Quotes for the day..

[Rook]

Gotta love Will Smith....

Ray Embrey: [shows Hancock a comic book with a picture of a spandex clad superhero on it] What do you think of when you see this?
Hancock: Homo.
Ray Embrey: [shows him another comic with a hero in red spandex] And this?
Hancock: Homo in red.
Ray Embrey: [shows him a third comic with a blonde-haired hero] And this?
Hancock: Norwegian homo.

Hancock: The way you deal with bullies - you take your right foot, bring it right up and catch him in his little piss pump.
Mary Embrey: You don't have to do that, honey. Okay? Seriously.
Aaron Embrey: It's a good idea.
Hancock: You aim straight, make sure he can't use that thing for nothin' but a flap to keep the dust out of his butt crack.

Mary Embrey: [referring to Hancock] We broke up decades ago. Long before you were born. He just can't remember.
Ray Embrey: But you can. Right? You knew? That's something you might want to bring up on the first date, Mary. "I don't like to travel. I'm allergic to cats. I'm immortal." Okay? Those are some of the things you might want to give a little heads-up on.
Mary Embrey: Whatever we are, we were built in twos, okay? We were drawn to each other. No matter how far I run, he's always there. He finds me. It's physics.
Ray Embrey: What are you saying? Are you saying you two are fated to be together?
Mary Embrey: I've lived for a very long time, Ray. And the one thing I've learned: Fate doesn't decide everything. People get to chose.
Hancock: And you chose to let me think I was here alone.
Mary Embrey: I didn't think you'd miss what you didn't remember.

[Elsbeth]

There are a hundred ways to kneel and kiss the ground.
~ Rumi

[Rook]

When one door of happiness closes, another opens; But often we look so long at the closed door that we do not see the one that has been opened for us.
Helen Keller

[Surayna]

The goal of revenge is to crucify the offender. The goal of Acceptance is to resurrect your best self.
How Can I Forgive You? by Janis Abrahms Spring, Ph.D

[JistMe]

The secret of health for both mind and body is not to mourn for the past, worry about the future, or anticipate troubles but to live in the present moment wisely and earnestly. ~Buddah

[Rook]

I really like this movie, for many reasons...

Samir Horn: You know that the Qu'ran says that if you kill an innocent person it's as if you've killed all mankind?
Roy Clayton: It also says that if you save a life its like you've saved all mankind.

Samir Horn: I've been in a lot of battles. And it may have seemed like a suicide mission at the time, but we always had a plan to come home.
Omar: You must be willing to sacrifice some of your pawns if you want to win the game.
Samir Horn: I don't know.
Omar: I think you do. You risked your life to share your food with a stranger.
Samir Horn: That's not the same thing. I was just doing my duty. If I had known...
Omar: Jihadi is also your duty. Ahmed has told me what you have done in Afghanistan.
Samir Horn: Tactics have changed my friend.
Omar: Tactics have always changed. You don't defeat an empire fighting by their rules. Once upon a time it was the Americans who were terrorists to the British. They're forgetting their history already.

[Elsbeth]

“Each second we live is a new and unique moment of the universe, a moment that will never be again. And what do we teach our children? We teach them that two and two make four, and that Paris is the capital of France. When will we also teach them what they are? We should say to each of them: Do you know what you are? You are a marvel. You are unique. In all the years that have passed, there has never been another child like you! Your Legs, your Arms, your clever Fingers, the way you move. You may become a Shakespeare, a Michelangelo, a Beethoven! You have the capacity for anything. Yes, you are a marvel. And when you grow up, can you then harm another who is, like you, a marvel? You must work, we must all work, to make the world worthy of its children.”
~Pablo Picasso

[Shyfemmekat]

“The first step towards getting somewhere is to decide that you are not going to stay where you are.”

[Rook]

I think the main reason my marriages failed is that I always loved too well but never wisely.

Ava Gardner

[Rook]

I don't have pet peeves, I have whole kennels of irritation.
Whoopi Goldberg

[Shyfemmekat]

i don't have pet peeves, i have whole kennels of irritation.
whoopi goldberg

roflmao!

[Rook]

Bill Compton : "Your Majesty, you had me abducted....by WEREWOLVES, across state-line, they took Silver to me, fed off me !!"

Werewolf #1 : "He killed 3 of my pack, tore the ear off Louis !!"

Russell Edgington : "" You fed on MY Guest ?? [shoots Louis] By the way, Cooter, I don't like Improv., when I give an order, you follow it."

Bill Compton: [smirks] "Cooter?....Seriously, Your name is Cooter?"[Giggles]

Cooter: "Grooowwwwl"

Russell Edgington : "Cooter's a bit sensetive about his name"

I watch this ep. just for that scene...and eric's flashback..

[Intobutch]

Don't compare your life to others. You have no idea what their journey is all about.

[Bigfish1967]

True generosity consists precisely in fighting to destroy the causes which nourish false charity. False charity constrains the fearful and subdued, the "rejects of life," to extend their trembling hands. True generosity lies in striving so that these hands -- whether of individuals or entire peoples -- need be extended less and less in supplication, so that more and more they become human hands which work and, working, transform the world.

~Paulo Freire from The Pedagogy of the Oppressed

[Starphyre]

"Institutionalized rejection of difference is an absolute necessity in a profit economy which needs outsiders as surplus people. As members of such an economy, we have all been programmed to respond to the human differences between us with fear and loathing … But we have no patterns for relating across our human differences as equals. As a result, those differences have been misnamed and misused in the service of separation and confusion."

[Rook]

"Don't give me that shit that weed's a drug. It ain't no motherfuckin' drug. I've done the research. It's just a plant. it grows like that. And if you just happen to set it on fire....there are some effects"
~Katt Williams

[katzie_05]

"I don't hide skeletons in my closet, if you don't like me, let it be!!"

[Duchess]

The minute you settle for less than you deserve, you get even less than you settled for.

Maureen Dowd
American, Journalist Quotes

[Rook]

As much as I enjoy debating his writings to the raw Bone Marrow of it all..
I agree with Stephen Hawkins

"To my mathematical brain, the numbers alone make thinking about aliens perfectly rational. The real challenge is to work out what aliens might actually be like." He believes alien life not only certainly exists on planets but perhaps even in other places, like within stars or even floating in outer space. He also warns that a few of these species might be intelligent and threaten Earth. Contact with such species might be devastating for humanity. "If aliens visit us, the outcome would be much as when Columbus landed in America, which didn't turn out well for the Native Americans," he said. He advocated that, rather than try to establish contact, man should try to avoid contact with alien life forms.

[Rook]

Champions aren't made in gyms. Champions are made from something they have deep inside them - a desire, a dream, a vision.... the will must be stronger than the skill.
— Muhammad Ali

[Rook]

He who gains a victory over other men is strong; but he who gains a victory over himself is all powerful.
Lao-Tzu

[Rook]

“The only wealth I have to give, is not material - and if you need much more than that, I'm not available”
Mr. Intentional by ~Lauryn Hill

[Rook]

"Your vision will become clear only when you can look into your own heart. . .Who looks outside, dreams; who looks inside, awakes. . ."
~Carl Gustav Jung

[JistMe]

Believe nothing merely because you have been told it. Do not believe what your teacher tells you merely out of respect for the teacher. But whatsoever, after due examination and analysis, you find to be kind, conducive to the good, the benefit, the welfare of all beings -- that doctrine believe and cling to, and take it as your guide.

~Buddah

[JistMe]

Never put someone else's wants before your needs.

~Crys Stephens (that's me)

[JAGG]

" What has been, has nothing to do with what can be."

[hir]

"...all of us get the chance to shape our surface identities, those facets of ourselves that others see. but the trick is to craft our outer lives in harmony with what's inside, and in doing so, enhance rather than stifle the true light that burns within each of us." ~ from "silencer", by james w. hall

[Rook]

Rose : I've had 56 boyfriends

Blanche : "56?????"

Dorothy: "Stand back, she's gonna Blow!!"

Blanche:" How could u, u said u were a virgin before marrying??"

Rose:"u can have boyfriends w/o going all the way"

Blanche : "U cannot!! That makes u a slut"

Dorothy: "Just because she had 56 b/f in 1 year? No, she isn't a slut....she is THE slut....She is the Grand Poo-Bah of Slutty....

Blanche : "Heyy!!"

Dorothy : -points to Blanche- "The Slut is dead....." -Points to Rose "Long live the Slut !"

[Chef Jenn]

One of the toughest parts of life is deciding when to give up and when to try harder...

[Elsbeth]

"A government big enough to give you everything you want is big enough to take away everything you have." ~Thomas Jefferson

[Pres]

"It's always in the last place you look."
Of course it is! Why you continue looking after you've found it?

[Rook]

Forgiveness does not equal forgetting. It is about healing the memory of the harm, not erasing it.
~Ken Hart

[Rook]

There is an Indian legend which says when a human dies there is a bridge they must cross to enter into heaven. At the head of that bridge waits every animal that human encountered during their lifetime. The animals, based upon what they know of this person, decide which humans may cross the bridge.... and which are turned away...

[Languardia]

When somebody loves you, the way they say your name is different. You just know that your name is safe in their mouth.

Billy~age 4

[Languardia]

In real love you want the other person's good.
In romantic love you just want the other person.

~Margaret Anderson

[blueyboi]

"laughter is an instant vacation." ~milton berle"]

[espressolover83]

You have enemies? Good. That means you have stood up for something at least once in your life.

[Rook]

hmm, not bad

Sean: Thought about what you said to me the other day, about my painting. Stayed up half the night thinking about it. Something occurred to me... fell into a deep peaceful sleep, and haven't thought about you since. Do you know what occurred to me?
Will: No.
Sean: You're just a kid, you don't have the faintest idea what you're talkin' about.
Will: Why thank you.
Sean: It's all right. You've never been out of Boston.
Will: Nope.
Sean: So if I asked you about art, you'd probably give me the skinny on every art book ever written. Michelangelo, you know a lot about him. Life's work, political aspirations, him and the pope, sexual orientations, the whole works, right? But I'll bet you can't tell me what it smells like in the Sistine Chapel. You've never actually stood there and looked up at that beautiful ceiling; seen that. If I ask you about women, you'd probably give me a syllabus about your personal favorites. You may have even been laid a few times. But you can't tell me what it feels like to wake up next to a woman and feel truly happy. You're a tough kid. And I'd ask you about war, you'd probably throw Shakespeare at me, right, "once more unto the breach dear friends." But you've never been near one. You've never held your best friend's head in your lap, watch him gasp his last breath looking to you for help. I'd ask you about love, you'd probably quote me a sonnet. But you've never looked at a woman and been totally vulnerable. Known someone that could level you with her eyes, feeling like God put an angel on earth just for you. Who could rescue you from the depths of hell. And you wouldn't know what it's like to be her angel, to have that love for her, be there forever, through anything, through cancer. And you wouldn't know about sleeping sitting up in the hospital room for two months, holding her hand, because the doctors could see in your eyes, that the terms "visiting hours" don't apply to you. You don't know about real loss, 'cause it only occurs when you've loved something more than you love yourself. And I doubt you've ever dared to love anybody that much. And look at you... I don't see an intelligent, confident man... I see a cocky, scared shitless kid. But you're a genius Will. No one denies that. No one could possibly understand the depths of you. But you presume to know everything about me because you saw a painting of mine, and you ripped my fucking life apart. You're an orphan right?
[Will nods]
Sean: You think I know the first thing about how hard your life has been, how you feel, who you are, because I read Oliver Twist? Does that encapsulate you? Personally... I don't give a shit about all that, because you know what, I can't learn anything from you, I can't read in some fuckin' book. Unless you want to talk about you, who you are. Then I'm fascinated. I'm in. But you don't want to do that do you sport? You're terrified of what you might say .

[Wanderer25]

"life in its most simplest forms is heaven bestowed upon us if only we would open our eyes to see." Me

[blueyboi]

"laughter is an instant vacation." ~milton berle