What's your favourite quote?

Just when you think life's a dog, it has puppies....

Sometimes we pass each other
sometimes we cannot tell which way we've come
but a fleeting glimpse of someone
is sometimes all that we will ever know.

Wolfstone

"There is only one thing worse than being talked about, & that is not being talked about".

Oscar Wilde

-this is just one of many- (From The Little Prince)

"You are beautiful, but you are empty," he went on. "One could not die for you. To be sure, an
ordinary passerby would think that my rose looked just like you-- the rose that belongs to me. But in herself
alone she is more important than all the hundreds of you other roses: because it is she that I have watered;
because it is she that I have put under the glass globe; because it is she that I have sheltered behind the
screen; because it is for her that I have killed the caterpillars (except the two or three that we saved to
become butterflies); because it is she that I have listened to, when she grumbled, or boasted, or even
sometimes when she said nothing. Because she is my rose.


-It is only with the heart
that one can see rightly; what is essential is invisible to the eye.

There will come a hour when your greatest lover...is life
~Ramtha~

I have a whole webiste dedicated to great quotes. http://members.fortunecity.com/bdwebber/quotessection.html

I have a million.. but the one hanging on my fridge right now says:

"When the first baby laughed for the first time, it's laugh broke into a thousand pieces and they all went skipping about, and that was the beginning of fairies." --From Peter Pan By J.M. Barrie

Brilliant!

First quote that comes to mind: "The Earth shall inherit the meek" -Wither

"And so my fantasy becomes reality and I must be what I must be and face tomorrow." ~ Simon and Garfunkel (Flowers Never Bend With The Rainfall)

It's all recreation!!

"When one door closes another door opens; but we so often look so long and so regretfully upon the closed door, that we do not see the ones which open for us." Alexander Graham Bell
this is a favorite, but there are so many!!!!

these are two other favorites......

"A coward is incapable of exhibiting love; it is the prerogative of the brave." Mahatma Gandhi


"Nothing takes the taste out of peanut butter quite like unrequited love." Charlie Brown

I don't have a single favorite. A quick spin of my fortune file comes up with: "Life is a gamble at terrible odds. If it was a bet, you wouldn't take it." -Tom Stoppard

"Kids, you tried your best, and you failed miserably. The lesson is: never try." - Homer Simpson

This is from an article in Utne Reader in 1994 about HIV and AIDS. I can't recall the author.

"Once a father approached a Buddhist master and asked how he could possibly bear to live in a world where he could not protect his children from annihilation. The master picked up a crystal goblet. "I like this glass," he said. "It makes a lovely sound when you flick it, and everything tastes more delicious when poured from its delicate shape. But when a wind comes along and shatters it into a thousand pieces, I won't be surprised. You see, I know the glass is already broken."

If you're not outraged you're not paying attention.

(I only thought of it because of the last survey I answered).

"Women are not strange, not threatening, not mysterious, unless you happen to be a man." - Roger Ebert.

"He is no fool who gives that which he cannot keep to gain that which he cannot lose" Robert Elliot

I don't think of got one. It really depends on what I am relating to at the moment. The one that comes to me right now is from a Natalie Imbruglia song.
~Then another one always says she doesn't care if she has to scratch and claw to get in the door, she wants her 15 minutes of fame, and 20 would be nice.

That's a really good one. I'll have to tell that to my pessimistic friend. He always says "Life is a dog, and then you die."

"Our greatest glory is not in never falling, but in rising every time we fall." - Confucius

AND

"The art of dealing with one's enemies is an art no less necessary than knowing how to appreciate one's friends." - Truman Capote

AND

"If you are patient in one moment of anger, you will avoid one hundred days of sorrow." - Chinese Proverb.

There's probably more, but those ones just came to mind.

W. Somerset Maugham -- "It was such a lovely day I thought it was a pity to get up" (I love sleeping in)

Least favourite- Valerie Solanis [SCUM Society For Cutting Up Men manifesto 1968] --"Every man, deep down, knows he's a worthless piece of crap"

In response to questions about plans, like what are you doing tonight? "Drinking Heavily!"

ex-boyfriend

Any thing that Dorothy Parker ever said. LOVE her.

"I believe that friends are quiet angels who lift us to our feet when our wings have trouble remembering how to fly." - Unknown artist.

Work like you don't need the money, love like it is never going to hurt, and dance like no one is watching

Lets get it on!

Leave me the fudge alone.
-Me.

A variation of live and let live.

"You gotta dance like no one is watching, and you gotta love like it's never gonna hurt"

"All the rivers flow to the sea, yet the sea is never full." Ecclesiastes 1:7

"We are all inthe gutter, but some of us are looking up at the stars" -Oscar Wilde" oh, and multiple other Morrissey quotes... Especially "I know I'm unloveable, you don't have to tell me... I wear black on the outside, as black as I feel on the inside, and if I seem a little strange, well that's because I am...

That is also one of my favorite quotes, but I've always heard it, "Dance like nobody's watching. Love like you've never been hurt."

I would never join to any club that would have someone like me for
a member.

Woody Allen

If God had intended for Man to smoke, he would've set him on fire.

No, that one was by Groucho Marx!

Actually Woody Allen quoted Groucho marx in Annie Hall (I think it was Annie Hall). So technically you're both right.

"Maybe if you cry some one will feel sorry for you. "
"I Will take my boot turn it sideways and stick it straight up you candyass."
"Know your role and shut your mouth"
"It doesn't matter what your name is"
"I don't care if you like me i don't like you, your a nasty b i t c h with an ugly heart and i don't give a flyin f u c k what you think"
"Throw me a freaken bone here, i'm the boss, need the info"

"Maybe if you cry some one will feel sorry for you. " Leave it to beaver
"I Will take my boot turn it sideways and stick it straight up you candyass." Rock
"Know your role and shut your mouth" The Rock
"It doesn't matter what your name is" The Rock
"I don't care if you like me i don't like you, your a nasty b i t c h with an ugly heart and i don't give a flyin f u c k what you think" Romy and michelle's high school reunion
"Throw me a freaken bone here, i'm the boss, need the info" Austin Powers

my favorite quote is from the simpsons:
bart- "take him away boys."
wiggum- "hey, i give the orders here. Take him away toys"
cops- "what did you say chief?
wiggum- "just do what the kid says."

Doesnt Wiggum say Bake him away toys in that one?

"You know, I think I understand what you're like now. You're very beautiful and you think men are only interested in you because you're beautiful, but you want them to be interested in you because you're you. The problem is, aside from all that beauty, you're not very interesting. You're rude, you're hostile, you're sullen, you're withdrawn. I know you want someone to look past all that at the real person underneath but the only reason anyone would bother to look past all that is because you're beautiful. Ironic, isn't it? In an odd way you're your own problem."

Nicholson to Pfeiffer in 'Wolf'

Clever choice.

"I'll give him an offer he cant refuse" Don Vito Corleone(Mario Puzo)

tanstaafl!
means:
There Ain't No Such Thing As A Free Lunch!

Coined by Heinlein.

There are so many wonderful quotes. If I posted all of them, I'd fill SC!

Julie Burchill said, "Life is a diet, then you die." this week.

lol People are so pessimistic! According to my teacher, his age is "Somewhere between 50 and death". So negative.

But probably true.......

lol

Quanto Rei... or I"m not sure, I' think it's Quanda Rei, but anywayz, it means something like 'Everything passes', on Latin

I think you mean Panta Rei

Well whatever. I don't speak Latin, though I wish I did. I can't take it in school, because the school in which I go right now doesn't offer that course. But soon, I'm changing schools, and I'm taking Latin for sure.

There are some fabulous Latin resources on the web. Do a search!

I know, I already did. Thanks anywayz.

"Tim, you're so sexy. I will do anything you ask of me. Your wish is my command!"

And then you woke up!

Actually...I get that ALL the time.

"Well stuff me with feathers and call me a pillow!"

It was Jim Elliot, not Robert

my bad
I got the last name right though

The monkey doesn't crap, where the crocodile sleeps

"So live your life that the fear of death can never enter your heart. Trouble no one about their religion; respect others in their view, and demand that they respect yours. Love your life, perfect your life, beautify all things in your life. Seek to make your life long and its purpose in the service of your people. Prepare a noble death song for the day when you go over the great divide. Always give a word or a sign of salute when meeting or passing a friend, even a stranger, when in a lonely place. Show respect to all people and grovel to none. When you arise in the morning give thanks for the food and for the joy of living. If you see no reason for giving thanks, the fault lies only in yourself. Abuse no one and no thing, for abuse turns the wise ones to fools and robs the spirit of its vision. When it comes your time to die, be not like those whose hearts are filled with the fear of death, so that when their time comes they weep and pray for a little more time to live their lives over again in a different way. Sing your death song and die like a hero going home."

Chief Tecumseh, Shawnee Nation

I love you

I don't have one.

i don't know if this constitutes a quote, but I really like the Irish blessing that says' May the road rise up to meet you. May the wind be always at your back. May the sun shine warm upon your face, the rain fall softly on your fields. And until we meet again, may God hold you in the palm of your hand.

'What lies beyond me is my birth land, which is not always home.'

Anne Rice, The Vampire Armand
Armand, when he arrives to Kiev

Hare Krishna
Hare Krishna
Krishna Krishna
Hare Hare

Hare Rama
Hare Rama
Rama Rama
Hare Hare

'Have read little and understood less.' - A Portrait Of The Artist As A Young Man
'9:13, Personal note: When I was a little kid my mother told me not to stare into the sun. So one day, when I was six, I did.' - Pi
'1970 Pontiac Firebird. The car I've always wanted and now I have it. I rule!' - American Beauty
'And when we kissed - which was at about eleven o'clock the following morning - we were trembling so much we couldn't take off our clothes.' - Truly Madly Deeply
'Hi, hi, hi, Mr. Deltoid!' - A Clockwork Orange (the film, uncertain about the book)
'It was gorgeousness and georgiosity made flesh.' - A Clockwork Orange (both)
'Lolita, light of my life, fire of my loins. My sin, my soul. Lo-lee-ta: the tip of the tongue taking a trip of three steps down the palate to tap, at three, on the teeth. Lo. Lee. Ta. She was Lo, plain Lo, in the morning, standing four feet ten in one sock. She was Lola in slacks. She was Dolly at school. She was Dolores on the dotted line. But in my arms she was always Lolita.' - Lolita, funnily enough.
'And as things fell apart, nobody paid much attention.' Talking Heads - (Nothing But) Flowers. It's also used in the foreword for American Psycho.