"See what is invisible and you will see what to write." - from A Love Song for Bobby Long

"A genius is a man who has two great ideas..." - Jacob Bronowski, The Ascent of Man

"Arthur," said Ford.

"Hello? Yes?" Said Arthur.

"Just believe everything I tell you, and it will all be very, very simple."

"Ah, well I'm not sure I believe that." - Life, the Universe, and Everything by: Douglas Adams

"Be true! Be true! Be true! Show freely to the world, if not your worst, yet some trait where by the worst may be inferred!" - The Scarlet Letter by: Nathaniel Hawthorne

Here's the scoop:

if you have not seen the movie Catch and Release - go out and rent it this weekend, if not TONITE! one of Jennifer Garner's best movies. if that's not a good enough reason: Timothy Olyphant is really cute. get it and stare!

i have wanted to be a writer since i was 8 yrs. old, ( i am now 18, soo...) and wanted to write a book since i was 10 - still unsuccessfull - and still trying to just plain write. maybe i should just stop trying so damn hard! agreed? apparently, i am better at being a poet, so there ya go.

i love quotes, hence the quotes at the beginning. if you are also a gatherer of quotes visit quotegeek.com. great website! there are oh so much more towards the bottom!!!

Favorite Words:

Vicissitude - noun - the quality or state of being changeable

Serendipity - noun - the faculty of making fortunate discoveries by accident

Persnickety - adjective - fussy about small details (it's just fun to say!)

Plucky - adjective - spirited; brave

Some Favorite Songs:

Kenny Wayne Shepherd - "Blue on Black" , Presidents of the United States - "Peaches" , Rise Against - "Swing Life Away" , NIN - "Head Like a Hole" , Dido - "Isobel" , Billie Myers - "Kiss the Rain" , John Mayer - "Why Georgia" , 3DaysGrace - "Are You Ready" , Big & Rich - "Holy Water" , Taylor Swift - "Tear Drops on my Guitar" , Bruce Springsteen - "Secret Garden" , Nirvana/David Bowie - "The Man Who Sold the World" , The Vines - "Ride" , Korn & Amy Lee - "Freak on a Leash" ... o.k, this list could go on forever...

other biggies: Kate Nash, eastmountainsouth, INine, Pat Benatar, Chevelle, Hoobastank, Within Temptation, some Patty Griffin, some Tom Petty, Rascal Flats, The Wreckers, Dixie Chicks, Foo Fighters, Breaking Ben, Evanescence, Lisa Loeb, Anna Nalick, Regina Spektor

Some Favorite Movies:

Catch and Release, Fly Away Home, Fairy Tale: a True Story, Flushed Away, Evolution, The Incredibles, Underworld (both), Scoop, Plunkett & MaCleane, Employee of the Month, 28 Days (not the horror movie), An American Haunting, Twister, Hitchhiker's, Lemony Snicket, Princess Bride, Pirates (i really liked the third one, but their all good), Stepmom, The Man Who Knew Too Little, Stranger Than Fiction...this list could go on also...

Favorite Books:

pretty much anything by Jodi Picoult, White Oleander by Janet Fitch!!, Twilight series!! by Stephenie Meyers, Jane Eyre by Charlotte Bronte!!, Walk Two Moons & Heartbeat by Sharon Creech!!, Neverwhere by Neil Gaiman!!, East by Edith Patou!!, Arena by Karen Hancock, Witch Child by Celia Rees, Olive's Ocean by Kevin Henkes!!, A Great and Terrible Beauty by Libba Bray!!, The Thirteenth Tale by Diane Setterfield!!, A Northern Light by Jennifer Donnelly!!, I Capture the Castle by Dodie Smith!!, Ella Enchanted by Gail Carson Levine, Sisterhood of the Traveling Pants books by Ann Brashares!!, Speak by Laurie Halse Anderson, The Angels Trilogy by Lurlene McDaniel, To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee!!, Petey by Ben Mikaelson, Lyddie by Katherine Paterson, Frozen Summer by Mary Jane Auch, Ireland by Frank Delaney, The Time Traveler's Wife by Audrey Niffenegger!!, A Certain Slant of Light by Laura Whitcomb!!

!!=must reads

Favorite Poems: "Beyond the Pale" by Amber Tamblyn, "Any Prince to Any Princess" by Adrian Henri, "Things" by Lisel Mueller, and "the lesson of the moth" by Don Marquis

More Quotes:

"The difference between the right word and almost the right word is the difference between lightning and the lightning bug." -Mark Twain

"My way of joking is to tell the truth. It is the funniest joke in the world." -George Bernard Shaw

"I love mankind. It's people I can't stand." -Charles M. Schulz

"After 12 yrs. of therapy, my psychiatrist said something that brought tears to my eyes. He said, 'No hablo ingles.'" -Ronnie Shakes

"If at first you don't succeed, don't think of it as a failure. Think of it as time-release success." -Robert Orben

"I shot an elephant in my pajamas. How he got in my pajamas, I'll never know." -Groucho Marx

"I went to a bookstore and asked the saleswoman where the self-help section was. She said if she told me it would defeat the purpose." -Dennis Miller

"I looked up the word POLITICS in the dictionary, and it's actually a combination of two words: poli, which means 'many,' and tics, which means 'bloodsuckers.'" -Jay Leno

"I think I did pretty well, considering I started out with nothing but a bunch of blank paper." -Steve Martin

"The road to success is always under construction." -Lily Tomlin

"There is thin line that separates laughter and pain, comedy and tragedy, humor and hurt." -Erma Bombeck

"When we laugh we temporarily give ourselves over to the person who makes us laugh." -Robert Orben

"Imagination is intelligence having fun." -George Scialaoba

"I think I know how it is to be a grown up: it's when you feel how someone feels who isn't you." -Frances, Fairy Tale: A True Story

"I guess we're adults. The question is, when did that happen, and how do we make it stop?" -Ellen Pompeii, Grey's Anatomy

"If I knew what I was so anxious about, I wouldn't be so anxious." -Mignon McLaughlin

"We do not see things as they are, we see them as we are." -Annais Nin

"If you fight back and hit, it hurts a little while; if you don't fight back, it hurts forever." -Joe Siegel

"Isn't it strange that we talk least about the things we think about the most?" -Charles Lindbergh

"Kids think with their brains cracked wide open; becoming an adult, I've decided, is only a slow sewing shut." -My Sister's Keeper by Jodi Picoult

"Practical steps are life's curses." -Ireland by Frank Delaney

Sensitive in Spainish: Sensible

"We are the people our parents warned us about." -Bumpersticker

"Smile - it confuses people." -t-shirt

"What we are is God's gift to us. What we become is our gift to God." -Eleanor Powell

"Time you enjoy wasting, was not wasted." -John Lennon

"Life is pleasant. Death is peaceful. It's the transition that's troublesome." -Isaace Asimov

"Not a shred of evidence exists in favor of the idea that life is serious." -Brendan Gill

"...sometimes the right thing felt all wrong until it was over and done with." -Practical Magic by Alice Hoffman

"If you are never scared, embarrassed, or hurt, it means you never take chances." -Fortune cookie

"You have 5 minutes to wallow in the delicious misery; enjoy it, embrace it, discard it... and proceed." - Kirsten Dunst, Elizabethtown

"You've got a freak-flag, you just don't fly it." -Luke Wilson , The Family Stone

"...there is a possibility within each moment for change to occur, for good things to happen." -Olive's Ocean by Kevin Henkes

"If love is a labor I'll slave till the end." - Rise Against - "Swing Life Away"

"Nothing takes the taste out of peanut butter quite like unrequited love." -Charlie Brown

"There is nothing like returning to a place that remains unchanged to find the ways in which you yourself have altered." -Nelson Mandela

"You are marching into the great unknown armed with... nothing." -Maureen Stapleton, You've Got Mail

"To know you are ignorant is the beginning of wisdom." -The Mists of Avalon by Marion Zimmer Bradley

"This 'telephone' has too many short comings to be seriously considered as a means of communication. The device is inherently of no value to us." -Western Union internal memo, 1876

"Heard melodies are sweet, but those unheard are sweeter; therefore, ye soft pipes, play on." -John Keats

"Aerodynamically, the bumble bee shouldn't be able to fly, but the bumble bee doesn't know it so it goes on flying anyway." -Mark Kay Ash

"...the human spirit. That's the challenge. That's the voyage. That's the expedition." -John Travolta, Phenomenon

"...I find peace when I'm confused." -Switchfoot - ?

"People in their right minds never take pride in their talents." -To Kill a Mockingbird

"...because tomorrow the sun will rise. Who knows what the tide could bring." -Tom Hanks, Cast Away

"Nothing is too wonderful to be true." -Michael Faraday

Got a little carried away with the quotes. Feel free to cut and paste.