Real Name: JFS
Age: 16
Gender: Boy trapped inside a boy's body
Sexual Orientation: Straight as an arrow
Hobbies: Leading coups, overthrowing governments(No, I'm just kidding. One day, though.), climbing the small mountain behind my house, sports sports sports, exploring the teacher's lounge at school(Okay I've never been inside. No kid has but I'm gonna be the first one if it's the last thing I do.), speaking out through the school newspaper against my evil dean(we'll call him Mr. X). I almost got him arrested one time but unfortunately it didn't work out(Darn lunchladies). Oh, yeah, and writing.
Fav Books: Jungle Books 1 and 2, Treasure Island, Kidnapped, Hunter
Fav Authors: Rudyard Kipling(My top fav author of all time. If you've never read the poem If, google it. You'd better, too. I'm not playing with you.), Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, me, of course, J.A. Hunter, Homer, Paul Du Chaillu (I hope I spelled it right), Martin Johnson, Zane Grey, Robert Louis Stevenson, R.L. Stine, and a couple others.
Fav Music: Everything. I kind of like The Zombies, Chicago, The Guess Who, The Who, ACDC, The Clash, and Kanye West best.
Fav Quotes:
Now there's a lot of these, so bear with me.
Martin Van Buren
"As to the presidency, the two happiest days of my life were those of my entrance upon the office and my surrender of it."
"The government should not be guided by Temporary Excitement, but by Sober Second Thought."
"The less government interferes with private pursuits, the better for general prosperity."
"The people under our system, like the king in a monarchy, never dies."
Theodore Roosevelt
"A man who has never gone to school may steal from a freight car; but if he has a university education, he may steal the whole railroad."
"A man who is good enough to shed his blood for his country is good enough to be given a square deal afterwards.
"A thorough knowledge of the Bible is worth more than a college education."
"A vote is like a rifle; its usefulness depends upon the character of the user."
"Absence and death are the same - only that in death there is no suffering."
"Believe you can and you're halfway there."
Big jobs usually go to the men who prove their ability to outgrow small ones."
"Courtesy is as much a mark of a gentleman as courage."
"Do what you can, with what you have, where you are."
"Don't hit at all if it is honorably possible to avoid hitting; but never hit softly."
"Get action. Seize the moment. Man was never intended to become an oyster."
"Great thoughts speak only to the thoughtful mind, but great actions speak to all mankind."
"I am a part of everything that I have read."
"I am only an average man but, by George, I work harder at it than the average man."
"I care not what others think of what I do, but I care very much about what I think of what I do! That is character!"
"I think there is only one quality worse than hardness of heart and that is softness of head."
"If there is not the war, you don't get the great general; if there is not a great occasion, you don't get a great statesman; if Lincoln had lived in a time of peace, no one would have known his name."
"If you could kick the person in the pants responsible for most of your trouble, you wouldn't sit for a month."
"In any moment of decision, the best thing you can do is the right thing, the next best thing is the wrong thing, and the worst thing you can do is nothing."
"It is hard to fail, but it is worse never to have tried to succeed."
"Leave it as it is. The ages have been at work on it and man can only mar it."
"Never throughout history has a man who lived a life of ease left a name worth remembering."
"No man is worth his salt who is not ready at all times to risk his well-being, to risk his body, to risk his life, in a great cause."
"No people is wholly civilized where a distinction is drawn between stealing an office and stealing a purse."
"Nobody cares how much you know, until they know how much you care."
"Obedience of the law is demanded; not asked as a favor."
"Some men can live up to their loftiest ideals without ever going higher than a basement."
"Speak softly and carry a big stick; you will go far."
"The one thing I want to leave my children is an honorable name."
"The only man who makes no mistakes is the man who never does anything."
"The only time you really live fully is from thirty to sixty. The young are slaves to dreams; the old servants of regrets. Only the middle-aged have all their five senses in the keeping of their wits."
"The pacifist is as surely a traitor to his country and to humanity as is the most brutal wrongdoer."
"To educate a man in mind and not in morals is to educate a menace to society."
"When they call the roll in the Senate, the Senators do not know whether to answer "Present" or 'Not guilty.'"
"When you are asked if you can do a job, tell 'em, 'Certainly I can!' Then get busy and find out how to do it."
"When you play, play hard; when you work, don't play at all."
"With self-discipline most anything is possible."
John F. Kennedy
"A man may die, nations may rise and fall, but an idea lives on."
Duke Ellington
"A man is a god in ruins."
"A problem is a chance for you to do your best."
"Gray skies are just clouds passing over."
"I merely took the energy it takes to pout and wrote some blues."
"Love is supreme and unconditional; like is nice but limited."
"There are two kinds of worries - those you can do something about and those you can't. Don't spend any time on the latter."
"You've got to find some way of saying it without saying it."
F. Scott Fitzgerald
"A big man has no time really to do anything but just sit and be big."
"Action is character."
"All good writing is swimming under water and holding your breath."
"Cut out all these exclamation points. An exclamation point is like laughing at your own joke."
"For awhile after you quit Keats all other poetry seems to be only whistling or humming."
"I'm a romantic; a sentimental person thinks things will last, a romantic person hopes against hope that they won't."
"I've been drunk for about a week now, and I thought it might sober me up to sit in a library."
"Never confuse a single defeat with a final defeat."
"No grand idea was ever born in a conference, but a lot of foolish ideas have died there."
"Nothing is as obnoxious as other people's luck."
"Speech is an arrangement of notes that will never be played again."
"To write it, it took three months; to conceive it three minutes; to collect the data in it all my life."
"What'll we do with ourselves this afternoon? And the day after that, and the next thirty years?"
"You don't write because you want to say something, you write because you have something to say."
Jules Verne
"Liberty is worth paying for."
"We may brave human laws, but we cannot resist natural ones."
Jack London
"Darn the wheel of the world! Why must it continually turn over? Where is the reverse gear?"
"I would rather be a superb meteor, every atom of me in magnificent glow, than a sleepy and permanent planet."
"Life is not a matter of holding good cards, but sometimes, playing a poor hand well."
"San Francisco is gone. Nothing remains of it but memories."
"The proper function of man is to live, not to exist. I shall not waste my days in trying to prolong them. I shall use my time."
"You can't wait for inspiration. You have to go after it with a club."
Ernest Hemingway
"A man can be destroyed but not defeated."
Rudyard Kipling
"A woman's guess is much more accurate than a man's certainty."
"Asia is not going to be civilized after the methods of the West. There is too much Asia and she is too old."
"Borrow trouble for yourself, if that's your nature, but don't lend it to your neighbors."
"Down to Gehenna, or up to the Throne, He travels the fastest who travels alone."
"I have struck a city - a real city - and they call it Chicago... I urgently desire never to see it again. It is inhabited by savages."
"I always prefer to believe the best of everybody, it saves so much trouble."
"If history were taught in the form of stories, it would never be forgotten."
"Never look backwards or you'll fall down the stairs."
"The silliest woman can manage a clever man; but it needs a very clever woman to manage a fool."
"We have forty million reasons for failure, but not a single excuse."
Wanna hear a true story? So one time in my quest to overthrow the second ruler(Mr. X-AKA Dean of school) of the Kingdom of School, our lone hero(Me!), ws sitting in Spanish Class, done with his work and dreaming of a more adventurous life. When all at once, he sat up in his seat. He looked to the window, then to his Spanish Teacher, then back to the window(Savior! Amen!). He climbed out of his seat and onto the floor, where he crawled through the perilous Disgusting Forest of Desks and Bored Kids. He crawled over gum wrappers and paper balls, narrowly avoided swinging feet, and even found a treasure in the form of a dollar. He finally reached the extremely hot volcano of School Heater, where he climbed up and over, and out the window! He raced across the dreaded Courtyard, where security guards can pick escaping kids off with sniper rifles and dove into the School Garden, where there are Huge Ugly Plants and BUGS. Then, Mr. X saw him. Our hero ran for his life, but the evil Mr. X was too fast. He caught him and sent him to...The Office. The dreaded ground zero of school. Then I got detention. The End. I told you it was true. (Hmmm, I wonder what I'll do to Mr. X to pay him back for that. he he he...)
One note for all you thrill seekers. Check out my rpgs. They're all in the forums list. One is Revolutionary War rpg, one is Blood Creek rpg. It takes place in Montana in the Old West era. There's a couple others, too.
Anyway, check out my stories or you'll miss out on amazing adventures that only the lucky can experience. But be warned, you're in for scares, thrills, and a wild ride. Hey, maybe you can even tell your friends about it. If you survive...
FictionPress.com - let the words flow
United States