"Technology is wonderful...when it works." --Mom

This is a very, very true statement. I was reminded of this when I had to take my computer into tech support AGAIN last night to have it wiped and re-imaged. That is the third time this school year that my computer has ceased working correctly and I've had to do this. Sometimes I wonder if all this technology is really worth the trouble. And then it scares me a little when I'm without my computer for a night and feel naked and exposed--my dependence on technology is a bit unnerving. Our dependence as a culture is heightening more and more...hopefully it won't increase too much more, otherwise we'll become like the people in the Disney-Pixar movie Wall-E. We'll see. =]

"The name of the talk she was giving at the conference was 'Music and Sexuality'. I'd go to that--if only because 'sexuality' is in the title." --PVD

"The Christian lives by grace as Abba's child, utterly rejecting the God who catches people by surprise in  a sign of weakness--the God incapable of smiling at our awkward mistakes, the God who does not accept a seat at our human festivities, the God who says 'You will pay for that', the God incapable of understanding that children will always get dirty and be forgetful." --Brennan Manning, Abba's Child

"Being vague is almost as much fun as that other thing." --Matthew Westerholm

"Friendship isn't a big thing - it's a million little things."  --Author Unknown

"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