I. Frost's Selected Quotations

Loving is touching souls.
A Case Of You

The times you impress me the most are the times when you don't try.
Woman Of Heart And Mind

A few drinks later you're not so choosy when the closing lights strip off the shadows on this strange new flesh you've found.
Down To You

We call for the three great stimulants of the exhausted ones, artifice, brutality, and innocence.
The Three Great Stimulants

Caught in the devil's bargain, and we've got to get ourselves back to the garden.
Joni Mitchell; Crosby, Stills, Nash, and Young, Woodstock

Everybody's saying hell's the hippest way to go. Well, I don't think so, but I'm gonna take a look around it though.
Blue

Fear is the wilderland, stepping stones or sinking sand.
I Think I Understand

Something's lost, but something's gained, in living everyday.
Joni Mitchell; Judy Collins, Both Sides Now

Applause, applause, life is our cause.
All I Want

Let light hearts remake us.
Stay In Touch

You win the lasting laurels with your laughter.
Roses Blue

We are star dust, we are golden, and we've got to get ourselves back to the garden.
Joni Mitchell; Crosby, Stills, Nash, and Young, Woodstock

He saw my complications and he mirrored me back simplified, and we laughed how our perfect world would always be denied.
Refuge Of The Roads

Heart and humor and humility, he said will lighten up your heavy load.
Refuge Of The Roads

The Hollywood sirens are shreiking, while down some search lit alley runs some lost belief.
The Windfall

Woke up, it was a Chelsea morning, and the first thing that I knew there was milk and toast and honey and a bowl of oranges, too.
Chelsea Morning

Bows and flows of angel hair and ice cream castles in the air and feather canyons everywhere, I've looked at clouds that way.
Joni Mitchell; Judy Collins, Both Sides Now

Does the moon play only silver when it strums the galaxy?
Songs To Aging Children Come

Moons and Junes and Ferris wheels, the dizzy dancing way you feel. As every fairy tale comes real, I've looked at love that way.
Joni Mitchell; Judy Collins, Both Sides Now

During times like these, the wise are influential.
Banquet

Lord, there's danger in this land, you get witch hunts and wars when church and state hold hands.
Tax Free

The land of litigation, the courts are like game shows. Take what's behind the curtain the jury cries.
The Windfall

The pirate he will sink you with a kiss, he'll steal your heart and sail away.
The Pirate Of Penance

Some turn to Jesus and some turn to heroin.
Banquet

Fly silly sea bird, no dreams can possess you, no voices can blame you for sun on your wings.
Song To A Seagull

I don't know who I am, but life is for learning.
Joni Mitchell; Crosby, Stills, Nash, and Young, Woodstock

We'll laugh and toast to nothing, and smash our empty glasses down.
Carey

We're captive on the carousel of time, we can't return we can only look behind.
The Circle Game

The only thing I have to give to make you smile, to win you with, are all the mornings still to live.
Morning Morningtown

They used to laugh at me when I refused to ride on all those double decker buses, all because there was no driver on the top.
Twisted

I could drink a case of you.
A Case Of You

I'm drinking champagne, got the head phones up high, can't numb you out.
This Flight Tonight

Inside your own self pity there you swim, in sinking down to drown her voice still haunts you, and only with your laughter can you win.
Roses Blue

You feed it all your woes, the ghostly garden grows.
Nathan La Franeen

Some get the gravy, some get the gristle.
Banquet

He's swept with the broom of contempt and the rooms have an empty ring.
I Had A King

We love our loving, but not like we love our freedom.
Help Me

She'll prophesy your death. She won't say when.
Roses Blue

They took all the trees and put them in a tree museum.
Big Yellow Taxi

A little lawyer on the tube, he said, its so easy now, anyone can sue.
The Three Great Stimulants

Heaven's full of astronauts and the Lord's on death row.
The Same Situation

Innocence is drowned in anarchy. The best lack conviction given time to think, and the worst are full of passion without mercy.
Slouching Toward Bethlehem

I dreamed I saw the bombers riding shot gun in the sky and they were turning into butterflies above our nation.
Joni Mitchell; Crosby, Stills, Nash, and Young; Woodstock

Elusive dreams and vague desires fanned to fiery needs by deadly deeds of falling empires.
Fiction

Sex sells everything and sex kills.
Sex Kills

They paved paradise and put up a parking lot with a pink hotel, a boutique, and a swinging hot spot.
Big Yellow Taxi

Things fall apart, the center cannot hold, and a blood dimmed tide is loose upon the world. Nothing is sacred, the ceremonious souls, innocense is drowned in anarchy.
Slouching Towards Bethlehem

I've looked at life from both sides now, from win and lose and still somehow, it's life's illusions I recall, I really don't know life at all.
Joni Mitchell; Judy Collins, Both Sides Now