Category Archives: Quotes
That’s Nice
“I’d rather be hated or loved, rather than just thought of as all right or nice. ‘Nice’ is the worst insult you could pay anybody. It means you are utterly without threat, without values. Nice is a cup of tea.” John Lydon, in his autobiography Rotten: No Irish, No Blacks, No Dogs, ©1994
Have No Effect
Excerpted from the poem “How Finite Minds Most Want To Be” by Rumi: Metaphors mentioning the moonhave no effect upon the moon
I’m not a doctor…
“I’m pretty sure, I’m not a doctor, but I’m pretty sure if you die, the cancer dies at the same time. That’s not a loss. That’s a draw. … It’s not like the cancer goes home and fucks your wife after.” ~Norm MacDonald
Don’t Be Afraid, Ever
“The world is like a ride in an amusement park, and when you choose to go on it you think it’s real because that’s how powerful our minds are. The ride goes up and down, around and around, it has thrills and chills, and it’s very brightly colored, and it’s very loud, and it’s fun …
Come, come!
Come, come, whoever you are. Wanderer, worshipper, lover of living, it doesn’t matter Ours is not a caravan of despair. Come even if you have broken your vow a thousand times, Come, yet again, come, come. WikiQuote has a large collection of sourced Rumi poems and quotes, which is available on the web HERE. Project …
The Jugular
Excerpted from John Lydon’s autobiography Rotten: No Irish, No Blacks, No Dogs, ©1994: That’s the trouble with working-class people throughout the world. They always try to spur their hatred onto what they see as being lower down the scale, rather than going for the fucking jugular of the upper- and middle-class bastards who are keeping …
Epitaph
The epitaph on Rumi’s grave reads, “When we are dead, seek not our tomb in the earth, but find it in the hearts of men.” I like that.
Only Made It Worse
“‘That’s horrid.’ Horrible, thought Susan. The word is ‘horrible’. ‘Horrid’ is a childish word selected to impress nearby males with one’s fragility, if I’m any judge. She knew it was unkind and counterproductive of her to think like that. She also knew it was probably an accurate observation, which only made it worse.” ~Terry Pratchett, …
One
“I go into the Muslim mosque and the Jewish synagogue and the Christian church and I see one altar.” ~Rumi
Joie de Vivre
“You ever look at their faces? ‘We’re pro-life.’ Don’t they look it? Don’t they just exude joie de vivre?” ~Bill Hicks
C-Sharp
“One of the things that people don’t realize about Dad’s kind of music is, when you replace a C-sharp with a gunshot, it has to be a C-sharp gunshot or it sounds awful.“ ~Spike Jones Jr.
Anyone Can Do It
John Lydon (aka “Johnny Rotten”) on the Sid Vicious personality cult, excerpted from his autobiography Rotten: No Irish, No Blacks, No Dogs, ©1994: Since I always have to have a point and purpose to everything I do, that’s why people accuse me of being calculated. But it’s the way I am. I always know my next …
We Couldn’t Stand It
“It was horrible to hear Camille sobbing so. We couldn’t stand it and went out to buy beer.” ~Jack Kerouac as Sal Paradise in On The Road, ©1957 Not exactly overflowing with the milk of human kindness, are you there, Jack?
Wonderfully Chaotic
John Lydon on politics, excerpted from his his autobiography Rotten: No Irish, No Blacks, No Dogs, ©1994: Around the time of the punks, socialism wasn’t working in England. The Labour party were unimpressive and tedious. The Conservatives, the same. It fluctuated from one party to another, four years of this, four years of that, and …
Only a Shape
“An emotion was swelling in my throat. It took me a moment to recognize what it was. I had been old and stern for so long, carved with regrets and years like a monolith. But that was only a shape I had been poured into. I did not have to keep it.” ~Madeline Miller, in …
Good
“More harm is done under guise of goodness than ever realized by foul deed or evildoer. Nevertheless, I wish I was good.” ~Herbert E. Huncke And that reminded me of this: “You made me forget myself. I thought I was someone else– someone good.” ~Lou Reed Full lyrics HERE.
Every Single Thing
I wished I lived someplace where people wrote things like this then hung it on a wall for everybody to see. In East Texas all we get is profanity and crude drawings of genitalia.
Choke
“Don’t plant your bad days. They grow into weeks. The weeks grow into months. Before you know it, you got yourself a bad year. Take it from me: choke those little bad days. Choke ‘em down to nothing.” ~Tom Waits
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