Favorite/Best Quotes Continued

"There is much pain that is quite noiseless; and vibrations that make human agonies are often a mere whisper in the roar of hurrying existence. There are glances of hatred that stab and raise no cry of murder; robberies that leave man or woman for ever beggared of peace and joy, yet kept secret by the sufferer /committed to no sound except that of low moans in the night, seen in no writing except that made on the face by the slow months of suppressed anguish and early morning tears. Many an inherited sorrow that has marred a life has been breathed into no human ear."- George Eliot

"Oh, the comfort, the inexpressible comfort of feeling safe with a person, having neither to weigh thoughts nor measure words, but pouring them all out, just as they are, chaff and grain together, certain that a faithful hand will take and sift them, keep what is worth keeping, and with a breath of kindness blow the rest away" - George Eliot

"Ignorance is like a delicate exotic fruit; touch it and the bloom is gone. The whole theory of modern education is radically unsound. Fortunately, in England at any rate, education produces no effect whatsoever. If it did, it would prove a serious danger to the upper classes, and probably lead to acts of violence in Grovner Square." - Oscar Wilde (Importance of Being Earnest)

"To love oneself is the beginning of a lifelong romance."- Oscar Wilde (Importance of Being Earnest)

"I am sick to death of cleverness. Everybody is clever nowadays. You can't go anywhere without meeting clever people. The thing has become an absolute public nuisance. I wish to goodness we still had a few fools left."- Oscar Wilde (Importance of Being Earnest)

"My goal was to make the Beast so human, so likeable, so superior to man that his transformation into Prince Charming would be for Belle, a terrible disappointment, and would oblige her to accept a marriage of reason." -Jean Cocteau

"“One man who saw through his own eyes and thought with his own brain. Such men may be rare, they may be unknown, but they move the world.”- Fountainhead

Silent comedies can appeal to even the youngest viewers, he (John Flowers, who teaches psychology and film at Chapman University in Orange County) says, "because they're far more physical. You either laugh or you don't. You don't have to explain much. They are literally seeing it for what it is. As soon as a kid develops a sense of what's contemporary, it knocks out the middle ground of older films, because those are too much like what they watch now, but not as good. Silents work because they are totally different from what they watch now."

"“We're all faced throughout our lives with agonizing decisions, moral choices. Some are on a grand scale, most of these choices are on lesser points. But we define ourselves by the choices we have made. We are in fact the sum total of our choices.”- Crimes and Misdemeanors

"You got a dream, you got to protect it. People can't do something themselves, they want to tell you that you can't do it. You want something? Go get it."- The Pursuit of Happyness

"“Revolution is the only lawful, equal, effectual war. It was in Russia that this war was declared and begun."-Battleship Potemkin

"“There's a lot to be said for making people laugh! Did you know that's all some people have? It isn't much, but it's better than nothing" - Sullivan's Travels

"“Audiences don't know somebody sits down and writes a picture. They think the actors make it up as they go along.”- Sunset Boulevard

"“You know we just don't recognize the most significant moments of our lives while they're happening. Back then I thought, well, there'll be other days. I didn't realize that that was the only day.” -Field of Dreams

""Every woman is a mystery to be solved."- Don Juan DeMarco

"“All a man needs in this life is someone to love. If you can’t give him that, give him something to hope for. If you can’t give him that, give him something to do.” Flight of the Phoenix

"“I would rather have thirty minutes of wonderful than a lifetime of nothing special.” Steel Magnolias

"“When you realize you want to spend the rest of your life with somebody, you want the rest of your life to start as soon as possible.” When harry met sally

“Look at history. Everything we have, every great achievement, has come from the independent work of some independent mind.” - Fountainhead

“Before you can do things for people you must be the kind of man who can get things done. But to get things done, you must love the doing not the people.”

“It is the things we admire or want that enslave us.”

“I got where I am by acting on my own honest judgment whether others liked it or not. When you grow older, you’ll see this is the only way to succeed in life.”

"The mind is an attribute of an individual. There is no such thing as a collective brain."

"A man’s self is his spirit. It is the unsacrificed self that we must respect in man above all.”

“Throughout the centuries, there were men who took first steps down new roads, armed with nothing but their own vision. The great creators, the thinkers, the artists, the scientists, the inventors stood alone against the men of their time. Every new thought was opposed, every new invention was denounced. But the men of unborrowed vision went ahead. They fought, they suffered and they paid. But they won.”

Before Sunrise
“I always think that I’m still this 13-year old boy that doesn’t really know how to be an adult, pretending to live my life, taking notes for when I’ll really have to do it.”
“There’s all these people talking about how great technology is and how it saves all this time but what good is saved time if nobody uses it?”
“You need to resign yourself to the awkwardness of life. Only if you find peace within yourself will you find true connection with others.”
“I could never get excited about other people’s ambitions for my life.”
"Everything is so finite but that’s what makes our time and specific moments so important.”

Now Voyager
"A child has rights. A person has rights, to discover her own mistakes, to make her own way, to grow and blossom in her own particular soil.”
“Independence is reliance on one’s own will and judgment.”
“Take part. Contribute. Be interested in everything and everybody.”
“If I were free, there would be only one thing I would want to do, prove that you’re not immune to happiness.”
"just remember that honoring one’s parents is still a pretty good idea.”

Easy Rider
"Just remember that honoring one’s parents is still a pretty good idea.”
"For once, man will have a God-like control over his own destiny. He will have a chance to transcend and evolve with some equality for all.”
"It’s real hard to be free when you’re bought and sold in the marketplace.”
“Don’t ever tell anyone that they’re not free because then they’re going to get busy killing and maiming to prove that they are.

Ben Hur
“Wherever there is greatness, great government or power, even great feeling or compassion, error also is great. We progress and mature by fault.”
"Forgiveness is greater and love more powerful than hatred.”
"You have the spirit to fight back but the good sense to control it.”
“It’s an insane world but in it there is one sanity, the loyalty of old friends.”
"If one purpose fails, it is good to have another.”
"You ask how to fight an idea. I’ll tell you how. With another idea.”

Harvey
"An element of conflict in any discussion is a very good thing. It shows everybody’s taking part and nobody’s left out.”
“I always have a wonderful time, wherever I am, whoever I’m with.”
“It’s our dreams that carry us on. They separate us from the beasts.”
"The photograph shows only the reality. The painting shows not only the reality but the dream behind it.”

Cat on a tin roof
“I hate apologies, especially for the truth. Whatever you did, don’t apologize for it. Just don’t do it again. If you didn’t do it, start doing it.
"The human animal is a beast that eventually has to die. If he’s got money, he buys and he buys and he buys. The reason he buys everything he can is because of some crazy hope that one of the things he buys will be life everlasting.”
"Life ain’t no damn football game. Life ain’t just a bunch of high spots. Heroes in the real world live twenty-four hours a day not just two hours in a game.”
"You know I’ve wasted so much time. I’ve got a million different kinds of feelings left in me and I want to use them. I want to use them all.”
"People like to do what they used to do after they’ve stopped being able to do it.”

Rocky Balboa
"it doesn't matter how this looks to other people. If this is something that you got to do, then you do it."
"If you stay in one place long enough, you become that place.”
"You get through that and you find the only kind of respect that matters in this world - self respect.”
"Until you start believing in yourself, you ain't gonna have a life!"
“The last thing to age in somebody is their heart."

World's Fastest Indian
"It’s not the critic that counts, not the man who points out how the strong man stumbles, or where the doer of deeds could have done better. The credit belongs to the man who is actually in the arena.” (quoting Teddy Roosevelt)
“Danger is the spice of life and you’ve got to take a risk now and then…that’s what makes life worthwhile.”
“If you don’t follow through on your dreams, you might as well be a vegetable.”
The reward is in the doing of it.”
“If you don’t go when you want to go, when you do go, you’ll find you’ve gone.”
“You live more in five minutes on a bike like that, going flat out, than some people live in a lifetime.”
There’s many a good tune played by an old banjo.” (hell yes i actually play the banjo)
"Getting old ain’t for the faint of heart.”

Hary and Tonto
“Life is confusing. We’re all just trying to get on with it, that’s all.”
"You never really feel somebody’s suffering. You only feel their death.”
“If you know people, that’s home.”

Into the wild
"The core of man's spirit comes from new experiences."
“I think careers are a 20th century invention and I don't want one.”
“People soften by the forced reflection that comes with loss.”
“Happiness is only real when shared.”
“I know how important it is in life not necessarily to be strong but to feel strong.”
“Rather than love, than money, than faith, than fame, than fairness - give me truth
"Some people feel like they don't deserve love. They walk away quietly into empty spaces, trying to close the gaps of the past."


"Hate is baggage. Life's too short to be pissed off all the time. It's just not worth it. Derek says it's always good to end a paper with a quote. He says someone else has already said it best. So if you can't top it, steal from them and go out strong. So I picked a guy I thought you'd like. 'We are not enemies, but friends. We must not be enemies. Though passion may have strained, it must not break our bonds of affection. The mystic chords of memory will swell when again touched, as surely they will be, by the better angels of our nature."- American History X

"Get busy living, or get busy dying." - Shawshank Redemption

"I guess sometimes the past just catches up with you, whether you want it to or not." - Green mile

" Today is history. Today will be remembered. Years from now the young will ask with wonder about this day. Today is history and you are part of it." - Schindler's List



Doctor Zhivago
What is history? Its beginning is that of the centuries of systematic work devoted to the solution of the enigma of death, so that death itself may eventually be overcome. That is why people write symphonies, and why they discover mathematical infinity and electromagnetic waves.

Man is born to life, not to prepare for life.

No deep and strong feeling, such as we may come across here and there in the world, is unmixed with compassion. The more we love, the more the object of our love seems to be to be a victim.

Most people experience love, without noticing that there is anything remarkable about it.

Everything established, settled, everything to do with home and order and the common ground, has crumbled into dust and has been swept away in the general upheaval and reorganization of the whole of society. The whole human way of life has been destroyed and ruined. All that's left is the bare, shivering human soul, stripped to the last shred, the naked force of the human psyche for which nothing has changed because it was always cold and shivering and reaching out to its nearest neighbor, as cold and lonely as itself.

Work seethes in the hands of spring, That strapping dairymaid.

Art always serves beauty, and beauty is the joy of possessing form, and form is the key to organic life since no living thing can exist without it.