June 2004 Quotes

 

baby this town rips the bones from your back

its a death trap, its a suicide rap

we gotta get out while we're young

- Bruce Springsteen. Born to Run

 

Parenthood is the art of bringing children up, without putting them down.

 

Shine in you Crazy, Diamond.

- Pink Floyd.

 

This is the book I never read

These are the words I never said

This is the path I'll never tread

These are the dreams I'll dream instead

This is the joy that's seldom spread

(These are the tears...)

The tears we shed

This is the fear

This is the dread

These are the contents of my head

And these are the years that we have spent

And this is what they represent

And this is how I feel

Do you know how I feel ?

- Annie Lennox. Why

 

Money can't buy you everything but it can buy you a more pleasant form of misery

- Spike Milligan

 

We came in spastic

Like tameless horses

We left in plastic

As number corpses.

- Billy Joel. Goodnight Saigon

 

Dave: Barbara, you're always looking back; you never look to the future.

Barbara: (with a smirk) that's because I've never been there.

 

You can't go on

Thinking, nothings wrong

- The Cars. Drive

 

Progress has its drawbacks - you can't warm your feet on a microwave.

 

Red: [narrating] I have no idea to this day what those two Italian ladies were singing about. Truth is, I don't want to know. Some things are best left unsaid. I'd like to think they were singing about something so beautiful, it can't be expressed in words, and makes your heart ache because of it. I tell you, those voices soared higher and farther than anybody in a grey place dares to dream. It was like some beautiful bird flapped into our drab little cage and made those walls dissolve away, and for the briefest of moments, every last man in Shawshank felt free.

- Morgan Freeman. Shawshank Redemption.

 

Procrastinator: Someone with a wait problem.

 

Success in life comes from knowing which  bridge to cross and which to burn.

 

Don't you (forget about me)

- Simple Minds.