potent quotes

"What force is more potent than love?"
- Igor Stravinsky

"Where is it written that it's wrong for a man to fire off some knuckle children
in the privacy of his neighbor's living room because I'm too broke to afford
a DVD player?"
-Peter Griffin from "Family Guy"

"Lose your mind and come to your senses."
-Fritz Perl

"I don't have a girlfriend...I just know a girl
who would be really mad if she heard me say that."
-Mitch Hedburg

"Do they have a bar at the gym?"
-my housemate Anthony

"It is better to do something imperfectly
than it is to do nothing perfectly."
- Fortune Cookie

"If you stick your finger in a pencil sharpener,
you're bound to end up with sharp fingers."
- Tino Belasco

"Do you ever get that not so stoned feeling?"
-Jeff Sowell 2005

"...what really matters is WHAT you like, not what you ARE like...books,
records, films - these things matter. Call me shallow, it's the fucking truth."
-John Cusack as Rob Gordon in "High Fidelity"

"I keep saying that I'm not gonna staple
my nut-sack anymore...but I know I am.
-Steve-O - "Steve-O Volume 3: Don't Try This at Home"

Here are a few quotes from Albert Einstein.

"The opposite of death is desire."
- Tennessee Williams

"It would seem that the theory of 'free will', which has been refuted a hundred
times over, owes its endurance to this charm alone - someone is always coming
along and feeling strong enough to refute it."
-Friedrich Neitzsche - "Beyond Good and Evil"

"Today a young man on LSD discovered that all matter is energy condensed to a
slow vibration, that we are all one consciousness experiencing itself subjectively,
there's no such thing as death, life is only a dream, and we are the imagination
of ourselves...here's Tom with the weather."
-Bill Hicks from "Revelations"

"You know you're in the bible belt when
the churches out number the Starbucks."
-Kate Winslet as Bitsie Bloom in "The Life of David Gale"

"It's like some people were just
born with tragedy in their blood."
-Jena Malone as Gretchen Ross in "Donnie Darko"

"My pain became my strength,
I am reborn, I'm deaf, not dumb,
lest ye forget..."
-Basement Jaxx - "Yo-Yo"

"There's no cure for bad love like good love."
-Mrs. Judith Maloney (Me Mum)

"The only thing worse than being alone
is wishing that you were."
-Susan Caviness (Me Mum's best friend)

"Don't think 'cause I understand...I care,
Don't think 'cause I'm talkin'...we're friends."
-Sneaker Pimps - "Six Underground"

"She just doesn't have enough of the
superficial things that really matter."
-Jude Law as Alfie

"...it's better to regret something you did
than something you didn't do..."
-The Butthole Surfers - "Sweet Loaf"

"I'm going to kill them all.
That oughta distract 'em."
-Sarah Michelle Gellar as Buffy the Vampire Slayer

"I refuse to join any club that would have me as a member."
-Groucho Marx

"Forgiveness is an act of compassion - you don't give it to someone
because they deserve it, you give it to them because they need it."
-Anthony Stewart Head as Giles in "Buffy the Vampire Slayer"

"I looked death in the face last night
I saw him in a mirror - and he simply smiled
he told me not to worry - he told me just to take my time."
-Danny Elfman (Oingo Boingo) - "We Close Our Eyes"

"The highest function of love is that it makes
the loved one a unique and irreplacable thing."
-Tom Robbins - "Jitterbug Perfume"

"If you have to ask, you'll never know."
-Louis Armstrong when asked to
identify that thing that New Orleans has

"Instead of getting married again, I'm going to
find a woman I don't like and buy her a house."
-Rod Stewart

"You know 'that look' women get when
they want to have sex? Me neither."
-Steve Martin

"Live for yourself - you will live in vain,
Live for others - you will live again."
-Bunny Wailer (Bob Marley and the Wailers) - "Pass It On"

"Having sex is like playing bridge. If you don't
have a good partner, you'd better have a good hand."
-Woody Allen

"Just because I look like a square
doesn't mean I'm not a fuckin' circle."
-Tino Belasco

"I'm gonna go home and watch governmental
conspiracy movies until I run out of lotion."
-David Minassian (DJ Daisy Crave)

"...you're waiting for someone to perform with,
but don't you know that it's just you?
Hey Jude, you'll do..."
-Paul McCartney (The Beatles) - "Hey Jude"

"It's never too late to have a happy childhood."
-Tom Robbins - "Still Life with Woodpecker"

"Where zen ends, ass-kicking begins."
-Danny Masterson as Hyde on "That 70's Show"

"You'd better get a pot,
'cause that aint gonna pan."
-JC

"You can lead a woman to logic,
but you can't make her think."
-JD (Boozie)

"Watch your thoughts; they become words.
Watch your words; they become actions.
Watch your actions; they become habits.
Watch your habits; they become character.
Watch your character; it becomes your destiny."
-This quote is generally attributed to Frank Outlaw,
however, I have not been able to verify that he is its'
true source. Regardless, it's very good advice.

Here is Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.'s "I Have a Dream" speech.
If you've never read it, or haven't in a while, I highly suggest that you do so.

Here are a few quotes from Ram Dass, that may actually help you.

Here is Haile Selassie's speech, from which Bob Marley took the lyrics for "War".

"Cause only a fool
lean upon, lean upon
his own misunderstanding"
-Bob Marley - "Forever Loving Jah"

"Those who wish to be
must put aside the alienation
get on with the fascination
the real relation
the underlying theme..."
-Neil Peart (Rush) - "Limelight"

"Wake up your mom, tell her you're home
stop shoveling that shit up your nose
now go to your room and brush your dirty teeth."
-Ming + F.S. - "Music to Listen to"

"Ring the bells that still can ring
Forget your perfect offering
There is a crack in everything
That's how the light gets in"
-Leonard Cohen - "Anthem"

"You can beg better than that."
-Chiaki Kuriyama as Go Go Yubari - "Kill Bill"

"My grandmother ate some acid and highjacked a schoolbus
full of penguins, so it's kind of a family emergency..."
-John Cusack as Lane Meyer in "Better Off Dead"

"If ignorance is bliss
knock the smile off my face."
- Zack De La Rocha (RATM) - "Settle for Nothing"

"Standing on the moon
Where talk is cheap and vision true
Standing on the moon
But I would rather be with you
Somewhere in San Francisco
On a back porch in July
Just looking up to heaven
At this crescent in the sky"
-Robert Hunter (Grateful Dead) - "Standing on the Moon"

"No, it isn't strange,
after changes upon changes
we are more or less the same."
-Paul Simon - "The Boxer"

"All this machinery making modern music
can still be open-hearted"
-Neil Peart (Rush) - "The Spirit of Radio"

"Sick, huh?"
-JC

"Look Joon! I'm using chopsticks to eat my popcorn
so I won't get butter on the records!"
-JC

"Anyone who's ever played a part couldn't turn around and hate it".
-Lou Reid - "Sweet Jane"

"It's a foolish dog,
bark at a flying bird"
-Bob Marley - "Jah Live"

"I am human and I need to be loved
just like everybody else does...ok?"
-Morrisey (The Smiths) - "How Soon is Now?"

"If you choose not to decide
You still have made a choice"
-Neil Peart (Rush) - "Free Will"

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