your kick ass quote

Jodi · Post by **Jodi** » Tue Oct 07, 2003 11:16 am

"Those are my principles, and if you don't like them...well, I have others."

"I may not hear you, but I probably don't want to either."

Jodi · Post by **Jodi** » Tue Oct 07, 2003 11:20 am

AWESOME DESKTOPS, DIGI!

THE ORIGINAL DIGIMAN · Post by **THE ORIGINAL DIGIMAN** » Tue Oct 07, 2003 11:28 am

why thank you jodi.

but i do not take credit. i am promoting them because i think...in fact i know these guys are the most awsome.

the programs are still buggy but if you want to try them out or have programming knowledge and want to give it a shot let me know.

Guest · Post by **Guest** » Tue Oct 07, 2003 2:00 pm

There is a vitality, a life force, an energy, a quickening, that is translated through you into action, and because there is only one of you in all time, this expression is unique.

BlueBirdPoof · Post by **BlueBirdPoof** » Tue Oct 07, 2003 5:19 pm

The casual carpool this morning, in a Mercedes driven by a middle-aged lawer or beyond with a red bow tie who said

Giving is subversive

Sometimes you don't have to bring the spirit of BRC off of the playa with you, sometimes you just stumble over it.

Liverace · Post by **Liverace** » Wed Oct 08, 2003 7:29 pm

"Liverace was a genteel, half innocent culture whore, gambling the soul of history on the craps table of showbiz, a strange, inbred cross between a philosopher and a drunk."

"Liverace didn't know when to quit because Liverace didn't know where hammered began and where tipsy left off."

Jodi · Post by **Jodi** » Thu Oct 09, 2003 8:08 am

When I found the skull in the woods, the first thing I did was call the police. But then I got curious about it. I picked it up, and started wondering who this person was, and why he had deer horns.

-Jack Handy

rodent · Post by **rodent** » Thu Oct 09, 2003 11:15 am

"opportunity may knock once but temptation leans on the doorbell"
-unknown

rodent (putting the eek in geek)
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Guest · Post by **Guest** » Fri Oct 10, 2003 10:04 am

The humor we find in tragedy is sometimes all that makes life tolerable.

madmatt · Post by **madmatt** » Fri Oct 10, 2003 10:17 am

JOY! shipmate—joy!
Pleas’d to my Soul at death I cry;
Our life is closed—our life begins;
The long, long anchorage we leave,
The ship is clear at last—she leaps!
She swiftly courses from the shore;
Joy! shipmate—joy!

Walt Whitman
<<<Matt @ Joycamp>>>

DE FACTO · Post by **DE FACTO** » Fri Oct 10, 2003 11:30 am

THE ORIGINAL DIGIMAN is dead

Patience · Post by **Patience** » Fri Oct 10, 2003 1:24 pm

Scorpio

If I don't love you, I
won't let it show.
I'll make it clear by
never letting you know.

If I love you, I
will love you true; insofar,
as Love, itself, will do.

And while I'm here I'll be
whatever I am,
whose constant, impure, fire
is outwardly only a man.

-Ted Berrigan

DUH FECTO · Post by **DUH FECTO** » Fri Oct 10, 2003 1:28 pm

ALL YOUR BAYS ARE BELONG TO U.S.

shitmouse · Post by **shitmouse** » Fri Oct 10, 2003 1:45 pm

"it's better to regret something you have done, than something you haven't done."

-- gibby hanes, butthole surfers.

playasnake · Post by **playasnake** » Fri Oct 10, 2003 4:51 pm

"I have not had mentors in the traditional sense. Much greater ability and
knowledge come from storms and unfamiliar terrain than from fair weather and a well-trodden path, providing one persists and prevails. I have had much 'reverse' mentoring from people who attempted to undermine that which was attempted. Most of my growth came from them. You learn nothing from your successes except to think too much of yourself. It is from failure that all growth comes, provided you can recognize it, admit it, learn from it, rise above it, and then try again."
(Dee Hock, VISA founder)

Karma · Post by **Karma** » Fri Oct 10, 2003 7:43 pm

"Because we don't know when we will die, we get to think of life as an inexhaustible well, yet everything happens only a certain number of times, and a very small number, really. How many more times will you remember a certain afternoon of your childhood, some afternoon that's so deeply a part of your being that you can't even conceive of your life without it? Perhaps four or five times more, perhaps not even that. How many more times will you watch the full moon rise? Perhaps twenty. And yet it all seems limitless."

(Paul Bowles, The Sheltering Sky)

Badger · Post by **Badger** » Fri Oct 10, 2003 9:38 pm

One of the most shattering passages in the book.

Just as luscious when Bowles (in a cameo appearance) recites those same lines in Bertolucci's screen adaptation.

I love being reminded of beautiful things that sit on the very edge of memory.

Thanks for that.

Isotopia · Post by **Isotopia** » Fri Oct 10, 2003 9:49 pm

"Many years later, as he faced the firing squad, Colonel Aureliano Buendia was to remember that distant afternoon when his father took him to discover ice..."
'One Hundred Years of Solitude' - Gabriel Garcia Marquez

The first sentence of an entire book worthy of quoting.

Isotopia · Post by **Isotopia** » Fri Oct 10, 2003 9:58 pm

A: "Did you find my...."

B: "NO, Goddamit! No I didn't find your fucking..."

alice · Post by **alice** » Fri Oct 10, 2003 10:45 pm

(from "rules for aging" by roger rosenblatt):

#21 - male and femal compatibility rules~

a.she's right
b.he's really thinking about nothing. really.

Badger · Post by **Badger** » Sat Oct 11, 2003 7:25 pm

"Drug use, some might say, is destroying this country. And we have laws against selling drugs, pushing drugs, using drugs, importing drugs. ... And so if people are violating the law by doing drugs, they ought to be accused and they ought to be convicted and they ought to be sent up," Limbaugh said on his short-lived television show on Oct. 5, 1995.

During the same show, he commented that the statistics that show blacks go to prison more often than whites for the same drug offenses only illustrate that "too many whites are getting away with drug use."

Guest · Post by **Guest** » Sat Oct 11, 2003 8:03 pm

Badger wrote:"if people are violating the law by doing drugs, they ought to be accused and they ought to be convicted and they ought to be sent up," Limbaugh said on his short-lived television show on Oct. 5, 1995.
"

There's a man who needed a clue, as did William Bennet.

I cannot take credit for the short life of his tv show, but when I tuned in, and saw there was a 1-800 number scrolling across the bottom, I put it on speed dial and repeatedly called and hung up, just to tie up the lines. Maybe passive-aggressiveness does have it's place.

Imagigrl · Post by **Imagigrl** » Sat Oct 18, 2003 10:19 am

"C'mon! Tell the story, Morning Glory, all about the serpentine fire!"
~Earth, Wind, and Fire

Imagigrl · Post by **Imagigrl** » Sat Oct 18, 2003 10:49 am

...I'd lay in the soft grass in a little clover blossomed nook underneath giant oak trees in the cattle grazing hills of a California town in the Fall. I welcomed the bees, the ladybugs, the ants, and all of nature to my nook. I didn't think there was a single thing wrong with the way I was feeling. It was at the time of the year when the earth is at its most fragrant and the stillness of the moment rests peacefully in everyone's hearts. The time of the great harvest. The gold trimmed clouds slowly billowed across the vast sunset skies. The murmur of the Creator's voice gently breezed through the autumn leaves, whispering into my napping ear as I dreamed about the easy days of summer. I wasn't hungry. I wasn't thirsty. I wasn't in fear of anything... except having to go home to the lonely world... surrounded by people who stopped feeling those moments once the chill of the winter blew over the crust of the Earth, once the chill of normalcy blew over their minds, once there wasn't a special occassion or a national holiday to give them reason to celebrate life. Just a little bit, at each turn of the season, people would allow themselves a tiny smidge of reprieve from the expectations brought down upon them by the demands of what's appropriate behavior. I'd have to learn my mind and my heart to look upon the world with eyes of kindness, compassion, patience, and love. It took me so many ages to learn these lessons I knew were the most important lessons to learn in life... since when I was a child.

I grew up and grew older and grew bitter and resentful and untrusting and judgmental and hurtful and especially wary and insecure from time to time. But every once in a long while, I'd stop the car, get out, walk into the hillside, and lay down in a little nook... quietly tucked away from the noise of the world. A momentary gift of reprieve I allowed myself. Then I went back to my daily life. My first world, lucky and convenient life. My life so stripped bare of the essentials of nature and human experience that I forgot who I was, I ignored where I was, and I heard no other voice but the sorrow in my own heart. I was lost in a sea of lost souls. I'd wake up with tear stained cheeks or an uncomfortably fast beating heart, worrying that I'd never find that peace again... that the whole world was- more or less -either feeling exactly the way I was but afraid to speak the truth or feeling nothing at all, devoid of spirit, broken forever and apathetically awaiting an inevitable chaotic and torturous future. I walked through the long days wishing for a miracle. Something to jar me awake into living my life the way I knew I always dreamed of... when I was a child.

Then I went to Burning Man. I was forced to live without the pain and confusion of my everyday life or else leave the desert behind. I chose to to ring the bell of my coming home and be welcomed home. I 'listened to what The Man said' (P. McCartney and Wings) and heard the same voice I heard whispering through the leaves in the trees of my childhood. Then I felt free, alive, and in love. I left smiling instead of... frowning as I did when I was a child when I had to leave my little nook. I left wanting to be with the people in my everyday life. And I learned my lesson.

Looking up, making eye contact, smiling, and saying "Hello" or at least smiling to another. The simple things need be done to spread a smile across a face. Then we won't be afraid to laugh to God's comedy routine.

Guest · Post by **Guest** » Wed Oct 29, 2003 7:31 pm

Wow, it's not nearly as beautiful as the post above (nice post Imagirl) , but I heard this in a seminar about parenting, and thought I'd share it...

"Kids will repeat the behavior that gets them attention."

foamin' at the mouth · Post by **foamin' at the mouth** » Wed Oct 29, 2003 8:29 pm

For when you are feeling sortof socially asymptotic:

"Though atoms fall straight downward through the void
by their own weight, yet at uncertain times and at uncertain points, they swerve a bit--
enough that one may say they change direction.
And if they did not swerve, they would all fall down like rain into the boundless void;
no clashes would occur,no blows befall the atoms; nature never would have mad a thing."

(Book II de Rerum Natura, Luctrectius-the Copley translation)

Then on a different note.. my memory is rusty but:

"When your Mama was a geek my dreamlets" Papa would say "She made the nippin' off of noggin's such a crystal mystery that the hens themselves would yern for her." Open you lips sweet Lill and show us your choppers!"

(Katherine Dunne- the opening line of Geek Love)
She's not prolific but she writes so beautifully about uglienss that you can get confused about which is which.

JezebelinHell · Post by **JezebelinHell** » Wed Oct 29, 2003 11:59 pm

From Good Omens:
"You do know you could find yourself charged with being a dominant species while under the influence of impulse-driven consumerism, don't you?"

DE FACTO · Post by **DE FACTO** » Thu Oct 30, 2003 1:00 am

I stated earlier about:

And say it out loud to your friends first.

"the beans gave me so much gass that it had me flying from here to Italy and back"

the second half was.....

" I smelled like I wanted to be left alone."

An original.

Patience · Post by **Patience** » Fri Oct 31, 2003 1:13 pm

"I was in the middle of rehearsals for the VMAs and I played the song and she [Madonna] was like, 'That's your first single, right?' I was like, 'Yeah, hopefully.' And she's like, 'I really like it.' I was like, 'Really? Well, wanna do it with me?'"

-Britney Spears

Guest · Post by **Guest** » Fri Oct 31, 2003 3:35 pm

Patience wrote:"I was in the middle of rehearsals for the VMAs and I played the song and she [Madonna] was like, 'That's your first single, right?' I was like, 'Yeah, hopefully.' And she's like, 'I really like it.' I was like, 'Really? Well, wanna do it with me?'"

-Britney Spears

THAT is priceless AND kick ass.

your kick ass quote

a couple of diddies..

Martha Graham

giving

it's not about you

Ohhhhh yeeeeeaaah!!!

When I was a child...