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Quotes

  • Jennifer Finney Boylan:
    "The world is full of false hopes, most of them dumber than the hope of being transformed by love."
  • Hugh Macleod:
    “Good ideas come with a heavy burden; which is why so few people execute them. Few people can handle it.“


  • Fiona Glennane on meditation:
    “I want you to close your eyes and breathe deep. Picture a peaceful mountain stream. Can you do that? Picture yourself drowning the kidnapper in the stream.”
  • Sarah Haskins:
    "We used to just grow old and be spinsters. Now we have a lot of options: We can be spinsters or cougars."
  • The Doctor:
    "All that attitude, all that lip, 'cos all this time... you think you're not worth it. Shouting at the world 'cos no-one's listening. Well... why should they?"
  • Winter, the guy trying to visit all the Starbucks before they close:
    "Pointless though it might it be, a goal is a goal."
  • Carolyn Hax:
    Carlsbad, N.M.: How do I figure out what to be when I grow up? Carolyn Hax: I dunno, but it's easier if you grow up first, then figure it out. Otherwise you'll just change your mind when you get there.
  • Bobby Singer:
    "Are you under the impression that family is supposed to make you feel GOOD? Bake you an apple pie, maybe? They're SUPPOSED to make you miserable, that's why they're family!"
  • Dan Savage:
    "You want crazy frosting on sane cake."
  • fillyjonk on Susan Boyle:
    "What makes people stop laughing — or at least, what makes you stop caring if they do? The discovery that something about you is utterly remarkable."
  • Gregg Levoy:
    "Chaos is just going to throw on a tie-dye shirt and come to work with no pants on."
  • Carrie Fisher:
    "My mother always said to me, “Don’t be so hard on yourself, dear!” and I wanted to say, “Oh, okay! Then I won’t! I thought that it was a good thing to rough yourself up, but you say it’s not, so I’ll just stop! Thanks for the tip!”
  • deering:
    "Someone who wants to be a doctor or an engineer isn't told right off that bat that they are untalented, or impractical, or can't make it, ever. :P"
  • Jonathan Coulton:
    "This is the thing about the new landscape that drives everyone crazy: you can’t see inside the cow; you can only build one, feed it music, and wait for it to poop."
  • Andrew Ramer:
    "All life wobbles on this planet. Wobbles, or dances. As sometimes, when someone bumps into you on the dance floor, you turn to them with anger in your eyes. And sometimes, you turn to them and love stares back, and the bruise on your thigh was all worth it. So with Earth. It smiles, and rubs its hip. "When you understand fire, you no longer stick your hand in it, you contain it and cook with it. When you understand the wobble, you no longer fear it or hate it, you move with it, use it. And sometimes, when your life is a mess, when you've been in therapy for 57 years and you're still falling in love with the wrong person--stop blaming your parents or yourself. Stop and take a deep breath and say to yourself--I'm living on a world that wobbles on its axis. It has seasons and changes. And sometimes, what seems to be going wrong in my life isn't really a flaw in my nature. It's just that I haven't learned to wobble with the world yet. The Earth laughs at itself. Can you?"
  • Carolyn Hax:
    "Short description of a long process: Figure out the things that make you feel confident/fulfilled/energized; that give you a sense of purpose or accomplishment; that tap into your natural abilities and strengths; and that -don't- put you at the mercy of any one person, and orient your life around those. Often, this requires another step--concurrently or as a precursor--of reducing the role in your life of things that make you feel worthless/empty/exhausted; that require skills that don't come naturally; that feel like a waste of time; or that put you routinely at the mercy of others."
  • Kitty Norville:
    "People are always saying that to me--how can I possibly be a skeptic given what I am? Given how much I know about what's really out there, how can I turn my nose up at any half-baked belief that crosses my desk? Really, it's easy, because so many of them are half-baked. They're formulated by people trying to con other people and make a few bucks. The fact that some of this is real makes it even more important to be on our guard, to be that much more skeptical, so we can separate truth and fiction. Blind faith is still blind, and I try not to be."
  • Kitty Norville:
    "The supernatural world was like an onion. You peel back the layers, only to find more layers, on and on, hopelessly trying to reach the mysterious core. Then you start crying."
  • regicide is good for you:
    "Are ads even trying to sell anything anymore, or just keep us vaguely, constantly aware that there are generally things on sale somewhere nearby? I like this new model. People get paid to delight me, and I walk away still blissfully unaware of products."
  • Hanna Rosin:
    "One fleeting thing—an unearned pile of money, a one-night stand, a tattoo, a suddenly paralyzed teammate—can change your entire life. Accident and coincidence are more powerful than any God-driven holistic narrative."
  • B.J. Love (what a name, eh?):
    “People may think art is a waste of time because it’s not ‘goods’ that can be bought, sold and taxed, but down the road art is all we got. The only historical documents I've read from the 1860s are the Gettysburg address, a poetic speech, and Leaves of Grass and THAT is how I understand those times, and I think years from now, poetry will still be how we understand times, these time included.”
  • Seymour, "Burn Notice":
    "Don't argue with destiny. It will kick your ass."
  • NoStyleHere:
    "So I'm 48, good god man, and my experience is that every time you think life is finally starting to be less weird, it busts loose with a whole new *kind* of weird. Life ebbs and flows and changes and much of the joy of it is in its utter unpredictability."
  • Patricia Briggs:
    "As an author, I sometimes feel like the wicked witch. My job is to find someone happily minding their own business, and mess up their happy little lives until they're upset enough to get off their rump and go change something."
  • Elliot Bangs:
    "What the hell was I doing? I asked myself, more than once. But haven't you ever needed to follow a mystery past all the limits of common sense? Have you ever found yourself in a whole awful prison of a world in which every last familiar and sensible thing has finally come up hollow and pointless? Have you ever been left with nothing on which to stake all your hopes of transcendence, save one good leap into the abyss? It also suffices to say that the story would have ended here if it hadn't been for alcohol."
  • Elsa:
    For me it’s like being a horse… a thoroughbred. That "horse is born to run… pretty much that is why it is here. It can rest but the basic life is getting ready to run, running and then recovering from running. If you take a horse like that or a person like me and you tie them down, you are killing that horse. You are perverting nature. That horse is not going to thrive and God or the universe is going to be very pissed at you. He or it will also be pissed at the horse because what’s it doing standing there when it knows damned well it’s supposed to run?"
  • Carrie Fisher:
    "Now, keeping yourself impervious to mockery is a full time occupation. I’ve been working at it ever since I can remember."
  • Murdoc Niccals, The Gorillaz
    "Always be wary of people who use quotes." I don't know who said that."
  • flipside:
    "Following your heart through life is like following your feet across a piano."
  • The Doctor:
    "You want weapons? We're in a library. Books! Best weapons in the world. This room's the greatest arsenal we could have. Arm yourself."
  • Jessica Lovejoy:
    "You know what would be great? This totally impossible thing!"
  • D. Brian Burghart:
    "I’d like to be in love—if not with a person, then with a consuming new idea or project that will move me from the waiting for the next phase of my life to the real deal."
  • Anonymous:
    "If a cannibal can find someone to volunteer to be killed and eaten, surely our problems of finding the appropriate relationships to suit us are considerably more minimal."
  • Joss Whedon:
    "Honestly, it really is that little chaos factor. It's when the thing starts talking back to you. When you come up with something that is a little bit more than just a good reproduction of what was in the book, and somehow reflects you in a way that you didn't understand yourself: that's art."
  • Rasputin:
    "This is what has always bothered me about relationships. It’s never just you and your partner who get into one: It’s always you, your partner, and society. And that’s not a three-way I’m comfortable with."
  • Anonymous:
    It's funny how quickly your plans change from "changing the world and chasing your dreams" to "getting really fucking drunk."
  • Keith Olbermann:
    "You are asked now, by your country, and perhaps by your creator, to stand on one side or another. You are asked now to stand, not on a question of politics, not on a question of religion, not on a question of gay or straight. You are asked now to stand, on a question of...love. All you need do is stand, and let the tiny ember of love meet its own fate. You don’t have to help it, you don’t have it applaud it, you don’t have to fight for it. Just don’t put it out. Just don’t extinguish it. Because while it may at first look like that love is between two people you don’t know and you don’t understand and maybe you don’t even want to know...It is, in fact, the ember of your love, for your fellow **person… Just because this is the only world we have. And the other guy counts, too."
  • Lafayette from True Blood:
    "Ain't no freak gonna tell no other freak how to live."
  • Mitch Hedberg:
    "I'm tired of following my dreams. I'm just going to figure out where they're going, and hook up with them later."
  • Cathal Morrow:
    "Two truths I didn’t realise until just now: 1. I’ve always had the sense that my life is moving towards some sort higher truth 2. It’s not going particularly well"

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September 11, 2008

I'm really bored right now.

Copied from Lorena: "Go to www.musicoutfitters.com. Type the year of your high school graduation [or first year, if still in high school] into the search function. Retrieve the Top 100 songs from that year. Strike through the songs you hate(d). Underline the songs you like(d). Bold the songs you love(d). Leave blank those you don’t care about or don’t remember."

Things to note:

  • Hm, high school sure was angsty, given my preferences.
  • Man, I fucking hate that cowboys song. (Guess what the mascot was. Guess what song I heard a LOT of. P.S. cowboys spit like llamas.)
  • Clearly, I didn't feel strongly about the majority of these.

1. Candle In The Wind 1997, Elton John
          2. Foolish Games/You Were Meant For Me, Jewel
          3. I'll Be Missing You, Puff Daddy and Faith Evans
          4. Un-Break My Heart, Toni Braxton
          5. Can't Nobody Hold Me Down, Puff Daddy
          6. I Believe I Can Fly, R. Kelly
          7. Don't Let Go (Love), En Vogue
          8. Return Of The Mack, Mark Morrison
          9. How Do I Live, LeAnn Rimes
          10. Wannabe, Spice Girls
          11. Quit Playing Games (With My Heart), Backstreet Boys
          12. MMMBop, Hanson
          13. For You I Will, Monica
          14. You Make Me Wanna..., Usher
          15. Bitch, Meredith Brooks
          16. Nobody Keith Sweat
          17. Semi-Charmed Life, Third Eye Blind
          18. Barely Breathing, Duncan Sheik
          19. Hard To Say I'm Sorry, Az Yet Featuring Peter Cetera
          20. Mo Money Mo Problems, Notorious B.I.G.
          21. The Freshmen, Verve Pipe
          22. I Want You, Savage Garden
          23. No Diggity, BLACKstreet Featuring Dr. Dre
          24. I Belong To You (Every Time I See Your Face), Rome
          25. Hypnotize, Notorious B.I.G.
          26. Every Time I Close My Eyes, Babyface
          27. In My Bed, Dru Hill
          28. Say You'll Be There, Spice Girls
          29. Do You Know (What It Takes), Robyn
          30. 4 Seasons Of Loneliness, Boyz II Men
          31. G.H.E.T.T.O.U.T., Changing Faces
          32. Honey, Mariah Carey
          33. I Believe In You And Me, Whitney Houston
          34. Da' Dip, Freaknasty
          35. 2 Become 1, Spice Girls
          36. All For You, Sister Hazel
          37. Cupid, 112
          38. Where Have All The Cowboys Gone?, Paula Cole
          39. Sunny Came Home, Shawn Colvin
          40. It's Your Love, Tim McGraw and Faith Hill
          41. Ooh Aah... Just A Little Bit, Gina G
          42. Mouth, Merril Bainbridge
          43. All Cried Out, Allure Featuring 112
          44. I'm Still In Love With You, New Edition
          45. Invisible Man, 98 Degrees
          46. Not Tonight, Lil' Kim
          47. Look Into My Eyes, Bone Thugs-N-Harmony
          48. Get It Together, 702
          49. All By Myself, Celine Dion
          50. It's All Coming Back To Me Now, Celine Dion
          51. My Love Is The Shhh!, Somethin' For The People
          52. Where Do You Go, No Mercy
          53. I Finally Found Someon, Barbra Streisand and Bryan Adams
          54. I'll Be, Foxy Brown Featuring Jay-Z
          55. If It Makes You Happy , Sheryl Crow
          56. Never Make A Promise, Dru Hill
          57. When You Love A Woman, Journey
          58. Up Jumps Da Boogie, Magoo And Timbaland
          59. I Don't Want To/I Love Me Some Him, Toni Braxton
          60. Everyday Is A Winding Road, Sheryl Crow
          61. Cold Rock A Party, Mc Lyte
          62. Pony, Ginuwine
          63. Building A Mystery, Sarah McLachlan
          64. I Love You Always Forever, Donna Lewis
          65. Your Woman, White Town
          66. C U When U Get There, Coolio
          67. Change The World, Eric Clapton
          68. My Baby Daddy, B-Rock and The Bizz
          69. Tubthumping, Chumbawamba
          70. Gotham City, R. Kelly
          71. Last Night, Az Yet
          72. ESPN Presents The Jock Jam, Various Artists
          73. Big Daddy, Heavy D
          74. What About Us, Total
          75. Smile, Scarface
          76. What's On Tonight, Montell Jordan
          77. Secret Garden, Bruce Springsteen
          78. The One I Gave My Heart, w Aaliyah
          79. Fly Like An Eagle, Seal
          80. No Time, Lil' Kim
          81. Naked Eye, Luscious Jackson
          82. Macarena (Bayside Boys Mix), Los Del Rio (I don't care, it amuses me.)
          83. On and On, Erykah Badu
          84. Don't Wanna Be A Player, Joe
          85. I Shot The Sheriff, Warren G
          86. You Should Be Mine (Don't Waste Your Time), Brian McKnight Featuring Mase
          87. Don't Cry For Me Argentina, Madonna
          88. Someone, SWV
          89. Go The Distance, Michael Bolton
          90. One More Time, Real McCoy
          91. Butta Love, Next
          92. Coco Jamboo, Mr. President
          93. Twisted, Keith Sweat
          94. Barbie Girl, Aqua
          95. When You're Gone/Free To Decide, Cranberries
          96. Let Me Clear My Throat, DJ Kool
          97. I Like It, Blackout Allstars
          98. You're Makin' Me High/Let It Flow, Toni Braxton
          99. You Must Love Me, Madonna
          100. Let It Go, Ray J

Posted on September 11, 2008 at 10:37 AM in Quarterlife Crisis |

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