Catching up on quotes
"I once sold 10 paintings to Andy Warhol for $100." - Jean Michel Basquiat
"That finished yet? They’re never finished." - from Basquiat
“Oh my God, take a Zantac and get over it.” - me to some girl whining in class
“What are your platitudes costing me?” - me to Michael M re: Duggan
"Companies are faceless, heartless automotons." - someone at school
"Show me mine, I’ll show you yours." - from some movie
"The door to that old medieval school is still ajar." - Toni Morrison on ignorance
“This has to be the dumbest thing yet, although we’re reaching new heights.” - J. Sachs on gov't action
“Don’t talk about values and leave millions of people dying.” - J. Sachs on foreign aid
"Rotate the bums every few years, you keep the average level of corruption down." - J. Sachs on politicians
“There is corruption everywhere, not just the United States.” - J. Sachs (followed by an eruption of laughter and applause from the audience)
"Poverty is not an insurmountable trap. It’s a financial problem." - J. Sachs on solutions
"If a child calls with a fever, we don’t hang up and say, well you are corrupt." - J. Sachs on absurd rationalizations
“Journalism is literature in a hurry.” – Richard Gere in Runaway Bride
“Beauty is a societal construction.” – Grissom on CSI
“the balm of storytelling” - Desmond Tutu
“if it could save the future from the past” - D. Tutu
“Justice must wait until peace has been achieved.” - D. Tutu
"brazen instances of impunity" - D. Tutu
“There is Fate. But it only takes you so far. Then you have to take it from there.” - some tv show
“Life, writ large, is qualitative, not quantitative.” - E. Johnson
“stuck in the tar pits of data” - E. Johnson
“money is the oxygen of capital markets” - Houston, Innovest
"Straws were invented for drinking beer." - Pete, Pete's Wicked Ale
"If you can become visible trash, you'll know you've made it." - Pete on finding Pete's Wicked Ale bottlecaps in a parking lot
"Worrying impedes thinking" - Duggan
"It's hard to sketch out your life on an 8.5 x 11" sheet of paper" - Duggan
"As of last year, there were more outhouses in the US than TIVOs." - E. Johnson
“One man’s coup d’oeil is another man’s lunacy.” - classmate in Napoleon
“cobbler’s children have no shoes” - Preston
“low hanging fruit” - the most overused quote next to "at the end of the day"
“keyboard cowboy” - Preston on the tech people that paralyze companies by cobbling together information systems
“islands of information” - E. Johnson
“the 7 years of peas story” - E. Johnson
“A man is a clean straight line. Women are wiggly circles” – Dawg
“In NYC, you have to find people that have a sharp edge” – Lisa, FOJP
4 Zen Rules of Life - According to Duggan
Show up
Pay Attention
Tell the Truth
Expect the Outcome
“Bang the Drum” – Michael M.
"Yeah, no. I was just going to say. . . " - Gravette
“There were nights so long I thought the sun burned out.” – Tim McGraw
“Artists don’t retire.” - Big Fish
“They are just whitewashing Christianity so bad right now.” – guy on the plane
“Those are very wise words from someone with such a great ass.” - some cheesy movie
“Things done in the dark will always come to light” – off some tv commercial
“People trade their souls for cash” - from the movie Tangled
“Why open the box if you know what’s inside?” - from the movie Tangled
“Come on baby, the world is filled with fallen angels.” - from the movie Tangled
You can tell a lot from smeared mascara. - me
“Grace, it comes and goes.” - you
“This is my year to figure things out.” - you
“My friends’ girlfriends never trust me.” - you
**. . .sweetheart. . .** - you
Let the past drift away with the water. - Japanese Proverb
“It’s you and me ‘til the wheels fall off.” - some movie
“Lost love is still love.” - some movie
“We need more heart. . . We’re all expecting great things.” - can't remember
“I’m gonna make her my wife.” - some tv show or movie
Despite the chaos of the world around you,
there is always time for quiet reflection,
for the meditation that leads to clarity of thought.
It is a time for questioning,
for introspection guided by your inner voice.
- Thomas Kinkade
Posted by Amanda at May 28, 2005 10:05 PM
