Quote of the Day

"How can you be with someone who loves you despite the best things about you?"
- Elna Baker, The New York Regional Mormon Singles Halloween Dance

 Image via pastelhearts on Flickr.

Quote of the Day

"I'll tell you one thing.  Men are bastards.  After about ten minutes, I wanted to cut my own penis off with a kitchen knife."
- Will, About a Boy

Quote of the Day

"Wretched excess is an unfortunate human trait that turns a perfectly good idea such as Christmas into a frenzy of last-minute shopping."
- Jon Anderson

Quote of the Day

"The rooms were very still while the pages were softly turned and the winter sunshine crept in to touch the bright heads and serious faces with a Christmas greeting..."
- Louisa May Alcott

Image via Kathleen Habbley on Flickr

Quote of the Day

"First we'll make snow angels for two hours, then we'll go ice skating, then we'll eat a whole roll of Tollhouse cookie dough as fast as we can, and then we'll snuggle."
- Buddy, Elf

Image via paper pony on Flickr.

Quote of the Day

"Aren't we forgetting the true meaning of Christmas? You know, the birth of Santa."
- Bart, The Simpsons

 

Why yes, that is a Playmobil version of the Nativity. Image via Matthew Trisler.

Quote of the Day

"Shall not this Child
(When we shall hear the bells of His amazing voice)
Conquer the winter of our hateful century?"
- Thomas Merton, "A Christmas Card" (1947)

Quote of the Day

"I hope you two are aware that television is a tool of the imperialist oppressors and I'm only sitting here right now cause I'm eating."
- Melissa Klein, "An Illustration of a Typical Evening at the Klein-Lewis Residence," Inkling no. 2 (via)

Quote of the Day

"I'm just gone with the wind and I'm home with the gin"
- Tech N9ne, "Low"

Quote of the Day

"Well, it all seems so simple
And then it's pounding in your brain"
- The B-52s, "Too Much to Think About"

Quote of the Day

"It takes no compromising to give people their rights.  It takes no money to respect the individual.  It takes no survey to remove repressions."
- Harvey Milk


Well, it's certainly about time.

Quote of the Day

"I love when you're in cracked-out finals mode."
- Danielle

(Practicing for my Red Cross certification, Kate as victim)

Quote of the Day

"Glitter is the herpes of craft supplies."
- Demetri Martin, Person

 

Quote of the Day

"Choose faith over doubt, choose faith over fear, choose faith over the unknown and the unseen, and choose faith over pessimism."
- Richard C. Edgley, "Faith--the Choice is Yours" (via)

Quote of the Day

"No one responded to my cries of 'ruh roh!'"
- ABE

Quote of the Day

"We have all known the long loneliness and we have learned that the only solution is love and that love comes with community."
- Dorothy Day, The Long Loneliness

Quote of the Day

"You need to change your standards of what's worthy of a text message.  You gotta ask yourself if this is something I need to know.  The answer's almost always no."
- Darryl, The Office ep 7.10

Quote of the Day

"We need to understand that spirit is not conformed to a cathedral, an altar, or a practice. It's just there whenever we are able to connect with it."
- Elizabeth Roberts

Quote of the Day

"You used to be much more...muchier.  You've lost your muchness."
- Mad Hatter, Alice in Wonderland (2010)

Quote of the Day

"If I could do it, I'd do no writing at all here.  It would be photographs; the rest would be fragments of cloth, bits of cotton, lumps of earth, records of speech, pieces of wood, and iron..."
- James Agee, Let Us Now Praise Famous Men

Quote of the Day

"Trust me, Father Sean needs [Radical Catholic Feminist] Eucharistic ministers...he just doesn't know it yet."
- JWal, after Mass yesterday

Quote of the Day

"With the old handicrafts coming back into favor and
new ones constantly being rought forward,
a girl's life may be full of delightful employment."
- Lina and Adelia Beard, 1904 (via)

Quote of the Day

"If you're hung up on nostalgia, pretend today is yesterday and just go out and have one hell of a time."
- Art Buchwald
 

Quote of the Day

"[That man] says women can’t have as much rights as men, ’cause Christ wasn’t a woman.   Where did your Christ come from? …From God and a woman.  Man had nothing to do with it."
- Sojourner Truth, at the Women’s Rights Convention, 1851

Quote of the Day

"It's coming on Christmas
They're cutting down trees
They're putting up reindeer
And singing songs of joy and peace
Oh I wish I had a river I could skate away on"
- Joni Mitchell, "River" (via)

Quote of the Day

"Sometimes when people get what they want they realize how limited their goals were."
- Joan, Mad Men 1.13

Quote of the Day

"Big deal, you meet a Valium addict, you figure out she's unhappy--that doesn't count as revelation."
- Harper, Angels in America

Quote of the Day

"There is an Indian proverb or axiom that says that everyone is a house with 4 rooms, a physical, a mental, an emotional and a spiritual. Most of us tend to live in one room most of the time, but unless we go into every room every day, even if only to keep it aired, we are not a complete person."
- Rumer Godden

Quote of the Day

"You know my code. Hoes before bros. Uteruses before duderuses. Ovaries before brovaries." 
 - Leslie Knope, Parks and Recreation

Quote of the Day

"Why are women…so much more interesting to men than men are to women?"
- Virginia Woolf, A Room of One’s Own

Quote of the Day

"I took the train back
Back to where I came from
I took it all alone
It's been so long I know "
- Tegan and Sara, "Hop a Plane"

Quote of the Day

"Ever since his failed presidential bid, McCain has devolved from war hero and maverick to a character more like the deranged uncle in Arsenic and Old Lace who thinks he's Teddy Roosevelt, roaring and charging at every imaginary threat, toy pistols ablaze."
- Nancy Goldstein, "A McCain Thanksgiving," The American Prospect

Quote of the Day

"You stand this close to me
Like the future was supposed to be
In the aisles of the grocery
In the blocks uptown"
- Vampire Weekend, "Taxi Cab"

(Quote of the Day is on hiatus until next Monday. Happy Thanksgiving!)

Quote of the Day

"...to intend the best, and to be thankful for the present, is the only plan I can resolve on."
- St. Elizabeth Ann Seton

Quote of the Day

"It's not faith, it's work."
- Sister Helen Prejean, Dead Man Walking

(recommended viewing)

Quote of the Day

"Being a woman is a terribly difficult task, since it consists principally in dealing with men."
- Joseph Conrad

Quote of the Day

"Everybody's thinking I was just too scared to love you
You've got them all believing that I folded under pressure
It's crazy how I gave my best I tried so hard to love you
I can't believe that all this time my pain just brought you pleasure"
- Kelly Rowland, "Rose Colored Glasses"

Quote of the Day

"It's so beautifully arranged on the plate -- you know someone's fingers have been all over it."
- Julia Child (yes!)

Quote of the Day

"A woman without a man is like a fish without a bicycle."
- Irina Dunn

Quote of the Day

"If by a 'Liberal' they mean someone who looks ahead and not behind, someone who welcomes new ideas without rigid reactions, someone who cares about the welfare of the people -- their health, their housing, their schools, their jobs, their civil rights, and their civil liberties -- someone who believes we can break through the stalemate and suspicions that grip us in our policies abroad, if that is what they mean by a 'Liberal' then I'm proud to say I'm a 'Liberal.'"
- John F. Kennedy

Quote of the Day

"I cannot endure to waste anything as
precious as autumn sunshine by
staying in the house. So I spend almost all
the daylight hours in the open air."
- Nathaniel Hawthorne (via)

(Mountain Day 2009)

Quote of the Day

"Imagine yourself as a living house. God comes in to rebuild that house. At first, perhaps, you can understand what He is doing. He is getting the drains right and stopping the leaks in the roof and so on; you knew that those jobs needed doing and so you are not surprised. But presently He starts knocking the house about in a way that hurts abominably and does not seem to make any sense. What on earth is He up to? The explanation is that He is building quite a different house from the one you thought of -- throwing out a new wing here, putting on an extra floor there, running up towers, making courtyards. You thought you were being made into a decent little cottage: but He is building a palace. He intends to come and live in it Himself."
- C. S. Lewis, Mere Christianity

Quote of the Day

"The details make life holy."
- Noah Ben Shea

Quote of the Day

"This whole 'saying no' philosophy makes me seem like a very boring person. But I'm not boring because, while I say not to certain things (sex, drugs, alcohol), I try to say yes to everything else. I honestly believe there's a certain power behind the word YES....When you say yes you can start and end the day in two totally different places. Yes takes that space between unlimited possibilities and reality, and stretches it out so that anything can happen."
- Elna Baker, The New York Regional Mormon Singles Halloween Dance

Quote of the Day

"Allow events to change you: You have to be willing to grow. Growth is different from something that happens to you. You produce it. You live it. The prerequisites for growth: the openness to experience events and the willingness to be changed by them."
- Bruce Mau

Quote of the Day

"These beings were not either/or...Clark Kent was Superman, Autobots were both robots and automobiles at the same time. In that vein, in real life I, too, could be more than meets the eye...different versions of who I am, not competing with one another, but all of them calmly resting inside."
- Lauren Martin, Quantify #5

Quote of the Day

"I know I've lost my conscience
I know I've lost all shame
But I must do the right thing
I must do myself a favor and get real
Get right with the Lord"
- Sufjan Stevens, "Get Real Get Right" (via)

Quote of the Day

"This hatred overtook me, and I couldn’t help myself. I wanted so much to forget the past, but it wouldn’t go away, it hung around like an open wound that refused to scar over, an open window that no amount of muscle could shut."
- Elizabeth Wurtzel

Quote of the Day

"Have patience with everything that remains unsolved in your heart. Try to love the questions themselves, like locked rooms and like books written in a foreign language. Do not now look for the answers. They cannot now be given to you because you could not live them. It is a question of experiencing everything. At present you need to live the question. Perhaps you will gradually, without even noticing it, find yourself experiencing the answer, some distant day."
- Rainer Maria Rilke

Quote of the Day

"If they give you ruled paper, write the other way."
- Juan Ramon Jimenez

Quote of the Day

"I tell you there is such a thing as creative hate."– Willa Cather, The Song of the Lark

Quote of the Day

"Chaos is the new calm
violence the new balm
to be spread on lips
unused to a kiss."
- Wyn Cooper, "Chaos is the New Calm"

Quote of the Day

"It’s strange, the line you cross when you move from calm and satisfied with the rightness and safety of things to the sudden panic that the world has turned angry and dangerous."
- Martha Manning

Quote of the Day

"It's called America, dude. Learn the rules."
- Doug, Ghost World

Quote of the Day

"Meaning is a shaky edifice we build out of scraps,
dogmas, childhood injuries, newspaper articles,
chance remarks, old films, small victories,
people hated, people loved; perhaps it is because
our sense of what is the case is constructed from
such inadequate materials that we defend it so fiercely,
even to the death."
- Salman Rushdie, Imaginary Homelands


(spiritual enlightenment: here)

Quote of the Day

“Don’t dream it, be it."
- Frankenfurter, Rocky Horror Picture Show

Quote of the Day

"Put your hands on the wheel. Let the golden age begin."
- KT Tunstall

Quote of the Day

"Endeavor to clear your mind of can't."
- Francis P. Church

Quote of the Day

"Make up your mind to be happy -- even when you don't have money, even when you don't have a clear complexion, even when you don't have the Nobel Prize. Some of the happiest people I know have none of these things the world insists are necessary for satisfaction and joy. Why are they happy? I suppose it is because they don't listen well. Or they listen too well -- to the things their hearts tell them. They glory in the beauty of the earth. They glory in the rivers and the canyons and the call of the lowlark. They glory in the love of their families, the stumbling steps of a toddler, the wise and tender smile of the elderly. They glory in honest labor. They glory in the scriptures. They glory in the presence of the Holy Ghost. One thing I know for certain: the time we have here goes by far too quickly. Don't waste any more time sitting on the bench watching life pass you by."
- Joseph B. Wirthlin, "Lessons Learned in the Journey of Life," Ensign (May 2001)

Quote of the Day

"I am angry nearly every day of my life ... but I have learned not to show it; and I still hope to learn not to feel it, though it may take me another forty years to do so."
- Louisa May Alcott, Little Women

Quote of the Day

"Danielle has terrible cheese in her room. It tastes like a pediatrician's office smells."
- Ramsay

Quote of the Day

“Don’t let haters keep me off my grind
keep my head up
I know I’ll be fine.”
- Willow Smith, "Whip My Hair"

Quote of the Day

"Where two or three are gathered in my name,
there am I in the midst of them."
- Matthew 18:20

Quote of the Day

"Food is an important part of a balanced diet."
- Fran Lebowitz

Quote of the Day

"N'écris pas. N'apprenons qu'à mourir à nous-mêmes.
Ne demande qu'à Dieu . . . qu'à toi, si je t'aimais!
Au fond de ton absence écouter que tu m'aimes,
C'est entendre le ciel sans y monter jamais."
- Louis Simpson, "Les Separes"

Quote of the Day

"They would say...that you do not fail in obedience through lack of love, but have lost love because you never attempted obedience."
- C. S. Lewis, That Hideous Strength

Quote of the Day

"There's no aspect, no facet, no moment in life that can't be improved with pizza."
- Daria, Daria: Is it College Yet?

Quote of the Day

"Birth is not an emergency. It is simply an emergence."
- Jeannine Parvati Baker

Quote of the Day

"I was the type who never went anywhere
without a thermometer,
a hot-water bottle,
an umbrella and a parachute,
If I could live again, I’d travel lighter."
- Jorge Luis Borges (via)

Quote of the Day

"I believe in Christianity as I believe that the sun has risen: not only because I see it, but because by it I see everything else."
- C. S. Lewis

Quote of the Day

"There is no substitute for envelopes marked with your location, sheets of stationery with your script scratching across parallel lines, feeling the back of the paper and an embossed pattern in the shape of every character formed (because maybe, like me, you press down with your pen, every letter a deliberate creation), the smell of your house on the paper itself."
-Marissa Falco, Red-Hooded Sweatshirt #3

Quote of the Day

"And I miss the warmth in the morning,
And the laughter when I can't stop yawning"
- Basement Jaxx, "Romeo"

Quote of the Day

"Put on your pearls, we're going to see the Bushes."
- Kate

Quote of the Day

"If ever there is tomorrow when we’re not together...there is something you must always remember. You are braver than you believe, stronger than you seem, and smarter than you think. But the most important thing is, even if we’re apart...I’ll always be with you."
- Winnie the Pooh

Quote of the Day

"Because I live in a world that hates women and I am one...who is struggling desperately not to hate myself and my best girlfriends, my whole life is constantly felt, by me, as a contradiction. In order for me to exist, I must believe that two contradictory things can exist in the same space."
- Kathleen Hanna, "Jigsaw Youth," Jigsaw #4


(QotD will be on hiatus until 13 October 2010. Ready...go!)

Quote of the Day

"I'm sorry, are you being sarcastic? Canadians have a hard time recognizing that, since we don't have a big Jewish population."
- Jack, 30 Rock ep 4.8

Quote of the Day

"You are not alone. It will get better. I promise."
- Tim Gunn, from the It Gets Better Project

Quote of the Day

"I don't have conclusions, only questions and frustrations. I'm a mess of contradictions myself...I don't deconstruct, I just bask in the glow."
- Mimi Nguyen, Slander zine (via)

Quote of the Day

"Leaky faucet, creaky floor
We don’t even own a bathroom door
The sofa set is nothing to be jealous of
We don’t have a lot but there’s no shortage here for love"
- Mindy Gledhill, "All the Pennies"

Quote of the Day

"If it is disagreeable in your sight to serve the Lord, choose for yourselves today whom you will serve: whether the gods which your fathers served which were beyond the River, or the gods of the Amorites in whose land you are living; but as for me and my house, we will serve the Lord."
- Joshua 24:15


This Little Light of Mine from The Lower Lights on Vimeo.

Quote of the Day

"I've never seen someone who looks so much like a caveman."
- Ingrid, re: random guy at dinner

Quote of the Day

"Cause you see my dear, I have had enough
Of keeping quiet about all this stuff
You're neurotic like a yo-yo
Oh you used to be my romeo"
- Basement Jaxx, "Romeo"

Quote of the Day

"In times of great stress or adversity, it's always best to keep busy, to plow your anger and your energy into something positive."
- Lee Iacocca (via)

Quote of the Day

"Take a deep breath and count to ten,
Today’s a new day I’ll start again,
I’m a find myself so deep within,
I’m a survivor I’ll win"
- Chrisette Michele, "Be Ok"

Quote of the Day

"Cause I might be small
But I’m not a coward
I’ve got puppy powers
That I’m not afraid to use"
- The Boy Least Likely To, "Every Goliath Has Its David"

Quote of the Day

"As long as it is day, we must do the work of Him who sent me. Night is coming, when no one can work."
- John 9:4 (via)

Quote of the Day

"Baby, baby, are you okay?"
- CC, in Emergency Care class

Quote of the Day

"And come up to my place
And then let's embrace
And then let's replace
Our fear with our faith"
- Joseph Arthur, "Let's Embrace"

Quote of the Day

"Found the book you gave me
when we were first in bloom
when I thought that you might save me
from the dark side of the moon"
- The Weepies, "I Was Made For Sunny Days"

Quote of the Day

"We need never be ashamed of our tears."
- Charles Dickens, Great Expectations

Quote of the Day

"Make my bed and light the light,
I'll be home late tonight"
- Henderson and Dixon, "Bye Bye Blackbird"

(I learned this in class this week.)

Quote of the Day

"He had it coming
He only had himself to blame.
If you'd have been there
If you'd have heard it
I betcha you would've done the same!"
- Kander and Ebb, Chicago


(It's Fosse Week!)

Quote of the Day

"Do not let what you cannot do interfere with what you can do."
- John Wooden

Quote of the Day

"An image presented itself to me while I was washing the bay windows...The door jammed while I was washing the inside panes, and I was imprisoned between the two windows. In order to get out without shattering the door, I had to ease it back very carefully. It struck me that relationships operate the same way. They also shatter easily and have to be approached carefully. While I was trapped between the windows, it was almost impossible to communicate through the glass. Being autistic is like being trapped like this."
- Temple Grandin, Thinking in Pictures

Quote of the Day

"But more than things I want to do, there are things I want to be. Or to have been. What would I want on my gravestone? A loving and fun and devoted partner...the Coolest Feminist Aunt Ever ...a dedicated and life-changing teacher, a woman who lived her values, a good friend in good times, and a great friend in not-great times..."
- PD (via)

Quote of the Day

"Underneath that angry young woman show, there's a slightly less angry young woman who's just dying to bake me something."
- Wallace, Veronica Mars ep. 1.1

*Photo courtesy of Danielle, September 2010.