Famous Quotes

"Some people say that I must be a terrible person, but it’s not true. I have the heart of a young boy in a jar on my desk"
-Stephen King


"Woman are meant to be loved, not to be understood".
-Oscar Wilde


"Middle age is when your age starts to show around your middle."
- Bob Hope


"Commit the oldest sins, the newest kind of ways."
- William Shakespeare


"Husbands are like fires - they go out when unattended."
- Zsa Zsa Gabor


"Try not to become a man of success, but rather, try to become a man of value."
- Albert Einstein


"Don't be so humble, you're not that great".
- Golda Meir


"Boredom is a great motivator."
- Uma Thurman


If all pulled in one direction, the world would keel over.
~Yiddish proverb


The man who never makes a mistake always takes orders from one who does.


No man or woman who tries to pursue an ideal in his or her own way is without enemies.
~Daisy Bates (1863-1951)


Do just once what others say you can't do, and you will never pay attention to their limitations again.
~James R. Cook


If a million people say a foolish thing, it is still a foolish thing.
~Anatole France [Jacques Anatole Thibault] (1844-1924)


When people are free to do as they please, they usually imitate each other.
~Eric Hoffer (1902-1983)


When all think alike, no one is thinking very much.
~Walter Lippmann (1889-1974)


Every generation laughs at the old fashions, but follows religiously the new.
~Henry David Thoreau (1817-1862)


We are discreet sheep; we wait to see how the drove is going, and then go with the drove.
~Mark Twain [Samuel Langhornne Clemens] (1835-1910)


Whenever you find you are on the side of the majority, it is time to pause and reflect.
~Mark Twain [Samuel Langhornne Clemens] (1835-1910)


It is dangerous to be right in matters on which the established authorities are wrong.
~Voltaire [François Marie Arouet] (1694-1778)


We know what a person thinks not when he tells us what he thinks, but by his actions.
~Isaac Bashevis Singer (1904-1991)


As I grow older, I pay less attention to what men say. I just watch what they do.
~Andrew Carnegie (1835-1919)


A memorandum isn't written to inform the receiver, but to protect the writer.
~Dean Acheson


Those are my principles. If you don't like them I have others.
~Groucho Marx (1890-1977)


Blessed is the man who, having nothing to say, abstains from giving us wordy evidence of the fact.
~George Eliot [Mary Ann Evans] (1819-1880)


What orators lack in depth they make up for in length.
~Charles de Secondat, Baron de Montesquieu (1689-1775)


Of those who say nothing, few are silent.
~Thomas Neill


Wise men talk because they have something to say; fools, because they have to say something.
~Plato (429-347 BC)


The secret of being tiresome is to tell everything.
~Voltaire [François Marie Arouet] (1694-1778)


Those who cannot remember the past are condemned to repeat it.
~George Santayana (1863-1952)


I can't understand why people are frightened by new ideas. I'm frightened of old ones.
~John Cage (1912-1992)


History is the version of past events that people have decided to agree upon.
~Napoleon Bonaparte


What luck for the rulers that men do not think.
~Adolf Hitler (1889-1945)


All truly wise thoughts have been thought already thousands of times; but to make them truly ours, we must think them over again honestly, till they take root in our personal experience.
~Johann Wolfgang von Goethe (1749-1832)

Movie Quotes

I've got a good mind to join a club and beat you over the head with it.
-- Groucho Marx (Duck Soup)


All I've ever wanted was an honest week's pay for an honest day's work.
-- Steve Martin (Bilko)


Hey, don't knock masturbation. It's sex with someone I love.
-- Woody Allen (Annie Hall)


Roses are red, violets are blue, I'm a schizophrenic and so am I.
-- Bill Murray (What about Bob)


You might be a cunning linguist, but I am a master debater.
-- Mike Myers (Austin Powers: Goldmember)


You know what the trouble about real life is? There's no danger music.
-- Jim Carrey


Bastard Son of Barney! Die! Die, stuffed ball of fluff! Illegitimate Teletubbie! Die, you Muppet from hell! Die, you foam motherf**cker.
-- Robin Williams (Death to Shmoochy)


It's 106 miles to Chicago, we've got a full tank of gas, half a pack of cigarettes, it's dark, and we're wearing sunglasses.
-- Dan Aykroyd (The Blues Brothers)


You might have seen a housefly, maybe even a superfly, but I bet you ain't never seen a donkey fly!
-- Eddie Murphy (Shrek)


The key here, I think, is to not think of death as an end. But, but, think of it more as a very effective way of cutting down on your expenses.
~ Boris Grushenko (Woody Allen) in "Love and Death"


I'm not bad, I'm just drawn that way.
~ Jessica Rabbit (Kathleen Turner) in "Who Framed Roger Rabbit"


Old age. It's the only disease, Mr. Thompson, that you don't look forward to being cured of.
~ Bernstein (Everett Sloane) in "Citizen Kane"Scarecrow


(Ray Bolger): I haven't got a brain... only straw.
Dorothy (Judy Garland): How can you talk if you haven't got a brain?
Scarecrow: I don't know... But some people without brains do an awful lot of talking... don't they?
Dorothy: Yes, I guess you're right.
~ "Wizard of Oz "


Reporter: Tell me, how did you find America?
John Lennon: Turned left at Greenland.
~ "A Hard Day's Night"


Gentlemen. You can't fight in here. This is the War Room!
~ President Merkin Muffley (Peter Sellers) in "Dr. Strangelove"


Clarice (Jody Foster): If you didn't kill him, then who did, sir?
Lecter (Anthony Hopkins): Who can say? Best thing for him, really. His therapy was going nowhere.
~ "Silence of the Lambs"


You know, you haven't stopped talking since I came here? You must have been vaccinated with a phonograph needle.
~ Groucho in "Duck Soup"