left alone

You shouldn't be told you're completely irresponsible and be left alone with too much medication. It's too easy to forget. You take a couple of sleeping pills and you wake up in twenty minutes and forget you've taken them. So you take a couple more, and the next thing you know you've taken too many.

--  Judy Garland

i will wait for you

I feel that there is reason lurking in you somewhere, so we will patiently grope round for it.

-- Arthur Conan Doyle, Sr.

in the end

The best portion of a good man's life is his little, nameless, unremembered acts of kindness and of love.

-- William Wordsworth

apple turnovers

If you have an apple and I have an apple and we exchange these apples then you and I will still each have one apple. But if you have an idea and I have an idea and we exchange these ideas, then each of us will have two ideas.

-- George Bernard Shaw

impermanence

Don't take life too seriously. It's only a temporary condition.

-- Bill Knapp

you go on ahead

I'm sick of following my dreams. I'm just going to ask them where they're going and hook up with them later.

-- Mitch Hedberg

incoming

They sicken of the calm, who know the storm.

-- Dorothy Parker

from some distance away

Somewhere we know that without silence words lose their meaning, that without listening speaking no longer heals, that without distance closeness cannot cure.

--Henri Nouwen

her hands

All societies on the verge of death are masculine. A society can survive with only one man; no society will survive a shortage of women.

-- Germain Greer

alt shift

I seldom end up where I wanted to go, but almost always end up where I need to be.

-- Douglas Adams

catnip seriousity

They talk of the dignity of work. The dignity is in leisure.

-- Herman Melville

no crossing

A lot of Christians wear crosses around their necks. You think when Jesus comes back he ever wants to see a fucking cross? It's like going up to Jackie Onassis wearing a rifle pendant.

-- Bill Hicks

transitive rockwellianism

On rare occasions one does hear of a miraculous case of a married couple falling in love after marriage, but on close examination it will be found that it is a mere adjustment to the inevitable.

-- Emma Goldman

really, now

Physicists have determined that even the most solid and heavy mass of matter we see is mostly empty space. But at the submicroscopic level, specks of matter scattered through a vast emptiness have such incredible density and weight, and are linked to one another by such powerful forces, that together they produce all the properties of concrete, cast iron and solid rock. In much the same way, specks of knowledge are scattered through a vast emptiness of ignorance, and everything depends upon how solid the individual specks of knowledge are, and on how powerfully linked and coordinated they are with one another.

-- Thomas Sowell

poetry for a rainy day

Life is a B Movie: it's stupid and it's strange, it's a directionless story, the dialogue is lame, but in the 'he said she said' sometimes there's some poetry, if you turn your back long enough and let it happen naturally.

-- Ani Difranco

no stranger than most

Fear makes strangers of people who would be friends.

-- Shirley MacLaine

I'll give you an answer in the morning

No drug, not even alcohol, causes the fundamental ills of society. If we're looking for the source of our troubles, we shouldn't test people for drugs, we should test them for stupidity, ignorance, greed and love of power.

-- P.J. O'Rourke

build around it

I think complexity is mostly sort of crummy stuff that is there because it's too expensive to change the interface.

-- Jaron Lanier

seasonally challenged

My sorrow, when she's here with me, thinks these dark days of autumn rain are beautiful as days can be; she loves the bare, the withered tree; she walks the sodden pasture lane.

-- Robert Frost

Two dangers constantly threaten the world: order and disorder.

--  Paul Valery