"Stranded on this slender string,
The minutes seem to last a lifetime,
Dangling here between the light above
And blue below that drags me down."

- from Phish's "Lifeboy"

"Gonna walk walk walk
Four more blocks plus one in my break."

- from Elliott Smith's "Needle in the Hay"

"There are two tragedies in life. One is to lose your heart's desire. The other is to gain it."

- George Bernard Shaw

"If they did, I don't remember it."

- Manny Ramirez of the Boston Red Sox, when asked if the team had tested for attention deficit disorder

"He looked at his watch, astonished how the months had fallen out of it."

- from Annie Proulx's "The Shipping News"

"Since then it's been a book you read in reverse,
So you understand less as the pages turn."

- from The Shins' "Pink Bullets"

"It seemed always that she had to keep on performing pointless acts."

- from Annie Proulx's "The Shipping News"

"Lost in the dangling conversation
And the superficial sighs,
Are the borders of our lives."

- from Simon & Garfunkel's "The Dangling Conversation"

"Nobody's perfect...Well, there was this one guy, but we killed him."

- Anonymous

"Well, that is that and this is this.
Will you tell me what you saw and I'll tell you what you missed,
when the ocean met the sky."

- from Modest Mouse's "Ocean Breathes Salty"