17 posts tagged “quote”

"America, this is our moment.  This is our time.  Our time to turn the page on the policies of the past.  Our time to bring new energy and new ideas to the challenges we face.  Our time to offer a new direction for the country we love.

The journey will be difficult.  The road will be long.  I face this challenge with profound humility, and knowledge of my own limitations.  But I also face it with limitless faith in the capacity of the American people.  Because if we are willing to work for it, and fight for it, and believe in it, then I am absolutely certain that generations from now, we will be able to look back and tell our children that this was the moment when we began to provide care for the sick and good jobs to the jobless; this was the moment when the rise of the oceans began to slow and our planet began to heal; this was the moment when we ended a war and secured our nation and restored our image as the last, best hope on Earth.  This was the moment - this was the time - when we came together to remake this great nation so that it may always reflect our very best selves, and our highest ideals."

Soaringly idealistic?  You bet.  But GODDAMN is it incredible to hear this powerful, hopeful sentiment from our presidential nominee.  I think I need a tissue (or ten)...

Today marks my last day of employment with Enormous Soulless Corporation X!  As much as I am dreading another round of job-searching, I will not miss this place.  The people?  Somewhat.  The in-house coffee joint?  For sure.  But the life-sucking monotony that goes on within these depressing cube walls?  GOOD RIDDANCE.

 

I am not terribly optimistic about my chances of finding a decent job in production, once we move.   I will certainly try, but my long-term networking skills are about one step up from non-existent.  One thing I do know, however, is that I will seek to avoid the corporate/cubicle environment AT ALL COSTS.  As the quote from Office Space goes:

“[W]e don't have a lot of time on this earth!  We weren't meant to spend it this way!  Human beings were not meant to sit in little cubicles staring at computer screens all day, filling out useless forms and listening to eight different bosses drone on about mission statements.” 

Amen (and an extra F.U. to those horrible, pointless mission statements) (all of which ultimately = make money for upper management's bonus) (which reminds me: F.U., upper management).

Saw this lone bumper sticker on a car last night:

 

I am NOT a Republican.

 

What a fascinating statement about the political environment in our country today - that we can define ourselves by what we are not as much as by what we are.  Hmm.

The Television Without Pity recap of the last (very last? oh god) episode sums up our predicament well:

 

“...Jason asks her to just give it a shot: ‘Please? Pretty pretty pretty please? Just give it a chance?’

 

And then that's it.  That's quite possibly it forever.  Which is sort of beautiful in some ways -- ending with Jason Street on the brink of a new life, Wilco, Smash becoming a real human being after an experience with disappointment, Lyla Garrity and Tim Riggins one step closer to becoming Tami and Eric Taylor.  This is what I'm thinking of as the The Portrait of a Lady ending, one of the greatest unresolved literary endings of all time.  But if this is actually all there is, it's also totally crushing - we won't see these new lives for Jason and Smash play out, we left Julie and Matt stranded on Brat Island, and the last we see of Tami and Eric Taylor is Coach in bed hungover, even the hairs on his head moaning in pain, with Tami storming out the front door.  

Please, NBC, won't you consider giving it a chance?”

 

Oh, how we are going to miss you, show!  (And NBC?  I am throwing imaginary eggs at your overpriced, fat and ugly SUV-of-a-brain, which continues polluting the airwaves with absolute garbage instead of contributing something worthwhile to the television environment.  So there.)

FYI, attempting creativity at 10:30 on a weekday night is never a good idea, especially AFTER cleaning the kitchen for three hours.  And it only gets worse as the hour nears 11, then 12, then 1.  (Yes, a.m.)  Yet there I was, bannering away, convinced that if I just tweaked THAT part ONE more time, perfection would be close at hand.

 

It, um, wasn’t.  This month’s banner is about as uninspired as they come, but I just couldn’t bear the thought of having spent three hours trying out a million different designs only to end up with nothing.  So let’s call this one Better Than Nothing and focus on getting to the month of March, yes?

 

(Also: I’m convinced part of the problem can be described by a sign I recently saw at work. “How can I think outside the box when I work in a cube?”  Hehe.  Indeed.)

“Twenty years from now you will be more disappointed by the things you didn't do than by the ones you did do.  So throw off the bowlines.  Sail away from the safe harbor.  Catch the trade winds in your sails.  Explore.  Dream.  Discover.” – Mark Twain

Mark Morford sums it up best:

 “The speech actually expresses one of the most precious and endangered ideas in all of American society: that human beings, their views and their beliefs and their notions of love and sex and what it means to be alive on this weird blue dot, these things can actually evolve, beliefs can shift, the heart can open, and no matter where you live and who you are and what you do for a living, it's never too late to let love in.“

 

“Now if you continue to ignore FNL, it's only because you're trying to hurt me.  If you do give it a shot, let me recommend the impeccable acting, the lively football scenes (although they tend to go overboard on exciting finishes), the risky story lines and especially Coach Taylor's family, the most authentic household in recent TV history.  Every nuance is nailed, every hug seems genuine, every fight makes sense, every sarcastic barb and flustered reaction ring true.” – Bill Simmons, ESPN Magazine (read the entire article here)

 

See?  I TOLD you this show was breathtakingly, gut-wrenchingly awesome.  Now somebody take me up on my Friday Night Lights offer already!  Stop hurting Bill Simmons (and me)!

Overheard on the elevator: “I’m really impressed, really!  This yo-yo camp has been very good for him.”