Great Movie & TV Quotes:

"There's always room for doubt."
   Peter Falk as Lt. Columbo
   Read that again (see above)

"The greatest trick the Devil ever pulled was convincing the world he didn't exist."
   Kevin Spacey as Verbal Kint/Kaiser Soze, in Bryan Singer's "The Usual Suspects".

"I have nothing to say, but I want to say it anyway."
   Marcello Mastroianni, in Federico Fellini's semi-autobiographical "8 1/2"

"Bon appetit."
   Robert Carlyle as Col. Ives in Antonia Bird's "Ravenous"

The 13th Apostle (Chris Rock, speaking to The Last Scion, Bethany [Linda Fiorentino]): "The blood that flows through your veins shares a chromosome or two, at the genetic level, with the one you call Jesus. Bethany, you are the great great great great great great great great great great grandniece of Jesus Christ."
Jay (Jason Mewes, who was listening, speaking to his hetero life partner Silent Bob [Kevin Smith]): "So, that would make Bethany part black?"
   ...in Kevin Smith's "Dogma"

"Eureka? That's greek for, 'This bath water's too hot'."
   Tom Baker as BBC sci-fi series hero & Timelord "Doctor Who"

"Federal Marshalls are so far up my ass I can taste Brylcreem."
   Dominic Chianese as Corrado "Uncle Junior" Soprano Jr. in the HBO series "The Sopranos"

Corrado “Uncle Junior” Soprano (Dominic Chianese): “Kid was always a dumb fuck, though, wasn’t he? Didn’t he almost drown in three inches of water?”
Tony Soprano (James Gandolfini): “The penguin exhibit (pause, sigh). Jack tried to lay off all Jackie’s problems on a learning disorder, but… well, stupidity would be a learning disorder, wouldn’t it?”
   ...from the HBO series “The Sopranos”

Gus (David Arquette): "What's great about dating homeless girls?"
Murphy (Kevin Costner): "What?"
Gus: "You can drop them off anywhere."
   ...in Demian Lichtenstein's "3000 Miles to Graceland"

 

Great Quotes from Great Minds and Hearts:

 

"Love is seeing God in the person next to us, and meditation is seeing God within us."

"Once respect is lost, even love is not tasty."

"The sign of enlightenment is no complaints and no explanations!"
   Sri Sri Ravi Shankar (this, and the previous two).

"Only the descent into the hell of self-knowledge can pave the way to godliness."

"May you live your life as if the maxim of your actions were to become universal law."
   (Kant's supreme moral principle or "categorical imperative")

"Metaphysics is a dark ocean without shores or lighthouse, strewn with many a philosophic wreck."
   (According to Kenny, and [of course?] I agree, Kant "asked the question[s]" that marked the beginning of the stage change from metaphysics to post-metaphysics)

"Two things fill the mind with ever new and increasing wonder and awe— the starry heavens above me and the moral law within me." (often misattributed, this appears on Kant's Tomb)
   Immanuel Kant (this, and the previous three).

 

"The whole problem of the world is that fools and fanatics are always so certain of themselves,
and wiser people so full of doubts."
   Bertrand Russell

"There is no worse sickness for the soul, O you who are proud, than this pretense of perfection."
   Mevlana Rumi

"You have to know how to accept rejection and reject acceptance."

"Anything you dream is fiction, and anything you accomplish is science, the whole history of mankind is nothing but science fiction."
   Ray bradbury (this, and the previous one).

"Be yourself. The universe will give you feedback."
   Genpo Roshi

If you ask him: "What is silence?" he will answer, "It is the Great Mystery! The holy silence is His voice!"

If you ask: "What are the fruits of silence?" he will say: "They are self-control, true courage or endurance, patience, dignity, and reverence. Silence is the cornerstone of character."
   Charles Alexander Eastman, Santee Dakota Tribe.

"When we see men of worth, we should think how we may learn to equal them. When we see men of a contrary character, we should turn inward and examine ourselves."

"Love of goodness without love of learning degenerates into simple-mindedness. Love of knowledge without love of learning degenerates into utter lack of principle. Love of faithfulness without love of learning degenerates into injurious disregard of consequences. Love of uprightness without love of learning degenerates into harshness. Love of courage without love of learning degenerates into insubordination. Love of strong character without love of learning degenerates into mere recklessness."
   Confucius, Chinese philosopher (this, and the previous one).

"As our circle of knowledge expands, so does the circumference of darkness surrounding it."

"A person starts to live when he can live outside himself."

"Everything should be made as simple as possible, but not one bit simpler."

"When a man sits with a pretty girl for an hour, it seems like a minute. But let him sit on a hot stove for a minute and it's longer than any hour. That's relativity."

"The difference between genius and stupidity is that genius has its limits."
   Albert Einstein (this, and the previous four).

"The greatest enemy of knowledge is not ignorance, it is the illusion of knowledge."
   Stephen Hawking.

"Everything in moderation, including moderation."
   Julia Child

"One man's 'magic' is another man's engineering."

"Being right too soon is socially unacceptable."

"Belief gets in the way of learning." (Which spawned the folk wisdom,"The main impediment to learning is knowing.")

"History has the relation to truth that theology has to religion - i.e., none to speak of."

"Man is not a rational animal, he is a rationalizing animal."

"One man's theology is another man's belly laugh."

"If tempted by something that feels 'altruistic', examine your motives and root out that self-deception. Then, if you still want to do it, wallow in it!"

"The shamans are forever yacking about their snake-oil 'miracles'. I prefer the Real McCoy—a pregnant woman."

"Goodness without wisdom always accomplished evil."
   Robert A. Heinlein (this, and the previous eight).

"The sage allows all things to pass through him, both good and evil, none leaving a mark."
   Lao Tzu

"The sadness of the women's movement is that they don't allow the necessity of love.
See, I personally don't trust any revolution where love is not allowed."

"Success is liking yourself, liking what you do, and liking how you do it."
   Maya Angelou (this, and the previous one).

"What is art but a way of seeing?"

"A great deal of intelligence can be invested in ignorance when the need for illusion is deep."
   Saul Bellow (this, and the previous one).

"We are a vast army of emotional cripples."

"Love touches everything, even death."

"I throw a spear into the darkness. That is intuition.
Then I must send an army into the darkness to find the spear. That is intellect."
   Ingmar Bergman (this, and the previous two).

"A shut mouth gathers no foot." Naomi Judd

"Mystery has it's own mysteries, and there are gods above gods. We have ours, they have theirs. That is what's known as infinity."
   Jean Cocteau

"I think the first virtue is to restrain the tongue; he approaches nearest to gods who knows how to be silent, even though he is in the right."

" 'Tis sometimes the height of wisdom to feign stupidity."
   Marcus Porcius Cato (Cato the Elder; this, and the previous one).

"Oh, love isn't there to make us happy. I believe it exists to show us how much we can endure."
   Hermann Hesse

"A loser doesn't know what he'll do if he loses, but talks about what he'll do if he wins, and a winner doesn't talk about what he'll do if he wins, but knows what he'll do if he loses."

"The only time human beings are sane is the 10 minutes after intercourse."
   Eric Berne (this, and the previous one).

"It's not enough to rage against the lie...you've got to replace it with the truth."
   Bono

"The basic difference between an ordinary man and a warrior is that a warrior takes everything as a challenge, while an ordinary man takes everything as a blessing or a curse."

"The trick is in what one emphasizes. We either make ourselves miserable, or we make ourselves strong. The amount of work is the same."

"We hardly ever realize that we can cut anything out of our lives, anytime, in the blink of an eye."
   Carlos Castaneda (this, and the previous two).

Weird Quotes from Weird Minds and Hearts:

"But Officer, the light WAS blue!"
   Caryl Marie Anderson

"The early bird may get the worm, but the second mouse gets the cheese."

"I stayed up late one night playing poker with a deck of Tarot cards. I got a full house and four people died."
   Stephen Wright (this, and the previous one).

"When I see a pretty girl walking down the street I think two things. One part of me wants to take her out and talk to her and be real nice and sweet and treat her right, while the other wonders what her head would look like on a stick."
   I've found this quote attributed to both (very sick puppies) Edmund Kemper (more) and Ed Gein

"As long as the world is turning and spinning, we're gonna be dizzy and we're gonna make mistakes."
   Mel Brooks

"It is better to copulate than never."

"Place your clothes and weapons where you can find them in the dark."

"Rub her feet."

"The plural of spouse is spice."
   Robert A. Heinlein (this, and the previous three).

"If Jesus had been killed twenty years ago, Catholic school children would be wearing little electric chairs around their necks instead of crosses."

"Every day people are straying away from the church and going back to God."
   Lenny Bruce (this, and the previous one).

"You can observe a lot by watching."

"In theory there is no difference between theory and practice. In practice there is."
   Yogi Berra (this, and the previous one).

"Government is the Entertainment Division of the military-industrial complex."

"Writing about music is like dancing about architecture."
   Frank Zappa (this, and the previous one).

"When I hear the word 'culture', I reach for my revolver (Browning)." Hermann Wilhelm Göring (Goering).

"I think we all agree, the past is over."

"I think if you know what you believe, it makes it a lot easier to answer questions. I can't answer your question."

"...misunderestimation..."

"It's amazing I won. I was running against peace, prosperity, and incumbency."
   George Walker Bush (this, and the three previous).

"If your parents never had children, chances are you won't either."

"It's a rare person who wants to hear what he doesn't want to hear."
   Dick Cavett (this, and the previous one).

"I enjoy cooking with wine, sometimes I even put it in the food I'm cooking."

"I don't think I would want to live in a world without butter."
   Julia Child (this, and the previous one).

"Dreams are basically, like, the farts of the mind"
   Natalie Portman