"Sometimes people carry to such perfection the mask they have assumed that in due course they actually become the person they seem." ~W. Somerset Maugham
"When you have examined all the illusions of life and know that there isn't any reality, but you nevertheless go on, then you are a mature human being. You accept the idea that it is all mask and illusion and that people are in disguise. You see the crumbling of reality and you accept it." ~Marguerite Young
"It's a fool who looks for logic in the chambers of the human heart." ~Oh Brother Where Art Thou? (2000)
"His sanguine spirit turns every firefly into a star." ~Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, The Parasite
Who would I not like to meet? I love people and I love to travel.
World Visitor Map
"But often the great cat Fate lets us go only to clutch us again in a fiercer grip." ~Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, The Curse of Eve
"I remember once imagining what my life would be like, what I'd be like. I pictured having all these qualities, strong positive qualities that people could pick up on from across the room. But as time passed, few became qualities that I actually had. And all the possibilities I faced, and the sorts of people I could be, all of them got reduced every year to fewer and fewer until finally they got reduced to one - to who I am. And that's who I am." ~The Weather Man (2005)
"No matter how cleverly you sneak up on a mirror, your reflection always looks you straight in the eye."
~Angel Heart (1987)
"There are so many of us, and our lots are so different, what wonder that Nature's mood is often in harsh contrast with the great crisis of our lives?" ~George Eliot, Adam Bede
"Isn't it splendid to think of all the things there are to find out about? It just makes me feel glad to be alive--it's such an interesting world. It wouldn't be half so interesting if we know all about everything, would it? There'd be no scope for imagination then, would there?" ~Lucy Maud Montgomery, Anne of Green Gables
Where to start? On the iPod at all times: Queen, Plain White T's, 30 Seconds to Mars, Evanescence, Bon Jovi, Maroon 5, KT Tunstall, U2, Aerosmith, Creed, INXS, John Legend, Nickelback, Goo Goo Dolls, Silverchair, Rascal Flatts, Celtic Women, Sting, James Blunt, Tina Turner, UB40, Toto, Train, ZZ Top, Snow Patrol, Rooney, & Bonnie Rait.
More generally: 80's, Southern Rock, Hair Bands, Blues, Swing, Country, Singer/Songwriters ...
"I want to feel my life. I want to stop agreeing to things I don't really want." ~Living Out Loud (1998)
Disco Anyone?
"Virtue has a veil, vice a mask." ~Victor Hugo
Honestly? Here goes:
Lord of the Rings, Star Wars, Star Trek, Ever After, Hope Floats, Love Actually, Reign of Fire, Out of Africa, Pride & Prejudice, The Lake House, James Bond, Grosse Pointe Blank, The Power of One, The Princess Bride, The Italian Job, Bourne Movies, X-Men, Spiderman, The Phantom of the Opera, Platoon, Sahara, Dazed and Confused, Ferris Bueller's Day Off, Serendipity, Speed, Becoming Jane, Transformers, Batman Begins, Casablanca, Chocolat, Fight Club, Bend It Like Beckham, The Departed, Indiana Jones, Life As A House, The Lion King, Much Ado About Nothing (pretty much any Shakespeare or Jane Austen adaptation), etc.
It really is a never-ending list.
"With memory set smarting like a reopened wound, a man's past is not simply a dead history, an outworn preparation of the present: it is not a repented error shaken loose from the life: it is a still quivering part of himself, bringing shudders and bitter flavors and the tinglings of a merited shame." ~George Eliot, Middlemarch
"Life's more than breath and the quick round of blood;
It is a great spirit and a busy heart." ~Phillip James Bailey, Festus
I am wholly passionate about the written word. If they write it - I will read it, but I love classical literature such as Shakespeare & Jane Austen. I love Tolkien and C.S. Lewis. I also have a slight addiction to Clive Cussler's Dirk Pitt series. My Bible. If I had the time I would probably read the dictionary.
"It is not time or opportunity that is to determine intimacy;-- it is disposition alone. Seven years would be insufficient to make some people acquainted with each other, and seven days are more than enough for others." ~Jane Austen, Sense & Sensibility
There are many:
Jane Austen, Emily Dickinson, My Mom, Shakespeare, Mary Shelley, Queen Elizabeth I, Ansel Adams, Carl Lewis, Elizabeth Barrett Browning, Jane Goodall, Mary & Joseph, Robert E. Lee, Ruth, Wilma Rudolph, Eleanore Roosevelt, Lottie Moon, Joy Adamson, Stephanie Powers, Annie Oakley ....
Oh, what a tangled web we weave,
When first we practice to deceive!
~Sir Walter Scott, Marmion