Favorite sayings, quotes, or phrases.

whitewolf05 · Post by **whitewolf05** » Thu Jul 22, 2004 2:41 pm

(I have no idea if there is or was something like this so I thought I would give it a try.)
I have a great many favorite phrases like "kicking ass and taking names" and "I'm here to kick ass and chew bubble gum but I'm all out of bubble gum." I have others but that is a page itself.

Rindesayu · Post by **Rindesayu** » Thu Jul 22, 2004 2:52 pm

"Arguing over the internet is like running in the Special Olympics. Even if you win, you're still retarded."

yoshmaster5 · Post by **yoshmaster5** » Thu Jul 22, 2004 4:32 pm

"You're a towel!"

BEST. COMEBACK. EVER.

ParaKiss_Groupie · Post by **ParaKiss_Groupie** » Thu Jul 22, 2004 7:35 pm

yoshmaster5 wrote:"You're a towel!"

BEST. COMEBACK. EVER.

o_0 If someone ever used that as a comeback, I'd have to laugh them out of the argument.

I have lots of favourite quotes, but they usually end up in my sig, so I'm not going to bother listing them all, and instead I'll just stick with my favourites.

"Acting is the most minor of gifts and not a very high-class way to earn a living. After all, Shirley Temple could do it at the age of four."--Katherine Hepburn

"Mamma, I'm pretty. I'm a pretty girl, Mama."--From the play Gypsy. I cried the first time I saw it and heard this line, and I still tear up when I hear it now.

"“I wonder if I’ve been changed in the night? Let me think: was I the same when I got up this morning? I almost think I can remember feeling a little different. But if I’m not the same, the next question is ‘Who in the world am I?’"--Alice, from Alice's Adventures in Wonderland

Post by **Tiff** » Thu Jul 22, 2004 8:56 pm

"Above all...to thine own self be true"
- Polonius (sp?), Hamlet

"I AM a princess..all girls are...even if they live in tiny old attics..even if they dress in rags! Even if they aren't pretty, or rich, or smart. We're still princesses...ALL of us. Didn't your father ever tell you that? DIDN'T HE?"
- Sara, A Little Princess (the movie)

"What lies behind us and what lies in front of us pales in significance when compared to what lies within us"
- Ralph Waldo Emerson

"I am a butterfly trapped in a caccoon
Yearning to have my wings touch the sky...."
--Julie Melf

"You may only be one person in the world
But you may also be the world to one person"
- Unknown

And my very, very favorite:
"Remember...people will forget what you
said. People will forget what you did...
but people will never forget how you made them feel"
-Unknown

peachvampiress · Post by **peachvampiress** » Thu Jul 22, 2004 9:23 pm

My favorites:

"Some have said the world will end in fire, others say in ice. But from what I've tasted of desire, I hold with those who favour fire". -Robert Frost (personally, I believe it will be lightning).

"Nothing has the power to see our future, no one can see what will happen to us. The only thing that can predict our future is our past and present actions".

And my personal favorite: "Everyone wants money, that's never going to change. We all live on greed. Greed's better than love. Love doesn't last, love isn't real, at least greed's constant."
(The 'Love doesn't last part' I don't believe, but the rest is sadly true).

Post by **Tiff** » Thu Jul 22, 2004 9:27 pm

peachvampiress wrote:My favorites:

"Some have said the world will end in fire, others say in ice. But from what I've tasted of desire, I hold with those who favour fire". -Robert Frost (personally, I believe it will be lightning).

Oh, I LOVE that one. I have that on my sailor mars page on TPM XD

NekoSun518 · Post by **NekoSun518** » Thu Jul 22, 2004 9:33 pm

My favorite quotes are

"The heart may freeze or it can burn The pain will ease if I can learn There is no future There is no past I live this moment as my last There's only us There's only this Forget regret Or life is yours to miss No other road No other way No day but today"

-Mimi, RENT

"The Circle of Life: first, you get born and you get a really bad name everyone likes but you. then you learn to talk back. then you learn to kick. then you go to school. then you start smoking and taking illegal drugs. then you have sex; you start stealing; shop-lifting; stealing cars; get put in jail; get let out of jail; lead a boring life and die on an overdose of drugs; then you get reincarnated and start the whole process again." --Casey Brophy

"I don't believe in a word you say, but I will fight to the death your right to say it!" --Voltaire

Those are my faves.

peachvampiress · Post by **peachvampiress** » Thu Jul 22, 2004 9:59 pm

Tiff

Oh, I LOVE that one. I have that on my sailor mars page on TPM XD

0___o Actually, now that you mention it, I think that's where I first saw it. Some of your quotes are on your page too aren't they? ~_^

Being the literature loving person I am, I'm suprised I didn't quote from my favorite book, the Phantom of the Opera 0_o; Well, here it is, my favorite part.

"I heard her say, 'Poor, unhappy Erik!' And she took my hand! I held in my hand a ring, a plain gold ring which I had given her, which she had lost and which I had found again, a wedding-ring. I slipped it into her little hand and said, 'There! Take it! Take it for you...and him! It shall be my wedding-present, a present from your poor, unhappy Erik. I know you love the boy, don't cry any more!She asked me, in a very soft voice, what I meant. Then I made her understand that, where she was concerned, I was only a poor dog, ready to die for her, but that she could marry the young man when she pleased, because she had cried with me and mingled her tears with mine! They kissed before me in the Louis-Philippe room. Christine had my ring. I made Christine swear to come back, one night, when I was dead, crossing the lake from the Rue-Scribe side, and bury me in the greatest secrecy with the gold ring, which she was to wear until that moment. Then Christine kissed me, for the first time, herself, here, on the forehead--don't look, daroga! Here, on the forehead...on my forehead, mine! And they went off together. Christine had stopped crying. I alone cried. Daroga, if Christine keeps her promise, she will come back soon!"

(Edited for length) T_T I cried when I read that. I have the biggest soft spot for those in unrequited romances.

Post by **Tiff** » Thu Jul 22, 2004 10:11 pm

peachvampiress wrote:Tiff
Oh, I LOVE that one. I have that on my sailor mars page on TPM XD
0___o Actually, now that you mention it, I think that's where I first saw it. Some of your quotes are on your page too aren't they? ~_^

Yes'm! XD

Parallax · Post by **Parallax** » Fri Jul 23, 2004 2:42 pm

One of my favorite quotes comes from the Dirty Harry movie "Sudden Impact". "Go ahead. Make my day."

Another is from "Transformers: The Movie". "One shall stand... one shall fall."

RoastedTwinkies · Post by **RoastedTwinkies** » Fri Jul 23, 2004 4:42 pm

Some of my favorite quotes from Hanson are in my signiture, so I'm not going to retype those ones. These the meaning of these quotes are self explanitory. I especially like the lyrics from Hanson's song called A Song to Sing, because they help me to continue on when I'm stuck in a bad situation. The lyrics that I have typed up there is basically saying that you should never give up, no matter what. I find it inspirational, because Hanson themselves aren't that popular in the music industry anymore, and they have faced so much criticism. Yet, they still continue to make music, live their dream. They want to live their dream, and they're going to continue living their dream, and not let other people's opinions stop them from doing that. When they first started sending demos to record companies, they were rejected by over 12 record companies before getting signed by Mercury Records. I always keep that in mind when I've dealing with bad situations, to help stay optomistic. I could go on and on about how much those lyrics helped me, but I just wanted to say that they just help me to continue on. I'm not good at explaining things very well ^_^

Aya Reiko · Post by **Aya Reiko** » Sat Jul 24, 2004 2:41 am

Various Max Payne quotes:

"I was so far past the point of no return, I forgot what it looked like as I passed it."

"He was trying to buy more sand for his hour glass. I wasn't selling any."

"Collecting evidence had gotten old a few hundred bullets back."

"There are no choices. Nothing but a straight line. The illusion comes afterwards, when you ask 'Why me?' and 'What if?'. When you look back and see the branches, like a pruned bonsai tree, or forked lightning. If you had done something differently, it wouldn't be you, it would be someone else looking back, asking a different set of questions."

"The past is a puzzle, like a broken mirror. As you piece it together, your image keeps shifting. And you change with it. It could destroy you, drive you mad. It could set you free."

"One last thing left to do... I was compelled to give Vlad his gun back... one bullet at a time."

"When entertainment turns into a surreal reflection of your life, you're a lucky man if you can laugh at the joke. Luck and I weren't on speaking terms."

RoastedTwinkies · Post by **RoastedTwinkies** » Sat Jul 24, 2004 12:57 pm

"All we are saying is give peace a chance!"- John Lennon and Yoko Ono

I think that's a good quote that people these days need to live by. *cough*I'm speaking about Bush *cough* The war in Iraq didn't need to happen, many US soldiers died needlessly. Just let it go already, and give peace a chance!

DuoTheShinigami02 · Post by **DuoTheShinigami02** » Sat Jul 24, 2004 4:22 pm

If I go down, I'm taking everyone with me, and I'll go out in a BLAZE OF GLORY! -- Shawn Michaels (This is what I say all the time, after I get chewed out by my superiors)

To be the man, you gotta beat The Man! -- Ric Flair

I'm the King of the World, and you just live in it, junior! -- Chris Jericho

And that's all, for now...

Parallax · Post by **Parallax** » Thu Aug 12, 2004 2:20 pm

"You don't know the power of The Dark Side."
"If you only knew the power of the Dark Side."
"S-s-s-s-s-s-smokin'!!!!!!"
"P-A-R-T, Why? Because I gotta!!!"
"Let the games begin!"
"You can take your toy rocket and go home. Me? I'm gonna stick around and feed guy all 31 different flavors of pain."
"Dead Man Walking!"
"What's your prediction for the outcome of this bout?" "My prediction? PAIN."
"Wait'll they get a load of me."
"Even with all this accumulated knowledge when will these dummies learn to use the doorknob?"
"Never thought this thing would go the distance."

See a trend here?

DreamEmpress · Post by **DreamEmpress** » Thu Aug 12, 2004 6:29 pm

"Why make difficulties when all is one?"--- Joan of Arc (I don't fully understand this, I just happen to like it)

"My life came in two pieces of time. There was the time before I heard the voice, and then there was the time after."---Young Joan by Barbara Dana

Remember that not everything is as it seems: the inside is not the same as the outside, endings often hold beginnings and most mirrors are mere errors." --- S.H. Elilves from Jennifer Murdley's Toad by Bruce Coville

Sailorasteroid · Post by **Sailorasteroid** » Thu Aug 12, 2004 7:00 pm

I have so many; they're hard to list. But here's one that's particularly apropos for here:

"Every opportunity, therefore, should be taken to discountenance that false and vulgar opinion, that rules are the fetters of genius. They are fetters only to men of no genius; as that armour, which upon the strong is an ornament and a defense, upon the weak and mis-shapen becomes a load, and cripples the body which it was made to protect. How much liberty may be taken to break through those rules, and, as the Poet expresses it, "To snatch a grace beyond the reach of art," may be a subsequent consideration, when the pupils become masters themselves. It is then, when their genius has received its utmost improvement, that rules may possibly be dispensed with. But let us not destroy that scaffold, until we have raised the building." -Sir Joshua Reynolds

Artemis · Post by **Artemis** » Thu Aug 12, 2004 7:01 pm

"You may be only one person in the world, but you may mean the world to one person."

I love this.

Post by **Tiff** » Thu Aug 12, 2004 8:54 pm

Artemis wrote:"You may be only one person in the world, but you may mean the world to one person."

I love this.

Yes, I'm quite fond of that one myself. *points to her own post* =D