quotations:

"the truth is that fullness of soul can sometimes overflow in utter vapidity of language, for none of us can ever express the exact measure of his needs or his thoughts or his sorrows; and human speech is like a cracked kettle on which we tap crude rhythms for bears to dance to, while we long to make music that will melt the stars."
~Gustave Flaubert

"To announce that there must be no criticism of the President, or that we are to stand by the President, right or wrong, is not only unpatriotic and servile, but is morally treasonable to the American public. Nothing but the truth should be spoken about him or any one else. But it is even more important to tell the truth, pleasant or unpleasant, about him than about any one else."
~Teddy Roosevelt

"I am satisfied and filthy, two of my favorite states."
~Adam Savage

"The world is a hard place, and big women are soft."
~Josh Max

"It is no measure of health to be well adjusted to a profoundly sick society."
~Jiddu Krishnamurti

"If I could exchange knowledge of discrete cosine tranforms for knowledge of sweet-talking the ladies, I'd never need to make soup again."
~ottodixless

"i want that on my headstone, 'she didn't have money for the co-pay.'"
~Megin

"When people blame words they are actually blaming the society that uses them."
~John Simpson

"You are not a fiscal conservative when the deficit runs to $400 billion on your watch."
~Stan Collender (The Cincinnati Post, July 16, 2003)

"If there's a choice between being alone with your own beauty and allowing someone else's ugliness to sully it, choose to be lonely."
~Hella Strange

"...Rock music doesn't make you any less of the airheaded moron you are. No matter how "deep" the lyrics are. Just because you don't understand what the fuck the words are about, doesn't mean they are meaningful..."
~Limerz459

"I invent stories and questions and letters and lives and wonder how I can smooth them out in an envelope to you."
~the 29th

"I want to hang out with fat people and those who want to associate with fat people."
~lipmixgirl

"Gravity is an omnipresent demon who pulls us downward to keep us from reaching heaven. "
~Scott Scriven

"the heart is awesome, nothing like a veiny organ to romanticize people"
~purple haired tim

"If the war in Iraq is so damned important, why haven't the Bush girls inlisted?"
~on a sign in someone's rear window

"Sometimes I think the only time I can think clearly is when I run myself to such a point of exhaustion that my neuroses don't have the energy to interfere with my thoughts."
~Howie B. Ware

"'Patriots' think our founding fathers were all about KNOWING they were our founding fathers, they dont realize they were just hapless dicks trying to survive the snow."
~metomikey

"yeah, yeah. I got all the 8 inches I could ever need right here. it's the lips I don't have. and the roaming hands. and the thighs for tangling myself in. I don't give a fuck about actual fucking, it's everything else I miss."
~Freya aka superlittlegirl

"i hate irony when it isn't in my favor..."
~Worm

"Some people want supermodels and limo's. I'll settle for hookers and taxi cabs."
~Beale

"I like 'em skinny, but I'd never turn down a fatty."
~Beale

"I don't do penance, I do shots."
~Brian George's character in Keeping The Faith.

"Everything will change. The only question is growing up or decaying."
~Nikki Giovanni

"If what you did yesterday seems big, you haven't done anything today."
~Lou Holtz

"Only those who will risk going too far possibly find out how far one can go."
~T. S. Elliot

"One does not discover new lands without consenting to lose sight of the shore for a very long time."
~Andre Gide

"Worry does not empty today of it's sorrow, it empties today of its strength."
~Corrie Ten Boom

"The stronger would eliminate the weak, only if they were greedy, ignorant, and hateful enough to do so."
~5>6

"Noble deeds and hot baths are the best cures for depression."
~Dodie Smith, English playwright (1896-1990).

"So long as governments set the example of killing their enemies, private individuals will occasionally kill theirs."
~Elbert Hubbard

"When the way comes to an end, then change-- having changed, you pass through."
~I Ching

"There is nothing either good or bad but thinking makes it so."
~William Shakespeare

"I hate you World. I HATE YOU!! When will I eat cake?"
~Chaz Stacy

"Those who dream by day are cognizant of many things that escape those who dream only at night."
~Edgar Allan Poe

"Beauty of whatever kind, in its supreme development, invariably excites the sensitive soul to tears."
~Edgar Allan Poe

"There are certain books in the world which every searcher for truth must know: the Bible, the Critique of Pure Reason, the Origin of Species, and Karl Marx's Capital."
~W. E. B. Du Bois

"The philosophers have only interpreted the world in various ways; the point is to change it."
~Karl Marx

"If we don't like what the Republicans do, we need to get in there and change it. . ."
~Medgar Evers

"To me gender is not physical at all, but is altogether insubstantial. It is soul, perhaps, it is talent, it is taste, it is environment, it is how one feels, it is light and shade, it is inner music. . ."
~Jan Morris

"My personal hobbies are reading, listening to music, and silence."
~Edith Sitwell

"Earth's crammed with heaven, and every common bush afire with God: But only he who sees takes off his shoes."
~Elizabeth Barrett Browning

"Every day people are straying away from church and back to God."
~Lenny Bruce

"There are two means of refuge from the misery of life -- music and cats."
~Albert Schweitzer

"One sees great things from the valley, only small things from the peak."
~G. K. Chesterton

"Who hears music, feels his solitude peopled at once."
~Robert Browning

"People only say I remind them of Liz Taylor because I'm not skinny."
~Christina Ricci

"People applaud the new Courtney Love. They're like, 'She's doing her hair.' It's so sad."
~Christina Ricci

"Three minutes a day without Britney or N'sync pouring their dopey custard into the young mind is a tolerable purgatory..."
~Rex Murphy

"Oh, this is honey...I thought it was honey flavored jelly."
~Brian of Benton

"I was reading the dictionary; I thought it was a poem about everything."
~Steven Wright

"(how can this be shit when it is said so perfectly?)"
~jdz

"...i didn't want to be a part of their crowd. i just wanted some new strangers because the old one's never give me complete confidence...ever ..."
~jdz

"...there's always a difference between what she asks for and what she takes. and you. you want to think that you feel sorry for her. but you just feel sorry for yourself..."
~jdz

"He who does not understand your silence will probably not understand your words."
~Elbert Hubbard