"How frighteningly few are the persons whose death would spoil our appetite and make the world seem empty." -- Eric Hoffer
"A woman has two smiles that an angel might envy, the smile that accepts a lover before words are uttered, and the smile that lights on the first born babe, and assures it of a mother's love." -- Thomas C. Haliburton
"And what is it to work with love? It is to weave the cloth with threads drawn from your heart, even as if your beloved were to wear that cloth. It is to build a house with affection, even as if your beloved were to dwell in that house. It is to sow seeds with tenderness and reap the harvest with joy, even as if your beloved were to eat the fruit. It is to charge all things you fashion with a breath of your own spirit, And to know that all the blessed dead are standing about you and watching." -- Khalil Gibran, The Prophet (1923)
"In everyone's life, at some time, our inner fire goes out. It is then burst into flame by an encounter with another human being. We should all be thankful for those people who rekindle the inner spirit." -- Albert Schweitzer
"Hold fast to dreams, for if dreams die, life is a broken winged bird that cannot fly." -- Langston Hughes
"Use what talents you possess; the woods would be very silent if no birds sang except those that sang best." -- Henry Van Dyke (1852-1933) American clergyman and writer
"It is not the language of the painters but the language of nature to which one has to listen." -- Vincent van Gogh (1853 -1890) Dutch painter
"Life beats down and crushes the soul and art reminds you that you have one." -- Stella Adler
"All art is a revolt against man's fate." -- André Malraux
"We must never forget that art is not a form of propaganda, it is a form of truth." -- John Fitzgerald Kennedy
"In art the hand can never execute anything higher than the heart can inspire." -- Ralph Waldo Emerson
"Great art is as irrational as great music. It is mad with its own loveliness." -- George Jean Nathan
"Art is an effort to create, beside the real world, a more human world." -- André Maurois
"You can muffle the drum, and you can loosen the strings of the lyre, but who shall command the skylark not to sing?" -- Khalil Gibran
"Without passion man is a mere latent force and possibility, like the flint which awaits the shock of the iron before it can give forth it's spark." -- Henri-Frederic Amiel
"I am nothing special; of this I am sure. I am a common man with common thoughts and I've led a common life. There are no monuments dedicated to me and my name will soon be forgotten, but I've loved another with all my heart and soul, and to me, this has always been enough." -- Nicholas Sparks, The Notebook
"There is no sincerer love than the love of food." -- George Bernard Shaw
"Love thy neighbour as yourself, but choose your neighbourhood." -- Louise Beal
"Set me as a seal upon thy heart, as a seal upon thine arm: for love is strong as death." -- The Bible
"Love is a canvas furnished by Nature and embroidered by imagination." -- Voltaire
"If we judge of love by its usual effects, it resembles hatred more than friendship." -- La Rochefoucauld
"Life has taught us that love does not consist in gazing at each other but in looking outward together in the same direction." -- Antoine de Saint-Exupery
"I believe in Spinoza's God who reveals Himself in the orderly harmony of what exists, not in a God who concerns himself with fates and actions of human beings." -- Albert Einstein
"We are not entitled to deprive heretics of the life which God has given them simply because we believe them to be in the clutches of Satan. ... Those who are our enemies on earth may, by the grace of God, be our superiors in Heaven." -- Bishop Waso of Leige (1045)
"I prefer to be a dreamer among the humblest, with visions to be realized, than lord among those without dreams and desires." -- Khalil Gibran
"We are what we think. All that we are arises with our thoughts. With our thoughts, we make the world." -- Buddha
"What I see in Nature is a grand design that we can understand only imperfectly, one with which a responsible person must look at with humility. This is a genuine religious feeling and has nothing to do with mysticism." -- Albert Einstein
"We must respect the other fellow's religion, but only in the same sense and to the extent that we respect his theory that his wife is beautiful and his children smart." -- H. L. Mencken
"The world holds two classes of men: intelligent men without religion, and religious men without intelligence." -- Abu'l-Ala-Al-Ma'arri
"I'd rather die while I'm living then live while I'm dead." -- Jimmy Buffet
"Men are never really willing to die except for the sake of freedom: therefore they do not believe in dying completely." -- Albert Camus
"Woe, woe, woe... in a little while we shall all be dead.
Therefore let us behave as though we were dead already." -- Raymond Chandler
"While I thought that I was learning how to live, I have been learning how to die." -- Leonardo Da Vinci
"A dead atheist is someone who is all dressed up with no place to go." -- James Duffecy
"The death of what's dead is the birth of what's living." -- Arlo Guthrie
"Pale death with an impartial foot knocks at the hovels of the poor and the palaces of king." -- Horace
"Death is feared as birth is forgotten." -- Doug Horton
"We are all dead men on leave." -- Eugene Levine
"Death is a displaced name for a linguistic predicament." -- Paul De Man
"Some people are so afraid to die that they never begin to live." -- Henry Van Dyke
"Men fear death as children fear to go into the dark; and as that natural fear in children is increased with tales, so is the other." -- Francis Bacon
"A dying man needs to die, as a sleepy man needs to sleep, and there comes a time when it is wrong, as well as useless, to resist." -- Steward Alsop
"Truth sits upon the lips of dying men." -- Matthew Arnold
"The words of a dead man are modified in the guts of the living." -- W. H. Auden
"I do not believe that any man fears to be dead, but only the stroke of death." -- Francis Bacon
"When one by one our ties are torn,
and friend from friend is snatched forlorn;
When man is left alone to mourn,
oh! then how sweet it is to die!" -- Anna Letitia Barabauld
"Death always waits. The door of the hearse is never closed." -- Joseph Bayly
"Death is as sure for that which is born,
as birth is for that which is dead.
Therefore grieve not for what is inevitable." -- Bhagavad Gita
"One should die proudly when it is no longer possible to live proudly." -- Nietzsche
"Life does not cease to be funny when people die any more than it ceases to be serious when people laugh." -- George Bernard Shaw
"Death is one of the few things that can be done as easily as lying down. The difference between sex and death is that with death you can do it alone and no one is going to make fun of you." -- Woody Allen
"When one man dies, one chapter is not torn out of the book, but translated into a better language." -- John Donne
"But your dead will live; their bodies will rise.
You, who dwell in the dust, wake up and shout for joy.
Your dew is like the dew of the morning;
the earth will give birth to her dead." -- Isaiah 26:19
"Her lips were red, her looks were free,
Her locks were yellow as gold:
Her skin was as white as leprosy,
The Night-mare LIFE-IN-DEATH was she,
Who thicks man's blood with cold." -- Samuel Taylor Coleridge
"Watching a peaceful death of a human being reminds us of a falling star; one of a million lights in a vast sky that flares up for a brief moment only to disappear into the endless night forever." -- Elisabeth Kuebler-Ross
"The world is the mirror of myself dying." -- Henry Miller
"And I will show that nothing can happen more beautiful than death." -- Walt Whitman
"And what the dead had no speech for, when living,
They can tell you, being dead: the communication
Of the dead is tongued with fire beyond the language of the living." -- T.S. Eliot
"It costs me never a stab nor squirm
To tread by chance upon a worm.
'Aha, my little dear,' I say,
'Your clan will pay me back one day." -- Dorothy Parker
"One owes respect to the Living. To the Dead, one owes only Truth." -- Voltaire
"This suspense is killing me, I hope it lasts." -- Willy Wonka
"Sleep,
Those little slices of Death
How I loathe them." -- Edgar Allen Poe
"I'm so happy dancing while the grim reaper
cuts, cuts, cuts, but he can't get me.
I'm as clever as can be, and I'm very quick but don't forget;
we've only got so many tricks.
no one lives forever." -- Danny Elfman
"It's not that I'm afraid to die. I just don't want to be there when it happens." -- Woody Allen
"Since the day of my birth, my death began its walk. It is walking toward me, without hurrying." -- Jean Cocteau
"I feel no pain dear mother now,
But oh, I am so dry!
O take me to a brewery,
And leave me there to die." -- Anonymous (19th century)
"Death is a Dialogue between, The Spirit and the Dust." -- Emily Dickinson
"But that the dread of something after death,
The undiscover'd country from whose bourn
No traveller returns, puzzles the will
And makes us rather bear those ills we have
Than fly to others that we know not of?" -- William Shakespeare
"Death borders upon our birth, and our cradle stands in the grave." -- Bishop Hall
"Time flies, death urges, knells call, Heaven invites, Hell threatens." -- Edward Young
"Lovely in death the beauteous ruin lay;
And if in death still lovely, lovelier there;
Far lovelier! pity swells the tide of love." -- Edward Young
"While man is growing, life is in decrease;
And cradles rock us nearer to the tomb.
Our birth is nothing but our death begun." -- Edward Young
"But I will be,
A bridegroom in my death, and run into't
As to a lover undefineds bed." -- William Shakespeare
"Let the world slide, let the world go; A fig for care, and a fig for woe! If I can't pay, why I can owe, And death makes equal the high and low." -- John Heywood
"'T is strange that death should sing.
I am the cygnet to this pale faint swan,
Who chants a doleful hymn to his own death,
And from the organ-pipe of frailty sings
His soul and body to their lasting rest." -- William Shakespeare
"And nothing can we call our own but death
And that small model of the barren earth
Which serves as paste and cover to our bones.
For God's sake, let us sit upon the ground
And tell sad stories of the death of kings." -- William Shakespeare
"Cowards die many times before their deaths; The valiant never taste of death but once." -- William Shakespeare
"I know death hath ten thousand several doors
For men to take their exit." -- John Webster
"A person doesn't die when he should but when he can." -- Gabriel García Márquez
"Death is the king of this world: 'tis his park
Where he breeds life to feed him. Cries of pain
Are music for his banquet." -- George Eliot
"And I looked, and behold a pale horse: and his name that sat on him was Death." -- Revelation 6:8
"A fanatic is one who can't change his mind and won't change the subject." -- Winston Churchill
"It is not because things are difficult that we do not dare, it is because we do not dare that they are difficult." -- Julie Cameron, Seneca, The Artist's Way
"It takes courage to push yourself to places that you have never been before... to test your limits... to break through barriers. And the day came when the risk it took to remain tight inside the bud was more painful than the risk it took to blossom." -- Anais Nin
"All religions must be tolerated, for every man must get to heaven in his own way." -- Frederick the Great
"Life is ours to be spent, not to be saved." -- David Herbert Lawrence (1885-1930) (English novelist)
"Whoever kindles the flames of intolerance is lighting a fire underneath his own home." -- Harrold Stassen (b. 1907) American politician
"Measure not men by Sundays, without regarding what they do all the week after." -- Robert Fuller
"Religion is a candle inside a multicolored lantern. Everyone looks through a particular color, but the candle is always there." -- Mohammed Neguib
"People will do anything, no matter how absurd, in order to avoid facing their own soul." -- Carl G. Jung
"Following the Noble Path is like entering a dark room with a light in the hand; the darkness will all be cleared away, and the room will be filled with light." -- Buddha
"When you come to the edge of all the light you know, and are about to step off into the darkness of the unknown, faith is knowing one of two things will happen: There will be something solid to stand on, or you will be taught how to fly." -- Barbara J. Winter
"If you can't have faith in what is held up to you for faith, you must find things to believe in yourself, for a life without faith in something is too narrow a space to live." -- George Edward Woodbury (1855-1930) American man of letters
"Fanatic orthodoxy is never rooted in faith but in doubt. It is when we are not sure that we are doubly sure." -- Reinhold Niebuhr (1892-1971) American theologian
"One religion is as true as another." -- Robert Burton
"Many have quarreled about religion that never practiced it." -- Benjamin Franklin
"Two things are infinite: the universe and human stupidity; and I'm not sure about the universe." -- Albert Einstein
"Most people walk in and out of you life, But only friends leave footprints in your heart." -- Unknown
"I am ready to meet my maker, but whether my maker is prepared for the great ordeal of meeting me is another matter." -- Winston Churchill
"The only completely consistent people are the dead." -- Aldous Huxley
"It is nothing to die; it is frightful not to live." -- Victor Hugo
"Death, like birth, is a secret of Nature." -- Marcus Aurellus Antonius
"Our death is not an end if we can live on in our children and the younger generation. For they are us; our bodies are only wilted leaves on the tree of life." -- Albert Einstein
"I want to go when I want. It is tasteless to prolong life artificially. I have done my share; it is time to go. I will do it elegantly." -- Albert Einstein
"I want to be cremated so people won't come to worship at my bones." -- Albert Einstein
"That is not dead
Which can eternal lie
Yet with strange aeons
Even death may die." -- H.P. Lovecraft
"Some call it stalking; I call it love" -- A Button
"She’s safe, just like I promised. She's all set to marry Norrington, just like she promised. And you get to die for her, just like you promised. So we're all men of our word really except for Elizabeth who is, in fact, a woman." -- Jack Sparrow, Pirates of the Caribbean
"Me? I'm dishonest, and a dishonest man you can always trust to be dishonest... Honestly. It's the honest ones you want to watch out for, because you can never predict when they're going to do something incredibly… stupid." -- Jack Sparrow, Pirates of the Caribbean
"Stop blowing holes in my ship!" -- Jack Sparrow, (a whole is blown in the hull of the Black Pearl)
Barbossa: So you expect to leave me standing on some beach with nothing but a name and your word it’s the one I need and watch you sail away on my ship?
Jack: No. I expect to leave you standing on some beach with absolutely no name at all, watching me sail away on my ship and then I’ll shout the name back to you. Savvy? -- (in the Captains cabin of the Black Pearl), Pirates of the Caribbean
"Follow the spiders... why couldn't it be follow the butterflies?" -- Ron Weasley, Chamber of Secrets
"Before you die you see the ring" -- The Ring
"Ohana means family, and family means nobody gets left behind." -- Lilo, Lilo and Stitch
"Am I not turtley enough for the turtle club?" -- Mr. Turtle, Master of Disguise
"Tosh... Just name a shrub after me. Something prickley and hard to erraticate." -- Lucky Jack, Master and Commander
"Holy sweet merciful potato!" -- Jeff Corwin (after finding Monstra the giant Anaconda)
"I personally think that amazingness doesn't really matter. It's how the person interacts with other members of DA, and how they try to improve themselves. Also, if they put their talent to good use in helping others. So, just think of the art as more as modivation to do better. Heck, if that artist doesn't mind giving you tips, that is an amazing artist neh?" -- kitsunedajfox, (Artist from deviantART.com)
"o O ( *damns Yahoo to the eternal hells filled with vicious ankle biting, marshmallow pelting, lawn gnomes* >< ) -- Lady Lacramioara, ( during a Yahoo! Chat RP [She copyrights the vicios angle biting, marshmellow pelting, lawn gnomes])
"Man, I hate all that stuff... I just wanna live in a cave on a mountain somewhere..." -- Steve, (while we were talking about ulcers and an assortment of other viruses in Mr. Butlers American Literature class.) -- Submitted by Kimi
Courtney: "Are we gonna read anything else?"
Mr. Butler: "Well, Grapes is usually the thing we end with…"
Steve: "Oh, we haven't read that yet, have we?" -- Steve being a dork, seeing as we just finished Grapes of Wrath not only a day or two ago. –- Submitted by Kimi
Steve: "I talk to me truck! When I'm driving over things, "C'mon baby… c'mon"." -- discussing The Old Man and the Sea by Ernest Hemmingway; when the old man is talking to the sea. –- Submitted by Kimi
Steve: "We should go on a field trip Mr. Butler!"
Mark: " We can go out on your boat, and do what this guys doin' in the book!"
Steve: "Yeah, we can talk to the sea and everything!"
Mr. Butler: "Yeah, that just what I need… explain to your parents how you *points at Steve* died of crackers and you *points at Mark* drown." -- (American Literature again, talking about going on a field trip and reenacting The Old Man and the Sea. And the whole cracker thing was Steve trying to prove Alysha wrong that you -can- eat 5 saltine crackers in less then a minute.) –- Submitted by Kimi
Alysha: "Don't worry Mark, if you're drowning I'll save you. I could be used as a flotation device." *grins*
Mark: "Ah, don't worry about me, I'm a natural-born buoy."-- (After the above conversation.) –- Submitted by Kimi
Mr. Butler: "Have either of you seen someone get stabbed in the eye with a pencil? -silence- "Well, I have. That's why I don't allow pencils being thrown around… Someone was throwing a pencil at the door and [insert name] came in and it stuck right in his eye. Luckily he blinked at that particular time, otherwise he'd be blind. Now, you know how your parents tell you never to run with scissors?" -class nods- "Too bad I don't have a good story for that one." -- Submitted by Kimi
"You know the world is different when the best rapper is a white guy, the best golfer is a black guy, the tallest guy in the NBA is Chinese, the Swiss hold the America's Cup, France is accusing the US of arrogance, Germany doesn't want to go to war, and the three most powerful men in America are named 'Bush,' 'Dick,' and 'Colon'!" -- Chris Rock
“Check this out… Not only, not only are we going to have a grandchild that is roughly the same age as our own child, but our daughter is marrying a boy that we consider to be our son. That means we are now officially the white trashiest family in the land!” -- Roseanne
"So do all who live to see such times. But that is not for them to decide. All we have to decide is what to do with the time that is given to us. There are other forces at work in this world Frodo, besides the will of evil. Bilbo was meant to find the Ring. In which case, you also meant to have it. And that is an encouraging thought." –- Gandalf, The Fellowship Of The Ring
"This task was appointed to you, and if you do not find a way, no one will." –- Galadriel, The Fellowship Of The Ring
Frodo: "You're late."
Gandalf: "A wizard is never late, Frodo Baggins. Nor is he early. He arrives precisely when he means to. -- The Fellowship of the Ring
Pippin: "Anyway, you need people of intelligence on this sort of... mission... quest... thing.
Merry: "Well that rules you out, Pip. -- The Fellowship of the Ring
"Remember what Bilbo used to say: "It's a dangerous business, Frodo, going out your door. You step onto the road, and if you don't keep your feet, there's no knowing where you might be swept off to." –- Frodo to Sam, The Fellowship Of The Ring
"Do you know how the Orcs first came into being? They were elves once, taken by the dark powers, tortured and mutilated. A ruined and terrible form of life. And now... perfected. My fighting Uruk-Hai. Whom do you serve?" –- Saurmon, The Fellowship Of The Ring
Aragorn: "I do not know what strength is in my blood, but I swear to you I will not let the White City fall, nor our people fail."
Boromir: "Our people, our people. I would have followed you... my brother... my captain... my king."
Aragorn: "Be at peace Son of Gondor. -- The Fellowship of the Ring
"In the common tongue it says "One Ring to Rule Them All. One Ring to Find Them. One Ring to Bring Them All and In The Darkness Bind Them." –- Gandalf, The Fellowship Of The Ring
"They were once men - great kings of men. Then Sauron the deceiver gave to them nine rings of power. Blinded by their greed, they took them without question. One by one they've fallen into darkness. And now they are slaves to his will. They are the Nazgul, Ringwraiths, neither living nor dead. At all times they feel the presence of the Ring, drawn to the power of the One. They will never stop hunting you." -– Aragorn, The Fellowship Of The Ring
Frodo: "We are hobbits of the shire, Frodo Baggins is my name, and this is Samwise Gamgee."
Faramir: "Your bodyguard?"
Sam: "His gardener." -- The Two Towers
"A red sun rises; blood has been spilled this night." -- Legolas, The Two Towers
"Cold be heart and hand and bone, cold be travelers far from home… they do not see what lies ahead when sun has faded and moon is dead." -- Gollum, The Two Towers
"Where is the horse and the rider? Where is the horn that was blowing? They have passed like rain on the mountains, like wind in the meadow. The days have gone down in the West behind the hills into shadow. How did it come to this?" -- Théoden, The Two Towers
Gimli: "Well lad, whatever luck you live by... let's hope it lasts the night." (Lightning flashes and Saurman’s army can be seen)
Legolas: "You're friends are with you, Aragorn."
Gimli: "Let's hope they last the night..." -- The Two Towers
Théoden: "Simbelmyne. Ever has it grown on the tombs of my forebears. Now it shall cover the grave of my son. Alas, that these evil days should be mine. The young perish and the old linger. That I should live to see the last days of my house."
Gandalf: "Théodred's death was not of your making."
Théoden: "No parent should have to bury their child." -- The Two Towers
"Hold your ground, hold your ground. Sons of Gondor, of Rohan, my brothers. I see in your eyes the same fear that would take the heart of me. A day may come when the courage of men fails, when we forsake our friends and break all bonds of fellowship, but it is not this day. An hour of wolves and shattered shields, when the age of men comes crashing down, but it is not this day. This day we fight! By all that you hold dear on this good Earth, I bid you stand, Men of the West!" -- Aragorn, The Return of the King
"From the ashes, a fire shall be woken. A light from the shadow shall spring. Renewed shall be blade that was broken. The crownless again shall be king." -- Arwen, (Read from a book?), The Return of the King
"How do you pick up the threads of an old life? How do you go on, when in your heart you begin to understand there is no going back? There are some things that time cannot mend. Some hurts that go too deep that have taken hold." -- Frodo, (Voiceover), The Return of the King
Pippin: "Is there any hope, Gandalf, for Frodo and Sam?"
Gandalf: "There never was much hope. Just a fool's hope." -- The Return of the King
"Arise, Arise riders of Théoden. Spears shall be shaken; shields shall be splintered, a sword day, a red day as the sun rises! Ride now. Ride now. Ride, Ride for ruin and the worlds ending! -- Théoden, The Return of the King
Théoden: "I know your face... Éowyn. My eyes darken."
Éowyn: "No, no. I'm going to save you."
Théoden: "You already did... Éowyn. My body is broken. You have to let me go. I go to my fathers, in whose mighty company I shall not now feel ashamed. Éowyn..." -- The Return of the King
"Messers Moony, Wormtail, Padfoot, and Prongs, offer their compliments to Professor Snape and request that he keep his abnormally large nose out of other people's business." -- Harry Potter, (read from the Marauder's Map), The Prisoner of Azkaban Movie
"I solemnly swear that I am up to no good." -- Harry Potter, (Opening the Marauder's Map), The Prisoner of Azkaban Movie
