What is your favourite quote...?

Question

...from a book, a song, a poem, a show, a movie... anything like that. If it applies, please include the name of the author and title of the work of fiction (or song, et cetera).

:D

Answer 1

Anyone who takes himself too seriously always runs the risk of looking ridiculous; anyone who can consistently laugh at himself does not.

          - Vaclav havel, Disturbing the Peace (whatever that is)

Answer 2

Failure is Success delayed...

Answer 3

♪For a dreamer, nights the only time of day...♪ From the Song 'Santa Fe'  from the musical movie Newsies.

"Because he's the hero Gotham deserves, but not the one it needs right now...and so we'll hunt him, because he can take it. Because he's not a hero. He's a silent guardian, a watchful protector...a dark knight." said by Commisioner James Gordon in The Dark Knight

"Love is a battle feild, and Ive just won." I cant remember who said it, but I always think about it.

"Let me get this straight: You think that your client, one of the wealthiest, most powerful men in the world, is secretly a vigilante who spends his nights beating criminals to a pulp with his bare hands. And your plan is to blackmail this person? Good luck. " said by Lucius Fox in The Dark Knight

"Its not what I am underneath, but what I do that defines me." said by Batman in Batman Begins

" Sometimes all it takes is a voice, one voice that becomes a hundred, then a thousand, unless it's silenced."  said by Bryan Denton in Newsies

"Jump up, you die. Jump down, you die. Jump left you die. Jump right, you die....stand still." I cant remember what its from by I've always thought it was kind of funny.

♪Proud and defiant, we'll slay the Giant! Let us seize the day!♪ lyrics from the song Seize The Day in the movie Newsies

Answer 4

Crawling through poison I lay

My soul still flies with broken wings

and the sun is blinding, I can't stop staring

I don't wanna close my eyes

Righteous respects, and it's the best kept secret

And I can let go of my burdens that keep me from living

so I can start dying

teachers, by POD

oh and here are some quotes that are just fun to say.

"all by me lones'm" captian jack sparrow

"crumbs on his jacketss"(yes pronounce both s's) gollem, lord of the rings.

Answer 5

"It's a complicated world, Clark. Only the naïve view it in black and white." - Lex Luthor, Smallville

Answer 6

I have a couple

"Marines die that what were here for. But the Marine Corps lives forever and that means you live forever"

Gunnery Sgt. Hartman

"Some people go there whole lives wondering what they did. Marines don't have that problem."

Ronadl Reagan

Answer 7

"Don't get run over."  George Carlin.

RIP George: we MISS you !

Answer 8

Why so serious? - Joker (Batman: Dark Knight)

Answer 9

Dont p**s down my back and tell me that it is raining.

Answer 10

Felix qui potuit rerum cognoscere causas.

That one is fortunate, who was able to understand the basis of the world.

Answer 11

While at a New York bakery, Jerry Seinfeld tells Elaine ........

" LOOK TO THE COOKIE, ELAINE ...........LOOK TO THE COOKIE "

Answer 12

You only live once.....

Answer 13

Now there's a lot of Heath Ledger's Joker from The Dark Knight that i love as well as Batman.

"COME ON HIT ME!!!!

LET'S PUT A SMILE ON THAT FACE

GOOD EVENING LADIES AND GENTLEMEN, WER'E TONIGHTS ENTERTAINMENT

WHERE IS HARVEY DENT?

A LITTLE FIGHTING YEAH, I LIKE THAT,

WELL HELLO BEAUTIFUL,

THIS CITY DESERVES A BETTER CLASS OF CRIMININAL, AND I'M GONNA GIVE IT TO 'EM!!!

WHY SO SERIOUS" and heaps others too

Batman

"AND YOU GONNA LOVE ME.

LET HER GO

WERE ARE THEY

YOU WANTED ME HERE I AM"

I love Jack Nicholson's lines as well from his versions

"GO WITH A SMILE

HAVEN'T YOU EVER HEARD OF THE HEALING POWER OF LAUGHTER?

ANTOINE GOT A LITTLE HOT UNDER THE COLLAR"

and heaps others.

Answer 14

Lord love a duck ! From the book " Main Street ".

Answer 15

You don't know what you've got until it's gone