"If we had a keen vision and feeling of all ordinary human life, it would be like hearing the grass grow and the squirrels heartbeat, and we should die of that roar which lies of the other side of silence."
- George Elliot "Middle March"
"Routine is a silent killer."
"I thought that was high cholesterol."
- Roxanne McCullough
"Beauty is not caused. It is"
- Emily Dickinson
"Work is what you do for others; art is what you do for yourself."
- Stephen Sondheim
"A man who does not know foreign languages is ignorant of his own."
- Goethe
"I may have to shatter your soulstone before you devour Caroline."
- Andrew O'Dell
"The sea folds away from you like a mystery. You can look and look at it and mystery never leaves it."
- Carl Sandburg
"An optimist is a man that has never had much experience."
- Don Marquis
"Heard melodies are sweet, but those unheard are sweeter."
- John Keats
"What," asked Mr. Croup, "do you want?"
"What," asked the marquis de Carabas, a little more rhetorically, "does anyone want?"
"Dead things," suggested Mr. Vandemar. "Extra teeth."
- Neil Gaiman "Neverwhere"
"What a piece of work is man, how noble in reason, how infinite in faculties, in form and moving how express and admirable, in action how like an angel, in apprehension how like a god: the beauty of the world, the paragon of animals, and yet, to me, what is this quintessence of dust."
- William Shakespeare "Hamlet"
"If being a geek were easy, everyone would do it."
- Ozymandias J. Llewellyn
"Oh my God!--it's full of stars!"
- David Bowman in Arthur C. Clarke's "2001: A Space Odyssey"
"Render therefore unto Caesar the things which are Caesar's."
- The Bible
"Pay no attention to Caesar. Caesar doesn't have the slightest idea what's really going on."
- Bokonon from Kurt Vonnegut's "Cat's Cradle"
"Come and get one in the yarbles, if ya have any yarbles, ya eunuch jelly thou!"
- Alex from Kubrik's "A Clockwork Orange"
"Work like you don't need the money. Love like you've never been hurt. Dance like nobody's watching."
- Anon.
"Satan: he wants you to join /his/ fraternity!"
- Anon.
"Eternity is a terrible thought. I mean, where's it all going to end?"
