Quotes

“Always behave like a duck: keep calm and unruffled on the surface, but paddle like hell underwater.” –Anonymous

“How can she fall for you if you’re not there to catch her?” –Alex, The O.C.

“There are things that we don’t want to happen but have to accept, things we don’t want to know but have to learn, and people we can’t live without but have to let go.” –Author Unknown

“And if I asked you about love I’d get a sonnet, but you’ve never looked at a woman and been truly vulnerable. Known that someone could kill you with a look. That someone could rescue you from grief. That God had put an angel on Earth just for you. And you wouldn’t know how it felt to be her angel. To have the love be there for her forever.” –Sean Macguire, Good Will Hunting

“I breathed in. I thought you were putting your head on my shoulder. But you were just getting a better view. I breathed in. I thought you were trying to hold my hand. But you were just moving your bag. So I breathed out. And then you reached. Across the table. Put your fingers around my ear. Touched my jaw. Pulled me forward. And kissed my mouth. I lost my breath.” –Blu Sanders

“If you want to live a happy life, tie it to a goal. Not to people or things.” –Albert Einstein

“I see you’re drinking 1%. Is that ’cause you think you’re fat? ‘Cause you’re not. You could be drinking whole if you wanted to.” –Napolean Dynamite

“Do I look like a cat to you boy? Am I jumpin’ around all nimbly bimbly from tree to tree? Am I drinking milk from a saucer? DO YOU SEE ME EATING MICE?” –Foster, Super Troopers

“True love is hard to find, sometimes you think you have true love and then you catch the early flight home from San Diego and a couple of nude people jump out of your bathroom blindfolded like a goddamn magic show ready to double team your girlfriend…” –Mitch Martin, Old School

“Well, um, actually a pretty nice little Saturday, we’re going to go to Home Depot. Yeah, buy some wallpaper, maybe get some flooring, stuff like that. Maybe BedBath&Beyond, I don’t know, I don’t know if we’ll have enough time.” –Frank Ricard, Old School

“To say ‘I love you’ one must know first how to say the ‘I.’” –Howard Roark, The Fountainhead

“It is not advisable, James, to venture unsolicited opinions. You should spare yourself the embarrassing discovery of their exact value to your listener.” –Francisco d’Anconia, Atlas Shrugged

“A lot of people wonder how you know you’re in love. Just ask yourself this one question: ‘Would I mind being financially destroyed by this person?’” –Ronnie Shakes

“Had I the heavens’ embroidered cloths,
Enwrought with golden and silver light,
The blue and the dim and the dark cloths
Of night and light and the half-light,
I would spread the cloths under your feet:
But I, being poor, have only my dreams;
I have spread my dreams under your feet;
Tread softly because you tread on my dreams.” –William Butler Yeats

“The country is run by extremists because moderates have shit to do.” –Jon Stewart, The Daily Show

“He who knows nothing, loves nothing. He who can do nothing understands nothing. He who understands nothing is worthless. But he who understands also loves, notices, sees…. The more knowledge is inherent in a thing, the greater the love…. Anyone who imagines that all fruits ripen at the same time as the strawberries knows nothing about grapes.” –Paracelsus

“Wilbur’s stomach was empty and his mind was full, and when your stomach is empty and your mind is full, it’s hard to fall asleep. But eventually, sleep and Wilbur found each other.” –Charlotte’s Web

“Remember to forget.” –Friedrich Nietzsche

“The fastest way to kill love is to decide the person you’re seeing is…the One. Why? When you decide the person’s the One, you start focusing all your desires on the person, and when you focus all your desires on the person, you lose the tantalizing elusiveness that attracted the person to you in the first place.” — E. Jean Carroll