Hang on, Voltaire: Reaching ever new heights

Wisdoms, or not...

And the end of all our exploring
Will be to arrive where we started
And know the place for the first time.

–T. S. Eliot, “Little Gidding V,” Four Quartets

Peter: I’m not hungry. I don’t need any crêpes.
Walter: Oh, don’t be ridiculous. You were abducted; of course you need crêpes.

–Fringe, 2:7 “Of Human Action”

The breeze at dawn has secrets to tell you.
Don’t go back to sleep.
You must ask for what you really want.
Don’t go back to sleep.
People are going back and forth across the doorsill
where the two worlds touch.
The door is round and open.
Don’t go back to sleep.

–Rumi, from Unseen Rain, (Trans. Coleman Barks)

Things just happen. What the hell.

–the philosopher Didactylos, Terry Pratchett, Hogfather

Eames: I tried Proust in college. I gave up after the first million pages.
Goren: It picks up after the second million pages.

–Law & Order: Criminal Intent, 10:4 "The Last Street in Manhattan"

Let food be thy medicine.

–Hippocrates

…There happens to be a lot about me that you don’t know, Mr. Smarty Man.

–American Beauty

“…It makes me feel dangerous, like a spy, or a French person.”

–Cougar Town

One of the oldest human needs is having someone to wonder where you are when you don’t come home at night.

–Margaret Mead

Pourquoi tu m’appelles ‘beauté’ comme si ça se voyait pas?

–Camille, Janine II

I had such fuckin’ hopes…

–McNulty, The Wire

I wish to say what I think and feel today, with the proviso that tomorrow perhaps I shall contradict it all.

–Ralph Waldo Emerson

Don’t taunt the fear demon.

–Rupert Giles, Buffy, “Fear Itself”

The world is full of this kind of dumb smart-alec who doesn’t understand anything.

–Richard Feynman

When my daughter was about seven years old, she asked me one day what I did at work. I told her I worked at the college – that my job was to teach people how to draw. She stared at me, incredulous, and said, “You mean they forget?”

–Howard Ikemoto

It's all fun and games til someone loses their row count.

–Anon. knitter

About suffering they were never wrong,
The old Masters: how well they understood
Its human position: how it takes place
While someone else is eating or opening a window or just walking dully along...

–W. H. Auden, Musée des Beaux Arts

I want some American food, dammit! I want French fries!

–Breaking Away

Another belief of mine: that everyone else my age is an adult, whereas I am merely in disguise.

–Margaret Atwood, Cat’s Eye

I did not achieve this position in life by having some snot-nose punk leave my cheese out in the wind.

–Ed Rooney, Ferris Bueller’s Day Off by John Hughes

Am I no longer young, and still not half perfect? Let me
keep my mind on what matters,...
which is mostly standing still and learning to be
astonished.

–Mary Oliver, Messenger, from Thirst

If ud wan2 has cheezburger if u wuz nuthr kitteh, tehn let uthr kitteh has cheezburger 2.

–LOLCAT Bible, Luke 6:31

*I look around at this world you're so eager to be a part of, and all I see's six billion lunatics looking for the fastest ride out. Who's not crazy? Look around - everyone's drinkin', smokin', shootin' up, shootin' each other or just plain screwing their brains out because they don't want 'em anymore. I'm crazy? Honey, I'm the original one-eyed chicklet in the kingdom of the blind 'cause at least I admit the world makes me nuts.

–Glory, Buffy, 5:21, "The Weight of the World"

thankfulness

le 1^er.ii.12 - Bill Nighy & great student meetings
le 2.ii.12 - changing to French all the remaining settings on my computer that weren't already in French, & learning fun new FR tech words
le 3.ii.12 - fun w(h)ine time with KD
le 4.ii.12 - Hosanna not sounding half bad :)
le 5.ii.12 - Paris alums
le 6.ii.12 - way funny French mannerisms & laughing with the 004s
le 7.ii.12 - Jan's smile
le 8.ii.12 - decent Study Abroad F*ir
le 9.ii.12 - fun new organizational ~~toys~~ tools
le 10.ii.12 - potage parmentier
le 11.ii.12 - ha! ical-gcal-ipod syncing via wifi
le 12.ii.12 - our sounding pretty good at service today
le 13.ii.12 - crazy cold but nostalgic weather & cat blanket
le 14.ii.12 - yay sticking with my piano plan
le 15.ii.12 - Columbia Crest Two Vines Cab
le 16.ii.12 - journaling meditation
le 17.ii.12 - more Downton streaming
le 18.ii.12 - great turnout and huge fun at our Sound of Music singalong
le 19.ii.12 - cancellation of a 3-hour time commitment, woo hoo!
le 20.ii.12 - fun rehearsal and thanking the universe again for She Sings
le 21.ii.12 - fun palindromic date to write all day (as long as you write the FR way)
le 22.ii.12 - painless Mem. Comm. mtg
le 23.ii.12 - guac and beans and chips and wine for supper
le 24.ii.12 - no coat!
le 25.ii.12 - Matthew proposed to Lady Mary!
le 26.ii.12 - knitting socks!
le 27.ii.12 - very strong at rehearsal - yay
le 28.ii.12 - fun yes/no are you having a good day poster - and for once being able to pull one of the "yes" tabs

Hang on, Voltaire

13.12.11

Reaching ever new heights

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