Thought I'd start one of these for good quotes. They can be from anything, books, movies, TV, general people, even people you know. If it's one you like, slap it up. Not sure about the age thing in here now, so let's keep it PG-13, okay? Some of mine:
“On a good day, Hellboy smelled like a dry-roasted peanut.�
–Mike Mignola
the one line he ever wrote for a Hellboy short story
"Oh they'd break the whole world if they thought it'd make a pretty noise."
–Nanny Ogg, Lords and Ladies
by Terry Pratchett
"A person who is nice to you, and then rude to the waiter is not a nice person."
–Dave Barry
“Normally at a time like this I'd ask you for advice, and you'd say something that would make no sense at all, but somehow it would all fit together. Like, I would tell you, "Sir, I have a problem," and you'd say, "Well, what is it?" and I'd say, "Well, sir, Lisa wants to have a baby, but she doesn't want to get married," and you'd say "Dave, why milk the cow when you have a fridge full of steaks?" And I'd say, "Sir, that makes no sense," and you'd say, "Well, it sure made sense when that guy Chuck Connors said it in that movie Chinatown," and I'd say, "Sir, Chuck Connors wasn't in Chinatown," and you'd say, "Dave, if I wanted to have this conversation I'd have hired that guy Siskel Ebert to do your job," and I'd say, "Sir, Siskel and Ebert are two people," and you'd say, "Dave, just because the man is fat is no reason to make fun of him." “
-- Dave Nelson, “Newsradio�
“The moon is so beautiful. It's a big silver dollar flipped by God. And it landed scarred side up, see? So He made the world.�
-- Two-Face, some Batman comic I don't have
"I wash my hands of those who imagine chattering to be knowledge, silence to be ignorance, and affection to be art."
--Kahlil Gibran
"The world needs anger. The world often continues to allow evil because it isn't angry enough."
--Bede Jarrett
“This is truth the poet sings,
That a sorrow's crown of sorrows is remembering happier things.�
--Alfred Lord Tennyson
"The release of atomic energy has not created a new problem. It has merely made more urgent the necessity of solving an existing one."
--Albert Einstein
"I'd say you hit like a girl, but I'M still standing."
--some girl I don't know, after kicking a guyâ€s butt
"People gather bundles of sticks to build bridges they never cross."
--???
"I don't have to attend every argument I'm invited to."
--???
“Happiness is like peeing in your pants; everyone can see it but only you can feel the warmth.�
--???
"You are all individuals!"
"YES! WE ARE ALL INDIVIDUALS!"
"I'm not!�
--Monty Pythonâ€s The Life of Brian
"...Do you ever think of yourself as actually dead, lying in a box with a lid on it?...Nor do I, really...It's silly to be depressed by it. I mean one thinks of it like being alive in a box, one keeps forgetting to take into account the fact that one is dead...which should make all the difference...shouldn't it? I mean, you'd never know you were in a box, would you? It would be just like being asleep in a box. Not that I'd like to sleep in a box, mind you, not without any air - you'd wake up dead, for a start, and then where would you be? Apart from inside a box. That's the bit I don't like, frankly. That's why I don't think of it...Because you'd be helpless, wouldn't you? Stuffed in a box like that, I mean you'd be in there for ever. Even taking into account the fact that you're dead, it isn't a pleasant thought. Especially if you're dead, really...ask yourself, if I asked you straight off- I'm going to stuff you in this box now, would you rather be alive or dead? Naturally, you'd prefer to be alive. Life in a box is better than no life at all. I expect. You'd have a chance at least. You could lie there thinking - well, at least I'm not dead! In a minute someone's going to bang on the lid and tell me to come out. 'Hey you, whatsyername! come out of there.'"
--Rosencrantz, Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead
by Tom Stoppard
“It's all right - I'm demonstrating the misuse of free speech. To prove that it exists."
–Rosencrantz and Guildenstern are Dead
“I feel like a spectator -- an appalling business. The only thing that makes it bearable is the irrational belief that somebody interesting will come on in a minute..."
--Rosencrantz And Guildenstern Are Dead
“The greatest happiness of life is the conviction that we are loved - loved for ourselves, or rather, loved in spite of ourselves.�
--Victor Hugo
“Put your hand on a hot stove for a minute, and it seems like an hour. Sit with a pretty girl for an hour, and it seems like a minute. That's relativity.�
--Albert Einstein
“Sex is. There is nothing more to be done about it. Sex builds no roads, writes no novels and sex certainly gives no meaning to anything in life but itself.�
--Gore Vidal
“Anyone who says he can see through women is missing a lot.�
--Groucho Marx
"Do not regret growing old; many are denied the privilege."
--???
"I didn't know you could stop being a God."
"You can stop being anything."
--Delirium and Dream, Sandman: Brief Lives
"When you were born, you cried and the world rejoiced. Live your life so that when you die, the world cries and you rejoice."
–???
"Don't make love by the garden gate, love is blind but the neighbors ain't."
--???
"Champagne for my true friends and true pain for my sham friends!"
--Tom Waits (I think)
“I myself have never been able to find out precisely what feminism is; I only know that people call me a feminist whenever I express sentiments that differentiate me from a doormat.�
--Rebecca West
“From hell's curio cabinet, I peer at thee! From the suburban maw of bourgeoise horrors, I stare at thee!�
--Ugly Rooms for the Beautiful People
"In the beginning the Universe was created. This has made a lot of people very angry and been widely regarded as a bad move."
--Douglas Adams
"I know you little, I love you lots,
my love for you could fill ten pots,
fifteen buckets,
sixteen cans,
three teacups,
and four dishpans."
--???
"Most of us go to our grave with our music still inside us."
--Oliver Wendell Holmes
"You learn to love, not by finding a perfect person, but by learning to see an imperfect person perfectly."
--???
"Childhood is long and narrow, like a coffin, and we do not get out of it without help.�
--Tove Ditlevsen
“Oh HELL no! Heâ€d probably kick Swiss Miss in her box if he ever got hold of her.â€?
--my friend Zanne on whether Sanji would own powdered cocoa
--Bevin