"The last time I checked, luck is for losers."
Let's start my own quotations collection here too.
"This is my stage, this is my theater, you are my puppets! When I pulled those marionette strings, and I moved your emotions, and I played with them, and honestly it's 'cause I get off on it. I hate each and every single one of you with a thousand burns and I will not stop..."
- CM Punk
"Sometimes it's what you don't do that makes you who you are."
- CM Punk
"Mike Knox, I am also getting real sick of this! Your problem isn't me staying away from your girl... Your problem is your girl staying away from me!"
- CM Punk
"I don't have dirty, unprotected sex with some money grubbing skank who eventually files a paternity suit against me, which gets me kicked out of my own house and leaves me nothing but a living, breathing national disgrace."
- CM Punk
"The last time I checked, luck is for losers."
- CM Punk
"You know, Jeff knows this, you know this, the fans know this: nowhere on that contract does it say, under any circumstances, 'Do not cash in on Jeff Hardy.'"
- CM Punk
"Now, I know, you know a thing or two about prescription medication, but I don't think you realize is that you have to go to a doctor to legally obtain some."
- CM Punk
"So if you wanna imitate me, why don't you try living a clean lifestyle?"
- CM Punk
"You know, I don't know what's more disgusting-is watching a smoker pollute his/her lungs with over 4,000 foreign chemicals, or having to listen to the smoker convince themselves that they can quit whenever they want to. It's...it's hard to quit, I know, it takes a very strong person to quit, but an even stronger person never would've started smoking in the first place."
- CM Punk
"Please, learn how to say 'no' to temptation, learn how to say 'no' to your vices, learn how to control yourself."
- CM Punk
"Doubt fucks everything. Take a foundation, no matter how strong, sprinkle generously with doubt, and watch it crumble."
- CM Punk
"Drink up, England... I WANT your liver to fail. Smoke up England, I WANT you to die."
- CM Punk
"All your heroes are dead! I killed them!"
- CM Punk
"What were you trying to prove? That deep down, everyone's as ugly as you?! You're alone!"
- Batman, The Dark Knight
"You either die a hero or you live long enough to see yourself become the villain."
- Harvey Dent, The Dark Knight
"You thought we could be decent men in an indecent time…but you were wrong! The world is cruel. And the only morality in a cruel world is chance. Unbiased, unprejudiced, fair. His boy has the same chance she had: 50/50"
- Harvey Dent, The Dark Knight
"If we're going to play games, I'm going to need a cup of coffee."
- Commissioner Gordon Smith, The Dark Knight
"Some men aren't looking for anything logical, like money. They can't be bought, bullied, reasoned, or negotiated with. Some men just want to watch the world burn."
- Alfred, The Dark Knight
The Joker
"I believe whatever doesn't kill you simply makes you... stranger."
"And I thought my jokes were bad."
"I know why you chose to have your,little uh, group therapy sessions in broad daylight..."
"If you're good at something, never do it for free."
"Good evening, ladies and gentlemen... we are tonight's entertainment!"
"Never start with the head. The victim gets all fuzzy. He can't feel the next-"
"There's no going back. You've changed things... forever."
"You see, I'm not a monster. I'm just ahead of the curve."
"All you care about is money. This town deserves a better class of criminal, and I'm gonna give it to them."
"Do I really look like a guy with a plan? you know what I am? I'm a dog chasing cars. I wouldn't know what to do with one if I caught it! You know... I just do things."
"The mob has plans. The cops have plans. Gordon's got plans. They're schemers, you know? Schemers trying to control their little worlds. I'm not a schemer."
"Introduce a little anarchy…upset the established order…and everything becomes chaos. I'm an agent of chaos. And you know the thing about chaos? It's fair."
"It's a funny world we live in."
"This is what happens when an unstoppable force meets an immovable object."
"You know what I noticed? Nobody panics when things go "according to plan"…even if the plan is horrifying. If tomorrow I tell the press that, like, a gang-banger will get shot, or a truckload of soldiers will be blown up, nobody panics...because it's all part of the plan. But when I say that one little old mayor will die... well, then everyone loses their minds!"
"You see, madness, as you know, is... like gravity - all it takes is a little push!"
"Where there's nature, or where there's breathing, there are true moments of joy. You've just got to recognise them and not take them for granted. And that's what I try to do, have moments of elation in life, however small, five minutes a day, and be able to think, 'Yeah, that'll do. That'll do me for now."
- Nicky Wire
"I say build some more fucking bypasses over this shithole."
- Nicky Wire
"We have got the scum factor of Happy Mondays, what i mean by that is that people we met in London would never like the idea of meeting a girl in the pub and having a bag of chips and a fuck in the bus stop on the way home. That's something ordinary working-class people do all the time. But we'd do that; we wouldn't check into a hotel - it'd be `Stop here a minute, I want my d**k sucked.´ That's the scum factor."
- Richey James Edwards
"Everything I've liked has always failed in some way"
- Richey James Edwards
"Early evening I walk around Soho on my own as I have so few friends. It starts to rain. And even cheap dreams don't stop the rain."
- Richey James Edwards
"You get respect in society if you are agressive. If you fight then people respect you. If you fight back, people like you for that as well. When I've been beaten up, if I've been in a pub doing nothing wrong, the fact I chose not to fight back, that I would never throw a punch back, people say I'm weak. I don't think that's a weak thing at all. I think why should I descend to their level? If I've done nothing wrong, throwing a punch back makes me as bad and corrupt as them. As evil as them, as stupid as them."
- Richey James Edwards
"To be universal you've got to stain the consciousness of the people. You've got to dig out a truth that everybody knows, but they don't want to hear, then tell it in a manner that's so articulate and so aesthetically indignant, so beautiful, that they've got to accept it back in their lives again. That's what I want to do. Touch something universal in your own language."
- James Dean Bradfield
"There was I, all beans and chips dripping off my beard..."
- James Dean Bradfield
Harry Potter, books
Philosopher's Stone
"It's lucky it's dark. I haven't blushed so much since Madam Pomfrey told me she liked my new earmuffs."
- Albus Dumbledore
"Scars can come in useful. I have one myself above my left knee which is a perfect map of the London Underground."
- Albus Dumbledore
"Before we begin our banquet, I would like to say a few words. And here they are: Nitwit! Blubber! Oddment! Tweak!"
- Albus Dumbledore
Chamber of Secrets
"Hearing voices no one else can hear isn't a good sign, even in the wizarding world."
- Albus Dumbledore
Prisoner of Azkaban
"I don't go looking for trouble. Trouble usually finds me."
- Harry Potter
"He was my mum and dad's best friend. He's a convicted murderer, but he's broken out of wizard prison and he's on the run. He likes to keep in touch with me, though … keep up with news … check if I'm happy.…"
- Harry Potter
"I solemnly swear I am up to no good."
- The Weasley Twins
"The consequences of our actions are always so diverse, so complex, that it makes predicting the future very difficult, indeed."
- Remus J. Lupin
"You should have died! Died rather than betray your friends, as we would have done for you!"
- Sirius Black
"If you made a better rat than a human, that's not much to boast about."
- Sirius Black
Goblet of Fire
"CONSTANT VIGILANCE!!!"
- Mad-Eye Moody
"If you want to know what a man's like, take a good look at how he treats his inferiors, not his equals."
- Mad-Eye Moody
Order of the Phoenix
"Of course, he might have crawled into the airing cupboard and died... but I mustn't get my hopes up."
- Harry Potter
"You … this isn't a criticism, Harry! But you do … sort of … I mean-don't you think you've got a bit of-a-saving-people thing?"
- Hermione Granger
"Ron, just because you have the emotional range of a teaspoon doesn't mean we all have."
- Hermione Granger
"Crabbe, loosen your hold a little. If Longbottom suffocates it will mean a lot of tedious paperwork and I am afraid I shall have to mention it on your reference if ever you apply for a job."
- Severus Snape
"Fools who wear their hearts proudly on their sleeves, who cannot control their emotions, who wallow in sad memories and allow themselves to be provoked so easily - weak people in other words-..."
- Severus Snape
"The mind is not a book to be read."
- Severus Snape
"Do not pity the dead, Harry. Pity the living, and, above all those who live without love."
-Professor Albus Dumbledore
“I am straight edge or have you forgotten? I don’t drink, I don’t smoke, I don’t do drugs, and I definitely don’t cheat at Monopoly!”
- Wrestlefan4, Playing games
Russell Brand
"Have you been out in society recently? 'Cause it's SHIT."
- Russell Brand
"It's difficult to believe in yourself because the idea of self is an artificial construction. You are, in fact, part of the glorious oneness of the universe. Everything beautiful in the world is within you. No-one really feels self-confident deep down because it's an artificial idea. Really, people aren't that worried about what you're doing or what you're saying, so you can drift around the world relatively anonymously. You must not feel persecuted and examined. Liberate yourself from that idea that people are watching you."
- Russell Brand
"And if there is an omnipotent, omniscient being controlling all from the infinitesimally small to the inconceivably large, I don't reckon He cares what happens at the MTV VMA awards."
- Russell Brand
"Some people, I think they're called racists, say America is not ready for a black president. But, I know America to be a forward-thinking country, right, because otherwise, you know, would you have let that retarded cowboy fella be president for eight years? We were very impressed. We thought it was nice of you to let him have a go, because, in England, he wouldn't be trusted with a pair of scissors."
- Russell Brand
"One minute, he's just a teenage lad in Alaska having joyful unprotected sex, the next minute- get to the Republican Convention! I think that is the best safe sex message of all time. 'Use a condom, or become Republican!' "
- Russell Brand
"I believe Finland's economy is based on Moomin juice."
- Russell Brand
"Our own internal brown Narnia.."
- Russell Brand
"So when I was staying with him, he went 'alright, okay, so what time do you go to bed then?' and I thought 'fucking hell! he doesn't know what he's doing!! SHIIIIIIT!!' I went 'oooh, about, 10 oclock?', 'ah yeah, alright then'. YEEEES!! it's like the same feeling that as an adult I would get walking through customs with heroin in my bottom. 'I'm getting away with iiiiit!"
- Russell Brand
"I emerged from the womb, right, I was wearing a top hat and I had a cane and said: 'Mother, that was an awkward and embarrassing birth. You should be ashamed of yourself dear. Now pull your nightie down; that doctor looks salacious.' Then I trotted off outside, met up with Kenneth Williams and we both had tea, and we looked down at our dinkles with disgust."
- Russell Brand
Albert Einstein.
"Not everything that can be counted counts, and not everything that counts can be counted."
"Only two things are infinite, the universe and human stupidity, and I'm not sure about the former."
"Imagination is more important than knowledge."
"The most beautiful thing we can experience is the mysterious. It is the source of all true art and science."
"The secret to creativity is knowing how to hide your sources."
"Reality is merely an illusion, albeit a very persistent one."
"If the facts don't fit the theory, change the facts."
"The question that sometimes drives me hazy: Am I or the others crazy?"
Viggo Mortensen
"If I don't get a little time by myself every day, it makes me uncomfortable. I really need that. Even if it's a minute or two."
"I think it was Robert Louis Stevenson who said this. It was about meandering through a career, or the arts in general, without seeming to have a deliberate plan. He said, 'To travel hopefully is better than to arrive, and the true success is in the labor.' That's a great line, 'To travel hopefully.' That's what I'd like to do."
"I'm not that involved in personal grooming. But I try not to be offensive to people."
"I have never been in a natural place and felt that that was a waste of time. I never have. And it's a relief. If I'm walking around a desert or whatever, every second is worthwhile."
"I have friends who I get along with who I know get very uncomfortable being alone, unless they're with people, talking all the time. Whether it's on the phone, or in person, they're never by themselves. Whereas I could be alone for months."
"If I can get a day to myself, I won't answer the phone, I'll read or go for a walk. Simple, basic things. People think there's always time to do that but there isn't. Life is short."
"We all experience many freakish and unexpected events - you have to be open to suffering a little. The philosopher Schopenhauer talked about how out of the randomness, there is an apparent intention in the fate of an individual that can be glimpsed later on. When you are an old guy, you can look back, and maybe this rambling life has some through-line. Others can see it better sometimes. But when you glimpse it yourself, you see it more clearly than anyone."
"Joseph Campbell said the privilege of a lifetime is being yourself. That's his feeling. And I guess it's mine too."
On religion:
"My answer would be what Walt Whitman said in Leaves of Grass, something to the effect of 'I hear and behold that God is in every object and yet I understand God not at all.'"
"There's no excuse to be bored. Sad, yes. Angry, yes. Depressed, yes. Crazy, yes. But there is no excuse for boredom, ever."
"I knew early on that life is sorrowful. We all decline, slowly or quickly, and we die. We can't change that. But we can change our attitude toward it.
We each have only a limited amount of time here. We have to do more with it--pay attention, explore, be open to all of life. Because we have only one chance, we have to make life seem longer than it really is."
"I don't know anyone who tells people everything about themselves. We all purposely keep secrets. I'm an actor so I'm definitely not in the truth business."
"If I really think about it, there isn't any one movie I would wipe off my slate. Even during the worst experiences, there was somebody I got to know, or something about the place we were in, something memorable. A lesson."
Random
"You love someone, you open up to suffering. That’s the sad truth. Maybe they’ll break your heart, maybe you’ll break their heart and never be able to look at yourslef in the same way. Those are the risks. That’s the burden. Like wings, they have weight. We feel that weight on our backs, but they are a burden that lifts us, burdens that allow us to fly."
- Temperance Brennan, Bones
"A man can be happy with any woman as long as he does not love her."
- Oscar Wilde
"Most people are other people. their thoughts are someone elses opinions, their lives a mimicry, their passions a quotation."
- Oscar Wilde
"Illusion is the first of all pleasures."
- Oscar Wilde
"Love isn't an act, it's a whole life. It's staying with her now because she needs you; it's knowing you and she will still care about each when sex and daydreams, fights and futures-when all that's on the shelf and done with. Love-why, I'll tell you what love is: it's you at seventy five and her at seventy one, each of you listening for each other's step in the next room, each afraid that a sudden silence, sudden cry, could mean a lifetime's talk is over."
- Brian Moore
"At a certain part in your life. Probably when too much of it has gone by. You will open your eyes and see yourself for who you are. Especially for everything that made you so different from all the awful normals. And you will say to yourself, "But I am this person." And in that statement, that correction, there will be a kind of love."
- From movie Phoebe in Wonderland.
"When did we see each other face-to-face? Not until you saw into my cracks and I saw into yours. Before that, we were just looking at ideas of each other, like looking at your window shade but never seeing inside. But once the vessel cracks, the light can get in. The light can get out."
-John Green, Paper Towns
"I’ve been doing all my life after people who interest me, because the only people for me are the mad ones, the ones who are mad to live, mad to talk, mad to be saved, desirous of everything at the same time, the ones who never yawn or say a commonplace thing, but burn, burn, burn like fabulous yellow roman candles exploding like spiders across the stars and in the middle you see the blue centerlight pop and everybody goes "Awww!""
-Jack Kerouac, On the road
"Do not let your fire go out, spark by irreplacable spark, in the hopeless swamps of the approximate, the not-quite, the not-yet, the not-at-all. Do not let the hero in your soul perish, in lonely frustration for the life you deserved, but never have been able to reach. Check your road and the nature of your battle. The world you desired can be won, it exists, it is real, it is possible, it's yours."
- Ayn Rand, Atlas Shrugged
"I swear - by my life and my lofe for it - that I will never live for the sake of another man, nor ask another man to live for mine."
- Ayn Rand, Atlas Shrugged
"Time is not a line but a dimension, like the dimensions of space.
If you can bend space you can bend time also, and if you knew enough and could move faster than light you could travel backward in time and exist in two places at once. ... I began then to think of time as having a shape, something you could see, like a series of liquid transparencies, one laid on top of another. You don't look back along time but down through it, like water. Sometimes this comes to the surface, sometimes that, sometimes nothing. Nothing goes away."
- Margaret Atwood, Cat’s Eye
"Be clearly aware of the stars and infinity on high. Then life seems almost enchanted after all."
-Vincent van Gogh
"I let him think for a while 'cause I knew he had the answer. I knew it was a good answer, and he was going to tell it to me. 'Cause when you ask a question, you expect an answer. That's the way it works... question, answer, answer, question. If he gave the answer, I'd have to come up with the question. That would be Jeopardy. That's wrong."
- Colin Mochrie
"It takes courage to grow up and become who you really are."
- E. E. Cummings
"I took a deep breath and listened to the old bray of my heart.
I am. I am. I am."
- Sylvia Plath
"Dread of night. Dread of not-night."
- Franz Kafka
"The decision to kiss for the first time is the most crucial in any love story. It changes the relationship of two people much more strongly than even the final surrender; because this kiss already has within it that surrender."
-Emil Ludwig
"His soul swooned slowly as he heard the snow falling faintly through the universe and faintly falling, like the descent of their last end, upon all the living and the dead. "
- James Joyce
"…And the snow is at the window, making neither sign nor symbol…"
- Current 93
"I regret that it takes a life to learn how to live."
- Jonathan Safran Foer
"Sanity:
You can go through your whole life telling yourself that life is logical, life is prosaic, life is sane. Above all, sane. And i think it is. I've had a lot of time to think about that. And what i keep coming back to is Mrs. Underwood's dying declaration: So you understand that when we increase the number of variables, the axioms never change.
I really believe that."
- Richard Bachman, Rage
"If you take [a copy of] the Christian Bible and put it out in the wind and rain, soon the paper on which the words are printed will disintegrate and the words will be gone. Our bible IS the wind and rain."
- Carol McGrath, herbalist (as told to her by a Native American woman)
"Imagination is the one weapon in the war against reality."
- Jules de Gaultier
"Well behaved women rarely make history."
- Laurel Thatcher Ulrich
"Women must not depend upon the protection of man, but must be taught to protect herself."
- Susan B. Anthony, July 1871
"Don’t say you don’t have enough time. You have exactly the same number of hours per day that were given to Helen Keller, Pasteur, Michelangelo, Mother Teresa, Leonardo da Vinci, Thomas Jefferson, and Albert Einstein."
- H. Jackson Brown
"If a nation expects to be ignorant and free, in a state of civilization, it expects what never was and never will be."
- Thomas Jefferson
"An armed society is a polite society."
- Robert Heinlein
"Every woman needs their own room and own money."
- Virginia Woolf.
"Out of suffering have emerged the strongest souls; the most massive characters are seared with scars."
- Kahlil Gibran
"Nothing is permanent in this wicked world - not even our troubles."
- Charlie Chaplin
"Fairy tales do not tell children that dragons exist. Children already know that dragons exist. Fairy tales tell children that dragons can be killed."
- G.K. Chesterton
"Live as if you were to die tomorrow, learn as if you were to live forever."
- M. Ghandi
"Love all, trust a few, do wrong to none."
- Shakespeare
"The most authentic thing about us is our capacity to create, to overcome, to endure, to transform, to love and to be greater than our suffering."
- Ben Okri
"A sad soul can kill you quicker, far quicker than a germ."
- John Steinbeck
"Reason is not automatic. Those who deny it cannot be conquered by it."
- Ayn Rand
"We are all brothers under the skin, and I, for one, would be willing to skin humanity to prove it."
- Ayn Rand
"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 smart, or young. They're still princesses. All of us."
- A Little Princess, Frances H. Burnett
"People create their own questions because they're afraid to look straight. All you have to do is look straight and see the road, and when you see it, don't sit looking at it, walk."
- Ayn Rand
"To be yourself in a world that is constantly trying to make you something else is the greatest accomplishment."
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
Unknown/Anonymous/Unresourced
"If you look at the deepest and most basic core of having sex, it does get pretty complicated: after all, you're granting your body to be a playground for the other and you're allowed to play on the other's playground as well. That has never been anything but easy!"
"Life is the ultimate fuck-you-up factor."
Homo homini lupus est = “The human is the wolf to the human" or “Every man is the enemy to every man”.
"Beauty queen of only eighteen."
"She had some trouble with herself."
"Love is a Journey, Not a Destination."
"You are a God among men, Don't let anyone tell you otherwise."
- Magneto
"Many that live deserve death. And some that die deserve life. Can you give it to them? Then do not be too eager to deal out death in judgement. For even the very wise cannot see all ends."
- Gandalf
"The mark of the immature man is that he wants to die nobly for a cause, while the mark of a mature man is that be wants to live humbly for one"
- A Catcher in the Rye
"I'm not going to change the way I look or the way I feel to conform to anything. I've always been a freak. So I've been a freak all my life and I have to live with that, you know. I'm one of those people."
- John Lennon
To be continued...