"He's more myself than I am. Whatever souls are made of, his and mine are the same."
~ Catherine to Nelly in "Wuthering Heights"
"I've dreampt in my life dreams that have stayed with me everafter, and changed my ideas; they've gone through me like wine through water, and altered the color of my mind."
~ Catherine to Nelly in "Wuthering Heights"
"She burned too bright for this world."
~ Nelly to Cathy about her late mother in "Wuthering Heights"
"It does not do to dwell on dreams and forget to live, Harry."
~ Albus Dumbledore in "Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone"
"Unless there's pictures, I don't admit to anything."
~ Courtney Love
"Never put it in writing."
~ my Mom
"I adore men because they're so simple. I love my girlfriends to death, but they're f***ing high maintenance!"
~ Shirley Manson Garbage vocalist
"Dream as if you'll live forever. Live as if you'll die today."
~ James Dean
"When in doubt, lie."
~ Daniel Johns Silverchair vocalist
"Family's everything. If you don't have family you don't have anything. Never push yours away."
~ my Mom
"Don't sleep too much."
~ my Dad
"I never told a lie in my life."
~ my Dad
"Why should I cultivate on my face that which grows wildly on my ass?"
~ my Grandpa Bob on why he never had facial hair
"The Priest does it. Except for when he's out, in which case the gardener does it instead."
~ my non-religious Grandpa Herb's response when I asked who blessed the Holy Water in a Catholic Church
"It's amazin' whatcha find in people's glove compartments!"
~ Harley Quinn, Joker's girlfriend in The Adventure's of Batman and Robin
"An intellectual is a man who takes more words than necessary to tell more than he knows."
~ former president Dwight D. Eisenhower
"It is a far, far better thing that I do, than I have ever done; it is a far, far better rest that I go to than I have ever known."
~ Sydney Carton "A Tale of Two Cities"
"Your momma was home and you left.
You're right!
Your daddy was home and you left.
You're right!
That's the reason you left."
You're right!"
~ US Army Marching Cadence from "Battle Dress" by Amy Efaw
"No connection, you would agree. But things can come together in strange ways. The wood was at the center, the hub of the wheel. All wheels must have a hub. A ferris wheel has one, as the sun is the hub of the wheeling calendar. Fixed points they are, and best left undisturbed, for without them, nothing holds together. But sometimes people find this out too late."
~ "Tuck Everlasting"
"I can't promise I'll try. I'll try to try."
~ Bart Simpson "The Simpsons"
"O the mind, mind has mountains; cliffs of fall
Frightful, sheer, no-man-fathomed."
~ Gerard Manley Hopkins "No worst, there is none"
"Shoot is just sh*t with two o's."
~ my dad again
"I walked along the side with the spray-painted trees, some in white like a starched chemical snowfall, others painted gold, pink, red, even black. The black tree, about three feet high, looked like it had been burnt. I wondered who would want a black tree, but I knew someone would. There was no limit to the ways in which people could be strange."
~ Astrid Magnussen from "White Oleander" (the BOOK) by Janet Fitch
"Sean may have had his problems, but he was a smart kid - the day's lesson was not lost on him, I'm certain. It wasn't lost on me: It doesn't matter how good you are at flag signals if no one is watching - the distress call is only as good as the person looking out for it."
~ Marc Parent from "Turning Stones: My Days and Nights With Children at Risk" by Marc Parent
"I am Aragorn son of Arathorn; and if by life or death I can save you, I will."
~ Aragorn AKA Strider "The Fellowship of the Rings" by J.R.R. Tolkien
"I sit beside the fire and think
of all that I have seen,
of meadow-flowers and butterflies
in summers that have been;
Of yellow leaves and gossamer
in autumns that there were,
with morning mist and silver sun
and wind upon my hair.
I sit beside the fire and think
of how the world will be
when winter comes without a spring
that I shall never see.
For still there are so many things
that I have never seen:
in every wood in every spring
there is a different green.
I sit beside the fire and think
of times that were before,
I listen for returning feet
and voices at the door."
"The Fellowship of the Rings" by J.R.R. Tolkien
"All that is gold does not glitter,
Not all those who wander are lost;
The old that is strong does not whither,
Deep roots are not reached by the frost.
From the ashes a fire shall be woken,
A light from the shadows shall spring;
Renewed shall be blade that was broken,
The crownless again shall be king."
"The Fellowship of the Rings" by J.R.R. Tolkien
"God's gonna pop you one, ya big zit!"
~ My friend Lindsay
"Everyone, thank you for coming. I just wanna say that when my time comes, I wanna be buried face down, so that anyone who doesn't like me can kiss my ass."
~ Red Foreman "That 70's Show"
"That's Hollywood for ya, they're all messed up."
~ My Dad
"Wait, we're going to war? I'm confused."
~ Renee Zellweger
"The World's such a mindfield of crap these days."
~ Mary Elizabeth on "Any Day Now"
"I've had it. These balls are making me testy!"
~ Bender in "Futurama"
"Beware of anyone who tells you a topic is above you or better left to experts. Many people are twice as smart as they think they are but they've been intimidated into believing some topics are above them. You can understand almost anything if it is explained well. "
~ Richard J. Maybury "World War I - The Rest of the Story and How it Affects You Today"
(note: This book was mandatory reading for American History class and that quote in particular striked me as important, because I feel that it is true. However I am in no way endorsing the views or opinions stated in this book.)
" I at this writing am an old man, only three years short of my three score and ten. And they tell me that Wycliffe’s bones have been dug up and burned and cast into the river that leads to the sea. The Church--she thinks-has had her revenge.
But, as I hear it, Wycliffe’s writings had already touched one man in Bohemia, John Huss, whom the Church burned several years ago. And though both Wycliffe and Huss be dead, There are rumors of unrest in that small country, unrest caused by those who seek true religion.
In England, King Henry rules hand in glove with the Pope, but not forever, I think.
We are still here--the Lollards, I mean. Did you guess it? Yes, I have become a “poor priest.” And I will tell you this: the writings of Wycliffe have been driven out of Oxford, but they can be found in every other nook in England. Indeed, many a time I have talked with an Oxford scholar on the road and have seen God open his heart to the truth.
This is what Saint Paul meant when he spoke of Christians as being pressed but never pinned. The Church rages, but the truth goes on. Many a stout English yeoman embraces it in these days and leads his family in true godly worship.
John Wycliffe was our morning star. When all was darkest and England lay asleep in the deadly arms of the papacy, God sent him to us. The Scripture has come to England. What will it hold back? Soon--though perhaps not in my lifetime-- the dawn will break, and there will be a new day in England.
"
~ Sebastian Ayleton's son in "Morning Star of the Reformation" by Andy Thomson
(Note: The lines in italics are the lines that I found to be the most profound. Unfortunately, due to the inferiority of Angelfire html or else my own suckiness at using it, I wasn't able to make this quote look like the passage from the book. Indentations and such. Oh well.)
"Just hang on. You're gonna be okay. You're gonna be....oh man....were gonna die!"
~ Rogue, in "X-Men: Evolution"
"Cheer up Peter, everything's going to be alright. We have pie."
~ Maxine Grey in "Judging Amy"
"I'm supposed to be "matoor" and balanced,accepting myself for who I really am, yadda yadda yadda yadda............
But if it's all so very "it's not what you look like,it's who you are inside" then why the F**K is everyone so bloody concerned with the surface of things? Why is everyone so bloody concerned with appearances? And why is everyone having plastic surgery and why is society so accepting of it? Why is it that every female orientated magazine I ever happen to come across contains article after article on botox and collagen implants and breast augmentation and liposuction and facelifts and tummy tucks and how to keep your man's eyes on you and not on your best friend and how to look younger longer and how to flatten your abs into a six pack and how to squeeze yourself into a size 2 and how to make your friends green with envy with your uber hot, beach body and how to get a perfect, whiter smile etc. etc.
It aggravates me so much! I don't f**king read anything on "How to live with yourself when you wake up in the morning and look in the mirror only to discover you're not a perfect 10." or "How to deal with the fact that you're living in a world who's values don't mirror yours" or "How to value yourself as a person in society despite the fact that you don't have white teeth and you're not a size 2 and you don't have flat abs and you'll never look like Jennifer Anniston in a million years and your boyfriend is forever checking out your best friend and you would never dare step out on the beach in a bikini for fear of abject ridicule and your tits are too small or they're too big or you've got laugh lines around your eyes or your butt is hanging down to your knees "
I mean for gods sake................. WHAT THE HELL ARE YOU SUPPOSED TO DO WITH ALL THAT F**KING STUFF?!?!?!?!?!??!?!?!?!! "
~ An excerpt from Shirley Manson's Diary on Garbage.com Note: asterisks added
"Every single kid in that brochure was awkward and panicked. It looked like the Academy Awards audience during Michael Moore's speech."
~ Lorelai Gilmore in "Gilmore Girls"
"I love her. I love her mind. I love her shoes. "
~ Josh in "The West Wing"
"You know, I'm a little disappointed that I wasn't on your quotes page. 'Cause I'm constantly spouting out pearls."
~ my friend Chelsey
"I'm not making fun of you. I'm making fun of the things you say."
~ again, Chelsey
"If you set the bar low enough, you too can be the best."
~ my dad
"It's sleepercise! You don't mind it if you don't remember doing it!."
~ again, Chelsey again
"I couldn't understand the words. I can't hear that fast. He talks faster than I can hear. "
~ Michael Ian Black "I Love the 90's"
"I wonder who spends more time in the mirror, Dave or Carmen?."
~ Muh friend's brother in-law, Justin AKA the Homie-J (representin'!)
"I am what you call a borderline genius. If I was any smarter, I'd go over the edge."
~ My Dad
"I thought your vagina was removed during your hysterectomy."
~ The prick on "The Office"
"I don't dislike you. I nothing you."
~ Jordan Sullivan "Scrubs"
"Stay loyal to those that love you."
~ Jackie O.
"A wounded dear leaps the highest"
~ Emily Dickinson
"And death shall have no dominion"
~ Dylan Thomas (poet)
"The Night has a thousand eyes, and the day but one;
Yet the light of the bright world dies, with the dying sun.
The mind has a thousand eyes, and the heart but one;
Yet the light of a whole life dies, when love is done."
~ Francis Bourdillon (poet) "Night"