Quotes needed
by Okie guys, I need your help. I need your favorite quotes. It doesn't matter what they're about because I'm not sure exactly what I'm looking for at the moment. They can be: soulful, witty, funny, cute, cheesy, romantic, etc. They can be from songs, poems, stories, I really don't care just please tell me where it's from as well. So, give me a hand thanks!
-L to the y-n-z
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i recommend anais nin. here are a few to start:
"And the day came when the risk to remain tight in a bud was more painful than the risk it took to blossom."
"When you make a world tolerable for yourself, you make a world tolerable for others."
"Life is a process of becoming, a combination of states we have to go through. Where people fail is that they wish to elect a state and remain in it. This is a kind of death."
oh here are two anais nin links:
http://www.anaisnin.com/quote/index.html
http://www.anais-nin.de/
also, here is something henry miller wrote about anais nin. dont you want to be her?
You make me tremendously happy to hold me undivided - to let me be the artist, as it were, and yet not forgo the man, the animal, the hungry, insatiable lover. No woman has ever granted me all the privileges I need - and you, why you sing out so blithely, so boldly, with a laugh even - yes, you invite me to go ahead, be myself, venture anything. I adore you for that. That is where you are truly regal, a woman extraordinary. What a woman you are! I laugh to myself now when I think of you. I have no fear of your femaleness.
"If you pick up a starving dog and make him prosperous, he will not bite you. This is the principal difference between a dog and a man" - Mark Twain
"life is too boring to be normal"
this one reminded me of this quote i had on in my locked in like 8th grade it said "i'm not weird, i'm gifted" hhaha and i had another one that said "i could give up chocolate-but i'm not a quiter" LOL!
That second one is great..and so very true! I am not a quiter.
how about
"it is easier to ask for forgiveness than permission"
oh! i got another one! this was way back in 8th grade history class.
"Don't marry a person you can live with. Marry a person you can't live without."
I love this one:
Change Your Outlook To Look In...
oh i forgot this one. this one i heard in the gym.
"The biggest muscle in my body is my heart."
"ooooh, look at me, i go to a gym..., i'm really love myself... errrrr rrrrr." jk
who do you take me for?! someone stoopid?! or... s-stoopid?!
That could also work in the pick up lines thread.
it's not my favorite, but i heard it recently and i like it a lot, i don't know why. it's in a song. "Cause I can't wait to figure out what's wrong with me, So I can say that this is the way that I used to be. There's no substitute for time."
"I'm pond scum"
'Well, lower actually'
"I'm like the fungus that feeds on pond scum"
'Lower'
"The pus that infects the mucus that cruds up the fungus that feeds on the pond scum"
'On the other hand, thank you for loving me that much, that way. It's pretty flattering.'
"Except that it makes me fungus"
-My Best Friend's Wedding
"If there's a will, there's a way!"
-i dunno who came up with this, but i do remember Goku said it from DBZ.
I love DBZ!!! In a related comment...."where there's a whip, there's a way"--from LOTR the cartoon movie.
I should watch the cartoon movies..they always scared me when I was little but that's an awesome line, is that when the orcs have merry and pippin?
yep, I know more of the song, too. want me to call you and sing it to you? (haha, yeahRIGHT)
YES! That would be the greatest thing to happen all day!!
Ok..there's one thing Goku says that always makes my sister and I crack up because it's so gay. It's when Vegeta and him are first fighting and Goku goes "I've been trained in the art of Kaoken" and Vegeta gets all like ahhh "kaoken!!?" but Goku is getting his butt kicked and not even using it. Yeah..not as funny in writing at all.
King Cold- "goku..what's a goku?"
"..the powerful play goes on and you may contribute a verse. What will your verse be?"
-Dead Poets Society (1989)
She's the kind of girl that puts all her eggs in one basket. Then, when the basket goes up in flames, she says "Where are my chickens? All I have is fried eggs.."
aiight i found these cute ones.. they r from kids on the subject of love, altho i don't c how they would help with ur wall, but they were just so cute:
"Most men are brainless, so you might have to try more than once to find a live one."-Angie, age 10
"Being single is better for the simple reason that I wouldn't want to change no diapers. Of course, if I did get married, I'd figure something out. I'd just phone my mother and have her come over for some coffee and diaper-changing."-Kirsten, age 10
"Love will find you, even if you are trying to hide from it. I been trying to hide from it since I was five, but the girls keep finding me."-Dave, age 8
"You should never kiss a girl unless you have enough bucks to buy her a big ring and her own VCR, because she'll want to have videos of the wedding."-Jim, age 10
"Never kiss in front of other people. It's a big embarrassing thing if anybody sees you. But if nobody sees you, I might be willing to try it with a handsome boy, but just for a few hours."-Kally, age 9
"It's never okay to kiss a boy. They always slobber all over you. That's why I stopped doing it."-Tammy, age 10
"It isn't always how you look. Look at me. I'm handsome like anything, and I haven't got anybody to marry me yet."-Brian, age 7
"Dates are for having fun, and people should use them to get to know each other. Even boys have something to say if you listen long enough."-Lynnette, age 8
Hahaha, these are great. Little kids rule. Dave, Kally, Tammy and Brian sound like little pimps. Future members of the official pervert list.
I like Lynnette's commnet. "If you listen long enough" very true.
"mowin down MCs like I'm mowin'the lawn"-Beastie Boys. Oh man, i love that line. so funny.
"The sun is always shining when you're cool"
Can't think of anymore off the top of my head, but i know i have some good ones in there.
Winston Churchill said this quote when a woman criticized him for being drunk at a party, "I may be drunk but your ugly. Tomorrow morning I'll be sober and you will still be ugly."
Hah! Soo great.
i heard it as a joke : I came stumbling out of a bar and past a woman who said to me " YOU SIR ARE A DRUNK ! " so I said " Well YOU MA'AM are UGLY, but at least when I wake up.. I'll be SOBER ! "
you've got to dance like nobody's watching, and love like it's never going to hurt.
i have no idea who said that, sorry.
for funny ones, google "deep thoughts by jack handey"
Deep thoughts can be very amusing sometimes
Here are some Deep Thoughts---
It's true that every time you hear a bell, an angel gets its wings. But what they don't tell you is that every time you hear a mouse trap snap, and Angel gets set on fire.
If you ever catch on fire, try to avoid looking in a mirror, because I bet that will really throw you into a panic.
If you go parachuting, and your parachute doesn't open, and you friends are all watching you fall, I think a funny gag would be to pretend you were swimming.
One thing kids like is to be tricked. For instance, I was going to take my little nephew to DisneyLand, but instead I drove him to an old burned-out warehouse. "Oh, no," I said, "DisneyLand burned down." He cried and cried, but I think that deep down he thought it was a pretty good joke. I started to drive over to the real DisneyLand, but it was getting pretty late.
If a kid asks where rain comes from, I think a cute thing to tell him is "God is crying." And if he asks why God is crying, another cute thing to tell him is "Probably because of something you did."
Contrary to what most people say, the most dangerous animal in the world is not the lion or the tiger or even the elephant. It's a shark riding on an elephant's back, just trampling and eating everything they see.
yea... i don't understand any of these... except for the 2 about kids cuz i've heard them b4.. but as for the rest of them.. i just don't get it..
oh man I love these, sooo funny. I luv the disneyland one, so cruel and he doesn't care
haha, yeah...that one is really funny
frank herbert - "Psychological warfare is like a sword without a handle, if you swing it strong enough to wield it, you will damage yourself.."
"Count no man blessed in his life until he's crossed life's bounds unstruck by ruin still" - Sophocles
My favorite "everybody's stupid except for me."
"A friend can tell you things you don't want to tell yourself." -- Frances Ward Weller
I do not wish to treat friendships daintily, but with the roughest courage. When they are real, they are not glass threads or frost-work, but the solidest thing we know.
....Ralph Waldo Emerson
"If I were two-faced, would I be wearing this one?" - Abraham Lincoln
Taxation WITH representation ain't so hot either
-"Dr Hammond, after careful consideration, I have decided not to endorse your park."-Jurassic Park
-"Sometimes the straightest path is through the mud"-Dilbert
-In creating, the only hard thing is to begin: a grass blade's no easier to make than an oak.
man.....i have sooooo many more good ones
post them, post them.
So..in watching Pirates of the Caribbean again I got a good quote:
"Not all treasure is silver and gold mate"
"Just because you're smart doesn't mean you can't act stupid once in a while. "
--Christopher Llyod in Camp Nowhere
I think that shall be my new motto along with "It's always funnier when it happens to someone else"
These are all unknowns:
"The road to hell is paved with good intentions"
"You are more potential than you are actuality."
"You can die but you are never dead."
"Figures don't lie, but liars don't figure."
--Mark Twain
"Live every day as if it's your last because one day it will be."
--Jeremy Schwartz
"No one can belittle you without your consent."
--Eleanor Roosevelt
"I dind't fail, i just found 10,000 ways that didn't work."
--Thomas Alva Edison(on all his failed attempts at the lightbulb)
"The evil that men do lives after them, but the good is aft interred with their bones."
--Antony in Shakespeare's Julius Caesar
"A kis sis a lovely trick designed by nature to stop speech when words become superfloous"
-- i like birds (you wrote this one time awhile ago and it just got stuck in my head.
theres this site www.forwardgarden.com it has a million and a half quotes... takes a while to look thru them all but there is def a lotta good ones.. i used to use it all the time
"you don't buy beer you only rent it for a short time"
I don't understand your quote.
what's WITH you people?? you're the second person to say this in three days.
You buy beer. you spend the whole night peeing. it's pointless. YOU RENT IT because you dont' own it. it's never ending. (have i over-simplified enough here? i love you lnyz)
if it makes you feel any better--i knew what you meant. once you 'break the seal,' NO drink you buy that night is yours for very long!
Aww..a declaration of love. This belongs in the macking forum.
I told people at dinner and no one got it there either.
expect nothing and never be disappointed.
they're sharing a drink they call 'loneliness',
but it's better than drinking alone.
i have no response to that.
is that second one Billy Joel? I feel very lame that i know that
yes, the second one is billy joel. But why do you feel lame about that? Billy Joel is AMAZING
i completely agree..i love billy joel soooo much.
yeah, by lame....I meant very proud to hear anything from such an amazing human being. OOOHHH, you guys thouguth i meant lame as in lame. I understand the misunderstanding, carry on
Regrets are a waste of time....they are the past crippling you in the future.
-this is from the movie "under the tuscan sun" i saw it last night...it was terrible...the only thing it had going for it is..1-it was in italy...2-diane lane is hot...3-hot italian guys.
That seems like a few good things going for it.
yea..thats true..but the whole premis..story line..and chain of events...ridiculous. and you just would get annoyed..."that is NOT how it's supposta go!!!!" i thought the overall movie was pretty depressing actually.
hmmm ill probably wait for this to go to the $4 theater
I found some more of my favorites. I don't have the authors for some of them...
If it were meant to feel good, it wouldn't be called a crush
Writing is the axe that breaks the frozen sea within us
Love is a friendship that has caught fire-Ann Landers
And lastly is my favorite:
"If you're a poet, you're supposed to do something beautiful. I mean you're supposed to leave something beautiful behind after you get off a page and all."-Franny from J.D. Salingers "Franny and Zooey"
and a variation on one i saw earlier
62.3% of all statistics are made up on the spot.
this is so funny because i got this email and i was just thinking that morning how i wanted to know people's favorite quotes because i needed to add some more to my quote book. later when i have the time i'll type them all in here for you.
Yay! You should come help paint them on my walls..it'll be fun!
OOH!..the one mind is still active.
i know somebody who did that....and her room is most definitely the coolest i've EVER seen
i thought this too..leila's room IS awesome.
is that what this is for? painting your black room? hahahaha. yes, the one mind shall never die no matter how many people try to kill it.
Well..since I'm not allowed to have black walls (which is ok because I'm the one who has to paint over the black ceiling when I move out) I'm gonna spray paint (using home-made stensils) whatever quotes I pick on my walls in black (my walls are white). Caitlin told me to use bright pink but that would drive me nuts.
You know what would be cool...painting them quotes in glwoin the dark paint so during the day you couldn't see it, but if someone stayed over, or you were having one of those pensive nights, all these quotes would emerge from the darkness.
I thought about that but I like complete darkness when I'm sleeping.
LIFE is short...make sure it's fun - ty pham
"life moves pretty fast. if you don't stop and look around once in a while, you could miss it."
Ferris Buller's Day Off
I found these quotes..they made me laugh:
Life is one fool thing after another whereas love is two fool things after each other.? Oscar Wilde
Love never dies of starvation, but often of indigestion.? Ninon de Lenclos
A mother takes 20 years to make a man of her boy, and another woman makes a fool of him in 20 minutes. ? Robert Frost
Never judge someone by who he?s in love with; judge him by his friends. People fall in love with the most appalling people. ? Cynthia Heimel
The adoration of his heart had been to her only as the perfume of a wild flower, which she had carelessly crushed with her foot in passing ? Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
To be in love is merely to be in a state of perpetual anesthesia - to mistake an ordinary young woman for a goddess.? H. L. Mencken
You ask whether I have ever been in love: fool as I am, I am not such a fool as that. But if one is only to talk from first-hand experience, conversation would be a very poor business. But though I have no personal experience of the things they call love, I have what is better? the experience of Sappho, of Euripides, of Catallus, of Shakespeare, of Spenser, of Austen, of Bronte, of anyone else I have read. ? C.S. Lewis
Only those who risk going too far can possibly find out how far one can go. ? T.S. Eliot
There is no difference between a wise man and a fool when they fall in love. ? Anonymous
First love is only a little foolishness and a lot of curiosity. ? George Bernard Shaw
I'm usually better with this, but, for some reason only three come to mind right at the moment.
"Statistics show that 9 out of 10 people, don't believe in statistics."
-From a radio commercial I heard. Pretty witty if I may say so.
"Speech is alive - literally alive - because speaking, is the speaker."
-D. Alexander
"All that is matter, matters."
-One that I made up myself
Okay here's a few more (I'm a little obsessive about quotes):
"Bless the days that saw us young, and years that made us wise."
Julia Ward Howe
Be careful about reading health books. You may die of a misprint.
Mark Twain
A little neglect may breed mischief: for want of a nail the shoe was lost; for want of a shoe the horse was lost; and for want of a horse the rider was lost.
Benjamin Franklin
"die of a misprint"....LOL. that's good.
"Slow down to a country mile the road ahead is forever and you don't have to travel it all in one day." --Philip Wheaton
"The world was my oyster and I used the wrong fork."--Oscar Wilde
ok heres a couple of my favorite music quotes:
How could it fade so fast? Never thought you'd be part of my past~Taking Back Sunday
Knowing less is worth more than knowing everything-I wish I was ignorant~Wakefield
My heart is calling you but nobody knos it but me~Babyface
Nothings so loud as hearing when we lie~Toad the Wet Sproket
You stole my past-I want it back~Count the Stars
Even if I need you here-I'll meet you there~Simple Plan
Feelin surrounded, so bored with mortality, I decay. All of this hatred is freaking real~AFI
Run your mouth when I'm not around, it's easy to achieve. You cry to weak friends that sympathize. Can u hear the violins playing your song? Those same friends tell me your every word~Pantera
SO many more to come...
AFI..so beautiful. See, I'm gonna write one's I like on my walls in paint-marker and AFI without a doubt will be there. Davey and I are going to get married.
if you go to my homepage....which is the website on my info 4 this site..i have a bunch of cool quotes..from songs/books/poems...etc.
Yay! Thanks. This one definetly rocks:
"I'm not confused, I'm just well mixed"
-Robert Frost
I also like the seinfeld one about shower radios..soo true!
just a question,,, can we post more then one? i am having difficulty choosing just one...
Certainly! The more the merrier.