emotion
jubilation
"I am glad to learn my friend that you had not yet submitted yourself to any of the mouldy laws of Literature."
-John Muir
"My candle burns at both ends; It will not last the night; But ah, my foes, and oh, my friends - It gives a lovely light"
-Edna St. Vincent Millay
celebration
Calvin: You can’t just turn on creativity like a faucet. You have to be in the right mood.
Hobbes: What mood is that?
Calvin: Last-minute panic.
jovial
(I think I've used this somewhere)
"So heaven meets earth like a sloppy wet kiss, and my heart turns violently inside of my chest, I don't have time to maintain these regrets, when I think about, the way....He loves us..."
http://youtube.com/watch?v=5xXowT4eJjY
Santa Clause
"I don't know whether your grasp of theology or meteorology is more appalling.
I guess I'll go light some candles around the tobaggon and beg for mercy."
~Bill Watterson
"In certain times, trying times, desperate times, profanity offers a relief denied even to prayer."
~Mark Twain
"A melancholy-looking man, he had the appearance of someone who had searched for the leak in life's gas pipe with a lighted candle"
~P.G. Wodehouse
dr pepper
suicides...not the act but the drink you get by combining several different kinds of pop, does anyone call it that anymore? Does anyone know what I'm talking about?
the luminous grass of the prairie hides
feet lovely and still as sleeping doves,
porcelain bones strong enough to carry a life,
but weighty and unmovable
As black Dakota hills. ~ Riesa
sorry idril, i have never heard of that use of the term. Sounds interesting.
office buildings
I declare after all there is no enjoyment like reading! How much sooner one tires of anything than of a book! When I have a house of my own, I shall be miserable if I have not an excellent library.
Jane Austen, Pride and Prejudice
Pirate Ships (Monty Python on the brain right now)
idril...absolutely...my son used to do that when he was younger..eewww...every drink i sampled was awful...
treasure