Movies
Gladiator
Maximus: What we do in life echoes in eternity.
Ferris Bueller's Day Off
Ferris: Life moves pretty fast. If you don't stop and look around once in a while, you could miss it.
The Breakfast Club
Bender: Screws just fall out all the time, the world's an imperfect place.
Jurassic Park
Malcolm: You do plan on having dinosaurs on your dinosaur tour, right?
License to Drive
Dean: To live in fear is not to live at all.
Apocalypse Now
Kilborn: I love the smell of napalm in the morning.
The Usual Suspects
Verbal Kint: The greatest trick the Devil ever pulled was convincing the world he didn't exhist.
Verbal Kint: How do you shoot the Devil in the back?
Random People
Wild animals never kill for sport. Man is the only one to whom the torture and death of his fellow creatures is amusing in itself.
- J.A. Froude
Religion is for those who believe in hell, Spirituality is for those who have been there.
- David Bowie
Some would ask, how could a perfect God create a universe filled with so much that is evil. They have missed a greater conundrum: why would a perfect God create a universe at all?
- Sister Miriam Godwinson
But for the Grace of God
Whenever I look inside myself I am afraid.
- C.E.M. Joad
Maybe in order to understand mankind we have to look at that word itself. MANKIND. Basically, it's made up of two separate words "mank" and "ind." What do these words mean? It's a mystery and that's why so is mankind.
- Jack Handey
Deep Thoughts
Society is no comfort, to one not sociable.
- Shakespeare
There's nothing worse then being surrounded by people and feeling like you're all alone.
- G.M.
Stupidity is the basic building block of the universe.
- Frank Zappa
When you're as great as I am, it's hard to be humble.
- Muhammad Ali
The normal make a living. The deranged make history.
- Christopher Titus
Imagination is more important than knowledge. Knowledge is limited. Imagination encircles the world.
- Albert Einstein
Experience is what you get when you don't get what you want.
- Author Unknown
To me, clowns aren't funny. In fact, they're kinda scary. I've wondered where this started and I think it goes back to the time I went to the circus and a clown killed my dad.
- Jack Handey
Deep Thoughts
Just because you're not paranoid, doesn't mean they're not after you.
- Kurt Cobain
I argue very well. Ask any of my remaining friends. I can win an argument on any topic, against any opponent. People know this, and steer clear of me at parties. Often, as a sign of their great respect, they don't even invite me.
- Dave Barry
Do not walk behind me, for I may not lead. Do not walk ahead of me, for I may not follow. Do not walk beside me either; just leave me the hell alone.
- Author Unknown
Information is not knowledge. Knowledge is not wisdom. Wisdom is not truth. Truth is not beauty. Beauty is not love. Love is not music.
Music is THE BEST.
- Frank Zappa
Imagination is the one weapon in the war against reality.
- Jules de Gaultier
Art is a lie which makes us realise the truth.
- Pablo Picasso
Words are the pen of the heart, but music is the pen of the soul.
- Shneur Zalman
A lot of people are afraid to say what they want. That's why they don't get what they want.
- Madonna
It takes a big man to cry, but it takes an even bigger man to laugh at that man.
- Jack Handey
Deep Thoughts
I wanted to change the world. But I have found that the only thing one can be sure of changing is oneself.
- Aldous Huxley
The best way to keep one's word is not to give it.
- Napoleon Bonaparte
This is not the beginning of the end, but it is the end of the beginning.
- Winston Churchill on D-Day
Think for yourself and let others enjoy the privilege of you doing so too.
- Author Unknown
Fun Quotes
I assume full responsibility for my actions, except the ones that are someone else's fault.
We all can't be heroes. Somebody has to sit on the sides and clap as they go by.
All I ask for is the opportunity to prove that money doesn't buy happiness.
Nobody's perfect and since I'm nobody...
I'm not myself today. Maybe I'm you.
This is my favorite time of day. Well, there it goes.
It's not an optical illusion, it just looks that way.
You're just jealous cause the voices only talk to me.
Your village called. Their idiot is missing.
Make it idiot proof and someone will make a better idiot.
God must love stupid people, He made so many of them.
He who laughs last thinks slowest.
Some folks sit and think, others just sit.
Success always occurs in private and failure in full public view.
Even if you're paranoid, maybe they really are after you.
Think twice before you speak, especially if you intend to say what you think.
Work is a fine thing if it doesn't take too much of your spare time.
If at first you don't succeed, destroy all evidence that you tried.
A conclusion is simply the place where you got tired of thinking.
I don't have a solution, but I admire the problem.
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