A few of my favs in no particular order.
Quotes
“If I can stop one heart from breaking, I shall not live in vain. If I can ease one life the aching, or cool one pain, or help one fainting robin unto his nest again, I shall not live in vain.” – Emily Dickinson
“If you enter this world knowing you are loved and you leave this world knowing the same, then everything that happens in between can be dealt with.” – Michael Jackson
“Life isn’t measured by the number of breaths we take, but by the moments that take our breath away.” – Author Unknown
“Life is only therapy – real expensive and no guarantee.” – from “You Move Me” by Gordon Kennedy & Pierce Pettis
“A cat has absolute emotional honesty: human beings, for one reason or another, may hide their feelings, but a cat does not.” – Ernest Hemingway
“Where there is much desire to learn, there of necessity will be much arguing, much writing, many opinions; for opinion in good men is but knowledge in the making.” – John Milton, Areopagitica
“We just get the one life, you know, just one. We can’t live someone else’s or think it’s more important just because it’s more dramatic. What happens matters. Maybe only to us, but it matters.” – Tea Leoni, Ghost Town
“The probability that we may fail in the struggle ought not to deter us from the support of a cause we believe to be just.” – Abraham Lincoln
“A writer should write what he has to say and not speak it.” – Ernest Hemingway
“I like your Christ, I do not like your Christians. Your Christians are so unlike your Christ.” – Mohandas (Mahatma) Gandhi
“Sometimes we love people so much that we have to be numb to it, because if we actually felt how much we love them, it would kill us.” – Brittany Murphy in Riding In Cars With Boys
“Prayer is not asking. Prayer is putting oneself in the hands of God, at His disposition, and listening to His voice in the depths of our hearts.” – Mother Teresa
Singers
Michael Jackson
Cher
Tori Amos
David Gray
Madonna
Linda Eder
Annie Lennox
John Mayer
Beth Hart
Sarah McLachlan
Whitney Houston
Stevie Nicks
Sinead O’Connor
Eva Cassidy
Damien Rice
James Morrison
Ray LaMontagne
Albums
Dangerous by Michael Jackson
White Ladder by David Gray
Living Proof by Cher
Little Earthquakes by Tori Amos
The Immaculate Collection by Madonna
Continuum by John Mayer
Believe by Cher
Songs
Michael Jackson – Man In The Mirror
Beth Hart – I’ll Stay With You
Eva Cassidy – I Know You By Heart
Sinead O’Connor – Nothing Compares To You
Wynonna Judd – Come Some Rainy Day
Stevie Nicks – Beautiful Child
Cher – Alive Again
Cher – All or Nothing
Cher – Believe
Cher – You Take It All
Stevie Nicks – Silent Night
Madonna – Like A Prayer
Tori Amos – Silent All These Years
David Gray – Shine
Whitney Houston – I Will Always Love You
Dottie Rambo – He Looked Beyond My Fault And Saw My Need
Annie Lennox – Why
Sarah McLachlan – Fear
Beth Hart – Leave The Light On
George Michael – Precious Box
Mazzy Star – Fade Into You
Jana – The Price
Fleetwood Mac – Storms
Fleetwood Mac – Beautiful Child
Movies
Home For The Holidays
Under The Tuscan Sun
The Wedding Banquet
Tea With Mussolini
Mambo Italiano
The Notebook
Brokeback Mountain
Little Miss Sunshine
Cher – Live In Concert
Corrina, Corrina
Chocolat
Waitress
La Vie En Rose
Juno
Steel Magnolias
Books
If God Is Love by Philip Gulley and James Mulholland
The Scarlet Ibis by James Hurst
The Stolen Child by Keith Donohue
Becoming A Man by Paul Monette
I Know Why The Caged Bird Sings by Maya Angelou
Poems
“Desiderata” by Max Ehrmann
Television Shows
Brothers & Sisters
Ugly Betty
Will & Grace
Absolutely Fabulous
Other Interests
Singing
Dancing
Skyscrapers
Traveling
Cats
Roller coasters
I just wanted to leave a comment to tell you how much I’ve enjoyed reading your blog today.
Thank you! Glad you enjoyed it. ;)
Glad to see “Brothers & Sisters” on here, I knew you’d come around. lol.
We are recording the reruns of B&S, but they’re all new to us. Have they only been on one season so far? If so, we won’t have to miss any of them.
Yep, this was the first season.
Where are the Simpsons?
I guess you know it’s me.
Your friend, the cartoon watcher——————————————————————————
(enter anticipation here—with a drum roll, of course)
Kelly
OOPS—wait a minute, my name automatically appears at the heading of the segment.
silly me, laughing again.
Kelly,
I love the Simpsons and really want to see their new movie, but my favorite cartoon is probably The Family Guy. It’s hilarious!
I was watching The Family Guy recently and Stewie was smoking, Connor, age 4, came in and was watching, mesmerized. So…… I went into mommy mode, telling him, “Smoking’s not cool”, “if you smoke you’ll die” etc. Well, he is a compulsive worrier, so now if he sees someone in the family, or someone at church smoking he asks me to tell them to stop before they die.
“I like them if they’re LA CROIX, sweety darling!!”
@ jaunarys – Oh my gosh, I’ve got to pull out my Ab Fab discs now!
I’m jealous – you own AbFab!?
“Patsy hasn’t eaten since 1974!”
Yes, I do! I have every season on DVD. :)
Your line-up of music is right up my alley, especially anything Tori Amos (“Little Earthquakes” is still an all-time fave) and Sarah McLachlan (cf “Fear” and “Possession”).
@ Sideon: We must have incredibly similar tastes in music. “Little Earthquakes” will always be my preferred Tori album, and both “Fear” and Possession” are among my favorite McLachlan tracks.
Howdy – because of Pandora, I’ve been expanding my musical tastes (there IS life beyond the 80′s, they say). If you get a chance, try and find “Roisin Murphy” and anything from her 2nd album “Overpowered” – particularly “Dear Miami” and “Parallel Lives.” Listen and enjoy…
@ Sideon: I’ve never heard of her, but I’ll definitely check into her music. Thanks for the recommendation!