It's so fun, indulging in other people ideas:
“Man prefers to believe what he prefers to be true.” - Francis Bacon
“Honesty is the first chapter of the book of wisdom.” - Thomas Jefferson
“Discussion is an exchange of knowledge, argument an exchange of ignorance.” - Robert Quillen
“To love is to admire with the heart, to admire is to love with the mind.” - Theophile Gautier
“Experience is a wonderful thing; it enables you to recognize a mistake every time you repeat it.”
“Don’t let yesterday use up too much of today.” - Will Rogers
“People are about as happy as they make up their minds to be.” - Abraham Lincoln
“We are tomorrow’s past” - Mary Webb
“They say the past must die for the future to be born. In that case.....die, mother, die....” - Pulp, “Monday Morning”
“(Time) doesn’t change; it’s what fills it that changes.” - My mom
“Failure is only the opportunity to begin again, more intelligently.” - Henry Ford
"To be nobody but yourself in a world that's doing its best to make you somebody else, is to fight the hardest battle you are ever going to fight. Never stop fighting." -- ee cummings
“Life shouldn’t be printed on dollar bills.” - Clifford Odeto
“He who laughs last probably didn’t get the joke.”
“Not a shred of evidence exists in favor of the idea that life is serious.” - Brenden Gill
“Hey, don’t knock masturbation. It’s sex with somebody I love.” - Woody Allen, “Annie Hall”
“Just remember - we’re all in this alone.” - Lily Tomlin
“Love is many things, none of them logical.” - “The Princess Bride”
“The past has a way of being past.” - “The Princess Bride”
“Only in America do we make movies in which we blow up all our national monuments, then plant a flag on top of the debris.” - “The Philadelphia Inquirer”, on “Independence Day”
“Oh, don’t you just hate it when you’re standing there dancing and your shirt comes unbuttoned?” - Carson Daly, watching the Backstreet Boys’ “All I Have to Give”
“Every day create your history.” - Michael Jackson
“Some men see things as they are and say, ‘Why?’ I dream of things that never were and say, ‘Why not?’” - George Bernard Shaw/Robert Kennedy
“You try coming up with an outfit knowing Joan Rivers is waiting at the end of the line.” - Mel Gibson
“No sooner is it a little calmer with me than it is too calm, as though I have the true feeling of myself only when I am unbearably unhappy.” - Franz Kafka
“I said something like, ‘I have crushes on famous philosophers, and I send away for their 8-by-10 glossies, and I just got mine back from Franz Kafka, and it said, ‘Janeane, don’t ever change.” - Janeane Garofalo, describing her first standup gig.
“That is the best - to laugh with someone because you both think the same things are funny.” - Gloria Vanderbilt
“The true Republic - men their rights and nothing more, women their rights and nothing less.” -
Susan B. Anthony
“It is the friends you can call at 4 a.m. that matter.” - Marlene Dietrich
“There are no more thorough prudes than those who have some little secret to hide.” - George Sand
“Our strength is composed of the weakness we’re damned if we’re going to show.” - Mignon McLaughlin
“There is nothing noble in being superior to your fellow man - true nobility is being superior to your former self.” - Radiohead
“Only a man who has felt ultimate despair is capable of feeling ultimate bliss.” - The Count of Monte Cristo, Alexandra Dumas
“Life is fantastic when you’re made of plastic.” - Aqua, "Barbie Girl"
“You will do foolish things, but do them with enthusiasm.” - Colette
“Love is hatred without the facts.”
“There’s only one thing that I know how to do well, and I’ve often been told that you should only do what you know how to do well, and that’s be you. Be like yourself.” - They Might Be Giants, “Whistling in the Dark”
“I don’t walk around trying to be what I’m not. I don’t waste my time trying to get what you got. I work at pleasing me cos I can’t please you, and that’s why I do what I do.” - Erykah Badu, “Appletree”
“Don’t be sorry - just be Wally.” - “A Very Brady Christmas”
“America is a mistake, a giant mistake.” - Freud
“But what if not thinking makes me, like, this really shallow person? I’m going to have to rethink this whole being less introspective thing.” - “My So-Called Life”
“If you always do what you always did, you’ll always get what you always got.”
“Never frown even when you are sad, because you can never tell when someone is falling in love with your smile.” - Michael Walas
“The stained glass windows are more articulate than the sermon.” - Bono
“Maybe you can keep me from ever being happy, but you’re not going to stop me from having fun.” - Ani DiFranco, “Gravel”
“You never knew what was on the ground until they made you crawl.” - U2, “Please”
“I had a dream snowboarding was gonna be outlawed, so I was determined to try it.” - Lisa Brown
“My name is Carson and I love Ricky Martin.” - Carson Daly
“Just cos you like somebody is no reason to marry them.” - My mom
“If you know what happened yesterday, you’ll be better prepared for what might happen tomorrow.”
“Use your own voice to give you strength.” - my kickboxing instructor
“Why live in the world when you can live in your head?” - Pulp, “Monday Morning”
“Reality bites, but that’s what life is.” - Limp Bizkit, “Counterfeit”
“The true republic: Men their rights and nothing more; women their rights and nothing less.” - Susan B. Anthony
I myself have never been able to find out precisely what feminism is, I only know that people call me a feminist whenever I express sentiments that differentiate me with a doormat.” - Rebecca West
“Money can’t buy happiness, but it can certainly rent it for a couple hours.”
“Love is friendship set on fire.” - French proverb
“There is a very fine line between genius and insanity. I have erased this line.” - Oscar Levant
“Reader, suppose you were an idiot....And suppose you were a member of Congress, but I repeat myself.” - Mark Twain
“I had a lovely evening. Unfortunately, this wasn’t it.” - Mark Twain
“I ask people why they have deer heads on their walls. They always say it’s because it’s such a beautiful animal. Well, there you go. I think my mother is attractive, but I have pictures of her.” - Ellen DeGeneres
“Let us endeavor to live so that when we come to die even the undertaker will be sorry.” - Mark Twain
“Nothing spoils the taste of peanut butter more than unrequited love.” - Charlie Brown
“The suspense is terrible. I hope it will last.” - Willy Wonka
“Pessimism is boring.” - Jesse Honig
“I have learned that failure is really God’s way of saying, ‘Excuse me, but you’re moving in the wrong direction.” - Oprah Winfrey
“You’ve got to dance like nobody’s watching and love like it’s never going to hurt.”
“Dreams are things that we hope not to forget, but sometimes do. If you think back hard enough, you may remember the dream that brought you to where you are today.”
“Security is not the meaning of life. Great opportunities are worth the risk.” - Shirley Hufstedle
“You do not merely want to be considered the best of the best. You want to be considered the only ones who do what you do.” - Jerry Garcia
“A real friend is one who walks in when the rest of the world walks out.”
“Do not wait for leaders: just do it yourself and people will follow.” - Mother Theresa
“No one can make you feel inferior without your consent.” - Eleanor Roosevelt
“Don’t be afraid to close your eyes and dream. Then wake up and see where you are.” - Sean “Puffy” Combs
"People always say how you should be yourself, like yourself is this definite thing, like a toaster or something. But sometimes I'll have a moment, where just being myself, where I am, in my life, is enough." -- "My So-Called Life"
“Take your work seriously, but never yourself.” - Dame Margot Fonteyn
“I try to take it one day at a time, but sometimes several days attack me at once.”
“Before you expect the best from others, demand the best from yourself.”
“It is always the best policy to tell the truth. That is, of course, unless you’re an exceptionally good liar.” - Jerome K. Jerome
“I'm not panicking. I'm watching you panic. It's much more entertaining.”
“Power corrupts. Absolute power is kind of neat.”
“Sleep is for wimps. Happy, healthy, well rested wimps, but wimps.”
“Warning, Whimsical when bored.”
"Sometimes I go off into my own little world... But that's okay; they know me there."
“Life is sexually transmitted.”
“It's you and me against the world: We attack at dawn.”
“I'm not myself today. Maybe I'm you.”
“In the beginning there was nothing, And God said "let there be light". And there was still nothing, but you could see it.”
“Depression is merely anger without enthusiasm.”
“Welcome aboard the emotional rollercoaster, please keep your limbs and insecurities in the car at all times, enjoy the ride...” -Pixel-
“If you know you're going to look back on today and laugh, you might as well start laughing now.”
“Jesus saves. Passes to Moses on the breakaway, Moses shoots, HE SCORES!!!!!”
“I refuse to be intimidated by reality anymore.”
“I don't mind being in touch with reality as long as I don't have to live there.”
“Do it now. There may be a law against it tomorrow.”
“You wouldn't be so worried about what people think of you if you knew how seldom they actually do.”
“You must expect the unexpected, but you can't rely on it.”
“If you're going to walk on thin ice, you might as well dance.”
“All things considered, insanity may be the only reasonable alternative.”
“Sometimes, I feel like a figment of my own imagination.”
“As long as you can laugh at yourself you will never cease to be amused.”
"Life's too short to waste time trying to please every meddlesome moron who's got an idea how I ought to be!" -Calvin-
“Oh, EVOLVE!”
“If you knew what you were doing, you'd be bored.”
"I had good memories of who I was before I was five, and then I became everybody else's idea of who I was." - Tori Amos
"Above the titles of wife and mother, which, although dear, are transitory and accidental, there is the title human being, which precedes and out-ranks every other." - Mary Ashton Livermore
"Humor is your own smile surprising you in the mirror." - Langston Hughes
"The statistics on sanity are that one out of every four Americans is suffering from some form of mental illness. Think of your three best friends. If they're okay, then it's you." - Rita Mae Brown
“Success is getting what you want. Happiness is wanting what you get.” - Dale Carnegie
"My advice to you is not to inquire why or whither, but just enjoy your ice cream while it's on your plate—that's my philosophy." - Thornton Wilder
“Other people are quite dreadful. The only possible society is oneself. To love oneself is the beginning of a lifelong romance.” – Oscar Wilde
“I don’t know the key to success, but the key to failure is trying to please everybody.” – Bill Cosby
“Half of America believes that homosexuality is ‘wrong.’ The same number believe that Socrates was ‘a great Indian chief.’” – Pop-Up Video, during Cher’s “Believe”
"Patience is a waste of time." - Bill Ines
"Live free or die." - New Hampshire's state motto
"If we can actively love [ourselves and each other], there will be no attention deficit and no disorder." -Gabor Mate, "Scattered"
"Philosophy is a study that lets us be unhappy more intelligently"-- Anonymous
"I say embrace the total geek in yourself and just enjoy it. Life's too short to be cool." - Shirley Manson
"Things will get better in the end. If it's not better, it's not the end."