Well, this is another bit of cheating but not out of desperation. I really wanted to put up my all time/current fave quotes. They're really mixed up--serious one mixed with the funny ones--but love 'em all! :D Haven't included poetry though. That would make it too long (it already is!) Well enough preamble...
A mirror
keeps me honest.
With your eyes I see me
doubting my sanity.
-
Rini MukkathAnd did you exchange
A walk on part in the war
For a lead role in a cage?
-Pink Floyd "Wish You Were Here"
We're just two lost souls, swimming in a fish bowl
-Pink Floyd "Wish You Were Here"
If blood will flow when flesh and steel are one
Drying in the colour of the evening sun
Tomorrow's rain will wash the stains away
But something in our minds will always stay
-Sting "Fragile"
But my God woke up
On the wrong side of his bed
And it just don't matter now
- Oasis "Little by Little"
Let them eat cake
-Queen Marie Antoinette (when told that the people had no bread)
By the time this is over, I'm gonna need a whole lota serious therapy. Look at my eye twitchin'!
- Donkey from "Shrek"
Hold the phone.
-Shrek
I want my Miranda rights! You were supposed to say I have the right to remain silent! You didn't say I have the right to remain silent!
Donkey! You HAVE the right to remain silent! What you lack is the ability!
-From "Shrek 2"
The sky resembles a backlit canopy
With holes punched in it
- Incubus "I Wish You Were Here"
He who laughs, lasts
-Unknown
If I ever met myself, I'd hit myself so hard I won't know what's hit me.
-Zaphod Beeblebrox, HHGG
The Universe was created and a lot of people were unhappy.
For a moment, nothing happened. After a moment, nothing continued to happen.
-HHGG
When angry count four; when very angry, swear.
-Mark Twain
Civilization is a limitless multiplication of unnecessary necessities.
-Mark Twain
I don't question YOUR existence.
-God
I am an agnostic pagan. I doubt the existence of many gods.
-Unknown
Do unto yourself what others would not do unto you. Enough said.
-http://meghalomania.com/
"Hate wears you down, and does not hurt your enemy. It's like taking poison and wishing your enemy would die."
- Native American Saying
"Together we can rule this world. All I need is your obedience and submission to my will!"
- Dr. Who
If you're parents never had children, the chances are you won't either
- Unknown
"Books are fatal: they are the curse of the human race. Nine-tenths of existing books are nonsense, and the clever books are the refutation of that nonsense. The greatest misfortune that ever befell man was the invention of printing."
-Benjamin Disraeli. (NOTE: Reading addict that I am, I don't necessarily agree with this. Thought that it maybe had a glimmer of truth in it.)
Life is not measured by the number of breaths we take but by the moments that take your breath away
- From "Hitch"
"
It is only possible to succeed at second-rate pursuits -- like becoming a millionaire or a prime minister, winning a war, seducing a beautiful woman, flying through the stratosphere, or landing on the moon. First-rate pursuits -- involving, as they must, trying to understand what life is about and trying to convey that understanding -- inevitably result in a sense of failure. A Napoleon, a Churchill, a Roosevelt can feel themselves to be successful, but never a Socrates, a Pascal, a Blake. Understanding is forever unattainable. Therein lies the inevitability of failure in embarking upon its quest, which is nonetheless the only one worthy of serious attention."
Malcolm Muggeridge, 1965
Fashion is a form of ugliness so intolerable that we have to alter it every six months
- Oscar Wilde
Kill 1-20 and you're a Murderer
Kill 30 - 1000 and you're a Terrorist
Kill 10.000 - 20 million and you're a Conqueror/Dictator
Kill everyone and you're God
"Arguments are to be avoided; they are always vulgar and often convincing." - Oscar Wilde
"The intuitive mind is a sacred gift and the rational mind is a faithful servant. We have created a society that honors the servant and has forgotten the gift." - Einstein.
Farnsworth: These are the dark matter engines I invented. They allow my starship to travel between galaxies in mere hours.
Cubert: That's impossible. You can't go faster than the speed of light.
Farnsworth: Of course not. That's why scientists increased the speed of light in 2208.
- Futurama.
On a universal scale our little corner of creation is a mere dimple on a pimple on a sand flea's nut, insignificant.
-PsychoticEpisode, Sciforums.com