I danced along a coloured wind 🌬
Dangled from a rope of sand. ~ Tom Waits #lyrics
You get what anyone gets; you get a lifetime. ~ Death, Neil Gaiman Comic Sandman #Quote
It used to take me all vacation to grow a new hide in place of the one they flogged off me during school term. ~ Mark Twain #Quote
Poets wish to profit or to please. ~ Horace #Quote
Jogging in the park is my excuse to look at all the girls. ~ The Kinks, #Lyrics Art Lover
My life is violent, but violent is life. peace ☮ is a dream, reality is a knife. ~ Ice-T, Vengeance #Lyrics
The older I grow, the more I distrust the familiar doctrine that age brings wisdom. ~ H. L. Mencken #Quote
Poetry should surprise by a fine excess and not by singularity -- it should strike the reader as a wording of his own highest thoughts, and appear almost a remembrance. ~ John Keats #Quote
I've developed a new philosophy... I only dread one day at a time ⏳. ~ Charles Monroe Schulz, Peanuts (character Charlie Brown) #Quote
We live in a world of things, and our only connection with them is that we know how to manipulate or to consume them. ~ Erich Fromm #Quote
College is breaking my spirit. Every single day, telling me things I don't know. It's making me feel stupid. ~ Marty #Quote
Feed the babies who don't have enough to eat, shoe the children with no shoes on their feet, house the people living in the street. Oh, oh, there's a solution. ~ Steve Miller Band, Fly Like An Eagle #lyrics
Are there memories left that are safe from the clutches of phoney anniversaries? ~ W. J. Wetherby #Quote
In the arithmetic of love, one plus one equals everything, and two minus one equals nothing. ~ Mignon McLaughlin, The Second Neurotic's Notebook, 1966 #Quote
Drop your silver in my tambourine, help a poor man build a pretty dream. ~ Lemon Pipers, Green Tambourine #lyrics
Experiencing sadness and anger can make you feel more creative, and by being creative, you can get beyond your pain or negativity. ~ Yoko Ono #Quote
No society has been able to abolish human sadness, no political system can deliver us from the pain of living, from our fear of death, our thirst for the absolute. It is the human condition that directs the social condition, not vice versa. ~ Eugene Ionesco #Quote
Such is the role of poetry. It unveils, in the strict sense of the word. It lays bare, under a light which shakes off torpor, the surprising things which surround us and which our senses record mechanically. ~ Jean Cocteau #Quote
How wild it was, to let it be. ~ Cheryl Strayed, Wild #Quote
It sounds like English, but I can't understand a word you're saying. #OneLiners
Compared to the bugs and the spiders 🕷 and flies, I am an apeman. ~ The Kinks, #Lyrics Apeman
The secret to life is to put yourself in the right lighting. For some it’s a Broadway spotlight, for others, a lamplit desk. ~ Susan Cain #Quote
Age is not a particularly interesting subject. Anyone can get old. All you have to do is live long enough. ~ Groucho Marx #Quote
Confront a corpse at least once. The absolute absence of life is the most disturbing and challenging confrontation you will ever have. ~ David Bowie #Quote
A man can be happy with any woman, as long as he does not love her. ~ Oscar Wilde #Quote
Carry laughter with you wherever you go. ~ Hugh Sidey #Quote
There are desires that we all want to achieve, but remember respect is most greatest to receive. ~ Big Daddy Cane, Children R The Future #lyrics
In your fear, seek only peace ☮. In your fear, seek only love. ~ David Bowie, Sunday #Lyrics
People who don't cherish their elderly have forgotten whence they came and whither they go. ~ Ramsey Clark #Quote
He who laughs last laughs longest. #Proverb
I am a D.J., I am what I play. ~ David Bowie, D.J. #Quote
Birds of a feather, all the phonies and fakes, while the dealers get together, and they decide who gets the breaks. ~ Dire Straits, In The Gallery #Lyrics
No pain, no gain. #Proverb
What to do with your one life? The same thing you would do if you had two lives, and this were the second. ~ Robert Brault #Quote
Smooth seas do not make skillful sailors. Eternity begins and ends with the ocean’s tides. ~ Unknown #Quote
The longer I live the more I see that I am never wrong about anything, and that all the pains that I have so humbly taken to verify my notions have only wasted my time ⏳. ~ George Bernard Shaw #Quote
Any party which takes credit for the rain ☔️ must not be surprised if its opponents blame it for the drought. ~ Dwight Morrow #Quote
A saint is a sinner, a sinner is a saint. It's all just the cloaks we hide behind, a cartoon in the brain. ~ Live, Hero Of Love #lyrics
The name of a man is a numbing blow from which he never recovers. ~ Marshall McLuhan #Quote
Just give me an easy life and a peaceful death. ~ The Sundays, Goodbye #Lyrics
For some life lasts a short while, but the memories it holds last forever. ~ Laura Swenson #Quote
If you get a reputation as an early riser, you can sleep 🛌 till noon. ~ Irish Proverb #Quote
Wherever Law ends, Tyranny begins. ~ John Locke #Quote
The medium is the message. ~ Marshall McLuhan #Quote
Tomorrow is a new day. #Proverb
Your handwriting. The way you walk. Which china pattern you choose. It's all giving you away. Everything you do shows your hand. Everything is a self-portrait. Everything is a diary. ~ Chuck Palahniuk #Quote
It is not worth an intelligent man's time ⏳ to be in the majority. By definition, there are already enough people to do that. ~ G. H. Hardy #Quote
If you are required to kill someone today, on the promise of a political leader that someone else shall live in peace ☮ tomorrow, believe me, you are not only a double murderer, you are a suicide, too. ~ Katherine Anne Porter #Quote
Sometimes the little times you don’t think are anything while they’re happening turn out to be what marks a whole period of your life. ~ Andy Warhol #Quote
I think she was afraid to love sometimes. I think it scared her. She was the type to like things that were concrete, like the ocean 🌅. Something you could point to and know what it was. I think that’s why she struggled with love. She couldn’t touch it. She couldn’t hold on to it and make sure it never changed. ~ Carrie Ryan #Quote
When you live in reaction, you give your power away. Then you get to experience what you gave your power to. ~ N. Smith #Quote
When I see an opportunity for humor, I grab it! After all, life is too short to be grumpy. ~ Dodinsky #Quote
Hate's the only thing we have in common. ~ The Kinks, #Lyrics Hatred
A fool's brain digests philosophy into folly, science into superstition, and art into pedantry. Hence University education. ~ George Bernard Shaw #Quote
Blow your brains out and do it right, make sure it's on prime time ⏳ and on Saturday night. ~ The Kinks, Give The People What They Want #Lyrics
Suffering comes from desire, not from pain. ~ Paulo Coelho #Quote
Profanity is the effort of a feeble mind to express itself forcefully. #OneLiners
A rebel without a clue. ~ Tom Petty, Into The Great Wide Open #Lyrics
All men are frauds. The only difference between them is that some admit it. I myself deny it. ~ H. L. Mencken #Quote
Never explain—your friends do not need it and your enemies will not believe you anyway. ~ Elbert Hubbard #Quote
You can’t make bricks without straw. #Proverb
Cats are intended to teach us that not everything in nature has a function. ~ Garrison Keillor #Quote
I'll place my love beneath the stars 🌌. ~ David Bowie, As The World Falls Down #Quote
We participate in tragedy. At comedy we only look. ~ Aldous Huxley #Quote
The darkest hour is just before the dawn. #Proverb
The bitterest tears shed over graves are for words left unsaid and deeds left undone. ~ Harriet Beecher Stowe #Quote
There is certainly no absolute standard of beauty. That precisely is what makes its pursuit so interesting. ~ John Kenneth Galbraith #Quote
Back in the world of disposable emotion in the climate of temporary dreams. ~ Howard Jones, Everlasting Love #Lyrics
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