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“And now it's time to say goodbye to all our company...”
— 
 4/6/2006 8:45:25 PM

“The happiest people are those who think the most interesting thoughts. Those who decide to use leisure as a means of mental development, who love good music, good books, good pictures, good company, good conversation, are the happiest people in the world. And they are not only happy in themselves, they are the cause of happiness in others.”
— William Lyon Phelps
 1/2/2006 6:03:54 AM

“Fear no darkness.”
— J.R.R. Tolkien
 The Return of the King | 1/28/2005 9:05:54 AM

“I like living. I have sometimes been wildly, despairingly, acutely miserable, racked with sorrow, but through it all I still know quite certainly that just to be alive is a grand thing.”
— Agatha Christie
 12/28/2004 2:22:36 PM

“Keep kicking against the darkness until it bleeds daylight.”
— Bruce Cockburn
 11/19/2004 9:18:57 AM

“I believe in the faith that grows, And the four right chords can make me cry, When I'm with you I feel like I could die. And that would be all right”
— Third Eye Blind
 Semi-Charmed Life | 10/12/2004 9:52:30 AM

“Find something you're passionate about and keep tremendously interested in it.”
— Julia Child
 9/27/2004 6:55:20 AM

“these are the days of miracle and wonder
this is the long distance call
the way the camera follows us in slo-mo
the way we look to us all
the way we look to a distant constellation
that's dying in a corner of the sky
these are the days of miracle and wonder
and don't cry baby, don't cry
don't cry

— Paul Simon
 "The Boy in the Bubble" lyrics | 8/2/2004 6:46:57 AM

“Hope fades
Into the world of night.
Through shadows falling,
Out of memory and time”

— Annie Lennox
 Into The West, Lord of the Rings Soundtrack | 5/19/2004 7:43:30 AM

“Home is behind
The world ahead
And there are many paths to tread
Through shadow
To the edge of night
Until the stars are all alight

Mist and shadow
Cloud and shade
All shall fade
All shall fade

— Lyrics from "The Steward of Gondor"
 4/22/2004 6:15:26 AM

“Human beings, who are almost unique in having the ability to learn from the experience of others, are also remarkable for their apparent disinclination to do so.”
— Douglas Adams
 3/17/2004 7:03:50 AM

“If you have only one smile in you, give it to the people you love. Don't be surly at home, then go out in the street and start grinning 'Good Morning' at total strangers.”
— Maya Angelou
 Singin' and Swingin' and Gettin' Merry Like Christmas | 3/15/2004 6:47:29 AM

“How wonderful it is that nobody need wait a single moment before starting to improve the world.”
— Anne Frank
 3/2/2004 8:01:01 AM

“When I think about services, I fundamentally prefer to call it HST, or Hooking Shit Together.”
— Don Box
 2/26/2004 10:31:38 AM

“Sometimes the heart sees what is invisible to the eye.”
— H. Jackson Brown Jr.
 2/25/2004 11:59:52 AM

“Not to have control over the senses is like sailing in a rudderless ship, bound to break to pieces on coming in contact with the very first rock. ”
— Mahatma Gandhi
 2/17/2004 7:52:24 AM

“Everyone has talent. What is rare is the courage to follow the talent to the dark place where it leads.”
— Erica Jong
 2/9/2004 12:00:27 PM

“Fear less, hope more;
Whine less, breathe more;
Talk less, say more;
Hate less, love more;
And all good things are yours

— Swedish Proverb
 2/4/2004 7:12:48 AM

“I've got so many pet peeves I should start a zoo.”
— the boy
 2/2/2004 8:27:27 AM

“Curiosity is a willing, a proud, an eager confession of ignorance.”
— Leonard Rubenstein
 1/28/2004 1:43:01 PM

“I got the ways and means
To new orleans
I’m going down by the river
Where it’s warm and green
I’m gonna have drink, and walk around
I got a lot to think about oh yeah”

— Concrete Blonde
 Bloodletting lyrics | 1/20/2004 8:07:31 AM

“Laughter. It is an igniter of great expectations.”
— Norman Cousins
 1/15/2004 7:39:58 AM

“Men occasionally stumble over the truth, but most of them pick themselves up and hurry off as if nothing had happened.”
— Sir Winston Churchill
 1/9/2004 8:30:24 AM

“There are only 10 types of people in this world: those who understand binary, and those who don't.”
— Computer One-Liners
 1/6/2004 8:54:27 AM

“Great spirits have always encountered violent opposition from mediocre minds.”
— Albert Einstein
 1/5/2004 6:52:56 AM

“Space Ghost, you must remember one thing: friends are just enemies who don't have the guts to kill you!”
— Judy Tenuta
 12/29/2003 1:44:19 PM

“A successful man is one who makes more money than a wife can spend. A successful woman is one who can find such a man.”
— Lana Turner
 12/2/2003 6:37:06 AM

“It's never enough until your heart stops beating
The deeper you get, the sweeter the pain
Don't give up the game until your heart stops beating. ”

— New Order
 Shellshock lyrics | 12/1/2003 7:01:11 AM

“Well I will go down with this ship
And I won't put my hands up and surrender
There will be no white flag above my door
I'm in love and always will be ”

— Dido
 White Flag Lyrics | 11/11/2003 1:13:14 AM

“I can't remember the last weekend I had where I didn't regret something. ”
— a fellow robot
 "people say" on happy robot | 11/10/2003 9:41:20 AM

“Do you see what I see
Why do we live like this
Is it because it’s true
that ignorance is bliss

— Jem
 "they" lyrics | 10/29/2003 6:27:14 AM

“Life it’s ever so strange
It’s so full of change
Think that you’ve worked it out then BANG
Right out of the blue
Something happens to you
To throw you off course and then you

Breakdown
Yeah you breakdown
Well don’t you breakdown
Listen to me
Because

It’s just a ride it’s just a ride
No need to run no need to hide
It’ll take you round and round
Sometimes you’re up sometimes you’re down
It’s just a ride it’s just a ride
Don’t be scared don’t hide you’re eyes
It may feel so real inside
But don’t forget it’s just a ride”

— Jem
 Just a Ride lyrics | 10/20/2003 6:29:28 AM

“You know what charm is: a way of getting the answer yes without having asked any clear question.”
— Albert Camus
 The Fall | 10/13/2003 5:49:50 AM

“Falling out of love is chiefly a matter of forgetting how charming someone is.”
— Iris Murdoch
 A Severed Head | 10/7/2003 2:55:57 PM

“There is no charm equal to tenderness of heart.”
— Jane Austen
 Emma | 10/6/2003 9:26:20 AM

“Just because someone doesn't love you the way you want them to, doesn't mean they don't love you with all they have.”
— anonymous
 9/22/2003 11:55:06 AM

“The worst case scenario has to happen to somebody.”
— me
 9/22/2003 8:11:00 AM

“Speaking from experience, there are people who have too much space between their ears, and given time, do nothing but free fall forever inside their heads.”
— James St. James
 Party Monster | 9/18/2003 7:34:24 AM

“Nobody can do two things at once, you know.”
— Lewis Carroll
 Through the Looking-Glass | 9/15/2003 8:59:33 AM

“All we have to decide is what to do with the time that is given to us.”
— J.R.R. Tolkien
 The Fellowship of the Ring | 9/8/2003 8:22:51 AM

“The rays of the sun greet my body
I am naked in your world
Come walk me through the garden
And fill me with your love
I've searched my whole life this life
For the reason that we cry
Just one kiss then I close my eyes”

— Me'Shell Ndegeocello
 Satisfy | 9/2/2003 8:05:02 AM

“Context is everything. Dress me up and see. I'm a carnival barker, an auctioneer, a downtown performance artist, a speaker in tongues, a senator drunk on filibuster.”
— Jonathan Lethem
 Motherless Brooklyn | 8/25/2003 7:43:31 AM

“Don't you wish you didn't function, wish you didn't think beyond the next paycheck and the next little drink. Well you do so make up your mind to go on, 'cos when you woke up this morning everything you had was gone.”
— Alabama 3
 "Woke Up This Morning" Lyrics | 8/18/2003 7:55:41 AM

“I wish that I believed in god cause I'd start praying right about now.”
— The Boy
 8/11/2003 10:57:58 AM

“Give Jesus a try. If that doesn't work out, the devil will take you back.”
— sign on a church
 8/8/2003 3:38:33 PM

“Knowledge is power. Power corrupts. Study hard. Be Evil.”
— Unknown
 8/6/2003 12:48:19 PM

“Been down one time
Been down two times,br> I'm never going back again”

— Fleetwood Mac
 8/6/2003 12:46:50 PM

“A kiss can be a comma, a question mark or an exclamation point. That's basic spelling that every woman ought to know.”
— Mistinguett
 7/28/2003 9:28:47 AM

“The body says what words cannot.”
— Martha Graham
 7/21/2003 9:56:46 AM

“I do not fear computers. I fear lack of them.”
— Isaac Asimov
 7/14/2003 10:29:29 AM

“Consistency is the last resort of the unimaginative.”
— Oscar Wilde
 7/7/2003 9:19:00 AM

“Courage is found in unlikely places. ”
— J. R. R. Tolkien
 The Fellowship of the Ring | 7/2/2003 12:40:09 PM

“Only the really plain people know about love -- the very fascinating ones try so hard to create an impression that they very soon exhaust their talents.”
— Katherine Hepburn
 7/1/2003 10:00:27 AM

“It wasn't a relationship. It was a four year mercy fuck.”
— Hugh Macleod
 6/30/2003 10:27:54 AM

“We're experiencing technical difficulties, please stand by... ”
— anonymous
 6/30/2003 10:12:15 AM

“I am only one; but still I am one. I cannot do everything, but still I can do something; I will not refuse to do something I can do.”
— Helen Keller
 6/23/2003 8:59:03 AM

“I Give Thanks For This World As A Place To Learn
And For This Human Body That I'm Glad To Have Earned
And My Deepest Thanks To All Sentient Beings
For Without Them There Would Be No Place To Learn What I'm Seeing ”

— Beastie Boys
 "Bodhisattva Vow" Lyrics | 6/18/2003 10:08:38 AM

“I'll put my suitcase here for now
I'll turn the TV to the bed
But if no-one calls and I don't speak all day
Do I disappear? ”

— Everything But the Girl
 "Single" lyrics | 6/17/2003 10:16:06 AM

“Tell me why
I don't like Mondays
I want to shoot
The whole day down ”

— Boomtown Rats
 "I Don't Like Mondays" lyrics | 6/16/2003 9:27:14 AM

“Year, n. A period of three hundred and sixty-five disappointments.”
— Ambrose Bierce
 Devil's Dictionary | 6/11/2003 9:56:42 AM

“Now I tell you openly
you have my heart so don't hurt me”

— The Cranberries
 "Dream" lyrics | 6/9/2003 2:52:07 PM

“Patience, n. A minor form of dispair, disguised as a virtue.”
— Ambrose Bierce
 The Devil's Dictionary | 6/6/2003 10:20:25 AM

“Insanity -- a perfectly rational adjustment to an insane world.”
— R. D. Lang
 6/4/2003 11:29:48 AM

“Men always want to be a woman's first love - women like to be a man's last romance.”
— Oscar Wilde
 6/3/2003 9:28:16 AM

“Being deeply loved by someone gives you strength; loving someone deeply gives you courage.”
— Lao-Tzu
 6/2/2003 8:59:41 AM

“I have a vocabulary, and I'm not afraid to use it.”
— overheard
 5/28/2003 8:53:27 PM

“The basis of optimism is sheer terror.”
— Oscar Wilde
 5/27/2003 8:52:49 AM

“The creative person is both more primitive and more cultivated, more destructive, a lot madder and a lot saner, than the average person.”
— Frank Barron
 5/21/2003 10:32:00 AM

“I step through every shade,
All the color you bring,
This time, this time, this time,
Is whatever I want it to mean. ”

— Beth Orton
 "Central Reservation" lyrics | 5/19/2003 11:09:11 AM

“Oh, yeah, you stand
For every known abuse that I've ever seen my way through
Don't I wish I knew better by now?
Well I think I'm starting to ”

— Beth Orton
 Stolen Car lyrics | 5/16/2003 2:24:16 PM

“In love the paradox occurs that two beings become one and yet remain two.”
— Erich Fromm
 5/14/2003 9:44:54 AM

“I wonder how it's going to be
When you don't know me
How's it going to be
When you're sure I'm not there
How's it going to be
When there's no one there to talk to
Between you and me
Cause I don't care”

— Third Eye Blind
 "How's It Going To Be" lyrics | 5/13/2003 9:36:08 AM

“Maybe someday,
Someday,
Someday
You'll come back to me”

— Joe Henry
 Monkey | 5/12/2003 11:11:34 AM

“Life's been so good to me
Has it been good to you
Has it been everything
That you expected it to be
Was it as good for you
As it was good for me
And was it everything
That it was all set up to be”

— Oingo Boingo
 Gratitude | 5/9/2003 10:03:02 AM

“Anger and jealousy can no more bear to lose sight of their objects than love.”
— George Eliot
 5/8/2003 8:57:51 AM

“The question is not whether we will die, but how we will live.”
— Joan Borysenko
 5/7/2003 2:52:45 PM

“Death is more universal than life; everyone dies but not everyone lives.”
— A. Sachs
 5/5/2003 9:03:06 AM

“Always forgive your enemies; nothing annoys them so much.”
— Oscar Wilde
 5/1/2003 9:49:23 AM

SUAC v. Acronym for "Shut Up and Color". How Marketing and Engineering departments often think (or wish) design should be done.”
— Jeff Veen
 4/30/2003 9:37:18 AM

“I'm so tired, of playing
Playing with this bow and arrow
Gonna give my heart away”

— Portishead
 Glory Box lyrics | 4/29/2003 1:11:27 PM

“Nothing can so pierce the soul as the uttermost sigh of the body. ”
— George Santayana
 4/28/2003 11:03:26 AM

“The world is a dangerous place to live, not because of the people who are evil, but because of the people who don't do anything about it.”
— Albert Einstein
 4/25/2003 9:03:04 AM

“Shyness has a strange element of narcissism, a belief that how we look, how we perform, is truly important to other people.”
— André Dubus
 4/24/2003 9:23:12 AM

“Without freedom, no art; art lives only on the restraints it imposes on itself, and dies of all others.”
— Albert Camus
 4/23/2003 9:08:50 AM

“It is better to die on your feet than to live on your knees!”
— Emiliano Zapata
 4/22/2003 10:10:48 AM

“Whenever you find yourself on the side of the majority, it's time to pause and reflect.”
— Mark Twain
 4/21/2003 9:07:42 AM

“Always design a thing by considering it in its next larger context -- a chair in a room, a room in a house, a house in an environment, an environment in a city plan.”
— Eliel Saarinen
 4/17/2003 11:40:55 AM

“The test of a first-rate intelligence is the ability to hold two opposed ideas in mind at the same time and still retain the ability to function.”
— F. Scott Fitzgerald
 4/14/2003 8:33:23 AM

“Back off. I have a vocabulary and I'm not afraid to use it.”
— overheard
 4/11/2003 2:04:49 PM

“The only thing necessary for the triumph of evil is for good men to do nothing.”
— Edmund Burke
 4/10/2003 12:35:38 PM

“There are only three sins - causing pain, causing fear, and causing anguish. The rest is window dressing.”
— Roger Caras
 4/9/2003 10:49:00 AM

“Death is the only inescapable, unavoidable, sure thing. We are sentenced to die the day we're born.”
— Gary Mark Gilmore
 3/31/2003 7:43:12 AM

“Courage is the price that life exacts for granting peace.”
— Amelia Earhart
 3/26/2003 7:48:37 AM

“No pessimist ever discovered the secret of the stars, or sailed to an uncharted land, or opened a new doorway for the human spirit.”
— Helen Keller
 3/25/2003 7:41:50 AM

“My site keeps going up and down like a VW van at a blues traveller concert.”
— (originally) Matt Johnson
 support email i sent to my hosting company this morning | 3/21/2003 8:02:52 AM

“Wars have never hurt anybody except the people who die.”
— Salvador Dali
 3/20/2003 7:40:40 AM

“All men who have achieved great things have been great dreamers.”
— Orison Swett Marden
 3/19/2003 9:54:57 AM

“99 Decision Street.
99 ministers meet.
To worry, worry, super-scurry.
Call the troops out in a hurry.
This is what we've waited for.
This is it boys, this is war.
The president is on the line
As 99 red balloons go by. ”

— Nena
 99 Red Balloons lyrics | 3/19/2003 9:03:13 AM

“Only a life lived for others is a life worthwhile.”
— Albert Einstein
 3/18/2003 7:59:25 AM

“We shall find peace. We shall hear the angels, we shall see the sky sparkling with diamonds.”
— Anton Chekhov
 3/17/2003 9:46:07 AM

“A good head and a good heart are always a formidable combination.”
— Nelson Mandela
 3/13/2003 8:39:28 AM

“Maybe a great magnet pulls
All souls towards truth
Or maybe it is life itself
That brings wisdom
To its youth”

— k.d. lang
 Constant Craving lyrics | 3/12/2003 8:25:44 AM

“Friendship often ends in love; but love in friendship — never.”
— Charles Caleb Colton
 3/11/2003 8:24:18 AM

“Throw your dreams into space like a kite, and you do not know what it will bring back, a new life, a new friend, a new love, a new country.”
— Anais Nin
 The Diaries of Anaïs Nin | 3/10/2003 7:57:18 AM

“Out of the bed at 6:15
In a rush and you can't think
Gotta catch the bus and train
I'm in a rush feelin' insane
I can't take this crazy pace
I've become a mental case
Yeah, this is the job that ate my brain ”

— The Ramones
 "The Job That Ate My Brain" lyrics | 3/7/2003 9:07:58 AM

“It's a dangerous business going out your front door.”
— J. R. R. Tolkien
 The Fellowship of the Ring | 3/6/2003 7:36:53 AM

“Most people would rather be certain they're miserable, than risk being happy.”
— Robert Anthony
 3/4/2003 11:08:24 AM

“The real test of friendship is: can you literally do nothing with the other person? Can you enjoy those moments of life that are utterly simple?”
— Eugene Kennedy
 3/3/2003 12:46:05 PM

“He who angers you conquers you.”
— Elizabeth Kenny
 2/28/2003 9:05:05 AM

“Love takes off masks that we fear we cannot live without and know we cannot live within.”
— James Baldwin
 2/27/2003 7:32:32 AM

“The art of love ... is largely the art of persistence.”
— Albert Ellis
 2/26/2003 11:48:41 AM

“No one can make you feel inferior without your consent.”
— Eleanor Roosevelt
 2/25/2003 8:27:44 AM

“Here comes the super copter
Here comes the noise it makes
The demon was an idea
The demon is awake ”

— Soul Coughing
 "Unmarked Helicopters" lyrics | 2/24/2003 7:24:01 AM

“I may not have gone where I intended to go, but I think I have ended up where I intended to be.”
— Douglas Adams
 2/21/2003 7:47:34 AM

“Do what you can where you are with what you have.”
— Theodore Roosevelt
 2/19/2003 8:01:12 PM

“Oh no, not again.”
— Douglas Adams
 The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy | 2/19/2003 7:55:44 AM

“We close our eyes and dream and the world has turned around again ”
— Oingo Boingo
 2/14/2003 8:13:03 AM

“This is not the face of an ingenue; this is an old soul in a new body — wary, wise to her own long past, on to the wiles of the world, and having miles to go before she sleeps. ”
— Sarah Ban Breathnach
 Something More | 2/13/2003 9:41:01 AM

“bombing NYC is so 2001”
— tim!
 robotchat | 2/13/2003 8:29:22 AM

“I say you'll miss me
And you always do
I say you'll miss me
Now would I lie to you”

— Culture Club
 Miss Me Blind | 2/13/2003 8:08:24 AM

“They sicken of the calm, who knew the storm.”
— Dorothy Parker
 2/12/2003 8:07:48 AM

“The meeting of two personalities is like the contact of two chemical substances: if there is any reaction, both are transformed.”
— Carl Jung
 2/11/2003 7:56:08 AM

“By the time you're thirty, your worst enemy is yourself.”
— Chuck Palahniuk
 Choke | 2/10/2003 7:30:32 AM

“And I would be the one
to hold you down,
kiss you so hard,
I'll take your breath away

— Sarah Mclachlan
 2/7/2003 3:02:38 PM

“Every heart sings a song, incomplete, until another heart whispers back. Those who wish to sing always find a song. At the touch of a lover, everyone becomes a poet. ”
— Platp
 2/4/2003 8:08:08 AM

“Since change is constant, you wonder if people crave death because it's the only way they can get anything really finished.”
— Chuck Palahniuk
 Survivor | 2/3/2003 7:33:34 AM

“my left brain knows that all love is fleeting
she's just looking for something new
and I said it once before but it bears repeating now ”

— The White Stripes
 Fell in Love With a Girl | 2/2/2003 9:23:57 PM

“Let me use your toothbrush
Have you got a clean shirt?
My panties in a wad
At the bottom of my purse
I walk into the street
The air's so cool
I'm wired and I'm tired
And I'm grinnin' like a fool”

— Joan Osborne
 Right Hand Man | 1/31/2003 7:57:01 AM

“Bad girl drunk by six
Kissing someone else's lips
Smoked too many cigarettes today
I'm not happy when I act this way ”

— Madonna
 Bad Girl | 1/30/2003 8:11:44 AM

“...it's so easy to be honest with a big enough audience. You can say anything if enough people will listen.”
— Chuck Palahniuk
 Invisible Monsters | 1/29/2003 7:39:05 AM

“The difference between the possible and the impossible lies in a person's determination.”
— Tommy Lasorda
 1/28/2003 2:24:21 PM

“More and more, it feels like I'm doing a really bad impersonation of myself. My life makes about as much sense as a Zen koan.”
— Chuck Palahniuk
 Choke | 1/27/2003 8:02:22 AM

“A common mistake that people make when trying to design something completely foolproof is to underestimate the ingenuity of complete fools. ”
— Douglas Adams
 1/26/2003 9:12:02 PM

“The trick to forgetting the big picture is to look at everything close-up. The shortcut to closing a door is to bury yourself in details.”
— Chuck Palahniuk
 Lullaby | 1/23/2003 7:58:36 AM

“I love deadlines. I like the whooshing sound they make as they fly by.”
— Douglas Adams
 1/21/2003 7:45:56 AM

“You have to know the past to understand the present. ”
— Carl Sagan
 1/17/2003 7:52:43 AM

“The extreme always seems to make an impression. ”
— Jason Dean
 Heathers | 1/16/2003 11:27:18 AM

“We love life, not because we are used to living but because we are used to loving. ”
— Friedrich Nietzsche
 1/15/2003 7:45:44 AM

“We come to love not by finding a perfect person, but by learning to see an imperfect person perfectly. ”
— Sam Keen
 1/14/2003 8:11:14 AM

“I can resist everything except temptation”
— Oscar Wilde
 1/13/2003 8:32:38 AM

“Damn it feels good to be a gangsta.”
— Geto Boys
 1/10/2003 6:44:04 AM

“Yeah, just be yourself
It doesn't matter if that's good enough for someone else”

— Jimmy Eat World
 "The Middle" song lyrics | 1/8/2003 2:05:56 PM

“Your work is to discover your work and then with all your heart to give yourself to it. ”
— Buddha
 1/6/2003 5:41:41 AM

“When you see a truck bearing down on you, by all means jump out of the way. But spend some time in meditation, too. Learning to deal with discomfort is the only way you'll be ready to handle the truck you didn't see.”
— Bhante Henepola Gunaratana
 Mindfulness in Plain English | 1/3/2003 7:29:37 AM

“It's a nice day to start again.”
— Billy Idol
 White Wedding | 12/31/2002 9:15:05 AM

“I generally avoid temptation unless I can't resist it.”
— Mae West
 12/30/2002 9:54:59 AM

“Compassion is the willingness to play in the field of dreams even though you are awake.”
— Matthew Flickstein
 Swallowing the River Ganges | 12/26/2002 11:14:01 AM

“The stars say this is a good week for romance, but lately you've been getting the feeling they're not talking about you.”
— The Onion
 12/20/2002 10:16:38 AM

“The only way to get rid of temptation is to yield to it.”
— Oscar Wilde
 The Picture of Dorian Gray | 12/19/2002 10:58:23 AM

“I pass the test. I will diminish, and go into the West and remain Galadriel”
— J.R.R. Tolkien
 The Lord of the Rings | 12/18/2002 1:37:15 PM

“No temptation can ever be measured by the value of its object.”
— Colette
 Eartly Paradise | 12/17/2002 7:59:07 AM

“The biggest human temptation is to settle for too little.”
— Thomas Merton
 12/14/2002 12:59:13 PM

“a flush would be nice.”
— me
 12/10/2002 10:36:52 AM

“thank goodness it's me, cause no one else could swallow this shit as well as I can.”
— bogwan glass blower mentor
 12/9/2002 12:46:31 AM

“A friend is one who knows all about you and likes you anyway. ”
— Christi Mary Warner
 12/4/2002 8:40:24 AM

“Hook me up a new revolution
Cause this one is a lie
We sat around laughing and watched the last one die ”

— Foo Fighters
 Learn to Fly lyrics | 12/3/2002 9:20:48 AM

“Somewhere, something incredible is waiting to be known. ”
— Carl Sagan
 12/2/2002 8:16:53 AM

“Then an angel would come
With burning eyes like stars
And bury us deep
In his velvet arms

— The Cure
 "If only tonight we could sleep" lyrics | 11/27/2002 12:23:26 AM

“Actually I don't know if honesty is a strength or some kind of weakness.”
— Ani DiFranco
 11/26/2002 8:51:50 AM

“Action may not always bring happiness; but there is no happiness without action. ”
— Benjamin Disraeli
 11/22/2002 9:56:43 AM

“I am always doing that which I can not do, in order that I may learn how to do it.”
— Pablo Picasso
 11/21/2002 9:53:27 AM

“The eye sees only what the mind is prepared to comprehend.”
— Henri Bergson
 11/19/2002 10:07:23 AM

“Beauty is not caused. It is. ”
— Emily Dickinson
 11/18/2002 10:55:36 AM

“Each friend represents a world in us, a world possibly not born until they arrive, and it is only by this meeting that a new world is born. ”
— Anaïs Nin
 11/13/2002 6:14:05 AM

“Common sense is the collection of prejudices acquired by age eighteen. ”
— Albert Einstein
 11/12/2002 6:23:22 AM

“The worst solitude is to be destitute of sincere friendship. ”
— Sir Francis Bacon
 11/11/2002 9:54:27 AM

“Practice makes perfect. But on-the-fly makes art.”
— Danielle Egnew
 11/8/2002 9:36:13 AM

“Technology must not outweigh our humanity.”
— Albert Einstein
 11/5/2002 10:02:07 AM

“Try again, fail again, fail better.”
— Samuel Becket
 11/4/2002 8:27:39 AM

“Let all that you do be done in love.”
— Paul
 Letter to the Corinthians | 10/31/2002 12:16:11 PM

“The hard and stiff will be broken. The soft and supple will prevail.”
— Tao Te Ching
 10/30/2002 9:43:11 AM

“Love, and do what you like.”
— S. Agostino
 10/29/2002 10:03:32 AM

“I am her tree, she is my heart engraved.”
— J. Prévert
 10/28/2002 9:23:45 AM

“All God does is watch us and kill us when we get boring. We must never, ever be boring.”
— Chuck Palahniuk
 Invisible Monsters | 10/24/2002 10:03:56 AM

“One must still have chaos within in oneself to be able to give birth to a dancing star.”
— Friedrich Nietzsche
 10/23/2002 11:29:53 AM

“finish each day and be done with it. you have done what you could. some blunders and absurdities have crept in; forget them as soon as you can. tomorrow is a new day. you shall begin it serenely and with too high a spirit to be encumbered with your old nonsense.”
— emerson
 10/22/2002 10:02:10 AM

“The blood blooms clean
In you, ruby.
The pain
You wake to is not yours.”

— Silvia Plath
 10/21/2002 9:30:56 AM

“Stick your hand in every bush you can. You never know which one has the rabbit inside”
— Damyan Popchristov
 chris quoting his drama teacher | 10/15/2002 11:27:18 PM

“(If you want to know the truth, I listened to some of Jimmy Eat World's music, and I actually liked it. Of course I would never say so in public, for fear of destroying the band's credibility with Crestview Middle School.)”
— Dave Barry
 The Miami Herald (via happyrobot) | 10/14/2002 10:01:37 PM

“Who do you need,
Who do you love
When you come undone ”

— Duran Duran
 Come Undone | 10/10/2002 8:50:08 AM

“Nihilism is best done by professionals.”
— Iggy Pop
 10/9/2002 8:47:20 AM

“Celibacy and suicide are a similar levels of understanding, suicide and a martyr’s death not so by any means, perhaps marriage and a martyr’s death. ”
— Franz Kafka
 10/8/2002 9:59:01 AM

“If I fail, it will be for lack of ability, and not of purpose.”
— Abraham Lincoln
 10/7/2002 10:29:20 AM

“You're like a butch Lara Croft.”
— Zach
 in reference to me | 10/4/2002 10:26:10 AM

“Sex is. There is nothing more to be done about it. Sex builds no roads, writes no novels and sex certainly gives no meaning to anything in life but itself.”
— Gore Vidal
 10/3/2002 10:37:38 AM

“This body is not yours, nor does it belong to others. It should be seen as the product of the whole of history. In regard to it the wise person will reflect on the nature of conditioning, saying: If this comes into being, that will arise; if this does not come into being, that will not arise.”
— Samyutta Nikaya
 10/2/2002 9:48:04 PM

“and if it were only possible we'd fall asleep together like children and dream...”
— Rilke
 9/29/2002 12:57:29 PM

“I should have thought things through
I'm holding out
But not getting an answer
I want to do right by you
I'm finding out
That cheating gets it faster ”

— Jimmy Eat World
 9/27/2002 8:26:54 AM

“I don't give a fuck what you think about this shit, ain't in it for the money never out to make a hit. ”
— Quarashi
 Stick 'em Up lyrics | 9/26/2002 11:41:12 AM

“Live hard, love fast, and don't let anyone use your comb.”
— Garth Sheaffer
 his brother | 9/25/2002 8:03:47 AM

“Whoever writes in blood and aphorisms wants not to be learned but to be learned by heart.”
— Friedrich Nietzsche
 9/24/2002 8:15:23 AM

“He wanted to make me happy. My wish was his command.”
— Anna Nicole Smith
 9/23/2002 2:21:44 PM

“Now I'm not looking for absolution
Forgiveness for the things I do
But before you come to any conclusions
Try walking in my shoes ”

— Depeche Mode
 Walking in My Shoes | 9/19/2002 8:45:37 AM

“I wanna always feel like
Part of this was mine
I wanna fall in love tonight ”

— Jimmy Eat World
 a praise chorus lyrics | 9/18/2002 9:07:33 AM

“this is the time to stop
consider it all
and this is the time to live ”

— Love Spit Love
 Well, Well, Well lyrics | 9/17/2002 10:25:26 AM

“I guess I'm doing OK, I moved in with the strangest guy.
Can you believe he actually thinks that I am really alive.”

— Everclear
 I Will Buy You a New Life Lyrics | 9/16/2002 10:00:01 AM

“Lust is to the other passions what the nervous fluid is to life; it supports them all, lends strength to them all ... ambition, cruelty, avarice, revenge, are all founded on lust.”
— Marquis de Sade
 9/12/2002 8:46:05 AM

“...today, the city is in mourning. It is haunted.”
— David Willems
 Palaver #52 | 9/11/2002 8:19:52 AM

“Rolling Rock going down like a prom date drunk on wine coolers.”
— Tim!
 via IM | 9/10/2002 8:16:47 AM

“The thing is, I like my evil like my men: evil. You know, straight-up, black-hat, tie-you-to-the-railroad-tracks, soon-my-electro-ray-will-destroy-Metropolis bad. Not all mixed up with guilt and the destruction of an indigenous culture. ”
— What Would Buffy Do?
 9/9/2002 3:19:33 PM

“Wisdom consists of the anticipation of consequences.”
— Norman Cousins
 9/4/2002 7:03:39 AM

“All autobiography is self-indulgent.”
— Daphne du Maurier
 9/3/2002 10:06:20 AM

“Holden: Describe in single words only the good things that come into your mind about... your mother.

Leon: My mother?

Holden: Yeah.

Leon: Let me tell you about my mother.

[Shoots him] ”

— Blade Runner
 9/2/2002 11:22:27 AM

“Memo to the movies: if you’re gonna shoot all movies in Canada, just tell me all movies take place in Canada. Don’t tell me Montreal is New York. Rumble in the Bronx? Yeah and the Bronx is populated entirely by French-speaking white people.”
— Jeff Eyres
 The Notebook | 8/31/2002 1:44:57 PM

“Sex. In America an obsession. In other parts of the world a fact.”
— Marlene Dietrich
 8/30/2002 9:55:26 AM

“This is my BOOM STICK!”
— Ash
 Army of Darkness | 8/29/2002 8:15:51 AM

“him: cherry halls... do i even want to know what that means?
me: i'm cherry halls
him: what... you're a porn star or something
me: no. just a gamer.”

— converstation held at globix
 8/28/2002 6:17:50 AM

“cherry.halls”
— user/pass combo
 8/27/2002 8:41:39 PM

“You have to get busy living or get busy dying.”
— Stephen King
 The Shawshank Redemption | 8/27/2002 7:58:31 AM

“To make an apple pie from scratch, you must first invent the universe.”
— Carl Sagan
 Cosmos | 8/26/2002 9:18:07 AM

“Evil, wicked or angel
Just give me a man
Evil, wicked or
Angel ”

— Bronski Beat
 "Need a Man Blues" lyrics | 8/25/2002 1:59:41 PM

“A divorce is like an amputation; you survive, but there's less of you.”
— Margaret Atwood
 8/21/2002 9:30:42 AM

“I believe that it';s better to be looked over than it is to be overlooked.”
— Mae West
 Belle of the Nineties | 8/20/2002 8:40:17 AM

“Never let the other fellow set the agenda.”
— James Baker
 8/19/2002 9:10:43 AM

“So often when we say “I love you” we say it with a huge “I” and a small “you.””
— Antony, Russian Orthodox Archbishop of England
 8/16/2002 9:42:52 AM

“It isn’t necessary to imagine the world ending in fire or ice—there are two other possibilities: one is paperwork, and the other is nostalgia.”
— Frank Zappa
 8/15/2002 9:05:21 AM

“I want to infiltrate something pure and destroy it. But only for a little while. ”
— Tim
 robotchat | 8/14/2002 9:01:14 AM

“A tiger can smile
A snake will say it loves you
Lies make us evil”

— Chuck Palahniuk
 Fight Club | 8/13/2002 6:58:13 AM

“This week the bathroom is my bitch.”
— Tim
 robotchat | 8/12/2002 9:09:16 AM

“Treat the world well. It was not given to you by your parents but lent to you by your children.”
— Ida B. Wells
 8/11/2002 11:40:45 AM

“Give curiosity freedom.”
— Eudora Welty
 8/8/2002 8:46:48 AM

“You can't test courage cautiously”
— Ann Dillard
 8/7/2002 8:14:15 AM

“Be bold in what you stand for and careful what you fall for.”
— Ruth Boorstin
 8/6/2002 8:29:59 AM

“We're wasting more energy than Ricky Martin's girlfriend.”
— Groundskeeper Willie
 The Simpsons | 8/5/2002 8:23:23 AM

“goodbye mba guy, sorry you didn't last”
— me
 robot chat | 8/2/2002 8:37:03 AM

“sleep tangiers (hookers optional) ”
— matt
 from brooklyn to iberia | 8/1/2002 9:56:25 AM

“OK, 3, 2, 1... Let's jam!”
— Cowboy Bebop
 7/29/2002 9:43:26 AM

“congratulations on your unemployment.”
— Mike Waddell
 via im | 7/25/2002 1:45:28 PM

“Is it your vagina?”
— woman in group walking away from bar
 overheard on the street | 7/24/2002 9:25:11 AM

“Concentration practice strengthens and softens the mind. That's not a paradox. It's true.”
— Sylvia Boorstein
 It's Easier Than You Think | 7/22/2002 10:40:45 AM

“Follow your bliss and doors will open where there are no doors.”
— Joseph Campbell
 7/21/2002 2:17:33 PM

“ah, si. fucking spanish, always dropping the subject of a sentence into the fucking trash. just throw a verb in there, they'll figure out the subject because of the conjugation. lazy fucking spaniards. with their stupid lisp.”
— Matt Johnson
 via IM | 7/18/2002 9:15:16 AM

“I smell like old spice. and teriyaki sauce. And bounce sheets. ”
— Adina
 pony | 7/17/2002 1:24:48 PM

“This is fish number six hundred and forty-one in a lifetime of goldfish. My parents bought me the first one to teach me about loving and caring for another living breathing creature of God. Six hundred and forty fish later, the only thing I know is everything you love will die. The first time you meet that someone special, you can count on them one day being dead and in the ground."”
— Chuck Palahniuk
 Survivor | 7/16/2002 9:43:59 AM

“I want to share something with you — the three little sentences that will get you through life. Number one, “Cover for me.” Number two, “Oh, good idea, boss.” Number three, “It was like that when I got here.”
— Homer Simpson
 7/15/2002 9:34:52 AM

“Pour my life into a paper cup
The ashtray's full and I'm spillin' my guts”

— Red Hot Chili Peppers
 "otherside" lyrics | 7/13/2002 12:10:04 PM

“Which part of the silence are they claiming you nicked?"”
— Mike Batt's mom
 7/12/2002 4:37:45 PM

“Its good to be the king.”
— History of the World Part I
 Mel Brooks | 7/11/2002 10:46:31 AM

“Six Degrees of Separation from Your Momma: Kevin Bacon was in Apollo 13 with Tom Hanks who was in Saving Private Ryan with Matt Damon who was in Good Will Hunting with Ben Affleck who was in Chasing Amy with Joey Lauren Adams who was in Big Daddy which is what your momma calls me when I nail her.”
— Tatsuya Ishida
 sinfest | 7/10/2002 10:30:28 AM

“Why hate someone for the color of their skin when there are much better reasons to hate them. ”
— Denis Leary
 7/9/2002 8:03:42 AM

“In what previous life
Did someone assign this fate:
Undersash so tight,
And condemned to live alone
With no one to untie it.”

— the Nun Abatsu
 book of Japanese poetry | 7/8/2002 10:18:15 AM

“I'm making goofy jokes about it because I think that we are a young species that often fucks with things we don't know how to unfuck. ”
— Tycho Brahe
 penny arcade | 7/6/2002 11:26:04 AM

“The day drags by like a wounded animal.”
— Siouxsie and the Banshees
 lyrics to "92 degrees" | 7/4/2002 1:10:09 PM

“Vaya con Dios, Matt!”
— Liz
 7/3/2002 10:26:01 AM

“Good old days would kill off this generation in a weeks time.”
— Rita Van Amber
 Stories and Recipes of the Great Depression of the 1930's
(thanks, carolyn
| 7/1/2002 5:05:38 PM


“Its a cruel, cruel summer leaving me here on my own.”
— Bananarama
 lyrics from cruel summer | 7/1/2002 12:07:17 PM

“When someone asks you if you're a god, you say YES! ”
— Winston Zeddmore
 Ghostbusters | 6/28/2002 10:52:02 AM

“If a man cannot choose, he ceases to be a man. ”
— Anthony Burgess
 A Clockwork Orange | 6/27/2002 9:43:13 AM

“Three o'clock is always too late or too early for anything you want to do.”
— Sartre
 6/26/2002 10:35:41 AM

“I'm going to stab you now.”
— Tycho Brahe
 penny arcade | 6/24/2002 8:36:46 AM

“I could confine myself to a nutshell and declare myself king of infinity.”
— William Shakespeare
 Hamlet | 6/21/2002 12:18:17 PM

“bring it, you invisible cock”
— cherry halls [sb]
 quake iii team arena | 6/20/2002 8:07:35 AM

“Usually when I eat mint, I sneeze.”
— Adina
 pony | 6/19/2002 10:54:13 AM

“And that’s all I can really control is what’s in my head. ”
— Tim
 love stinks | 6/18/2002 1:00:16 PM

“All you need is ignorance and confidence; then success is sure.”
— Mark Twain
 6/17/2002 9:32:07 AM

“Sam will kill him if he tries anything.”
— everyone but Sam
 The Very Secret Lord of the Rings Diaries | 6/16/2002 12:46:10 PM

“During the healing process, small sharp fragments of bone may loosen and work their way up through the gum. These fragments usually come out of their own accord, but if annoying, return to the office for their removal.”
— Dental aftercare instructions
 6/14/2002 6:58:20 AM

“A life without charm creates angry people.”
— Iggy Pop
 6/12/2002 12:56:51 PM

“Breathe out
so I can breathe you in”

— Foo Fighters
 Everlong | 6/11/2002 12:28:05 PM

“if i hear "rock you like a hurricane" one more time i'll fucking shit a pony”
— matt
 im conversation | 6/8/2002 8:31:47 PM

“tell me what do i need when the words loose their meaning ”
— jimmy eat world
 sweetness | 6/7/2002 1:03:12 PM

“Time, time, time, see what's become of me.”
— Simon & Garfunkel
 Hazy Shade of Winter | 6/6/2002 2:15:05 PM

“Beware of those angels with their wings glued on. ”
— Bille Corgan
 Smashing Pumpkins | 6/5/2002 12:10:44 PM

“We live in a society exquisitely dependent on science and technology, in which hardly anyone knows anything about science and technology. ”
— Carl Sagan
 6/4/2002 11:54:41 AM

“u gonna be like whoa...
like how?
like… whoa!!!! this guy is sick”

— unknown peeps
 an im conversation posted here | 6/3/2002 10:03:14 AM

“Life moves pretty fast. If you don't stop and look around once in a while, you could miss it. ”
— Matthew Broderick
 Ferris Bueller's Day Off | 6/1/2002 10:42:49 AM

“She's crafty - and she's just my type.”
— Beastie Boys
 Ill Communication | 5/28/2002 7:17:43 AM

“It's impossible, Lois could never have Superman's baby. Do you think her fallopian tubes could handle his sperm? I guarantee he blows a load like a shotgun, right through her back. What about her womb, you think it's strong enough to carry his child? ”
— Brodie
 Mallrats | 5/27/2002 12:51:06 PM

“He came at me from the Brooklyn Bridge. He flew straight outta Brooklyn.”
— David, my brother
 describing my father's anger | 5/25/2002 12:55:08 PM

“Fuck Fox Mulder, but do not Fuck David Duchovney.”
— Tim!
 happyrobot | 5/23/2002 10:17:48 AM

“Just type that into the internet?”
— Random Customer
 Support Chat | 5/22/2002 9:05:58 AM

“So, reviewers: be more bawdy! Talk about balls and use the f-word.”
— Tycho Brahe
 Penny Arcade | 5/21/2002 12:07:27 AM

“PDA = Personal Display of Affluence”
— Mike Everett-Lane
 IM conversation | 5/17/2002 9:45:33 AM

“I'd like to say I'll take the time to find it but I'll be too busy fragging your ass.”
— Mike Waddell
 IM chat with Matt | 5/16/2002 9:35:35 AM

“Life is wasted on the living.”
— Douglas Adams
 The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy | 5/15/2002 9:38:25 AM

“Put your head in a cow's vagina and wait until a bull penetrates your anus.”
— once heard at a fishing port in Cape Town
 The Alternative Dictionaries - Afrikaans | 5/14/2002 9:33:42 AM

“groot cana!”
— gabe
 5/13/2002 11:39:01 AM

“uncle fucking slowjack”
— clement
 5/10/2002 9:28:04 AM

“And no, this is not just a Jew thing. And anyway we are all Jews.”
— Cynthia Heimel
 "The Heimel Maneuver" | 5/8/2002 9:41:37 AM

“You're wrong. She is a phony. But on the other hand you're right. She isn't a phony because she's a real phony. She believes all this crap she believes.”
— Truman Capote
 Breakfast at Tiffany's | 5/7/2002 6:28:38 AM

“I don't fucking get this computer thing sometimes.”
— nyu student
 5/6/2002 9:56:20 AM

“If you must tell me your opinions, tell me what you believe in. I have plenty of doubts of my own.”
— Goethe
 5/5/2002 6:51:24 AM

“I gain strength, courage and confidence by every experience in which I must stop and look fear in the face.... I say to myself, I've lived through this and can take the next thing that comes along.”
— Eleanor Roosevelt
 5/4/2002 12:08:09 PM

“She'd wear shades of lipstick you'd expect to see around the base of a penis.”
— Chuck Palahniuk
 Invisible Monsters | 5/3/2002 9:47:05 AM

“What a great girl! As it turns out, she had been keeping an eye on me since our first encounter. Okay, maybe "stalking" is a more accurate term.”
— Stacey Richter
 "The Ocean" | 5/2/2002 10:07:14 AM

“You know you're doing better on your own, so don't buy in.”
— Jimmy Eat World
 song lyrics from
"The Middle"
| 5/1/2002 10:11:25 AM


“Honey, your current relationship isn't going to work out.”
— some chick at a bar
 overheard cell phone conversation | 4/29/2002 11:01:50 AM

“What a wicked thing to do, to make me dream of you.”
— Chris Isaak
 song lyric from "Wicked Game" | 4/26/2002 9:20:08 AM

“Severance is just the name of the hooks that they had in my ball sack.”
— Matt
 via Instant Messenger | 4/25/2002 9:38:07 AM

“I've been defending this flag since you were in your father's scrotum.”
— Girl with Penguin
 Daily Victim | 4/24/2002 10:08:54 AM

“When I say "you" I mean me, and I really mean my erect penis. ”
— Tim
 happyrobot | 4/23/2002 10:47:41 AM

“And don't tell me, 'I don't wear underpants, I'm a dancer.' You're not a dancer. If you were a real dancer you wouldn't be here. You're an elf and you're going to wear panties like an elf.”
— David Sedaris
 Holidays on Ice | 4/22/2002 9:40:44 AM

“The one you love and the one who loves you are never, ever the same person.”
— Chuck Palahniuk
 Invisible Monsters | 4/19/2002 4:43:22 PM