Life

"If I hadn't been very rich, I may have been a really great man."
- Charles Foster Kane

"I'm not even supposed to be here today!"
- Dante Hicks

"You've got to dance like nobody's watching,
" and love like it's never going to hurt."

"Life moves pretty quickly. You don't stop an' look around a little while, you could miss it."
- Ferris Bueller, Ferris Bueller's Day Off

"Life is pain...

Anyone who tells you differently is selling something."
- Dread Pirate Wesley, The Princess Bride

"Life does not have to be perfect to be wonderful."
- Annette Funicello

"Life hasn't begun until you find someone worth dying for."

"Where are we going?"
"I don't know, just driving."
"But this road doesn't go anywhere."
"That doesn't matter."
"What does?"
"Just that we're on it, dude."
- Bret Easton Ellis

"There are no happy endings
because nothing really ends."
- The Last Unicorn

For so it falls out that what we have
We prize not the worth whilest we enjoy it
But once lost then we rack the value
Then we find the virtue
That possession would not allow us
whilest it was ours
- Tatewaki Kuno
Tomorrow sees undone
What happens not today
Indecision brings delays
Days lost lamenting lost days
- Ryoga Hibiki

"Everyone in the Sixties said 'Be happy.' They were high.
So let's hand out marijuana to make everybody happy!"
- Matt Peterson

"I will not be pushed, filed, stamped, indexed, briefed, debriefed, or numbered. My life is my own."
- No. 6, The Prisoner

"You have to eat more than two to actually appreciate the flavor of White Castle...
What? Oh, I ate seventeen and a half."
- Scott Melzer

"A still tongue makes a happy life"

"Questions are a burden to others. Answers, a prison for oneself."
- The Prisoner

"Live now. Make now always the most precious time. Now will never come again."
- Captain Jean-Luc Picard, Star Trek: The Next Generation

"Someday we'll look back on all this, laugh nervously, and change the subject."

"A complex system that works is invariably found to have evolved from a simple system that works."

"Someday we'll look back on this moment and plow into a parked car."
- Evan Davis

"Suffering is also one of the ways of knowing you're alive."
- Jessamyn West

"The solution of this problem is trival and is left as an exercise for the reader."
[Math textbooks LOVE to use this one]

"It is the business of the future to be dangerous."

"The time you enjoy wasting is not wasted time."
- Bertrand Russell

"Do more than anyone expects, and pretty soon everyone will expect more."

"You will stop at nothing to reach your objective, but only because your brakes are defective."

Never frighten a small man -- he'll kill you.
[Hm, all Asians are small men...]

"We either learn from history or, uh, well, something bad will happen."
- Bob Church

"In the short term, it would make me happy to go play.
In the long term, it would make me happier to do well in school and become successful.
But in the very long term, I know which will make better memories."
- Calvin & Hobbes

"When life gives you a lemon, chuck it right back and add some of your own."
- Calvin & Hobbes