant Frazier
"What a weird thing smoking is and I can't stop it. I feel cosy, have a sense of well-being when I'm smoking, poisoning myself, killing myself slowly. Not so slowly maybe. I have all kinds of pains I don't want to know about and I know that's what they're from. But when I don't smoke I scarcely feel as if I'm living. I don't feel as if I'm living unless I'm killing myself." ~ Russell Hoban, Turtle Diary, 1975
"Am I not destroying my enemies when I make friends of them?" - Abraham Lincoln
"She was beautiful, in the way a forest fire is beautiful"
"Come, I’ll tear up all my poems
for just a little piece
of you." - Charles Bukowski
"To let a fool kiss you is stupid. To let a kiss fool you is worse." - E. Y. Harburg
"Friendship is love minus sex and plus reason. Love is friendship plus sex and minus reason." - Mason Cooley
"Why is it so hard for women to find men that are sensitive, caring, and good-looking? Because those men already have boyfriends."
"They keep saying the right person will come along, I think mine got hit by a truck."
"It's the ones you can call up at 4:00 a.m. that really matter." - Marlene Dietrich
"Well aren't you a waste of two billion years of evolution."
"If you can stay calm while all around you is chaos, then you probably haven't completely understood the situation."
"Friend - a person known well to another and regarded with liking, affection and loyalty." - Collins English Dictionary
"Without nipples, breasts would be pointless."
"Does this rag smell like chloroform to you?"
"You are such a good friend that if we were on a sinking ship together and there was only one life jacket... I'd miss you heaps and think of you often."
"I don't trust anything that bleeds for five days and doesn't die."
"Jesus loves you, but everyone else thinks you're an asshole."
"I intend to live forever. So far, so good."
"Whenever I fill out an application, in the part that says "If an emergency, notify:" I put "DOCTOR". What's my mother going to do?"
"My mother never saw the irony in calling me a son-of-a-bitch."
"Anybody can sympathise with the sufferings of a friend, but it requires a very fine nature to sympathise with a friend's success." - Oscar Wilde
"We live in a society where pizza gets to your house before the police do."
"Always borrow money from a pessimist. He won't expect it back."
"Never get into fights with ugly people, they have nothing to lose."
"I don't believe you have to be better than everybody else. I believe you have to be better than you ever thought you could be." - Ken Venturi
"It's not true that I had nothing on. I had the radio on." Marilyn Monroe
"When the sun comes up, I have morals again." Elizabeth Taylor
"Before you my whole life was acapella" - Kelis - 'Acapella'
"All I ask is the chance to prove that money can't make me happy." - Spike Milligan
"Sometimes I think war is God's way of teaching us geography." - Paul Rodriguez
"I don't kill flies but I like to mess with their minds. I hold them above globes. They freak out and yell, 'Whoa, I'm way too high!' " - Bruce Baum
"I always wanted to be somebody, but I should have been more specific." - Lily Tomlin
"The ad in the paper said 'Big Sale. Last Week.' Why advertise? I already missed it. They're just rubbing it in." - Yakov Smirnoff
"The statistics on sanity are that one out of every four Americans is suffering from some form of mental illness. Think of your three best friends. If they are okay, then it's you." - Rita Mae Brown
"Today I met with a subliminal advertising executive for just a second." - Steven Wright
"In elementary school, in case of fire you have to line up quietly in a single file line from smallest to tallest. What is the logic? Do tall people burn slower?" - Warren Hutcherson
"My mom said she learned how to swim. Someone took her out in the lake and threw her off the boat. That's how she learned how to swim. I said, 'Mom, they weren't trying to teach you how to swim.' " - Paula Poundstone
"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, and 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 me?" - Marilyn Pittman
"Why is it that when we talk to God we're said to be praying, but when God talks to us we're schizophrenic?" - Lily Tomlin
“Children in back seats cause accidents, and accidents in back seats cause children.“ - Jessi Lingle
“I'll be glad to reply to or dodge your questions, depending on what I think will help our election most.“ - George Bush
“Change is inevitable - except from a vending machine“ - Robert C. Gallagher
"Shin: a device for finding furniture in the dark"
“The reason Santa is so jolly is because he knows where all the bad girls live” - George Carlin
“In three words I can sum up everything I've learned about life: it goes on.“ - Robert Frost
“I spent a lot of money on booze, birds and fast cars. The rest I just squandered.“ - George Best
“The most unfair thing about life is the way it ends. I mean, life is tough. It takes up a lot of your time. What do you get at the end of it? A Death! What's that, a bonus? I think the life cycle is all backwards. You should die first, get it out of the way. Then you live in an old age home. You get kicked out when you're too young, you get a gold watch, you go to work. You work forty years until you're young enough to enjoy your retirement. You do drugs, alcohol, you party, you get ready for high school. You go to grade school, you become a kid, you play, you have no responsibilities, you become a little baby, you go back into the womb, you spend your last nine months floating......and you finish off as an orgasm.” - George Carlin
“If my ship sails from sight, it doesn't mean my journey ends, it simply means the river bends.” - John Enoch Powell
“An eye for eye only ends up making the whole world blind.” - Mahatma Gandhi
“The tragedy of life is not that it ends so soon, but that we wait so long to begin it.” - W. M. Lewis
“Love is what makes two people sit in the middle of a bench when there is plenty of room at both ends”
“When one is in love, one always begins by deceiving one's self, and one always ends by deceiving others. That is what world calls a romance.” - Oscar Wilde
“Fortunate people often have very favorable beginnings and very tragic endings. What matters isn't being applauded when you arrive - for that is common - but being missed when you leave.“ - Baltasar Gracian
“I don't believe in happy endings, but I do believe in happy travels, because ultimately, you die at a very young age, or you live long enough to watch your friends die. It's a mean thing, life.“ - George Clooney
"With all the sadness and trauma going on in the world at the moment, it's worth reflecting on the death of a very important person, which almost went unnoticed last week...
Larry LaPrise, the man that wrote "The Hokey Pokey" died peacefully at the age of 93...
The most traumatic part for his family was getting him into the coffin.
They put his left leg in... And then the trouble started....“
“Maybe the older you grow, the less easy it is to put thought into action, maybe that's why it gets all locked up in your head and becomes a burden.“ -
Truman Capote, Breakfast at Tiffany's, 1958
"I'll never get used to anything. Anybody that does, they might as well be dead. " - Breakfast at Tiffany's
"You're a stylish girl, can't we end this stylishly?" - Breakfast at Tiffany's
"You know what's wrong with you, Miss Whoever-You-Are? You're chicken, you've got no guts. You're afraid to stick out your chin and say, "Okay, life's a fact, people do fall in love, people do belong to each other, because that's the only chance anybody's got for real happiness." You call yourself a free spirit, a wild thing, and you're terrified somebody's going to stick you in a cage. Well, baby, you're already in that cage. You built it yourself. And it's not bounded in the west by Tulip, Texas, or in the east by Somaliland. It's wherever you go. Because no matter where you run, you just end up running into yourself." - Breakfast at Tiffany's
"You know those days when you've got the mean reds.... the blues are because you're getting fat or maybe it's been raining too long. You're sad, that's all. But the mean reds are horrible. You're afraid and you sweat like hell, but you don't know what you're afraid of. Except something bad is going to happen, only you don't know what it is" - Breakfast at Tiffany's
“Time is a great teacher, but unfortunately it kills all its pupils“ - Louis Hector Berlioz
"Girls are like phones. We love to be held, talked too but if you press the wrong button, you'll be disconnected!"
"What do you call a dog with no legs?
Don't matter what you call him, he ain't gonna come."
“You tried your best and you failed miserably. The lesson is 'never try'.“ - Homer Simpson
“I told the doctor I broke my leg in two places. He told me to quit going to those places.“ - Henny Youngman
“Energizer Bunny arrested, charged with battery.“
“Never go to a doctor whose office plants have died.“
“Everybody wants to go to heaven; but nobody wants to die.“
“I am not a vegetarian because I love animals; I am a vegetarian because I hate plants.“ - A. Whitney Brown
“If love is blind, why is lingerie so popular?“
“He who laughs last didn't get it.“
"Behind every damsel is a fire breathing dragon"
"One of the great things about books, is sometimes there are some fantastic pictures." - George W. Bush
“Always remember you're unique, just like everyone else.“
“If you die in an elevator, be sure to push the Up button.“
“The road to success is always under construction.“
“Why is it called 'after dark'? When it's really 'after light'?"
"Gene Police: You!! Out Of The Pool!"
“Son, if you really want something in this life, you have to work for it. Now quiet! They're about to announce the lottery numbers.“ - Homer Simpson
"There is a light at the end of every tunnel....just pray it's not a train!"
"Guys are like port-o-potties. All the good ones are taken and all the bad ones are full of crap!"
"No one is a failure if they have friends"
"The power to believe in yourself, is the power to change fate"
"Life's a garden. Dig it!"
"Some people walk in the rain, others just get wet" - Roger Miller
"I am on the facebook in order to facilitate my unscrupulous stalking of ex-boyfriends and their girlfriends. Just like everybody else." - Stephanie Nilles (Musician)
"If your boss is getting you down, look at him through the prongs of a fork and imagine him in jail." - David Brent
"It's not true I had nothing on. I had the radio on." - Marilyn Monroe
"Nothing is impossible, the word itself says "I'm possible"!" - Audrey Hepburn
"What lies behind us and what lies before us are tiny matters compared to what lies within us." - Ralph Waldo Emerson
"We are all a little weird and life's a little weird, and when we find someone whose weirdness is compatible with ours, we join up with them and fall in mutual weirdness and call it love." - Dr. Seuss
"Carve your name on hearts, not on marble." - Charles Spurgeon
"Your time is limited, don't waste it living someone else's life. Don't be trapped by dogma, which is living the result of other people's thinking. Don't let the noise of other's opinion drowned your own inner voice. And most important, have the courage to follow your heart and intuition, they somehow already know what you truly want to become. Everything else is secondary." - Steve Jobs
"Life is either a daring adventure, or nothing."- Helen Keller
"Success is not the key to happiness. Happiness is the key to success. If you love what you are doing, you will be successful."- Albert Schweitzer
"He who is not busy being born is busy dying." - Bob Dylan
"Obstacles are things a person sees when he takes his eyes off his goal."
- Joseph Cossman
"Defeat is not the worst of failures. Not to have tried is the true failure."
- George Woodberry
"You miss 100% of the shots you don't take."
- Wayne Gretzky
"You can't buy happiness, but you can buy ice cream. And that's kind of the same thing."
Poetry (I like)
"Your voice, your eyes
Your hands, your lips
Our silences, our words
Light that goes, light that returns
A single smile between us.
In quest of knowledge,
I watched night create day
while we seemed unchanged..."
by Paul Eluard
'Warning' - When I Am an Old Woman I Shall Wear Purple.. - By Jenny Joseph
When I am an old woman, I shall wear purple
with a red hat that doesn't go, and doesn't suit me.
And I shall spend my pension on brandy and summer gloves
and satin candles, and say we've no money for butter.
I shall sit down on the pavement when I am tired
and gobble up samples in shops and press alarm bells
and run my stick along the public railings
and make up for the sobriety of my youth.
I shall go out in my slippers in the rain
and pick the flowers in other people's gardens
and learn to spit.
You can wear terrible shirts and grow more fat
and eat three pounds of sausages at a go
or only bread and pickles for a week
and hoard pens and pencils and beer nuts and things in boxes.
But now we must have clothes that keep us dry
and pay our rent and not swear in the street
and set a good example for the children.
We must have friends to dinner and read the papers.
But maybe I ought to practice a little now?
So people who know me are not too shocked and surprised
When suddenly I am old, and start to wear purple.
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Yonder See the Morning
Yonder see the morning blink:
The sun is up, and up must I,
To wash and dress and eat and drink
And look at things and talk and think
And work, and God knows why.
Oh often have I washed and dressed
And what's to show for all my pain?
Let me lie abed and rest:
Ten thousand times I've done my best
And all's to do again.
A.E. Housman
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"I stared at my dreams,
concentrating on the abyss
the way one looks down into a rock quarry,
uncountable miles down,
my hands swinging down like hooks
to pull dreams up out of their cage.
O my hunger! My hunger!" - Anne Sexton
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Sad Steps (excerpt)
"....a reminder of the strength and pain
Of being young; that it can’t come again,
But is for others undiminished somewhere." -
By PHILIP LARKIN
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“Close, close all night
the lovers keep.
They turn together
in their sleep,
Close as two pages
in a book
that read each other
in the dark.
Each knows all
the other knows,
learned by heart
from head to toes.”
― Elizabeth Bishop, Edgar Allan Poe & The Juke-Box:
Uncollected Poems, Drafts, and Fragments
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Extract from CRAVE by Sarah Kane (playwright)
"....And I want to play hide-and-seek and give you my clothes and tell you I like your shoes and sit on the steps while you take a bath and massage your neck and kiss your feet and hold your hand and go for a meal and not mind when you eat my food and meet you at Rudy's and talk about the day and type your letters and carry your boxes and laugh at your paranoia and give you tapes you don't listen to and watch great films and watch terrible films and complain about the radio and take pictures of you when you're sleeping and get up to fetch you coffee and bagels and Danish and go to Florent and drink coffee at midnight and have you steal my cigarettes and never be able to find a match and tell you about the the programme I saw the night before and take you to the eye hospital and not laugh at your jokes and want you in the morning but let you sleep for a while and kiss your back and stroke your skin and tell you how much I love your hair your eyes your lips your neck your arse your..
and sit on the steps smoking till your neighbour comes home and sit on the steps smoking till you come home and worry when you're late and be amazed when you're early and give you sunflowers and go to your party and dance till I'm black and be sorry when I'm wrong and happy when you forgive me and look at your photos and wish I'd known you forever and hear your voice in my ear and feel your skin on my skin and get scared when you're angry and your eye has gone red and the other eye blue and your hair to the left and your face oriental and tell you you're gorgeous and hug you when you're anxious and hold you when you hurt and want you when I smell you and offend you when I touch you and whimper when I'm next to you and whimper when I'm not and dribble on your breast and smother you in the night and get cold when you take the blanket and hot when you don't and melt when you smile and dissolve when you laugh and not understand why you think I'm rejecting you when I'm not rejecting you and wonder how you could think I'd ever reject you and wonder who you are but accept you anyway and tell you about the tree angel enchanted forest boy who flew across the ocean because he loved you and write poems for you and wonder why you don't believe me and have a feeling so deep I can't find words for it and want to buy you a kitten I'd get jealous of because it would get more attention than me and keep you in bed when you have to go and cry like a baby when you finally do and get rid of the roaches and buy you presents you don't want and take them away again and ask you to marry me and you say no again but keep on asking because though you think I don't mean it I do always have from the first time I asked you and wander the city thinking it's empty without you and want what you want and think I'm losing myself but know I'm safe with you and tell you the worst of me and try to give you the best of me because you don't deserve any less and answer your questions when I'd rather not and tell you the truth when I really don't want to and try to be honest because I know you prefer it and think it's all over but hang on in for just ten more minutes before you throw me out of your life and forget who I am and try to get closer to you because it's a beautiful learning to know you and well worth the effort and speak German to you badly and Hebrew to you worse and make love with you at three in the morning and somehow somehow somehow communicate some of the overwhelming undying overpowering unconditional all-encompassing heart-enriching mind-expanding on-going never-ending love I have for you."
When I am an old woman, I shall wear purple
with a red hat that doesn't go, and doesn't suit me.
And I shall spend my pension on brandy and summer gloves
and satin candles, and say we've no money for butter.
I shall sit down on the pavement when I am tired
and gobble up samples in shops and press alarm bells
and run my stick along the public railings
and make up for the sobriety of my youth.
I shall go out in my slippers in the rain
and pick the flowers in other people's gardens
and learn to spit.
You can wear terrible shirts and grow more fat
and eat three pounds of sausages at a go
or only bread and pickles for a week
and hoard pens and pencils and beer nuts and things in boxes.
But now we must have clothes that keep us dry
and pay our rent and not swear in the street
and set a good example for the children.
We must have friends to dinner and read the papers.
But maybe I ought to practice a little now?
So people who know me are not too shocked and surprised
When suddenly I am old, and start to wear purple.
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Yonder See the Morning
Yonder see the morning blink:
The sun is up, and up must I,
To wash and dress and eat and drink
And look at things and talk and think
And work, and God knows why.
Oh often have I washed and dressed
And what's to show for all my pain?
Let me lie abed and rest:
Ten thousand times I've done my best
And all's to do again.
A.E. Housman
_________________________________________
"I stared at my dreams,
concentrating on the abyss
the way one looks down into a rock quarry,
uncountable miles down,
my hands swinging down like hooks
to pull dreams up out of their cage.
O my hunger! My hunger!" - Anne Sexton
____________________________________________________
Sad Steps (excerpt)
"....a reminder of the strength and pain
Of being young; that it can’t come again,
But is for others undiminished somewhere." -
By PHILIP LARKIN
_________________________________________________
“Close, close all night
the lovers keep.
They turn together
in their sleep,
Close as two pages
in a book
that read each other
in the dark.
Each knows all
the other knows,
learned by heart
from head to toes.”
― Elizabeth Bishop, Edgar Allan Poe & The Juke-Box:
Uncollected Poems, Drafts, and Fragments
_______________________________________________________________
Extract from CRAVE by Sarah Kane (playwright)
"....And I want to play hide-and-seek and give you my clothes and tell you I like your shoes and sit on the steps while you take a bath and massage your neck and kiss your feet and hold your hand and go for a meal and not mind when you eat my food and meet you at Rudy's and talk about the day and type your letters and carry your boxes and laugh at your paranoia and give you tapes you don't listen to and watch great films and watch terrible films and complain about the radio and take pictures of you when you're sleeping and get up to fetch you coffee and bagels and Danish and go to Florent and drink coffee at midnight and have you steal my cigarettes and never be able to find a match and tell you about the the programme I saw the night before and take you to the eye hospital and not laugh at your jokes and want you in the morning but let you sleep for a while and kiss your back and stroke your skin and tell you how much I love your hair your eyes your lips your neck your arse your..
and sit on the steps smoking till your neighbour comes home and sit on the steps smoking till you come home and worry when you're late and be amazed when you're early and give you sunflowers and go to your party and dance till I'm black and be sorry when I'm wrong and happy when you forgive me and look at your photos and wish I'd known you forever and hear your voice in my ear and feel your skin on my skin and get scared when you're angry and your eye has gone red and the other eye blue and your hair to the left and your face oriental and tell you you're gorgeous and hug you when you're anxious and hold you when you hurt and want you when I smell you and offend you when I touch you and whimper when I'm next to you and whimper when I'm not and dribble on your breast and smother you in the night and get cold when you take the blanket and hot when you don't and melt when you smile and dissolve when you laugh and not understand why you think I'm rejecting you when I'm not rejecting you and wonder how you could think I'd ever reject you and wonder who you are but accept you anyway and tell you about the tree angel enchanted forest boy who flew across the ocean because he loved you and write poems for you and wonder why you don't believe me and have a feeling so deep I can't find words for it and want to buy you a kitten I'd get jealous of because it would get more attention than me and keep you in bed when you have to go and cry like a baby when you finally do and get rid of the roaches and buy you presents you don't want and take them away again and ask you to marry me and you say no again but keep on asking because though you think I don't mean it I do always have from the first time I asked you and wander the city thinking it's empty without you and want what you want and think I'm losing myself but know I'm safe with you and tell you the worst of me and try to give you the best of me because you don't deserve any less and answer your questions when I'd rather not and tell you the truth when I really don't want to and try to be honest because I know you prefer it and think it's all over but hang on in for just ten more minutes before you throw me out of your life and forget who I am and try to get closer to you because it's a beautiful learning to know you and well worth the effort and speak German to you badly and Hebrew to you worse and make love with you at three in the morning and somehow somehow somehow communicate some of the overwhelming undying overpowering unconditional all-encompassing heart-enriching mind-expanding on-going never-ending love I have for you."
FUNNY
Mrs Browns Boys (TV Show)
Great Advice to Pass on to Your Daughters
1. Don't imagine you can change a man - unless he's in diapers.
2. What do you do if your boyfriend walks-out? You shut the door.
3. If they put a man on the moon - they should be able to put them all up there.
4. Never let your man's mind wander - it's too little to be out alone.
5. Go for younger men. You might as well - they never mature anyway.
6. Men are all the same - they just have different faces, so that you can tell them apart.
7. Definition of a bachelor; a man who has missed the opportunity to make some woman miserable.
8. Women don't make fools of men - most of them are the do-it-yourself types.
9. Best way to get a man to do something, is to suggest they are too old for it.
10. Love is blind, but marriage is a real eye-opener.
11. If you want a committed man, look in a mental hospital.
12. The children of Israel wandered around the desert for 40 years. Even in biblical times, men wouldn't ask for directions.
13. If he asks what sort of books you're interested in, tell him checkbooks.
14. Remember a sense of humor does not mean that you tell him jokes, it means that you laugh at his.
15. Sadly, all men are created equal...
Great Advice to Pass on to Your Daughters
1. Don't imagine you can change a man - unless he's in diapers.
2. What do you do if your boyfriend walks-out? You shut the door.
3. If they put a man on the moon - they should be able to put them all up there.
4. Never let your man's mind wander - it's too little to be out alone.
5. Go for younger men. You might as well - they never mature anyway.
6. Men are all the same - they just have different faces, so that you can tell them apart.
7. Definition of a bachelor; a man who has missed the opportunity to make some woman miserable.
8. Women don't make fools of men - most of them are the do-it-yourself types.
9. Best way to get a man to do something, is to suggest they are too old for it.
10. Love is blind, but marriage is a real eye-opener.
11. If you want a committed man, look in a mental hospital.
12. The children of Israel wandered around the desert for 40 years. Even in biblical times, men wouldn't ask for directions.
13. If he asks what sort of books you're interested in, tell him checkbooks.
14. Remember a sense of humor does not mean that you tell him jokes, it means that you laugh at his.
15. Sadly, all men are created equal...