I would spread the cloths under your feet: But I, being poor, have only my dreams; I have spread my dreams under your feet; Tread softly, because you tread on my dreams. (Greg Justin Hall )

Many a man may appear respectable and yet be able to hide at will behind a spiral staircase - P G Wodehouse (GMakin )

"I thought about using a picture book, but I'd like to convince people, not insult them."-from my WIP Cultural Wasteland ( A Decade for a Stik? )

... the sad truth is none of us remembers more than a little fraction of what has happened to us... even our best, most blessed days,... they are mostly and forever forgotten... - Robert Reed: "Reunion" (RatDog )

"I may be synthetic, but I'm not stupid." Bishop (Lance Kendriksen) - "Aliens" (RatDog )

...Parents so obese they have to shop for food in motorized scooters, with a daughter was so obsessed with fashion magazines that she is literally starving herself to death... "Spam Haiku Story"  Chapter 17 (RatDog )

"Cool it with the flowers and the hippie-love crap, Mom! You're not back in time at a Phish concert..." "A Question of Balance"  (RatDog )

Just us kids hanging 'round today, watching our long hair turning grey. Not so skinny maybe not so free, not so many as we used to be. - James McMurtry (RatDog )

She left me for Jesus an' that just ain't fair, she said he was perfect how could I compare. She said I should find him and I'll know peace at last, If I ever find Jesus, I'm kickin' his ass. - Hayes Carll (RatDog )

"...and I wonder what I must do to kill the womb-flower." My absolute favroite line from "Hanakotoba"  ( A Decade for a Stik? )

"The worst wheel on the cart makes the most noise" - Benjamin Franklin (Jen D'Arque R.I.P. Lyle )

"Writing is hard!" - My favorite line from the movie Hamlet 2 (Cynthia G 01 )

Suprisingly good things happen. Even late in the game. Under the Tuscan Sun (mystart )

"Good boy," Norman said. "I'm good," the dog said in a female voice, "but I'm not a boy." "I don't believe it," Norman said. "Check under the hood if you want." J. Skillingstead - The Avenger of Love (RatDog )

I never believed in magic until the night my finger turned into a small yellow snake and slithered up my left nostril where it found a sensitive part of my brain to lick that made me shiver and say, "Lubba lubba lubba..." all night long. (Steve Ellen )

He realized that for all the intimacy of their bodies, he really knew nothing about her. He knew only that he would trust her with his life. Deborah J. Ross - The Price of Silence (RatDog )

"One thing that's for certain, One chord that rings true, it's a mighty world we live in but the truth is we're only passin' thru..." Randy Scruggs (RatDog )

After you have exhausted what there is in business, politics, conviviality, and so on - have found that none of these finally satisfy, or permanently wear - what remains? Nature remains. Walt Whitman (RatDog )

"...how about forgetting this whole thing and letting me go?" "You are a funny man, Mister American; I have not heard that one before. But no, you cannot go..." "FIRE" a chapter in "Pass the Write-Baton"  (RatDog )

From a distance, there is harmony and it echoes through the land. It's the hope of hopes, it's the love of loves, it's the heart of every man. And God is watching us... From a distance. - Julie Gold (RatDog )

I was afraid of living an ordinary life when I realized that's what we all get, and ordinary life... And it's good enough. - Garrison Keillor (RatDog )

"If America is now circling the drain, Goldman Sachs has found a way to be that drain." The Great American Bubble Machine - Matt Taibbi (RatDog )

"I ain't askin' nobody for nothin', If I can't get it on my own. If you don't like the way I'm livin', You just leave this long-haired country boy alone." - Charlie Daniels (RatDog )

Come all ye Rolling minstrels, And together We will try, To rouse the spirit Of the earth, And move the rolling sky. - Fairport Convention (RatDog )

"...I'm tired of this life. Just let it happen, will you? Consider this a dying man's last wish..." Fate Harkryder in The Ballad of Frankie Silver (RatDog )

It's like a dream you try to remember but it's gone, then you try to scream but it only comes out as a yawn When you try to see the world beyond your front door... Barenaked Ladies "Pinch Me" (RatDog )

"A traitor may betray himself, and do good which he does not intend" - Gandalf in The Return of the King (book). (Sherri the Writer )

"Ok, Satan? Remind me not to drink before bed" (from the Season 5 opener of "Supernatural") (Sherri the Writer )

Scully: "I was raised to believe that God has his reasons, however mysterious..." Mulder: "He may have his reasons, but he seems to use a lot of psychotics to carry out his job orders." X Files: All Souls (RatDog )

Trevor: I really want this to work, Stevie... Stevie: But... Trevor: You know so little about me, what if I turn into a werewolf of something? Stevie: I'll buy you a flea collar. Christian Bale & Jennifer Jason Leigh in "The Machinist" (RatDog )

No one ever talks about their feelings anyway - without dressing them in dreams and laughter - I guess it' just too painful otherwise. Jackson Browne (Clouseau )

"But Sir, I'm not in love with your wife! I'm in love with your daughter!!" -The Graduate (birdy989 )

Life is inscrutable... Good people suffer horrible setbacks while bad people often end up happy, successful, and hosts of their own reality shows. The best we can do is enjoy good food, good drink, and honest labor. - A. J. Jacobs (RatDog )

"Don't believe everything you think." - Thomas Kida (RatDog )

Me: "If dogs had opposable thumbs, they'd be as bad as monkeys." My Wife: "No, monkeys are worse. You can't trust monkeys, they'll rip your lips off." (RatDog )

"Frankly, Miss Piggy, I don't give a hoot" Kermit, The Muppet Movie (Dad )

"If you invite in negativity, then you gotta feed it and hang out with it. Best not to invite it in the first place." - Erykah Badu (RatDog )

"Cockroaches aren't bad... They kinda taste like potato chips. But the aftertaste of cockroaches is not so good, they kinda taste like bugs." Becka on The Colony Episode 7: Tick (RatDog )

I learned to work the saxophone, I play just what I feel. Drink Scotch whisky all night long, and die behind the wheel. They got a name for the winners in the world, I want a name when I lose,. They call Alabama the Crimson Tide, so call me Deacon Blue (Dad )

This is the night of the expanding man, I take one last drag as I approached the stand. I cried when I wrote this song, sue me if I play too long, This brother is free, I'll be what I want to be. ~ The above 2 from "Deacon Blues" by Steely Dan (Dad )

I see a White Man with his eyes blood red 'cause he's been told what he should feel, And I see too many women cut to shreds And taking half their lives to heal. Tonight I'm driving across America... -song on Radioio Alt Country (RatDog )

"I'm a driver, I'm a winner, things are gonna change, I can feel it." Beck - Loser (RatDog )

"I wouldn't mind atheists so much if they weren't so in your face about converting you to their belief system." - zix (on CNN Soundoff MB) (RatDog )

"Can't you just be satisfied that if I'm wrong about God I'll burn in Hell? Brennan to Booth on Bones: The Priest in the Churchyard (RatDog )

"We're here for such a short period of time. Live like you're already dead, man. Have a good time. Do your best. Let it all come ripping right through you." Jeff Bridges (RatDog )

"Karma Repair Items 1-4 1. Get enough food to eat and eat it. 2. Find a place to sleep where it is quiet and sleep there. 3. Reduce intellectual and emotional noise until you arrive at the silence of yourself and listen to it. 4. " R. Brautigan (RatDog )

And it stoned me to my soul, stoned me just like jellyroll, and it stoned me... Van Morrisson (J.A. Stevens )

"In a time of universal deceit, telling the truth is a revolutionary act." - George Orwell (RatDog )

"Have you ever been alone in a crowded room, when I'm here with you, I said the world could be burning, burning down, Dark blue..." - Jack's Mannequin (RatDog )

If you can do something that costs you only a little in time and trouble and material possessions, and that can be of great benefit to somebody else: DO IT. Don’t even stop to think, just do it. - J. Cahill (RatDog )

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