“I'm tired of the whole anti gun thing. Saying that Guns cause Murders is like saying Steering Wheels cause car wrecks”
― quote from Return to Stantasyland
“I admit I have Mental Illness so please no more 'Fruit Cakes' for Christmas Please”
― quote from Return to Stantasyland
“Just to let you know I don't post my books and things on the net in hopes of being rich. The reason is. "I am a person with Bipolar Disorder" and they're are a lot of great minds on the "Famous Bipolar" list that died penniless. If I do the same it's no big deal but having a form of mental Illness I would love to get my name on the Bipolar list also one day. Preferably while I'm still living so I can make sure they spelled it right”
― quote from Return to Stantasyland
“Look at the world and think about a catastrophic disaster where the cell phone towers went dead. How would you ever be able to 'TEXT" your next door neighbor to see if they were okay”
― quote from Return to Stantasyland
“Often when it comes to friends. When the rubber hits the road you'll find yourself hitch hiking”
― quote from Return to Stantasyland
“I've got to that point in life when there's very few thrills and lots of pills seems we all end up this way. As we wait for our final day. But there's one thing about the pills I take. My manic episodes have taken a break”
― quote from Return to Stantasyland
“You know if the U.S. Government wanted to boost the economy there's a simple solution make Black Friday the refund date for your state and federal taxes”
― quote from Return to Stantasyland
“If you like me 'Fine' if you hate me 'Fine' I'll write you out of my life. It's as simple as Over,Done Forgotten Gone”
― quote from Return to Stantasyland
“ There is nothing more beautiful than the light of a Candle and the Aroma of it's Heart”
― quote from Return to Stantasyland
“ I always see the light at the end of the tunnel before I enter the cave”
― quote from Return to Stantasyland
“I never see the color of a person. I never notice the color of their eyes. But the thing that always gets my attention. Is when the spout out lies”
― quote from Return to Stantasyland
“I could enjoy the simple life with a small living quarters, a scratched album of Johnny Cash and a Box of Twinkies”
― quote from Return to Stantasyland
“After seeing the devastation on the East coast. I've concluded that Sticks and Stone might break our bones. But Mother Nature can really tear up your stuff,”
― quote from Return to Stantasyland
“If you surround yourself with people that fill in your inadequacies then together you fulfill the world.”
― quote from Return to Stantasyland
“It's two A.M. "To sleep or to write that is the question?" Whether it tis nobler to suffer the slings and arrows of my piss poor punctuation or take arms against a sea of keys with so many new possibilities.”
― quote from Return to Stantasyland
“A few years ago a friend said that I use to hunt and fish and build houses and things but now my whole life revolved around my computer I replied "But my computer revolves around the world”
― quote from Return to Stantasyland
“If it has a name or a description it has or will exist at some point in time”
― quote from Return to Stantasyland
“Hopefully one day wars will only be fought in movies and may the best producer win”
― quote from Return to Stantasyland
“You ever notice if you call someones cell phone they won't answer but if you text them seconds later they will. "The Power of your Thumbs compels You!”
― quote from Return to Stantasyland
“There's two ways to become a famous Poet, find that one person that knows somebody, that knows somebody, that knows somebody.
Or die trying”
― quote from Return to Stantasyland
“I believe in 'Positives' not Negatives the only thing about Alcohol I'm Powerless over is those Damn Taxes”
― quote from Return to Stantasyland
“You know being and ex serviceman and a Disabled Gulf War Veteran. You could play Taps on a Jews Harp and I'd still cry”
― quote from Return to Stantasyland
“Theirs two ways to become a famous Poet, find that one person that knows somebody, that knows somebody, that knows somebody.
Or die trying”
― quote from Return to Stantasyland
“You're a very pretty girl...Did you know? Once upon a time, I had a pretty, pretty boy.' She reached forward and touched my cheek with one manicured hand.”
― Jennifer Lynn Barnes, quote from Every Other Day
“Nothing stays or holds or keeps where there is growth, he somehow perceived vaguely but truly. Great Caesar dead and turned to clay stopped no hole to keep the wind away. Dead Caesar was nothing but a tiresome bit of print in a book that schoolboys study for awhile and then forget. The Ambersons had passed, and the new people would pass, and the new people that came after them, and then the next new ones, and the next—and the next—”
― Booth Tarkington, quote from The Magnificent Ambersons
“There never did, there never will, and there never can, exist a Parliament, or any description of men, or any generation of men, in any country, possessed of the right or the power of binding and controlling posterity to the “end of time,” or of commanding forever how the world shall be governed, or who shall govern it; and therefore all such clauses, acts or declarations by which the makers of them attempt to do what they have neither the right nor the power to do, nor the power to execute, are in themselves null and void. Every age and generation must be as free to act for itself in all cases as the age and generations which preceded it. The vanity and presumption of governing beyond the grave is the most ridiculous and insolent of all tyrannies. Man has no property in man; neither has any generation a property in the generations which are to follow. The Parliament or the people of 1688, or of any other period, had no more right to dispose of the people of the present day, or to bind or to control them in any shape whatever, than the parliament or the people of the present day have to dispose of, bind or control those who are to live a hundred or a thousand years hence. Every generation is, and must be, competent to all the purposes which its occasions require. It is the living, and not the dead, that are to be accommodated. When man ceases to be, his power and his wants cease with him; and having no longer any participation in the concerns of this world, he has no longer any authority in directing who shall be its governors, or how its government shall be organized, or how administered.”
― Thomas Paine, quote from Rights of Man
“No, Michael, I do not trust you on a boat, I do not trust you on a goat. I do not trust you here. I do not trust you there. I do not trust you anywhere.”
― James St. James, quote from Party Monster: A Fabulous But True Tale of Murder in Clubland
“I can't believe your boss tried to kill you, too," Jessica said. "I mean, I know they're trying to keep the unemployment rate down, but that's ridiculous."
"Most people think their bosses are out to get them. But mine really was!”
― MaryJanice Davidson, quote from Undead and Unemployed
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