SPORTS playing pool mountain biking boogie-boarding swimming tennis basketball skating horse-back riding hiking & wandering around nature trails & losing my sense of direction! :) TV SHOWS Oprah That Biography Show on A&E West Wing Judging Amy Simpsons & King of the Hill ER Sex and the City The Sopranos The Queer Eye for the Straight Guy SNL Seinfield PLACES I LIKE TO GO/OTHER INTERESTS: traveling nature & animals listening to local bands & all types of music playing classical guitar (other instruments I've played: violin, cello, piano, recorder, & flute) hosting parties for family and friends going to the beaches and islands outings to the theaters, art museums, & concerts looking at antique things history, art, literature, philosophy, religion, foreign languages, & learning about other cultures hanging out at coffee cafes/restaurants playing board games with old pals from high school going to garage sales writing & reading plays, poetry, & fiction going to movies attending/participating in poetry readings around town:Books Inc., Reitz Union, CommonGrounds, Goering's Bookstore, Barnes and Nobles Bookstore, and Civic Media Center. SOME OF MY FAVORITE THINGS: FOOD= pizza, spaghetti, lasagna, salads, black bean sub, meatball sub, artichokes, corn, couscous, blueberry bagels with cream cheese, blueberry muffins, plantains, alligator, shrimp, lobster, biscuits, raspberries, oranges, blackberries, grapefruit, strawberries, watermelon (all kinds of fruits and nuts), Chinese food, sushi, rocky road ice cream, yogurt, Nutella (hazelnut spread) and french bread, and anything with chocolate BREAKFAST CEREAL= Blueberry MorningFruit Loops SALAD DRESSING= ranch, ceasar, italian, and french SHAMPOO/CONDITIONER= Suave, Pantene, Vidal Sassoon, Swiss, Baby Detangling shampoo, and Avon TOOTHPASTE= Colgate DRINKS= sangreia, corona with a lime, wine coolers, cherry coke, DrPepper, iced tea, green tea, ginseng tea, lemonaide, orange julius, banana smoothie, hot cocoa, and ice water CANDY= Hersheys and Kitkats MEAL TIME= lunch and dinner FLOWERS= daisy, sunflower, gardenias, hibiscus, camellias PERFUME/SMELLY STUFF= sunflower, lavendar, gardenias, and aloe STATUES= Greek & Roman statues, Saints and Angels, Historical figures and monuments, and Gargoyles COLORS= blue, purple, white, gold, silver, black SWEAR WORD= All of them! POLITICAL PARY= Democrat CURRENT POLITICIANS= Kennedy, Gore, Lieberman, the Gov. of Minnesota, Kerry and Edwards (2004), Obama (2007-2008) ISSUES= Education, Environment, Women's Rights, Healthcare and Childcare ANIMALS= Abyssinian cats, Big dogs (not nervous small dogs), mice, gerbils, ferrets, pigs, horses, snakes, iguanas, and birds… MODES OF TRANSPORTATION= bike, naked feet, car, train, and plane PLACES TO SHOP FOR CLOTHES=TJ MAX, WAL-MART, ROSS'S, AND FLASHBACKS BRAND OF JEANS=Wrangler, Levi, Liz Claiborne, Faded Glory FAVORITE OUTFITS=comfy jeans WHAT'S PRINTED ON MY FAVORITE T-SHIRT=a Jimi Hendrix picture RADIO STATIONS= 99.5, classic 89, 92.5, ROCK 104, 106.9, 100.5, 93.7 (LEAST FAV: KISS 105) TOWNS TO CHILL IN= St. Augustine, Cedar Key, Tarpon Springs, and High Springs "CHILL" SPOT= home, car, a friend's house, and anywhere near nature and water DAILY EXCERCISE= biking and swimming TEAM= Go Gators! TEAM SPORTS= basketball, playing pool, bowling, soccer, tennis INDIVIDUAL SPORTS= billiards, bowling, cycling, horse-back riding, skating, tennis, and swimming OUTDOOR SPORTS/REC= boogie-boarding, camping, canoeing, tubing, fishing, hiking, mountain biking, walking on trail with a lot of alligators around me, watching bats fly out of the bat house over at University of Florida, and watching hummingbirds SPORTS TO WATCH= tennis only if it’s has entertaining players, basketball, hockey, skateboarding, surfing, and bike races HOLIDAYS=Winter Holidays, Birthdays, July 4th, and Halloween SOCIAL ACTIVITY= playing pool w/ friends, hosting parties for friends, checking out art museums and the theaters, cultural events, festivals, listening to music, watching movies, going to CJs and Cafes, playing games with old friends from high school, being silly, & making people laugh! CHILDHOOD TOYS= Bikes FRIENDS= the friends I’ve known for about 10-20 years! WAY TO SPEND MONEY= (when I have it) books, music, gifts for friends and family, film, camera equipment, $20 jeans, make-up esp. lipsticks and eye shadows, red hair-dye, thrift stores, garage sales, and technological gadgets MOVIES= The Classics, Star Wars, Braveheart, Bridget Jones Diary, any Jim Carey movie, City of Angels, The Green Mile, Ferris Bueller's Day Off, Dead Poets Society, 16 Candles, Breakfast Club, Patch Adams, Amadeus, Godfather trilogy, Angela's Ashes, The Patriot, Stand by Me, Fried Green Tomatoes, Beloved, Meet Joe Black, The Color Purple, Sixth Sense, Life is Beautiful, Sleepless in Seatle, Hope Floats, Almost Famous, In America, The Joyluck Club, and too many favorites! PLAYS= Anything by Shakespeare, Tennessee Williams, Neil Simon, Wendy Wasserstein, Beth Henley, and David Mamet… ACTORS= Jackie Chan, Danny Glover, Eddie Murphy, Robert Deniro, Samuel Jackson, Joe Pesci, Clint Eastwood, Dustin Hoffman, Robin Williams, Chevy Chase, Michael J. Fox (My mom met him when he was in Gainesville, filming Doc Hollywood! I was so jealous!), Michael Douglas, Kevin Costner, Mathew Perry, Matt Damon, Nicolas Cage, Al Pacino, Hugh Grant, Johnny Depp, Harrison Ford, Mel Gibson, Tom Wilkinson, Russell Crowe, Ethan Hawke, Tom Cruise, Sean Penn, Will Smith, Denzel Washington, Ian Mckellan, Ron Howard, Jacie Chan, and Brad Pitt…Michael J. Fox getting ready to narrate Peter and the Wolf for the GSO. He was doing a film called Doc Hollywood in Micanopy, Fl. ACTRESS= Sandra Bullock, Jodie Foster, Katherine Hepburn, Oprah, Julia Roberts, Meg Ryan, Susan Sarandon, Geena Davis, Liv Tyler, Drew Barrymore, Gwyneth Paltrow, Kathy Bates, Vivica Fox, Ashley Judd, Haile Berry, Sissy Spacek, Renee Zellweger, Nicole Kidman,and the actress in Judging Amy… COMEDIANS/COMICS= Red Skeleton, George Carlin, Marx bros, Charlie Chaplin, Chris Farley, Sam Kinison, John Candy, Jay Leno, Dave Letterman, Bill Maher, Jonathan Winters, Jim Carrey, Robin Williams, Billy Crystal, Roseanne, Johnny Carson, Mark Twain, Jeff Foxworthy, Steve Martin, Chris Rock, Eddie Murphy, Jerry Seinfield, Tom Green, and the cast on Saturday Night Live... ATHELETES= Michael Jordan, John McEnroe, Andre Agassi BOOKS: Classics, Greek and Roman The Three Muskeeteer by Alexandar Dumas The Best Tales of Hoffman The Collected Stories of Eudora Welty Under the Tuscan Sun by Frances Mayes The Swan by Frances Mayes The Jungle by Upton Sinclair Bless me Ultima by Rudolfo Anaya The Ballad of the Sad Café and Other Stories by Carson McCullers South Sea Stories by W. Somerset Maugham Other Voices, Other Rooms by Truman Capote and Breakfast at Tiffany by Truman Capote The Fall by Albert Camus and The Stranger by Albert Camus Blow-up and Other Stories by Cortazar The Hills Beyond by Thomas Wolfe Hawthorne’s Short Stories The House of Seven Gables by Hawthorne The Return to the Native by Thomas Hardy Hunchback of Notre Dame by Victor Hugo The Settlers by Meyer Levin Faust Contemporary American Poetry selected by Donald Hall View with a Grain of Sand by Wislawa Symborska 12 Poets- Shakespeare, J. Donne, Pope, Wordsworth, Keats, Browning, Emily Dickenson, A.E. Houseman, W. B. Yeats, E.A. Robinson, R. Frost, and T.S. Eliot ed. By Glenn Leggett Poems and sketches of E.B. White Collected Poems of Dylan Thomas The Major Romantic Poets-five giants of English Romanticism Anthology Ezra Pound’s selected poems Harvest poems by Carl Sandburg The Poems of Richard Wilbur The plays- A Doll House by Isben, Angels in America; Millennium Approaches by Tony Kushner, Rosencrantz and Guildenstein are Dead by Tom Stoppard, Waiting for Godot, Six Great Modern Plays (Isben, Chekhov, Shaw, O’Casey, T. Williams, and Arthur Miller) Hair by Gerome Ragni and James Rado, Shakespeare,( Henry V, Midsummer Night’s Dream, King Lear, The Tempest, and Hamlet, Romeo and Juliet) Oedipus the King by Sophocles, Antigone by Sophocles, Lysistrata by Aristophones, Man and Superman by B. Shaw, Pygmalion by B. Shaw, Who’s Afraid of Virgina Woolf? By Albee, Four Modern Plays-(Hedda Gabler, The Emperor Jones, and Death of a Salesman), The Crucible by Arthur Miller, Our Town, The Skin of Our Teeth, The Matchmaker by Thorton Wilder, No Exit and Three Other Plays by Sartre, Lady Julie by Strindberg, Hannele by Hauptmann, The Life of Insects by Capek, The Infernal Machine by Cocteau, The Mask and Face by Chiarelli, Orestes and Other plays by Euripedes, The Oresteia by Aeschylus, The Genius of the French Theater, West Side Story, and Brighton Beach Memoirs by Neil Simon. The Classic Slave Narratives ed. by Henry L. Gates Jr. From the Green Antilles by Caribbean writing Wuthering Heights Jane Eyre The Awakening Katherine Mansfield Jane Hamilton Old Testament and New Testament The Complete Works of O’Henry Volume 1 and 2 Heart of Darkness by J. Conrad The Great Short Stories of Robert Louis Stevenson Edgar A. Poe The Fred Astaire Dance Book Laura Ingles Wilder books Judy Blume books-Tales of a Fourth Grade Nothing, Superfudge… Choose your own adventure books Secret Garden Margaret Atwood’s stuff- Bluebeard’s Egg and Other Stories, Dancing Girls and Other Stories… Lola Haskin’s poems Edna St. Vincent Millay’s poems Pnin by Nabokov The Grab by Maria Katzenbach Ideas and Forms of English and American Literature Blackberry Winter by Margaret Mead and Growing up in New Guinea by Margaret Mead The Story of Philosophy by Durant The Language of Life by Bill Moyers The Chinese Portrait of a People by John Fraser China: A short cultural history Driving through Cuba by Carlo Gebbler For Whom the Bell Tolls by E. Hemingway Siddhartha, Demaian and Other stories Steppenwolf by Hermen Hesse A Clockwork Orange- by Anthony Burgess Ray Bradbury’s stuff- F.451, Something Wicked This Way Comes, The Martian Chronicles… Stranger in a Strangeland by Robert A. Heilein Life with Picasso by Gilot and Lake John Irving’s stuff C.S. Lewis’s stuff-The Silver Chair, The Horse and His Boy… Moulin Rouge by Pierre La Mure Any Other Complaints, Herman? by Jim Unger Mark Twain’s stuff-Adeventures of Tom Sawyer, Huck Finn, Prince and the Pauper… Lord of the Flies by William Golding Profiles in Courage by JFK (read on train to Chicago, never finished it) The Woman in the Dunes by Kobo Abe Beautiful Loosers by Leonard Cohen (no relation) Once in an Orange Grove by Jarvis Barlow Kiss of Spider Women by Puig The Courage to Create by Rollo May Maria Montessori The Secret of Childhood How to be a noncomformist by Elissa Jane Kang Sound and The Fury-Faulkner and Sartoris by Faulkner Circle of Children by Mary MacCrcken Madame Bovary The Temple of Dawn by Yukio Mishima Frankenstein by Mary Shelly Writing Down the Bones by Natalie Goldberg Understanding Fiction by Warren/Brooks The Art of Fiction Writing by John Gardner Magazine Writing by Art Spikol Norton Anthology-Literature by Women 2nd ed. and American Literature 3rd ed. (shorter) Jung’s stuff Love by Vanni Technique of Oil Painting by Taubes The Art of Responsive Drawing by Goldstein Drawing Handbook by Purser The Discovery of Poetry, the 2nd ed by Frances Mayers The Color Purple-Alice Walker Charles Dicken’s stuff-Great Expectations, Oliver, David C… Chaucer Robinson Cruso by Daniel Defoe Jonathan Livingston Seagul by Bach Flannery O’Conner’s stuff Beloved by Toni Morrison and Sula by Toni Morrison F. Scott Fitzgerald’s stuff The Guitar Handbook by R. Denyer Stephen Crane’s stuff Valley of the Far Side by Larson Heathcliff Feast by Gately Charlie Brown by C. Schultz Hans Christian Anderson’s Fairy Tales Time Flies by Bill Cosby Idella Parker Martin Luther King Jr. writings The Yearling The Incredible Journey by Shelia Burnford Alfred Hitchcock’s Haunted Houseful Movie People The Water is Wide by Pat Conroy I never promised you a rose garden by Hannah Green Old Yeller by Fred Gipson The Last Cow on the White House Lawn and Other Little known facts about the Presidency by Barbara Seuling Alex the Life of a Child by Frank Deford Farawell to Manzanar Diary of Anne Frank Miss Picknerell and Geiger Counter-Ellen MacGregor House of Stairs by W. Sleator Hellen Keller Rascal by Sterling North Beezus and Ramona Stephen Cosgrove and Robin James (Children’s books) Bernstein Bears Dr. Seuss The Baby-sitter’s Club Series by Anne M. Martin The Light in the Forest by Conrad Richter The turn of the screw and Daisy Miller by Henry James The Girl of the sea of Cortez by Peter Benchley Richard Wright’s stuff Dave Barry’s stuff It’s like this cat by Emily Neville The Hardy Boys Jack London’s stuff-White Fang, The Call of the Wild Gone with the Wind The Little Prince by Antoine de Saint Exupery Behind the Attic Wall by Sylvia Cassedy A Little Princess by Frances H. Burnett No School Today by Franz Brandenberg and Illustrated by Aliki What to Listen to in Music by Aaron Copeland Biographies such as Bernstein’s Bio by Joan Peyser and Aldous Huxley by Bedford 20th Century Culture Biographical Companion My Life and Hard Times by James Thurber Ragtime by EL Doctorow The Rabbi by Noah Gordon The Complete Book of Bicycling by Sloane To you scattered bodies go by Philip Jose Farmer The Best of Saki by Graham Greene The Most of S.J. Perelman The Prophet by Kahlil Gibran Great Esquire fiction: The Finest Stories from the first 50 years The Chosen by Chaim Potok Animal Farm by George Orwell Tom Robbin’s stuff Phillip Roth’s stuff Leo Tolstoy by Anne Karenina John Steinbeck’s stuff- The Pearl, Of Mice and Men… David E. Costello’s stuff-The Mountain World, The Desert World… The Hobbit by Tolken The Old Country by Shalom Alecichem Pearl S. Buck’s stuff Ulysses, The Dubliners-Joyce Le Morte d’ Arthur To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee Lake Wobegon Days by Garrison Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland and Through the Looking Glass by Lewis Carroll Mother Goose Tales The Mother Tongue by Bill Bryson Gabriel G. Marquez stuff Guiness Book of World Records MAGAZINES= Rolling Stones, Life, Newsweek, Time, Popular Photography, Peterson’s Photographic Magazine, the Writer's Chronicle, The Writer, Architectual Digest, Florida Design, and National Geographic FAVORITE BEATLE= John Lennon (my mom's favorite is Paul!) MUSIC= classical, opera, alternative, blues, classical rock, country, dance/club, techno, disco, folk, funk, heavy metal, industrial, reggae, ska, indie, jazz, latino, local, new age, punk, and R&B CDS/MUSICIANS I LISTEN TO: Beatles John Lennon Collection Santana Chuck Berry Etta James Janis Joplin Japanese flute A. Segovia-guitarist John Williams-guitarist Leo Brower-guitarist Flamenco guitarist-Carlos Montoya Flamenco-Gino D’Auri My guitar teacher My mom-classical violinist Jonathan (My brother)-cellist Benjie (My brother)-used to play electric guitar My brother’s wife-piano player My mom’s counsins-an opera singer and a folk singer Earl’s Comfort Station-Revolvo Django Haskins-Folding Stars Scott Reeves(used to be Flak Magnet) Sacred Earth Drums with Native American Flutes Sounds of Nature and Inca Pan Pipes Sister Hazel Dave Mathews Band Steve Miller Band 74’-78’ and Wide River Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers Bob Dylan B.B. King Johnny Lang The Temptations The Supremes Bo Didley Stevie Nicks Alanis Morisette Jewel Simon and Garfunkle Stevie Ray Vaughn Neil Young Vulgar Boatmen James Taylor Robert Plant-Fate of Nations Mary Chapin Carpenter Rolling Stones Motown stuff Curtis Mayfield Marvin Gaye Bruce Springstein Blues Brothers ZZ Top The Chieftans Steppenwolf 1973 Elvis Presley The Who Sheryl Crow Coverdale-Page Enya, the celts Mark O’Connor Jerry Douglas Al Jolson-Greatest Hits Ella Fitzgerald Eric Clapton-From the Cradle Eric Clapton-Crossroads Disc 1 & 2 Patsy Cline Nickel Creek Dixie Chics Vince Gill Dwight Yokam Travis Tritt Willie Nelson Randy Travis Dolly Parton Shania Twain Beck Blondie The Romantics The Clash David Bowie Eric Johnson Al Dimeola Gershwin Best of the Big Bands Vol. 2, Best of Brooker T and the MGs Best of Scott Joplin Allman Brothers Led Zepplin Pink Floyd Jerry Garcia Patti Smith Queensyrche-Silent Lucidity Van Halen Prince-When Doves Cry Madonna-Express Yourself Police Sting U2 Saturday Night Fever Sleepless in Seatle Soundtrack-Harry Connick Jr. The Cure The Cars Greatest Hits Soundtrack-Pulp Fiction Soundtrack-Resevoir Dogs Soundtrack-The Jungle Book Jethro Tull Jimi Hendrix Stanley Jordon Eagles John Denver Peter, Paul, and Mary INXS Info Society Cyndi Lauper the Doors The Kingpins Belly-King Goo Goo Dolls Chopin Dvorak Miriam Makeba Bloch Antonio Vivaldi Tchiakovsky Beethoven "Moonlight Sonata" James Galloway-flutist Schumann Prokofiev Lalo symphony Yo-Yo Mah-Cello Suites insp. By Bach (I saw him play on my birthday. Also, my brother played his cello!) Nadja Salerno-Sonnenburg-violinist Schubert Maurice Ravel Sibelius-Violin Concerto Haydn Isaac Stern-violinist,“Humoresque” Bach Stravinsky Mendelssohn- violin concertos Straus Joshua Bell-violinist Claude Debussy Paganini The Three Tenors Winston Marsalis-trumpet player Louis Armstrong Duke Ellington Natalie Cole Shawn Colvin Joni Mitchell Bjork Gwen Stefani Klezmer Band Authentic Israeli Folk Songs and Dances Neshama Carlebach and Shlomo Chiquetete-Por un Beso/Sevillanas Los Romeros de la puebla, volviendo a sonar-Sevillanas Sevillanas de Oro vol. 22 Priceless Jazz Sampler Chicken Soup for the Soul-Love and Inspiration SONG LYRICS/SINGERS: Tom Petty Sister Hazel Bob Dylan Bruce Springstein Sting Van Morrison Blues Traveler ABBA BGs The Cars KISS Rolling Stones Metallica Stevie Ray Vaughn Alanis Morisette Ani Difranco Jewel Carly Simon Joni Mitchell James Taylor blink 182 Billie Holiday Simon and Garfunkle Peter, Paul, and Mary Neil Young John Denver Chuck Nash Django Haskins Natalie Cole Aretha Franklin Tina Turner Ella Fitzgerald Etta James Elvis Costello Elvis Presley Beatles Jimi Hendrix Harry Conick Jr. Ben Harper Janis Joplin Stevie Nicks Lynard Skynard Creed Matchbox 20 Pearl Jam Black Crowes Jim Croce Cat Stevens Kansas R.E.M. Phish Rage Against the Machine Ben Folds Five Aerosmith GNR-Patience Shania Twain Willie Nelson Merle Haggard-Lullaby Dixie Chics-Goodbye, Earl Great Big Sea (Canada) Coppersonic band (NY) Blaine Muzyka (Canada) GAMES= Pictionary, Trivia pursuit, Scrabble, Cards, Monopoly, Mah-jong, Pick-up sticks, balloon fights, squirt guns, Charades, cars and karate arcade games ARTS/CRAFTS/HOBBIES= beading/jewelry, quilting (made one quilt in eighth grade with my 70 yr. old next door neighbor) ceramics, drawing, oil painting, acrylic painting, pastels, photography, computers, collecting antiques, (old records, books, magazines, photos, jewelry, clothes, and old hats), collecting the fortune-telling paper in fortune cookies, environmental issues, movies, reading, writing, and something new I am going to try- Chinese calligraphy and painting. Mainly anything artsy, poetic, technological, outdoorsy, or entertaining! SILLY THINGS TO DO= making people laugh and doing whatever comes to mind at the time! RESTAURANTS= New Deal, Pomodoro Cafe, Calico Jacks, The Swamp, Perkins, 43rd Street Deli, Ruby Tuesdays, IHOP, Maui Teriyaki, McAllistars, and the Irregardless Café in North Carolina VACATION SPOTS= Amelia Island, the Mountains (specifically New York State, North Carolina, and Tennessee) and anything that doesn’t look like my hometown is good! PLACES TO BE= with family and friends, at home, outside, hiking in the woods and Colorado mountains, Kanappaha Gardens, the Springs, mainly anything near water and nature PLACE TO LIVE= a lot of land, with a lot of animals, and a quaint house like Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings SEASONS= Spring and Summer TIME OF DAY= Twilight NUMBER=18 and when there's no school MONTHS=October, December, May, and June DAYS=Friday-Sunday SHOES= flats, boots, flip-flops, sandals, and no shoes SHOE SIZE=8 to 8 1/2 TENNIS SHOES= Nike and Reebok WORK SETTINGS= home, bookstores, and library with headphones PLACES TO WORK= home, outside, libraries, cafes (I hate offices with no windows and I hate cubicles!) STYLE= jeans, khakis, t-shirt, animal prints, tie-dye shirts, velvet, lace, silk, and leather. Nothing that looks like ugly fabric for curtains or furniture is cool! (Dislike wearing really short mini-skirts, panty hose, and high heels! Seldom wear dresses or skirts unless for special occasions.) Likes to have hair down, in a ponytail, or in a braid. HATS= felt and velvet hats, my Ringo hat, a French beret, and funny-looking hats PIECES OF JEWELRY= sterling silver, turquoise SILLY THING I DO= not being able to find shoes, purse, and other essential thingsbefore I leave for somewhere (very funny/not so funny) SUBJECTS= arts and humanities, creative writing, literature, and history. (EVERYTHING EXCEPT MATH AND SOME SCIENCES!) SUPER-HERO= Wonderwoman and She-ra SATURDAY MORNING CARTOONS= Winnie the Pooh, Charlie Brown, and Loony Tunes. @MY YAHOO GROUPS: Student photojournalists club (owner/host), a_kalliope, abstract painter, acoustic guitar, acoustic guitarist guild, advancedwriters, All Metallica Fan Group, Altruistic Outlook Fan Fiction, Anthem Band, Artist Corner, Avon Sales Info., Avon Clipart, Avon Ideas Only, Avon Wellness, Art of beading, a writer's pen, Backstage Blues, Bands Wanted, Beatnik Writers & Writing Club, Black and White pics, Bob Marley, born2write, Brazilian Guitar Archives, Captured Images Photography, Caribbean International Contacts, caribsauf, chat_land, Chris McCarty Band, Classical guitar club, Classical Guitar Recital Hall, Classical Spanish, Concert Photography 2, Consultant Depot, Creative ADD, Designing with Dreamweaver, drums 2, find musicians, Fireworks, Fireworks Haven, Fireworks Power, Fl-Underground, FLMusicPromoters, FLORIDA-AVON-REPS, Florida local music, Florida local shows, Florida metal directory, Florida Rock Scene, free_design_your_web, freethinkers, fuzz flowers, gaco-op, Gainesville Art Photography Drawing, Gainesville Blues Club, Gainesville Clubs, Gainesville Florida Free Cycle, Gainesville Florida Musicians, Gainesville Gators, Gainesvillehhart, Gainesville Underground, Gator JUG, GCOSW, GC Playhouse, Get Your Music Heard, Get Your Music Recorded, Gtheory, Guitarist Spotlight, Guitar Tab and Lyric Sharing, Guns N' Roses Forever, hsauf, InfraRed Visions and Dreamscapes, In Gainesville, Janis Joplin, Jessie Delgado, Jewel Kilcher, jewels beading ideas exchange, jewish-food, Jewish Renewal, Journalism Careers, Journalism Majors, Lets Sell Avon, Live Concert Photography, Local Band Support, Macromedia Dreamweaver, Match Box Blues, Meet Mark, Mike's Writing Workshop, Music Classifieds, Musicians-Network, Musicians Gigs, Music Photographer, New England Blues Society, Online Bands, Online Music Review, peak, photoquest 2, Pink is the Colour, Poetry Thru the Eyes of a Woman, pofwomen, PowWow, ramones2, Rock Guitar Tab, rpg-tools, santafe students, screenwriting, scriptologist dot com, sfcc science club, sinofthepoet, Sister Hazel, SoFloUnderground, Solo Guitar, South Florida Metal, Spanish Guitar Club, Still Naive, Taiwan Photo Club, Terry's Race Diary, PWQ ADD Women's Group, The Ultimate Concert Group, The Best Guitar Tab Club, The Center The Band, the gift of ADD, The Haiku Club, Ode Abode 2, Tom Petty, Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers, Underexposed (just female, my sistas photographers), VAN (volunteering) Discussion, vulgar boatmen, wake up writing, wayward council, & Western And Indian Guitar Chords. Meetup groups I belong to: Abyssinian, American Sign Language (6 members), Art Therapy (4 members), Attention Deficit Disorder, Bicycling (3 members), Bookcrossing (59 members), Cat Rescue (10 members), Crochet (12 members), Chocolate (4 members), Composers (2 members), Democrats Revolt (158 members), Dreamweaver (4 members), English as a Second Language (22 members), Film Industry (18 members), Graphic Design (13 members), Guitarist (2 members), Jam Bands (6 members), Japanese Language (15 members), Java (3 members), Jewelry Making (3 members), Judaism, Kabbalah (2 members), Lighthouses (1 member), March for Women (41 members), Music Therapy (3 members), Musician (26 members), Pet Therapy (2 members), Photography (14 members), Poetry, Punk (11 members), Quilting (5 members), Roller Skating, Screenwriters (6 members), Sex and the City (7 members), Sewing (5 members), Tennis (3 members), The Beatles (5 members), Tom Petty (2 members), Web Design (7 members), and Writers (2 members).I asked to be notified when (new) G'ville Meetup Groups on the following topics were started near me: adventures, art framers, art, basketry, beadwork, book arts, Celtic knotwork, children's fiction writers, chinese language, costume making, digital art, digital video, garage sale, glass art, japanese pop, kite flying, lamp making, learning disability, oprah, paper mache, photojournalism, playreading, postmodernism, reporters and journalists, swimming, theater & broadway, Tim Burton, webgrrls, and webmasters. MYSPACE GROUPS I belong to: Artistic Revolution, Eccentric Writers, Poets, and Artists, Instrumental Guitar Gurus, Gainesville Local Music, Gainesville Peoples, WeSt iNdiEs sTaNd uP!, ExcerciseFriends workout & fitness, People helping People, Journalism and Media, Acoustic Guitar, Lithuanian Pride, punk network, ReggaeEvents.Com, Classical Guitar Players, Photoshop Enthusiast, Fuck Cancer, Vic's B & W Photography, GDSA (at SFCC), Lithuanians Represent!, !Jewish Rockers!, Black and White Photography, JAZZ!!! not crappy "smooth jazz", The Free/Jazz Improvisation Community, Scrap Happenz, The Visual Revolution Art Collective, Myspace Democrats, The Notebook movie, Bajanz, Trinidad and Tobago (and the rest of the West Indies), Jew Crew, Poets, It's 4:19...got a minute?, MYSPACE PHOTOGRAPHERS, Italy Rules!, Bob Marley Fans, The Crafts Group, Amnesty International, Myspace Jews, Classical and Flamenco guitar!!, Tori Amos Lovers, Art for Artists, beach lovers, French New Wave, University of Florida, Food Not Bombs, Gays, Bi's, Lesbians & Straights United!, B&W Photography, The Independent Film collective, The Sopranos, Photography, australia, Scrapbooking Lovers, Creative Outreach, Israel, Stitchin' Bitches, Yarn Charm, The Photographers, Small Business, PHP Freaks, Zen, HTML Master, DharmaSpace, Vegetable Mafia, Geek Grrls & Digital Divas, Sex and the City, i make movies, Taoism, add & adhd, +U.K+People+, C++ and Visual Basic, Cats Rock!, Chinese Connect, Ireland, Buddhism, The Book Club, Feminists, Japan, Spain, Poets and Writers, Palm Pictures, Les Francais, web developers, web and graphic design, graphic artist guild, photoshop addicts, green day, documentary photographers and free thinkers, graphic designers of Jacksonville, motion graphics design, macromedia flash, tribute to macromedia flash, web accessibility, asian wonderland, adobe photoshop lovers, website design (html help), elite html/css help, Judaism, under the radar, underground artist network, POP art 60's, guitar geeks, The Beatles, poets and tea, florida photography, no image photography, and Musicians Exchange. "RUMPLED" and "AMBER", two Abyssinian sisters from Hollywood played Jake, the stranded cat from outer space, in the Walt Disney movie "The Cat from Outer Space"(1978). OTHER FUN FACTS: First name: Deborah Middle name: Alice Last name: Cohen What my name means: "Be(e) (a) (busy)" "Good/noble" "Priest" Nickname: Honey-bee, DC, Deb, Debbie Who I'm named after: My Grandfather's mom, Bertha Alice Geary (my mom's side of the family) Birthdate: October 18th (27 years old) Sign: Libra Chinese Sign: Snake Birthplace/hometown: Gainesville, Florida (outside the city limits) How long I've lived in Florida: 30 years! Height: 5'5 Weight: 135 lbs. Weight when I was born: Under 2 lbs. :-) Hair: Light brown (Used red hair dye in 1998) Eye Color: Brown Skin Color: Very white Teeth: small Hands: Long and skinny fingers. My hands can't stand cold weather very well. Feet: big Eyeglasses/contacts: Chrome-colored Eyeglasses (corrective lenses) A: daughter, sister, niece, aunt, granddaughter, cousin, friend, writer, editor, website designer, guitarist, photographer, journalist, poet, artist, amateur jewelry maker, interviewer, feminist, letter-writer, baby-sitter, pet-sitter, volunteer, tutor/teacher for english (tutored one-on-one at GHS 98' and tutored a vietnamese student), political (try to change things when i'm pissed off), practical joker, advise giver, mommy to many cats, wanderer, bat (nocturnal), matchmaker, and knowledge seeker Family: Two 'older' brothers (Jonathan and Benjie, prof: teachers), Mom (Carol, prof: teacher/performer), Dad (Bob or Bobby, prof: UF teacher), Grandma Millie, Aunt Sheron (prof: Prarie View Elem. teacher), & many cats (I had some mice and gerbils when I was little) Marital status: single Personality Profile: a classic INFP Description of me in one word: Helpful/Generous Description of me in one word by my brother, Jonathan: Silly! Origins: England, Germany, Ireland, and Lithuania Bat mitzvah: No Bad Habit: Biting my nails Drugs: None Drink: On special occasions only Smoke cigarettes: No. I tried it though. Smoke (Cuban) cigars: No. I tried it though. I liked it better than cigs! Chew tobacco No Did I have any cavaties/fillings? Yes Pierced: My ears are pierced! Would I pierce my nose, belly button, or tongue? No Way! Tattoo: None Would I get a tattoo eventually? Yes! Would I wear a bikini/whole piece? Whole piece Do I know CPR/First aid? Yes, I can save you if you're choking! School: Santa Fe Community College 1996-2002 Grade: Sophomore School Attending Now: Santa Fe Community College 2004- Majors: Journalism. Photography. Computers. English. Concentrations: arts, literature, culture, nature and environment, and entertainment Pet Peeves: Blowing smoke in my face/Stupid drunks/Illegal drugs/Ignorant/Arrongant people/Control freaks/No patience/Being told what I can and cannot do by someone else/Prejudice- People that are very narrow-minded/When drivers don't signal!/Inconsiderate & disrespectful people/When people complain about something, but don't do anything in their power to change something, politically or personally/ First thing people notice: I look like my mom! I sound like my mom! My loud hiccups that I inherited from my grandma! What kind of I drive: Honda Civic 98' Blue.The Plymouth died on me! What kind of cars I used to drive: Yellow Plymouth Reliant 1987 Sedan. It had a radio, tape player, and an a/c. Light Blue Plymouth Reliant 1988 Station Wagon. No a/c. No radio. The driver's side window leaked when it rained! When did I get my license? 18 years old. My freshman year of college Do I stop at a yellow light? Sometimes, it all depends on where I'm going. Do I like to drive? Yes Do I have the tendency to go over the speed limit on the way home? Sometimes, but I slow down when I see a cop coming in the other lane. Phew! Do I have the tendency to go over the speed limit on my way to school? No because I'm not in a hurry. Good/Bad driver? Good Have I ever had an accident? Yes, a fender bender. Was it my fault? Yes Prefer freeway/country roads? Country roads Do I get motion sickness? I can feel weird on curvy roads, but I've never thrown up before so it's ok. Favorite CD: Anything by the Beatles What CD/tape is in my stereo now? Django Haskins If you could go to any concert in the world, who and where would it be? Bob Dylan, Paul McCartney/Ringo, Peter, Paul, & Mary, Tom Petty, Django Haskins, U2, Great Big Sea, & Jewel...Anywhere. Last concert I attended: Sister Hazel The best song ever: "Imagine" by John Lennon All Time Favorite Band: Beatles What is the one thing I couldn't live without? My best friends & family, Kitties, My guitar, paintbrushes, and camera. Favorite Things to Say: This is BS, I'm sick of this BS, That's cool/awesome, & I wanna get outta here! Favorite Way to Relax: Eating pizza, Going to the Beach, Movie, Hiking, Biking, Painting like a kid :-), Driving out in the country, Watching Simpsons or something really funny, Good book, Music, Lighting candles/incense, Hanging out in toystores, Bubblebath/jacuzzi, Being with friends and family, & Spending time with animals. Favorite Way of Answering the Phone: Let the machine get it Last book/magazine I read: The Swan By Frances Mayes and an Oprah magazine Books Reading Now: Not Feathers Yet by Lola Haskins. Last movies I watched: The Great Debators, Hot Fuzz, and National Treasure... Film I remember most vividly that I somewhat identify with: Bridget Jones, Big, Breakfast Club, and Sixteen Candles... Last rental video: Walk the Line (the movie about Johnny Cash) Awards received: See my resume Frequent Websites I Vist: google, hotmail, yahoo, myspace, geocities, & stuff pertaining to music, lit, art, photography, and theater My Homepage Address: http://www.geocities.com/deborahacohen How many E-mail addresses I have: yahoo, hotmail, gmail, and collegeclub. Do I save my E-mails? Sometimes. I get rid of junkmail right away. Do I save forwards? Rarely Do I write real letters or cards that I deliver to my mailbox? Yes Do I write short/long letters? Very long letters, my brother says I send him things that look like novels. How many Websites I maintain: Issues of the poetry e-zine, my mom's page, and this homepage on geocities Computers: one Pager: None Online chat system I use: Yahoo Messanger. Occasionally, MSN messenger and Google talk. Cell phone: None Fax: None Voicemail: None Motivation to get out of bed in the morning: FRIENDS, FAMILY (MY LIL NIECES AND NEPHEW), KITTIES MEOWING, ART, POETRY, & MUSIC Immediate Future: write articles, still manage poetry e-zine and do a print version, start riding bike again, get better with guitar, write more poetry, and work on grandfather's art website Future Plans: get AS degree in computers, get BA degree, volunteer for peace corps or ameri-corps, and join cycling club. Some of the things I'd like to do before I'm 40: finish school, volunteer, and go to Europe My dream job would be: Freelance Journalist and Photojournalist, English teacher overseas or in a foreign country, and a Freelance Website designer If I were give a million dollars today, I would: Buy a great piece of land and build a house, buy a car, save money, and give money to others What would I do to improve the world? Educate children, help with human rights & heal the environment/animals If I could travel anywhere in the world it would be: South France, Seville, or the Islands My last relationship ended because... Different values/beliefs. Miscommunication. He was insulting and disrespectful so I had to end the relationship. In other words, he was a pain in the bleep bleep! If I could spend 24 hours with any person in the world of my choice, I'd choose... my family, friends, and my favorite artists/poets/photographers/musicians! If I could be any celebrity I'd be: Jewel/Alanis/Liv Tyler My favorite way to spend a Sunday afternoon is: playing guitar, watching a movie with friends, sleeping until noon, reading, writing, listening to music, taking care of kitties, and biking/doing something outdoors Anything else I think people should know about me? I have a mind of my own. I'm very stubborn. I say whatever comes to my mind sometimes. I can be very forgetful. I really suck with directions! What I Do Most of the Time: read, write, take pictures, paint, go to art exhibits, pay attention to kitties, go to/rent movies, go for walks, answer e-mails from friends/family and from poets for e-zine, listen to music, practice, sleep, eat, and hang out with babies First Jobs: A lemon-aid stand with neighborhood friend. It wasn't very successful. I spilled lemonaide on a lady's lap and on her volvo door. Baby-sitter, Pet-sitter, and Drugstore clerk (co-workers: Heather Dean Smith and Pat Kamensky.) Second Job: Assitant cook at Jewish Student Union@Hillel on Friday nights Third Job I had: Sales Associate at Original Cookie Company in the mall Last Job I had: Cook on UF campus Job I had before that cooking gig: Day-time hostess at a Cafe a few miles from my house. It sucked! Job I have now: Zero at the moment What's the worst thing a customer has done? Stealing 2 cigarette boxes and then running out the door. Stealing cigarettes in front of me and lying. What's the funniest thing a customer has done? Invited me to his Bachelor Party. haha! What did you think you wanted to be when you were a kid? In middle school, a vet doc because I like animals so much, but then I changed my mind about that idea and chose writing Apt/Place: Apartment Do I get along with my parents? Yes When I am moving out: May 20, 2005 Would I ever move out of Florida? Sure, if necessary What I like in Furniture: mixture of old and new stuff (I like wood, colorful glass, and leather!) What kind of dog would I prefer? A German Shepard, Great Dane, Doberman, Shaggy sheep dogs, Huskies, Lassie dogs, and Cocker Spaniels What's on my walls? Paintings, Animal photos, and Family pics Spirituality: Buddhism, Native American, Judaism, Art & Poetry What's the worst pick up line I've received: I can't remember. haha! Boyfriend: None X-BFS: (a) Toby- "The Latin Lover" 25 years old, Philosophy major, smoked and drank too much, poet, played the accordion and guitar, painter, adventurer, atheist, parents were divorced, mom hit him with frying pan, from the Dominican Republic, black hair, skinny, liked to fish, and drove a yellow and green car. (The Longest relationship.)Toby(b) JP Brown- "The Wild One" 24 years old, Aquarius, SFCC student, Caucasian, 5'6-5-8', Casually athletic, Dirty Blonde Hair, Hazel eyes, Journalism, Pre-law, and Psychology major, (His favorite movie was Pulp Fiction and With Honors, His favorite cd was The Best of the Doors), Visited Perth, Australia and lived in Japan for 3 years while he was in the Navy, Security Guard@Holiday Inn, Had a big dog, Born in Pensacola, Florida, Raised by grandparents in Tennessee, no father, mom committed suicide, non-practicing Southern Baptist, got arrested for DUI, occasionally smoked cigs, drank 2 times/week, took ecstacy, looked cute trying to sing to a song on the radio, very sweet, but had lots of addiction problems, very Southern, talked a lot, had a good sense of humor, a 'regular guy in a collegetown America', liked to read and occasionally write poetry/short stories, liked to watch movies, played tennis, used to practice karate, liked Bruce Lee flicks, his favorite hang outs were coffeehouses and redneck bars, and he drove a cute red VW. Now, he's married to a pre-med wife & works 80 hours/week. He wants to go to (miliary) law school. Unfortunately, I don't have a picture of him. haha! (The shortest, relationship.)(c) Gregory D. Osbourne- "The Outdoors Man" 26-27 years old, Scorpio, Black, Casually Athletic, Black hair, Brown eyes, 5'3-5'5', (His favorite movie was Perfect Storm) Environmental Engineering major at UF, interested in pursuing a law degree, liked photography and traveling (pref. to be somewhere near water), liked basketball, soccer, volleyball, cycling, martial arts, racquetball, swimming, tennis, camping, rock climbing, water sports, and movies, he tried to start his own web design business, played the piano, used to write poetry, born in Jamaica (no accent), came to U.S. when he was 8 years old, lived in CA, Texas, and South Florida, belonged to a couple engineering organizations, people said he looked like Tiger Woods, divorced, no kids, went to Air Force after high school, raised by his grandparents and mom, no father, clean (no drugs, cigs, or alcohol), Collective, Laid back, funny, intelligent and smart, looked younger than his age (Caribbean curse), his eye lashes naturally curled upward, kid at times, casual most of the time, but professional when he had to be, loved to have fun, democrat, sang TLC to me, and drove a black BMW Jetta. Gregory grew up in California, went to school at Texas A&M, and then transferred to UF. He graduated from UF in 2000.(Relationship lasted a month)Gregory What friends would say about me: I would drop what I am doing and help them out if they were in a jam or just needed to talk to someone. My friends say I am: quiet & shy, simple, compassionate, a good listener, creative, a daydreamer, funny, overwork myself, brave, strong-willed, sweet, and a bright chic.My brother says I remind him of Darlene on 'Roseanne.' My traits: Reserved. When I know who you are & what you're about, I feel comfortable w/ you & I open up & joke around, Honest, Inquisitive, Blunt, Opinionated, Liberal-minded, Sensitive, Caring, Gentle, Affectionate, Needs structure in life, Also likes doing things spontaneously, Flexible, Gives lots of attention to others, Works well in groups, Looks at the contradictions in life, Kid at heart, Loves to have fun, Tries to stay humorous, despite bad times, Wears silly hats, Says witty stuff at dinner table, Makes fun of myself w/o trying too hard, Stubborn & hate being bossed around, Gets frustrated easily, Has perseverance, Not a morning person, Prefers the country, Goes to city when bored, Makes decisions from my intuitions, instincts & experiences, Doesn't deal w/ BS from people, Calm, but I get impatient when dealing with stupidity, Gets easily distracted; uses this to my advantage in fine arts, Serious perfectionist, Restless doing the same activity in same way, Needs variety to keep things interesting, and Dances when no one is looking. Funniest things: I'm absent minded, organized in my own disorganization, curse in traffic jams & when mechanical things don't work right, hate waiting in lines. I don't know if those things would be considered funny, but that depends on your perspective of things. :) Schools I've attended: Millhopper Nursery School, PK Yonge (Blue Waves), Stephen Foster Elementary, Talbot Elementary (Tigers), Howard Bishop Middle School (Blue Devils), PK Yonge (Blue Wave), and Santa Fe Community College (Saints) Schools I've attended in the Summers: Gainesville High School (art & math) (Hurricanes), Howard Bishop Middle School (Band Program) and Jordan Glen School Was I in the band in middle school? Yes. I played the flute for almost four years. Was I in the band in high school? No. I wanted to, but I didn't think I'd be able to stand the heat or the kind of music they play in marching bands. Liked Teachers: SFCC=Waller, Wood, Ray Hale, Peter Christopher, Rodney Woehler, Anne Kress, Bonahue, Genevieve Long (my math tutor), John Dumbauld, Doug Fols, Mary Newell, Nancy McCardy, Zona Gale, John Marks, Wes Lindberg, Jamey Weare...PK=Nancy Dean, Dianne Skye, Jean Schiffbauer, Betsy Creveling, Cynthia King, Mickey Reynolds... Disliked teachers: SFCC=Wright, Drummond, Seacrist, Buckner, College algebra teachers (j/k.), Krauth, My high school french teacher, Ms. Stepp.... H.S. experience: skipped class, always tardy, didn't do math, went to prom with a friend, watched others dance, pigged out, got a goofy pic, sent to principal's office for being tardy and had detention, didn't want to go to school, did work when i felt like it, tried to get out of doing sports spec. volleyball, read books during geometry and gym class, after i was finished with journalistic writings, i read poetry books and ran errands for the teacher, took study hall, but always used my time wisely there by actually studying, only liked english, art, creative writing, marine biology, journalism, psychology, sociology, civics, and history classes, did family tree for my snr. year, took acting once (i wasn't very good!), did an impression of madonna's "express yourself" dance for acting class :-P (i think it sucked!), known as a poet (thanks to the loud speaker!), very quiet and shy, had crush on one guy at school, hung out with two close friends i still keep in touch with today, had off-campus lunch, but usually stayed at school, sat on a bench, and talked with my best friend, Angel (loved country music, Winnie the Pooh, very sweet, funny, cute, clean and highly moral person, spent lots of time with her family and the catholic church) friends were into drugs, alcohol, and theft, but i never got influenced by them, mostly i hung out with friends in the school band, arts, drama, creative writing classes, newspaper, and soccer, and in french, poetry, drama, and sign language clubs High School GPA: B average College GPA: Lower than a B ACT: I didn't take it or I thought I didn't need to take it. SAT: TERRIBLE! I hope they get rid of these stupid tests! CLAST: Never took it! :) What I was thinking about during high school graduation on May 1996: I was thinking about Sean (died of drug overdose in 10th grade year), whether I'd see (or want to see) all these people again, and how hot it was in those blue gowns! Am I a Righty or Lefty? Write with right hand, but I paint with both hands. Do I like cooking? I like baking chocolate chip cookies and yummy deserts for friends. I like eating and dealing with the dishes more than I like cooking. In response to my brother's question, would I eat chicken ass, chicken brain, horse, cow tongue, or pig ears? No way, but I would eat turtle. Have I broken the law? No Did I get in trouble a lot as a little kid? Sorta. When I was grounded, I escaped from my bedroom window and went over to play with my neighbor. Mostly, I tried to get my big brothers in trouble. :-) Have I cheated on a test? No Have I known someone who cheated on a test? Yes. A high school girl in my history class cheated on a test. I sat beside her watching her like a hawk!She was supposedly on the honor roll. Have I cheated on a boyfriend(bf)? No Have I known someone who cheated on their bf/gf? Yes Have I ever been cheated on? No What would I do if my bf/hubby cheated on me? I'd dump him very quickly! Have I played truth/dare? Yes Would I play truth/dare again? Yes Have I gone skinny dipping? Yes Have I played strip poker? Not Yet :-) Would I go skydiving? Yes Would I fly an airplane? Yes Would I go rock climbing? Yes Would I go scuba diving? Yes Would I go into a cave? Yes (I tried to go into the Newberry, Fl. cave once in my geology class, but I got too freaked out!) Would I do all those five things by myself? No way, man! When was the last time I cried? After I broke up with my beau, When my cat/loved one died, & When I watched a sad movie The best things that has happened in my life so far: Becoming an Aunt, Getting out of high school, Writing, Playing a whole bunch of instruments, Interviewing/Meeting some interesting people, and traveling to Japan and Taiwan First thing I think of in the morning: My kitties. I need coke...where's some socks? Bedtime: floor, couch, and single bed next to the wall. have glow-in-the dark bugs and lots of candles on the window ledge. have soft Beatles music playing. a pet is always at the foot of my bed Did I sleep with a stuffed animal? Yes. Lots of them. I don't sleep with a stuffed animal anymore though. :-) Have I saved my stuffed animals? I have managed to save a couple. The cats pissed on my stuffed animals :( so I had to throw the stuffed toys in the trash. I could not save them for my kids or neices and nephew. How many pillows? 2 pillows What do I wear for sleep? silk pajamas, a shirt, my clothes I wore in the daytime, and occasionally nothing Do I believe in heaven and hell? No Do I believe in God? Sometimes Do I believe in having guns in the house? No Do I believe in haunted houses or cars? Yes Do I believe in horoscopes or signs? No, but they can be fun to read Do I believe in psychics? So-so. They're entertaining! Do I know a psychic? My grandma thinks she has some special powers of ESP. She thinks I have some of those special abilities too! We'll see... How many times did I see the movie, "The Sixth Sense"? Four Would I go to a psychic? Yes, just for fun. Do I believe in aliens? No Do I believe in love at first sight? Sure, how do you think I got here? (just kidding.) Do I believe in myself? Depends, sometimes! Do I give up on myself? No Do I get frustrated easily? YES! Do I get bored easily? I'm fidgety. I keep myself busy with a variety of stuff! Do I like to be called babe, honey, and sweetie? Only by my S.O. or best friends My attitude when I deal with people I don't like/things that people do that I don't like: A sarcastic smart-ass! Do I have a crush on someone now? Of course! Guess who? haha! What do I notice the most about the opposite sex? Eyes, Smile, Voice, Hairy, Sense of humor and Everything about him that's so cute and perfect! Do I like to go to bars/clubs? Sometimes. I have to be in the right mood and bring a couple friends along What would I do if a guy other than my bf started to flirt with me at a club or some place? I'd impress my boyfriend with my sassiness in handling the situation myself. Then, if my bf was there with me, I'd ask my bf for a kiss. What would I do if a girl was fliriting with my boyfriend? I'd confront her and be sarcastic about it. What would I do if I found a Playboy around the house? I'd be sarcastic about it, tear it to pieces, and throw it in the trash! Best feelings in the world: Love, Laughter, Happiness, and not missing someone or having to say g-bye! Worst feelings in the world: the opposite of my best feelings The most romantic things I've done: Kissed bf at sunset. Sang to him. The most romantic thing that happened to me: Hmmm...nothing yet! My 1st kiss: nursery school, kiss on cheek from Paul My 2nd kiss: 8th grade, front yard driveway My 3rd kiss: 12th grade, a kiss on my hand from the guy I had a crush on My 4th kiss: freshman in college, at a guy's apt. I guess this one really counted though. :-) lol! Do I kiss on the first date? Not too often My ideal first date: Have a picnic, go canoeing (something outdoorsy), and talk Where I made out: at a bookstore far away from the clerk, in the kitchen and then stopped when he saw the Pest Control guy coming around the corner, on a boat, in the car, at the Springs, and at the Prarie... ;-) Commitment level: "Lookin' for a ring!" Intimacy Comfort Zone: "Let's complement each other--without sacrificing our individuality!" Sexual Style: "Let's Keep It Simple and Sweet!" Do I like school? Only if I'm taking classes I enjoy Do I proofread my papers? Yes if I have time. I have my mom, dad, brothers, and an English teacher look it over Do I feel like proofreading my papers? No way! Do I like editors? It all depends on their personality, their ethics, and their attitude Do I like journalists? Not really. Some journalists can be arrogant, unreal, stupid, and insensitive to their subjects! Do I like english majors? I like to hang out with the teachers more than the students! Do I like critics? Not really. Some critics don't know how to critique and end up being insulting and nasty! If I could change some things in the world, what would they be: poverty, neglect, abuse, hunger, animal cruelty, pollution and litter, political campaigns, ignorance, racism, women's rights, drugs, crime, and the lack of art or music in a kid's life Who do I turn to for advice? Best Friends, Brothers, and sometimes parents Do I go to a counselor? No Do I have allergies? Yes. Dust and pollen Have I experienced Anti-Semitism, Racism, and Sexism? Yes Who I really couldn't get along with the most? Hitler. Womanizers. KKK. Skinheads. Stupid drunks. Crazy X boyfriends. Most humiliating moments: Middle School and High School Most adventureous things I remember doing: Falling from 6ft. log in the ROPES course. Running away from my parents in West Germany when I was 2. Most annoying person I know: I better not say anything! haha! The loudest person I know: My Aunt My biggest freak outs/fears: Death. Bad health. Losing a loved one. Accidents-- Carwrecks or airplane wrecks. Addicts. Crime. Caves. Bridges. Flying roaches. Mosquitos. Sharks. E-coli. Big Mamma Alligators!!! BIG DUDES scare me sometimes. Getting lost. Cars breaking down in the middle of nowhere. Final exams. Giving a speech. Stage fright. Offices without windows. Failure. Being a bum. My role models/mentors/inspirations: my mom's father, various English teachers, music teachers, and art teachers throughout schooling, Eleanor Blair, John Peters, Ray Hale, Georgia O'Keafe, Beatles, Musicians from late 1950s-1970s, Brian Hull, Bach, Southern Writers, Friends, Oprah, Guitarist friends...(*look on my introduction page) MY PALS: buddies from PK:Tina Babcock, Laura Kurtz, Ryan Ivines, Gabrielle Jouett, Jasmine Kendall, Mike Barratt, Dave Crane, Melissa, Erik Parsons, Angel Dawson, Gael Bro, Cat Heard-Hughes, Jessica Sternberg, Ananda Keator, Katie Damien, Lori Luparello, Ilana Melgarejo, Sharon Ramos-Ceballos, Sara and Amy Tillman, Joshua Farmer, Lauren Vanderhock, Greg Haddock, Susan Withers, Nicole Tumbleson, Michelle Diehl buddies from howard bishop middle school/talbot: Beth Bristow, Ellen Peters, Rebecca Couch, Mary Barbarette, Jennifer Westphal, Julie Galund, Gael Bro, Cat Heard-Hughes, Ayana Grady, Lindsay Howard, Heather Harris (now Truelove), Andy Howald, Kris Mali, Scott Reeves, Miranda Smith, Marianne Vernetson, Sarah Bailey, Erika and Bridget Lang, & Mandy and Vicky Gregory buddies from sfcc:Alma S. Khasawnih, Amy Britton, Tina Babcock, Ruth, Scott Reeves, Greg Haddock, Jennifer Westphal, Angel Dawson, Cat Heard-Hughes, Ryan Ivines, Laura Kurtz, Tami Friz, Ian Pastrana, Mandy and Vicky, Denise A. Bain-Kafka, Denise, Tracy Smith, Tyler Watson, Mollie Wright, Teresa Williams, Melissa Webb, and Gabriel Long. buddies from uf: Rajesh Kumar, Madhvi Mewar, Tricia Okin, Christopher Ott, Eva Kort, Domenico Ruggiero, and people from English Society photo buddies: Tricia Okin, John R. Peters, Judith Szabo, Ruth, Brain Hull, Krystal Outman, Herbie, & Richard Glickstein art buddies: Eleanor Blair, Tina Babcock, Tami Fritz, Tyler Watson, Elsa Kula, and Ellie Sommer poetry buddies: Alma S. Khasawnih, Lola Haskins, Ryan Ivines, Sune Maura, Judith Szabo, G. Michael Palmer, Christopher Ott, Kelli Chickering, and Jen Farham music teacher buddies: David Rezits, Camille Smith, Kevin Bogle, Carolyn Reaves, and Raymond Lohengrin faraway friends i met through Sylvia and Jonathan:Pooi-fun, Emi Shintani, Christine, Emily, Hang-Mee Kim, and Jean Khor buddies from old neighborhood/childhood friends: Heather Crews, Katie Morrison, Meghan Karolly, Megan Mcquire (I got back in touch with her.), and Natalie. Elise Gordon(deceased), Saralori Vink, Marianne Vernetson, Ayana Grady (I got back in touch with her.), Rebecca Couch, Jill B., Noel Liley, Suzannee Lewis (member of BBYO), Ben Glazer(went to Hebrew School and HBMS), Martha Laipis, Sara Laipis, Sandy Laipis(from dad's work), Felicia Chu(from dad's work, met her while in high school i think), and Lindsay Howard people i write to/pen-pals: Marjorie B. (South France), Erik Parsons, Cousins--{Shane Cohen (uncle's son), Len Cohen (uncle in MN), Sheron Cohen (Aunt in G'ville), Millie Cohen (Grandma in G'ville), Brothers (in Tampa and Oregon), Art Neal and Nancy McCarthy,(my grandpa's brother's kids), and cousins in Israel}, Christine, Michal Parker (know from Camp, lives in Israel), Zac M. (lived across the street from my mom's dad in Lebanon, NJ), Blaine Muzyka (from Canada), David Rezits(former cello teacher), and Sarah Bailey(in NC) PLACE I’D LIKE TO VISIT China, Japan (I would like to visit Kyoto again), Canada, New Mexico, Cuba, Jamaica, Key West, New Orleans, California, Arizona, Texas, Australia, Hawaii, Africa, Alaska, Israel, France, Spain, Ireland, England, West Germany, and Italy… This looked cool so I put it on here! I wouldn't mind getting painted like that. Pretty neat stuff! WHAT I LOOK FOR IN A PROSPECTIVE PARTNER? Amazing Wonderful Smart Cute and charming personality Polite Well-mannered gentleman Romantic & Mushy Verbally Expressive Nice Short/Tall Trustworthy Honest Loyal Witty Patience Artistic Creative Innovative Dedicated Intellectual Hippie Nerdy Scrawny type Exotic looking, handsome Mature person Accepts me for who I am/what I am Treats me like their equal Takes the time to understand what I'm all about Independent, has life of his own Strong Unique character Not heavily materialistic Flexible with time Spontaneous Adventureous Likes to have parties for friends Likes to work on projects together Outdoorsy Someone more outgoing/extraverted than I am Self-reliant, resourceful Spiritual Someone who can put up with my quirks Likes nature, traveling, and animals Kid at heart, but knows when to be mature, professional, and responsible Not a control freak Not a loud, dominating personality Just a sweet, laid-back jeans & a T-shirt wearin' kinda guy Takes care of himself Likes to be showered with love letters, poetry, and artistic gifts Caring and affectionate Very giving person, likes to help people out Brave and courageous Not overly critical person Warm and loving person Likes to learn/explore new things Likes to sing to the radio and make a fool of himself Values education Respectful towards women Sensitive Good communicator, won't talk too much, but won't talk too little Moral Comes from a good background. Treats people very well Open-minded, liberal Helpful in a jam Good listener Passionate Has many of the same interests, values, and goals Thoughtful and considerate of other's feelings Doesn't need to prove himself Motivated Encouraging Supportive Treats his mom/sisters well (like my brothers do) ;-) Someone who can get along with my family and maintain a sense of humor about it Likes to have fun & act silly every once in awhile Not a spoiled brat Not an arrogant or obnoxious person Not an alcoholic, drug addict, suicidal, cigarette smoking, player, perv, or psycho guy!!! And finally, my 2 big older brothers have to like him! SOMETHING FUNNY MY BEST FRIEND SENT ME Subject: What I Want In A Man What I Want in a Man, Original List (age 22) 1. Handsome 2. Charming 3. Financially successful 4. A caring listener 5. Witty 6. In good shape 7. Dresses with style 8. Appreciates finer things 9. Full of thoughtful surprises 10. An imaginative, romantic lover What I Want in a Man, Revised List (age 32) 1. Nice looking (prefer hair on his head) 2. Opens car doors, holds chairs 3. Has enough money for a nice dinner 4. Listens more than talks 5. Laughs at my jokes 6. Carries bags of groceries with ease 7. Owns at least one tie 8. Appreciates a good home-cooked meal 9. Remembers birthdays and anniversaries 10. Seeks romance at least once a week What I Want in a Man, Revised List (age 42) 1. Not too ugly (bald head OK) 2. Doesn't drive off until I'm in the car 3. Works steady - splurges on dinner out occasionally 4. Nods head when I'm talking 5. Usually remembers punch lines of jokes 6. Is in good enough shape to rearrange the furniture 7. Wears a shirt that covers his stomach 8. Knows not to buy champagne with screw-top lids 9. Remembers to put the toilet seat down 10. Shaves most weekends What I Want in a Man, Revised List (age 52) 1. Keeps hair in nose and ears trimmed 2. Doesn't belch or scratch in public 3. Doesn't borrow money too often 4. Doesn't nod off to sleep when I'm venting 5. Doesn't retell the same joke too many times 6. Is in good enough shape to get off couch on weekends 7. Usually wears matching socks and fresh underwear 8. Appreciates a good TV dinner 9. Remembers your name on occasion 10. Shaves some weekends What I Want in a Man, Revised List (age 62) 1. Doesn't scare small children 2. Remembers where bathroom is 3. Doesn't require much money for upkeep 4. Only snores lightly when asleep 5. Remembers why he's laughing 6. Is in good enough shape to stand up by himself 7. Usually wears some clothes 8. Likes soft foods 9. Remembers where he left his teeth 10. Remembers that it's the weekend What I Want in a Man, Revised List (age 72) 1. Breathing 2. Doesn't miss the toilet ANOTHER FUNNY THING MY BEST FRIEND SENT ME: ROMANTIC THINGS TO DO: - Watch sunset together - Whisper to each other - Cook for each other - Take pictures of each other - Have a water balloon fight - Walk in the rain - Hold hands - Make/Buy gifts for each other - Put Rose Petals all over bed/in the bathtub - Find out their favorite cologne/perfume And wear it every time you're together - Go for a long walk down the beach at midnight - Write poetry for each other - Hugs are the universal medicine - Say I love you only when you mean it And make sure they know. - Give random gifts of flowers/candy/poetry/etc. - Tell her she's the only one you ever want. Don't lie! - Spend every second possible together - Look into each other's eyes - Very lightly push up her chin, look into her eyes, Tell her you love her - When in public, only flirt with each other - Put love notes in their pockets when they aren't looking. - Buy each other rings - Sing to each other - Always hold her around her hips/sides - Take her to dinner and do the dinner for 2 deal Spaghetti? (Lady and The Tramp?) - Hold her hand, stare into her eyes, kiss her hand, and then put it over your heart - Dance together - Love the way she looks right after she's fallen asleep - Do cute things like write I love you in a note so that she has to look in the mirror to read it - Make excuses to call her every 5 minutes - Even if you're really busy doing something, go out of your way to call and say I love you - Call from your vacation spot to tell her you were thinking about her - Remember your dreams and tell her about them - Tell each other your most sacred secrets/fears - Be Prince Charming to her Parents - Brush her hair out of her face for her - Hang out with her friends - Go to church/pray/worship together - Take her to see a romantic movie and remember the parts she liked - Learn from each other and don't make the same mistake twice - Describe the joy you feel just to be with her - Make sacrifices for each other - Really love each other, or don't stay together - Let there never be a second during any given day that you aren't thinking about her and make sure they know it - Love yourself before you love anyone else - Learn to say sweet things in foreign languages - Dedicate songs to her on the radio - Fall asleep on the phone with each other - Stand up for her when someone talks trash - Never forget the kiss goodnight and always remember to say, sweet dreams.. FUN AT WORK: Page yourself over the intercom. Don't disguise your voice. Make up nicknames for all your coworkers and refer to them only by these names. "That's a good point, Sparky." "No, I'm sorry, but I'm going to have to disagree with you there, Cha-Cha." Send email to the rest of the company telling them exactly what you're doing. For example: "If anyone needs me, I'll be in the bathroom." Highlight your shoes. Tell people you haven't lost them as much since you did this. While sitting at your desk, soak your fingers in Palmolive liquid. Call everyone Marge. Hang mosquito netting around your cubicle. When you emerge to get coffee or a printout or whatever, slap yourself randomly the whole way. Find out where your boss shops and buy exactly the same outfits. Wear them one day after you boss does. This is especially effective if your boss is of a different gender than you. Put a chair facing a printer. Sit there all day and tell people you're waiting for your document. Every time someone asks you to do something, anything, ask them if they want fries with that. Send email back and forth to yourself engaging yourself in an intellectual debate. Forward the mail to a co-worker and ask her to settle the disagreement. Put your trash can on your desk. Label it "IN." Feign an unnatural and hysterical fear of staplers. Send email messages saying there's free pizza or donuts or cake in the lunchroom. When people drift back to work complaining that they found none, lean back, pat your stomach and say, "Oh you've got to be faster than that." Put decaf in the coffeemaker for three weeks. Once everyone has withdrawn from caffeine addiction, switch to espresso. This picture illustrates how I feel about cooking and being in the kitchen. I did cooking for a year and I can't stand doing it for a living! Nowadays, I try to avoid getting a job in the food service/biz. Survey I did for a friend: IF I COULD BUILD A HOUSE ANYWHERE, WHERE WOULD IT BE? England/Ireland/New Mexico/out west somewhere for good pictures! WHAT'S THE MOST MEMORABLE THING I HAVE READ? Jane Eyre (the crazy lady freaked me out!) WHAT'S MY FAVORITE ARTICLE OF CLOTHING? My pajamas/jeans FAVORITE PHYSICAL FEATURE OF THE OPPOSITE SEX? Eyes (and a nice bootay! haha!) WHAT'S THE LAST CD THAT I BOUGHT? Jimi Hendrix--First Rays of the New Rising Sun WHERE'S MY FAVORITE PLACE TO BE? In nature :-) WHERE'S MY LEAST FAVORITE PLACE TO BE? School WHAT'S MY FAVORITE PLACE TO BE MASSAGED? Feet, Neck and Shoulders WHICH IS MORE IMPORTANT? STRONG IN MIND OR STRONG IN BODY? Strong in Mind! WHAT TIME DO I WAKE IN THE MORNING? If I have to wake up in the morning haha!, it would be 10am-11am WHAT'S MY FAVORITE TV SHOW(s)? Judging Amy, King of the Hill, Behind the Music, Biography on A & E, Animal Planet channel, old reruns of SNL, Simpsons, and Oprah. WHAT'S MY FAVORITE KITCHEN APPLIANCE? Rice Cooker and the Microwave WHAT'S MY FAVORITE CHILDHOOD MEMORY(ies)? water gun fights, playing blind man's bluff with friends, playing with barbies and ponies, climbing trees, playing runaway kids, playing bank, smashing pennies on railroad tracks, feeding/petting horses at grandpa's house in NJ, picking blueberries, roller skating, biking, & when my brothers dragged me in a sleeping bag down the hall and pretended to flush me down the toliet. lol! :-) WHAT MAKES ME LAUGH? Comedians. The comedy channel. Guys with a sense of humor. Lex and Terry morning radio show. My hick town :-) My best friends makes me laugh all the time. Just about everything can amuse me. WHAT MAKES ME REALLY ANGRY? When people hurt my friends & family. Ignorant people. Being told what to do and how to think. People that sell their religion door-to-door. FAVORITE COLOR? blue (ocean) IF I COULD PLAY AN INSTRUMENT, WHAT WOULD IT BE? some instrument from a different country (i.e. China, Australia, & Africa), bass, drums, sax. I already play guitar. I dabbled in piano (less than a year), flute (four years), and cello (five years) though. FAVORITE RESTAURANT/CAFE/EATERY? Napolatonos (Italian), 43rd Street Deli, Applebees, & Perkins...anywhere that serves a good choc. shake. SCARIEST MOMENT OF MY LIFE? Next door neighbor slapped me when I called her a bitch. Anti-semites in my neighborhood scared the shit outta me. When I got lost on a beach riding my mountain bike. When Josh got in a car wreck. IF A MOVIE WAS GOING TO BE MADE ABOUT MY LIFE, WHICH ACTRESS/ACTOR WOULD I WANT TO PORTRAY ME? Jodie Foster (she's a good actress!) DO I BELIEVE IN AN AFTERLIFE? I don't believe in heaven. I do believe in guardian angels. Where I think people go after they die--their body goes back into the earth & their soul lives on in the living. FAVORITE CHILDREN'S BOOK? I love you forever. Berenstein Bears. Too many! WHAT IS MY FAVORITE SEASON? Summer...where's my bathing suit & a boogie board? WHAT'S MY LEAST FAVORITE HOUSEHOLD CHORE? Bathrooms & Kitchens IF I COULD HAVE ONE SUPER POWER, WHAT WOULD IT BE? Flying like supergirl haha! IF I HAVE A TATTOO, WHAT IS IT? I don't have one, but I want one. It would be an oriental looking tattoo though. :-) CAN I JUGGLE? No THE SONG I WISHED I HAD WRITTEN? Anything by the Beatles :-) THE ONE PERSON FROM MY PAST I WISH I COULD GO BACK AND TALK TO? My grandpa and grandma (mom's side) DO I PREFER CATS OR DOGS? Cats WHAT'S IN THE TRUNK OF MY CAR? toliet paper rolls for Tina's bunny. WHAT'S MY FAVORITE DAY? Friday FAVORITE SONG(s) TO SING? Janis Joplin, LS (southern rock), Tom Petty songs & Harry Connick Jr. (sappy, romantic songs)...any song in the era when my Ma and Pop were my age. :-) WHAT ONE WORD WOULD DESCRIBE ME BEST? Silly WHICH DO I PREFER, SPORTS CAR OR SUV? Sports Car WHICH DO I PREFER, SUSHI OR HAMBURGER? Sushi :-) WHAT'S MY FAVORITE LUCKY NUMBER? 18 DO I HAVE ANY RITUALS? Reading/listen to music before I go to sleep SAY ONE NICE THING ABOUT THE PERSON WHO SENT THIS TO ME? Sweet! IF SOMEONE OFFERED ME $1 MILLION TO TOSS YOUR PET OFF A BRIDGE, WOULD YOU? Hell no! IF I COULD DRIVE ANY CAR, WHAT WOULD IT BE? The "Back to the Future" Car (end of survey) THE BERNARD PIVOT QUESTIONNAIRE What is your favorite word?eloquence What is your least favorite word?hate What turns you on?loved one's eyes & chocolate & laughing & hugs What turns you off?ignorance What sound do you love?THE BEATLES, WAVES, RAIN, & MY BROTHER'S VOICE What sound do you hate?the dentist drill What is your favorite curse word?fuck What profession other than yours would you like to attempt?singer What profession would you not like to participate in?emergency surgeon If Heaven exists, what would you like to hear God say when you enter the Pearly Gates?Let's party! I think Tupac= a great poet! MY DREAMS/GOALS: Only eat vegetables, grain, fruit, and seafood Professional/Career Interests-- Webpage design/Multi-media, Freelance Journalist/Photographer with niche in Music, Art, Travel, Culture and Entertainment, Teaching/Tutoring English as a Second Language, Creative Writing, Painting, and Art Photography. Write/shoot for an art and entertainment or nature magazine Build my own darkroom/art studio with the help of a few friends. They will be able to use it too! Still do poetry e-zine and make that better by getting more staff and equip, resources, and great poets. Print it and circulate it like a 'real newspaper/magazine.' Write more and get better at writing fiction and poems Practice guitar and get better at it Learn how to write songs Learn to sing better Learn Hebrew again Have a Bat Mitzvah before I'm 30 so I can feel like I'm 13 again! Volunteer/Live/Visit overseas/Europe and teach English Create/Manage my Grandpa's website for his artwork Marry a Liberal Democrat (Jewish or Very Spiritual) Artist (A member of my family wishes for me to marry a lawyer/doctor!) *giggles* Philosophy of Marriage Ceremony: Keep it simple and elegant. Do something different, but not so expensive! After I finish degrees and est. career (financial independence $), adopt a kid from overseas Name my kids after my mom's side of the family: Joy and Neal. Other names: Amelia, Elsalee, Eleanor, Clara, Dylan, David, or Francis. Have a house out in the country, near the beach, or in the mountains...anything near water and lots of trees. Camp with hubby and kids instead of going to Disneyworld! ;-) Meet my cousins (mom's side of family) in the UK someday. Meet Tom Petty and Oprah! :-) Create an art/music school/retreat for children w/ my best friend Have a lot of animals around--couple of horses, a rabbit, a goat, a cow, some chickens and ducks, a peacock, and a pig (not for eating though) Grow a garden--fruits, vegetables, and herbs Get a Harley motorcycle Get an antique convertible (See the red convertible on the movie, "Thelma and Louise" That's what I'm talking about!) Buy better equipment for photography, film, music, and computer stuff. Bike ride and swim more to establish lots of stamina for long distances Volunteer and Join Peacecorps or Americorps When I retire and I am all gray, I’d like to volunteer by helping young people, take some FUN college courses, and dabble in the fine arts (like my Grandma) Travel all over the place and lots of others stuff I haven’t thought of yet… :-) My Numerology result: 11: A visionary, an artist. Expands consciousness. Avoid extremes, being too high-strung. Impractical. To be enlightened and to enlighten others. Metaphysical small business with far-reaching appeal. some inspiration: My Results From Quizilla: You are Tank, from "The Matrix." Loyaltill the end, you spare no expense in ensuringthe well-being of others. Which male celebrity are you going to marry?You are going to Marry Josh Hartnett. He is really shy, but don't let that fool you. He is really outgoing and sweet with those he loves and will be loyal to them for the rest of his life.Congrats!! What Kind of Girlfriend Are You?Perfect--You're the perfect girlfriend. Which means you're rare or that you cheated :P You're the kind of chick that can hang out with your boyfriend's friends and be silly. You don't care about presents or about going to fancy places. Hell, just hang out. You're just happy being around your boyfriend. What Kind of SOUL do you posses?You have an animal soul! Arent you lucky! You are very interactive with animals and can understand them even if you dont speak their tongue. The birds arent afraid of you, deer can eat out of your palm, and every dog will rollover for you. As an Animal Soul, you follow your instinct, sometimes making rash decisions, and not thinking properly. If you don't understand something, you reject and push it away, and can get very disastrous when angry. At the same time, youre a very kind person who can make people feel better, and are understanding and compassionate. One of the great things about you is that your rarely jealous, and know that you have to share and help other people if you want to survive this world. You are very loyal and optimistic, and can make it through the toughest times. What Finding Nemo Character are You? Which Chinese Mythological Being Are You?You are Dha-shi-zhi! A female bodhisattva of Chinese Buddhism, whosename means the Strongest. Through the power of her love she managed to break the circle of rebirth for everyone. In the heavenly paradise the souls appear before her in the shape of flowers. What Kind of ANGEL are you?Congrats! Your a Pure Angel! Angels, as far as most of them go, are all compatabile creatures, but Pure ones simply are symbols of God. Pure Angels always appear when a child is born, when a rainbow is seen, or when someone shares their first kiss. They never grow old, an can appear in the shape of a naked woman with white, bold wings. Pure angels are the carriers of god, and show their love to everyone in the world. What movie Do you Belong in?Say Anything... What kind of girl are you? A GAME-BOY. You're like a tomboy without the love of sports. Reality sucks, but as long as you have your electronics you feel you can cope. Time goes unnoticed when youre locked in your room hooked up to your Nintendo, rocking to your favorite collection of guitar-driven albums. Your virtues: Intelligence, sense-of-humour, individuality. Your flaws: Inability to cope with real life, action-freak spirit, reclusive nature. Your Personality type is the only type that would like this cool online gothic Game: www.life-blood.vze.com You Are Sheryl Crow! Down to earth with tons of creative energy When you talk, everyone can relate to you "Life springs eternal On a gaudy neon street Not that I care at all" Who's Your Inner Rock Chick? Take This Quiz :-) You Are Low Maintenance Otherwise known as "too good to be true" You're one laid back chica - and men love that! Just remember that no good guy likes a dormat. So if you find your self going along to get along... Stop yourself and put up a little bit of a fight. Are You High Maintenance? Take This Quiz :-) You Are Most Like Miranda! While you've had your fair share of romance, men don't come first Guys are a distant third to your friends and career. And this independence *is* attractive to some men, in measured doses. Remember that if you imagine the best outcome, it might just happen. Romantic prediction: Someone from your past is waiting to reconnect... But you'll have to think of him differently, if you want things to work. Which Sex and the City Vixen Are You Most Like? Take This Quiz Right Now! You Are a Plain Ole Cup of Joe But don't think plain - instead think, uncomplicated You're a low maintenance kind of girl... who can hang with the guys Down to earth, easy going, and fun! Yup, that's you: the friend everyone invites. And your dependable too. Both for a laugh and a sympathetic ear. What Kind Of Coffee Are You? Take This Quiz :-) You Are the Girl Next Door! You're caring, warm, and the girl that nice guys want to marry. Uncomplicated and simple, you've got an easy going attitude guys love. But this doesn't mean you're dull - far from it! You're a great conversationalist, and you're an expert at living the good life. What Kind of Girl Are You? Take This Quiz :-) You are Bettie Page Girl next door with a wild streak You're a famous beauty - with unique look And the people like you are cultish about it What Famous Pinup Are You? Take This Quiz :-) Your Power Color Is Blue Relationships and feelngs are the most important things to you. You are empathetic and accepting - and good at avoiding conflict. If someone close to you is in pain, it makes you hurt as well. You try to heal the ones you love with your kind and open heart. What's Your Power Color? Take This Quiz :-) The PJ's You Are Most Like: Underwear You enjoy the simple things in life and aren't hard to please You have an understated, easy sexyness that men love And you're confident enough to pull it off - without being overbearing What Kind of PJ's Are You? Take This Quiz :-) You Are Vanilla Ice Cream! What Flavor Ice Cream Are You? Take This Quiz :-) Your Scent is Glow Fresh, sexy, and clean. You're real, intimate, and exciting. Your lush sensuality appeals to men... And you're as sexy as Jennifer Lopez. Power scents: Orange flower, grapefruit, and citrus. What Scent Are You? Take This Quiz :-) You Are a Natural Beauty! You're the kind of beauty that every guy dreams about... One that looks good in the morning - without a stich of makeup That's doesn't mean you're a total hippie chic though You have style, but for you, style is effortless What Type of Beauty Are You? Take This Quiz :-) Guys Like That You're Charming You're the girl most guys can't get out of their heads Even if they met you on a bad hair day :-) You just seem to "click" with everyone you meet So even if a guy forgets about you for a second... his friends haven't! What Do Guys Like About You? Take This Quiz :-) You Should Date An Australian! You're a down to earth, outdoorsy kind of girl And you need a guy who can keep up with your adventures A rugged Austrailian guy is just your style Better start learning how to surf! Which Foreign Guy Should You Date? Take This Quiz :-) You Are a Super Flirt! You have almost every guy under your spell, and you totally work a room You can charm almost anyone you desire - including your friends men Sometimes your flirty ways arouse jealousy from others, but it's all in fun You secertly crave another super flirt who will put you to the test What Kind of Flirt Are You? Take This Quiz :-) Your Candy Heart Is "WHAT EVA" Valentine's Day makes you a little sick And not just from eating too much candy You're opposed to the commercial celebration of couple-dom It's not all about love - and love is not all about overpriced flowers! What Candy Conversation Heart Are You? Take This Quiz :-) You Are Artemis! Brave, and a natural born leader. You're willing to fight for what you believe in... And willing to make tough decisions. Don't forget - the people around you have ideas too! What Goddess Are You? Take This Quiz :-) You Are Independent Sexy You drive men crazy with your "playing hard to get act" Except, it's really not an act at all. You're a strong, sexy woman with her own life and interests. And makes men even more interested in you! What Kind of Sexy Are You? Take This Quiz :-) Your Celebrity Sisters Are Mary-Kate and Ashley Funky, eccentric, and offbeat You're not a good girl or a bad girl, just a weird girl Who Are Your Celebrity Sisters? Take This Quiz :-) You Should Be In the Indigo Girls Your all about expressing yourself through music Lyrics are your poetry - think Sylvia Plath meets guitar What Girl Group Should You Be In? Take This Quiz :-) You Are a Sensitive Kisser For you, kissing is a way to connect And you need lot of care, attention, and privacy It may take you a while to kiss someone... But when you do, it's total fireworks What's Your Kissing Style? Take This Quiz :-) You are Milk Chocolate A total dreamer, you spend most of your time with your head in the clouds. You often think of the future, and you are always working toward your ideal life. Also nostelgic, you rarely forget a meaningful moment... even those from long ago. What Kind of Chocolate Are You? Take This Quiz :-) You Are Trinity "Touch me and that hand will never touch anything again." What Superheroine Are You? Your Inner Muse is Thalia You are most like this playful muse of comedy. Life is all about laughter to you, and you're a natural comic. You make people laugh until their sides split. And you're always up for some play time! What Muse Are You? Take This Quiz :-) Your Lip Gloss Flavor Is: Watermelon You tend to approach life as a fun game - being playful at every turn. You're a flirt with flair, and your the type most likely to surprise your date. But you're popularity doesn't stop with guys... you've got a great group of girlfriends too! You're fresh, aggressive, and more than a little sassy. The tangy taste of watermelon goes great on your lips. What Flavor Lip Gloss Are You? Take This Quiz :-) Take the quiz: "What's your ghetto name?"Brijanay (bree-ja-nay)Oohh girl you think your the shit. In your mind your too good for everything and everyone. That's why yo momma picked a name she thinks is french, but it aint nothing but ghetto. Take the quiz: "What does your birth month reveal about you?"OctoberLoves to chat. Loves those who loves them. Loves to takes things at the center. Inner and physical beauty. Lies but doesn'tpretend. Gets angry often. Treats friends importantly. Always making friends. Easily hurt but recovers easily. Daydreamer. Opinionated. Does not care of what others think. Emotional. Decisive. Strong clairvoyance. Loves to travel, the arts and literature. Touchy and easily jealous. Concerned. Loves outdoors. Just and fair. Spendthrift. Easily influenced. Easily loses confidence. Loves children. Take the quiz: "What clothing store are you?"Pac SunYou like the cute stuff...you like the beach look and a style thats all you own! Take the quiz: "Which God or Goddess are you?"God of Beautiful DeathElegant, regal, and beautiful. You accept death for what it is, and unavoidable part of life. You often feel higher than others, more mature or sane, and tend to wear dresses and skirts if your a girl, or collared shirts if you're a boy. You bring those who have died a peaceful death to their resting place. Take the quiz: "What Kind of Soul Do You Retain?"FreeYou have an open heart and open mind and you chose not to let anyone get to you and the way you want to live. You are a sock.You are a cozy, fuzzy, warm-hearted person. A lot of your friends describe you as a hopeless romantic. You fall for the opposite sex very easily. But be careful, because usually you don't know what you are getting into, and because you are very sensitive, you can get hurt... especially in early relationships. Also, don't exclude the cold-hearted from your "want-list", because they just might be looking for a kind person to warm up their heart.... or a sock to warm up their feet.Most compatible with: Toilet Paper.Click here -- What Random Object Represents Your Inner Self? DDramaticEEmotionalBBeautifulOOddRRefreshingAAmbitiousHHelpful AArtyLLuckyIInfluentialCCoolEEmotionalName / Username: Name Acronym GeneratorFrom Go-Quiz.com Video code provided by MusicVideoCodes.com this is me if i have to get up way too early! COOL QUOTES: “Do what you love, love what you do, and deliver more than you promise.” Harvey McKay “It is better to burn out then it is to rust out.” Neil Young “If it doesn’t burn fuel or make a lot of noise, what good is it?” Jim Byers “If you found a friend, you found a treasure.” Italian saying “We may rise or fall, but in the end we’ll meet our fate together.” Creed “It’s a newspaper’s duty to print the news and raise hell” Chicago Tribune 1861 “Worry is the interest paid on a problem before it occurs.” Anne Hephill “It is the character of very few men to honor without envy a friend who has prospered.” Aeschylus “Art enables us to find ourselves and lose ourselves at the same time.” Thomas Merton “Lose your dreams and you’ll lose your mind.” “Ruby Tuesday” “Don’t walk behind me, I may not lead. Don’t walk in front of me, I may not follow, Just walk beside me and be my friend.” Albert Camus “Being defeated is often a temporary condition. Giving up is what makes it permanent.” Marilyn vos Savant “If you’re going through hell, keep going.” Churchill “There are people who have money and people who are rich.” Coco Chanel “A chest of gold coins or a fat wallet of bills is of no use whatsoever to a wrecked sailor alone on a raft.” Alan Watts “If you don’t wait for moods. You accomplish nothing if you do that. Your mind must know that it has to get down to earth.” Pearl S. Buck “To be a manager, you have to start at the bottom, no exceptions.” Henry Block “You grow up the day you have your first real laugh at yourself.” Ethel Barrymore “If you’re losing a tug-of-war with a tiger, give him the rope before he gets to your arm. You can always buy a new rope.” Max Gunther “Do not seek to follow in the footsteps of men of old; seek what they sought.” Matsuo Baho “He who despises himself esteems himself as a self-despiser.” Susan Sontag “Too many people overvalue what they are not and undervalue what they are.” Malcom Forbes “The golden age only comes to men when they have forgotten gold.” G.K. Chesterton “When it is dark enough, you can see the stars.” Charles A. Beard "Never doubt that a small group of thoughtful, committed citizens can change the world. Indeed, it's the only thing that ever has." Margaret Mead "So live that you can look any man in the eye and tell him to go to hell." Anon. "One always speaks badly when one has nothing to say." Voltaire "I like the dreams of the future better than the history of the past." Thomas Jefferson "The past should be culled like a box of fresh strawberries, rinsed of debris, sweetened judiciously and served in small portions, not very often." Laura Palmer "Let the past drift away with the water." Japanese saying "Audacity, more audacity, always audacity." Georges Jacques Danton "A musician must make music, an artist must paint, a poet must write, if he is to be ultimately at peace with himself. What a man can be, he must be." Abraham Maslow "I say if it's going to be done, let's do it. Let's not put it in the hands of fate. Let's not put it in the hands of someone who doesn't know me. I know me best. Then take a breath and go ahead." Anita Baker "The moment somebody says 'this is very risky' is the moment it becomes attractive to me." Kate Capshaw "It is the risk element which ensures security. Risk brings out the ingenuity and resourcefulness which ensure success." Robert Rawls "I postpone death by living, by suffering, by error, by risking, by giving, by losing." Anais Nin "The difference between failure and success is doing a thing nearly right and doing a thing exactly right." Edward Simmons "Look twice before you leap." Charlotte Bronte "The man who has ceased to learn ought not to be allowed to wander around loose in these dangerous days." M.M. Coady "Breaks balance out. The sun don't shine on the same old dog's rear end every day." Darrell Royal "The only thing that overcomes hard luck is hard work." Harry Golden "Experience has taught me this, that we undo ourselves by impatience. Misfortunes have their life and their limits, their sickness and their health." Michel de Montaigne "It is prudent to pour the oil of delicate politeness upon the machinery of friendship." Colette "The world is like a mirror; frown at it, and it frowns at you. Smile and it smiles, too." Herbert Samuels "The true test of character is...how we behave when we don't know what to do." John Holt "The imagination needs moodling - long, inefficient, happy idling, dawdling, and puttering." Brenda Ueland "Not all those who wander are lost." J.R.R. Tolkien "No, no, you're not thinking; you're just being logical." Niels Bohr "If it isn't the sheriff it's the finance company. I've got more attachments on me than a vacum cleaner." John Barrymore "Consistency is a pste jewel that only cheap men cherish." William Allen White "Modesty is the art of encouraging people to find out for themselves how wonderful you are" Anon. "I'm in a phone booth at the corner of Walk and Don't Walk." Anon. "I have been a selfish being all my life, in practice, though not in principle." Jane Austen. "Only the mediocre are always at their best." Jean Giraudoux "Even a stopped clock is right twice a day." Anon. "In the face of an obstacle which is impossible to overcome, stubborness is stupid." Simon de Beauvoir "Boredom, after all, is a form of criticism" William Phillips "A retentive memory may be a good thing, but the ability to forget is the true token of greatness." Elbert Hubbard "If you can keep your head when all about you are losing theirs, it's just possible you haven't grasped the situation." Jean Kerr "Happiness is the sublime moment when you get out of your corsets at night." Joyce Grenfell "Humor is emotional chaos remembered in tranquility." James Thurber "Why did I write? Because I found life unsatisfactory." T. Williams "Life is like playing the violin in public and learning the instrument as one goes on." Samuel Butler "Having children is like having a bowling alley installed in your brain." Martin Mull "Whenever possible, our goal should be to 'march to a different drummer, but stay on the same parade ground.' Anon. "There is something wrong with a man if he does not want to break the Ten Commandments." G.K. Chesterton "The only normal people are the ones you don't know very well." Joe Ancis "I think I can." Little Engine that Could "It doesn't matter how slowly you go so long as you do not stop." Confucius "If you do what you've always done, you'll get what you've always gotten." Anon. "We should take care not to make the intellect our god; it has, of course, powerful muscles, but no personality." Einstein "He who conquers his anger has conquered an enemy." German proverb "If you act like an ass don't get insulted if people ride you." Yiddish proverb "Don't get annoyed if your neighbor plays his hi-fi at 2 a.m. Call him at 4 and tell him how much you enjoyed it." Anon. "Puritanism: the haunting fear that someone, somewhere, may be happy." H.L. Mencken "The advantage of being ADD is you never stay focused on one thing long enough to get depressed." Don Taylor "He who threatens is afraid." French proverb "I suppose one of the reasons why I grew up feeling the need to cause laughter was perpetual fear of being its unwitting object." Clive James "Keep falling on your face-when the fall doesn't hurt anymore you're there." Hattie Hill-Storks "Psychiatry- the care of the id by the odd." Anon. "Grieving must be done in its own time. To deny the human reality that pain hurts only delays the process." John Roger "He that leaveth nothing to chance will do few things ill, but he will do very few things." George, Lord Halifax "The trouble with life in the fast lane is that you get to the other end adn in an awful hurry." John Jensen "Remember that a kick in the ass is a step forward." Anon. "The world doesn't want to hear about the labor pains, they just want to see the baby." Mancia and David Kaplan "Patience is the ability to idle your motor when you feel like stripping your gears." Barbara Johnson "The right to be heard does not include the right to be taken seriously." Hubert Humphrey "I wasn't allowed to speak while my husband was alive and since he's gone non one has been able to shut me up." Hedda Hopper "Your friend is the man who knows all about you, and still likes you." Elbert Hubbard "We judge ourselves by our motives and others by their actions." Dwight Morrow "Y'know when we're not fighting, we get along just fine." The Rockford files "Basically, I believe the world is a jungle and if it's not a bit of a jungle in the home, a child cannot possibly be fit to enter the outside world." Bette Davis "There is nothing permanent except change." Heraclitus "I like long walks, especially when they are taken by people who annoy me." Fred Allan "A committee is a thing which takes a week to do what one good man can do in an hour." Elbert Hubbard "Work is the greatest thing in the world, so we should always save some of it for tomorrow." Don Herold "I not only use all the brains I have, but all I can borrow. Woodrow Wilson "I don't know how it is that you start working at something that you don't like, and before you know it you're an old man." Herman Mankiewicz "The brain is a wonderful organ; it starts working the moment you get up in the morning and does not stop until you get to the office." R. Frost "Most of us are umpires at heart: we like to call balls and strikes on somebody else." Leo Aikman "The only way of catching a train I ever discovered is to miss the train before." G.K. Chesterton "Punctuality is something that, if you have it, there's often no one around to share it with you." Anon. "I've found a great way to start the day- I go straight back to bed!" Anon. "I try to order my belongings, but they never listen to me." Don Lambert "I don't think I've used a hanger in my entire life. I have always enjoyed living in my own debris." Steven Spielberg "Looking back, my life seems like one long obstacle race, with me as its chief obstacle." Jack Paar "It's pretty hard to be efficient without being obnoxious." Kim Hubbard "He pasted picture postcards around goldfish bowls to make the goldfish think they were going places." Fred Allen "Get to know what it is you don't know as fast as you can." Robert Heller "There's never time to do it right, but always time to do it over." John Meckiman "He who is afraid of asking is afraid of learning." Danish proverb "STAND FIRM IN YOUR REFUSAL TO REMAIN CONSCIOUS IN ALGEBRA. IN REAL LIFE, I ASSURE YOU THERE'S NO SUCH THINGS AS ALGEBRA." Fran Lebowitz "For every person wishing to teach, there are thirty not wanting to be taught." Anon. "I don't remember anybody's name. Why do you think the 'dahling' thing started." Zsa Zsa Gabor "You cannot make a crab walk straight." Aristophanes "Don't let life discourage you; everyone who got where he is had to begin where he was." R.L. Evans "A smile is a curved line that sets things straight." Anon. "If you haven't all the things you want, be grateful for the things you don't have that you don't want" Anon. "There cannot be a crisis next week- my schedule is already full." Henry Kissinger "If you have the determination to keep everlasting at it, you will attain success as well as a nervous breakdown." Herbert V. Prochrow "We experience moments absolutely free from worry. These brief respites are called panic." Cullen Hightower "In the old days you waited patiently for two hours for a stagecoach but now you gripe if you miss the first section of a revolving dorr." Anon. "What is my loftiest ambition? I've always wanted to throw an egg into an electric fan." Oliver Herford "Discovering is seeing what everybody else has seen, and thinking what nobody else has thought." Albert Szent-Gyorgi "A pile of rocks ceases to be a rock pile when somebody contemplates it with the idea of a cathedral in mind." Antoine de Saint-Exupery "Our ordinary mind always tries to persuade us that we are nothing but acorns and that our greatest happiness will be to become bigger, fatter, shiner acorns; but that is of interest only to pigs. Our faith gives us knowledge of something much better that we can become oak trees." E.F. Shumacher "Not to dream boldy may turn out to be simply irresponsible." George Leonard "Success is achieved when you figure out what you were born to do and fashion a lifestyle that enables you to do it." "Learn to praise the idiosyncrasies, the eccentricities, the quirks and singularities of others. It helps you to praise your own." John Roger "I decided to become an actor becauase I was failing in school and I needed the credits." Dustin Hoffman "The laziest man I ever met put popcorn in his pancakes so they would turn over by themselves." W.C. Fields "Beauty tips: For attractive lips, Speak words of kindness. For lovely eyes, Seek out the good in people. For a slim figure, Share your food with the hungry. For beautiful hair, Let a child run his fingers through it once a day. For poise, Walk with the knowledge you'll never walk alone. People even more than things, have to be restored, renewed, revived, reclaimed, and redeemed;Never throw out anybody. Remember, if you ever need a helping hand, you'll find one at the end of your arm.As you grow older, you will discover that you have two hands,One for helping yourself, the other for helping others.The beauty of a woman is not in the clothes she wears,The figure that carries, or the way she combs her hair.The beauty of a woman must be seen from in her eyes.Because that is the doorway to her heart, the place where love resides.The beauty of a woman is not in a facial mole,But true beauty in a woman is reflected in her soul. It is the caring that she lovingly gives, the passion that she shows,And the beauty of a woman with passing years- only grows!" Audrey Hepburn "A woman never forgets what it feels like to be a girl A woman is made up of what you are not worthy of A woman follows you forever A woman never leaves you even after she's gone You cannont forget as much as a woman remembers A woman follows all women into the world They lean back down the ladder to her whispering A woman never forgets anything that happened to her Or what should have happened to her A woman sees through you She listens to herself with girl ears A woman cannot tell you everything she knows A girl doesn't know how to love her feet, her face, Her mouth, her breasts, her hands A woman shows her it is possible A woman refuses to be told The way I'm standing here is an encyclopedia of me." from a magazine "I like dogs. I do. But they're not that bright, really. Let's examine the dog mind: Every time you come home, he thinks it's amazing. He can't believe that you've accomplished this again. You walk in the door. The joy of it almost kills him. "He's back again! It's that guy! It's that guy!" Jerry Seinfeld "Instinct is the nose of the mind." Madame de Girardin "Every time you don't follow your inner guidance, you feel a loss of energy, loss of power, a sense of spiritual deadness." Shakti Gawain "It is only by following your deepest instinct that you can lead a rich life." Katharine Butler Hathaway "Sweat plus sacrifice equals success." Charles O. Finley "The superior man is modest in his speech, but excels in his actions." Confucius "He who would learn to fly one day must first learn to stand and walk and run and climb and dance; one cannot fly into flying." Friedrich Nietzsche "Act as if it were impossible to fail." Dorothea Brande "Fate exist, but it can only take you so far, because once you're there, its up to you to make it happen." "If you don't stand for something, you will fall for anything." "If you want a quality, act as if you already had it." William James "Act as if you were already happy, and that will tend to make you happy." Dale Carnegie "The ability to concentrate and use your time well is everything." Lee Iacocca "Become so wrapped up in something that you forget to be afraid." Lady Bird Johnson "It is only when doing my work that I feel truly alive." Federico Fellini "A meeting is an occasion when people gather together, some to say what they do not think, and others not to say what they really do." Vladimir Voinovich "To get something done a committee should consist of no more than three men, two of whom are absent." Robert Copeland "You'll find in no park or city/A monument to a committee." Victoria Pasternack "It is only possible to live happily ever after on a day to day basis." Margaret Bonnano "Statistics are no substitute for judgement." Henry Clay "Don't be humble. You're not that great." Golda Meir "It is better to know some of the questions than all of the answers." James Thurber "Make it a rule of life never to regret and never look back. We all live in suspense, from day to day, from hour to hour; in other words, we are the hero of our own story." Mary McCarthy "No day is so bad it can't be fixed with a nap." Carrie Snow "It is not the clear-sighted who rule the world. Great achievements are accomplished in a blessed, warm fog." Joseph Conrad "We never do anything well till we cease to think about the manner of doing it." William Hazlitt "All men dream, but not equally. Those who dream by night in the dusty recesses of their minds wake in the day to find that it was vanity; but the dreamers of the day are dangerous men, for they may act their dream with open eyes, to make it possible." T. E. Lawrence (Lawrence of Arabia) "I really do believe I can accomplish a great deal with a big grin. I know some people find that disconcerting, but that doesn't matter." Beverly Sills "People can bear anything." Philip Slater "A mistake is simply another way of doing things." Katharine Graham "When you see a snake, never mind where he came from." W. G. Benham "The great end of life is not knowledge but action." Henry David Thoreau "I'm a great believer in luck, and I find the harder I work, the more I have of it." Thomas Jefferson "Out of the strain of the Doing, into the peace of the Done." Julia Louise Woodruff "Wake up with a smile and go after life . . .. Live it, enjoy it, taste it, smell it, feel it." Joe Knapp "To read without reflecting is like eating without digesting." Edmund Burke "When we read too fast or too slowly, we understand nothing." Blasie Pascal "Reading is to the mind what exercise is to the body." Richard Steele "Everything has been thought of before, but the problem is to think of it again." Goethe "Strong people don't need strong leaders." Ella Baker "Parents can only give advice or put [children] on the right paths, but the final forming of a person's character lies in their own hands." Anne Frank "Behold the turtle. He makes progress only when he sticks his neck out." James B. Conant "Fortune favors the audacious." Erasmus "You can't expect to hit the jackpot if you don't put a few nickels in the machine." Flip Wilson "You can't expect to win unless you know why you lose." Benjamin Lipson "He who would begun has half done. Dare to be wise; begin." Horace "There are no shortcuts to any place worth going." Beverly Sills "If you see a tennis player who looks as if he's working very hard, then that means he isn't very good." Helen Wills Moody "If all the year were playing holidays/To sport would be as tedious as to work." William Shakespeare "Success is a journey, not a destination." Ben Sweetland "Nothing is interesting if you're not interested." Helen MacInness "Express a mean opinion of yourself occasionally; it will show your friends that you know how to tell the truth." Ed Howe "Your real security is yourself. You know you can do it, and they can't ever take that away from you." Mae West "There is no security on this earth. Only opportunity." General Douglas MacArthur "The way to be safe is never to be secure." Benjamin Franklin "If you are afraid of your future, you don't have a present." James Petersen "An aim in life is the only fortune worth finding." Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis "Competition can damage self-esteem, create anxiety, and lead to cheating and hurt feelings. But so can romantic love." Mariah Burton Nelson "Information is just signs and numbers, while knowledge involves their meaning. What we want is knowledge, but what we get is information." Heinz R. Pagels "Computers can figure out all kinds of problems, except the things in the world that just don't add up." James Magary "The computer is a moron." Peter Drucker "One can never consent to creep when one has the impulse to soar." Helen Keller "Unless a man has trained himself for his chance, the chance will only make him ridiculous." William Matthews "Only in growth, reform, and change, paradoxically enough, is true security to be found." Anne Morrow Lindbergh "There is no future in any job. The future lies in the man who holds the job." George Crane "Careers, like rockets, don't always take off on schedule. The key is to keep working on the engines." Gary Sinise "Always take a job that is too big for you." Harry Emerson Fosdick "It is a rough road that leads to the heights of greatness." Seneca "If one asks for success and prepares for failure, he will get the situation he has prepared for." Florence Shinn "Life is the sum of all your choices." Albert Camus "Ask yourself the secret of your success. Listen to your answer, and practice it." Richard Bach "Whatever you are by nature, keep to it; never desert your own line of talent." Sydeny Smith "Don't take anyone else's definition of success as your own." Jacqueline Briskin "If it's very painful to you to criticize your friends - you're safe in doing it. But if you take the slightest pleasure in it - that's the time to hold your tongue." Alice Duer Miller "A great obstacle to happiness is the expectation of too great a happiness." Fontenelle "If the shoe fits, you're not allowing for growth." Robert N. Coons "Enjoy yourself. These are the 'good old days' you're going to miss in the years ahead." Anon. "Anyone who limits her vision to memories of yesterday is already dead." Lily Langtry "Time is not a line, but a series of now-points." Taisen Deshimaru "You've got to take the initiative and play your game . . .. Confidence makes the difference." Chris Evert "Necessity is the mother of taking chances." Mark Twain "The act of acting morally is behaving as if everything we do matters." Gloria Steinem "He that wrestles with us strengthens our nerves and sharpens our skill. Our antagonist is our helper." Edmund Burke "Change means movement, movement means friction, friction means heat, and heat means controversy." Saul Alinsky "We find comfort among those who agree with us - growth among those who don't." Frank A. Clark "No one from the beginning of time has had security." Eleanor Roosevelt "I believe half the unhappiness in life comes from people being afraid to go straight at things." William J. Locke "The man who makes no mistakes does not usually make anything." Bishop W. C. Magee "I made a mistake today. I made a mistake yesterday. I think it's ... very important to ignore the negative." Jerry Rubin "Entrepreneurs average 3.8 failures before final success. What sets the successful ones apart is their amazing persistence." Lisa M. Amos "Success is going from failure to failure without loss of enthusiasm." Winston Churchill "The way I see it, if you want the rainbow, you gotta put up with the rain." Dolly Parton "Start by doing what's necessary, then what's possible and suddenly you are doing the impossible." Saint Francis of Assisi "The greater the obstacle, the more glory in overcoming it." Moliere "Nothing is particularly hard if you divide it into small steps." Henry Ford "Little drops of water, little grains of sand/Make the mighty ocean, and the pleasant land." Julia Carney "Great things are not done by impulse, but by a series of small things brought together." Vincent van Gogh "Dare to be naive." R. Buckminster Fuller "No trumpets sound when the important decisions of our life are made. Destiny is made known silently." Agnes de Mille "Great minds have purposes, others have wishes." Washington Irving "Luck always seems to be against the man who depends on it." Anon. "Luck is the by-product of busting your fanny." Don Sutton "The less of routine, the more of life." A. B. Alcott "Let us endeavor so to live that when we come to die even the undertaker will be sorry." Mark Twain "Lord grant that I may always desire more than I can accomplish." Michelangelo "If you can't change your fate, change your attitude." Amy Tan "And thou shalt be secure, because there is hope." Job, 11:18 "No hope, no action." Peter Levi "When you get to the end of your rope, tie a knot and hang on." Franklin Delano Roosevelt "Think wrongly if you please, but in all cases think for yourself." Doris Lessing "The greatest general is he who makes the fewest mistakes." Napoleon "Great things are accomplished by talented people who believe they will accomplish them." Warren Bennis "I was always looking outside myself for strength and confidence but it comes from within. It is there all the time." Anna Freud "Nothing splendid has ever been achieved except by those who dared believe that something inside them was superior to circumstance." Bruce Barton "Whatever I do, I give up my whole self to it." Edna St. Vincent Millay "Inches make a champion." Vince Lombardi "You cannot be friends upon any other terms than upon the terms of equality." Woodrow Wilson "Circumstances - what are circumstances? I make circumstances." Napoleon Bonaparte "We will either find a way, or make one." Hannibal "You have to take it as it happens, but you should try to make it happen the way you want to take it." German proverb "Wisdom never kicks at the iron walls it can't bring down." Olive Schreiner "Fear is nature's warning signal to get busy." Henry Link "No life is so hard that you can't make it easier by the way you take it." Ellen Glasgow "I can feel guilty about the past, apprehensive about the future, but only in the present can I act." Abraham Maslow "Today is the blocks with which we build." Henry Wadsworth Longfellow "Don't waste today regretting yesterday instead of making a memory for tomorrow." Laura Palmer "The most destructive element in the human mind is fear. Fear creates aggressiveness; aggressiveness engenders hostility; hostility engenders fear-a disastrous circle." Dorothy Thompson "Thunder is good, thunder is impressive; but it is lightning that does the work." Mark Twain "To be tested is good. The challenged life may be the best therapist." Gail Sheehy "To escape criticism - do nothing, say nothing, be nothing." Elbert Hubbard "Criticism may not be agreeable, but it is necessary. It fulfils the same function as pain in the human body. It calls attention to an unhealthy state of things." Winston Churchill "Never answer a critic, unless he's right." Bernard Baruch "Everybody knows that if you are too careful you are so occupied in being careful that you are sure to stumble over something." Gertrude Stein "If you don't know where you are going, you will probably end up somewhere else." Laurence J. Peter and Raymond Hull "Knowledge is power, if you know it about the right person." Ethel Watts Mumford "When you reach for the stars, you may not quite get them, but you won't come up with a handful of mud, either." Leo Burnett "Our business in life is not to get ahead of others, but to get ahead of ourselves--to break our own records, to outstrip our yesterday by our today." Stewart B. Johnson "Hitch your wagon to a star." Ralph Waldo Emerson "Don't ask of your friends what you yourself can do." Quintus Ennius "It's hard to fight an enemy who has outposts in your head." Sally Kempton "The efficient man is the man who thinks for himself." Charles W. Eliot "Do you wish to find out a person's weak points? Note the failings he has the quickest eye for in others. They may not be the very failings he is himself conscious of; but they will be their next-door-neighbors." Julius Hare "Life appears to me too short to be spent in nursing animosity or registering wrong." Charlotte Bronte "Take your life in your own hands, and what happens? A terrible thing: no one to blame." Erica Jong "I'm not going to limit myself just because people won't accept the fact that I can do something else." Dolly Parton "We must have courage to bet on our ideas, to take the calculated risk, and to act. Everyday living requires courage if life is to be effective and bring happiness." Maxwell Maltz "No one is more likely to make a mistake than the man who acts only on reflection." Luc de Clapiers, Marquis Vauvenargues "A hunch is creativity trying to tell you something." Anon. "You have first an instinct, then an opinion, then a knowledge, as the plant has root, bud and fruit. Trust the instinct to the end, though you can render no reason." Ralph Waldo Emerson "We shall never have friends if we expect to find them without fault." Thomas Fuller "I am responsible for my own well-being, my own happiness. The choices and decisions I make regarding my life directly influences the quality of my days." Kathleen Andrus "Every time I've done something that doesn't feel right, it's ended up not being right." Mario Cuomo "Patience is a bitter plant, but it has sweet fruit." German proverb "Time deals gently only with those who take it gently." Anatole France "Who longest waits most surely wins." Helen Hunt Jackson "What a man can imagine he may one day achieve." Nancy Hale "It is never right to compromise with dishonesty." Henry Cabot Lodge, Jr. "The test of good manners is to be patient with bad ones." Solomon Ibn Gabirol "Fear not that thy life shall come to an end, but rather that it shall never have a beginning." John Henry Cardinal Newman "Can anything be sadder than work unfinished? Yes; work never begun." Christina Rossetti "Seize opportunity by the beard, for it is bald behind." Bulgarian proverb "Risk! Risk anything! Care no more for the opinions of others, for those voices. Do the hardest thing on earth for you. Act for yourself. Face the truth." Katherine Mansfield "Mistakes are part of the dues one pays for a full life. " Sophia Loren "The shoe that fits one person pinches another; there is no recipe for living that fits all cases."C. G. Jung "To solve a problem it is necessary to think. It is necessary to think even to decide what facts to collect." Robert M. Hutchins "A problem well stated is a problem half solved." Charles Kettering "A good problem statement often includes: a. what is known; b. what is unknown; and c. what is sought." "To know oneself, one should assert oneself." Albert Camus "Live as if you like yourself, and it may happen." Marge Piercy "Friends are lost by calling often and calling seldom." Scottish proverb "I don't want to be a passenger in my own life." Diane Ackerman "No bird soars too high, if he soars with his own wings." William Blake "The more sand that has escaped from the hourglass of our life, the clearer we should see through it." Jean-Paul Sartre "Some things...arrive on their own mysterious hour, on their own terms and not yours, to be seized or relinquished forever." Gail Godwin "When angry, count four; when very angry, swear." Mark Twain "The delights of self-discovery are always available." Gail Sheehy "Know thyself." Delphic Oracle, cited by Plutarch "Everyone needs a strong sense of self. It is our base of operations for everything that we do in life." Julia T. Alvarez "I don't believe in failure. It's not failure if you enjoyed the process." Oprah Winfrey "I wish to preach, not the doctrine of ignoble ease, but the doctrine of the strenuous life." Theodore Roosevelt "You take people as far as they will go, not as far as you would like them to go." Jeannette Rankin "Advice is seldom welcome; and those who want it the most always like it the least." Earl of Chesterfield "Who cannot give good counsel? 'Tis cheap, it costs them nothing." Robert Burton "Everybody who tells you how to act has whiskey on their breath." John Updike "The ultimate of being successful is the luxury of giving yourself the time to do what you want to do." Leontyne Price "Learning is discovering that something is possible." Fritz Perls "We know what happens to people who stay in the middle of the road. They get run over." Anuerin Bevan "Character contributes to beauty. It fortifies a woman as her youth fades. A mode of conduct, a standard of courage, discipline, fortitude, and integrity can do a great deal to make a woman beautiful." Jacqueline Bisset "No task is a long one but the task on which one dare not start. It becomes a nightmare." Baudeliare "Everybody is screwed up in some way or another. It's just a matter of paying attention to what's 'perfect' about them...how they specifically shine to the world, what aura they give off to others. So set their flaws aside and focus on the 'perfect' aspect of their being." Anon. "Lost time is never found again." "Courage call to encourage everywhere and its voice cannot be denied." Millicent G. Fawcett "Attempt the impossible in order to improve your work." Bette Davis "Be kind, for everyone you meet is fighting a harder battle." "The human spirit is stronger than anything that happens to it." "Immense power is acquired by assuring yourself in your secret reveries that you were born to control affairs." Andrew Carnegie "It is always wise to look ahead, but difficult to look farther than you see. You cannot plan the future by the past." Edmund Burke "The first and final thing you have to do in this world is to last in it, and not be smashed by it." Ernest Hemingway "To be somebody you must last." Ruth Gordon "I bend but I do not break" Jean de la Fontaine "A happy life is made up of little things...a gift sent, a letter written, a call made, a recomendation given, transportaion provided, a cake made, a book lent, a check sent." Carol Homes "The best mirror is an old friend." Anon. "We cannot do everything at once, but we can do something at once." Calvin Coolidge "Music creates order out of chaos: for rhythm imposes unanimity upon the divergent, melody imposes continuity upon the disjointed, and harmony imposes compatibilty upon the incongruous." Yehudi Menuhin "It had never occurred to me before that music and thinking are so much alike. In fact you could say music is another way of thinking, or maybe thinking is another kind of music." Ursula K. Guin "In music one must think with the heart and feel with the brain." George Szell "An optimist is the human personification of Spring." Susan J. Bissonette "Life is like a game of cards, the hand that is dealt you represents determinisim; the way you play it is free will." Jawaharlal Nehru "Modesty is the only sure bait when angle for praise." G.K. Chesterton "Fear is an instructor of great sagacity, the herald of all revolutions." R.W. Emerson "A good scare is worth more to a man than good advice." Edgar W. Howe "Fear drives you and makes you better." Donna Shalala "If it hurts too much to look back, but you're too scared to look forward, just look beside you and I'll be there." "People may not remember exactly what you did or what you said, but they will always remember how you made them feel." "If you live to be a hundred, I want to live to be a hundred minus one day, so I never have to live a day without you." Winnie The Pooh "I may not be Fred Flintstone but I can make your bed rock." "Everything is ok in the end. If it's not ok, it's not the end." "Know your role and shut your mouth!" "If you cant deal with it-don’t pretend" "Don't take life too seriously, or serious is all you'll ever be." "The only doors in life that are closed are the ones we do not have the guts to open." "I love everybody - some better than others." "Too much anger can make you ugly!" "Why be politically correct when you can be right?" "Life has treated me like a baby treats it's diaper." "If your heart has been broken before ask your self if you were looking for love or a life long soul mate." "It's better to lose a lover than love a looser." "No matter how bad life gets, it can always be worse." "Go ahead. ask me, go ahead, ask me if i care, I wrote the answer down somewhere, I just gotta find it." Ani DiFranco "I’m not lazy, I just don't care." "Funny, you can put a whole group of abercrombie-wearing preps together, and no one cares, but put a group of freaks together and they get the cops out there!" "If you don't know what you've done, there's no point in me telling you." "You may forget the friends you laughed with, but you will never forget the friends you cried with." "Friendship is as fragile as glass, mishandled it can be broken forever." "I miss you a little, I guess you could say...a little too much, a little too often, a little more everyday." "It's true we don't know what we've got until we lose it, but it's also true that we don't know what we've been missing until it arrives." "Be all that you can be" Army Reserve "Heaven won't have me and hell is afraid I'll take over!" "4 out of 5 voices in my head say go back to sleep." "Don't call me a GODDESS, Don't call me a QUEEN, Just call me the cutest PRINCESS you've ever seen!" "I LOVE my attitude problem." "You're only bad if you're caught... So that makes me a really good girl, RIGHT?" "I'll Try Anything Once, Twice If I Like It!" "My *fantasy* has turned to madness. All my *goodness* has turned to badness." "Good girls don't lie, Bad girls don't cry, Dumb girls need "air", Naughty girls need underwear, Sweet girls aren't mean, Funny girls make a scene, Perfect girls have all the class, Mean girls will kick your a**, Smart girls will excel, Gossip girls will tell, Popular girls get all the boys, Little girls play with toys, Normal girls are nothing new, So which one applies to you?" "It sucks to be you!" "Life is like a box of chocolates..... You never know what your gonna get!" "I have all the answers, but I never said they were right." "Don't deny it until you try it." "We are the people our parents warned us about." "A great pleasure in life is doing what others say you cannot." :) "Whatever you want to do, do it now. There are only so many tomorrows." "What doesn’t kill me only makes me stronger." "Dream what you want to dream; go where you want to go; be what you want to be, because you have only one life and one chance to do all the things you want to do." "A divorce is like an amputation: you survive, but there's less of you." Atwood "Being divorced is like being hit by a Mack truck. If you live through it, you start looking very carefully to the right and to the left." Jean Kerr "Each morning puts a man on trial and each evening passes judgment." Roy Smith "As I grow to understand life less and less, I learn to live it more and more." Jules Renard "Change your thoughts and you change your world." Norman V. Peale "There are no mistakes. The events we bring upon ourselves, no matter how unpleasant, are necessary in order to learn; whatever steps we take, they're necessary to reach the places we've chosen to go." Richard Bach "Anyone you want to keep in your life, never take them for granted." Richard Bach "Your only obligation in any lifetime is to be true to yourself." Richard Bach "Your friends will know you better in the first minute you meet than your acquaintances will know you in a thousand years." Richard Bach "You are led through your lifetime by the inner learning creature, the playful spiritual being that is your real self." Richard Bach "Don't turn away from possible futures before you're certain you don't have anything to learn from them." Richard Bach "There is no such thing as a problem without a gift for you in its hands. You seek problems because you need their gifts." Richard Bach "You are never given a wish without also being given the power to make it true. You may have to work for it, however. The original sin is to limit the Is. Don't." Richard Bach "If you will practice being fictional for awhile, you will understand that fictional characters are sometimes more real than people with bodies and heartbeats." Richard Bach "Every person, all the events of your life are there because you have drawn them there. What you choose to do with them is up to you." Richard Bach "Don't be dismayed at good-byes. A farewell is necessary before you can meet again. And meeting again, after moments or lifetimes, is certain for those who are friends." Richard Bach "The mark of your ignorance is the depth of your belief in injustice and tragedy. What the caterpillar calls the end of the world, the master calls a butterfly." Richard Bach "To love is to risk not being loved in return. To hope is to risk disappointment. But risks must be taken because the greatest risk in life is not risking. The person who risks nothing, does nothing, sees nothing, has nothing and is nothing. He cannot learn, feel, change, grow, love and live." "Take time to be friendly--it's the road to happiness. Take time to dream--it's hitching your wagon to a star. Take time to love and be loved--it's the privilege of the gods. Take time to look around--it's too short a day to be selfish. Take time to laugh--it's the music of the soul." "Learn from the past. Do not come to the end of your life only to find you have not lived. For many come to the point of leaving the space of earth and when they gaze back, they see the joy and the beauty that could not be theirs because of the fears they lived." "Don't hurry. Don't worry. You're only here for a short visit. So be sure to stop and smell the flowers." Walter Hagen "Life is not easy for any of us,but what of that? We must have preseverance and above all confidence in ourselves. We must believe that we are gifted for something, and that this thing, at whatever cost must be attained." "When I was going through a very difficult time, someone called me up and played piano music for me on my answering machine. It made me feel very loved, and I never discovered who did it." "I was looking outside myself for confidence but it comes from within. It is there all the time." Anna Freud "You gain strength, courage, and confidence in which you really stop to look fear in the face. You’re able to say to yourself, "I lived through this horror. I can take the next thing that comes along." You must do the thing you think you can not do." Eleanor Roosevelt "Courage is , with love, the geratest gift. We’re, each of us, defeated many times-but if we accept defeat with cheerfulness, and learn from it, and try another way-then we will find fulfilment." "The glory is not in never failing, but in rising every time you fall." "Happiness is a perfume you cannot pour others without getting a few drops on yourself." Ralph Waldo Emerson "You’re everything that is, your thoughts, your life, your dreams come true. You are everything you choose to be. You’re as unlimited as the endless universe." Shad Helmstetter "You never really lose until you quit trying." Mike Ditka "Where there is great love there are always miracles." Willa Cather "I compared notes with one of my friends who expects everything of the universe, and is disappointed when anything is less than the best,and I found that I begin at the other extreme, expecting nothing, and am always full of thanks for moderate goods." Ralph Waldo Emerson "Shrug off the restraints that you have allowed others to place upon you. You're limitless. There is nothing you can not achieve. There is no sadness in life that can not be reversed.... "I have accepted fear as a part of life-specifically the fear of change.... I have gone ahead despite the pounding in the heart that says: turn back." Erica Jong "Human beings who leave behind them no great achievements, but only a sequence of small kindnesses,have not had wasted their lives." Charlotte Gray “This too will pass.” I was taught these words by my grandmother as a phrase that is to be used at all times in your life. When things are spectacularly dreadful, when things are absolutely apalling; when everything is superb and wonderful and marvellous and happy-say these four words to yourself. They will give you a sense of perspective and help you also to make the most of what is good and stoical about what is bad." Claire Rayner "It is hard to fail, but it is worse never to have tried to succeed.In this life we get nothing save by effort. The only man who never makes a mistake is the man who never does anything." Thedore Roosevelt "There is a land of the living and a land of the dead and the bridge is love, the only survival, the only meaning." Thorton Wilder "There is nothing more wonderful in the world than the feeling you get form sharing, and there is no greater happiness then the warmth you get from loving." J. Morrison "If you don't practice you don't deserve to dream." Andre Agassi "To understand people I must try to hear what they are not saying, what perhaps they will never be able to say." "The pain THEN is the part of the happiness NOW. That's the deal." "If you love something , set it free. If it comes back, it is yours. If not, it never was." "If you can in this life help others. If you can't don't hurt them." "Do not judge a person before walking in his shoes for two days." "In life you should never be too hasty either to rejoice or to despair!" "A man can be free without being great, but no man can be great without being free." (Khalil Gibran’s letter May 16, 1913.) "You have helped me in my work and in myself. And I have helped you in your work and in yourself. And I am grateful to heaven for this you-and-me." (Khalil Gibran from Mary Haskell’s Journal. March 12, 1922.) "I care about your happiness just as you care about mine. I could not be at peace if you were not." (Khalil Gibran from his dairy 23rd April 1923) "When I am a stranger in a large city I like to sleep in different rooms, eat in different places, walk through unknown streets, and watch the unknown people who pass. I love to be the solitary traveler!" (From Khalil Gibran’s Letter. May 16, 1911.) "I want to do a great deal of walking in the open country. Just think, Mary, of being caught by thunder storms! Is there a sight more wonderful than that of seeing the elements producing life through pure motion?" (From Khalil Gibran’s Letter. May 24, 1914.) "Mary, what is there in a storm that moves me so? Why am I so much better and stronger and more certain of life when a storm is passing? I do not know, and yet I love a storm more, far more, than anything in nature." (Khalil Gibran’s letter August 14, 1912.) "I often picture myself living on a mountain top, in the most stormy country (not the coldest) in the world. Is there such a place? If there is I shall go to it someday and turn my heart into pictures and poems." (Khalil Gibran’s letter March 1, 1914.) "If I accept the sunshine and warmth I must also accept the thunder and lightning." (Khalil Gibran from Mary Haskell’s Journal. March 12, 1922.) "I realized that all the trouble I ever had about you came from some smallness or fear in myself." (From Mary Haskell’s Journal. June 12, 1912.) "Follow your heart. Your heart is the right guide in everything big. Mine is so limited. What you want to do is determined by that divine element that is in each of us." (Khalil Gibran from Mary Haskell’s Journal. March 12, 1922.) "The relation between you and me is the most beautiful thing in my life. It is the most wonderful thing that I have known in any life. It is eternal." Khalil Gibran from Mary Haskell’s Journal. September 11, 1922.) "An expression of that sacred desire to find this world and behold it naked; and that is the soul of the poetry of Life. Poets are not merely those who write poetry, but those whose hearts are full of the spirit of life." (Khalil Gibran’s letter July 17, 1915.) "We are expression of earth, and of life - not separate individuals only. We cannot get enough away from the earth to see the earth and ourselves as separates. We move with its great movements and our growth is part of its great growth." (Khalil Gibran from Mary Haskell’s Journal May 5, 1922.) "The trees were budding, the birds were singing - the grass was wet - the whole earth was shining. And suddenly I was the trees and the flowers and the birds and the grass - and there was no I at all." (Khalil Gibran from Mary Haskell’s Journal May 23, 1924.) "The most wonderful thing, Mary, is that you and I are always walking together, hand in hand, in a strangely beautiful world, nknown to other people. We both stretch one hand to receive from Life - and Life is generous indeed." (Khalil Gibran’s letter October, 22, 1912.) "You give but little when you give of your possessions. It is when you give of yourself that you truly give." "The optimist sees the rose and not its thorns; the pessimist stares at the thorns, oblivious to the rose." "To understand the heart and mind of a person, look not at what he has already achieved, but at what he aspires to." "Doubt is a pain too lonely to know that faith is his twin brother." "When Life does not find a singer to sing her heart she produces a philosopher to speak her mind." "You are blind and I am deaf and dumb, so let us touch hands and understand." "You may forget the one with whom you have laughed, but never the one with whom you have wept." "Lovers embrace that which is between them rather than each other." "Wisdom ceases to be wisdom when it becomes too proud to weep, too grave to laugh, and too self-ful to seek other than itself." "The less routine the more life." Amos Bronson Alcott "Lying rides upon debt's back." Benjamin Franklin "All lies and jests, still a man hears what he wants to hear and disregards the rest." Paul Simon "A clear conscience never fears midnight knocking" Chinese Proverb "If you don't run your own life, somebody else will." John Atkinson "Character is what you know you are, not what others think you have." Marva Collins "Character develops itself in the stream of life." Goethe "There's a fine line between character building and soul destroying." Colin Hay "To succeed is nothing--it's an accident. But to feel no doubts about oneself is something very different--it is character." Marie Leneru "And thou wilt give thyself relief, if thou doest every act of thy life as if it were thy last." Marcus Aurelius "You have to do what you love to do, not get stuck in that comfort zone of a regular job. Life is not a dress rehearsal. This is it." Lucinda Basset "Well, take your time and don't live too fast. Troubles will come and they will pass. Find a woman and you'll find love. Don't forget, son, there is someone up above." Lynard Skynard "I see little of more importance to the future of our country and of civilization than full recognition of the place of the artist. If art is to nourish the roots of our culture, society must set the artist free to follow his/her vision wherever it takes him/her." John F. Kennedy "There are those that look at things the way they are, and ask why? I dream of things that never were, and ask why not." Robert F. Kennedy "Birds sing after a storm; why shouldn't people feel as free to delight in whatever remains to them." Rose F. Kennedy "The education of a man is never complete until he dies." Robert E. Lee "Make sure you have finished speaking before your audience has finished listening." Dorothy Sarnoff "Man is what he believes." Anton Chekhov "It takes a certain level of aspiration before one can take advantage of opportunities that are clearly offered." Michael Harrington "There is no point at which you can say, "Well I'm successful now. I might as well take a nap." Carrie Fisher "Fate loves the fearless." James R. Lowell "Arriving at one goal is the starting point to another." John Dewey "As the purse is emptied, the heart is filled." Victor Hugo "An effort made for the happiness lifts us above ourselves." Lydia M. Child "Take the time to come home to yourself everyday." Robin Caserjean "The unknown is what it is. And to be frightened of it is what sends everybody scurrying around chasing dreams, illusions, wars, peace, love, hate, all that. Unknown is what it is. Accept that it's unknown, and it's plain sailing." John Lennon "The young man who has not wept is a savage, and the old man who will not laugh is a fool." George Santayana "O for a life of sensations rather than of thoughts!" John Keats "Men who never get carried away should be." Malcom Forbes "Never grow a wishbone, daughter, where your backbone ought to be." Clementine Paddleford "If you do what you've always done, you'll get what you've always gotten." "Every second is of infinite value." Goethe "I never did like working out- it bears the same relationship to real sport as masturbation does to real sex." David Lodge "Excercise is bunk. If you are healthy, you don't need it: if you are sick, you shouldn't take it." Henry Ford "The only reason why I'd take up jogging again is so that I could hear heavy breathing again." Erma Bombeck "No one grows old by living, only by losing interest in living." Marie B. Ray "There is just one life for each of us: our own." Euripides "The superior man makes the difficulty to be overcome his first interest; success comes only later." Confucious "The courage to be is the courage to accept oneself, in spite of being unacceptable." Paul Tillich "There's a period of life when we swallow a knowledge of ourselves and it becomes either good or sour inside." Pearl Bailey "What do you want most to do? That's what I have to keep asking myself, in the face of difficulties." Katherine Mansfield "Things don't turn up in this world until somebody turns them up." James A. Garfield "If you don't stand for something, you'll fall for anything." Michael Evans "What saves a man is to take a step. Then another step." Antoine de Saint-Exupery "If we take care of the inches, we will not have to worry about the miles." Hartley Coleridge "I'm an optimist, but an optimist who carries a raincoat." Harold Wilson "Turn your midlife crisis to your own advantage by making it a time for renewal of your body and mind, rather than stand by helplessly and watch them decline." Jane E. Brody "We often discover what will do, by finding out what will not do, and probably he who never made a mistake never made a discovery." Samuel Smiles "Cats are intended to teach us that not everything in nature has a function." G. Keillor "I have noticed that what cats most appreciate in a human being is not the ability to produce food, which they take for granted, but his/her entertainment value." "Dogs come when they're called; cats take a message and get back to you." Mary Bly "Every conflict is delightfully simple to resolve if the rewards are right." "IF YOU THINK YOU ARE BEATEN, YOU ARE; IF YOU THINK YOU DARE NOT, YOU DON'T; IF YOU LIKE TO WIN, BUT YOU THINK YOU CAN'T, IT IS ALMOST CERTAIN YOU WON'T. IF YOU THINK YOU'LL LOSE, YOU'VE LOST, FOR OUT OF THE WORLD WE FIND SUCCESS BEGINS WITH A PERSON'S WILL; IT'S ALL IN THE STATE OF MIND. IF YOU THINK YOU ARE OUTCLASSED, YOU ARE; YOU'VE GOT TO THINK HIGH TO RISE. YOU'VE GOT TO BE SURE OF YOURSELF BEFORE YOU CAN EVEN WIN A PRIZE. LIFE'S BATTLES DON'T ALWAYS GO TO THE STRONGER OR FASTER MAN, BUT SOONER OR LATER, THE PERSON WHO WINS IS THE PERSON WHO THINKS, I CAN." "The glory of friendship is not the outstretched hand, nor the kindly smile, nor the joy of companionship; it is the spiritual inspiration that comes to one when (she) discovers that someone believes in (her) and is willing to trust (her) with (her) friendship." Ralph Waldo Emerson "If you let your fear of consequence prevent you from following your deepest instinct, your life will be safe, expedient and thin." Katharine B. Hathaway "Just when I think I have learned the way to live, life changes." Hugh Prather "All things come round to him who will but wait." Henry Wadsworth Longfellow "There is no medicine like hope, no incentive so great, and no tonic so powerful as expectation of something tomorrow." O. S. Marden "If one truly has lost hope, one would not be on hand to say so." Eric Bentley "To travel hopefully is better than to arrive." Sir James Jeans "Music is therapy to me. It helps me momentarily escape life's challenges and drift to a better place. Always stay true to your heart, be persistent and make time for your family and friends. You will regret the things you didn't do more than the things you did. Stop making excuses and be the person you want and know you can be. Never open a beer bottle with your teeth." Ryan Newell (of Sister Hazel) "The journey of a thousand miles begins with a single step." Lao Tso "Being happy is something that comes from within--looking at the positive aspects of your life and making the best out of the not so desirable aspects." Mark T. (of Sister Hazel) "We are all worms, but I do believe that I'm a glow worm." Winston Churchill "I drink to make people interesting." George Jean Nathan "If you cry because the sun has gone out of your life, your tears will prevent you from seeing the stars." "Can I keep you?" Casper "The important thing is not to stop questioning." Albert Einstein "Never frown, because you never know when someone is falling in love with your smile." "If you love something, let it go. If it comes back it's yours, if it doesn't, it never really was in the first place." "Don't cry because its over, smile because it happened." "When it comes to life, Live like there is no tomorrow, Love like you won't get hurt, Work like you don't need the money, and dance like no one is watching." "It takes less time to do something right, then to explain why you did it wrong." Henry Wadsworth Longfellow "A friend is someone who knows all about you and still likes you." "If you really want something in life you have to work for it. Now quiet, they're about to announce the lottery numbers." Homer J. Simpson "If a turtle doesn't have a shell, is he homeless or naked?" "Do or do not. There is no try." Yoda "What does not destroy me makes me stronger." Friedrich Nietzch "You cannot make someone love you. All you can do is be someone who can be loved. The rest is up to them." Dawson's Creek "In the book of life, the answers aren't in the back." Charlie Brown "Don't dare to be different, Dare to be yourself - if that doesn't make you different then something is wrong." Laura Baker "It is better to die on your feet then to live on your knees." "What is meant to be will always find a way." "The purpose of life is a life of purpose." In three words I can sum up everything I've learned about life, "It goes on." Robert Frost "I could fill a thousand pages, telling you how I felt and still you would not understand, so now I leave you without a sound, except my heart shattering as it hits the ground." "No one knows what he can do until he tries." Publilius Syrus "Every day should be passed as if it were to be our last." Publilius Syrus "It is better to know some of the questions, then all of the answers." James Thurber "When angry, count to four. When very angry, swear." Mark Twain "We should all be concerned about the future becuase we will have to live the rest of our lives there." Charles Kettering "It takes two to speak the truth, one to speak and another to hear." Henry David Thoreau "Laundry is the only thing that should be separated by color." "It's not the size of the dog in the fight, it's the size of the fight in the dog." Mark Twain "Sometimes I feel as if the whole world is against me, but I know that's not true...some of the smaller countries are neutral." "Destiny is not a matter of chance, it is a matter of choice; it is not a thing to be waited for, it is a thing to be achieved." William Jennings Bryan AN IRISH BLESSING "May you always have walls for the wind, A roof for the rain, Tea beside the fire Laughter to cheer you, Those you love near you And all your heart might desire!" "Enthusiasm for one's goal lessens the disagreeableness of working toward it." Thomas Eakins "Give me a man who says this one thing I do, and not those fifty things I dabble in." Dwight L. Moody "It does not matter how slowly you go, so long as you do not stop." Confucius "Finality is death. Perfection is finality. Nothing is perfect. There are lumps in it." James Stephens "Nobody can be perfect unless he admits his faults, but if he has faults how can he be perfect?" Laurence Peter "Whoever thinks a faultless piece to see, / Thinks what ne'er was, nor is, nor e'er shall be." Alexander Pope "Nobody can make you feel inferior without your permission." Eleanor Roosevelt "Feminism-I myself have never known what feminism is. I only know that people call me a feminist when I express sentiments that differentiate me from a doormat." Rebecca West "The thing women have got to learn is that nodoby gives you power. You just take it." Roseanne Barr "I love you not because of who you are, but because of who I am when I am with you." "No man or woman is worth your tears, and the one who is, won't make you cry." "Just because someone doesn't love you the way you want them to doesn't mean they don't love you with all they have." "A true friend is someone who reaches for your hand and touches your heart." "The worst way to miss someone is to be sitting right beside them knowing you can't have them." "Never frown, even when you are sad, because you never know who is falling in love with your smile." "To the world you may be one person, but to one person you may be the world." "Don't waste your time on a man/woman, who isn't willing to waste their time on you." "Maybe God wants us to meet a few wrong people before meeting the right one, so that when we finally meet the person, we will know how to be grateful. "There's always going to be people that hurt you so what you have to do is keep on trusting and just be more careful about who you trust next time around." "Make yourself a better person and know who you are before you try and know someone else and expect them to know you." "Don't try so hard, the best things come when you least expect them to." "Love takes off masks that we fear we cannot live without and know we cannot live within." James Baldwin "Be more concerned with your character than your reputation, because your character is what you really are, while your reputation is merely what others think you are." John Wooden "Anyone can accept life as it seems, but it takes courage and desire to achieve your dreams." Ronald Simien "Tomorrow is a dream. Today is a fantasy. The past created the present's reality." "Your silence will not protect you." Audre Lorde "Give me what I want, and I'll go away." Linoge "The problem is that God gives men a brain and a penis, and only enough blood to run one at a time." Robin Williams "The problem with the designated driver program...it's not a desirable job. But if you ever get sucked into doing it, have fun with it. At the end of the night, drop them off at the wrong house." Jeff Foxworthy "The day I worry about cleaning my house is the day Sears comes out with a riding vacum cleaner." Roseanne "If life was fair, Elvis would be alive and all the impersonators would be dead." Johnny Carson "I think war is God's way of teaching us geography." Paul Rodriquez "Suppose you were an idiot...And suppose you were a member of Congress...But I repeat myself." Mark Twain "If opportunity doesn't knock, build a door." Milton Berle "An apology is the superglue of life. It can repair just about anything." Lynn Johnston "Laziness is nothing more than resting before you get tired." Jules Renard "Intelligence without ambition is a bird without wings." C. Archie Danielson "I had ambition not only to go farther than any man had ever been before, but as far as it was possible for a man to go." James R. Cook "Keep your feet on the ground, but let your heart soar as high as it will." A. W. Tozer "If you should die before me, ask if you could bring a friend." Stone Temple Pilots "If you live to be a hundred, I want to live to be a hundred minus one day, so I never have to live without you." Winnie the Pooh "True friendship is like sound health; the value of it is seldom known until it is lost." Charles Caleb Colton "A real friend is one who walks in when the rest of the world walks out." "Strangers are just friends waiting to happen." "Friends are the Bacon Bits in the Salad Bowl of Life." "Friendship is one mind in two bodies." Mencius "Friends are God's way of taking care of us." "I'll lean on you and you lean on me and we'll be okay." Dave Matthews "If all my friends were to jump off a bridge, I wouldn't jump with them, I'd be at the bottom to catch them." "Everyone hears what you say. Friends listen to what you say. Best friends listen to what you don't say." "We all take different paths in life, but no matter where we go, we take a little of each other everywhere." Tim McGraw "My father always used to say that when you die, if you've got five real friends, then you've had a great life." Lee Iacocca "Hold a true friend with both your hands." Nigerian Proverb "A friend is someone who knows the song in your heart and can sing it back to you when you have forgotten the words." Unknown "The closer one gets to the top, the more one finds there is no 'top.'" Nancy Barcus "Not to go back is somewhat to advance. And men must walk, at least, before they dance." Alexander Pope "A diamond is a chunk of coal that made good under pressure." Anon "Nobody holds a good opinion of a man who holds a low opinion of himself." Anthony Trollope "Self-love is not opposed to the love of other people. You cannot really love yourself and do yourself a favor without doing other people a favor, and vice versa." Dr. Karl Menninger "If one is cruel to himself, how can we expect him to be compassionate with others?" Hasdai Ibn Shaprut "I don't think that any civilized society can call itself civilized without having an awareness of the arts, not as an occasional adornment to society, but as a basic necessity." Isaac Stern "He who stands on tiptoe doesn't stand firm. He who rushes ahead doesn't go far. He who tries to shine dims his own light." "A leader is best When people barely know that he exists. Of a good leader, who talks little, When his work is done, his aim is fulfilled, They will say,"We did this ourselves." "Lots of folks confuse bad management with destiny."Kin Hubbard "One of the secrets of life is to make stepping stones out of stumbling blocks." Jack Penn "I never had a policy; I have just tried to do my very best each and every day." Abraham Lincoln "I am always doing that which I cannot do, in order that I may learn how to do it." Pablo Picasso "I want to work with the top people, because only they have the courage and the confidence and the risk-seeking profile that you need." Laurel Cutler "You'll always miss 100% of the shots you don't take." Wayne Gretzky A STRONG WOMAN VERSUS A WOMAN OF STRENGTH A strong woman works out every day to keep her body in shape...But a woman of strength builds relationships to keep her soul in shape. A strong woman isn't afraid of anything...But a woman of strength shows courage in the midst of her fear. A strong woman won't let anyone get the best of her...But a woman of strength gives the best of herself to everyone. A strong woman makes mistakes and avoids the same mistakes in the future...Woman of strength realizes life's mistakes can also be unexpected blessings and capitalizes on them. A strong woman wears the look of confidence on her face...But a woman of strength wears grace. A strong woman has faith that she is strong enough for the journey...But a woman of strength has faith that it is in the journey that she will become strong. Email Me >BACK my bio
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