James Inman - Quotes

Charles Bukowski

2012-06-12T15:27:00+00:00

You begin saving the world by saving one person at a time; all else is grandiose romanticism or politics.

Douglas Coupland

2012-05-12T17:28:00+00:00

After you’re dead and buried and floating around whatever place we go to, what’s going to be your best memory of earth? What one moment for you defines what it’s like to be alive on this planet. What’s your takeaway? Fake yuppie experiences that you had to spend money on, like white water rafting or elephant rides in Thailand don’t count. I want to hear some small moment from your life that proves you’re really alive.

Douglas Coupland

2012-05-12T17:27:00+00:00

Starved for affection, terrified of abandonment, I began to wonder if sex was really just an excuse to look deeply into another human being’s eyes.

Douglas Coupland

2012-05-12T17:26:00+00:00

And then I felt sad because I realized that once people are broken in certain ways, they can’t ever be fixed, and this is something nobody ever tells you when you are young and it never fails to surprise you as you grow older as you see the people in your life break one by one. You wonder when your turn is going to be, or if it’s already happened.”

Elton John

2012-05-12T17:17:00+00:00

There is nothing wrong with going to bed with someone of your own sex. People should be very free with sex; they should draw the line at goats.

Bob Geldof

2012-05-12T13:06:00+00:00

I used to think school was a form of slavery. Then it realised it gave me the freedom to think. When you have the freedom to think, no-one is your master.

F. Scott Fitzgerald

2012-05-12T13:00:00+00:00

I fell in love with her courage, sincerity, and her flaming self-respect. And it’s those things I’d believe in, even if the whole word indulged in wild suspicions that she wasn’t all she should be. I love her and it is the beginning of everything.

F. Scott Fitzgerald

2012-05-12T12:59:00+00:00

There are only the pursued, the pursuing, the busy, and the tired.

Mary Anne Radmacher

2012-04-27T08:46:00+00:00

Courage does not always roar. Sometimes courage is the quiet voice at the end of the day saying, ‘I will try again tomorrow.’

Sylvia Plath

2012-04-23T16:29:00+00:00

There is so much hurt in this game of searching for a mate, of testing, trying. And you realize suddenly that you forgot it was a game, and turn away in tears.

Andrew McMahon

2012-04-21T13:21:00+00:00

We live in this culture where everything is supposed to be so hip and so cool, and it’s not cool to love, and it’s not cool to take care of each other, and it’s not cool to stand up for ourselves. But you know what? Fuck all of that. I believe in love, and I believe that the only way that we are going to survive this fucking craziness that’s going on in our world today is if we just learn to look at love, turn our heads the other way from all the bullshit, and fucking love.

Emma Watson

2012-04-20T23:19:00+00:00

I want to paint, and I want to write, and I want to act, and I want to just do everything.

Neil Gaiman

2012-04-19T18:50:00+00:00

May your coming year be filled with magic and dreams and good madness. I hope you read some fine books and kiss someone who thinks you’re wonderful, and don’t forget to make some art – write or draw or build or sing or live as only you can. And I hope, somewhere in the next year, you surprise yourself.

Andrew McMahon

2012-04-19T18:35:00+00:00

And maybe that’s the key. Not resolutions and forgotten promises, but instead a commitment to do this year a little better than the last. I’m feeling good about this one. I really am.

Oscar Wilde

2012-04-19T18:35:00+00:00

To live is the rarest thing in the world. Most people exist, that is all.

Anthony Robbins

2012-04-19T18:35:00+00:00

It is the moment of our decisions that our destinies are created.

Audrey Hepburn

2012-04-19T18:35:00+00:00

I believe in pink. I believe that laughing is the best calorie burner. I believe in kissing, kissing a lot. I believe in being strong when everything seems to be going wrong. I believe that happy girls are the prettiest girls. I believe that tomorrow is another day and I believe in miracles.

Augusten Burroughs

2012-04-19T18:35:00+00:00

I myself am made entirely of flaws, stitched together with good intentions.

Barack Obama

2012-04-19T18:35:00+00:00

In the face of impossible odds, people who love their country can change it.

A. A. Milne

2012-04-19T18:35:00+00:00

Promise me you’ll never forget me because if I thought you would I’d never leave.

Bernard M. Baruch

2012-04-19T18:35:00+00:00

Those who mind don’t matter, and those who matter don’t mind.

Bill Bryson

2012-04-19T18:35:00+00:00

And then it occurred to me that a computer is a stupid machine with the ability to do incredibly smart things, while computer programmers are smart people with the ability to do incredibly stupid things. They are, in short, a perfect match.

Andrew McMahon

2012-04-19T18:35:00+00:00

How often does anyone really stand up and ask the hard questions? “Is this where I should be? Am I inspired? Do I do what I do because I need to, want to and love to, or because I don’t know what else to do? And where would I begin even if I should?”

Bob Marley

2012-04-19T18:35:00+00:00

Who are you to judge my life? I know that I’m not perfect and didn’t live life to be. But before you start pointing fingers, make sure your hands are clean.

C. S. Lewis

2012-04-19T18:35:00+00:00

We read to know that we are not alone.

C. S. Lewis

2012-04-19T18:35:00+00:00

Affection is responsible for nine-tenths of whatever solid and durable happiness there is in our lives.

Charles Bukowski

2012-04-19T18:35:00+00:00

Some people never go crazy. What truly horrible lives they must lead.

Andrew McMahon

2012-04-19T18:35:00+00:00

I’ve found that falling doesn’t always leave you fallen for.

Coyote Ugly

2012-04-19T18:35:00+00:00

And every time I hear that song, I remember exactly what she was wearing and exactly how her hair smelt and exactly how I felt… because the great songs last forever.

David Bowie

2012-04-19T18:35:00+00:00

But then, you see, I always was the lucky one.

Dolly Parton

2012-04-19T18:35:00+00:00

The way I see it, if you want the rainbow, you gotta put up with the rain.

Don Henley

2012-04-19T18:35:00+00:00

So we decided to just say whatever we felt like saying. And let the chips fall where they may.

Douglas Adams

2012-04-19T18:35:00+00:00

A common mistake that people make when trying to design something completely foolproof is to underestimate the ingenuity of complete fools.

Douglas Adams

2012-04-19T18:35:00+00:00

Nothing travels faster than light, with the possible exception of bad news, which follows its own rules.

Andrew McMahon

2012-04-19T18:35:00+00:00

I am lucky. I did not choose this life. It chose me. It’s strange like that; not picking my path, but rather easing into the water and letting it carry me where it will. Yes, there will be nights where I feel like my destiny is at my fingertips and there will be nights I wish the lights were off and I could just make these sounds in the dark. Still, I will always be there, wherever there might be, staring into blackness hoping the blackness stares back at me.

Andrew McMahon

2012-04-19T18:35:00+00:00

The whole world, myself included, seem to have one thing in common; we’re just a crowd of people who don’t really fit in anywhere attempting to convince one another that we do.

Andrew McMahon

2012-04-19T18:35:00+00:00

I think every moment I plan on recording… just so that I don’t forget what it is to be this ready to fight.

Earl Warren

2012-04-19T18:35:00+00:00

Everything I did in my life that was worthwhile I caught hell for.

Eleanor Roosevelt

2012-04-19T18:35:00+00:00

You must do the thing you think you cannot do.

Zelda Fitzgerald

2012-04-19T18:35:00+00:00

I don’t want to live. I want to love first, and live incidentally.

Samuel Beckett

2012-04-19T18:35:00+00:00

No matter. Try again. Fail again. Fail better.

Erica Jong

2012-04-19T18:35:00+00:00

Do you want me to tell you something really subversive? Love is everything it’s cracked up to be. That’s why people are so cynical about it. It really is worth fighting for, being brave for, risking everything for. And the trouble is, if you don’t risk anything, you risk even more.

Woody Allen

2012-04-19T18:35:00+00:00

Love is the answer, but while you’re waiting for the answer, sex raises some pretty interesting questions.

Ernest Hemingway

2012-04-19T18:35:00+00:00

There is nothing to writing. All you do is sit down at a typewriter and bleed.

Ernest Hemingway

2012-04-19T18:35:00+00:00

Happiness in intelligent people is the rarest thing I know.

Ernest Hemingway

2012-04-19T18:35:00+00:00

I love sleep. My life has the tendency to fall apart when I’m awake, you know?

Ernest Hemingway

2012-04-19T18:35:00+00:00

Always do sober what you said you’d do drunk. That will teach you to keep your mouth shut.

Eudora Welty

2012-04-19T18:35:00+00:00

Never think you’ve seen the last of anything.

F. Scott Fitzgerald

2012-04-19T18:35:00+00:00

First you take a drink, then the drink takes a drink, then the drink takes you.

Albert Einstein

2012-04-19T18:35:00+00:00

Life isn’t worth living, unless it is lived for someone else.

Albert Einstein

2012-04-19T18:35:00+00:00

Two things are infinite: the universe and human stupidity; and I’m not sure about the universe.

Frank Warren

2012-04-19T18:35:00+00:00

Twenty years from today, you probably won’t remember who your commencement speaker was or what he or she said. But I pray that each of you will never lose the important relationships formed in this extraordinary place with the old friends and new, who believe in you, and surround you, now — in white folding chairs.

Freidrich Neitzsche

2012-04-19T18:35:00+00:00

I’m not upset that you lied to me, I’m upset that from now on I can’t believe you.

Groucho Marx

2012-04-19T18:35:00+00:00

Each morning when I open my eyes I say to myself: I, not events, have the power to make me happy or unhappy today. I can choose which it shall be. Yesterday is dead, tomorrow hasn’t arrived yet. I have just one day, today, and I’m going to be happy in it.

Groucho Marx

2012-04-19T18:35:00+00:00

Outside of a dog, a book is man’s best friend. Inside of a dog it’s too dark to read.

Harper Lee

2012-04-19T18:35:00+00:00

I wanted you to see what real courage is, instead of getting the idea that courage is a man with a gun in his hand. It’s when you know you’re licked before you begin but you begin anyway and you see it through no matter what. You rarely win, but sometimes you do.

Helen Keller

2012-04-19T18:35:00+00:00

There are no shortcuts to any place worth going.

Henry David Thoreau

2012-04-19T18:35:00+00:00

Live your beliefs and you can turn the world around.

Howard Aiken

2012-04-19T18:35:00+00:00

Don’t worry about people stealing your ideas. If your ideas are any good, you’ll have to ram them down people’s throats.

Ingrid Bergman

2012-04-19T18:35:00+00:00

A kiss is a lovely trick designed by nature to stop speech when words become superfluous.

J. D. Salinger

2012-04-19T18:35:00+00:00

I was about half in love with her by the time we sat down. That’s the thing about girls. Every time they do something pretty… you fall half in love with them, and then you never know where the hell you are.

J. D. Salinger

2012-04-19T18:35:00+00:00

What really knocks me out is a book that, when you’re all done reading it, you wish the author that wrote it was a terrific friend of yours and you could call him up on the phone whenever you felt like it. That doesn’t happen much, though.

J. K. Rowling

2012-04-19T18:35:00+00:00

Of course it is happening inside your head, Harry, but why on earth should that mean that it is not real?

J. K. Rowling

2012-04-19T18:35:00+00:00

I would like to be remembered as someone who did the best she could with the talent she had.

James Goldman

2012-04-19T18:35:00+00:00

When the fall is all there is, it matters.

Jeff Wayman

2012-04-19T18:35:00+00:00

A friend is one who would help you move. A best friend is one who would help you move a body.

Jeffrey Zeldman

2012-04-19T18:35:00+00:00

Love will get you through times of no money better than money will get you through times of no love.

Jimmy Carter

2012-04-19T18:35:00+00:00

You can do what you have to do, and sometimes you can do it even better than you think you can.

John Woods

2012-04-19T18:35:00+00:00

Always code as if the guy who ends up maintaining your code will be a violent psychopath who knows where you live.

Jonathan Safran Foer

2012-04-19T18:35:00+00:00

Sometimes I can hear my bones straining under the weight of all the lives I’m not living.

Ken Keyes

2012-04-19T18:35:00+00:00

To be upset over what you don’t have is to waste what you do have.

Kristopher Roe

2012-04-19T18:35:00+00:00

The hardest part isn’t finding who we need to be. It’s being content with who you are.

Kurt Vonnegut

2012-04-19T18:35:00+00:00

Everything was beautiful, and nothing hurt.

Lady Gaga

2012-04-19T18:35:00+00:00

Some women choose to follow men, and some women choose to follow their dreams. If you’re wondering which way to go, remember that your career will never wake up and tell you that it doesn’t love you anymore.

Grave of Leonard Matlovich, the first soldier to take the U.S. military to court over the gay ban.

2012-04-19T18:35:00+00:00

When I was in the military they gave me a mdeal for killing two men and a discharge for loving one.

Lisa Brooks

2012-04-19T18:35:00+00:00

Sometimes you need to run away just to see who will come after you.

Love And Other Drugs

2012-04-19T18:35:00+00:00

Let’s just say in some alternate universe, there’s a couple just like us, okay? Only she’s healthy and he’s perfect. And their world is about how much they’re going to spend on vacation or who’s in a bad mood that day, or whether they feel guilty about having a cleaning lady. I don’t want to be those people. I want us. You. This.

Mae West

2012-04-19T18:35:00+00:00

You only live once, but if you do it right once is enough.

Mae West

2012-04-19T18:35:00+00:00

I have found men who didn’t know how to kiss. I’ve always found time to teach them.

Margaret Mead

2012-04-19T18:35:00+00:00

Never doubt that a small group of thoughtful, committed individuals can change the world. Indeed, it’s the only thing that ever has.

Marianne Williamson

2012-04-19T18:35:00+00:00

Our deepest fear is not that we are inadequate. Our deepest fear is that we are powerful beyond measure. It is our light, not our darkness that most frightens us.’ We ask ourselves, Who am I to be brilliant, gorgeous, talented, fabulous? Actually, who are you not to be?

Marilyn Monroe

2012-04-19T18:35:00+00:00

Imperfection is beauty, madness is genius, and it’s better to be absolutely ridiculous rather than absolutely boring.

Marilyn Monroe

2012-04-19T18:35:00+00:00

I believe that everything happens for a reason. People change so that you can learn to let go. Things go wrong so that you can appreciate them when they’re right. You believe lies so that you eventually learn to trust no one but yourself. And sometimes things fall apart so even better things can fall together.

Marilyn Monroe

2012-04-19T18:35:00+00:00

I’ve never dropped anyone I believed in.

Mark Twain

2012-04-19T18:35:00+00:00

A classic is something that everyone wants to have read, but no one wants to read.

Martin Luther King

2012-04-19T18:35:00+00:00

The ultimate measure of man is not where he stands in moments of comfort and convenience, but where he stands at times of challenge and controversy.

Aaron Sorkin

2012-04-19T18:35:00+00:00

I want to be a comfort to my friends in tragedy. And I want to be able to celebrate with them in triumph. And for all the times in between, I just want to be able to look them in the eye.

Mitch Radcliffe

2012-04-19T18:35:00+00:00

A computer lets you make more mistakes faster than any other invention in human history, with the possible exceptions of handguns and tequila.

Neil Gaiman

2012-04-19T18:35:00+00:00

Sometimes you wake up. Sometimes the fall kills you. And sometimes, when you fall, you fly.

Neil Gaiman

2012-04-19T18:35:00+00:00

Have you ever been in love? Horrible isn’t it? It makes you so vulnerable. It opens your chest and it opens up your heart and it means someone can get inside you and mess you up. You build up all these defenses. You build up a whole armor, for years, so nothing can hurt you, then one stupid person, no different from any other stupid person, wanders into your stupid life… You give them a piece of you. They didn’t ask for it. They did something dumb one day, like kiss you or smile at you, and then your life isn’t your own anymore. Love takes hostages. It gets inside you. It eats you out and leaves you crying in the darkness, so simple a phrase like ‘maybe we should be just friends’ or ‘how very perceptive’ turns into a glass splinter working its way into your heart. It hurts. Not just in the imagination. Not just in the mind. It’s a soul-hurt, a body-hurt, a real gets-inside-you-and-rips-you-apart pain. Nothing should be able to do that. Especially not love. I hate love.

Neil Gaiman

2012-04-19T18:35:00+00:00

I’ve been making a list of the things they don’t teach you at school. They don’t teach you how to love somebody. They don’t teach you how to be famous. They don’t teach you how to be rich or how to be poor. They don’t teach you how to walk away from someone you don’t love any longer. They don’t teach you how to know what’s going on in someone else’s mind. They don’t teach you what to say to someone who’s dying. They don’t teach you anything worth knowing.

Zelda Fitzgerald

2012-04-19T18:35:00+00:00

It is the loose ends with which men hang themselves.

Oscar Wilde

2012-04-19T18:35:00+00:00

We are all in the gutter, but some of us are looking at the stars.

Ani DiFranco

2012-04-19T18:35:00+00:00

Love is a piano dropped from a fourth story window, and you were in the wrong place at the wrong time.

Pam Brown

2012-04-19T18:35:00+00:00

A friendship can weather most things and thrive in thin soil but it needs a little mulch of letters and phone calls and small silly presents every so often just to save it from drying out completely.

Aaron Sorkin

2012-04-19T18:35:00+00:00

The streets of heaven are too crowded with angels tonight. They’re our students and our teachers and our parents and our friends. The streets of heaven are too crowded with angels, but every time we think we have measured our capacity to meet a challenge, we look up and we’re reminded that that capacity may well be limitless. This is a time for American heroes. We will do what is hard. We will achieve what is great. This is a time for American heroes and we reach for the stars. God bless their memory, God bless you and God bless the United States of America.

Woody Allen

2012-04-19T18:35:00+00:00

Sex without love is an empty gesture. But, as empty gestures go, it is one of the best.

Stephen Chbosky

2012-04-19T18:35:00+00:00

We accept the love we think we deserve.

Stephen Chbosky

2012-04-19T18:35:00+00:00

I walk around the school hallways and look at the people. I look at the teachers and wonder why they’re here. If they like their jobs. Or us. And I wonder how smart they were when they were fifteen. Not in a mean way. In a curious way. It’s like looking at all the students and wondering who’s had their heart broken that day, and how they are able to cope with having three quizzes and a book report on top of that. Or wondering who did the heart breaking. And wondering why. Especially since I know that if they went to another school, the person who had their heart broken would have had their heart broken by somebody else, so why does it have to be so personal.

Stephen Levine

2012-04-19T18:35:00+00:00

If you were going to die soon and had only one phone call you could make, who would you call and what would you say? And why are you waiting?

Steve Jobs

2012-04-19T18:35:00+00:00

And we’ve chosen to do this with our lives. So it better be damn good. It better be worth it.

And we think it is.

Steve Jobs

2012-04-19T18:35:00+00:00

Your work is going to fill a large part of your life, and the only way to be truly satisfied is to do what you believe is great work. And the only way to do great work is to love what you do. If you haven’t found it yet, keep looking. Don’t settle. As with all matters of the heart, you’ll know when you find it.

Aaron Sorkin

2012-04-19T18:35:00+00:00

I love writing, but hate starting. The page is awfully white and it says, ‘You may have fooled some of the people some of the time but those days are over, giftless. I’m not your agent and I’m not your mommy, I’m a white piece of paper, you wanna dance with me?’ and I really, really don’t. I don’t want any trouble. I’ll go peaceable-like.

The Guardian

2012-04-19T18:35:00+00:00

I’ve been old for a long time. You know what? I don’t mind. If my muscles ache it’s because I’ve used them. It’s hard for me to walk up those steps now because I’ve walked up them every night to lay next to someone I love. I’ve got a few wrinkles here and there, but I’ve laid under thousands of skies on sunny days. I live and feel this way because I drank and I smoke and I lived and I loved and danced, sang, sweat and screwed my way through a pretty damn good life. Getting old ain’t bad. Getting old, that’s earned.

Tom Robbins

2012-04-19T18:35:00+00:00

When we’re incomplete, we’re always searching for somebody to complete us. When, after a few years or a few months of a relationship, we find that we’re still unfulfilled, we blame our partners and take up with somebody more promising. This can go on and on - serial polygamy - until we admit that while a partner can add sweet dimensions to our lives, we, each of us, are responsible for our own fulfillment. Nobody else can provide it for us, and to believe otherwise is to delude ourselves dangerously and to program for eventual failure every relationship we enter.

Tom Wiley

2012-04-19T18:35:00+00:00

Where you end up isn’t the most important thing. It’s the road you take to get there. The road you take is what you’ll look back on and call your life.

Unknown

2012-04-19T18:35:00+00:00

On the days you think the sun won’t shine, remember every moment you spent smiling at a friend, a lover, anyone. For if they smiled back, that shining sun is worth more than any cloudy day.

Unknown

2012-04-19T18:35:00+00:00

I wish I had the courage to walk up to you at graduation and say “Good luck, I love you, and I’ll miss you everyday.” Please don’t forget me.

Unknown

2012-04-19T18:35:00+00:00

I always thought I’m not strong enough. But when I look at those obstacles behind me, I am sure I can overcome what’s coming.

Unknown

2012-04-19T18:35:00+00:00

The darkest hours are the hours in which we discover ourselves.

Unknown

2012-04-19T18:35:00+00:00

Life is not measured by the number of breaths we take, but by the moments that take our breath away.

Unknown

2012-04-19T18:35:00+00:00

Speak your mind, even if your voice shakes.

Unknown

2012-04-19T18:35:00+00:00

To wish you were someone else is to waste the person you are.

Unknown

2012-04-19T18:35:00+00:00

Don’t wait for the storm to pass, get out there and dance in the rain.

Unknown

2012-04-19T18:35:00+00:00

If you love somebody, let them go. If they return, they were always yours. If they don’t, they never were.

Unknown

2012-04-19T18:35:00+00:00

If I never met you, I wouldn’t like you. If I didn’t like you, I wouldn’t love you. If I didn’t love you, I wouldn’t miss you. But I did, I do, and I will.

Vincent Van Gogh

2012-04-19T18:35:00+00:00

What would life be if we had no courage to attempt anything?

Voltaire

2012-04-19T18:35:00+00:00

Every man is guilty of all the good he didn’t do.

Voltaire

2012-04-19T18:35:00+00:00

It is dangerous to be right in matters where established men are wrong.

A. A. Milne

2012-04-19T18:35:00+00:00

If ever there is tomorrow when we’re not together… there is something you must always remember. You are braver than you believe, stronger than you seem, and smarter than you think. But the most important thing is, even if we’re apart… I’ll always be with you.

W. Somerset Maugham

2012-04-19T18:35:00+00:00

How can I be reasonable? To me our love was everything and you were my whole life. It is not very pleasant to realize that to you it was only an episode.

Walt Disney

2012-04-19T18:35:00+00:00

It’s kind of fun to do the impossible.

Walter M. Schirra, Sr.

2012-04-19T18:35:00+00:00

You don’t raise heroes, you raise sons. And if you treat them like sons, they’ll turn out to be heroes, even if it’s just in your own eyes.

Willa Cather

2012-04-19T18:35:00+00:00

There are some things you learn best in calm, and some in storm.

Ernest Hemingway

2012-04-19T18:35:00+00:00

The world breaks everyone and afterward many are strong in the broken places. But those that will not break it kills. It kills the very good and the very gentle and the very brave impartially.

W. C. Fields

2012-04-18T23:00:00+00:00

If at first you don’t succeed, try, try again. Then quit. No use being a damn fool about it.

Richard Bach

2012-04-18T23:00:00+00:00

Real love stories never have endings.

Barbara Bush

2012-04-18T23:00:00+00:00

Clinton lied. A man might forget where he parks or where he lives, but he never forgets oral sex, no matter how bad it is.