"Quotations"

For as long as I've remembered, I've kept a collection of quotes. They're always good for papers, and they usually have some special meaning. My favorites, the ones that have spoken to me in times of needs, and such are in italics. I hope that as you look through these sometimes strange and always (I hope!) interesting quotes, you'll find something that speaks to you.

--Ari.

"Federal Agents...We're Armed!" --Gillian Anderson as "Dana Scully" on The X-Files.

"Either I've become impervious to anti-matter explosions, or this is still a dream." --Kate Mulgrew as "Captain Janeway" on Star Trek: Voyager

"A Fanatic is one who can't change his mind and won't change the subject" --Sir Winston Churchill

"Forever's a long time -- and time has a way of changing things." --"Big Mama" in The Fox and the Hound

"Every night in my dreams, I see you, I feel you. That is how I know you go on..." --My Heart Will Go On from Titanic

"If ever you're in my arms again, this time I'll love you much better..." -- If Ever You're in My Arms Again

"Love can touch us one time, and last for a lifetime, and never let go 'till we're gone..." -- My Heart Will Go On from Titanic

"Tale as old as Time...true as it can be! Barely even friends, then somebody bends, unexepectedly!" -- Beauty and the Beast from...guess where!

"A soul, unbound, touched by others -- but never held." - Gillian Anderson as "Dana Scully" in The X-Files

"No one, no government agency, has jurisdiction over the truth." - David Duchovny as "Fox Mulder" in The X-Files

"How do I live without you?" -- How Do I Live Without You

"Then go...and pray you never dream of us again." -- Anon. Alien on Star Trek: Voyager

"Nerys, I love you. I've always loved you." -- Rene Auberjonois as "Odo" on Star Trek: Deep Space Nine, ep. "Children of Time"

"Live Long and Prosper." --Leonard Nimoy as "Spock" in Star Trek

"I can show you the world...shining, shimmering, splendid! Tell me, Princess, now when did you last let your heart decide? I can open your eyes. Take you wonder by wonder, over sideways and under on a magic carpet ride...a whole new world! A new fantastic point of view. No one to tell us no, or where to go, or say we're only dreaming..." --A Whole New World from Aladdin

"Laugh and the world laughs with you, weep and you weep alone, for this sad old earth must borrow its mirth but has trouble enough of its own." -- from "Solitude"

"I only hope that we never forget one thing...that it was all started by a mouse." -- Walt Disney

"...the fear of the known is a lurking stranger, and the sound of footfalls on the stairs, the fear of violent death and the primitive instinct to survive are as frightening as any X-file, as real as the acceptance it could happen to you." -- David Duchovny as "Fox Mulder" on The X-Files

Mulder: 8000 years out of Africa Scully...
Scully: And look who's holding the door. --The X-Files

"Crystal waters turn to dark where'ere its presence leaves its mark. And thunder sounds like rolling drums when something Wicked this way comes!" -- Tennyson

"You risk crying when you let yourself love." -- Antoine de St-Exupery

"The average woman would rather be beautiful than smart because the average man sees better than he thinks." -- anon.

"Jealousy is all the fun you think they had." --Erica Jong

Pumbaa: My friend Timon has a saying: You gotta put your behind in your pants...uhh...
Timon: Pumbaa, sit down before you hurt yourself. Kid, you've got to put the past behind you. When the world turns its back on you, you turn your back on the world! -- The Lion King

"I don't think there's any point in being Irish if you don't know that the world will break your heart eventually." --Daniel Patrick Moynihan

"When you rush around in hopeless circles, looking everywhere for something true, you're at the age of not believing, when all the make-believe is through. When you set aside your childhood heroes and your dreams are lost upon a shelf. You're at the age of not believing, and worst of all you doubt yourself." -- Angela Lansbury in The Age of Not Believing from Bedknobs and Broomsticks

"If there's a prize for rotten judgement, I guess I've already won that. No man is worth the aggravation...that's ancient history, been there, done that!" --"Megara" in Hercules

"Presenting the possibilities of...PLASTIC!" -- TV Commercial.

"Try to live your life so that when you die, even the undertaker will be sorry." -- Mark Twain

"How we face death is at least as important as how we face life, wouldn't you say, Saavik?" -- William Shatner as "Captain Kirk" in Star Trek II: The Wrath of Khan

"When you ask what time it is, you shouldn't fear the answer." -- A Swiftly Tilting Planet by Madeleine L'Engle

"The man who can fight to Heaven's own height is the man who can fight when he's losing." --from "Carry On"

"We have come so far together...yet this final distance must necessarily be walked alone." -- "Dana Scully" in The X-Files

"Trust NO ONE" --The X-Files

"At times I almost dream. I too have lived a life the sage's way, and tread once more familiar paths, perchance I perished in an arrogant self-alliance an age ago. And in that act a prayer for one more chance went up so earnest...so...instinct, with better light let in by death that life was blotted out not so completely, but scattered wrecks enough of it to remain dim memories...as now. When seems once more, the goal in sight again." - "Fox Mulder" in The X-Files

"Bee yourself." -- "Genie" in Aladdin

"I laugh in the face of danger!" - "Simba" in The Lion King

"If I never knew you...if I never felt this love...I would have no inkling of how precious life can be!" -If I Never Knew You from Pocahontas

"If you had known...if I'd said something years before...would things have been different?" -- "Odo" in "Children of Time" from Star Trek: Deep Space Nine

"Tell him, tell him that the sun and moon rise in his eyes, reach out to him! And whisper, tender words so soft and sweet, hold him close to feel his heart beat...Love will be the Gift you give yourself." -- Celine Dion and Barbara Streisand in Tell Him

"You can tell a lot about someone's character by the way he eats jelly beans." -- Ronald Reagan

Mulder: "Are you Sally Kendrick?"
Eve 6: "No. But she is me. And I am her. And we are all together..." --The X-Files

"I can give you the clarity you need, Odo." -- Salome Jens as "The Female Shapeshifter" on Star Trek: Deep Space Nine

Kira: "She really loved you, Garak."
Garak: "I never knew why...I guess I never will." -- Nana Visitor and Andrew J. Robinson on Star Trek: Deep Space Nine

"I'm out here in the dark, all alone and wide awake, come and find me! I'm empty and I'm cold, and my heart's about to break, come and find me! I need you to come here and find me. 'Cause without you, I'm totally lost. I've hung a wish on every star, it hasn't done much good so far, I can only dream of you...wherever you are." -- Wherever You Are, from Pooh's Grand Adventure

"You have a crush on her, don't you Harry." -- Robert Duncan McNeill as "Tom Paris" on Star Trek: Voyager

"The magic of our first love is our ignorance that it can ever end." -- Benjamin Disraeli

"It is a curious sensation: The sort of pain that goes mercifully beyond our powers of feeling. When your heart is broken, your boats are burned: Nothing matters anymore. It is the end of happiness, and the beginning of peace." -- George Bernard Shaw

"When you're the best of friends...having so much fun together. You're not even aware you're such a funny pair, you're the best of friends!" -- "Big Mama" in The Fox and the Hound

"Was I dumb, or was I blind? Or did my heart just lose its mind? Why'd I go and throw our perfect dream away? Looking back, I'll never know how I ever let you go, but destiny could see we deserve to have another day! Love led us here. Right back to where we belong! We followed a star, and here we are, now heaven seems so near...Love led us here." -- Love Led us Here from Muppets' Treasure Island

"It's the heart, afraid of breaking, that never learns to dance. It's the dream afraid of waking, that never takes the chance. It's the one who won't be taken, who cannot seem to give. And the soul afraid of dying that never learns to live." -- from The Rose

"Don't lose your way with each passing day. You've come so far, don't throw it away! Live believing, dreams are for weaving, wonders are waiting to start. Live your story: faith, hope and glory. Hold to the truth in your heart. If we hold on together I know our dreams will never die. Dreams see us through to forever, where clouds roll by. For you and I." -- If We Hold On Together from The Land Before Time

"What do you get if you cross an elephant with a rhino? Elephino." --"Pepe" on Muppets Tonight

Artist formerly known as Prince: "I'm the Artist Formerly known as Prince."
Security bear: "Oh, and I'm the bear currently known as Not Amused." -- Muppets Tonight

"If I were human, I believe my response would be "Go To Hell". If I were human." -"Spock" in Star Trek VI: The Undiscovered Country

"What's your favorite scary movie?" "Showgirls". --from Scream II

"Spelling isn't everything. There are days when being able to spell "Tuesday" simply doesn't count." --"Rabbit" in Winnie-the-Pooh by A.A. Milne

"Somewhere in the middle of all this, I fell in love with you." --"Doug Dorsey" in The Cutting Edge

"Staying together couldn't possibly be any harder than staying apart." -- "Doug Dorsey" in The Cutting Edge

"You are to be denied existence." -- John DeLancie as "Q" in Star Trek: The Next Generation

"Past Prologue" -the title of Jake Sisko's book on Star Trek: Deep Space Nine

"No matter what time it is, wake me, even if it's in the middle of a Cabinet meeting." -- Ronald Reagan

"Why are there so many songs about rainbows and what's on the other side? Rainbows are visions, but only illusions, rainbows have nothing to hide. So we've been told and some choose to believe it -- I know they're wrong wait and see! Someday we'll find it, the Rainbow Connection, the lovers, the dreamers and me." -- The Rainbow Connection from Muppets at Walt Disney World

"What was sundered and undone will be made whole, the two made one." -- the prophecy from The Dark Crystal

"There's such a sad love, deep in your eyes, a kind of pale jewel, opened and closed within your eyes, I'll place the skies within your eyes. There's such a fooled heart, beating so fast, in search of new dreams, of love that will last within your heart. I'll place the moon within your heart." -- "As the World Falls Down" from "Labyrinth"

"I don't want to acheive immortality through my works...I want to acheive it through not dying." --Woody Allen

"Immortal mortals, mortal immortals, one living the other's death and dying the other's life." -Heraclitus

"The changes in our life must come from the inability to live otherwise than according to the demands of our conscience, not from out mental resolution to try a new form of life." --Leo Tolstoy

"Some people never say the words "I love you", for like a child, they're longing to be told." -- Paul Simon

"Love is like the measles. We all have to go through it." -- Jerome Jerome

"Pray. To ask the laws of the universe to be anulled on behalf of a single petitioner confessedly unworthy." - Ambrose Bierce

"The thought of immanent embarrassment is making me giddy." -- Lady Sita

"A Magic Kingdom, where the young at heart of all ages, can laugh and play and learn...together." --from the Walt Disney World Opening Day Address

"If Hitler invaded Hell I would make at least a favorable reference to the devil in the House of Commons." --Sir Winston Churchill

"Our eyes turn skyward to find an answer." -- "Fox Mulder" on The X-Files

"Then why don't you fix it, dear fellow, dear fellow, then why don't you fix it... BEFORE I GO MAD?!" -- "Jack" on Star Trek: Deep Space Nine

"You've gotta play the cards life deals you. Sometimes you win, sometimes you lose. But at least you're in the game!" -James Darren as "Vic Fontaine" in "Maybe It's Only A Paper Moon" , Star Trek: Deep Space Nine

"Romance at short notice was her specialty." --from "The Open Window" by Saki

"Candle in the water...drifting helplessly. Hiding from the thunder, come and rescue me! Driven my the hunger of the endless dream...I'm searching for a hand that I can hold. I'm reaching for the arms to let me know...Where do silent hearts go?" --Where Does My Heart Beat Now

"My dear, I find your blind admiration both flattering and disturbing." -- "Garak" on Star Trek: Deep Space Nine

"This is the way we were, in our growing up, and in our marring...in our living...and in our dying." --the Stage Manager from Our Town by Thornton Wilder

"Scully...I love you." - "Fox Mulder" on The X-Files

"If you love me, then help me! All I want if someone to love me!" -- "Emily" in Our Town

"In case we never meet again." -"Fox Mulder" on The X-Files

"True immortality isn't about living forever, man. It's about what you do with the time you have." --Ed Asner as "Hudson" in Gargoyles

"You have to love life to have life and you have to have life to love it. I guess it's kind of what you'd call a vicious circle." --Stage Manager in Our Town

"Sabrina Fair,
Listen where thou art sitting,
Under the glassy, cool, translucent wave,
In twisted braids of lillies knitting
The loose train of thy amber-dropping hair.
Listen for dear honor's sake,
Goddess of the Silver Lake,
Listen and save." --John Milton's Comus

"So many of my friends have died at Minbari hands, and here I am in love with one of them. For awhile I thought about not saying anything, but the moment my heart crossed that line, there wasn't much I could do but see it through. Yeah, I've fallen off one hell of a cliff. But when I look into her eyes I think, maybe, I really can fly..." -- Bablyon 5

"If you love me, then help me! All I want is someone to love me!" -- "Emily" in Our Town

"A splendid tear has fallen from the passion-flower at the gate.
She is coming, my dove, my dear.
She is coming, my life, my fate.
The red rose cries, "She is near! She is near!"
The white rose weeps, "She is late."
The larkspur listens, "I hear, I hear!"
And the lily whispers, "I wait"." --Alfred Lord Tennyson's Maude

"I am now. I always was." -- "Emily" in Our Town

"The written word is all that stands between memory and oblivion.
Without books as our anchors, we are cast adrift, neither teaching,
Nor learning.
They are windows on the past, mirrors on the present, and prisms
reflecting all possible futures.
Books are lighthouses, erected in the dark sea of time."
---"Jeffrey Robbins" in "Lighthouse in the Sea of Time", Gargoyles

"I'm lost, I'm lost.
I am going to look for myself.
If I return before I get back,
Have me wait." --Anon.

"No one to miss if he's gone too long, no one to comfort when things go wrong...
That's how I want it to be...Nobody's problems for me.
No one who needs me to ease his pain, no one to call me his ball and chain...
Nobody's problems for me...and that's how I choose it to be.
No troubles, no strife in this life that I lead -
No tempers to humor, No hungers to feed.
No one to warm when the winter's cold, no one to pamper...
No hand to hold.
And that's how it always shall be...nobody's problems for me."
-- Angela Lansbury as "Miss Price" in Nobody's Problems from Bedknobs and Broomsticks

"If you forgive me all this... and I forgive you all that...It was gone with the wind, but it's all coming back to me..." -Celine Dion in All Coming Back

"Cinderella said to Snow White:
'How does love get so off course, oh
All I wanted was a white knight,
With a good heart, soft touch, fast horse!
Ride me off into the sunset, baby I'm forever yours...
It's the way you love me,
It's a feeling like this,
It's centripetal motion,
It's perpetual bliss!
It's that pivotal moment!
It's (ahh) subliminal.
This kiss, this kiss!
(It's criminal)
This kiss, this kiss!"
--Faith Hill, This Kiss

"But you, you're not allowed --
You're uninvited..." --Uninvited

"Daylight, see the dew on the sunflower
And a rose that is fading
Roses wither away
Like the sunflower I yearn to turn my face to the dawn
I am waiting for the day" -- Memory from Cats

Kira: "When did you become an optimist?"
Odo: "It must have been that day on the Promenade...the first time we kissed."
Kira: "That was some kiss."
Odo: "Changed my life."
--Star Trek: Deep Space Nine

"I wanna come over...to hell with the consequence!" - from "I Wanna Come Over"

"I met you before the fall of Rome. And I need you to let me take you home.
You were wrong, I was right, you said 'good-bye', I said 'good-night'...
It's all been done. It's all been done. It's all been done...before!"
-Barenaked Ladies "It's All Been Done"

Vincent: "This is where the wealthy and the powerful rule.
It is her world; a world apart from mine.
Her name is Katherine.
From the moment I saw her, she captured my heart,
With her beauty. Her warmth. And her courage.
I knew then, as I know now, that she would change my life, forever."
Katherine: "He comes from a secret place, far below the city streets.
Hiding safe from strangers.
Safe from hate and harm.
He brought me there to save my life,
And now, wherever I go, he is with me.
For we have a bond stronger than friendship or love.
And although we cannot be together, we will never,
Ever be apart."
----"Beauty and the Beast", the TV Series

"Three years ago they came, forever altering the future of humanity.
William Boone's life has been destroyed.
A man caught between two worlds, assigned protector to the Companions,
Undercover Agent for the Liberation. An alien-implanted cyber-virus expands his mind
controlling a bio-engineered weapon of unprecedented power.
William Boone searches for the truth."
-Opening of "Earth: Final Conflict" before Boone Died.

"You are an interesting species...an interesting mix. You are capable of the most beautiful dreams...and the most horrible nightmares."
--Alien in "Contact"

"You're warm, brilliant, and lonely."
--Serena on "Star Trek: Deep Space Nine"

"When the last eagle flies over the last crumbling mountain
And the last lion roars at the last dusty fountain
In the shadow of the forest, though she may be old and worn
They will stare, unbelieving, at the last unicorn.

When the first breath of winter through the flowers is icing
And you look to the north and the pale moon is rising
And it seems like all is dying and we'll leave the world to mourn
In the distance, hear the laughter of the last unicorn.

I'm alive...I'm alive!

When the last moon is cast over the last star of morning
And the future that's passed without even a last desperate warning
Then look into the sky where through the clouds our path is borne
Look and see her, how she sparkles, it's the last unicorn...

I'm alive...I'm alive!
-From The Last Unicorn

"After a while, you learn the subtle difference
Between holding a hand and chaining a soul,
And you learn that love doesn't mean leaning
And company doesn't mean security,
And you begin to learn that kisses aren't contracts
And presents aren't promises,
And you begin to accept your defeats
With your head up, your eyes open
With the grace of woman, not the grief of a child,
And you learn to build all your roads on today
Because tomorrow's ground is too uncertain for plans.
And futureshave a way of falling down in midflight.
After a while you learn
That even sunshine burns if you get too much.
So you plant your own garden and decorate your own soul,
Instead of waiting for someone to bring you flowers.
And you learn that you really can endure...
That you really are strong.
And you really do have worth.
And you learn and learn...
With every good-bye, you learn.
---"After A While" by Veronica A. Shoffstall

"Just fear me...love me...do as I say and I will be your slave."
---David Bowie as "Jareth" in Labyrinth

"We work in the dark. We do what we can, we give what we have. Our doubt is our passion and our passion our task. The rest is the madness of art."
---Henry James

Vous etes belles, mais vous etes vide, leur dit-il encore. On ne peut pas mourir pour vous. Bien sur, ma rose a moi, un passant ordinaire croirait qu'ell vous ressemble. Mais a elle seule ellse est plus importante que vous toutes, puisque c'est elle que j'ai arrosee. Pusique c'est elle que j'ai abritee par le paravent. Puisque c'est elle dont j'ai tue les chenilles (sauf les deux ou trois pour les papillons. Puisque c'est elle que j'ai ecoutee se plaindre, ou se vanter, ou meme quelquefois se taire. Puisque c'est ma rose...
---Antoine de Saint-Exupery, "Le Petit Prince"