Quotes

Here are write some of my favorite quotes:

  • I have so many personalities in me, and I still feel lonely – Tori Amos
  • We are all in the gutter, but some of us are looking at the stars – Oscar Wilde
  • Christmas waves a magical wand over this world, and behold, everything is softer and more beautiful – Norman Vincent Peale
  • In order to live free and happily, you must first sacrifice boredom. It isn’t always an easy sacrifice – Richard Bach
  • Any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic- Arthur C. Clarke
  • Knowledge speaks, wisdom listens
  • Besides a dog, books are a girls best friend – Groucho Marx
  • The demons inside…Sometimes they win – Yuko Sakaki, the Battle Royale Manga
  • Sed Quis custodiet ipsos custodes(But who shall guard the guardians)Juvenal
  • It may seem strange to talk of love and then of lighthouses. It’s not strange to me    - Harland Miller
  • Humans talk about their problems, animals fight. So, if you must fight, fight like an animal
  • Among those whom I like or admire, I can find no common denominator, but among those whom I love, I can: all of them make me laugh – W.H. Auden
  • …if you ask someone in the throes of depression how he got there, he’ll never know. There is  a classic moment in The Sun Also Rises when someone asks Mike Campbell how he went bankrupt, and all he can say in response is “Gradualy, then suddenly.” When someone asks me how I lost my mind, that’s all I can say too - Elizabeth Wurtzel, Prozac Nation
  • All you need is faith and trust…and a little bit of pixie-dust – J.M Barrie, Peter Pan
  • However cruel the mirrors of sin, remember beauty is found within- Nightwish, Beauty and the Beast
  • Oh, Lord, Why the Angels fall first – Nightwish, Angels Fall First
  • If you read this line, remember not the hand that wrote it. Remember only the verse, songmakers cry, the one without tears – Nightwish, Dead Boy’s Poem
  • I studied silence to learn the music, I joined the sinful to regain my innocence - Nightwish Dead, To The World
  • Tact’s just not saying true stuff. I’ll pass – Cordelia Chase, Buffy the Vampire Slayer
  • Stikk leddet fram, og rist litt på den(stick the joint out and shake it all about)-My studygroup describing the Hokey Pokey
  • Even the weakest ink is so much more powerful than the strongest memory-Chinese Proverb
  • When people hear good music, it makes them homesick for something they never had, and never will-E.W.Howe
  • The pure and simple truth is rarely pure and never simple-Oscar Wilde
  • L, do you know? Shinigami only eats apples- Light Yagami, Death Note
  • It does not do to dwell on dreams and forget to live-Albus Dumbledore, Harry Potter and the Philosophers Stone
  • Keep on writing, as the fantasy world is one of the rare safe havens for us in this cruel and cold world-Michael Serpent
  • I’m not short. I’m just unusual not tall.
  • I might be short, but you know, exclusive merchedice comes in small pacages.
  • If you want enemies, try to change something-Woodrow Wilson
  • You might have noticed that my boyfriend glitters. It’s just something he does in the sun- Bella Swan, Twilight
  • I am Switzerland-Bella Swan, Eclipse
  • “‘And so the lion fell in love with the lamb…,’ he murmured. I looked away, hiding my eyes as I thrilled to the word.
    ‘What a stupid lamb,’ I sighed.
    ‘What a sick, masochistic lion.’”
        Edward Cullen and Bella Swan, Twilight
  • “About three things I was abosolutely positive.First, Edward was a vampire. Second, part of him – and I didn’t know how dominant that part may be – that thirsted for my blood. And third, I was unconditionally and irevocably in love with him”. -Bella Cullen, Twilight
  • “These violent delights have violent ends, and in their triumph die, like fire and powder, which as they kiss, consume.” Romeo and Juliet Act 2 Scene 6 
  • “Does my being half-naked bother you?”-Jacob Black, Eclipse
  • “I didn’t have quite the same…upbringing as my adopted siblings here. My beginning was something else entirely.” - Jasper Hale, Eclipse
  • “Did you seriously just stamp your foot? I thought girls only did that on TV”-Jacob Black, Eclipse
  • “He’s a jewel. Dirty, chipped, scratched, but a jewel non the less. Imperfect in every way, just like me.” From a Battle Royale Fanfic.
  • “Heaven did not seem to be my home; and I broke my heart with weeping to come back to earth; and the angels were so angry that they flung me out into the middle of the heath on the top of Wuthering Heights; where I woke sobbing for joy.”-Catherine Earnshaw, Wuthering Heights
  • Had he been in my place, and I in his, though I hated him with a hatred that turned my life to gall, I never would have raised a hand against him. You may look incredulous, if you please! I never would have banished him from her society, as long as she desired his. The moment her regard ceased, I would have torn his heart out, and drunk his blood! But, till then, if you don’t believe me, you don’t know me — till then, I would have died by inches before I touched a single hair of his head! “-Heathcliff, Wuthering Heights
  • “Catherine Earnshaw, may you not rest as long as I am living! You said I killed you — haunt me, then! The murdered do haunt their murderers. I believe — I know that ghosts have wandered on earth. Be with me always — take any form — drive me mad! only do not leave me in this abyss, where I cannot find you! Oh, God! it is unutterable! I cannot live without my life! I cannot live without my soul! ” Heathcliff, Wutheing Heights
  • “You inspired this one” Edward Cullen, Twilight ( He’s refering to a lullaby he’s written for his girlfriend, for those of you who haven’t read Twilight )
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  1. 2007 September 12

    Hello, nice post. Bookmark it.

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