Quote Archive

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"The best thing for being sad," replied Merlyn, beginning to puff and blow, "is to learn something. That is the only thing that never fails. You may grow old and trembling in your anatomies, you may lie awake at night listening to the disorder of your veins, you may miss your only love, you may see your world about you devastated by evil lunatics, or know your honor trampled in the sewers of baser minds. There is only one thing for it then-to learn." TH White (The Once and Future King Arthur)

"If you think that my beliefs are wrong, teach me."

"Never mistake knowledge for wisdom. One helps you make a living; the other helps you make a life."-Sandra Carey

"I am not young enough to know everything."-Oscar Wilde

"By doing just a little every day, I can gradually let the task completely overwhelm me." Ashleigh Brilliant

"By the time a man realizes that maybe his father was right, he usually has a son who thinks he's wrong." Charles Wadsworth

"Be wiser than other people if you can; but do not tell them so." Lord Chesterfield

"All our knowledge merely helps us to die a more painful death than animals that know nothing." Maurice Maeterlinck

"You can only be young once, but you can be immature forever."--Larry Anderson

"Nothing has ever been achieved by accepting reality."

"In science, one tries to tell people, in such a way as to be understood by everyone, something that no one ever knew before. But in poetry, it's the exact opposite"--Paul Dirac

"We were very very wrong and accomplished the scientifically impossible."-Rose Napolitano and Janene Podesta

"May God grant us the Serenity to accept the things we cannot change, the Courage to change the things we can, and the Wisdom to know the difference."

"I watched Titanic when I got home from the hospital and I cried. I knew then that my IQ had been damaged"-Stephen King on his injuries from a recent car accident

"Honesty's good, memory's better."-Mr. Walsh

"The greater the obstacle the more glory in overcoming it."-Moliere

"The art of being wise is the art of knowing what to overlook"-William James

"True literature can exist only where it is created, not by diligent and trustworthy officials, but by madmen, hermits, heretics, dreamers, rebels and skeptics."-Yavgehni Zambatic

"Whatever you do, don't give up. Because all you can do once you've given up is bitch. I've known some great bitchers in my time. With some it's a passion, with others an art." --Molly Ivins

"I'm all in favor of keeping dangerous weapons out or the hands of fools. Let's start with the typewriters."

"Wonder rather than doubt is the root of all knowledge."

"Trouble brings experience. Experience brings wisdom."

"The man who has ceased to learn ought not to be allowed ot wander around loose in these dangerous days." MM Coady

"If you have one foot in tomorrow and one foot in yesterday, you're bound to find yourself pissing on today"

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"Some people come into our lives, leave footprints on our hearts, and we are never the same."

"If I could reach up and hold a star in my hand for everytime you made me smile, the entire evening sky would be in the palm of my hand."

"Absence is to love what wind is to fire; it extinguishes the small, it enkindles the great." Comte DeBussy-Rabutin

"Devils can be driven out of the heart by the touch of hand and hand or mouth on mouth."-Tennessee Williams

"Love does not consist in gazing at eachother, but in looking outward together in the same direction."-Antione de Saint-Exupery

"My dearest friend, if you don't mind
I'd like to join you by your side
Where we can gaze into the stars
And sit together, now and forever
For it is plain as anyone can see
We're simply meant to be"-Jack and Sally (Nightmare Before Christmas)

"You may be only one person in the world, but you may also be the world to one person."

"Mine ear is much enamoured of thy note,
So is mine eye enthralled to thy shape;
And thy fair virtue's force perforce doth move me
On the first view to say, to swear, I love thee."-William Shakespeare

"I thought I was being nice..."-Janene and Rose (what the hell were we thinking?)

"No matter how much cats fight, there always seems to be plenty of kittens." Abraham Lincoln

"I've read a lot about love. It seems to be an entrancing experience. One day I'd like to fall in a big pool of it."-Sean Patrick Flannery

"If I were Batwoman, I'd tell Bennett."-Katie Auer

"Honey. Touch me. With my clothes on. Sweetie. Kiss Me. With your mouth closed."-Gilda Radner

"We like because; we love although."

"It's hard to push for the truth when lies are easy to find. I'm left with (I'm left with) this secret of mine"-Bree Sharp, Walkaway

"The road is turning for me, the road is turning for you/ The light is red like a fire, but you drive on through./ I stay behind and hear you call, "you should have known this from the start"/I'm left with, I'm left with a piece of my heart/cause you come and go again like the tide, while on the shorline I stand washed of my pride/And the truth I keep pushing aside/Is that it's time to walk away/ I'm walking away!-Bree Sharp, Walk Away

"Now that you are dead and gone/ and I'm left to carry on/ I could never smile 'cause you won't stay alive for me"-The Offspring, End of the Line

"I love to see you happy Rosa. It's better than a dirty novel. The only difference is that I don't want to see your dirty parts. Promise me that I [won't]."-Katie

"Italian snuggles!! German Tickles!! Was there any Jewish Kissin'?"-Matt Okerblom

"It's not always meant to be,
and it's not always up to me.
But if it doesn't brush my shoulder,
and it doesn't beat my heart
then that's not what I want.
No, that's not where I will start."-Lisa Loeb, Wishing Heart

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"Laughter is the shortest distance between two people"--Victor Borge

"A dress makes no sense unless it inspires men to want to take it off you." Francois Sagan

"The noblest of all is the hot dog; if feeds the hand that bites it."--Robert W. Chambers

"People are like stained-glass windows. They sparkle and shine when the sun is out, but when the darkness sets in, their true beauty is revealed only if there is a light which grows from within."-Elizabeth Kubler-Ross

"If all my friends were to jump off a bridge, I wouldn't follow. I would be at the bottom to catch them when they fall."

"The greatest good you can do for another is not just share your riches, but to reveal to them their own."-Disraeli

"When you and I are grey
When youth has gone and life is dimming
I promise that I'll stay
Beside you, like we were beginning"-Tal Bachman (Beside You)

"I'd settle for a cup of coffee but you know what I really need."-REM

Gli amici di provata fedelta/aggrappateli saldamente al cuore con uncini d'acciaio. (Friends that have proved their fidelity, grapple them to your heart with hoops of steel.)-Italian Translation of Shakespeare's Hamlet.

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"Jesus died for our sins, should we not vindicate His sacrifice by committing them?"--Little Murders

"The world's as ugly as sin, and almost as delightful"--Frederick Locker-Lampson

"The future is like heaven, everyone exalts it, but no one wants to go there now."--James Baldwin

"A lady came up to me on the street and pointed to my suede jacket. "You know a cow was murdered for that jacket?" she sneered. I replied in a psychotic tone, "I didn't know there were any witnesses. Now I'll have to kill you too." Jake Johanson

"All power corrupts, but we need electricity." Haythum R. Khalid

"Be aware that a halo has to fall only a few inches to be a noose." Dan McKinnon

"The dumber people think you are, the more surprised they'll be when you kill them."

"May the forces of evil become confused on their way to your house."-George Carlin

"I think anyone who surveys past history in an impartial manner will be driven to the conclusion that religion has caused more suffering than its prevented."-Bertrand Russell

"You don't do possession very well."
"Ya know, you didn't look too good when you were possessed either.
"Yeah, but I was dead."
-Iolus and Hercules (Hercules:The Legendary Journeys)

"A religion is not the church a man goes to, but the cosmos he lives in."-GK Charleston

"There are no athiests in foxholes."-William Cummings

"This isn't religion. Don't do it because I say so; Do it because it makes sense."-Mr. Drance

"He's like a Puritan, without the religion."-Rose

"Can you conjugate God?"-Mr. Peil

"If you cheat, and don't get caught...you'll burn in hell."-Mr. Drance

"Crimity! Santa's up a tree!"-Sean

"Tell Rosie to send 10% my way and I'll 'bless' her."-Laurie

"I can hear the angels on your shoulders...and the devils on your breath"-Bree Sharp, Smitten

"It's PUPPET you olde-english motherf@$!ers!"-Dan Wenskus

"If I had a gun, with only one bullet, and she and Hitler were in the room...I have to admit, I'd think twice. After all, none of my relatives are Jewish. I have to see her everyday."-- Skippy

"The Almighty One says, "Stop changing the subject and answer the fawking question." Crazy Irish Guy in Braveheart

"You're the weak, and Im the tyranny of evil men. But I'm trying Ringo, I'm trying real hard to be the shepherd." Sammie L. Pulp Fiction

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"When was the last time we used battle ships, Ed?"
"The Spanish-American War."
"And what did we get out of it Ed?"
"Cuba."
"And what did we do with it?"
"We gave it away."
"We Gave It Away!"
-Dan Deacon and Nick Carbanaro (YCTIWY)

"Do you wear tights Mr. Kirby?"-Janene Podesta (YCTIWY)

"You call that a band?! One fruit with a whistle?!"-Dan Deacon (Music Man)

"Chickens-n-Pickles!"-Chris Donofrio(Music Man)

"Don't touch me! DONT TOUCH ME!"-Ben Lipman (Joseph)

"She's not famous, she's notorious."
"Some people like it better that way."
-Jenn Brehm and James Petz (Anything Goes)

"You give me hot pants."-Marc Sauve (Anything Goes)

"Riff! Ow Ow!!"-Kristin Anguilo (watching West Side Story)

"You're too hairy, get out of my pool."-Chris Auer aka Funny Boy or Second Auer (Anything Goes)

"It's my 'Special Friend'."-Katie, Mae, Rose (Anything Goes)

"Drance and his spandex pants."-everyone (Anything Goes)

"Woah, for a minute I thought you were missing part of your finger..."
"I am."
-Christian Pokorney and Mr. Drance (Drancey Poo)(Anything Goes)

"Lorraine is a slut."-Ms. Topazio (TMWCTD)

"Guts'n'Glory."-Rose and Mae's stage debut (TMWCTD)

"Why do I always have to play the slut?"-Rachel Deletto (Anything Goes)
Typcasting

"There's no "I" in Joseph."-Matt Nardi aka Dan*(Joseph)

"Would someone please get Rose out from behind the damned bush?!"-Chris Donofrio (Music Man)

"Where's Rose?"-Ms. Topazio (Music Man)

"Shipoopi!!!"-Bob (Music Man)

"It's always a good night for sex!"-Drunk guy at the Delphi (Anything Goes)

"There goes the tree..."-everyone backstage (Music Man)

"Indo-china eh? I was in outdoor China"-Dan Deacon (Anything Goes)

"Gee, I thought you liked Santana." -Mrs. Drance (Diary of Anne Frank)

"Punch him in the boobs!!"-Mrs. Drance (DoAF)

"Oh, don't mind him. He's a jack-ass"-Meghan Withers (DoAF)

"I was starting to wonder if Mr. Kraler was a little AC/DC"-Ms. T(DoAF)

"Were you just talking about by wife? Asshole."-Mr. Drance (someone had to say it)(DoAF)

"No one's going to tell us damn Jews what to do with our Nazis."-Mark(DoAF)

"Why didn't they sleep during the day and stay awake at night?"-Megan(DoAF)

"Marsha Marsha Marsha!!!"-Mr. Leech

"You did a great job out there. But you're still an asshole."-Mr. Drance

"Lying's fun when it's called acting."-Ben (Growing Pains)

"Jesus!!!" "Yes?" "Jesus I need help!" "Okay, I'm coming." -Chris Boyce and I(Rumours)br>
"It looks like you guys were having sex!!!"-Lizzy Flames(Rumors)

"Cause she's so...umm..beautiful..."-John Deloach(Rumors)

"Something about a carrot..."-Me passing on info from Jessi.

"I think I've got a couple of divas on my hands."-Mrs Drance (Rumors)

"Charlie's a slut! And so is Rose!"-Jessi(Rumors)

"Is she pregnant...I don't get it...?"-Lizzy Flames and Funny Boy at try outs for Rumors

"We, the willing
Led by the unknowing
have been doing the impossible
for the ungrateful.
We've done so much for so long,
We are now qualified to do everything
with nothing."-Chandler Childs

"An actor without techies is a naked person standing in the dark trying to emote; a techie without actors is a person with marketable skills."

"Do what the director tells you to do, then do it the right way."

"Our techies practice safe sets."

"Beat it to fit, paint it to match."

"Nakie Room!!!"

"There are now 6 boobs in this room."-Lizzy

"Who's got something for me?"-Josh

"You're pooching it!"-Mama Linda

"Stop begging..."-Mama Linda

"Special Brownies"-Dan's Deli

"John, Rose has your sack."

"Boyce, get away from them..you'll turn them into sissy boys" -Mama Linda (Forum)

"I think you should drink a cup of testosterone and be a little more violent" - Mrs. Drance

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"Maybe it's just me, but it seems a little odd to celebrate the the beginning and end of a circle. Anyway, Happy New Year."--Massachusetts Jones

"We all agreed that your theory is crazy. The question which divides us is whther it is crazy enough to have a chance of being correct, my own feeling is that it is not crazy enough."--Niels Bohr

"If they give you lined paper, write the other way."--Juan Ramon Jimenez

"Oh, woah. We just reached a fork in the road, I went left, you went wrong."--Jeff Infantolino (yeah Jeffy!!)

"A good many dramatic situation begin with screaming"--Barbarella

"A little sincerity is a dangerous thing, and a great deal of it is absolutely fatal." Oscar Wilde

"Therapy helps, but screaming obscenities is cheaper."

"Some mistakes are too much fun to make only once."

"But I don't kill people. I hold them up to ridicule, I break their toys, but I don't kill them."-Philo (Sewer, Gas and Electric by Matt Ruff)

"I started at the top and worked my way down."-Orson Welles

It's not the large things that send a man to the mad house...No. It's the continuing series of small tragedies that send a man to the madhouse....Not the death of his love, but a shoelace that snaps with no time left."-C. Bukowski

"Don't worry, I'm going to carve out my ovaries soon." Emily

"This is the best part...look at the cart! It's so helpless! ::crash:: C'mon knock one over!!!"-Adam

"I'm wearing a long sleeve shirt...I don't like the way a jacket feels on top of a long sleeve shirt."-Justin Mills

"Most people bring veins when they come to a blood drive." Volunteer lady at the Blood Drive

"If it's a good idea...go ahead and do it. It is much easier to apologize than it is to get permission." Grace M. Hopper

"They always pick the most disgusting things. I might actually be able to stand looking at a dead human rather than a dead pig." France You

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