Category: Famous Quotes

Movie Quotes on Love

Posted on June 11, 2011 by

If love is a game, it has to be the hardest game in the world. After all, how can anyone win a game where there’s no rules? – CODY MEYERS, 15/Love (2004)

Love is the only chance for happiness you’ll ever get in this life, and if you’re going to let a little thing like rejection stand in your way, baby, you might as well stay right there on the ground, because people are going to be walking over you for the rest of your life. – BIG DOG, 2 Stupid Dogs (1993)

It’s complicated – love. It’s so unique every time, with every person. And when the real thing comes along, I guess we just have to hope we see it. – JAMIE MARTIN, All My Children (1970)

Law and love are the same – romantic in concept but the actual practice can give you a yeast infection. – ALLY McBEAL, Ally McBeal, (1997)

Leave me alone. I can’t love straight when I’m in think. – SEAMUS HARPER, Andromeda, “The Others” (2004)

Love is just a bunch of exaggerations and lies, all dolled up in pseudo-poetic language, uttered preferably while intoxicated, and all for the singular, universal purpose of… uh, you know. – SEAMUS HARPER, Andromeda (2000)

Love is… well in a way it’s everything. But it’s also heartache and disappointment. And those are good things to avoid. – WINIFRED “FRED” BURKLE, Angel, “Carpe Noctem” (2001)

It is remarkable how similar the pattern of love is to the pattern of insanity. – MEROVINGIAN, The Matrix Revolutions (2003)

Love is a minefield, you take a step and get blown to pieces, put yourself back together again and stupidly take another step. I guess thats human nature, it hurts so much to be alone that we’d all rather blow-up than be single. – KATE WELLES, Love & Sex (2000)

The best love is the kind that awakens the soul, that makes us reach for more, that plants a fire in our hearts and brings peace to our minds. – NOAH CALHOUN, The Notebook (2004)

No one needs to tell you you are in love. You just know it, through and through. – ORACLE, The Matrix (1999)

True love is not real unless it’s returned. – KATHERINE PIERCE, The Vampire Diaries, “Klaus” (2011)

Life is too cruel. If we cease to believe in love, why would we want to live? – KATHERINE PIERCE, The Vampire Diaries, “Klaus” (2011)

I am nothing special; just a common man with common thoughts, and I’ve led a common life. There are no monuments dedicated to me and my name will soon be forgotten. But in one respect I have succeeded as gloriously as anyone who’s ever lived: I’ve loved another with all my heart and soul; and to me, this has always been enough. – NOAH CALHOUN, The Notebook (2004)

Love is the greatest flaw of humans and our best tool to break them. – ANNA, V, “John May” (2010)

Rain Quotes

Posted on May 12, 2011May 12, 2011 by

I am no Poet here; my pen’s the spout where the rain water of my eyes run out. – John Cleveland

I believe in running through the rain and crashing into the person you love and having your lips bleed on each other. – Billy Bob Thornton

I can see clearly now, the rain is gone. I can see all obstacles in my way. – Johnny Nash

I commonly went ashore every day, either upon business, or to recreate myself in the fields, which were very pleasant, and the more for a shower of rain now and then, that ushers in the wet season. – William Dampier

I don’t believe in pessimism. If something doesn’t come up the way you want, forge ahead. If you think it’s going to rain, it will. – Clint Eastwood

I don’t consider myself a pessimist. I think of a pessimist as someone who is waiting for it to rain. And I feel soaked to the skin. – Leonard Cohen

I don’t know how you get dressed if you live in Wales, because it’s pouring rain and then it’s hot sunshine, and then it might hail. It’s just so confusing. – Piper Perabo

I grew up in this town, my poetry was born between the hill and the river, it took its voice from the rain, and like the timber, it steeped itself in the forests. – Pablo Neruda

I grew up with the classics. My mom and I would sit and watch “Singin’ in the Rain” and “White Christmas” – those kind of movies. – Lucas Grabeel

I have never coasted down a hill of frozen rain. – Duke Kahanamoku

I have played in rain before. I have played in wind before. I have played in cold before, but not all put together. They were the hardest conditions I ever played in. – Michelle Wie

I like rain, actually. – Bill Rodgers

I love going to the feed store and drinking coffee and talking about how much rain we need. – Thomas Haden Church

I love the rain. I want the feeling of it on my face. – Katherine Mansfield

I mean, it’s been quite busy, especially with the rain delay the first few days, and then having to play the late evenings, waiting here every day. It’s been kind of difficult. – Daniela Hantuchova

I never played inside as a kid – even in the rain I’d go out. – Anthony Doerr

I ran my fastest marathon in the rain. – Bill Rodgers

I think fish is nice, but then I think that rain is wet, so who am I to judge? – Douglas Adams

I think it’s really important to use your hands and get close to materials. To be up close to real things like rain and mud; to have contact with nature. – Robin Day

I wanted to be a journalist, I thought it was glamorous and that I’d meet beautiful women in the rain. – Bill Nighy

Life Quotes

Posted on May 8, 2011 by

It takes as much courage to have tried and failed as it does to have tried and succeeded – Anne Morrow Lindbergh

Most of us have far more courage than we ever dreamed we possessed- Dale Carnegie

To retaliate in kind would do nothing but intensify the existence of hate in the universe. Along the way of life, someone must have sense enough, and morality enough, to cut off the chain of hate. –Martin Luther King Jr

One word frees us of all the weight and pain of life: That word is love. ~ Sophocles

People need love even when they don’t deserve it. ~ Nikki Ledbetter

I wonder how many people never get the one they want, but end up with the one they’re supposed to have- Fried Green Tomatoes

I don’t know. It’s like, there’s this person that you want to be for other people. To make them proud of you. And then there’s you. And sometimes it’s hard to tell where one ends and the other begins. – Dawson’s Creek

Everyone can be okay, but it takes a real person to smile through the pain. – Michaela Marie

Courage is not defined by those who fought and did not fall … but those who fought, fell, and rose again. – Unknown

When you spend your life worrying about how others feel, you lose track of how you feel. – Unknown

I think that somehow, we learn who we really are and then live with that decision. – Eleanor Roosevelt

It’s impossible to please everyone so I suggest we all stop trying. – Jennifer Aniston

The world is so much better when you’re dreaming… – The Youth Ahead

When things are perfect, that’s when you need to worry most. – Drew Barrymore

If you tell the truth, you don’t have o remember anything- Mark Twain

Surround yourself with people you love being yourself with. – Unknown

You yourself, as much as anybody in the entire universe, deserve your love and affection. – Buddha

Our lives begin to end the day we become silent about things that matter –MLK Jr.

Never apologize for showing feeling. When you do so, you apologize for the truth- Benjamin Disraeli

Sometimes paper is the only thing that will listen to you. – Unknown

Your life is the sum result of all the choices you make, both consciously and unconsciously. If you can control the process of choosing, you can take control of all aspects of your life. You can find the freedom that comes from being in charge of yourself. – Robert F. Bennett

Laughter gives us distance. It allows us to step back from an event, deal with it and then move on.- Bob Newhart

Forgiving is not forgetting, it’s letting go of the hurt. – Unknown

If you want to hear the truth, listen to the heart, because it doesn’t know how to lie- Gingerale

No matter the consequence those who are honest with themselves get further in life. – Unknown

Life is like fresh fallen snow, be careful where you walk, for every step will show. – Unknown

You never find yourself until you face the truth.- Pearl Bailey

Don’t put too much in any one person…they have a habit of taking more than you may be prepared to give. – Unknown

The most wasted day of all is that which we have not laughed. – Unknown

In the long run, we shape our lives, and we shape ourselves. The process never ends until we die. And the choices we make are ultimately our own responsibility. – Eleanor Roosevelt

What we call the secret of happiness is no more a secret than our willingness to choose life. – Leo Buscaglia

Once in a while it really hits people that they don’t have to experience the world in the way they have been told to.- Alan Keightley

If youre going to get in trouble for hitting someone, you might as well do it hard. – Unknown

Funny, sometimes it’s the smallest decistions that change your life forever. – Unknown

When I do something great, no one ever seems to remember, but when I do something wrong, no one can ever seem to forget. – Unknown

Life is 10% what happens to you and 90% of how you respond to it. – Unknown

To be persuasive, we must be believable. To be believable, we must be credible. To be credible, we must be truthful.- Hellmut Walters

Truth isn’t always beauty, but the hunger for it is.- Nadine Gordimer

Learn to see things as they really are, not as we imagine they are. – Vernon Howard

There is no shame in finding someone else to be attractive, or good company. Even if they don’t like you, there is still no shame. If you happen to be fond of someone, and they’re not fond of you, it’s OK…You don’t have to wait and see if they’ll love you back. You can announce it…Joy in life comes from expressing ourselves, in taking risks and jumping in. Everyone is not going to like you. But you can like who you like.- Andrew Matthews

20 Homer Simpson Quotes on Parenting

Posted on April 29, 2011 by

1.) “Marriage is like a coffin and each kid is another nail.”

2.) “OK, son. Just remember to have fun out there today, and if you lose, I’LL KILL YOU!”

3.) “No, no, no, Lisa. If adults don’t like their jobs, they don’t go on strike. They just go in every day and do it really half-assed. That’s the American Way.”

4.) “I don’t apologize. I am sorry Lisa, that’s the way I am.”

5.) “You tried your best and you failed miserably. The lesson is, never try.”

6.) “The code of the schoolyard, Marge! The rules that teach a boy to be a man. Let’s see. Don’t tattle. Always make fun of those different from you. Never say anything, unless you’re sure everyone feels exactly the same way you do. What else…”

7.) “I have to work overtime at work instead of spending time with my wife and kids, which is what I want.”

8.) “When I look at the smiles on all the children’s faces, I just know they’re about to jab me with something.”

9.) “Marge, there’s an empty spot I’ve always had inside me. I tried to fill it with family, religion, community service, but those were dead ends! I think this chair is the answer.”

10.) “I think the saddest day of my life was when I realized I could beat my Dad at most things, and Bart experienced that at the age of four.”

11.) “Kids are great, Apu. You can teach them to hate the things you hate and they practically raise themselves now-a-days, you know, with the internet and all.”

12.) “Marge, don’t discourage the boy! Weaseling out of things is important to learn. It’s what separates us from the animals! Except the weasel.”

13.) “Don’t eat me. I have a wife and kids. Eat them.”

14.) “What do we need a psychiatrist for? We know our kid is nuts. ”

15.) “Movies are the only escape from the drudgery of work and family … No offense.”

16.) “Remember as far as anyone knows, we’re a nice normal family.”

17.) “It’s not easy to juggle a pregnant wife and a troubled child, but somehow I managed to squeeze in 8 hours of TV a day.”

18.) “Kids, kids. As far as Daddy’s concerned, you’re both potential murderers.”

19.) “Well, it’s 1 a.m. Better go home and spend some quality time with the kids. ”

20.) “Quiet you kids. If I hear one more word, Bart doesn’t get to watch cartoons, and Lisa doesn’t get to go to college.”

Merry Christmas Quotes

Posted on April 22, 2011 by

– “Christmas waves a magic wand over this world, and behold, everything is softer and more beautiful.” – Norman Vincent Peale

– “Christmas is a time when you get homesick – even when you’re home.” – Carol Nelson

– “He who has not Christmas in his heart will never find it under a tree.” – Roy L. Smith

– “Christmas, children, is not a date. It is a state of mind.” – Mary Ellen Chase

– “I have always thought of Christmas time, when it has come round, as a good time; a kind, forgiving, charitable time; the only time I know of, in the long calendar of the year, when men and women seem by one consent to open their shut-up hearts freely, and to think of people below them as if they really were fellow passengers to the grave, and not another race of creatures bound on other journeys.” – Charles Dickens

– “Christmas is the gentlest, loveliest festival of the revolving year – and yet, for all that, when it speaks, its voice has strong authority.” – W.J. Cameron

– “The best of all gifts around any Christmas tree: the presence of a happy family all wrapped up in each other.” – Burton Hillis

– “Happy, happy Christmas, that can win us back to the delusions of our childish days; that can recall to the old man the pleasures of his youth; that can transport the sailor and the traveller, thousands of miles away, back to his own fire-side and his quiet home!” – Charles Dickens, The Pickwick Papers, 1836

– “There has been only one Christmas – the rest are anniversaries.” – W.J. Cameron

– “A Christmas gambol oft could cheer
The poor man’s heart through half the year.” – Walter Scott

– “Our hearts grow tender with childhood memories and love of kindred, and we are better throughout the year for having, in spirit, become a child again at Christmas-time.” – Laura Ingalls Wilder

– “May Peace be your gift at Christmas and your blessing all year through!” – Unknown

– “I will honor Christmas in my heart, and try to keep it all the year.” – Charles Dickens

– “Never worry about the size of your Christmas tree. In the eyes of children, they are all 30 feet tall.” – Larry Wilde, The Merry Book of Christmas

– “Christmas is the season for kindling the fire of hospitality in the hall, the genial flame of charity in the heart.” – Washington Irving

– “Isn’t it funny that at Christmas something in you gets so lonely for – I don’t know what exactly, but it’s something that you don’t mind so much not having at other times.” – Kate L. Bosher

– “Instead of being a time of unusual behavior, Christmas is perhaps the only time in the year when people can obey their natural impulses and express their true sentiments without feeling self-conscious and, perhaps, foolish. Christmas, in short, is about the only chance a man has to be himself.” – Francis C. Farley

– “It is Christmas in the heart that puts Christmas in the air.” – W.T. Ellis

– “For centuries men have kept an appointment with Christmas. Christmas means fellowship, feasting, giving and receiving, a time of good cheer, home.” – W.J. Ronald Tucker

– “Even as an adult I find it difficult to sleep on Christmas Eve. Yuletide excitement is a potent caffeine, no matter your age.” – Carrie Latet

– “Christmas is a time when kids tell Santa what they want and adults pay for it. Deficits are when adults tell the government what they want and their kids pay for it.” – Richard Lamm

– “Blessed is the season which engages the whole world in a conspiracy of love!” – Hamilton Wright Mabie

– “Love is what’s in the room with you at Christmas if you stop opening presents and listen.” – Unknown

– “Christmas is forever, not for just one day,
for loving, sharing, giving, are not to put away
like bells and lights and tinsel, in some box upon a shelf.
The good you do for others is good you do yourself…” – Norman Wesley Brooks, “Let Every Day Be Christmas,” 1976

– “From a commercial point of view, if Christmas did not exist it would be necessary to invent it.” – Katharine Whitehorn

– “In the old days, it was not called the Holiday Season; the Christians called it ‘Christmas’ and went to church; the Jews called it ‘Hanukkah’ and went to synagogue; the atheists went to parties and drank. People passing each other on the street would say ‘Merry Christmas!’ or ‘Happy Hanukkah!’ or (to the atheists) ‘Look out for the wall!'” – Dave Barry, “Christmas Shopping: A Survivor’s Guide”

– “Remember
This December,
That love weighs more than gold!” – Josephine Dodge Daskam Bacon

– “I sometimes think we expect too much of Christmas Day. We try to crowd into it the long arrears of kindliness and humanity of the whole year. As for me, I like to take my Christmas a little at a time, all through the year. And thus I drift along into the holidays – let them overtake me unexpectedly – waking up some find morning and suddenly saying to myself: «Why, this is Christmas Day!» ” – David Grayson

– “A Christmas candle is a lovely thing;
It makes no noise at all,
But softly gives itself away.” – Eva Logue

Famous People Quotes #3

Posted on April 21, 2011 by

“Try to learn something about everything and everything about something.” – Thomas Henry Huxley (1825-1895)

“Dancing is silent poetry.” – Simonides (556-468bc)

“The only difference between me and a madman is that I’m not mad.” – Salvador Dali (1904-1989)

“If you can’t get rid of the skeleton in your closet, you’d best teach it to dance.” – George Bernard Shaw (1856-1950)

“But at my back I always hear Time’s winged chariot hurrying near.”
– Andrew Marvell (1621-1678)

“Good people do not need laws to tell them to act responsibly, while bad people will find a way around the laws.” – Plato (427-347 B.C.)

“The power of accurate observation is frequently called cynicism by those who don’t have it.” – George Bernard Shaw (1856-1950)

“Whenever I climb I am followed by a dog called ‘Ego’.” – Friedrich Nietzsche (1844-1900)

“Everybody pities the weak; jealousy you have to earn.” – Arnold Schwarzenegger (1947-)

“Against stupidity, the gods themselves contend in vain.” – Friedrich von Schiller (1759-1805)

“We have art to save ourselves from the truth.” – Friedrich Nietzsche (1844-1900)

“Never interrupt your enemy when he is making a mistake.” – Napoleon Bonaparte (1769-1821)

“I think ‘Hail to the Chief’ has a nice ring to it.” – John F. Kennedy (1917-1963) when asked what is his favorite song

“I have nothing to declare except my genius.” – Oscar Wilde (1854-1900) upon arriving at U.S. customs 1882

“Human history becomes more and more a race between education and catastrophe.” – H. G. Wells (1866-1946)

“Talent does what it can; genius does what it must.” – Edward George Bulwer-Lytton (1803-1873)

“The difference between ‘involvement’ and ‘commitment’ is like an eggs-and-ham breakfast: the chicken was ‘involved’ – the pig was ‘committed’.” – Unknown

“Women might be able to fake orgasms. But men can fake a whole relationship.” – Sharon Stone
“If you are going through hell, keep going.” – Sir Winston Churchill (1874-1965)

Famous People Quotes #2

Posted on April 20, 2011 by

“The full use of your powers along lines of excellence.” – John F. Kennedy (1917-1963)

“I’m living so far beyond my income that we may almost be said to be living apart.” – E. E. Cummings (1894-1962)

“Give me a museum and I’ll fill it.” – Pablo Picasso (1881-1973)

“Assassins!” – Arturo Toscanini (1867-1957) to his orchestra

“I’ll moider da bum.” – Heavyweight boxer Tony Galento, when asked what he thought of William Shakespeare

“In theory, there is no difference between theory and practice. But in practice, there is.” – Yogi Berra

“I find that the harder I work, the more luck I seem to have.” – Thomas Jefferson (1743-1826)

“Each problem that I solved became a rule which served afterwards to solve other problems.” – Rene Descartes (1596-1650), “Discours de la Methode”

“In the End, we will remember not the words of our enemies, but the silence of our friends.” – Martin Luther King Jr. (1929-1968)

“Whether you think that you can, or that you can’t, you are usually right.” – Henry Ford (1863-1947)

“Do, or do not. There is no ‘try’.” – Yoda (‘The Empire Strikes Back’)

“The only way to get rid of a temptation is to yield to it.” – Oscar Wilde (1854-1900)

“Don’t stay in bed, unless you can make money in bed.” – George Burns (1896-1996)

“I don’t know why we are here, but I’m pretty sure that it is not in order to enjoy ourselves.” – Ludwig Wittgenstein (1889-1951)

“There are no facts, only interpretations.” – Friedrich Nietzsche (1844-1900)

“Nothing in the world is more dangerous than sincere ignorance and conscientious stupidity.” – Martin Luther King Jr. (1929-1968)

“The use of COBOL cripples the mind; its teaching should, therefore, be regarded as a criminal offense.” – Edsgar Dijkstra (1930-2002)

“C makes it easy to shoot yourself in the foot; C++ makes it harder, but when you do, it blows away your whole leg.” – Bjarne Stroustrup

“A mathematician is a device for turning coffee into theorems.” – Paul Erdos (1913-1996)

“Problems worthy of attack prove their worth by fighting back.” – Paul Erdos (1913-1996)

Famous Quotes

Posted on April 19, 2011 by

“What we do for ourselves dies with us. What we do for others and the world, remains and is immortal.” – Albert Pine

“The principal mark of genius is not perfection but originality, the opening of new frontiers” – Arthur Koestler

“A wise man makes his own decisions, an ignorant man follows public opinion.” – Chinese Proverb

“I don’t pretend to be captain weird. I just do what I do.” – Johnny Depp

“Sometimes you put walls up not to keep people out, but to see who cares enough to break them down.” – Unknown

“A genius is one who can do anything except make a living” – Joey Lauren Adams

“Start from wherever you are and with whatever you’ve go” – Jim Rohn

“It’s a little like religion and a lot like sex – you should never know when you’re going to get some next.” – Jimmy Buffett

“Friendship is like peeing on yourself: everyone can see it, but only you get the warm feeling that it brings.” – Unknown

“I am so clever that sometimes I don’t understand a single word of what I am saying.” – Oscar Wilde

“Google before you tweet is the new think before you speak.” – Jennifer Brownhill

“We stand tallest when we stoop to help others.” – Unknown

“I am proud to be an American. Because an American can eat anything on the face of this earth as long as he has two pieces of bread.” – Bill Cosby

“There is no limit to the good one can do, when he cares not who gets the credit.” – Unknown

“If I look at the mass, I will never act. If I look at one, I will” – Mother Teresa

“We are here to add what we can to life, not to get what we can from life” – William Osler

Life and Death Quotes

Posted on April 14, 2011 by

It is not death or pain that is to be dreaded, but the fear of pain or death. – Epictetus

Those we love don’t go away,
They walk beside us every day,
Unseen, unheard, but always near,
Still loved, still missed and very dear. – Anonymous

What we have once enjoyed we can never lose.
All that we love deeply becomes a part of us. – Helen Keller

What is life?
It is the flash of a firefly in the night.
It is the breath of a buffalo in the wintertime.
It is the little shadow which runs across
the grass and loses itself in the sunset. – Crowfoot, Blackfoot warrior and orator 1830 – 1890

Today is the first and last day of forever. – Stephenie Meyer

A man’s dying is more his survivor’s affair than his own. – Thomas Mann

Sadness is but a wall between two gardens. – Khalil Gibran

It is foolish and wrong to mourn the men who died. Rather we should thank God that such men lived. – George S. Patton

We’re born alone, we live alone, we die alone. Only through our love and friendship can we create the illusion for the moment that we’re not alone. – Orson Welles

Death leaves a heartache no one can heal, love leaves a memory no one can steal. – From a headstone in Irelan

Living Quotes

Posted on April 13, 2011 by

Life is a succession of lessons which must be lived to be understood. – Helen Keller

You’re only here for a short visit. So don’t forget to stop and smell the roses. – Walter Hagen

We must be willing to get rid of the life we’ve planned,
so as to have the life that is waiting for us.
The old skin has to be shed before the new one can come. – Joseph Campbell

The walls we build around us to keep sadness out also keeps out the joy. – Jim Rohn

Life is a long lesson in humility. – James M. Barrie

“Look on my works, ye mighty, and despair!”
Nothing beside remains. Round the decay
Of that colossal wreck, boundless and bare,
The lone and level sands stretch far away. – Percy Bysshe Shelley

March on. Do not tarry. To go forward is to move toward perfection. March on, and fear not the thorns, or the sharp stones on life’s path. – Khalil Gibran

Nothing makes us so lonely as our secrets. – Paul Tournier

Life is not about waiting for the storms to pass…
It’s about learning how to dance in the rain. – Vivian Greene

When you are sorrowful, look again in your heart, and you shall see that in truth you are weeping for that which has been your delight. – Khalil Gibran

Loneliness and the feeling of being unwanted is the most terrible poverty. – Mother Teresa

Good humor is the health of the soul, sadness is its poison. – Lord Chesterfield

All that we are is the result of what we have thought.
If a man speaks or acts with an evil thought, pain follows him.
If a man speaks or acts with a pure thought, happiness follows him, like a shadow that never leaves him. – The Buddha

When you get the choice to sit it out or dance, I hope you dance. – Lee Ann Womack

The best remedy for those who are afraid, lonely or unhappy is to go outside, somewhere where they can be quiet, alone with the heavens, nature and God. Because only then does one feel that all is as it should be. – Anne Frank

An insincere and evil friend is more to be feared than a wild beast; a wild beast may wound your body, but an evil friend will wound your mind. – The Buddha

What’s done is done. – William Shakespeare

If we have no peace, it is because we have forgotten that we belong to each other. – Mother Teresa

Be gentle first with yourself. – Lama Yeshe

Don’t cry because it’s over, smile because it happened. – Anonymous

Find a place inside where there’s joy, and the joy will burn out the pain. – Joseph Campbell

Pain is inevitable, Suffering is optional. – Buddhist proverb

There is no sadder sight than a young pessimist. – Mark Twain

It is sad to grow old but nice to ripen. – Brigitte Bardot

The opposite of love is not hate, it’s indifference. – Elie Wiesel

Life may not be the party we hoped for, but while we are here we might as well dance. – Anonymous

The best way to cheer yourself is to try to cheer someone else up. – Mark Twain

It is better to light a candle than to curse the darkness. – Chinese proverb often quoted by Eleanor Roosevelt

Every wall is a door. – Ralph Waldo Emerson