I am feeling incredibly out of sorts.
Today has not been a very pleasant day.
A lot of things have frustrated me today.
The fact that I am so ineffably impatient to move to Chicago is not helping. At the risk of sounding like a spoiled American, I am so tired of being in the suburbs, it puts me on the verge of physical illness.
No specific thing has really made me tremendously upset -- it is only a buildup of things -- but I think a good cry will make me feel better.
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I will never live in shades of gray.
Favorite quotes
"She had a pretty gift for quotation, which is a serviceable substitute for wit."
-- W. Somerset Maugham
"Life isn't fair. It's just fairer than death, that's all."
-- William Goldman
-- W. Somerset Maugham
"Life isn't fair. It's just fairer than death, that's all."
-- William Goldman
"Even the company MUST compliment the feng shui."
-- Gnarls Barkley
"I turn to...the timorous or carping few...in whose eyes whatever is unusual is wrong; whose ears detect in each protest against bigotry--that parent of crime--an insult to piety, that regent of God on earth. I would suggest to such doubters certain obvious distinctions; I would remind them of certain simple truths.
Conventionality is not morality. Self-righteousness is not religion. To attack the first is not to assail the last. To pluck the mask from the face of the Pharisee, is not to lift an impious hand to the Crown of Thorns.
These things and deeds are diametrically opposed: they are as distinct as is vice from virtue. Men too often confound them: they should not be confounded: appearance should not be mistaken for truth; narrow human doctrines, that only tend to elate and magnify a few, should not be substituted for the world-redeeming creed of Christ. There is--I repeat it--a difference; and it is a good, and not a bad action to mark broadly and clearly the line of separation between them."
-- Charlotte Brontë
"I am trying here to prevent anyone saying the really foolish thing that people often say about Him: 'I'm ready to accept Jesus as a great moral teacher, but I don't accept His claim to be God.' That is the one thing we must not say. A man who was merely a man and said the sort of things Jesus said would not be a great moral teacher. He would either be a lunatic -- on a level with the man who says he is a poached egg -- or else he would be the Devil of Hell. You must make your choice. Either this man was, and is, the Son of God: or else a madman or something worse. You can shut Him up for a fool, you can spit at Him and kill Him as a demon; or you can fall at His feet and call Him Lord and God. But let us not come with any patronising nonsense about His being a great human teacher. He has not left that open to us. He did not intend to."
-- C. S. Lewis
"Someday, after we have mastered the winds, the waves, the tides, and gravity, we shall harness for God the energies of love. And then, for the second time in the history of the world, man will have discovered fire."
-- Pierre Teilhard de Chardin
"I'm a fermata. Hold me."
"Life is a moderately good play with a badly written third act."
-- Truman Capote
"If this is coffee, please bring me some tea; but if this is tea, please bring me some coffee."
-- Abraham Lincoln
"There is no such thing as ugly people, only very bad lighting."
-- André Leon Talley
"There are only two kinds of scholars; those who love ideas and those who hate them."
-- Emile Chartier
"A conservative is a man who sits and thinks, mostly sits."
-- Woodrow Wilson
"Men are not against you; they are merely for themselves."
-- Gene Fowler
"Conscience and cowardice are really the same thing. Conscience is the trade-name of the firm. That is all."
-- Oscar Wilde
"Always forgive your enemies; nothing annoys them so much."
-- Oscar Wilde
"Fashion is a form of ugliness so intolerable that we have to alter it every six months."
-- Oscar Wilde
"Genuis is born--not paid."
-- Oscar Wilde
"Consistency is the last refuge of the unimaginative."
-- Oscar Wilde
"Anyone who lives within their means suffers from a lack of imagination."
-- Oscar Wilde
"Man is least himself when he talks in his own person. Give him a mask, and he will tell you the truth."
-- Oscar Wilde
"Morality, like art, means drawing a line someplace."
-- Oscar Wilde
"After silence, that which comes nearest to expressing the inexpressible is music."
-- Aldous Huxley
"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
"An intellectual snob is someone who can listen to the William Tell Overture and not think of the Lone Ranger."
-- Dan Rather
"The term 'tailgate,' often used in hoedowns, is merely a colloquial term for 'coda.'"
--Karolyn Ake
"If not actually disgruntled, he was far from being gruntled."
-- PG Wodehouse
"If all the girls who attended the Yale prom were laid end to end, I wouldn't be a bit surprised."
-- Dorothy Parker
"I find television very educating. Every time somebody turns on the set, I go into the other room and read a book."
-- Groucho Marx
"It is absurd to divide people into good and bad. People are either charming or tedious."
-- Oscar Wilde
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