February 2012
19 posts
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“Life is a lot like jazz… it’s best when you improvise.”
– George Gershwin
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“Most people have to talk so they won’t hear.”
– May Sarton
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“Nature is neutral.”
– Adlai E. Stevenson
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“Art is too serious to be taken seriously.”
– Ad Reinhardt
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“The heart has its reasons of which reason knows nothing.”
– Blaise Pascal
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“The brighter you are, the more you have to learn.”
– Don Herold
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“Start every day off with a smile and get it over with.”
– W. C. Fields
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“I only ask to be free. The butterflies are free.”
– Charles Dickens
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“People who throw kisses are hopelessly lazy.”
– Bob Hope
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“No one wants advice - only corroboration.”
– John Steinbeck
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“I think music in itself is healing. It’s an explosive expression of...”
– Billy Joel
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“He has Van Gogh’s ear for music.”
– Billy Wilder
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“For me, singing sad songs often has a way of healing a situation. It gets the...”
– Reba McEntire
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“Composers shouldn’t think too much - it interferes with their plagiarism.”
– Howard Dietz
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“Classical music is the kind we keep thinking will turn into a tune.”
– Kin Hubbard
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“But when you get music and words together, that can be a very powerful thing.”
– Bryan Ferry
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“All music is beautiful.”
– Billy Strayhorn
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“All good music resembles something. Good music stirs by its mysterious...”
– Jean Cocteau
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“After silence, that which comes nearest to expressing the inexpressible is...”
– Aldous Huxley
January 2012
20 posts
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“So we beat on, boats against the current, borne back ceaselessly into the past.”
– F. Scott Fitzgerald
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“There’s a time and place for everything, and I believe it’s called...”
– Joss Whedon
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“I get obsessed by little nerdy things in my corner that no one else is...”
– Bjork
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“Simplicity is about subtracting the obvious, and adding the meaningful.”
– The Laws of Simplicity (by John Maeda, 2006.)
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“People sometimes act as though owning books you haven’t read constitutes a...”
– Jonathan Lethem
Anonymous asked: Hey, your "I mourn the loss of thousands of precious lives, but I will not rejoice in the death of one, not even an enemy." MLK quote wasn't actually said by MLK, I remember this from when it went around last year. Just thought I'd let you know. It does go along with what he believed, but he didn't actually say it and came about after the death of Osama.
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“Feeling gratitude and not expressing it is like wrapping a present and not...”
– William Arthur Ward
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“A jury is composed of twelve men of average ignorance.”
– Herbert Spencer
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“The earth is the very quintessence of the human condition.”
– Hannah Arendt
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“The art of writing is the art of discovering what you believe.”
– Gustave Flaubert
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“The sweetest of all sounds is that of the voice of the woman we love.”
– Jean de la Bruyere
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“One cannot and must not try to erase the past merely because it does not fit the...”
– Golda Meir
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“Yeah, thirteen of us against one bloke who’s not allowed to use magic…we’ve got...”
– Fred Weasley (Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows ch. 4)
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“I think that if I ever have kids and they are upset, I won’t tell them that...”
– Stephen Chbosky (The Perks of Being a Wallflower)
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“Simplicity is the ultimate sophistication.”
– Leonardo da Vinci
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“Love unlocks doors and opens windows that weren’t even there before.”
– Mignon McLaughlin
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“Great thoughts speak only to the thoughtful mind, but great actions speak to all...”
– Theodore Roosevelt
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“That is one big pile of shit.”
– Dr. Ian Malcolm (Jurassic Park) [Malcolm walks up to a huge mound of dino-droppings]
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“Mutation: it is the key to our evolution. It has enabled us to evolve from a...”
– Prof. Charles Francis Xavier (X-Men 2000)
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“We are the future, Charles, not them. They no longer matter.”
– Magneto (X-Men 2000)
December 2011
32 posts
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“You owe me a scream.”
– Sabertooth (X-Men 2000)
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“A wise man once said: “There are no perfect men in the world; only perfect...”
– Azeem (Robin Hood: Prince of Thieves)
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“Oh, Friar Tuck. It appears that I now have an outlaw for an in-law.”
– King Richard (Robin Hood)
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“You’re only given a little spark of madness. You mustn’t lose it.”
– Robin Williams
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“We had gay burglars the other night. They broke in and rearranged the furniture.”
– Robin Williams
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“If women ran the world we wouldn’t have wars, just intense negotiations...”
– Robin Williams
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“Do you think God gets stoned? I think so… look at the platypus.”
– Robin Williams
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“Cricket is basically baseball on valium.”
– Robin Williams
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“Ah, yes, divorce… from the Latin word meaning to rip out a man’s...”
– Robin Williams
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“See, the problem is that God gives men a brain and a penis, and only enough...”
– Robin Williams
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“They ask me where I’ve been,
And what I’ve done and seen.
But what...”
– Wilfred Gibson (Back)