The Borrower's Journal

Look After You

2011-11-13T19:18:00.001+08:00

Will you, won't you

Be the one I'll always know

When I'm losing my control

The city spins around

You're the only one who knows

You slow it down

Fringe

2011-11-13T18:29:00.001+08:00

You ever feel like every time we get close to getting the answers, somebody changes the question?
-Peter to Olivia
Season 3, Episode 10

The Hollywood Reporter 2011 Emmy Roundtable

2011-09-19T12:21:00.002+08:00

"In a world where you hear no much more than yes, you gotta find some way to make friends with no. And I was like, that's great! All those nos are the little things standing in front of my yes. So that worked out well. That, and you can always sleep your way into the middle. "

-Julie Bowen
The Hollywood Reporter 2011 Emmy Roundtable
June 23, 2011

Psych Lab

2011-09-11T18:09:00.002+08:00

August 14, 2011
9:17 a.m.
http://www.facebook.com/psychlab

Conan

2011-09-11T13:48:00.000+08:00

"I assume that was the punchline."
Jack McBrayer
Conan: September 8, 2011

What have I learned from 9/11?

2011-09-11T13:22:00.002+08:00

"What I have learned about 9/11 is that nothing is absolute, the future is unknowable, evil has many faces, but so does goodness. But most of all, there are no labels that can stick to people."

-Michael Mirasol
September 11, 2011
http://www.michaelmirasol.com/flipcritic/2011/09/what-have-i-learned-from-911-n.html

Stuck in a moment you can't get out

2011-09-07T15:36:00.002+08:00

I will not forsake, the colors that you bring
But the nights you filled with fireworks
They left you with nothing
I am still enchanted by the light you brought to me
I listen through your ears, and through your eyes I can see

The Holiday

2011-08-21T23:17:00.001+08:00

"And then, there's another kind of love: the cruelest kind. The one that almost kills its victims. Its called unrequited love. Of that I am an expert. Most love stories are about people who fall in love with each other. But what about the rest of us? What about our stories, those of us who fall in love alone? We are the victims of the one sided affair. We are the cursed of the loved ones. We are the unloved ones, the walking wounded. The handicapped without the advantage of a great parking space!"

-Iris Simpkins
[Written by: Nancy Meyers]

The Poet's Notebook

2011-08-14T17:02:00.002+08:00

"Will the computer ever replace the fetishism of the notebook? It's possible, but I doubt it. To hear the poets tell it, the small, handsome notebook and a special pen or pencil are half the work. They are an invitation to write in a certain way. They demand from us absolute conciseness, an aesthetic of modesty. If you write poems on the back of old envelopes and garage sale announcements, as I often do, you don't write epics."

Preface of The Poet's Notebook (xi, 1995)
Charles Simic

Conan O'brien

2011-07-23T15:45:00.002+08:00

"Homer Simpson wears tighty whities. There's something almost emasculating about them."

Conan O'Brien
July 18, 2011
"Death Gets a Paper Cut"

Love Actually

2011-07-22T08:50:00.001+08:00

Sam: Worse than the total agony of being in love?

[Written by: Richard Curtis]

Up in the Air

2011-06-29T14:20:00.001+08:00

"I type with purpose."
-Natalie Keener

(Written by: Walter Kim, Jason Reitman, and Sheldon Turner)

My Ex-Gay Friend

2011-06-20T22:16:00.001+08:00

Ben went on. “To me, Michael is a victim of this insane society we live in, where we grow up with all these conflicting messages and pressures around sexuality and religion, and where we divide into these camps where we’re always right and the other side is always wrong. Some people are susceptible to buying into that, and I think Michael is one of them.”

-BENOIT DENIZET-LEWIS
Published: June 16, 2011, NYTimes

The Romantics

2011-06-15T08:24:00.000+08:00

“…scattered with nights so fun they explain the evolutionary purpose of talking.”

-Laura Rosen
Written by: Galt Niederhoffer

Meaning

2011-06-07T13:04:00.001+08:00

Restless hearts you take a punch, just to land one.
Troubled minds, it's only fair after all.
Mountin' the trail, but you got it in sight.
Sometimes our only way is jumping.
I hope your not afraid of heights.

-Gavin deGraw

Harvard College Class Day Speech

2011-05-29T10:41:00.002+08:00

"Don't treat your heart like an action figure wrapped in plastic and never used. And don't try to give me that nerd argument that your heart is a Batman with a limited-edition silver bat-erang and therefore if it stays in its original packing it increases in value."

Amy Poehler
Harvard College Class Day

Grey's Anatomy

2011-04-20T19:22:00.001+08:00

Addison Montgomery: "There is a land called Passive Agressiva, and I am their queen."

The take over, the break's over

2011-03-30T13:43:00.000+08:00

They say your head can be a prison
Then these are just conjugal visits
People will dissect us
Til this doesn't mean a thing anymore

-Fall Out Boy

Finding Nemo

2011-03-24T10:53:00.001+08:00

“I shall call him Squishy. And he shall be mine. And he shall be MY Squishy.”

-Dory

Written by: Andrew Stanton, Bob Peterson, and David Reynolds
2003

Telephone

2010-09-28T16:57:00.000+08:00

I left my head and my heart on the dance floor.
-Lady Gaga

When I Look To The Sky

2010-09-27T08:15:00.001+08:00

And while I float upon this ocean
I can feel you like a notion that I hope will never leave

-Train

The Film Experience Blog

2010-09-23T13:48:00.001+08:00

Society can only stay peaceful and democratic and civilized if its citizens understand that their feelings and beliefs end with themselves. Those beliefs cannot take precedence over everything else. Government institutions, neighbors and, yes, even your children's teachers have absolutely no obligation to share your personal prejudices and faith.
-Nathaniel R.

Alodus Huxley

2010-08-10T22:54:00.004+08:00

Pragmatically [scientists] are justified in acting in this odd and extremely arbitrary way; for by concentrating exclusively on the measurable aspects of such elements of experience as can be explained in terms of a causal system they have been able to achieve a great and increasing control over the energies of nature. But power is not the same thing as insight and, as a representation of reality, the scientific picture of the world is inadequate for the simple reason that science does not even profess to deal with experiences as a whole but only with certain aspects of it in certain contexts. All this is quite clearly understood by the more philosophically minded men of science. But some scientists...tend to accept the world picture implicit in the theories of science as a complete and exhaustive account of reality; then tend to regard those aspects of experince which scientists leave out of account, because they are incompetent to deal with them, as being somehow less real than the aspects which science has arbitrarily chose to abstract from out of the infinitely rich totally of given acts.

-Adolous Huxley (1946, page 35-36 of Science Liberty and Peace)

Arrested Development

2010-08-08T19:27:00.002+08:00

Michael: What are you doing locked in my office, exactly?
Gob: Hiding from a child. Big difference.
Michael: Gob, Steve Holt is your son. He probably just feels a connection.
Gob: He doesn't know what he feels. I'm tired of being told - my God. What is this feeling?
[Schmaltzy music begins to play]
Michael: You know, the feeling that you're feeling is just what many of us call... a "feeling".
Gob: It's not like envy, or even hungry.
Michael: Could it be love?
Gob: I know what an erection feels like, Michael. No, it's the opposite - it's like my heart is getting hard.
[the music reaches its crescendo]

Season 3, Episode 2: "For British Eyes Only"
Written By: Richard Day and Mitchell Hurwitz
Created By: Mitchell Hurwitz

The Twilight Saga: New Moon

2010-04-03T23:40:00.003+08:00

"And Jacob is a friend, you know? Something maybe that you're not too familiar with. It's a person that you don't want to kiss or kill, but enjoy their company nonetheless."

-Bella Swan
The Twilight Saga: New Moon, extended scenes
[Written By: Melissa Rosenberg, adapted from New Moon by: Stephenie Meyer]

Grey's Anatomy

2010-03-10T18:47:00.002+08:00

"Your heart lives in your vagina."
-Meredith Grey
[Written by: Peter Nowalk]
Season 6, Episode 16: Perfect Little Accident

Bones

2010-02-03T21:57:00.003+08:00

"Phalanges! Dancing phalanges!"
-Dr. Temperance 'Bones' Brennan

Season 4 Episode 25; The Critic in the Cabinet, aired on May 7, 2009
[Written By: Hart Hanson and Stephen Nathan]

Conan O'Brien

2010-01-24T00:14:00.001+08:00

Before we end this rodeo, a few things need to be said. There has been a lot of speculation in the press about what I legally can and can’t say about NBC. To set the record straight, tonight I am allowed to say anything I want. And what I want to say is this: between my time at Saturday Night Live, the Late Night show, and my brief run here on The Tonight Show, I have worked with NBC for over 20 years. Yes, we have our differences right now and yes, we’re going to go our separate ways. But this company has been my home for most of my adult life. I am enormously proud of the work we have done together, and I want to thank NBC for making it all possible.
Walking away from The Tonight Show is the hardest thing I have ever had to do. Making this choice has been enormously difficult. This is the best job in the world, I absolutely love doing it, and I have the best staff and crew in the history of the medium. But despite this sense of loss, I really feel this should be a happy moment. Every comedian dreams of hosting The Tonight Show and, for seven months, I got to. I did it my way, with people I love, and I do not regret a second. I’ve had more good fortune than anyone I know and if our next gig is doing a show in a 7-Eleven parking lot, we’ll find a way to make it fun.

And finally, I have to say something to our fans. The massive outpouring of support and passion from so many people has been overwhelming. The rallies, the signs, all the goofy, outrageous creativity on the Internet, and the fact that people have traveled long distances and camped out all night in the pouring rain to be in our audience, made a sad situation joyous and inspirational.

To all the people watching, I can never thank you enough for your kindness to me and I’ll think about it for the rest of my life. All I ask of you is one thing: please don’t be cynical. I hate cynicism — it’s my least favorite quality and it doesn’t lead anywhere. Nobody in life gets exactly what they thought they were going to get. But if you work really hard and you’re kind, amazing things will happen. As proof, let’s make an amazing thing happen right now.

-Conan O'Brien
Episode 146, The Tonight Show with Conan O'Brien

The Lovely Bones

2010-01-05T19:18:00.001+08:00

"There wasn't a lot of bullshit in my heaven."
-Susie Salmon [Written By: Alice Sebold)

Buffy the Vampire Slayer (TV)

2009-12-31T15:09:00.001+08:00

“When I’m with a boy I like, it’s hard for me to say anything cool, or witty, or at all....I can usually make a few vowel sounds, and then I have to go away.”

-Willow Rosenberg, Season 1 Episode 1: Welcome to the Hellmouth

Saturday Night Live

2009-12-13T15:22:00.006+08:00

"I'm Sorry. Notebooks are for notes, not for kissing."
-Mariana

Played by: Taylor Launter
Aired on: Saturday, December 12, 2009
Musical Guests: Bon Jovi

The Missing Piece

2009-12-07T12:28:00.002+08:00

"I can be someone's and still be my own."

-Shel Silverstein

Chris Weitz

2009-11-27T19:33:00.003+08:00

"I just let them do their thing. I think it would be creepy and inappropriate for me to advise them how to kiss one another or what it's like to be young in love. I'm 40 years old. I'm not going to Polanski out on them."
-Chris Weitz (The Twilight Saga: New Moon Press Tour,Interview by: Eric Ditzian, see full video here)

Kate Moss

2009-11-20T22:46:00.002+08:00

"Nothing tastes as good as skinny feels."
-Kate Moss, November 13, 2009 interview with www.wwd.com

Tina Fey

2009-10-08T20:23:00.000+08:00

"I want to thank my parents for somehow raising me to have confidence that is disproportionate with my looks and abilities."
-Tina Fey, 2008 Emmy's acceptance speech
see: http://www.harpersbazaar.com/magazine/cover/tina-fey-interview-1109

Absalom and Achitophel

2009-10-05T13:41:00.002+08:00

Great Wits are sure to Madness near ally'd;
And thin Partitions do their Bounds divide
-John Dryden (1681)

Peter Facinelli

2009-09-28T18:58:00.003+08:00

Romeo and Juliet

2009-09-25T23:21:00.001+08:00

Love is a smoke made with the fumes of sighs;
Being purged, a fire sparkling in lovers' eyes;
Being vexed, a sea nourished with lovers' tears.
What is it else? A madness most discreet,
A choking gall and a preserving sweet.
-Romeo
[Written by: William Shakespeare]

Twilight

2009-09-17T23:16:00.003+08:00

He hung up his gun belt and stepped out of his boots as I bustled about the kitchen. As far as I was aware, he'd never shot the gun on the job. But he kept it ready. When I came here as a child, he would always remove the bullets as soon as he walked in the door. I guess he considered me old enough now not to shoot myself by accident, and not depressed enough to shoot myself on purpose.

-Isabella Swan [Written by: Stephanie Meyer]

Revelry

2009-09-14T23:40:00.002+08:00

What a night for a dance, you know I'm a dancing machine
With a fire in my bones and the sweet taste of kerosene
I get lost in the night so high I don't want to come down
To face the lost of the good thing that I've found

-Kings of Leon

Chuck

2009-09-08T21:45:00.004+08:00

My father always said, a terrible nickname builds character.

-Dr. Woody Woodcomb (Mr. Awesome)
Season 2, Episode 9: Chuck Versus the Sensei
[Created By: Josh Schwartz and Chris Fedak, Written By: Anne Cofell Saunders]

How I Met Your Mother

2009-09-01T18:52:00.003+08:00

A drunk jackass called God and a box of pencils called destiny!

-Eric Marshall
Episode 20, Season 3: "Miracles"
[Written by: Carter Bays and Craig Thomas]

Hedonic Adaptation

2009-08-27T21:23:00.003+08:00

Sex is like pizza: when it is good, it is really good, and when it is bad, it is still pretty good.

-Fredrick and Loewenstein (1999)
page 307

A Little Help From My Friends

2009-08-16T01:50:00.001+08:00

Mm, I get high with a little help from my friends
- John Lennon and Paul McCartney

Anchorman: The Legend of Ron Burgundy

2009-08-12T11:07:00.001+08:00

[to dog]
You're so wise. You're like a miniature Buddha, covered in hair.
-Ron Burgundy
[Written By: Will Ferrell and Adam McKay]

Gilmore Girls

2009-08-06T13:21:00.002+08:00

"I'm afraid that once your heart's involved, it all comes out in moron."

-Lorelai Gilmore
Seson 1, Episode 7: Kiss and Tell
[Written By: Jenji Kohan]

Sugar We're Goin' Down

2009-07-28T10:04:00.001+08:00

I'm just a notch in your bedpost
But you're just a line in a song

-Fall Out Boy

East of Eden

2009-07-27T13:03:00.002+08:00

Charles felt for his brother the affection one has for helpless things, for blind puppies and new babies.

-John Steinbeck

Shine

2009-07-25T10:57:00.000+08:00

There are times when the poets and pornstars align and
You won`t know who to believe in
Well that`s a good time to be leavin`

-Anna Nalick

Fabel of the mermaid and the drunks

2009-07-24T09:36:00.001+08:00

A stranger to tears, she did not weep.

-Pablo Neruda

Hey Jude

2009-07-23T08:19:00.000+08:00

Hey Jude, dont make it bad.
Take a sad song and make it better.
(...)
Hey Jude, dont be afraid.
You were made to go out and get her.

-The Beatles

New Moon

2009-07-22T09:46:00.001+08:00

I squared my shoulders and walked forward to meet my fate, with my destiny solidly at my side.

-Bella Swan
[Written By: Stephanie Meyer]

Fix You

2009-07-21T08:25:00.003+08:00

When you love someone but it goes to waste
(...)
Lights will guide you home
And ignite your bones
And I will try to fix you.

-Coldplay

Harry Potter and The Deathly Hallows

2009-07-18T10:02:00.001+08:00

Of course it is happening inside your head, Harry, but why on earth should that mean that it is not real?

-Albus Dumbledore
[Written By: J.K. Rowling]

Handbook of Child Development

2009-07-17T08:35:00.001+08:00

Human Development - a property of systemic change in multiple and integral levels of organization comprising human life and ecology.

-Damon (1998)

A Good Start

2009-07-16T09:13:00.001+08:00

It's a shame now, baby, you can't see yourself, And everything you're running from.
And it's the same world, honey, that has brought You down,
As the one that's gonna pick you up.
And pick you up.

-Maria Taylor

The Magician's Nephew

2009-07-15T18:20:00.000+08:00

I'm game if you are

-Polly
[Written By: C.S. Lewis]

...Baby One More Time

2009-07-14T00:21:00.002+08:00

Oh pretty baby, I shouldnt have let you go
I must confess that my loneliness
Is killin me now
Dont you know I still believe
That you will be here

By: Max Martin
[Made popular by: Britney Spears}

30 Rock

2009-07-13T20:31:00.001+08:00

"When I die, they'll want to put my face on money. If there were money in the future instead of just hugs."

-Greenzo
Season 2 Episode 5
[Written By: Jon Pollack]

Jane Fonda's Blog

2009-07-10T08:25:00.002+08:00

I think about death all the time. I rehearse my death. I think that’s a healthy thing to do. Death, after all, is what gives life meaning the way noise gives meaning to silence.

-Jane Fonda
Excerpt from her blog entry entitled: MICHAEL JACKSON, written on June 29, 2009
view the rest of the entry here: http://janefonda.com/michael-jackson/

Be Gentle With Me

2009-07-09T08:22:00.000+08:00

I'm happy because I'm stupid.

-The Boys Least Likely To

Little Miss Sunshine

2009-07-08T08:22:00.003+08:00

Go Hug Mom

-Dwayne Hoover
[Written by: Michael Arndt]

Just Another

2009-07-07T10:32:00.001+08:00

You were lying wide awake in the garden,
trying to get over your stardom,

-Pete Yorn

The Road Not Taken

2009-07-06T18:21:00.001+08:00

And be one traveler, long I stood
And look down one as far as I could

-Robert Frost

St. Elmo's Fire

2009-07-04T15:06:00.000+08:00

You know Jules, there is the brink of insanity and then there is the abyss, which obviously you have fallen into.

-Kevin Dolenz
[Written by: Joel Schumacher and Carl Kurlander]

The Paper Bag Princess

2009-07-03T08:45:00.001+08:00

Elizabeth wanted to chase that dragon but she didn’t have any clothes. The only thing she could find that wasn’t burnt was a paper bag. She put it over her head, went off after the dragon…

-Robert Munsch

The Incredibles

2009-07-02T07:43:00.002+08:00

Your identity is your most valuable possession. Protect it.

-Helen Parr (Elastigirl)
[Written by: Brad Bird]

The Simpsons

2009-07-01T16:10:00.000+08:00

I want to live in the sauce!

-Homer Simpson

Silvery Sleds

2009-06-30T09:54:00.000+08:00

Coz everybody knows there's no solution
Not everybody gets what they would like
I don't wanna be in this place forever
I don't wanna be here for tonight
I did my strutting in some other life
If I try to run, do you think I'd find it?
I don't even think that there is time

-Army Navy

The Unbearable Lightness of Being

2009-06-29T19:53:00.000+08:00

We all reject out of hand the idea that the love of our life may be something light or weightless; we presume our love is what must be, that without it our life would no longer be the same;

-Milan Kundera

2006 Stuyvesant High School Graduation Speech

2009-06-27T13:32:00.001+08:00

Four: If you want to get out of a test, don't say you have a family emergency. Everyone says they have a family emergency in college and it never works. Say you have diarrhea. No one ever says they have diarrhea unless they do.

-Conan O'Brien

The Hero With a Thousand Faces

2009-06-26T07:37:00.001+08:00

The first stage of the mythological journey - which we have designated the "call to adventure" - signifies that destiny has summond the hero and transferred his spiritual center of gravity from within the pale of his society to the zone of unknown.

-Joseph Campbell