With book and music quotes, too!

Taking a page from a different book, I've decided to play along with some quote-type silliness, but in my own lazy yet expository way.

I occasionally get compliments about the rotating quotes I've got in my masthead. For the curious, I'm listing them all. I've provided no sources so you're welcome to identify as many as you like.

If there's any interest (and probably even if there's not) in a future post I'll detail how to setup your own rotator.

Movies (and one TV show)

1. Look at this: an entire generation of Cinderellas and no glass slipper.

2. Everyone is less mysterious than they think they are.

3. Have you ever gotten the feeling that you aren't completely embarrassed yet, but you glimpse tomorrow's embarrassment?

4. I'll tell you in another life, when we are both cats.

5. I want to live a real life. I don't want to dream any longer.

6. I'm looking for a dare to be great situation.

7. Pay no attention to the man in the trunk.

8. You're a complicated cat, Edward.

9. I've been very lonely in my isolated tower of indecipherable speech.

10. Look, Sgt. Pepper, I really need you to shut up about that.

11. You know the Greeks didn't write obituaries. They only asked one question after a man died: "Did he have passion?"

12. I am Jack's wasted life.

13. Sticks and stones can break my bones but words cause permanent damage.

14. Is it safe to have a radio against my balls like this?

15. You know who else I like that didn't get much play? Velma from Scooby-Doo. She was cool. She was a hip, hip lady.

16. Living like this… it's a full-time business.

17. Vacant, with a hint of sadness. Like a drunk who's lost a bet.

18. How's that for a slice of fried gold?

19. Screws fall out all the time. The world is an imperfect place.

20. This information cannot leave this room, okay? It would devastate my reputation as a dude.

21. If you really wanted to screw me up you should've gotten to me earlier!

22. You know what, I do want to express myself, okay? And I don't need 37 pieces of flair to do it.

23. There is no spoon.

24. I'm okay with being unimpressive. I sleep better.

25. Mrs. Robinson, if you don't mind my saying so, this conversation is getting a little strange.

26. Quaffable, but… far from transcendent.

27. Where fast food for thought is served up twenty-four hours a day in forty thousand locations nationwide.

28. So you lie to yourself to be happy. There's nothing wrong with that. We all do it.

29. I think we miss that touch so much, that we crash into each other, just so we can feel something.

30. Don't sell yourself short, Judge. You're a tremendous slouch.

31. Let's get our Christ on, let's kick it Jesus-style!

32. I figured they would have sent you to a "special" school by now.

33. I did not achieve this position in life by having some snot-nosed punk leave my cheese out in the wind.

34. Off the record, on the QT, and very hush-hush.

35. With counseling, I'm sure you'll come to forgive me.

36. It's a destiny thing. Enjoy it.

37. Suntory time!

38. Adults are like a combination of sadness and phobias.

39. Constantly talking isn't necessarily communicating.

40. Please let me keep this memory, just this one.

41. I can't remember anything without you.

42. I think my mask of sanity is about to slip.

43. You better not be tellin' me porky pies.

44. You kids shouldn't play so rough. Somebody's gonna start cryin'.

45. Morons? Your bus is leaving.

46. I am insane, and you are my insanity.

47. It's easy to tell the difference between right and wrong. What's hard is choosing the wrong that's more right.

48. I can only express puzzlement that borders on alarm.

49. You are a sad, strange little man and you have my pity.

50. My work here is done. Time for the ritualistic sex!

51. God gave men brains larger than dogs' so they wouldn't hump women's legs at cocktail parties.

52. You're not real. You're copies of people out here in the world.

53. Bow, son of Jor-el! Kneel before Zod!

54. Are you like a crazy person?

55. You're frightfully inadequate for a deity, Darrel.

56. You're twelve steppin' me to death here, bitch.

57. Time is an illusion. Lunch time doubly so.

58. He is Vigo! You are like the buzzing of flies to him!

59. I want to retire in South America. I hear that's where the drugs come from.

60. Personally, I blame MTV.

61. Doesn't it give you, like, a shudder of electricity… to be in the same room with me?

62. What kind of babbling bullshit is this?

63. I'm pumped! Let the healing begin!

64. Would you like to make the fuck? BERSERKER!

65. I'm in my tree talking to the Dixie Chicks and they're making me feel better.

66. I was thinking about chaining myself to a bulldozer. Do you want to come?

67. I can't believe you guys actually exist.

68. The universe is an infinite sphere whose center is everywhere and whose circumference is nowhere.

69. Don't stand in the way of my actualization as a man.

70. You don't know how lucky you are being a monkey.

71. I have no idea what you guys are talking about. I thought we were here to talk about petroleum.

72. How do you know if you're happy or sad without a mask? Or angry? Or ready for dessert?

73. Vas ist das "Limpett?!"

74. When, Lord?! When the hell do I get to see the goddamn sailboat?!

75. The internet is a communication tool used the world over where people can come together to bitch about movies and share pornography with one another.

76. That's what the internet is for. Slandering others anonymously.

77. Well! That was just another paean to male adolescence and it's refusal to grow up.

78. See? I told you that restraining order was a good idea.

79. And on that note, we cue the music.

80. Since when did "tard" become politically incorrect?

81. A revolution without dancing is a revolution not worth having.

82. Pfft. Too far.

83. And that's the double truth, Ruth.

Books

1. For three years I had roses, and apologized to no one.

2. Who knows but that, on the lower frequencies, I speak for you?

3. All we ever see of stars are their old photographs.

4. If time is not true, what purpose have watchmakers?

5. Our masters have not heard the people's voice for generations, and it is much, much louder than they care to remember.

6. War is peace. Freedom is slavery. Ignorance is strength.

7. I could be bounded in a nutshell and count myself a king of infinite space, were it not that I have bad dreams.

8. "The time has come," said the walrus, "to speak of many things."

9. We're all mad here. I'm mad. You're mad.

10. There is only one thing in the world worse than being talked about, and that is not being talked about

11. A man cannot be too careful in the choice of his enemies.

12. You seek for knowledge and wisdom, as I once did; and I ardently hope that the gratification of your wishes may not be a serpent to sting you, as mine has been.

13. "Man," I cried, "how ignorant art thou in thy pride of wisdom!"

14. So long as man remains free he strives for nothing so incessantly and so painfully as to find someone to worship.

15. Ignorance is the parent of fear.

Music

1. Who do you trust when everyone's a crook?

2. So let us not talk falsely now; the hour is getting late.

3. You play with my world like it's your little toy.

4. Careening through the universe, your axis on a tilt, you're guiltless and free. I hope you take a piece of my with you.

5. We become the things we do

6. Down here in the atmosphere, garbage and city lights

7. Hope you remember me when you're homesick and need a change.

8. But when I see you it's like I'm staring down the sun.

9. The pump don't work 'cause the vandals took the handles.

10. Only a fool in here would think he's got anything to prove.

11. I walk in the air between the rain through myself and back again.

12. I been workin' at it ever since I came to this planet. I ain' quite there, but I'm gettin' better at it.

13. I'm so glad our paths crossed this time today, on our way into the night.

14. Why are you different? Why are you that way?

15. Jesus freaks, out in the street, handing tickets out for God…

16. You can see I'm in no shape for driving, and anyway I've got no place to go.

17. 'Cause tomorrow's just another day, and I don't believe in time.

18. Pantomime mixtures of heaven and earth, jumbled events that have less than no worth…

19. There's a dead end to my left; there's a burning bush to my right.

20. It's a crazy, crazy mixed up town, but it's the rattlesnake I fear.

21. I may say that I love this man and that man but what keeps me from loving you?

22. Flags and mental jewelry's all I know, and they keep me happy and warm inside.

23. I talk of freedom, you talk of the flag.

24. Words are useless. Especially sentences.

25. Are you listening? Can you hear me? Have you forgotten?

26. If it's the same to you, I'll just hang.

27. Once I had my heroes, once I had my dreams. But all of that has changed now.

28. I used to care, but things have changed.

29. As long as you're a stranger you'll stay perfect to me.

30. It's tricky to rock a rhyme, to rock a rhyme that's right on time, it's tricky!

31. If I stay lucky then my tongue'll stay tied.

32. I'm gonna pick up some beer, stay at home and stare at my Clare Danes poster.

33. Oil, gold and sand: my sediments precisely.

34. Please allow me to introduce myself. I'm a man of wealth and taste.

35. War, children. It's just a shot away.

36. Everybody shouts on I Love Lucy.

37. I don't exist when you don't see me.

38. I'm throwing off the shadow of a better man.

39. Despite all my rage, I am still just a rat in a cage.

40. A seven nation army couldn't hold me back.

41. I wake up to steal the sun from her glory.

42. I'm only one cigarette away from mobility.

43. There's only one chance left, and I know where she's waiting.

44. This is the first day of my last days.

45. Men get lost sometimes as years unfurl.

46. We're like sheep without a shepherd. We don't know how to be alone.

47. One more starry-eyed messiah meets a violent farewell.

48. How do I get out of here? Where do I fit in?

49. Some dance to remember, some dance to forget.

50. Call someplace paradise, kiss it goodbye.

51. You better let somebody love you, before it's too late.

52. It's not easy facing up when your whole world is black.

53. I think I love you. What is your name again?

54. There's a little black spot on the sun today.

55. You have to be trusted by the people that you lie to.

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