I have a serious obsession with quotable stuff from movies, novels and songs. I am thinking of listing some of them here. I am not sure if I am going to make this public just because it is totally embarassing. This is not in any particular order.
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Fables should be taught as fables, myths as myths, and miracles as poetic fantasies. To teach superstitions as truths is a most terrible thing. The child mind accepts and believes them, and only through great pain and perhaps tragedy can he be in after years relieved of them.
Hypatia of Alexandria
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Reserve your right to think, for even to think wrongly is better than not to think at all.
Hypatia of Alexandria
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Some day you will be old enough to start reading fairy tales again.
C.S. Lewis
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Nostalgia is Denial.
Midnight in Paris
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Scott Fitzgerald has a lot of cheesy stuff ;-)
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People are not rain or snow or autumn leaves; they do not look beautiful when they fall.
Naveed A. Khan (I have not actually read his work. I have seen this line)
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If I murdered someone, she's the person I'd call to help me drag the corpse across the living room floor. She's my person.
Cristina Yang (=the most important character in Grey's Anatomy)
- I hope you get everything you deserver
Unknown
- What doesn't kill you gives you a lot of unhealthy coping mechanisms and a really dark sense of humor.
- I just forget stuff like a cool person
Rosa Diaz (Brooklyn 99)
- There is no such thing as an appropriate joke. That is why it is a joke.
Michael Scott
- But I think you are just remembering good stuff.
Kid from 500 days of Summer
- What a treacherous thing it is to believe a person is more than a person
Quentin, Paper Towns - John Green
- You are painstakingly average
A beuatiful young mind
- and art wasn't supposed to look nice; it was supposed to make you feel something.
Eleanor and Park by Rainbow Rowell
- You have sheep at the wall?
Ygritte, Game of Thrones
- Not everything is a lesson, ...., Sometimes you just fail.
Dwight Schrute, Office
- but would your thesis defend YOU?
Random person on Twitter
- Life is what happens while waiting for manuscript reviews
Shit academics say, Twitter
- You can't change the world if you are burned out. It is okay to say no to oppurtunities
Zoe(with accent) Ayres, Twitter
- Nothing ever... All that blood was never once beautiful. It was just red.
Kait Rokowski
- When people tell you who they are, believe them the first time.
(paraphrased) Maya Angelou
People are who they are. Give or take 15%.
Mitchell Pritchett (Modern Family)
- She tried her best but people still got hurt.
Elizabeth McCord (Madam secratary)
- Why do you know that?
Jane Wilde (The Theory of Everything)
- We're [in academia] all smart. Distinguish yourself by being kind.
Shit Academics Say
- You can always edit a bad page. You can't edit a blank page.
Jodi Picoult
- Working Code Trumps All Hype
from Mahadev Satyanarayanan's webpage
- We are not figuratively, but literally stardust
Neil Degrass Tyson and https://doi.org/10.1103%2FRevModPhys.29.547
- Being aware of your crap and actually overcoming your crap are two very different things.
Cristina Yang
It is great that nothing in Normal people is quotable ;-)
Last edit 2024-10-17