“She said she said”, The Beatles (notable quotables collection)

The best quotes I’ve compiled throughout the past few months. Long, but worth the read. In some cases (which are duly noted) they come from status updates of Facebook friends (if I remembered who they came from : ). Plus some comments

I'm selfish, impatient & a little insecure. I make mistakes, I am out of control & at times hard to handle. But if you can't handle me at my worst, then you sure as hell don't deserve me at my best.
- Marilyn Monroe (DAMN STRAIGHT, SISTER)

I have always had a repulsive need to be something more than human
- David Bowie (so have I, bb) via Ana L

I don't take drugs, I am the drug
- Salvador Dali via Luisa F

We accept reality so readily, perhaps because we sense that nothing is real.
- “The Immortal”, Jorge Luis Borges via Olivia R

You give a little love & it all comes back to you. You know you gonna be remembered for the things you say & do
- Bugsy Malone via Eduardo B

The unreal is more powerful than the real, because nothing is as perfect as you can imagine it. Because it’s only intangible ideas, concepts, beliefs, fantasies, that last. Stone crumbles. Wood roots. People, well, they die, but things as fragile as a thought, a dream, a legend, they can go on & on forever.
- Chuck Palahniuk via Daniela G (I think)

Lots of people want to ride in the limo, but what you want is someone who will take the bus with you when the limo breaks down.
- Oprah via Pierce R

I have found the paradox, that if you love until it hurts, there can be no more hurt, only more love
- Mother Teresa via Jaime K (not sure I agree, but it does sound pretty)

The biggest disease today is not leprosy or tuberculosis but rather the feeling of being unwanted, uncared for & deserted by everybody
- Mother Teresa via Jaime K

The more sensitive you are, the more certain you are to be brutalized, develop scabs, never evolve. Never allow yourself to feel anything, because you always feel too much
- Marlon Brando, probably via the Manic Street Preachers

Then came human beings. They wanted to cling but there was nothing to cling to
- Camus via the Manic Street Preachers

Life begins on the other side of despair.
- Sartre via the Manic Street Preachers

Perhaps when we find ourselves wanting everything it is because we are dangerously near wanting nothing
- Sylvia Plath via Esther VV (I think)

* When people agree with me, I always get the feeling I must be wrong.
** What is a cynic? A man who knows the price of everything & the value of nothing
*** The public is wonderfully tolerant. It forgives everything except genius."
- Oscar Wilde via Steven DB

Consideramos falsa cualquier verdad no acompañada por al menos una carcajada
- via Lucas PL

Your body's dying. Pay no attention, it happens to us all.
- Anne Rice’s Lestat de Lioncourt, probably via Fernando M

The most courageous act is still to think for yourself. Aloud
- Coco Chanel, probably via Julia Frakes

Men seldom make passes at girls who wear glasses
- Dorothy Parker via Julia Frakes (I love boys with glasses, though. I think glasses are HOT. Especially thick black nerdy ones à la Rivers Cuomo. So if I were a man, I would TOTALLY make passes @ girls with glasses. I just think it’s a really clever phrase)

Any kind of pain is probably her hobby
- Frank Zappa via Tini D

Would it have been worth while
If one, setting a pillow or throwing off a shawl,
& turning toward the window, should say:
"That is not it at all,
That is not what I meant at all”
- The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock via Kelley W

There is a man playing a violin & the strings are the nerves in his own arm
- "The Crow", James O'Barr via Kelley W

Did you know that dolphins are just gay sharks?
- Britney (“Glee”) via Nacho C

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I used to think that everyone was just being funny/ironic but now I don't know. I mean, how can you tell?
- Andy Warhol (I have a similar problem on a day-to-day basis, but usually the other way around)

It’s better to have a problem than to be a problem
- Sri Sri Ravi Shankar (nice one, Guruji)

I never think of the future, it comes soon enough
- Albert Einstein (same here)

You are what you love and not what loves you back.
- Jenny Lewis (dunno if it’s right, but I like the point of view)

Adults are, like, this mess of sadness & phobias
- Eternal sunshine of the spotless mind (movie is pretty overrated if u ask me, but I agree w/ this quote, which is why I don’t wanna be one)

Yes! I am a drama queen
- Richey Edwards (me 2)

David [Bowie] is an extraordinarily nice man. He’s very gentle & he has a tremendous ability to put people at ease. David & I don’t talk about life as major rock stars. We like to talk about books & flowers a lot.
- Morrissey (sensitive guys FTW)

There is always some madness in love. But there is also always some reason in madness
- Nietzche (how romantic)

My life is an open book, but don't expect me to read it to you
- David Hyde Pierce

A crazy person is one who dreams while awake
- Immanuel Kant

How would I like to be remembered? As a person who came & brought light to the world, Some escapism. Also as the voice for the voiceless children, because I love them. I’m living for the children. If it weren’t for the kids, I would throw in the towel. A baby, a child - now that’s amazing. They’re little geniuses, you know, little geniuses. They really are.
- Michael Jackson (kids > adults)

Christmases can only been tolerated with the involvement of children who still believe in it & its magic
- Arsenio Sereno, accidental poet, via Galera Intelectual y Frívola magazine

Life is a farce in which all must perform
- Arthur Rimbaud (I think it depends what kind of ppl you’re hanging around)

All desires are for happiness. That is the goal of desire, isn't it? How often does your desire lead you to the goal? But have you thought about the nature of desire? It simply means tomorrow, and not now, isn't it? Joy is never tomorrow. It is always now.
- Sri Sri Ravi Shankar

[Regarding the need to make lists] A good way to defeat death, to feel less defenceless. Or to organize chaos & digression.
- Umberto Eco

Don't fight darkness. Bring the light, & darkness will disappear
- Maharishi Mahesh Yogi

This is how I would love to be: an ethical monster without empathy, doing what is to be done in a weird coincidence of blind spontaneity & reflexive distance, helping others while avoiding their disgusting proximity
- Slavoj Zizek (sounds like a description of DR GREGORY HOUSE, no?)

There aren’t things one doesn’t/can’t joke about, there are just people who don’t understand jokes
- Boris Vian who reminds me infinitely of Eugenia C bc she was always talking about him

Much of what we called ‘depression’ was really dissatisfaction, a result of setting a bar impossibly high or expecting treasures that we weren’t willing to work for.
- Mitch Albom (that’s one way to look @ it)

Hello, I'm Conan O'Brien, and I'm just three days away from the biggest drinking binge in history
- “The Tonight Show”, Conan

Reject your sense of injury and the injury itself disappears.
- Marcus Aurelius

The devil will find work for idle hands to do
- “What difference does it make”, The Smiths (trufax)

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-Why do you make Facebook friends with everybody you've met in person?
-Dan G: Because I collect them, like Pokemons

"I have no idea what I'm doing," returns 14,800,000 results on Google. Thank God I'm not the only one.
- Ellie R

I’m experiencing deja-vu &amnesia at the same time -- I think I’ve forgotten this before
- Jennzah M

In 2010, may god give you twice as much as you wish for me
- Ezequiel M

This ranks astoundingly high on the "oh no!" list.
- Julia Frakes

“I may not show up”, he said to himself
- Luke P

Source unknown

A founding text of 20th-century pop culture is Peter Pan, premiered in 1904. At the start of a century obsessed with adolescence, J.M.Barrie wrote a play about a boy who never grew up. From the beginning, the boy was played by a young woman; this tradition continues to the present day. As Gerber states, Peter Pan is played by a woman, because "a woman will never grow up to be a man".

I wish money would have sex in my pocket and multiply
- ? via Esther V V

[insert username] wants to be a singer in a rock band, live a life of fame and excess, & die a legend.

Life is 50% learning to get what you like, & 50% learning to like what you got.

No situation is ever hopeless. Because whatever the situation may be, the moment you start to take action, you change it.

Love is not what we want to feel but rather what we feel without wanting to

Meditation is seeing God in yourself, Love is seeing God in the person next to you, Knowledge is seeing God everywhere, Expression of love is service, Expression of joy is a smile, Expression of peace is meditation, Expression of God is conscious action

Keep away from those who try to belittle your ambitions. Small people always do that, but the really great make you believe that you too can become great



She said “I know what it’s like to be dead”
- "She said she said", The Beatles

The Forever 27 Club, Mate, Nos da

"The statistical anomaly of some of our greatest musicians dying at the age of 27 has created mystery and intrigue. One thing is for sure: this incredible group of people changed the world"

The Forever 27 Club

A tribute to Jimi Hendrix, Janis Joplin, Kurt Cobain, Jim Morrisson, Brian Jones...Richey Edwards is also mentioned bc he was 27 when he vanished.
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I was talking about this w/ a friend today while we drank mate in a park. MATE! Ha, I never drink mate. It's so Argentine. I tried to get into it during my last year of high school while studying. I had a really cool turquoise thermos. That was probably my favorite part of the whole business. & if you don't know what mate is...

The whole mate drinking thing is like a ritual, actually, but I'm too lazy to explain. Big surprise. Then again, I'm not the person to talk about mate as I don't even drink it. SoOoO...Goodnight nos da...
HEY MANIXFANS! I can't think the word Goodnight or say it without hearing "nos da" in my head immediately afterwards. Um...I can say, in all certainty, that It's Nicky Wire's Fault!
HEY NON MANIXFANS! I was going to explain, but it's one of those things where if you don't like the band, you won't care : P Normally I would explain regardless of this, but again I'm too lazy/tired. BYEBYE!

Jam your brain with broken heroes

Find your faith in your security
All broken up at seventeen
Jam your brain with broken heroes
Love your masks & adore your failures
- "Stay beautiful", Manic Street Preachers

Tilikum (whale)/Dawn Brancheau (trainer)

If you forget my name
You will go astray
Like a killer whale
Trapped in a bay
- “Bachelorette”, Bjork

So for some reason I can’t stop thinking about the case of Tilly/Dawn. I dunno whether to refer to it as the orca who killed her trainer or the trainer who was killed by an orca. I feel so bad for both of them. On the one hand, an animal taken from its natural habitat @ two years of age then kept in captivity for 30, taught to perform for an audience, etc. On the other hand, Dawn (the trainer), whose childhood dream since she first visited Sea World @ the age of 10 was to be an orca trainer. Even for those of us who think it’s wrong to keep animals captive & make them perform for the entertainment of the people…those trainers love them. The animals are their lives. Dawn was her trainer for 16 years. SIXTEEN YEARS. & then Tilly killed her. That’s just so sad. She weighs 4 tons, the biggest orca in captivity in the world. Was she aware of her power & what she was doing? Or was she just having a bad day & letting off some steam? I think animals do know...Also she’d been “involved” in the deaths of two humans before…but not 100% directly - once a trainer fell into a tank with Tilly & two other orcas, one of which drowned her. But not Tilly!- another time a dude with mental problems appeared dead in Tilly’s tank. Apparently officials said he died of hypothermia but it was also said that he had a bite mark.

So I dunno how I feel about it. Maybe she did it on purpose, but being in captivity had driven the poor thing batty. Is that an excuse? I DUNNO. It's often hard for me to make up my mind as I agree with both sides.

Source: Clarin.com. But here's a CNN article in English.

On another note, I’ve always been an animal lover. As a child after seeing Free Willy, I called the 1800 number @ the end of the movie & made a donation to the I-dunno-what foundation for whales/orcas (maybe it was Save the whales?). They mailed me a tape with the Michael Jackson song from the film, among other stuff. I think that was my very 1st tape ever.