Favorite quotes
- “Why can’t everybody leave everybody else the hell alone?” - Jimmy Durante
- “Good men with poor ships are better than poor men with good ships.” — Admiral Alfred Thayer Mahan
Favorite quotes
Favorite quotes
Favorite quotes
Favorite quotes
Favorite quotes
Favorite quotes
Favorite quotes
Favorite quotes
Favorite quotes
Favorite quotes
Favorite quotes
“Why can’t everybody leave everybody else the hell alone?” - Jimmy Durante
“Good men with poor ships are better than poor men with good ships.” — Admiral Alfred Thayer Mahan
“As you wish.” - William Goldman, from The Princess Bride
“So shines a good deed in a weary world.” Willy Wonka
"I liked flying. It was the second-best thing that ever happened to me. If I hadn’t had baseball to come back to, I might have gone on as a Marine pilot.” — Ted Williams, USMC and the Boston Red Sox
“Dismissed. That’s a Starfleet term. Means ‘get out.’” --Captain Kathryn Janeway, “Star Trek: Voyager”
“The past is a foreign country; they do things differently there.” ― L.P. Hartley, The Go-Between.
“God does not play dice with the universe; He plays an ineffable game of His own devising, which might be compared, from the perspective of any of the other players [i.e. everybody], to being involved in an obscure and complex variant of poker in a pitch-dark room, with blank cards, for infinite stakes, with a Dealer who won’t tell you the rules, and who smiles all the time.” - Terry Pratchett
“The mountains are calling and I must go.” - John Muir
“Shut up, Wesley.” - Jean-Luc Picard
“Be more concerned with your character than with your reputation. Your character is what you really are while your reputation is merely what others think you are.” — John Wooden
Favorite quotes
“Why can’t everybody leave everybody else the hell alone?” - Jimmy Durante
“Good men with poor ships are better than poor men with good ships.” — Admiral Alfred Thayer Mahan
“As you wish.” - William Goldman, from The Princess Bride
“So shines a good deed in a weary world.” Willy Wonka
"I liked flying. It was the second-best thing that ever happened to me. If I hadn’t had baseball to come back to, I might have gone on as a Marine pilot.” — Ted Williams, USMC and the Boston Red Sox
“Dismissed. That’s a Starfleet term. Means ‘get out.’” --Captain Kathryn Janeway, “Star Trek: Voyager”
“The past is a foreign country; they do things differently there.” ― L.P. Hartley, The Go-Between.
“God does not play dice with the universe; He plays an ineffable game of His own devising, which might be compared, from the perspective of any of the other players [i.e. everybody], to being involved in an obscure and complex variant of poker in a pitch-dark room, with blank cards, for infinite stakes, with a Dealer who won’t tell you the rules, and who smiles all the time.” - Terry Pratchett
“The mountains are calling and I must go.” - John Muir
“Shut up, Wesley.” - Jean-Luc Picard
“Be more concerned with your character than with your reputation. Your character is what you really are while your reputation is merely what others think you are.” — John Wooden
“Truth” is singular. It’s “versions” are mistruths."
– David Mitchell
#4 above is from Shakespeare “Midsummers Nights Dream”
“A quote by any other name would sound as sweet.“.
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Also,
“A quote is a quote is a quote.”
Favorite quotes
“Why can’t everybody leave everybody else the hell alone?” - Jimmy Durante
“Good men with poor ships are better than poor men with good ships.” — Admiral Alfred Thayer Mahan
“As you wish.” - William Goldman, from The Princess Bride
“So shines a good deed in a weary world.” Willy Wonka
"I liked flying. It was the second-best thing that ever happened to me. If I hadn’t had baseball to come back to, I might have gone on as a Marine pilot.” — Ted Williams, USMC and the Boston Red Sox
“Dismissed. That’s a Starfleet term. Means ‘get out.’” --Captain Kathryn Janeway, “Star Trek: Voyager”
“The past is a foreign country; they do things differently there.” L.P. Hartley, The Go-Between.
“God does not play dice with the universe; He plays an ineffable game of His own devising, which might be compared, from the perspective of any of the other players [i.e. everybody], to being involved in an obscure and complex variant of poker in a pitch-dark room, with blank cards, for infinite stakes, with a Dealer who won’t tell you the rules, and who smiles all the time.” - Terry Pratchett
“The mountains are calling and I must go.” - John Muir
“Shut up, Wesley.” - Jean-Luc Picard
“Be more concerned with your character than with your reputation. Your character is what you really are while your reputation is merely what others think you are.” — John Wooden
“Truth” is singular. It’s “versions” are mistruths."
– David Mitchell
“A rose is a rose is a rose.” Gertrude Stein
Fun movie quotes, not on most recent list:
Fun movie quotes, not on most recent list:
Fun movie quotes, not on most recent list:
Ha! We could just as well stipulate that EVERY line in “The Princess Bride” could be on a list like this, if it could be long enough!