I am and always will be very fond of Kurt Vonnegut.

So this must be posted as a little homage to one of my greatest influences and a saying that helps keep me sane.

“Go to sleep now, little ugly.
Go to sleep now, you little fool.
40 winking in the belfry,
you’ll not feel the drowning”
-The Decemberists ‘You’ll not feel the drowning‘ [ I'm a chronic insomniac - it's so true]

“If I didn’t have you, someone else would do.”
-Tim Minchin ‘If I didn’t have you‘

“You’ve gotta bear your cross but never dream too loud
And you’re tied
Tied to the next time”
-Goo Goo Dolls ‘January Friend‘

I’m a big fan of quotes. Just the word its self is fun – ‘quotes’. You should try saying it out loud to yourself, or together with a group of friends – ‘quoooootessss’.

At one point in time I had a site dedicated to nothing else but quotes I found interesting so I thought I’d share the ones I had compiled and post new ones I come across.

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Free as a Frog”
-Me

“The most beautiful people I have known are those who have known defeat,
known suffering, known struggle, known loss,
and have found their way out of the depths.
These persons have an appreciation,
sensitivity and an understanding of life
that fills them with compassions,
gentleness, and a deep loving concern.
Beautiful people do not just happen.”
-Elizabeth Kubler-Ross

“And all of those things:
my religion, my politics, my family, my friends,
the books I read, everywhere I travel — that influences everything I do.”
-Mandy Patinkin

“Ordinary’s just not good enough today.”
-Our Lady Peace “Superman’s Dead”

“The pen may be mightier then the sword, but not everyone can read.”
-unknown

“They say the devil’s water, it ain’t so sweet
You don’t have to drink right now
But you can dip your feet
Every once in a little while”
-The Killers “When you were Young”

“I have found Power in the Mysteries of Thought”
-Euripides

“Do not take life too seriously. You will never get out of it alive.”
-Elbert Hubbard

“Without Music, life would be a mistake.”
-Friedrich Nietzsche

“Don’t bother just to be better than your contemporaries or predecessors.
Try to be better than yourself.”
-Faulkner

“Your head will collapse
But there’s nothing in it
And you’ll ask yourself
Where is my mind
Way out in the water
See it swimmin’”
-The Pixies “Where is my Mind”

“One machine can do the work of fifty ordinary men.
No machine can do the work of one extraordinary man.
-Elbert Hubbard

“We all create in our heads who we are and who we want others to be.
And how we view ourselves – hero, victim, loved, unloved – changes over time.”
-George in ‘Dead like Me’

“I am enough of an artist to draw freely upon my imagination.
Imagination is more important than knowledge.
Knowledge is limited.
Imagination encircles the world.
– Albert Einstein

“Sometimes you close your eyes and see
the place where you use to live
When you were young.”
-The Killers ‘When you were Young’

“You say you know what he did,
But you idiot kid,
You don’t have a clue.
Sometimes they just get caught in the eye;
Youre pulling him through [...]
I can’t be myself
And I dont want to talk.
I’m taking the cure so I can be quiet
Whenever I want.
So leave me alone.
You ought to be proud that
I’m getting good marks,
Needle in the Hay.”
-Elliot Smith ‘Needle in the Hay

“I am Immortal;
I have inside me blood of kings.
I have no rival;
no man can be my equal.”
-Queen ‘Princes of the Universe’

“There are no excuses my friend
Let’s push things forward”
-The Streets “Let’s Push things Forward”

“In dreams begins responsibility.”
-William Butler Yeats

“Sooner or later, my friend,
One of us will run out of time.”
-Unknown

“Mine! Mine! Mine!”
-Seagulls in ‘Finding Nemo’

You’re wrong. This is me correcting you.”
-Rube in ‘Dead Like Me’

Nothing unusual, nothing strange
Close to nothing at all
The same old scenario, the same old rain
And there’s no explosions here
Then something unusual, something strange
Comes from nothing at all
-Damien Rice ‘Amie’

“Keep your finger’s away from my mouth.
And don’t ever try to feed me.”
-Jeffrey Geiger [Mandy Patinkin] on ‘Chicago Hope

“Life is Good.
No Bad Days.
Work.
and Be Happy.”
-unKnown

“Life is a horrible way
to treat an Animal.”
-Kurt Vonnegut

“Maybe it would all be Easier,
If we lived in early 90s british television.
We’d never reap the Benefits of a well Written episode of ‘House’ of course,
but it might be Worth it.”
-Me

Dr. Gregory House: Well, as long as you’re trying to be good, you can do whatever you want.
Dr. Wilson: And as long as you’re not trying, you can say whatever you want.
Dr. Gregory House: So between us we can do anything. We can rule the world!
-from House M.D.

Get me out of here. I’m drowning.
I don’t like this modern world.
Anti-intellect and marketing.
Pretty-pretty. Who needs talent?
Crying eyes, we’re so outnumbered.
Fight for the right to remain silent.
But what do I know?
Who am I?
My two left feet, my big dumb face.
I’d do the same if I had the chance.
Cheat the system, rig the race.
It’s all one big misunderstanding.
Inside out I turn my coat.
Don’t look back, don’t move a muscle.
One false move, that’s all she wrote.
Zoom-kick-persuasion-tech
-Buck 65′Blood of a Young Wolf’

Don’t open your mouth till you know what the shot is.
-Ricky Roma in David Mamet’s “Glengarry Glen Ross”

“Do you still want to blow him up?”
-Klaus in[Life Aquatic]

“Don’t walk in front of me; I may not follow.
Don’t walk behind me; I may not lead.
Just walk beside me and be my friend.”
– Albert Camus

“For the World is Hollow, and I have touched the sky.”
– Aimes

“The time has come, the Walrus said, to talk of many things.
Of shoes and ships, and sealing wax;
Of cabbages and kings.”
– Lewis Carroll

“Like a guilty thing I creep
Behold me, for I cannot sleep.”
– a butchered verse VII of In Memoriam by Tennyson

“For He who made you Bitter, made you Wise”
-Yeats

“there’s a mighty judgment coming, but I may be wrong
You see, you hear these funny voices
In the tower of song”
– Leonard Cohen ‘Tower of Song’