Personal Quotes ... Page 4
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Favorite Quotes from the Personal Category
"What's the big deal? Get over it . . . relax; just 'cause I do up in your face what other people do behind your back." - Ani DiFranco, 'born a lion'
"I sing sometimes like my life is at stake, 'cause you're only as loud as the noises you make." - Ani DiFranco, 'my I.q.'
"It's the last time, last chance, last warning too. So back off, or I'm gonna blow a fuse." - The Eyeliners, "here comes trouble"
"I've got a junkie heart in a cage of bone." - Jann Arden, 'will you remember me'
"It's been a long time, go back to high school! I didn't like you then and I won't start to." - The Eyeliners, "high school"
"everything I do is judged, and they mostly get it wrong. but oh well 'cause the bathroom mirror has not budged, and the woman who lives there can tell the truth from the stuff that they say." - Ani DiFranco, 'joyful girl'
"So push the seats back a little further. Roll the windows down and take a breath. I can see the headlights coming. They paint the world in red and broken glass." - Thursday, "understanding in a car crash"
"let's just say that things look different now; different in so many ways." - Ani DiFranco, 'superhero'
"I am telling you I'm different than you think I am." -Ani DiFranco
"So I'm gonna fuck it up again. I'm gonna do another detour, unpave my path and if you wanna make sense, what ya looking at me for?" - Fiona Apple, 'A Mistake'
"But I'm different now than I was then. Just like I was different at the end of the trip than I'd been at the beginning. And I'll be different tomorrow than I am today. And what that means is that I can never replicate that trip. Even if I went to the same places and met the same people, it wouldn't be the same. My experience wouldn't be the same." -Nicholas Sparks "The Choice"
"nothing had any definition about it. Colors merged. It was like constantly being caught in the sort of cheesy soft-focus normally reserved for swooning heroines, all of the rough edges smoothed away, all the blemishes blurred out of existence. Real Life seemed far away." - My Legendary Girlfriend by Mike Gayle
"How am I supposed to dream, with all the static in my head?" - Jennifer Love Hewitt, 'how do I deal'
"is it hard to see the possibility that I am not the person that I seem?" - Juliana Theory, "bring it low"
"I'm not a push over. I just feel I have to explore my options." - Dawson's Creek
"I cuss, I smoke. I laugh at dirty jokes. The minor voices. Man I know 'em well. I've closed down bars. I've lusted in my heart. My ex's think I ougta burn in hell. But the devil he won't notice when I die. Don't you figure he's got bigger fish to fry?" - Brad Paisley, "bigger fish to fry"
"And I'm not afraid to tell you I'm a little bit scared. the way things are going I'm never gonna get there." - Jann Arden, 'the way things are going'
"Well if there's one thing that I've learned, my enemies are just as close to me." - The Ataris, "losing streak"
"it's a long long road -- it's a big big world. we are wise wise women; we are giggling girls. we both carry a smile to show when we're pleased; we both carry a switchblade in our sleeves." - Ani DiFranco, 'if he tries anything'
"'I'll be okay. I really will. I'm tough.'" - nights in rodanthe by nicholas sparks
"I wish I didn't have this nervous laugh. I wish I didn't say half the stuff I say. I wish I could just learn to cover my tracks; I guess I'm not concerned about getting away." - Ani DiFranco, 'light of some kind'
"I've found that sometimes the illusion of progress is almost as good as progress itself." - It's My F---ing Birthday by Merrill Markoe
"I pace the floor at night when all the pretty world is sleeping." - Saving Jane, "don't stop"
"I don't possess a lot of self-confidence. I'm an actor so I simply act confident every time I hit the stage. I am consumed with the fear of failing. Reaching deep down and finding confidence has made all my dreams come true." - Arsenio Hall
"Too much to do, too much to see; Pictures to take, people to meet. When there's so much space in between, it overwhelms me." - Carbon Leaf, "one prarie outpost"
"I've got more than one membership, to more than one club, and I owe my life to the people that I love." - Ani DiFranco, 'in or out'
"If it were going to happen, it would have already happened. (Admittedly, even while I'm thinking this, I'm hoping it's not true. It's too simplistic, and when you apply the statement to almost any situation, frankly, it doesn't hold up. I mean, what does its not having happened yet have to do with preventing it from happening in the future? Nothing! Is it a predictor of things to come? Who knows! I don't want the statement to be true, of course. It's just true for now. That gets my hopes up, which just lets me down, so I need to stick with this thinking--you see.)" - Ask Again Later by Jill A. Davis
"I have a flair for getting myself in a mess." - The Eyeliners, "so what"
"you don't need to know that growing up has come late to me. I'm the last one at the party. but at least I've shown up." - Girls' Poker Night by Jill A. Davis
"Getting ahead in a difficult profession -- singing, acting, writing, whatever -- requires avid faith in yourself. You must be able to sustain yourself against staggering blows and unfair reversals. When I think back to those first couple of years in Rome, those endless rejections, without a glimmer of encouragement from anyone, all those failed screen tests, and yet I never let my desire slide away from me, my belief in myself and what I felt I could achieve." - Sophia Loren
"Have you ever written your name, or seen it printed somewhere, and thought it looked unfamiliar? Like maybe you spelled it wrong or something? It used to happen to me all the time. But then again, I'm only the strangest person I've ever met." - Girls' Poker Night by Jill A. Davis
"You know you're growing up when you want stuff for your apartment. Instead of like toys and clothes. I'm not there yet." - The Hills
"I go through stages when I feel this matters." - Juliana Theory, "music box superhero"
"In your world I may be no one, but what makes you think you're someone?" - AFI
"Even if I did get passed all my problems, I'm just gonna get out and get new ones. I like being a mess, it's who I am." -ally mcbeal
"I just wish I were more like you. You feel things, you act on them. . . " - Dawson's Creek
"Oh how I wish that I could do the same as them and go. Just pack my bags and goodbye. Get out fast or fade away real slow." - Millincollin
"What if I think something that's great, really is great, but not as great as something... greater?" - the wedding planner
"I've been waiting all this time to be something I can't define." - The Format
"I just want to get a little more out of my payday--finally own a car that doesn't break down on the freeway." - Tim McGraw, "All I Want is a Life"
"I'm looking for a 'dare to be great' situation." - Say Anything
"I am a work in progress; dressed in the fabric of a world unfolding, offering me intricate patterns of questions, rhythms that never come clean, and strengths that you still haven't seen." - Ani DiFranco, 'the slant'
"I was staring at the sky, just looking for a star to pray on or wish on or something like that." - Fiona Apple, 'Paper Bag'
"I'm not perfect okay? I screw up. I make mistakes. it's what I do." - One Tree Hill
"I mean I can't help it, okay? Happiness freaks me out. It's like all those perfectly manicured lawns at the beginning of Blue Velvet. You just know something evil lurks beneath." - Dawson's Creek
"I make such a good statistic, someone should study me now. somebody's got to be interested in how I feel just 'cause I'm here -- and I'm real." - Ani DiFranco, 'fire door'
"I want to breathe like it's my first breath. I want to bleed when I'm put to the test." - LeAnn Rimes, "save myself"
"You know that feeling? That feeling when you just want the right thing to fall into the right place, not only because it's right, but because it will mean that such a thing is still possible? I want to believe that." - Nick & Norah's Infinite Playlist
"It's school, then work and then life that just sharpens the blade. I think about time for fun; I think about time for play. Then I think about being done, with no resume-- with no one left to blame." - Carbon Leaf, "what about everything?"
"I may not be where I want to be, but thank God I'm not where I used to be." -Ainsley Carry
