The List . .. quotations that have made my life

November 23, 2006 in On the Wordy Side

Jessica Hope KatzFavorite Quotes . . .THE LIST 

You stranger: music. You heart-space

grown out of us. The deepest space in us,

which, rising above us, forces its way out,--

holy departure:

Rilke

 

We are all in the gutter, but some of us are looking at the stars.
–Oscar Wilde

 

see the little song bird unable to make a sound even though she follows her words from town to town we both have gardens of songs and maybe its okay that i am speechless because i picked you this bouquet.-ani difranco 

Music, I'll call it music. It's what we need

as the sun staggers behind the low gray clouds

blowing relentlessly in from that nameless ocean,

the calm and endless one I've still to cross.

-billy collins

even when the universe made it quite clear to me that I was mistaken in my certainties, in my definitions, I did not break. The shattering of my sureties did not shatter me. Stability comes from inside, not outside….-lucille 

Lucille Clifton:
They ask me to remember / but they want me to remember / their memories / and I keep on remembering / mine.I loved Charlie’s Angels. But it should have been called And Then There’s the Ho. Let me explain. When 3 girls are friends, one’s the sweet one, one’s the smart one… and then there’s the ho! Take stock… which are you? -margaret choThis is just a series of things that are pissing me off. Because I don't have pet peeves, I have major psychotic fucking hatreds.-george carlinUgly. Is irrelevant. It is an immeasurable insult to a woman, and then supposedly the worst crime you can commit as a woman. But ugly, as beautiful, is an illusion. A matter of taste, a whim, an eye, a beholder, an opinion, a spin, light crossing the frame, paint, projection. The moment. Context.

Margaret cho

I’m very inappropriate, which makes me a problem dinner guest, because at some point during the evening someone inevitably says, “Okay, heh heh heh, okay, too much information! Heh heh heh. Don’t go there!” I live there. I bought a house there.-margaret cho

May you have enough happiness to make you sweet,
enough trials to make you strong,
enough sorrow to keep you human and
enough hope to make you happy.-anonymousseriously–i go back to my room and i just look up and i’m like, “thank you for jess…thank you…  -adamByondMyrs: i’ll worship you like my lord and saviorByondMyrs: jess katz—kinda even SOUNDS like jesus christ—HAH-adamThankfully, beauty is easier to remove than apply, and a swipe of demaquillage in the right direction and you are you once again. I was relieved to be with me, ugly but perfect me. My dogs certainly like me better when they are allowed to lick my face, the beauty of me is what I smell like to them. Love.-m cho

“Ian McKellen used to be an actor, but then he sold his soul to the devil of commerce”-Cartelli“And I shall have some peace there, for peace comes dropping slow”-yeats“So pour me a teeny weeny triple, and we can toast the fact we ain’t dead yet.  I can’t stop eating, your hairline’s receding, soon there’ll be nothing at all, so you’ll wear a wig, while I roast a pig, hey pass the geritol!”-hairspray-Ednaso yeah…that’s where i stand in life bewitched, bothered, bewildered, and befaggoted-adamHair is grey and the fires are burning
So many dreams on the shelf
You say I wanted you to be proud of me
I always wanted that myself-toriTBONE63521: in a perfect world… i would like to be a combination of Mel Brooks, Cameron Mackintosh, and Hugh JackmanMsBoJengls: haaaaaaaaaaaa niceTBONE63521: rolled into a matza ball.. in the spirit of passoverDavid Gest got his ass kicked by Liza Minelli. Damn! That is fucked up yo. That Sally Bowles popped you upside the head so many times!!!!! “WILKOMMEN BIENVENUE WELCOOMMMMMMMEEE!!!!! Smack!!! Smack!!!”-margaret cho

FRANCIS: Antonio Banderas in Nine? Not Italian.
NICKY: Idina Menzel in Wicked? Not green.
BRIAN: Toni Braxton in Aida? Not an actress!!!

This is the world, which is fuller

and more difficult to learn than I have said.

You are right to smudge it that way

with the red and then

the orange: the world burns.

-margaret atwood

I would like to be the air

that inhabits you for a moment

only. I would like to be that unnoticed

& that necessary.-margaret atwood

“Christ ain’t workin for you.  Why don’t you try Jenny Craig? Pilates?”-Adam

“My parents went to hell once-it’s this island in the caribbean.  I sort of want to go to hell.  It might be fun to see.  For winter break, we’ll all go to hell!”-Steve

I’m surrounded by imposters everywhere I turn
I’m surrounded by identity crisis everywhere I turn
Am I the only one who noticed?
I can’t be the only one who’s learned-gavin degrawI release all these disappointmentFrom my mental physical spiritual and emotional bodyCause I know that spirit guides meAnd love lives inside meThat’s why I today I take life as it comes-
india arie 

I will jump gender/ race/ opinion/ partisan/ sexuality/ class/ Mason-Dixon lines all in the name of freedom. I see that very few people will do that, and that is ok for now. Most don’t understand understanding. I won’t live long enough to see a world that does, but someone who reads this might.-margaret cho 

 

Besides, 

They'll see how beautiful I am

And be ashamed--

-langston Hughes 

 

I thank god for seeing the lightand not going out with some lawyer typecause you’re a poetand a renaissance mana little boy withreally strong hands-idina menzel 

 

And as I float along this ocean I can feel you like a notion that won’t seem to let me go-train 

you see everything you see every partyou see all my light and you love my darkyou dig everything of which I’m ashamedThere’s not anything to which you can’t relateAnd you’re still here-alanis 

I don’t think you unworthy I need a moment to deliberate-alanis 

 

Sometimes I feel like we’ve been running too far from the truthYou know I’m tired of hearing ‘another day another time’All this senseless waiting won’t fill these dark empty roomsYou know I hate to say it,-ben jelen 

 

You’ve been so kind and generous
I don’t know how you keep on giving
For your kindness, I’m in debt to you
For your selflessness, my admiration
For everything you’ve done, you know I’m bound
I’m bound to thank you for it-natalie merchant 

And the atrocities of school I can forgiveThe happy phantom has no right to bitch-tori
”I am the wisest woman you’ve ever met – I am the kindest soul with whom you’ve connected  I have the bravest heart that you’ve ever seen and you’ve never met anyone who is as positive as I am  . . . sometimes”-alanis morisette-everything
For the want of a war, the kingdom was lost- camp the movie 

 

Behind my pride there lives a me, that knows humility Inside my voice there is a soul, and in my soul there is a voiceBut I’ve been, too afraid to make a choice‘Cause I’m scared of the things that I might be missingRunning too fast to stop and listen-
india arie 

Inside my head there lives a dream that I want to see in the sunBehind my eyes there lives a me that I’ve been hiding for much too long‘Cause I’ve been, too afraid to let it show‘Cause I’m scared of the judgment that may followAlways putting off my living for tomorrowIt’s time to step out on faith, I’ve gotta show my faithIt’s been illusive for so long, but freedom is mine today-
india arie 

Strength, courage, and wisdom

And it’s been inside of me all along,-
india arie

 

The time is right
I’m gonna pack my bags
And take that journey down the road
Cause over the mountain I see the bright sun shinning
And I want to live inside the glow-india arie 

 

Why’s he quitting? Hell even Marion Barry hung in as Mayor of D.C. after he got caught taking a sip of the crack rock. A gay affair is nothing. When I was president of my elementary school student council I once purposely peed outside the urinal as an act of civil disobedience for being scolded for sniffing fruit scented markers. What did they expect? They were fruit scented!- zach braff

 

It’s not that I fear that we’ll get close, have an affair and then you’ll freak out and boil my rabbit on the stove. I don’t even have a rabbit, or a pot big enough to boil one in. I do have a stove; but no rabbit and no pot…-zach braff

 

 

ByondMyrs: “Wait…You’re gay.  Why do you need condoms?” ByondMyrs: or ByondMyrs: “There’s this great program on about the resurrection.” ByondMyrs: or, my personal favorite ByondMyrs: (regarding abortion) “Why don’t they just wait till the babies are born and kill them then!”-adam quoting the lovely Jeremy Hagan-haaaaaaaaaaaa 

 

“why you soulless witch!  it is a biogenetic experimentation facility-isn’t it?  look if this is about the whole me killing you thing- it was a bit!  I was doing shtick I tell you!”-stewie 

“when I was barishnikov’s handbag . . . it took a lot of emotional preparation to fill the emptiness . .. I had to act full of lipstick and foundation”-adam quoting Francine but not really 

LteMyCandl: i want a loaf of bread from panera. hahaLteMyCandl: and i shall eat it ALLLLteMyCandl: because carbs are my jesus-oh amy charovsky 

“because pleasure is astonishing but loss/Expected never at a loss for words;/tear ducts built in at birth is something to lose:  The best kind of innocence which is not to have been afraid.”-chuilleanain 

“I can’t believe I’m saying things like this-I should be prosecuted.”-Marsh 

“The past is an empty café terrace.  An airless dusk before thunder.  A man running.  And no way now to know what happened then-none at all-unless of course, you improvise”-Eavan Boland 

“more life-the great work begins”-angels in
America 

the song blows more than a hooker-oh adam I love you 

“Shoddy-I knows it when I sees it” rudski you are funny 

“poulet surpise” someone actually used this for Rudski once.   

“whether it’s the desire to eat ice cream, or it’s the desire to have sex with my mom-oh
gardner 

“here, this is for Elijah”-Devon Allen as she pulls up a chair 

“my grades in University  were Australian heavy metal, very ACDC”-Rudski 

“you’re an amputee, that doesn’t mean your kids are gonna have to hop”-Rudski on evolution 

“People cover themselves in mud-do offensive Al Jolson imitations”-Rudski referring to the
Dead Sea 

“So you’d be a suicidal barnacle, and there’d be nothing you could do about it”-Rudski 

“relative to philly we’re pennsyltucky”-Rudski 

LteMyCandl: sometimes i pop a xanax. sometimes i talk to mom. sometimes both. lol  “hearts are worn in these dark ages, you’re not alone in this story’s pages”-sarah mclachlan 

This ain’t a movie no
No fairy tale conclusion ya’ll
It gets more confusing everyday- john legend 

“NO! i’m gonna buy a tiny figurine of Jesus watching over 2 boys rollerblading at 19.95, it’s a STEAL”-oh adam 

behind the tcby boys like to say,  

 

suck it.-LBB 

JessicaHope KatzRepresentFucker.-LBB 

I have a good heart and a fountain of rachmunas even if you are a shicksa, a putz, a nebish, or a shmuck.-LBB 

When I was little, my parents thought I was autistic. But really, I just have a poor center of balance. I’m Jess Katz- LBB 

absurd
I read this and I just want to say that I think you are absolutely GORGEOUS. Why else would I have been so obsessed with you last year?! You are fabulous on stage, you have beautiful style when I see you around campus, and your personality bubbles over into your surroundings – even to people like me who never got the chance to talk to you. You were seriously one of my favorite people at Muhlenberg last year and please do not let anyone make you feel any less than amazing. Incredible.

**Brandon Schultz (BrandonAlexandr)

PS – I forgot to mention that you are a phenomenal singer and I lived for GND concerts so I could hear you perform. 

the lessons of the falling leaves-lucille
Clifton 

“the leaves believesuch letting go is lovesuch love is faithsuch faith is gracesuch grace is godI agree with the leaves” 

I’m looking for love. Real love. Ridiculous, inconvenient, consuming, can’t-live-without-each-other love.-carrie satc 

Some people are settling down, some are settling and some people refuse to settle for anything less. Than butterflies…-carrie satc 

lesliebeth123: my family is your fan club 

“you know he should’ve gotten you some gauze cuz he knows you like to fall down”-adam on christina’s falling problem and her Canadian date who bought her a mug 

njmSh: by the way, i just want to let you know that i performed in your  honor.MsBoJengls: you performed in my honor? what do you mean by that BnjmSh: do you have a program?MsBoJengls: yes, hold on BnjmSh: check my bio, please.MsBoJengls: okMsBoJengls: hodl on two sec . .aw benjyMsBoJengls: i had no idea MsBoJengls: i thank youMsBoJengls: that’s beautifulBnjmSh: and i you — for your contribution.MsBoJengls: it was my pleasure, you all were so beautiful -conversation with Benjy after summerfolk 

“think of your head as an unsafe neighborhood; don’t go there alone”-augusten burroughs 

“I know I repeat myself a lot but when I do it at least I try to be slightly entertaining”-leslie
“you are going to love psychodrama, it’s like dinner theatre for wackos!” -mona from”who’s the boss” 

KEWLCATGG: people don’t tell you enough how much they love you so i’m gonna remind you that i love you and you are beautiful. i’m soooooooo happy that we got to be friends this year. you inspire me! have a good night 

“men are the emotionally inferior sex”-lbb 

“great big stuff.  .. I want really nice crap”-dirty rotten scoundrels 

“I just want someone to love me . .. FOR MY MONEY”-dirty rotten soundrels 

“first I’m a burrito, now I’m a llama?”-tina 

“ma, if you want me to say life’s fair, that isn’t something I can say.”-a new brain 

Ereiniel: i can just see it now henry going in his british accent ‘bloody hell get the fuck off me you castrating bitch!” 

In the depth of winter, I finally learned that within me there lay an invincible summer.

-Albert Camus

 

 

Twopelo2: katzy you get more play then a britney spears record on z100- hahahaha 

“I trust kosher food more-they answer to a higher power”-michele of weight watchers 

“in light of recent events, I have a confession to make, I am the son of deep throat and like the
Washington post expose,  I too was conceived in a parking garage-

Nathan Lane

 

“Everything’s changed . .and nothing’s changed, I mean I’m different, but I’m still the same. I still complain, but I’m not the same that I was, except I’m the same that I was, but different, at least I hope I’m different.”-a new brain   

“finally there’s sun . . . and so I sing, that I feel so much spring”-a new brain 

I heart MsBoJengls Wawa Hazelnut Coffeeand babies too.-lbb 

The most beautiful discovery true friends make is that they can grow separately without growing apart.-E.Foley 

“Someone could interpret the wink as body language for an invitation to shtup”-Amy’s Answering Machine  

“How safe would I feel with his shmekel wrapped in a diploma?”-” ” “ 

“How old are you now?  How old are you now?  Better hurry and find a husband, before your ovaries shut down!”" ” ”  

“I swear there’s no way that’s
New York rye bread, because as God as my witness I know that bread came from
New Jersey“-” “  ”  

“if you have to go out make sure you bundle up.  and wrap a scarf around your face to protect it, cause you know there was that man who climbed

Mt.
Everest and lost his entire nose.  Ok, honey?”  ”  

“If you haven’t already left to go to the motor vehicle bureau, keep in mind that the wait is very long, so before you get in line-you may want to empty your bladder”-”amy’s answering machine 

“listen to the music of your life and you can’t help but be true to your art.”-marcy heisler 

Fuck him for not appreciating all that you are and don’t let that little scared man tell you what you need to make your life good.

Us beautiful people scare the rest of the world with our love, and they do get intimidated. But I promise you, there is love and light- there is love and light for you! and you will find it, and you will grow.

I never really wanted a marriage, or a love, I didn’t think I would find it. I just wanted to be the happy old woman with her garden and her loves.

And it found me.

And, what I’m trying to say, is that you know how great you really are. you have so much and you will have so much more. So please don’t let this one person tell you that you don’t deserve all the goodness in the world.

He’s wrong.-brady 

	Bottom of Form	“Life loves to be taken by the lapel and told, “I am with you kid. Let’s go.”

-maya angelou 

“Because I was standing in the tunnel.  And I was really there.  And that was enough to make me feel infinite.”-the perks of being a wallflower Stephen chbosky 

“so if this does end up being my last letter, please believe that things are good with me, and even when they’re not, they will be soon enough.  And I will believe the same about you.”-the perks of being a wallflower Stephen chbosky 

Well, I woke up one morning,flossed my teeth and decided,“Damn, I’m fierce!” You look good!You can be just like me! A goddess? Yeah!Don’t just pussy foot around and sit on your assets.Unleash your ferocity upon an unsuspecting world.Rise up and repeat after me: “I’m beautiful!”-bette midler 

It’s time to call it what it is. Don’t play the naming game.Become what you were born to be and be it unashamed.-bette midler 

 

God grant me the serenity to accept the things I cannot change.  The courage to change the things I can.  And the wisdom to know the difference.-anonymous 

“No matter how you twist and turn, the only thing you have to offer your students is yourself.”-weinstein 

~The grandfather Cherokee said, “The battle is between two wolves. One is evil. It is anger, envy, regret, greed, arrogance, self pity, guilt, lies, false pride, superiority and ego. The other is good. It is joy, peace, love, humility, kindness, empathy, generosity, truth, compassion and faith.” The grandson thought for a minute and asked “Which wolf wins?” The old Cherokee simply replied, “The one you feed.” 

and real life you just are in it all the time, often with less planning and better seats,- berta 

“Rock bottom is a place where change becomes a dire necessity.-oa 

“Be a pimp Not a playa.  Because playas just get played. and pimps just get paid, But try to be both ’cause they both get laid!!!”-profound wisdom written on a
Montclair state desk 

“Now, they didn’t make athletics friendly to the incompetent.”-Weinstein 

“I don’t know if it’s true or if I just saw it on Law and Order”-Weinstein 

“I’ve learned that you cannot make someone love you.  All you can do is stalk them and hope they panic and give in.”-anonymous 

“I’ve learned that no matter how much I care, some people are just assholes.”-anonymous 

“I’ve learned that the people you care most about in life are taken from you too soon and all the less important ones just never go away”-anonymous 

“or you become neurotic and take a lot of drugs to mask how horrible your life is”-Weinstein 

“When he put me on lipitor I figured, I can eat a lot of meat”-Weinstein 

“Rap stars’ll love me, Get me a posse aight, chillin in the city sittin pretty in the caddy with pdaddy or puff diddy or whatever . . .i’ll change my name too, I’ll get my hatchback all pimped out!”-dirty rotten scoundrels 

every day is my birthday, every night is my bar mitzvah-dirty rotten scoundrels 

 

 

Beauty is only skin deep, but ugly goes clean to the bone-dorothy parker 

You can drag a horticulture but you can’t make her think-dorothy parker 

It’s not the tragedies that kill us, it’s the messes.-dorothy parker 

Maybe that’s what family is, a group of people who miss the same imaginary place-garden state 

I want to be in love but I’m afraid it won’t solve all of my problems like I want it to-postsecret 

I’m terrified of not existing-postsecret 

I envy the willpower of anorexics-postsecret 

I used to think that the rhythm was gonna get me.-postsecret 

one life/but we’re not the same/we get to carry each other-u2 

I am not this hair, I am not this skin, I am the soul who lives within-india arie 

 

you’re pleased that the ice man looked at you like a porterhouse steak-gilmore girls 

 

there’s little in taking or giving, there’s little in water or wine, this living, this living, this living, was never a project of mine-dorothy parker 

 

“Please don’t make me a joke. End the interview with what I believe. I don’t mind making jokes, but I don’t want to look like one. I want to be an artist, an actress with integrity.”=marilyn
Monroe 

 

“I am trying to prove to myself that I am a person. Then may be I’ll convince myself that I’m an actress=-marilyn
Monroe 

“I am not interested in money. I just want to be wonderful.”=mm 

“A career is born in public — talent in privacy.”-mm 

I feel that beauty and femininity are ageless.”-mm

 

 

“Sometimes when she kissed me on the forehead at night, I flinched, worried a piece of her might chip off and stick to me.”-augusten burroughs on his grandma 

Why hadn’t any of my friends ever talked about this horrible bug that comes into your bedroom and takes your teeth?-augusten burroughs on the tooth fairy 

When one man, for whatever reason, has the opportunity to lead an extraordinary life, he has no right to keep it to himself.
Jacques Cousteau

 

Every morning I wake up saying, I’m still alive; a miracle. And so I keep on pushing.
Jacques Cousteau

 

“and I’m just an animal looking for a home to share the same space for a minute or two”-sc

 

“fantasy is what people want, reality is what they need  and I’ve just retired from the fantasy part”-lh