Findings:

• you can lower your standards, or your pants, but you can't make them love you
• She could run a spiel like nobody's business. She could sell the world and make you wish for more.
• If poetry could describe the way you make me feel, poetry would be illegal. Or anyway I might get arrested.
• it's like something big is happening right in front of us but we can't see it
• I bind these books, but I can't write in them; I just can't
• I may be cold and calculating, but that doesn't make me a computer
• I wish I could upload my brain into Everything
• I Can't Make You Love Me
• You can run, but you can't hide
• Progress is in the reach of all who wish to make it
• The elephant that wished he could fly
• It will only make our insides burn until we are nothing but ash.
• She doesn't know what he sees, but sometimes it makes his face beautiful
• some people touch it, but they can't hold on
• A day like this could make a Transcendentalist out of anyone
• Sometimes I wish I could just not care
• i wish i felt like teaching today, but i just want to be selfish
• I told her I could read her mind, but she didn't believe me. I could tell.
• She could hit four octaves above high-C, but she never performed in public
• My 486 almost runs Debian now, but I can't play Doom!
• She's smarter than me but she's also more quiet, therefore she has no personality which makes me feel better
• They say time makes things easier but only time will tell
• We might not like each other very much afterwards, but at least we'll understand each other.
• We completely understand the public's concern about futuristic robots feeding on the human population, but that is not our mission.
• I'd ask, sure, I'd ask. But then, then you could say no.
• Over time, the metaphor becomes literal. Eventually, we will wish for the figurative meaning, but left with only the chilling reality.
• I wish I could invent shit
• I wish I could bottle you
• I knew enough about him to know his name and what kind of snowball he could make
• I wish I could cry
• Explaining a joke is like dissecting a frog. You understand it better but the frog dies in the process.
• The gun is good. The penis is evil. The penis shoots seeds, and makes new life, and poisons the earth with a plague of men, as once it was. But the gun shoots death, and purifies the earth of the filth of brutals. Go forth and kill!
• Whom the gods wish to destroy, they first make mad
• makes you wonder how you ever felt affection for somebody who could hate you so
• Sure wish I could rise above it
• Oh, no. Look, you've gone and made me optimistic. I was before, but now it is showing.
• "Excuse me, but could you drop your large backpack somewhere else, please?" A (almost) christmas nodermeet in the East End
• Pirates and ninjas: why they should be friends but can't be
• Can't imagine why, but I feel like dancing
• A language full of words she understands, but does not know the sound of, yet.
• The object of war is not to die for your country, but to make the other bastard die for his
• I used to like it, but it makes me sick to the stomach
• but we turn everything we touch to shit; we just can't let beauty stand
• Once and somewhere far away I might have found peace, but now I can't live without this city.
• Why is it bad to make gays bishops, but okay to kill them?
• Any fool with a dick can make a baby but it takes a real man to be a father
• Reality can't be whatever I want it to be, but maybe it's not so clear-cut, you know?
• Take it til you make it, break it if you have to, but don't ever fake it.
• Fluoxetine
• Oh acid, is there anything you can't do?
• You can't make an omelet without killing a few people
• may you make mistakes large enough to learn from, but small enough that they do not destroy you
• I wish you could have met me before I became food
• I wish I had the magic words that could take pain away
• I wish I could speak in code
• I am someone and I wish so much I could help you
• I wish I could eat the salt off of your lost faded lips
• The four-eyed girl could make me cry
• A really good sandwich that ideath could make to take to work with her
• i can't fit it all in but by god, i will keep trying
• You can take the mall out of the ghetto, but you can't take the ghetto out of the mall
• we could make sandwiches
• Make A Wish Foundation
• why she makes her wishes at 7:07
• make a wish
• the multiplicity of detail in time and space is a conspiracy by big universe to make it impossible for us to understand everything
• If I could slip this skin but for a moment
• if you could make an encyclopedia smile
• Seems I might have stolen the blue part of her rainbow, but all I really did was make it bigger, a way bigger blue
• Maybe it's bad manners, but you still can't buy my baby
• I'm sorry, but we can't watch the rest of MacBeth until it is censored
• Music that is either by the Sonic Youth or by some band that is ripping off the Sonic Youth, but you can't tell which
• I can't get published, but this crap can
• Money can't buy happiness but the lack of it can cause a lot of misery
• I will have her forever but I can't touch her
• It's like this train. It can't run anywhere but where its rails take it.
• For to lose I could accept but to surrender I just wept
• i didn't write this, but i wish i had
• But you can't take the Jungle out of the Tiger
• I'm at the station, but I can't get on the train
• I suppose I could have married a World Cup soccer player, but I didn't
• I can't remember when I fell but I love it down here
• You can put your boots in the oven, but that don't make them biscuits.
• I don't believe in God or the soul but these machines can make me cry
• When you can almost recognize her face, but you can't remember her name
• I will make him promises, but not ones I am afraid to break
• I love you but you are not here, oh how my poor heart aches with angst
• before the internet when teen had REAL relationship the boy could look at the girl and judge the diameter of her thorax with his feelers and determine whether the mating ritual could commence but NO MORE. evil woman use her computer sorcery
• Cemeteries are boring, but I can't seem to stay away from this one in particular.
• I wish I cared about the things you cared about but I don't.
• "This sandwich is great, but it could be better if it had tomatoes and also gave me super powers."
• Can't nothin' fail but a try
• I'm beginning to think that nothing I think or say makes sense to anyone but me
• I can slaughter my way through Hell, but I can't kill these feelings for you
• Sticks and stones may break my bones, but words can make me think I deserved it.
• i remember reading this but i can't remember if i liked it or not
• A kiss may not be the truth, but it is what we wish were true
• you can touch the sun but you can't take it with you
• they carry but they do not understand
• You can't make someone love you
• I could never draw but they made me an artist
• I don't know why but I always love episodes without words. like just something about them makes me feel calm or something..
• I can lie to the face of the devil himself, but I can't fool you.
• I can't think of anyone who could appreciate more than me your eyes and your voice
• Americans can't understand Communism
• You can't hire 9 women to make a baby in a month
• You could just pay someone else to LA LA LA I CANT HEAR YOU
• You can't make an omelet without breaking eggs
• I can burn the hearts of the damned, but I can't stop the burning I feel for you
• I wish I could sleep on my back
• A remembrance day I wish I could forget
• I could make a habit out of you
• winning the lottery after realizing that money can't make you happy
• Oh, that it were so simple. That I could just utter those words.
• I wish I could open his eyes
• Then you could make out every time there's a Jewish holiday!
• I wish I could burn like god
• I can't get a girlfriend but my dog has a harem
• I wish when I closed a book I could set it on the shelf and know it was really over
• I used to wish I could dream in black and white
• Her face could make the ocean ache
• Suspended in wonder at a world I could never understand
• I can't even begin to tell you how I feel about certain things for reasons that you may find difficult to understand
• I can get away with murder, but I can't get you out of my head
• You can bear arms, but you can't bare breasts
• no easy love could ever make me feel the same
• you can't change the world, but you can change the facts
• Things on which you can make a wish
• If you see a white horse cross your fingers and make a wish
• If you can't help it, fuck it!
• wish i could show a little soul
• I wish I could tutor art. Maybe next term.
• I had names for all of those places, but I can't remember them
• butt naked
• I'd tell you but then I'd have to kill you
• Words that sound dirty but really aren't
• There is no god but God
• That'd be the butt, Bob
• Friends and lovers, but sometimes just friends
• Butt hinge
• Amazon Gift WIsh List ♥ (registry)
• I may not know anything but I know I'm not American
• But my computer really IS possessed
• Butt crack of dawn
• Lots of MIPS but no I/O
• Things people put up their butts
• Project B.U.T.T.
• I am no doubt moving. The question now is not where, but how. My life changes everyday. Big deal.
• But I digress
• Sorry, but I AM my fucking khakis
• My library books are late, but I don't care
• I died for Beauty -- but was scarce
• Sexist jokes
• Yard Butt
• Figures don't lie, but liars can figure
• Not really by the rules, but...
• No, but I'll have a beer
• Free but worthless shares
• Sticks and stones may break my bones, but words will never hurt me
• Junk mail never has to spell your name right, but important stuff does
• I know you are, but what am I?
• You might be on a diet but you can still look at the menu
• Why mirrors reverse left and right, but not up and down
• I may not have had enough of me but I've had enough of you
• Opposites may attract, but is it a good idea?
• You need a license to have a dog, but any idiot can have a child
• A little Clint Black never killed anybody, but it did evacuate the building.

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