Quotes to remember

[Gawdzilla Sama]

Don't feel bad if I find this shit tedious.

 

[Magical Realist]

"October had tremendous possibility. The summer's oppressive heat was a distant memory, and the golden leaves promised a world full of beautiful adventures. They made me believe in miracles." — Sarah Guillory, Reclaimed

 

[Magical Realist]

“Give me books, French wine, fruit, fine weather and a little music played out of doors by somebody I do not know.”
― John Keats

 

[Magical Realist]

"Music is probably the only real magic I have encountered in my life. There's not some trick involved with it, It's pure and it's real. It moves, and heals, and communicates, and does all these incredible things."----Tom Petty

 

[sculptor]

“He is not a good shoemaker who fits a small foot with a big shoe,”
( from: Spartan king Agesilaus II)

 

[Gawdzilla Sama]

Stuff some socks in the toes.

 

[Magical Realist]

“We will remain lost, wandering souls until we can look each other in the eye and smile”
― Marty Rubin

 

[Gawdzilla Sama]

"I came, I saw, I conked 'em." Yosemite Sam.

 

[Magical Realist]

"What a strange thing it is to recognize a sound like the shriek of a wounded animal, when you've never heard the shriek of a wounded animal.”
― John L'Heureux, An Honorable Profession: A Novel

 

[Gawdzilla Sama]

The monkey brain reacts. Watch a helo gyroing in, on fire, listen to the crew. You won't forget it.

 

[Magical Realist]

“Where there is cake, there is hope. And there is always cake.”
― Dean Koontz, Life Expectancy

 

[sculptor]

"If I were given 6 hours to chop down a tree, I would spend the first 4 sharpening the axe."
from Abraham Lincoln

 

[Magical Realist]

 

[Gawdzilla Sama]

Them flowers shure do gussy up that beauty.

 

[Magical Realist]

“Loneliness is the deal. Loneliness is the last great taboo. If we don't accept loneliness, then capitalism wins hands down. Because capitalism is all about trying to convince people that you can distract yourself, that you can make it better. And it ain't true.”
― Tilda Swinton

 

[Magical Realist]

I can confidently say after many years of watching endless crime dramas that nothing good ever happens in a parking garage.

 

[Magical Realist]

I find it helpful to remind myself, whenever I am lured into the maelstrom of intellectual hubris, that I share 98.8% of my DNA with chimpanzees.

 

[Gawdzilla Sama]

I find it helpful to remind myself, whenever I am lured into the maelstrom of intellectual hubris, that I share 98.8% of my DNA with chimpanzees.

Do you think they'll sue?

 

[TheVat]

"All mushrooms are edible. Some, only once."

- source unknown, though something similar is attributed to Terry Pratchett.

Which reminds me of another Pratchett quote:

"Give a man fire and he'll be warm for a day. Set a man on fire and he'll be warm for the rest of his life."

And another:

"He was wise beyond his years, but only by a few days."

 

[Magical Realist]

“Wisdom tells me I am nothing. Love tells me I am everything. And between the two my life flows.”
— Nisargadatta Maharaj