November 2010
46 posts
“There are nights when the wolves are silent and only the moon howls.”
– George Carlin, Brain Droppings, 1997
October 2010
86 posts
“Vern didn’t just mean being off limits inside the junkyard, or fudging on...”
– Stand By Me, 1986
Elton John - Nikita (Ice on Fire, 1985)
“Marilla says that a large family was raised in that old house long ago, and that...”
– Lucy Maud Montgomery, Anne of Avonlea
“For the first time she was vaguely perceiving that life is everlasting movement.”
– Booth Tarkington, Alice Adams
“Wild geese fly south, creaking like anguished hinges; along the riverbank the...”
– Margaret Atwood, The Blind Assassin
“The repose of sleep refreshes only the body. It rarely sets the soul at rest....”
– Gaston Bachelard, La poétique de la rêverie
“Night, the beloved. Night, when words fade and things come alive. When the...”
– Antoine de Saint-Exupéry, Flight to Arras
“Just ahead, over the rolling wheatfields all golden beneath the distant snows of...”
– Jack Kerouac, On the Road
“We are in Transylvania, and Transylvania is not England. Our ways are not your...”
– Bram Stoker, Dracula
“There is a legend about a bird which sings just once in its life, more sweetly...”
– Colleen McCullough, The Thorn Birds
Kyuss - Catamaran (…And the Circus Leaves...
“Either you become a reactionary, dragging up old arguments and marketing them as...”
– Karl Beveridge & Carole Conde - IT’S STILL PRIVLEGED ART, 1976
“For when the heart insists on its destiny, resisting the general blandishment,...”
– Joseph Campbell, The Hero With a Thousand Faces
“I have no advice for anybody; except to, you know, be awake enough to see where...”
– Jeff Buckley
Roy Orbison - Mean Woman Blues (Blue Bayou, 1963)
“Let me never fall into the vulgar mistake of dreaming that I am persecuted...”
– Ralph Waldo Emerson, Journals (1838)
“I looked at the cracked high ceiling and really didn’t know who I was for...”
– Jack Kerouac, On the Road
“How can I put this? There’s a kind of gap between what I think is real and...”
– Haruki Murakami, The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle
Piano Magic - Theory of Ghosts (Disaffected, 2005)
“I could hear my heart beating. I could hear everyone’s heart. I could hear the...”
– Raymond Carver, What We Talk About When We Talk About Love
“What else is woman but a foe to friendship, an inescapable punishment, a...”
– Heinrich Kramer, The Malleus Maleficarum
In-Flight Safety - Big White Elephant (We Are An...
“I only wanted to suggest to you that self-sacrifice is a passion so overwhelming...”
– W. Somerset Maugham, The Razor’s Edge
“I wouldn’t want a boy to think I was pretty unless he was the kind of boy...”
– Jonathan Safran Foer, Everything is Illuminated