"When there's trouble in my face
I'm a tired runner in the human race
I've got to get back to a familiar face..."
-- Huey Lewis and the News, I Never Walk Alone
"Women. Can't live with 'em, pass the beer nuts."
-- Norm, Cheers (TV)
"I like the times that we've had
But I couldn't tell you, what's good or bad."
-- Huey Lewis and the News, I Know What I Like
Spontaneaity is a key to happiness. Take time to plan, and you are begging for disaster."
-- Dann Fuller
"Depression is the emotional equivalent of a hangover. The best way to deal with it, therefore, is to sleep through it."
-- Dann Fuller
"No matter how confident you may be in the unity of your heart and mind, there comes a time when the two will disagree. Then, all hell breaks loose."
-- Dann Fuller
"Success, in anticipation of failure, is one of the greatest gifts you can receive."
-- Dann Fuller
"Curiousity killed the cat, but for a while there I was a suspect."
-- Steven Wright
"You can't always get what you want
But if you try sometime
You just might find
You get what you need."
-- The Rolling Stones, You Can't Always Get What You Want
"The cow is giving kerosene
Kid can't read at seventeen
Only words he knows 're obscene
But it's alright."
-- Greatful Dead, Touch of Grey
"Some are born to move the world,
To live their fantasies.
But most of us just dream about
The things we'd like to be.Sadder still to watch it die,
Then never to have known it.
For you - the blind who once could see,
The bell tolls for thee.
-- RUSH, Losing It (Lyrics by Neil Peart)
"Laughter is a tranquilizer without side effects."
-- Unknown
"Doctors can bury their mistakes, architects can only advise their clients to plant vines."
-- Frank Lloyd Wright
"Clothe an idea in words, and it loses its freedom of movement."
-- Unknown
"Explaining myself is not one of the things I do really well, like drinking beer, or taking a nap. Explaining myself is clumsy stuff. You really ought to watch what I do, and, pretty much, I think, you'll know what I am. Actually, I always thought you knew what I am."
-- Spenser to Susan Silverman, The Promised Land by Robert B. Parker
"Returning violence for violence only multiplies violence, adding deeper darkness to a night already devoid of stars. Darkness cannot drive out darkness, only light can do that. Hate cannot drive out hate; only love can do that."
-- Rev. Martin Luther King, Jr.
"Talent is what you posses, genius is what posesses you."
-- Unknown
"At the touch of love, everyone becomes a poet."
-- Unknown
"What's so bad about being drunk?"
"Ask a glass of water."
Arthur Dent and Ford Prefect, The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galazy
"I was driving down the road, and the car in front of me turned into a gas station!"
-- Me
"If you melt dry ice, can you swim without getting wet?"
-- Steven Wright
"They only pay so they don't have to look."
-- The Fisher King
"I wonder what tomorrow has in mind for me,
or am I even in it's mind at all?"
-- Styx, Crystal Ball
"Brave heart Tegan, brave heart."
-- Peter Davison (The 5th Doctor), Doctor Who
"Nothing is at last sacred, but the integrity of your own mind."
-- Ralph Waldo Emerson
"Argue for your limitations, and sure enough, they're yours."
-- Richard Bach, _Illusions: The Adventures of a Reluctant Messiah_
"Here's to the Cubs winning the world series, and women with big tits!"
-- Jim Belushi, Taking Care of Business
"I saw this painted on a bridge:
'I don't want the world, I just want your half.'"
-- They Might Be Giants, Ana Ng
"So much poison in power,
The principles get left out.
So much mind on the matter,
The spirit gets forgotten about."
-- RUSH, Grand Designs (Lyrics by Neil Peart)
"Sometimes in my bed at night
I curse the dark and pray for the light.
And sometimes the light's no...consolation."
-- Huey Lewis & The News, Walking on a Thin Line
"I may be goin' to hell in a bucket
But at least I'm enjoyin' the ride." -- Grateful Dead
"There is no problem so big that it cannot be run away from."
-- Richard Bach _Illusions: The Adventures of a Reluctant Messiah_
"Illusions? Illusions are painfully shattered,
Right where discovery starts."
-- RUSH, Prime Mover (Lyrics by Neil Peart) "
"Life ain't quite what it seems,
On the boulevard of broken dreams."
-- Allman Brothers Band "End of the Line"
"Reasoning is partly insane."
-- RUSH "Anagram (for mongo)" Lyrics by Neil Peart
"I drank WHAT!?!"
-- Socrates (As quoted in "Real Genius")
"You can lead a horse to water, but you can't turn him into a duck."
-- Rich Tepper
"I know for a start, there's a place in my heart
that is yours and it won't disappear."
-- Crosby, Stills, & Nash "Haven't We Lost Enough?"
"Well I don't know how, but people seem to know
When you want somebody bad enough.
Well, I want you now, and wherever you go,
I'm gonna love you 'till you've had enough."
-- Crosby, Stills, & Nash "If Anybody Had A Heart"
"I know exactly when I'm going to doe, my birth certificate has an expiration date."
-- Steven Wright