"You hang on to your pain like it means something, like it’s worth something... well let me tell you - it’s not worth shit. Let it go." - Nathaniel Fisher, Sr.
Black girl to another black girl wearing Obama t-shirt: Girl, what is that on your shirt? Mmmm, Obama is looking all fine up on your chest.
- overheardeverywhere.com
"Employee of the month is a good example of how somebody can be both a winner and a loser at the same time." - Demetri Martin
"And I gotta say, a Smurf movie is so perfect because I have really missed hating them. A bunch of blue, shirtless men surrounded by mushrooms, with the blonde girl that nobody touches... That’s not a show, that’s a gay pride parade." - Stephen Colbert on The Smurfs
Drunk hobo boarding train: Hey, is this uptown or downtown?
Girl: It's the...
Drunk hobo: Fuck it! Lets go!
- overheardinnyc.com
"If you break your leg, everyone gets sympathy. But not for a broken spirit" - 'Gail' on depression and anxiety in the June 21st, 2008 edition of Globe & Mail
"It is difficult to convince yourself that someone isn’t right for you when all you want to do is love them."
"I guess I could be really pissed off about what happened to me, but it’s hard to stay mad, when there’s so much beauty in the world. Sometimes I feel like I’m seeing it all at once, and it’s too much, my heart fills up like a balloon that’s about to burst. And then I remember to relax, and stop trying to hold on to it, and then it flows through me like rain. And I can’t feel anything but gratitude for every single moment of my stupid little life." - Lester Burnham, American Beauty
"I’ve been waiting for so long to finally, you know, admit to myself that I’m amazing." -
Girl Rock: The Movie "When you don't know anyone anymore, it really leaves you free to meet the people you have always wanted to know." -
asphyxiated_ang Excited student: I got a B+ on my Nietzsche paper!
Friend: The one based on a Dungeons & Dragons joke?
- overheardeverywhere.com
"To realize one's destiny is a person's only real obligation. All things are one." - The Alchemist by Paul Coelho
Stephen: I wanna eat cookies all the time!
Cookie Monster: Me been there. Me have crazzzy times in 70s and 80s. Me like the Robert Downie Jr of Cookies.
- The Colbert Report
"Look, Silas, life is just blah blah blah. You hope for blah. And sometimes you find it, but mostly it’s blah, and waiting for blah, and hoping you were right about the blahs you made. And then, just when you think you’ve got the whole blah damn thing figured out, and you’re surrounded by the ones you blah - death shows up. And blah, blah, blah." - Andy Botwin, Weeds