I should be a polar bear, but it's impossible. - The Cure
C'est moi l'original! C'est moi! - La Cite des Enfants Perdus (Jean-Pierre Jeunet)
There is nothing so useless as doing efficiently that which should not be done at all. - Peter F. Drucker
We are what we pretend to be, so we must be careful about what we pretend to be. - Kurt Vonnegut
A knowledge of statistics is like a knowledge of foreign languages; it may prove of use at any time under any circumstances. - A. L. Bowley
I don't expect you to have any leniency or even believe a word I say. I have to stop lying to myself. - Christopher Moore
I tip-toe down to the shore, stand by the ocean, make it roar at me and I roar back. - Bjork
He was my cream, and I was his coffee - and when you poured us together, it was something. - Josephine Baker
An elephant: a mouse built to government specifications. - Robert Heinlein
Washington is a city of Southern efficiency and Northern charm. - John F. Kennedy
I'd like to meet:
I want life in every word to the extent that it's absurd. - The Postal Service
I've done the math enough to know the dangers of our second guessing. - Tool
I'm impossible to forget, but I'm hard to remember. - Elizabethtown
Perfect numbers like perfect men are very rare. - Descartes
Bank robbers and killers, drunks and drug dealers; only crazy people fall in love with me. - The Wreckers
This may sound like gibberish to you, but...I think I'm in a tragedy. - Stranger Than Fiction
Bandages are temporary, and besides, this kind of wound is much more contemporary than the sort we're all used to. - Say Hi to Your Mom
O darling, it's so sweet you think you know how crazy, how crazy I am. - Fiona Apple
Look man, I'm telling you right off the bat I'm high maintenance. So I'm not gonna tip-toe around your marriage or whatever it is ya got goin' on there. If you wanna be with me, you're with me. - Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind
There are two kinds of people in this world: those who believe there are two kinds of people in this world and those who are smart enough to know better. - Tom Robbins
Do you wonder just what happened to all the desire to carry on without knowing where you’re going? - +/-
As a remedy to life in society I would suggest the big city. Nowadays, it is the only desert within our means. - Albert Camus
We've all heard that a million monkeys banging on a million typewriters will eventually reproduce the entire works of Shakespeare. Now, thanks to the internet, we know this is not true. - Robert Wilensky
Music:
I can't live my life like a pop song anymore. - Maritime
Logic will break your heart forever. - The Stills
People used to make records, as in the record of an event, the event of people playing music in a room. Now everything is cross-marketing, it's about sunglasses and shoes or guns and drugs, you choose. - Ani DiFranco
Music is enough for a lifetime, but a lifetime is not enough for music. - Sergei Rachmaninov
You can't make someone love you with a song. - Her Space Holiday
The important thing is the rhythm. Always have rhythm in your shaking. Now a manhattan you shake to fox-trot time, a bronx to two-step time, and a dry martini you always shake to waltz time. - The Thin Man (W.S. Van Dyke)
Movies:
If it can be written, or thought, it can be filmed. - Stanley Kubrick
It can't rain all the time. - The Crow
11:15, restate my assumptions: 1. Mathematics is the language of nature. 2. Everything around us can be represented and understood through numbers. 3. If you graph these numbers, patterns emerge. Therefore: There are patterns everywhere in nature. - Pi
Film is one of the three universal languages, the other two: mathematics and music. - Frank Capra
I like to look for things no one else catches. I hate the way drivers never look at the road in old movies. - Amelie (Jean-Pierre Jeunet)
Life is a b-movie: it's stupid and it's strange; it's a directionless story where the dialogue is lame, but in the 'he said/she said' sometimes there's some poetry, if you turn your back long enough and let it happen naturally. - Ani DiFranco
I went to rock and roll heaven, and I wasn't on the guest list. - Empire Records
Buttercup: We'll never survive.
Westley: Nonsense. You're only saying that because no one ever has. - The Princess Bride
Television:
TV is chewing gum for the eyes. - Frank Lloyd Wright
Ya know, some day I gotta learn ventriliquism, you'd make a great dummy. - Mr. Ed
Did you ever think about life as a metaphor for television? - Chuck Palahniuk
Books:
The Classics: One is supposed to be acquainted with them. - Gustave Flaubert
Books are for people who wish they were somewhere else. - Mark Twain
The true genius shudders at incompleteness and usually prefers silence to saying something which is not everything it should be. - Edgar Allan Poe
It was a dark and stormy nightmare. - Neil Gaiman
Heroes:
Life, misfortunes, isolation, abandonment, poverty, are battlefields which have their heroes; obscure heroes, sometimes greater than the illustrious heroes. - Victor Hugo
I had a good-talking candle last night in my bedroom. I was very tired, but I wanted somebody to be with me, so I lit a candle and listened to its comfortable voice of light until I was asleep. - Richard Brautigan
Well, I'd sell my life anyway just to say I held their heart in my arms. - Tori Amos
