Quotes

~*~ "I can give a hundred million reasons to build a barricade." - Oasis, Roll It Over

~*~ "Now is not the time to cry, now's the time to find out why." - Oasis, Columbia

~*~ "I'm mad fer it!" - Liam Gallagher

~*~ "And remember the truth that once was spoken: to love another person is to see the face of God." - Les Misérables

~*~ "It's over now, the music of the night." - The Phantom of the Opera

~*~ "You must stay away from big words." - The Fix

~*~ "Acting became a way to meet girls and kiss them." - Terrence Mann

~*~ "My idea of doing my hair is sticking it out the window of a car when it's wet." - Philip Quast

~*~ "I believe the hunt for Valjean is what the show is all about, and I see Javert in the same vein as Iago or Mephistopheles... a really great character." --Philip Quast on Les Misérables

~*~ "This is not about sex; we all know sex sells and the whole world is buying..." - Creed, Signs

~*~ "Lay down your arms and surrender to me, oh, lay down your arms and love me peacefully. Use your arms for squeezing and pleasing the one who loves you so." Pearl Jam, Soldier of Love

~*~ "I am a patriot. And I love my country, because my country is all I know..." Pearl Jam, I Am A Patriot
{This is so Enjy, it's scary.}

~*~ "No man, no madness, though their sad power may prevail, can possess, conquer my country's heart. They rise to fail. She is eternal, long before nations' lines were drawn. When no flags flew, when no armies stood, my land was born. And you ask me why I love her, through wars, death, and despair. She is the constant, we who don't care. And you wonder will I leave her - but how? I cross over borders but I'm still there now. How can I leave her? Where would I start? Let man's petty nations tear themselves apart. My land's only borders lie around my heart." - the Anthem from Chess
{Again, this is quite an Enjy quote. Yeesh.}

~*~ "Don't walk in front of me, I may not follow. Don't walk behind me, I may not lead. Walk beside me and just be my friend." -Albert Camus

~*~ "I love deadlines. I like the whooshing sound they make as they fly by." -Douglas Adams

~*~ "Reader, suppose you were an idiot. And suppose you were a member of Congress. But I repeat myself." -Mark Twain

~*~ "When angry, count to four; when very angry, swear." -Mark Twain

~*~ "People take different roads seeking fulfillment and happiness. Just because they're not on your road doesn't mean they've gotten lost." -H. Jackson Browne

*~ "All the world's a stage,
And all the men and women merely players:
They have their exits and their entrances;
And one man in his time plays many parts."
-William Shakespeare

~*~ "A common mistake that people make when trying to design something completely foolproof is to underestimate the ingenuity of complete fools." -Douglas Adams

~*~ "When a thing has been said, and said well, have no scruple. Take it and copy it." -Anatole France
{an argument for plagiarism...?}

~*~ "The supreme happiness of life is the conviction of being loved for yourself, or, more correctly, being loved in spite of yourself." -Victor Hugo, LES MISERABLES

~*~ "Religion teaches men how to go to heaven, not how the heavens go." -Galileo Galilei
{Hear ye, hear ye...}

~*~ "The Liberty of the citizen ends where the Liberty of another citizen begins." -The Constitution of the Year Two [of the French Republic]

~*~ "Duct tape is like the Force.  It has a light side, a dark side, and it holds the universe together." -unknown

~*~ "If it is not right, do not do it; if it is not true, do not say it." -Marcus Aurelius
{He's the coolest emperor Rome ever had ... *think Gladiator*}

~*~ "Man is certainly stark mad: He cannot make a flea, yet he makes gods by the dozens." -Montaigne

~*~ "More problems from that tropical storm Isidor, seems several tornadoes have spun out of it, touched down in Florida, and just made a mess of the place.  People say it looked like an election just happened down there." -Jay Leno

~*~ "People who want to share their religious views with you almost never want you to share yours with them." -unknown

~*~ "The ancient Romans built their greatest masterpieces of architecture, their amphitheaters, for wild beasts to fight in." -Voltaire

~*~"One must still have chaos in oneself to be able to give birth to a dancing star." -Nietzsche

~*~ "It is not death that a man should fear, but he should fear never beginning to live." -Marcus Aurelius

~*~ "It is the duty of the patriot to protect his country from its government." -Thomas Paine

~*~ "Ability is of little account without opportunity." -Napoleon Bonaparte

~*~ "The mind is not a vessel to be filled but a fire to be kindled." -Plutarch

~*~ "While fools shun one set of faults they run into the opposite one." -Horace

~*~ "I'm an idealist. I don't know where I'm going but I'm on the way." -Carl Sandburg

~*~ "I prefer to be true to myself, even at the hazard of incurring the ridicule of others, rather than to be false, and to incur my own abhorrence." -Frederick Douglass

~*~ "Life is like music; it must be composed by ear, feeling, and instinct, not by rule." -Samuel Butler

~*~ "Faith consists in believing when it is beyond the power of reason to believe." -Voltaire

~*~ "...Loving someone doesn't mean you have to be with that someone, because sometimes Fate plays a fool on us, and we are not meant to be together, But still, there is love between us..." -unknown
{This was in someone's e-mail signature, and it touched my heartstrings so poignantly that I had to take it.}

~*~ "I disapprove of what you say, but will defend to the death your right to say it." -Voltaire
{Yes! Quite possibly the best quote ever, and certainly the very reason I began to love this guy.}

~*~ "Trust not too much to appearances." -Vergil
{I don't really hate him. But shh.}

~*~ "History is the version of past events that people have decided to agree upon." -Napoleon Bonaparte

~*~ "For Sale: Taliban rifle. Never fired. Dropped once."

~*~ "My dad says Pearl Jam fans are better than french fries." -Ray Cameron, son of PJ drummer Matt Cameron
{The CUTEST quote I've ever encountered. I love PJ}

~*~ "I never told my own religion nor scrutinized that of another. I never attempted to make a convert nor wished to change another's creed. I am satisfied that yours must be an excellent religion to have produced a life of such exemplary virtue and correctness. For it is in our lives, not from our words that our religion must be judged." -Thomas Jefferson

~*~ "Music expresses that which cannot be put into words and that which cannot remain silent." -Victor Hugo

~*~ "When you arise in the morning, think of what a precious privilege it is to be alive - to breathe, to think, to enjoy, to love." -Marcus Aurelius

~*~ "It is only by introducing the young to great literature, drama and music, and to the excitement of great science that we open to them the possibilities that lie within the human spirit -- enable them to see visions and dream dreams." -Eric Anderson

~*~ "Never invoke the gods unless you really want them to appear. It annoys them very much." -- G.K. Chesterton

~*~ "If all the world is a stage, where is the audience sitting?"

~*~ "Fifty percent of the citizens of this country have a below average understanding of statistics."
{I put this on the cover page of my notebook for my Statistics class. *snicker* Quite appropriate.}

~*~ "Hockey is a sport for white men. Basketball is a sport for black men. Golf is a sport for white men dressed like black pimps." - Tiger Woods

~*~ "I remember when you sang that song about today... now it's tomorrow and everything has changed." -Pearl Jam, Thumbing My Way
{So true, so true...}


more to come as I add them...