"Photography, as a powerful medium of expression and communications, offers an infinite variety of perception, interpretation and execution."
"Dancing is the most moving and the most beautiful of the arts, because it is no mere translation or abstraction from life; it is life itself."
"Baseball is what gets inside you. It's what lights you up.
If it wasn't hard, everyone would do it. The hard is what makes it great."
"The best love is the kind that awakens the soul and makes us reach for more, that plants a fire in our hearts and brings peace to our minds."
"It's so easy for us to misperceive, and see the things in others that we want to see. And when we're wrong, and often we're dead wrong, we miss the truth."
Cops on bicycles. How intimidating is that?
What do they do when they arrest somebody?
"Alright, in the basket."
Dashboard Confessional, Emery, Gym Class Heroes, Mae, Rise Against, Saves the Day, Jimmy Eat World, New Found Glory, Taking Back Sunday, Eisley, Acceptance, Aqualung, Poison the Well, Thrice, From Autumn to Ashes, Glassjaw, Thursday, Receiving End of Sirens, John Legend, Counting Crows, the Goo Goo Dolls, Billy Joel, Bon Jovi, Elton John, Meatloaf, Michael Buble, Frank Sinatra, Dean Martin, Bobby Darin, Harry Connick Jr., Miles Davis, John Coltrane, Billie Holiday, Ella Fitzgerald, Patsy Cline, Julie London, Nat King Cole, Tony Bennett, Benny Goodman.
Favorites
"This is your life, and it's ending one minute at a time."
"Destroy all that which is evil, so that which is good may flourish."
"The sweet is never as sweet without the sour."
"I've never felt that before. I'm exactly where I want to be."
"It's a great thing when you realize you still have the ability to surprise yourself."
"What's the first thing an actor learns? The show must go on! Come rain, come shine, come snow, come sleet, the show
must go on!"
Others Include...
Underworld, From Hell, Matchstick Men, X-Men, Sleepy Hollow, Almost Famous, Seven, Memento, Sin City, Spiderman, V for Vendetta, Beyond the Sea, Moulin Rouge, Back to the Future, Indiana Jones, Star Wars, Ocean's 11, Big Fish, The Wedding Singer, Walk the Line, Rent, Elizabethtown, The X-Files: Fight the Future, Robin Hood: Prince of Thieves, Center Stage, Phantom of the Opera, The Sound of Music, My Best Friend's Wedding, Titanic, When Harry Met Sally, A League of Their Own, Batman, Ferris Bueller's Day Off, High Fidelity, The Wizard of Oz, Monty Python and the Holy Grail, The Neverending Story, Men in Tights, The Princess Bride, Young Frankenstein, Blazing Saddles, Ghostbusters, Spaceballs, Mallrats, Chasing Amy, Dogma, The Lost Boys, It's a Wonderful Life, The Breakfast Club, Footloose, and many more.
HOUSE, Smallville, Law and Order: SVU, CSI: Miami, How I Met Your Mother, Family Guy, Aquateen Hunger Force, CSI, Shark, Gilmore Girls, Sex and the City, Will and Grace.
Pride and Prejudice, The DaVinci Code, Angels and Demons, Harry Potter, High Fidelity, About A Boy, or anything else by Nick Hornby, and anything on psychology or philosophy.
John Hetzel, 1925-2005.
We love you and miss you.
My old neighbor who lived on State Hill Road and always sat in his chair out on the lawn building things and waving at passing cars.
And, of course:
"Why is it that my critics are destined to gnash their teeth and bemoan the loss of their inner child while they watch me free my spirit with the dance of the happy genitalia?"
"Honey? Why don't you put the fucking DVDs in order, so I can find Uncle Buck the second I want to watch it? This shit's all scrambled up because you're a fucking retard! Why don't you put these in order? IN ORDER! Now fight me for three days cause I'm bored."
"Keith Richards is the only man who can make the Osbournes look fucking Amish. Supposedly he goes to Switzerland and changes his blood, like a fucking Chevrolet, all of it. I just want to know who gets his blood."