random quotes

Just read a line in a poem that jumped out at me, and wasn't sure what to do with it... so thought I'd stick it here. Feel free to add your own.

"...we lift our gazes, not to what stands between us but what stands before us."

And just for good measure, from a song:
"One day I know
We'll find a place of hope
Just hold on to me"

And now, something completely different ...
The Larch

"God's final message to his creation: We apologize for the inconvenience." Douglas Adams

If you can't describe what you are doing as a process, you don't know what you're doing. - W. Edwards Deming

"Who picked Yalta?"
- F. Roosevelt

Say I'm weary, say I'm sad,
Say that health and wealth have miss'd me,
Say I'm growing old, but add
Jenny kiss'd me.

--Leigh Hunt

My dad wasn't much for poetry, but for some reason he had that whole poem memorized, possibly from his GI Bill intro to English class... "Jenny kiss'd me when we met / Jumping from the chair she sat in. / Time, you thief, who love to get / Sweets into his list, put that in. /... Say..."

I type it from memory - have I got it right?

>7 Crypto-Willobie: I cannot tell you why I love this poem so much, but I do.

My favorite quote is "Everyone is a moon, and has a darkside which he never shows to anybody." -Mark Twain

"In a good bookroom you feel in some mysterious way that you are absorbing the wisdon contained in all the books through your skin, without even opening them." Mark Twain!

>10 ulmannc: Ooooooo