> 'There was an atmosphere poised nicely between a > seance and > a chess game and the purest flirtation, of the sort > you have with > a beloved character in a book, with no question of > the vulgar > imposition of the physical.' nice Kubrick quote, here's another one by Kubrick along with a few other quotes I like that've been on my mind lately in these last 8 hours of the 20th century in California. "A film is or should be more like music than like fiction. It should be a progression of moods and feelings. The theme, what's behind the emotions, the meaning, all that comes later." -Stanley Kubrick "I've made many mistakes in my life. That was a long time ago, and I'm not the same man I was then. A lot of time has passed. when a chance comes around to make a uh wrong or right, it's a special thing that I hope to make one thing right." -Harvey Keitel ("Three Seasons") "Just don't give up trying to do what you really want to do. Where there is love and inspiration, I don't think you can go wrong." -Ella Fitzgerald "I made some mistakes in drama. I thought the drama was when the actors cried. But drama is when the audience cries." -Frank Capra "The secret of man's being is not only to live but to have something to live for." -Fyodor Dostoevsky "Battle not with monsters, lest ye become a monster. And if you gaze long into the Abyss, the Abyss gazes into you." -Frederick Nietzsche "...and these children that you spit on, as they try to change their worlds are immune to your consultations. They're quite aware of what they're going through..." -David Bowie" (opening of "Breakfast Club") "I don't like it when people on the street say 'smile' or 'cheer up.' It's a real cheap line. I'm feeling good. I'm feeling really grateful for everything. It's a solid time in my life. When people say I look sad, they're wrong." -Nicholas Cage "Cocaine is God's way of saying you're making too much money" -Robin Wiliams "A paranoid is someone who knows a little of what's going on." -William S. Burroughs "I wept not, so to stone within I grew." -Dante Aligheri "The books that the world calls immoral are the books that show the world its own shame." -Oscar Wilde "We must develop and maintain the capacity to forgive. He who is devoid of the power to forgive is devoid of the power to love. There is some good in the worst of us and some evil in the best of us. When we discover this, we are less prone to hate our enemies." -Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. "Feeling screwed up at a screwed up time in a screwed up place does not necessarily make you screwed up." -"Pump Up the Volume" "Don't go, I've got my whole life to drink." -Marlon Brando "On the Waterfront" ". . . savor words and language. No matter what anybody tells you. . . words and ideas can change the world." -Robin Williams Dead poet's Society "We're all angels. . . and devils. It's just what you choose to see." -Elizabeth Pena "Jacob's ladder" "A broken body is nothing to a broken heart." -Brenda Fricker "My Left Foot" "I don't like to commit myself about heaven and hell you see, I have friends in both places. " -Mark Twain "Richard had noticed that events were cowards: they didn't occur singly, but instead they would run in packs and leap out at him all at once. " -Neil Gaimen "People on 'ludes should not drive. " -Jeff Spicoli "Fast Times at Ridgemont High" "Life moves pretty fast. If you don't stop and look around once in a while, you could miss it." -"Ferris Bueler's Day Off" "There isn't a town in the world I haven't run amok in." -Joe Strummer "One thinks of it all as a dream." -Syd Barrett "My entire life has been a struggle to resist the dark force." -William S. Burroughs "A writer is a controlled schizophrenic." -Edward Albee "I'm a spokesman for myself. It just so happens that there are a bunch of people that are concerned with what I say. I find that frightening at times because I'm as confused as most people. I don't have the answers for anything. I don't want to be a fucking spokesperson." -Kurt Cobain "One may have a blazing hearth in one's soul and yet no one ever come to sit by it. Passersby see only a wisp of smoke from the chimney and continue on the way." -Vincent Van Gogh "I'll play it first and tell you what it is later." -Miles Davis "The main thing a musician would like to do is to give a picture to the listener of the many wonderful things he knows of and senses in the universe." -John Coltrane "If I had to say something, it would be 'Lighten up. Be cool.' There's just so many buffoons out there." -Adam Horovitz "Pain and suffering are always inevitable for a large intelligence and a deep heart. The really great men must, I think, have great sadness on Earth." -Fyodor Dostoyevsky "I'm the one that's got to die when it's time for me to die, so let me live my life the way I want to." -Jimi Hendrix "Curiouser and curiouser! " -Lewis Carroll "In the end, everything is a gag. " -Charlie Chaplin "What is life? It is the flash of a firefly in the night. It is the breath of a buffalo in the wintertime. It is the little shadow which runs across the grass and loses itself in the sunset." -Crowfoot (Blackfoot warior and orator) "Only those who attempt the absurd...will achieve the impossible. I think...I think it's in my basement...Let me go upstairs and check. " -M.C. Escher "I wouldn't mind dying -- it's the business of having to stay dead that scares the shit out of me." -R. Geis The Dalai Lama address the U.S. Congress: "Here I enjoy freedom of speech freedom of thought freedom of movement. you, this nation, are very much involved or very much... cherish these principles. however, when i was about fifteen i lost that freedom." -14th Dalai Lama At a sit down interview: "QUESTION:Your Holiness, do you hate the Chinese? DALIA LAMA: No. Almost none. Sometimes I guess I lose some temper but, almost not any hatred feeelings. Instead I get more concern, more compassion toward them and in my daily prayer there are certain practices called exchange or take and give. My positive mental thought, I give them through imagination. and I take their ignorance, their suffering, their anger , their hatred, and i take it into myself. That kind of practice I seriously do." -14th Dalai Lama "I would like to explain the meaning of compassion, which is often misunderstood. Genuine compassion is based not on our own projections and expectations, but rather on the rights of the other: irrespective of whether another person is a close friend or an enemy, as long as that person wishes for peace and happiness and wishes to overcome suffering, then on that basis we develop genuine concern for his or her problem. This is genuine compassion. Usually when we are concerned about a close friend, we call this compassion. This is not compassion; it is attachment. Even in marriage, those marriages that last only a short time do so because of attachment - although it is generally present - but because there is also compassion. Marriages that last only a short time do so because of a lack of compassion; there is only emotional attachment based on projection and expectation. When the only bond between close friends is attachment, then even a minor issue may cause one's projections to change. As soon as our projections change, the attachment disappears - because that attachment was based solely on projection and expectation. It is possible to have compassion without attachment - and similarly, to have anger without hatred. Therefore we need to clarify the distinctions between compassion and attachment, and between anger and hatred. Such clarity is useful in our daily life and in our efforts toward world peace. I consider these to be basic spiritual values for the happiness of all human beings, regardless of whether one is a believer or a nonbeliever." -14th Dalai Lama Happy Millinium everyone and let's keep our fingers crossed that the rest of the night will be like this morning; no computer glitches, terrorist bombs or hostage situation, just a lot of inebriated dehydrated people. lol ;) __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Talk to your friends online with Yahoo! Messenger. http://messenger.yahoo.com