"Music and women I cannot but give way to, whatever my business is."

-Samuel Pepys, English poet

From a movie only I and Roger Ebert liked. I'm convinced the rest of you have bad taste:

"Whenever I get gloomy with the state of the world, I think about the arrivals gate at Heathrow Airport. General opinion's starting to make out that we live in a world of hatred and greed, but I don't see that. It seems to me that love is everywhere. Often it's not particularly dignified or newsworthy, but it's always there - fathers and sons, mothers and daughters, husbands and wives, boyfriends, girlfriends, old friends. When the planes hit the Twin Towers, as far as I know none of the phone calls from the people on board were messages of hate or revenge - they were all messages of love. If you look for it, I've got a sneaky feeling you'll find that love actually is all around."

This is the single best Friendster "About Me" quote I've seen, written by Michelle, one of the most caring and intelligent girls I've ever known:

"Music over silence, prose over poetry, comedy over tragedy, underground over mainstream, tea over coffee, used books over new, recycling over trash, credo over indecision, special dark over milk chocolate, sushi over carpaccio, orange over blue, sneakers over heels, fiddle over violin, jazz over pop, sailing over yachting, Bartley's over In-N-Out, City Lights over the Harvard Bookstore, The NY Post over The Onion, The C-Note over The Blue Note, Rubber Soul over The White Album, the Whitney over the Gugg, Jerry Rice over Steve Young, Ireland over England, Taiwan over China, Heifetz over Stern, Lewis over Freud, national healthcare over the crap we have now, Candlestick over 3-Com, Red Sox over Yankees, Zelda over Mario Bros, Till Eulenspiegel over Zarathustra, Braeburns over Fujis, smiling over laughing, dancing over drinking, writing over reading, #16 over #9, Simpsons over Friends, and Calvin & Hobbes over Charlie Brown & Snoopy." - Michelle Yu