I am not someone who is loved. I’m an idea. A state of mind.

By clinging to reality, you’re denying the reality of the situation.

You think it all breaks down into symbolism and structures and hints and clues. No, Batman, that’s just Wikipedia.

I’m not mad at all. I’m just differently sane.

Can somebody tell me what kind of a world we live in, where a man dressed up as a bat gets all of my press?

Do I look like the kind of clown that can start a movement?

When I saw what a black, awful joke the world was, I went crazy as a coot!

Is he?

Why would I feel insulted?

Sometimes what we think is a disappointment, is really God getting us in position to go to a new level.

Don’t let it get you down, you can take it, and if it hurts, don’t let them see you cry, you can make it. Hold your head up, woman. Hold your head high.

Your body language can tell a different story from what’s going on inside of you. Hold your head high, shoulders back, and chest out. Others will see confidence, and soon you’ll feel confident too.

Life moves on, whether we act as cowards or heroes. Life has no other discipline to impose if we would but realize it than to accept life unquestioningly. Everything we shut our eyes to, everything we run away from, everything we deny, denigrate or despise, serves to defeat us in the end. What seems nasty, painful, and evil can become a source of beauty, joy, and strength if faced with an open mind. Every moment is a golden one for him who has the vision to recognize it as such.

When things aren’t too good, you can change them by changing your perception of the situation.

I may be the black sheep of the family, but some of the white sheep aren’t as white as they try to appear.

When you have to teach yourself how to say sounds, when you have to be highly concerned about pronunciation, it gives you a certain awareness of sonics, of the auditory experience.

To see the Summer Sky
Is Poetry, though never in a Book it lie –
True Poems flee.

They say that God is everywhere, and yet we always think of Him as somewhat of a recluse.

The brain is wider than the sky.

Old age comes on suddenly, and not gradually as is thought.

Monkey, you have shown me great skills but I also sense in you, great pain.

Your intuitive factor is what picks up other peoples vibration.

Perhaps pain is like a name, made to sing just for you.

The more grateful I am, the more beauty I see.

A man’s character may be learned from the adjectives which he habitually uses in conversation.

You can’t depend on your eyes when your imagination is out of focus.

Clothes make the man. Naked people have little or no influence on society.

The reports of my death have been greatly exaggerated.

I’ma show you exactly what you like. You look corny.

If you don’t believe in yourself, I don’t think people will believe in you.

It’s a dog-eat-dog world when it comes to music and how people perceive it.

Who are we, if not
What we make of the dark.

This poem & its pain are both imagined & as real as we are. That is to say, through some fictions we find fact; in some fantasies we discover ourselves & then some. Even without living it, a memory can live on in us. The past is never gone, just not yet found.

As far away as it is,
The late sun looks
Peelable in our palm.
That is to say, distance
Renders all massiveness
Carriable.

How did it get so late so soon? It’s night before it’s afternoon. December is here before it’s June. My goodness how the time has flewn. How did it get so late so soon?

Dreaming about being an actress, is more exciting then being one.

Boys think girls are like books, if the cover doesn’t catch their eye they won’t bother to read what’s inside.

I’ve never fooled anyone. I’ve let people fool themselves. They didn’t bother to find out who and what I was. Instead they would invent a character for me. I wouldn’t argue with them. They were obviously loving somebody I wasn’t.

I did work in a strip club, but I didn’t strip. I danced, and I became very popular.

There’s a world of difference between truth and facts. Facts can obscure the truth.

You are the sum total of everything you’ve ever seen, heard, eaten, smelled, been told, forgot – it’s all there. Everything influences each of us, and because of that I try to make sure that my experiences are positive.

Mr. Nobody: Thanks to your botched Berlin job, you all made Interpol’s top 10 most wanted list.
Roman Pearce: Top 10? That’s alright!
Mr. Nobody: Well, not you Roman.
Roman Pearce: What do you mean?
Mr. Nobody: You just missed the cut, you’re number 11. So…
Roman Pearce: I missed? That’s impossible! What number did they come in at?
Eric Reisner: [Points to Hobbs] 6.
Eric Reisner: [Points to Letty] 8.
Eric Reisner: [Points to Tej] 9.
Eric Reisner: [Points to Ramsey] 10.
Roman Pearce: She’s 10? That’s impossible, there’s no way she’s a 10.
Tej: Oh, she’s definitely a 10.

When someone shows you who they are, believe them the first time.

Light travels faster than sound. This is why some people appear bright until they speak.

He who can no longer pause to wonder and stand rapt in awe, is as good as dead; his eyes are closed.

The true sign of intelligence is not knowledge but imagination.

Reality is merely an illusion, albeit a very persistent one.

Who knows? Insanity is comparative. Who sets the norm?

people run from rain but
sit
in bathtubs full of
water.

I saw her walk in out of the corner of my eye. Why do they say “corner of the eye”? Eyes have no corners.

Sometimes a phone made me think of an elephant turd. You know, all the shit you hear. A phone is a phone but what comes through it is another matter.

Hell was what you made it.

Truth changes as men change, and when truth becomes stable men will become dead, and the insect and the fire and the flood will become truth.

I was only photographing in words the reality of it all.

“What’s the easiest fucking thing to take?” I asked him.
“Journalism. Those journalism majors don’t do anything.”
“O.K., I’ll be a journalist.”

I was like a turd that drew flies instead of like a flower that butterflies and bees desired. I wanted to live alone, I felt best being alone, cleaner.

Dom: How ’bout you tell us where that device is?
Ramsey: I mailed it to a friend. In Abu Dhabi.
Brian: That was pretty easy. That other team wanted to torture you for that information.
Ramsey: I didn’t trust them. I trust you.
Letty: Now why would you trust us? You barely know us.
Ramsey: I know enough.
Ramsey: [looks at Brian] Ex-cop. Military, something like that. The way you took out those guys shows training.
Ramsey: [looks at Tej] Tech guy, offended by the hacker remark, naturally.
Ramsey: [looks at Dom and Letty] Alpha. Ms. Alpha.
Ramsey: [looks at Roman] Joker.
Roman Pearce: Wrong. Double alpha. Man-candy. You know what I’m saying?
Tej: Man, sit your candy ass down.
Roman Pearce: The disrespect is real around here.

Letty: That girl you remember, it’s not me.
Dom: Not from what I just saw. Like it or not, you’re still the same girl.

They won’t be able to see you?

Not as stupid as you look, are you, Dud? But I s’pose, if you were, you wouldn’t be able to walk and talk at the same time.

Hey, buddy, you’re not pretending anymore. You’re plastic. Cold, shiny, hard plastic.

That one there, that’s Karen Smith. She is one of the dumbest girls you will ever meet.

Fun fact: Alcohol increases the size of the ‘send’ button by 89%.

Just because I don’t care doesn’t mean I don’t understand.

My religion consists of a humble admiration of the illimitable superior spirit who reveals himself in the slight details we are able to perceive with our frail and feeble mind.

Are you still asleep or is that just another of your creepy attempts of being funny?

The mind is everything. What you think you become.

It wasn’t love at first sight. It took a full five minutes.

Let us come alive to the splendor of all around us and see the beauty in ordinary things.

Oh, don’t let what Kyo said bother you. You see, he THINKS he’s being manly but, really, he doesn’t have a clue what true manliness

It’s strange. His personality seems much more gentle than I imagined.

You make it sound that she’s been kidnapped.

That’s what you want to see, right? Because if he’s not as awful as you think, then you wouldn’t have anyone to hate.

Thank you. I can never tell for sure how much of me you see: my cowardice, my resolve. I think you probably see both. And

It’s a waste of time to think about what you might lose in life, and so the traveler paid no mind to such things. My

It’s not like you know what she’s holding deep in her heart — you’ve never felt it.

You’re not too quick, are you? Really! Everyone talks about you like you’re somethin’ special. I don’t see what’s the big deal. You don’t seem

Saki Hanajima: How sad… love, doomed from the start.
Shigure Sohma: Oh, you’re reading that? What do you think?
Saki Hanajima: You don’t want to know what

The way you talk, Rin… It’s like it’s WRONG to be loved by your parents. Like peace is superficial… And a BAD thing.

The people around you aren’t blaming you or criticizing you as much as you think. So you can have a little more composure.

And Yuki… Isn’t the closed up little boy that he used to be. Now then… The fool who is making the biggest misunderstanding… Is WHO?

What does the world look like through your eyes! You make me wonder.

Dom: It starts with the eyes. She’s gotta have those kind of eyes that can look right through the bullshit, to the good in someone. 20% angel, 80% devil. Down to earth. Ain’t afraid to get a little engine grease under her fingernails.
Gisele Harabo: That doesn’t sound anything like me.
Dom: It ain’t.

Cindy: Nice car.
Shawn Boswell: It does the job.
Cindy: Doing what? Delivering pizzas?
Shawn Boswell: It’s not the ride, it’s the rider.
Clay: You talking to my girl?
Shawn Boswell: She was just admiring my ride.
Clay: That? My grandma’s Buick can smoke that piece of shit trailer trash!
Shawn Boswell: What about your daddy’s Viper?
Clay: This beast’s got 500-horsepower and a Borla exhaust system. It does 0-60 in what, 4.3 seconds?
Shawn Boswell: Wow. You can read the brochure.

What you don’t worry about gives someone else insomnia.

The thought has occurred to millions of men, while shaving; the removal of life might be preferred to, the removal of hair.

Brian: I got a name. David Park.
Agent Ben Stasiak: That’s it? A name? I could throw a fortune cookie and it will go through the window of 50 David Parks.
FBI Agent #1: It’s Korean. Not Chinese.

If only we were crazy enough to be willing to ignore our mechanical and static perceptions we’d know that a half-filled coffee cup holds more secrets than, say, the Grand Canyon.

The choice is always yours. Your perception is your reality.

No, no, no. I’m not insulting you. I’m just describing you.

All experiences are preceded by mind, having mind as their master, created by mind.

Some people feel the rain. Others just get wet.

The forces you are struggling with, that you feel are holding you back – are illusions. They are not real – they never have been. See only the good that you desire in your mind.

The Spanish Influenza did not originate in Spain. In fact the first recorded case was in the United States, in Kansas, on March 9th, 1918. Beware the Ides of March. But because Spain was neutral in World War I, it did not sensor reports of the disease to the public. To tell the truth then, is to risk being remembered by its fiction. Countless countries laid blame to one another. What the US called the Spanish Influenza, Spain called the French Flu, or the Naples Soldier. What Germans dubbed the Russian Pest, the Russians called Chinese Flu.

People see so many movies that when they finally see one not so bad as the others, they think it’s great. An Academy Award means that you don’t stink quite as much as your cousin.

what she doesn’t realize is
that – usually – only boring people
get bored.

Life’s as kind as you let it be.

Eleven years. Although each night had been long, the years had gone fast.

you fall into the mirror,
come through the other
side
staring at a lightbulb.

I walked around the block twice, passed 200 people and failed to see a human being.

One can never be sure whether it’s good poetry or bad acid.

You never get a chance to explain to him that when a man puts that uniform on that he is the paid protector of things of the present time. He is here to see that things stay the way they are. If you like the way things are, then all cops are good cops. If you don’t like the way things are, then all cops are bad cops.

Parker had a young white boy with him – one of the neurotic tribe of the lost – and the kid’s eyes were filled with wet layers of tears. One big tear in each eye. They did not drop out. It was fascinating. I had seen women sit and look at me with those same eyes before they got mad and started screaming about what a son of a bitch I was.

Sometimes I could see that others in the class did not understand what W.W. Schieffelin Claytor was teaching. So I would ask questions to help them. He’d tell me that I should know the answer, and I finally had to tell him that I did know the answer, but the other students did not. I could tell.

Wow Chip, that chip on your shoulder makes you look even shorter.

Purple does something strange to me.

Vibrations never lie. A person could be saying one thing and yet, thinking another. Get to the point where you pay closer attention to the vibrations you are receiving rather than the words you are hearing. Intuition is one of the most valuable mental tools you possess. Begin to consciously use it. Your rewards will be worth the effort.

…even now someone might be envying another for something they don’t see in themselves. They might be longing for a quality they already possess. When I think of it that way even just a little I realize that I need to do my best with the qualities I have, even if I can’t always see what they are.

Spending time with you is the most enjoyable thing ever. When I am with you, time flies in an instant but every waking second spent away from you is agony. I miss you and love you!

I love you, not because you are perfect, but because you are so perfect for me.

Always remember that
What happened to us
Happened through us.

“All right”, one of the women said, “we know you think you’re too good for this job”.
“Too good?”
“Yes, your attitude. You think we didn’t notice it?”
That’s when I first learned that it wasn’t enough to just do your job, you had to have an interest in it, even a passion for it.

Children always understand much more than adults give them credit for. At the very least, they can tell if the intent was kind or hateful.

The Subconscious mind can not tell the difference between what’s real and what’s imagined.

Paradigm is a part of the conditioning of the mind, our conditioning thought patterns.

Learn to follow the quiet voice within that speaks in feelings rather than words; follow what you ‘hear’ inside, rather than what others may be telling you to do.

Time passes and you begin to see, people for who they really are and not who they pretend to be.

Tohru Honda: Shigure is always smiling. But, I wonder if I gave him some problems with my request.
Yuki Sohma: The only ones who can truly understand what Shigure is thinking is Hatori and… a few other people. Someone has said this before. It is said that he is like a “tide…” A tide that carries you away when you get too close to it. The tide touches your feet… But when you reach down to touch it, it will have already departed. It is within your reach, yet you may never catch it…

I may be white from the outside, but I’m brown on the inside, TO THE BONE.

I sense the Dragon Warrior is among us.

There is just news. There is no good or bad.

People are ugly not in their face but in their thoughts.

Your results are an expression of your level of awareness.

He said, “The thing which I greatly feared is come upon me” (Job 3:25). If you’re afraid of something, you’re going to attract it.

Do you think I’ll ever need you love more than you need me? Show me your true colors girl, I just want to see cause I done had too many come around and change on me.

Life isn’t about what happens to us. It’s about how we perceive what happens to us. Good Morning.

It’s amazing, really, how in one instant a wall can be torn down, or climbed over. Misconceptions can be shattered, illusions dashed, dreams irrevocably ruined. Given the right frame of mind, within a heartbeat, people can begin the business of starting over.

My idea about the whole thing was that most people weren’t alcoholics, they only thought that they were. It was something that couldn’t be rushed. It took at least twenty years to become a bonafide alcoholic. I was on my 45th year and didn’t regret any of it.

“How are his poems?”
“He’s not as good as he thinks he is, but then most of us feel that way.”

A strong man has perfect control over his impulses and perceptions.

Even if you are not feeling strong right now, just keep your head up because others will be happy to know that you are weak.

Change your perception of temporary defeat. Look at it as a set up for your big win.

The more I grow in popularity, the lonelier it gets. Because you don’t really know me. You just know this part of me. You fell in love with that. But it’s way more intricate than what meets the surface.

If you’re dissatisfied with something in your life, change your perception and use your imagination to upgrade your view and reshape your experience. You can achieve ANYTHING.

He’s the Cat. You know what’s going to happen to him. What his role is…How we all see him…You know all that, right? Is it sympathy?

A sleepless night is as long as a year.

Driving up I could see the crowd, but living in New Orleans, I actually thought it was Mardi Gras. There was a large crowd of people outside of the school. They were throwing things and shouting, and that sort of goes on in New Orleans at Mardi Gras.

People who have insomnia lie awake all night for an hour.

Vision is the ability to see God’s presence, to perceive God’s power, to focus on God’s plan in spite of the obstacles.

I’m walking this walk, and my life has nothing to do with my perception of the world. It’s all God! How do I function within His plan?

In school I was the one that was thinking outside boxes
So everybody in them would say that I got problems.

When it comes to your perception of my shit I’m Hellen Heckler.

That night I slept badly, thrashing about in my bed, not quite asleep and not quite awake. At times I had the feeling there was someone else in my bedroom who was talking to me, but of course I could not deal with this perception in any realistic way, since I was half-asleep and half-awake, and thus, for all practical purposes, I was out of my mind.

For His invisible attributes, namely his eternal power and divine nature, have been clearly perceived ever since the creation of the world in the things that have been made.

One has often wondered whether upon the whole earth there is anything so unintelligent, so unapt to perceive how the world is really going, as an ordinary young Englishman of our upper class.