MUSINGS: Quotes

"Don't walk behind me, for I may not lead. Don't walk in front of me,for I may not follow. Just walk beside me, and be my friend."--anonymous

"I'm always described as 'cocksure' or 'with a swagger,' and that bears no resemblance to who I feel like inside. I feel plagued by insecutiry."-- Ben Affleck, actor

"Whatever I do, it's my business. It's not my job to parent America."--Christina Aguilera, singer

"I think God is a giant vibrator in the sky...a pulsating force of incredible energy."--David Arque6tte, comedian

"There is no charm equal to tenderness of the heart."--Jane Austen, author source

"Time will pass and so will you."--Steve Baker, history teacher

"A lot of people [screw] up, do crazy shit and keep it to themselves. Because I was young and it was in public, it was awkward until I embraced it and thought, 'This is my life. I'm not going to sit around and hate my life.'"--Drew Barrymore,actress

"When you've been locked up in a mental institution, people are going to ask questions. It was OK, because I didn't have to act perfect all the time."--Drew Barrymore, actress

"God made a very obvious choice when he made me volumtuours; why would I go against what he decided for me? My limbs work, so I'm not goint to complain about the way my body is shaped."--Drew Barrymore

"I understand there are inevitable things that we have to go through: heartbreak, family problems. I don't feel like some Quixotic idiot who says, 'We don't have to feel pain.' No! Let's feel it, let's make it work for ourselves. But I want us all to be able to get past it."--Drew Barrymore, actress

"I learned early on that family, as far as my mother and father, were not an option."--Drew Barrymore, actress

"Your attitude, not your aptitude, determines your altitude."--Robert Blume, day-camp sounselor

"When humor goes, there goes civilization."--Erma Bombeck, humorist source

"Take away love and our earth is a tomb."--Robert Browning, poet

"Glory remains unaware of my neglected dwelling here alone I sing my tearful song which has charms only for me."--Charles Brugnot, author

"You have only a short period of time to make your mark, and I'm there now."--George Clooney, actor

"I feel safe in white because, deep down inside, I'm an angel."--Sean "Puffy" Combs/ ("P. Diddy"), rapster

"The fire which seems out often sleeps beneath the cinders."--Pierre Corneille, author

"I don't think I'm too thin at all. I understand when people say, 'Well your face gets gaunt,' but to get your bottom half to be the right size, your face might have to be a little guant. You choose your battles."--Courteney Cox, actress

"I'm an earth sign, my wife is a water [sign.] Together, we make mud."--Rodney Dangerfield, comedian

"Growing up, I was the plain one. I had no style. I was the tough kid with the comb in the back pocket and the feathered hair."-Cameron Diaz, actress

"I have to remind my dad, 'Journalists - no matter how many cigars they smoke with you - are not your friends, so don't talk to them."--Cameron Diaz, actress

"Forever is composed of nows"--Emily Dickinson, poet source

"Taking me seriously is a big mistake. I certainlywouldn't."--Ani diFranco, singer

"My songs are just little letters to me."--Ani diFranco, singer

"I swear to God, I would marry the first person who asked me, just because it seems so completely impossible that anyone would ask."--Minnie Driver, actress

"Because you can't do anything without being caught."--David Duchovny, actor (on why fame is like being Catholic)

"Death be not proud."--John Dunne, poet

"I'm very mature for my age, but I'm also innocent in a lot of ways."--Kirsten Dunst, actress

"I wanted to get an angel wings tattooed on my back, as a guardian thing."--Kirsten Dunst, actress

"I'm just glad to be feeling better. I really thought I'd see Elvis soon."--Bob Dylan, singer (on his illness)

"It'a a little gross to put yourself in every song. I mean, how interesting do people really think you are?"--Jakob Dylan, singer

"This is the way the world ends: Not with a bang but a whimper."--T. S. Eliot, poet

"It'd be stupid for me to sit here and say that there aren't kids who look up to me, but my responsibility is not to them. I'm not a baby-sitter."--Eminem, rapster

"I'm a sex machine to both genders. It's all very exhasting. I need a lot of sleep."--Rupert Everett, actor

"I have nothing to complain about.. except maybe people wondering if a queen like me can be butch-it-up enough to play a convincing straight man."--Rupert Everett, actor

"The best plot can injure its maker, and often a man's perfidy will rebound on himself."--Jean de la Fontaine, author

"Because young men are so goddamn disappointing!"--Harrison Ford, actor (on why women like older leading men)

"I'm addicted to Altoids [mints.] I call them 'acting pills.'"--Harrison Ford, actor

"Necessity never made a good bargain."--Benjamin Franklin, printer

"Never confuse motion with action."--Benjamin Franklin, printer

"You can't shake hands with a clenched fist."--Indira Gandhi, leader

"I honestly do not think about celebrity or image or sexual expectations on me. It only comes up when people have a list of questions. But what I am told is that there is a quality that I have onscreen, where it's a little bit of everything."--Richard Gere, actor

"It's the hairspray."--Richard Gere, actor (on the secret or his enduring popularity)

"After about 20 years of marriage, I'm finally starting to scratch the surface of that one. and I think the answer lies somewhere between conversation and chocolate."--Mel Gibson, actor (on what women want)

"The Wolf Credo: Respect the elders. Teach the young. Cooperate with the pack. Play when you can. Hunt when you must. Rest in between. Share your afffections. Voice your feelings. Leave your mark."--Del Goetz, author

"Kids are at my level. I like goofing around with them."--John Goodman, actor

"With two movies opening this summer, I have no relaxing time at all. Whatever I have is spent in a drunken stupor."--Hugh Grant, actor (on his plans for the summer)

"Angelina Jolie may get him in bed for eight hours on a movie set, but I get him in bed every day."--Melanie Griffith, actress (on husband)

"The game may be rigged, but it's the only game in town." --Michael Jackson, singer

"I'm just like anyone. I cut and I bleed. And I embarass easily."--Michael Jackson, singer

"My whole goal is to keep my spirit intact. If that doesn't happen, none of this is worth it."--Jewel, singer

"I'd go from film to film and almost detach from one world and jump in another. I was living as these people and not having a self. I didn't know who I was. And things just get really dark."--Angelina Jolie, actress

"Sometimes I think [my husband] is so amazing that I don't know why he's with me. I don't know whether I'm good enough. But if I make him happy, then I'm everything I want to be."--Angelina Jolie, actress

"When I told my mom I wanted to act, her immediate response was 'No, no, no, no.' When I asked her why she said, 'You love to read books. Become an anthropologist.' Then I said, 'Mom, I'm going to be an actress no matter what you say.' It's funny because now my mother tells interviewers that she knew I was going to become an actress since I was a little girl."--Ashley Judd, actresss

"I was always told I was special. And I was also assured that I had a gift and a purpose."--Ashley Judd, actress

"When one door of happiness closes, another one opens; but often we look so long at the closed door that we do not see the one which has been opened for us."--Helen Keller, author

"No, I don't call him Kid Rock. I call him Bobby."--James King, actress (on her boyfriend, singer Kid Rock)

"My [manager] wants me to dress like a nun and I want to dress like a teenager."--Anna Kournikova, athlete

"I identify iwth women more than men. I guess I have a strong feminine side."--Lenny Kravitz, singer

"Anger is one letter away from danger."--Dave Lawson, health teacher

"When all men think alike, no one thinks very much."--Walter Lippmann, author

"It's only by the grace of God that I'm here today."--Brian Littrell, singer

" I swear to God, I don't remember anything [Gwyneth Paltrow] was in. Some people get hot by association. I heard more about her and Brad Pitt than I ever heard about her work."--Jennifer Lopez, singer/actress

"My parents wanted me to be a lawyer. But I don't think I would have been very happy. I'd be in front of the jury singing."--Jennifer Lopez, singer/actress

"Everything I buy is vintage and smells funny. Maybe that's why I don't have a boyfriend."--Lucy Liu, actress

"People say, 'He turned my head.' My head spun around on my body!"--Madonna, singer (on first meeting her husband)

"Ah...zero."--Madonna, singer (on how she rates as a wife 1-10)

"There are moments when I can't believe I'm as old as I am. But I feel better physically than I did 10 years ago. I don't think, 'Oh God, I'm missing something.'"--Madonna, singer

"He's very relaxed at the table, throwing his salad around willy-nilly. I didn't find him stiff at all."--Madonna, singer (on Prince Charles of Britisn royalty)

"The homosexual community wants me to be gay. The heterosexual community wants me to be straight. Every [writer] thinks, I'm the journalist who's going to make him talk. I pray for them. I pray that they get a life and stop living mine!"--Ricky Martin, singer

"Let's not blame Hollywood. We are stronger than that. We are not victims. You want to make a change? Prove it. You break the cycle. Now go. Get a milkshake and toast yourself. You are a woman. Look like one."--Tammy Lynn Michaels, actress

"You can't be as old as I am without waking up with a surprised look on your face every morning: ]Holy Christ, whaddya know - I'm still around!' It's absolutely amazing that I survived all the booze and smoking and the cars and the career."--Paul Newman, actor (on being 75 years old)

"It's the most amazing feeling to hold your child in your arms."--Chris O'Donnell, actor

"I'd love to be a dead body in the emergency room [on show ER] and have George Clooney go, 'This one's gone!' while he puts a sheet on me."--Rosie O'Donnell, comedienne

"I try to remember, as I hear about friends getting engaged, that it's not about the ring. It's a grave thing, getting married."--Gwyneth Paltrow

"Le coeur a ses raisons que la raison ne connait point."--Pascal, mathmetician ("The heart has its reasons whereof reason knows nothing.)

"Being maried means I can [break wind] and eat ice cream in bed."--Brad Pitt, actor

"For my own part: I have never had a thought which I could not set down in words, with even more distinctness than that which I conceived it. There is however a class of fancies of exquisite delicacy which are not thoughts and to which is yet, I have found, aboslutely impossible to adapt to language.
These fancies arise in the soul--alas, how rarely--only at epics of most intense tranquility, when body and mental health are in perfection. And at those near points of time, where the confines ofwakingworld land with the world of dreams. And so I captured this fancy, where all that we see or seen is but a dream within a dream...."--Edgar Allen Poe, author

"Fool me once,shame on you; fool me twice, shame on me."--Jon Rhodes, friend

"In a dark time, the eye begins to see."--Theodore Roethke, author source

"Nobody can make you feel inferior without your consent." -- Eleanor Roosevelt, philanthropist

"Rich gifts wax poor when givers be unkind."--William Shakespeare, playwrite source

"The complete truth is not the prerogative of the human judge."--Meir Shamgar, judge

"Shower the people you love with love."--James Taylor, singer

"It is only what is good in man that wastes and sithers there: Pale Anguish keep the heavy gate, and the warder is Despair."--Oscar Wilde, playwrite

"There may be a great fire in our heart, yet no one ever comes to warm himself at it, and the passers-by see only a wisp of smoke."--Vincent Van Gogh, artist source

"You can't go home again"--Thomaas Wolfe, author

"In China we don't consider someone truly beautiful until we have known them for a long time, and we know what is under the skin."--Zhang Ziyi, actress

"Every wave is a watersprite who swims in the currrent, each current is a path which snakes towards my palace, and my palace is fluidly built at the bottom of the lake, i the triangle of wearth, fire and water."--Emile Zola, author (On l'Opera de Paris)

"I do not despair in the least of ultimate triumph. I repeat it with intense conviction."--Emile Zola, author

"Ask not 'Why?' but 'Why not?'."--webmaster

"It is the 'what-might-have-beens' that will get to you every time. Carpe diem."--webmaster

"Live in the now, and for the moment; the hour and the future will take care of themselves."--webmaster

"Set your course by the stars, not by the lights of every passing ship."--webmaster

"Seven days without prayer makes one weak."--anonymous

"Words left unspoken will never be heard."--webmaster

"You can keep running away from yourself for only so long before you run out of places to hide. The nearest Exit sign is not always friendlier than Doors One, Two, and Three."--webmaster