“This story will have a happy ending.  I promise.”
- Farid ~ Inkspell

“I wouldn’t be paranoid if they weren’t out to get me.”
- Carlie ~ General Hospital

“It was a murder, but not a crime.”
- Cell Block Tango ~ Chicago

“The best kind of prize is a sur-prize!”
- Johnny Depp ~ Charlie And The Chocolate Factory

“Don’t mistake coincidence for fate.”
- Echo ~ LOST

“The world hears through different ears.”
- Paula Abdoul ~ American Idol

“Taking care of yourself is a matter of instinct.  Taking care of your neighbor is a matter of spirit.”
- News Lady ~ TV

“You want to see a miracle, Son – Be the miracle.”
- Morgan Freedman ~ Bruce Almighty

“With great power comes great responsibility.”
- Uncle Ben ~ Spider Man

“The opposite of love isn’t hate.  It’s indifference.  As long as you hate me you still care.”
- Bree Vandicamp ~ Desperate Housewives

“Dally didn’t die a hero.  He died violent and young and desperate, just like we all knew he’d die someday….  But Johnny was right, he died gallant.”
- Ponyboy Curtis ~ The Outsiders

“Things are rough all over.”
- Cherry Valance ~ The Outsiders

“He kept trying to make someone say ‘No’ and they never did.  That’s what he wanted.  For somebody to tell him ‘No’.  To have somebody lay down the law, set the limits, give him something solid to stand on.  That’s what we all want really.”
- Randy ~ The Outsiders

“God help the outcasts, or nobody will.”
- Esmarelda ~ The Hunchback of Notre Dame

“You’d best start believing in ghost stories, Miss Turner.  You’re in one!”
- Captain Barbosa ~ Pirates of the Caribbean, the Curse of the Black Pearl

“Why do we fall, Sir?  So that we can learn to pick ourselves up.”
- Alfred ~ Batman Begins

“Being miserable doesn’t make you better than everyone else, House.  It just makes you miserable.”
- Doctor Wilson ~ House

“(Knocks on Wilson’s door) I know you’re in there!  I can hear you caring!!!”
- Doctor Gregory House ~ House

“To those who lost their lives; We remember.”
“To those who survived; We hear you.”
“To the next generation; We must never forget.”
- Words on the screen ~ An Oprah special on the Holocaust

“You’re never going to get anywhere with your eyes closed.”
- Lionel Luther ~ Smallville

“Remember; Pieces of a puzzle make funny shapes, but they still fit together in the end.”
- Frog Guy (Flippers) ~ Hoodwinked

“Strange game.  The only winning move is not to play.”
- “Joshua” Computer (Speaking of [Nuclear] war) ~ War Games

“Life is about change.  Sometimes it’s painful.  Sometimes it’s beautiful.  But most of the time it’s both.”
- Lana (Quoting her aunt Nell) ~ Smallville

CLARK:  “Mom, if you could see anything, what would you do?”
MARTHA:  “Learn to close my eyes.”
- Clark and Martha Kent ~ Smallville

“Everybody loves a hero.  They cheer them, scream their names.  Years later, they’ll tell how they stood in the rain for hours, just to get a look at the one who taught them to hold on a second longer.  I believe there’s a hero in all of us, that keeps us honest, gives us strength, makes us noble, and finally allows us to die with pride.  Even though sometimes, we have to give up the thing we want the most, even our greed.”
- Aunt May ~ Spiderman 2

“Men occasionally stumble over the truth, but most of them pick themselves up and hurry off as if nothing had happened.”
- Winston Churchill ~ The Sisterhood of the Traveling Pants Books

“To the man who only has a hammer in the toolkit, every problem looks like a nail.”
- Abraham Maslow ~ The Sisterhood of the Traveling Pants Books

“Today is the tomorrow we worried about yesterday.”
- Anonymous ~ The Sisterhood of the Traveling Pants Books

“Some things have to be believed to be seen.”
- Ralph Hodgson ~ The Sisterhood of the Traveling Pants Books

“The centaurs were invited too, for though wild and lawless they were nonetheless distant relatives.”
- D’Aularies’ book of Greek Myths ~ The Sisterhood of the Traveling Pants Books

“We’re captive on the carousel of time.”
- Whoever’s Singing ~ The Circle Game

“Life’s a journey, Clark.  I don’t want to go through it following a road map.”
- Lex Luther ~ Smallville

LEX: “I come bearing gifts.”
CASANDRA: “So did the Greeks.”
- Lex and Cassandra (an old blind lady who can see the future) ~ Smallville

“It’s kinda like sensing you’re sailing into a little rain when you’re on board the Titanic.”
- Allison (the psychic) ~ Medium

MOM: “Everyone’s special, Dash.”
DASH: “Which is just another way of saying no one is.”
- Dash and his mom (Eleastagirl / Mrs. Par) ~ The Incredibles

“You can’t count on anyone, especially your heroes.”
- Syndrome ~ The Incredibles

“I’ll give them heroics!  I’ll give them the most spectacular heroics anyone’s ever seen!  And when I’m old and I’ve had my fun, I’ll sell my inventions so that everyone can be superheroes – everyone can be super!  And when everyone’s super…no one will be!”
- Syndrome ~ The Incredibles

KID: “What good is eating broccoli if you can’t have dessert?!”
MOM: “Strong bones and teeth!!!”
- Raven’s character and her mom ~ The Cheetah Girls

“Thus sharply did the terrified three learn the difference between an island of make-believe and the same island come true.”
- J. M. Barrien ~ Peter Pan (Quoted in Inkspell)

“He had wanted to come back – that was all he’d hoped for in ten long years – not back to paradise, he’d just wanted to come home.”
- Dustfinger’s thoughts ~ Inkspell

“For what was the use of remembering all you had lost?”
- Dustfinger’s thoughts ~ Inkspell

“Stories never really end, Meggie.”…“even if the books like to pretend they do.  Stories always go on.  They don’t end on the last page any more than they begin on the first page.”
- Mo ~ Inkspell

“There is no living thing that is not afraid when it faces danger.  True courage is in facing danger when you are afraid.”
- Oz The Great And Terrible ~ The Wonderful Wizard Of Oz (the book)

“The past can hurt.  But the way I see it, you can either run from it, or learn from it.”
- Raffiki ~ The Lion King

“You can own the earth, and still, all you’ll own is earth.”
- Pocahontas ~ Pocahontas

“The idea hovered and shivered delicately, like a soap bubble, and she dared not even look at it directly in case it burst.  But she was familiar with the way of ideas, and she let it shimmer, looking away, thinking about something else.”
- Philip Pullman ~ Northern Lights (Quoted in Inkspell)

“I knew an old man,”…“who used to tell stories at night by the fire.  Stories about paradise.  This is just how he described it: carpets of moss, pools of cool water, flowers and sweet berries everywhere, trees growing up to the sky, and the voices of their leaves speaking to the wind above you.  Can you hear them?”
- Farid ~ Inkspell

“Who wants to be a part of everybody?”
- Brittany ~ Stuck in the Suburbs

“It’s not a lie.  It’s a gift for fiction.”
- The Director Guy ~ State and Maine

“Love and guilty conscience didn’t mix.”
- Meggie’s thoughts ~ Inkspell

“No herb exists that can cure grief.”
- The Prince Of Sighs ~ Inkspell

“Tightrope-walkers, fire-eaters, peasants, princes – they’re all the same, flesh and blood and a heart the knows it will stop beating one day.”
- Nettle ~ Inkspell

“Tyrants smile with their last breath.  For they know that at their death tyranny just changes hands, serfdom lives on in their lands.”
- Heinrich ~ King David (Quoted in Inkspell)

“Everything I do right is God’s work.  Everything I do wrong is my own damn fault.”
- Dr. Eric Foreman ~ House

“You’re lucky.  The worst part is remembering what it’s like to be normal.”
- Angel of Vengeance ~ Smallville

“Something can always go wrong.”
- Pierce ~ The Great Train Robbery

“It’s never too late to change.”
- Martha Kent ~ Smallville

GUY: “How does it feel to be helpless?”
LIONEL: “I’ll let you know if it ever happens.”
- Lionel Luther and his tormentor/kidnapper/attempted murderer ~ Smallville

“Friendship is a fairytale, Clark.  Respect and fear are the best you can hope for.”
- Lex Luther ~ Smallville

“You can learn a lot from someone you hate.”
- Lex Luther ~ Smallville

ROCK: “Only some people get the shit they want.”
PIERRE: “That’s true.  Those are the people who show up to get it.”
- Rock and Pierre Dulaine ~ Take The Lead

“Just because he was right doesn’t mean he wasn’t wrong.”
- Dr. Wilson ~ House

“You’re saying answer the questions.  They’re saying question the answers.”
- Some Guy ~ Lost Special on TV

“You have brains in your head.  You have feet in your shoes.  You can steer yourself wherever you choose.”
- Dr. Seuss ~ Oh The Places You’ll Go

“I see you and I remember.  I see you and – and I’m home.  I don’t want to loose that.  I don’t want to forget.”
- Dory ~ Finding Nemo

“We can dwell on what was, or we can talk about what is.”
- Kitty’s Mom ~ That 70’s Show

“All that really matters is making sure that the people we love know we love them.”
- Kitty’s Mom ~ That 70’s Show

“It’s important that he knows you believe in him, even if you don’t.”
- Dr. Chase ~ House

“It takes a great deal of bravery to stand up to your enemies, but a great deal more to stand up to your friends.”
- Professor Albus Dumbledore ~ Harry Potter And The Sorcerer’s Stone

“The most dangerous enemy is that which no one fears.”
- “Janus” ~ Angles and Demons

“One does not need to have cancer to analyze its symptoms.”
- Maxamilian Kohler ~ Angles and Demons

“I’m in Oz, he thought.  And I forgot my magic slippers.”
- Professor Langdon’s thoughts ~ Angles and Demons

“My god is better than your god.  It seemed there was always close correlation between true believers and high body counts.”
- Professor Langdon’s thoughts ~ Angles and Demons

“Some of us pray to Jesus, some of us go to Mecca, some of us study subatomic particles.  In the end we are all just searching for the truth.”
- Vittoria ~ Angles and Demons

“There’s a fine line between faith and denial.  Things are much better on my side.”
- Rose ~ LOST

“What good is a palace when you are a prisoner inside of it?”
- SnaJay ~ The Suite Life Of Zack And Coty

“If life doesn’t make you crazy, then why bother living it?”
- Lana Lang ~ Smallville

“I prefer to believe in people.”
- Martha Kent (Quoting her husband Jonathan) ~ Smallville

“Revenge isn’t worth much if you end up dead.”
- Luther (a vampire) ~ Supernatural

“His Journey.”
“Their battle.”
“Our future.”
- Words on the screen ~ An Add For Smallville

“Greatness is a rarified air one has to be taught to breathe.”
- Lionel Luther ~ Smallville

“So hell freezes over and no one even bothers to tell me?”
- Chloe Sullivan ~ Smallville

“At some point, ‘do no harm’ has to mean letting nature take its course.”
- Doctor Chase ~ House

“We don’t choose our birth and we don’t choose our death.”
- Ezra Powel (a patient) ~ House

“Maybe people don’t see the cruelty in your world right away, it’s better hidden, but it’s there all the same.”
- Farid ~ Inkspell

“Death was already inside of his body somewhere, invisible, growing and flourishing and eating him away – the one enemy he could never defeat, never burn or stab or hang, the one enemy from whom there was no escaping.”
- Fenoglio’s words (about the Adderhead) ~ Inkspell

“Panic serves no one.”
- Olivetti ~ Angles and Demons

“I haven’t failed.  I’ve just found 10,000 ways that don’t work.”
- Thomas Edison ~ Quoted in National Treasure

“Pain is part of life, Calel.  But you cannot let it blind you.”
- Jaurel ~ Smallville

“The real test of a hero, is knowing when the greater good will be served by an evil act.”
- Lionel Luther ~ Smallville

“‘What was all that about?’  I say.  ‘Just savin the world,’ he says.”
- Desmond ~ LOST

“Even when I couldn’t count on anyone, I could always count on you.”
- Sam Winchester ~ Supernatural

DEAN: “Or I swear to god…”
DEMON: “What?  What are you and God gonna do?”
- Dean Winchester and the Demon that killed his Mom ~ Supernatural

CALVIN: “Tell me, Desmond.  Why’d ya leave that nice old lady’s army?  Oh I remember now – You got kicked out because you couldn’t follow orders.”
DESMOND: “And why did you leave your army, Calvin?  Huh!”
CALVIN: “Because men followed my orders.”
- Desmond and Calvin ~ LOST

“Here’s the real question, Desmond.  Do you have the courage to take your finger out of the dam, and blow the whole thing up instead?”
- Calvin ~ LOST

“All we really need to survive is one person who truly loves us.  And you have her.”
- A Letter To Desmond From Pen ~ LOST

“Ain’t no hiding what you are.  Day you try, is the day you die.  Stand tall, smile bright, and let ’em wonder what secret’s making you laugh.”
- BBC Camerawoman’s Mother ~ Angles and demons

“When you put everyone else first, you end up last.”
- Pete’s Mother ~ Heroes

“There’s no reason to give up hope until you absolutely have to…There’s no reason to start dying early.”
- Elizabeth Edwards ~ The Oprah Winfry Show

“It’s a game, thought Mo once more when he was standing before the steps of the throne, only a game.  If only he’d known more about the rules.”
- Narrator ~ Inkspell

“Langdon had just played his final card.  And he knew he had lost the hand.”
- Narrator ~ Angles and Demons

“I don’t care what you say about me, just spell my name right!”
- P. T. Barnum (Quoted by Professor Langdon) ~ Angles and Demons

“Sometimes divine revelation simply means adjusting your brain to hear what your heart already knows.”
- Vittoria’s Dad ~ Angles and Demons

“Every world needs its heroes, Clark.  They inspire us to be better than we are.  And they protect us from the darkness that’s just around the corner.”
- Martha Kent ~ Smallville

“It’s like…trying to find a needle in a stack of needles.”
- Sam Winchester ~ Supernatural

“People in hell want ice water.  Doesn’t mean they’re going to get it.”
- Nicky’s Mother-in-Law ~ Heroes

“I QUIT!!!” (bow)
- Jin ~ LOST

“You know, fathers don’t like to admit it when their daughters are capable of running their own lives.  It means we become spectators.  Beonca still lets me play a few innings.  You’ve had me on the bench for years.  When you go to Sarah Lawrence, I won’t even be able to watch the game.”
- Mr. Stratford ~ 10 Things I Hate About You

“I hate the way you talk to me, and the way you cut your hair.
I hate it when 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.”
- Catalina Stratford ~ 10 Things I Hate About You

“We all have our own ways of moving on, whether it’s about growing up, or just surviving.”
- Martha Kent ~ Smallville

“I’d rather die tomorrow, than live a hundred years without knowing you.”
- John Smith ~ Pocahontas

“Enemy of my enemy – my friend.”
- Skulker ~ Danny Phantom

“This is no way to live.  This is a way to die.”
- Some Guy ~ Some Movie on TV

“The one thing I will not do is nothing.”
- Some Priest ~ ER

“The greater the trust, the greater the betrayal.”
- Lex Luther ~ Smallville

“Don’t hate the player, girl.  Hate the game.”
- Lucky the dog ~ Doctor Dolittle Three

“If you are allergic to a thing, it is best not to put that thing in your mouth, particularly if the thing is cats.”
- Lemony Snicket ~ A series of Unfortunate Events, Book The Third, The Wide Window

“Opportunity does not knock, and then ring the doorbell, and then knock again, and then leave a note that says ‘Sorry I missed you’, and then call on the phone…”
- Fez ~ That 70’s Show

“It’s not fair, Red.  Y-y-you teach your children how to, how to walk, t-to use a fork, t-to look both ways before crossing the street.  And then one day you realize, all you’re doing is teaching them how to leave.”
- Kitty Foreman ~ The 70’s Show

“I did not ask for the life that I was given.  But it was given, nonetheless.  And with it, I did my best.”
- Mister Eko ~ LOST

“You know, we all make bad choices, Clark.  All we can do is hope to make the right ones in the future, right?”
- Oliver Queen ~ Smallville

“You don’t need to be indestructible to be a hero.”
- Clark Kent ~ Smallville

“Sometimes, even heroes need to be saved.”
- Chloe Sullivan ~ Smallville

“Everything is conditional.  You just can’t always anticipate the conditions.”
- Dr. Gregory House ~ House

“Tis better to remain silent and be thought a fool, than to open your mouth and remove all doubt.”
- Lisa Simpson (Quoting Abraham Lincoln) ~ The Simpsons

“The only thing you’ll regret is denying who you really are.”
- What’s-His-Name ~ Heroes

“Even the darkest night will end and the sun will rise.”
- Chorus ~ Finale Leas Miserables

“Like me with the anthill in my backyard.  I spent days with the ants, trying to figure out which ones were good, and which ones were bad, but they all just looked like ants.  So I started smiting all of them.  I was smiting them with the garden hose, and with lighter fluid, and the lawn mower, and to be perfectly honest, I think I went a little crazy with the shovel.  Those ants could have been praying to me all day. I wouldn’t have heard them.  And really it’s the same with us.  There’s really nothing we can do about anything either.  So why worry about it?”
- Dewy ~ Malcolm in the Middle

“But, you know, it’s all in how you look at it, not this way, or that way, or foreways, or backways, just believe before you look.”
- Grandpa Flynn ~ Tha Dust Factory

“You can’t create a monster and them whine when it stomps on a few buildings!”
- Lisa Simpson ~ The Simpsons

“Sometimes, seeing is believing, but sometimes, the most real things in the world are the things we can’t see.”
- The Conductor ~ The Polar Express

“You don’t get to choose the people who need your help.”
- Francis ~ Malcolm in the Middle

“Sometimes we need to accept what’s happened to us, even if we don’t want to.  And other times we have to fight, even if we are afraid.”
- Alexander ~ The Time Machine

“If you don’t like the answers, you should avoid asking the questions.”
- Photonic ~ The Time Machine

ANNA: “We Transylvanians always look on the brighter side of death.”
VAN: “There’s a brighter side of death?”
ANNA: “Yes. It’s just harder to see.”
- Anna Valerious and Van Helsing ~ Van Helsing

VALCON: “I would rather die than help you!”
DRACULA: “Oh, don’t be boring.  Everyone who says that dies.”
- Valcon Valerious and Count Dracula

“You have become that which you have hunted so passionately.” … “May others be as passionate in the hunting of you.”
- Frankenstein Monster ~ Van Helsing

“It’s nice to be important, but it’s more important to be nice.”
- Sharie ~ Beauty and the Geek

“Let’s look death in the face and say ‘Whatever man!’”
- Hurley ~ LOST

“What we do, Miss Ventura, does not define who we are. What defines us is how well we rise after falling.”
- Mr. (the butler dude) ~ Maid in Manhattan

“Maybe life is like a roller coaster, and you only go down so you can have fun coming back up.”
- Reese ~ Malcolm in the Middle

“The lessons that we learn from pain are the ones that make us the strongest.”
- Jaurel ~ Smallville

“Dreams die hard and you hold them in your hands long after they’ve turned to dust.”
- Bowen (Knight of the Old Code) ~ Dragonheart

“You’ve just spent too much time running away to realize what you may be running toward.”
- Monk Dude ~ LOST

“People who keep looking behind them only end up falling over what’s ahead of them.”
- Riku ~ KH: Memory Lane Page 26

“I do not like Wilhelm, even thought he is a bad guy. He’s just pure evil. Maybe if he had a billowing cape of doom…”
- Rickard ~ A review for the story Life Goes On

“It is one of the strangest truths that practically nobody likes to be stared at and that practically nobody can stop themselves form staring.”
- Lemony Snicket ~ A Series of Unfortunate Events, Book the Thirteenth, the END

“Just because your parents have died,”…“doesn’t mean they’ve failed you.”
- Ishmael ~ A Series of Unfortunate Events, Book the Thirteenth, the END

“Nothing’s safe forever.”
- Count Olaf ~ A Series of Unfortunate Events, Book the Thirteenth, the END

“Life’s a trip – enjoy the ride.”
- Ben Olsen ~ Romiette and Julio

“If you don’t stand up for yourself, Jade sweetie, no one else will.  Be strong.  Be brave.  Be you.”
- Jade Leigh’s mom ~ Oh My Goth

“What is the meaning of life? I think I know the answer. Happiness. I think we’re supposed to take out fair share of it and help others find theirs… When will the rest of the world get the memo?”
- Jade Leigh – Oh My Goth

“She was flying away from the sun, but it would be there to meet her when she landed.  They were just taking different routes to the same place.”
- Narrator (speaking of Bee) ~ Sisterhood of the Traveling Pants, Forever Blue

“Where there is nothing, there is the possibility of everything.”
- Carmen’s thoughts ~ Sisterhood of the Traveling Pants, Forever Blue

“I wanted you to see what real courage is, instead of getting the idea that courage is a man with a gun in his hand.  It’s when you know you’re licked before you begin but you begin anyway and you see it through no matter what.  You rarely win, but sometimes you do.”
- Atticus Finch ~ To Kill A Mockingbird

“You’ll find”…“That the only thing you can do easily is be wrong, and that’s hardly worth the effort.”
- Mathemagician ~ The Phantom Toll Booth

“You know that it’s there, but you just don’t know where – but just because you can never reach it doesn’t mean that it’s not worth looking for.”
- Child from an “average” family (.58 child) ~ The Phantom Toll Booth

“What you can do is often simply a matter of what you will do.”
- Reason ~ The Phantom Toll Booth

“I’ll fight when needed, revel when there’s occasion, mourn when there is grief, and die if my time comes… but I won’t let anyone use me against my will.”
- Eragon ~ Eragon

“Life is pain, highness, anyone who says differently is selling something.”
- Westley ~ The Princess Bride

“Life is both pain and pleasure.  If this is the price you must pay for the hours you enjoy, is it too much?”
- Saphira ~ Eragon

JACK: “This girl, how far are you willing to go for her?”
WILL: “I’d die for her!”
JACK: “Oh good.  No worries then.”
- Captain Jack Sparrow and William Turner ~ Pirates Of The Caribbean, The Curse Of The Black Pearl

“Can someone be truly good if they never have the opportunity to act badly?”
- Eragon’s Thoughts ~ Eragon

“Even a good decision, if made for the wrong reasons, can be a bad decision.”
- Governor Swan ~ Pirates Of The Caribbean, The Curse Of The Black Pearl

“When you can have anything you want by uttering a few words, the goal matters not, only the journey to it,”
- Rhunön-elda ~ Eragon

“Live in the present, remember the past, and fear not the future, for it doesn’t exist and never shall.  There is only now.”
- Saphira ~ Eragon

“I’ve got more faith in Hitler than in anyone else.  He’s the only one who’s kept his promises, all his promises, to the Jewish people.”
- Eliezer’s “faceless neighbor” in the hospital ward at Burna ~ Night by Elie Wiesel

“The hardest part of this is leaving you.”
- My Chemical Romance ~ Cancer

“The things you’re scared of are usually the most worthwhile.”
- Ana Foster ~ Chasing Liberty

“The man of tomorrow is forged by his battles today.”
- Lex Luther ~ Smallville

“That’s how the world ends, not with a bang, but a whimper”
- Gary Marshal (a judge) ~ On The Lot

“Of course, it’s been my experience, when you hit bottom, the only place to go is up.”
- Sweet ~ Atlantis the Lost Empire

“The only thing you’ll regret is denying who you really are.”
- Zach ~ Heroes

“Death takes care of itself.  It’s life that needs your attention.”
- Joe Dubois’s Dad ~ Medium

“You became everything you wanted to be and I… I became dead.”
- Ando ~ Heroes

“Nothing is inevitable.”
- Claire Bennett ~ Heroes

“Only you can keep me form returning to my heathen ways.  You’re like a conscience, only I take heed of you.”
- Takizo Kensai ~ Heroes

“Fate never comes through the front door.”
- Billy Marvel ~ Journeyman

“Give to get, that is the secret of life.”
- Phoebe Hallowell ~ Charmed

“If the wonder’s gone when the truth is explained, there never was any wonder.”
- Doctor Gregory House ~ House M.D.

“You spend your whole life looking for answers, because you think the next answer will change something, maybe make you a little less miserable.  And you know that when you run out of questions, you don’t just run out of answers, you run out of hope.”
- Thirteen ~ House M.D.

HOOK: “If I were you, I’d give up.”
PETER: “If you were me… I’d be ugly!”
- Captain James Hook and Peter Pan ~ Peter Pan (2000 movie)

“To die would be an awfully big adventure.”
- Peter Pan ~ Peter Pan (2000 movie)

“To live would be an awfully big adventure”
- Peter Pan ~ Peter Pan (2000 movie)

“Nothing is impossible. Illegal? Yeah. Stupid? Definitely. But not impossible.”
- Soc ~ Reaper

“I think we live our lives so afraid to be seen as weak that we die, perhaps, without ever being seen at all.”
- Alan Shore ~ Boston Legal

“There is no worse death than the end of hope.”
- Arthur ~ King Arthur

“Failure is merely a road to success.”
- Doctor Foot ~ Eli Stone

"People don't change. They say they're going to change. They swear to God they're going to change. But at the end of the day you are who you are."
- Monk's Father ~ Monk

“If you’re unhappy on the plane, jump out of it.”
- Dr. Gregory House ~ House M.D.

“You’re on a plane! We’re all on planes. Life is dangerous and complicated, and it’s a long way down.”
- Dr. Gregory House ~ House M.D.

“Ruby’s just jerking your chain down the road. You know what it’s paved with and you know where it’s going.”
- Dean Winchester ~ Supernatural

“Family don’t end with blood.”
- Bobby Singer ~ Supernatural

“A person is smart. People are dumb, panicky, dangerous animals, and you know it.”
- K ~ Men In Black

“I respect things that deserve respect. This decision, on the other hand, is a dog wearing a cape.”
- Dr. Gregory House ~ House M.D.

“Fifteen hundred years ago everybody knew the Earth was the center of the universe. Five hundred years ago everybody knew the Earth was flat. Fifteen minutes ago you knew that people were alone on this planet. Imagine what you’ll know tomorrow.”
- K ~ Men In Black

“Truth and facts, they don’t really have anything to do with each other.”
- Alan Shore ~ Boston Legal

“You’re gonna hate yourself for this, and then when you go to Hallmark to get a card to make up for it you’re not gonna find one because it’s too specific!”
- Catalina ~ My Name Is Earl

“Sometimes you need to do the wrong things for the right reasons.”
- Corrine ~ Strange Says At Blake Holsey High

“The spirits don’t need you to believe in them, Doctor Brennan. They believe in you.”
- Voodoo Dude ~ Bones

“Don’t be afraid of death, Winney. Be afraid of the unlived life.”
- Tuck ~ Tuck Everlasting

“I would rather spend my life close to the bird, than waste it wishing I had wings.”
- Patient ~ House M.D.

“People fear truths. Truths they can’t influence or change. Truths they don’t understand. I have found it is often more beneficial to stay my tongue”
- Jonas Faulkner ~ The Phoenix Requiem

“A dream is only as strong as its dreamer.”
- Anya Katsukova ~ The Phoenix Requiem

“I have a nice comforter and several pillows. I usually read a chapter of a book, and it’s lights out at eight thirty. That’s how I sleep at night.”
- Angela ~ The Office

“Love many, trust few, do wrong to none.”
- Some Guy ~ Survivor

“I want live soldiers, not dead heroes.”
- Mr. Galanter ~ The Chosen

“No one knows he is fortunate until he is unfortunate.”
- Narrator’s Father ~ The Chosen

“It will have meaning only if we give it meaning.”
- Narrator’s Father ~ The Chosen

“Sometimes we look too far away for answers… not realizing they’re right beside us”
- Sephie’s Thoughts ~ Meridian, Volume 16

“I don’t want to survive. I want to live!”
- The Captain ~ Wall-E

“The older I get it seems, the more wishing takes the place of dreams.”
- Eric Bogle ~ If Wishes Were Fishes

“The suffering, the sorrow, the glory, the pain, the killing, the dieing, it was all done in vain.”
- Eric Bogle ~ No Man’s Land

“Betray us, and I will fong you until you insides are out, your outsides are in, your entrails will become your extrails-… I will r-rake-… all of-… and-… Pain. Lots of pain.”
- Geoffrey ~ A Knight’s Tale

“It is the obvious which is so difficult to see most of the time. People say, ‘It’s as plain as the nose on your face,’ but how much of the nose on your face can you see unless someone holds a mirror up to you?”
- Stephen Byerly ~ I, Robot

“Everyone dies alone, Eragon. Whether you are a king on a battlefield or a lowly peasant lying in bed among your family, no one can accompany you into the void.”
- Glader ~ Eragon

“It may be cowardly to shrink from trouble, but ‘tis foolish to invite it.”
- Sir Michael’s Thoughts ~ The Last Knight

“It does not do to dwell on dreams and forget to live.”
- Professor Albus Dumbledore ~ Harry Potter and the Sorcerer’s Stone

“Always the innocent are the first victims.”
- Ronan ~ Harry Potter and the Sorcerer’s Stone

“To the well-organized mind, death is but the next great adventure.”
- Professor Albus Dumbledore ~ Harry Potter and the Sorcerer’s Stone

“As much money and life as you could want! Two things most human beings would chose above all – the trouble is, humans so have a knack of choosing precisely those things that are worst for them.”
- Professor Albus Dumbledore ~ Harry Potter and the Sorcerer’s Stone

“The truth, is a beautiful and terrible thing, and should therefore be treated with great caution.”
- Professor Albus Dumbledore ~ Harry Potter and the Sorcerer’s Stone

“It is out choices, Harry, that show what we truly are, far more than our abilities.”
- Professor Albus Dumbledore ~ Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets

“If you want to know what a man’s like, take a good look at how he treats his inferiors, not his equals.”
- Sirius Black ~ Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire

“Understanding is the first step to acceptance, and only with acceptance can there be recovery.”
- Professor Albus Dumbledore ~ Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire

“It matters not what a person is born, but what they grow to be.”
- Professor Albus Dumbledore ~ Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire

“We are only as strong as we are united, as weak as we are divided.”
- Professor Albus Dumbledore ~ Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire

“A span of life is nothing. But the man who lives the span he is something. He can fill that tiny span with meaning, so its quality is immeasurable thought it’s quantity may be insignificant.”
- Narrator’s Father ~ The Chosen

“People find it easier to forgive others for being wrong than being right.”
- Hermionie, quoting Professor Albus Dumbledore ~ Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix

“We’re not guaranteed that later on. All we have is here and now.”
- Ellen Degeneris ~ Here And Now

“Greatness inspires envy, envy engenders spite, spite spawns lies.”
- Lord Voldemort ~ Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix

“Have you any idea how much tyrants fear the people they oppress? All of them realize that, one day, amongst their many victims, there is sure to be one who rises against them and strikes back!”
- Professor Albus Dumbledore ~ Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix

“It is the unknown we fear when we look upon death and darkness, nothing more.”
- Professor Albus Dumbledore ~ Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix

“Don’t get so tolerant that you tolerate intolerance.”
- Bill Maher ~ Victory Begins At Home

“Perhaps those who are best suited to power are those who have never sought it. Those who, like you, have leadership thrust upon them, and take up the mantle because they must, and find to their own surprise that they wear it well.”
- Professor Albus Dumbledore ~ Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows

“You are the true master of Death, because the true master does not seek to run away from Death. He accepts that he must die, and understands that there are far, far worse things in the living world than dieing.”
- Professor Albus Dumbledore ~ Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows

“Do not pity the dead, Harry. Pity the living, and, above all, those who live without love.”
- Professor Albus Dumbledore ~ Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows

“The darkness in your heart is vast and deep… but if you can stare into it unflinchingly you’ll never know fear again.”
- Disembodied Voice ~ Kingdom Hearts, Chain of Memories Page 2

“Time’s wheel spun all things, from the Tree of Life down into the Flames of Destruction, but there was no sense in tempting it to turn.”
- Kavi’s Thoughts ~ Fall of a Kingdom

“He could hate them into the pit and back – it would do him no good and them no harm at all.”
- Kavi’s Thoughts ~ Fall of a Kingdom

“Money begets money, and the government only consumes it.”
- Patrius ~ Fall of a Kingdom

“Time’s Wheel has to dip before it can rise.”
- Kavi’s Thoughts ~ Fall of a Kingdom

“The point is that people cannot stop change, but they can shape it to be for good – or at least not so bad. Change is not one thing complete – it brings choices.”
- Maok ~ Forging the Sword

“We can acknowledge that truth and survive this day. Or we can die, knowing that whoever follows us will be forced to acknowledge it in the future.”
- Substrategus Barmael ~ Forging the Sword

“A good lie beats the truth ay day.”
- Kavi ~ Forging the Sword

“Was there any more wretched existence than the life of a writer who had run out of words? Was there a worse fate than having to watch someone else twist your words, adding colorful touches – in very bad taste – to the world you’d made?”
- Fenoglio’s Thoughts ~ Inkdeath

“It takes wisdom or strength to recognize corruption when it wears a nice suit.”
- Sephie ~ Meridian Volume 23

“Roxanne had nothing but memories left, and perhaps memories were sometimes worse than nothing.”
- Resa’s thoughts ~ Inkdeath

“I think we should sometimes read stories where everything’s different form our world, don’t you agree? There’s nothing like it for teaching us to wonder why trees are green and not red, and why we have five fingers rather than six.”
- Mo ~ Inkdeath

“Killing is too easy.”…“Dieing is harder.”
- Mo ~ Inkdeath

“To live is to embrace fully all you can become.”
- The Muse of Giatan ~ Meridian Volume 35

“There is no sound as loud as the quiet after a disaster.”
- Sephie ~ Meridian Volume 41

“Power isn’t always a matter of show.”
- Jad Takardy ~ Meridian Volume 44

“Secrets… nothing eats away at love faster.”
- Resa’s thoughts ~ Inkdeath

“Space is only time visible in a different way.”
- Ivan V. Lalic ~ Places We Love

“Nothing was more cruel than a heart made of flesh and blood, because it knew what gives pain.”
- Fenoglio’s thoughts ~ Inkdeath

“Hope. Nothing is more intoxicating.”
- Mo’s thoughts ~ Inkdeath

“Only Death will make you immortal, Bluejay.”
- Mo, quoting the White Women ~ Inkdeath

“Reality isn’t usually much like what we say about it.”
- The Adderhead ~ Inkdeath

“A fist is more than the sum of its fingers.”
- Margaret Atwood ~ The Blind Assassin

“You are a king. You ought to understand that danger is the mantle a person assumes when he – or she – has the arrogance to decide the fates of others.”
- Nasuada ~ Brisinger

“Sometimes it is harder to follow than it is to lead.”
- Nasuada ~ Brisinger

“Do not dwell on that which you cannot change. It will only worsen your distress.”
- Saphira ~ Brisinger

“A true warrior,”…“does not fight because he wishes to but because he has to. A man who yearns for war, a man who enjoys this killing, he is a brute and a monster. No matter now much glory he wins on the battlefield, that cannot erase the fact that he is not better than a rabid wolf who will turn on his friends and family as soon as his foes.”
- Katrina ~ Brisinger

“War is a perilous endeavor and even the most accomplished warrior may find death waiting for him amid the heated frenzy of battle.”
- Oromis ~ Brisinger

“There is always light... there is always beauty and spring somewhere and every endless winter will find its end sooner or later and even if sun sets today, tomorrow it will rise again... and maybe tomorrow is a better day…”
- Iradacil ~ Artist’s Comments for Melodies of Life

“I am not superstitious. I am a little stitious.”
- Michael Scott ~ The Office

“A lot people don’t believe in curses. A lot of people don’t believe in yellow-spotted lizards either, but if one bites you, it doesn’t make a difference.”
- Narrator ~ Holes

“The past has a way of being past.”
- Westley ~ The Princess Bride, S. Morgenstern’s Classis Tale of True Love and High Adventure

“Inigo knew that. He knew it. And, of course, he was absolutely right. But again, of course, there were many things that he did not know.”
- Narrator - The Princess Bride, S. Morgenstern’s Classis Tale of True Love and High Adventure

“But I also have to say, for the umpty-umpth time, that life isn’t fair. It’s just fairer than death, that’s all.”
- William Goldman ~ The Princess Bride, S. Morgenstern’s Classis Tale of True Love and High Adventure

“Why should I live? Why should I do anything? Is there in life any purpose which the inevitable death that awaits me does not undo and destroy?”
- Leo Tolstoy ~ Quoted in my Psychology Textbook

“Lorraine really did care. It wasn’t her fault that people didn’t know how to talk about death. Not Dad, not the neighbors, not Mom’s friends. Death’s partner was silence.”
- Zoë’s thoughts ~ The Silver Kiss

“We don’t ever have the benefit of hindsight in our decisions.”
- Simon ~ The Silver Kiss

“It doesn’t matter how long you live, the idea of nonexistence is still frightening. No matter how tired you are of life, it’s better than facing the unknown.”
- Simon ~ The Silver Kiss

“A monster that refused, sometimes, to behave like a monster. When a monster stopped behaving like a monster, did it stop being a monster? Did it become something else?”
- Katsa’s thoughts ~ Graceling

“He’d done a better job getting into the tower than I had expected – crazy people mush have an advantage when it comes to doing crazy things.”
- Fisk’s Narration ~ The Last Knight

“That’s what fiction is about, isn’t it, the selective transforming of reality?”
- Yann Martel ~ Author’s Note Preceding Life of Pi

“The reason death sticks so close to life isn’t biological necessity – it’s envy. Life is so beautiful that death has fallen in love with it, a jealous, possessive love that grabs at what it can. But life leabs over oblivion lightly, losing only a thing or two of no importance, and gloom is but the passing shadow of a cloud.”
- Pi Patel ~ Life of Pi

“When you’ve suffered a great deal in life, each additional pain is both unbearable and trifling.”
- Pi Patel ~ Life of Pi

“I have noting to say of my working life, only that a tie is a noose, and inverted though it is, it will hang a man nonetheless if he’s not careful.”
- Pi Patel ~ Life of Pi

“Evil in the open is but evil from within that has been let out. The main battlefield for good is not in the open ground of the public arena but the small clearing of each heart.”
- Pi Patel ~ Life of Pi

“Progress is unstoppable. It is a drumbeat to which we must all march. Technology helps and good ideas spread – those are the two laws of nature. If you don’t let technology help you, if you resist good ideas, you condemn yourself to dinosaurhood!”
- Pi’s Father ~ Life of Pi

“Love is hard to believe, ask any lover. Life is hard to believe, ask any scientist. God is hard to believe, ask any believer. What is your problem with hard to believe?”
- Pi Patel ~ Life of Pi

“Reason is excellent for getting food, clothing, and shelter. Reason is the very best toolkit. Nothing beats reason fro keeping tigers away. But be excessively reasonable and you risk throwing out the universe with the bathwater.”
- Pi Patel ~ Life of Pi

“The world isn’t just the way it is. It is how we understand it, no? and in understanding something, we bring something to it, no?”
- Pi Patel ~ Life of Pi

“Life is filled with small moments that seem prosaic until one has the distance to look back an see the chain of large moments they unleashed.”
- Laurel’s thoughts ~ Double Bind

“After all, even paranoids had enemies.”
- Laurel’s thoughts ~ Double Bind