Disclaimer: These haven't really been updated since my freshman year. Someday I'm going to make this EVEN better, so hold your horses.
PEOPLE:
"That which does not kill us, only makes us stronger." ~Nietzche
"Did you ever try to pick one of those [cold medicines] out?...You stand there going, 'Well, this one is quick acting, but this one is long lasting...Which is more important, the present or the future?" ~Jerry Seinfeld
"A slave is he who cannot think his thought." ~Euripedes
"My words fly up, my thoughts remain below. Words without thoughts never to heaven go." ~William Shakespeare
"I can't tell what clock it is on that time!" ~Gooden
"The mind ought sometimes to be diverted, so that it may return the better to thinking." ~Phaedrus
"When I get a little money, I buy books; And, if any is left, I buy food and clothes." ~Erasmus
"If people speak ill of you, live so that no one will believe them." ~Plato
"Education is an admirable thing, but it is well to remember from time to time that nothing worth knowing can be taught." ~Oscar Wilde
"Having a dream that you don't pursue is like buying an ice cream cone and watching it melt all over your hand." ~Icarus
"The trouble with the rat race is that even if you win you're still a rat."~Lily Tomlin
"The future is made of the same stuff as the present." ~Simone Weil
"Mankind has grown strong in external struggles and it will only perish through eternal peace." ~Adolf Hitler
"There is a new billboard outside Time Square. It keeps an up-to-minute count of gun-related crimes in New York. Some goofball is going to shoot someone just to see the numbers move." ~David Letterman
"The public have an insatiable curiosity to know everything. Except what is worth knowing. Journalism, conscious of this, and having tradesman-like habits, supplies their demands." ~Oscar Wilde
"God is a comedian playing to an audience too afraid to laugh." ~Voltaire
"Man is a rational animal who always loses his temper when he is called upon to act in accordance with the dictates of reason." ~Oscar Wilde
"It is dangerous to be right when the government is wrong." ~Voltaire
"The books that the world calls immoral are the books that show the world its own shame." ~Oscar Wilde
"Fashion is a form of ugliness so intolerable that we have to alter it every six months. ~Oscar Wilde
MOVIES:
"You know what you look like to me, with your good bag and your cheap shoes? You look like a rube. A well scrubbed, hustling rube with a little taste. Good nutrition has given you some length of bone, but you're not more than one generation from poor white trash, are you, Agent Starling? And that accent you've tried so desparately to shed? Pure West Virginia. What's your father, dear? Is he a coal miner? Does he stink of the lamb? You know how quickly the boys found you... all those tedious sticky fumblings in the back seats of cars...while you could only dream of getting out... getting anywhere... getting all the way to the FBI......." ~Silence of the Lambs
BOOKS:
"All of the true things I am about to tell you are shameless lies." ~Kurt Vonnegut, Jr., The Book of Bokonon
"Schools teach you to imitate. If you don't imitate what the teacher wants you get a bad grade...you were supposed to imitate the teacher in such a way as to convince the teacher you were not imitating, but taking the essence of the instruction and going ahead with it on your own. That got you A's. Originality on the other hand could get you anything--from A to F." ~Robert M. Pirsig, Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance
"All animals are equal, but some animals are more equal than others." ~George Orwell, Animal Farm
"Once you are real you can't be ugly except to people who don't understand." ~The Velveteen Rabbit
TELLY SHOWS:
"The old lady in 'Murder She Wrote' never thinks it's her fault, but every time she goes to dinner parties, someone dies. After a while, you've got to think, 'Hey!'" ~Caroline in the City"
"A dream is an answer to a question we haven't learned to ask." ~Agent Scully, The X-Files
SONGS:
"There's someone in my head but it's not me."~Pink Floyd
"I don't expect you to understand after you've caused so much pain, but then again, you're not to blame; you're just human, a victim of the insane." ~John Lennon
"I'd rather laugh with the sinners than cry with the saints. The sinners are much more fun." ~Billy Joel, Only the Good Die Young
"For tomorrow may rain, so I'll follow the sun." ~Paul McCartney
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