What's your favourite quote or poem?

Question

I am sorting through all my old college stuff and there was one English lesson where we all had to right our favourite quote on a piece of paper then put them in a pile and work out who wrote what. I have no idea who wrote the one I found in my folder, but it got me thinking about all those random quotes/poems that people know and I want to know more.

They can be from songs, films whatever I don't care. Plus gives me a reason to stop sorting stuff out, as I am so bored!

Oh here is the one that I found:

"I don't believe in an afterlife, so I don't have to spend my whole life fearing h**l, or fearing heaven even more. For whatever the tortures of h**l, I think the boredom of heaven would be even worse."

Answer 1

get a shel silverstien book.  and just read it. And some classic poerty, like RObert frost and all that.

actually, i recommend going to a book store, getting a bunch of material, and just sit down and read. it might be inspiring.  

Answer 2

When love beckons to you, follow him, Though his ways are hard and steep. And when his wings enfold you yield to him, Though the sword hidden among his pinions may wound you. And when he speaks to you believe in him, Though his voice may shatter your dreams as the north wind lays waste the garden.

For even as love crowns you so shall he crucify you.

Answer 3

Favourite quote.

"Remember there are no strong women, only weak men"

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Answer 4

Favorite Quote:

~ I've heard that it's possible to grow up - I've just never met anyone who's actually done it. ~      

Meredith Grey  

Answer 5

get busy living or get busy dying

Answer 6

The Cookie Thief

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Answer 7

i luv the bit in the film 10 tings i hate about you when she reads the poem....

its.....

10 Things I Hate About You

I hate the way you talk to me,

And the way you cut your hair.

I hate the way you drive my car,

I hate it when you stare.

I hate your big dumb combat boots

And the way you read my mind.

I hate you so much it makes me sick,

It even makes me rhyme.

I hate the way you’re always right,

I hate it when you lie.

I hate it when you make me laugh,

Even worse when you make me cry

I hate it when you’re not around,

And the fact that you didn’t call

But mostly I hate the way I don’t hate you,

Not even close…

Not even a little bit…

Not even at all.

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or  one mans trash is another mans treasure

or believe in yourself and magic will happen

Answer 8

May you live as long as you want

And never want as long as you live.

Answer 9

“If you don't go after what you want, you'll never have it. If you don't ask, the answer is always no. If you don't step forward, you're always in the same place.”  - Nora Roberts

You and I will ride tonight

'Till the past is out of sight

We don't have to look back now

From the dark into the light

We can leave it all behind

We can stand together,

we don't have to look back now"

-We Don't Have To Look Back Now by Puddle of Mudd

"Memory can change the shape of a room; it can change the color of a car. And memories can be distorted. They're just an interpretation, they're not a record, and they're irrelevant if you have the facts."

Answer 10

"It's not how they remember you that is important, it's just  important that they do,"

Answer 11

Estelle Getty in the movie "Mannequin":

"I don't care if he runs around the store naked with a glove on is head yelling ' HI!  I'm a squid!"

Answer 12

I think your quote is from the sci-fi author and scientist Issac Asimov.

Here's my favourite quote:

"How could we forget those ancient myths that stand at the beginning of all races, the myths about dragons that at the last moment are transformed into princesses? Perhaps all the dragons in our lives are princesses who are only waiting to see us act, just once, with beauty and courage. Perhaps everything that frightens us is, in its deepest essence, something helpless that wants our love.

So you mustn't be frightened if a sadness rises in front of you, larger than any you have ever seen; if an anxiety, like light and cloud-shadows, moves over your hands and over everything you do. You must realise that something is happening to you, that life has not forgotten you, that it holds you in its hand and will not let you fall."

Rainer Maria Rilke ("Letters to a Young Poet")

Answer 13

Hmm... My quotes are all... Well, not from poetry or anything like that...

"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."

"Reality is merely an illusion, albeit a very persistent one."

"Imagination is more important than knowledge." -Albert Einstein

"Hey girls, you're beautiful. Whether you're a size 32 or a size 18. As long as you're a good person. As long as you respect others and yourself. Don't listen to those fashion magazines. Hey girls, you're beautiful" "Dont p**s your life away with suicide- it's a bullshit way out"

"Be yourself, don't take anyone else's **** and never let them take you alive"- Gerard Way

"It takes a great deal of courage to stand up to your enemies, but even more to stand up to your friends." -J.K. Rowling

"We have nothing to fear but fear itself"-Franklin Roosevelt

“You hate someone whom you really wish to love, but whom you cannot love. Perhaps he himself prevents you. That is a disguised form of love.”

Answer 14

Theres no such thing as rejection just people with bad taste

Answer 15

"hated by many, confronted by none, only trust two guys ones God and one is my gun"

Answer 16

"What's in a name? That which we call a rose

By any other word would smell as sweet." By Shakespeare

Answer 17

"The optimist proclaims that we live in the best of all possible worlds; and the pessimist fears this is true." James Branch Cabell

"Give us a religion that will help us to live -- we can die without assistance." Elbert Hubbard

but my most favourite of all is from the genius george carlin

“The most unfair thing about life is the way it ends. I mean, life is tough. It takes up a lot of your time. What do you get at the end of it? A Death! What's that, a bonus? I think the life cycle is all backwards. You should die first, get it out of the way. Then you live in an old age home. You get kicked out when you're too young, you get a gold watch, you go to work. You work forty years until you're young enough to enjoy your retirement. You do drugs, alcohol, you party, you get ready for high school. You go to grade school, you become a kid, you play, you have no responsibilities, you become a little baby, you go back into the womb, you spend your last nine months floating...

...and you finish off as an o****m.”  - George Carlin

edit: you've got me thinking about all the quotes i've collected over the years, heres a few i had hidden away in an old word document. i dont have a clue who said them though

"Each generation imagines itself to be more intelligent than the one that went before it, and wiser than the one that comes after it."

"Success is the only unforgivable sin against your neighbor."

"Optimism is lack of information."

"My fortune is in the fact that I don't need it."

"I've been smart enough to have lived my life stupidly."

"A real man is one who remembers a lady's birthday, but never knows how old she is. A man who never remembers her birthday, but knows exactly how old she is, - is her husband."

"Family can replace everything. So, before starting a family, one should think what's more important: family or everything."



"Aleshenka (a boy's name), when you get married you'll understand what happiness is. But it will be too late."

"It has always been incomprehensible for me: people are ashamed of poverty but aren't ashamed of wealth."

"The Doorbell doesn't work, when you come, knock the door with feet. - Why feet?! - I hope you won't come to me empty-handed!"