Are any of you kids up for adoption?
~Bill Murray, Groundhog Day

[after buying 10 or 12 cookies at W.W. Cousins]
Lisa Rectenwald: You went crazy with those cookies.
Joe Rectenwald: No if I'd have went crazy I would have put the cookies in my pants.

The answer is never the answer. What's really interesting is the mystery. If you seek the mystery instead of the answer, you'll always be seeking. I've never seen anybody really find the answer-- they think they have, so they stop thinking. But the job is to seek mystery, evoke mystery, plant a garden in which strange plants grow and mysteries bloom. The need for mystery is greater than the need for an answer.
~Ken Kesey

Tell me am i right to think
that there could be nothing better
Than making you my bride
and slowly growing old together
~The Postal Service

Nothing that we despise in the other man is entirely absent from ourselves. We must learn to regard people less in the light of what they do or don't do, and more in light of what they suffer."
~Dietrich Bonhoeffer

A God who let us prove his existence would be an idol.
~Dietrich Bonhoeffer

We're all children of Kubrick, aren't we? Is there anything you can do that he hasn't done?
~Paul Thomas Anderson

Hanging Lady: Nervous?
Ted Striker: Yes.
Hanging Lady: First time?
Ted Striker: No, I've been nervous lots of times.
~Airplane

I cannot swallow whole the view of Lincoln as the Great Emancipator.
~Barack Obama

Sometimes people need a little help. Sometimes people need to be forgiven. And sometimes they need to go to jail. And that's a very tricky thing on my part... making that call. The law is the law, and heck if I'm gonna break it. But if you can forgive someone... well, that's the tough part. What can we forgive? Tough part of the job. Tough part of walking down the street.
~Magnolia

Lindsay: And now I hear you’re telling our mother that I’m completely irresponsible and a stay-in-bed mom?
Michael: That doesn’t even sound like me. That sounds like Mom. Or Bruce Vilanch. Could be Bruce Vilanch.
~Arrested Development

I have so much strength in me you have no idea. I have a love in my life. It makes me stronger than anything you can imagine. I would say 'that's that', Mattress Man.
~Punch-Drunk Love

Most men lead lives of quiet desperation and go to the grave with the song still in them.
~Henry David Thoreau

To make a great film, you need three things -- the script, the script and the script.
~Alfred Hitchcock

It's been a bad day, another bad day, and all I wanna do is look at you, and know I'm okay.
~Something Corporate

Any man or woman with a book in their hands is sexier.
~Sherman Alexie

Institutional Hollywood sometimes seems afraid to offend anybody except those with open minds and good taste.
~Roger Ebert

Robert Graysmith: I've been thinking. Someone should write a book.
Paul Avery: Someone should write a f***in' book, that's for sure. About what?
~Zodiac

A room without books is like a body without a soul.
~Cicero

So please, oh PLEASE, we beg, we pray, Go throw your TV set away, And in its place you can install, A lovely bookshelf on the wall.
~Roald Dahl, Charlie and the Chocolate Factory

Books can speak to us like God, like men, or like the noise of the city.... They speak to us like God when they bring us light and peace and fill us with silence...when we desire never to leave them. They speak to us like men when we desire to hear them again. They speak to us like the noise of the city when they hold us captive by a weariness that tells us nothing, gives us no peace, and no support, nothing to remember, and yet will not let us escape
~Thomas Merton

Only one hour in the normal day is more pleasurable than the hour spent in bed with a book before going to sleep, and that is the hour spent in bed with a book after being called in the morning.
~Rose Macaulay

Just the knowledge that a good book is waiting one at the end of a long day makes that day happier.
~Kathleen Norris

The first time I read an excellent book, it is to me just as if I had gained a new friend; when I read over a book I have perused before, it resembles the meeting with an old one.
~Oliver Goldsmith

When you read to a child, when you put a book in a child's hands, you are bringing that child news of the infinitely varied nature of life. You are an awakener
~Paula Fox

When I get a little money, I buy books; and if any is left, I buy food and clothes
~Erasmus

A great book should leave you with many experiences, and slightly exhausted at the end. You live several lives while reading it.
~William Styron

Forty (40) Secrets About Yourself.
Be honest no matter what.

[One] Who was your last text from?
james, my very special boy

[Two] Where was your default picture taken?
boone woods

[Three] What's your middle name?
ryan

[Four] When is your birthday?
august 19

[Five] Does anyone like you?
i hope so!

[Six] What is your current mood?
antsy in my pantsy

[Seven] What's your dads name?
joe

[Eight] What color shirt are you wearing?
navy blue with shakespeare on it

[Ten] If you could go back in TIME and change something, would you?
i would've seen 30 seconds to mars when they opened for chevelle and i had no clue who they were so i showed up late on purpose

[Eleven] Have a crazy side?
we all go a little mad sometimes

[Twelve] Ever had a near death experience?
every day when i drive

[Thirteen] Something you do a lot?
drink coffee, think too much, read, kiss ashley on the cheek

[Fourteen] Angry at anyone?
the man

[Fifteen] Favorite Month?
december!!!

[Sixteen] Name someone with the same birthday as you?
bill macfarland!  bill clinton!  oh and josh

[Seventeen] When was the last time you cried?
last night

[Nineteen] If you could have one super power what would it be?
i would fly

[Twenty] What's the first thing you notice about the gender of your preference?
hair

[twenty-two] What is your favorite song of all time?
changes a lot, previous title-holders:  "the scientist" by coldplay, "there is" by boxcar racer, and "don't drink the water" by dave, right now i might say "asleep" by the smiths

[Twenty-three] Who are you missing?
bill macfarland, so much it hurts


[Twenty-four] Favorite TV show?
lost, hands down, no contest

[Twenty-five] Do you still watch kiddy movies?
sometimes, i want to see enchanted lol

[Twenty-six] What are you eating or drinking at the moment?
vanilla coffee and a granola bar


[Twenty-seven] Do you speak any other language?
some spanish and some japanese

[Twenty -eight] Whats your favorite smell?
bacon

[Twenty-nine] Describe your life in one word.
wonderful

[Thirty] Have you ever kissed in the rain?
sure

[Thirty-two] What are you thinking about right now?
if i have time to finish this survey

[Thirty-three] What should you be doing?
going to get the car

[Thirty-four] Who was the last person that made you upset/angry?
josh during our daily stupid arguments (i'm sorry bubby)

[Thirty-five] What are you listening to?
glen hansard

[thirty-six] Do you like working in the yard?
not really at all

[thirty-seven] Do you have a best friend?
yes

[Thirty-eight] Do you act differently around the person you like?
who doesn't (good answer tommy, i'm leaving it)

[Thirty-nine] What is your natural hair color?
dark brown

[Forty] Who was the last person to make you smile
lewis curd just walked in and gave me a hug, who wouldn't smile