Quote

"I think that a writer is always going to be confessing at all times. No matter what he does, he's always going to be talking about what he thinks, what he believes. Even if it's in irony, if it's in story, if it's in whatever-you're always revealing a lot about yourself."

-Alice Cooper/Vincent Furnier

The Christmas Story

"But the angel said to her 'Do not be afraid, Mary, you have found favor with God. You will be with child and give birth to a son, and you are to give him the name Jesus. He will be great and will be called the Son of the Most High. The Lord God will give him the throne of his father David, and he will reign over the house of Jacob forever; his kingdom will never end.' "

-Luke 1:30-33

Quote of the Week

"I write so the endangered thoughts roaming naked and vulnerable through the misty jungles of my mind aren't slain by the guns of practical living."

-Kim Krizan

Quote of the Week

Luke: Very romantic.

Lorelai: Says the man who yelled "finally" at the end of Love Story.

-Gilmore Girls

Quote of the Week

"Give me the songs of a nation, and I care not who writes its laws."

-Ravi Zacharias

I Want To...

i want to climb Mount Kilamonjaro.
I want to see anacondas in Brazil.
I want to sail the seas as a pirate, not the pillaging sort, but the sort who sings songs and wears lots of stripes.
I want to be a cab driver.
I want to attend the Academy Awards, wear a Vera Wang, and sit in between Lauren Bacall and Heath Ledger.
I want to learn how to uncork a wine bottle with style, like fancy waiters do.
I want to hike the whole Appalachian trail.
I want to backpack through Europe, and learn a million languages.
I want to dance barefoot under the stars.
I want to be able to curl my hair and have it not go straight in half an hour.
I want to wear high heels and not trip.
I want to sword fight on horse back.
I want to paint...with my feet.
I want to travel around like a gypsy and wear a hundred bracelets.
I want to invent my own language.
I want to fly...I'm not sure how.
I want to fall...into sync, in love, into a mystery, into something I wasn't expecting.

Quote of the Week

"Here come my tax dollars at work to arrest me."

-National Treasure 2

Quote of the Week

"Don't kill us! Kill eachother!"

-Porco Rosso

Quote of the Week

"The sun never set on the British Empire...because God didn't trust the British in the dark."

-From the board game "Apples to Apples"

Quote of the Week

"Stop that! She almost doesn't know any better!"

-Martye Murray

Coming Soon...

"It's scary to put yourself in a situation where you feel like you should feel something, because you feel that if you don't feel that something that you really should have felt it and something just went terribly, horribly, unbeleivably wrong."

-Line From An Upcoming Screenplay

Calling

"Let us probe the silent places,
Let us seek what luck betides us;
Let us journey to a lonely land I know.
There's a whisper on the night wind,
There's a star agleam to guide us,
And the wild is calling, calling,
Let us go."

-Robert Service

Hermione's Plea (The Shakespearean One)

Sir, spare your threats
The bug which you would fright me with I seek
To me can life be no commodity:
The crown and comfort of my life, your favor,
I do give lost; for I do feel it gone,
But know not how it went. My second joy
And first-fruits of my body, from his presence
I am barr'd, like one infectious. My third comfort
Starr'd most unluckily, is from my breast,
The innocent milk in its most innocent mouth,
Haled out to murder: myself on every post
Proclaimed a strumpet: with immodest hatred
The child-bed priviledge denied, which 'longs
To women of all fashion; lastly, hurried
Here to this place, i' the open air, before
I have got strength of limit. Now, my liege,
Tell me what blessings I have here alive,
That I should fear to die? Therefore proceed.
But yet hear this: mistake me not, no life,
I prize it not a straw, but for mine honour,
Which I would free, if I shall be condemn'd
Upon surmises, all proofs sleeping else
But what your jealousies awake, I tell you
'Tis rigor and not law. Your honours all,
I do refer me to the oracle:
Apollo be my judge!

-William Shakespeare, The Winters Tale

(I worked this monologue at a recent workshop I attended with the Royal Shakespeare Company)

Quote of the Week: Friday, March 2nd

"Truth without love is brutality, but love without truth is hypocrisy."

-Author Unknown

Quote of the Week: Thursday, February 22

"In Italy for thirty years under the Borgias they had warfare, terror, murder, bloodshed-but they produced Michelangelo, Leonardo Da Vinci, and the Renaissance. In Switzerland they had brotherly love, 500 years of democracy and peace, and what did that produce? The cuckoo clock."

-Orson Weeles as Harry Lime in The Third Man

Quote of the Week: Thursday, February 8th

"When I was a boy of 14, my father was so ignorant I could barely stand to have him around. But when I got to be 21, I was astonished at how much the old man had learned in seven years."

-Mark Twain

Quote of the Week: January 30th

"If you live to be 100, I want to live to be 100 minus one day, so that I never have to live a day without you."

A.A. Milne (Winnie the Pooh)

Quote of the Week: Thursday, January 11th

"The difference between perseverance and obstinacy is that one often comes from a strong will, and the other from a strong won't."

-Henry Ward Beecher

Quote of the Week: Saturday, December 29th

"If the good Lord intended us to walk, he wouldn't have invented roller skates."

-Willy Wonka and the Chocolate Factory

Quote of the Week: Saturday, December 2nd

You're in luck: today I'm giving you not one, not two, but three completely quotable and great-to-put-on-those-Christmas-cards-when-you-have-nothing-else-to-say quotes. Well, aren't you the lucky one!

"All progress depends upon the unreasonable man."
-George Bernard Shaw

"The woods would be very quiet if no birds sang there except those who sang best."
-Author Unknown

"That which gives is the heart, the fingers only let go."
-Haya Proverb