I'm so used to running non-stop. While I'm healing, I can't do as much of that. Almost -- but not quite. This has left me with too much time for introspection. It's not that I can't be introspective -- I'm pretty good at it. I just don't want to be right now. Maybe it's because I don't want a pause in my momentum, maybe there is a question out there that I don't want answered, or maybe there is a reason that I have been put in a position to have time to think, and I'm afraid of knowing what that could be.
In spite of myself, I have sat down long enough to decide that I need to take care of a few things. There are one or two more that keep poking at me, though, that I'm not ready to commit to yet.
So… in an act of mild avoidance (something else that I'm pretty good at), here are some quotes from a few of my favorite blah-blah-sters: The Rat Pack, Amazing English Poets, and Dr. Johnny Fever from WKRP! I hope you like them as much as I do.
"The only thing necessary for the triumph of evil is for good men to do nothing."
~Robert Browning
"Earth is crammed with heaven, and every common bush afire with God: But only he who sees takes off his shoes."
~Elizabeth Barrett Browning
“Girls blush, sometimes, because they are alive, half wishing they were dead to save the shame. The sudden blush devours them, neck and brow; They have drawn too near the fire of life, like gnats, and flare up bodily, wings and all. What then? Who's sorry for a gnat or girl?”
~Elizabeth Barrett Browning
"The worst of madmen is a saint run mad."
~Alexander Pope
"Fools rush in where angels fear to tread."
~Alexander Pope
"By blood a king, in heart a clown."
~Alfred Lord Tennyson
"Be wise with speed; a fool at forty is a fool indeed."
~Edward Young
"Wonder is involuntary praise."
~Edward Young
"Beware the fury of a patient man."
~John Dryden
"Happy the man, and happy he alone, he who can call today his own; he who, secure within, can say, tomorrow do thy worst, for I have lived today."
~John Dryden
"Pains of love be sweeter far than all other pleasures are."
~John Dryden
"There is a pleasure in being mad which none but madmen know."
~John Dryden
"Fear is the enemy of logic."
~Frank Sinatra
"Don't get even, get mad."
~Frank Sinatra
"I once shook hands with Pat Boone and my whole right side sobered up."
~Dean Martin
"If you drink don't drive. Don't even putt."
~Dean Martin
"How lucky can one guy be
I kissed her and she kissed me.
Like the fella once said,
Ain't that a kick in the head?"
~Dean Martin
"You name it and I've done it. I'd like to say that I did it my way, but that line, I'm afraid, belongs to someone else."
~Sammy Davis Jr
"I'll bet a suit like that is in the shop most of the time."
~Dr. Johnny Fever
"Okay, it's time for this town to get DOWN! You've got Johnny, Dr. Johnny Fever, and I am burning up in here. WHEW! I am spinning the platters that matter at WKRP in Cincinnati. Oh, and I almost forgot: BOOGER!"
~Dr. Johnny Fever
What Color Is Your Mind?
Your Mind is Purple
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Of all the mind types, yours is the most idealistic.
You tend to think wild, amazing thoughts. Your dreams and fantasies are intense.
Your thoughts are creative, inventive, and without boundaries.
You tend to spend a lot of time thinking of fictional people and places - or a very different life for yourself.
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