- "There's something wrong with the world today
I don't know what it is.
Somethings wrong with our eyes.
We're seeing things in a different way
and God knows it ain't his.
-- Aerosmith, 'Livin on the Edge.'
- "I think I just choked on your hopefullness."
-- Becca.
- "While we frown upon circular reasoning; it often works well enough."
-- Patrick R. Bennett, Comparative Semitic Linguistics
- "The art of leadership is saying no, not yes. It is very easy to say yes."
-- Tony Blair.
- "If i could make it rain today
and wash away this sunny day down to the gutter,
I would."
-- Counting Crows, 'Amy Hit the Armosphere.'
- "It's got everything a romantic movie needs, except maybe dinosaurs."
-- Daniel.
- "Don't take my advice; it'll end up killing you!"
-- Daniel.
- "The rules are for lesser mortals."
-- David T.
- “Everybody's entitled to think what they want, even while being violently wrong.”
-- Johnny Depp
- "There's no doubt that I'll do it badly; being more of a poet than an artist, I've always tackled themes beyond my powers"
-- Fyodor Dostoevsky
- "There is nothing more frustrating than playing hide and seek with a deaf wolf"
-- Constable Benton Fraser, Due South, Season 1, Episode 18.
- "All of the vultures have left. Except for Jeanette and I; we're the loyal vultures."
-- Ed.
- "As a human being, one has been endowed with just enough intelligence to be able to see clearly how utterly inadequate that intelligence is when confronted with what exists."
-- Albert Einstein.
- "But the weaver of a tangled web don't get to be relaxlin'
'Cause a careless slip of the silver tongue can cause a chain reaction"
-- The Fables, 'O'brien.'
- "The captain will come up with a plan."
-- Zoe Warren, Firefly, Episode 5.
"Well that's good. Right?"
-- Kaylee Frye.
"It's possible you're not recalling some of his previous plans."
-- Zoe.
- "There's times I think that you don't take me seriously. I think that oughta change."
-- Jayne Cobb, Firefly, Episode 6.
"Do you think it's likely to?"
-- Malcolm Reynolds.
- "Well my days of not taking you seriously are certainly coming to a middle."
-- Malcolm Reynolds, Firefly, Episode 6. (This happened not long after the quote above.)
- "If I thought I were going to be quoted on the internet, I would be a lot quieter all the time."
-- Gary.
- "You're backpedalling down the bunny trails just to get the attention off of your flagrant wrongness!"
-- Gary.
- "To take a man up very sharp, to demand sternly that he shall explain himself, to dodge to and fro with your questions, to pounce on every apparent inconsistency, may be a good way of exposing a false witness or a malingerer. Unfortunately, it is also the way of making sure that if a shy or tongue-tied man has a true and difficult tale to tell you will never learn it."
-- C. S. Lewis, An Experiment in Criticism
- "Just because something isn't easy doesn't mean that it isn't simple."
-- Lindsay.
- "Which direction is the wind coming from?"
-- Matt.
"I think it's coming from my west."
-- Lindsay.
"Ah yes, Lindsay west."
-- Matt.
- "The gods justified human life by living it themselves--the only satisfactory theodicy ever invented."
-- Friedrich Nietzsche, The Birth of Tragedy
- "Yes. No. Maybe.
I don't know.
Can you repeat the question?"
-- They Might Be Giants, 'Boss of Me.'