People Quotes

  1. Before this universe there was another one . . . a happy universe filled with bunnies. But that one got destroyed in a great cataclysm brought about by a major plot point. Pay attention, there will be a test later. -- Cassini

  2. East to the sea, West to the land, DEATH to the bytch that touches my man! -- Nicole (she's a nut *grin*)

  3. When life gives you lemons, squeeze the juice into a watergun and spray it into peoples eyes. -- Nicole

  4. I am not here so leave a message. Well actually I could be here and I could just be ignoring you and you would never know. I could be sitting here laughing at you because I am avoiding you and you don't know it. Ok, I'll make a deal with you. If you can guess correctly whether or not I'm here I will talk to you. Then again, if I'm not here and you guess right then I'm really just not here to talk to you. Also, if I'm ignoring you and you guess right then what do you really think are the chances that I'll tell you that you were right? So, I guess what I'm saying is leave a message and I'll get back to you when I get back...unless I'm avoiding you..." -- an AIM Away Message by Kenzie

  5. "I didnt know running into the wall would hurt as much as it did. But here I am, laying in a pile of my own blood in a coma, hoping that my faithful penguin sends for help. Last time this happened the penguin just called me a blonde, took my shoes, and went to see "The Mask." To this day I still dont know if he liked it, and whenever I ask he just calls me a slut and throws ice cubes at me." -- another AIM Away Message by Kenzie

  6. *screams* MY EYESSS!!!! BRIGHT BACKGROUND!!! MY EYES!!!! -- Kiminess (About our main page, before we changed it)

  7. "What we do in life, echos in eternity!" -- Maximus, "Gladiator"

  8. "Stranger then fiction, Larger then life, Full of Shades and Echoes, It's the story of my life." -- Split Enz, "Stranger then Fiction"

  9. "We know what we are, but we know not what we may be." -- Shakespeare

  10. "Dreams are true while they last, and do we not live in dreams?" -- Tennyson

  11. "Love stained with sorrow and bleached with blood." -- Unknown

  12. "Dream is the spark of passion; talent is the firework of its expression; perseverance, the sacred fire of its accomplishment." -- Daniel Chabot (Psychologist)

  13. "To err is human, but to really foul things up requires a computer." -- Paul Ehrlich

  14. "No one can make you feel inferior without your consent." -- Eleanore Roosevelt

  15. "You come from Nothing; You're going back to Nothing; So what have you lost? - Nothing. -- From "Always Look on the Bride Side of Life" -- The Life of Brian by Monty Python

  16. "Even if we're far apart, I'll look up and search for the moon. So please shine more and more so I can find you sooner." -- Eichi, Full Moon o Sagashite

  17. "I'm not obsessed...I'm just intently focused." Unknown

  18. "The tree of life knows that, whatever happens, the warm music spinning around it will never stop. However much death may come, however much blood may flow, the music will dance with men and women as long as the air breaths them and the land plows and loves them.” -- Eduardo Galeano, Author of Open Veins of Latin America

  19. "A Native American grandfather was talking to his grandson about how he felt. He said, I feel as if I have two wolves fighting in my heart. One wolf is the vengeful, angry, violent one. The other wolf is the loving, compassionate one. The grandson asked him, 'which wolf will win the fight in your heart?' The grandfather answered, 'The one I feed.'" -- Unknown

  20. "When you are born, You're afraid of the darkness. Then you're afraid of the light. But I'm not afraid, When I dance with my shadow. This time I'm gonna get it right" -- Aerosmith, "Taste of India"

  21. "A Game for those who seek to find a way to leave their world behind." -- Jumanji

  22. "The weak can never forgive. Forgiveness is the attribute of the strong." -- Mahatma Ghandi

  23. "If I didn't start painting, I would have raised chickens." -- Grandma Moses

  24. "Early to rise and early to bed. Makes a male healthy, wealthy, and dead." -- James Thurber

  25. "How can you govern a country, which produces 246 different kinds of cheese?" -- Charles De Gaulle

  26. "I cannot live without books." -- Thomas Jefferson

  27. "We are not amused." -- Queen Victoria

  28. "Anyone who has gumption knows what it is, and anyone who hasn't can never know what it is. So there is no need of defining it." -- L.M. Montgomery

  29. "All animals are equal, but some animals are more equal than others." -- George Orwell, “Animal Farm”

  30. "What do you mean, funny? Funny peculiar or funny ha-ha?" -- Ian Hays

  31. "An archaeologist is the best husband a woman can have; the older she gets the more interested he is in her. -- Agatha Christie

  32. "Well if I called the wrong number, why did you answer the phone?" -- James Thurber

  33. "Sadness is the clouds of our emotional sky." -- Unknown

  34. "The only person who never makes a mistake is the person who never does anything. -- Theodore Roosevelt

  35. "In matters of style, swim with the current; in matters of principle, stand like a rock. -- Thomas Jefferson

  36. The opposite of war isn’t peace - it’s creation... -- Jonathan Larson, "Rent"

  37. "To strive, to seek, to find and not to yield." -- Alfred, Lord Tennyson, "Ulysses"

  38. "Sometimes the ones you hurt the most are the ones you never meant to hurt in the first place." -- Something I told a friend in a letter

  39. "Tell Me to Live Again: I Can't Remember How" -- A saying that describes one of my characters in the novel I'm writing

  40. "You laugh at me because I'm different...I laugh at you because you're all the same" -- Jonathan Davis, KoRn

  41. "Clean laundry helps the confidence level, which helps the self image, which helps um, you win games, which makes you rich, which leads to greed, which leads to more money!!!, Which causes immense spending, which then triggers high anxiety, which causes a heart attack at the age of 31 and puts you in a coma for 10 years while you lose all of your money and you start at the beginning again!" -- Benjer Petersen

  42. "I was playing poker the other night... with Tarot cards. I got a full house and 4 people died." -- Steven Wright

  43. "This morning I took two Ex-Lax in addition to my Prozac. I can't get off the john, but I feel good about it." -- Unknown

  44. "You'll earn thousands of dollars daily by doing nothing." -- Fortune Cookie

  45. "Experience is the name everyone gives to their mistakes." -- Oscar Wilde

  46. "The Good ended happily and the Bad unhappily, that is what fiction means." -- Oscar Wilde

  47. "To love oneself is the beginning of a livelong romance." -- Oscar Wilde

  48. "The books that the world calls immoral are books that show the world its own shame." -- Oscar Wilde

  49. "Whenever I feel like exercise, I always lie down until the feeling passes. -- Oscar Wilde

  50. "The evil that men do lives after them, the good is oft interred with their bones..." -- Marc Antony, "Julius Caesar"

  51. "You must follow your own path. No one can choose it for you." -- Leia, "Star Wars, Episode IV"

  52. "The writer must believe that what he is doing is the most important thing in the world. And he must hold to this illusion even when he knows it is not true." -- John Steinbeck

  53. "Life can't ever really defeat a writer who is in love with writing, for life itself is a writer's lover until death - fascinating, cruel, lavish, warm, cold, treacherous, constant. -- E. L. Doctorow

  54. "Writing is an exploration. You start from nothing and learn as you go." -- John Steinbeck

  55. "Reading is to the mind what exercise is to the body." -- Richard Steele

  56. "The glory of friendship is not the outstretched hand, nor the kindly smile, nor the joy of companionship; it is the spiritual inspiration that comes to one when you discover that someone else believes in you and is willing to trust you with a friendship." -- Ralph Waldo Emerson

  57. "No bird soars too high if he soars with his own wings." -- William Blake

  58. "I often quote myself. It adds spice to my conversation." -- George Bernard Shaw

  59. "If you treat people right they will treat you right--ninety percent of the time. -- Franklin D. Roosevelt

  60. "Research is to see what everybody else has seen, but to think what no one else has thought." -- Unknown

  61. "To be sucessful, you must show up for the dance." -- Unknown

  62. "There is more to see and do, than can ever be seen and done." -- The Lion King

  63. "History, despite its wrenching pain, cannot be unlived, but if faced with courage, need not be lived again." -- Maya Angelou

  64. "You must provide for seven generations." -- Native American Proverb

  65. "There are two types of intelligent people in this world: Those who already know the answers and those who know where to find them." -- Unknown (Poster in Mrs. Town's 6th grade classroom)

  66. "Books are not there to blindly trust in, but to scrutinize. When we take a book into our hands, we must not ask ourselves what it says, but what it wants to say." -- William of Baskerville in Umberto Ecco's "Name of the Rose"

  67. "Peace is nothing but the aftermath of war." -- Heero, Gundam Wing

  68. "Penguinpride260: Do carrots love you?
    combatgirl489: How the fuck would i know?
    combatgirl489: Why don't you ask the god damn carrots?"

  69. "Can I adopt you?" -- Teacher

  70. "Never argue with an idiot, they drag you down to their level and beat you with experience." -- guiltydreamer04

  71. "For those who wished to live in Wonderland, but couldn't find the Rabbit Hole." -- The Unsolvable Riddle, "To live in Wonderland"

  72. "There are many graveyards to be found in fear. But, you may need to sacrifice your obtenebrated visions to find them...." -- Stygian, "The Stygian"

  73. "A decision is yours alone to make. Yet remember you should that you make it also for the silent ones who stand at your shoulder." -- Yoda, JA#7: "The Captive Temple"

  74. "penguinpride260: I know I'm wierd.
    VendettaEra: Are you proud of being wierd?
    penguinpride260: Well, at least I'm not boring."

  75. "If you and I are having a single thought of violence or hatred against anyone in the world at this moment, we are contributing to the wounding of the world..." -- Deepak Chopra

  76. "Just as a drop of water causes ripples in a pond, where there is anger and fear, there is conflict." -- Folken, Escaflowne

  77. "To sin by silence when they should protest makes cowards out of men." -- Abraham Lincoln

  78. "Dreams do not vanish, so long as people do not abandon them." -- Phantom F. Harlock

  79. "Good intentions will always be pleaded for any assumption of power. The Constitution was made to guard the people against the dangers of good intentions. There are men in all ages who mean to govern well, but they mean to govern. They promise to be good masters, but they mean to be masters." -- Daniel Webster

  80. "The degree of one's emotion varies inversely with one's knowledge of the facts-- the less you know, the hotter you get." -- Bertrand Russell

  81. "Whatever we put our attention on will grow stronger in our life." -- Maharishi Mahesh Yogi

  82. "The oldest, shortest words-- 'yes' and 'no' -- are those which require the most thought." -- Pythagoras

  83. "Get the facts first. You can distort them later." -- Mark Twain

  84. "A man said to the Universe,
    'Sir, I exist.'
    'However,' replied the Universe,
    'That fact has not created in me a sense of obligation.'" -- Stephan Crane

  85. "We just think it is about time common sense is allowed to flourish. Call it The Age of Reason revisited." -- State Representative Mitchell Kaye from Cobb County, GA

  86. "The greatest lesson in life is to know that even fools are right sometimes." -- Winston Churchill

  87. "The biggest conspiracy has always been the fact that there is no conspiracy. Nobody's out to get you. Nobody gives a shit whether you live or die. There, you feel better now?" -- Dennis Miller

  88. "The highest reward for a person's toil is not what they get for it, but what they become by it." -- John Ruskin

  89. "No folly is more costly than the folly of intolerant idealism." -- Winston Churchill

  90. "The whole history of the world is summed up in the fact that, when nations are strong, they are not always just, and when they wish to be just, they are no longer strong." -- Winston Churchill

  91. "Sci-Fi is that branch of literature in which the philosopher can roam just as freely as he/she chooses." -- Ray Bradburg

  92. "It's hard to be a good Sci-Fi writer when you are completely ignorant of science." -- Issac Asimov

  93. "Oh, what a tangled web we weave when first we practice to decieve." -- William Shakespeare

  94. "If you will not fight for the right when you can easily win without bloodshed, if you will not fight when your victory will be sure and not too costly, you may come to the moment when you will have to fight with all the odds against you and only a small chance of survival. There may even be a worse case: you may have to fight when there is no hope of victory, because it is better to perish then to live as slaves." -- Winston Churchill

  95. "The credit belongs to those who are actually in the arena, who strive valiantly; who know the great enthusiasms, the great devotions, and spend themselves in a worthy cause; who at the best, know the triumph of huge achievement; and who, at the worst, if they fail, fail while daring greatly, so that their place shall never be with those cold and timid souls who know neither victory nor defeat." -- Theodore Roosevelt

  96. "The willow knows what the storm does not: that the power to endure harm outlives the power to inflict it." -- Blood of the Martyr

  97. "No man is so great, so wise or so perfect, as to be the master of another man." -- Karl Hess

  98. "No person is your friend who demands your silence, or denies your right to grow." -- Alice Walker, American Writer

  99. "It is an ievitable defect, that bureaucrats will care more for routine than for results." -- Walter Bagehot

  100. "I like pigs. Dogs look up to us. Cats look down on us. Pigs treat us as equals." -- Winston Churchill

  101. "He that would make his own liberty secure must guard even his enemy from oppression; for if he violates this duty he establishes a precedent that will reach to himself." -- Thomas Paine

  102. "May the Force be with us...please?" -- Marcus, Foxtrot

  103. "But I don't want to use my head!" -- Rex, Toy Story 2

  104. "They can't censor the gleam in my eye." -- Charles Laughton

  105. "In the attitude of silence the soul finds the path in a clearer light, and what is elusive and deceptive resolves itself into crystal clearness." -- Mahatma Gandhi

  106. "The bible teaches that woman brought sin and death into the world, that she precipitated the fall of the race, that she was arraigned before the judgment seat of Heaven, tried, condemned and sentenced. Marriage for her was to be a condition of bondage, maternity a period of suffering and anguish, and in silence and subjection, she was to play the role of a dependent on man's bounty for all her material wants, and for all the information she might desire...Here is the bible position of woman briefly summed up." -- Elizabeth Cady Stanton

  107. "Persecution is not an original feature of any religion; but it is always the strongly marked feature of all religions established by law." -- Thomas Paine

  108. "Leave the matter of religion to the family alter, the church, and the private schools, supported entirely by private contributions. Keep the church and state forever seperated." -- Ulysses S. Grant

  109. "I am convinced that some political and social activites and practices of the Catholic organizations are detrimental and even dangerous for the community as a whole, here and everywhere. I mention here only the fight against birth control at a time when overpopulation in various countries has become a threat to the health of people and a grave obstacle to any attempt to organize peace on this planet." -- Albert Einstein [Letter, 1954]

  110. "There is no such thing as an inevitable war. If war comes it will be from failure of human wisdom." -- Andrew B. Law

  111. "Why wait? Life is not a dress rehersal. Quit practicing what your going to do, and just do it; in one bold stroke you can transform today." -- Marilyn Grey

  112. "The greatest and noblest pleasure which we have in this world is to discover new truths, and the next is to shake off old prejudices." -- Frederick II, the Great

  113. "You can clutch the past so tightly to your chest, that it leaves your arms too full to embrace the present." -- Jan Glidewell

  114. "Let no man imagine that he has no influence. Whoever he may be, and wherever he may be placed, the man who thinks becomes a light and a power." -- Henry George

  115. "Nobody grows old by merely living a number of years. People grow old by deserting their ideals. Years may wrinkle the skin, but to give up wrinkles the soul." -- Douglas MacArthur

  116. "The baby rises to its feet, takes a step, is overcome with triumph and joy - and falls flat on its face. It is a pattern for all that is to come! But learn from the bewildered baby. Lurch to your feet again. You'll make the sofa in the end." -- Pam Brown

  117. "If we discovered that we had only five minutes to left to say all that we wanted to say, every telephone booth would be occupied by people calling other people to stammer that they loved them." -- Christopher Morley

  118. "If you are not confident fake confidence." -- Fortune cookie

  119. "It's all fun and games until someone looses an eye - then, it's a scavenger hunt." -- Unknown

  120. "Not to self: never, ever, ever get involved with any of you people..." -- Unknown

  121. "I'm the nightmare of two nigtmares now! Wai!" -- Unknown

  122. "I'm here to kill you. Otherwise, have a nice day." -- Unknown

  123. "I think I snapped his mind." -- Unknown

  124. "This only do I regret: things never said." -- Bast, The Sandman: The Wake

  125. "The cherry stones say I'm going to be a kangaroo when I grow up." -- Delirium, The Sandman: Brief Lives

  126. "In my opinion, we don't devote nearly enough scientific research to finding a cure for jerrks." -- Calvin, Calvin & Hobbes

  127. "The object of war is not to die for your country but to make the other bastard die for his." -- George Patton

  128. "It's like a big prehistoric bird..."
    "Dodos?"
    "No, I'm referring to the team, not the individual players..." -- Unknown

  129. "Rules and responsibilities: these are the ties that bind us. We do what we do, because of who we are. If we did otherwise, we would not be ourselves." -- Dream, The Sandman: The Wake

  130. "The bonds of family bind both ways. They bind us up, support us, help us. And they are also a bond from which it is difficult, perhaps impossible to extricate oneself." -- Desire, The Sandman: The Wake

  131. "There is no such thing as modern art. There is art -- and there is advertising." -- Albert Sterner

  132. "All war is deception." -- Sun Tzu

  133. "When war is declared, Truth is the first casualty." -- Arthur Ponsonby

  134. "Nations have recently been led to borrow billions for war; no nation has ever borrowed largely for education. Probably, no nation is rich enough to pay for both war and civilization. We must make our choice; we cannot have both." -- Abraham Flexner

  135. "If my husband would ever meet a woman on the street who looked like the women in his paintings, he would fall over in a dead faint." -- Mrs. Pablo Picasso

  136. "Oh, please. Credit me at least with the wit to know which one of us I am." -- The Corinthian, The Sandman: The Kindly Ones

  137. "You got a lifetime. No more. No less. You got a lifetime." -- Death, The Sandman: Brief Lives

  138. "Things are created. They last for some little while, and then they are gone. Empires, cities, poems and people. Atoms and worlds. One cannot begin a dream without abandoning the last, eh, brother?" -- Destruction, The Sandman: Brief Lives

  139. "Omnia mutanur nihil interit." [Everything changes, but nothing is truly lost.] -- The Sandman: The Wake

  140. "A bus station is where a bus stops.
    A train station is where a train stops.
    At my desk, I have a work station..." unknown

  141. "You guys think he's the pimp, but you've got it all backwards." -- unknown

  142. "So often we look at a calendar of days as merely a symbol of the passage of time. We forget why we are on this earth. We forget that there is a reason for all of the pain and all of the struggle. We forget that we were put on earth to learn something. If everything were perfect in this life, we would never learn anything new. We would not be able to elevate our spirits through the events that happen to us." -- Lynn V. Andrews

  143. "When you arise in the morning, think of what a precious privilage it is to be alive -- to breathe, to think, to enjoy, to love." -- Marcus Aurelius

  144. "There is no such thing as death. In nature nothing dies. From each sad remnant of decay, some forms of life arise so shall his life be taken away before he knoweth that he hath it." -- Charles Mackay

  145. "Death borders upon our birth, and our cradle stands in the grave. Our birth is nothing but our death begun." -- Bishop Hall

  146. "But what is all this fear of and opposition to oblivion? What is the matter with the soft darkness, the dreamless sleep?" -- James Thurber

  147. "Men fear death, as if unquestionably the greatest evil, and yet no man knows that it may not be the greatest good." -- William Mitford

  148. "All say, 'How hard it is that we have to die' -- A strange complaint to come from the mouths of people who have had to live." -- Mark Twain

  149. "I look upon life as a gift from God. I did nothing to earn it. Now that the time is coming to give it back, I have no right to complain." -- Joyce Cary

  150. "Good men must die, but death cannot kill their names." -- Proverb

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