love and music quotes

My favorite thing about the Internet is that you get to go into the private world of real creeps without having to smell them. ~Penn Jillett



If you don't take care of yourself, the undertaker will overtake that responsibility for you. ~Carrie Latet



Well done is better than well said. ~Benjamin Franklin



A successful marriage requires falling in love many times, always with the same person. ~Mignon McLaughlin



Software is slowing faster than hardware is accelerating. ~Martin Reiser, quoted by Nicklaus Wirth, 1995, which spawned "Grove giveth, and Gates taketh away," author unknown, referring to CEOs of Intel and Microsoft



We have rudiments of reverence for the human body, but we consider as nothing the rape of the human mind. ~Eric Hoffer



When I was a boy I was told that anybody could become President; I'm beginning to believe it. ~Clarence Darrow



In this prostituting society, we all have to hustle, and I'd rather suck cock than kiss ass! ~Margo St. James, attributed



Aphorism: a short, concise statement of a principle or a short, pointed sentence expressing a wise or clever observation or a general truth; a terse formulation of a truth or sentiment. According to James Geary in The World in a Phrase: A Brief History of the Aphorism, the five laws of aphorisms are: it must be brief, it must be definitive, it must be personal, it must have a twist, and it must be philosophical. Example: "Believe nothing you hear, and only half of what you see." ~Mark Twain



One must learn a different... sense of time, one that depends more on small amounts than big ones. ~Sister Mary Paul



Writing comes more easily if you have something to say. ~Sholem Asch



The historian has before him a jigsaw puzzle from which many pieces have disappeared. These gaps can be filled only by his imagination. ~Gaetano Salvemini, Historian and Scientist



And by the way, everything in life is writable about if you have the outgoing guts to do it, and the imagination to improvise. The worst enemy to creativity is self-doubt. ~Sylvia Plath



I sing like I feel. ~Ella Fitzgerald



If I fall asleep with a pen in my hand, don't remove it - I might be writing in my dreams. ~Terri Guillemets



A disquieting loneliness came into my life, but it induced no hunger for friends of longer acquaintance: they seemed now like a salt-free, sugarless diet. ~Truman Capote, Breakfast at Tiffany's, 1958



All art is autobiographical; the pearl is the oyster's autobiography. ~Federico Fellini



He who has faith has... an inward reservoir of courage, hope, confidence, calmness, and assuring trust that all will come out well - even though to the world it may appear to come out most badly. ~B.C. Forbes



If you screw things up in tennis, it's 15-love. If you screw up in boxing, it's your ass. ~Randall "Tex" Cobb



I hear that in many places something has happened to Christmas; that it is changing from a time of merriment and carefree gaiety to a holiday which is filled with tedium; that many people dread the day and the obligation to give Christmas presents is a nightmare to weary, bored souls; that the children of enlightened parents no longer believe in Santa Claus; that all in all, the effort to be happy and have pleasure makes many honest hearts grow dark with despair instead of beaming with good will and cheerfulness. ~Julia Peterkin, A Plantation Christmas, 1934