I don't know a soul who's not been badgered.
I don't have a friend who feels at ease.
I don't know a dream that's not been shattered
or driven to its knees.
But I'm alright, I'm alright.
For we lived so well so long.
Still tomorrow's going to be another working day.
And I've tried to get some rest.
That's all, I've tried to get some rest.
--Simon and Garfunkel
Sometimes I get this crazy dream that I'll just take off in my car.
But you can travel on ten thousand miles and still stay where you are.
--Harry Chapin
I thank you for the music and your stories of the road.
I thank you for the freedom when it came my time to go.
I thank you for the kindness and the times when you got tough.
And papa I don't think I said "I love you" near enough.
--Dan Fogelberg
i usedta live in the world
then i moved to HARLEM
& my universe is now six blocks
--"lady in blue" / Ntozake Shange, For Colored Girls . . . (36)
There, in that little group, standing in the loneliness and solitude of nature, was the contrast of heathen and christian, social and savage, elegance and strength, fierceness and timidity.
--Child, Hobomok (89)
"Every man his own priest, and the heart the only true church."
--Fuller, Summer (66)
The better part of wisdom is a sublime prudence, a pure and patient truth that will receive nothing it is not sure it can permanently lay to heart. Of our study there should be in proportion two-thirds of rejection to one of acceptance.
--ibid. (81)
To me it seems that it is . . . better to be wounded, a captive, and a slave, than always to walk in armor.
--ibid. (81)
What is done interests me more than what is thought and supposed.
--ibid. 81
Whatever is, is right.
--ibid. 82
. . . [T]he concern of the educator [should be] to teach how to be sensitive to the differences in ourselves as well as outside ourselves, not to supervise the memorization of facts.
--Cecilia / Fornes, Fefu 44
A boy has no business having feelings
--Clive / Churchill, Cloud 9 27
You see, I love to teach. And flatter myself I am skilled at it. And I love the, the aspect of performance. I think I must confess that.
--John / Mamet, Oleanna 43
Levee, you worse than ignorant. You ignorant without a premise.
--Toledo / Wilson, Ma Rainey 32
Real life never arranges itself exactly like a romance.
--Hawthorne, Blithedale 86
My lack of education hasn't hurt me none.
--Paul Simon
Oh yes it's strange, after changes upon changes we are more or less the same.
--Paul Simon
I saw a deadhead sticker on a Cadillac
it said you don't look back, you can never look back
I thought I knew what love was, what did I know
Those days are gone forever, I should just let 'em go.
--Don Henley
There is no limit to what can be accomplished if it doesn't matter who gets the credit.
--Anon
We put up with being surpassed more easily than with being equaled.
--A. Vinet
Some actors think they are elevating the stage when they are merely depressing the audience.
--George A. Posner
It is good to remember that the tea kettle, although up to its neck in hot water, continues to sing.
--Anon
When two people in business always agree, one of them in unnecessary.
--William Wrigley
The worst cliques are those which consist of one person.
--George Bernard Shaw
Don't learn the tricks of the trade, learn the trade.
--Anon
Life is most nearly itself when time and space cease to matter.
--T.S. Eliot
If all you have is a hammer, everything else will look like a nail.
--Anon
Mankind is woman and woman is man and until we free each other, we cannot free the land.
--Harry Chapin
So let's leave it alone, cause we can't see eye to eye. There ain't no good guys, there ain't no bad guys. There's only you and me and we just disagree.
--Dave Mason
The more I know, the less I understand.
--Don Henley
No is the saddest experience you'll ever know.
Yes is the saddest experience you'll ever know.
--Three Dog Night
I had some dreams, they were clouds in my coffee.
--Carly Simon
Freedom's just another word for "nothing left to lose."
--Janice Joplin
Now that you know who you are, who do you want to be?
--John Lennon
You lay your bets and then you pay the price.
--10cc
Some people use language to express thoughts, some to conceal thought, and some instead of thought.
--Anon
Writing is a struggle against silence.
--Carlos Fuentes
He asked himself a question I still would like answered, namely, "How should a good man live; what ought he to do?"
--Saul Bellow, Dangling Man
Writing is the act of saying I, of imposing oneself upon other people, of saying listen to me, see it my way, change your mind.
--Joan Didion
Writing keeps me from believing everything I read.
--Gloria Steinem
Don’t tear up the page and start over again when you write a bad line—try to write your way out of it. Make mistakes and plunge on. . . . Writing is a means of discovery, always.
--Garrison Keillor
Stop abusing my verses, or publish some of your own.
--Martial
Nothing is miserable but what is thought so.
--Boethius
All things are filled full of signs, and it is a wise man who can learn about one thing from another.
--Plotinus