I am Invincible

I was hiding from the world, I was so afraid, I felt so unsure. Now I am invincible. No, I ain't a scared little girl no more. Now I am a warrior, a shooting star.

Kelly Clarkson in "Invincible"

What the Fools Say

When you wake up in the morning, you got to make some decisions. You got to ask yourself this question: am I going to believe all those bad things those fools say about me today?

Constantine Jefferson from "The Help"

We Exist

Whether by divine creation or cosmic accident, we made it here. We exist. And that's a gift, rare and beautiful.

Molly Woods from Extant "Ascension"

This quote is for July 05, 2015.

What Freedom is

Freedom, the fatuous jingle of our civilization. But only those deprived of it have the barest inkling of what it really is.

Timothy Cavendish from "Cloud Atlas"

 

By no means am I calling freedom fatuous, rather the opposite. By putting this quote up, I want our appreciation of freedom to grow. As we celebrate our independence today, I want us all to take a moment to appreciate the sacrifices that have been made, and are continuing to be made, in order for us to have our freedom. If we were to lose the people and events that have led up to, and continue to provide us, our freedom, we would truly come to understand how previous our freedom is. I just hope the day will never come when we could be deprived of our freedom, because it is too wonderful to lose.

Happy Fourth of July!

How Stories are Made

There was a spark of an idea one day, which ignited into a fire of imagination. Each lick of flame burned a line of text, spreading from chapter to chapter. From this blaze came smoke and from that smoke came silhouettes, marching across the pages, each with a voice to be heard. And soon they were characters in their own right. They picked up the lines that had been laid across the page and carried them on their shoulders and became the story.

Jodi Picoult and Samantha Van Leer in "Off the Page"

Ideas are Bulletproof

Beneath this mask there is more than flesh. Beneath this mask there is an idea and ideas are bulletproof.

V from "V for Vendetta"

 

This quote is for July 02, 2015. 

Great Decisions Create Ripples

Every great decision creates ripples, like a huge boulder dropped in a lake. The ripples merge and rebound off the banks in unforeseeable ways. The heavier the decision the larger the waves the more uncertain the consequences.

The Doctor from Doctor Who "The Remembrance of the Daleks"

 

This quote is for July 01, 2015.