Your Favorite Quotes...

[Chrysanthemum62001]

Posted: 5/26/04 at 11:18am

I'm making a musical dictionary for a friends birthday and I would like to fill the journal with quotes on anything, so does anyone have any suggestions for stuff I can put in? Thanks!

[redhotinnyc2]

Posted: 5/26/04 at 12:12pm

quotes on ANYTHING, or anything MUSICAL? can you be a tad more specific, please?LOL....

[Chrysanthemum62001]

Posted: 5/26/04 at 1:02pm

Quotes on anything, or anyone. Sorry for not being clear.

Posted: 5/26/04 at 1:05pm

"A woman needs a man like a fish needs a bicycle." - Gloria Steinem

[redhotinnyc2]

Posted: 5/26/04 at 3:13pm

"Do what you love. The rest Comes"

The future belongs to those who believe in the beauty of their dreams.
---Eleanor Roosevelt

Life Shrinks or Expands in proportion to one's courage.
Anais Nin
It's Choice, Not Chance, that determines one's destiny

The sage does not hoard. The more he helps others, the more he benefits himself. The more he gives to others, the more he gets himself. The way of Heaven does one good but never does one harm. The way of the sage is to act but not to compete.
---Lao-Tzu
How little do they see what really is, who frame their hasty judgment upon that which seems.
---Robert Southey
It is equally a mistake to hold one's self too high, or to rate one's self too cheap.
---Johann Von Goethe
You believe that which you hope for earnestly.
---Terence
Follow your bliss.
---Joseph Campbell
O to be self balanced for contingencies! O to confront night, storms, hunger, ridicule, accidents, rebuffs as trees and animals do!
---Walt Whitman
A coward is incapable of exhibiting love; it is the prerogative of the brave.
---Mahatma Gandhi
"The best thing for being sad," replied Merlin, beginning to puff and blow, "is to learn something. That's the only thing that never fails. You may grow old and trembling in your anatomies, you may lie awake at night listening to the disorder of your veins, you may miss your only love, you may see the world about you devastated by evil lunatics, or know your honor trampled in the sewers of baser minds. There is only one thing for it then to learn. Learn why the world wags and what wags it. That is the only thing which the mind can never exhaust, never alienate, never be tortured by, never fear or distrust, and never dream of regretting. Learning is the only thing for you. Look what a lot of things there are to learn."
---Terence Hanbury White

This is just a sampling - I can come up with a lot more if you're interested!LOL....

Updated On: 5/26/04 at 03:13 PM

[ckeaton]

Posted: 5/26/04 at 3:19pm

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[DestinyBeckoned]

Posted: 5/26/04 at 3:38pm

Laugh at yourself first, before anyone else can.
-Elsa Maxwell

[GovernorSlaton]

Posted: 5/26/04 at 4:31pm

"Just because you're paranoid doesn't mean their not out to get you."

Or, how about "It takes 43 muscles to frown and 17 to smile, but
it doesn't take any to just sit there with a dumb look on your face."

[emonkeygirl]

Posted: 5/26/04 at 4:50pm

If I could tell you what it meant, there would be no point in dancing it.-Isadora Duncan

Ach, my eyes! The goggles do nothing...-Rainier Wolfcastle (The Simpsons)

Does it really matter what these affectionate people do—so long as they don’t do it in the streets and frighten the horses!-Mrs. Patrick Campbell

Updated On: 5/26/04 at 04:50 PM

[broadwayguy2]

Posted: 5/26/04 at 4:52pm

"There's a black woman inside the soul of every gay man"
-- Sister Chantelle

[Cyndy]

Posted: 5/26/04 at 4:59pm

Keep steadily on!
I tell you, you have the capability,
and do not let them intimidate you!
~Franz Liszt

Ah! It seemed impossible for me to leave the world
until I had produced all that I felt called upon to produce.
~Ludwig van Beethoven

[JohnPopa]

Posted: 5/26/04 at 10:15pm

"I ain't got time to bleed."

[jcr279]

Posted: 5/27/04 at 5:59pm

"That which does not kill us makes us stronger" - Olympia D. in Steel Magnolias.....she said it in the movie but I don't know who said it originally. It was my senior quote though:)

[redhotinnyc2]

Posted: 5/28/04 at 10:14am

jcr- thats one of my favorite quotes of all time - thanks for the reminder!

[bwaysinger]

Posted: 5/28/04 at 11:53am

Redhot, this is an absolutely amazing quote.

"The best thing for being sad," replied Merlin, beginning to puff and blow, "is to learn something. That's the only thing that never fails. You may grow old and trembling in your anatomies, you may lie awake at night listening to the disorder of your veins, you may miss your only love, you may see the world about you devastated by evil lunatics, or know your honor trampled in the sewers of baser minds. There is only one thing for it then to learn. Learn why the world wags and what wags it. That is the only thing which the mind can never exhaust, never alienate, never be tortured by, never fear or distrust, and never dream of regretting. Learning is the only thing for you. Look what a lot of things there are to learn."
---Terence Hanbury White

[redhotinnyc2]

Posted: 5/28/04 at 12:52pm

bwaysinger - yes - I thought that one was fantastic!...it reminds me of my mother. She's 77 years old and has put herself through college within the last 10 years, teaches reading to adults who never had an education, works full time with the police department where she is often called upon to be a victim advocate, and provides sign language translation for deaf victims,. In her SPARE time, she reads vorasciously, does oil painting and sculpts, tends her garden and goes to the theatre. My love and admiration for her is beyond expression.

[bwaysinger]

Posted: 5/28/04 at 1:13pm

wow. You have a renaissance woman as your mother. That's pretty incredible. You should be proud and she should be prouder.

[BroadwayDiva]

Posted: 5/28/04 at 2:05pm

"There are more love songs than anything else. If songs could make you do something we'd all love one another. " - Frank Zappa

"I think music in itself is healing. It's an explosive expression of humanity. It's something we are all touched by. No matter what culture we're from, everyone loves music."- Billy Joel

"Beauty can't amuse you, but brainwork -- reading, writing, thinking--can."- Helen Gurley Brown

[redhotinnyc2]

Posted: 5/28/04 at 3:04pm

bwaysinger - thanks - I AM very proud of her - if I ever amount to anything - it will be because I sprung forth from her loins!

Posted: 5/28/04 at 3:07pm

My senior quote was....

"The female, equipped with a defense far superior in polymorphous ingenuities to the rather simple ATTACK of the male, developed and perfected the diversion subterfuge. The first manifestation of this phenomenon was fudge-making."

(James Thurber and EB White)

[redhotinnyc2]

Posted: 5/28/04 at 3:09pm

Viscious - I LOVE IT!

Posted: 5/28/04 at 3:31pm

It was concise, innuendous and confused 90% of my class. I loved it, too, redhot

[~FloweryFriend~]

Posted: 5/29/04 at 2:26am

Heh.
My senior quote was, "I want a Tony, a Grammy, an Emmy, an Oscar, and a Matt Damon."

As for a quote for your book, I have more beautiful advice from Katherine Hepburn (given to her mother):
"If you always do what interests you, then at least one person is pleased."

[Matt_G]

Posted: 5/29/04 at 2:29am

My favorite quote -


"Those who dream by night, in the dusty recesses of their minds wake in the day to find that all was vanity; but the dreamers of the day are dangerous men, for they may act their dream with open eyes, and make it possible."

- T.E. Lawrence
(Lawrence of Arabia)

[son_of_a_gunn_25]

Posted: 5/29/04 at 4:30am

I wish life were more like a musical so when I burst into song at the bus stop people would stop staring at me. It might also make them more inclined to learn the chorus and the dance numbers. - P.B. Hill

Updated On: 5/29/04 at 04:30 AM