Quotations Weblog

Sometimes I feel like this. I feel like I will never be fit for real work. I tried. I really don’t know what my problem is. I guess the kind of company that is worth my devotion is rare. I work hard and I relax hard. Sometimes I work so hard that I can’t do any work for weeks on end. A 9 to 5 job just doesn’t let me work in spurts like that. They need me to come in every day.

Working for myself is harder than working for someone else, but I’ve finally found that company that is worth my devotion: my own.

We are going to be in Austin, Texas from March 8-13th this year and we want to meet up with the readers of the Quotations Page. We want to hear your ideas about the site, what you like, what you hate and how we can be better.

Here’s the problem: We don’t really know the town. We’re hoping that you folks can tell us the best place and day to meet.

Please email us if you would like to come to the meetup here:

• Quotations Page Meetup: Contact Laura Moncur

We are excited to meet our readers face to face and hear just what you want from us!

Every week I bring you the quotations used in the CBS series Criminal Minds. This week’s episode featured a recent quotation by Cory Doctorow:

Note to the producers of this show: I’m sure you’re getting at least some of the quotations you use from our site, and I’m flattered. But please drop me a line and I’ll see if I can verify the ones you plan to use. It will avoid embarrassment in the future….

While this was the only quotation used in the narration, there was also a quote mentioned by Dr. Reed halfway through the episode, from Sherlock Holmes:

This one is probably paraphrased from either “The Sign of Four” or “A Scandal in Bohemia”—I haven’t verified it yet.

Criminal Minds airs Wednesday evenings on CBS. Check your local listings for airtimes, and check our TV category for our previous posts about the show.

It took us a couple of days past the end of the month, but we have officially added 1000 new quotations to the website. I would like to take a moment and thank the following people for making this possible:

• The writing team of Animal Crossing: Wild World for making that video game so incredibly funny and quotable.

• Chuck Palahniuk for writing the incredibly quotable Invisible Monsters.

• All the people who contributed quotations to our Contribute A Quotation section during December 2005 to February 2006. That’s how backlogged we are going through that list, but there were some of you out there who really know how to contribute a quote.

Adding 1000 quotations to our website was a lofty goal, but we were able to achieve it with only a couple extra days. Next time we do this, it will be during a month where there are no holidays and no travel plans. Until then, enjoy our collections!

It’s rare when I get more than one or two quotes from a book, but I got twenty-three great quotes from Invisible Monsters by Chuck Palahniuk. From the author of Fight Club, Invisible Monsters is a convoluted story about a beautiful fashion model who is grossly mutilated in an accident. With half her face missing, she meets a drag queen one operation away from gender reassignment at her speech therapist. While our heroine is learning how to say consonants without her lower jaw, Brandy teaches her how to get past the past and look to her future.

Sounds like a great story, doesn’t it?

Don’t expect anything cheesy and heart warming from the author of Fight Club. It’s hard to feel sorry for a spoiled super-model dealing with the remains of her perfect face, but somehow Chuck makes us like her and hate her at the same time. Her best friend who ran off with her boyfriend are another pair that you want to hate, but end up understanding. And Brandy? Well, you just have to meet Brandy to understand her.

Here are some of my favorite quotes from the book:

Here are all the quotes from Invisible Monsters:

• Invisible Monsters Quotations – The Quotations Page