Misc. Quotes

"Accept what comes to you totally and completely
so that you can appreciate it, learn from it, and then let it go."
-anonymous

"if sunflower oil's made of sunflowers and peanut oil's made of peanuts, what's baby oil made of?"
-anonymous

"free: not bound, confined, or detained; having no restrictions
peace: a state of tranquility or quiet
love: unselfish loyal concern for the good of another"
-my shirt

"not the power to remember, but its very opposite,
the power to forget, is a necessary condition for our existence."
-sholem asch

"the eskimo has fifty-two names for snow because it is important to them;
there ought to be as many for love."
-margaret atwood

"an eye for an eye leads only to more blindness"
-from _cat's eye_ by margaret atwood

"to want is to have a weakness"
-from _the handmaid's tale_ by margaret atwood

"christmas!?! christmas means dinner, dinner means death!
death means carnage, christmas means carnage!!!"
-from _babe_

"there's no disaster that can't become a blessing,
and no blessing that can't become a disaster."
-richard bach

"the bond that links your true family is not one of blood,
but of respect and joy in each other's life.
rarely do members of one family grow up under the same roof."
-from _illusions_ by richard bach

"always go to other people's funerals, otherwise they won't come to yours."
-yogi berra

"everybody's afraid of something.
that's how we know we care about things --
when we're afraid we'll lose them.
" -from _the bodyguard_

"my lesbianism is an act of christian charity.
all those women out there are praying for a man and i'm giving them my share."
-rita mae brown

"all of us--all animals on earth-- are happiest when we are understood"
-from _buddy_

"i think we dream so we don't have to be apart so long.
if we're in each other's dreams, we can play together all night."
-calvin and hobbes

"i know god is not a woman--no woman would have created men with so many imperfections."
-jill m. consideine

"no, we can't be friends. you're my mom. you're what i talk to my friends about."
-ellen degeneres

"that is the truest sign of insanity - insane people are always sure that they are fine.
it is only the sane people who are willing to admit that they are crazy."
-nora ephron

"i seem to have an awlful lot of people inside me."
-dame edith evans

"a perfectly normal person is rare in our civilization."
-karen horney

"pain is the difference between what is and what i want it to be."
-from _the precious present_ by spenser johnson

"advice is what we ask for when we already know the answer but wish we didn't."
-erica jong

"the only people for me are the mad ones,
the ones who are mad to live, mad to talk, mad to be saved
the ones who never yawn or say a commonplace thing,
but burn, burn, burn, like fabulous yellow roman candles
exploding like spiders across the stars."
-jack kerouac

"some people say that i must be a horrible person but that's not true.
i have the heart of a young boy -- in a jar on my desk."
-stephen king

"a gypsy told me that this is my first life as a woman. i'm still getting used to it!"
-joni mitchell

"we don't see things as they are, we see them as we are."
-anais nin

"you can no more win a war than you can win an earthquake."
-jeanette rankin

"love consists in this, that two soltitudes protect and touch and greet each other."
-rainer maria rilke

"kill a man, and you are a murderer.
kill millions of men, and you are a conqueror.
kill everyone, and you are a god.
-jean rostand

"mothers are all slightly insane"
-from _the catcher in the rye_ by j.d. salinger

"christians and republicans and nazis, oh my!"
-south park

"a pedestal is as much a prison as any other small space"
-gloria steinem

"when choosing between two evils, i always like to take the one i've never tried before."
-mae west

"people call me feminist whenever i express sentiments that differentiate me from a doormat or a prostitute."
-dame rebecca west

"i wasn't happy but the power of memory is such that it can lift reality for a time.
or is memory the more real place?"
-from _written on the body_ by jeanette winterson