any quote collectors here? if you can choose...

[orodwen]

what are your top 3? i have a number of favourites but after pondering it for a while, here are mine, in no particular order:

"May your trails be crooked, winding, lonesome, dangerous, leading to the most amazing view. May your mountains rise into and above the clouds." Edward Abbey

"...I can live with doubt and uncertainty and not knowing. I think it's much more interesting to live not knowing than to have answers which might be wrong. I have approximate answers and possible beliefs and different degrees of certainty about different things, but I'm not absolutely sure of anything and there are many things I don't know anything about, such as whether it means anything to ask why we're here, and what the question might mean. I might think about it a little bit and if I can't figure it out, then I go on to something else, but I don't have to know an answer. I don't feel frightened by not knowing things, by being lost in a mysterious universe without having any purpose, which is the way it really is so far as I can tell. It doesn't frighten me." ~ Richard Feynman

"It was one of those mornings when the sunlight is burnished with a keen wind and long feathers of cloud move in a lofty sky. The silver light turned every blade of grass and every particle of sand into a luminous metallic splendor: there was nothing, however small, that did not clash in the bright wind, that did not send arrows of light through the glassy air. I was suddenly arrested by an awareness of the light. The moment I paused, the full impact of the mood was upon me. I saw more clearly then I have ever seen before or since the minute detail of the grasses, the clusters of sand shifting in the wind, the motion of the high clouds streaming above the peaks. There are no words to convey the mood of these moments." ~ Ansel Adams

 

[Qtspldprncs]

I can't choose just 3, but here are mine:


*We All Start Off Wanting to Change the World,
But in the End the Only Thing That Matters is
Changing One Person's World*


*You never stop loving someone,
you just learn to live without them.*


*The only thing on earth that will never die is a memory.*


*Forget about the past, but remember what it has taught you. *


*Nothing lasts forever, except the memories you make. *

 

[Jeniwren]

I really love this one from 'On the Road' by Jack Kerouac:

"the only people for me are the mad ones, the ones who are mad to live, mad to talk, mad to be saved, desirous of everything at the same time, the ones who never yawn or say a commonplace thing, but burn, burn, burn like fabulous yellow roman candles exploding like spiders across the stars..."

 

[Raquel]

"A conscience does not prevent sin. It only prevents you from enjoying it."[/quote]

 

[mspixieears]

My 'serious' quotes would be way too long but would come from James' Joyce's novel 'Portrait Of An Artist As A Young Man', part of a poem by Sir Thomas Wyatt, and probably Oscar Wilde declaring his genius when asked by American customs if he had anything to declare whilst visiting for a lecture tour I think.

But I've got 3 funny movie quotes, it's also in the delivery/performance. Just listing them here doesn't do them justice:

"I'll eat your heart out just for pleasure! I'm talking like a sex maniac, d'you know what I mean, D'YOU KNOW WHAT I MEAN?!"
(John Cusack's character manages to drive a car and scream this while hanging out of the window in 'The Sure Thing')

"A toll is a toll, and a roll is a roll. And if we don't get no tolls, we don't get no rolls. I made that up."
(Little John addressing Robin Hood in 'Robin Hood: Men In Tights')

"It's not meant to be taken literally, it refers to all manufacturers of dairy products."
(reply to fellow crowd member as Jesus gives his famous 'blessed are the peacemakers' sermon. They incorrectly overhear the famous phrase as 'blessed are the cheesemakers' and don't quite understand its meaning. Fantastic scene in Monty Python's 'Life of Brian')

 

[Viva_la_MAC_Girl]

There are SO MANY.. where does one choose..?

One of my favorite movie line quotes is by Val Kilmer playing Doc Holliday "Nonsense, I have not yet begun to defile myself.."


One of my all time favorite military quotes:

"Some people live an entire lifetime and wonder if they have ever made a difference in the world, but the Marines don't have that problem."
--Ronald Reagan--


"The only good is knowledge and the only evil is ignorance."
Socrates

" Watch your thoughts, they become your words Watch your words, they become your actions Watch your actions, they become your habits Watch your habits, they become your character Watch your character, it becomes your destiny. "
-- Anonymous


There are so many more that I love .. but those are a few..

 

[orodwen]

thanks for sharing. since a few of you have shared funny ones here's one of my favs:
Gozer the Traveler - he will come in one of the prechosen forms. During the rectification of the Valdranaii, the traveler came as a large and moving Torr! Then, during the third reconciliation of the last of the Meketrex supplicants they chose a new form for him - THAT OF A GIANT SLORR! Many shubs and zuuls knew what it was to be roasted in the depths of the slorr that day, I can tell you! -Vince Clortho

 

[showpuli]

My fav quotes

I collect quotes yes. I love so many. I am a writer as well. So here are 3 of my favs:


*my #1 fav:
Perhaps when we find ourselves wanting everything, it is because we are dangerously close to wanting nothing.
~Sylvia Plath


There are two ways of spreading light,
being a candle - or the mirror that reflects it.
~edith warton


From the body of one guilty deed a thousand ghostly fears and haunting thoughts proceed.
~ Wordsworth, William


OK one more heehee:

Sometimes, to follow a dream, you must first face that which tells you dreams do not exist.
~ilona <------that is me! Yup this one was written by me.

 

[samtaro]

"Just think of the horror of teaching children not to doubt"

Clarence Darrow