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Favorite Quotes *CONSTANTLY UPDATED* |
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I think the title is self-explanatory.
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"You think you know a story, but you only know how it ends. To get to the heart of the story, you have to go back to the beginnng."
--Jonathan Rhys Meyers in the opening to The Tudors
"Remember, remember, the fifth of November,
The gunpowder, treason, and plot.
I know of no reason
Why gunpowder treason
Should ever be forgot."
--song for Guy Fawkes Night; main plot point of V for Vendetta
"When in danger or in doubt, run in circles, scream and shout."
--"Crisis Response Plan"; told to this author by her father
"I want to ride Harley, have sex-not be dull."
--something on an Honors English worksheet
*"Laziness is nothing more than the habit of resting before you get tired."
*"Literature is an occupation in which you have to keep proving your talent to people who have none."
--Jules Renard (1864 - 1910)
"Just because I'm a 'writer' doesn't mean I have to know how to spell..."
--moi
"When two people have had sex, unless it sucks, if they can do it again, they're gonna do it again, and that's when things get complicated.
And it didn't suck."
--Dr. Robert Chase, House, MD
"It starts bad, is bad in the middle, has some more badness near the end, and then erupts into a grand finale of badness so bad it makes other bad things look good."
--a review of "Urban Legends: Final Cut"
"I AM thinking positive! It's the situation that's negative."
--Joe Hardy, Nancy Drew/Hardy Boys Mysteries
"In 2,000 years, when people look back on our attitudes, they will make fun of us."
--Mr. Haugen, 5th Period English class (October 31, 2006)
"Absolute power corrupts absolutely."
--Social Studies saying from 8th grade
"Life is a journey, not a destination."
--scratched onto a music stand in my school's band room
"Since brevity is the soul of wit,
And tediousness the outward limbs and flourishes,
I will be brief."
--Hamlet, William Shakespeare
"'Tis better to be silent and be thought a fool, than to speak and remove all doubt."
--accredited to Abraham Lincoln
"Two things are infinite: the universe and human stupidity; and I'm not sure about the universe."
--Albert Einstein
"There are three things I've learned throughout my life never to talk to people about: religion, politics...and the Great Pumpkin."
--Linus; "Peanuts" cartoons
"Do unto others as you would want done unto you."
--The Golden Rule
"Don't call the previously unknown extra genes in DNA 'junk genes' around a genecist...things will get ugly."
--Just a bit of friendly advice from Ms. Montalvo, my AP Bio teacher
"...She is extremely severe about her niceness and likes to wear her aura of niceness around her like battle armor..."
--Something on some site about Cameron (I don't know why it struck me as amusing, but it did.)
"Read the best books first, as you might not have the chance to read them at all."
--Henry David Thoreau
"Ladies and gentleman, in my opinion, the ancient Greeks were hippie freaks."
--Mr. Haugen, my English teacher...he rocks!
*"Remember the past, my friend, live in the present, and, instead, fight like hell for your future."
*"I am part of every race, and yet I belong to no one. I am related to all in this land, yet I am accepted by none. The blood of all runs in my veins, yet my blood is unique and belongs only to me."
--Shiva the Destroyer (she's mine--no you touchie!)
"Love is blind, but lust has 20/20 eyesight."
--Dr. Fiscus, St. Elsewhere
"Defeat isn't bitter if you don't swallow it."
--Ancient Chinese Proverb (heard on Iron Chef America)
"Tu es une bête!" (You are a beast!)
--Anya Peretzkova (as Antoinette d'Artois) to Rory McGetrick (from a random scene that played out in my head)
"You are the bright lamp light in the living room of my life! I'll be right over!"
--SimSam (Sam being of Supernatural fame, of course) from someone's Sims game (haha, read this on a thread and lost it)
"You think I'm not a goddess?
Try me.
This is a torch song.
Touch me and you'll burn."
--"Helen of Troy Does Countertop Dancing" by Margaret Atwood
"Après moi, c'est le déluge." ("After me, the flood." wink
--Louis XIII of France (and boy, was he right...)
"Boy. They told me European women had funny ways."
--Tom Sawyer, The League of Extraordinary Gentlemen
"You broke my heart once. This time, you missed."
--Mina Harker, The League of Extraordinary Gentlemen
"Denn die Todten reiten schnell." ("For the dead travel fast" wink
--Bram Stoker's Dracula
"Why can't they let a girl marry three men, or as many as want her, and save all this trouble?"
--Lucy Westenra, Dracula
"And Mama says it doesn't matter if you're a king or a clown. Once you drive up a mountain, you can't back down."
--Willard, Footloose: the Musical ♥
 OuEstLaCraie · Mon Apr 28, 2008 @ 10:42pm · 0 Comments |
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