Favourite Quotes...

“the only people for me are the mad ones, the ones who are mad to live, mad to talk, mad to be saved, desirous of everything at the same time, the ones who never yawn or say a commonplace thing, but burn, burn, burn like fabulous yellow roman candles exploding like spiders across the stars.”
― Jack Kerouac, On the Road

"No matter how gifted, you alone cannot change the world."
Yeah I am a sucker for sappy movie quotes

"Ain't so good, ain't so bad, ain't too happy, ain't too sad
I'll be me, but you'll be you
Whatever happens cool
Ain't the sunshine, ain't the rain, we're just leaving as we came
All good things, they ain't somehow
Whatever happens now"

“A wise man fills his brain before emptying his mouth” - Kenyan proverb


“Love is like an hourglass, with the heart filling up as the brain empties" - Jules Renard

"Maybe this world is another planet's hell." Aldous Huxley

I do wonder this myself...

"Don't believe everything you see on the internet" -Abraham Lincoln

America is all about speed. Hot, nasty, bad-ass speed. - Eleanor roosevelt

"I was gonna rip his heart out. I'm the best ever. I'm the most brutal and vicious, the most ruthless champion there has ever been. No one can stop me. Lennox is a conqueror? No! He's no Alexander! I'm Alexander! I'm the best ever. I'm Sonny Liston. I'm Jack Dempsey. There's never been anyone like me. I'm from their cloth. There is no one who can match me. My style is impetuous, my defense is impregnable, and I'm just ferocious. I want his heart! I want to eat his children! Praise be to Allah!" - Mike Tyson

Found this gem in a Stephen King book. I believe it was "Four Past Midnight".

In the desert
I saw a creature, naked, bestial,
who, squatting upon the ground,
Held his heart in his hands,
And ate of it.
I said, "Is it good, friend?"
"It is bitter -- bitter," he answered;
"But I like it
Because it is bitter,
And because it is my heart.

- Stephen Crane, The Black Riders and Other Lines, 1895

Some T.S. Eliot.

What are the roots that clutch, what branches grow
Out of this stony rubbish? Son of man,
You cannot say, or guess, for you know only
A heap of broken images, where the sun beats,
And the dead tree gives no shelter, the cricket no relief,
And the dry stone no sound of water. Only
There is shadow under this red rock,
(Come in under the shadow of this red rock),
And I will show you something different from either
Your shadow at morning striding behind you
Or your shadow at evening rising to meet you;
I will show you fear in a handful of dust.

- T.S. Eliot, The Waste Land

"Be not for or against." - Bruce Lee

The samurai of the age practiced the art of tending cherry blossoms because the flower so resembled their own lives. The sakura falls and flutters to the ground still in its full beauty. Just so was the short life of the samurai.