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I love quotes. Over the past year or so, I started collecting them
for The Pot (more about that later and elsewhere) and I truly enjoy reading
quotations. Of course, the quotes I share with you are varied. Furthermore, they are in no
special order--I'm just typing what is in my quote notebook. Enjoy.
See--what I realized...a person has three choices in life. You can
swim against the tide and get exhausted, or you can tread water and let the tide sweep you
away, or you can swim with the tide and let it take you where it wants you to go.
--Joel Fleischman, Northern Exposure
It's a big, big responsibility waiting for disaster to strike.
--Ranger Burns, Northern Exposure
Sometimes, Ed, sometimes you just gotta do something bad just to know you're alive.
--Chris Stevens, Northern Exposure
Where's Amnesty International when it comes to Joel Fleischman?
--Joel Fleischman, Northern Exposure
Dreams are postcards of the subconscious.
--Chris Stevens, Northern Exposure
Chris: What do women want?
Ed: I don't know. Do you?
Chris: Same thing men want, only in prettier colors.
--Northern Exposure
I have a new philosophy. I'm only going to dread one day at a time.
--Charles Schulz
Bad taste makes the day go by faster.
--Andy Warhol
When one door of happiness closes another door opens, but often we look so long at the
closed door that we don't see the one that has opened.
--Helen Keller
Kind words can be short and easy to speak, but their echoes are truly endless.
--Mother Theresa
If you're going through hell, keep going.
--Winston Churchill
Life is about not knowing, having to change, taking the moment and making the best of it,
without knowing what's going to happen next. Delicious ambiguity.
--Gilda Radner
If you lose your eyesight, you lose contact with things. If you lose your hearing, you
lose contact with people.
--Helen Keller
A true gentleman is one who is never intentionally rude.
--Oscar Wilde
Xander: We have a relationship?
Anya: We went to the prom.
--Buffy, the Vampire Slayer
Small is the number of them that see with their own eyes and feel
with their own hearts.
--Albert Einstein
When you have eliminated the impossible, that which remains, however improbably, must be
the truth.
--Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
You know, Hobbes, sometimes even my lucky rocketship underpants don't
help.
--Calvin, Calvin and Hobbes
There is luxury in self-reproach. When we blame ourselves, we feel no
one else has a right to blame us.
--Oscar Wilde
Truth is eternal, knowledge is changeable. It is disastrous to confuse
them.
--Madeline L'Engle, An Acceptable Time
If you keep your mind sufficiently open, people will throw a lot of
rubbish in it.
--William Orton
Life is the biggest bargain. We get it for nothing.
--Jewish proverb
The difference between fiction and reality is that fiction has to make sense.
--Tom Clancy
No sane man will dance.
--Cicero
Life is a tragedy for those who feel, and a comedy for those who think.
--Jean de la Bruyère
Attack life. It's going to kill you anyway.
--Steven Coallier
Reality is merely an illusion, albeit a very persistent one.
--Albert Einstein
I hope life isn't a joke, because I don't get it.
--Jack Handey
The face of a child can say it all, especially the mouth part of the
face.
--Jack Handey
I'm gonna live forever, or die trying.
--Joseph Heller
Life is a great big canvas; throw all the paint you can at it.
--Danny Kaye
What sane person could live in this world and not be crazy?
--Ursula K. LeGuin
All the world's a stage and most of us are desperately unrehearsed.
--Sean O'Casey
If you think nobody cares if you're alive, try missing a couple of
car payments.
--Earl Wilson
When you were born, you cried and the world rejoiced. Live your life
so that when you die, the world cries and you rejoice.
--Indian Proverb
A synonym is a word you use when you can't spell the word you first
thought of.
--Burt Bacharach
Brain: an apparatus with which we think we think.
--Ambrose Bierce
Cogito cogito ergo cogito sum - "I think that I think,
therefore I think that I am."
--Ambrose Bierce
I will tell you the truth as soon as I figure it out.
--Wayne Birmingham
If we are the only intelligent life in the universe, at least there's a
finite number of idiots.
--Steven Coallier
If you never change your mind, why have one?
--Edward DeBono
I have so much to do that I am going to bed.
--Savoyard Proverb
The devil is an optimist if he thinks he can make people meaner.
--Karl Krause
The whole world is a scab. The point is to pick it constructively.
--Peter Beard
The most exciting phrase to hear in science, the one that heralds
the most discoveries, is not "Eureka!", but "That's funny..."
--Isaac Asimov
The first duty of a lecturer: to hand you after an hour's discourse a
nugget of pure truth to wrap up between the pages of your notebooks, and keep on the
mantelpiece forever.
--Virginia Woolf
I have lost friends, some by death, others through sheer inability
to cross the street.
--Virginia Woolf
Each has his past shut in him like the leaves of a book known to him by
heart and his friends can only read the title.
--Virginia Woolf
An archeologist is the best husband a woman can have; the older she
gets, the more interested he is in her.
--Agatha Christie
These are bagpipes. I understand the inventor of the bagpipes was
inspired when he saw a man carrying an indignany, asthmatic pig under his arm.
Unfortunately, the man-made sound never equaled the purity of the sound achieved by the
pig.
--Alfred Hitchcock
Drama is life with the dull bits cut out.
--Alfred Hitchcock
The paperback is interesting, but I find it will never replace the
hardcover book-it makes a very poor doorstop.
--Alfred Hitchcock
Seeing a murder on television can help work off one's antagonisms. And if you
haven't got antagonisms, the commercials will give you some.
--Alfred Hitchcock
There is nothing quite so good as burial at sea. It is simple, tidy, and not very
incriminating.
--Alfred Hitchcock
Illusions commend themselves to us because they save us pain and allow us to enjoy
pleasure instead. We must therefore accept it without complaint when they sometimes
collide with a bit of reality against which they are dashed to pieces.
--Sigmund Freud
Sometimes a cigar is just a cigar.
--Sigmund Freud
Spaghetti can be eaten most successfully if you inhale it like a
vacuum cleaner.
--Sophia Loren
Sex appeal is 50% what you've got and 50% what people think you've
got.
--Sophia Loren
An eye for an eye only leads to more blindness.
--Margaret Atwood
If someone had told me I would be Pope one day, I would have studied
harder.
--Pope John Paul I
Ach, alles ereignet sich einmal nur,
aber ainmal muss alles geschehen.
Über Berg und Tal, über Feld und Flur
werd ich vergehen, verwehen...
--Michael Ende, Die Unendliche Geschichte
(Oh, nothing can happen more than once,
But all things must happen one day
Over hill and dale, over wood and stream,
My dying voice will blow away...
--Michael Ende, The Neverending Story, trans.
Ralph Mannheim)
Was ich angefangen habe, muss ich zu Ende führen. Jetzt bin ich schon
zu weit gegangen, um noch umzukehren. Ich kann nur weitergehen, was auch daraus werden
mag.
--Michael Ende, Die Unendliche Geschichte
(What I've started I must finish. I've gone too far to turn
back. Regardless of what may happen, I have to go forward.)
--Michael Ende, The Neverending Story, trans.
Ralph Mannheim)
It's kind of fun to do the impossible.
--Walt Disney
I have no desire for fun.
--Tuvok, Star Trek: Voyager
You heard him. Don't argue with the man. Run along! I'll reattach
any severed limbs; just don't misplace them.
--Doctor, Star Trek: Voyager
("The Killing Game")
If we don't succeed, we run the risk of failure.
--J. Danforth Quayle
Life begets life. Energy creates energy. It is by spending oneself
that one becomes rich.
--Sarah Bernhardt
When someone holds out a hand for a donation, and holds out the
other hand with a gun pointed at you, it's not called begging.
It's called robbery.
--Jim Wright
Each life makes its own imitation of immortality.
--Stephen King
Fiction is the truth inside the lie.
--Stephen King
Start each day off with a smile and get it over with.
--W.C. Fields
I am free of all prejudices. I hate everyone equally.
--W.C. Fields
Dying is a very dull, dreary affair. And my advice to you is to have
nothing to do with it.
--W. Somerset Maughm
The ability to quote is a serviceable substitute for wit.
--W. Somerset Maughm
Love is what happens to men and women who don't know each other.
--W. Somerset Maughm
Perfection is what American women expect to find in their husbands
... but English women only hope to find in their butlers.
--W. Somerset Maughm
The most wasted of all days is one without laughter.
--e.e. cummings
I would feel more optimistic about a bright future for man if he
spent less time proving that he can outwit Nature and more time tasting her sweetness and
respecting her seniority.
--E.B. White
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