Monday, November 30, 2009

"No trumpets sound when the important decisions of our lives are made. Destiny is made known silently."
~Agnes de Mille

Sunday, November 29, 2009


~in the bathroom at The Starving Artist

Saturday, November 28, 2009

"If you cannot be a poet, be the poem."
~David Carradine

Friday, November 27, 2009

"The more you do what you want, the more magic happens."
~Erika Wanenmacher

Thursday, November 26, 2009

“I am thankful for laughter, except when milk comes out of my nose.”
~Woody Allen

Wednesday, November 25, 2009

"It's a helluva start, being able to recognize what makes you happy."
~Lucille Ball

Tuesday, November 24, 2009

"It's like, at the end, there's this surprise quiz: Am I proud of me? I gave my life to become the person I am right now. Was it worth what I paid?"
~Richard Bach

Monday, November 23, 2009


~from an Ace Hotel bathroom in New York

Sunday, November 22, 2009

"He's a guy who you would think couldn't leave me because he slept in a bunk bed."
~Elaine Reid, on a guy who she thought was a safe bet, but wasn't

Saturday, November 21, 2009

"Any life, no matter how long and complex it may be, is made up of a single moment -- the moment in which a man finds out, once and for all, who he is."
~Jorge Luis Borges

Friday, November 20, 2009

"It takes 9 months for society to catch up with what happens today. You are finally a musical sensation. In 9 months everyone will agree."
~jG Francis, and his words of encouragement for me

Thursday, November 19, 2009

"He was alone. A wall, a flight of stairs, an open road."
~Carson McCullers, The Heart Is a Lonely Hunter

Wednesday, November 18, 2009

“There is a space between man's imagination and man's attainment that may only be traversed by his longing”
~Kahlil Gibran

Tuesday, November 17, 2009

"I'm 6'8"." ~DCM
...

"No you're not." ~me
...

"I should be, with this attitude." ~DCM

Monday, November 16, 2009

"Maybe she would get a chance soon. Else what the hell good had it all been--the way she felt about music and the plans she had made in the inside room? It had to be some good if anything made sense. And it was too and it was too and it was too and it was too. It was some good.
All right!
O.K.!
Some good."
~Carson McCullers, The Heart Is a Lonely Hunter

Saturday, November 14, 2009

"What if what I'm wanting is the wanting?"
~me, to myself

Friday, November 13, 2009

“All lovers live by longing, and endure...”
~Theodore Roethke

Thursday, November 12, 2009

“The Creator has not given you a longing to do that which you have no ability to do”
~Orison Swett Marden

Wednesday, November 11, 2009

"The good thing about having the frosting here, is you can put it on like butter."
~Elaine Reid, with a big cupcake in one hand and the frosting in another

Tuesday, November 10, 2009

“Faith is not simply a patience that passively suffers until the storm is past. Rather, it is a spirit that bears things - with resignations, yes, but above all, with blazing, serene hope.”
~Corazon Aquino

Monday, November 9, 2009

“Feeling and longing are the motive forces behind all human endeavor and human creations.”
~Albert Einstein

Sunday, November 8, 2009

"I had beer yesterday and it was served in a boot."
~Jeremy Burgan

Saturday, November 7, 2009

"Bethany is like an orchid, she needs to be misted, not flooded."
~Maggie Cohn

Friday, November 6, 2009

"Do not lose your knowledge that man's proper estate is an upright posture, an intransigent mind and a step that travels unlimited roads. Do not let your fire go out, spark by irreplaceable spark, in the hopeless swamps of the approximate, the not-quite, the not-yet, the not-at-all. Do not let the hero in your soul perish, in lonely frustration for the life you deserved, but have never been able to reach. Check your road and the nature of your battle. The world you desired can be won, it exists, it is real, it is possible, it's yours.”
~Ayn Rand

Thursday, November 5, 2009

"Their music moves my pants."
~a woman to me, at a Local Natives show

Wednesday, November 4, 2009

"It's a broken heart in the middle of the forest. I almost died making it... I'm still in debt cause of this heart."
~Joel Morley/Otis Pig, on the giant heart he built out of mirrors which you stepped inside of to see yourself

Tuesday, November 3, 2009

"Unless you believe, you will not understand."
~Saint Augustine

Monday, November 2, 2009

"To be a hero was almost like being a great musician."
~Carson McCullers, The Heart Is a Lonely Hunter

Sunday, November 1, 2009

"Never apologize for showing feeling. When you do so, you apologize for truth."
~Benjamin Disraeli