Wednesday, December 19, 2007

Great Things

"Great things are not done by impulse, but by a series of small things brought together."

-Vincent Van Gogh

Saturday, December 15, 2007

It's a Wonderful Life

"Remember, George: no man is a failure who has friends."

~Clarence, It's a Wonderful Life

Wednesday, December 12, 2007

Lie Here With Me

We'll do it all
Everything
On our own
We don't need
Anything
Or anyone
If I lay here
If I just lay here
Would you lie with me and just forget the world?
I don't quite know
How to say
How I feel
Those three words
Are said too much
They're not enough
If I lay here
If I just lay here
Would you lie with me and just forget the world?
Forget what we're told
Before we get too old
Show me a garden that's bursting into life
Let's waste time
Chasing cars
Around our heads
I need your grace
To remind me
To find my own
If I lay here
If I just lay here
Would you lie with me and just forget the world?
Forget what we're told
Before we get too old
Show me a garden that's bursting into life
All that I am
All that I ever was
Is here in your perfect eyes, they're all I can see
I don't know where
Confused about how as well
Just know that these things will never change for us at all
If I lay here
If I just lay here
Would you lie with me and just forget the world?

~Snow Patrol, Chasing Cars

How Far I Haven't Come

Every mile, a memory; every song, another scene,
From some old movie going back in time you and me.
Every day, a page turned down; every night, a lonesome sound,
Like a freight train rollin' through my dreams:
Every mile, a memory.

Funny how no matter where I run,
Round every bend I only see,
Just how far I haven't come.

~Dierks Bentley, Every Mile a Memory

Like an Anchor

"Maybe the past is like an anchor holding us back. Maybe, you have to let go of who you were to become who you will be."



~Carrie Bradshaw, Sex and the City

Tuesday, December 11, 2007

Laughing

I love people who make me laugh. I honestly think it's the thing I like most, to laugh. It cures a multitude of ills. It's probably the most important thing in a person.

~Audrey Hepburn

Fire

You can brave decisions
Before you crumble up inside
Spend your time asking everyone else's permission
Then run away and hide
Or you can sit on chimneys
Put some fire up your ass
No need to know what you're doing or waiting for

~Damien Rice, "Coconut Skins"

Too Late

I'd take another chance, take a fall
Take a shot for you
And I need you like a heart needs a beat
But it's nothin new I loved you with a fire red-
Now it's turning blue, and you say...
"Sorry" like the angel heaven let me think was you
But I'm afraid...
It's too late to apologize, it's too late
I said it's too late to apologize, it's too late

~One Republic/Timbaland, "Apologize"

Monday, December 10, 2007

Scared

"It's good to be scared. It means you still have something to lose."

~Dr. Richard Weber, Grey's Anatomy

Having Someone

"I think it's better to have someone, even if it hurts, even if it is the most painful thing you have done, even if it's the most painful thing you've ever had to do. I think it's better to have someone."

~Meredith Grey, Grey's Anatomy

Sunday, December 9, 2007

Are You Gonna?

Are you gonna live your life wonderin’ standing in the back lookin’ around?
Are you gonna waste your time thinkin' how you’ve grown up or how you missed out?
Things are never gonna be the way you want.
Where's it gonna get you acting serious?
Things are never gonna be quite what you want.
Or even at 25, you gotta start sometime.
I’m on my feet, I’m on the floor, I’m good to go.
Now all I need is just to hear a song I know.
I wanna always feel like part of this was mine.
I wanna fall in love tonight.

~Jimmy Eat World, Praise Chorus

Thursday, December 6, 2007

I Want My Money

"I want my money bitch!"

~Pearl, The Landlord

Guide

"We have all a better guide in ourselves, if we would attend to it, than any other person can be."

~Jane Austen, spoken by Fanny Price, Mansfield Park

Christmas

"If you want to arrange it
This world you can change it
If we could somehow make this
Christmas thing last"

~Trans-Siberian Orchestra, Old City Bar

Sunday, December 2, 2007

First Kiss

"For a kiss to be really good, you want it to mean something. You want it to be with someone you can't get out of your head, so that when your lips finally touch you feel it everywhere. A kiss so hot and so deep you never want to come up for air. You can't cheat your first kiss. Trust me, you don't want to. Cause when you find that right person for a first kiss, it's everything."


~Alex Karev, Grey's Anatomy

Might Have Been

"It's never too late to be who you might have been."

-George Eliot

Monday, November 19, 2007

It's Out There

“Hope is the most exciting thing in life and if you honestly believe that love is out there, it will come. And even if it doesn't come straight away there is still that chance all through your life that it will.”

~Josh Hartnett

Histories

"Sometimes the most important histories are the histories you make today."

~Meredith Grey, Grey’s Anatomy

What Makes My Stomach Drop

"You must know... surely, you must know it was all for you. You are too generous to trifle with me. I believe you spoke with my aunt last night, and it has taught me to hope as I'd scarcely allowed myself before. If your feelings are still what they were last April, tell me so at once. My affections and wishes have not changed, but one word from you will silence me forever. If, however, your feelings have changed, I will have to tell you: you have bewitched me, body and soul, and I love, I love, I love you. I never wish to be parted from you from this day on."

~Mr. Darcy, Pride and Prejudice (the movie)

Be Who You Are

"Be who you are and say what you feel, because those who mind don't matter and those who matter don't mind."

~Dr. Seuss

Sunday, November 18, 2007

Change

"You know the great thing, though, is that change can be so constant you don't even feel the difference until there is one. It can be so slow that you don't even notice that your life is better or worse, until it is. Or it can just blow you away, make you something different in an instant."

~Life as a House

Thursday, November 15, 2007

New Deep

I'm so alive
I'm so enlightened
I can barely survive
A night in my mind
I've got a plan
I'm gonna find out just how boring I am
And have a good time

Cause ever since I tried
Trying not to find
Every little meaning in my life
It's been fine
I've been cool
With my new golden rule

Numb is the new deep
Done with the old me
And talk is the same cheap it's been
Is there a God?
Why is he waiting?
Don't you think of it odd
When he knows my address?
And look at the stars
Don't they remind you of just how feeble we are?
Well it used to, I guess

Cause ever since I tried
Trying not to find
Every little meaning in my life
It's been fine I've been cool
With my new golden rule
Numb is the new deep
Done with the old me
And talk is the same cheap
It's been

I'm a new man
I wear a new cologne and
You wouldn't know me if your eyes were closed
I know what you'll say 'This won't last longer than the rest of the day'
But you're wrong this time
You're wrong

Numb is the new deep
Done with the old me
I'm over the analyzing
Tonight

Stop trying to figure it out
(you try to figure, you try to figure it out)
It will only bring you down
You know, I used to be the backporch poet with my book of rhymes
Always open knowing all the time I'm problably
Never gonna find the perfect rhyme
For 'heavier things'

Hiphopopotamus



"Did Steve tell you? Steve..."

Too Short

"Life's too short to be wearing a bad outfit."

~Project Runway contestant

Hopes

"It's a long way down when your hopes are high as mountains."

~Ronnie Day

Monday, November 12, 2007

Wrong Time

Sometimes I get the feeling that I'm stranded in the wrong time
where love is just a lyric in a children's rhyme.

~Keane, "Is it any Wonder?"

Thursday, November 8, 2007

The Departed

Lazio: "Do you have anyone in with Costello presently?"

Dignam: "Maybe. Maybe not. Maybe fuck yourself."

~The Departed

Dealing with Problems

"Stop can't you see it’s not the circumstances that determine who you're gonna be but how you deal with these problems and pains that come your way."

~Mat Kearney, "Girl America"

Hope

“Never let go of hope. One day you will see that it all has finally come together. What you have always wished for has finally come to be. You will look back and laugh at what has passed and you will ask yourself... 'How did I get through all of that?’”

~Jancarl Campi

Expectations

We all think we’re going to be great and we feel a little bit robbed when our expectations aren’t met. But sometimes our expectations sell us short. Sometimes the expected simply pales in comparison to the unexpected. You got to wonder why we cling to our expectations, because the expected is just what keeps us steady. Standing. Still. The expected's just the beginning, the unexpected is what changes our lives.

~Meredith Grey, Grey’s Anatomy

Wait for Me

"Hold my hand inside your hands,
I need someone who understands.
I need someone, someone who hears,
For you, I've waited all these years.
For you, I'd wait 'til kingdom come.
Until my day, my day is done.
And say you'll come, and set me free,
Just say you'll wait, you'll wait for me."

~Coldplay, "Til Kingdom Come"

Monday, November 5, 2007

Mistakes

It turns out, sometimes you have to do the wrong thing. Sometimes you have to make a big mistake to figure out how to make things right. Mistakes are painful, but they're the only way to find out who you really are.

~Denny Duquette, Grey’s Anatomy

Living

"Live in the sunshine, swim the sea, drink the wild air..."

~Ralph Waldo Emerson

That's Cool

knowing where you're going
embracing where you've been
being criticized for standing strong
in battle you cant win
living in a moment you may never see again
let your heart break some rules,
now that's cool

~blue county

Cracked Glass

Someone asked me the other day if my glass was HALF EMPTY or HALF FULL? I was going to say its empty, but that’s not completely true. My life isn't void and I have plenty of happy moments; but they usually just seem to disappear, or turn for the worse. SO MY GLASS IS CRACKED. Yes, cracked. It gets filled up with happiness and hope, but it always ends up escaping my grasp. It always ends up emptying out. It will never be full because it’s always leaking. And one day, it will get thrown away, because no one wants a broken glass.

~Anonymous

Sunday, November 4, 2007

Life

“This is your life and it’s ending one minute at a time.”

~Fight Club

Beautiful

“Nothing makes a woman more beautiful than the belief that she is beautiful.”

~Sophia Loren

You Choose

You choose…whether to give up at the first obstacle or give it your all, to speak up or stay silent, to change what you don’t like or let it change you. With every word, every step you take, you define who you are—and create your future.

~Anonymous

Responsibility

Don't rely on someone else for your happiness and self worth. Only you can be responsible for that. If you can't love and respect yourself - no one else will be able to make that happen. Accept who you are - completely; the good and the bad - and make changes as YOU see fit - not because you think someone else wants you to be different.

~Anonymous

Friday, November 2, 2007

Tough

“You don’t have to be tough every minute of every day, it’s ok to let down your guard, in fact there are moments when it’s the best thing you could possibly do. As long as you choose your moments wisely.”

~Meredith Grey

Thursday, November 1, 2007

Crazy Dreams

Hello you long shots
You dark horse runners
Hairbrush singers
Dashboard drummers
Hello you wild magnolias just waiting to bloom
There's a little bit of all that inside of me and you
Thank God even crazy dreams come true

I've stood at the bottom of some walls I thought I couldn't climb
I've felt like Cinderella at the ball just runnin' out of time
So I know how it feels to be afraid
To think that it's all gunna slip away
Hold on, hold on

Here's to you free souls
You firefly chasers
Street climbers
Porch swingers
Air guitar players
Here's to you fearless dancers shaking walls in your bedrooms
There's alot of wonder left inside of me and you
Thank God even crazy dreams come true

Never let a bad day be enough to go and talk you into giving up
Sometimes everbody feels like you
Oh, feels like you
Just like youI've met some go-getters
Some difference makers
Small town heros
And big chance takers
I've met some young hearts with something to prove
Oh yeah

Hello you long shots
You dark horse runners
Hairbrush singers
Dashboard drummers
Here's to you wild magnolias just waiting to bloom
There's a little bit of all that inside of me and you
Thank God even crazy dreams come true
Thank God even crazy dreams come true

~Carrie Underwood, "Crazy Dreams"

All I Need

"The walls are shaking, I hear them sound the alarm
Glass is breaking so don't let go of my arm
Grab your bags and a picture of where we met
All that we'll leave behind and all that's left
If everything we've got is blowing away
We've got a rock and a rock till our dying day
I'm holding on to you, holding on to me
Maybe it's all we got but it's all I need
You're all I need"

~Mat Kearney, "All I Need"

Laughing

"If we couldn't laugh, we would all go insane."

~Jimmy Buffet, "Changes in Latitudes, Changes in Attitudes"

Heart of Life

"You know, it's nothing new, bad news never had good timing, but, then your circle of friends will defend the silver lining; Pain throws your heart to the ground, love turns the whole thing around, no it won't all go the way it should, but I know the heart of life is good"

~John Mayer, "The Heart of Life"

Jelly

"I don't even give a shit about the hives. I want jelly in the fucking house! STAT! PRONTO! TONIGHT! I don't give a-I will break your neck and pour jelly all over your body and PRAY TO THE GODS OF JELLY TO BURN YOUR SOUL IN A JELLY-LIKE HELL. Now GET THE JELLY!"

~Dane Cook

Wednesday, October 31, 2007

Happiness

"Happiness is as a butterfly which, when pursued, is always beyond our grasp, but which if you will sit down quietly, may alight upon you."

~Nathanial Hawthorne

Relationships

"Later that day I got to thinking about relationships. There are those that open you up to something new and exotic, those that are old and familiar, those that bring up lots of questions, those that bring you somewhere unexpected, those that bring you far from where you started, and those that bring you back. But the most exciting, challenging and significant relationship of all is the one you have with yourself. And if you can find someone to love the you you love, well, that's just fabulous. "

~Carrie Bradshaw, Sex and the City

Boundaries

"At some point, you have to make a decision. Boundaries don't keep other people out. They fence you in. Life is messy. That's how we're made. So, you can waste your lives drawing lines. Or you can live your life crossing them. But there are some lines... that are way too dangerous to cross."

~Dr. Meredith Grey, Grey's Anatomy

Life Through Quotes

Whenever I listen to music, watch TV, read books or surf the Internet, I pay attention to what is being said. I listen for things that I find interesting, inspiring, motivating, thoughtful, funny or anything that I can take meaning from. When I find these, I add them to a word document I call Life Quotes. Instead of keeping these quotes hidden, I have decided to share them with everyone else. If you have any quotes you enjoy, be sure to add them here too. I love finding new quotes. Enjoy.