“If I have to beat you up to keep you safe, that’s just what I’ll do. It’s this kind of regard for others that makes me believe I’d be a good politician.”

“I’m on a government watch list. But I’m not interested, because government watches only work twenty minutes out of every hour. ”

“If love had feathers and tasted like dog food, then I suggest you wear shoes with your banana pudding. (This statement also defines my political beliefs).”

“The greatest and most powerful revolutions often start very quietly, hidden in the shadows. Remember that.”

“The only difference between Hitler and Bush is that Hitler was elected.”

“In politics, stupidity is not a handicap.”

“Government exists to protect us from each other. Where government has gone beyond its limits is in deciding to protect us from ourselves.”

“The smallest minority on earth is the individual. Those who deny individual rights cannot claim to be defenders of minorities.”

“All war is a symptom of man's failure as a thinking animal.”

“I'm completely in favor of the separation of Church and State. ... These two institutions screw us up enough on their own, so both of them together is certain death.”

“What difference does it make to the dead, the orphans and the homeless, whether the mad destruction is wrought under the name of totalitarianism or in the holy name of liberty or democracy?”

“Too bad that all the people who know how to run the country are busy driving taxicabs and cutting hair.”

“I predict future happiness for Americans, if they can prevent the government from wasting the labors of the people under the pretense of taking care of them.”

When fascism comes to America, it will be wrapped in the flag and carrying the cross.”

“Politics is the art of looking for trouble, finding it everywhere, diagnosing it incorrectly and applying the wrong remedies.”

“If you're going to kick authority in the teeth, you might as well use two feet.”

“My concern is not whether God is on our side; my greatest concern is to be on God's side, for God is always right.”

“A paranoid is someone who knows a little of what's going on. ”

“The last thing I ever wanted was to be alive when the three most powerful people on the whole planet would be named Bush, Dick and Colon.”

“Tact is the ability to tell someone to go to hell in such a way that they look forward to the trip.”

“After all, Ginger Rogers did everything that Fred Astaire did. She just did it backwards and in high heels.”

“You're not to be so blind with patriotism that you can't face reality. Wrong is wrong, no matter who does it or says it.”

“Illegal aliens have always been a problem in the United States. Ask any Indian.”

“Loyalty to country ALWAYS. Loyalty to government, when it deserves it.”

“Reader, suppose you were an idiot. And suppose you were a member of Congress. But I repeat myself.”

“Rembrandt painted portraits, The Karate Kid painted fences, and I paint my toenails. But I’m not a snob, I still consider those other two guys to be artists. ”

“Artists exist to show us the world. So do windows. ”

“Art is the reason I get up in the morning, but the definition ends there. It doesn't seem fair that I'm living for something I can't even define.”

“What do you think an artist is? ...he is a political being, constantly aware of the heart breaking, passionate, or delightful things that happen in the world, shaping himself completely in their image. Painting is not done to decorate apartments. It is an instrument of war.”

“Nature is a haunted house--but Art--is a house that tries to be haunted.”

“Art is what you can get away with.”

“One can have no smaller or greater mastery than mastery of oneself.”

“Art never responds to the wish to make it democratic; it is not for everybody; it is only for those who are willing to undergo the effort needed to understand it.”

“I believe entertainment can aspire to be art, and can become art, but if you set out to make art you're an idiot.”

“You're mind is working at its best when you're being paranoid. You explore every avenue and possibility of your situation at high speed with total clarity.”

“All art is quite useless.”

“Art and love are the same thing: It’s the process of seeing yourself in things that are not you.”

“Deliver me from writers who say the way they live doesn't matter. I'm not sure a bad person can write a good book. If art doesn't make us better, then what on earth is it for.”

“An artist's only concern is to shoot for some kind of perfection, and on his own terms, not anyone else's.”

“The chief enemy of creativity is good sense.”

“Art is the proper task of life. ”

“There is nothing more truly artistic than to love people.”

Art without emotion its like chocolate cake without sugar. It makes you gag.”

“Nothing can cure the soul but the senses, just as nothing can cure the senses but the soul.”

“When I was a child my mother said to me, 'If you become a soldier, you'll be a general. If you become a monk, you'll be the pope.' Instead I became a painter and wound up as Picasso.”

“We have art in order not to die of the truth.”

“A good poem is a contribution to reality. The world is never the same once a good poem has been added to it. A good poem helps to change the shape of the universe, helps to extend everyone's knowledge of himself and the world around him.”

“The painter has the Universe in his mind and hands.”

“If being an egomaniac means I believe in what I do and in my art or music, then in that respect you can call me that... I believe in what I do, and I'll say it.”

“There are painters who transform the sun to a yellow spot, but there are others who with the help of their art and their intelligence, transform a yellow spot into sun”

“If we, citizens, do not support our artists, then we sacrifice our imagination on the altar of crude reality and we end up believing in nothing and having worthless dreams.”

“When you make music or write or create, it's really your job to have mind-blowing, irresponsible, condomless sex with whatever idea it is you're writing about at the time. ”

“Do you not see how necessary a world of pains and troubles is to school an intelligence and make it a soul?”

“It would be possible to describe everything scientifically, but it would make no sense; it would be without meaning, as if you described a Beethoven symphony as a variation of wave pressure.”

“And now, I'm just trying to change the world, one sequin at a time.”

“Only put off until tomorrow what you are willing to die having left undone”

“I want to meet a guy named Art. I'd take him to a museum, hang him on the wall, criticize him, and leave.”

“Well, art is art, isn't it? Still, on the other hand, water is water! And east is east and west is west and if you take cranberries and stew them like applesauce they taste much more like prunes than rhubarb does. Now, uh... now you tell me what you know.”

“Paradoxically though it may seem, it is none the less true that life imitates art far more than art imitates life.”

“any fool can be happy. It takes a man with real heart to make beauty out of the stuff that makes us weep.”

“Creativity takes courage. ”

“Art is the only serious thing in the world. And the artist is the only person who is never serious.”

“You might as well ask an artist to explain his art, or ask a poet to explain his poem. It defeats the purpose. The meaning is only clear thorough the search.”

“A man should hear a little music, read a little poetry, and see a fine picture every day of his life, in order that worldly cares may not obliterate the sense of the beautiful which God has implanted in the human soul.”

“We don't make mistakes, just happy little accidents.”

“Art is not what you see, but what you make others see.”

“I dream my painting and I paint my dream.”

“Life doesn't imitate art, it imitates bad television.”

“Art washes away from the soul the dust of everyday life.”

“It is good to love many things, for therein lies the true strength, and whosoever loves much performs much, and can accomplish much, and what is done in love is well done.”

“Art enables us to find ourselves and lose ourselves at the same time.”

“If you ask me what I came to do in this world, I, an artist, will answer you: I am here to live out loud.”

“The most beautiful experience we can have is the mysterious - the fundamental emotion which stands at the cradle of true art and true science.”

“You must have chaos within you to give birth to a dancing star.”

“Art is the lie that enables us to realize the truth.”

“Painting is poetry that is seen rather than felt, and poetry is painting that is felt rather than seen.”

“A painter should begin every canvas with a wash of black, because all things in nature are dark except where exposed by the light.”

“Every child is an artist. The problem is how to remain an artist once he grows up.”

“A life spent making mistakes is not only more honorable, but more useful than a life spent doing nothing.”

“Everything you can imagine is real.”

“Damn me to hell or take me to heaven, but for Gods sake, do it now....”

“He sighed. "The clouds I can handle. But I can't fight with an eclipse.”

“You really love her don't you," she said. With all my heart." She looked as sad as I'd ever seen her. What's your heart telling you to do?" I don't know." Maybe", she said gently,"You're trying to hard to hear it.”

“You are speaking of my future lover. Be more respectful.”

“If you can capture a woman's imagination, then you will have her. But imagination is a strange creature. It needs time and distance to function properly.”

“When one is in love, one always begins by deceiving one's self, and one always ends by deceiving others. That is what the world calls a romance.”

“Romance is thinking about your significant other, when you are supposed to be thinking about something else.”

“In our time together, you claimed a special place in my heart, one I'll carry with me forever and that no one can ever replace.”

“thus with a kiss I die”

“Sometimes you wake up from a dream. Sometimes you wake up in a dream. And sometimes, every once in a while, you wake up in someone else's dream. ”

“The fact is, I love him. He's the boy I want and one day he'll be MINE.”

“Sometimes when I'm alone, I take the pearl from where it lives in my pocket and try to remember the boy with the bread, the strong arms that warded off nightmares on the train, the kisses in the arena.”

“Romance is the glamour which turns the dust of everyday life into a golden haze. ”

“The Very first moment I beheld him, my heart was irrevocably gone.”

You’re dangerous,” he says. “Why?” “Because you make me believe in the impossible”

“My only love sprung from my only hate! Too early seen unknown, and known too late! Prodigious birth of love it is to me, That I must love a loathed enemy.”

“You know what charm is: a way of getting the answer yes without having asked any clear question.”

“I cannot fix on the hour, or the spot, or the look or the words, which laid the foundation. It is too long ago. I was in the middle before I knew that I had begun.”

“If loving someone is putting them in a straitjacket and kicking them down a flight of stairs, then yes, I have loved a few people.”

“And he took her in his arms and kissed her under the sunlit sky, and he cared not that they stood high upon the walls in the sight of many.”

“I was smiling yesterday,I am smiling today and I will smile tomorrow.Simply because life is too short to cry for anything.”

“My soul will find yours.”

“I stood still, vision blurring, and in that moment, I heard my heart break. It was a small, clean sound, like the snapping of a flower's stem.”

“Say 'provoking' again. Your mouth looks provocative when you do.”

“When love is not madness it is not love.”

“It isn't possible to love and part. You will wish that it was. You can transmute love, ignore it, muddle it, but you can never pull it out of you. I know by experience that the poets are right: love is eternal.”

“You here to finish me off, Sweetheart?”

“Only a true best friend can protect you from your immortal enemies.”

“True love is rare, and it's the only thing that gives life real meaning.”

“The very essence of romance is uncertainty.”

“If music be the food of love, play on, Give me excess of it; that surfeiting, The appetite may sicken, and so die.”

“I can feel Peeta press his forehead into my temple and he asks, 'So now that you've got me, what are you going to do with me?' I turn into him. 'Put you somewhere you can't get hurt.”

“They didn’t agree on much. In fact, they didn’t agree on anything. They fought all the time and challenged each other ever day. But despite their differences, they had one important thing in common. They were crazy about each other.”

“And I'm suppose to sit by while you date boys and fall in love with someone else, get married...?" His voice tightened. "And meanwhile, I'll die a little bit more every day, watching.”

“Some women choose to follow men, and some women choose to follow their dreams. If you're wondering which way to go, remember that your career will never wake up and tell you that it doesn't love you anymore.”

“I no longer believed in the idea of soul mates, or love at first sight. But I was beginning to believe that a very few times in your life, if you were lucky, you might meet someone who was exactly right for you. Not because he was perfect, or because you were, but because your combined flaws were arranged in a way that allowed two separate beings to hinge together.”

“The best love is the kind that awakens the soul and makes us reach for more, that plants a fire in our hearts and brings peace to our minds. And that's what you've given me. That's what I'd hoped to give you forever”

“You can't force love, I realized. It's there or it isn't. If it's not there, you've got to be able to admit it. If it is there, you've got to do whatever it takes to protect the ones you love.”

“When someone loves you, the way they say your name is different. You know that your name is safe in their mouth.”

“There is no pretending," Jace said with absolute clarity. "I love you, and I will love you until I die, and if there is life after that, I'll love you then.”

Stephenie Meyer “He's like a drug for you, Bella.”

“I want to gather up all the ink cartridges in the universe, because somewhere, mixed in with all that ink, is the next great American novel. And I’d love nothing more than to drink it.”

“I want my kids to have the things in life that I never had when I was growing up. Things like beards and chest hair.”

“I can tell if two people are in love by how they hold each other’s hands, and how thick their sanitation gloves are.”

“I came from a real tough neighborhood. Why, every time I shut the window I hurt somebody's fingers.”

“I want to meet a guy named Art. I'd take him to a museum, hang him on the wall, criticize him, and leave.”

“You can’t put a price tag on love. But if you could, I’d wait for it to go on sale.”

“Cultivate your curves - they may be dangerous but they won't be avoided.”

“I want to write my own eulogy, and I want to write it in Latin. It seems only fitting to read a dead language at my funeral.”

“I think the key indicator for wealth is not good grades, work ethic, or IQ. I believe it's relationships. Ask yourself two questions: How many people do I know, and how much ransom money could I get for each one?”

“If there were an international butt competition, Eric would win, hands down—or cheeks up.”

“I’m not waiting until my hair turns white to become patient and wise. Nope, I’m dying my hair tonight.”

“Can I come in? No! I'm in a towel! I'm blind!”

“But Dumbledore says he doesn't care what they do as long as they don't take him off the Chocolate Frog cards.”

“A Penny Saved is a Penny Earned”

“aren't you, uh... reproducing? "sure, we love reproducing it's one of our favorite things.”

“You should eat a waffle! You can't be sad if you eat a waffle!”

“I find out a lot about myself by sleeping. Dreams, they are who I am when I’m too tired to be me.”

“Opera is when a guy gets stabbed in the back and, instead of bleeding, he sings.”

“Once I pulled a job, I was so stupid. I picked a guy's pocket on an airplane and made a run for it.”

“She's strong! And scary...I bet she's single...I'd put money on it..”

“Do you ever think if people heard our conversations they'd lock us up?" All the time.”

“Don't put your wand into your back pocket! Better wizards than you have lost buttocks from it!”

“I consider conversations with people to be mind exercises, but I don't want to pull a muscle, so I stretch a lot. That's why I'm constantly either rolling my eyes or yawning.”

“I thought I'd lie on the floor and writhe in pain for a while," he grunted, "It relaxes me." "It does? Oh - you're being sarcastic. That's a good sign probably.”

“What a kid I got, I told him about the birds and the bees and he told me about the butcher and my wife.”

“What makes big boobs and perkiness so attractive to boys? I mean, really. Two round, mounds of fat and a fake smile. Yeah, winning attributes.”

“Perv." He pointed to himself. "Male and eighteen. What's your point?”

“That's why they call it the American Dream, because you have to be asleep to believe it.”

“Damn, Claire. Warn a guy before you do a face-plant on the floor next time. I could have looked all heroic and caught you or something -Shane”

“If loving someone is putting them in a straitjacket and kicking them down a flight of stairs, then yes, I have loved a few people.”

“A word to the wise ain't necessary, it's the stupid ones who need advice.”

“Don't be so humble - you are not that great.”

“Always go to other people's funerals, otherwise they won't come to yours.”

“I came from a real tough neighborhood. Once a guy pulled a knife on me. I knew he wasn't a professional, the knife had butter on it.”

“If a book about failures doesn't sell, is it a success?”

“They love their hair because they're not smart enough to love something more interesting.”

“A lie gets halfway around the world before the truth has a chance to get its pants on.”

“When life gives you lemons, squirt someone in the eye.”

“What the hell is that?" I laughed. "It's my fox hat." "Your fox hat?" "Yeah, Pudge. My fox hat." "Why are you wearing your fox hat?" I asked. "Because no one can catch the motherfucking fox.”

“The planet is fine. The people are fucked.”

“Once you can accept the universe as matter expanding into nothing that is something, wearing stripes with plaid comes easy.”

“I did not attend his funeral, but I sent a nice letter saying I approved of it.”

“Everyone should be able to do one card trick, tell two jokes, and recite three poems, in case they are ever trapped in an elevator.”

“It's not true that I had nothing on. I had the radio on.”

“Well, don't expect us to be too impressed. We just saw Finnick Odair in his underwear.”

“Never go to bed mad. Stay up and fight.”

“If you were half as funny as you think you are, you'd be twice as funny as you are now.”

“Going to church doesn’t make you a Christian any more than going to a garage makes you an automobile.”

“Life is to be enjoyed, not endured”

“Sometimes our light goes out, but is blown again into instant flame by an encounter with another human being.”

“I don't know the question, but sex is definitely the answer.”

“A life spent making mistakes is not only more honorable, but more useful than a life spent doing nothing.”

“May you live every day of your life.”

“Get busy living or get busy dying.”

“People aren't either wicked or noble. They're like chef's salads, with good things and bad things chopped and mixed together in a vinaigrette of confusion and conflict.”

“Of all sad words of tongue or pen, the saddest are these, 'It might have been.”

“Anyone who lives within their means suffers from a lack of imagination.”

“We're all human, aren't we? Every human life is worth the same, and worth saving.”

“You cannot find peace by avoiding life.”

“We have to dare to be ourselves, however frightening or strange that self may prove to be.”

“Where there is love there is life.”

“The saddest aspect of life right now is that science gathers knowledge faster than society gathers wisdom.”

“Do not read, as children do, to amuse yourself, or like the ambitious, for the purpose of instruction. No, read in order to live.”

“Death ends a life, not a relationship.”

“Dumbledore watched her fly away, and as her silvery glow faded he turned back to Snape, and his eyes were full of tears. "After all this time?" "Always," said Snape.”

“Sometimes I can hear my bones straining under the weight of all the lives I'm not living.”

“Never doubt that a small group of thoughtful, committed, citizens can change the world. Indeed, it is the only thing that ever has.”

“If the world were merely seductive, that would be easy. If it were merely challenging, that would be no problem. But I arise in the morning torn between a desire to improve the world and a desire to enjoy the world. This makes it hard to plan the day.”

“How wonderful it is that nobody need wait a single moment before starting to improve the world.”

“Life's hard. It's even harder when you're stupid.”

“We are what we pretend to be, so we must be careful about what we pretend to be.”

“I speak to everyone in the same way, whether he is the garbage man or the president of the university.”

“The one you love and the one who loves you are never, ever the same person.”

“But better to get hurt by the truth than comforted with a lie.”

“Life isn't about finding yourself. Life is about creating yourself.”

“All God does is watch us and kill us when we get boring. We must never, ever be boring.”

“If you don't know where you're going, any road'll take you there”

“The fear of death follows from the fear of life. A man who lives fully is prepared to die at any time.”

“Just when you think it can't get any worse, it can. And just when you think it can't get any better, it can.”

“Sometimes people are beautiful. Not in looks. Not in what they say. Just in what they are.”

“Life is like riding a bicycle. To keep your balance, you must keep moving.”

“Reality continues to ruin my life.”

“Who are you to judge the life I live? I know I'm not perfect -and I don't live to be- but before you start pointing fingers... make sure you hands are clean!”

“Finish each day and be done with it. You have done what you could. Some blunders and absurdities no doubt crept in; forget them as soon as you can. Tomorrow is a new day. You shall begin it serenely and with too high a spirit to be encumbered with your old nonsense.”

“Everything you can imagine is real.”

“Today you are You, that is truer than true. There is no one alive who is Youer than You.”

“I'm not afraid of death; I just don't want to be there when it happens.”

“Life is an opportunity, benefit from it. Life is beauty, admire it. Life is a dream, realize it. Life is a challenge, meet it. Life is a duty, complete it. Life is a game, play it. Life is a promise, fulfill it. Life is sorrow, overcome it. Life is a song, sing it. Life is a struggle, accept it. Life is a tragedy, confront it. Life is an adventure, dare it. Life is luck, make it. Life is too precious, do not destroy it. Life is life, fight for it.”

“I may not have gone where I intended to go, but I think I have ended up where I needed to be.”

Mark Twain “Good friends, good books, and a sleepy conscience: this is the ideal life.”

“It does not do to dwell on dreams and forget to live.”

“There are only two ways to live your life. One is as though nothing is a miracle. The other is as though everything is a miracle.”

“It is better to be hated for what you are than to be loved for what you are not.”

“Life is what happens to you while you're busy making other plans.”

“To live is the rarest thing in the world. Most people exist, that is all.”

“Insanity is doing the same thing, over and over again, but expecting different results.”

“In three words I can sum up everything I've learned about life: it goes on.”

“You only live once, but if you do it right, once is enough.”

“You've gotta dance like there's nobody watching, Love like you'll never be hurt, Sing like there's nobody listening, And live like it's heaven on earth.”

“I'm selfish, impatient and a little insecure. I make mistakes, I am out of control and at times hard to handle. But if you can't handle me at my worst, then you sure as hell don't deserve me at my best.”

“Don't cry because it's over, smile because it happened.”

“Happiness is a warm puppy.”

“Where is human nature so weak as in the bookstore?”

“Time flies like an arrow; fruit flies like a banana.”

“Substitute 'damn' every time you're inclined to write 'very;' your editor will delete it and the writing will be just as it should be.”

“I generally avoid temptation unless I can't resist it.”

“He can run faster than Severus Snape confronted with shampoo.”

“Fate is like a strange, unpopular restaurant filled with odd little waiters who bring you things you never asked for and don't always like.”

“I do not want people to be very agreeable, as it saves me the trouble of liking them a great deal.”

“Reader, suppose you were an idiot. And suppose you were a member of Congress. But I repeat myself.”

Jerome K. Jerome “I like work: it fascinates me. I can sit and look at it for hours.”

“When you're in jail, a good friend will be trying to bail you out. A best friend will be in the cell next to you saying, 'Damn, that was fun'.”

“Life's hard. It's even harder when you're stupid.”

“When you are courting a nice girl an hour seems like a second. When you sit on a red-hot cinder a second seems like an hour. That's relativity.”

“I refuse to answer that question on the grounds that I don't know the answer”

“There's a fine line between genius and insanity. I have erased this line.”

Thomas Stephen Szasz “Two wrongs don't make a right, but they make a good excuse.”

“Give a man a fire and he's warm for a day, but set fire to him and he's warm for the rest of his life.”

“All God does is watch us and kill us when we get boring. We must never, ever be boring.”

“Everybody is a genius. But if you judge a fish by its ability to climb a tree, it will live its whole life believing that it is stupid.”

“A lady's imagination is very rapid; it jumps from admiration to love, from love to matrimony in a moment.”

“Some people never go crazy. What truly horrible lives they must lead.”

“Creativity is knowing how to hide your sources”

“Ever notice how 'What the hell' is always the right answer?”

“Be careful about reading health books. You may die of a misprint.”

The statistics on sanity are that one out of every four people is suffering from a mental illness. Look at your 3 best friends. If they're ok, then it's you.”

“The reason I talk to myself is because I’m the only one whose answers I accept.”

“Go to heaven for the climate and hell for the company.”

“Reality continues to ruin my life.”

“Remember, we're madly in love, so it's all right to kiss me anytime you feel like it.”

“I am free of all prejudice. I hate everyone equally. ”

“The story so far: In the beginning the Universe was created. This has made a lot of people very angry and been widely regarded as a bad move.”

“I find television very educating. Every time somebody turns on the set, I go into the other room and read a book.”

“Be nice to nerds. You may end up working for them. We all could.”

“The trouble with having an open mind, of course, is that people will insist on coming along and trying to put things in it.”

“I love mankind, it's people I can't stand.”

“The difference between genius and stupidity is; genius has its limits.”

I'm not afraid of death; I just don't want to be there when it happens.”

“All you need is love. But a little chocolate now and then doesn't hurt.”

“Whenever I feel the need to exercise, I lie down until it goes away.”

“Women and cats will do as they please, and men and dogs should relax and get used to the idea.”

“Beauty is in the eye of the beholder and it may be necessary from time to time to give a stupid or misinformed beholder a black eye.”

Douglas Adams “I love deadlines. I love the whooshing noise they make as they go by.”

“Anyone who thinks sitting in church can make you a Christian must also think that sitting in a garage can make you a car.”

“A day without sunshine is like, you know, night.”

“Outside of a dog, a book is man's best friend. Inside of a dog it's too dark to read.”

“Never put off till tomorrow what may be done day after tomorrow just as well.”

“The person, be it gentleman or lady, who has not pleasure in a good novel, must be intolerably stupid.”

“Insanity is doing the same thing, over and over again, but expecting different results.”

“So many books, so little time.”

“You only live once, but if you do it right, once is enough.”

“Two things are infinite: the universe and human stupidity; and I'm not sure about the universe.”