Goombella (Paper Mario): Okey, I KNOW she didn't turn into a pig to feed her family. That would be TOO gnarly!
Jim Hawkins, Gonzo, and Rizo (Muppet Treasure Island): I hate my life. I hate your life too. If I had a life I'd hate it
Dilbert: If challenges are worth more than money, then why don't you give me your money and I'll give you my challenges.
Mistman (Megaman Battle Network 3): Growth comes through defeat. Prepare to grow...
The Suffering: But that's the thing about killing someone... you can't take it back.
Magi-Nation Card: Everything goes from ashes to ashes... But in between there is life.
Magi-Nation Card: If I'm not around to learn from my mistakes, someone else will be.
Magi-Nation Card: We all must unite when the night falls. That we might survive till the day.
Specter: Learn to work with nothing. Train to work with everything.
Nikola Tesla: Let the future tell the truth, and evaluate each one according to his work and accomplishments.The present is theirs; the future, for which I have really worked, is mine.
?.?.? (I found this on the author Kraven Ergeists profile): When life gives you lemons, make grape juice. Then sit back, and let the world wonder how you did it."
From the fanfiction story 'Conversations and Observations': Truth in its self is not warm. Nor is it cold. Truth is truth, it simply is.
Daxter(Jak 3): You know what I really miss? Soft underpants. You know how it lifts and cradles
?.?.?: The two hardest things to say in life, are hello for the first time, and goodbye for the last.
Milly (Trigun): I DISAGREE! I can handle it!! I am unique... ... For I have a different stomach for cake and ice cream!
William Penn: Right is right even if everyone is against it, wrong is wrong even if everyone is for it.
Gex (Gex Enter the Gecko): The evidence is overwhelming! I'm not wearing pants!
Gex (Gex Enter the Gecko): They're fresh! They're minty! They mombo!
Jack Sparrow (Pirates of the Caribbean): Me? I'm dishonest, and a dishonest man you can always trust to be dishonest. Honestly. It's the honest ones you have to watch out for, because you can never predict when they're going to do something incredibly... stupid.
Without a Trace: Screw the results. Relish the process.
From the fanfiction story 'Dueling Harmonies': You still look like a dumbass but at least you look like an honest dumbass.
Sturgeon (Magical Starsign): Believe in your fate. There is no such thing as a bad fate in this world. Only thinking ill of your fate can make it so.
?.?.?: I'm blind, crippled, in pain most of the time that I'm awake, feared cause I am a freak, hated cause I'm not like others, rejected cause I won't accept your ways. But enough about me, that's not important... how can I help you?
Space Trooper (Magical Starsign): This is the Space Police HQ reception desk. I'm going to have to ask you to fill out a short questionnaire. Please provide your name, date of birth, home world, blood type, hobbies, favorite movie star, credit card number, names of any and all interstellar space treaties to which you may be a signatory, known contagious diseases, pager number, father's maiden name, pet's middle name, eye color, hair color, dyed hair color, preferred salsa hotness, number of toes, and for the gorgeous females, whether you prefer candlelight dinners or long walks on the beach.
Lev Androv (Armageddon): American components, Russian components, ALL MADE IN TAIWAN!
Ask a Ninja Question: Why haven't ninjas taken over the world? Answer: We have. This is exactly the way we want it.
?.?.?: Battle doesn't need a purpose; the battle is its own purpose. You don't ask why a plague spreads or a field burns. Don't ask me why I fight.
Disgaea Flonne: Laharl, why are you screaming? - Laharl: I, I don't know why... But for some reason I can't stand women with sexy bodies. On a side note, flat-chested girls like you have absolutely no effect on me. - Etna & Flonne: Well, excuse us for being flat!!
?.?.? Serenity is not freedom from the storm, but peace amid the storm
Mark Twain: Thunder is good, thunder is impressive; but it is lightning that does all the work.
Shigeru Miyamoto A delayed game is eventually good, a bad game is bad forever.
Tanis (Dragonlance): It's the sensible, logical thing to do, of course, which is why we don't do it.
Raine (Tales of Symphonia): Adults are troublesome creatures. They aren't very good at admitting their mistakes.
Regal (Tales of Symphonia): Death is not punishment. Punishment is living with one's crime and working to atone for it.
?.?.?: I am nobody, nobody is perfect, therefore I am perfect.
?.?.?: There are only two tragedies in life. One is not getting what you want. The other is getting it
Elisabeth Kubler-Ross: People are like stained-glass windows. They sparkle and shine when the sun is out, but when darkness sets in, their true beauty is revealed only if there is a light from within.
Nathaniel Hawthorne: Happiness is as a butterfly which, when pursued, is always beyond our grasp, but which if you will sit down quietly, may alight upon you.
Henry David Thoreau: The language of friendship is not words but meanings.
Caboose (Red V.S. Blue) Or it's a key all the time and when you stick it in people it unlocks their death.
Albus Dumbledore: It is a curious thing, Harry, but perhaps those who are best suited to power are those who have never sought it.
R.M.: Life is a sidequest! Seize the EXP!
Hannigan (Cold Fear): Okay, I found the captain. He's a corpsecicle.
Red Viking: Yaoi Fangirls. Men. Cannot. Get. Pregnant. Deal with it.
UltimateDeadpool: The new generation surpasses the previous because the young grow strong and the strong grow old.
Jinsei (From the fanfiction story Pretense): The limit is just a pretty word for the place you gave up. There are no limits! You are unlimited!
From the fanfiction story Pretense: An honest man was not someone who constantly told the truth and nothing but the truth. An honest man was one that you could trust to be truthful when it was important, and to have good reasons for lying and holding back.
Scaler (Scaler) Man, you are one UGLY figment of my imagination.
GuardianSpirit pic: What's that talking pumpkin? We must eat you?
Nathan(Friend of mine): I've got an unstable can of kickassium and the contents have infected my foot to target your rear.
Spoony One: They bop around a dungeon killing everything they see, collecting magical weapons so they can more efficiently kill everything they see.
Neku (The World Ends With You): There's a ramen doctor at your secret ramen base?
Yakkai: NOTHING that happens to Naruto from here on out could possibly be as absurd as all that stupidity with the Sauce. If Jesus comes down from above out of a golden deathstar, pulls out a light saber, hands it to Naruto and says "you're now a Jedi Saiyan, go forth and kick ass my son" THAT would not be as ridiculous as the Forehead Poke of Uberness."
SpoonyOne: The scariest part of the movie was when I expressed incredulity to my friends afterwards that no hospital staff could be as incompetent as the characters in Infection. The two people that worked at the hospital looked at each other and hesitated. Holy shit.
Paradox (Ben Ten): Of course I went mad. Then I got bored with even that and went sane. Very, very sane.
Cloud8745: Oh yeah, always look down when you're doing this, it gives you a sense of holy shit don't let go!
?.?.?: What I fear most for my people are the hypocrites, who talk wisely, yet act unjustly.
?.?.?: Human beings, who are almost unique in having the ability to learn from the experience of others, are also remarkable for their apparent disinclination to do so.
Henry James: Be not afraid of life. Believe that life is worth living, and your belief will help create the fact.
Terry Pratchett: I'll be more enthusiastic about encouraging thinking outside the box when there's evidence of any thinking going on inside it.
?.?.?: The only time a goodbye is painful is when you know you'll never say hello again."
?.?.?: I am what I am and that is all I am and I am it.
Douglas Adams: I may not have gone where I intended to go, but I think I ended up where I needed to be.
The Spoony One: People who know me will tell you that I instinctively distrust groupthink because people (ie. you) are for the most part, complete idiots. I'm not saying this because I think I'm any better; I'm an idiot too. The difference is, I know I'm an idiot, which to paraphrase Socrates puts me one step above the average bear on an intellectual level.
Mel the shadow lover: I'm just a gay man in a women's body, please feed my Yaoi.
(Fanfiction story, Days With You): "This whole thing is your fault!" "My fault?!"
"Yes your fault! If you didn't open your big mouth I wouldn't have attacked!"
"Well if you had just dropped dead like I told you to then none of this would have happened!"
William Blake: Imagination is the real and eternal world of which this vegetable universe is but a faint shadow.
The World Ends With You: "Quit screwin with us!" "Um, villain? Screwin with you is my job."
?.?.?: Strength is the ability to break a chocolate bar into four pieces, and then eat only one of them.
Bob Dylan: Being noticed can be a burden. Jesus got himself crucified because he got himself noticed. So I disappear allot.
George Carlin: Inside every cynical person, there is a disappointed idealist.
?.?.?: Light thinks it's faster than anything but it is wrong. No matter how fast light travels, it finds darkness has always got there first and is waiting for it.
?.?.?: Silent Hill 3. Let's put it this way: when the game gives you the option to set puzzles to "Hard", it is not fucking around. You're either spending five minutes with a guide or five hours with the Complete Works of William Shakespeare.
Willy Wonka: A little nonsense now and then is relished by the wisest men.
Star Ocean: The pen is mightier than the sword and authority is mightier than the pen, but the sword is mightier than authority.
Leroy Jethro Gibbs (NCIS): Almost only counts in horseshoes and hand-grenades.
SpoonyOne (Playing SWAT 4): Swat guy: Move it, you're in my spot. Spoony: You son of a b#h! You are so f&@g lucky I have a defective shotgun!
?.?.?: My life doesn't matter. Your life doesn't matter. Only the plan matters!
Lovecraft: Life has never interested me so much as the escape from life.
?.?.? We all have our secrets; we're all terrifying inside...
Marie Von Ebner-Eschenbach: Even a stopped clock is right twice a day.
Rizo and Gonzo (The Muppet Christmas Carol): Rizo: Uwuf. That's scary stuff. Hey should we be worried about the kids in the audience? Gonzo: Naw it's alright, this is culture.
Dotsies: All stories have happy endings if you know where to quit reading and be content.
DeceasedCrab: Take this! My angst, my sorrow and all of my pizza!
Judge (Pheonix Wright: Ace Attorney): The witness shall refrain from wanton winking!
Glenn Beck: They took my M&M's and replaced them with grapes because of the war on chins!!
DeceasedCrab: They say things like, "Hey. Who brings an apple to a sword fight?" And the answer is, people who want to win.
DeceasedCrab: They have to be ever vigilant for space parasite alien virus monsters. This, this is what I worry about, space alien parasite monsters, that's why I practice. Practice playing this game over and over. Making sure I can kill the space alien virus monsters when they invade from the internet! When they will come with a host of thousands of viruses with funny little hats and alien powers and they shoot at you and then they hide back under their hats! And after they've done that, after then, they take all of your candy and digitize it on the internet. Like Tron! Yes you've been bringing up Tron all game, Tron was a good movie but only I can appreciate the quality, the sheer quality of digitizing an apple. Do you know what an electronic apple tastes like? DO YOU VIEWERS?! You have no comprehension of a digital apple. No, no I say thee no. Digital apples are our future. The future is long hair being used to whip viruses to death because the internet plague is upon us and it is up to you to whip cyber apples to death with your hair!
Lao-Tse: By accident of fortune a man may rule the world for a time, but by virtue of love and kindness he may rule the world forever.
Pheonix (Phoenix Wright Ace Attorney: Trials and Tribulations): So, um, let's say I'm late with my repayment... What happens then? Violetta:... We'd give you more coffee... ...Strong coffee...
AKmyWaffle: I disagree, hugging is not hard work.
DeeasedCrab: With your lungs you might be able to breath air! You need air to breath. You need oxygen to live to go through your bloodstream. Use your lungs to breath air in this room.
?.?.?: Remember kids, violence is not the answer. Violence is the question. The answer is YES!
Elizabeth (Persona3, describing an arcade): A playground where one sports with electric fairies in exchange for tokens.
?.?.?: Hell does not exist to punish sinners. Hell exists to ensure that no-one sins.
?.?.?: You can't run from your problems fast enough to make them go away.
George Orwell: He wears a mask and his face grows to fit it.
Hisao (Kutawa Shoujo): Sometimes the best way to get an answer is to never ask the question.
Nagi (Umi No Misaki): Here on this isle, you can't get by without others. It's that inconvenience that binds people together.
Dhaos (Internet Conversation): Let me have an opinion.
Tankanko: No. Subject yourself to the blissful oblivion of the Majority!
Charles Baudelaire: I consider it useless and tedious to represent what exists, because nothing that exists satisfies me. Nature is ugly, and I prefer the monsters of my fancy to what is positively trivial.
Kuroki (It's Not My Fault That I'm Not Popular): Lately I've been thinking... Since I started high school, life raised its difficulty level. If I'm on hard mode now... And when I become a college student and graduate, that will be nightmare mode, if I just skip to the ending now...
Robert Frost: By working faithfully eight hours a day you may eventually get to be a boss and work twelve hours a day
Chinese Proverb: Be not afraid of growing slowly, be afraid only of standing still.
Edward W. Howe: A good scare is worth more than good advice.
Julian Barnes (Staring At The Sun): You grew old first not in your own eyes, but in other people's eyes; then, slowly, you agreed with their opinion of you.
Herbert V. Prochnow: Inexperience is what makes a young man do what an older man says is impossible.
Oscar Wilde: Ah! Don't say that you agree with me. I always feel that I must be wrong.
Ann Jellicoe: The white horse you see in the park could be a zebra synchronized with the railings.
Dale Carnegie: There is only one way under high heaven to get the best of an argument - and that is to avoid it.
G.K. Chesterston: Democracy means government by the uneducated, while aristocracy means government by the badly educated.
Pablo Picasso (Visiting an exhibition of drawings by children): When I was their age, I could draw like Raphael, but it took me a lifetime to learn to draw like them.
Marquise du Deffand: The distance doesn't matter; it is only the first step that is difficult.
Lord Hailsham: You ought not be ashamed of being bored. What you aught to be ashamed of is being boring.
J. Fulton Sheen: The big print giveth and the fine print taketh away.
Francis Bacon: If a man will begin with certainties, he shall end in doubts, but if he will be content to begin with doubts, he shall end in certainties.
W. Somerset Maugham: I recognize that I am made up of several persons and that the person that at the moment has the upper hand will inevitably give place to another. But which one is the real one? All of them or none?
G.K. Chesterton: The modern world... has no notion except that of simplifying something by destroying nearly everything.
Anthony Burgess: Bath twice a day to be really clean, once a day to be passably clean, once a week to avoid being a public menace.
Jerome K. Jerome: If you are foolish enough to be contented, don't show it, but grumble with the rest.
???: Anyone who isn't confused here doesn't really understand what's going on.
Jack Kerouac: I had nothing to offer anybody except my own confusion.
Jacques Cousteau: Population growth is the primary source of environmental damage.
Andrei Voznesensky: The art of creation is older than the art of killing.
Epictetus: If you hear that someone is speaking ill of you, instead of trying to defend yourself you should say: 'He obviously does not know me very well, since there are so many other faults he could have mentioned'.
John F. Kennedy (Paraphrased): Those who make peaceful change impossible will make violent change inevitable.
G. K. Chesterton: Compromise used to mean that half a loaf was better than no bread. Among modern statesmen it really seems to mean that half a loaf is better than a whole loaf.
Napoleon I: Oh well, no matter what happens, there's always death.
Logan Smith: I cannot forgive my friends for dying: I do not find these vanishing acts of theirs at all amusing.
Mary McCarthy: If someone tells you he is going to make 'a realistic decision', you immediately understand that he has resolved to do something bad.
Eugene Ionesco: Many people have delusions of grandeur but you're deluded by triviality.
Albert Szent-Gyorgyi: Discovery consists of seeing what everybody else has seen and thinking what nobody has thought.
Simone de Beauvior: If you live long enough, you'll see that every victory turns into a defeat.
Samuel Butler: The great pleasure of a dog is that you may make a fool of yourself with him and not only will he not scold you, he will make a fool of himself too.
Betrand Russel: The trouble with the world is that the stupid are cocksure and the intelligent full of doubt.
Ogden Nash: A door is what a dog is perpetually on the wrong side of.
Nancy Astor: One reason I don't drink is that I want to know when I am having a good time.
Henry Adams: They know enough who know how to learn.
George Trevelyan: Education... has produced a vast population able to read but unable to distinguish what is worth reading.
Norman Schwarzkopf: A very good man said you should love your enemies and that's not a bad piece of advice. We can love them but, by God, that doesn't mean we're not going to fight them.
Honore de Balzac: Equality may perhaps be a right, but no power on earth can ever turn it into a fact.
Oliver Holmes: A moment's insight is sometimes worth a life's experience.
Gertrude Stein: I like familiarity. In me it does not breed contempt. Only more familiarity.
Horace: Mix a little foolishness with your serious plans: it's lovely to be silly at the right moment.
Epicurus: It is not so much our friends' help that helps us as the confident knowledge that they will help us.
Charles Bancroft Dillingham (Said while carrying Harry Houdini's coffin at his funeral): I bet you a hundred bucks he ain't in here.
Alexandre Dumas: All generalizations are dangerous, even this one.
Luna (Zero Escape Virtue's Last Reward): It means that happiness is something you should always be looking for. And it's only when you're pursuing happiness that you're trully happy.
Ginko (Mushi-Shi): Relaxing is one of life's pressing issues.
Elbert Hubbard: The stronger a man is, the more gentle he can afford to be.
Chinese proverb: He who asks a question is a fool for a moment; he who does not ask a question remains a fool forever.
Mark Filipowich: Photorealism and believability be damned. I want my lava worlds bordering my ice mountains, I want deserts at the coast of oceans, and I want a beanstalk that will take me to the moon. And while I?m on the moon, I want to ride eight foot chickens that live off seeds and nuts the size of my head. The more colorful and imaginative the world, the more I want to save it.
Yuuji (Grisaia no Kaijitsu): Lies are like colors. The more you pile up, the blacker things get.
(Grisaia no Kajitsu) song:
Sou Amane's a b*tch in heat-
Rolling around in a man's bedsheets-
Good for you!
Good for me!
M-mm gooood!
Callate: But I have been the only man in a women's history class of twenty-odd students, and I would sooner rip off my thumbnail than subject myself to that again. I have been in classes that described anything male-related as "phallocentric", a word my spell checker refuses to take seriously and I find I'm in agreement.
So yeah... I love quotes.