Reality is for people who lack imagination.
~ A bumper sticker
Lost in an image
In a dream
But there’s no one there to wake her up
And the world is spinning
And she keeps winning
But tell me, what happens when it stops.
~ Britney Spears, Lucky
“What the hell am I looking at? When does this happen in the movie?”
“Now. You’re looking at now, sir. Everything that’s happening now is happening now.”
“What happened to then?”
“We passed then.”
“When?”
“Just now. We’re at now, now.”
“Go back to then.”
“When?”
“Now.”
“Now?”
“Now!”
“I can’t.”
“Why?”
“We missed it.”
“When?”
“Just now.”
“…When will then be now.”
“Soon.”
~ Dark Helmet and Colonel Sanders, Spaceballs
We wear the mask that grins and lies,
It hides our cheeks and shades our eyes.
~ Paul Lawrence Dunbar
We can fly. We have wings.
We can touch floating dreams.
Call me from so far...
Through the wind in the light.
~ “Voices,” Macross Plus
Bought a ticket for the runaway train
Like a madman laughing at the rain:
A little out of touch, little insane
It’s just easier than dealing with the pain.
~ “Runaway Train,” Soul Asylum
How difficult it is to see even what’s in front of one’s eyes. All we possess is the present, and the present endlessly dissolves into the past.
~ Heisenberg, Copenhagen
“My friend, there is a thin line between coincidence and fate.”
~ Ardeth Bay, The Mummy Returns
“The polar opposite of nothingness is existence. In other words, when a pure wish is made by existence to call forth oblivion, it must itself return to oblivion.”
~ Xellos, Slayers NEXT
Why are there so many songs about rainbows
and what’s on the other side?
Rainbows are visions, but only illusions
and rainbows have nothing to hide.
So we’ve been told and some choose to believe it.
I know they’re wrong—wait and see.
Someday we’ll find it:
the Rainbow Connection.
The lovers, the dreamers and me.
~ “The Rainbow Connection,” Kermit the Frog
What does not change
is the will to change
~ Charles Olson
Knowledge transforms.
~ Psychology textbook, pg. 8
“Well, fiction is faster than truth. And cheaper.”
~ A screenwriter from The X-files
“Woosh. I’m invisible!...You can still see me, can’t you?”
“Just barely.”
~ Star Trek: DS9
Obscurity has a tale to tell.
~ Adrienne Rich
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