- Quotes

  • It’s a poor sort of memory that only works backwards. – the White Queen to Alice (Lewis Carroll)
  • I try to believe in as many as six impossible things before breakfast. – Alice in Wonderland / Lewis Carroll
  • The Mad Hatter: [to Alice] You used to be much more…”muchier.” You’ve lost your muchness. – Lewis Carroll
  • I can’t go back to yesterday – because I was a different person then. – Lewis Carroll
  • It’s only after we’ve lost everything that we’re free to do anything. – Fight Club / Chuck Palahniuk
  • The things you own end up owning you. – Fight Club / Chuck Palahniuk
  • The most important things in life aren’t things. – Anthony J. D’Angelo
  • It’s all part of the experience, honey. – Clark W. Griswold / Christmas Vacation
  • Audrey, honey, let me tell you something that I’ve learned. In this world you’re either up on the stage in the spotlight, or down in the pit serving drinks. So have some fun. – Cousin Vicki / Vegas Vacation
  • You’ll remember you don’t believe in any of this fate crap. You’re in control of your own life. – The Oracle / The Matrix
  • Sometimes nothing happens for a reason. – Agent Scully / XFiles ‘All Things’
  • Let your mind go, and your body will follow –- LA Story
  • If only you could see what I’ve seen with your eyes! – Roy Batty / Blade Runner
  • My father says that almost the whole world is asleep. Everybody you know. Everybody you see. Everybody you talk to. He says that only a few people are awake and they live in a state of constant total amazement. – Joe vs. the Volcano
  • Everything is amazing and nobody is happy – Louis CK
  • I’ll try anything once, twice if I like it, three times to make sure. – Mae West
  • Women who behave rarely make history – bumper sticker
  • Motivation is what gets you started. Habit is what keeps you going. – Jim Rohn
  • If you really want to do something, you’ll find a way. If you don’t, you’ll find an excuse. – Jim Rohn
  • Phase 1: Collect Underpants. Phase 2: ? Phase 3: Profit! – South Park
  • When it’s all that you’ve become, set it free. – Gareth Emery / Lucy Saunders, Sanctuary
  • Let your geek shine. – SparkFun Electronics
  • Die Trying –- bumper sticker
  • If life were predictable it would cease to be life, and be without flavor. – Eleanor Roosevelt
  • Today is the oldest I’ve ever been… and the youngest I’ll ever be again. – unknown
  • It’s never too late to become what you might have been. – George Eliot
  • Life’s Journey is not to arrive safely at the grave in a well preserved body. Rather it is to come sliding in sideways, totally worn out, shouting ‘Holy shit, what a ride’ – Unknown
  • Until you’re not afraid of dying, only then can you truly live. –unknown
  • Experience life. See what’s around the next corner, taste something new every week, and never settle. – Steve Oberholtzer
  • If you want to make your dreams come true, the first thing you have to do is wake up. – J.M. Power
  • Wake up, number 37, wake up. – Mothman Prophecies
  • Don’t believe everything you think. – bumper sticker
  • Become who you are – Friedrich Nietzsche
  • Failure is liberation; success is a trap – T.C.
  • It’s the people who have the self-confidence to fail and still feel successful that are happy. –- 40-something, NYC by way of Ohio
  • It’s not the destination in life, it’s the journey that matters. – Steven Tyler
  • The single biggest problem in communication is the illusion that it has taken place. – George Bernard Shaw
  • Live never to be ashamed if anything you say or do is published around the world, even if what is said is not true. – Richard Bach
  • If you follow your instincts and live with intention… whatever shows up in your path is meant to be there. – Tracy Heinrichs Tokunaga
  • The only reason for time is so that everything doesn’t happen at once. – Albert Einstein
  • Any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic. – Arthur C. Clarke

- Other Random Musings

  • If you’re going to embarrass yourself, at least make it interesting.
  • A man needs a woman like a spider needs sunglasses.
  • Sometimes you just need to let go and see what happens.
  • I don’t know what I’m doing, I’m just doing it.
  • If an insane person is someone who does the same thing over and over again and expects different results, what does it mean when you do different things and get the same result?