Echoing Words

You can’t stay in your corner of the forest waiting for others to come to you. You have to go to them sometimes.

Winnie the Pooh

You know I think I need a prison
In order to dream of being free

Blues Traveler
Go Outside & Drive

You must be the change you want to see in the world.

Mahatma Gandhi

I know that I shall meet my fate
Somewhere among the clouds above;
Those that I fight I do not hate
Those that I guard I do not love;
My country is Kiltartan Cross,
My countrymen Kiltartan’s poor,
No likely end could bring them loss
Or leave them happier than before.
Nor law, nor duty bade me fight,
Nor public man, nor cheering crowds,
A lonely impulse of delight
Drove to this tumult in the clouds;
I balanced all, brought all to mind,
The years to come seemed waste of breath,
A waste of breath the years behind
In balance with this life, this death.

William Butler Yeats
An Irish Airman Foresees His Death

I sing myself to sleep at night
I sing myself to sleep

Cracker
Another Song About the Rain

To me, there is no greater act of courage than being the one who kisses first.

Mabel
“Mad About You”

An intelligent hell would be better than a stupid paradise.

Victor Hugo

I am fortune’s fool!

William Shakespeare
Romeo And Juliet

Everybody knows that it’s now or never
Everybody knows that it’s me or you

Leonard Cohen
Everybody Knows

To ski, however well or poorly, is a reminder - whatever one may for a long time have suspected - that one is alive, and that living is tremendous fun. There isn’t any other game to compare with it in the world.

James Riddell

And love would hold no charm
If it wasn’t for the pain.

Steve Earle
Halo ‘Round the Moon

You ain’t leadin’ but two things, right now: Jack and shit… and Jack left town.

Ash
“Army of Darkness”

Only the dead have seen the end to war.

Plato

I grow old… I grow old…
I shall wear the bottoms of my trousers rolled.

Shall I part my hair behind? Do I dare to eat a peach?
I shall wear white flannel trousers, and walk upon the beach.
I have heard the mermaids singing, each to each.

I do not think that they will sing to me.

I have seen them riding seaward on the waves
Combing the white hair of the waves blown back
When the wind blows the water white and black.

We have lingered in the chambers of the sea
By sea-girls wreathed with seaweed red and brown
Till human voices wake us, and we drown.

T.S. Eliot
The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock

e^iπ + 1 = 0

Leonhard Euler

Because it is there.

George Mallory

Eat, drink, and be merry
For tomorrow we die

Dave Matthews Band
Tripping Billies

Genius lives on, all else is mortal.

Andreas Vesalius

For one swallow does not make a summer, nor does one day; and so too one day, or a short time, does not make a man blessed and happy.

Aristotle

It’s just you and I, my friend

Bruce Springsteen
Streets of Philadelphia

One day an Englishman, a Scotsman, and an Irishman walked into a pub together. They each bought a pint of Guinness. Just as they were about to enjoy their creamy beverage, three flies landed in each of their pints, and became stuck in the thick head.

The Englishman pushed his beer away from himself in disgust.

The Scotsman fished the offending fly out of his beer, and continued drinking it, as if nothing had happened.

The Irishman picked the fly out of his drink, held it out over the beer, and yelled,
“SPIT IT OUT, SPIT IT OUT YOU BASTARD!!!!”

There is Pleasure in the pathless woods,
There is a Rapture on the lonely shore,
There is Society, where none intrudes,
By the deep Sea, and music in its roar.
I love not man the less, but Nature more,
From these our interviews, in which I steal
From all I may be, or have been before,
To mingle with the Universe, and feel
What I can ne’re express, yet cannot all conceal.

Lord Byron
Solitude

We are all lying in the gutter, but some of us are looking at the stars.

Oscar Wilde

Songs and a dream are left for me

Blues Traveler
Sweet Pain

The sacred and profane,
pleasure and the pain

Dire Straits
On Every Street