A Few of My Favorite Quotes:
" the test of a first rate intelligence is the ability to hold two opposed ideas in the mind at the same time, and still retain the ability to function."
-excerpt taken from The Crackup, by F. Scott Fitzgerald
" True prayer is a way of life, not just in case of emergency"
- unknown
" You just can't tell, who you'll love and who you won't don't let your life wrap up around you don't forget to call, whenever i'll be here just waiting for you i'll be under your stars forever-neither here nor there just right beside you"
- excerpt taken from " beautiful" , by The Smashing Pumpkins
" time is never time at all you can never ever leave without leaving a piece of youth and our lives are forever changed"
-excerpt taken from "tonight, tonight" , by The Smashing Pumpkins
" Another turning point, a fork stuck in the road. Time grabs you by the wrist, directs you where to go. "
- excerpt from "Good Riddance", by Green Day
" If you really want to hear about it, the first thing you'll probably want to know is where I was born and what my lousy childhood was like, and how my parents were occupied and all before they had me, and all that David Copperfield kind of crap, but I don't feel like going into it, if you want to know the truth. "
- Holden Caulfield in
J.D. Salinger's The Catcher in the Rye
" Do not store up for yourselves treasures on earth, where moth and rust destroy, and where thieves break in and steal. But store for yourselves treasures in heaven, where moth and rust do not destroy, and where thieves do not break in and steal. For where your treasure is, there you heart will be also."
- Matthew 6:19-24
" Do not judge, or you too will be judged."
- Matthew 7:1
" It takes 20 years to build a reputation and five minutes to ruin it."
- Warren Buffet
"We call things we don't understand complex, but that means that we haven't found a good way of thinking about them. "
- Tsutomu Shimomura, Takedown (Hypernion)
" Everybody is a fool in somebody's opinion."
- Spanish Proverb
" Frankly, my dear, I don't give a damn."
- Rhett Butler in
Margaret Mitchell's Gone With the Wind
" Good communication is as stimulating as black coffee and just as hard to sleep after."
- Anne Morrow Lindbergh, Gift From the Sea ( Pantheon)