"We can often endure an extra pound of pain far more easily than we can suffer the withdrawal of an ounce of accustomed pleasure."  --Sydney J. Harris

"It's neither of them...let's kill Stephanie." --Lauren, while playing 'Mafia'

"A guy calls the musicians' guild to get a quote on a 6 piece band for a wedding. The rep says 'Off the top of my head, about $2000.' He says 'WHAT? FOR MUSIC?' The rep responds 'I'll tell you what. Call the plumbers' union & ask for six plumbers to work from 6 to midnight on a Saturday night. Whatever they charge you, we'll work for half.'"

It's so true. Musicians seem to be constantly short-changed...pun intended. And yet, I wouldn't have another profession for all the money that's found in other professions.

"You don't really understand human nature unless you know why a child on a merry-go-round will wave at his parents every time around - and why his parents will always wave back."  --William D. Tammeus

"Why did Professor Snape stand in the middle of the road? So no one could tell what side he was on."

"The Reformation was a time when men went blind, staggering drunk because they had discovered, in the dusty basement of late medievalism, a whole cellarful of fifteen-hundred-year-old, two hundred proof grace--of bottle after bottle of pure distillate of Scripture, one sip of which would convince anyone that God saves us single-handedly. The word of the Gospel--after all those centuries of trying to lift yourself into heaven by worrying about the perfection of your bootstraps--suddenly turned out to be a flat announcement that the saved were home before they started...Grace has to be drunk straight: no water, no ice, and certainly no ginger ale; neither goodness, nor badness, nor the flowers that bloom in the spring of super spirituality could be allowed to enter into the case."--Robert Capon

"Love is like playing the piano. First you must learn to play by the rules, then you must forget the rules and play from your heart."

"It was one of those March days when the sun shines hot and the wind blows cold:  when it is summer in the light, and winter in the shade."  --Charles Dickens

"Interesting--you're afraid of women and insects. Ladybugs must render you catatonic." --Sheldon, The Big Bang Theory

"Fast from judging others; feast on Christ dwelling in them.

Fast from fear of illness; feast on the healing power of God.

Fast from words that pollute; feast on speech that purifies.

Fast from discontent; feast on gratitude.

Fast from anger; feast on patience.

Fast from pessimism; feast on optimism.

Fast from negatives; feast on alternatives.

Fast from bitterness; feast on forgiveness.

Fast from self-concern; feast on compassion.

Fast from suspicion; feast on truth, God’s truth.

Fast from gossip; feast on purposeful silence.

Fast from problems that overwhelm; feast on prayer that sustains.

Fast from worry; feast on faith."

–Rev. Arthur Lichtenberger

"There's a difference between being unmotivated and being so brain dead that you literally can't even figure out what it is you have to do, let alone make yourself do it." --Me

"Mandie, I go through that point at least once a semester, where for a few days I just drink Diet Coke and watch the OC." --Caley

"Let's drive off, take the night off, seek what they sought, maybe they'll find it; let's do what they all dreamed of, what no one would speak of, it might be outrageous, but this might just save us." --Cities and Saints

"Yes yes yes I can still spell after coffee yes yes yes." --Kalie-O (*stares at me without blinking*)

"Just a hint though, don't listen to any sappy dashboard confessional love songs at this point in your life. They just make me want to get married. Right now. Masochist." --Aubry

“People are like stained-glass windows. They sparkle and shine when the sun is out, but when the darkness sets in, their true beauty is revealed only if there is a light from within.” --Elizabeth Kubler Ross

"A bird does not sing because it has an answer. It sings because it has a song."

"This coffee falls into your stomach, and straightway there is a general commotion.  Ideas begin to move like the battalions of the Grand Army of the battlefield, and the battle takes place.  Things remembered arrive at full gallop, ensuing to the wind.  The light cavalry of comparisons deliver a magnificent deploying charge, the artillery of logic hurry up with their train and ammunition, the shafts of with start up like sharpshooters.  Similes arise, the paper is covered with ink; for the struggle commences and is concluded with torrents of black water, just as a battle with powder."  --Honore de Balzac, "The Pleasures and Pains of Coffee"

"Wisdom is the reward you get for a lifetime of listening when you'd have preferred to talk."  --Doug Larson

"Before I was humiliated I was like a stone that lies in deep mud, and he who is mighty came and in his compassion raised me up and exalted me very high and placed me on the top of the wall."

"Christ beside me, Christ before me, Christ behind me, Christ within me, Christ beneath me, Christ above me." 

--St. Patrick

Happy St. Patrick's day, everyone. I hope you read these and realize what a wonderful man of God Saint Patrick was, rather than just think green and shamrocks. =]