About Me

Favorite Quotes

"I would speak in art if I could. It would take all the hassles out of primitive human conversation where it's so easy to say the wrong things to people. In art, you can say anything, and as long as it means something right to you, it's never wrong."

"If I lose the light of the sun, I will write by candlelight, moonlight, no light. If I lose paper and ink, I will write in blood on forgotten walls. I will write always. I will capture nights all over the world and bring them to you." H.Rollins

"And the flame of the blue star of twilight, hung low on the rim of the sky, Has awaked in our hearts, my beloved, a sadness that may not die." (Yeats)

This above all: to thine own self be true, and it must follow, as the night the day, thou canst not then be false to anyone. Hamlet

"I hope I shall posess firmness and virute enough to maintain what I consider the most enviable of all titles, the character of an honest person" - George Washington

"People demand freedom of speech as a compensation for the freedom of thought which they seldom use."

"Cynics are right nine times out of ten; what undoes them is their belief that they are right ten times out of ten."--Issawi

"Weak men are the slaves of what happens. Strong men are masters of what happens."--George Craig Stewart

"All censorships exist to prevent any one from challenging current conceptions and existing institutions. All progress is initiated by challenging current conceptions, and executed by supplanting existing institutions. Consequently the first condition of progress is the removal of censorships." --George Bernard Shaw

"Politicians are the same all over. They promise to build bridges even when there are no rivers."--Nikita Khruschev

This above all: to thine own self be true." -- Shakespeare

"CYNIC, n. A blackguard whose faulty vision sees things as they are, not as they ought to be."-- Ambrose Bierce, The Devil's Dictionary

The modern conservative is engaged in one of man's oldest exercises in moral philosophy; that is, the search for a superior moral justification for selfishness." - John Kenneth Galbraith

"ABNORMAL, adj. Not conforming to standard. In matters of thought and conduct, to be independent is to be abnormal, to be abnormal is to be detested."--Ambrose Bierce, The Devil's Dictionary

"If I had to live my life again, I would make a rule to read some poetry and listen to some music at least once a week; for perhaps the parts of my brain now atrophied would thus have been kept active through use."--Charles Darwin

"May you have enough happiness to make you sweet, enough trials to make you strong, enough sorrow to keep you human, enough hope to make you happy."

"I have nothing to offer but blood, toil, tears and sweat." Winston Churchill

"The mark of the immature man is that he wants to die nobly for a cause, while the mark of the mature man is that he wants to live humbly for one" - The Catcher in the Rye

"We all have Hitler in us, but we also have love and peace. So why not give peace a chance for once?" -John Lennon

"I can't tell you how much it hurts to lose him. His death is a bitter cruel blow. I really loved the guy." -Paul McCartney, Dec. 1980

"I consider that my work won't be finished until I'm dead and buried, and I hope that's a long long time." -John Lennon, Dec. 1980
"John loved and prayed for the human race. Please tell people to pray the same for him. Remember that he had deep faith in love and that, though he has now joined the greater force, he is still with us." -Yoko Ono, Dec. 1980

Lots of people who complained about us receiving the MBE received theirs for heroism in the war-for killing people. We received ours for entertaining other people. I'd say we deserve ours more." -John Lennon

"And in the end, the love you take is equal to the love you make." -The Beatles

"You're all geniuses, and you're all beautiful. You don't need anyone to tell you who you are. You are what you are. Get out there and get peace, think peace, and live peace and breathe peace, and you'll get it as soon as you like." -John Lennon

It's 106 miles to Chicago, we've got a full tank of gas, half a packet of cigarettes, it's dark, and we're wearing sunglasses"--Blues Brothers

We have it in our power not only to free ourselves but to subdue our masters, and without violence throw both your natural and legal authority at our feet. Abigail Adams

Blast you vile woman! You've impeded my work since the day I escaped from your wretched womb!" Stewie from The Family Guy

"*sniff* You smell kinda pretty......wanna smell me?" Johnny Bravo

"Here's to alcohol.....the cause of AND solution to ....all of life's problems." ~ Homer Simpson

patient: I'm trying to quit smoking, but it's so hard. I've even tried that thing with the needles...
Dr Katz: Acupuncture?
patient: heroin...

"Where's the kaboom? There was supposed to be an earth-shattering kaboom."
Marvin the Martian

"Don't think it hasn't been a little slice of heaven... 'cause it hasn't." Bugs Bunny

"I hate them meeses to pieces." Jinx the Cat referring to Pixie & Dixie the Mice

"Avoid fruits and nuts-you are what you eat." Garfield

Hellllloooooooooooooooo nurse!" Yakko and Wakko Warner

"Great spirits have always found violent opposition from mediocrities. The latter cannot understand it when a man does not thoughtlessly submit to hereditary prejudices but honestly and courageously uses his intelligence."
~Albert Einstein

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"I get to go to lots of overseas places, like Canada." - Brittany Spears

"Life is like a box of chocolates...a cheap, thoughtless, perfunctory gift that nobody ever asks for. Unreturnable, because all you get back is another box of chocolates. You're stuck with this indefinable whipped-mint crap that you mindlessly wolf down when there's nothing else left to eat. Sure, once in a while, there's a peanut butter cup, or an English toffee. But they're gone too fast, and the taste is fleeting. So you end up with broken bits, filled with hardened jelly and teeth-shattering nuts, and if you're desperate enough to eat those, all you've got left is a...is an empty box...filled with useless, brown paper wrappers." 'Musings of a Cigarette-Smoking Man,' The X-Files

(On going to war over religion:) "You're basically killing each other to see who's got the better imaginary friend."
- Rich Jeni

"And God said: 'Let there be Satan, so people don't blame everything on Me. And let there be lawyers, so people don't blame everything on Satan.'"-John Wing

Beliefs and Opinions

I've got a lot to say and I'm a very outspoken person so this page will be full of my thoughts on various topics. Hope you enjoy!

In this column, I'll talk about some of my deepest beliefs. What do I think are the most important principles that someone should rule their life by? What are my religious beliefs? My political beliefs?

I'm a strong 19 year old woman who strives to make the world a better place. A believer in feminism and equal rights for all regardless of race, gender, creed, religion, income, religion, etc.. I'm a dreamer. I dream of a better world and I think we can acheive that. I'm an actress and artist in my own world. I love to make people laugh and smile. I'm passionate, passionate about everything there is to be passionate about. I love life and I love love. I love being able to go outside and just breathe in the freedom that surrounds me. I'm a poet. I love writing about the beautiful things that appear in my mind. I love reading and learning about new things as much as possible. I am a nonconformist and I don't give into society's opinions of how girls are "supposed" to be (weak, subservient, obeying, about 20 pounds underweight). I believe that society is our worse enemy because it's true. Women and girls are also consistently taught from an early age that their self-worth is largely dependent on how they look. The fact that women earn more money than men in only two job categories, those of modeling and prostitution serves to illustrate this point. I'm an activist and I do my best to acheive justice for my causes (mainly women and animals). I'm a writer for www.themestream.com, www.thevine.com, and www.writtenbyme.com. I love writing so much and it makes me happy to be able to write things that affect people. I'm a webmaster of www.geniustellsall.com (feel free to visit and sign the guestbook!). I'm a very opinionated and sometimes can be a little hard-headed, but it contributes to all that I am. I'm the strong, confident woman that I am now in large part because of my dad. He passed on three years ago and he changed me in so many unspeakable ways. I love him and miss him so much. He is my strength and if any of you have lost someone that you loved more than anything else then you know what I mean when I say I live my life for him. I can still feel him with me sometimes. I can actually physically feel him usually I feel an extreme warmth on one side of my face. Back when I was in junior high, I was really depressed and I just wanted to die. We found out that my dad had cancer and so much was going on around me. Anyone who is feeling sad or depressed just remember that things will get better. Just trust in this truth and remember that "all you need is love." Peace and love to all! ~Casey

My Opinions on Current Events

This was my response to some poor, uneducated fools feeble attempt to prove that abortion is a good alternative to actually having the baby that you conceived...

I think abortion is so unbelivably wrong. It doesn't matter what you call it, fetus, baby, cells, whatever, it is undeniable that it is a Human Being. And what is it called when a human being's life is terminated by someone else? Murder. That's right. Abortion is murder by proxy. You could be killing the next president, the next Einstein, the next Mother Theresa. Don't you know that these babies CAN feel. They can feel those scissors poking into the back of their heads and those vaccums sucking their brains out. They can feel their bodies being cut into pieces and they can also feel their little bodies being burned by the acids injected into the placenta. There is no reason for this to occur. There are so many women out there who are dying to adopt children, while those children are dying because of the selfishness of their mothers. Babies are not just "another part of the mother." That is ridiculous. Babies are a whole other being inside her. Just because a nation says that it's legal to do something doesn't mean it's the right thing to do. My heart mourns for the souls of these children and for the fate of the women who participate in this barbaric procedure.