quoteables

so it's been a really long time since i've done this. sorry everyone. i'm back now. watch out! hehe. i'm a mood for love quotes. so here they are.

-"it's amazing how i know i can't, i could never walk away." - cartel
-"i love you for not only what you are, but for what i am when i am with you. i love you not only for what you have made of yourself, but for what you are making of me. i love you for the part of me you bring out." - elizabeth barnett browning
-"if you are not too long, i will wait here for you all my life." - oscar wilde
-"he understood for the first time how if you believed you belong to someone no piece of paper or priest's benediction could make it any more real." - ?
-"love me in the night, but don't please don't leave me in the dark." - tom robbins
-"what a difference a day made and that difference is you." - jamie cullum
-"i held your hand you stole my heart." - parlour mob
-"but when its my time to throw the next stone, i'll call you beautiful, if i call you at all." - chris cornell
-"i wish i was beautiful or that you were half way blind." - harry chapin
-"lost for you i'm so lost for you." - dave matthews band
-"you wear nothing but you wear it so well." - dave matthews band
-"i like the way you say "baby"' - black crowes
-"i love you more than all that's on the planet." - shakira

bansky

a friend of mine shared with me some quotes from the street artist bansky and i just had to share with everyone one specific quote.

"If you only ever read one book in your life I highly recommend...you keep your fucking mouth shut."

i know i've been a little behind in my sharing quotes, i'll have a post soon with a bunch more. 

don't panic

i love that someone got this as a tattoo. that's just amazing!

stand up for truth

i found this and thought i'd share it with all of you. in case you can't read this, it says:

"doesn't matter what the press says. doesn't matter what the politicians or the mobs say. doesn't matter if the whole country decides that something wrong is right. the nation was founded on one principle above all else: the requirement that we stand up for what we believe. no matter the odds or the consequences. when the mob and the press and the whole world tell you to move, your job is to plant yourself like a tree beside the river of truth, and tell the whole world - 'NO YOU MOVE'.

quoteables

so it's been a long time since i've done a post of quotes, so here i am. hope they inspire.

-"love so deep kills you in your sleep." - talking heads
-"there's a lot of bodies on the ground, i know. i used to be one." - pinback
-"i'm tired of being alone, so hurray up and get here." - john mayer
-"saying i love you has nothing to do with meaning it." - maroon 5
-"trying to sleep all day 'cause i'm better off that way. that's the only place htat you can't torture me." - riddlin' kids
-"regret for the things we did can be tempered by time; it is regret for the things we did not do that is inconsolable." - ?
-"i thought life could show me no surprises and then you came." - neutral milk hotel
-"war, the only way to peace, i don't fall for that." - dave matthews band
-"in three words i can sum up everything i've learned about life: it goes on." - robert frost
-"don't stop to look at the clock. forever won't be long enough." - live

hst

i'm a huge fan of hunter s thompson. he's a great writer! i thought i would share some of his wonderful wisdom with all of you. here are different quotes of his.

- "Life should not be a journey to the grave with the intention of arriving safely in a pretty and well preserved body, but rather to skid in broadside in a cloud of smoke, thoroughly used up, totally worn out, and loudly proclaiming "Wow! What a Ride!"
- "No sympathy for the devil; keep that in mind. Buy the ticket, take the ride...and if it occasionally gets a little heavier than what you had in mind, well...maybe chalk it off to forced conscious expansion: Tune in, freak out, get beaten." - fear and loathing in las vegas
- "Some may never live, but the crazy never die."
- "Sex without love is as hollow and ridiculous as love without sex."
- "Music has always been a matter of Energy to me, a question of Fuel. Sentimental people call it Inspiration, but what they really mean is Fuel. I have always needed Fuel. I am a serious consumer. On some nights I still believe that a car with the gas needle on empty can run about fifty more miles if you have the right music very loud on the radio."
- "Life has become immeasurably better since I have been forced to stop taking it seriously."
- "THE EDGE, there is no honest way to explain it because the only people who really know where it is are the ones who have gone over"
- "A man who procrastinates in his choosing will inevitably have his choice made for him by circumstance."
- "America...just a nation of two hundred million used car salesmen with all the money we need to buy guns and no qualms about killing anybody else in the world who tries to make us uncomfortable"
- "The greatest mania of all is passion" - the curse of lono
- "If you're going to be crazy, you have to get paid for it or else you're going to be locked up."
-"As things stand now, I am going to be a writer. I'm not sure that I'm going to be a good one or even a self-supporting one, but until the dark thumb of fate presses me to the dust and says 'you are nothing', I will be a writer."- gonzo

quoteables

here is another installment of quotes. hope they inspire.

-"you are only young once, but you can stay immature indefinitely." - ?
-"i couldn't explain my need to myself, and that's why it was such a beautiful need. there's nothing wrong with not understanding yourself." - jonathan safran foer extremely loud and incredibly close
-"dreams are necessary to life." - anais nin
-"the morning wind forever blows; the poem of creation is uninterrupted, but few are the ears that hear it." - henry david thoreau walden
-"my heart is yours to fill or burst, to break or bury, or wear as jewelery, whichever you prefer." - dashboard confessional
-"stories are for joining the past to the future. stories are for those late hours in the night when you can't remember how you got from where you were to where you are. stories are for eternity, when memory is erased, when there is nothing to remember except the story." - tim o'brien
-"with the cuts and burises don't close the door on what you adore." - muse
-" no you submit, do you hear? you be strong, you survive... you stay alive. no matter what occurs! i will find you. no matter how long it takes, no matter how far, i will find you." - the last of the mohicans (the movie)
-"faith is a cop-out. if the only way you can accept an assertion is by faith, then you are conceding that it can't be taken on its own merits." - dan baker
-"if you loved someone, you love him, and when you had nothing to give, you still have him love." - george orwell 1984
-"how clearly i first saw you smiling in the sun wanna feel your warmth upon me, i wanna be the one." - sarah mclachlan
-"you know, if we pretend we know what's going on, this is actually kind of exciting." - mystery science theator 3000

quotables

here's another installment of quotes. hope they inspire.

- "no matter how fast light travels it finds that darkness has always gotten there first and is waiting for it." - terry pratchett
- "the difference between friendship and love is how much you can hurt each other." - ashleigh brilliant
- "the most intimate emotion two people can share is neither love nor desire, but pain." - the surgeon by tess gerritsen
- "change is the essence of life. be willing to surrender what you are for what you could become." - ?
- "people are always telling me that change is good. but all that means is that something you didn't want to happen has happened." - meg ryan
- "it is never too late to be what you might have been." - george elliot
- "the worst part of holding the memories is not the pain, it's the loneliness of it." - the giver by lois lowry
- "these streets are filled with memories. both perfect and in pain." - secondhand serenade
- "the friendship that can cease has never been real." - saint jerome
- "to be loved, to be loved, what more could you ask for. to be loved, to be loved, everyone wants to be." - the academy is...
- "your the reason why i burst and why i bloom" - motion city soundtrack
- "you don't know how much i'd give or how much i can take just to reach you." - melissa etheridge
- "what you really value is what you miss, not what you have." - jorge louis borges
- "i lay down on the cold ground and i pray that something picks me up and sets me down in your arms." - snow patrol
- "and that's when your song calls me from way up in a tree and i look up and the whole world is as it should be." - ani defranco

maya angelou's cooking advice

maya angelou has recently published a cooking book. and it is actually with cooking recipes from her. but what i'm posting about is that she was interviewed by npr and she was quoted saying this:

"You need the best ingredients when you're going to cook," she says. "The writer has to take some nouns, pronouns, verbs, adverbs, adjectives, et cetera, and boil them up in such a way that you can throw them against the wall and they'll bounce."


i thought this was a great quote, that i just had to share. you can read the whole article about maya angelou's cook book on npr's website. 

quotables

here's another installment of quotes. hope they inspire.

-"we believe too much in ourselves, like high walls perched on a cliff when a storm impends, confident and self-assured." - huang guobin
-"we too, could be glorious." -muse
-"i need some distraction oh beautiful release memory seeps from my viens let me be empty and weightless and maybe i'll find some peace tonight." - sarah mclachlan
-"i think i'm losing my grip but i can still make a fist." - nine inch nails
-"the coldest blue ocean water cannot stop my heart and mind from burning." - the white stipes
-"i am not afraid of storms for i am learning how to sail my ship." - louisa may alcott
-"some of the most wonderful people are the ones who don't fit into boxes" - tori amos
-"all music is folk music. i ain't never heard a horse sing a song." - louis armstrong
-"there are some people that if they don't know, you can't tell them." - louis armstrong
-"oh, i swear that i'd sleep forever if you never left my dreams. so while the world passes by, i'll lve in the frames, in the picture stills of memories." - ?
-"when you walk through the waters i will be with you you will never sink beneath the waves." - ?
-"she was struck by the simple truth that sometimes the most ordinary things could be made extraordinary, simply by doing them with the right people." - nicholas sparks the lucky one
-"god grant me the serenity to accept the things i cannot change, courage to change the things i can, and wisdom to always tell the difference. - ?

quoteables

here's another installment of quotes. hope they inspire.

-"the length of a film should be directly related to the endurance of the human bladder." - alfred hitchcock
-"i am an excitable person who only understands life lyrically, musically, in whom feelings are much stronger as reason. i am so thirsty for the marvelous that only the marvelous has power over me. anything i can not transform into something marvelous, i let go. reality doesn't impress me. i only believe in intoxication, in ectasy, and when ordinary life shackles me, i escape, one way or another. no more walls." - anais nin
-"and i'll hold on to the dream of this beggar's plea and optimistic fantasy; just hold the hand and drop the knee." - cartel
-"we need to feel breathless with love and not collapse under its weight." - snow patrol
-"i may not have gone where i intended to go but i think i endend up where i intended to be." - douglas adams
-"the truth is, everyone is going to hurt you. you just gotta find the ones worth suffering for." - bob marley
-"life is the curse. sleep is the remission. death is the cure." - ?
-"it's funny, the one's you don't expect to love, are the ones you never forget." - ?
-"friends are like bras: close to the heart and there for support." - ?
-"sometimes its the smallest decisions that can change your life forever." - keri russell
-"there is never a right time to do a difficult thing" - joan porter
-"a poet can survive everything but a misprint." - oscar wilde
-"never discourage anyone... who continually makes progress, no matter how slow." - plato
-"i wish this house felt like a home." - the white stripes.

quoteables

another installment of quotes. hope they inspire.

-"you will do foolish things, but do them with enthusiasm." - colette
-"'i wish to be loved by another', she answered. 'but i desire no man's pity.'" - eowyn from lord of the rings
-"love is like pissing your pants; everyone can see it but, only you can feel it's warmth." - ?
-"although i can accept talking to scare crows, lions and great wizards of emerald cities, i find it hard to believe there is no paperwork involved when your house lands on a witch." - dave james
-"life is pain, princess... anyone who says differently is selling something." - the princess bride
-"i'm not afraid of happy endings, i'm just afraid my life won't work that way." - jack off jill
-"to make you laugh is all i want." - early november
-"it's a dangerous buisness going out your front door." - lord of the rings
-"the appearance of law must be upheld, espically when it's being broken." - gangs of new york
-"society honors its living conformists and it's dead troublemakers." - mignon mclaughlin
-"fighting for peace is like fucking for virginity." - graffiti
-"the one thing the world will never have enough of is the outrageous." - salvidor dali
-when i was a girl i was told that anybody could become president. now i'm beginning to believe it." - ?
-"where zen ends, ass kicking begins." - hyde from the 70s show.
-"sometimes that's all life is, one desperate act after another." - the sword of truth novels by terry goodkind
-"we all can be only who we are, no more, no less." - sword of truth novels by terry goodkind
-"and if you don't know where you're going any road will take you there." - george harrison
-"when i see, you're coming down the street my heart skips a beat." - george harrison

quoteables

here's the latest installment of quotes. hope they inspire.

-"i wasn't looking but somehow you found me." - carly simon
-"love is real it is not just in poetry and stories." - bright eyes
-"then you lay me down in an unmade bed and you show me things that aren't easily said." - black crowes
-"you strain your face to bear that smile your teeth clenched all the while." - craig's brother
-"i will learn to say goodbye to yesterday." - vanessa carlton
-"and when you lie down to sleep i'll protect you from the demons of the night." - stone temple pilots
-"did you ever notice the people who are most adamantly against abortions are people so ugly you wouldn't want to touch them in the first place?" - george carlin
-"nine-tenths of wisdom consists in being wise in time." - theodore roosevelt
-"before i can live with other folks i've got to live with myself. the one thing that doesn't abide by majority rule is a person's conscience." - atticus
-"how to fight loneliness, smile all the time." - wilco
-"fight for your opinoins but do not believe that they contain the whole truth, or the only truth." - charles a dana
-"getting fired is nature's way of telling you that you had the wrong job in the first place." - hal lancaster
-"the things you own end up owning you." - fight club by chuck palahniuk
-"they say abortion will send you straight to a fiery hell. that is if the fanatics don't beat satan to the kill." - jewl
-"we're a mess. but it's a great mess, a glorious mess." - thom york

quoteables 2

so i was cleaning out a box of books and i found my old quote notebook. i thought i had lost it, but thankfully i had just put it away for safe keeping. so i thought i would do another installment of quotes this month using my first quote book i ever created. hope they inspire. (and as a side note, happy birthday dad! and happy anniversary mom and steve!)

-"fashion is a form of ugliness so intolerable that we have to alter it every six months." - oscar wilde
-"i respect faith, but doubt is what gets you an education." - wilson mizner
-"the more you sweat in peace, the less you bleed in war." - george hyman
-"giving money and power to the government is like giving whiskey and car keys to teenage boys." - p.j. o'rourke
-"brush the cobwebs out of the sky." - radiohead
-"it's the devil's way now there is no way out you can scream and you can shout it's too late now because you have not been paying attention." - radiohead
-"we are all prisoners here, of our own device." - the eagles
-"freedom of speech exists if what you say is accepted by the majority." - sorrow
-"they say they fight in the name of god but it's only to protect themselves jesus comes to our world with love he doesn't come to our world with war." - narnia
-"you can bet your life that i'll be the first one dancing in the street." - ben lee
-"love ain't suppose to be this bad, make you cry mega ultra sad." - ben kweller
-"you're your favorite stranger." - tori amos
-"if the sun refused to shine, i would still be loving you. when mountains crumble to the sea, there will still be you and me." - led zeppelin

quotables

here are this months installment of quotes, hope they inspire.

-"i like things that go into hidden, mysterious places, places i want to explore that are very disturbing. in that disturbing thing, there is sometimes tremendous beauty and truth." - david lynch
-"missing you is easy. its the waiting to see you again that's hard." - ?
-"all i've got is a red guitar, three cords and the truth." - jimi hendrix
-"fettucini alfredo is macaroni and cheese for adults." - mitch hedberg
-"families are like fudge - mostly sweet with a few nuts." - ?
-"you can't predict who you'll fall in love with. love's the one thing that doesn't have a pattern - it's a totaly mystery. if you over think it, you're wasting your time." - taylor swift.
-"all the possibility and promise just weighs on me so heavily." - straylight run
-"and i had to leave the house of television to start noticing the clouds. it's amazing the stuff you see when you finally shed the shroud." - ani difranco
-"but she wanted to love someone the way she felt when painting - fearless, messy, vivid." - austenland by shannon hale
-"i cannot believe my eyes, how the world is filled with filth and lies." - dr. horrible's sing along blog
-"i'm so full of love it deeply sickens me." - motion city soundtrack
-"your still alive she said. do i deserve to be? is that the question?" - pearl jam
-"if you are dead, no one can criticize you, or, if they do it doesn't hurt." - sylvia plath
-"every day of every hour i wish i was bulletproof." - radiohead

quoteables

this months installment of quotes. hope they inspire.

-"all the money you made won't buy back your soul." - pearl jam
-"and this is how i choose to live, as if i'm jumping off a cliff." - relient k
-"we're fools whether we dance or not, so we might as well dance." - japanese proverb
-"good communication is as stimulating as black coffee and just as hard to sleep after." - anne marrow lindbergh
-"true love suffers and is silent." - oscar wilde
-"i'm broken down and hungry for your love with no way to feed it." - jamie cullum
-"military glory - that attractive rainbow, that rises in showers of blood." - abraham lincoln
-"people who want to share their religious views with you almost never want you to share yours with them." - dave bary
-"there are times when a beautiful image makes sense as good storytelling in ways that are not easily explained." - david mazzucchell
-"let me ask you something, what is not art?" - ?
-"the most courageous act is - still - to think for yourself. aloud." - coco chanel
-"i've never believed in god, but i believe in picasso." - diego rivera
-"life beats down and crushes the soul and art reminds you that you have one." - stella adler

happy birthday to me!

today this blog is one year old! woot woot! i can't believe i've been doing this for a year. it doesn't seem that long. it started out as a simple blog for a story i was writing. then i decided to change the direction and write about all things to do with writing. adding along the way things that are going on with my writing.  for today's post i think i'm going to highlight different posts i have done over the year. so here are some of my favorite posts from this past year. 

the very first post i ever did
critics
tuna poem
celebrate banned books
the wheel of time turns
dr. horrible comic review
death
life is full of them
the first quoteables
world war z
the power of words
poetry coat
muse quoteables
poetry/art swap
a lighted carousel

wow, if you went back and read all of those, your amazing! thanks for sticking with me and i hope the next year is just as amazing as this past year has been. keep writing and keep reading. 

quotes 3

this is the last installment of quotes for this month (seeing how it's the last day of the month). hope they inspire.

-"Can miles truly separate you...? If you want to be with someone you love, aren't you already there?" - ?
-"You know you love someone when the mere thought of losing them brings you to tears."- ?
-"I wish that I could hold you now... I wish that I could touch you now... I wish that I could talk to you... be with you somehow." - ?
-"Good-bye is only truly painful if you know you'll never say hello again." -?
-"The few hours I spent with you are worth the thousand hours I spend without you." -?
-"Today was just one of those days where everything I did reminded me of you and every song I heard somehow related to you. I hate days like today, because they remind me of the one thing I dont have." -?
-"Just the thought of being with you tomorrow is enough to get me through today." -?
-"It's not a 'good-bye', only a long 'I'll see you later.'" - ?
-"when i think where a mans strength begins and ends, i think that i never had such a friend." - ?
-"i'll make you a mixtape that will charm you into bed. it details everything thats running round my head." - jamie cullum
-"love ain't gonna let you down no more." - jamie cullum
-"love is the triump of imagination over intelligence." - henry louis mencken
-"there is always some madness in love. but there is also always some reason in madness." - friedrich nietzsche
-"a good relationship is like fireworks: loud, explosive." - jeph jaques

things people say

i was talking to a friend of mine and he said this and i thought it was amazing. and so i knew i just had to share it here. he thought of it all by himself and everything.

"if missing you is a grain of sand, i had a whole beach."

quotes 2

-"love is the irresistible desire to be irresistibly desired." - robert frost
-"there is no remedy for love but to love more." - henry david thoreau
-"age does not protect you from love. but love, to some extent, protects you from age." - jeanne moreau
-"ink on paper is as beautiful to me as flowers on the mountains." - audra fovea-alba
-"take a music bath once or twice a week for a few seasons, and you will find that it is to the soul what the water bath is to the body." - oliver wendell holmes
-"all those glances that we stole sometimes if you want them then you've got to." - josh ritter
-"the president ain't got our cause he's seeling souls and breaking laws telling lies for the applause." - parlor mob
-"it is the peculiar nature of the world to go on spinning no matter what sort of heartbreak is happening." - sue monk kidd
-"journalism largely consists of saying 'lord jones is dead.' to people who never knew that lord jones was alive." - g.k. chesterton
-"if your life had little meaning... your death has none." - ralph maccihio