"If the total scheme of nature required man to be a specialist she would have made him so by having him born with one eye and a microscope attached to it." -R. Buckminster Fuller
"Drama is life with the dull bits cut out." -Alfred Hitchcock
"So far as I can remember, there is not one word in the Gospels in praise of intelligence." -Bertrand Russell
"Passive acceptance of the teacher's wisdom is easy to most boys and girls. It involves no effort of independent thought, and seems rational because the teacher knows more than his pupils; it is moreover the way to win the favour of the teacher unless he is a very exceptional man. Yet the habit of passive acceptance is a disastrous one in later life. It causes man to seek and to accept a leader, and to accept as a leader whoever is established in that position." -Bertrand Russell
"Men fear thought as they fear nothing else on earth -- more than ruin -- more even than death.... Thought is subversive and revolutionary, destructive and terrible, thought is merciless to privilege, established institutions, and comfortable habit. Thought looks into the pit of hell and is not afraid. Thought is great and swift and free, the light of the world, and the chief glory of man." -Bertrand Russell
“Some people are afraid of what they might find if they try to analyze themselves too much, but you have to crawl into your wounds to discover where your fears are. Once the bleeding starts, the cleansing can begin.†-Tori Amos
"If you allow yourself to feel the way you really feel, then maybe you won't be afraid of that feeling anymore." -Tori Amos
"When you stop putting yourself on the line, and you don't touch your own heart, how do you expect to touch other people?" -Tori Amos
“If they keep crashing stuff into the moon, the moon's gonna get pissed off, and the tides'll change, and all the women'll start PMS-ing together. Then you guys are going to fucking regret it.†-Tori Amos
"Sometimes you have to do what you don't like to get to where you want to be." -Tori Amos
"What girls do to each other is beyond description. No chinese torture comes close." -Tori Amos
"Responsibilities gravitate to the person who can shoulder them." -Tom Stoppard
"The meme for blind faith secures its own perpetuation by the simple unconscious expedient of discouraging rational inquiry." -Richard Dawkins
"Faith is the great cop-out, the great excuse to evade the need to think and evaluate evidence. Faith is belief in spite of, even perhaps because of, the lack of evidence." -Richard Dawkins
"There's this thing called being so open-minded your brains drop out." -Richard Dawkins
"We cross our bridges when we come to them and burn them behind us, with nothing to show for our progress except a memory of the smell of smoke, and a presumption that once our eyes watered." -Tom Stoppard
"The final war will be between Pavlov's dog and Schrodinger's Cat." -Robert Anton Wilson
“Conversation about the weather is the last refuge of the unimaginative.†-Oscar Wilde
"Everything popular is wrong." -Oscar Wilde
"Society exists only as a mental concept; in the real world there are only individuals.†-Oscar Wilde
"The big trouble with dumb bastards is that they are too dumb to believe there is such a thing as being smart." -Kurt Vonnegut
"Who is more to be pitied, a writer bound and gagged by policemen or one living in perfect freedom who has nothing more to say?" -Kurt Vonnegut
"Be careful what you pretend to be because you are what you pretend to be." -Kurt Vonnegut
"People have to talk about something just to keep their voice boxes in working order so they'll have good voice boxes in case there's ever anything really meaningful to say." -Kurt Vonnegut
"No truth can cure the sorrow we feel from losing a loved one. No truth, no sincerity, no strength, no kindness can cure that sorrow. All we can do is see it through to the end and learn something from it, but what we learn will be no help in facing the next sorrow that comes to us without warning." -Haruki Murakami
“There are worse crimes than burning books. One of them is not reading them.†-Ray Bradbury
“The television, that insidious beast, that Medusa which freezes a billion people to stone every night, staring fixedly, that Siren which called and sang and promised so much and gave, after all, so little.†-Ray Bradbury
“If you don't like what you're doing, then don't do it.†- Ray Bradbury
"If you think you know what the hell is going on, you're probably full of shit.†-Robert Anton Wilson
“Intelligence is the capacity to receive, decode and transmit information efficiently. Stupidity is blockage of this process at any point. Bigotry, ideologies etc. block the ability to receive; robotic reality-tunnels block the ability to decode or integrate new signals; censorship blocks transmission.†-Robert Anton Wilson
"The highest function of love is that it makes the loved one a unique and irreplacable being." -Tom Robbins
"When you get the blanket thing you can relax because everything you could ever want or be you already have and are."
-I Heart Huckabees
"Let's just pause. Put that down. Let's just take a step back. No, I was wrong. I'm sorry. Take a step forward. Now, take a step back. Step forward. Back. And then we're cha-cha-ing!" -Real Genius
"The question isn't what are we going to do today, it's what aren't we going to do today." -Ferris Bueller's Day Off
"A sense of humor, properly developed, is superior to any religion so far devised." -Tom Robbins
"I know the price of success: dedication, hard work and an unremitting devotion to the things you want to see happen." -Frank Lloyd Wright
"The question isn't who is going to let me; it's who is going to stop me." -Ayn Rand
"To achieve the impossible, it is precisely the unthinkable that must be thought." -Tom Robbins
"That which you call your soul or spirit is your consciousness, and that which you call 'free will' is your mind's freedom to think or not, the only will you have, your only freedom, the choice that controls all the choices you make and determines your life and your character."
-Ayn Rand
"Early in life I had to choose between honest arrogance and hypocritical humility. I chose the former and have seen no reason to change." -Frank Lloyd Wright
"If you lack the iron and the fizz to take control of your own life, then the gods will repay your weakness by having a grin or two at your expense. Should you fail to pilot your own ship, don't be surprised at what inappropriate port you find yourself docked."
-Tom Robbins
"The so-called Christian nations are the most enlightened and progressive...but in spite of their religion, not because of it. The Church has opposed every innovation and discovery from the day of Galileo down to our own time, when the use of anesthetic in childbirth was regarded as a sin because it avoided the biblical curse pronounced against Eve. And every step in astronomy and geology ever taken has been opposed by bigotry and superstition. The Greeks surpassed us in artistic culture and in architecture five hundred years before Christian religion was born." -Mark Twain
TELL ME ABOUT YOURSELF - The Survey
Name: Demi
Birthday: 1/19
Birthplace: NJ
Current Location: CA
Eye Color: Reddish brown
Hair Color: Reddish brown
Height: 5'7"
Right Handed or Left Handed: Rightie
Your Heritage: Greek, Irish, English, Danish, Dutch, Austrian, Hungarian, Russian, and Lebanese
The Shoes You Wore Today: I'll let you know.
Your Weakness: I have a weakness?
Your Fears: I'm not afraid.
Your Perfect Pizza: Veggies with lots of basil.
Goal You Would Like To Achieve This Year: I have so many... where to begin....
Your Most Overused Phrase On an instant messenger: "Right on."
Thoughts First Waking Up: Is that Sergeant Rooster again?
Your Best Physical Feature: Eyes.
Your Bedtime: I suppose that would be when I go to bed.
Your Most Missed Memory: Living close to my best friends.
Pepsi or Coke: I'm a Diet Cokehead.
MacDonalds or Burger King: Neither, thanks.
Single or Group Dates: Depends. Who's going?
Lipton Ice Tea or Nestea: Lapsang souchong or gen ma cha.
Chocolate or Vanilla: Vanilla.
Cappuccino or Coffee: I'd rather have tea.
Do you Smoke: No.
Do you Swear: When the situation warrants swearing, yes.
Do you Sing: Often.
Do you Shower Daily: Yes.
Have you Been in Love: Yes.
Do you want to go to College: Been there, done that. Twenty years of schooling later....
Do you want to get Married: Ask me about social constructs someday. I dare you.
Do you belive in yourself: Always.
Do you get Motion Sickness: Only in the backs of NYC cabs.
Do you think you are Attractive: Yes.
Are you a Health Freak: That would be a resounding no.
Do you get along with your Parents: They're my favorite people. I have the coolest parents ever.
Do you like Thunderstorms: When I am not stuck in them, yes.
Do you play an Instrument: I have before, but I chose not to make it a habit.
In the past month have you Drank Alcohol: Yes.
In the past month have you Smoked: No.
In the past month have you been on Drugs: No.
In the past month have you gone on a Date: Yes.
In the past month have you gone to a Mall: Does the Promenade count as a mall?
In the past month have you eaten a box of Oreos: I hate Oreos.
In the past month have you eaten Sushi: Yes.
In the past month have you been on Stage: No.
In the past month have you been Dumped: No.
In the past month have you gone Skinny Dipping: No.
In the past month have you Stolen Anything: No.
Ever been Drunk: Yes.
Ever been called a Tease: Not by anyone worth a damn.
Ever been Beaten up: Yes.
Ever Shoplifted: No.
How do you want to Die: I don't.
What do you want to be when you Grow Up: A grown up.
What country would you most like to Visit: England.
In a Boy/Girl..
Favourite Eye Color: His own.
Favourite Hair Color: His own.
Short or Long Hair: Short.
Height: Taller than me.
Weight: Average.
Best Clothing Style: Don't let the clothes wear you.
Number of CDs I own: Many.
Number of Piercings: I have two in each ear.
Number of Tattoos: Zero.
Number of things in my Past I Regret: Minimal.
CREATE YOUR OWN! - or - GET PAID TO TAKE SURVEYS!
Funny, outgoing, sarcastic, silly, driven, brutally honest, laid-back, open-minded, hyperanalytical, ambitious Human Bellwether, Observer of the Human Condition, and Purveyor of Randomness, forever torn between South Florida and NYC (cue suspenseful music)... but I've moved to Cali to find a balance between the two. And eccentric to boot.
AOL S/N: IceQueen057
BOOKMARKS: http://del.icio.us/icequeen057
FLICKR ACCOUNT: http://www.flickr.com/photos/icequeen057
WEBSITE: http://www.demipietchell.com
Communism... not a fan.
Coney Island Represent!
Yeah?! Says who?!
ePaparazzi alpha test!
On the set of Idolatry....
P-comp: hi-tech tupperware
Word.
