Quotes Which Belong No Where Else

And then the manure hit the ventilator.
-- unknown

The books that help you the most are those which make you think the most.
-- Theodore Parker

... life is the lust of a lamp for the light that is dark till the dawn of the day that we die.
-- ACS

When a man casts a net into the sea, he must not be surprised at what he brings up.
-- unknown

Patience will confirm what your instincts first told you.
-- Mr. Ramjug (my History teacher)

... overarching light and enforced darkness, cheek by jowl.
-- Paul Grey

Columbus makes Hitler look like a juvenille delinquent!
-- anti-Columbian protestors

...forgivness for those who used his name to conquer, murder and destory a peoples.
-- anti-Columbians

For decendants of the survivors of the invasion, genocide, slavery, 'ecocide' and exploitation of the wealth of the land, a celebration is not an appropriate observance of this anniversary.
-- National Council of the Churches of Christ, on the quincentennial of Columbus' 1492 landing

Et tu, Brute?
-- Julius Caesar

We're talking about celebrating the great benefit to some people brought by the murder of other people.
-- George Tinker, on the celbrations dealing with Columbus

History is what happened and what everyone is stuck with.
-- Paul Grey

We have more in common with each other as human beings than we do differences.
-- Mr. Ramjug

There's no real civilzation. It's all someondy else's idea.
-- a classmate of mine

It's cold enough to freeze the balls of a brass monkey! -- most likely French soldiers

Note: a brass monkey was a device used on ships to hold the cannon balls. When the temperature dropped, the monkeys would sometimes break, letting loose the cannon balls they were holding.

Up into the starlight, a monstrous survival from the dawn of time.
-- Arthur Gordon

I don't know... it's a mystery!
-- the theater owner in Shakespeare in Love

"I'll wager twenty shillings we're all dead by morning!"
"I'll take that bet! Now, where should I send the money if you win?"
-- two soldiers in Captain Horatio Hornblower

I can't draw my oatmeal!
-- a guy in my art class

In commercial phrase, coffins were looking up.
-- Charles Dickens, from Oliver Twist

Joy is that which opens us up to the world
-- me (modest, ain't I? *grin*)

I'm talkin' to myself again
I'll just start a fight
And nobody can proove me wrong... I'm right!
Anti-hero idol with a suicide excuse
A thousand other suckers will try and fill your shoes
-- "Only One", by the Goo Goo Dolls

Intelligence is but the voice of one's mind. Imagination carries the true identity of one's hear...
-- unknown

Only can people be truly free in their dreams. T'Was always thus, and always thus will it be.
-- scrawled on a bathroom wall

In sixteen years, Katie never know how to operate the whipped cream can.
-- Katie Schmidt

Truth is, they'd rather eat and make love in our faces than fight.
-- some solider guy in The Last of the Mohicans

... one bad-ass son of a bitch!
-- Arc McBride's buddy

He never grew up, he just haired over.
-- old saying

When I'm good, I'm very good, but when I'm bad I'm better.
-- Mae West

There's nothing so dangerous for manipulators as people who think for themselves.
-- Meg Greenfiled

Today is always here. Tomorrow is never.
-- Toni Morrison

Memory feeds a culture, nourishes hope, and makes a human, human.
-- Elie Wiesel

Music is the soundtrack of your life
-- Dick Clark

Any activity becomes creative when the doer cares about doing it right, or better.
-- John Updike

What is a vision? It is a compelling image of an achievable future.
-- unknown

For a man who has mounted to the highest places must fall to meet his destiny below where there can be no help, no footing.
-- Sophocles, from Oedipus the King

A son is your son till he takes him a wife,
But a daugther's your daughter for the rest of her life.
-- unknown

... before you can take your power, you must first identify who you are.
-- unknown

Right now, you're just a guy sitting in a bar with a duck on his head.
-- Dharma of Dharma and Greg

There's no epidural during a spiritual rebirth.
-- Larry of Dharma and Greg

"Stop being so testostorone-y!"
"Now that's the original San Fransisco treat."
-- Phoebe and Chandler of Friends

Not a snowman's chance in hell.
-- unknown

If you choked a Smurf, what color would it turn?
-- Smurfologists everywhere

PICKLES AND CREAM CHEESE!!!!
-- Jane Allison

I cannot tell a lie - it was I!
-- George Washington

Free at last, free at last, thank God almighty we are free at last.
-- Martin Luther King

When someone says they'll call you and let you know, you know.
-- Oscar Wilde

To be or not to be - that's the question!
-- Dave Thomas (quoting Hamlet, of course!)

Light never dies, even in monsters.
-- Marrow (X-Men)

Diffuse it now or I'll start carviing out your organs in alphabetical order.
-- Marrow (X-Men)

"I can't believe you two had sex in her dream!"
"Well, it was a one time thing. I was very drunk, and in someone else's subconscious."
-- Ross and Chandler of Friends

It's a whole big boob story.
-- Chander of Friends

What do you do when all your enemies are friends?
-- a song on the radio (didn't catch the name)

"Faith told you? Was that before or after you put her in a coma?"
"After."
-- Willow and Buffy of Buffy the Vampire Slayer

See the solider... who must be dead to be admired.
-- Gordon Lightfoot (I think)

Human nature revolves around opportunity and ambition.
-- Mr. MacKinnon (my English teacher) - I think he stole it from somewhere.

Now I shall relish Hamlet more than I ever have done.
-- John Keats

We all sympathise with Hamlet, and that is understandable, because almost every one of use recognizes in the prince our own characteristics.
-- Ivan Turgenev

The best part of the whole picture was when old Ophelia's brother... was going away and his father was giving him a lot of advice. While the father kept giving him a lot of advice, old Ophelia was sort of horsing around with her brother, taking his dagger out of the holster, and teasing him and all while he was trying to look interested in he bull his father was shooting. That was nice. I got a big bang out of that.
-- J.D. Salinger

So, the Ibola virus... that's gotta suck.
-- Chandler of Friends

It's a weird sense. That's me, weird and sensitive.
-- Chandler of Friends

I'm gonna pass on the concert, since I'm really not in a Hootie mood right now.
-- Phoebe of Friends

"Is that a hicky?"
"No... I just... fell down."
"On someone's lips?"
-- Phoebe, Monica and Rachel of Friends

Sometimes you just have to let the Universe tell you what to do.
-- Dharma of Dharma and Greg

Any flavor at all is enough to sound an alarm if you're a veggie.
-- Bob of Bob and Margaret

"Greg used to take me to the opera. I dig the opera!"
"What's not to dig?"
-- Dharma and Kitty of Dharma and Greg

Whenever someone's taking valuables out of their pants, you know you wanna keep your distance.
-- Jerry Seinfeld

"Is there a hair on it?"
"What does it do?"
"What happens if you flick it?"
-- Monica, Ross and Rachel of Friends

"The Ice Capades?"
"No, the Gravel Capades! It's not as fast, but it's a lot funnier when Snoopy falls."
-- Joey and Chandler

Now isn't a good time to say "I told you so", so could you remind me later?
-- Sam Malone of Cheers

You know, I once dated a Miss Cranky-Pants. Nice girl; kind of moody.
-- Chandler of Friends

I followed all the rules. Man's, God's... You followed none of them, and they all loved you more.
-- Albert (I think that's what his name was) of Ledgends of the Fall

[His] words: whether they came from the heart or not: made their way through the nose.
-- from Oliver Twist, but Charles Dickens

The persons on whom I have bestowed my dearest love, lie deep in their graves; but although they happiness and delight of my life lie buried there too, I have not made a coffin of my hear, and sealed it up, for ever, on my best afections. Deep affliction has but strengthened and refined them.
-- Mr. Brownlow, of Oliver Twist, by Charles Dickens

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