Personal Quotes ... Page 6
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Favorite Quotes from the Personal Category
"I'm never going to be a girly girl, I never will. I'm never going to be a lotus flower." - Sex and the City
"I had no problem with being left alone with strange adults and a bunch of children I didn't know. If my parents were trying to give me a head start on the advancement of my social skills, then they should have asked me and I could have told them that I got along with everyone." - My Legendary Girlfriend by Mike Gayle
"I learned to be unfaithful from my parents. Not infidelity in the classic sense -- but I was always prepared for the unhappy ending, which made me less willing to work toward a happy one. I was unfaithful to the idea of a well-adjusted future." - Girls' Poker Night by Jill A. Davis
"I guess I'm learning, little by little, that we decide what our lives are going to be. Things happen to us, but it is our reactions that matter." - Felicity
"Raise the roof, that I might see the stars--to gain wisdom, to see things for what they are." - Carbon Leaf, "raise the roof"
"if there's anything I've learned all these years on my own ... it's how to find my own way there, and how to find my own way back home." - Ani DiFranco, 'anticipate'
"I'm a twisted angel flying wild and free. Yeah I'm a twisted angel, flying to heaven on a broken wing." - LeAnn Rimes, "twisted angel"
"When I shop, the world gets better, and the world is better, but then it's not, and I need to do it again." - Confessions of a Shopaholic
"Don't get too smart. I barely know what you're saying already." - Party of Five
"I'm comfortably confused." - Taking Back Sunday, "set phases to the sun"
"you say you're gun shy, I say you're spineless. you think you're pensive, I think you're mindless. such a busy little drone that your heart beats in monotone; so loud you can't hear me."
"I am not a pretty girl. I don't want to be a pretty girl, no I want to be more than a pretty girl." - Ani DiFranco, 'not a pretty girl'
"I never really go anywhere anyway, I just pass through from time to time." - Ani DiFranco, 'back around'
"I wish somehow I didn't know now what I didn't know then." - Toby Keith
"I can't. I can't. 'Cause if I say these things, I can't ever take them back. And it'll change everything, and I can't do that. I can't." - Dawson's Creek
"Sitting in my glass house, while your ghost is sleeping down the hall, watching the little birds fly kamikaze missions into the walls. Think I'm gonna stay in today sit on my couch and watch them fall." - Ani DiFranco 'Glass House'
"I finally cut all the ties that were hanging on me." - LeAnn Rimes, "sign of life"
"no I don't prefer obscurity, but I'm an idealistic girl. and I wouldn't work for you -- no matter what you paid." - Ani DiFranco, '1,000,000'
"I know just how you feel. I've been in your shoes before." - Juliana Theory, "piano song"
"tell me who is your boogieman; that's who I will be. you don't have to like me for who I am, but we'll see what you're made of by what you make of me." - Ani DiFranco, 'willing to fight'
"This is my life... it's not what it was before. All these feelings I've shared. And these are my dreams that I'd never lived before. Somebody shake me, cause I must be sleeping. Now that we're here, it's so far away. All the struggle we thought was in vain, all in the mistakes, one life contained. They all finally start to go away." - Staind
"and everyone had lied by the things they'd told and the things they'd kept secret." - In Her Shoes by Jennifer Weiner
"What is the perfect gift for the person who makes me believe, really believe, that it is possible to work through things? That leaving is the last resort, not the first? I want to give him something big and unnecessary to properly thank him." - Ask Again Later by Jill A. Davis
"Don't you tell me to deny it, I've done wrong and I want to suffer for my sins." - Fiona Apple, 'Criminal'
"I know this song, with this one really killer line. I don't remember it exactly, but it slays me every time." - Ani DiFranco 'I Know This Bar'
"Never really mastered disinterest." - Dashboard Confessional, "anyone, anyone"
"All I know is that I tried, and I tried to make it alright." - The Eyeliners, "postal"
"Today I watched the greatest thing of all: a flock of birds, preparing for the fall." - Carbon Leaf, "paloma"
"some chick says, 'thank you for saying all the things I never do.' I say, 'the thanks I get is to take all the shit for you.'" - Ani DiFranco, 'face up and sing'
"I have given and got none, still I'm driven by something I can't explain. It's not a cross, it is a choice." - Amanda Marshall, "let it rain"
"I think that it's absurd that you think I am the derelict daughter; I fight fire with words." - Ani DiFranco, 'willing to fight'
"I got my feet on the ground and I don't go to sleep to dream. You got your head in the clouds and you're not at all what you seem." - Fiona Apple, 'Sleep To dream'
"I don't always break the rules. I just bend them a little." - Cait
"My next thirty years I'm gonna have some fun -- try to forget about all the crazy things I've done. Maybe now I've conquered all my adolescent fears, and I'll do it better in my next thirty years." - Tim McGraw, "Next Thirty Years"
"There's this image I keep coming back to. I'm ten-years-old. My mom and dad take me to see 'Jurassic Park.' There I am, fourth row center, flanked by my parents. And in walks this guy and a girl. Probably our age. They plop down right in front of me... and proceed to make-out for the entire movie. I couldn't believe it. I couldn't believe that anyone would rather kiss than watch this miraculous fantasy unfold on the screen. At one point, I tapped the guy on the shoulder and he looked back at me, like, 'One day you'll get it.' Here it is all these years later, and I'm not that guy who goes to the movies and makes out in the balcony, and I'm not that kid who sat between his parents... I'm this third person who's too busy analyzing everything to actually sit back and enjoy the show. I mean those other two guys, at least they're having fun. I'm not anymore. And that is why I dropped film class." - Dawson's Creek
"I do not think much of a man who is not wiser today than he was yesterday." - Abe Lincoln
"When you're left with only a bullet, I'll bring the trigger and a promise to pull it."
"I've made more mistakes than I can count upon my fingertips. I have been ashamed and I have felt guilty as all sin. counting every tear that drops cannot account for any loss. I'll let the past remain behind me now... fill it up with goodness; I'll drink it down with love." - Jann Arden, 'never give up on me'
"When I was growing up, I always felt there was an expectation that I would do one of two things: be great at something, or go crazy and become a total failure. There is no middle ground where I come from, and I am only now beginning to get a sense that there is a middle ground at all." -marya hornbacher
"You seem to have forgotten the way she works. When you need her but do not want her, then she must stay. When you want her, but no longer need her, then she has to go. I know from personal experience." - Nanny McPhee Returns
"Things aren't going my way. Think I'll stay in bed today. Tomorrow's another day." - The Eyeliners, "that's the way it goes"
"I believe that no matter how random things may appear, there's still a plan." - The A-Team
"when you look in the mirror do you see visions of your past? I ain't got time for halfway -- I ain't got time for halfassed." - Ani DiFranco, 'circle of light'
"I am thirty-two flavors and then some." - Ani DiFranco, '32 flavors'
"Hope last night doesn't wake up this morning and tell tomorrow what I've done." - strangefolk
"I learned to laugh, I learned to cry. Will I ever learn to say goodbye?"
"Can you see that I can see right through you?" - The Eyeliners, "if I were you"
"I go to great lengths to amuse myself because, you see, no one else does." - Ask Again Later by Jill A. Davis
"There's some illogical part of me that still believes if you want superman to show up, first there's got to be someone worth saving."-Judi Piccoult, "my sister's keeper"
"I looked to everybody but me to answer my prayers." -Jewel
