" :: ovid

I flee who chases me, and chase who flees me.

-Ovid (my birthday quote of the day, happy birthday Ovid!)

Is there anything more true?

" :: tennessee, tennessee

"There is a time for departure even when there’s no certain place to go."

-Tennessee Williams

" :: west africa

I love Africa in general — South Africa and West Africa, they are both great countries.

-Paris Hilton

" :: shaw

This is the true joy in life, the being used for a purpose recognized by yourself as a mighty one: the being a force of nature instead of a feverish little clod of ailments and grievances complaining that the world will not devote itself to making you happy. I want to be thoroughly used up when I die, for the harder I work, the more I live. Life is no ‘brief candle’ to me. It is a sort of splendid torch that I have got hold of for the moment, and I want to make it burn as brightly as possible before handing it on to a future generation.

—George Bernard Shaw

" :: viagra

My agent rang me and said, ‘You’ve been offered an incredibly big deal - it’s to be the face of Viagra’. And I just said, ‘Sorry, but that has to be a fucking insult.’

— -Simon Cowell (who is 48).

" :: kate hudson

Who is she? Oh, that girl in 27 Dresses? I just don’t think about that stuff.

— - Kate Hudson on “rivals” and new box office darling Katherine Heigl, in the new issue of Elle UK (via Perez Hilton). Love it—Team Hudson! Katherine Heigl is ANNOYING.

" :: graham bell

Concentrate all your thoughts upon the work at hand. The sun’s rays do not burn until brought to a focus.

— Alexander Graham Bell.

" :: clooney + clinton

But there is no way Daniel Day Lewis won’t win. For me, it’s like being Hillary Clinton. If it weren’t for Barack Obama, it would have been a very good year. If [Michael Clayton, for which Clooney is nominated] has a shot at anything, it’s best supporting actress with Tilda Swinton.

— -George Clooney in this month’s Time magazine

" :: dylan + snow

It snowed last year too. I made a snowman and my brother knocked it down and I knocked my brother down and then we had tea

— Dylan Thomas

" :: talent

Talent hits a target no one else can hit; Genius hits a target no one else can see.

— Arthur Schopenhauer (a german philosopher). One of my favorite Think Exist’s for today. How true…!

" :: the same

“ If you want things to stay as they are, things will have to change” — Giuseppe Tomasi di Lampedusa (Italian Writer, 1896-1957)

" :: alcott

Far away in the sunshine are my highest aspirations. I may not reach them, but I can look up and see their beauty, believe in them, and try to follow where they lead.

— Louisa May Alcott (via jessicap on tumblr)

" :: via my mother

There is too much public speaking and too little private thinking.

— Winston Churchill (via my mom, explaining to me what she thinks about blogging)

" :: worthy seas

My boat is not one of those that sail away easily, since the captain tends to only go after worthy seas :)

— -a guy I met at Beatrice (I know?! lame) who wants to go on a date with me and asked on 1/3 when replying to me asking him if by my silence I had ‘missed the boat’

" :: southern insanity

She was a southern girl, which is the same as saying she was insane.

— Bill Hicks (via affremble-quotes)

" :: importance of laughter

Among those whom I like or admire, I can find no common denominator, but among those whom I love, I can: all of them make me laugh. — W.H. Auden

" :: my name is earl.

“ It didn’t turn me off from fast food. In fact, it was really the opposite. The place was unbelievably clean. The people whom I worked with were great. And the work itself was fun. Really. I worked hard — cashiering, cleaning the bathrooms. A few days in, they liked me so much they asked me to join their management team.

— My Name is Earl creator Greg Garcia who worked at an ‘undisclosed’ Fast Food joint during the writing strike to get new material for his show. When he left, he gave a coworker who became ‘his friend’ $10k in secured funds. He was confused.

" :: lost

Not all who wander are lost

— J.R. Tolkien

" :: music

You are the music while the music lasts.

— - T.S. Eliot….god, he is the best.

" :: twain

The secret of getting ahead is getting started. The secret of getting started is breaking your complex overwhelming tasks into small manageable tasks, and then starting on the first one.

-Mark Twain