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�There is no more horrific smell than the aroma of burning meat when you know that what you�re smelling is you.� ~Apropos of Nothing

�...flames, the opposite of ignorance. Within flames lay knowledge, and purity, and cleansing. Shadows flee from flames, darkness runs scurrying under rocks and into crannies as the light generated by fire comes for it.� ~Apropos of Nothing

�[Hecate�s body] felt impossibly light; perhaps the only thing that had given her any weight at all was her hatred. I wondered briefly how much my own hatred was weighing upon me, then dismissed the notion as being excessively profound.� ~Apropos of Nothing

�[I just] prayed to myself. If I can�t pray to myself for myself, to whom can I pray?� ~Apropos of Nothing

�I want my jar of dirt.� ~Captain Jack Sparrow

�Where�s that monkey? I need to shoot something.� ~Captain Jack Sparrow

�Her spirits wanted the solitude and silence which only numbers could give.� ~Jane Austen, Persuasion

�She thought it was the misfortune of poetry to be seldom safely enjoyed by those who enjoyed it completely; and that the strong feelings which alone could estimate it truly were the very feelings which ought to taste it but sparingly.� ~Jane Austen, Persuasion

�The notions of a young man of one- or two-and-twenty as to what is necessary in manners to make him quite the thing are more absurd, I believe, than those of any other set of beings in the world. The folly of the means they often employ is only to be equaled by the folly of what they have in view.� ~William Walter Elliot

�Yes, yes, I see you are [a poor Italian scholar]. I see you know nothing of the matter. You have only knowledge enough of the language to translate at sight these inverted, transposed, curtailed Italian lines, into clear, comprehensible, elegant English. You need not say anything more of your ignorance.� Here is complete proof.� ~William Walter Elliot

�If you please, no reference to examples in books [to prove that women are fickle]. Men have had every advantage of us in telling their own story. Education has been theirs in so much higher a degree; the pen has been in their hands. I will not allow books to prove anything.� ~Anne Elliot

�When any two young people take it into their heads to marry, they are pretty sure by perseverance to carry their point, be they ever so poor, or ever so imprudent, or ever so little likely to be necessary to each other�s ultimate comfort. This may be bad morality to conclude with, but I believe it to be truth.� ~Jane Austen, Persuasion

�I have to eat, I can�t live by the word of God alone, no matter what Scripture says; I need bread too. Damn the human stomach, this fat betrayer of my ideals. Caspar! Another Portrait of Madame Unlucky-in-Looks, done up to appear as Madame Most-Marvelous-to-Behold. I�m not longer telling the truth with my art, I�m lying.� ~Schoonmaker

�To consider what other people might say is hardly a good reason to take action or to defer it. You have your own life to live, Iris, and at its end, the only opinion that amounts to anything is that which God bestows.� ~Schoonmaker

�Approval is overrated. Approval and disapproval alike satisfy those who deliver it more than those who receive it. I don�t care for approval, and I don�t mind doing without.� ~Caspar

�Drawing is the only honesty. Don�t interpret. Merely observe. Don�t think about what you see. Merely see it.� ~Caspar

�I take responsibility only for the future, not the past. The past can�t hurt you the way the future can.� ~Margarethe van den Meer

�Forgive us our trespasses and get out of our way.� ~Margarethe van den Meer

�Is this the main thing that painters of portraits care about? The person on the verge of becoming someone else? Changing isn�t just the province of the young.� ~Gregory Maguire,Confessions of an Ugly Stepsister

�I firmly believed that �destiny� was the excuse given after the fact by people who were losers seeking a way of rationalizing all the disappointments that were their life.� ~Apropos of Nothing

�My life, by contrast, had been anything by dull. Even when it had been dull, it was more along the lines of my life catching its breath before hurling me headlong into the next series of insane events.� ~Apropos of Nothing

�We encountered one or two threats, but it was nothing that a healthy running away from couldn�t handle.� ~Apropos of Nothing

�Here�s the thing about once-in-a-lifetime opportunities: They tend to shorten the actual lifetime in question.� ~Apropos of Nothing

�Perhaps we�re all strangers to one another in a way, and the only thing that makes someone a �total� stranger is that they haven�t yet had the opportunity to betray you.� ~Apropos of Nothing

�Trying not to panic even as I felt the air beginning to burn in my lungs and seeking release, I let out a few bubbles and watched them float. They trickled away in the direction that, had I been left to my own devices, I would have sworn was down. Perhaps the gods were perverse enough to reroute air bubbles to lead me astray. I�d put nothing past those poxy [jerks].� ~Apropos of Nothing

�I�ve noticed that irony is something better appreciated from a great distance of either miles or years, or both, and best appreciated when it�s happening to someone else.� ~Apropos of Nothing

�I have no time for fantasies. My real life is bizarre enough.� ~Apropos of Nothing

�Romantics were fools. They were mold on bread, mushrooms upon trees. They grew upon the harsh reality of life and softened it and made it weak. They viewed the world through a wet prism of feebleness that bordered on the pathetic. I had always known this for a fact. To fall in love to any degree is to needlessly expose yourself to inevitable betrayal and falsehood and, ultimately, the object of that love not possibly being everything that you wanted them or needed them to be.� ~Apropos of Nothing

�Most romantics believe that true, great love must be built upon a foundation of trust. This is patently untrue. True love is not built on trust. True love is built on knowledge. Trust is simply what you substitute for lack of knowledge, and then you hope for the best.� ~Apropos of Nothing

�I try to make it a policy never to be underestimated when it comes to stupidity.� ~Apropos of Nothing

�Familiarity takes the exotic and reduces it to the mundane.� ~Apropos of Nothing

�I�d never had a lover considerate enough to have arrows fired into my enemies. A special woman indeed.� ~Apropos of Nothing

�That�s the problem with being on the run: You begin to suspect that everything is about you. A passing glance from the most humble of peddlers, and you instantly think he�s a spy who will report you to the nearest authorities.� ~Apropos of Nothing

�I knew what she had said, and I had her word. But there was this little problem of her being evil.� ~Apropos of Nothing

�Chapter Ten: The Breaking Loose of Aulhel� ~Apropos of Nothing

�Nobody knows anybody. We only know those aspects of others that they let us see. The true individual remains hidden from the world. And that�s as it should be. Otherwise we�d all probably want to kill each other.� ~Apropos of Nothing

�Do not underestimate the joy of nothing. The problem with having something is that someone else always wants to take it away from you. A man who has nothing to lose has everything to gain...unless he�s wise enough not to gain it.� ~Mitsu

�The notion filled me with so much joy that I thought my heart would literally explode from my chest with joy. Then I got a mental image of just what exactly that would look like, and that dampened my enthusiasm.� ~Apropos of Nothing

�I also get the feeling that basically they just cut [Jimmy] Hibbert LOOSE!! on [Dr. Crumhorn] and then stood back and watched from a safe distance, behind a radiation proof glass shield (in the super-secret triple-reinforced underground vault that nothing can get into.)� ~Captain Chaotica!!

�I perfectly understand needing to see things you really enjoy when life is sucking harder than a herd of wild Hoovers� ~Captain Chaotica!! on my obsession with Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Man�s Chest

�Jack [Sparrow] is of the notion that he can't help out the people around him if he's dead, so he simply makes sure that he lives long enough to make sure that everybody else is continuing to live.� ~Draca Darkwingette

�You interest me strangely, Mr. Dent.� ~Ford Prefect

�For generations we've used the oracular reading of oxen guts to predict our student's careers (or lack thereof). We tried [aptitude tests] (The oxen guts were more accurate by 72%).� ~Mr. Parenthesis

�I don't care about the past - I believe in the power to reinvent yourself.� ~Lex Luthor

�I'm not [a history buff]. I'm just interested in people who ruled the world before they were thirty.� ~Lex Luthor

�In my experience I've found you can never have too much information.� ~Lex Luthor

�Friendship's a fairy tale, Clark. Respect and fear are the best you can hope for.� ~Lex Luthor

�That, my friend, is the key to leadership. Not only knowing you're right, but convincing everyone else. If you can do that, the world's your oyster.� ~Lex Luthor

"You can learn a lot from someone you hate." ~Lex Luthor

"If sleeping with me was just business, I'd hate to think what that makes you." ~Lex Luthor

"Clark, you can't save the world. All you'll end up with is a Messiah complex and a lot of enemies." ~Lex Luthor

"Dad, games are all we have." ~Lex Luthor

"All I'm saying, Dominic, is try and remember who I was raised by. I try to deny it, but I'm still my father's son. Tread carefully." ~Lex Luthor

"Don't you know it is not a good idea to sneak up on somebody with an acetylene torch?" ~Jonathan Kent

"Some people are meant to be alone." ~Lex Luthor

"[My father and I] have a complicated relationship, Clark. My father wants me to believe it's built on trust, but it's not. It's built on lies and deceit. Any relationship with that foundation is destined to fail. Lucky we don't have that problem." ~Lex Luthor

"Sentimentality is synonymous with vulnerability." ~Lex Luthor

"I know what it's like to feel vulnerable. Trust me. Eccentric bald kids sit pretty low on the prep school totem pole." ~Lex Luthor

"'King Arthur� was so much fun to make because I was on horseback playing a knight, brandishing two swords. It was like being a kid again." ~Ioan Gruffudd

�Attention filmmakers: if you're building up to a final confrontation with a before-unseen monster, you better make it look scarier than hell itself.� ~Justin from MRFH

�That is such an evil laugh. Nobody has a laugh that is comparable to Cartman�s.� ~Hillary

�Oh, dear... He�s had a sudden and completely unexpected relapse of death.� ~Griswold Goodsoup

�I wonder why trashy media always comes in threes...� ~Guybrush Threepwood in Curse of Monkey Island

�So do post-impressionist paintings, Mr. Threepwood. So do post-impressionist paintings.� ~King Andr�

�[Doogal] wasn�t even animated. It was still and the audience had to move.� ~Jon Stewart

�I�m only two years old; I don�t need this.� ~Chuckie Finster

�Everyone has something to hide except the meat and my monkey.� ~Rocko Wallaby

�Step Four � Shave the Weasel.� ~Six step program to overcoming nail biting...on Rocko�s Modern Life

�We have surprisingly blue skies for impending doom.� ~Duckie

�I�m trying to see how far apart I can make your two heads.� ~Duckie

�Take this cookie, or I�m gonna smash it up your nose.� ~Mom to Dad

� Ssh! I think Keith Urban is on the radio! No, never mind. That was an Outback commercial.� ~Duckie

�Is there a light somewhere that goes on when I have food?� ~Dr. James Wilson

�I love it when you do both sides of the conversation yourself. It�s peaceful, like white noise.� ~Dr. Gregory House

�Vampires have risen from the dead, the grave, and the crypt, but have never managed it from the cat.� ~Terry Pratchett, Witches Abroad

�My room has a wall that the sun caresses viciously every night.� ~Duckie

�He looks like Dorian Grey, and I look like the picture in the attic.� ~Susan Harper

�Humouring you is the sincerest form of shutting you up.� ~Dr. Ben Harper

�I believe pain is nature�s way of saying, �You�re still alive, and life sucks.�� ~Bill Engvall

�Tonight, I�ll look at ways to increase voter turnout, other than desirable candidates.� ~Stephen Colbert

�A lot of times people will say, �Well, gosh, you�re really good; you should try acting!� And I say, �Come on! I�m thesping my little guts out over here.�� ~Jim Cummings

�Hey! You can�t snort the Lord!� ~Deputy Clementine Johnson

�Why does the universe keep doing these insanely bewildering things to me?� ~Arthur Dent

�There�s nothing like destroying the universe to get your point across.� ~Hactar

�If a little knowledge is a dangerous thing, then omniscience must be lethal.� ~Ford Prefect

�That was a pot brownie, for god�s sake; you�re stoned off your [tailfeathers].� ~Frasier Crane to his father

�Eddie is a pet, he doesn�t get to have a pet.� ~Frasier Crane

�There is no reciprocity. Men love women, women love children, children love hamsters.� ~Alice Thomas Ellis

"That's a nice tidy little way of saying I'm in [Tartarus]." ~Dr. Frasier Crane

"If you vote for Democrats, you might as well give Al Quaeda a death ray and a manual." ~John Oliver

�I�ve run out of Facebook things to do, so I�m on My Space.� ~Hillary

�Hearts on fire, you�ll learn, end up with heartburn.� ~�Wind It Up,� Ed Robertson and Steven Page

�Good looks aside, Bale has got serious dramatic chops, and he handled the arc of his character from homicidal automaton to puppy cuddling softie to puppy cuddling homicidal automaton masterfully.� ~Sue from MRFH about Equilibrium

�When I grow up, I wanna be a kid.� ~Dayle

"[College students are] paying an awful lot of money to just act like monkeys. Heck, I could do that at home for free." ~Dayle

"Jesus is one high roller." ~Dayle

�Silly relationships... Don't ever hook up with a crazy [jerk].� ~Duckie

�Again Winder felt the sibilant whisper from a valve letting off pressure somewhere deep inside his skull.� ~Carl Hiaasen, Native Tongue

�The world is full of nice boring young men. The crazy ones are hard to find and harder to keep, but it�s worth it.� ~Molly McNamara

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