English 501: Literature

So you decided to feed your brain, huh? Well, we have plenty of tasty morsels for you to read. Most of these quotes came from my dorm room in college.  There was a long standing rule that anyone who entered my room for the first time was required by the strictest of all laws to write down a quote to add to the wall.  Some came from sober people, some didn't ...see if you can tell the difference!
A Collection of Quotes
And they gave each other a smile with a future in it - "Dream a Little Dream" (movie)

Stay out of my psychosis! -"The Dream Team" (movie)

It's not like we're burning napalm or anything. -Drew, saying this to a cop 5 minutes after a gigantic napalm blast that burnt the tree.

Great spirits have always encountered violent opposition from mediocre minds -Albert Einstein

There is no such thing as a problem without a gift for you in its hands.  You seek problems because you need their gifts. -Richard Bach

Time spent laughing is time spent with the gods. -Japenese proverb

Some people are only alive because it's against the law to kill them. -Derik

They may say, "those were the days", but in a way, you know for us these are the days. -Jane's Addiction

The truth is rarely pure and never simple. -Oscar Wilde

Sanity is the playground for the unimaginative. -anon

I'm not in a good mood. I'm just in denial. -Zack

Kill a man, you're a murderer.
Kill a million, you're a conqueror.
Kill everyone, you're a god.  -anon

Here is a test to find wether your mission on earth is finished:  If you're alive, it isn't. -Richard Bach

...when you have too much faith in something, it is bound to hurt you. Too much faith in anything will suck you dry.  In this way, all the world is a vampire.  -Poppy Z. Brite

You never get anyone's attention by tapping them on the shoulder, you have to hit them with a sledgehammer. -"Seven" (movie)

Men are morons. Women are evil.  The more moronic we get, the more evil they get. -Henry Rollins

I had a dream my life would be so different from this hell I'm living, so different far from what it seems. Now life has killed the dream, I dreamed.
-Les Miserables

Let us read and let us dance...two amusements that will never do harm to the world. -Voltaire

Your only obligation in any lifetime is to be true to yourself. -Richard Bach

To be safe is to be already dead. I want to live. -Gianni Versace

Never worry about the size of your Christmas tree. In the eyes of children, they are all 30 feet tall. -Larry Wilde

Every person, all events of your life are there because you have drawn them there.  What you choose to do with them is up to you. -Richard Bach

All who reflect on contraversial matters should be free of all hatred.
-Julius Ceasar

If you can't trust me with a decision, how can you trust me with a baby?
-anon

Is lipstick toxic? -Joel

if pro is the opposite of con, is progress the opposite of congress? -anon

I wish those who will censor books had more faith in their children, in their teachers, and in their own parenting. -Shelley Keller-Gage

Don't be dismayed at good-byes.  A farewell is necessary before you can meet again.  And meeting again, after moments or lifetimes, is certain for those who are friends. -Richard Bach

An idea that is not dangerous is unworthy of being called an idea at all.
-Oscar Wilde

It will be a great day when schools have all the money they need and the Air Force has to hold a bake sale to buy a bomber. -anon

There is no such thing as a wierd human being. It's just that some people require more understanding than others. -Tom Robbins

We are what we repeatedly do.  Excellence, then, is not an act, but a habit. -Aristotle

Genuis begins great works; labor finishes them.  -Joseph Joubert

A true friend is someone who is there for you when he'd rather be anywhere else.  -Len Wein

Education's purpose is to replace an empty mind with an open one.
-Malcolm S. Forbes

No child is ever born a racist. -anon

Remember where you came from, where you're going, and why you created this mess you got yourself into in the first place.
You're going to die a horrible death, remember. It's all in good training. and you'll enjoy it more if you keep the facts in mind.
Take your dieing with some seriousness, however.  Laughing on the way to your execution is not generally understood by less-advanced life-forms, and they'll call you crazy.  -RIchard Bach

The difference between reality and fiction? Fiction has to make sense.
-anon

When  I have money, I buy books.  Anything left over goes towards food and clothing.  -anon

Maturity is knowing when it's not necessary to act grown up.  -anon

Hate is easy, love takes courage.  -anon

Everywhere is walking distance if you have the time.  -Steven Wright

Life is more than looking like a "GAP" ad.  -anon

I think of life as a good book.  The further you get into it, the more it begins to make sense.  -Harold S. Kushner

Your friends will know you better in the first minute you meet than your acquantances will know you in a thousand years.  -Richard Bach

You're only in trouble if you get caught.  -Aladdin