“Unfortunately ‘the truth’ simply isn’t available. If you are going to live intelligently in the modern world, you have to recognize that there are conflicting ideologies, and that there is no simple direct access to the truth.” – Bonnycastle, Stephen. In Search of Authority pg 8 I have been collecting a lot of passages about […]

“All kinds of prison, and I’m stuck in the worst: the prison of doubt” – Twice in a Lifetime. TV episode. Twice in a Lifetime is a hard show to explain. It is a feel-good show that gives people a second chance at their life. A character dies at the start of every episode and […]

“Off-comments are, often, painfully on.” – Chase March. 2004 I wrote that line in a journal a few years back. I had gotten into a bit of a disagreement with my girlfriend. I was trying to be witty and funny and made what I thought was an off-comment. I didn’t mean anything by it. It […]

“The palest ink is better than the best memory.” – Chinese proverb I love this quote. It was in a fortune cookie that I received.

“If you don’t look, you find.” – When Harry Met Sally. DVD commentary to the film. How many times have you searched and searched for something, whether it be tangible or merely an idea or solution to a problem that has plagued you? You can bang your head against the wall for hours trying to […]

“He’s like a lot of men. They’re horrible until they fall in love.”When Harry Met Sally. DVD commentary to the film. When Harry Met Sally is probably one of the best films ever made. I can watch it over and over again. I love absolutely love it. I watched it with the commentary on one […]

Commonplace books used to be a lot more “common,” for lack of a better term. It seems that they have fallen out of popularity. However, many of the famous quotation sites on the Internet are really just digital commonplace books. In the dictionary a commonplace book is defined as “a book of memorabilia.” Commonplace is […]

I started a commonplace book a few years ago. In it, I collect quotations from things I have read or heard. I now have 245 entries in it, little tidbits of wisdom and information. I have actually put DVDs on pause so that I could write down some of the dialogue. When I read a […]