Words...Words...Words

Thought I'd kick off this rant with a little Hamlet. I want to give a little love to some of my favorite lines or song bits.

1. Tori: "Wrapped in your papoose, you little fig newton." "She's your cocaine, she's got you shaving your legs." "Just a hang up call and the quiet breathing of our Persian we call Cajun on a Wednesday." "Racing turtles, the grapefruit is winning."

2. Jason Mraz: "Let's get set then, to go then, and let us jet set, we can be the Jetsons. You can be Jane my wife, should I marry Jane tonight?"

3. Joni Mitchell: "Applause, applause. Life is our cause, when I think of your kisses my mind see saws."

4. e.e. cummings: "No one not even the rain has such small hands."

5. Glen Campbell: "And I need you more than want you and I want you for all time." (Brilliant).

6.Julia Roberts: "I appreciate this whole seduction thing you got going here but let me tell you something--I'm a sure thing."

7. Cold Sassy Tree: "Life is like pouring water into a Coke bottle, you can't do it if you're scared."  * it might be living instead of life

8.Some Like it Hot: the last line of the movie when Jack Lemmon takes off his wig and says "I'm a man" and the guy shrugs and says "Nobody's perfect."

9. Rob Reiner's mom in When Harry Met Sally: "I'll have what she's having."

10. If These Walls Could Speak: this has been my favorite song for 21 or 22 years...I love every word and every note but if I had to extract one small section it would be this part:

"If these walls could speak, they would tell you that I owe you, more than I could ever pay, here's someone who really loves you, don't ever go away. That's what these walls would say."

(Just a side note...Jimmy Webb, the songwriter of "If These Walls..." also wrote the lyric in #5 for "Wichita Lineman." And he wrote these songs when he was only 21 years old!)