I'd like to meet:
I'd like to meet anyone who can be a sincere friend. I don't want to meet anyone who is an ass without a reason.
QUOTES:
"But the backdrops peel and the sets give way and the cast gets eaten by the play..." - V's Vicious Cabaret from V for Vendetta.
“Do I Dare Disturb the Universe? In a minute there is time for decisions and revisions which a minute will reverse." T.S Eliot - The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock
"It is an uneasy lot at best, to be what we call highly taught and yet not to enjoy: to be present at this great spectacle of life and never to be liberated from a small, hungry, shivering self -- never to be fully possessed by the glory we behold, never to have our consciousness rapturously transformed into the vividness of a thought, the ardor of a passion, the energy of an action, but always to be scholarly and uninspired, ambitious and timid, scrupulous and dim-sighted." - George Eliot - Middlemarch
"In the end, you are exactly --what you are.
Put on a wig with a million curls,
put the highest heeled boots on your feet,
yet you remain in the end just what you are."
Mephistopheles - Goethe's Faust.
“A great thunderstorm of sound gushed from the walls. Music bombarded him at such an immense volume that his bones were almost shaken from their tendons; he felt his jaw vibrate, his eyes wobble in his head. He was a victim of concussion. When it was all over he felt like a man who had been thrown from a cliff, whirled in a centrifuge, and spat out over a waterfall that fell and fell into emptiness and emptiness and never --- quite --- touched--- bottom---never---never ---quite --- no not quite --- touched --bottom...and you fell so fast you didn't touch the sides either...never...quite...touched...anything.
The thunder faded. The music died."
From Fahrenheit 451 (page 45). That is my favorite excerpt.
"Saint Augustine taught that God created the world out of nothing. Creation was something like the magician pulling a rabbit out of a hat. Except God didn't have a rabbit and He didn't have a hat."
R. C. SPROUL
