Quotes
You say that love is nonsense....I tell
you it is no such thing. For weeks and months it is a steady physical pain, an
ache about the heart, never leaving one, by night or by day; a long strain on
one's nerves like toothache or rheumatism, not intolerable at any one instant,
but exhausting by its steady drain on the strength."
- Henry Adams
"Smooth seas do not make skillful sailors."
- Old African proverb
"A lie would have no sense unless the truth were felt as dangerous."
- Alfred Alder
"I don't want to achieve immortality through my work. I want to achieve it
through not dying."
- Woody Allen
"Whether we will philosophize or we won't philosophize, we must
philosophize."
- Aristotle
"The most exciting phrase to hear in science, the one that heralds new
discoveries, is not 'Eureka!', but 'That's funny...'"
- Isaac Asimov
"How high can you fly with broken wings? Life's a journey - not a
destination, and I just can't tell just what tomorrow brings."(Amazing, Get
a Grip)
"If I can, I'm gonna make you come with me, beacuse here comes the sun and
we'll be chasing all the clouds the way."(Blind Man, Big Ones)
"If you can judge a wise man by the color of his skin, then mister, you're
a better man than I."(Livin' on the Edge, Get a Grip)
"Now there's not even breathin' room between pleasure and pain. Yeah you
cry when we're makin' love, must be one and the same."(Cryin', Get a Grip)
"Seems like we're makin' up more than we're makin' love."(Crazy, Get a
Grip)
"Something right with the world today and everybody knows it's wrong, but
we can tell 'em no, or we could let it go, but I would rather be a hanging
on."(Livin' on the Edge, Get a Grip)
- Aerosmith
"It's easy to play any musical instrument: all you have to do is touch the
right key at the right time and the instrument will play itself."
- J.S. Bach
"The meaning I picked, the one that changed my life: Overcome fear, behold
wonder."
- Richard Bach
"Know from whence you came. If you know whence you came, there are
absolutely no limitations to where you can go."
- James Baldwin
"For adult education nothing beats children."
- Banking
"You're only young once, but you can always be immature."
- Dave Barry.
"It is impossible to make anything foolproof, because fools are so
ingenious."
- Roger Berg
"Hard work never killed anybody, but why take the chance?"
- Edgar Bergen
"All are lunatics, but he who can analyze his delusions is called a
philosopher."
- Ambrose Bilerce
"Chicks dig guys that are queer, guys that don't dig chicks, that don't dig
guys like me, see I'm not queer I'm too ugly." (I Wish I Was Queer So I
Could Get Chicks, One Fierce Beer Coaster)
"I know I'm known as 'Polaroid', I'm not a total retard. It's cause I'm
done in sixty seconds and you'll still want it enlarged." (Why's Everybody
Always Pickin' On Me, One Fierce Beer Coaster)
"I'm hung like planet Pluto hard to see with the naked eye." (Fire
Water Burn, One Fierce Beer Coaster)
"Life's short and hard like a body-building elf so save the planet and kill
yourself." (Lift Your Head Up High, One Fierce Beer Coaster)
"The trick is only pick on those that can't do you no harm, like the
drummer from Def Leppard's only got one arm." (Why's Everybody Always
Pickin' On Me, One Fierce Beer Coaster)
- Bloodhound Gang
"Here's looking at you, kid." (Casablanca, 1942)
"I remember every detail. The Germans wore grey. You wore blue."
(Casablanca, 1942)
"We didn't exactly believe your story, Miss O'Shea, we believed your 200
dollars." (The Maltese Falcon, 1941)
- Humphrey Bogart
"Never express yourself more clearly than you think."
- Neils Bohr (1885-1962)
"History is a lie agreed upon."
"In politics stupidity is not a handicap."
- Napoleon Bonaparte (1769-1821)
"We are only one, but we are one. We can't do everything, but we can do
something. That which we can do, we should do. And that which we should do,
together we will do.
- Coach Rod Bowers, Virginia AA Football Coach of the Year, 1998
"Oohh, the horror." (Apocalypse Now, 1979)
- Marlon Brando
"Look, I really don't want to wax philosophic, but I will say that if
you're alive, you've got to flap your arms and legs, you've got to jump around a
lot, you've got to make a lot of noise, because life is the very opposite of
death."
- Mel Brooks
"I refuse to consign the whole male sex to the nursery. I insist on
believing that some men are my equals."
- Brigid Brophy
"The only real argument for marriage is that it remains the best method for
getting acquainted."
- Heywood Broun
"There is no more reason to believe that man descended from an inferior
animal than there is to believe that a stately mansion has descended from a
small cottage."
- William Jennings Bryan
"To swear off making mistakes is very easy. All you have to do is swear off
having ideas."
- Leo Burnett
"I'd die in your arms if you were dead too." (Little Things, Sixteen
Stone)
"If I treated you bad you bruise my face, couldn't love you more, you got a
beautiful taste." (Glycerine, Sixteen Stone)
"I'm a monkey on a drip, sucker monkey on a drip." (Monkey, Sixteen
Stone)
"I spin on a whim, I slide to the right. I felt you like electric
light." (Machinehead, Sixteen Stone)
- Bush
"You can get more with a kind word and a gun than you can with a kind word
alone."
- Al Capone
"If it was so, it might and if it were so it would be, but as it isn't, it
ain't. That's logic."
- Lewis Caroll
"Philosophy, like Medicine, has many drugs, very few good remedies, and
almost no specifics."
- Sebastien-Roch-Nicholas Chamfort (1741-1794)
"Gullibility is the key to all adventures. The greenhorn is the ultimate
victor in everything; it is he that gets the most out of life."
- G.K. Chesterton
"Consider the past and you shall know the future."
- Chinese Proverb
"And you, madam, are ugly. But I shall be sober in the morning."
"Give us the tools and we will finish the job."
"It has been said that democracy is the worst form of governement except
all the others that have been tried."
"It is not the end, it is even not the beginning of the end. It is perhaps
the end of the beginning."
"We shall go on to the end, we shall fight in France, we shall fight on the
seas and oceans, we shall fight with growing confidence and growing strength in
the air, we shall defend our island, whatever the cost may be, we shall fight on
the beaches, we shall fight on the landing grounds, we shall fight in the fields
and in the streets, we shall fight in the hills; we shall never surrender."
- Winston Churchill (1874-1965)
"Any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from
magic."
- Arthur C. Clarke
"To secure peace is to prepare for war."
- Carl von Clausewitz
"Your in big trouble when your mom sets you up on a blind date."
- Chris Cleary
"Woman: A strange animal who can tear through an 18-inch aisle in a crowded
store, then goes home and knocks the doors off a 12-foot garage."
- Cleveland Press
"Killing is an excellent way of dealing with a hostility problem."
(The President's Analyst, 1967)
- James Coburn
"Ideas are funny little things. They won't work unless you do."
- Columbia Record
"The probability of life originating from accident is comparable to the
probability of the Unabridged Dictionary resulting from an explosion in a
printing factory."
- Professor Edwin Conklin
"Persistence. Nothing in the world can take the place of persistence.
Talent will not; nothing is more common than unsuccessful men with talent.
Genius will not; unrewarded genius is almost a proverb. Education will not; the
world is full of educated derelicts. Persistence and determination alone are
omnipotent. The slogan, 'Press on,' has solved and always will solve the
problems of the human race."
"We cannot do everything at once, but we can do something at once."
- President Calvin Coolidge
"Gray hair is God's graffiti."
- Bill Cosby
"I have seen soldiers panic at the first sight of battle, and a wounded
squire pulling arrows out from his wound to fight and save his dying horse.
Nobility is not a birth right but is defined by one's action. (Robin Hood,
Prince of Thieves, 1990)"
- Kevin Costner
"Have a drink. Just a little one to lessen the differences in our
characters." (The Scoundrel, 1935)
- Noel Coward
"It's no good running a pig farm badly for 30 years while saying 'Really, I
was meant to be a ballet dancer.' By then, pigs will be your style."
"My function in life was to render clear what was already blindingly
conspicuous."
- Quentin Crisp
"To many times we confuse motion with progress."
- Cyclops
"Let's get one thing straight. The police are not here to create disorder.
They are here to preserve disorder."
- Chicago Mayor Richard Daley
"A lady is one who never shows her underwear unintentionally."
- Lillian Day
"We work not only to produce but to give value to time."
- Delacroix
"I think therefore I am." (Ergo Cogito Sum)
- Descartes
"I love the smell of napalm in the morning." (Apocalypse Now, 1979)
- Robert Duvall
"It is better to burn the candle at both ends, and in the middle, too, than
to put it away in the closet and let the mice eat it."
- Henry Van Dyke
"Go ahead, make my day." (Sudden Impact, 1983)
"Nothing wrong with shooting as long as the right people get shot."
(Magnum Force, 1973)
- Clint Eastwood
"I never did a day's work in my life, it was all fun."
- Thomas Alva Edison (1847-1931)
"As far as the laws of mathematics refer to reality, they are not certain,
and as far as they are certain, they do not refer to reality."
"If one studies too zealously, one easily loses his pants."
- Albert Einstein (1879-1955)
"Adolescence: That period when a boy refuses to believe that someday he'll
be as dumb as his father."
- Hawley R. Everhart
"Anyone who hates dogs and kids can't be all bad."
- W. C. Fields
"Hating people is like burning down your own house to get rid of a
rat."
- Harry Emerson Fosdick
"The only life worth living is the adventurous life. Of such a life the
dominant characteristic is that it is unafraid. The herd may graze where it
pleases or stampede when it pleases, but he who lives the adventurous life will
remain unafraid when he finds himself alone."
- Raymond B. Fosdick
"I haven't failed, I've found 10,000 ways that don't work."
"I will venture to lay it down for an infallible rule, that, if two persons
equal in judgement play for a considerable sum, he that loves money the most
shall lose; his anxiety for the success of the game confounds him."
- Benjamin Franklin (1706--1790)
"If I wished to punish a province, I would have it governed by
philosophers."
- Frederick II, the Great (1712-1786)
"The world is a beautiful place, and it is worth fighting for."
(Seven, 1995)
- Morgan Freeman
"I have yet not been able to answer ... the great question that has never
been answered : What does a woman want?"
"Not to know the past is to be in bondage to it, while to remember, to
know, is to be set free."
- Dr. Sigmund Freud
"Don't ever take a fence down until you know why it was put up."
- Robert Frost
"Frankly my dear, I don't give a damn." (Gone With The Wind, 1939)
- Clark Gable
"Honest disagreement is often a good sign of progress."
"The outward freedom that we shall attain will only be in exact proportion
to the inward freedom to which we may have grown at a given moment. And if this
is a correct view of freedom, our chief energy must be concentrated on achieving
reform from within."
"There is more to life than increasing speed."
- Mohandas K. Gandhi
"If you have no confidence in self, you are twice defeated in the race of
life. With confidence, you have won even before you have started."
- Marcus Garvey
"And if I want to I can just shut up." (Nothing to Prove, Goldfinger)
"Believe I love you, no matter how selfish I get." (Stay, Goldfinger)
"But when I stop the search the answers always come, and when I help
someone I always help myself by helping." (Answers, Goldfinger)
"Fuck you and your cat!" (Fuck You and Your Cat, Goldfinger)
"Here in your bedroom, I can turn my head off. The less that I feel is the
less that I'm on top. I wonder what you think as we lay here in bed. I don't
know what I'm thinking, but that's better for my head." (Here in Your
Bedroom, Goldfinger)
"How deep is your love? How deep is the ocean? How deep is the sea? And how
deep is my love?" (Miles Away, Goldfinger)
"I can still feel the sting your hand across my face. Again the last thing
that I wanted was to hurt you." (Nothing to Prove, Goldfinger)
"I'm a martyr in search of a party, I'm a lover in search of a quest."
(Anything, Goldfinger)
"It makes me grumpy and sometimes I lose hope. The water's hard, so I can
never rinse the soap. And it's got no pressure, the water dribbles down on me.
And it's got no pressure, it's like the shower's going pee." (My
Girlfriend's Shower Sucks, Goldfinger)
"Then on Tuesday, Mable left me. I heard she's goin' out with Charlie. She
saw his package, from what I know. She said 'That looks like a tube of cookie
dough!' Mine, she said then, looks like a small pen-cil with broken lead."
(Mable, Goldfinger)
"What is it that scares me, what do I care what you think, 'cos you only
hurt me, and with your words I shrink." (Mind's Eye, Goldfinger)
"You can't even surf, unless you want to get hepatitis. Wait a
second!" (The City With Two Faces, Goldfinger)
- Goldfinger
"Few great men could pass Personnel."
- Paul Goodman (1911-1972)
"I am one of those melodramatic fools, neurotic to the bone, no doubt about
it." (Basketcase, Dookie)
"I beg to differ on the contrary I agree with every word that you say. Talk
is cheap and lies are expensive. My wallet's fat and so is my head."
(Walking Contradiction, Insomniac)
"I'm a loser and a user so I don't need no accuser." (When I Come
Around, Dookie)
"I'm having trouble trying to sleep. I'm counting sheep but running
out." (Brain Stew, Insomniac)
"It brings me pleasure just to know your going to die." (Platypus,
Nimrod)
"Nice guys finish last, you're running out of gas, your sympathy will get
you left behind." (Nice Guys Finish Last, Nimrod)
"Pay attention to the cracked streets and the broken homes. Some call it
the slums, some call it nice." (Welcome to Paradise, Kerplunk)
"So make the best of this test, and don't ask why. It's not a question, but
a lesson learned in time. It's something unpredictable, but in the end is right.
I hope you had the time of your life." (Good Riddance, Nimrod)
"Standards set and broken all the time, control the chaos behind a gun.
Call it as I see it even if I was born deaf, blind and dumb." (Walking
Contradiction, Insomniac)
"When you go down head first into the ground, I'll stand above you just to
piss on your grave." (Platypus, Nimrod)
- Green Day
"Why is it that if you kill a man in war your are a hero, but if you kill a
man outside of war you are called a murderer?"
- Jonathan Grimes
"I have but one lamp by which my feet are guided, and that is the lamp of
experience. I know no way of judging the future but by the past."
- Patrick Henry
"A lot of things change and a lot of things stay the same, they mostly stay
the same."
- David Heyman
"Carrying a destination sign when hitch hiking is a lot like going to
college. Even though deep down inside it may not mean a thing, it's a
convienient way of explaing to people what you're up to."
- Ken Hicks
"If I am not for myself, who will be for me? But if I am for myself alone,
what am I? And if not now, when?"
- Hillel
"You can't imagine the extra work I had when I was a god."
- Hirohito, Emporer of Japan (1901-1989)
"I have to go now. I'm having a friend for dinner." (The Silence of
the Lambs, 1991)
"I'm placing my thoughts elsewhere while you chatter away." (Remains
of the Day, 1994)
- Anthony Hopkins
"Compared with what we ought to be, we are only half awake. The human
individual lives usually far within his limits; he possesses powers of various
sorts which he habitually fails to use."
- William James
"Bad table manners have broken up more households than infidelity." (Gigi,
1958)
- Isabel Jeans
"The trouble with life in the fast lane is that you get to the other end in
an awful hurry."
- John Jensen
"While your saving your face, your losing your ass."
- President Lyndon Johnson (1908-1973)
"Your manuscript is both good and original, but the part that is good is
not original and the part that is original is not good."
- Samuel Johnson (1709-1784)
"Take your life into your own hands, and what happens. A terrible thing: no
one to blame."
- Erica Jong
"My dear child, you must believe in God despite what the clergy tells
you."
- Benjamin Jowett
"No no, I'm not his friend. I'm his wife." (Shoot the Moon, 1982)
- Diane Keaton
"Do you realize the responsibility I carry? I'm the only person standing
between Nixon and the White House."
- JFK (1917-1963)
"Use the force, Luke." (Star Wars, 1977)
- Obi Wan Kenobi
"I don't want men of experience working for me. The experienced man is
always telling me why something can't be done. The fellow who has not had any
experience is so dumb he doesn't know a thing can't be done- and he goes ahead
and does it."
- Charles F. Kettering
"Politicians are the same all over. They promise to build bridges, even
where there are no rivers."
- Nikita Khrushchev
"One who condones evils is just as guilty as the one who perpetrates
it."
- Dr. Martin Luthor King Jr.
"Sometimes you're the windshield ... sometimes you're the bug!"
- Mark Knopfler
"It's no measure of health to be well adjusted to a profoundly sick
society."
- Krishnamarti, (1895-1986)
"Putting a family member in jail is a good sign there is something
seriously wrong in the home."
- Ricki Lake
"People who drink to drown their sorrow should be told that sorrow knows
how to swim."
- Ann Landers
"Heredity is a splendid phenomenon that relieves us of responsibility for
our shortcomings."
- Doug Larson
"Life is what happens to us while we're making other plans."
- John Lennon
"I do the very best I know how. The very best I can; and I mean to keep
doing so until the end."
- Abraham Lincoln (1809-1865)
"Individual commitment to a group effort, that is what makes a team work, a
company work, a society work, a civilization work."
- Vince Lombardi
"There is no security on this earth, there is only opportunity."
- Douglas MacArthur
"Be ashamed to die until you have achieved some victory for humanity."
- Horace Moon
"I don't know what I am doing here. I can't sing, I can't dance, but just
to be sociable I'll fight the best man in the house."
- Rocky Marciano
"He's so unlucky that he runs into accidents which started out to happen to
somebody else."
- Don Marquis
"I don't care to belong to any organization that accepts me as a
member."
"I had a lovely evening. Unfortunately, this wasn't it."
"One morning I shot an elephant in my pajamas. How he got into my pajamas
I'll never know." (Animal Crackers, 1930)
- Groucho Marx
"We are going to win and the industrial West is going to lose out; there's
not much you can do about it because the reasons for your failure are within
yourselves."
- Konosuke Matsushita
"They say time is the fire, in which we burn." ('Star Trek:
Generations', 1994)
- Malcolm McDowell
"Never doubt that a small group of committed citizens can change the world.
Indeed, it's the only thing that has."
- Margaret Meade
"Experience has shown that science frequently develops most fruitfully once
we learn to examine the things that seem the simplest, instead of those that
seem the most mysterious."
- Marvin Minsky
"There is no legimate actor who can resist the powerful lure of the movies.
It isn't the money that fetches him. It isn't the great publicity. It is simply
this: the movies enable an actor to look at himself."
- George Jean Nathan
"Peace is not a relationship of nations. It is a condition of mind brought
about by a serenity of soul. Peace is not merely the absence of war. It is also
a state of mind. Lasting peace can come only to peaceful people."
- Jawaharlal Nehru
"If I have seen farther than other men, it is because I stood on the
shoulders of giants."
- Sir Isaac Newton
"The shadows we see on the walls in front of us come from the flashlight we
hold behind us."
- David Nicoll
"The majority of business men are not capable of an original thought,
simply because they cannot escape the tyranny of reason."
- David Ogilvy
"There's so much polution in the air now that if it weren't for our lungs
there'd be no place to put it all in."
- Robert Orben
"Let others praise ancient times; I am glad I was born in these."
- Ovid (43 B.C.-A.D. 18)
"I ain't ever had a job. I just always played baseball."
- Leroy Robert "Satchel" Paige
"The object of war is not to die for your country but to make the other
bastard die for his."
- General G.C. Patton (1885-1945)
"Going to church does not make you a Christian anymore than going to the
garage makes you a car."
- Laurence J. Peter
"Computers are useless. They can only give you answers."
- Pablo Picasso
"Any effort that has self-glorification as its final endpoint is bound to
end in disaster."
- Robert M. Pirsig
"I need a prison in order to dream of being free."
- John Popper
"A low voter turnout is an indication of fewer people going to the
polls."
"For NASA, space is still a high priority."
"I believe we are on an irreversible trend toward more freedom and
democracy - but that could change."
"If we don't succeed, we run the risk of failure."
"I have made good judgements in the Past. I have made good judgements in
the Future."
"I love California, I practically grew up in Phoenix."
"I stand by all the misstatements that I've made."
"It isn't pollution that's harming the environment. It's the impurities in
our air and water that are doing it."
"People that are really very weird can get into sensitive positions and
have a tremendous impact on history."
"The future will be better tomorrow."
"We are ready for any unforeseen event that may or may not occur."
"We're going to have the best-educated American people in the world."
"What a waste it is to lose one's mind. Or not to have a mind is being very
wasteful. How true that is."
"When I have been asked during these last weeks who caused the riots and
the killing in L.A., my answer has been direct and simple: Who is to blame for
the riots? The rioters are to blame. Who is to blame for the killings? The
killers are to blame."
- Vice President Dan Quayle
"A man needs a little madness or else... he never dares to cut the rope and
be free." (Zorba the Greek, 1964)
- Anthony Quinn
"I have left orders to be awakened at any time in case of national
emergency, even if I'm in a cabinet meeting."
"This generation may be the one that will face Armageddon."
- Ronald Reagan
"This is the way I look when I'm sober. It's enough to make a person drink,
don't you say?" (Days of Wine and Roses, 1962)
- Lee Remick
"The art of acting consists in keeping people from coughing."
- Sir Ralph Richardson
"The same wind snuffs candles yet kindles fires; so, where absence kills a
little love, it fans a great one."
- La Rochefoucauld
"The man with the best job in the country is the Vice President. All he has
to do is get up every morning and say, 'How's the President?'"
- Will Rogers
"The only thing we have to fear is fear itself - nameless, unreasoning,
unjustified terror which paralyzes needed efforts to convert retreat into
advance."
- Franklin D. Roosevelt
"The only man who never makes a mistake is the man who never does
anything."
- Theodore Roosevelt
"The aim of every authentic artist is not to conform to the history of art
but to release himself from it in order to replace it with his own
history."
- Harold Rosenberg
"The ultimate lesson all of us have to learn is unconditional love,which
includes not only others but ourselves as well."
- Elizabeth Kubler-Ross
"All science is either physics or stamp collecting."
"The only possible interpretation of any research whatever in the 'Social
Sciences' is: some do, some don't."
- Baron Ernest Rutherford (1871-1937)
"I used to believe in reincarnation, but that was long ago, in another
life."
- Dave Schinbeckler
"I don't like it, and I'm sorry I ever had anything to do with it."
- Erwin Schrodinger
"No one feels another's grief, no one understands another's joy. People
imagine they can reach one another. In reality they only pass each other
by."
- Franz Schubert
"Hasta la vista, baby!" (The Terminator, T2: Judgement Day, 1991)
"I'll be back." (The Terminator, 1984)
- Arnold Schwarzenegger
"Every new beginning comes from some other beginning's end." (Closing
Time, ?)
- Semisonic
"A wise man that walks in the dark with a blindfold on, is not much of a
wise man."
- Chris Senkbeil
"I like life. It's something to do."
- Ronnie Shakes
"Democracy substitutes election by the incompetent many for appointment by
the corrupt few."
"The reasonable man adapts himself to the world; the unreasonable one
persists in trying to adapt the world to himself. Therfore all progress depends
upon the unreasonable man."
- George Bernard Shaw (1856-1950)
"I'm not happy, I'm cheerful. There's a difference. A happy woman has no
cares at all. A cheerful woman has cares but has learned how to deal with
them."
- Beverly Sills
"I know we're just like old friends, we just can't pretend that lovers make
amends." (Perfect, Adore)
"I lie just to be real, and I'd die just to feel." (Tales of a
Scorched Earth, Mellon Collie and the Infinite Sadness)
"The world is a vampire, sent to drain, secret destroyers, hold you up to
the flames." (Bullet with Butterfly Wings, Mellon Collie and the Infinite
Sadness)
"Today is the greatest day I've ever known. Can't wait for tomorrow, I
might not have that long." (Today, Siamese Dream)
"We don't know just where our bones will rest, to dust I guess."
(1979, Mellon Collie and the Infinite Sadness)
"We will never be the same, the more you change the less you feel."
(Tonight Tonight, Mellon Collie and the Infinite Sadness)
- Smashing Pumpkins
"I just can't learn to forget. Now I'm choking on the memories, choking on
regret." (Slipping Away, Whither, Blister, Burn and Peal)
"I'm feeling the weight of everyday life, and it's crushing me."
(Crushing Me, Whither, Blister, Burn and Peal)
"I'm not as selfish as I used to be, that was a part of me that never made
me proud." (What Do I Have To Do?, Whither, Blister, Burn and Peal)
"You crawled inside my mind when you crawled into my bed, said everyhting
I've ever longed to hear. So perfect, so alive, once inside you sucked me dry.
Used me up and left me here for dead." (I Don't Believe, Whither, Blister,
Burn and Peal)
"You wither, you blister, I watch you burn and peal." (Falls Apart,
Whither, Blister, Burn and Peal)
- Stabbing Westward
"It is much easier to do and die than it is to reason why."
- G.A. Studdert-Kennedy
"All around the world statues crumble for me, who knows how long I've loved
you." (Fly, Floored)
"And when the time is right, I got you in my sight, I'll reach into your
life, and look around inside." (Tap, Twist, Snap, Floored)
"I see a nation of zeros, you bring us to our knees. And now you killed all
our heros, you'll get the dent that you'll see." (RPM, Floored)
"I'm the dandy highway man, and your too scared to mention. I spend my cash
on looking flash and grabbing your attention. The devil take your stereo your
record collection. The way you look you qualify for next years old age
pension." (Stand and Deliver, Floored)
"Its all the same no matter what you say. I think I need it. You got the
same no matter what you say, yeah. The grass is greener in L.A. Everybody's dead
in their own way." (Breathe, Floored)
"You're on your own, there's no disguise, you feel it coming to it. Theres
nobody by, your feeling old, just want you feeling like the first time that i
saw you." (Invisible, Floored)
- Sugar Ray
"I don't want the cheese, I just want out of the trap."
- Spanish Proverb
"War is based on deception."
- Sun tzu (+/- 500 B.C.)
"Hardly a competent workman can be found who does not devote a considerable
amount of time to studying just how slowly he can work and still convince his
employer that he is going at a good pace."
- Frederick W. Taylor
"Someone's boring me. I think it's me."
- Dylan Thomas
"That's when you know you found somebody special. When you can just shut
the fuck up for a minute, and comfortably share silence." (Pulp Fiction,
1994)
- Uma Thurman
"American youngsters tend to live as if adolescence were a last fling at
life, rather than a preparation for it."
- Time
"The trouble with the rat race is that even if you win you are still a
rat!"
- Lily Tomlin
"Can you dig it? I knew that you could." (Saturday Night Fever, 19??)
- John Travolta
"I never did give anybody hell. I just told the truth and they thought it
was hell."
- Harry S. Truman (1884-1972)
"When the effective leader is finished with his work, the people say it
happened naturally."
- Lao Tse
"From birth to age 18 A girl needs good parents. From 18 to 35 she needs
good looks. From 35 to 55 she needs a good personality. From 55 on, she needs
good cash."
- Sophie Tucker (1884-1966)
"You're not too bright. I like that in a man." (Body Heat, 1981)
- Kathleen Turner
"Do you want to trace your family tree? Run for public office."
- Patricia H. Vance
"I disapprove of what you say, but I will defend to death your right to say
it."
"It is not enough to conquer, one must know how to seduce."
- Voltaire
"All battles are fought by scared men who would have rather have been
somewhere else." (In Harms Way, 1965)
- John Wayne
"It matters not whether you win or lose; what matters is whether I win or
lose."
- Darrin Weinberg
"Go away, I'm all right."
- The last words of H.G. Wells
"In Italy for thirty years under the Borgias they had warfare, terror,
murder, and bloodshed but they produced Michelangelo, Leonardo da Vinci, and the
Renaissance. In Switzerland, they had brotherly love; they had five hundred
years of democracy and peace and what did that produce? The cuckoo clock."
(The Third Man, 1949)
"What's the going price on integrity this week?" (I'll Never Forget
Whatsisname, 1967)
- Orson Welles
"Is that a gun in your pocket or are you just glad to see me." (She
Done Him Wrong, 1933)
- Mae West
"People call me a femenist whenever I express sentiments that differentiate
me from a doormat or a prostitute."
- Rebecca West
"It is the business of the future to be dangerous.... The major advances in
civilization are processes that all but wreck the societies in which they
occur."
- Alfred North Whitehead
"Remember, Ginger Rogers did everything that Fred Astaire did, but she did
it backwards and in high heels."
- Faith Whittlesey
"Whatever women do they must do twice as well as men to be thought half as
good. Luckily, this is not difficult."
- Charlotte Whitton (1896-1975)
"A straight line may be the shortest distance between two points, but it is
by no means the most interesting."
- Dr. Who
"Only the shallow know themselves."
- Oscar Wilde
"What is essential is invisible to the eye. It's only with the heart that
one can see clearly." (The Little Prince, 1974)
- Gene Wilder
"Snow and adolescence are the only problems that disapear if you ignore
them long enough."
- Earl Wilson
"If people did not sometimes do silly things, nothing intelligent would
ever get done."
- Wittgenstein
"An ambassador is an honest man sent abroad to lie for his country."
- Sir Henry Wotton (1568-1639)
"If my grandmother had balls, she'd be my grandfather."
- Yiddish saying