I split it with myself.[9/6/2001, after telling her I split a snickers bar with Carly.]Scott:
I'm going to flush this spider.
Gillie:No.
Scott:Why not?
Gillie:Because he's special.
Mommy doesn't like peppers because they hiccup her.Gillie:
Is that a peapod, Mommy?
Kathy:Yes.
Gillie:Is there pee in there?Scott:
What if Carly had been born first?
Gillie:But I decided to come out first.
You're washing my guts[12/21/2001, age 3, while Kathy was washing Gillie's belly.]
I'm being careful so I don't get overrun by a car.[5/4/2002, in the parking lot at Einstein's Bagels.][Gillie naming planets she knows]
Mercury, Saturn, Pluto, and Margarine.[11/06/2002]
I can feel my heart beeping.[01/30/2003]Scott:
I had snow peas with my lunch today.
Gillie [to Carly]:Daddy likes them because there's snow in the peas.[03/25/2003]Kathy:
I see a grey Beetle car.
Gillie:No, it's a black Beetle car.
Kathy:No, it's grey.
Gillie:It's black.
Kathy:It's grey.
Gillie:It's light black.
[6/6/2003]Gillie [to Scott before stepping into the shower]:
Why are you wearing your bathing suit?
Scott:Because you're too old now to be seeing naked men.
Gillie:But I like to see naked men.
[6/24/2003]
This tastes good. It tastes like sand.[11/17/03, after tasting some cotton candy.]Carly and Gillie were discussing what to wear the next day. Carly wanted to wear a sun dress. Gillie objected that it was going to be "a hundred below zero — you'll need a sweater." [05/19/2004]
[To Scott]
Your tongue looks old.[08/14/2004]
Scott:Where is your cranium?
Gillie:Oh, it's up there on the shelf.[12/7/2004]
If there were letters coming out of your mouth they'd be exclamation marks.[12/7/2004]
May I please be extinct?[2/3/2005, after finishing dinner]
Farewell, my little beans.[5/2/2005, just before eating her baked beans]
The clouds have to go to the bathroom.[5/22/2005, while looking up at rain clouds]
You can't be in the middle of nowhere. You are always somewhere.[7/26/2005]
Don't keep me in suspension![12/20/2005]Scott:
We might have to postpone the slumber party.
Gillie:Then I'll have to postpone my love for you.[4/6/2006]
Kittens last longer.[7/22/2006]
Shadow's never done anyone a favor in her whole life.[8/13/2006]
Little ones [German Shepherds] are cute but big ones are useful.[3/23/2007]
A pantyho would make a good cat toy.[11/4/2007]
Most [garden] statues are of frogs. Or naked people.[1/20/2008]
He's not a Mister; he's just a person.[3/28/2009][Found on the cover of a notebook]
This opens the world to our destiny. But please keep the door shut.[5/22/2009]Scott:
I'm going as all 3 Jonas brothers for Halloween.
Gillie:How can you fit that much ugly on one person?[10/22/2009]
[To Carly, who was covering up Nigel]
You're blocking his light...and his dignity.[12/22/2009]
Kathy:Carly, what's your favorite fruit?
Carly:Crackers.[7/14/2002]Scott:
How much do you weigh?
Carly:3 o'clock.[7/31/2002]Scott [While reading mouse book]
I'm eating the mouse's cookies.
Carly:I eat the mouse's cookies.
Scott:I'm eating 2 cookies.
Carly:I eat 2 cookies.
Scott:I'm eating 3 cookies.
Carly:I eat the mouse!
[8/5/2002]
I locked the door so the dark won't come in.[10/13/2002, while getting in the car at night.]Kathy:
Lie down and close your eyes.
Carly:But they keep popping out.
[12/22/2002]
Stop whiskering me![05/15/2003, while getting her face rubbed by Scott's scruffy cheeks.]Alphabet toy:
What letter does ukelele start with?
Carly [to toy]:I don't know what that is.
[6/17/2003]
You know, the more you grow, the older you get.[8/9/2003]
I can still color since I'm not an adult yet, right?[10/11/2003]
Rabbit today, gone tomorrow.[11/14/2003, meaning to say "Hare today, gone tomorrow"]
Little persons get up before big persons.[11/16/2003]Scott:
How come you have one hair hanging down in the middle of your [fore]head?
Carly:Because that's my bang.[11/24/2003]Carly:
I'm eating my tongue.
Kathy:What does it taste like?
Carly:Chicken.[11/27/2003]Scott:
Why are you sitting in the refrigerator?
Carly:Because I'm hot so I'm colding up.[1/12/2004]Carly:
You know what I'm going to name my babies someday? Lisa and Rosebud.
Scott:But what if you have boys?
Carly:Then I'll name them Tom and ... Thomas!
Scott:But those are the same name, how will you tell them apart?
Carly:Well, maybe their hair will be different.
Scott:Do you know how I tell you and Gillie apart?
Carly:Gillie has more money than me?[02/05/2004]Scott:
Why doesn't Shadow [the cat] understand English?
Carly:Maybe she only understands Spanish.[02/07/2004]Scott:
They had carrot cake at work today.
Carly:Carrot cake is good.
Scott:Oh, you've had it?
Carly:No, but it sounds good.[05/07/2004]
Snap, crap, and zap.[05/20/2004, explaining what the Rice Krispies characters names are.]
I am leaving this place before I get killed.[05/31/2004, upon seeing a hawk up in a tree.]
Let me show you what I heard.[05/31/2004]
I am smart. Smarter than a tack.[06/04/2004]
Sometimes we like to pretend that our teachers are food we have to eat.[06/24/2004]
I really am paying attention but my elbow isn't.[After knocking over her drink, 07/04/04]
Gillie:My tooth is getting looser.
Carly:Want me to kick you in the face again?
Gillie:Okay![07/19/2004]Carly:
Gillie, do you think we could have a secret meeting sometime?
Gillie:When? Where? How?
Carly:Umm, tomorrow, in the bathroom, in our pajamas.[10/2/2004]
Excuse me, I'm going to break something.[10/4/2004]Scott:
How do butterflies help us?
Carly:By being pretty.[10/5/2004]
Hey, look at those cheese breasts![After seeing someone wearing a cheese bra on the TV at the Packers game, 10/24/2004]Scott:
What do I have to do to get some of that popsicle?
Carly:Well, if you want it, the next place it will be is the toilet.[10/2004]Scott:
Tomorrow is hump day.
Carly:Then we'd better put our flag out![11/9/2004]Scott:
I have to get those knots out of your hair.
Carly:Stop, Daddy, those are just decorations.[11/11/2004]
My throat is as dry as a wet hen.[1/21/2005]
Guess what! I know where Chicken is. I mean, Turkey [the country].[3/29/2005]
How about you do the hearing and I do the smelling?[8/5/2005][While dangling a toy in front of Shadow, the cat]
Look at Shadow, she's ready to prance.[10/5/2005]
Is there dognip?[12/7/2005, wondering if the feline equivalent exists for dogs]
I can't remember if it was today or tomorrow when I saw Nigel.[6/2006]
Scott:
You need to eject the tape from the VCR.
Carly:But I don't even know how to deject something.[12/10/2006]Scott:
If you want water, you can get it. Your legs aren't broken.
Carly:Well, your legs aren't broken, either, and you're closer.[12/24/2006]
Try this. It really hurts![1/11/2007][Carly, to Scott]
Dude, I'm glad you invented me. Sometimes it feels so great to be alive![3/25/2007]
Is your grandmom your mom's mom or your dad's dad?[7/11/2007]
I felt it clear as crystal.[9/24/2007]
Do you want to start at the beginning or the end?[10/30/2007][Excitedly trying to tell Gillie to swerve/move while watching her play a video game]
Swoove![2/2008][Speaking about Shadow]
Her fatness makes her even cuter.[6/21/2008]
Scott [referring to a snack]:
That woman has chicken fingers.
Carly:Dude, that's not a very nice thing to say.[8/22/2008]
He missed it by a chicken neck.[1/4/2009]
You're dumber than a doorknob.[3/5/2009]
Kathy:
Don't eat all that candy in one sitting.
Carly:Yeah, I know, or it will go to *my* sitting.[2/21/2010]
Throw another barbie on the grill.[9/18/2010]
Sink, line, and hooker.[9/4/2011]Carly:
You remind me of your dad.
Scott:How so?
Carly:Because you think every girl you see on TV is Miley Cyrus just like he does.
Scott:You know who *you* remind me of?
Carly:Who?
Scott:Miley Cyrus.[12/19/2011]
A lawn is nature under totalitarian rule.- Michael Pollan
Human history becomes more and more a race between education and catastrophe.- H.G. Wells
Champions are made from something they have deep inside them — a desire, a dream, a vision. They have to have last-minute stamina, they have to be a little faster, they have to have the skill and the will. But the will must be stronger than the skill.— Muhammad Ali
My grandfather once told me that there are two kinds of people: those who work and those who take the credit. He told me to try to be in the first group; there was less competition there.— Indira Gandhi (1917-1984)
Unless it produces action, information is overhead.
Don't confuse activity with process.
Animals are my friends and I don't eat my friends.— George Bernard Shaw
Be the change you want to see in the world.— Gandhi
Technology is dominated by two types of people: those who understand what they do not manage, and those who manage what they do not understand.(Putt's Law)
Everytime you spend money, you're casting a vote for the kind of world you want.— Anna Lappe
Build a man a fire and he'll stay warm for a day. Set a man on fire and he'll stay warm the rest of his life.— Unknown
The mission of the Jewish people has never been to make the world more Jewish, but to make it more human.— Holocaust survivor and Nobel Laureate Elie Wiesel
Vegetarians and vegans are not morally superior to everyone else. We're simply healthier, and a h*** of a lot better for the environment around us.— Howard Lyman (in "No More Bull!" p. 78)
How we treat the creation reveals how we feel about the creator.- Pastor Rob Bell
Beware, lest you spoil and destroy my world. For if you spoil it there is no one to repair it for you.— Ecclesiastes
If it came from a plant, eat it; if it was made in a plant, don't.— Michael Pollan
There's a schizoid quality to our relationship with animals, in which sentiment and brutality exist side by side. Half the dogs in America will receive Christmas presents this year, yet few of us pause to consider the miserable life of the pig--an animal easily as intelligent as a dog--that becomes the Christmas ham.— Michael Pollan