What is your favorite quote?

Question

The one I like the best will get the 10 points.

Answer 1

Work like you don't need the money; love like you've never been hurt; and dance like no one is watching.

Answer 2

"If they give you ruled paper, write the other way."
- Juan Ramón Jimenez

Be an individual. Don't make it easy to be dismissed in a sentence.

Ah, but a man's reach should exceed his grasp,
Or what's a heaven for?
- From Robert Browning's "Andrea Del Sarto"

The philosophers have only interpreted the world in various ways: the point however is to change it.
- Karl Marx, "Theses on Feuerbach"

"There's nothing in the middle of the road but a yellow stripe and dead armadillos."
- Jim Hightower, Texas Agricultural Commissioner

One of the universal rules of happiness is: Always be wary of any helpful item that weighs less than its operating manual.
- From "Jingo" by Terry Pratchett

Answer 3

Man, I see in fight club the strongest and smartest men who've ever lived. I see all this potential, and I see squandering. God damn it, an entire generation pumping gas, waiting tables; slaves with white collars. Advertising has us chasing cars and clothes, working jobs we hate so we can buy sh it we don't need.

We're the middle children of history, man. No purpose or place. We have no Great War. No Great Depression. Our Great War's a spiritual war... our Great Depression is our lives.

We've all been raised on television to believe that one day we'd all be millionaires, and movie gods, and rock stars. But we won't. And we're slowly learning that fact. And we're very, very pissed off.

this truly is the best film ever, people say it all the time but it opened my eyes,

no fear, no distractions!

Answer 4

Some people see things that are and ask, Why? Some people dream of things that never were and ask, Why not?
Author: George Carlin

-And-


A lie gets halfway around the world before the truth has a chance to get its pants on.
- Sir Winston Churchill

Answer 5

I went to a youth rally at a neighboring Church and on the main sign at the road it said:

"a coincidence is simply when God chooses to remain anonomous"

I think thats amazing because it clears up the whole, purpose or coincidence argument.

Answer 6

He who would trade liberty for safety deserves neither.
Ben Franklin

When you go over to her don't be that guy in the PG-13 movie everyone is really hoping gets the girl. Be the guy in the rated R movie the one you're not really sure of yet.
Trent

Answer 7

Frankly my Dear, I don't give a Damn. Gone with the Wind.
Of all the ginjoints in all the world, she had to walk into mine,
Casablanca.
When in doubt, use a condom, I forgot where that came from maybe my ex!

Answer 8

Vanity and pride are different things, though the words are often used synonymously. A person may be proud without being vain. Pride relates more to our opinion of ourselves, vanity to what we would have others think of us.

-Jane Austen, Pride and Prejudice

Answer 9

Set the gear shift to the high gear of your soul. You've got to run like an antelope out of control. -The Dude of Life

or

Emancipate yourselves from mental slavery. None but ourselves can free our minds. -Bob Marley

Answer 10

Liberty is the right of every man to think and speak with out hypocrisy - Jose Marti

I also like one from Henry Ford (i think) that goes something like " if you think you or think you can't, either way you're right."

Answer 11

"He's like the Peanuts character Pigpen. Wherever he goes, he stirs up such a humongous mess, it can only be cleaned up by Halliburton." –Bill Maher, on President Bush