Et Cetera

Quotes

"To be smart enough to get all that money you must be dull enough to want it." G. K. Chesterton
"Humanity i love you because, when you're hard up you pawn your, intelligence to buy a drink." e. e. cummings
"I prayed for twenty years but received no answer until I prayed with my legs." Frederick Douglass
"I used to think I was poor. Then they told me I wasn't poor, I was needy. Then they told me it was self-defeating to think of myself as needy, I was deprived. Then they told me deprived was a bad image, I was underprivileged. Then they told me underprivileged was overused, I was disadvantaged. I still don't have a dime. But I sure have a great vocabulary." Jules Feiffer
"Gatsby believed in the green light, the orgastic future that year by year recedes before us. It eluded us then, but that's no matter — tomorrow we will run faster, stretch out our arms farther. . . . And then one fine morning — So we beat on, boats against the current, borne back ceaselessly into the past." F. Scott Fitzgerald
"I will tell you what I will do and what I will not do. I will not serve that in which I no longer believe, whether it call itself my home, my fatherland, or my church: and I will try to express myself in some mode of life or art as freely as I can and as wholly as I can, using for my defense the only arms I allow myself to use — silence, exile, and cunning." James Joyce
"What Francis recalled of this unmanageable situation was the compulsion to flight, the most familiar notion, after the desire not to aspire, that he had ever entertained." William Kennedy
"We are now faced with the fact that tomorrow is today. We are confronted with the fierce urgency of now." Dr. Martin Luther King
"Animals are less alone with roaring than we are with all these words." Margaret Laurence
"Those are my principles, and if you don't like them... well, I have others." Groucho Marx
"What difference do it make if the thing you scared of is real or not?" Toni Morrison
"I mean, it's real hard to be free when you're bought and sold in the marketplace." Jack Nicholson
"This union may never be perfect, but generation after generation has shown that it can always be perfected." Barack Obama
"If it has more than three chords, it's jazz." Lou Reed
"The secret of managing is to keep the guys who hate you away from the guys who are undecided." Casey Stengel
"Why do you have to be a nonconformist like everybody else?" James Thurber
"Never let your schooling interfere with your education." Mark Twain
"Everything was beautiful, and nothing hurt." Kurt Vonnegut
"This is water." David Foster Wallace
"Really, if the lower orders don't set us a good example, what on earth is the use of them?" Oscar Wilde

Lyrics

"Eisenhower sent him to war, He kept her picture in his pocket that was closest to his heart, And when he hit shore, Must have been a target for the gunman." Ryan Adams
"What's so amazing about really deep thoughts?" Tori Amos
"There are things that drift away like our endless, numbered days." Sam Beam
"Won't you tell your dad, 'Get off my back,' Tell him what we said 'bout 'Paint It Black,' Rock 'n Roll is here to stay." Chris Bell/Alex Chilton
"I used to be carried in the arms of cheerleaders." Matt Berninger
"Using ideas as my maps." Bob Dylan
"If we fix it so you can't make no money on war, Well we'll all forget what we was killing folks for." Woody Guthrie
"Give me hope, help me cope with this heavy load, Trying to touch and reach you with heart and soul." George Harrison
"Look at these my child-bearing hips." Polly Jean Harvey
"When I hold you in my arms, And I feel my finger on your trigger, I know no one can do me no harm, Because happiness is a warm gun." John Lennon
"People get ready, There's a train a-coming, You don't need no baggage, Just get on board, All you need is faith to hear the diesels humming, Don't need no ticket you just thank the Lord." Curtis Mayfield
"And in the middle of negotiations, You break down." Paul McCartney
"Now that he's gone away, There isn't anyone to say, If I'm a diamond, Or a dime a dozen." Anaïs Mitchell
"Oh, you're in my blood like holy wine, You taste so bitter and so sweet, Oh I could drink a case of you darling, And I would still be on my feet." Joni Mitchell
"The Mayor's out killing kids to keep taxes down." John Samson
"They took your life apart and called your failures art." Elliott Smith
"The screen door slams, Mary's dress waves, Like a vision she dances across the porch as the radio plays." Bruce Springsteen
"But there is no sunken treasure, Rumored to be, Wrapped inside my ribs, In a sea black with ink." Jeff Tweedy
"And the things you can't remember tell the things you can't forget that history puts a saint in every dream." Tom Waits
"I don't want to be crippled and cracked." Thom Yorke