Quotes

words to inspire

or at least make you laff

“….generally, I’ve always aspired to become a part of something. But I just never felt like it–it hasn’t really happened. It’s odd, because I have my big club, now, and I’m president. It’s not like I’m a part of it though. When I went to college, I thought that all I wanted to do was just disappear and see what it’s like to have friends, be in a group. Two months later, I was like, fuck this. I’m not like you. I don’t want to lose my identity, my independence, by being around a bunch of other people who are also scared, doing the same thing. Hiding behind something printed on a t-shirt that gives you a sense of who you are.”- Trent Reznor


“The whole business of being in a rock & roll band is just ridiculous. I was thinking, it’s like having a sex change! Being a rock & roll star is like having a sex change! People treat you like a girl! You know? They stare at you, they follow you down the street, the hustle you. And then they try to fuck you over! It’s a hard thing to talk about becaise it’s absurd, but actually its valuable. When I’m with women I know what it feels like. I know what it feels like to be a babe.” – bono


“You only get disillusioned if you had illusions to begin with.” – bono


“Frisbetarians believe that when they die their soul goes up on the roof and they can’t get it down.” – bono


“It’s like beating your head open and unzipping your chest cavity saying ‘here are my guts – everything I’ve felt, including a lot of stuff I’m not proud of. It’s hard. It uses you up. I walk off stage sometimes and feel like I’ve just slept with everybody in the audience.” -Trent Reznor on performing


“It never was only sound; only words – it was so much more.” – Trent Reznor


“Gates, like girlfriends, are just an obstacle.” – me (sometimes i can be really funny :P)


“You ask any guy in the room, and they’ll tell you that they’re very partial to their sticks,” Jay McKee said. “It’s not something you go around playing with. Any time you mess with another guy’s stick, he takes it really personal.”


“You realize that our mistrust of the future makes it hard to give up the past. We can’t give up our concept of who we were. All those adults playing archaeologist at yard sales, looking for childhood artifacts, board games, candyland, twister, they’re terrified. Trash becomes holy relics. Mystery date. Hula hoops. Our way of getting nostaligic for what we just threw in the trash, it’s all because we’re afraid to evolve. Grow, change, lose weight, reinvent ourselves, adapt.” – Chuck Palahniuk “Survivor”


“you can use a screwdriver to drive a screw, which is its intended purpose, or you can use it to stab someone to death.” – my psych of personality textbook


” A gun rack, a gun rack? I don’t own A gun, let alone many guns that would necessitate an entire rack, what am I gonna do with a gun rack?”-Wayne Campbell (Mike Myers, in “Wayne’s World”)


“In the dark see past our eyes, pursuit of truth, no matter where it lies.” – Metallica


“Never imagine yourself not to be otherwise than what it might appear to others that what you were or might have been was not otherwise than what you had been would have appeared to them to be otherwise.”- Lewis Carroll


“The toughest time…in anyone’s life…is when you have to kill a loved one just because they’re the devil.” – Dunno 🙂


“I was never afraid of what was under the bed. I wanted it and I never got it. I just became it!” – Marilyn Manson


“Women love cats. Men say they love cats, but when women aren’t looking, men kick cats.” – Dunno 🙂


“You were scared, weren’t you? Yeah, you were scared.” – Michael Jackson “Thriller” video


“It’s not your fault that you’re always wrong.” – Marilyn Manson


“In our youth we crave knowledge so as not to face the world naively, we reach a point where we wish for the blissful ignorance that no amount of experience can ever regain.” – Dunno 🙂


“What people do to other souls, They take their lives – destroy their goals. Their basic pride and dignity is stripped and torn and shown no pity, When this should be heaven for everyone.” – Queen


“If you should die before me ask if you could bring a friend.” Stone Temple Pilots


“Before you judge me take a look at you.” – Metallica


“You ask me what I think of these cargo pants, I really think they’re fab – they’re so raff-een-ay, don’t you think?” – some lady in the Old Navy Cargo Pants commercial


“But touch my tears with your lips, touch my world with your fingertips. And we can have forever, and we can love forever.” – Queen


“I have to find my peace because no one seems to let me be.” – Michael Jackson


“It’s getting freaky, on your TV. Madness takes control.” – Meatloaf on some VH1 commercial for Rocky Horror Picture Show


“Bravo Pugsley.” Gomez Addams, (Raoul Julia, in “Addams Family”)


“Mother, Michael’s wearing his white socks again. Can’t you do something? Talk to him.” – Jermaine Jackson


“Call yourself a fan!” – Robin Meltzer


“I hate the hater.” – Marilyn Manson


“We have just religion enough to make us hate, but not enough to make us love one another.” – Jonathan Swift


“Is it really entertaining for me to get up there and crack a few weak jokes and force people to laugh because I’m Michael Jackson, when I know in my heart that I’m not funny?” – Michael Jackson


“We must learn to live together as brothers or perish together as fools.” – Martin Luther King, Jr.


“Oops, I didn’t know I couldn’t speak my mind-(what was I thinking?)” Madonna


“Age is of no importance unless you are a cheese.” – Billie Burke


Hold fast to dreams

For if dreams die

Life is a broken-winged bird

That cannot fly.

Langston Hughes


“I mean, there are two Darren Stevens, right? Dick York and Dick Sargeant. Yeah, right, as if we wouldn’t notice! Oh hold on: Dick York, Dick Sergeant, Sergeant York… Wow, that’s weird!” – Wayne Campbell ( Mike Myers in “Wayne’s World)


“Everybody is a moon and has a dark side which he never shows to anybody.” – Mark Twain


“What is done to children, they will do to society.” – Karl Menninger


“If you can’t say anything good about someone, sit right here by me.” – Alice Roosevelt Longworth


“Your ignorance cramps my conversation.” – Anthony Hope Hawkins


“Rock has always been the devil’s music. You can’t convince me that it isn’t.” – David Bowie, 1976


“But I wish I had more support in the gay community. The gay community complains about people not being very visible, and then when an artist does something which is political and visible they don’t support him….The gay community just isn’t that supportive of its own. That’s kind of weird to me, because people complained that I wasn’t more visible in the old days, and that I wasn’t “out” enough. Well, how much more “out” could I be?” – Boy George, 1996


“I don’t know much about Watergate. It was terrible, wasn’t it? I guess it was. Have you met Nixon? Is he happy? I saw him on TV last year, and he looked so unhappy!” – Michael Jackson, 1977


“Shaving your head does not mean you’re a rebel. The mythology of “live-fast-and-die-young” sickens me. I just want to throw up on those bastards.” – Bono


“All modern men are descended from a worm-like creature, but it shows more on some people.” – Will Cuppy


“I like long walks, especially when they are taken by people who annoy me.” – Fred Allen


“The final test of fame is to have a crazy person imagine he is you.” – Anonymous


“I get so much bad press for being overtly sexual. When someone like Prince, Elvis, or Jagger does the same things, they are being honest sexual human beings. But when I do it: “Oh please, Madonna, you’re setting the woman’s movement back a million years.” – Madonna, 1985


“My music is not disillusionary. It has something to say. It speaks the truth. If people don’t like it, well, then they can go to hell.” – Rick James


“He knows so little and knows it so fluently.” – Ellen Glasgow


“The reward of great men is that, long after they have died, one is not quite so sure that they are dead.” – Jules Renard


“Dare to be what you are and to believe in your own individuality.” – Henri Amiel


“When we remember we are all mad, the mysteries disappear and life stands explained,” – Mark Twain


“These are the times that try men’s souls. The summer soldier and the sunshine patriot will, in his crisis, shrink from the service of their country, but he that stands it now, deserves the love and thanks of man and woman. Tyranny, like hell, is not easily conquered; yet we have this consolation with us, that the harder the conflict, the more glorious the triumph.” – Thomas Paine


“The psychotic person knows that two and two makes five and is perfectly happy about it the neurotic person knows that two and two make four, but is terribly worried about it.” – Radio Doctor


“It is easy to see through people who make spectacles of themselves.” – Dunno 🙂


“If it weren’t for the optimist, the pessimist wouldn’t know how happy he isn’t.” – Dunno 🙂


“A blind man in a dark room looking for a black hat which is not there.” – Anonymous

“Lord, deliver me from myself.” – Dunno 🙂


“I don’t like people to talk while I’m interrupting.” – Dunno 🙂


“Teenager express a burning desire to be different by dressing exactly alike.” – Dunno 🙂