Blue Notebook Quotes Volume I "You are what you are, you aren'y what you aren't, no matter WHAT your ego says." -EM "Rock 'em til they drop, then rock 'em some more." -EM "Life is like a grapefruit." -Ford Prefect, So Long, and Thanks for All the Fish "You got a towel with you?" -Ford Prefect, The Hitchhikers Guide to the Galaxy "Patience is a virtue." -? "Group embarassment isn't embarassing." -EM "If your world is falling to pieves about you, drink tea." -EM "First you must learn you know nothing, then you can truly begin to learn." -Kantz(?) "The more you have, the more you want." -? "Why? Well, why not?" -Robert Kennedy (paraphrase) "There's more than one way to skin a cat, especially if the cat is dead." -EM "May the four winds carry you home" -Derek Byron "This is not a problem." -Parker Lewis "Far out in the uncharted backwaters of the unfashionably end of the western spiral arm of the Galaxy lies a small, unregarded yellow sun." -The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy "Life kicks, so kick back." -EM "Absolute power corrupts absolutely." -Whig party slogan "Life is a paradoxial oxymoron." -EM "Anything less would be less than the best." -? "As we are but travellers upon this journey of life, so are the great men of our time the guides." -EM "Everything exists, simply because there is an infinite amount of space for it to exist in." -EM (First maxim of Eekerlogic) "True greatness lies in the realization that you are not truly great." -Mike Allen "Every night I lie awake holding onto dreams I've lost And I wonder why I can't sleep anymore. -ibid "Over my dead body" "If necessary." -? "I live in the past, for I fear the future." -Mike Allen "People who never get carried away, should be," -Malcom Forbes "Eat your cereal with a fork. And do your homework in the dark." -Happy Harry, Pump up the Volume "Trust me, I know what I'm doing." -? "He knew where his towel was." -Douglas Adams, The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy "You cannot give someone happiness. You can only help them realize it within themselves." -EM "Reality is in the eyes of the beholder: People believe what they perceive. Don't confuse them with the facts." -H. Quate "I must be myself." -Ralph Waldo Emerson "My friends accept me for things I cannot accept within myself." -EM "Both in an out of the game, and watching and wondering at it." -Walt Whitman, Leaves of Grass "Don't Panic." -The Guide "Human nature ruins all forms of government." -Ben DeVore "Always make time for things you enjoy." -? "You never deserve what you don't ask for." -Mr. Mudrick "Great spirits have always encountered violent opposition from mediocre minds." -Albert Einstein "Life will be a very great deal less wierd without you." -Old Thrashbarg, Mostly Harmless "Let us endeavor so to live that when we come to die, even the undertaker will be sorry." -Mark Twain, Puddn'head Wilson "This above all / to thine own self be true." -Hamlet Act I Scene 4 "There is a rule for every exception, and an exception to EVERY rule." -Stanley Kiesel, The War Between the Pitiful Teachers and the Splendid Kids "I don't act. I become." -EM "I never saw no miracle of science." -Sting If I Ever Lose My Faith in You "There is no much to know, see, breathe, understand and DO!" -Hothouse Flowers, Thing of Beauty "I wanted only to try to live in accord with the promptings which came from my true self. Why was that so very difficult?" -Hermann Hesse, Demian "You DO have a reason?...That's why we need a note, pal." -Happy Harry, Pump Up the Volume "Cogitor Ergo Sum" (I am thought, therefore I am) -Franz von Baader "to strive, to seek, to find, and not to yield." -Tennyson Ulysses "Do I dare disturb the Universe?" -TS Eliot The Love Song of J Alfred Prufrock