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A common mistake that people make when trying to design something completely foolproof is to underestimate the ingenuity of complete fools. (Adams, Douglas) A good essay is 10% inspiration, 15% perspiration, and 75% desperation A clear conscience is usually the sign of a bad memory. Be yourself; everyone else is already taken. (Oscar Wilde) Dance like no one is watching. Sing like no one is listening. Love like you've never been hurt and live like it's heaven on Earth (Mark Twain) Don't walk behind me; I may not lead. Don't walk in front of me; I may not follow. Just walk beside me and be my friend. (Albert Camus) Everyone should be princesses. Even snotty two-faced bullies like you, Lavinia. (Sarah, The Little Princess) Fear me, love me, do as I say and I shall be your slave. (Jareth) Frankly, my dear, I don’t give a damn (Rhett, “Gone With the Wind) I always pass on good advice. It is the only thing to do with it. It is never of any use to oneself. I always walk on thin ice. It give my life a certain zest. (Silk) I am free of all prejudices. I hate everyone equally. (W.C Fields?) I can resist everything except temptation.(Wilde, Oscar) I have conquered them all, but am standing amongst graves. (Isak Dinesen/Karen Blixen, “Out of Africa”) I have opinions of my own—strong opinions—but I don't always agree with them. (George Bush) I intend to live forever—so far, so good. I know ever so many people, and until one of them dies, I couldn’t possibly be friends with anyone else. (Charade, starring Audrey Hepburn, Cary Grant) I lost some time once. It's always in the last place you look for it. (Delirium, “Season of Mists”) I love deadlines. I like the whooshing sound as they fly by. (Adams, Douglas I love humanity. It's people I can't stand. I refuse to answer that question on the grounds that I don't know the answer. I touch your absence here, /Remembering the speeches of your hair (Carlos Angeles) I will be a wise and tolerant monarch, dispensing justice fairly, and only setting nightmares to rip out the minds of the evil and wicked. Or just anybody I don't like. (John Dee, “Sound and Fury”) If it were done when ‘tis done, then ‘twere well it were done quickly. (Shakespeare, William) If you die, I'll kill you! I'd kill for a Nobel Peace Prize. I'll be sober tomorrow but you'll be ugly for the rest of your life. I'll come to thee by midnight, though Hell should bar the way ("The Higwayman", Alfred Noyes) I'm going to live forever or die trying. (Joseph Heller) I'm selfish, impatient and a little insecure. I make mistakes, I am out of control and at times hard to handle. But if you can't handle me at my worst, then you sure as hell don't deserve me at my best. (Marilyn Monroe) In the beginning the Universe was created. This has made a lot of people very angry and been widely regarded as a bad move. Inside this body lies that of a skinny lady. But I can usually shut her up with chocolate. Lay on, Macduff. (Shakespeare, William)
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Lives a woman true and fair. (John Donne, “Song”) Love may come and tap you on the shoulder one starlit night…and just in case you think you want to hold her, you’ll have a pocket full of starlight (“Catch A Falling Star”) Man is least himself when he talks in his own person. Give him a mask, and he will tell you the truth. (Wilde, Oscar) Men, chocolate, and coffee are all better rich. My name is Inigo Montoya. You killed my father. Prepare to die. (Inigo Montoya, “The Princess Bride”) Never trust a demon. He has a hundred motives for anything he does... Ninety-nine of them, at least, are malevolent. (Dream, “A Hope in Hell”) Of course I didn't kill him. All I did was run him through the leg- just a little bit. (David Eddings) One mote of all the dust that’s I shall meet one atom that was you. (Rupert Brooke, “Dust”) Our threads of fate were always intertwined, but never joined. (James Norrington, PoTC: AWE) Smile, and the world will smile with you. Laugh and they'll all think you’re on drugs. Some people drink from the fountain of knowledge, others just gurgle. The beef-witted featherbrained rattleskulled clod-pated dim-domed noodle-noggined sapheaded lunk-knobbed boys. (William Goldman, The Princess Bride) The world is more like it is now then it ever has before. (Dwight Eisenhower) There is only one step down from the sublime to the ridiculous. (Napoleon Bonaparte) The only reason that I talk to myself is because that I'm the only one whose answers I accept There are more things in Heaven and Earth, Horatio, than are dreamt in you philosophy. (Shakespeare, “Hamlet”) They misunderestimated me! (George Bush) Though my soul will set in darkness, it will slowly rise in flight/I have loved the stars too fondly to be fearful of the night. Though we cannot make our sun stand still, we can yet make him run. (Andrew Marvell, “To His Coy Mistress”). We are all in the gutter, but some of us are looking at the stars. (Oscar Wilde) What, you egg? (Shakespeare, William) You are utterly the stupidest, most self-centered, appallingest excuse for an anthropomorphic personification in this or any other plane! (Death, “The Sound of Her Wings”) You know you're in love when you can't fall asleep because reality is finally better than your dreams. (Dr. Suess) You tried, and you failed, so the lesson is, never try. You will be aroused by a shampoo commercial. (Homer Simpson)