My Favorite Quotes in 2011

"Truth is, I've always been thirsty." - Edward Bloom, Big Fish



"We're done with you. Go back to the golf course and work on your putz." - Dark Helmet, Spaceballs

"Madness need not be all breakdown. It may also be break-through. It is potential liberation and renewal as well as enslavement and existential death." - R. D. Laing

"Tragedy is when I cut my finger. Comedy is when you fall into an open sewer and die." - Mel Brooks

"Waiting is painful. Forgetting is painful. But not knowing which to do is the worst kind of suffering." - Paulo Coelho



"Whatever I did, I did without rules of other people. I did it because I wanted to do it." - Herb Vogel



"Maybe if I hadn't of seen so much hard feelings, I might not could have felt other people's." - Woody Guthrie (from "Another Man's Done Gone")

“Fate loves the fearless.” - James Russell Lowell

My Favorite Quotes in 2010

"Live very week like it's Shark Week." - Tracy Jordan (30 Rock)



“Never succumb to the temptation of bitterness.” - Martin Luther King, Jr.

"I shall no doubt find pleasure in examining the etchings which you hold out as an inducement to call." - from The Erie Train Boy by Horatio Alger, Jr.

"To put it bluntly, American political opportunities are heavily loaded against those who are simultaneously intelligent and honest." - Richard Dawkins



"I saw a beggar leaning on his wooden crutch, he said to me, 'you must not ask for so much.' And a pretty woman leaning in her darkened door, she cried to me, 'Hey, why not ask for more?'" - Leonard Cohen ("Bird On The Wire")

"The hours that make us happy make us wise." - John Mansfield

"It has been said that art is a tryst, for in the joy of it maker and beholder meet." - Kojiro Tomita

"I pray to be like the ocean, with soft currents, maybe waves at times. More and more, I want the consistency rather than the highs and the lows." - Drew Barrymore

“Expecting the world to treat you fairly because you are a good person is a little like expecting a bull not to attack you because you are a vegetarian.” - Dennis Wholey

"Accept what people offer. Drink their milkshakes. Take their love." - Wally Lamb

"My version of falling in love is borderline psychotic. Should be avoided at all costs. Get obsessed. Can't fall in love and function at the same time. All-consuming. Tunnel vision. Euphoric." - Graham Norton

"Oh, go on and cry. You'll pee less."

 I'M STRESSED OUT.

I've been wound up like a spring for the last two weeks, and each time I think all has fallen back into a sensible order, it's crisis time again. It's like I'm trying to file a bunch of papers, see? But there's an army of little men who live at the bottom of the filing cabinet drawer, and they just can't wait until I tuck something away so they can tear it to shreds. Party. Confetti. Life's a beach, man.

As of yet, my patience has been serving me well, but it's running thin tonight. Luckily, I'm somehow still smiling and the shinola continues to outweigh the shit. But I'm stressed, damnit. Why don't I have that Valium prescription anymore? Time to count to ten.

I watched Postcards from the Edge for the first time tonight. Great movie, containing the awesome quote that inspired this whiny post. It seems that I will be peeing a little less after this.

Recommended Viewing

What Ever Happened to Baby Jane? (1962)

"I didn't bring your breakfast, because you didn't eat your din-din!"

This movie has been on my "To Watch" list for a long time, and I finally saw it a couple weeks ago. It's a MUST SEE! If you're anything like me, you'll be rooting for crazy Baby Jane for the duration of this deliciously demented film.

Love Me If You Dare (2003) 

"Being an adult means to have a speedometer that marks 210 and not driving over 60." 

This one is about a boy, a girl, and an absurd game... oh, yeah, and a most fucked-up kind of love. Love Me If You Dare was personally recommended to me by a close friend, based upon a specific experience I had with a former love. If you've ever trusted someone who you knew you couldn't trust in the least, then I think you'll enjoy this one. Also, it's shot beautifully, reminding me of the same dreamy, fairytale feeling that's conveyed in two of my other favorite films, Amélie and Big Fish.

Good Dick (2008)

'If I wanted to have sex I'd go out and find someone who was actually sexy." 

Just a few things that made me love this movie: an amazing female director/writer/lead (see: Marianna Palka), unabashed stalking, and Jason Ritter. I suggest going in without any expectations, and just enjoying the characters for who they are. Also, order a pizza.

My Favorite Quotes in 2009

“Forgiveness has nothing to do with the perpetrator. It has nothing to do with any religion. It has only everything to do with the way the victim is empowering himself or herself and taking back their life.” - Eva Mozes Kor

"We have a whole life to live together, you fucker, but it can't start until you call." - from Me and You and Everyone We Know



"It takes two to tango, only one to sin." - from Sam Kinison's "Mississippi Queen"

"The world makes you into a bitch, no matter how quietly you go, so you may as well go kicking and screaming.” - Roseanne Barr

"Mountain. / Peaks pierce the green sky, unblunted. / The sky would fall / but for the columns of mountains." - poem by Mao Zedong

"A man would rather have another man's jealousy than another man's respect." - from Sex and Death 101

"When the owl cries, the indian dies." - ancient Mexican saying

"Love does not divide, it multiplies." - Robert Heinlein

"Every man has his secret sorrows which the world knows not; and often times we call a man cold when he is only sad." - Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

"The kindest words are often spoken; never heard." - from Ben Folds' "The Last Polka"



"We did not change as we grew older; we just became more clearly ourselves." - Lynn Hall

"Existence precedes and rules essence." - Jean-Paul Sartre

"We could plan a murder or start a religion." - Jim Morrison, from "Angels and Sailors"

"Being humble is so 2007." - Erykah Badu