Quotes from people and songs I like. Go figure. For movie quotes, check out the movie's review.
Note that I can choose to list the source as the place where I first heard it or most associate it, not where it originated from.
Real People Quotes
Sigmund Freud:
Sometimes a cigar is only a cigar.
America is a mistake, a giant mistake.
Mark Twain
I've never let my schooling interfere with my education.
A classic is something that everybody wants to have read and nobody wants to read.
Clothes make the man. Naked people have little or no influence on society.
Ignorant people think it is the noise which fighting cats make that is so aggravating, but it ain't so; it is the sickening grammar that they use.
Giving up smoking is easy... I've done it hundreds of times.
Buy land. They've stopped making it.
The report of my death was an exaggeration.
It is full of interest. It has noble poetry in it; and some clever fables; and some blood-drenched history; and some good morals; and a wealth of obscenity; and upwards of a thousand lies.
Age is an issue of mind over matter. If you don't mind, it doesn't matter.
In the first place God made idiots; that was for practice; then he made school boards.
Sir Winston Churchill
Broadly speaking, the short words are the best, and the old words best of all.
A fanatic is one who can't change his mind and won't change the subject.
A politician needs the ability to foretell what is going to happen tomorrow, next week, next month, and next year. And to have the ability afterwards to explain why it didn't happen.
A prisoner of war is a man who tries to kill you and fails, and then asks you not to kill him.
Although prepared for martyrdom, I preferred that it be postponed.
History will be kind to me for I intend to write it.
I always avoid prophesying beforehand, because it is a much better policy to prophesy after the event has already taken place.
Lady Astor: Winston, if I were your wife I'd put poison in your coffee.
Churchill: Nancy, if I were your husband I'd drink it.
Yes, madam, I am drunk. But in the morning I will be sober and you will still be ugly.
Golf is a game whose aim is to hit a very small ball into a even smaller hole, with weapons singularly ill-designed for the purpose.
I am ready to meet my Maker. Whether my Maker is prepared for the ordeal of meeting me is another matter.
If you are going through hell, keep going.
He has all of the virtues I dislike and none of the vices I admire.
Ernesto "Che" Guevara
Whenever death may surprise us, let it be welcome if our battle cry has reached even one receptive ear and another hand reaches out to take up our arms.
Saint Augustine
Oh Lord, give me chastity, but do not give it yet.
Renouncement: the heroism of mediocrity.
Agatha Christie
An archaeologist is the best husband a woman can have. The older she gets, the more interested he is in her.
Douglas Adams
I love deadlines. I especially like the whooshing sound they make as they go flying by.
Michael Caine
The best research (for playing a drunk) is being a British actor for 20 years.
Charles Dickens
I am quite serious when I say that I do not believe there are, on the whole earth besides, so many intensified bores as in these United States. No man can form an adequate idea of the real meaning of the word, without coming here.
I do not know the American gentleman, God forgive me for putting two such words together.
Stephen King
People want to know why I do this, why I write such gross stuff. I like to tell them I have the heart of a small boy -- and I keep it in a jar on my desk.
Friedrich Nietzsche
Insanity in individuals is something rare -- but in groups, parties, nations, and epochs it is the rule.
Is man one of God's blunders or is God one of man's blunders?
One should die proudly when it is no longer possible to live proudly.
He who fights with monsters might take care lest he thereby become a monster. And if you gaze for long into an abyss, the abyss gazes also into you.
It is hard enough to remember my opinions, without also remembering my reasons for them!
The advantage of a bad memory is that one enjoys several times the same good things for the first time.
The surest way to corrupt a youth is to instruct him to hold in higher esteem those who think alike than those who think differently.
In heaven all the interesting people are missing.
A casual stroll through the lunatic asylum shows that faith does not prove anything.
Ah, women. They make the highs higher and the lows more frequent.
At times one remains faithful to a cause only because its opponents do not cease to be insipid.
Pete Postlethwaite
I exercise every morning without fail. One eyelid goes up and the other follows.
Bertrand Russell
Most people would sooner die than think; in fact, they do so.
Men are born ignorant, not stupid; they are made stupid by education.
War does not determine who is right - only who is left.
Socrates
By all means marry; if you get a good wife, you'll be happy. If you get a bad one, you'll become a philosopher.
Voltaire
God is a comedian playing to an audience too afraid to laugh.
I have never made but one prayer to God, a very short one: 'O Lord, make my enemies ridiculous.' And God granted it.
Anything too stupid to be said is sung.
(On his deathbed, after asked to renounce Satan) Now now my good man, this is no time for making enemies.
Robin Williams
Never pick a fight with an ugly person, they've got nothing to lose.
Salvador Dali
The only difference between me and a madman is that I'm not mad.
Napolean Bonaparte
Never interrupt your enemy when he is making a mistake.
Thomas Edison
I have not failed. I've just found 10,000 ways that won't work.
Ambrose Bierce
All are lunatics, but he who can analyze his delusion is called a philosopher.
Henry David Thoreau
Any fool can make a rule, and any fool will mind it.
I once had a sparrow alight upon my shoulder for a moment, while I was hoeing in a village garden, and I felt that I was more distinguished by that circumstance that I should have been by any epaulet I could have worn.
There is no remedy for love but to love more.
I went to the woods because I wished to live deliberately, to front only the essential facts of life, and see if I could not learn what it had to teach, and not, when I came to die, discover that I had not lived.
If a man does not keep pace with his companions, perhaps it is because he hears a different drummer. Let him step to the music which he hears, however measured or far away.
Plato
Death is not the worst than can happen to men.
No human thing is of serious importance.
Wise men talk because they have something to say; fools, because they have to say something.
George Bernard Shaw
A fool's brain digests philosophy into folly, science into superstition, and art into pedantry. Hence University education.
Democracy is a device that ensures we shall be governed no better than we deserve.
Few people think more than two or three times a year; I have made an international reputation for myself by thinking once or twice a week.
Life does not cease to be funny when people die any more than it ceases to be serious when people laugh.
One man that has a mind and knows it can always beat ten men who haven't and don't.
The worst sin toward our fellow creatures is not to hate them, but to be indifferent to them: that's the essense of inhumanity.
Do you think that the things people make fools of themselves about are any less real and true than the things they behave sensibly about? They are more true: they are the only things that are true.
My way of joking is to tell the truth. It is the funniest joke in the world.
He who can, does. He who cannot, teaches.
Song Lyrics
I'm so happy
Cause today I found my friends
They're in my head
I'm so ugly
But that's okay, 'cause so are you
We've broke our mirrors
Sunday morning
Is everyday for all I care
And I'm not scared
Light my candles
In a daze 'cause I've found God
Yeah
--Nirvana, Lithium
You've got a voice on the inside too
Your paranoia's probably worse
--Linkin Park, Papercut
Y'all can see me now, 'cause you don't see with your eye
You perceive with your mind
--Gorillaz, Clint Eastwood
I don't wanna waste my time
Become another casualty of society
I'll never fall in line
Become another victim of your conformity
--Sum 41, Fat Lip
Ich will das ihr mich gut seht
Ich will das ihr mich versteht
--Rammstein, Ich Will
I may be dumb, but I'm not a dweeb
I'm just a sucker with no self-esteem
--Offspring, Self-Esteem
I see the girls go by dressed in their Summer clothes
I have to turn my head until my darkness goes
--Rolling Stones, Paint It Black
I only smile in the dark
My only comfort is the night gone black
--Garbage, Only Happy When It Rains
Oh, baby, you're the only thing in this whole world
That's pure and good and right
And wherever you are and wherever you go
There's always gonna be some light.
--Meat Loaf, Bat Out of Hell
I never cared that much, yea
I never kept in touch, yea
Most of all what really sucks is
Everything and all of us
--Dope, Everything Sucks
I would die for you
I would die for you
I've been dying just to feel you by my side
To know that you're mine
I will cry for you
I will cry for you
I will wash away your pain with all my tears
And drown your fear
I will pray for you
I will pray for you
I will sell my soul for something pure and true
Someone like you
--Garbage, #1 Crush
We are the nobodies
We wanna be somebodies
When we're dead
They'll know just who we are
Some children died the other day
We fed machines and then we prayed
Puked up and down in morbid faith
You should have seen the ratings that day
--Marilyn Manson, The Nobodies
And if words were wisdom
I’d be talking even more
--Offspring, I Choose
…and do you have faith in God above
If the Bible tells you so?
--Don McLean, American Pie
And the love that I feel is so far away,
I’m a bad dream that I just had today – and you
Shake your head and
Say it’s a shame
…
The do-er and the thinker: no allowance for the other
As the failing light illuminates the mercenary’s creed.
…
Your bread and water’s going cold,
Your hair’s too short and neat.
I’ll judge you all and make damn sure no-one judges me.
--Jethro Tull, Thick As A Brick
Tell me I’m the only one
Tell me there’s no other one
Jesus was an only son
Tell me I’m the chosen one
Jesus was an only son for you
--Smashing Pumpkins, Bullet With Butterfly Wings
Noise, noise
Any kind will do
--Offspring, Original Prankster
Intoxicated with the madness
I’m in love with my sadness
--Smashing Pumpkins, Zero
I've got something inside me
To drive a princess blind
--Harry Chapin, Taxi
I need someone to show me the things in life I cannot find
I can't see the things that make true happiness, I must be blind
--Black Sabbath, Paranoid
Day of judgement, God is calling
Underneath the War Pigs crawling
Begging mercy for their sins
Satan, laughing, spreads his wings
--Black Sabbath, War Pigs
Hey you, what do you see?
Something beautiful, something free?
--Marilyn Manson, Beautiful People
Run to the bedroom
In the suitcase on the left
You'll find my favorite axe.
--Pink Floyd, One of My Turns
I'd rather laugh with the sinners than cry with the saints
The sinners are much more fun
Only the good die young
--Billy Joel, Only the Good Die Young