A Few Of My Favorite Things

Our favorite things say a lot about us. At a certain point I started recording my favorites in a list so that I don’t forget them or confuse them.

Art
- Visual Art
  - Genre
    - Pixel Art
  - Painter
    - Mark Maggiori
  - Pixel Artist
    - Jubilee
- Music
  - Band:
    - Of Monsters and Men
      - Jethro Tull
      - Emerson Lake and Palmer
      - Creedance Clearwater Revival
      - Nickel Creek
      - Crosby Stills Nash and Young
      - Simon and Garfunkel
      - Yes
      - Saint Motel
  - Track:
    - This Side, Nickel Creek
  - Solo Artist:
    - P!nk
- Works
  - Architecture:
    - Marrin County Civic Center
  - Cinematography:
    - The Secret Life of Walter Mitty
      - Cyrano De Bergerac
      - Meet The Robinsons
      - Project Hail Mary
  - Literature:
    - Atlas Shrugged
  - Music (See other section)
  - Television
    - Sitcom
      - Seinfeld
Organisms
- Flower:
  - Chicory
- Tree:
  - Weeping Willow
- People
  - Hero (Life Specialist)
    - Joe Lstiburek
      - Alex Epstein
      - Timothy Sandefur
      - Conan O’Brien
      - Michael Stevens
      - Dolly Parton
  - Guy/Gal (Life Generalist)
    - Arthur Zey
  - Person
    - [Redacted]
  - Actor/Actress
    - John Lithgow
  - Comedian
    - Norm MacDonald
  - Character
    - Bert (Mary Poppins)
    - Disney Princess
      - Tiana
  - YouTuber:
    - Technology Connections
      - Styropyro
  - Streamer:
    - ExtraEmily
  - Author
    - Ayn Rand
  - Athlete
    - Roger Federer
  - Architect
    - Frank Lloyd Wright
- Animal
  - Jackrabbit
    - Owl
    - Naked Mole Rat
Game
- Title
  - Portal 2
    - Skyrim
    - Minecraft
    - DotA2
    - Tetris
- Genre
  - Sandbox
Food
- Apple
  - Macintosh
- Fruit
  - Strawberry
- Snack
  - Fig Newtons
Color:
- Aqua
  - Cyan
  - Turquoise
  - Teal
  - Red
  - Salmon
Word:
- Ostensibly
  - Cavalcade
  - Concatenate
  - Adequate
  - Reticent
  - Biforcated
  - Diatribe
  - Venerate
  - Isolate
  - Battery
Dance
- West Coast Swing
Boy Name
- Calcifer
  - Lucifer
  - Sandefur
  - Domager
  - Atticus
  - Salvador
  - Balthazar
  - Remington (Remi)
  - Ernest (Ernie)
  - Theodore
  - Leonard (Leo)
  - Archibald
  - Asmodeus
  - Otto (Taken)
  - Howard
  - Walter
Girl Name
- Charlotte (Charli)
  - Emma
  - Wren
  - Maxine (Max)
  - Gwen
  - Harriet
  - Petra
  - Lucy
Element
- Copper
Computer Program
- Microsoft Excel
  - MS Paint
  - Snipping Tool
  - Keypass
  - Muse.AI
  - Notion
Sports Team
- Alliance

Favorite Quotes — Click to expand (22 quotes)

Ayn Rand
- There’s nothing of any important in life except how well you do your work. Only that. Whatever else you are will come from that. It’s the only measure of human value.
- James, you ought to discover some day that words have an exact meaning.
Fifth Guy
- I mean that’s a free patty…
Phil Hartman
- This is the part of the job I hate.
Cyrano
- Happy? I’m going to be a storm. A flame! I want to fight whole armies all alone! I have ten hearts. I have a hundred arms! I feel too strong to war with mortals—bring me giants! (Cyrano de Bergerac, 1950 film (Jose Ferrer))
Reese
- And then I saw something shiny, and I put it in my shiny things box.
Peter Zirbel
- Speed Kills
- You have a formidable intellect. Use it for good, not for evil.
Ulfric Stormcloak
- Let the Dragonborn do it. It will make for a better song. (Skyrim)
Seamus Riley
- Do your crying but do it at night.
- All one needs to judge the quality of an architect is to look at the quality of his stairway.
- We cannot always trust people, but we can always trust people to be the people that they are.
George Washington
- Whenever one man is found sufficient to the discharge of a duty it is worse done by two persons and scarcely done at all if three or more are employed therein.
Oscar Wilde
- I don’t want to go to heaven. None of my friends are there.
Leonard Peikoff
- Assume that, having chosen to be in focus, you elect to solve some problem by engaging in a process of thought.
Mr. Krueger
- I’m not too worried about it.
Douglas Adams
- I have to find something else for my whole life to be about.
Daniel Naroditsky
- I would just risk it.
Frozone’s wife
- The greater good? I am your wife. I am the greatest good you are ever gonna get. (The Incredibles)
Neil Bright
- Minimize Surprise
Merce Cunningham
- The only way to do it is to do it. (The Dancer and the Dance (1985), with Jacqueline Lesschaeve)
Earl Parson
- Littler is cuter