Welcome to Chris Hoctor's Collection of Quotes

When I played in the sandbox, the cat kept covering me up.

He Whom a Dream Hath Possessed HE WHOM a dream hath possessed knoweth no more of doubting, For mist and the blowing of winds and the mouthing of words he scorns; Not the sinuous speech of schools he hears, but a knightly shouting, And never comes darkness down, yet he greeteth a million morns. He whom a dream hath possessed knoweth no more of roaming; All roads and the flowing of waves and the speediest flight he knows, But wherever his feet are set, his soul is forever homing, And going he comes, and coming he heareth a call and goes. He whom a dream hath possessed knoweth no more of sorrow, At death and the dropping of leaves and the fading of suns he smiles, For a dream remembers no past and scorns the desire of a morrow, And a dream in a sea of doom sets surely the ultimate isles. He whom a dream hath possessed treads the impalpable marches, From the dust of the day’s long road he leaps to a laughing star, And the ruin of worlds that fall he views from eternal arches, And rides God’s battlefield in a flashing and golden car.

He has the attention span of a lightning bolt.

"Nothing can now be believed which is seen in a newspaper. Truth itself becomes suspicious by being put into that polluted vehicle. 1807

Washington is a place where politicians don't know which way is up and taxes don't know which way is down.

I feel so miserable without you; it's almost like having you here.

Anyone can do the job when things are going right. In this business we play for keeps.

Ancora imparo

Freedom is known in the context of limitation, which is quite counter-cultural. We live in a culture where we are identified as “consumers,” in a market economy that is constantly alluring us with dissatisfaction, where what is next or what is new is presumed better than what is now. More is more and never enough. The notion that what is, is enough is quite radical, and yet there is a buried treasure to be found in the grace of contentment.

My Hawaiian Dove Shine Honolulu moon Shine on me Help me to forget her Help me to be free But please, Honolulu moon Don’t let me know If she’s with another On the bay at Kaneo My Hawaiian Dove Please come back to me My Hawaiian Dove Return, set me free I Kuhio a Cadillac cow On the big cat Waikiki Come back my dove Return my love to me