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Day: September 15, 2010

Johnny Depp Quotes

– “We’re all damaged in our own way. Nobody’s perfect. I think we are all somewhat screwy, every single one of us.”

– “All that matters is the ending, it’s the most important part of the story, and this one is very good. This one is perfect.”

– “If someone were to harm my family or a friend or somebody I love, I would eat them. I might end up in jail for 500 years, but I would eat them.”

– “My self-image it still isn’t that alright. No matter how famous I am, no matter how many people go to see my movies, I still have the idea that I’m that pale no-hoper that I used to be. A pale no-hoper that happens to be a little lucky now. Tomorrow it’ll be all over, then I’ll have to go back to selling pens again.”

– “My body is my journal,and my tattoos are my story.”

– “Think the thing to do is to enjoy the ride while you’re on it.”

– “If you catch me saying ‘I am a serious actor,’ I beg you to slap me.”

– “People say I make strange choices, but they’re not strange for me. My sickness is that I’m fascinated by human behavior, by what’s underneath the surface, by the worlds inside people.”

– “A woman who would steal your love when your love is all you really have isnt much of a woman.”

– “As a teenager I was so insecure. I was the type of guy that never fitted in because he never dared to choose. I was convinced I had absolutely no talent at all. For nothing. And that thought took away all my ambition too.”

– “There are four questions of value in life… What is sacred? Of what is the spirit made? What is worth living for, and what is worth dying for? The answer to each is the same. Only love.”

– “Trips to the dentist – I like to postpone that kind of thing.”

– “The beauty, the poetry of the fear in their eyes. I didn’t mind going to jail for, what, five, six hours? It was absolutely worth it.”

– “I’m shy, paranoid, whatever word you want to use. I hate fame. I’ve done everything I can to avoid it.”

– “If there’s any message to my work, it is ultimately that it’s OK to be different, that it’s good to be different, that we should question ourselves before we pass judgment on someone who looks different, behaves different, talks different, is a different color.”

– “I am doing things that are true to me. The only thing I have a problem with is being labeled. – Johnny Depp
I think everybody’s nuts.”

– “Me, I’m dishonest, and you can always trust a dishonest man to be dishonest. Honestly, it’s the honest ones you have to watch out for…'”

– “All that matters is the ending, its the most important part of the story, and this one is very good. This one is perfect.”

– “My body is a journal in a way. It’s like what sailors used to do, where every tattoo meant something, a specific time in your life when you make a mark on yourself, whether you do it yourself with a knife or with a professional tattoo artist.”

– “I’m an old-fashioned guy… I want to be an old man with a beer belly sitting on a porch, looking at a lake or something.”

– “I am an American. I love my country and have great hopes for it. It is for this reason that I speak candidly and sometimes critically about it. I have benefited greatly from the freedom that exists in my country and for this I am eternally grateful.”

– “I pretty much try to stay in a constant state of confusion just because of the expression it leaves on my face.”

– “I may have a feather duster down my pants.”

– “With any part you play, there is a certain amount of yourself in it. There has to be, otherwise it’s just not acting. It’s lying.”

– “When kids hit 1 year old, it’s like hanging out with a miniature drunk. You have to hold onto them. They bump into things. They laugh and cry. They urinate. They vomit.'”

– “The only gossip I’m interested in is things from the Weekly World News – ‘Woman’s bra bursts, 11 injured’. That kind of thing.”

– “There’s a drive in me that won’t allow me to do certain things that are easy.”

– “I was ecstatic they re-named ‘French Fries’ as ‘Freedom Fries’. Grown men and women in positions of power in the U.S. government showing themselves as idiots.”

– “It’s all kinds of these profound things crashing on you when your child arrives into the world. It’s like you’ve met your reason to live.”

– “I’m not sure I’m adult yet.”

– “The only creatures that are evolved enough to convey pure love are dogs and infants.”

– “Don’t pretend to be captain weird. I just do what I do.”

– “They stick you with those names, those labels — ‘rebel’ or whatever; whatever they like to use. Because they need a label; they need a name. They need something to put the price tag on the back of.”

Soltitude Quotes

– “All humans are frightened of their own solitude. But only in solitude can we learn to know ourselves, learn to handle our own eternal aloneness.” – Han Suyin

– “Be able to be alone. Lose not the advantage of solitude, and the society of thyself.” – Thomas Browne

– “Being solitary is being alone well: being alone luxuriously immersed in doings of your own choice, aware of the fullness of your won presence rather than of the absence of others. Because solitude is an achievement.” – Alice Koller

– “Do not rely completely on any other human being, however dear. We meet all life’s greatest tests alone.” – Agnes Macphail

– “Each of us is alone in the world. It takes great courage to meet the full force of your aloneness. … When you face your aloneness, something begins to happen. Gradually, the sense of bleakness changes into a sense of true belonging. This is a slow and open-ended transition but it is utterly vital in order to come into rhythm with your own individuality.” – John O’Donohue

– “I feel the same way about solitude as some people feel about the blessing of the church. It’s the light of grace for me. I never close my door behind me without the awareness that I am carrying out an act of mercy toward myself.” – Peter Hoeg

– “I learned…that inspiration does not come like a bolt, nor is it kinetic, energetic striving, but it comes into us slowly and quietly and all the time, though we must regularly and every day give it a little chance to start flowing, prime it with a little solitude and idleness.” – Brenda Ueland

– “I live in that solitude which is painful in youth, but delicious in the years of maturity.” – Albert Einstein

– “I never found a companion that was so companionable as solitude.” – Henry David Thoreau

– “Inside myself is a place where I live all alone and that’s where you renew your springs that never dry up.” – Pearl S. Buck

– “Isolation is aloneness that feels forced upon you, like a punishment. Solitude is aloneness you choose and embrace. I think great things can come out of solitude, out of going to a place where all is quiet except the beating of your heart.” – Jeanne Marie Laskas

– “It is not necessary that you leave the house. Remain at your table and listen. Do not even listen, only wait. Do not even wait, be wholly still and alone. The world will present itself to you for its unmasking . . . in ecstasy it will writhe at your feet.” – Franz Kafka

– “It is well to be alone. It fertilizes the creative impulse.” – Max Nordau

– “Language has created the word “loneliness” to express the pain of being alone, and the word “solitude” to express the glory of being alone.” – Paul Johannes Tillich

– “Leisure is a form of silence, not noiselessness. It is the silence of contemplation such as occurs when we let our minds rest on a rosebud, a child at play, a Divine mystery, or a waterfall.” – Bishop Fulton J. Sheen

– “Like water which can clearly mirror the sky and the trees only so long as its surface is undisturbed, the mind can only reflect the true image of the Self when it is tranquil and wholly relaxed.” – Indra Devi

Beautiful Quotes

– “Don’t call the world dirty because you forgot to clean your glasses” – Aaron Hill

– “Stone walls do not a prison make, Nor iron bars a cage” – Richard Lovelace

– “Never look back unless you’re planning to go that way” – Henry David Thoreau

– “Music is what feelings sound like” – Unknown

– “It does not matter how slow you go so long as you do not stop” – Confucius

– “Publicity is like poison; it doesn’t hurt unless you swallow it” – Joe Paterno

– “Time itself comes in drops” – William James

– “If you don’t know where you are going, every road will get you nowhere” – Henry A. Kissinger

– “All things truly wicked start from an innocence.” – Ernest Hemingway

– “Either you run the day or the day runs you” – Jim Rohn

– “I believe that robots should only have faces if they truly need them” – Donald Norman

– “He who profits by a crime commits it” – Seneca

– “Being on the tightrope is living; everything else is waiting” – Karl Wallenda

– “Listen to the sound of silence” – Paul Simon

– “There is no top. There are always further heights to reach” – Jascha Heifet