Favourite Quotes

[Kury Wagner]

I thought this might be a cool thread that would actually give some insight on our members. What are some of your favourite quotes? These could be amusing, spiritual, inspiring-- anything. And they can be from anything, as well, just to keep it open. I suppose it should be said just because that there should be nothing vulgar or offensive. If you feel up to it, maybe give a reason for why you like the quote, if it's not obvious.

I have many, so I'll just throw a few up to start this off.

"It does not do to dwell on dreams and forget to live." ~Albus Dumbledore, Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone.
-I try to keep this quote of practicality in mind at all times.

"No one can make you feel inferior without your permission." ~Eleanor Roosevelt.
-Who doesn't love that quote? I mean, really. It's just so awesome and empowering.

"You don't love someone because they're perfect. You love them in spite of the fact that they're not." ~Julia, My Sister's Keeper.
-When I first read this quote I was shocked because I always said things just like that. It fits my opinion very well.

"We can never judge the lives of others, because each person knows only their own pain and renunciation. It's one thing to feel that you are on the right path, but it's another to think that yours is the only path." ~Paulo Coelho
-I fell in love with this quote the first time I found it. It remains one of my utmost favourite quotes. <3

Now it's your turn. C'mon... impress or entertain us all. =P

 

[Gatomon41]

"It is one of the curious anomalies of present-day civilzation that when man acheives greatest control over nature, he has least control over himself." -Fulton J. Sheen.

 

[Ishtar]

"With great power comes great responsibility." Uncle Ben from Spider-Man.
I always thought it sounded cool, and it is a pretty good moral. If you have a lot of power due to any circumstance, you'll have to make good use of that power.

I'll think of more, later.

 

[purplehairedwonder]

"Seize the day. Make your life extraordinary." -- Dead Poet's society
- I found this quote several years ago when doing a search for quotes and put it up in my room to constantly remind myself of the idea of living life to the fullest.

"Baseball is 90% mental. The other half is physical." -- Yogi Berra
- A fun look at my favorite game and a reminder that baseball/softball is indeed a very mental game. I like to remind myself to always keep my head in the game when we play.

"It is our choices, Harry, that show what we truly are, far more than our abilities." -- Albus Dumbledore, Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets
- Remember to make good choices in your life and not just depend on abilities.

"All great truths begin as blasphemies." -- George Bernard Shaw
- I have a lot of quotes on a similar theme but this really sums up my beliefs and how I look at the world.

 

[WolfieKiwi]

Because Quote Threads are Ultima Luff

"You leave me little notes on my pillow... For the last time, I can't stand little notes! We are all out of cornflakes, F.U. It took me three hours to figure out that F.U. was Felix Unger!" ~~Oscar from The Odd Couple
There are so many priceless lines from this movie but this is my absolute favorite.

"To live is the rarest thing in the world. Most people exist, that is all." ~~Oscar Wilde
At first, this gave me the impression of just another nitpick against society, but now every time I read this line and I feel motivated.

Definitely more to come

 

[entransify]

I can't remember who said it first, but many people have said "Why fix what's unbroken?".

There may be others, I can't remember right now.

 

[Storm Eagle]

"Interfering is the glue that keeps American families together." - Tony Micelli, Who's The Boss

"A wise man speaks because he has something to say. A fool speaks because he has to say something." - Plato

"It's better to be hated for who you are than to be loved for who you are not."

"It was God who made me so beautiful. If I weren't then I'd be a teacher." - Linda Evangelista

"I'm not trying to live long. I'm trying to live forever." - Steve O

"Ordinary people make good pets."

"You laugh because I'm different. I laugh because you are all the same."

"You should never never doubt what no one's sure about." - Willy Wonka, Willy Wonka and the Chocolate Factory

"People too weak to follow their own dreams will always find a way to discourage others."

"The more you disapprove, the more fun it is for me."

"Friends are your enemies who don't have the guts to kill you."

"If the good lord had intended us to walk, He wouldn't have invented roller skates." - Willy Wonka, Willy Wonka and the Chocolate Factory

"Talking is just masturbating without the mess." - Raine Maida, Our Lady Peace

"Rose-colored glasses are never made in bifocals because nobody wants to read the small print in dreams." - Ann Landers

"If at first you do not succeed, destroy all evidence you tried."

"Don't let your past dictate who you are, but let it be part of who you will become." - Nick Portokalos, My Big Fat Greek Wedding

"America may be a pseudo-democracy, but day-to-day life is pure fascism."

“Don’t hate the black. Don’t hate the white. If you get bitten, just hate the bite.” - Sly Stone

"War doesn't decide who's right - only who's left".

"I'm allowed to look stupid. And I want to." - Trent Reznor

"I took beatings so you could dye your hair blue". - Mike Ness

"Americans like to be scared. That's why they elected George Bush." - Richard Belzer

"Love, class, means never having to say 'I'm pregnant'". - Vinnie Barbarino - Welcome Back, Kotter

 

[Harvey Two Face]

"Lady, people aren't chocolates. Do you know what they are mostly? Bastards. Bastard-coated bastards with bastard fillings. But I don't find them half as annoying as I find naive bubble-headed optimists who walk around vomiting sunshine."

That was from Dr Cox from the show Scrubs, I love it, it is so belittling, cynical and down right hilarious.

More quotes to come if I can think of any.

 

[Peter Paltridge]

"We are doomed to be beaten over the head with anything we express interest in, until well after we lose interest." --Columnist Joe Queenan

"Gamers like to complain. A lot. It's what we do." --GamesRadar.com

 

[Silverstar]

"Just like Dad used to make, before McDonald's fired him."-Fry, Futurama, "When Aliens Attack"

"You're not going crazy, you're going sane in a crazy world!"-The Tick

"Your temper is the one thing you can't get rid of by losing it."-Jack Nicholson, Anger Management

"As you know, l'm quite keen on comic books. Especially the ones about superheroes. I find the whole mythology surrounding superheroes fascinating. Take my favorite superhero, Superman. Not a great comic book. Not particularly well-drawn. But the mythology... The mythology is not only great, it's unique. Now, a staple of the superhero mythology is, there's the superhero and there's the alter ego. Batman is actually Bruce Wayne, Spider-Man is actually Peter Parker. When that character wakes up in the morning, he's Peter Parker. He has to put on a costume to become Spider-Man. And it is in that characteristic Superman stands alone. Superman didn't become Superman. Superman was born Superman. When Superman wakes up in the morning, he's Superman. His alter ego is Clark Kent. His outfit with the big red "S", that's the blanket he was wrapped in as a baby when the Kents found him. Those are his clothes. What Kent wears - the glasses, the business suit - that's the costume. That's the costume Superman wears to blend in with us. Clark Kent is how Superman views us. And what are the characteristics of Clark Kent. He's weak... he's unsure of himself... he's a coward. Clark Kent is Superman's critique on the whole human race. Sorta like Beatrix Kiddo and Mrs. Tommy Plimpton."-Bill (David Carradine), Kill Bill, vol. 2

 

[Lazerboy5000]

Here are the two that I thought of right away.

"If it wern't for luck, I'd win every one." - Phil Hellmuth, Poker Player.


But on a more serious note, here's one that always inspires me.

"There are no shortcuts to any place worth going." - Seinor Varsity Swimmers from my Freshman year (3 years ago).

It's a great quote, and our team shirt that year has that quote on the back.


I know there is one one that I really like that my mom told me, but I can't quite remember it.

 

[Groovy Dudette]

"Sever your leg, please. It's the greatest day" -H*R

 

[James Bester]

"America is all about speed. Hot, nasty, bad-ass speed." -Eleanor Roosevelt

 

[Kury Wagner]

Some music quotes, because I feel like it.

"Well, I'll go to college and I'll learn some big words. And I'll talk real loud, g-ddamn right I'll be heard. You'll remember the guy who said all those big words he must have learned in college."
~Modest Mouse, Bankrupt On Selling
^So very meish.

"The universe works on a math equation that never even ever really even is any end. Infinity spirals out creation. We're on the tip of its tongue and it is saying: 'We ain't sure where you stand, you ain't machines and you ain't land. And the plants and the animals, they are linked, and the plants and the animals eat each other.'" ~Modest Mouse, Never Ending Math Equation.
^So very awesome. xD

"I've got a girlfriend, she tells me she needs me, and she loves me. We'll probably get married. Oh no, and everyone will bite their tongues so hard they bleed." ~Something Corporate, 21 and Invincible.
^My relationship in a nutshell, really. ><

"Talking is just masturbating without the mess." - Raine Maida, Our Lady Peace

"I'm allowed to look stupid. And I want to." - Trent Reznor

Those are so wonderful. I mean, really. xD

 

[ToOn~g@l]

"Kind words do not cost much. Yet they accomplish much" -Blaise Pascal.


This quote here I always like listening to when I watch As Good As It Gets, I think its the way Jack Nicholson said it that made it sound so darn interesting.

"Some of us have great stories, pretty stories that take place in lakes in boats with friends and noodle salad. Just no one in this car. But a lot of people, that's their story. Good times, noodle salad. What makes it so hard is not that you had it bad, but that your pissed that so many others had it good." -Melvin Udall

"Never get dressed in a glass house with the lights on." -Yakko Animaniacs

And some great Houseisms:

House: Everybody Lies

Foreman: I think your arguement is specious
House: I think your tie is ugly

Cameron: Men should grow up
House: Yeah and dogs should stop licking themselves, its not gonna happen

House: Perseverence does not equal worthiness. Next time you want to get my attention, wear something fun. Low riding jeans are hot.

House: You can think I am wrong, but that's no reason to quit thinking.

 

[Katsumara]

"It's not Lupus." - Everyone I know.

 

[Gatomon41]

"Blasphemy is like believing that 2 +2 = 5; It isn't right to begin with, and it will never be right."-Anon.

"Men invent new ideals because they dare not attempt old ideals. They look forward with enthusiasm, because they are afraid to look back."- G.K. Chesterton

 

[entransify]

Eat, drink and be merry... for tomorrow we die - Dave Matthews

 

[DBZNarutoWarrior]

To acquire knowledge, one must study; but to acquire wisdom, one must observe. - Marilyn vos Savant
If there's one thing I know it's God does love a good joke. - Hugh Elliot

Never let the future disturb you. You will meet it, if you have to, with the same weapons of reason which today arm you against the present.

-Marcus Aurelius Antoninus

 

[Patchwork]

“We are all lying in the gutter, but some of us are looking at the stars ”
-Oscar Wilde

"There is more than one way to burn a book. And the world is full of people running about with lit matches.
Every minority, be it Baptist/Unitarian, Irish/Italian/Octogenarian/Zen Buddhist, Zionist/Seventh-day Adventist, Women's Lib/Republican, Mattachine/FourSquareGospel feels it has the will, the right, the duty to douse the kerosene, light the fuse.
Every dimwit editor who sees himself as the source of all dreary blanc-mange plain porridge unleavened literature, licks his guillotine and eyes the neck of any author who dares to speak above a whisper or write above a nursery rhyme."
- Ray Bradbury; Fahrenheit 451


“But I don’t want to go among mad people,” Alice remarked
“Oh, you can’t help that,” said the cat. “We’re all mad here. I’m mad. You’re mad.”
“How do you know I’m mad?” said Alice.
“You must be,” said the cat, “or you wouldn’t have come here.”
- Lewis Carroll; Alice in Wonderland


“But who prays for Satan? Who, in eighteen centuries, has had the common humanity to pray for the one sinner that needed it most?”
- Mark Twain


“And then the world went mad. All right, madder.”
- Pyramids; Terry Pratchett

"Some is rich, and some is poor
That's the way the world is
But I don't believe in lying back
Sayin' how bad your luck is"
- Bankrobber; The Clash

“Excess ain't rebellion.
You're drinking what they're selling.
Your self-destruction doesn't hurt them.
Your chaos won't convert them.”
- Rock N Roll Lifestyle; Cake