FAMOUS/AUTHOR KNOWN


  • "Computer games don't affect kids; I mean if Pac-Man affected us as kids, we'd all be running around in darkened rooms, munching pills and listening to repetitive electronic music." - Kristian Wilson, Nintendo, Inc, 1989.
  • "It takes courage to grow up and become who you really are." - E. E. Cummings
  • "Those who danced were thought to be quite insane by those who could not hear the music.” - Angela Monet
  • "Our greatest glory is not in never falling but in rising every time we fall." - Confucius
  • "God, grant me the serenity to accept the things I cannot change, Courage to change the things I can, And wisdom to know the difference. Living one day at a time; Enjoying one moment at a time; Accepting hardship as a pathway to peace; Taking, as Jesus did, this sinful world As it is, not as I would have it; Trusting that You will make all things right If I surrender to Your Will; So that I may be reasonably happy in this life And supremely happy with You forever in the next. Amen" - Reinhold Niebuhr
  • "Time, which changes people, does not alter the image we have retained of them." - Marcel Proust
  • "We always overestimate the change that will occur in the next two years and underestimate the change that will occur in the next ten." - Bill Gates
  • "I hate to advocate drugs, alcohol, violence, or insanity to anyone, but they've always worked for me." - Hunter S. Thompson
  • "Time is too slow for those who wait, too swift for those who fear, too long for those who grieve, too short for those who rejoice, but for those who love, time is eternity." - Henry Van Dyke
  • "I think; therefore I am." - Rene Descartes
  • "Feel no sadness because of evil thoughts: it only strengthens them." - Nachman of Bratslav
  • "The world we have created is a product of our thinking; it cannot be changed without changing our thinking." - Albert Einstein
  • "To find yourself, think for yourself." - Socrates
  • "Wisdom begins in wonder." - Socrates
  • "True wisdom comes to each of us when we realize how little we understand about life, ourselves, and the world around us." - Socrates
  • "Everything has beauty, but not everyone sees it." - Confucius
  • "My philosophy is: It's none of my business what people say of me and think of me. I am what I am and I do what I do. I expect nothing and accept everything. And it makes life so much easier." - Anthony Hopkins
  • "The only way to keep your health is to eat what you don't want, drink what you don't like, and do what you'd rather not." - Mark Twain
  • "The sudden disappointment of a hope leaves a scar which the ultimate fulfillment of that hope never entirely removes." - Thomas Hardy
  • "No great genius has ever existed without some touch of madness."- Aristotle
  • "Freedom is the right to question and change the established way of doing things. It is the continuous revolution of the marketplace. It is the understanding that allows us to recognize shortcomings and seek solutions." - Ronald Reagan
  • "Freedom is the recognition that no single person, no single authority or government has a monopoly on the truth, but that every individual life is infinitely precious, that every one of us put in this world has been put there for a reason and has something to offer." - Ronald Reagan
  • "Freedom is never voluntarily given by the oppressor; it must be demanded by the oppressed." - Martin Luther King Jr.
  • "We are the music makers, And we are the dreamers of dreams,.." - Arthur O'Shaughnessy
  • "Anyone who has never made a mistake has never tried anything new." - Albert Einstein
  • "Regret for the things we did can be tempered by time; it is regret for the things we did not do that is inconsolable." - Sydney Harris
  • "Dance like nobody's watching; love like you've never been hurt. Sing like nobody's listening; live like it's heaven on earth." - Mark Twain
  • "Happiness in intelligent people is the rarest thing I know." - Ernest Hemingway
  • "You have it easily in your power to increase the sum total of this world's happiness now. How? By giving a few words of sincere appreciation to someone who is lonely or discouraged. Perhaps you "Will forget tomorrow the kind words you say today, but the recipient may cherish them over a lifetime." - Dale Carnegie
  • "Don't cry because it's over. Smile because it happened." - Theodor Seuss Geisel
  • "We shall never know all the good that a simple smile can do." - Mother Teresa
  • "There are two types of education. One should teach us how to make a living, And the other how to live." - John Adams
  • "Holding on to anger is like grasping a hot coal with the intent of throwing it at someone else; you are the one who gets burned." - Siddhartha Buddha
  • "We should not let our fears hold us back from pursuing our hopes." - John F. Kennedy
  • "In the end, its not the years in your life that count. It's the life in your years." - Abraham Lincoln
  • "The world is a dangerous place to live, not because of the people who are evil, but because of the people who don't do anything about it." - Albert Einstein.
  • "Don't just count your years, make your years count" - Ernest Meyers
  • "Though my soul may set in darkness, it will rise in perfect light. I have loved the stars too fondly, to be fearful of the night." - Sarah Williams
  • "I seldom end up where I wanted to go, but i almost always end up where I need to be." - Douglas Adams
  • "In the middle of difficulty lies opportunity." - Albert Einstein
  • "Every great dream begins with a dreamer. Always remember, you have within you the strength, the patience, and the passion to reach for the stars to change the world."- Harriet Tubman
  • "Art should comfort the disturbed and disturb the comfortable." - Cesar A. Cruz
  • "Why fit in when you were born to stand out!" - Dr Seuss
  • "When I went to school, they asked me what I wanted to be when I grew up. I wrote down 'happy.' They told me I didn't understand the assignment, and I told them they didn't understand life." - John Lennon
  • "Only after the last tree has been cut down. Only after the last river has been poisoned. Only after the last fish has been caught. Only then will you find that money cannot be eaten." - Cree Indian Prophecy
  • "Don't tell me the sky's the limit when there are footprints on the moon." - Paul Brandt
  • "Try not to become a man of success, but rather try to become a man of value." - Albert Einstein
  • "Courage is knowing what not to fear" - Plato
  • "If wars can be started by lies, peace can be started by truth" - Julian Assange
  • "Yes: I am a dreamer. For a dreamer is one who can only find his way by moonlight, and his punishment is that he sees the dawn before the rest of the world." - Oscar Wilde
  • "For most of history, Anonymous was a woman." - Virginia Woolf
  • "We can easily forgive a child who is afraid of the dark; the real tragedy of life is when men are afraid of the light." - Plato
  • "Do not go where the path may lead, go instead where there is no path and leave a trail." - Ralph Waldo Emerson
  • "A banker is a fellow who lends you his umbrella when the sun is shining, but wants it back the minute it begins to rain." - Mark Twain>
  • "You will never know the value of a moment, until it becomes a memory" - Dr. Suess
  • "The unreal is more powerful than the real. Because nothing is as perfect as you can imagine it. Because its only intangible ideas, concepts, beliefs, fantasies that last. Stone crumbles. Wood rots. People, well, they die. But things as fragile as a thought, a dream, a legend, they can go on and on. If you can change the way people think. The way they see themselves. The way they see the world. You can change the way people live their lives. That's the only lasting thing you can create." - Chuck Palahniuk
  • "I fear the day that technology will surpass our human interation. The world will have a generation of idiots" - Albert Einstein
  • "Music is a moral law. It gives a soul to the universe, wings to the mind, flight to the imagination, a charm to sadness, and life to everything. It is the essence of order, and leads to all that is good, just and beautiful, of which it is the invisible, but nevertheless dazzling, passionate, and eternal form" - Plato
  • "Some people are old at 19 and some are young at 90. Time is a concept that humans created" - Yoko Ono
  • "If you really think the environment is less important than the economy try holding your breath while you count your money" - Dr Guy McPherson
  • "Nothing lasts forever, so live it up, drink it down, laugh it off, avoid the drama, take chances and never have regrets because at one point everything you did was exactly what you wanted" - Marilyn Monroe
  • "People are often unreasonable and self-centered. Forgive them anyway.
    If you are kind, people may accuse you of ulterior motives. Be kind anyway.
    If you are honest, people may cheat you. Be honest anyway.
    If you find happiness, people may be jealous. Be happy anyway.
    The good you do today may be forgotten tomorrow. Do good anyway.
    Give the world the best you have and it may never be enough. Give your best anyway.
    For you see, in the end, it is between you and God. It was never between you and them anyway" - Mother Teresa
  • "Either write something worth reading or do something worth writing" - Benjamin Franklin
  • "For my part I know nothing with any certainty, but the sight of the stars makes me dream" - Vincent Van Gogh
  • "Someday, somewhere - anywhere, unfailingly, you'll find yourself, and that, and only that can be the happiest or bitterest hour of your life." - Pablo Neruda
  • "Of all the things I've lost, I miss my mind the most." - Mark Twain
  • "If you want others to be happy, practice compassion. If you want to be happy, practice compassion" - Dalai Lama
  • "Blessed are the weird people; Poets, misfits, writers, mystics, painters and troubadours. For they teach us to see the world through different eyes" - Jacob Norby
  • "Courage does not always roar, sometimes courage is the quiet voice at the end of the day saying, 'I will try again tomorrow.'" - Mary Anne Radmacher
  • "The trouble is, you think you have time" - Buddha
  • "Some days there won't be a song in your heart.. Sing anyway." - Emory Austin
  • "Sometimes people are beautiful. Not in looks. Not in what they say. Just in what they are." - Markus Zusak
  • "Enjoy the little things in life, for one day you will look back and realize they were the big things." - Robert Brault
  • "Whoever fights monsters should see to it that in the process he does not become a monster. And if you gaze long enough into an abyss, the abyss will gaze back into you." - Fredrich Nietzche
  • "There is nothing to writing. All you do is sit down at a typewriter and bleed." - Hemingway
  • "Writing is a form of therapy; sometimes I wonder how all those who do not write, compose, or paint can manage to escape the madness, melancholia, the panic and fear which is inherent in a human situation." - Graham Greene
  • "If you end up with a boring, miserable life because you listened to your mom, your dad, your teacher, your priest, or some guy on television telling you how to do your shit, then you deserve it." - Frank Zappa
  • "We are all searching for someone whose demons play well with ours." - Haris Lithos
  • "Those who cannot change their minds cannot change anything" - George Bernard Shaw
  • "I want to be all used up when I die" - George Bernard Shaw
  • "Be a first rate version of yourself, not a second rate version of someone else" - Judy Garland
  • "I never am really satisfied that I understand anything; because, understand it well as I may, my comprehension can only be an infintesimal fraction of all I want to understand." - Ada Lovelace
  • "A book can teach you, a conversation can assure you, a poem can seduce you, a genius can inspire you but only you can save yourself" - Anthony Anaxagorou
  • "Write drunk, edit sober" - Ernest Hemingway
  • "You are never too old to set another goal or to dream a new dream" - C.S. Lewis
  • "Surround yourself with the dreamers and the doers, the believers and the thinkers, but most of all, surround yourself with those who see the greatness within you, even when you don't see it yourself" - Edmund Lee
  • "Your time is limited, so don’t waste it living someone else’s life. Don’t be trapped by dogma — which is living with the results of other people’s thinking. Don’t let the noise of others’ opinions drown out your own inner voice. And most important, have the courage to follow your heart and intuition. They somehow already know what you truly want to become. Everything else is secondary.
    Stay hungry. Stay foolish." - Steve Jobs
  • "It is difficult to free fools from the chains they revere" - Voltaire
  • "Taking time to do nothing often brings everything into perspective" - Doe Zantamata
  • "As far as we can discern, the sole purpose of human existance is to kindle a light in the darkness of mergering" - Carl Jung
  • "I would like to see every single soldier on every single side, just take off your helmet, unbuckle your kit, lay down your rifle, and set down at the side of some shady lane, and say, nope, I aint a gonna kill nobody. Plenty of rich folks wants to fight. Give them the guns" - Woody Guthrie
  • "I started out a hippie, and I ended up a punk. I'd say the difference was, hippies were trying to believe in the illusion of an alternative world, and punks knew that to create that alternative world something had to be done"
    Is punk rock something you grow out of?
    "Never! You see, punk rock is like the Mafia. Once you're made, you're made. Punk rock is not the clothes or the music. Punk rock is an attitude, the 'don't-give-me-any-bullshit-'cause-I-can-see-right-through-to-the-heart-of-the-situation' attitude. Because I'm wise to the tricks of the world. We're sick of all the bullshit. Give us some truth. That's the energy of punk rock." - Joe Strummer

SONG


  • "We learned more from a three minute record than we ever learned in school" - Bruce Springsteen
  • "She ain't pretty, she just looks that way" - Northern Pikes

MOVIE/TV


  • "Happiness can be found, even in the darkest of times. If one only remembers to turn on the light." - Albus Dumbedore, Harry Potter
  • "Undomesticated equines could not keep me away." - Teal'c, Stargate
  • "Fatman & Ronon." - Ronon, Stargate
  • "It's a beautiful name" - Walter "What is?" Astrid - Astrid & Walter, Fringe
  • "It just don't work, Gene-y. It's like a song. Now, I can hold a note for a long time. - Actually, I can hold a note forever. - But eventually, that's just noise. It's the change we're listening for. The note coming after and the one after that. That's what makes it music." - Lorne, Angel
  • "Fate is a strange thing. It grants us favours when we least expect it and deals us blows when we are least prepared for them" - Cochise, Falling Skies

RANDOM/UNKNOWN


  • "Carpe Noctem" / "Seize the Night"
  • "Carpe Diem" / "Seize the Day"
  • "If drinking is interfering with your work, you're probably a heavy drinker. If work is interfering with your drinking, you're probably an alcoholic."
  • "dum vita est spes est" / "While there is life, there is hope"
  • "There are three phases to awareness: to look, to see, and to perceive. A camera looks. A mind sees. A heart perceives."
  • "Never regret anything, because at one time it was exactly what you wanted."
  • "You got to take the good with the bad. Smile with the sad. Love what you've got & remember what you had. But never forget. Learn from your mistakes, but never regret. People change, things go wrong. Just remember, life goes on."
  • "Be Weird. Be Random. Be who you are. Because you never know who would love the person you hide."
  • "Live so fully that Westboro Baptist Church will picket your funeral"
  • "Don't define your world in Black & White because there is so much hiding amongst the greys"
  • "I tried to be normal once. Worst two minutes of my life"
  • "I am well aware I'm not everyone's cup of tea. I'd rather be someone's shot of tequila anyway!"
  • "You can never build yourself up by tearing someone else down"
  • "Don't lose hope. When the sun goes down, the stars come out"
  • "When I was 20, I made a plan to get a good job and be secure. Now i'm 35, and I need a plan to be happy" - HONY
  • "Everyone you meet is fighting a battle you know nothing about. Be kind. Always."
  • "Weird is a side-effect of awesome"
  • "Don't cry over the past, cry to get over the past. Don't smile to hide the pain, smile to heal the pain."
  • "Your dream doesn't have an expiration date. Take a deep breath, and try again."
  • "Fight for your world. Not your country."
  • "If people sat outside and looked at the stars each night I bet they would live a lot differently"
  • "Each day I am thankful for nights that turned into mornings. Friends that turned into family. Dreams that turned into reality. And likes that turned into love."
  • "Listen to the whispers of your heart"

OLD FRIENDS QUOTES!


  • seany - that ant was scarey mabey that ant fell from the tree which means it could fall in there, in there, in the code or on YOU!
  • stace - wait you..what now
  • seany - look, a mad car
    kaz - mmm, nice car
  • nic - if were not allowed to eat anything but fish, then WHY am i working at kfc tonight?
  • stacey - its retarded, man
  • sean - god damn nazis
  • cam - kaz, come climb on the wing of the plane
    kaz - i cant, im too short
  • stace - im a slut.. in a virgin way
  • seany - the corner store isnt even on the corner! what a rip off!!
  • cam - im so in *walks in tent*.. *walks out of tent* im so out..
  • pyro - your fence is attatched to itself
  • sean - my burp smells
  • cam - *has been sculling goon for 10 mins and gets handed another glass of it* what is this?
  • drunk chick on the phone- sex leads to babys
  • cam - *spits on floor* oh, sorry
  • cam - me drink, me drunk, me never get drunk
  • ? - do you want a drink?
    cam - fuck off i just wana drink *he says as he spews up*
  • ? - that guy has a freaky doll, its body is like all padded and its head is like............... there
  • everyone - *singing the frogs go ladidah song*
    matt b - that songs so stupid, frogs dont even say ladidahdidah they go.. ribbet'
  • stace - i like animals..... that eat hay
  • stace - quiet you
  • kaz - *emas hair was just streaked* your hair is so..liney
  • Frenzal Rhomb - "You can trust security guards, especially these ones down the front but you can't trust the police, especially the gold coast police!"