All a shot is, is a small mixed drink. - Garz Dec 06

Jack Kerouac

Here's to the crazy ones. The misfits. The rebels. The trouble-makers. The round heads in the square holes. The ones who see things differently. They're not fond of rules, and have no respect for the status-quo. You can quote them, disagree with them, glorify, or vilify them. But the only thing you can't do is ignore them. Because they change things. They push the human race forward. And while some may see them as the crazy ones, we see genius. Because the people who are crazy enough to think they can change the world, are the ones that do. - Jack Kerouac sent to me by a friend

The most profound statements are often said in silence. - Lynn Johnston (1947 - ), For Better or For Worse, 01-15-04

In all affairs it's a healthy thing now and then to hang a question mark on the things you have long taken for granted. - Bertrand Russell (1872 - 1970)

The tooth fairy teaches children that they can sell body parts for money. - David Richerby

If a dog jumps in your lap, it is because he is fond of you; but if a cat does the same thing, it is because your lap is warmer. - Alfred North Whitehead (1861 - 1947)

sibling back and forths

Do not spoil what you have by desiring what you have not; but remember that what you now have was once among the things only hoped for. - Epicurus (341 BC - 270 BC)
[Thats is very appropriate right now. {Christmas time}]

Other faves...

The man who is swimming against the stream knows the strength of it.
Any clod can have the facts, but having an opinion is an art.
Rainbows are just to look at, not to really understand.
Man who walk sideways through turnstile will Bangcok.

A good pun is its own reword.

And one of my faves...

Nothing takes the taste out of peanut butter quite like unrequited love. - Charles M. Schulz, Charlie Brown in "Peanuts"and i dont even like peanut butter.

On writing my big fat paper...

It is impossible to enjoy idling thoroughly unless one has plenty of work to do.
Jerome K. Jerome (1859 - 1927)

Sucks to be a sex offender. - Garthie while watching Law & Order SVU

We have, I fear, confused power with greatness. - Stewart L. Udall

When you're a little kid you're a bit of everything; Scientist, Philosopher, Artist. Sometimes it seems like growing up is giving these things up one at a time. - Narrator "The Wonder Years"

"You think after all these years, God is going to take a call from you now?" - Arrested Development

The basis of optimism is sheer terror. - Oscar Wilde (1854 - 1900), The Picture of Dorian Gray, 1891

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 (1854 - 1900), The Soul of Man under Socialism (1881)

Quentin Tarantino on media criticisms of violence in his movies: "Sure, Kill Bill's a violent movie. But it's a Tarantino movie. You don't go to see Metallica and ask the fuckers to turn the music down."

[I'll mention the minor embarrassment that leads this to be specially funny for me. I fell asleep, standing up, during Metallica at Woodstock 99. I was exhausted! But they were great, and I got to see them again a few years ago, so its okay. But really, who falls asleep during one of the greatests??]

Don't fall before you're pushed. - English Proverb

Do not spoil what you have by desiring what you have not; but remember that what you now have was once among the things only hoped for. - Epicurus (341 BC - 270 BC)

The most exciting phrase to hear in science, the one that heralds new discoveries, is not 'Eureka!' (I found it!) but 'That's funny ...' - Isaac Asimov (1920 - 1992)

It is the mark of an educated mind to be able to entertain a thought without accepting it. - Aristotle (384 BC - 322 BC)

Passion kept one fully in the present, so that time became a series of mutually exclusive 'nows.' - Sue Halpern, O Magazine, September 2003

A hat should be taken off when you greet a lady and left off for the rest of your life. Nothing looks more stupid than a hat. - P. J. O'Rourke (1947 - ) [This is just freegin hilarious.]

A desk is a dangerous place from which to watch the world. - John le Carre (1931 - )

Television has proved that people will look at anything rather than each other. - Ann Landers (1918 - 2002)

But only one is a wanderer, two together are going somewhere. - Madeleine Elster in Vertigo

It really doesn’t matter if the person who hurt you deserves to be forgiven. Forgiveness is a gift you give yourself. You have things to do and you want to move on. - Real Live Preacher, RealLivePreacher.com Weblog, July 7, 2003 [The quote is a food-for-thought kinda quote, but where it comes from is funny.]

The whole US will feel freer with you in it. I noticed one of the stars fell off the flag and I thought- oh look...thats Greer. - Annie K about me traveling home.

After I'm dead I'd rather have people ask why I have no monument than why I have one. - Cato the Elder (234 BC - 149 BC)

Do not consider painful what is good for you. - Euripides (484 BC - 406 BC) [I will remember this when sweating at the gym. Blah.]

Memory

Nothing fixes a thing so intensely in the memory as the wish to forget it. - Michel de Montaigne (1533 - 1592)

The advantage of a bad memory is that one enjoys several times the same good things for the first time. - Friedrich Nietzsche (1844 - 1900)

There is not any memory with less satisfaction than the memory of some temptation we resisted. - James Branch Cabell (1879 - 1958)

Almost all absurdity of conduct arises from the imitation of those whom we cannot resemble. - Samuel Johnson (1709 - 1784) [Has this person not heard of alcohol?]

A friend is a second self. - Aristotle (384 BC - 322 BC)

You can never underestimate the stupidity of the general public. - Scott Adams (1957 - ), The Dilbert Future [cough cough... you know what I'm thinking]

Complain to one who can help you. - Yugoslav Proverb

Every composer knows the anguish and despair occasioned by forgetting ideas which one had no time to write down. - Hector Berlioz (1803 - 1869) Hmm, so true; I'm so much like a composer.

Eat a live toad the first thing in the morning and nothing worse will happen to you the rest of the day. - Unknown. Reminds me of what I say when something stupid happens to me, like I stub my toe: If that's the worst thing that happens to me today, it's still a good day. Of course, this is smashed to bits when something really crappy happens, but that's still okay.

Similar quotes

Why are you trying to stifle my creativity?! - My friend Gilbert when someone would stop him from doing something, like singing. I have adopted this when someone (Aevar) doesn't let me sing. Similar to...

Great spirits have always encountered opposition from mediocre minds. The mediocre mind is incapable of understanding the man who refuses to bow blindly to conventional prejudices and chooses instead to express his opinions courageously and honestly. - Albert Einstein (1879 - 1955), quoted in New York Times, March 13, 1940

Quotes about Drinking

Great people talk about ideas, average people talk about things, and small people talk about wine. - Fran Lebowitz (1950 - )

Always do sober what you said you'd do drunk. That will teach you to keep your mouth shut. - Ernest Hemingway (1899 - 1961)

The wine urges me on, the bewitching wine, which sets even a wise man to singing and to laughing gently and rouses him up to dance and brings forth words which were better unspoken. - Homer (800 BC - 700 BC), The Odyssey

The trouble with jogging is that the ice falls out of your glass. - Martin Mull (1943 - )

Reminds me of my safari in Africa. Somebody forgot the corkscrew and for several days we had to live on nothing but food and water. - W. C. Fields (1880 - 1946)

When the rich wage war it's the poor who die. - Jean-Paul Sartre (1905 - 1980), The Devil and the Good Lord (1951) act 1

It is no measure of health to be well adjusted to a profoundly sick society. - Krishnamurti

Keep on going and the chances are you will stumble on something, perhaps when you are least expecting it. I have never heard of anyone stumbling on something sitting down. - Charles F. Kettering (1876 - 1958)

He who will not economize will have to agonize. Confucius

Life has taught us that love does not consist in gazing at each other, but in looking outward together in the same direction. Antoine de Saint-Exupery

Nothing takes the taste out of peanut butter quite like unrequited love. Charles M. Schulz, Charlie Brown in "Peanuts"

The price good men pay for indifference to public affairs is to be ruled by evil men. Plato {Guess why I like this one...!)