Quotes- RaNdoM

I love collecting quotes of all kinds and here are some I have found:

-Music touches feelings that words cannot. ~i think from a Dove chocolate wrapper

-Whatever floats your submarine! ~Tara Curtis

-From here to there, from there to here, funny things are everywhere. ~Dr. Suess

-I wish I were a little acrobat, acrobat (repeat) Oh, I fly through the air in my Batman underwear, Oh I wish I were a little acrobat, acrobat! ~a girls' camp song

-Life is a do-it-yourself project. Your attitudes and the choices you make today 'build' the house you live in tomorrow. Build wisely! ~Unknown

-Sometimes you're the windshield; sometimes you're the bug! ~Unknown

-No matter how stupid you look dancing, you look more stupid not dancing. ~some comic strip

-Life is too important to be taken seriously. ~Oscar Wilde

-The melancholy truth was that his glorious head had nothing in it. ~some AP test passage

-Learning is not the accumulation of knowledge, but rather, on thing only: understanding. ~taken from "Bound" by Donna Jo Napoli

-It's beauty that killed the beast. ~from the movie "King Kong" (2005)

-It's not enough to know a thing. We need to live what we know. ~Unknown

-I'm as happy as a tornado in a trailer park! ~taken from "Cars" (2006)

-Down below the mines and sea ooze and fake fossil bones put there by a Creator with nothing better to do than upset archaeologists and give them silly ideas. ~taken from "Rincewind the Wizzard" by Terry Pratchett

-Grinned like a man who, having tap danced on quicksand, feels the press of solid rock under his feet. ~taken from "Rincewind the Wizzard" by Terry Pratchett

-Death is but a sleep... but the way I see it, it's a lot harder to get up in the morning. ~taken from "Rincewind the Wizzard" by Terry Pratchett

-I hear and I forget. I see and I remember. I do and I understand. ~Confucius

-People may say I can't sing, but no one can ever say I didn't sing. ~Florence Foster Jenkins

-The early bird may get the worm, but the second mouse gets the cheese. ~Unknown

-We don't stop playing because we get old; we get old because we stop playing. ~Unknown

-Be who you are and say what you feel, because those who mind don't matter and those who matter don't mind. ~Dr. Suess

-When someone makes you angry, walk a mile in his shoes. That way, you are a mile away. And you have his shoes. ~Unknown

-Laugh and the world laughs with you. Snore and you sleep alone. ~some sign at the Bubba Gump Restaurant in New York City

-Your own reality- for yourself, not for others- what no other man can ever know. They can only see the mere show, and never can tell what it really means. ~from "Heart of Darkness" by Joseph Conrad

-There is a taint of death, a flavor of mortality in lies. ~from "Heart of Darkness" by Joseph Conrad

-Avoid irritation [annoyance from people] more than exposure to the sun. ~from "Heart of Darkness" by Joseph Conrad

-When I die, I want to go peacefully like my Grandfather did, in his sleep--not screaming, like the passengers in his car. ~Unknown

-One can't live with one's finger everlastingly on one's pulse. ~from "Heart of Darkness" by Joseph Conrad

-Boys are like:

POP-TARTS - they're better when they're hot! MASCARA - they run at the first sight of emotion! DULL PENCILS - they have no point! WEATHER - you can neither predict them nor change them! BLENDERS - you need one, but you're not sure why! LAVA LAMPS - they're not very bright, but they're fun to look at when hot! TOENAILS - Gross, but necessary. TEDDY BEARS- they give great hugs!

~some EFY speaker : )

-Laugh every day, it's like inner jogging. ~Unknown

-Growing old is inevitable, growing up is optional. ~Unknown

-He who dies with the most toys is still dead. ~Unknown

-Wisdom has two parts: 1) Having a lot to say, 2) not saying it. ~Unknown

-Don't cry because it is over, smile because it happened. ~Unknown

-Some people DREAM of success, others WAKE UP and work for it. ~Unknown

-Nothing would give up life: even the dirt kept breathing a small breath. ~some bk I can't remember which-actually i read it from a TAKS reading assignment oddly enough haha

-"But some people without brains do an awful lot of talking, don't they?" "Yes, I guess you're right." ~the Scarecrow and Dorothy from The Wizard of Oz

-Everyone has a photographic memory, some people just don't have any film. ~Unknown

-The fool says 'don't put all you eggs in one basket'; the wise man puts all his eggs in one basket and guards that basket closely. ~Warren Buffet

-Do the right thing. It will gratify some people and astonish the rest. ~Mark Twain

-If a million people say a foolish thing, it is still a foolish thing. ~Anatole France

-Ned: Why are you still talking?
Emerson: I'm rippin' off the Bandaid!
Ned: I'm not a ripper, I pull up a corner a little at a time and then run it under warm water and I pull it up a little more. It's a process. ~from an episode of Pushing Daisies

-The fellow who thinks he knows it all is especially annoying to those of us who do. ~Harold Coffin

-The mind is its own place, and in itself can make a Heaven of Hell, a Hell of Heaven. ~from John Milton's Paradise Lost

-The world we have created is a product of our thinking; it can not be changed without changing our thinking. ~Albert Einstein

-Great spirits have always encountered violent opposition from mediocre minds. ~Albert Einstein

-Music is the universal language of mankind. ~Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

-Love all, trust few, do wrong to no one. ~Shakespeare

-Time you enjoy wasting, was not wasted. ~John Lennon

-Courage is the greatest of all virtues, because if you haven't courage, you may not have an opportunity

to use any of the others. ~Samuel Johnson

-When all think alike, no one is thinking very much. ~Walter Lippmann

-The mere sense of living is joy enough. ~Emily Dickinson

-Most people are about as happy as they make up their minds to be. ~Abraham Lincoln

-Defeat is not the worst of failures. Not to have tired is the true failure. ~George Edward Woodberry

-Be faithful to that which exists within yourself. ~Andre Gide

-All you need is love. But a little chocolate now and then doesn't hurt. ~Charles Schulz

-Life can only be understood backwards, but it has to be lived forwards. ~Soren Kierkegaard

-I know that you believe you understand what you think I said, but I am not sure you realize that what you heard is not what I meant. ~Mrs. Jennifer Gunn my 10th and 11th grade english teacher

-I could talk and sing; I could laugh and weep; I could reason and remember; I could love and hate. I was human. ~Frederick Douglass

-The test of a first rate intelligence is the ability to hold two opposed ideas in mind at the same time

and still retain the ability to function. ~F. Scott Fitzgerald

-Expect nothing. Live frugally on surprise. ~Alice Walker

-It is better to keep your mouth shut and appear stupid than to open it and remove all doubt. ~Mark Twain

-Always do right. That will gratify some of the people and astonish the rest. ~Mark Twain

-Nothing is a waste of time if you apply it correctly. ~Unknown

-Humor is just another defense against the universe. ~Mel Brooks

-We wake, if we ever wake at all, to mystery, rumors, of death, beauty, violence. ~Annie Dillard

-The mind is its own place, and in itself can make a Heaven of Hell, a Hell of Heaven. ~John Milton's Paradise Lost

-Better to reign in Hell than to serve Heaven. ~John Milton's Paradise Lost

-Let us dare to read, think, speak, and write. ~John Adams

-To live remains an art which everyone must learn, and which no one can teach. ~Havelock Ellis

-Life is like a coin. You can spend it any way you wish, but you can only spend it once. ~Lillian Dickson

-One time I had a cactus, and then it died. And I was like, "Dang, I'm less nurturing than a desert" ~Dimitri Martin

-You're gonna sleep NOW? Conference is OVER! ~a certain cousin of mine (S. S.leep during conference not after J.)

-Keep in mind that many people have died for their beliefs; it is actually quite common. The real courage is in living and suffering for what you believe. ~Bromin in "Eragon" by Christopher Paolini

-Living life is like eating a watermelon. You just have to take a bite no matter how many seeds you end up spitting out. ~me

-Weather forecast for tonight: dark. Continued dark overnight, with widely scattered light by morning. ~George Carlin

-I feel like a cow in tall grass- tickled to be here! ~someone giving a talk in church

-It's Sunday, it's not supposed to be fun!!! ~Zane Crider : )

-We ourselves feel that what we are doing is just a drop in the ocean. But the ocean would be less because of that missing drop. ~Mother Teresa

-Life in Lubbock, Texas taught me two things: 1) God loves you and you are going to burn in Hell; 2) sex is the most awful, filthy thing on Earth and you should save it for someone you love. ~Butch Hancock

-What lies behind us and what lies before us are tiny matters compared to what lies within us. ~Ralph Waldo Emerson 

-From the errors of others a wise man corrects his own. ~Publius Syrus
-Life is like a box of crayons. Most people are the 8-color boxes, but what you're really looking for are the 64-color boxes with sharpeners on the back. ~John Mayer
-Just be content and CUDDLE! ~Sara O'Dell :)
-Take care of your body with steadfast fidelity. The soul must see through these eyes alone, and if they are dim, the whole world is clouded. ~Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe 
-Empty pockets never held anyone back, only empty heads and empty hearts can do that. ~Norman Vincent Peale
-When health is absent: wisdom cannot reveal itself, art cannot become manifest, strength cannot be exerted, wealth is useless, and reason is powerless. ~Herophilies, 300 B.C.
-Nobody can make you feel inferior without your consent. ~Eleanor Roosevelt
-By failing to prepare, you are preparing to fail. ~Benjamin Franklin
-Do what you can, with what you have, where you are. ~Theodore Roosevelt
-Without music, life would be a mistake.  ~Friedrich Nietzsche
-I'll give you a hug AND some money, but they'd be unrelated; wouldn't want you do think I'm paying you for a hug like some kind of hug prostitute or something. ~Sam Cuellar (haha thanks :) )
-Logic will get you from A to B. Imagination will take you anywhere. ~Albert Einstein
-Happiness can be found, even in the darkest of times, if one only remembers to turn on the light.  ~Albus Dumbledore
-The happiness of your life depends on the quality of your thoughts. ~Marcus Aurelius
-If A is a success in life, then A equals x plus y plus z. Work is x; y is play; and z is keeping your mouth shut. ~Albert Einstein
-Not everything that counts can be counted, and not everything that can be counted counts. (Sign hanging in Einstein's office at Princeton)
-We tend to forget that happiness doesn't come as a result of getting something we don't have, but rather of recognizing and appreciating what we do have. ~Frederick Keonig
-You can't always have everything, but you can always make the best of what you have. ~Unknown
-Stop for a moment in your pursuit of happiness and just be happy. ~Unknown
-To reach a goal never before attained, one must do things never before done. ~Elder Richard G. Scott
-Everyone is a genius. But if you judge a fish on its ability to climb a tree, it will live its whole life believing that it is stupid. ~Albert Einstein