Day Quote 2 / Cat On A…
Big Daddy: They tell me you were indulging in some athletics last night. Brick: I was trying to, yes, sir. Big Daddy: At 3 in the morning? What were you doing on the high school athletic field at 3 in the morning? Brick: I was running and jumping the hurdles. They've got too high for me now. Big Daddy: Because you were drunk! Brick: Sober, I would not have tried to jump even the low ones.
Day Quote 3 / Cat On A….
Big Daddy: But it’s always there in the morning, ain’t it — the truth? And it’s here right now. You’re just feelin’ sorry for yourself.That’s all it is — self-pity. You didn’t kill Skipper. He killed himself. You and Skipper and millions like ya are livin’ in a kid’s world, playin’ games, touchdowns, no worries, no responsibilities. Life ain’t no damn football game. Life ain’t just a bunch of high spots. You’re a thirty-year-old kid. Soon you’ll be a fifty-year-old kid, pretendin’ you’re hearin’ cheers when there ain’t any. Dreamin’ and drinkin’ your life away. Heroes in the real world live twenty-four hours a day, not just two hours in a game. Mendacity, you won’t… you won’t live with mendacity, but you’re an expert at it. The truth is pain and sweat and payin’ bills and makin’ love to a woman that you don’t love any more. Truth is dreams that don’t come true and nobody prints your name in the paper ’til you die… The truth is, you never growed up. Grown-ups don’t hang up on their friends… and they don’t hang up on their wives… and they don’t hang up on life. Now that’s the truth and that’s what you can’t face!
Day Quote Final / Cat On A….
Brick: Win what? What is the victory of a cat on a hot tin roof?
Maggie: Just staying on it, I guess. As long as she can.
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Like sex, bathing, sleeping and drinking, the effects of food don’t last. The patterns are repeated but finite. Life is a near-death experience, and our devious minds will do anything to make it interesting.
—Jim Harrison
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Good things happen slowly and bad things happen fast. Recovery is a long slow process.
—ICU Doctor (unknown)
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Apparently we have a money theme going…not on purpose…but it is payday…enjoy…
Young people think money’s the most important thing in life. Only when they get older do they know it for sure.
—Oscar Wilde
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I like this for what it says, but I like the words more. I can’t remember where I read this or what it’s from, but I cannot imagine being able to make this kind of statement. I don’t think I’m near smart enough. Say it out loud for maximum brainy effect.
The danger of trying to explain evil is that we risk falling into the abyss of predestination: that given these life events, this social surround and this personality type, the evil deed was inevitable. Explanation becomes exculpation, and volition gets eclipsed. To understand all should not be to forgive all.
—Unknown
(That last part works for tons more than just evil: To understand all should not be to forgive all.)
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I’ve always found this pretty amusing and it makes a good point. Try and work it into a conversation over the weekend.
The difference between “involvement” and “commitment” is like an eggs-and-ham breakfast: The chicken was “involved”— The pig was “committed.”
—Unknown
And if you can’t get that in. Try this one. It’s from my dad. He used to say it to my sister and me when we would complain. It works for lots of stuff. It’s not groundbreaking or really deep or anything, but we’ve always found it helpful and hilarious.
That’s the price of hamburger baby…
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It’s not bad advice. People need philosophies. And the book is pretty good!
In later life, I have come to realize that any expression of love which ends in a yelp probably requires modification.
—Russell Brand
My dad’s philosophy was (and I think still is) that life is a malevolent force, which seeks to destroy you, and you have to struggle with it. Only those who are hard enough will succeed. Most people get crushed, but if you fight, in the end life will go, “F*cking hell. This one’s serious. Let him through.”
—Russell Brand
just shy of pretty 