Hi people! I just thought I'd assemble some quotes from others, be it movies, music, what have you. Some of them are funny, sad, and some shed some truth. Either way, I hope you enjoy them! I know I do! Louisa May Alcott Drew Barrymore Mary Chapin Carpenter Jodie Foster Ani DiFranco Jeff Foxworthy Anne Frank Greg Greenway John F. Kennedy Martin Luther King Jr. Wally Lamb Carl Schurz Ernst Schnabel Oprah Winfrey Louisa May Alcott "I'm not afraid of storms, I'm learning to sail my ship."
Drew Barrymore, on "The Rosie O'Donnell Show" about her new movie, Never Been Kissed "Why do you like people because of the way they look, or don't like people because of the way they look? And it's like if you spend time with them, you see their true beauty, or their not so beautiful side, because you get to know them and I don't like see that often talked about in film. And I just thought it was so great with the societal pressure and life and high school is a very sort of contained atmosphere and you live those four years so tumoultosly trying to figure out how to accept yourself and forgive yourself and you learn all these great lessons, most importantly, how to treat people. A lot of that happens because you're not treated so well and yet, I never want people to feel that pain, but the pain becomes your greatest strength in the end. Mary Chapin Carpenter "50 is the new 30." "You have everything in these junk drawers. Pictures of old boyfriends, ex-husbands.....dead batteries..."
Jodie Foster , in her Acadamy Award Acceptance speech for Nell (paraphrased) "Cruelty might be very human and very cultural, but it is not acceptable and it is not an option."
Ani DiFranco "Art may imitate life, but life imitates T.V."
Jeff Foxworthy , on his CD, "You Might Be a Redneck if..." "You know the sexes answer the phone differently? Well let's say a guy gets a call from a friend he hasn't talked to in a while. He'll answer the phone and say something like, 'Hello? Wally! You ugly old bald headed pervert! How are you?' You'll never hear a woman answer the phone and go, 'Hello? Janet! You fat pig! You water retaining sea-cow! How are you...'"
Anne Frank "Whoever is happy will make others happy too." "In spite of everything, I still believe that people are really good at heart." "There's plenty of room for everyone in the world. Enough money, riches, and beauty for all to share. God has made enought for everyone, so let us all begin then by sharing it fairly."
Greg Greenway "Love exists in many ways As there are anels of the sun On the ocean."
John F. Kennedy "I really don't know why it is that all of us are so committed to the sea, except I think it's because in addition to the fact that the sea changes, and the light changes, and ships change, it's because we all came from the sea. And it is an interesting biological fact that all of us have in our veins the exact same percentage of salt in our blood that exists in the ocean, and, therefore, we have salt in our blood, our sweat, and in our tears. We are tied to the ocean. And when we go back to the sea, whether it is to sail or to watch it, we are going back from whence we came."
Martin Luther King Jr. "Injustice anywhere is a threat to justice everywhere."
Wally Lamb In She's Come Undone, "Life's a shit sandwich." In I Know This Much is True, "Power, wrongly used, defeats the opressor as well as the opressed."
Carl Schurz "Ideals are like stars; you will not succeed in touching them with your hands. But like the seafaring man on the desert of waters, you choose them as your guides, and following them you will reach your destiny."
Ernst Schnabel, on Anne Frank "Her voice was preserved. Out of the millions of those that were silenced...this voice, no louder than a child's whisper. It has outlasted the shouts of the murderers and has soared above the voices of time."
Oprah Winfrey "We did then what we knew how to do, and now that we know better, we can do better."
And here are some more quotes that either are annonymous or I'm just too lazy to try and find out who said them... "The feet you step on today are usually connected to the behind you will kiss tomorrow." "We accept the reality of the world with which we're presented." Girl...!The Serenity, Courage and Wisdom of the Dissed, Pissed Woman Sorry, I just really love the title of this book! :-)