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Favourite Quotes
I have a habit of collecting quotes that catch my attention from a variety of sources, and since I think they're interesting, I figured I should share them with my site visitors in the hopes they'll find them interesting as well. Some are thought-provoking, some are silly, and some are a little beyond description. Enjoy, and if you notice any innaccuracy in the quotes or the quote attributions, let me know and I'll look into it and make corrections as needed.
Literary Quotes:
"You are losing my interest, and that is very dangerous. In a moment I will have forgotten you quite entirely, and will never be able to remember just what I did with you."
--King Haggard (The Last Unicorn by Peter S. Beagle)
"What good is magic? What's the use of wizardry if it cannnot save a unicorn?"
--Prince Lír (The Last Unicorn by Peter S. Beagle)
"That man is truly good who knows his own dark places."
--Beowulf (Beowulf: A New Telling by Robert Nye)
"I am as I am...In all these years...I can still only be me."
--Tottie Plantaganet (The Doll's House by Rumer Godden)
"One who tries to rise above nature more often falls below it."
--Sherlock Holmes ("The Creeping Man" by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
"I should not talk so much about myself if there were any body else whom I knew as well."
--Henry David Thoreau (Walden)
"And Darkness and Decay and the Red Death held illimitable dominion over all."
--Edgar Allan Poe ("The Masque of the Red Death")
"There is nothing more deceptive than an obvious fact."
--Sherlock Holmes ("The Boscombe Valley Mystery" by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
"Unicorn, mermaid, lamia, sorceress, Gorgon--no name you give her would surprise me, or frighten me. I love whom I love."
--Prince Lír (The Last Unicorn by Peter S. Beagle)
"Children, who play life, discern its true law and relations more clearly than men, who fail to live it worthily, but who think that they are wiser by experience, that is, by failure."
--Henry David Thoreau (Walden)
"Life is but a walking shadow, a poor player that struts and frets his hour upon the stage--and then is heard no more. It is a tale told by an idiot, full of sound and fury, signifying nothing."
--William Shakespeare (Macbeth)
"I do not propose to write an ode to dejection, but to brag as lustily as chanticleer in the morning, standing on his roost, if only to wake my neighbors up."
--Henry David Thoreau, Walden)
Movie & TV Quotes:
"You disgust me. You are nothing but an animal!"
"We are all animals, my lady."
--Lily and the Lord of Darkness (Legend [all versions])
"I didn't come a hundred thousand miles just to turn back in the last ten feet."
--Jim McConnell (Mission to Mars)
"Forget all you know--or think you know."
--Willow
"The harmony of the universe depends upon an eternal balance. Out of the struggle to maintain this balance comes the birth of legends."
--Legend (intr o--American and TV versions only)
"There are no happy endings--because nothing ends."
--Schmendrick the Magician (The Last Unicorn)
"What is light without dark? I am a part of you all. You can never defeat me. We are b rothers--eternal."
--Lord of Darkness(Legend [American and TV versions only])
"You just have to say, 'No I won't!' one more time than they can say, 'Yes you will!'"
--Capt. John Sheridan (Babylon 5)
"God creates dinosaurs; God destroys dinosaurs; God creates man; Man destroys God; Man creates dinosaurs."
--Ian Malcolm (Jurassic Park)
"It can't rain all the time."
--Eric Draven (The Crow)
"Just fear me, love me, do as I say, and I will be your slave."
--Jareth the Goblin King (Labyrinth)
"A woman's body is a wonderful thing.....but the head is useless!"
--Donald Gordon (Phantasmagoria [computer game])
"Some things are true whether you believe in them or not."
--Seth (City of Angels)
Music Quotes:
"You can't begin to live someone else's life, or your own will pass you by."
--Richard Marx ("Silent Scream")
"Well, it seems to me some fine things have been laid upon your table, but you only want the ones that you can't get."
--The Eagles ("Desperado")
"Despite all my rage, I am still just a rat in a cage!"
--Smashing Pumpkins ("Bullet with Butterfly Wings")
"Albert Einstein nailed Space/Time, but the wild thing had him stumped.
Al baby, two and two make five and a quarter,
That's why people fall in love."
--Thomas Dolby ("That's Why People Fall in Love")
"And then I saw her--she was a bright red '64 GTO with fins and gills like some giant piranha fish, some obscene phallic symbol on wheels...little rivers of anticipation ran down my inseam as I kicked those five hundred Italian horses into life and left reality behind me: fifty, sixty, seventy miles an hour--Oh!--My hand slipped inside the belt of my trousers as we passed eighty, ninety miles an hour...and as we hit the magic one hundred I--Yes!--my love exploded all over her bright pink leather interior!
And at that moment, I thought of my mother."
--Thomas Dolby ("The Key to Her Ferrari")
