posted 11-12-2006 04:52 PM               

"If a man is called to be a street sweeper, then he should sweep streets even as Michelangelo painted, or Beethoven composed music, or Shakespeare wrote poetry. He should sweep streets so well that all the hosts of heaven and earth will pause to say, here lived a great street sweeper who did his job well." (You guessed it - Martin Luther King)

posted 11-12-2006 05:52 PM            

Here is something that I said to my brother just the other day that I had to write down and save just because it was so random and bizarre:
"Does the ocean smell like dead things or do dead things smell like the ocean?"

We both laughed because of the strange "Zen" ring to it. Then he ruined it with the reply, "It's obvious--the ocean smells like dead things, you idiot."

As for a more dignified quote:
"We are all filled with a longing for the wild. There are few culturally sanctioned antidotes for this yearning. We were taught to feel shame for this desire. We grew our hair long and used it to hide our feelings. But the shadow of Wild Woman still lurks behind us during our days and in our nights. No matter where we are, the shadow that trots behind us is definitely four-footed."
--the brief forward of Women Who Run With the Wolves by Clarissa Pinkola Estes, Ph.D.

posted 11-12-2006 06:20 PM               

-Truman Capote

The greatness of a nation and its moral progress can be judged by the way its animals are treated.

posted 11-12-2006 07:17 PM            

“I write this sitting in the kitchen sink. That is, my feet are in it; the rest of me is on the draining-board." The first line of Dodie Smith's "I capture the Castle"

posted 11-12-2006 08:34 PM            

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Originally posted by Spawn of Elphaba:
One of my favorites, my mom always says it
"You need a deck of cards to handle a man...a heart to love him, a diamond to marry him, a club to kill him, and a spaid to burry him."

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That, is now my all time favorite quote.

And this, from Ellen Foster, the first line.
"I used to lie awake at night and think of ways to kill my daddy, work 'em all the way through till I found the one I liked, my favorite one was when I'd stick a spider down his back..."

posted 11-12-2006 09:54 PM               

~Nathaniel Hawthorne; The Scarlet Letter

posted 11-14-2006 07:22 PM            

... eww...

posted 11-14-2006 07:24 PM               

"Those who don't believe in magic will never find it."

posted 11-14-2006 10:32 PM            

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Originally posted by MusicalTheatreObsessed:
An author writed a quotation, and then you quote the author. Aaah the joys of Accelerated AP English.

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posted 11-14-2006 10:46 PM               

-Ogden Nash

A little nonsense now and then, is cherished by the wisest men.

posted 11-14-2006 11:18 PM            

"I like pigs. Dogs look up to us. Cats look down on us. Pigs treat us as equals."
--Winston Churchill

posted 11-15-2006 06:21 AM               

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Originally posted by slightlyconfuzzled:
Irony?

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Your not kidding.

posted 11-15-2006 10:06 AM               

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Originally posted by The Scarecrow:
Your not kidding.

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You're not kidding

(I guessing you did that on purpose)

posted 11-15-2006 08:04 PM               

quote:

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Originally posted by slightlyconfuzzled:
Irony?

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posted 11-15-2006 08:39 PM            

Oh, a great quote was said by my old director, who finally gave up and lost it and shouted:

"FRANK!. A Lion is growling and TALKING in your backyard. You live in Kansas. Run outside, there is a LION there. People in Kansas don't run outside for anything else!"

And he responded:
"Except for tornadoes."

posted 11-15-2006 09:19 PM            

"I distrust those people who know so well what God wants them to do, because I notice it always coincides with their own desires." –- Susan B. Anthony

"There is no persecution so bitter as that in the name of religion." –- Elizabeth Cady Stanton

"It is not light that we need, but fire; it is not the gentle shower, but thunder. We need the storm, the whirlwind, and the earthquake." -- Frederick Douglass

"I prefer to be true to myself, even at the hazard of incurring the ridicule of others, rather than to be false, and to incur my own abhorrence." -- Frederick Douglass

"I like the silent church before the service begins, better than any preaching." –- Ralph Waldo Emerson

posted 11-15-2006 09:46 PM               

"Isn't sanity really just a one trick pony, anyway? I mean, all you get is one trick, rational thinking! But when you're good and crazy…ooh hoo hoo hoo…the sky's the limit!"

And two from Mark Twain:

"Fiction is obliged to stick to possibilities. Truth isn't."

And my favourite from him, just because it's him:

posted 11-15-2006 09:49 PM            

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Originally posted by MusicalTheatreObsessed:
Try more like poking fun.

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posted 11-15-2006 11:40 PM            

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Originally posted by The Scarecrow:
"Why did God give homely girls like me feelings like the pretty ones. It is not fair. It's just not fair."
-Spring Storm

I think back on that line on a daily basis. It is so true. And very not fair.

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My mom has a book, called "Men'll put you on a pedastool so they can look up your skirt, a dad's advice to daughters."

The first quote, of dating says:

"I have to go get my fingerprints done today, because by law, in New York, in order to own a handgun you must get your fingerprints tested. So, I'm going to do that today, so when my daughter brings home a boyfriend or something I'll be ready, sitting on the front porch, gun in hand."

Now, that just cracks me up. I never did show that book to my dad, don't want him getting any ideas.

posted 11-16-2006 08:10 PM               

"God is silent now if we could only get man to shut up" -Woody Allen

posted 11-16-2006 11:16 PM            

"Now, if you were you, but not really you being you. And I was I, not being me because I was someone else, what would you being you say to me being someone else, if I told you that I was Odysseus."

me: "I GET IT NOW!"

posted 11-26-2006 02:15 PM            

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Originally posted by MusicalTheatreObsessed:
That is the best thing I've ever heard.

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posted 11-26-2006 06:16 PM            

"As a member of DeTamble and DeTamble, alcholics on the rise.."

"My room looks like it could qualify for Federal Disaster Relief funds..."

posted 11-26-2006 07:03 PM               

*goes on internet mission to locate single copy of the book available in Britain today*

Edited to say that I just found it on ebay for 99p, so it is on the way to my house and I will be able to get it when I go home on friday! I went on Amazon first and the cheapest they had was £45, what's that about?!
Did you know it's being made into a film? (Of course you did. I'm always a few years behind everyone else.)

posted 11-28-2006 06:17 PM               

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Originally posted by jerseyminx:
Candy is dandy, but liquor is quicker,

-Ogden Nash

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speaking of boos...
"It doesn't matter if the glass is half full or half empty, as long as you have the rest of the bottle."

"If life is a waste of time, and time is a waste of life, then lets get wasted and have the time of our lives."

posted 01-14-2007 12:15 AM            

"And when you're in black pants with accenuating, off-white pinstripes (wa-oh) everything goes according to plan."
- Panic! at the Disco

posted 01-14-2007 01:57 AM               

"I dreamed that I was loved, I woke and found it true and thanked God on my knees for it. True love is the gift which God has given, daily, stronger, deeper, fuller, purer.'"

Alix, a.k.a. Aleksandra Feodorovna, the last Empress of Russia (1872-1918)

I found these two in the book titled "A Lifelong Passion: Nikolai And Aleksandra In Their Own Words". It is basically a collection of letters that were written by the last Tsar and Tsaritsa of Russia. Interesting if one is a history buff.

"We are not amused".

Queen Victoria

The last one I got off of a history discusision forum.

posted 01-14-2007 10:10 AM            

"I think your child is seeing God." - Keeping Faith.

"You guys line up alphabetically by height."
- Bill Peterson, Florida State football coach

posted 01-14-2007 11:30 AM               

"Give all to love; obey thy heart."
Ralph Waldo Emerson

"Most people are other people. Their thoughts are someone elses opinions, their lives a mimicry, their passions a quotation."
Oscar Wilde

"I'm not interested in money. I just want to be wonderful."
Marilyn Monroe