"There are only two mantras, yum and yuk. Mine is yum." - Bernard Mickey "Woodpecker" Wrangle
"If I could only have one food for the rest of my life? That's easy, PEZ, cherry flavored PEZ. No doubt about it." - Vern Tessio, Stand by Me
"Silence is a mirror." - Tom Robbins, Fierce Invalids home from hot climates.
"The first sign of maturity is when you realize the volume knob turns to the left." - A newspaper editor's speech (I think it's the Chicago Tribune, but I could be wrong.)
"I feel like I'm diagonally parked in a parallel universe." - Feuer
"I want to be Your Milkman." - Due's half & half
"I wonder who first thought it would be pretty to vertically shoot water up in the air and watch it fall." - ALS
"Imagine being one of those particles of water just sitting in that pool, minding your own business, and then you're sucked up into a tube and shot up into the air. Ahhh! Then you stop, look down. AHHH! Then you fall and crash into all of your friends. Dan look out! You would be one bruised and beaten particle of water." - Parris
"I always knew I would laugh about the times I cried, but I never thought I would cry about the times I laughed." - unknown but submitted by Danielle-a
"A friend is always good to have, but a lover's kiss is better than angels raining down on you." - Dave Matthews Band, #40
"Sweet dreams, til sun beams find you, sweet dreams to leave our worries behind you. BUt in your dreams whatever they be, dream a little dream of me." - the Mamas and the Papas
"If there is a God, I know he likes to rock." - Smashing Pumpkins
"The messiah will only come after he is no longer needed." - Franz Kafka
"Get crazy with the cheese whiz." - Beck, Loser
"Who knows how to make love stay?
1. Tell love you're going to Junior's deli on Flatbush Ave to pick up a cheesecake, and if love stays, it can have half. Love will stay." - Tom Robbins, Still life with Woodpecker (hint hint, nudge nudge), my all time favorite book.
"The stars are getting in and out of automobiles/And we keep wondering when we're gonna feel something real/Keep waiting for a Santa that'll never come/A real party not just people who're faking fun/But everything gets erased before it's even said/And all that glitters isn't gold when inside it's dead" - Le Tigre, The the Empty
"Here should be a picture of my favorite apple.
It is also a nude & bottle.
It is also a landscape.
There are no such things as still lifes."
- Erica Jong
"You don't need to leave your room.
Remain sitting at your table and listen.
Don't even listen, simply wait.
Don't even wait.
Be quite still and solitary.
The world will freely offer itself to you.
To be unmasked, it has no choice.
It will roll in ecstacy at your feet."
- Franz Kafka
"It's never too late to have a happy childhood." - Tom Robbins, Still life with Woodpecker
Gordie: Shut up.
Chris, Teddy, Vern: I don't shut up, I grow up, and when I look at you I throw up!
Gordie: And then your mother goes around the corner and she licks it up.
Voice over: Finding new, and preferably disgusting way to degrade a friend's mother was always held in high regard.
(that one's from the movie Stand by Me based on the novella by Stephen King, the novella is called "The Body")
"The most important things are the hardest things to say. They are the things you get ashamed of, because words diminish them-words shrink things that seemed limitless when they were in your head, to no more than living size when they're brought out. But it's more than that, isn't it? The most important things lie too close to wherever your secret heart is buried, like landmarks to a treasure your enemies would love to steal away. And you may make revelations that cost you dearly only to have people look at you in a funny way, not understanding what you've said at all, or why you thought it was so impoortant that you almost cried while you were saying it. That the worst, I think. When the secret stays locked within not for want of a teller but for want of an understanding ear." - Stephen King, The Body, can be found in the collection "Different Seasons"
"Everything is part of it." - Tom Robbins, Still life with Woodpecker
"If love can't re-create lovers, what good is it? But let me give you this caution, Sissy my podner: Love is dope, not chicken soup." - Bonanza Jellybean, Even Cowgirls get the blues (the book, not the movie that couldn't even give anyone an idea of that book).
"Flapping your arms can be like flying." - Robert K. Hall
"To live outside of the law, you have to be honest." - Bob Dylan
"Nature's got a hankering after experiments." - Trader Horn
"The short night is through
On the hairy catepillar,
little beads of Dew."
- Buson
"Outlaws are can openers in the supermarket of life!" - Bernard Mickey "Woodpecker" Wrangle
"'boom boom' is 'boom boom' in any land, dynamite speaks a universal lingo." - Tom Robbins
"You want to blow up something else?"
"What I want is to buy you a drink."
"Buy me a drink?"
""A pina tequila or a tequila tai. If you're old enough, that is. We wouldn't want to break the law."
"I'll bet I'm as old as you are."
"I'm older than Sanskrit."
"Well, I was a waitress at the Last Supper."
"I'm so old I remember when McDonald's had only sold a hundred burgers."
"You win."
(That's Leigh-Cheri and Bernard Mickey "Woodpecker" Wrangle, from Still life with Woodpecker.)
"If love can't recreate lovers, then what good is it? But let me give you this caution, Sissy my podner: Love is dope, not chicken soup." - Bonanza Jellybean (what a great name)
"I mean, love is something to be passed around freely, not spooned down someone's throat for their own good by a Jewish mother who cooked it all by herself." - Bonanza Jellybean (ain't she a riot?)
...the Eskimos had fifty-two names for snow because it was important to them; there ought to be as many for love." - Margaret Atwood
"Flapping your arms can be like flying." - Robert K. Hall
"There's so much stupidity in the world, intelligence was forced in." - ALS
"You can't be careful on a skateboard, man." - Some Kid
"Nature's got a hankering after experimenting." - Trader Horn
"The lust of the goat is the bounty of God.
The nakedness of woman is the work of God.
Excess of sorrow laughs. Excess of joy weeps."
- William Blake
"You can call it anything you want, but the fact remains the same. I never got to be your Fred Estaire. You lie to yourself and all your friends, pretend that you don't care, but circumstance, gets in the way." - LBC
"They're pushing these children, for all the wrong reasons, so far." - LBC
"The short night is through
on the hairy catepillar
Little beads of Dew."
- Buson
"It was a bright cold day in April, and the clocks were striking thirteen." - 1984, George Orwell
"I can shout as loud as I want, but you still can't hear me." - NFG
"Wait for Baby! Wait for Baby you goddamn assholes!" - Bernard Mickey "Woodpecker" Baby Wrangle
"Way back in the days when the grass was still green
and the pond was still wet
and the clouds were still clean,
and the song of the Swomee-Swans rang out in space ...
one morning, I came to this glorious place.
And I first saw the trees!"
- Dr. Seuss, The Lorax
"I've just trodden in something rural." - Terry Pratchett, Lords and Ladies
"People get so in the habit of worry that if you save them from drowning and put them on a bank to dry in the sun with hot chocolate and muffins, they wonder whether they are catching cold." - John Jay Chapman
"I'm not overweight. I'm nine inches too short." - Shelley Winters
"Love and Do what you like." - Saint Augustine
"I can shout all I want but you still can't hear me." - NFG
"I'm turning double Dennis!" - ALS
"I can't see myself reflected in there, all I can think about is how you don't care." - Pollen (sadly, they've broken up)
"Someone tell me what I've been living for, you can't tell me what's worth dying for, I can't tell you what I've been dying for." - Pollen
"Folk music makes me hungry." - Ani Difranco
"There are only three kinds of people in this world:
Peopl who think there are two kinds of people, people who know there are three kinds of people,
and people who know better." - Angie
"A ship in harbor is safe, but that is not what ships are built for." - William Shedd
"The person who says it cannot be done should not interrupt the person who is doing it." - Chinese Proverb
"If it were not for the last minute, nothing would get done." - Anonymous
"If your ship doesn’t come in, swim out to it." - Jonathan Winters
"I'll always be that kind of wussypuff." - Dynamite Hack
"Maybe when the room is empty, maybe when the bottle's full. Maybe when the door gets broke down, love can break in. Maybe when I'm done with thinking, maybe you can think me whole. Maybe when I'm done with endings, this can begin. This can begin..." - Something Corporate
"Yea 4 Music!" - Clutch (from Something Corporate)
"Like that firework, over the freeway, I could stay here all day, but that's not how you feel. So why do you leave these questions unanswered. The circus awaits, and you're already gone. My chestshire doorstop, with fear in your smile. What makes it so easy for you to be walking by? What did I do that you can't seem to want me? Why do we lie here and whisper goodbyes? And where can I go that your pictures won't haunt me? What makes it so easy for you to be walking by?" - Something Corporate
"...and as I look back at my 15 years, I realize the only thing in the world that is actually mine,
that I actually own, is a face towel I stole from a motel. What a sad exsistence I've led. It is a
nice towel, though." - Parris
"Are you on beer?" - Andrew's mother
"I'm turning double dennis!" - hehehe
"You can call it anything you want the fact remains the same, I never got to be your Fred Estaire, you can lie to yourself and all your friends, pretend that you don't care. But circumstance gets in the way." - Lucky Boys Confusion
"Insanity? What's so bad about that? Insanity is only when you see more colors. And personally, I wouldn't mind a wider spectrum." - als/mu shu
"No doubt the world is an imaginary world, but it is only once removed from the true world." - Isaac Bashevis Singer
"I wasn't kissing her,
I was whispering in her mouth." - Chico Maroc
"Love is blind, but friendship closes its eyes." - unknown
"Ask her to wait a moment - I am almost done."
- Carl Friedrich Gauss, when informed that his wife is dying
"If I were two-faced, would I be wearing this one?"
- Abraham Lincoln
"If you want a guarantee, buy a toaster." - Clint Eastwood
"If you think that something small cannot make a difference - try going to sleep with a mosquito in the room." - Unknown
"I've never had major knee surgery on any other part of my body." - Winston Bennett
"Few things are harder to put up with than a good example." - Mark Twain
"Kindness in words creates confidence
Kindness in thinking creates profoundness
Kindness in giving creates love."
- Lao-tzu
"You're an extraordinary woman; how do you expect to lead an ordinary life?" - Louisa May Alcott
"Experience: that most brutal of teachers. But you learn, my God do you learn." - C. S. Lewis
"When you reach the end of your rope, tie a knot in it and hang on." - Thomas Jefferson
"Oh, we have a home ~ We just need a house to put it in." - 10-year-old homeless girl
"Always do right - this will gratify some and astonish the rest." - Mark Twain
"The unibrow has landed." - Pie-racci
Pie: Hi dad, yeah we're in the car,
[speaker switches on]: Welcome to Metra, this train will be..
Pie hangs up phone.
"I would stop waiting, stop walking, stop trying to start you talking, say your own good byes, I would stop drinking, stop feeling, break down and stop believing that you might change your mind. But I don't know." - Black Lab
"And all the roads we have to walk are winding, and all the roads that lead us there are blinding. There are many things I would like to say to you but don't know how, because maybe, you're gonna be the one that saves me? And afterall, you're my wonderwall." - oasis
"He broke my heart. You merely broke my life." - Lolita by Vladimir Nabokov
"He goes crazy. We all go crazy. God goes crazy. Etc." - Vladimir Nabokov
"You're playing solitaire with pornographic playing cards...there's some sick euphemism for masturbation in here." - EN
"There's nothing you can know that isn't known, there nothing you can see that isn't shown, there's nowhere you can be that isn't where you're meant to be, it's easy, all you need is love." - The Beatles
"To see you when I wake up is a gift that I didn't think could be real." - Incubus
"Sex reminds her of eating spaghetti." - Wasted and Ready by Ben Kweller
"When I'm back from the road then you're out on it. And I'm tired of this distance, and I believe it's over, over rated. And this phone tag game is endless, the novelty is wearing, I'm hoping time will pass without any assistance or convincing. Road rules apply, there's so much action, you're getting busier. So I'll call your cellular phone to tell you tv night was lonely without you and so am I. So am I. It seems our day keeps falling on a leap year...so many high points on this last leg, I can't wait to recount them, it seems like nothing's happened until I've shared them with you. And the note that you have called, says your half a day away, and you are heading home, just in time for me, for me to leave... There's so much action, I'm getting busier. Make sure to update me on tv night. I hate to miss out. I think I miss you most, on wednesdays, and saturdays. Seems our day keeps falling on a leap year..." - Dashboard Confessional
"There were so many Chinese people in that Chinese restaurant. It was so weird." - Pollack
"Far too long garlic has garlic been known as the ketchup of the intellectual. It's time to bring garlic to the people! We can't continue to confine our garlic consumption to vegan potlucks and our own kitchens. Now is the time to take to the streets and let everyone know:
Garlic is delicious: Add it to food, roast it and spread it on bread, eat it raw.
Garlic is healthy: It wards off colds, high cholesterol, infections; it can be used to treat acne, it can be used to ward off vampires, politicians.
You can make soap out of garlic. I like to rub it all over my lover's body and lick it off. In the future cars will run on garlic, garlic will be used to generate electricity, to end war.
Garlic will save us all.
LEGALIZE GARLIC NOW!" - Jordana from "Tales of a Punk Rock Nothing" by Himelstein and Schweser
"The lover is made happier by his love than the object of his affection." - Emmerson (Journalist, 1832)
"Love is not love until love is vulnerable." - Theodore Roethke
"I have assorted berry cough drops. I can live forever." - Pie
"Prince Charming really is a toad." - Tom Robbins
"A lot of images fade, no matter how hard I try, I can't get them back. I once had a relative who said, ' if I knew things would no longer be, I would've tried harder.'"- Liberty Heights
"Wisdom is far the chief element in happiness/and, secondly, no irreverence towards the gods./But great words of haughty men exact/in retribution blows as great/and in old age teach wisdom." - Antigone by Sophocles
"but sometimes the Bible in the hand of one man is worse than a whiskey bottle in the hand of,-oh of your father." - To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee
"Skylines filled with shipping yards and factories had me dreaming of waking up." - Saves the Day
"Let's hope tomorrow won't cave in." - Saves the Day
"I want to take you to the moon and back, so get on your back." - NOFX
"Ew, that's disgusting. Peel me off a vanilla." - Russel in reference to the nasty doughnuts
"I impaled myself." - Bekah
"There are two kinds of people in this world: people who think there are two kinds of people; people who know there are two kinds of people; and peopel who know better." - ALS
"Once I knew this guy named Jim, he was really cool. I really liked him as a person. Wait, his name was Jim, it was John, and he was an asshole." - can't remember who
"The best thing about the future is that it comes only one day at a time." - Abraham Lincoln
"They misunderestimated me." - George W. Bush (vote green party!)
Time to go
