"'Cool' used to mean unique, spontaneous, compelling. The coolest kid was the one everyone wanted to be like but no one quite could, because his/her individuality was utterly distinct. Then "cool" changed. Marketers got a hold of it and reversed its meaning. Now you're cool if you are NOT unique. If you have the look and feel that bear the unmistakable stamp of America. Hair by Paul Mitchell, Khakis by The Gap, Car by BMW, Attitude by Nike, Pet Phrases by Letterman, Politics by Bill Maher. Cool is the opiate of our time, and over a couple of generations, we have grown dependent upon it to maintain our identities of inclusion." ~ I don't know who wrote this...

"A bachelor's life is no life for a single man."
-- Samuel Goldwyn

"...For wonder leaps upon me still,
And makes me dizzy, makes me ill,
But never frightened - for I know -
Not where - but in whose hands I go:
The lovely fingers of Delight
Have hold of me and hold me tight."
-Edna St. Vincent Millay

"Twenty years from now you will be more disappointed by the things that you didn't do than by the ones you did do. So throw off the bowlines. Sail away from the safe harbor. Catch the trade winds in your sails. Explore. Dream. Discover."
~ Mark Twain

"USA Today has come out with a new survey: Apparently three out of four people make up 75 percent of the population." - David Letterman

"My mother never saw the irony in calling me a son-of-a-bitch."
- Jack Nicholson

"With a rubber duck, one's never alone."
-Douglas Adams, The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy

"Always remember that you are unique. Just like everyone else." ~ Annonymous

"Time's fun when you're having flies."
-Kermit the Frog

"From the moment I picked your book up until I put it down I was convulsed with laughter. Some day I intend reading it."
-Groucho Marx, The Book of Insults

"If a tree falls in the forest and it hits a mime, does anyone care?"
-The Far Side - Gary Larson

"Heh heh heh! Lisa! Vampires are just make-belief, just like faeries, trolls and eskimoes."
-Homer Simpson

"There's just this for consolation: an hour here or there when our lives seem, against all odds and expectations, to burst open and give us everything we've ever imagined... Still, we cherish the city, the morning; we hope, more than anything for more."
-The Hours

"Man is really the most interesting jackass there is. It's his idea you see, that the Deity sits up nights to admire him."
-Hal Holbrook as Mark Twain

"Lying will be man's bestfriend as long as congress is in session."
-Hal Holbrook as Mark Twain

"I used to lie, but gave it up. Too many amateurs over ran the field."
-Hal Holbrook as Mark Twain

"Oh wat a hell of a heaven it'll be when all those hypocrits assemble there."
-Hal Holbrook as Mark Twain

"Now you have to remember man was made at the end of the week."
-Hal Holbrook as Mark Twain

"I did a stretch in Washington as a newspaper correspondant... and everyday I went over to the congress, that grand old benevolent national asylum for the helpless, and I reported on the inmates there. It was very entertaining, I had never seen a body of men with tongues so handy and information so uncertain. They could talk for a week without getting rid of an idea."
- Hal Holbrook as Mark Twain

"Clothes make the man. Naked people have little or no influence on society."
-Mark Twain

"I never let schooling interfere with my education."
-Mark Twain

"How strange is the lot of us mortals! Each of us is here for a brief sojourn;for what purpose we know not, though sometimes sense it. But we know from daily life that we exist for other people first of all for whose smiles and well-being our own happiness depends."
-Einstein

"Give us a happy ending and we write a new disaster story." -Barry Glassner

"Just when they think they got all the answers, I change the questions."

TWO LOVES
[Said one] I am true Love, I fill
The hearts of boy and girl with mutual flame.'
Then sighing, said the other, 'Have thy will,
I am the love that dare not speak its name.'
~Lord Alfred Douglas (1894)

"Expect the Unexpected."

"Erxias, where is all this useless army gathering to go?"

~ Archilochus

"The fox knows many tricks, the hedgehog only one. One good one."

~ Archilochus

"Here I lie mournful with desire, feeble in bitterness of the pain gods inflicted upon me, stuck through the bones with love."

~ Archilochus

Eclipse of the Sun
"Nothing will surprise me any more, nor be too wonderful
for belief, now that the lord upon Olympus, father Zeus,
dimmed the daylight and made darkness come upon us in the moon
and the sunshine. So limp terror has descended on mankind.
After this, men can believe in anything. They can expect
anything. Be not astonished any more, although you see
beasts of the dry land exchange with dolphins, and assume their place
in the watery pastures of the sea, and beasts who loved the hills
find the ocean's crashing waters sweeter than the bulk of land."

~ Archilochus

"I will make nothing better by crying, I will make nothing worse by giving myself what entertainment I can."
~ Archilochus

"Hold my jacket, somebody, while I hit Boupalos in the eye.
I can hit with both hands, and I never miss punches."
~ Hipponax

"Kyrnos, when God intends to make a city desolate,
he inspires violence in one if its evil men."

~Theognis

"It is easier to make bad out of good than good out of evil.
Never try to teach me. I am too old to be taught."

~Theognis

"Kyrnos, when we are breeding stock, we look for the best in
horses, donkeys, or rams for stud, to get a good strain;
yet even the finest man is willing to marry a rascal's
rascally daughter, if only she brings him money enough."

~Theognis

"No man, Jyrnos, is responsible for his own disasters
or gains, but both alive are handed out by the gods;
nor does any human being who acts have any true knowledge
whether the thing he does will end in evil or good.
Often he thinks the result will be bad, and it comes out better;
he thinkgs again the result will be good, and it comes out worse.
Nor is what happens to any person just what he wishes.
We are helpless: it is hard: but we are caught and confined.
We are men, what we think is vanity, for we know nothing.
All is disposed of by the gods in the way they wish."
~Theognis

"But I claim there will be some who remember us when we are gone."

~Sappho

"Like the sweet apple turning red on the branch top, on the
top of the topmost branch, and the gatherers did not notice it,
rather they did notic, but could not reach up to take it.

Like the hyacinth in the hills which the shepherd people
step on, tampling into the ground the flower in its purple."
~Sappho

Storm in the state
"I cannot understand how the winds are set
against each other. Now from this side and now
from that the waves roll. We between them
run with the wind in our black ship driven,

hard pressed and laboring under the giant storm.
All round the mast-step washes the sea we shipped.
You can see through the sail already
where there are opening rents within it.

The forestays slacken..."

~Alcaeus

"This was the world of Aristodamos in Sparta, and not so badly phrased
at all.
He said: "Money's the man." It's true. There's no poor man who's
known as good or valued much."
~Alcaeus

Anacreon
"Like a blacksmit the Love God has hammered me and crushed me
on his anvil, and has plunged me in a winter torrent."

"Altogether like a young fawn dropped but lately,
still a nurseling, who has lost her antlered mother
in the forest, and is overcome with panic."

Praxilla
"Loveliest of what I leave behind is the sunlight,
and loveliest after that the shining stars, and the moon's face,
but also cucumbers that are ripe, and pears, and apples."

"Girl of the lovely glance, looking out through the window,
your face is a virgin; lower down you are a married woman."

Simonides
"Being no more than a man, you cannot tell what will happen tomorrow,
nor, when you see one walk in prosperity know for how much time it will be.
For overturn on the light-lifting wings of a dragonfly is not more swift."

"There is one story
that Virtue has her dwelling place above rock walls hard to climb
with a grave chorus of light-footed nymphs attendant about her,
and she is not to be looked upon by the eyes of every mortal,
only by one who with sweat, with clenched concerntration
an courage, climbs to the peak."

"Across the pale stillness
of water keel-carven, these lovely eyes of desire
drag the ship to her doom."

"Traveler, take this word to the men of Lakedaimon:
We who lie buried here did what they told us to do."

Pindar
"War is sweet to those who have not tried it. The experienced man is frightened at the heart to see it advancing."

"A fellow who is always declaring he's no fool usually has his suspicions."
~Wilson Mizner

"'Cool' used to mean unique, spontaneous, compelling. The coolest kid was the one everyone wanted to be like but no one quite could, because his/her individuality was utterly distinct. Then "cool" changed. Marketers got a hold of it and reversed its meaning. Now you're cool if you are NOT unique. If you have the look and feel that bear the unmistakable stamp of America. Hair by Paul Mitchell, Khakis by The Gap, Car by BMW, Attitude by Nike, Pet Phrases by Letterman, Politics by Bill Maher. Cool is the opiate of our time, and over a couple of generations, we have grown dependent upon it to maintain our identities of inclusion."

~ Julie's profile

"The only true currency in this bankrupt world is what you share with someone else when you're uncool."
~Almost Famous

"I may not have gone where I intended to go, but I think I have ended up where I intended to be."
~Douglas Adams

"Good judgment comes from experience, and experience comes from bad judgment."
~Barry LePatner

"Always behave like a duck - keep calm and unruffled on the surface but paddle like the devil underneath."
~Jacob Braude

"I know the answer! The answer lies within the heart of all mankind! The answer is twelve? I think I'm in the wrong building."
~Charles M. Schulz

"Let your anger be like a monkey in a pinata, crouched down, hiding underneath the candy, hoping a child doesn't break through with a stick."
~Kung Pow

"The term 'learning disability' has appeal because it implies a specific neurological condition for which no one can be held particularly responsible, and yet it escapes the stigma of mental retardation. There is no implication of neglect, emotional disturbance, or improper training or education, nor does it imply a lack of motivation on the part of the child. For these cosmetic reasons, it is a rather nice term to have around."
~U. S. Government Study On The Labeling Of Children

"-Have you gotten tickets to the gun show yet?

- What gun show?

-THIS gun show." ~ Annonymous (aka the entire boys WWRA team)

"Despite my conviction there was the occasional set back... 'I want my erotic nose brain removed. My emegulata. The organ that processes erotic senses deep within my nasal cavity that then connects to memory... Well let me see if I can explain this. I had a boyfriend that smelled really really good. Like soap, fresh laundry and vanilla and whenever I smell any of those things Im reminded of my boyfriend and how happy we were and he dumped me for no good reason and I get really sad and angry and before I know it I am in the throws of an all out emotional breakdown and I was just thinking that if I could short circuit my nose somehow, I might actually have a chance of living a semi-normal life someday." ~ Jane Goodale, Someone Like You

"PC load letter... what the fuck does that mean??"
~Office Space

"Twas giving his orders with decision: it was as though this plan had been with him all his life, pondered through th seasons, now in his fifteenth year crystallized with the pain of puberty."
~ Graham Greene, The Destructors

"Luck is like the Tour de France. You wait, and it flashes past you. You have to catch it while you can." ~ Amelie

"In dance, no movement or direction is better or worse than another. This, too, is a way to view all of life. See all the "good and bad" things that happen to you simply as movements in the dance of life." ~ Tao

"What happens to beasts will happen to man. All things are connected. If the great beast are gone men would surely die of a great lonliness of spirit." - Chief Seattle, 1884

"Life's a bitch and then you marry one"-capt bob

"Everything, well most things, happen for a reason" - Brad

"Mighty are the obsessed." -Anonymous

Evan Davis:
"Nice guys finish last, but we get to sleep in."

Wittgenstein:
"If people did not sometimes do silly things, nothing intelligent would ever
get done."

Thoreau:
"Be true to your work, your word, and your friend."

Harry S. Truman:
"If you can't convince them, confuse them."

Whitney Young, Jr.:
"It is better to be prepared for an opportunity and not have one than to have
an opportunity and not be prepared."

Platus:
"Let deeds match words."

From the dead poets society:
"Seize the day.  Make your lives extrodinary."

Robert F. Kennedy:
"Only those who dare to fail greatly can ever achieve greatly."

Ralph Waldo Emerson:
"hitch your wagon to a star."

Mark Twain:
"When angry count four.  When very angry, swear."

Helen Keller:
"The best and most beautiful things in the world cannot be seen or even
touched.  They must be felt with the heart."

Ernest Hemingway:
"When people talk, listen completely.  Most people never listen."

"The only real mistake is the one from which we learn nothing." - John Powell

"A friend is one who knows you and loves you just the same." - Elbert Hubbard

"The expert at anything was once a beginner." - Hayes

"Nobody ever died of laughter." - Max Beerbohm

"You must work at the talent as a sculptor works at stone, chiseling, plotting, rounding, edging and making perfect." - Dylan Thomas

"Look for the light behind every shadow." - Robert Schuler

"If you don't get it right, try again, if it doesn't work the second time try again, it has to go right sometime!" -Sarah

"Time is too slow for those who wait, Two swift for those who fear, Too long for those who grieve, too short for those who rejoice, but for those who love, time is not.."~unknown

"Don't cry, you voted." -Student Council Officer

"These are the awkward years. But don't worry, your parents will grow out of it." -T.J.Maxx

"Smile." - Anonymous

"Dromio, Dromio, where for art thou Dromio?" - Antipholis Of Syracusia, Comedy of Errors 1999 WMS performance

"No guy is worth your tears and the one that is won't ever make you cry!"
- submitted by Sarah K., Amanda, and Marissa Z.

"Life is like a dream, sometimes it just gets too real that you have to wake up, and sometimes you sleep all the way and forget to open your eyes to catch it going by." -ME (chinese proverb), submitted by Felipe S.
 

"Sometimes on the walk of life, you just gotta run like hell." - Anonymous

"Life goes pretty fast so if you don't stop and look around every once in a while, you might miss it." -ME (chinese proverb), submitted by Felipe S.

"Although I lead you to the fountain I cannot make you drink the water.  But it is not always a choice, and you know when you find yourself swallowing forced water that you didn't place in your mouth, that is also believing.  Every night the silver moon is mine and yet when the morning comes I am forced to relinquish my hold, and that is also true."  -ME (chinese proverb), submitted by Felipe S.

"The only true swear word in life is pity." -Anonymous

"Do not pity me no matter what I go through.  Do not compliment me no matter what I achieve.  Do not follow me no matter where I walk.  But remember this only: Respect is all I desire."  -ME (chinese proverb), submitted by Felipe S.

"Life is a game. Sometimes you get out early." - Mike E.

"What's this button do???? whoops..." - Mike E.

"Unfortunately, no one can be told what the Matrix is. You have to see it for yourself." - Morpheus, The Matrix 1999

"The Matrix has you." - The Matrix, submitted by Evan

"You think that's air you're breathing?" - The Matrix, submitted by Evan

"In faith I do not love thee with mine eyes, For they in a thousand errors note; But 'tis my heart that loves what they despise, Who in despise of view is pleased to dote.  Nor are ine ears with thy tongue's tune delighted, Nor tender feelings to base touches prone, Nor taste, nor smell, desire to be invited To any sensual feast with thee alone.  But my fivemwits nor my five senses can Dissuade one foolish heart from serving thee, who leaves unwayed the likeness of a man, Thy proud heart's slave and vassal wretch to be.  Only my plague thus far I count my gain, That she that makes me sin awards me pain."- Shakespeare's Sonnet 141, submitted by Dave J.

"HAKUNA MATATA"- Lion King, submitted by Dave J.

"I believe in faith and that there is this one person out there for everybody."- Preston Meyers, submitted by Dave J.

"I'm not gonna die on this island, do you hear me? If you want me so bad come and get me, I'm right here."- Julie James from I Still Know What you Did Last Summer, submitted by Dave J.

"I can open your eyes Take you wonder by wonder Over, sideways and under On a
magic carpet ride." -from A Whole New World form Aladdin, submitted by Dave J.

"Why Jerry? Why, Why is this, Jerry? Why?  -The Sphere

"Are you eye-balling me? Don't you eye-ball me, never eye-ball me, just concentrate, and learn!"  -Master Lee.

"Hoopa dydoo!"  -Adam Sandler.

"Don't cry over spilt peanut butter." -Kim S.

"Cuteness!" -Sarah K.

"You don't have to be blood, to be family"- George Fieniy (from Boy Meets
World)

Cartman: " You should have seen Kyle's face when his mom showed up. He was
sh**tin' his f***in pants!"
Kyle: "Shut up Cartman!"
Cartman:" No, dude, I'd be scared too. Your mom's a f***ing bitch!" - South Park movie, submitted by Jay J.

"Whoa." - Neo, The Matrix 1999, submitted by Jay J.

"Clever and Simple!" - Carol