Saturday, August 1, 2009

Douglas Adams

"'Did I do anything wrong today,' he said, 'or has the world always been like this and I've been too wrapped up in myself to notice?'"

"The problem with designing something completely foolproof is to underestimate the ingenuity of a complete fool. "

"He attacked everything in life with a mix of extraordinary genius and naive incompetence, and it was often difficult to tell which was which."

"All opinions are not equal. Some are a very great deal more robust, sophisticated and well supported in logic and argument than others."

"Time affords us the ability to blame past errors on others while whole heartedly pronouncing our futures successes."

"I may not have gone where I intended to go, but I think I have ended up where I intended to be."

"Nothing travels faster than the speed of light with the possible exception of bad news, which obeys its own special laws."

"Far out in the uncharted backwaters of the unfashionable end of the western spiral arm of the Galaxy lies a small unregarded yellow sun. Orbiting this at a distance of roughly ninety-two million miles is an utterly insignificant little blue green planet whose ape-descended life forms are so amazingly primitive that they still think digital watches are a pretty neat idea."

"If life is going to exist in a Universe of this size, then the one thing it cannot afford to have is a sense of proportion."

"We are stuck with technology when what we really want is just stuff that works."

"Everybody has their moment of great opportunity in life. If you happen to miss the one you care about, then everything else becomes eerily easy."

Friday, July 31, 2009

Neil Jordan

"Is it fair to have given us the memory of what was and the desire of what could be when we must suffer what is?"

Neil Jordan (The Dream of a Beast)

Mick Jagger

"You can't always get what you want, but if you try sometimes, you might find, you get what you need."

Mick Jagger

Marilyn French

"Desire consumes you, it takes you over. You forget yourself completely. All you can think about is the other, the one you desire, your self is just a fire."

Marilyn French (Her Mother's Daughter)

Coventry Patmore

"To one who waits, all things reveal themselves so long as you have the courage not to deny in the darkness what you have seen in the light."

Coventry Patmore

Henry Van Dyke

"Time is too slow for those who wait, too swift for those who fear, too long for those who grieve, too short for those who rejoice, but for those who love, time is eternity."

Henry Van Dyke

Wednesday, July 29, 2009

Aidan Chambers

"Love, being in love, isn’t a constant thing. It doesn’t always flow at the same strength. It’s not always like a river in flood. It’s more like the sea. It has tides, it ebbs and flows. The thing is, when love is real, whether it’s ebbing or flowing, it’s always there, it never goes away. And that’s the only proof you can have that it is real, and not just a crush or an infatuation or a passing fancy."

Aidan Chambers (This Is All: The Pillow Book of Cordelia Kenn)

Kate Chopin

"For the first time, she recognized the symptoms of infatuation which she had felt incipiently as a child, as a girl in her early teens, and later as a young woman. The recognition did not lessen the reality, the poignancy of the revelation by any suggestion or promise of instability. The past was nothing to her; offered no lesson which she was willing to heed. The future was a mystery which she never attempted to penetrate. The present alone was significant; was hers, to torture her as it was doing then with the biting conviction that she had lost that which she had held, she had been denied that which her impassioned, newly awakened being demanded."

Kate Chopin (The Awakening)

Danica Cooper

"Infatuation is blind, love is seeing all of someone and loving them anyway."

Danica Cooper

Sunday, July 26, 2009

On friendship

"Piglet sidled up to Pooh from behind. 'Pooh?' he whispered.
'Yes, Piglet?'
'Nothing,' said Piglet, taking Pooh's hand. 'I just wanted to be sure of you.'"

A. A. Milne

"Can miles truly separate you from friends.... If you want to be with someone you love, aren't you already there?"

Richard Bach

"A friend is someone who understands your past, believes in your future, and accepts you just the way you are."

Unknown

"A friend is someone who knows the song in your heart and can sing it back to you when you have forgotten the words"

Unknown

"A friend is a hand that is always holding yours, no matter how close or far apart you may be. A friend is someone who is always there and will always, always care. A friend is a feeling of forever in the heart."

Collin McCarty

"True friends are those who lift you up when your heart's wings forget how to fly"

Unknown

"Truly great friends are hard to find, difficult to leave, and impossible to forget"

Randolf G

"A true friend is one who knows all about you and likes you anyway."

Christi Mary Warner

"However rare true love maybe , it is less so than true friendship"

Albert Einstein

"People who cannot understand when you are silent, can never understand when you speak."
Mayank Saraf

"Never let your friendship die because of a lie, tell the truth."

Unknown

"Friendship is a prism through which the many variations of beauty are revealed in our lives."
Anonymous

"Of all the means to insure happiness throughout the whole life, by far the most important is the acquisition of friends."

Epicurus (A Guide to Happiness)

"Life is an ugly, awful place not to have a best friend"

Sarah Dessen (Someone Like You)

"When you have no light to guide you and no one to walk beside you, I will come to you. When the night is dark and stormy, you won't have to reach out for me, I will come for you."

Unknown

"It takes a minute to say hello and forever to say goodbye."

Dr. Nidhi Gupta

"Don't let your dreams be just dreams."

Mayank Saraf

"A friend can tell you things you don't want to tell yourself"

Frances Ward Weller

"A friend accepts us as we are yet helps us to be what we should"

Unknown

"I value the friend who for me finds time on his calendar, but I cherish the friend who for me does not consult his calendar."

Robert Brault

"I don't need a friend who changes when I change and who nods when I nod; my shadow does that much better."

Plutarch

"If you are to have friend's, you should have friends that are truthful and can tell a good story."

Alexandria Esobar

"Love is friendship set on fire."

Unknown

"A friend isn't judged by how often you get together, but by a total lack of awkwardness when you do. "

Kang Ho Dong

"Perhaps he does not want to be friends with you until he knows what you are like. With owls, it is never easy-come-easy-go."

T.H. White (The Sword in the Stone)

"A friend loves you, makes you feel alright, troubles are not troubles when you talk, listen and accept you as you are, because you will feel the same and love the same."

Anonymous

"Which of all my important nothings shall I tell you first?"

Jane Austen

"A friend is someone who loves you, when you forget to love yourself "

Unknown

We spent all those years talking about stuff we had in common, and the last few months noticing all the ways we were different and it broke both of our hearts."

Nick Hornby

"The worst thing about being lied to is knowing you weren't worth the truth "

Unknown

"We come back to the same people to learn something about how we have changed. We want to be assured that we have changed. We so want our pictures to paint differently than they do."

Heather Duffy

"When it hurts to look back and your scared to look ahead you can look beside you and your best friend will be there."

Unknown

"Flowers leave some of their fragrance in the hand that bestows them."

Chinese Proverb

"Friends don’t spy; true friendship is about privacy, too."

Stephen King

"Men have forgotten this truth,' said the fox. 'But you must not forget it. You become responsible, forever, for what you have tamed.'"

Antoine de Saint-Exupérye (The Little Prince)