To Start With, Quotes

From my little black book.

Sign outside Branxton:
"Drive carefully, we have two cemetaries, no hospital"

Tombstone, Tilba cemetary:
"Whiffo gone fishing
A free spirited man who is forever in our hearts"

"Heinz tomato ketchup makes food taste KETCHUPPY" - tomato sauce bottle

"I was just wondering how I ever could have laughed at you"
"I hope you'll always laugh at me"
The Day Will Dawn, cheesy movie from 1942

"Each man kills the thing he loves"
The Ballad of Reading Gaol, Oscar Wilde

Ad outside Japanese restaurant in Sydney city
"Sexy chicken on rice"

"I don't own a house or a car, all I have is a borrowed tv, but that's what you get when you take off and travel."
Random bus stop conversation

“She had a voice with hormones”

‘A Woman’s Secret’, 1949 movie

“Oolong Imperial: A work of tea art”

Tea rooms in the city

“The burdens and the joys of being chosen to be more than a fluttering heartbeat on an ultrasound screen”
Vivian’s blog. I really liked this line Viv!

“I have the strength to face all conditions by the power Christ gives me”
Phillipians 4:13

“Wear your make-up like a weapon”
“Bit by bit, the city devours us”
Newtown graffiti

“Ideas about the treatment of the insane and the education of the young have many similarities”
‘Madness and Morals’, Skultans

“Far off th’Empyreal Heav’n, extended wide,
In circuit, undetermined square or round,
With Opal Tow’rs and Battlements adorn’d
Of living sapphire, once his native seat,
And fast by hanging in a golden chain
This pendant world, in bigness as a star”
‘Paradise Lost’, John Milton

“…and then be out of it, and fall in love with someone else. I didn’t believe in that, but now I do”
Overhead

“Nature never set forth the earth in such diverse tapestries as poetry has done”
Sir Philip Sidney

“It is only lazy carnivores that will persist”- from an Archaeology seminar

“Tyranny Oppression
Anger is a gift, use it to fight these”
Desk graffiti

The Artistic Annex of Finland, a group of arty types from uni, published a little magazine and gave it away for free. Pretty pretentious stuff, but I liked this:
“-Play the cello in the dark
-watch the rooftops weep for the sun
-dance to the accompaniment of the night
-stay up forever
-then sleep”

“How different would our perception of reality be if, instead, we discarded the mundane events that cannot co-exist with our dreams?”
‘Shaman’s Crossing’, Robin Hobbs

“This is the first time you’ve ever felt anything”
Psychologist to patient, as related in a Psych lecture. It sounds sad…

“If I was a girl who like cute guys then I’d… but they really don’t…”- overheard

A Current Affair Billboard:
“Terrorism: are we prepared enough?” which becomes, with graffiti “Terrorism: are we paranoid enough?”

“The price of wisdom is beyond rubies, the topaz of Cush cannot compare with it; it cannot be bought with pure gold” Job 28: 18-19

“Why do I feel so much pain
For you it was all a stupid game
Now I am lost and need a light
I won’t give up, not without a fight”
More desk graffiti, could you tell from the quality? ;p It’s wrong to laugh at someone else’s angst though…

“Another of my relatives used to take off his trousers in the street to give them to the poor, and a photograph of him in his undershorts, though properly attired in hat, jacket, and tie, appeared more than once in newspapers”
‘My Invented Country’, Isabel Allende. Maybe this is the explanation behind that guy I saw?

“Inverell Pioneer Village-… A beautiful recreated village with all local buildings holding district treasurers” hehehe, gives me a strange mental image J
Inverell Tourist board

“I is for Iceland.
There’s an island
Where
The ocean’s so
Cold
Time is frozen”
Deviant art, sporadictouchofennui