word for word

"nothing is ever quiet, except for fools."-alan paton, cry the beloved country; pg. 224

"i am lost, so i am cruel. but i'd be love and sweetness, if i had you."-garbage; milk

"to know you are ignorant is the beginning of wisdom."-marian zimmer bradley; mists of avalon

"give me truths. for i weary of the surfaces, and die of inanition."-ralph waldo emerson

"fear always springs from ignorance."-emerson

"i understand i am just beginning. i am just beginning to understand."-anne rice; interview with the vampire

"there's nothing worse than the things we leave undone. no matter how long ago it was we deserted those obligations, they find ways to return, again and again, nagging at us like intermittent toothaches, fermenting a bitter and depressing brow in the shadows of our minds that's one part guilt, one part shame. they sour pleasures and sow a discontent inside us that seems so far removed from it's true source, we end up finding other things to blame, creating new problems to stack upon the old. and so we end up with this midden in our heads, hot coals smoldering deep inside the refuse, invisible, but no less dangerous for that. at any moment they could burst into flame, the subsequent conflagration utterly consuming the safe little world we've been pretending to live in all this time. and all our kindness would come undone..."-charles de lint; the onion girl; pg. 237

"and it hurts to want everything and nothing at the same time. i want what's yours and i want what's mine. i want you, but i'm not giving in this time."-michelle branch; goodbye to you

"blessed she who clearly sees the wood for trees. to obtain a birds-eye is to turn a blizzard to a breeze."-incubus

"there are few people whom i really love, and still fewer of whom i think well. the more i see of the world, the more i am dissatisfied with it; and every day confirms my belief of the inconsistency of all human characters, and of the little dependence that can be placed on the appearance of either merit or sense."-elizabeth bennet; jane austen's pride and prejudice; pg. 92

"we all love to instruct, though we can teach only what is not worth knowing."-elizabeth bennet; p&p; pg. 230

"i can picture in my mind a world without war, a world without hate. and i can picture us attacking that world, because they'd never expect it."-anon

"the heart has it's reasons which reason does not understand."-blaise pascal

"can you imagine a world without hypothetical situations?"-anon

"is there another word for 'synonym'?"-anon

"men live on the brink of mysteries and harmonies into which they can never enter; and with their hand on the doorlatch they die outside."-emerson

"don't pursue the one you can picture spending the rest of your life with; pursue the one you can't imagine spending the rest of your life without."-anon

"dreams are the answers to questions that we haven't learned how to ask."-x files

"the intuitive mind is a gift and the rational mind is a faithful servant. we have created a society that honors the servant and has forgotten the gift."-albert einstein

"never fear shadows; they simply mean there is a light shining somewhere nearby."-anon

"he who asks a question is perhaps a fool for five minutes, but he who does not is a fool forever."-chinese proverb

"no one can make you feel inferior without your consent."-eleanor roosevelt

"now i lay me down to dream of (nothing
i or any somebody or you
can begin to begin to imagine)
something which nobody may keep."
-e.e. cummings

"i've wanted to touch you, and be touched by you, and now that it's happening, i just can't get enough of you. the way you smell, the way your mouth looks after i've kissed you, the way your lips taste. i want to explore every inch of you that way, and no, i can't wait."-sadly, i don't know. i read it in somebody's fanfic somewhere.

"everything's temporary if you give it enough time."-jewel

"look around and choose your own ground. for long you'll live and high you'll fly. and smiles you'll give, and tears you'll cry. and all you touch, and all you see is all your life will ever be."-i've been told it's in a pink floyd song. i just know it was on hanging on the wall of one of my high school english teacher's room.

"love means room to breathe."-plumb; phobic

"oh what fools these mortals be!!!"-puck; a midsummer night's dream by shakespeare

"every action has an equal and opposite reaction."-some scientist

"i have dulled my spark,
and weakened my heart
so i could continue
to stay where i knew
i did not flourish."
-jewel; long has a cloak

"you could do so much for me if you just would. if you just knew, i am i and you are you and i know it and you don't know it and you could do so much for me if you just would. and if you just would then i could tell you and then nobody would have to know it except you and me."-william faulkner; as i lay dying

"to love is to suffer. to avoid suffering one must not love. but then one suffers from not loving. therefore, to love is to suffer; not to love is to suffer; to suffer is to suffer. to be happy is to love. to be happy, then, is to suffer, but suffering makes one unhappy. therefore, to be happy one must love, or love to suffer or suffer from too much happiness."-woody allen

watch your thoughts, they become words.
watch your words, they become actions.
watch your actions, they become habits.
watch your habits, they become character.
watch your character, for it becomes your destiny.
-another thing hanging on my english teaaachers' wall

"i think you need to know the darkest part of you in order to be whole."-gabrielle; xena the warrior princess

"talking about love is like dancing about architecture."-angelina jolie; playing by heart

"the chances of that happening can be expressed mathematically as diddily over squat."-jill hennessy; crossing jordan

"excess of sorrow laughs. excess of joy weeps."-william blake

"they weep - you weep - it must be so; winds sigh as you are sighing. and winter sheds his grief in snow, where autumn's leaves are lying."-emily bronte; sympathy

"though earth and man were gone, and suns and universes ceased to be. and though wert left alone, every existence would exist in thee."-emily bronte; no coward soul is mine

"all i am is love for you."-i forgot. some movie with sean astin.

"understanding is the first step to acceptance, and only with acceptance can there be recovery."-dumbledore; j.k. rowlings's harry potter and the goblet of fire; pg. 680

"i am the lover of uncontained and immortal beauty."-emerson

"sarcasm noted and quickly forgotten."-jack; will & grace

"welcome to cynical island. population: YOU!"-jack, will & grace

"we but half express ourselves, and are ashamed of that divine idea which each of us represents."-emerson

"sometimes i feel there is a whole inside of me. an emptiness that at times seems to burn. i think if you lifted my heart to your ear you could probably hear the ocean. and the moon tonight, there's a circle around it. a sign of trouble not far behind. i have this dream of being whole and not going to sleep each night wanting. but still, sometimes when the wind is warm or the crickets sing i dream of a love that even time will lie down and be still for. i just want someone to love."-sandra bullock; practical magic

"with consistency a great soul has simply nothing to do. he may as well concern himself with his shadow on the wall. speak what you think now in hard words, and tomorrow speak what tomorrow thinks in hard words again, though it contradict everything you said today. 'ah, so you shall be sure to be misunderstood.' is it so bad, then, to be misunderstood? pythagoras was misunderstood, and socrates, and jesus, and luther, and copernicus, and galileo, and newton, and every pure and wise spirit that ever took flesh. to be great is to be misunderstood."-emerson

"fire nourishes; but it also destroys if you don't respect it."-angelia jolie; foxfire

"you can look upon the most common thing and see the whole of the cosmos reflected within."-charles de lint; tempest in her eyes

"free your heart from your mind. embrace wonder for one moment without the need to consider how that wonder came to be, without the need to justify if it be real or not."-charles de lint; tempest in her eyes

"the more you do not look, the less able you are to see; wait long enough, and you'll wander the world as one blind."-charles de lint; tempest in her eyes

"we can love our pets. we just can't..*love* our pets."-janeanne garafelo; truth about cats and dogs

"God is a comedian playing to an audience too afraid to laugh."-voltaire

"common sense is not so common."-voltaire

"what consumes your thoughts, controls your life."-creed; what if

"life's not a paragraph. and death, i think, is no parenthesis."-e.e. cummings

"talk less. say more."-anon

"if they made elephant's smaller, there'd be more chance your parents would get you one as a pet."-hannah spearritt; s club 7 in la

"the bed! must be on! the floor! the bed! must be on! the floor! the bed! is on! my foot!..."-richard pryor; snl exorcist skit

"be still like vegetables. lie like brocolli."-julia roberts; pretty woman

"i hate no man. i hate injustice."-alan paton; cry the beloved country; pg. 245

"he wanted all to lie in an ecstasy of peace; i wanted all to sparkle, and dance in glorious jubilee. i said his heaven would be only half alive; and he said mine would be drunk. i said i should fall asleep in his; and he said he could not breathe in mine."-bronte's wuthering heights; pg. 227

"probably, for emotional people, the most convenient thing about being able to think is that it occassionally gives them a rest from feeling."-willa cather

"i can smell the rain. when did i learn how to do that? what should we do, though, with this moment that we're in?"-winona ryder; autumn in new york

"his statement to himself should have been, 'i possess this now, therefore i am happy.' instead of what it so victorianly was: 'i cannot possess this forever, and therefore am sad.'"-the french lieutenant's woman; pg. 50

"you'd think after 10 generations of selective reproduction, you wouldn't have such a fat ass."-max; dark angel

"suffering is caused by attachment to impermanent things."-fortune cookie. :) but is also one of buddha's four noble truths.

"fame is like highschool. and madonna's the prom queen."-jewel. and i agree completely. madonna *is* the queen.

he that will not reason is a bigot.
he that cannot reason is a fool.
he that does not reason is a slave.
-proverb

"you need only reflect that one of the best ways to get yourself a reputation as a dangerous citizen these days is to go about repeating the very phrases which our founding fathers used in the struggle for independence."-charles a. beard

"the task is not so much to see what no one yet has seen, but to think what nobody yet has though about that which everyone sees."-schopenhauer

"it is a sham. but it's a sham with yams. it's a yam sham."-buffy; buffy the vampire slayer

"bunnies aren't just cute like everybody supposed. they got them hoppy legs and twitchy little noses. and what's with all the carrots? what do they need such good eye-sight for anyway?! bunnies! bunnies! it must be bunnies!"-anya; btvs

"it's a higher power, telling me through bunnies, that we're all going to die."-anya; btvs

"i like time. there's so little and so much of it."-angel the tv series

"'i have to go, i have to go.' everybody has to go. where the fuck does everybody go when they 'have to go'?"-angelina jolie; gia

"you don't have to be anybody. because i would know that being somebody doesn't make you anybody, anyway."-angelina jolie; gia

"right. so basically, ye' touch anything, and ye' get ye' head chopped off."-angelina jolie as lara croft; tomb raider

"the things that link us deepest, we can't feel. except if they're taken from us."-joyce carol oates' foxfire

"note to self: religion freaky."-buffy; btvs

love is not love
which alters when it alteration finds
or bends with the remover to remove.
o, no, it is an ever-fixed mark
that looks on tempests and is never shaken.
-shakespeare; sonnet..?

"how do they do it?"-glory
"do what?"-dawn
"people! how do they function here like this in the world with all this bile running through them? everyday it's 'whoo-hoo.' you have no control. they're not even animals, they're just these meatbaggy slaves to..to hormones and pheromones and their..and their feelings. hate 'em! i mean really. is this what the poets go on about? this? call me crazy, but as hard-core drugs go, human emotion is just useless! people are puppets! everyone getting jerked around by what they're feelin'. am i wrong? really, i want to know."-glory
convo between glory and dawn; btvs

"it's hard to read about the unconsious when you keep slipping into it."-selma blair; zoe...

"this charity stuff is really cutting into my 'me' time."-selma blair; zoe...

"an unexamined life is not worth living."-socrates

"it is our choices that show what we truly are, far more than our abilities."-albus dumbledore; harry potter and the chamber of secrets, p. 333

"a knavish speech sleeps in a foolish ear."-hamlet; act iv, scene ii

"would you want me when i'm not myself? wait it out while i am someone else? and i, in time, will come around. i always do for you."-john mayer; not myself

"she's just a girl! sugar! spice! and everything..useless! unless you're baking!"-warren; btvs

"write down your soul word for word. see who is your friend. who is kind."-matchbox 20

"there's something about the way your hair falls in your face. i love the shape you take when crawling toward the pillow case. you tell me where to go, though i might leave to find it i'll never let your head hit the bed without my hand behind it."-john mayer; your body is a wonderland

"the opposite of war isn't peace. it's creation."-rent

"the greatest thing you'll ever learn is just to love, and be loved in return."-moulin rouge and david bowie; 'nature boy'

"thank you for curing me of my ridiculous obsession with love!"-ewan mcgregor; moulin rouge

"tell me i'm who your mouth was made for."-tegan and sarah; 'come on'

"i don't own emotion. i rent."-rent

"i'm never speaking up again, it only hurts me. i'd rather be a mystery than she desert me."-john mayer; 'my stupid mouth'

"and most my memories have escaped me, or confused themselves with dreams."-john mayer; '83'

"without you, today's emotions would be the scurf of yesterday."-amelie

"living is about making mistakes. dying is about wishing you'd made more."-the american embassy; tv show