Quotes

[beMMADfabulous]

I love reading quotes of all kinds (movie, inspirational, humorous, etc.). What are some of your favorites?

[nicolerose]

I love Quotes too! I want to get them all put together and then I will let you know!
But one of them is at the bottom of what i always write. Its a Harry Potter one (you will know that when you read it.) but I will be back with them!

What are you favorite quotes?

[nicolerose]

well... i guess its not really a quote, but its still a great passage!

[kankulex]

Ah quotes... I LOVE them... and I collected a few...
here my favourite ones from the first book:


Albus Dumbledore: Fancy seeing you here, Professor McGonagall
Minerva McGonagall :[after transforming ] How did you know it was me?
Albus Dumbledore: My dear Professor, I've never seen a cat sit so stiffly.
Minerva McGonagall: You'd be stiff if you'd been sitting on a brick wall all day!

Dumbledore: Would you care for a sherbet lemon?
Minerva: A what?
Dumbledore: A sherbet lemon. They're kind of Muggle sweet I'm rather fond of.

[...]
McGonagall: Only because you're too – well – noble to use them
Dumbledore: It's lucky it's dark. I haven't blushed so much since Madam Pomfrey told me she liked my new earmuffs.

Dumbledore: "Scars can come in handy. I have one myself above my left knee that is a perfect map of the London Underground."

The Weasley twins:
"Oh, are you a prefect Percy? You should have said something, we had no idea."
"Hang on I think I remember him saying something about it, once..."
"Or twice-"
"A minute-"
"All summer-"

Dumbledore: "Welcome! Welcome to a new year at Hogwarts! Before we begin our banquet, I would like to say a few words. And here they are: Nitwit! Blubber! Oddment! Tweak! Thank you!"

"Ah, music," he said, wiping his eyes. "A magic far beyond all we do here! And now, bedtime. Off you trot!"

Dumbledore: And finally, I must tell you that this year, the third-floor corridor on the right-hand side is out of bounds to everyone who does not wish to die a most painful death.

[Harry and Ron arrive late to Transfiguration, relieved that Professor McGonagall isn't there yet - then the cat sitting at the head of the class transforms into her]
Ron: That was bloody brilliant!
Professor McGonagall: Well, thank you for that assessment, Mr Weasley. Perhaps it would be more useful if I were to transfigure Mr Potter and yourself into a pocket watch. That way, one of you might be on time.
Ron: We got lost.
Professor McGonagall: Then perhaps a map? I trust you don't need one to find your seats.

Professor Severus Snape: There will be no foolish wand waving or silly incantations in this class.

Hermione: Now, if you two don't mind, I'm going to bed before either of you come up with another clever idea to get us killed. Or worse, expelled.
Ron: She needs to sort out her priorities.

Hermione: [putting a large book on the table] I got this out weeks ago for a bit of light reading.
Ron: This is light?

Lee Jordan was finding it difficult not to take sides.
"So-after that obvious and disgusting bit of cheating-"
"Jordan!" growled Professor McGonagall.
"I mean, after that open and revolting foul-"
"Jordan, I'm warning you-"
"All right, all right. Flint nearly kills the Gryffindor Seeker, which could happen to anyone, I'm sure..."

Dumbledore: It does not do to dwell on dreams and forget to live.

"Sir — Professor Dumbledore? Can I ask you something?"
"Obviously, you’ve just done so," Dumbledore smiled. “You may ask me one more thing, however."
"What do you see when you look in the mirror?"
"I? I see myself holding a pair of thick, woolen socks."
Harry stared.
"One can never have enough socks. Another Christmas has come and gone and I didn’t get a single pair. People will insist on giving me books."

"I believe your friends Misters Fred and George Weasley were responsible for trying to send you a toilet seat. No doubt they thought it would amuse you."

Dumbledore: "Fear of a name increases fear of a thing itself."

Dumbledore: Only a person who wanted to find the Stone - find it, but not use it - could have gotten it out of the mirror. That is one of my more brilliant ideas. And between you and me, that is saying something.

Dumbledore: What happened in the dungeon between you and Professor Quirrell is a complete secret, so naturally, the whole school knows.

Dumbledore: After all, to the well-organized mind, death is but the next great adventure

[about Every Flavor Beans]
Dumbledore: I was unfortunate enough in my youth to come across a vomit-flavored one, and since then I have rather lost my liking for them. But, I think I could be safe with a nice toffee.
[eats it]
Dumbledore: ...Hmm, alas, earwax.

Dumbledore: It takes a great deal of courage to stand up to your enemies, but a great deal more to stand up to your friends.

[beMMADfabulous]

Btw, I did mean all quotes. Not just Harry Potter ones, (so you'd know) but I like those too. ;D

I'll post some of mine later when I have more time.

[avadagypsy]

I like this one:

"We are not human beings having a spiritual experience; rather, we a spiritual beings having a human experience."

I think I heard it on Oprah once! hehe! but I like it!

[EloquentPhoenix]

I don't have time to post now. I will tonight, stupid work *sigh*.

[kankulex]

ah well.. ok... all quotes.. i get it.. I'm slow at times

"No one can make you feel inferior without your consent"

I heard it in Princess Diaries for the first time but I think that it was said by Eleanor Roosevelt...

[beMMADfabulous]

Here are a few:

"If you want the rainbow, you gotta put up with the rain"- Dolly Parton

"I'm a bagel on a plate full of onion rolls."- (Barbra Streisand in <i>Funny Girl</i> )

"Well-behaved women rarely make history."- Marilyn Monroe

"Everyone thinks of changing the world, but no one thinks of changing himself." - Leo Tolstoy

"The best is yet to be."- Robert Browning

"What the master calls the end of the world, the master calls a butterfly."- Richard Bach

"Don't curse the darkness; light a candle."- Chinese proverb

"Do not choose to be wrong for the sake of being different."- Sir Herbert Louis Samuel

"If at first you don't succeed, skydiving is not for you."- Anonymous

"Don't worry about the world coming to an end today. It is already tomorrow in Austrialia."- Charles Schulz

"Someday my ship will come, and with my luck I'll be at the airport."- Anonymous

"People say I'm too nice. I tell them to get over it."- Paula Abdul

[Herzele]

kankulex said:

"No one can make you feel inferior without your consent"

I heard it in Princess Diaries for the first time but I think that it was said by Eleanor Roosevelt...

Yep, it was Eleanor Roosevelt ... At least Anne says : "Eleanor Roosevelt said that ..." when Hector uses that quote ...

[mcgonagallrocks]

Robert A. Heinlein "Women and cats will do as they please, and men and dogs should relax and get used to the idea."

"Dogs come when called. Cats have answering machines."

Larry Wright "If Darwin's theory of evolution was correct, cats would be able to operate a can opener by now." (We all know one that can)

Robert A. Heinlein "Never try to outstubbron a cat."

"Courage is not the absence of fear, but the realization that something is more important than fear. The brave may not live forever but the cautious do not live at all." Mia's Dad (PD1)

"Alastor, we never use transfiguration as a punishment. Surely Dumbledore told you that?" Professor McGonagall (GoF)

"Knowledge and reason go out the wendiow when love gets invloved." Grams (Charmed)

"How DARE you and the rest of your barbarians set fire to my library? Play conqueror all you want, Mighty Caesar! Rape, murder, pillage thousands, even millions of human beings! But neither you nor any other barbarian has the right to destroy one human thought!" Cleopatra (Cleopatra)

[ravenhaired]

My favourite quote at the moment is my signature... ;D

[beMMADfabulous]

ravenhaired said:

My favourite quote at the moment is my signature... ;D

I like it. Where/Who's it from?

[ravenhaired]

Its from Shel Silverstein.

[EloquentPhoenix]

Pain is temporary, Pride is forever.

Are you afraid to think?

The good shepherd is never far from the flock

And your point is?

You opinion, though interesting, is irrelevant

Sing like nobody's listening

I'll try to be nicer, if you try to be smarter

Beauty is in the eye of the beholder

I hear voices and they don't like you!

Come to the dark side, We have cookies

God bless atheism (please don't go off at me, it's only a joke)

There is no life, but just a game, where no one wins and everyone loses

Is there life before death?

If you have nothing you'd die for, you have nothing to live for

Happiness is just an illusion

Song quotes:-

All in all, you're just another brick in the wall - Pink Floyd, Another Brick In The Wall Part II

You may know what I am, But who I am you don't know - Ocean Colour Scene, Get Blown Away

If only for today, I am unafraid - Berlin, Take My Breath Away

She's symbolic of our failure

And

Half a superstar, half victim - Roger Waters, Watching TV

I need direction to perfection - The Killers, All These Things That I've Done

Light up, light up as if you have a choice
Even if you cannot hear my voice
I'll be right beside you, dear - Snow Patrol, Run

You said something
You said something stuipid like
Love Steals us from Loneliness
Happy Birthday
Are you lonely yet? - Idlewild, Love Steals Us From Loneliness

It's too late for come backs, And I've been wrong before - Ocean Colour Scene, When Evil Comes

This is not what I'm like, This is not what I do
This is not what I'm like, I think I'm falling for you - The Magic Numbers, I See You, You See Me

I heard you say, sometimes you fall into the arms of no one at all - Razorlight, Vice

And then the nightmares come, and you get blown away - Ocean Colour Scene, Better Day

How I'll never be anything I hate - Franz Ferdinand, Matinée

You're going nowhere and you're going there fast - I can't remember Actually might be Idlewild, Love Steals Us From Loneliness again but I'm not sure.

They had you crying, and you came up smiling
They had you crawling, and you came up flying - Mark Knopfler, The Last Laugh

True perfection has to be imperfect - Oasis, Little By Little

We talked all night about suicide
She said if this is livin', how come I never feel alive? - Razorlight, Get It And Go

We can speak louder than ignorance, 'cause we speak in silence everytime our eyes meet - Willy Mason, Oxygen

You're an emotional wreck, you don't know who you are - Razorlight, Somewhere Else

I'll take a quiet life, A handshake of carbon monoxide - Radiohead, No Surprises

These are the days, it never rains but it pours - Queen and David Bowie, Under Pressure

I think I thought I saw you try - R.E.M., Losing My Religion

[mcgonagallrocks]

"Evny and wrath shorten the life Mrs. Braddock" Captian Bates (The Promised Way)

"If we see cruelty or wrong that we have the power to stop, and do nothing, we make ourselves sharers in the guilt." (Black Beauty by Anna Sewell)

"The only thing necessary for the triumph of evil is for good people to do nothing." Edmund Burke

"Your tongue is old, but sharp, Cicero. Be careful how you wag it. One day it will cut off your head." Marc Antony (Cleopatra)

"I do not understand why the eyes of a statue should always lack light." Julius Caesar (Cleopatra)

Cleopatra: "You will kneel."
Antony: "I will what?"
Cleopatra: "On your knees." (Cleopatra)

"Remember, Chiyo, geisha are not courtesans. And we are not wives. We sell our skills, not our bodies. We create another secret world, a place only of beauty. The very word "geisha" means artist and to be a geisha is to be judged as a moving work of art." Mameha (Memoirs of a Geisha)