"The first two years of college are vocabulary lessons. The second two years are spent learning who to ask and where to look it up."
"My darkest days are here trapped inside the filth and smog of my own jaded soul."
"Ask not for whom the bell tolls, ask why it tolls at all."
"We are not angels, we are not saints, we are embryonic souls emmersed in a badly educated body being pulled along by a love-starved lonely horse called emotions."
"My Karma ran over your Dogma."
"Please God, protet me from Your followers."
"When you feel like criticizing the younger generation, just remember who raised them."
"We are drowning in information and starved for knowledge."
"You can be surrounded by people, and still be completly alone."
"Poetry is an art that cannot be learned, only known."
"I have a facination for people. I don't like them at all, but I have a facination with human nature."
"I've lived to bury my desires, to see my dreams corrode with rust, now all that's left are fruitless fires, that burn my heavy heart to dust."
"Honesty is the best policy, but insanity is a better defense."
"Don't get annoyed if your neighbor plays his stereo on full volume at two o'clock in the morning. Call him at four and tell him how much you enjoyed it."
"If you don't think God has a sense of humor, just look at the world around you."
"You're basically killing each other to see who's got the better imaginary friend."
"Maybe this world is another planet's hell."
"Absense diminishes little passions and strengthens great ones, just as wind blows out a candle but fans a fire."
"I dropped a tear in the ocean, and whenever they find it, only then, will I stop loving you."
"To wish you were someone else is to waste the person that you are."
"Expecting the world to treat you fairly because you are a good person is a little like expecting a bull not to attack you because you are a vegetarian."
"We are students of words, we are shut up in schools, and colleges, and recitation rooms for for ten or fifteen years, and come out at last with a bag of wind, a memory of words, and do not know a thing."
"You know you've read a good book when you turn the last page and feel as if you 've lost a friend."
"Got a ticket for a runaway train, like a madman laughing in the rain, a little out of touch a little insane, just better than dealing with the pain."
"All men have the right to dig their own graves, and I have the right to sell them the shovels."
"Few minds wear out; more rust out."
"The fellow who thinks he knows it all is especially annoying to those of us who do."
"No woman ever falls in love with a man unless she has a better opinion of him than he deserves."
"To be in love is merely to be in a state of perpetual anesthesia."
"Pain is a part of the growing experience...so go slam your head into a wall and mature a little."
"One day your prince will come, mine just took a wrong turn, got lost, and is too stubborn to ask for directions."
"God created men first, because everybody knows that you need a rough draft first in order to create a masterpiece."
"When life hands you lemons, bust out the tequila and salt."
"Heck is a place for people who don't believe in Gosh."
"Anything good in life is either illegal, immoral or fattening."
"Copy from one, it's plagiarism; copy from two, it's research."
"If you haven't got anything nice to say about anybody, come sit next to me."
"Was today really necessary?"
"Very funny Scotty, now beam down my clothes."
"I don't suffer from insanity, I enjoy every minute of it."
"Forget about world peace...visualize using your turn signal."
"The gene pool could use a little chlorine."
"Grow your own dope, plant a man."
"Keep honking, I'm reloading."
"You have the right to remain silent...anything you say will be misquoted, then used against you."
"Nothing is fool proof to a sufficiently talented fool."
"Lead me not into temptation, I can find it myself."
"What happens if you get scared half to death twice?"
"Why be difficult, when with a little work, you can be impossible?"
"With my life, I could be on all of Oprah's shows."
"A crowded elevator smells different to a midget."
"Life is a never ending carousal ride, you just have to find the right horse to sit on."
"A true love is like a good wine, you put a lot of work into the harvest, and then you have to wait for it to age, like love, it takes tim efor it to be really good."
"I feel some days, that God has made, a copy of your soul in me that will not fade."
"I saw an angel in the marble, and I carved until I set him free."
"A time of darkness, despair, disillusion -- so black only as the inferno of the human mind can be -- symbolic death, numb shock -- then the painful agony of slow rebirth and psychic regeneration."
"I am yearning for a love known by more than just the heart."
"Only in America can we say it so well. Poli meaning many, and tics meaning blood sucking creatures."
"Knowledge is the understanding of ones own ignorance."
"If you're going to walk on thin ice, you might as well dance."
"Music touches feelings that words cannot."
"Take time to laugh, it's the music of the soul."
"The artist appeals to the part of our being which is not dependent on wisdom...he speaks to our capacity for delight and wonder, to the sense of mysetery surrounding our lives, to our sense of pity, and beauty and pain."
"The only interesting answers are those which destroy the questions."
"Knowledge speaks, wisdom listens."
"Wisdom is the ability to make others believe what you say."
"You are the sum of your experiences, nothing more, nothing less."
"It's hard enough to remember my opinions, without also having to remember my reasons for them."
"Every artist dips his brush in his own soul, and paints his own nature into his pictures."
"If a man does not keep pace with his companions, perhaps it is because he hears a different drummer. Let him step to the music which he hears, however measured or far away."
"If you gaze long enought into the abyss, the abyss gazes also into you."
"The reason grandparents and grandchildren get along so well is that they have one common enemy."
"It is a wise father who knows his child."
"Truely great maddness cannot be achieved without significant intelligence."
"Man is the only animal that blushes ~ or has to."
"The worst tradgedy of a poet is to be admired through being misunderstood."
"Nurotics build castles in the air, psychotics live in them, my mother cleans them"
"It is a fine thing to establish one's own religion in one's heart, not to be dependent on tradition and second-hand ideals. Life will seem to you later, not a lesser, but a greater thing."
"Be virtuous and you will be eccentric."
"Fire is kindled by fire, so is the poet's mind kindled by that of a brother poet."
"The essence of all art is to have pleasure in giving pleasure."
"The reason you go to the author is to get his meaning, not to find yours."
"Majority doesn't make it right, just louder."
"In the end, we will not remember the words of our enemies, but the silence of our friends."
"They say that someday your life will flash before your eyes. Make it worth watching."
"Does the walker choose the path, or the path the walker?"
"I've never found a companion as companionable as solitude."
"Good judgement comes from experience, experience comes from bad judgement."
"I care not so much what I am to others as what I am to msyelf."
"The heart already knows what the mind can only dream of. Trust your heart."
"Heat of the moment, curse of the young."
"It is only after we've lost everytihng, that we are free to do anything."
"Today is the tomorrow you worried about yesterday."
"No two eyes see the same world."
"It is better to fail in origionality, than to succeed in imitation."
"Don't lie, cheat or steal...the government hates competition."
"Life, sexually transmitted and always fatal."
"Life isn't worth living until you've found someone, or something, to die for."
"Love is finding someone's flaws beautiful."
"If you don't stand for something, you'll fall for anything."
"To love is the only thing that can occupy and fill up eternity. The infinate requires the inexhaustible."
"It is not in the stars that hold our destiny, but in ourselves."
"Friends are the angels who lift us to our feet when our wings have trouble remembering how to fly."
"Not even death is feared by someone who has lived wisely."
"Some of the best and most beautiful things cannot be seen with the eyes, or touched with the hands, but must be felt with the heart."
"It is better to burn out then to fade away."
"Does love decide our fate, or does fate decide our love?"
"The soul would have no rainbow, had the eyes no tears."
"Why do they steralize the needles for lethal injections."
"Don't take life too seriously, you'll never get out alive."
"Aim for the moon, if you miss, you'll land among the stars."
"The greatest thing you have you learn is to love and be loved in return."
"What is a friend? A single soul dwelling in two bodies."
"A friend is someone who you call to bail you out of jail, but your best friend is the person sitting next to you saying, damn that was fun!"
"I became insane with long intervals or horrible sanity."
"Well timed silence hath more eloquence than speech."
"There are no such things as facts, just interpretations."
"We are all afraid of the darkness inside ourselves."
"A long road makes time to enjoy the scenery."
"Conversations without words work best when you can speak in breaths and rhyme in the meter of heartbeats."
"To live is to dream and to die is to awaken."
"Love is the uncontrollable desire to be desired uncontrollably."
"Only the dead have seen the end of war."
"People demand freedom of speech as a compensation for the freedom of thought which they seldom use."
"Sometimes you find yourself in the middle of nowhere, and sometimes, in the middle of nowhere, you find yourself."
"It's not the size of the boat, it's the motion in the ocean."
"Life is a test of fate. Love is a test of the soul."
"Reality is only the misconception that we actually exist."
"People say that cleanliness is next to godliness, well I looked it up in the dictionary, and goggles is next to godliness, cleanliness is next to cleavage and claustrophobia."
"When you realize that you want to spend the rest of your life with someone, you wnat the rest of your life to start as soon as possible."
"For everyone who must talk about me behind my back, thanks for making me the center of your world."
"If you want breakfast in bed, sleep in the kitchen."
"If sometimes you feel yourself worthless, little, offended and depressed, just remember - you were once the fastest, most victorious sperm out of hundreds of millions."
"All that shimmers in this world is sure to fade away."
"Reality is for those who lack imagination."
"Work like you don't need the money, love like you've never been hurt, and dance like nobody's watching."
"The past is history, the future is a mystery, but today is a gift, that's why they call it the present."
"Our lives are measured not by how many breaths we take, but rather, by how many times our breath is taken away."
"Plato believed that the soul existed before ithabited the body. But as soon as the soul wakes up in a human body, it has forgotten all the perfect ideas. Then something starts to happen. In fact, a wonderous process begins. As the human being forms in the natural world, a vague recollection stirs his soul. He see's a horse - but an imperfect horse. The sight of it is sufficnt to awaken in the soul a faint recollection of the perfect "horse", which the soul with a yearing to return to its true realm. Plato calls this yearning eros - which means love. The soul then, experienced as imperfect and significant. The soul yearns to fly home on the wings of love, to the world of ideas. It longs to be freed from the chains of the body."
"I heard a bang, and stars collided, little girl, my little world is yours."
"To see the world in a grain of sand, and heaven in a wildflower, to hold infinity in the palm of your hand, and eternity in an hour."
"It is through art and through art alone that we can realize our perfection; through art and only art we can sheild ourselves from the sordid perils of actual existence."
"God is a comedian playing to an audience too afraid to laugh."
"Who ever said nothing is impossible never tried slamming a revolving door."
"The worst way to miss someone is to have them sitting right next to you, knowing you cannot have them."
"Skin color is only the cover of the book. Problem is, most people are illiterate."
"My religion is very simple. My religoin is kindness."
"Which is it, is man one of God's blunders, or is god one of Mans?"
"We may be done with the past, but the past is not done with us."
"I suggust we learn to love ourselves, before it's made illeagal, when will we learn, when will we change, just in time to see it all fall down, those left standing will make millions writing books on the way it should have been."
"Aim above morality. Be not simply good, be good for something."
"Everyone thinks of changing the world, but no one thinks of changing themselves."
"Those who say sunshine brings happiness have never danced in the rain."
"I've had it with reality...I need a fairy godmother."
"Be normal and the crowd will accept you. Be deranged and they will make you their leader.:
"Those who dream by day are cognizant of many things which those who dream only by night may miss."
"Your heart understands what your head cannot concieve...trust your heart."
"If you pick up a starving dog and make him prosperous, he will not bite you. This is the principal difference between a dog and a man."
"Personally I think we developed language because of our deep inner need to complain."
"Does the noise in my head bother you?"
"Would you like to dance?...[she says no]...Oh, you must have misunderstood me. I SAID, you look fat in those pants!"
"All matter is merely energy condensed to a slow vibration, that we are all one consciousness experiencing itself subjectivly, that there is no such thing as death, life is only and dream and we are the imagination of ourselves."
"On the meridain of time there is no injustice: there is only the poetry of motion creating the illusion of truth and drama."
"We are what we repeadly do, therefore, excellence is not an act, but a habit."
"Reexamine what you have been told. Dismiss that which insults your soul."
"Sometimes we must fall, to appreciate the value of being able to stand."
"A kiss may ruin a human life."
"Meeting you was fate, becoming your friend was my choice, falling in love with you was beyong my control."
"Love is giving someone the power to hurt you and trusting them not to use it."
"Americans have been hit on the forehead and are bleeding profusely. And the blood has glazed over their eyes and they have become blind, only seeing in red, red, red white and blue."
"It's a thin line between light and dark, between pain and pleasure, between heat and cold, between love and hate, between life and death, between this world and the next."
"Common sense is not that common."
"A dyslexic, agnostic, insomniac lies awake at night wondering if there is a dog."
"Money is the root of all evil...The Catholic Church is the biggest money maker in the world...make the connection."
"Home is not where you live, butt where they understand you."
"A drunk mans words are a sober man's thoughts."
"Love is not looking at each other, it is looking in the same direction."
"Do not think you are on the right road just because it is a well-beaten path."
"The brook would lose it's song if you removed the rocks."
"Men in general judge more by their eyes than by their hands, because seeing is given to everyone, touching to few. Everyone sees how you appear, few touch who you are."
"You can close your eyes to something you don't want to see, but you can't close your eyes to something you don't want to feel."
"You have to walk carefully in the begining of love; the running across fields into your lover's arms can only come later when you're sure they won't laugh when you trip."
"You know the world is crazy when the most popular rapper is a white guy, the best golfer is a black guy, France is accusing the US of arrogance, Germany doesn't want to go to war, the Swiss hold the America's Cup, and the United States is run by three guys named Bush, Dick and Colon."
"You don't love someone because of beauty. You love them because they sing a song only you can understand..."
"Life is just a manufactured reality. Make it how you would a dream."
"We are not human beings having a spiritual experience, we are spiritual beings having a human experience."
"We are out own light--we all have the answers and truths within us. Just listen. The voice you usually want to ignore is the voice of your Self, giving, what seems, the most difficult or impossible answers--that's when the ego jumps in and tries to give you an "easier" way out."
"One should not think that my religion alone is the right path and other religions are false. God can be realized by means of all paths. It is enough to have sincere yearning for God. Infinate are the paths and infinate are the opinions."
"Do not care for doctrines, do not care for dogmas, or sects, or churches, or temples; they count for little compared with the essence of existence in each person, which is spirituality...Earn that first, aquire that, and criticise no one, for all doctrines and creed have some good in them."
"Though the favorites of the gods die young, they also live eternally in the company of gods."
"Society often forgives the criminal. It never forgives the dreamer."
"No great artist ever sees things as they really are. If he did, he would cease to be an artist."
"A dreamer is one who can only find his way in the moonlight, and his punishment is that he sees the dawn before the rest of the world."
"Life beats you down and crushes the soul and art reminds you that you have one."
"A painter paints pictures on canvas, but musicians paint their pictures on silence."
"Those who danced were thought to be quite insane by those who didn't hear the music."
"I'm kind of hooked to the game of art and literature; my heroes are artists and writers."
"If my poetry aims to achieve anything, it's to deliver poeple from the limited ways in which they see and feel."
"No eternal reward will ever forgive us now for wasting the dawn."
"We have become exclusively identified with our physical bodies, with our possessions, with our thoughts, with our personalities. We think we're our ideas, our careers, our families, our countires. We live our lives in utter ignorance of the vastness of our real nature, estranged from our true self. This is the source of our suffering."
"Christianity has done a great deal for love by making a sin of it."
"The same people who wrote the bible also thought the world was flat."