I've been collecting these few quotes in a small notebook, and then I put them up on a different website because I didn't want to use paper I could otherwise use for school. And now they're here :P
Found with the help of the internet
Women have a passion for mathematics. They divide their age in half, double the price of their clothes, and always add at least five years to the age of their best friend.
-Marcel Achard
I have six locks on my door all in a row. When I go out, I lock every other one. I figure no matter how long somebody stands there picking the locks, they are always locking three.
-Elayne Boosler
Tell me my dreams are unrealistic, and I'll tell you yours aren't big enough.
- Anonymous
Draw a line. Live above it.
-Anonymous
Flying is learning how to throw yourself at the ground and miss.
-Douglas Adams
If it's stupid, and it works, it isn't stupid.
-Murphy's laws of combat.
I'd rather be hated for who I am than loved for who I am not.
- Kurt Cobain
I am free, no matter what rules surround me. If I find them tolerable, I tolerate them; if I find them too obnoxious, I break them. I am free because I know that I alone am morally responsible for everything I do.
-Heinlein
We, the willing, led by the unknowing, are doing the impossible for the ungrateful. We have done so much, with so little, for so long, we are now qualified to do anything with nothing.
-Anonymous
Shallow men believe in luck. Strong men believe in cause and effect.
-Ralph Waldo Emerson
(no offense)
We spend the first twelve months of our children's lives teaching them to walk and talk and the next twelve telling them to sit down and shut up.
-Phyllis Diller
Before you criticize someone, you should walk a mile in their shoes. That way, when you criticize them, you're a mile away and you have their shoes.
-Anonymous
There is nothing like a dream to create the future.
-Victor Hugo
Various songs
Will you be fire? I'll be ice
[...]
Will you be day? I will be night
She said, "nothing ever happens
If you don't make it happen
And if you can't laugh then smile"
Listen to the music of the moment people, dance and sing
[...]
And it's our God-forsaken right to be loved
There are places I remember all my life
Though some have changed
Some forever, not for better
Some have gone, and some remain
I'll teach you how to ride the stars
Now if only I could quote the instrumentals...
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Various books/novels
"So...like, you're lyin' on the battlefield with an arrow for a decoration, and everybody homes in on it like a beacon and they start pryin' it out WHILE you're conscious, and you're thinkin' "Ahh! Don't trouble yourselves, just leave it in there for goodness' sake! I got it first, it's mine! Don't touch it! I can use it to hang stuff on and--aahh!" And then when you finally faint from all the pain, they shake you and shout your name and try to wake you up, and you're thinkin' "Heeeeeeell no, I ain't comin' back to that! Why d'you think I fainted in the first place?!" Then they get all frantic-like and such and start hollerin' "Don't die on me, man!" and you're thinkin' "The only one gonna die here is you if you don't quit shaking me!""
Freedom is the freedom to say two plus two makes four
Beginning this very moment, I am a happy person, for I now truly understand the concept of happiness. Few others before me have been able to grasp the truth of the physical law that enables one to live happily every day. I know now that happiness is not an emotional phantom floating in and out of my life. Happiness is a choice. Happiness is the end result of certain thoughts and activities, which actually bring about a chemical reaction in my body. This reaction results in a euphoria that, while elusive to some, is totally under my control.
Today I will choose to be happy. I will greet each day with laughter.
What happens once will never happen again. But what happens twice will surely happen a third time.
Today is a time for remembering and a time for looking forward, but more than anything, it is a time for living, a time that exists between yesterday and tomorrow for whatever purpose you design.
All words are written in the same ink,
"flower" and "power," say, are much the same,
and though I might write "blood, blood blood"
all over the page, the paper would not be stained
not would I bleed.
'What is this?' sad the Leapard, 'that is so 'sclusively dark, and yet so full of little pieces of light?
The idea hovered and shivered delicately, like a soap bubble, and she dared not even look at it directly in case it burst. But she was familiar with the way of ideas, and she let it shimmer, looking away, thinking about something else.
Darkness always had its part to play. Without it, how would we know when we walked in the light?
All I need is a sheet of paper
and something to write with, and then
I can turn the world upside down.
True, I talk of dreams,
Which are the children of an idle brain,
Begot of nothing but vain fantasy,
Which is as thin of substance as the air
