Jonathan Heckman:
CLASS OF 1995
Lincoln East High SchoolClass of 1995
Lincoln, NE
Pyrtle Elementary SchoolClass of 1989
Lincoln, NE
Jonathan's Story
Jonathan is from Omaha, Nebraska. Jonathan's schools include Lincoln East High School, Pyrtle Elementary School.
Music Jonathan likes includes No Good & The Deeds, Flogging Molly, Queen. Books Jonathan likes include The Sirens of Titan, Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance, School Is Hell. Movies Jonathan likes include Old School, Napoleon Dynamite, The Goonies. TV shows Jonathan likes include Making Our Way: Autism - featuring Temple Grandin, That '70s Show (Official), Cheers.
One of Jonathan's favorite quotes is:""It is the mark of an educated mind to be able to entertain a thought without accepting it." -- Aristotle
"E-mailing is not communicating until you get a reply. And if you really want a reply quickly, you don't just wait a day or two and send a 'Didn't you get my e-mail?' No, you can instant message the easy way, and call the person on the phone. And it's amazing how this works in the digital age. You ask somebody a question on the phone, they answer you! Instantly! And then you can even ask them another question. I can't believe that we've gotten so sophisticatedly stupid, we can't figure that out anymore!" -- Jello Biafra, "American Idle", In the Grip of Official Treason (2006)
"[Spirit guide] Francine did say that anyone who comes to this planet is the bravest of the brave and learns faster than anywhere else because this is the insane asylum of the universe. The older I get, and the more I see and hear, the more I know in my soul that this is true. But take heart--it just means that those of us who chose to come here were not only courageous, but we also wanted to graduate faster." -- Sylvia Browne, Secrets & Mysteries of the World
"Ride the wild paramecium." -- George Carlin
"Those who dance are considered insane by those who can't hear the music." -- George Carlin
"Regarding the fitness craze: America has lost its soul; now it's trying to save its body." -- George Carlin
"The Chinese have a saying: On a journey of a thousand miles, 512 is a little more than half." -- George Carlin
"We are not human beings on a spiritual journey. We are spiritual beings on a human journey." -- Stephen Covey
"The intelligent man always fights for the lost cause, realizing all others are merely effects." -- E. E. Cummings
"Minds are like parachutes. They only function when they are open." -- Sir James Dewar, scientist
"Great spirits have always encountered violent opposition from mediocre minds." -- Albert Einstein
"Everybody is a genius. But if you judge a fish by its ability to climb a tree, it will live its whole life believing that it is stupid." -- Albert Einstein
"Horse sense is the thing a horse has which keeps it from betting on people." -- W. C. Fields
"Being ignorant is not so much a shame as being unwilling to...Expand for more
learn." -- Benjamin Franklin
"One characteristic of cults is that they strongly believe they alone are right in their beliefs and everyone else is wrong." -- Billy Graham
"I've had it. Sixteen years of poundin' my head against the, uh, mentality of America, which I ascribe to about, I'd say it's about an eighth-grade emotional level that we're at, as a country." -- Bill Hicks
"Sociability is just a big smile and a big smile is nothing but teeth." -- Jack Kerouac, The Dharma Bums (1958)
"If everyone demanded peace instead of another television set, there'd be peace." -- John Lennon
"Oofa!" -- Johnny Lightning
"A person's true wealth is the good he or she does in the world." -- Mohammed
"THEY CAME FIRST for the Communists,
and I didn't speak up because I wasn't a Communist.
THEN THEY CAME for the Jews,
and I didn't speak up because I wasn't a Jew.
THEN THEY CAME for the trade unionists,
and I didn't speak up because I wasn't a trade unionist.
THEN THEY CAME for me
and by that time no one was left to speak up." -- Pastor Martin Niemöller
"Without music, life would be a mistake." -- Friedrich Nietzsche
"He that would make his own liberty secure must guard even his enemy from oppression; for if he violates this duty he establishes a precedent that will reach to himself." -- Thomas Paine
"Those who do not learn from history are doomed to repeat it." -- George Santayana
"Be who you are, and say what you feel, because those who mind don't matter, and those who matter don't mind." -- Dr. Seuss
"We are all a little weird and life's a little weird, and when we find someone whose weirdness is compatible with ours, we join up with them and fall in mutual weirdness and call it love." -- Dr. Seuss
"De gustavus non dis putandum." -- Woods Stricklin
"When we remember we are all mad, the mysteries disappear and life stands explained." -- Mark Twain
"Politicians are like diapers. They both need changing often and for the same reason!" -- Mark Twain
"Experience is the toughest teacher--she gives you the test first and the lesson last." -- Anonymous
"Once the game is over, the king and the pawn go back in the same box." -- Anonymous
"You don't have to pass an IQ test to be in the Senate." -- Mark Pryor (R) Arkansas speaking to Bill Maher in "Religulous"
“The practical success of an idea, irrespective of its inherent merit, is dependent on the attitude of the contemporaries. If timely it is quickly adopted; if not, it is apt to fare like a sprout lured out of the ground by warm sunshine, only to be injured and retarded in its growth by the succeeding frost.” -- Nikola Tesla
"Don't try to be a great man. Just be a man, and let history judge the rest." -- Unknown
"Your opinion means as much to me as my facts mean to you." -- Unknown".
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