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"life ain't so bad at all ..."
09/15/2007 = 04:50 PM

"... if you live it off the wall."
— Michael Jackson before he got creepy

Playwright Prince Gomolvilas used to keep a dry-erase board, covered in quotes, on display wherever he lived.

I'm going to do the same thing, but for now, I've got Post-Its™. At some point, I'll buy a dry-erase board and transfer everything over.

That said, we'd better begin with my gramma.

Use what you have.
— My gramma

Nothing you ever learn is wasted.
— The Mom

TALENT
PERSISTENCE
INTENTION
— Prince Gomolvilas (well, you know, when you're right, you're right)

Get it right, you're a star. Get it half-right, you're a gas giant.
— Spider Robinson

You can do what you want.
The opportunity's on.
And if you can find a new way,
You can do it today.
— Cat Stevens

Without question, the greatest invention in the history of mankind is beer. Oh, I grant you that the wheel was also a fine invention, but the wheel does not go nearly as well with pizza.
— Dave Barry

The essential elements of humor:

1. Bizarre (in the humor context, bizarre simply means two things you wouldn’t normally find together.)
2. Clever
3. Cruel
4. Cute
5. Naughty
6. Recognizable

In order for something to be funny, it has to have at least two of the six elements.
— Scott Adams

Shouldn't you be doing something?
— Anthony Bourdain

Hold on to the center and make up your mind to rejoice in this paradise called life.
— Lao-tzu

Come on the amazing journey, and learn all you should know.
— Peter Townshend

My advice to you is not to inquire why or whither, but just enjoy your ice-cream while it's on your plate — that's my philosophy.
—Thornton Wilder

So remember, when you're feeling very small and insecure,
how amazingly unlikely is your birth,
And pray that there's intelligent life somewhere up in space,
because there's bugger-all down here on Earth.
— Eric Idle

All writers are born; they are never made.
— Rod Serling

I love deadlines. I like the whooshing sound they make as they fly by.
— Douglas Adams

It seems to me what is called for is an exquisite balance between two conflicting needs: the most skeptical scrutiny of all hypotheses that are served up to us and at the same time a great openness to new ideas … If you are only skeptical, then no new ideas make it through to you … On the other hand, if you are open to the point of gullibility and have not an ounce of skeptical sense in you, then you cannot distinguish the useful ideas from the worthless ones.
— Carl Sagan

So many of our dreams at first seem impossible, then they seem improbable, and then, when we summon the will, they soon become inevitable.
— Christopher Reeve

We have thoughts, but thoughts are fluid ... then we assign a word to a thought — POP — and we're stuck with that word for that thought. So be careful with words.
— George Carlin

Be, butterfly and behemoth,
be galaxy and grasshopper,
star and sparrow,
you matter, you are.
Be.
— Madeleine L'Engle

Ask the next question.
— Theodore Sturgeon

The procedure involved in your path to Nirvana may meander, but a road worth traveling will have its twists and turns.
— Kevin Smith

... [W]e are trying to unravel the Mighty Infinite using a language which was designed to tell one another where the fresh fruit was.
— Terry Pratchett

Tags: writing

drinking: herbal tea
listening to: new-agey instrumental synthesizer chimey crap
loving: danielle bruno. she watches tv so I don't have to