Quote of the Day

"We all get to sleep sometimes everyday"
- She & Him, "In the Sun"

Quote of the Day

"And it's strange that you cannot find
Any strength to even try
To find a voice to speak your mindWhen you do, all you wanna do is cry"
- Alexi Murdoch, "Song For You," Away We Go soundtrack

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"For being a foreigner, Ashima is beginning to realize, is a sort of lifelong pregnancy -- a perpetual wait, a constant burden...a parenthesis in what had once been ordinary life, only to discover that that previous life has vanished, replaced by something more complicated and demanding."
- Jhumpa Lahiri, The Namesake

Quote of the Day

"Fast from judging others; feast on the Christ indwelling them.
Fast from emphasis on differences; feast on the unity of all life.
Fast from apparent darkness; feast on the reality of light.
Fast from thoughts of illness; feast on the healing power of God.
Fast from words that pollute; feast on phrases that purify.
Fast from discontent; feast on gratitude.
Fast from anger; feast on patience.
Fast from pessimism; feast on optimism.
Fast from worry; feast on divine order.
Fast from complaining; feast on appreciation.
Fast from negatives; feast on affirmatives.
Fast from unrelenting pressures; feast on unceasing prayer.
Fast from hostility; feast on non-resistance.
Fast from bitterness; feast on forgiveness.
Fast from self-concern; feast on compassion for others.
Fast from personal anxiety; feast on eternal Truth.
Fast from discouragement; feast on hope.
Fast from facts that depress; feast on truths that uplift.
Fast from lethargy; feast on enthusiasm.
Fast from suspicion; feast on truth.
Fast from thoughts that weaken; feast on promises that inspire.
Fast from shadows of sorrow; feast on the sunlight of serenity.
Fast from idle gossip; feast on purposeful silence.
Fast from problems that overwhelm; feast on prayer that undergirds."
- William Arthur Ward

Quote of the Day

"It’s the friends you can call up at four a.m. that matter."
-Marlene Dietrich

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"You know she's like 1,000% gay. She owns a fanny pack...it's like the cherry on the gay sundae."
- Vanna, The Real Girl's Guide to Everything Else ep.4

Quote of the Day

"Everyday, think as you wake up: Today I am fortunate to have woken up. I am alive. I have a precious human life. I am not going to waste it. I am going to use all my energies to develop myself to expand my heart out to others for the benefit of all beings."
- His Holiness the XIVth Dalai Lama

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"Peawee celebrated passage of the health care bill by cuddling up on the Baranket [Barack Obama fleece blanket]. His assessment: good potential coverage."
- RMB

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"My salvation lies
In your love"
- Alexi Murdoch, "Orange Sky," Away We Go soundtrack

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"I was thinking I'd have the surgery on a weekend...Oh, they don't do that?"- Molly, on the phone with her mother discussing upcoming hip surgery

(photo is Spring Weekend, April 2009)

Quote of the Day

"And I'm out of your range
Now it's kind of strange
How we change orbit in our lives
You were kind of a moon outside of my room
I could just feel you nearby"
- The Weepies, "Orbiting"

Quote of the Day

"...the lazy, Cadillac-driving, steak-eating welfare queens of Ronald Reagan's imagination."
- Cathy J. Cohen, "The Radical Potential of Queer Politics?"

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"Arranging a bowl of flowers in the morning can give a sense of quiet in a crowded day -- like writing a poem, or saying a prayer."
- Anne Morrow Lindbergh

Quote of the Day

“No pen, no ink, no table, no room, no time, no quiet, no inclination.”
- James Joyce

Quote of the Day

"Take me above your light
Carry me through the night
Hold me secure in flight
Sing me to sleep tonight"
- Owl City, "Hello Seattle"

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"Beautiful young people are accidents of nature, but beautiful old people are works of art."
- Eleanor Roosevelt

Quote of the Day

"If my voice ran dry
If all my melodies had gone awry
for no reason why
I would choose to bring
to weary souls the songs that only hearts can sing"
- Mindy Gledhill, "If I Had No Songs"

Quote of the Day

"Security is mostly a superstition. It does not exist in nature, nor do the children of men as a whole experience it. Avoiding danger is no safer in the long run than outright exposure. Life is either a daring adventure, or nothing."
- Helen Keller

Quote of the Day

"I hear the hug plane coming in for a landing..."
- Liz Lemon, 30 Rock ep 4.14

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"Live every week like it's Shark Week."
- Tracy, 30 Rock ep 1.4

Quote of the Day

"For every minute spent in organizing, an hour is earned."
- Benjamin Franklin

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"The Anna Eisen channel: The mighty blonde catholic in her natural habitat, intently reading with falconesque focus learning about the past injustices against womenfolk so she may crusade alongside them in the upcoming genderwars, using her mighty atomic scowl to cripple enemy morale, leading the way for the queer resistance cleanup crew. Reach, yawn, repeat."
- Greg "FJH" Paul

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"To achieve great things, two things are needed; a plan, and not quite enough time."
- Leonard Bernstein

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"That is the craziest shit I’ve ever seen in my life, AND I’M A COP!"
- random NYPD policeman

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"We say that the hour of death cannot be forecast, but when we say this we imagine that hour as placed in an obscure and distant future. It never occurs to us that it has any connection with the day already begun or that death could arrive this same afternoon, this afternoon which is so certain and which has every hour filled in advance."
-Marcel Proust, Remembrance of Things Past

Quote of the Day

"I feel like there’s something innate in women, the ability to be cruel and competitive with each other in this weird, invisible way."
- Tina Fey

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"And suppose that you lived
In that forest in France
Where the average young person
Just hasn't a chance
To escape from the perilous
Pants eating plants!"
- Dr. Seuss, Did I Ever Tell You How Lucky You Are?

Quote of the Day

"I never considered myself a feminist. Who needs feminism when your mom wrestled alligators?"
-Janet Reno