This is a list of my favorite quotes. There got to be a good number of them, so I'm moving them from my main page to their very own blog!! Wow!!
Though not in any necessary order, the first few and last few quotes are my favorites.
I've put the quote, then the author below, along with who they were, so you can kinda get an idea of where they were coming from. And if you Wikipedia them, you know you have the right one. After that, I put what I think the author is talking about, as in the bigger picture.
So here ya go:
"Be who you are and say what you feel, because those who mind don't matter and those who matter don't mind."
--Dr. Seuss [American Writer] on friends.
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"When you get to the end of your rope, tie a knot and hang on."
--Franklin D. Roosevelt [32nd American President] on perseverance.
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"Don't worry about losing. If it is right, it happens. The main thing is not to hurry. Nothing good gets away."
--John Steinbeck [American Writer] on fate.
---------------------------------------------------------------------------------- "People will forget what you said, people will forget what you did, but people will never forget how you made them feel."
--Maya Angelou [American Writer] on being a good person.
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"Always do right - this will gratify some and astonish the rest."
--Mark Twain [American Writer] on doing your best.
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"I love sleep. My life has the tendency to fall apart when I'm awake, you know?"
--Ernest Hemingway [American Writer] on life.
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"One of the hardest things in life is having words in your heart that you can't utter."
--James Earl Jones [American Actor] on love.
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"Regret for the things we did can be tempered by time; it is regret for the things we did not do that is inconsolable."
--Sydney J. Harris [American Journalist] on regrets.
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"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 [German/American Scientist] on girls.
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"Never apologize for showing feeling. When you do so, you apologize for the truth."
--Benjamin Disraeli [British Writer] on feelings.
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"If you're doing your best, you won't have any time to worry about failure."
--H. Jackson Brown, Jr. [American Writer] on doing your best.
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"Do what you can, with what you have, where you are."
--Teddy Roosevelt [26th American President] on doing your best.
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"There is a time for departure even when there's no certain place to go."
--Tennessee Williams [American Playwright] on death, relationships; life in general.
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"We make a living by what we get, but we make a life by what we give."
--Winston Churchill [British Prime Minister] on life.
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"The people who get on in this world are the people who get up and look for the circumstances they want, and, if they can't find them, make them."
--G.B. Shaw [Irish Writer] chances.
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"If opportunity doesn't knock, build a door."
--Milton Berle [American Comedian] on chances.
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"Solitary trees, if they grow at all, grow strong."
--Winston Churchill [British Prime Minister] on perseverance.
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"A single death is a tragedy. A million deaths are a statistic."
--Joseph Stalin [USSR General Secretary] on death.
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"Don't be discouraged. It's often the last key in the bunch that opens the lock."
--Unknown Author on perseverance.
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"Don't be dismayed at goodbyes. A farewell is necessary before you can meet again. And meeting again, after afew moments or a lifetime, is certain for those who are friends."
--Richard Bach [American Writer] on good-byes.
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"Unhappiness is not knowing what we want and killing ourselves to get it."
--Don Herold [American Writer] on unhappiness.
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"Never interrupt your enemy when he is making a mistake."
--Napoleon Bonaparte [French General] on being smart.
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"Speed is often confused with insight. If I start running earlier than the others, I appear to be faster."
--Johan Cruijff [Dutch Football Legend] on being smart.
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"There is nothing to writing. All you do is sit down at a typewriter and bleed."
--Ernest Hemingway [American Writer] on passion (writing was his).
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"Nothing takes the taste out of peanut butter quite like unrequited love."
--Charlie Brown [Cartoon character created by Charles Schulz ] on unrequited love (from Peanuts).
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"Looking back, I have only this to regret; that too often when I loved, I did not say so."
--David Grayson [American Writer] on past love.
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"The lover is a monotheist who knows that other people worship different gods, but cannot himself imagine that there could be other gods."
--Theodor Reik [Austrian Psychoanalyst] on love.
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"That's one of the remarkable things about life; it's never so bad that it can't get worse."
--Calvin [Cartoon character created by Bill Waterson] on life (from Calvin & Hobbes).
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"The best things said come last. People will talk for hours saying nothing much and then linger at the door with words that come with a rush from the heart."
--Alan Alda [American Actor] on good-byes.
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"If fate means you to lose, give him a good fight anyhow."
--William McFee [British Writer] on fate.
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"You play the hand you're dealt. I think the game's worth while."
--Christopher 'SUPERMAN' Reeve [A Real Hero] on life.
So there you go. Hope you like 'em. I'll add more as I find other good ones....
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MY FAVORITE QUOTES FROM FILMS
These are my favorite quotes from movies. They don't really have an order, since that would be too hard, as they encompass a wide range of topics.
Given is the quote, the actor or actress who said it, their character, and the film they were in.
"I'm gonna make him an offer he can't refuse."
--Marlon Brando as DON VITO CORLEONE [The Godfather]
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"And if, by chance, an honest man like yourself should make enemies, then they would become my enemies. And then they would fear you."
--Marlon Brando as DON VITO CORLEONE [The Godfather]
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"Yo, Adrian!"
--Sylvester Stallone as ROCKY BALBOA [ROCKY]
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"I'm gettin' heartburn. Tony, do something terrible."
--Dennis Farina as AVI [Snatch.]
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"When you dance with the devil, you wait for the music to stop."
--Lenny McLean as BARRY THE BAPTIST [Lock, Stock, And Two Smoking Barrels]
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"Well, we'll not risk another frontal assault. That rabbit's dynamite!"
--Graham Champan as KING ARTHUR [Monty Python and the Holy Grail]
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"Fuhgit abouddit."
--Johnny Depp as DONNIE BRASCO [Donnie Brasco]
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"D'ya like dags?"
--Brad Pitt as MICKEY [Snatch.]
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"Allllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllrighty then!"
--Jim Carrey as ACE VENTURA [Ace Ventura: Pet Detective]
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"Good mood, bad mood, ugly, pretty, handsome, what have you, the right person will still think that the sun shines out your ass. That's the kind of person that's worth sticking with."
--J.K. Simmons as MAC MACGUFF [Juno]
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"Dis--Dis is a.... Fuck!!"
--Ajay Naidu as SAMIR [Office Space]
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"You know, the Nazis had pieces of flair that they made the Jews wear."
--Ron Livingston as PETER GIBBONS [Office Space]
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"You know how I know you're gay? You like Coldplay."
--Paul Rudd as DAVID [40-Year-Old Virgin]
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"Oh shit! The cops!!"
--Seth Rogan as OFFICER MICHAELS [Superbad]
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"Well, funny thing about my back, is it's located on my cock."
--Jonah Hill as SETH [Superbad]
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"If you start out depressed everything's kind of a pleasant surprise."
--John Cusack as LLOYD DOBLER [Say Anything...]
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"If there's anything you need, I won't be far away."
--Tom Hanks as FORREST GUMP [FORREST GUMP]
"Once I learn to love myself, I promise I'll love you next."
--Anonymous
A PostSecret postcard
"Oh Jake," Brett said. "We could have had such a damned good time together."
"Yes," I said. "Isn't it pretty to think so?"
--Ernest Hemingway
The Sun Also Rises [1926]
