December 31, 2010

I said to my soul, be still and wait... so the darkness shall be the light, and the stillness the dancing. ~ T. S. Eliot

December 30, 2010

If voting could change something, it would be illegal. ~ graffiti on a Montreal building

December 29, 2010

I tried to see things from your point of view, but I couldn't put my head that far up my ass. ~ Liam Gallagher

December 28, 2010

Love your enemies.  They'll hate it.  ~ Unknown

December 27, 2010

No one had ever called me beautiful... I was not lured into believing myself anything but rather plain. ~ Maya Angelou (from "Wouldn't Take Nothing for My Journey Now")

December 26, 2010

The fact is that far more crime and child abuse has been committed in the name of God, Jesus, and Mohamed than has ever been committed in the name of Satan.  Many people don't like that statement, but few can argue with it. ~ Kenneth V. Lanning

December 25, 2010

We have just enough religion to make us hate, but not enough to make us love one another. ~ Johnathan Swift

December 24, 2010

A little revolution now and again is a good thing. ~ Thomas Jefferson

December 23, 2010

In dwelling, live close to the ground.  In thinking, keep to the simple.  In conflict, be fair and generous.  In governing, don't try to control.  In work, do what you enjoy.  In family, be completely present. ~ Tao Te Ching

December 22, 2010

I have loved the stars too fondly to be fearful of the night. ~ Sarah Williams

December 21, 2010

There will never be peace as long as religion exists. ~ Unknown

December 20, 2010

It is inaccurate to say I hate everything.  I am strongly in favour of common sense, common honesty, and common decency.  This makes me forever ineligible for public office. ~ H. L. Mencken

December 19, 2010

In no instances have the churches been guardians of the liberties of the people. ~ James Madison

December 18, 2010

The more I struggle to be brief, the more unintelligible I become. ~ Horace

December 17, 2010

Humanity is falling in a downward spiral towards a cesspool of ignorance and stupidity.  Bring your floaties. ~ Rian Zeleny

December 16, 2010

There is nothing wrong with you that the trifling matter of a brain transplant can't cure. ~ Tara Ellefson

December 15, 2010

It is not enough to succeed.  Others must fail. ~ Gore Vidal

December 14, 2010

Remember, life is just a phase you are going through... you'll get over it. ~ Unknown

December 13, 2010

I'm not exactly a vision.  But Lord I have good intentions that count. ~ Kay Gibbons (from "Ellen Foster")

December 12, 2010

Science without religion is lame.  Religion without science is blind. ~ Albert Einstein

December 11, 2010

Still a frightened little girl who has to show the world how tough she is, aren't you Christine?  Still afraid someone might see through to the little cream puff inside. ~ Joan Brady (from "God On A Harley")

December 10, 2010

Raising kids is part joy and part guerrilla warfare. ~ Ed Asner

December 09, 2010

If passion drives you, let reason hold the reins. ~ Benjamin Franklin

December 08, 2010

A great many people think they are thinking when they are merely rearranging their prejudices. ~ William James

December 07, 2010

Truth is seen through the lens of your beliefs. ~ Unknown

December 06, 2010

Don't do anything by half.  If you love someone, love them.  If you hate someone, hate them until it hurts . ~ Henry Rollins

December 05, 2010

People who want to share their religious views with you almost never want you to share yours with them. ~ Dave Barry

December 04, 2010

I don't question our existence.  I just question our modern needs. ~ Eddie Vedder

December 03, 2010

I had a linguistics professor who said that its man's ability to use language that makes him the dominant species on the planet.  That may be.  But I think there's another thing that separates us from animals.  We aren't afraid of vacuum cleaners. ~ Jeff Stilson

December 02, 2010

Nostalgia is an emotional dead end, a self-indulgent yearning for something that can never be recovered. ~ Anthony De Curtis (from Rolling Stone Magazine, 02 September 1999)

December 01, 2010

Remember this: new ideas are not declarations of war. ~ Unknown

November 30, 2010

The more numerous the laws, the more corrupt the government. ~ Tacitus, AD 100

November 29, 2010

No matter how great your triumphs or how tragic your defeats -- approximately one billion Chinese couldn't care less. ~ Lazlo's Chinese Relativity Axiom

November 28, 2010

If I had only known, I would have been a locksmith. ~ Albert Einstein

November 27, 2010

Own only what you can carry with you: know languages, know countries, know people.  Let your memory be your travel bag. ~ Alexander Solzhenitsyn

November 26, 2010

Who naught suspects is easily deceived. ~ Francesco Petrarch

November 25, 2010

You draw people to you; then you push them away. ~ Maya Angelou (from "Wouldn't Take Nothing For My Journey Now")

November 24, 2010

All I do is act on my passions and they call it sin.
All I do is tell the truth and they call me a hypocrite.
All I feel is pain and sorrow and they call it love.
All I do is pour my heart out to empty pages and they call it pretty.

~Benito Behar

November 23, 2010

I live the way I type -- fast and with mistakes.  ~ Unknown

November 22, 2010

Half of life is fucking up -- the other half is dealing with it.  ~ Henry Rollins

November 21, 2010

If it weren't for capital punishment, we'd have no Easter. ~ Bill Hicks

November 20, 2010

I'm a PBS mind in an MTV world. ~ Unknown

November 19, 2010

I know not with what weapons World War III will be fought, but World War IV will be fought with sticks and stones. ~ Albert Einstein

November 18, 2010

I get by just fine without the husband and the jeep and the house in the suburbs. ~ from "Ladies Night at Finbar's Hotel"

November 17, 2010

Love is the triumph of imagination over intelligence. ~ H. L. Mencken

November 16, 2010

A magazine is not a mirror.  Have you ever seen anyone in a magazine who seemed even vaguely like you looking back? (If you have, turn the page.)  Most magazines are made to sell us a fantasy of what we're supposed to be.  They reflect what society deems to be a standard, however unrealistic or unattainable that standard is. That doesn't mean you should cancel your subscription.  It means you need to remember that its just ink on paper.  And that whatever standards you set for yourself, for how much you want to weigh, for how hard you work out, or how many times you make it to the gym, should be your standards.  Not someone else's. ~ Unknown

November 15, 2010

War doesn't determine who's right.  War determines who's left. ~ Bertrand Russell

November 14, 2010

The more I study religions, the more I am convinced that man never worshipped anything but himself. ~ Istavan

November 13, 2010

Warning: Do not drink the battery acid. It doesn't taste good and will hurt you. Also, do not bite the tires, especially while the bike is moving.

Our lawyers made us put these warnings in.

~From an Australian motorcycle manual

November 12, 2010

More and more, it feels like I'm doing a really bad impersonation of myself. -- Chuck Palahniuk (from "Choke")

November 11, 2010

First they came for the Communists, and I didn't speak up, because I wasn't a Communist.  Then they came for the Jews, and I didn't speak up, because I wasn't a Jew.  Then they came for the Catholics, and I didn't speak up, because I was a Protestant.  Then they came for me, and by that time there was no one left to speak up for me. ~ Rev. Martin Niemoller, 1945

November 10, 2010

When the going gets tough, the average get conservative. ~ Henry Rollins

November 09, 2010

What is happening, right or wrong, is happening because of the choices you've made and you are the only one who is responsible. ~ Unknown

November 08, 2010

The best defense against the atom bomb is not to be there when it goes off. ~ British Army Journal, 1949

November 07, 2010

Religions are all alike -- founded on fables and mythologies. ~ Thomas Jefferson

November 06, 2010

I am not obliged to know everything. -- Maya Angelou (from "Wouldn't Take Nothing For My Journey Now")

November 05, 2010

My best feature is my big, beautiful, sexy brain. ~ Unknown

November 04, 2010

You cannot simultaneously prevent and prepare for war. ~ Albert Einstein

November 03, 2010

If Jesus was hung, would we pray to a rope? ~ Gord Downie

November 02, 2010

Even very young children need to be informed about dying.  Explain the concept of death very carefully to your child.  This will make threatening him with it much more effective. ~ P. J. O'Rourke

November 01, 2010

One does not yearn for that which is easily acquired. ~ Ovid

October 31, 2010

Going to church doesn't make you a Christian any more than going to a garage makes you a mechanic. ~ Unknown

October 30, 2010

Sometimes I think the surest sign that intelligent life exists elsewhere is the fact that none of it has tried to contact us. ~ Bill Watterson (from "Calvin and Hobbes")

October 29, 2010

Unarmed truth is the most powerful thing in the universe. ~ Martin Luther King Jr.

October 28, 2010

The problem with most Americans is that they don't like any question that takes more than ten seconds to answer. ~ Gore Vidal

October 27, 2010

A rich person is not someone who has the most, but someone who needs the least. -- Unknown

October 26, 2010

Friendship is mutual blackmail elevated to the level of love. ~ Robin Morgan

October 25, 2010

I believe that man will not merely endure; he will prevail.  He is immortal, not because he alone has an inexhaustible voice, but because he has a soul, a spirit capable of compassion and sacrifice and endurance.  The poet's, the writer's duty is to write about these things.  It is his privilege to help man endure by lifting his heart, by reminding him of the courage and honour and hope and pride and compassion and pity and sacrifice which have been the glory of his past.  The poet's voice need not be merely the record of man, it can be one of the props, the pillars to help him endure and prevail. ~ William Faulkner (from his Nobel Prize for Literature acceptance speech)

October 24, 2010

Men never do evil so completely or cheerfully as when they do it from religious conviction. ~ Blaise Pascal

October 23, 2010

Don't confront me with my failures, I have not forgotten them. ~ Jackson Browne

October 22, 2010

I was in no position to laugh or roll my eyes.  The dementia of a drug addict had its poetic quality.  The mania of hope and longing was heightened.  It was the same psychosis I was under, I suppose, the need to change, the self-hatred. ~ Michael Collins (from "Emerald Underground")

October 21, 2010

Life sucks.  Get a fucking helmet, alright. ~ Dennis Leary

October 20, 2010

I would never be willing to die for a god who wasn't willing enough to die for me, but sends his own son to perish in the flames of despair. ~ Unknown

October 19, 2010

Always plan ahead.  It wasn't raining when Noah built the ark. ~ Unknown

October 18, 2010

If the automobile had followed the same development cycle as the computer, a Rolls-Royce would today cost $100.00, get a million miles per gallon, and explode once a year, killing everyone inside. ~ Robert X. Cringely (from "InfoWorld")

October 17, 2010

I would like to paint as the bird sings. ~ Claude Monet

October 16, 2010

The two most powerful warriors are patience and time. ~ Leo Tolstoy

October 15, 2010

The only difference between martyrdom and suicide is the amount of press coverage. ~ Chuck Palahniuk

October 14, 2010

Do not meddle in the affairs of wizards, for they are subtle and quick to anger. ~ J. R. R. Tolkien (from "The Fellowship of the Ring")

October 13, 2010

A computer lets you make mistakes faster than any invention -- with the possible exception of handguns and tequila. ~ Mitch Ratcliffe (from "Technology Review")

October 12, 2010

And Jesus said unto them, "And whom do you say that I am?"

They replied, "You are the eschatological manifestation of the ground of our being, the ontological foundation of the context of your very selfhood revealed."

And Jesus replied, "What?"

~Unknown

October 11, 2010

You keep believing, I'll keep evolving. ~ Unknown

October 10, 2010

The refinement of morality increases together with the refinement of fear. ~ Friedrich Nietzsche

October 09, 2010

It is not easy to achieve freedom without chaos. ~ Anais Nin

October 08, 2010

The presence of evil is a destructive influence in man and a cause of social disintegration.  Man cannot save himself or truly be free unless he recognizes the evil within himself. ~ William Golding

October 07, 2010

We are lived by Powers we pretend to understand. ~ W. H. Auden

October 06, 2010

"Time out", for me as a child, was my dad taking time out of his day to whip my ass. ~ Jeff Foxworthy

October 05, 2010

The thing with kids is, if they want to grab for the gold ring, you have to let them do it, and not say anything.  If they fall off, they fall off, but its bad if you say anything to them. ~ J. D. Salinger (from "The Catcher in the Rye")

October 04, 2010

It is enough to say, I was weighed in the balance, and found wanting. ~ T. Croften Croker (from "The Banshee of  the MacCarthy's")

October 03, 2010

Defeat is not the worst of failures.  Not to have tried is the true failure. ~ George Edward Woodberry

October 02, 2010

When a child loves you for a long, long time, not just to play with, but really loves you, then you become REAL. ~ Margery Williams (from "The Velveteen Rabbit")

October 01, 2010

We owed so much to Herbert's ever cheerful industry and readiness, that I often wondered how I had conceived that old idea of his inaptitude, until I was one day enlightened by the reflection, that perhaps the inaptitude had never been in him at all, but had been in me. ~ Charles Dickens (from "Great Expectations")

September 30, 2010

Fuck religion, even the Bible tells you you're all sheep.  Did you ever stop to think what that meant? ~ Ben Sanger

September 29, 2010

Living well is the best revenge. ~ George Herbert

September 28, 2010

Money couldn't buy friends but you get a better class of enemy. ~ Spike Milligan (from "Puckoon")

September 27, 2010

Never trouble another person for what you can do for yourself. ~ Thomas Jefferson

September 26, 2010

The mark of an immature man is that he wants to die nobly for a cause, while the mark of the mature man is that he wants to live humbly for one. ~ Wilhelm Stekel

September 25, 2010

It is alright to let yourself go, as long as you can get yourself back. ~ Mick Jagger

September 24, 2010

Never lose your will to confront. ~ Henry Rollins

September 23, 2010

If a man suddenly appears before me with a big beard and locks and the works, and performed this huge fucking miracle and said to me, "I am God", I'd say, "Fuck man, I didn't believe in ya but OK, you got me."  But until that day he can fuck right off. ~ Liam Gallagher

September 22, 2010

There is no Santa Claus.  And you cannot always count on getting everything you want.  You'll see. ~ Kay Gibbons (from "Ellen Foster")

September 21, 2010

It had been woeful, but it was a start.  Joey the Lips believed in starts.  Once you had the start the rest was inevitable.  The Lord made sure of that. ~ Roddy Doyle (from "The Commitments")

September 20, 2010

I'm not built for the schmooze.  I'm not good at small talk.  I've got about one hand of friends and a few acquaintances.  I'm cautious by nature and I don't like bullshit, so that doesn't bode well for being in a band. ~ Larry Mullen Jr

September 19, 2010

If a thing is worth doing, it is worth doing slowly... very slowly. ~ Gypsy Rose Lee, striptease artist

September 18, 2010

You think when Jesus comes back, he really wants to see a cross?  That's like going up to Jackie Onassis with a rifle pendent on. ~ Bill Hicks

September 17, 2010

If you can lie on the floor without holding on, you're sober. ~ Billy Connolly

September 16, 2010

I love you all.  I love you more than life itself.  But you're all fucking mad! ~ Ozzy Osbourne, to his family

September 15, 2010

It is easier to do a job right than to explain why you didn't. ~ Martin van Buren

September 14, 2010

Never having parted from nor met you, I take refuge in you. ~ Yeshe Tsogyal, The Great Bliss Queen

September 13, 2010

It is better to be small and shine, than to be great and cast a shadow. ~ Unknown

September 12, 2010

You must be the change you wish to see in the world. ~ Mahatma Gandhi

September 11, 2010

And the message is: Like the father and the prodigal son, you have to love your way out of this one. You can't hate your way out of it. ~ Donald Jackson, calligrapher and artistic illuminator, speaking of his St. John's Illuminated Bible and brief reference to 9/11 in an illumination, using the twin towers for the metaphor

September 10, 2010

You have to study and learn so that you can make up your own mind about history and everything else but you can't make up an empty mind. Stock your mind. It is your house of treasure and no one in the world can interfere with it. If you won the Irish Sweepstakes and bought a house that needed furniture would you fill it with bits and pieces of rubbish? Your mind is your house and if you fill it with rubbish from the cinemas it will rot your head. You might be poor, your shoes might be broken but your mind is a palace. ~ Frank McCourt (from "Angela's Ashes")

September 09, 2010

Love your enemies in case your friends turn out to be a bunch of bastards. ~ R. A. Dickson

September 08, 2010

Faith is believing in the unbelievable, despite the evidence against it. ~ Gabriel Byrne

September 07, 2010

You smell of I can't be bothered. ~ Unknown

September 06, 2010

I use the music as a tool. I don't write lyrics when I'm happy. I write them to ease pain. When I'm depressed, lonely, stressed -- that's when I reach for the lyric book. For me the music has always been where I go for that explosive catharsis. So, yes, its kind of limited in scope. But on the other hand, I don't ask a can of peaches to be a zebra either. ~ Henry Rollins (from NME UK, March 1997)

September 05, 2010

There's no such thing as a mistake. There's what you do. And what you don't do. ~ Unknown

September 04, 2010

It takes more faith to believe that I came from a monkey than that I came from God. ~ Adam Atkin

September 03, 2010

You think your pains and heartbreaks are unprecedented in the history of the world, but then you read. It was books that taught me that the things that tormented me were the very things that connected me with all the people who were alive, or who have ever been alive. ~ James Baldwin

September 02, 2010

There are a lot of people out there who think they can define you with statistics, stereotypes, and educated guesses. Obviously, they don't know you very well. ~ Unknown

September 01, 2010

I either want less corruption, or more chance to participate in it. ~ Ashleigh Brilliant

August 31, 2010

Luck isn't the winning lotto numbers. Its a roof over your head, clothes on your back, and food in your belly. ~ Unknown

August 30, 2010

Ability may get you to the top, but it takes character to keep you there. ~ John Wooden

August 29, 2010

Fear not but only believe. ~ Acts of Thomas

August 28, 2010

Courage is not the lack of fear. It is acting in spite of it. ~ Mark Twain

August 27, 2010

How could you know, when you were twenty and impossibly sexy and unable to imagine yourself otherwise, that time would teach you something. That age is not a loss but an exchange: of wisdom for youth, grace for foolishness, love for lust. And it is an exchange that will seem a very unfair trade, not for the woman, but for the girl. ~ Unknown

August 26, 2010

There is this strange idea that books are elitist. Totally untrue. Books are about ideas and ideas belong to everybody. ~ Evan Solomon

August 25, 2010

Because I wouldn't feel the pain, I couldn't feel the joy. ~ Celleste

August 24, 2010

All those who believe in telekinetics, raise my hand. ~ Kurt Vonnegut

August 23, 2010

When you grow up in America things like Christianity water down your feelings... When you're taught to love everybody, taught to love your enemies, what value does that put on love? ~ Marilyn Manson

August 22, 2010

For every problem, there is one solution which is simple, neat, and wrong. ~ H. L. Mencken

August 21, 2010

Life and death, energy and peace. If I stop today it was still worth it. Even the terrible mistakes that I made and would have unmade if I could. The pains that have burned me and scarred my soul; it was worth it, for having been allowed to walk where I've walked, which was to hell on earth, heaven on earth, back again, into, under, far in between, through it, and above. ~ Gia Carangi

August 20, 2010

When I was a kid I used to pray every night for a new bicycle. Then I realized that the Lord doesn't work that way so I stole one and asked for Him to forgive me. ~ Emo Phillips

August 19, 2010

The object of war is not to die for you country, but to make the other bastard die for his. ~ General George Patton

August 18, 2010

I do my think and you do your thing. I am not in this world to live up to your expectations, and you are not in this world to live up to mine. You are you, and I am I, and if by chance we find each other, its beautiful. ~ Frederick E. Perl

August 17, 2010

Puritanism: The haunting fear that someone, somewhere, may be happy. ~ H. L. Mencken

August 16, 2010

If everything seems under control, you're just not going fast enough. ~ Mario Andretti

August 15, 2010

If a turtle loses his shell, is he naked or homeless? ~ James Forney

August 14, 2010

Never take no from someone who is not in the place to say yes. ~ Unknown

August 13, 2010

When you sit with a nice girl for two hours, it seems like two minutes. When you sit on a hot stove for two minutes, it seems like two hours. That's relativity. ~ Albert Einstein

August 12, 2010

Beauty fades, dumb is forever. ~ Judge Judy Sheindlin

August 11, 2010

If you've never seen an elephant ski, you've never been on acid. ~ Eddie Izzard

August 10, 2010

Christians are quick to scoff at the absurdity of other religions when most fail to realize they worship a book that contains talking snakes, bushes, and donkeys. ~ Unknown

August 09, 2010

This is the way the world ends.
This is the way the world ends.
This is the way the world ends.
Not with a bang, but a whimper

~ T. S. Eliot (from "The Hollow Men")

August 08, 2010

Knowledge speaks, but wisdom listens. ~ Jimi Hendrix

August 07, 2010

The best way out is through. ~ Robert Frost

August 06, 2010

Don't apologize for your real feelings. Deliver your message. Own it. Then stay with it. ~ Phil McGraw

August 05, 2010

Before you speak, ask yourself: is it kind, is it necessary, is it true, does it improve on the silence? ~ Shirdi Sai Baba, Indian saint

August 04, 2010

If ignorance is bliss, why aren't more people happy? ~ Thomas Jefferson

August 03, 2010

Two truths of the universe:

1. Shit exists.
2. Shit persists
~ Unknown

August 02, 2010

No matter where you stand, no matter how far or fast you flee, when it hits the fan, as much as possible will be propelled in your direction, and almost none will be returned to the source. ~ John L. Shelton

August 01, 2010

This planet is obviously being used as an insane asylum by other planets. ~ George Bernard Shaw

July 31, 2010

When you come to the end of everything you know, and the next step is into the depths of darkness of the great unknown, you must believe one of two things: either you will step out onto firm ground, or you will be taught to fly. ~ Claire Norris

July 30, 2010

Jesus loves you. But I'm his favourite. ~ Unknown

July 29, 2010

I shut my eyes in order to see. ~ Paul Gaugin

July 28, 2010

In every pardon, there is love. ~ Welsh proverb

July 27, 2010

Not all who wander are lost. ~ J. R. R. Tolkein

July 26, 2010

The truth that makes people free is for the most part the truth which people prefer not to hear. ~ Herbert Sebastian Agar

July 25, 2010

Holding anger is like grasping a hot coal with the intent of throwing it at someone else; you are the one who gets burned. ~ Buddha

July 24, 2010

I have said these things, not that we may disparage fasting, but that we may honor fasting; for the honor of fasting consists not in abstinence from food, but in withdrawing from sinful practices; since he who limits his fasting only to an abstinence from meats, is one who especially disparages it. ~ St. John Chrysostom

July 23, 2010

You should not take part in your own persecution. ~ Bobby Seale

July 22, 2010

Don't pray in my school and I won't think in your church. ~ Unknown

July 21, 2010

What you're supposed to do when you don't like a thing is change it. If you can't change it, change the way you think about it. Don't complain. ~ Maya Angelou (from "Wouldn't Take Nothing For My Journey Now")

July 20, 2010

The church says that the Earth is flat, but I have seen the shadow on the moon and I have more faith in the shadow than in the church. ~ Ferdinand Magellan

July 19, 2010

Always do what you are afraid to do. ~ Ralph Waldo Emerson

July 18, 2010

Hi. I'm Spider Jerusalem. I smoke. I take drugs. I drink. I wash every six weeks. I masturbate constantly and fling my steaming poison semen down from my window into your hair and food. I'm a rich and respected columnist for a major metropolitan newspaper. I live with two beautiful women in the city's most expensive and select community. Being a bastard works. -- Warren Ellis (from "Transmetropolitan")

July 17, 2010

I still wonder sometimes if I am fine myself or if I have tricked myself into believing I am who I think I am. So many folks thinking and wanting you to be somebody else will confuse you if you are not very careful. It gives me nerves to worry about me. ~ Kay Gibbons (from "Ellen Foster")

July 16, 2010

Do not proceed according to rules and principals, but paint what you observe and feel. ~ Camille Pissaro

July 15, 2010

I am the blind man pulling the elephant's tail. If that's where the shit is, so be it. ~ Unknown

July 14, 2010

Destiny, chance, fate, or fortune -- they're all just ways of claiming your successes without claiming your failures. ~ Unknown

July 13, 2010

In spite of all evidence to the contrary, the entire universe is composed of only two basic substances: magic and bullshit. ~ Unknown

July 12, 2010

Kill them all. God will know His own. -- Bernard of Clarveaux

July 11, 2010

Civilized society, especially in its records, is fundamentally dependent on the use of paper. -- Pliny (from "Natural History")

July 10, 2010

All that we see or seem is but a dream within a dream. -- Edgar Allan Poe

July 09, 2010

Choose life. Choose a job. Choose a career. Choose a family. Choose a fucking big television. Choose washing machines, cars, compact disc players, and electrical tin openers. Choose good health, low cholesterol, and dental insurance. Choose fixed-interest mortgage repayments. Choose a starter home. Choose your friends. Choose leisure wear and matching luggage. Choose a three piece suite on hire purchase in a range of fucking fabrics. Choose DIY and wondering who you are on a Sunday morning. Choose sitting on that couch watching mind-numbing spirit- crushing game shows, stuffing fucking junk food into your mouth. Choose rotting away at the end of it all, pishing your last in a miserable home, nothing more than an embarrassment to the selfish, fucked-up brats you have spawned to replace yourself. Choose your future. Choose life... But why would I want to do a thing like that? -- Irvine Welsh (from "Trainspotting")

July 08, 2010

Don't wear hats that look like flower beds. -- Unknown

July 07, 2010

The answer is there is no answer. -- Chuck Palahniuk (from "Choke")

July 06, 2010

Bright reason will mock thee,

Like the sun from a wintry sky.


-- Percy Bysshe Shelley (from "When The Lamp Is Shattered")

July 05, 2010

Nothing has a stronger influence psychologically on their environment and especially on their children than the unlived lives of the parents. -- Carl Jung

July 04, 2010

The power of accurate observation is commonly called cynicism by those who have not got it. -- George Bernard Shaw

July 03, 2010

Allegro, andante. Like life. Like a story. Like a river. -- From "Ladies Night at Finbar's Hotel"

July 02, 2010

The true measure of a man is how he treats someone who can do him absolutely no good. -- Samuel Johnson

July 01, 2010

"Well, I can see I'm not in Paris." -- Ernest Hemmingway, upon landing in Winnipeg

June 30, 2010

Do not meddle in the affairs of dragons, for you are crunchy and taste good with ketchup. ~ Unknown

June 29, 2010

I have learnt that success is measured not so much by the position one has reached in life as by the obstacles he has overcome. ~ Booker T. Washington

June 28, 2010

I am not a vegetarian because I love animals; I am a vegetarian because I hate plants. ~ A. Whitney Brown

June 27, 2010

If you ever see me getting beaten by the police, put down the video camera and come help me instead. ~ Bobcat Goldthwait

June 26, 2010

I am a sister. A daughter. A lover. I am not 100 pounds. I am not one size fits all. I am a size 14. 18. Size 22. I am beautiful. I am half the women in this country. I am not outside the norm. I am the norm. And I am not invisible. ~ Just My Size ad

June 25, 2010

We're all fucked. It helps to remember that. ~ George Carlin

June 24, 2010

This is not the end. It is not even the beginning of the end. But it is, perhaps, the end of the beginning. ~ Winston Churchill

June 23, 2010

When I asked him what he wanted from life, he said, "I'll start with an apology." ~ B. Tier

June 22, 2010

Intoxicated By Love


Because of your love
I have lost my sobriety.
I am intoxicated
By the madness of Love.

In this fog
I have become a stranger to myself.
I am so drunk
I have lost my way to my house.

In the garden
I see only your face.
From the trees and blossoms
I inhale only your fragrance.

Drunk with the ecstasy of love
I can no longer tell the difference
Between drunkard and drink,
Between Lover and Beloved.


~ Rumi

June 21, 2010

It is better to keep your mouth shut and appear stupid than to open it and remove all doubt. ~ Mark Twain

June 20, 2010

It would be possible to describe everything scientifically, but it would make no sense; it would be without meaning, as if you described a Beethoven symphony as a variation of wave pressure. ~ Albert Einstein

June 19, 2010

It's easier to ask forgiveness than it is to get permission. ~ Grace Hopper

June 18, 2010

Don't yield to the temptation of believing that the world can be fixed. Above all, don't yield to the hubris that you can fix it. Realize that your actions can, at best, make some conditions in the world a little more bearable, make suffering a little less painful. But just because this is all you can do, does not mean that you should not do it... do it in the face of all hopelessness. And why? Because to help, to be compassionate is your highest calling... if you can't do this, if you won't do this, then you are hopeless. ~ Dr. Stephen Hoeller

June 17, 2010

If you lie down with dogs, you will rise with fleas. ~ Irish Proverb

June 16, 2010

Politicians and diapers have one thing in common. The should both be changed regularly and for the same reason. ~ Unknown

June 15, 2010

To accuse others for one's own misfortunes is a sign of want of education; to accuse oneself shows that one's education has begun. ~ Epictetus

June 14, 2010

Cheerleaders are dancers gone retarded. ~ From "Bring It On"

June 13, 2010

A cynic is a man who, when he smells the flowers, looks around for a coffin. ~ H. L. Mencken

June 12, 2010

History has demonstrated that the most notable winners usually encountered heartbreaking obstacles before they triumphed. They won because they refused to become discouraged by their defeats. ~ B. C. Forbes

June 11, 2010

See it big and keep it simple. ~ Wilfred Peterson

June 10, 2010

I like clarity, straight lines. ~ Larry Mullen Jr.

June 09, 2010

We cannot learn without pain. ~ Aristotle

June 08, 2010

There are only two ways to live your life. One is as though nothing is a miracle. The other is as though everything is a miracle. ~ Albert Einstein

June 07, 2010

Human beings are more alike than unalike, and what is true anywhere is true everywhere. ~ Maya Angelou (from "Wouldn't Take Nothing For My Journey Now")

June 06, 2010

It's a strange world. Let's keep it that way. ~ Warren Ellis (from "Planetary")

June 05, 2010

Whenever you find you are on the same side of the majority, it is time to reform. ~ Mark Twain

June 04, 2010

Have you ever felt like you could cry because you know you just heard the most important thing anybody in the world could have spoke at that second? ~ Kay Gibbons (from "Ellen Foster")

June 03, 2010

Life is about experiencing the journey, not arriving at the destination. ~ Reid Iford

June 02, 2010

Here I stand; I cannot do otherwise, so help me God. ~ Martin Luther King Jr.

June 01, 2010

It is hard to fight an enemy who has outposts in your head. ~ Sally Kempton

May 31, 2010

Abandon the search for God and the creation and other matters of a similar sort. Look for him by taking yourself as the starting point. Learn who it is within you who makes everything his own and says, "My God, my mind, my thought, my soul, my body." Learn the sources of sorrow, joy, love, and hate... If you carefully investigate these matters you will find Him in yourself. ~ Monomius

May 30, 2010

Find out what you're afraid of and go live there. ~ Chuck Palahniuk (from "Invisible Monsters")

May 29, 2010

Love all. Trust a few. Do wrong to none. ~ William Shakespeare

May 28, 2010

In the battle between ignorance and knowledge, ignorance is undoubtedly prevailing. How else can you explain Canadian politics? ~ Mike Hutchinson

May 27, 2010

It's not followers I have a problem with. It's those who think they are the leader. ~ Unknown

May 26, 2010

I want a woman who can sit me down, shut me up, and tell me ten things I don't already know. And make me laugh. I don't give a shit what you look like. Just turn me on. And if you can do that, I will follow you on bloody stumps through the swamp. ~ Henry Rollins (from "The Shock and Awe, My Ass Tour", Seattle, Washington, March 14, 2004)

May 25, 2010

It is better that scandals arise than that the truth be suppressed. ~ Pope St. Gregory the Great

May 24, 2010

Aim above morality. Be not simply good, be good for something. ~ Henry David Thoreau