A Few of My Favorite Things
Quotes
- A woman's highest calling is to lead a man to his soul so as to unite him with Source. A man's highest calling is to protect woman so she is free to walk the earth unharmed. --Cherokee proverb
- Any science, sufficiently advanced, is indistinguishable from magic. -- Arthur C. Clarke
- The key to happiness is low expectations.
- It is better to trust people, and be occasionally cheated, than to be perpetually suspicious.
- The people who need our love the most are usually those who deserve it the least.
- Earth is the laboratory, love is the lesson.
- A man may come to love the woman he is attracted to. A woman is always attracted to the man she loves.
- A man will give a relationship to get sex. A woman will give sex to get a relationship. Problem is, the relationship is easily (and routinely) faked. -- me
- Men make life possible, women make life worth living. -- me
- Good sex springs from a good relationship, not the other way around. -- Timothy Keller
- The only thing worse than a man you can't control is a man you can. -- Margo Kaufman
- Ye shall know the truth, and the truth shall make you free. -- Jesus
- Love is when you want the best for the other person. Infatuation is when you simply want the other person.
- A young person who is not Liberal, has no heart. An old person who is not Conservative, has no brain. -- Winston Churchill
- Lack of skill dictates economy of style. -- Joey Ramone of The Ramones
- Sometimes you have to be satisfied with success. -- me
- The door of Hell is locked from the inside. -- C.S. Lewis
- The reasonable man adapts himself to the world: the unreasonable one persists in trying to adapt the world to himself. Therefore all progress depends on the unreasonable man. -- George Bernard Shaw
- Das Heil der Welt liegt nicht in neuen Maßnahmen, sondern in einer anderen Gesinnung. -- Albert Schweitzer
- No, no, the other left
- Journalism is printing what someone else does not want printed: everything else is public relations. -- George Orwell
Movies
- Groundhog Day
- A Couch in New York
- The Last Seduction
- Dave
- Gifted
- The Shawshank Redemption
- Gladiator
- Good Will Hunting
- The Great Escape
- Dead Poets Society
- Scent of a Woman
- The Sound of Music
- Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid
- Leon the Professional
- Outland
- Local Hero
- Diva
- West Side Story (1961)
- A Pocketful of Miracles
- Lilies of the Field
- To Sir, with Love
- A Man for All Seasons
Of course, as a fan of science fiction, I have a definite weakness for all Star Wars, Star Trek, Matrix, and Lord of the Rings films.
Books
- Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance -- Robert M. Pirsig
- Lila -- Robert M. Pirsig
- Snow Crash --