Saturday, October 5, 2013 by adelina
Since Facebook has buried all of my meticulously curated quotations on my profile, I leave them here in their original form. At least someone can read them, even if the someone is just me.
And yes, many are from Doctor Who.
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Rule #27: Never knowingly be serious.
"If you did not write every day, the poisons would accumulate and you would begin to die, or act crazy or both-- you must stay drunk on writing so reality cannot destroy you." -Ray Bradbury
"My great concern is not whether you have failed, but whether you are content with your failure."
-Abraham Lincoln
“No one looks stupid when they’re having fun” - Amy Poehler
"Language is a strange thing, but she is my mistress."-Stephen Fry
"Cynics are, in the end, only idealists with awkwardly high standards."- Alain de Botton
Isabelle: It’s a shame you’re not a girl.
Xavier: The world is made badly.
-L'Auberge Espangnole
"I can’t conceive of art without a social context. It’s not just what you as an individual want to express; it must be understandable by others." -Maria Yampolsky
"There is no point in being grown-up if you can't be childish sometimes."-The Doctor (Four)
"The thing that will choke your art before anything is capitalism." -Lisa Schlessinger
"Identity can be so gelatinous sometimes."- Neil Gaiman
"It is not inertia alone that is responsible for human relationships repeating themselves from case to case, indescribably monotonous and unrenewed: it is shyness before any sort of new, unforeseeable experience with which one does not think oneself able to cope. But only someone who is ready for everything, who excludes nothing, not even the most enigmatical, will live the relation to another as something alive. " --Rilke
“What is that feeling when you’re driving away from people and they recede on the plain till you see their specks dispersing? —it’s the too-huge world vaulting us, and it’s good-bye. But we lean forward to the next crazy venture beneath the skies. ”— Jack Kerouac
"I cannot believe that the purpose of life is to be happy. I think the purpose of life is to be useful, to be responsible, to be compassionate. It is, above all to matter, to count, to stand for something, to have made some difference that you lived at all." - Leo Rosten
"Oh, did you have to [say] 'There's no turning back?' That's almost as bad as 'Nothing can possibly go wrong' or 'These are going to be the best Christmas waffles I've ever had!'" --Doctor Who
