Quoted

annelaure — Wed, 26 May 2010 16:18:31 GMT

Those who turn good (organizations) into great (organizations) are
motivated by a deep creative urge and an inner compulsion for sheer
unadulterated excellence for its own sake.

-- Jim Collins, author of "Good to Great"

annelaure — Wed, 26 May 2010 16:08:00 GMT

From long familiarity, we know what honor is. It is what enables the
individual to do right in the face of complacency and cowardice. It
is what enables the soldier to die alone, the political prisoner to
resist, the singer to sing her song, hardly appreciated, on a side
street.

-- Mark Helprin () American Novelist and Writer

After all, Fortune favors the Bold

diana_terrill — Wed, 31 Mar 2010 15:46:09 GMT

What you can do, or dream you can do, begin it; boldness has genius, power and magic in it.
- Johann von Goethe

One of my favorites.

annelaure — Fri, 05 Feb 2010 00:04:07 GMT

Nothing ever becomes real until it is experienced.

-- John Keats

annelaure — Fri, 15 Jan 2010 23:30:22 GMT

If you have not often felt the joy of doing a kind act, you have
neglected much, and most of all yourself.

-- A. Neilen

superbean12 — Mon, 04 Jan 2010 00:07:15 GMT

I'm Airlyeth, and I repel technology.

1. Alias: Airlyeth
2. Age: 19
3. Gender: Female
4. Location: England
5. Vices: Cuddly toys, Peanut Butter, Men, Poetry and Love.
6. Last book you read: The Lost Symbol by Dan Brown
7. Last CD you bought: Leonard Cohen's Greatest Hits
8. Quote from your LJ: "The only sound is that of the world outside this bubble I'm living in; kids laughing and playing in the street, a plane gliding by towards some exotic destination, the turn of a page of a wonderful book and the shuffle of insects."
9. An unforgettable or favorite quote:"If death meant just leaving the stage long enough to change costume and come back as a new character, would you slow down? Or speed up?" - Chuck Palahniuk
10. How did you hear about quoted? Searched for 'lyrics'.</div>

Fiction

sanglupa — Thu, 31 Dec 2009 01:52:48 GMT

"What we search for in fiction is not so much reality, but the epiphany of truth."
-Azar Nafisi, Reading Lolita in Tehran

whatever_freak — Wed, 18 Nov 2009 13:06:58 GMT

Does anyone know where this quote is from? Is it from a song, a book, a film? Or is it just something from the Internet?:

"i need to know that you are alive and well somewhere in this world even if it's not by my side"

Thanks! :)

Icebreaker

faeriedae — Mon, 16 Nov 2009 19:14:11 GMT

1. Alias: Danielle
2. Age: 20
3. Gender: Female
4. Location: USA
5. Vices: Love, Lust, Self destruction, Pizza
6. Last book you read: Breaking Dawn
7. Last CD you bought: Corrine Bailey Rae
8. Quote from your LJ: "I was afraid of committing for so long because I thought I would feel tied down...but if anything, I feel liberated."
9. An unforgettable or favorite quote: "Homesickness is just a state of mind for me. I'm always missing someone or someplace or something, I'm always trying to get back to some imaginary somewhere. My life has been one long longing." -Elizabeth Wurtzel, Prozac Nation
10. How did you hear about quoted? Searched for 'muses'</div>

Icebreaker

christystewart — Fri, 13 Nov 2009 16:45:52 GMT

1. Alias: None
2. Age: 24
3. Gender (due to unisex names): Female
4. Location: California
5. Vices: I don't concider anything I do a vice
6. Last book you read: Everything You Know Is Wrong: The Disinformation Guide to Secrets and Lies by Russ Kick (editor)
7. Last CD you bought: Who buys CDs anymore???....Uhh...The Presidents of the United States of America in 1995
8. Quote from your LJ (quote yourself): "All I want is for my future son to send his father back in time, in robot form, and impregnate me."
9. An unforgettable or favorite quote: "Mythology is ancient psychology and psychology is recent mythology." — cf. Hillman
10. How did you hear about quoted? I think I searched 'books'

dragon_hawk — Fri, 13 Nov 2009 15:25:46 GMT

"A tree becomes a nest the moment a great dreamer hides in it."
_{Gaston Bachelard, from 'The Poetics of Space'.}

giraffeeffarig — Fri, 16 Oct 2009 14:51:22 GMT

does anyone know of any good quotes about hiding yourself or protecting yourself?
I'm going through a really awful break up and I need some insight and strength to never give my heart out ever again.

diana_terrill — Sun, 16 Aug 2009 01:19:29 GMT

The proper function of man is to live, not to exist. I shall not waste my days in trying to prolong them. I shall use my time.
- -- Jack London

annelaure — Mon, 03 Aug 2009 09:16:00 GMT

To do the useful thing, to say the courageous thing, to contemplate
the beautiful thing: that is enough for one man's life.

-- T. S. Eliot (1888-1965) American Poet

annelaure — Fri, 03 Jul 2009 09:12:59 GMT

Creativity is inventing, experimenting, growing, taking risks,
breaking rules, making mistakes, and having fun.

-- Mary Lou Cook

icebreaker

giraffeeffarig — Thu, 02 Jul 2009 16:09:39 GMT

1. Alias: Liser
2. Age: achtzehn
3. Gender (due to unisex names): junge Frau
4. Location: USA :[
5. Vices: attempting to speak german, car rides, fairy tales, funny translations, jenny lewis, linguistics, lovers with soul-power, short stories, sylvia plath, tiny bars in berlin, tom robbins, trains, travel,
6. Last book you read: Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close by Jonathan Safran Foer
7. Last CD you bought: no idear
8. Quote from your LJ (quote yourself): O_______O okay: "It's like trying to forget about Michael Jackson when he is all that's on the radio and all that's on TV and all that's on textsfromlastnight.com and all that anyone can ever talk about."
9. An unforgettable or favorite quote: "The difficult, I'll do right now. The impossible will take a little while" - Billie Holiday
10. How did you hear about quoted? searches for "current events"

A Lion Among Men

5dollarbill — Sun, 28 Jun 2009 23:22:14 GMT

“He hadn't yet had enough experience with humans to know that the thing they hold dearest to their hearts, the last thing they relinquish when all else is fading, is the consoling belief in the inferiority of others. "
— Gregory Maguire, A Lion Among Men

"We start out in identical perfection: bright, reflective, full of sun. The accident of our lives bruises us into dirty individuality. We meet with grief. Our character dulls and tarnishes. We meet with guilt. We know, we know: the price of living is corruption. There isn’t as much light as there once was. In the grave we lapse back into undifferentiated sameness."
— Gregory Maguire, A Lion Among Men

"But one doesn't want to live wrong--from breath to breath, from start to finish, to get it wrong, so wrong, so fully wrong, that one has never had the glimmer of an idea that it might be better. Or does one? Maybe if you're going to get it wrong, it's better to get it all wrong. The proverbial stupid ant crawling on the hat brim of the prophet, eager only for the shade behind the prophet's left ear, and ignorant of the civilization-altering sermon it is witnessing."
— Gregory Maguire, A Lion Among Men

Hello, my name is Brenna and I'm a quotaholic

5dollarbill — Fri, 26 Jun 2009 19:12:48 GMT

1. Alias: Brenna
2. Age: 18
3. Gender (due to unisex names): Female
4. Location: Until 2 weeks ago, it was the SF Bay Area. Now it's New York, New York
5. Vices: cheap beer, ganja, speeding, illegal downloading, frozen yogurt, and thrift stores
6. Last book you read: A Lion Among Men (The Wicked Years)
7. Last CD you bought: I'm Not There Soundtrack
8. Quote from your LJ (quote yourself): "AUGH, BOYS."
9. An unforgettable or favorite quote: "Here's to the crazy ones. The misfits. The rebels. The troublemakers. The round pegs in the square holes. The ones who see things differently. They're not fond of rules. And they have no respect for the status quo. You can praise them, disagree with them, quote them, disbelieve them, glorify or vilify them. About the only thing you can't do is ignore them. Because they change things. They invent. They imagine. They heal. They explore. They create. They inspire. They push the human race forward... While some see them as the crazy ones, we see genius. Because the people who are crazy enough to think they can change the world, are the ones who do." - an Apple Computer ad
10. How did you hear about quoted I searched for "quotes" in interests :P

devlinski — Thu, 25 Jun 2009 20:08:40 GMT

"Chaos must be met with greater chaos." -Kathe Koja

annelaure — Wed, 24 Jun 2009 10:09:55 GMT

There is only one real failure in life that is possible, and that is,
not to be true to the best one knows.

-- John Farrar (1945-) Australian Composer

Ice

diana_terrill — Fri, 22 May 2009 17:52:51 GMT

“A book must be an ice-axe to break the seas frozen inside our soul.”
Franz Kafka

oiseaurouge — Fri, 22 May 2009 05:11:02 GMT

"Without music, life would be a mistake."

- Friedrich Nietzsche

charlesirl — Thu, 21 May 2009 21:25:22 GMT

"I have never been intimidated by words because they have always been on my side."
~Alix Olson

oiseaurouge — Thu, 21 May 2009 06:46:32 GMT

"I put my heart and my soul into my work, and have lost my mind in the process."

- Vincent Van Gogh

diana_terrill — Wed, 20 May 2009 03:30:19 GMT

On faith in self

"even if it is cold, lonely, hard to go and you can't see the way, you must keep going... or die...
life is not for those who are weak, but for those who believe." ~ Nataly