Random Quotes I Liked in 1989
Rewind to 1989. No internet. The word “blog” simply didn’t exist. So how did we put our thoughts down in such primitive times? We wrote them down. Yes, I was a bigtime journal writer. Besides writing about the inane events of my life, I would often jot down quotes that jumped out at me. So here is a list of quotes gathered in my May-August 1989 journal that I recently discovered. Apparently I was watching a lot of Star Trek, news, and listening to The Doors. The are also some other random quotes I picked up in college at the time. Not all of the quotes are attributed. Maybe you know the origin?
“I don’t need to hear what you don’t need to say.”
Star Trek, The Next Generation, “The Icarus Factor” 1989
“Without irritation, there wouldn’t be any pearls.”
G. Wilder
“Happiness is not having what you want, but wanting what you have.”
“… a warm breeze after a summer rain storm.”
“If you make a good friend a summer, you’re doing pretty well.”
“Build me a great wall of love.”
Jim Kerr from Simple Minds’ “Wall of Love,” 1989
“Thought that is planned is tradition.
Thought that is unplanned is imagination.
That that is both is spirit.”
Old Sufi saying
“The size of your pencil doesn’t matter, it’s how you write your name.”
“Imagination becomes shape and form.”
“Fantasies are usually far superior to reality.”
I think I actually saw this in a documentary about porn. Haha!
“Keep totin’ that lunch pail. Keep making that $4.25 an hour.”
Wade Boggs, in response to hecklers chanting “Margo,” the name of his mistress at the time.
“Remember me,” she said
“I have no choice.”
Star Trek, Elaan of Troyius
“The sooner our happiness begins, the longer it will last.”
Star Trek, “The
“Cancel my subscription to the resurrection.”
Jim Morrison, “When the Music’s Over”
You live out your lives in the shell of flesh.
Star Trek, “Is There No Truth In Beauty?”
The glory of creation is in its infinite diversity.
Star Trek, “Is There No Truth In Beauty?”
Unknown, about classical minimalism
“The 1980’s were a celebration of selfishness.”
Rush
“Theirs were faces of pilgrims on a journey.”
George H. W. Bush
“Beauty is transitory.”
“When a finger points to the moon, the imbecile looks at the finger.”
Chinese proverb.
“…from the dunes of Kittyhawk to the dust of another world.”
President George H. W. Bush, July 20, 2989
“Yonder sky that has wept tears of compassion upon my people for centuries untold.”
Chief Seattle, 1854
“Loneliness is a thirst, a flower dying in the desert.”
Star Trek, “Requiem for Methuselah”
“We’ll try to imagine what silence looks like.”
Prince, “If I Was Your Girlfriend”
“If they call an orange and orange, why don’t they call a banana a yellow?”
Reverend Jim from Taxi, “Going Home”
“Life without risks just isn’t life – it’s just existence.”