Some Quotes to Live By

Here are some quotes from other people that have either struck me as truth or funny. Don't worry, everyone, I tell you where they're from. :)

This morning at work I was drinking coffee and enjoying it immensely, but then something came along that distracted me long enough for the coffee to get cold. When I turned my attention to the cup again, it still had some coffee in it. Cold coffee. You know that feeling of dread you get when you just know that the next sip won't taste good at all, and yet you just want to go ahead and taste it one more time, thus ruining the whole experience of that particular cup of coffee? I felt that.
Black coffee should be strong, bitter, and threaten your tongue with permanent damage. It should fume and when you get close to it, inspire respect. Throwing it on your lap should spell doom and second degree burns at the very least. Cold black coffee is none of these things. It is harmless, tastes like watery sand and doesn't inspire respect. It is but a memory of what it once was. You know it won't live up to your mental image of how it should taste in your mouth. You know it was great at some point, but that point has come and gone. Yet, you're strangely tempted to give it one more try. I've felt this way about some relationships in the past.
I didn't take another sip of that cup of coffee. I just dumped it and let it go. The taste in my mouth was much better than anything it could have offered me.
I think I’m learning.
-- Sergio Vilarreal

"Creativity isn't a faucet that you can turn on and off, it's more like a horrid old lawnmower that you have to coax and yank into shape, coupled with prayers and a little WD40 spritzed into the joints"
-- Piro, Mega Tokyo

Let me tell you a story. I was hardly into my teens when I discovered milk. At first it was no big deal, I just had a slug in my coffee mornings. Then another after lunch and it got that I was doing it evenings too! After a while it got that I liked it so much I was drinking three fingers of the stuff out of a water glass - neat, or even out of the jug in the fridge! Man, I was hooked on milk.
I got into bad company and it wasn`t long before I was hanging out with Pat O`Reilly. That guy had a swallow! I`ve seen him knock back a Tetrapack without a dribble! It got so bad I used to buy quarts and drink it out of the bag right outside of the shop! I got to be on three bottles a day! I craved milk!
Then I had a lucky break! Pat introduced me to alcohol. I bucked the habit! Yep, that saved me from milk and made me the man I am today.
Well, can`t stand round here gabbing all day, gotta freight train to catch!
-- David de Warrens (Hamer)

I try to keep in mind that the characters are fictional and I'm not. Confusion on this point is a major drawback in my line of work!
--Terry Pratchett

The problem with defending the purity of the English language is that English is about as pure as a cribhouse whore. We don't just borrow words; on occasion, English has pursued other languages down alleyways to beat them unconscious and rifle their pockets for the new vocabulary.
-- James Nicoll 1990

Today we salute you stressed out college student during exam week. As you sit in your lonely cubical in the library, doped up on starbucks & aderol, you think to yourself, am I ever going to need to know this stuff in life? The distractions are tempting and you have suddenly diagnosed yourself with ADD along with advanced delusionary schizophrenia with involuntary narcissistic rage, I'm sure by now you know exactly what everyone is doing because you have checked your buddy list 800 times.
Christmas break is just days away, and your prozac prescription will be in tomorrow. So crack open an ice cold bud light after that last exam, because for most of us christmas will be spent in rehab
-- Some Nate kid in Slippery Rock (If you are said Nate Kid, feel free to tell me who you are.)

I like my men like I like my coffee - ground up and in the freezer.
--Lee