My Bipolar Journal – Episode 82
July 16, 2007
Okay, I'm on a roll. I had a quotes page once upon a time, so enjoy some of my favorites:
"From here on out, I am only interested in what is real. Real people, real feelings, that's it, that's all I'm interested in. " Billy Crudup as Russell Hammond, Almost Famous
"They don't even know what it is to be a fan. Y'know? To truly love some silly little piece of music, or some band, so much that it hurts." Faruza Balk as Sapphire, Almost Famous
"Of course I'm home. I'm always home. I'm uncool." Philip Seymour Hoffman as Lester Bands, Amost Famous
"The only true currency in this bankrupt world... is what you share with someone else when you're uncool." Philip Seymour Hoffman as Lester Bangs, Almost Famous
"Look under your bed, it will set you free." Zooey Deschanel as Anita Miller, Almost Famous
"When and where does this 'real world' occur?" Patrick Fuget as William Miller, Almost Famous
"I didn't invent the rainy day, man. I just own the best umbrella." Jimmy Falon as Dennis Hope, Almost Famous
"Some people have a hard time explaining rock 'n' roll. I don't think anyone can really explain rock 'n' roll. Except Pete Townshend, but that's okay. Rock 'n' roll is a lifestyle and a way of thinking... and it's not about money and popularity. Although, some money would be nice. But it's a voice that says, 'Here I am... and fuck you if you can't understand me.' And one of these people is gonna save the world. And that means that rock 'n' roll can save the world... all of us together. And the chicks are great. But what it all comes down to is that thing. The indefinable thing when people catch something in your music." Jason Lee as Jeff Bebe, Almost Famous
"To the man who invariably says, 'Really? Okay,' instead of 'You want to do what?'" Book Dedication, Kim Harrison
"With fame I become more and more stupid, which is a common phenomenon." Albert Einstein
"Let him, like us, love and know it is hopeless" Ted Hughes
"You don't stop laughing because you grow old, you grow old because you stop laughing." Michael Pritchard
"Someone's boring me. I think it's me." Dylan Thomas
"Music makes one feel so romantic - at least it always gets on one's nerves - which is the same thing nowadays." Oscar Wilde
My loathings are simple: stupidity, oppression, crime, cruelty, soft music." Vladimir Nabokov
"Always get married in the morning. That way, if it doesn't work out, you haven't wasted a whole day." Mickey Rooney
"I no doubt deserved my enemies, but i don't believe I deserved my friends." Walt Whitman
"God heals and the doctor takes the fees." Benjamin Franklin
"Insanity: doing the same thing over and over again and expecting different results." Albert Einstein
"When I read about the evils of drinking, I gave up on reading." Henny Youngman
"Stress is an ignorant state. It believes that everything is an emergency. Nothing is that important." Natalie Goldberg
"Almost nobody dances sober, unless they happen to be insane." H.P. Lovecraft
"My favorite animal is steak." Fran Lebowitz
"Nothing endures but change." Heraclitus
"If you want to know what God thinks of money, just look at the people he gives it to." Dorothy Parker
"Nothing is really work unless you would rather be doing something else." James M. Barrie
"Anyone who works is a fool. I don't work - I merely inflict myself upon the public." Robert Morley
"Stupid is forever, ignorance can be fixed." Don Wood
"How vain is it to sit down and write when you have not stood up to live." Henry David Thoreau
"Why do writers write? Because it isn't there." Thomas Berger
"You're only given a little spark of madness. You mustn't lose it." Robin Williams
"Only two things are infinate, the universe and human stupidity, and I'm not sure about the former." Albert Einstein
"Sometimes I think the surest sign that intelligent life exists elsewhere in the universe is that none of it has tried to contact us." Bill Watterson
"The essential of poetry are rhythm, dance and the human voice." Earle Birney
"To have great poets, there must be great audiences too." Walt Whitman
"If you don't know where you're going, any road will get you there." Lewis Carroll
"Maybe everyone out there is a liar. And maybe the whole world is stupid, and ignorant. But I'd rather be in it. Id' rather be fucking in it, than down here with you." Winona Ryder, Girl Interrupted
"All mortals tend to turn into the things they are pretending to be." C.S. Lewis
My Favorite Quotable People
Mark Twain
"Total abstinence is so excellent a thing that it cannot be carried to too great an extent. In my passion for it I even carry it so far as to totally abstain from total abstinence itself."
"Whatever a man's age, he can reduce it several years by putting a bright-colored flower in his button-hole."
"Concerning the difference between man and the jackass: some observers hold that there isn't any. But this wrongs the jackass."
"Often it does seem a pity that Noah and his party did not miss the boat."
"I thoroughly disapprove of duels. I consider them unwise and I know they are dangerous. Also, sinful. If a man should challenge me now I would go to that man and take him kindly and forgivingly by the hand and lead him to a quiet retired spot and kill him."
"When in doubt, tell the truth."
"I have no color prejudices nor caste prejudices nor creed prejudices. All I care to know is that a man is a human being, and that is enough for me; he can't be any worse."
"Part of the secret of success in life is to eat what you like and let the food fight it out inside."
"What a good thing Adamhad. When he said a good thing, he knew nobody had said it before."
"All generalizations are usually false, including this one."
"But who pray for Satan? Who, in eighteen centuries, has had the common humanity to pray for the one sinner who needed it most?"
"Substitute 'damn' every time you're inclined to write the word 'very'; your editor will delete it and the writing will be just as it should be."
"Don't go around saying the world owes you a living; the world owes you nothing; it was here first."
"Any emotion, if it is sincere, is involuntary."
"What a wee little part of a person's life are in his acts and words! His real life is led in his head, and is known to no one but himself."
"The human race has only one really effective weapon and that is laughter."
"Alright then, I'll go to hell."
Dr. Suess
"Today you are You, that is truer than true. There's no one alive who is Youer than You."
"You know you're in love when you can't fall asleep because reality if finally better than your dreams."
"Be who you are and say what you feel because those who mind don't matter and those who matter don't mind."
"Don't cry because it's over. Smile because it's happened."
"I've heard there are troubles of more than one kind. Some come from ahead and some come from behind. But I've brought a big bat. I'm all ready you see. Now my troubles are going to have troubles with me!"
"How did it get late so soon?"
"I like nonsense, it wakes up the brain cells. Fantasy is a necessary ingredient in living. It's a way of looking at life through the wrong end of a telescope, which is what I do, and that enables you to laugh at life's realities."
"Adults are just obsolete children and the hell with them."
"If you never did, you should. These things are fun and fun is good."
"You are you. Now isn't that pleasant?"
"Unless someone like you cares a whole awful lot, nothing is going to get better. It's not."
"My alphabet starts with this letter called yuzz. It's the letter I use to spell yuzz-a-ma-tuzz. You'll be sort of surprised what there is to be found once you go beyond 'Z' and start poking around."
"All alone! Whether you like it or not, alone is something you'll be quite a lot!"
"I'm sorry to say so, but, sadly, it's true that bang-ups and hang-ups can happen to you."
"You can get help from teachers, but you're going to have to learn a lot by yourself, sitting alone in a room."
"Shorth is better than length."
"If I were invited to a dinner party with my characters, I wouldn't show up."
"Thank goodness for all the things you are not! Thank goodness you're not something someone forgot!"
"It's all a troublesome world. All the people who are in it are troubled with troubles almost every minute. You ought to be thankful a whole heaping lot, for the places and people you're lucky you're not."
"Oh, the things you can find if you don't stay behind."
"A person's a person, no matter how small."
Groucho Marx
"I never forget a face, but in your case, I will be glad to make an exception."
"I've had a perfectly wonderful evening, but this wasn't it."
"Outside of a dog, a book is a man's best friend. Inside a dog, it is too dark to read."
"Age is not a particularly interesting subject. Anyone can get old. All you have to do is live long enough." Groucho Marx
Abraham Lincoln
"If I were two-faced, would I be wearing this one?"
"No man has a good enough memory to make a successful lier."
"Whatever you are, be a good one."
"When I do good, I feel good; when I do bad, I feel bad. That is my religion."
George Carlin
"Okay, that's it. I gotta go watch my dog take a shit.
Thanks for visiting. Stay cool, and don't believe anything the Bush administration tells you. In fact, play it safe: don't believe anything anybody tells you."
"We're all fucked. It helps to remember that."
"'I am' is reportedly the shortest sentence in the English language. Could it be that 'I do' is the longest sentence?"
"Fighting for peace is like screwing for virginity."
Eleanor Roosevelt
"You must do the thing that you think you cannot do."
"No one can make you feel inferior without your consent."
"Remember that you not only have the right to be an individual, you have an obligation to be one."
"Do what you feel in your heart to be right - for you'll be criticized anyway. You'll be damned if you do, and damned if you don't."
"I could not, at any age, be content to take my place by the fireside and simply look on. Life was meant to be lived. Curiosity must be kept alive. One must never, for whatever reason, turn his back on life."
Angelina Jolie
"I don't believe in guilt, I believe in living on impulse as long as you never intentionally hurt another person, and don't judge people in your life. I think you should live completely free."
"If I think more about death than some other people, it is probably because I love life more than they do."
"Without pain, there would be no suffering, without suffering we would never learn from over mistakes. To make it right, pain and suffering is the key to all windows, without it, there is no way of life."
"The truth is I love being alive. And I love feeling free. So if I can't have those things then I feel like a caged animal and I'd rather not be in a cage. I'd rather be dead. And it's real simple. And I think it's not that uncommon."
"If being sane is thinking there's something wrong with being different...I'd rather be completely fucking mental."
"I would like to be open with the public. I would like to not keep secrets or be careful when I talk. I don't want to have to plan things...I want to be outspoken. I want to say my opinions and I hope they're taken in the right way. I don't want to stop being free. And I won't."
"We come to love not by finding the perfect person, but by learning to see an imperfect person perfectly... Only after we have lost everything, are we free to do anything... Throw things out there and not be perfect and not have answers to anything and see if people understand"
"Some people say you are going the wrong way, when it's simply a way of your own.
"I have to go! I have to go! Everybody has to go! Where the Fuck does everybody go when they have to go, huh?" (from Gia)
"Life and death. Energy and peace. If I stopped today, it was still worth it. Even the terrible mistakes that I have made, and would have unmade if I could. The pains that have burned me and scarred my soul. It was worth it for having been allowed to walk where I've walked, which was to hell on earth, heaven on earth, back again, into, under, far in between, though it, in it and above..." (from Gia)
"This is life not heaven, you don't have to be perfect." (from Gia)
"A word of advice, don't point your fucking finger at crazy people!" (from Girl Interrupted)
"If you ask people what they've always wanted to do, most people haven't done it. That breaks my heart."
"I"m extremely honest and I pride myself on it. I dont' try to be shocking. I'm playful, and I know when something I'm saying is maybe shocking, but it's just the truth, I never wanted to be scary to people or upsetting to people. I simply want to live the way I need to live."
"People always say all sorts of stuff. Let them. I'm enjoying my life."
"I never felt settled or calm. You can't really commit to life when you feel that."
