Quotes

[Justin Playfair]

"Look not mournfully into the past,

it comes not back again,

Wisely improve the present..."


-Henry Wadsworth Longfellow.

 

[CrystalGeezer]

Oh the wisdom of quotes posted by the local radio stations of the people I know.

 

[CrystalGeezer]

When it happens, you just know.

 

[CrystalGeezer]

 

[Librarian On Fire]

" I tried to joke with her. I told her that in the beginning of all relationships you're out there bungee jumping every weekend but after six months you're renting videos and buying corn chips just like everyone else - and the next day you can't even remember what video you rented."

"Life After God"
Douglas Coupland

 

[Librarian On Fire]

"Becoming transparent is the secret of people who don't want to happen upon their own loneliness reflected in someone else's eyes."

"The Giraffe"
Marie Nimier

 

[Librarian On Fire]

(last one)

" Were there darker provinces of night he would have found them."

Cormac McCarthy
Child of God 1973

 

[CrystalGeezer]

(last one)

" Were there darker provinces of night he would have found them."

Cormac McCarthy
Child of God 1973

Davie once asked who would be considered the American Shakespeare and I asked my friend who has a doctoral degree in literature and after what seemed like weeks of thinking her answer was Cormac McCarthy.

 

[Librarian On Fire]

Davie once asked who would be considered the American Shakespeare and I asked my friend who has a doctoral degree in literature and after what seemed like weeks of thinking her answer was Cormac McCarthy.

I would have gone with Steinbeck myself. He was such a talented writer.

 

[hand in glove]

"To be yourself in a world that is constantly trying to make you something else is the greatest accomplishment."
-Ralph Waldo Emerson -

 

[alcoholic afternoons]

Wow, this is very accurate for this moment of my life.

 

[sad veiled bride]

'Jealousy is all the fun you think they had'

Erica Jong

 

[Charlie Cheswick]

"If you're loyal, you're loyal. If you're not, you're not." Brian Clough.

 

[CrystalGeezer]

 

[CrystalGeezer]

Don't play leapfrog with a unicorn.

 

[Chickpea]

"True terror is to wake up one morning and discover that your high school class is running the country." —Kurt Vonnegut

 

[CrystalGeezer]

"True terror is to wake up one morning and discover that your high school class is running the country." —Kurt Vonnegut

This is blowing up on my facebook today.

 

[CrystalGeezer]

“We are always the same age inside.”
― Gertrude Stein, whom died in Neuilly-sur-Seine, France on this day in 1946 (aged 72).

 

[CrystalGeezer]

To me it meant being somebody in a neighborhood that was full of nobodies.
-GOODFELLAS

 

[CrystalGeezer]