Mahatma Gandhi, Robert Frost, Mister Rogers, Audrey Hepburn, Dr. Seuss, Martin Luther King, Jr., and Abraham Lincoln, and Alton Brown.
"An eye for an eye makes the whole world blind."
Mahatma Gandhi
"And will you succeed? Yes indeed, yes indeed! Ninety-eight and three-quarters percent guaranteed!"
Dr. Seuss
"The best way out is always through."
Robert Frost
"Although I don't take myself very seriously, I do take my work extraordinarily seriously."
Alton Brown
Tori Amos, Third Eye Blind, Journey, Dropkick Murphys, Unwritten Law, Flogging Molly, Breaking Benjamin, The Beatles, Jack Johnson, James Blunt, U2, Johnny Cash, Sara Bareilles, Elton John, Weezer, Live, Trapt, Cary Brothers, Alanis Morissette, Green Day, Sarah McLachlan, Dave Matthews Band, The Offspring, Joshua Radin, Yellowcard, Sting, Foo Fighters, Ingrid Michaelson, William Fitzsimmons, The Police, Garth Brooks, Counting Crows, Lifehouse, Powderfinger, Simon and Garfunkel, The Shins, Snow Patrol, Incubus, Jewel...
"Where we have been has left us burned, still I wont turn now from a fight you know I'll never win."
- Third Eye Blind
Labyrinth, Forrest Gump, The Departed, The Wizard of Oz, Gone With the Wind, The King and I, Bringing Up Baby, all the Star Wars, Pirates of the Caribbean, Chronicles of Narnia, Last Kiss, Before Sunrise, Saving Private Ryan, The Last Samurai, To Kill a Mockingbird, Romeo + Juliet, Benny and Joon, Great Expectations, Across the Universe...
"Stop talking about love. Every asshole in the world says he loves somebody. It means nothing. It still doesn't mean anything. What you feel only matters to you. It's what you do to the people you say you love, that's what matters. It's the only thing that counts."
- The Last Kiss
Scrubs, Friends, Good Eats, Seinfeld, House, Grey's Anatomy, South Park, Family Guy, I Love Lucy, Iron Chef, I Shouldn't Be Alive, How It's Made, Nip/Tuck...
Elliot: My life is a mess!
J.D.: At least you're pretty.
Elliot: Yeah, well, pretty don't pay the rent!
Carla: It does for my sister.
Elliot: Oh, my God, your sister's a prostitute?
Carla: She's a model. Come on, Elliot, we talked about
thinking before we speak.
- Scrubs
Portrait of Dorian Gray, Oh, the Places You'll Go!, Romeo and Juliet, The Five People You Meet in Heaven, Tuesdays with Morrie, 1984, Heaven, Memoirs of a Geisha, Pride and Prejudice, Great Expectations...
"Parents rarely let go of their children, so children let go of them. They move away. The moments that used to define them—a mother’s approval, a father’s nod—are covered by moments of their own accomplishments. It is not until much later, as the skin sags and the heart weakens, that children understand; their stories, and all their accomplishments, sit atop the stories of their mothers and fathers, stones upon stones, beneath the waters of their lives."
- The Five People You Meet In Heaven
God, my dad, my sister, my friends (Ryan and Luci), and anyone willing to risk their lives to either protect or better another's.