Month: November 2014

“A tramp, a gentleman, a poet, a dreamer, a lonely fellow, always hopeful of romance and adventure.” ~ Charlie Chaplin

“He called me vermin! She called me rodent! Let’s see if you can laugh after five or six good shots in your freakin’ face!” ~ Rocket Raccoon

“To give thanks in solitude is enough. Thanksgiving has wings and goes where it must go. Your prayer knows much more about it than you do.” ~ Victor Hugo

“I never found a companion that was so companionable as solitude.” ~ Henry David Thoreau

“As winter strips the leaves from around us, so that we may see the distant regions they formerly concealed, so old age takes away our enjoyments only to enlarge the prospect of the coming eternity.” ~ Jean Paul

“Just give me a comfortable couch, a dog, a good book, and a woman. Then if you can get the dog to go somewhere and read the book, I might have a little fun.” ~ Groucho Marx

“Never cut a tree down in the wintertime. Never make a negative decision in the low time. Never make your most important decisions when you are in your worst moods. Wait. Be patient. The storm will pass. The spring will come.” ~ Robert H. Schuller

“Science knows no country, because knowledge belongs to humanity, and is the torch which illuminates the world. Science is the highest personification of the nation because that nation will remain the first which carries the furthest the works of thought and intelligence.” ~ Louis Pasteur

“Create like a god, command like a king, work like a slave.” ~ Constantin Brancusi

“To have command is to have all the power you will ever need. To have all the power you will ever need, is to have the world in the palm of you hand.” ~ Tiberius

“I have come to regard November as the older, harder man’s October. I appreciate the early darkness and cooler temperatures. It puts my mind in a different place than October. It is a month for a quieter, slightly more subdued celebration of summer’s death as winter tightens its grip.” ~ Henry Rollins

“Yesterday’s weirdness is tomorrow’s reason why.” ~ Hunter S. Thompson

I don’t want to rest in peace
I’d rather be the ghost that annoys you
I hope you can make me laugh
Six feet down when we’re bored of each other
~ Bastille

 

 

“Like many great world faiths, Mormonism has an important strand of sacred mystery. Mormon temples have traditionally been closed to outsiders and designed with opaque windows.” ~ Noah Feldman

“When your time comes to die, be not like those whose hearts are filled with fear of death, so that when their time comes they weep and pray for a little more time to live their lives over again in a different way. Sing your death song, and die like a hero going home.” ~ Tecumseh