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I have yet to think of a way to organize my quotes collection. I suppose the way I used previously works fine. Comment to leave your own quotes!

+ Quotes on Quotes
+ Movies and Shows
+ Authors and Characters
+ All Too Famous Anonymous
+ Other Talented People
+ Quotes on Music
+ People I know
+ Proverbs

Quotes on Quotes

“Children seldom misquote you. In fact, they usually repeat word for word what you shouldn’t have said.”
–Unknown

“A fine quotation is a diamond on the finger of a witty person, but a pebble in the hands of a fool.”
–Colette

“The wisdom of the wise, and the experience of ages, may be preserved by quotations.”
–Isaac Disraeli

“I often quote myself, it adds spice to my conversation.”
–George Bernard Shaw

“After all, all he did was string together a lot of old, well-known quotations.”
–Henry Louis Mencken, on Shakespeare

“A book of quotations . . . can never be complete.”
–Robert M. Hamilton

“Have you ever observed that we pay much more attention to a wise passage when it is quoted than when we read it in the original author?”
–Philip G. Hamerton

“Do not underestimate the power of the dark side of famous quotes.”
–Bill Austin

“Most people are other people. Their thoughts are someone else’s opinions, their lives a mimicry, their passions a quotation”
–Oscar Wilde

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Movies and Shows

“Humankind cannot gain anything without first giving something in return. To obtain, something of equal value must be lost. That is alchemy’s first law of Equivalent Exchange. In those days, we really believed that to be the world’s one, and only, truth. But the world isn’t perfect, and the law is incomplete. Equivalent Exchange doesn’t encompass everything that goes on here, but I still choose to believe in its principle, that all things do come at a price, that there’s an ebb and a flow, a cycle, that the pain we went through did have a reward, and that anyone who’s determined and perseveres will get something of value in return, even if it’s not what they expected. I don’t think of Equivalent Exchange as a law of the world anymore. I think of it as a promise, between my brother and me. A promise that, someday, we’ll see each other again.”
–Alphonse Elric, Fullmetal Alchemist

“If I died the world would continue to move along as if nothing had happened.”
“Because you’re just a small part of it.”
“When the small part in this case me, dies, the body remains.”
“Water, Carbon, Ammonia, Lime, Phosphorous, Salt, Saltpeter, Sulfur, Magnesium, Fluorine, Iron, and Aluminum right?”
“Right. The body’s only a combination of those simple elements. Nothing more. We’re destined to be decomposed by bacteria, and become nutrients for plants, then you follow the process further, those plants nourish herbivores.”
“And those herbivores nourish carnivores. Even others like us. And even though we lose awareness our lives keep on moving through the system.”
“The great flow that maintains the universe, call it the cycle of life, the course of nature each one of us is just a small part of that part. One in the all. Yet without all the individual ones, the all can’t exist. This world flows by following grander laws that we can’t even imagine. To recognize that flow, to work in it. To decompose, and recreate, that is alchemy.”
–Edward Elric and Alphonse Elric~ Episode All is One, One is All from Fullmetal Alchemist

The cycle of life only goes one direction, not even alchemy can change that.
–Edward Elric~ Episode All is One, One is All from Fullmetal Alchemist

Ed’s short quotes
* “Who did you say was small like a grain of rice and doesn’t show up in your eyes?!”
* “Who did you say was a super-ultra short kid?!”
* “Who did you call an ultra hyper midget?!”
* “Who did you call miniature size?!”
* “Who did you call a shorty who’s so small that he’s barely visible and hard to target?!”
* “Who did you call a shorty that has to be looked through a magnifying glass to actually be seen?!”
* “Who are you calling a bean?!”
* “Who are you calling a super midget that makes you want to step on him?!”
* “Who are you calling a tiny bug that escapes the wrath of a shoe because he’s so small that he fits in the grooves and can’t get squashed?”
* “Oh yes, I’m so small that you can’t see me amongst the grains of sand, like always–!”

“Shut up! I’m not gonna drink some opaque white liquid that was secreted by a COW!!
–Edward Elric~ Vol. 4, chaper 14 Fullmetal Alchemist

Ed-
“Just a matter of time Rose. science will find a way. Science is the answer to everything. If I were you, I’d drop the scriptures and pick up an alchemy book. We’re the closest things to Gods there are.”

Rose-
” You’re not a god. you’re nothing close to it”

Ed-
“And niether is the sun. It’s just a mass of hydrogen. Get close to it like Cornello claims, and all you’ll do is burn up.”

“No matter how we close our eyes, there’s a whole world out there bigger than ourselves and our dreams..”
–Edward Elric~ talking to Roy in a car one afternoon in a long drive..Fullmetal Alchemist

“The basic strength of a transmutation circle is the nature of the shape itself. The circle represents the circulation of power. By drawing it, that power can be evoked. By understanding this circulation of power and the laws that govern it, you can harness it for yourself. And one who works within this system of flow to create new things, that is the true alchemist…”
– Izumi Curtis, Fullmetal Alchemist, episode 27.

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Authors and Characters

“I always want to know the things one shouldn’t do…so as to chose”
–Isabel Archer in Henry James’ The Portrait of a Lady

“However much you might watch me I should be watching you more.”
–Mr. Touchett in Henry James’ The Portrait of a Lady

“Life is a perpetual yesterday for us.”
–Susie in Alice Sebold’s The Lovely Bones

“The fine wall of leaden crystal that had protected her heart-somehow numbed her into disbelief-shattered.”
–Alice Sebold, The Lovely Bones

“If they give you ruled paper, write the other way.”
–Juan Ramon Jimenez (Spanish poet mentioned in The Lovely Bones)

“She wasn’t much of a talker when there was nothing to say”
–Len Fenerman in The Lovely Bones

“There is no condition one adjusts to so quickly as a state of war.”
–Jack Salmon in The Lovely Bones

“Because horror on Earth is real and it is every day. It is like a flower or like the sun; it cannot be contained.”
–Susie in The Lovely Bones

“It is a truth universally acknowledged that a single man in possession of a good fortune must be in want of a wife.”
–Jane Austen, Pride and Prejudice

“You want to tell me, and I have no objection to hearing it.”
–Jane Austen, Pride and Prejudice

“That is the way it is with a wound. The wound begins to close in on itself to protect what is hurting so much. And once it is closed, you no longer see what is underneath, what started the pain.”
–Amy Tan, The Joy Luck Club

“I was like a blind person walking to my fate. But I was no longer scared. I could see what was inside me.”
–Amy Tan, The Joy Luck Club

“Time is not a line but a dimension, like the dimensions of space. If you can bend space you can bend time also, and if you knew enough and could move faster than light you could travel backward in time and exist in two places at once.”
–Margaret Atwood, Cat’s Eye

“Because I can no longer control these paintings, or tell them what to mean. Whatever energy they have came out of me. I’m what’s left over.”
–Margaret Atwood, Cat’s Eye

“Now it’s full night, clear, moonless and filled with stars, which are not eternal as was once thought, which are not where we think they are. If they were sounds, they would be echoes, of something that happened millions of years ago: a word made of numbers. Echoes of light, shining out of the midst of nothing.
It’s old light, and there’s not much of it. But it’s enough to see by.”
–Margaret Atwood, Cat’s Eye

“Poshlust is not only the obviously trashy but mainly the falsely important, the falsely beautiful, the falsely clever and the falsely attractive.”
–Vladimire Nabokov, Reading L0lita in Tehran

“Those who feel themselves despised do well to look despising.”
–Aldous Huxley, Brave New World

“Government’s an affair of sitting, not hitting. you rule with the brains and the buttocks, never with the fists. For example, there was the conscription of consumption.”
–Aldous Huxley, Brave New World

“Back to culture. Yes, actually to culture. You can’t consume much if you sit still and read books.”
–Aldous Huxley, Brave New World

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All Too Famous Anonymous

“bad art is more tragically beautiful than good art ’cause it documents human failure”
–Annonymous

“It is said that power corrupts, but actually it’s more true that power attracts the corruptible. The sane are usually attracted by other things than power.”
–Anonymous

“…and she became beautiful; realizing that true beauty was not about the size of her heart.
–Anonymous

“Maybe the past is like an anchor holding us back. Maybe you have to let go of who you were, to become who you will be.”
–Anonymous

There is no distance too far between friends, for friendship gives wings to the heart.”
–Anonymous

“Happiness is a butterfly, which, when pursued, is always just beyond your grasp, but which, if you will sit down quietly, may alight upon you.”

“Do not look back and grieve over the past for it is gone: and do not be troubled about the future, for it has not yet come. Live in the present and make it so beautiful that it will be worth remembering.”
–Anonymous

“Life is a beautiful journey
We travel our own unique way,
With memories behind us
and dreams up ahead
and a brand new beginning each day.”
–Anonymous

“Trust is a weakness, betrayal is a hidden blade.”
–Anonymous

“Days like these remind me of solitude, of the unhappiness of so many people. People who are hungry, without a roof, without clothes, in the cold. And here I stand, confident that my unhappiness surpasses theirs. I have no right to speak of such sorrow and unhappiness.”
–Anonymous

People never say, “It’s only a game, when they’re winning”
–Anonymous

“If quitters never win, and winners never quit, who came up with ‘Quit while you’re ahead’?”
–Anonymous

“The early bird gets the worm, but the second mouse gets the cheese.”
–Anonymous

“Habits either make us or break us. We become what we repeatedly do.”
–Anonymous

“Never argue with a fool. He may be doing the same thing.”
–Anonymous

“Change is inevitable, except from a vending machine.”
–Anonymous

“She is an interesting paradox, an infinitely shy person who, in apparent contradiction, possesses an enormously intuitive gift for understanding people.”
–Anonymous Some SAT sentence completion question

“Envy wounds with false accusation.”
–Anonymous

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Other Talented People

“The truly creative mind in any field is no more than this: A human creature born abnormally, inhumanly sensitive. To him…a touch is a blow, a sound is a noise, a misfortune is a tragedy, a joy is an ecstasy, a friend is a lover, a lover is a god, and failure is death. Add to this cruelly delicate organism the overpowering necessity to create, create, create - - - so that without the creating of music or poetry or books or buildings or something of meaning, his very breath is cut off from him. He must create, must pour out creation. By some strange, unknown, inward urgency he is not really alive unless he is creating.”
–Pearl Buck

An optimist stays up to see the New Year in. A pessimist waits to make sure the old one leaves.
– Bill Vaughan

Everyone is a genius at least once a year. The real geniuses simply have their bright ideas closer together.
– Georg Christoph Lichtenberg

“Go confidently in the direction of your dreams. Live the life you’ve imagined.”
–Henry David Thoreau

“I respect Faith, but doubt is what gets you education.”
–Wilson Mizner

“The only thing constant in the world is change…that’s why today take life as it comes.”
–India.Arie

“When it comes down to it, I let them think what they want. If they care enough to bother with what I do, then I’m already better than them anyway.”
–Marilyn Monroe

“You have brains in your head you have feet in your shoes. You can steer yourself in any direction you choose. You’re on your own. And you know what you know. You are the guy who’ll decide where to go.”
–Theordor Geisel

“Forget yourself for others and others will not forget you.”
–John Bauer

“Success is the good fortune that comes from aspiration , desperation, perspiration, and inspiration.”
–Evan Esar

“It’s never too late to become what you might have been.”
–George Eliot

“A sense of duty is useful in work, but offensive in personal relations. People wish to be liked, not be endured with patient resignation.”
–Bertrand Russell

“Skeptical scrutiny is the means, in both science and religion, by which deep insights can be winnowed from deep nonsense.”
– Carl Sagan

“Reality isn’t the way you wish things to be, nor the way they appear to be, but the way they actually are.��?
–Robert J. Ringer

The actual tragedies of life bear no relation to one’s preconceived ideas. In the event, one is always bewildered by their simplicity, their grandeur of design, and by that element of the bizzare which seems inherent in them.
– Jean Cocteau

A philistine is habitually bored and looks for things that won’t bore him. An artist finds things boring, but is never bored.
–Karl Kraus

“Latent in every man is a venom of amazing bitterness, a black resentment; something that curses and loathes life, a feeling of being trapped, of having trusted and been fooled, of being the helpless prey of impotent rage, blind surrender, the victim of a savage, ruthless power that gives and takes away, enlists a man, and crowning injury inflicts upon him the humiliation of feeling sorry for himself.”
- Paul Valery

“I always wanted to be somebody, but I should have been more specific.”
–Lily Tomlin

The tree that never had to fight
For sun and sky and air and light,
That stood out in the open plain
And always got its share of rain,
Never became a forest king,
But lived and died a scrubby thing…
Good timber does not grow in ease.
The stronger wind, the tougher trees…
–Douglas Malloch

“Every great advance in natural knowledge had involved the absolute rejection of authority.”
–Thomas Henry Huxley

“Genius is eternal patience.”
–Micelangelo Buonarroti

“The great tragedy of science-the slaying of a beautiful hypothesis by an ugly fact.”
–Thomas Henry Huxley

“I lived in solitude in the country and noticed how the monotony of a quiet life stimulates the creative mind.”
–Albert Einstein

“There are few human emotions as worm and comforting, and enveloping as self-pity. And nothing is more corrosive and destructive. There is only one answer: turn away from it and move on.”
–Dr. Megan Reik

“When we talk in company we lose our unique tone of voice, and this leads us to make statements which in no way correspond to our real thoughts.”
–Fredrich Wilhelm Nietzsche

“To whom do we tell what happened on the
Earth, for whom do we place everywhere huge
Mirrors in the hope that they will be filled up
And will stay so?”
–Czeslaw Milso, “Annalena”

“Hold fast to dreams, for if dreams die, life is a broken bird that cannot fly.”
–Langston Hughes

“A good painter has two chief objects to paint: man and the intention of his soul; the former is easy, the latter hard.”
–Leonardo da Vinci

“All I ever wanted was to live from the promptings of my true self; why was that so very difficult?”
–Hermann Hesse

“Pain is inevitable. Suffering is optional”
–Buddah

“There was a time when meadow, grove, and stream
The earth and every common sight,
To me did seem
Apparelled in celestial light,
The glory and the freshness of a dream.”
–William Wordsworth

“To live is to change, and to be perfect is to have changed often.”
–Cardinal John Henry Newman

“Politics is all a conspiracy”
–Jesse Ventura

“Every man is guilty of all the good he didn’t do”
–Voltaire

“If there is a sin in life, it consists…in hoping for another life and in eluding the implacable grandeur of this life.”
–Albert Gamus

“An aphorism is never exactly true. It is either a half-truth or a truth and a half.”
–Karl Kraus

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Quotes on Music

“Music was my refuge. I could crawl into the spaces between the notes and curl my back to loneliness.”
–Maya Angelou”Music is the effort we make to explain to ourselves how our brains work. We listen to Bach transfixed because this is listening to a human mind.”
–Lewis Thomas

“What’s best in music is not to be found in the notes.”
–Gustav Mahler

“…[But] they can’t kill music. God knows, they’ve tried. But music always wins. As long as there’s kids coming up that have a passion. All the bean counters in the world can’t kill that. You know? You just can’t. They can try, of course, to feed you the most puerile, benign horse manure, but some kid’s going to come along and demand something more than that.”
–John Hiatt

“One good thing about music, when it hits you, you feel no pain.”
–Bob Marley

“Good music is good music, and that should be enough for anybody”
–Brad Nowell

“Music is your own experience, your own thoughts, your wisdom. If you don’t live it, it won’t come out of your horn. They teach you there’s a boundary line to music. But, man, there’s no boundary line to art.”
–Anonymous

“After silence, that which comes nearest to expressing the inexpressible is music.”
–Aldous Huxley

“It is cruel, you know, that music should be so beautiful. It has the beauty of loneliness and of pain: of strength and freedom. The beauty of disappointment and never-satisfied love. The cruel beauty of nature, and everlasting beauty of monotony.”
–Benjamin Britten

“It’s easy to play any musical instrument: all you have to do is touch the right keys at the right time and the instrument will play itself.”
–J.S. Bach

“Information is not knowledge. Knowledge is not wisdom. Wisdom is not truth. Truth is not beauty. Beauty is not love. Love is not music. MUSIC IS BEST.”
–Frank Zappa

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People I know

“A world without eccentric people would be way too monotonous. Everyone is weird once in a while. It is one of those human characteristics like love, hatred, jealousy, and curiosity. Those who think one self to be normal are weird since it is not normal to be thinking such things; but since everyone is abnormal, surely everyone must then be normal. Therefore, being normal is simply not being insane.”
–Sue

“There is nothing that prevents progress from happening more than the prospect of instant gratification.”
–Sue

“Riding on roller coasters isn’t fun unless you scream while waving your arms in the air.”
–Sue

“Sleep is for slackers”
–Susan
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Proverbs

“A book is worth a house of gold”
–Chinese proverb

“Gratitude is the heart’s memory.”
–French proverb

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