"All is cold and all is dark, all is cold and all is dark
No more star crossed tears
He is drawing near
Now salvation sings
Life that Jesus brings....."
0Fallin Up, "How They Made Cameras"

"A friend is one who walks in when others walk out"
-Walter Winchell

Hogan's Heroes
Hogan: [the phone rings while Hogan's men are cracking a safe] Answer the phone, tell him it's the wrong number.
Carter: [answers the phone in a mock-German accent] I'm sorry, you've got the wrong number. [pause]
Carter: So what if you haven't told me who you're calling yet? No matter who you're calling it's still the wrong number because I don't even have a phone!
Hogan: Carter.

[phone rings again]
Carter: Hello? Oh, hi... I didn't mean to hang up on you before but you really do have the wrong number. This is a prisoner of war camp. Who am I? I'm a prisoner.
Hogan: Carter!

Colonel Klink: When I looked out the window I thought I saw a chimpanzee raking in the garden.
Hogan: Well if it makes you feel any better, sir, there IS a chimpanzee raking in the garden.
Colonel Klink: WHAT?

SnowAngel

Everybody is somebody, but nobody wants to be themselves.
Gnarls Barkley

We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, then, is not an act, but a habit.
Aristotle

"God has not called us to be successful. He has called us to be faithful."
Mother Teresa

There will always be people better than you. All you have to do is bring out your best, and if you do, it's worth it. -- from a show (forgot what it was)

I don't know why, but I've always liked this quote --

Beware of him who hates the laugh of a child.

~Riella

Ithilwen, that is a very good one. I like it.

Haha. Djaq sounds like just the sort of person I would be friends with.

So, I often jot down quotes while I read or as I run across them. Here are four quotes that I wrote down but I cannot remember what they are from. I was wondering if anyone has any insight into who said them?

'Ha!' said the tall man drily. 'He was in high luck. Rich old uncles
who die are in shockingly short supply.'

"There was very little about her face and figure that was in any way
remarkable, but it was the sort of face which, when animated by
conversation or laughter, is completely transformed. She had a lovely
disposition, a quick mind and a fondness for the comical. She was
always very ready to smile and, since a smile is the most becoming
ornament that any lady can wear, she had been known upon occasion to
outshine women who were acknowledged beauties in three countries."

"He was one of those people whose ideas are too lively to be confined
in their brains and spill out into the world to the consternation of
passers-by. He talked to himself and the expression on his face
changed constantly. Within the space of a single moment he looked
surprized, insulted, resolute, and angry--emotions which were
presumably the consequences of the energetic conversation he was
holding with the ideal people inside his head."

"Green makes my heart go skippety, skip, skip."

I don't know why, but I've always liked this quote --

Beware of him who hates the laugh of a child.

~Riella

oooo that's a good one, I love it

Here's a quote De_De said that I absolutely love

everything is big on stage.....except a hobbit

and another one that I read off the internet

A true friend understands when you say, “I forgot…” waits forever when you say, “1 minute…” stays when you say, “leave me alone…” and opens the door,
‘even before you knock

*pops in randomly*

Haha. Djaq sounds like just the sort of person I would be friends with.

Okay, I was bored just now, so I googled those quotes you posted, Orious, just to see if I could find their origins, and the first three quotes are all from Jonathan Strange & Mr Norrell, and the last quote didn't bring up any results.

*rummages for some quotes to post*

Ehhh, here's two from my still unfinished NaNo novel...

"He was living proof that they did not recklessly kill innocent (or even not so innocent) people."
"He had never been good with directions. Especially in the forest, and especially when he was lost."

--- flambeau

"Our background and circumstances may influence who we are, but we are responsible for who we become" - Unknown

Love can sometimes be magic. But magic can sometimes just be an illusion.
-- Javan (Steven Javan Jones)

~Riella

"Forgiveness is the fragrance the violet sheds on the heel that has crushed it." ~Mark Twain


"Good timber does not grow with ease. The stronger the wind the stronger the trees."

And finally, here is one I came across several weeks ago via facebook, and absolutely loved:

“To love at all is to be vulnerable. Love anything, and your heart will certainly be wrung and possibly broken. If you want to make sure of keeping it intact, you must give your heart to no one, not even to an animal. Wrap it carefully round with hobbies and little luxuries; avoid all entanglements; lock it up safe in the casket or coffin of your selfishness. But in that casket- safe, dark, motionless, airless--it will change. It will not be broken; it will become unbreakable, impenetrable, irredeemable.” ~C.S. Lewis

"There are two ways of looking at the world...one is that nothing is a miracle and the other is that everything is a miracle." - Albert Einstein

"I CURSE YOU, ANDREW ADAMSON! MAY ALL YOUR CHILDREN BE BORN NAKED AND ILLITERATE!" - glumPuddle

Come What May:
“My father was right. If you don’t believe your wife is precious, you won’t cherish her. If you don’t believe love is best when it is pure and new, you wait patiently for it. If you don’t believe the baby in the womb is the living handiwork of God, you’ll do nothing to protect it! What do you believe?” ~ Caleb Hogan

The Hunt for Red October:
(Shootout in the missile room)
Captain Ramius: Hey, Ryan, be careful what you shoot at. Most things in here don't react too well to bullets.
Jack Ryan: Right.
(Moves closer to enemy, who fires several shots at him)
Jack Ryan: *I* have to be careful what *I* shoot at?

Jack Ryan: (to himself) "Ryan, some things in here don't react well to bullets." Yeah, like me. I don't react well to bullets.

SnowAngel

"I CURSE YOU, ANDREW ADAMSON! MAY ALL YOUR CHILDREN BE BORN NAKED AND ILLITERATE!" - glumPuddle