"Conjuring things that have never been and walking among them, touching, feeling, and responding: Imagining allows you to fancifully sail into the future to explore and to bring back the gems – the thoughts, feelings, ideas, and concepts - that are waiting there, that are waiting there just for you. Remember: Always imagine. Always imagine, and always cherish your ability to do so." ~Lazaris
"I've lived with pain for so long I don't know how to live without it." -Ender Wiggin
“I choose to be a lunatic because we are the one non-conformist group whose members aren't all the same.” - unknown
“Those who dream by day are cognizant of many things which escape those who dream only by night.” --Edgar Allen Poe
“This species has the most amazing capacity for self-deception, matched only by it's ingenuity when trying to destroy itself.” - (Doctor Who, talking about humans)
“Normality will be resumed just as soon as we are sure what is normal anyway... ...We have normality. Anything else you can't cope with is therefore your own problem.” - (Hitch-Hiker's Guide; Douglas Adams)
"What a strange illusion it is to suppose that beauty is goodness."-Leo Tolstoy
"It’s hard to imagine a perfect world existing with more than one person in it." – Abaddon (Hughie)
“An eye for eye only ends up making the whole world blind.” ~ Mahatma Gandhi
“Don't go around saying the world owes you a living. The world owes you nothing. It was here first.” ~ Mark Twain
"Any fool can criticize, condemn, and complain- and most do." Dale Carnegie
"To dream of the person you would like to be is to waste the person you are." - Anonymous
"One day, an army of gray-haired women may quietly take over the earth." - Gloria Steinem
"Feminism is the radical notion that women are people." - Gloria Steinem
"Conceit, arrogance and egotism are the essentials of patriotism. Patriotism assumes that our globe is divided into little spots, each one surrounded by an iron gate. Those who had the fortune of being born on some particular spot, consider themselves better, nobler, grander, more intelligent than the living beings inhabiting any other spot. It is, therefore, the duty of everyone living on that chosen spot to fight, kill and die in the attempt to impose his superiority upon all others." - Emma Goldman
"Men occasionally stumble over the truth, but most of them pick themselves up and hurry off as if nothing ever happened." - Unknown
"Fascism: the conservative notion that killing people makes them work harder." - Unknown
"There's no bigger spotlight than shown on the ones brave enough to live." - Sleater-Kinney
"I am who I am, if you don't like it then why the hell are you talking me." - Donnae N. Wahl
“Just visiting this planet” - badge
“It’s been lovely but now I have to scream” - badge
“A woman needs a man like a fish needs a bicycle“ - unknown
“If you try you may fail, if you don't try you're guaranteed to fail.” - Jesse Jackson
“Everyone is ignorant, only on different subjects.” - Will Rogers
“In the beginning the Universe was created. This has made a lot of people very angry and has been widely regarded as a bad move.” – Douglas Adams
“We despise all reverences and all the objects of reverence which are outside the pale of our own list of sacred things. And yet, with strange inconsistency, we are shocked when other people despise and defile the things which are holy to us.” – Mark Twain (Following the Equator)
“The thug is aware that loudness convinces sixty persons where reasoning convinces but one.” – Mark Twain ("Is Shakespeare Dead?" essay)
"To be popular one must be a mediocrity." – Oscar Wilde
"The well-bred contradict other people. The wise contradict themselves." – Oscar Wilde
"To get back my youth I would do anything in the world, except take exercise, get up early, or be respectable." - Oscar Wilde
"The best way to predict the future is to invent it.” - Alan Kay
"Friends may come and go, but enemies accumulate." - Thomas Jones
"When choosing between two evils, I always like to try the one I've never tried before." - Mae West (1892-1980)
"I'll sleep when I'm dead." - Warren Zevon
"If you gaze long into an abyss, the abyss will gaze back into you." - Friedrich Nietzsche (1844-1900)
"In the End, we will remember not the words of our enemies, but the silence of our friends. " - Martin Luther King Jr. (1929-1968)
"A lie can travel half-way around the world while the truth is putting on its shoes.” – Mark Twain
"Only two things are infinite, the universe and human stupidity, and I'm not sure about the former." - Albert Einstein (1879-1955)
“Some people come into our lives, leave footprints on our hearts, and we are never the same.” - Unknown
“I never found the companion that was so companionable as solitude. We are for the most part more lonely when we go abroad among men than when we stay in our chambers. A man thinking or working is always alone, let him be where he will.” - Henry David Thoreau
“The man who goes alone can start today; but he who travels with another must wait till that other is ready.” - Henry David Thoreau
“The mass of men lead lives of quiet desperation.” - Henry David Thoreau,
“Aim for the stars and maybe you'll reach the sky.” - Unknown
"An idea that is not dangerous is unworthy of being called an idea at all." – Oscar Wilde
“It is absurd to divide people into good and bad. People are either charming or tedious.” – Oscar Wilde
“I am the only person in the world I should like to know thoroughly.” – Oscar Wilde
“Other people are quite dreadful. The only possible society is oneself.” – Oscar Wilde
"When people agree with me I always feel that I must be wrong." - Oscar Wilde
“A man who does not think for himself does not think at all.” – Oscar Wilde
"Only the shallow know themselves." - Oscar Wilde
“Ordinary riches can be stolen, real riches cannot. In your soul are infinitely precious things that cannot be taken from you.” – Oscar Wilde
"Disobedience, in the eyes of anyone who has read history, is man's original virtue. It is through disobedience that progress has been made, through disobedience and through rebellion." – Oscar Wilde
"A map of the world that does not include Utopia is not worth even glancing at, for it leaves out the one country at which Humanity is always landing. And when Humanity lands there, it looks out, and, seeing a better country, sets sail. Progress is the realisation of Utopias." – Oscar Wilde
"There is a theory which states that if ever anyone discovers exactly what the universe is for and why it is here, it will instantly disappear and be replaced by something even more bizarre and inexplicable. There is another theory which states that this has already happened..." - Douglas Adams - Hitch Hikers Guide to the Galaxy
“I have great confidence in fools; my friends call it self confidence.” -Edgar A. Poe
"We want people to dance around, not kill each other." -Kurt Cobain on concerts
"If you pick up a starving dog and make him prosperous, he will not bite you. This is the principal difference between a dog and a man." -Mark Twain
"Sometimes I feel discriminated against, but it does not make me angry. It merely astonishes me. How can any deny themselves the pleasure of my company? It's beyond me." ~ Zora Neale Hurston
“Better an open enemy than a false friend” – source unknown
“Ignorance is the night of the mind… but a night without stars” – source unknown
Last night I lay in bed looking up at the stars in the sky, and I thought to myself "Where the hell is the ceiling?" – Dilbert’s Words of Wisdom
“Everybody is someone else's weirdo” – Dilbert’s Words of Wisdom
“Never argue with an idiot. They drag you down to their level and then beat you with experience” – Dilbert’s Words of Wisdom
"We've heard that a million monkeys at a million keyboards could produce the Complete Works of Shakespeare; now, thanks to the Internet, we know this is not true." - Robert Wilensky
"The most violent element in society is ignorance" ~ Emma Goldman
"Our lives begin to end the day we are silent about things that matter." ~ Martin Luther King, Jr.
"The only thing I know for sure is that nothing is for sure." - unknown
"Silence is one of the great arts of conversation." - unknown
"The nature of lies is to please. Truth has no concern for anyone's comfort." ~Katherine Dunn
"A great many people think they are thinking when they are merely rearranging their prejudices." - unknown
"Sanity -- that which is within the frame of reference of conventional thought." ~ Erich Fromm
"Most of us ask for advice when we know the answer, but want a different one." ~Ivern Ball
"I know enough to know I know nothing." - Socrates
"If a free society cannot help the many who are poor, it cannot save the few who are rich." --John F. Kennedy
"The conventional view serves to protect us from the painful job of thinking." --John Kenneth Galbraith
"Cynicism is an unpleasant way of telling the truth." --Lillian Hellman
"The meeting of two personalities is like the contact of two chemical substances; if there is any reaction, both are transformed." --Carl Jung
"I stopped believing in Santa Claus when my mother took me to see him in a department store, and he asked for my autograph." --Shirley Temple
"Too often, we are so preoccupied with the destination we forget the journey." --Unknown
"Each of us is given a pocketful of time to spend however we may. We use what we will. We waste what we will. But we can never get back a day." --Roger Wilcox
"The best and most beautiful things in the world cannot be seen or even touched. They must be felt within the heart." --Helen Keller
"To the world you may be just one person. To the person you may be the world." --Unknown
"He who cannot endure the bad will not live to see the good." --Yiddish Proverb
"We are a product of the choices we make, not the circumstances that we face." --Roger Crawford
"We fear things in proportion to our ignorance of them." --Titus Livius
"Obstacles are those frightful things you see when you take your eyes off your goal." --Henry Ford
"Every man is guilty of the good he didn't do" ~ Voltaire
"It is not the answer that enlightens, but the question." --Eugene Ionesco
"The question is not would you die for a friend, but do you have a friend worth dying for?" - unknown
“I disagree with what you say, but I will defend to the death your right to say it.” ~ Voltaire
"Happiness in intelligent people is the rarest thing I know." --Ernest Hemingway
"The beginning of knowledge is the discovery of something we do not understand." --Frank Herbert
"Injustice anywhere is a threat to justice everywhere." --Martin Luther King Jr.
"The test of a first-rate intelligence is the ability to hold two opposed ideas in mind at the same time and still retain the ability to function. One should, for example, be able to see that things are hopeless and yet be determined to make them otherwise." --F. Scott Fitzgerald
"The optimist thinks this is the best of all possible worlds. The pessimist fears it is true." --Robert Oppenheimer
"Fashion is a form of ugliness so intolerable that we have to alter it every six months." --Oscar Wilde
"Nearly all men can stand adversity, but if you want to test a man's character, give him power." --Abraham Lincoln
"Finish each day and be done with it. You have done what you could. Some blunders and absurdities no doubt crept in; forget them as soon as you can. Tomorrow is a new day; begin it well and serenely and with too high a spirit to be cumbered with your old nonsense." --Ralph Waldo Emerson
"Do what you feel in your heart to be right - for you'll be criticized anyway. You'll be damned if you do, and damned if you don't." --Eleanor Roosevelt
"Freedom is not worth having if it does not include the freedom to make mistakes." --Mahatma Gandhi
"You may be deceived if you trust too much, but you will live in torment if you do not trust enough." --Frank Crane
"A mind once stretched by a new idea never regains its original dimension." --Oliver Wendell Holmes
"Whenever you find that you are on the side of the majority, it is time to reform." --Mark Twain
"A man who is 'of sound mind' is one who keeps the inner madman under lock and key." --Paul Valery
“Do not meddle in the affairs of dragons because to them you are crunchy and taste good with ketchup” – Dilbert’s Words of Wisdom
"I am joining millions of others yet I am still alone" – Source Unknown
"Never doubt that a few committed people can change the world. In fact, it's the only thing that ever has." - Margaret Mead
"When you become obsessed with the enemy you become the enemy" – Source Unknown
“The world would be very silent if no birds sang there except those who sang the best” - Henry David Thoreau
“Imagination is more important that knowledge” - Albert Einstein
"Insanity runs in my family. It practically gallops." - Cary Grant in "Arsenic and Old Lace"
"Clothes make the man. Naked people have little or no influence on society." - Mark Twain
"Books may well be the only true magic." - Alice Hoffman
"We are all in the gutter, but some of us are looking at the stars." - Oscar Wilde
“If you can't dazzle them with brilliance, baffle them with bullshit” – source unknown
"Many that live deserve death. And many that die deserve life! Can you give it to them? Then do not be so quick to pass out death in judgment for even the wise cannot see all ends." – JRR Tolkien.. LOTR
“All that is gold does not glitter, not all those who wander are lost” – JRR Tolkien.. LOTR
“Doubt not that the writing of bullshit is an art, and an art worth your learning” – Joe Boyer
“Life must be constantly full of surprises when you’re gullible” – Cindy Jackson
“Make it idiot proof and someone will make a better idiot” – unknown source
"Being yourself is never a mistake." - The Cuffs
"The past is in your head, the future is in our hands." - The Living End
“I’m just checking out the world from a different angle” – The Living End
"We are made strong by what we overcome." - Anonymous
"If you can't get a fucking underground movement to band together and to stop bickering about unnecessary little things, then how the fuck do you expect to have an effect on a mass level?" - Kurt Cobain
"You may be disappointed if you fail but doomed if you never try. Some people advance through life. Others remain stagnant and only dream of what they can achieve. There is a difference between wanting and having, saying and doing. Don't let those who fear progression keep you down or steal your vision. Act out on your dreams. Everything is real and everything is possible." - Element Skateboards
"You gain strength, courage, and confidence by every experience in which you really stop to look fear in the face. You must do the thing which you think you cannot do." - Eleanor Roosevelt
"I'm not offended by all the dumb blonde jokes because I know I'm not dumb...and I also know that I'm not blonde." - Dolly Parton
"Princesses wear crowns to remind them that they are beautiful and special because some days it is easy to forget." - Anonymous
"I want to change people's minds, not kill them for weaknesses we all possess." - Ghandi
"Even when you're a minority of one, the truth remains the truth." - Mahatma Gandhi
"To call women the weaker sex is a libel: it is man's injustice to woman. If by strength is meant brute strength, then indeed, is woman less brute than man. If by strength is meant moral power, then woman is immeasurably man's superior. Has she not greater intuition, is she not more self-sacrificing, has she not greater powers of endurance, has she not greater courage? Without her, man would not be. If non-violence is the law of our being, the future is with women." - Mahatma Ghandi
"There is no human institution without its dangers. The greater the institution the greater the chances of abuse. Democracy is a great institution and therefore likely to be greatly abused." - Mahatma Gandhi
"No one can make you feel inferior without your consent." - Eleanor Roosevelt
"I myself have never been able to find out precisely what feminism is: I only know that people call me a feminist when I express sentiments that differentiate me from a doormat." - Rebecca West
"Unfortunately sometimes people don't hear you until you scream." - Stefanie Powers
B:
Are you pondering what I’m pondering?
P:
Well, I think so, Brain, but what if we stick to the seat covers?
B:
Pinky, are you pondering what I'm pondering?
P:
I think so, Brain, but if you replace the `P' with an `O' my name would
be Oinky, wouldn't it.
B:
Pinky, are you pondering what I'm pondering?
P:
Well, I think so, Brain, but do I really need two tongues?
P:
Brain, are you pondering what I'm pondering?
B:
We eat the box?
B:
Pinky, are you pondering what I'm pondering?
P:
I think so, Brain, but how will we get the Spice Girls into a juice box?
B:
Pinky, are you pondering what I'm pondering?
P:
I think so, Brain, but if we had a snowmobile, wouldn't it melt before
summer?
B:
Are you pondering what I'm pondering?
P:
Wuh, I think so, Brain, but I prefer Space Jelly.
B:
Pinky, are you pondering what I'm pondering?
P:
Yes, Brain, but if our knees bent the other way, how would we ride a bicycle?
B:
Snowball, are you pondering what I'm pondering?
S:
Oh, Brain, I certainly hope so.
B:
Are you pondering what I'm pondering?
P:
I think so, Brain, but then my name would be Thumby.
B:
Pinky, are you pondering what I'm pondering?
P:
I think so, Brain, but scratching just makes it worse.
B:
Pinky, are you pondering what I'm pondering?
P:
I think so, Brain, but shouldn't the bat boy be wearing a cape?
B:
Pinky, are you pondering what I'm pondering?
P:
Umm, I think so, Brainie, but why would anyone want to Pierce Brosnan?
B:
Pinky, art thou pondering that which I am pondering?
P:
Me thinks so, Brain, verily, but dost thou think Pete Rose by any other
name would still smell as sweaty?
B:
Are you pondering what I'm pondering?
P:
I think so, Brain, but wouldn't his movies be more suitable for children
if he was named Jean Claude Van Darn
B:
Pinky, are you pondering what I'm pondering?
P:
Wuh, I think so, Brain, but will they let the Cranberry Dutchess stay in
the Lincoln Bedroom?
B:
Pinky, are you pondering what I'm pondering?
P:
I think so, Brain, but why does a forklift have to be so big if all it
does is lift forks?
B:
Pinky, are you pondering what I'm pondering?
P:
I think so, Brain, but if it was only supposed to be a three hour tour
why did the Howell’s bring all their money?
B:
Pinky, are you pondering what I'm pondering?
P:
I think so, Brain, but if we have nothing to fear but fear itself, why
does Elanore Roosevelt wear that spooky mask?
B:
Pinky, are you pondering what I'm pondering?
P:
I think so, Brain, but what if the hippopotamus won't wear the beach thong?
B:
Pinky, are you pondering what I'm pondering?
P:
I think so, Brain, but wear a fish?
B:
Pinky, are you pondering what I'm pondering?
P:
Whoof, oh, I'd have to say the odds are slim, Brain.
B:
True.
P:
I mean, really, when have I ever been pondering what you've been pondering?
B:
To my knowledge, never.
P:
Exactly. So, what are the chances that this time, I'm pondering what you're
pondering?
B:
Next to nil.
P:
Well, that's exactly what I'm thinking, too.
B:
Therefore, you are pondering what I'm pondering.
P:
Poit, I guess I am.
B:
Pinky, are you pondering what I’m pondering?
P:
I think so Brain, but there's still a bug stuck in there from last time.
B:
Pinky, are you pondering what I’m pondering?
P:
I think so Brain, but I get all clammy inside the tent.
B:
Are you pondering what I’m pondering?
P:
Sure, Brain, but how are we going to find chaps our size?
B:
Pinky, are you pondering what I’m pondering?
P:
I think so Brain, but I don't think Kay Ballard is in the union?
B:
Pinky, are you pondering what I’m pondering?
P:
Yes, I am!
B:
Pinky, are you pondering what I’m pondering?
P:
Well, I think so Brain, but burlap chafes me so.
B:
Are you pondering what I’m pondering?
P:
I think so Brain, but pants with horizontal stripes makes me look chubby.
B:
Pinky, are you pondering what I’m pondering?
P:
I think so, Brain, but where we going to find a duck and a hose at this
hour?
B:
Pinky, are you pondering what I’m pondering?
P:
I think so, but where will we find an open tattoo parlor at this time of
night?
B:
Pinky, are you pondering what I’m pondering?
P:
I think so Brain, but culottes have a tendency to ride up so.
B:
Pinky, are you pondering what I’m pondering?
P:
Well, I think so Brain, but if we didn't have ears, we'd look like weasels.
B:
Are you pondering what I’m pondering?
P:
Wuh, I think so Brain, but isn't Regis Philbin already married?
B:
Are you thinking what I’m thinking Pinky?
P:
Uh ... yeah, Brain, but where are we going to find rubber pants our size?
B:
Pinky, are you pondering what I’m pondering?
P:
Wuh, I think so, but we'll never get a monkey to use dental floss.
B:
Pinky, are you pondering what I’m pondering?
P:
I think so Brain, but if they called them sad meals, kids wouldn't buy
them.
B:
Pinky, are you pondering what I’m pondering?
P:
I think so Brain, but you but this time you put the trousers on the chimp.
B:
Pinky, are you pondering what I’m pondering?
P:
I think so Brain, but this time you wear the tutu.
B:
Pinky, are you pondering what I’m pondering?
P:
I think so Brain, but me and Pipi Longstocking, I mean, what would the
children look like?
B:
Pinky, are you pondering what I’m pondering?
P:
I think so Brain, but it's a miracle this one grew back.
B:
Pinky, are you pondering what I’m pondering?
P:
Well, I think so Brain but first you'd have to take that whole bridge apart
wouldn't you?
B:
Pinky, are you pondering what I’m pondering?
P:
I think so Brain, poit, but where do you stick the feather and call it
macaroni?
B:
Pinky, are you pondering what I’m pondering?
P:
Well, I think so Brain, but I can't memorize a whole opera in Yiddish.
B:
Pinky, are you pondering what I’m pondering?
P:
Aww, I think so, Brain, but balancing a family and a career ... uh, it's
all too much for me.
B:
Pinky, are you pondering what I’m pondering?
P:
Well, I think so Brain, but "apply North Pole" to what?
B:
Pinky, are you pondering what I’m pondering?
P:
I think so, Brain, but "Snowball for Windows"?
B:
Pinky, are you pondering what I’m pondering?
P:
Umm, I think so Brain, but what if the chicken won't wear the nylons?
B:
Pinky, are you pondering what I’m pondering?
P:
I think so Brain, but isn't that why they invented tube socks?
B:
Are you pondering what I’m pondering?
P:
Ewww, I think so Brain, but I think I'd rather eat the Macarena.
B:
Pinky, are you pondering what I’m pondering?
P:
Well, I think so, but Kevin Costner with an English accent?
B:
Pinky, are you pondering what I’m pondering?
P:
I think so Brain, but don't we need a pool to play Marco Polo?
B:
Are you pondering what I’m pondering?
P:
Well, I think so Brain, but we're already naked.
P:
Brain, are you pondering what I’m pondering?
B:
We eat the box?
P:
No Brain, we build a boat, and then we eat the box.
B:
Pinky, are you pondering what I’m pondering?
P:
Well, I think so Brain but if Jimmy cracks corn and no one cares, why does
he keep doing it?
B:
Pinky, are you pondering what I’m pondering?
P:
I think so Brain, but don't camels spit a lot?
B:
Pinky, are you pondering what I’m pondering?
P:
I think so Brain, but how do we get a pair of Abe Vegoda's pants?
B:
Pinky, are you pondering what I’m pondering?
P:
I think so Brain, but Pete Rose? I mean, can we trust him?
B:
Pinky, are you pondering what I’m pondering?
P:
I think so Brain, but why would Peter bodanovich?
B:
Pinky, are you pondering what I’m pondering?
P:
I think so Brain, but isn't a cucumber that small called a gherkin?
B:
Pinky, are you pondering what I’m pondering?
P:
I think so Brain, but if we get Sam Spade we'll never have any puppies.
B:
Are you pondering what I’m pondering?
P:
I think so Larry, and Brain, but how can we get 7 dwarfs to shave their
legs?
B:
Pinky, are you pondering what I’m pondering?
P:
I think so Brain, but calling it a Poo Poo Platter, I mean, what were they
thinking?
B:
Pinky, are you pondering what I’m pondering?
P:
I think so Brain, but how will we get the spice girls into the paella?
B:
Pinky, are you pondering what I’m pondering?
P:
I think so, but if we give peas a chance won't the Lima beans feel left
out?
P:
Brain, are you pondering what I’m pondering?
B:
What did you say Pinky?
P:
Oh nothing Brain.
B:
Pinky, are you pondering what I’m pondering?
P:
I think so Brain, but what kind of rides do they have in FabioLand?
B:
Pinky, are you pondering what I’m pondering?
P:
I think so Brain, but can the gummy worms really live in peace with the
marshmallow chips?
B:
Pinky, are you pondering what I’m pondering?
P:
I think so Brain, but wouldn't anything lose it's flavor on the bed post
overnight?
B:
Pinky, are you pondering what I’m pondering?
P:
I think so Brain, but 3 round meals a day wouldn't be as hard to swallow.
B:
Pinky, are you pondering what I’m pondering?
P:
I think so Brain, but if the plural of mouse is mice, wouldn't the plural
of spouse be spice?
B:
Pinky, are you pondering what I’m pondering?
P:
I think so Brain, but three men in a tub? Ewww, that's unsanitary.
B:
Pinky, are you pondering what I’m pondering?
P:
I theenk sew, but why deed ze chicken cross ze road if not for love?
B:
Pinky, are you pondering what I’m pondering?
P:
Wuh, I think so Brain, but how will we get 3 pink flamingos into one pair
of capri pants?
SPAYPWIP? I think so Don Cerebro, but why would Sophia Loren do a musical?
B:
Pinky, are you pondering what I’m pondering?
P:
I think so Brain, but the Rocketts...it's mostly girls isn't it?
B:
Pinky, are you pondering what I’m pondering?
P:
I think so but pantyhose are so uncomfortable during the summer time.
B:
Are you pondering what I’m pondering?
P:
I think so Brain...no, no it's too stupid.
B:
Pinky, are you pondering what I’m pondering?
P:
I think so Brain, but Tuesday well isn't a complete sentence.
B:
Pinky, are you pondering what I’m pondering?
P:
I think so Brain, but who wants to see Snow White and the 7 Samurai?