Archive for the 'quotes' Category

“The last place any artist should occupy…

Dec 07 by tom in Culture, Poetry, quotes

…is the middle ground. Extremes (and complexities) of emotional response are pretty much our stock-in-trade. It might well be the ethos of the middle-brow suburban working stiff to parrot the old-media-spawned desirability of a ‘balanced’ perspective but the unbalanced, unpopular, subversive, perverse, creepy, critical, curious, unconventional and not-always-well-intentioned are just a few of the acceptable positions for genuinely creative and/or inquisitive minds”

-Hazel Dooney

“Creativity is about understanding implications….”

Sep 27 by tom in quotes

“Depression is also about understanding implications, but maybe too many of them.”

-Lucas, during a conversation On Happiness, which I really need to write about later.

"You can be pretty…"

Aug 30 by tom in quotes

“…and still rule the world.” – Kristen Gosselin while ranting about feminists not wearing bras (when they should be) and not… grooming.

"That’s why I had to buy an external hard drive…"

Jun 03 by tom in quotes

"…Just because it’s midget porn doesn’t mean the file sizes are smaller."

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May 12 by tom in quotes

"If someone gives you ruled paper, write the other way."
  -anonymous classmate during a group… art… event…. thing, I guess.  I should probably detail that later.

“It’s so easy…”

Jan 11 by tom in quotes

“…to get up in front of a bunch of liberal poets and be like ‘Fuckin’ Bush is a douche,’  but, ah, some people, man, you mess with the booze and they’re like, ‘What’d you say?’  Still tip the bartenders, it’s not their fault, everybody. Seriously.”

Jamie Kilstein – Alcohol

“I’m just so intelligent…

Jan 10 by tom in quotes

…that my thoughts tend to branch too far out.”

-Kimberly Brawell “Saul Williams Scratching His Balls”

“He should have been telling me…”

Dec 30 by tom in quotes

 ”to run BankManager.exe, not telling me to execute the bank manager.”

- the gibberish running through my head when I woke up.

“Loving the wrong girl…

Dec 27 by tom in quotes

…only leads to drinking alone.”

-Ikey, October Road

“I just want to wallow in self-pity and cookie.”

Dec 10 by tom in quotes

I’m feelin’ that.  And, in a moment of dark irony, that was spoken by the woman who is the proximate cause for the desire to wallow.