What is your favorite quote? And why?

[vin1391]

I simply love the quote in my signature

[littlewing53]

I think it pisses God off if you walk by the color purple in a field somewhere and don’t notice it...alice walker, color of purple

[Phynx]

a few of my favorite quotes are:

i loved you at first sight. And you smiled because you know it- A. Boito

And books, they offer one hope- that a whole universe might open up from between the covers, and falling into that universe one is sayed
-Anne Rice, Blackwood Farm

[PXR5]

it's strange and probably for our own good that we can walk around with all these strange interpretations of what is going on around us. If we were to share them openly with one another, we would rightfully be seen as nutters

- bill drummond

[UltimaHybrid]

Without Action, Philosophy Would Have No Meaning

-Seb Foucan(co-creator of Parkour)

[ejarg7]

Real courage is when you know you're licked before you begin, but you begin anyway and see it through no matter what.

~Harper Lee (To Kill A Mockingbird)

[kiz_paws]

It is difficult to pick a favorite quote, but here are three that I really like:


“The significant problems we have cannot be solved at the same level of thinking with which we created them.” – Albert Einstein

"I respect a man who knows how to spell a word more than one way." - Mark Twain

"I've had a perfectly wonderful evening. But this wasn't it." - Groucho Marx

[Wizard272002]

'Hello! My name is Inigo Montoya. You killed my father. Prepare to die.'

[lumos]

"Our lives are shaped by those who love us, and by those who refuse to love us."
~Anonymous.

[Scheherazade]

[alan_simon]

( I know its not as intellectual as this forum would usually require, but what the hey)

'SAY HELLO TO MY LITTLE FRIEN' ' (Tony Montana) (Al Pacino, Scarface)

'You're only a rebel from the waist down' (Winston to Julia) (George Orwell, 1984)

[andave_ya]

"Here lies an anachronism in the vague expectation of eternity"

Rather a gloomy quote by Lord Peter, but it just stuck in my mind. He wanted it for his epitaph

[Domer121]

'Hello! My name is Inigo Montoya. You killed my father. Prepare to die.'

[jon1jt]

when you come up the stairs into my apartment, it's the first thing you see framed on the wall under his b/w picture:

“The only people for me are the mad ones, the ones who are mad to live, mad to talk, mad to be saved, desirous of everything at the same time, the ones who never yawn or say a commonplace thing, but burn, burn, burn, like fabulous yellow roman candles exploding like spiders across the stars and in the middle you see the blue centerlight pop and everybody goes "Awww!"
-Jack Keraouc

[dramasnot6]

when you come up the stairs into my apartment, it's the first thing you see framed on the wall under his b/w picture:

“The only people for me are the mad ones, the ones who are mad to live, mad to talk, mad to be saved, desirous of everything at the same time, the ones who never yawn or say a commonplace thing, but burn, burn, burn, like fabulous yellow roman candles exploding like spiders across the stars and in the middle you see the blue centerlight pop and everybody goes "Awww!"
-Jack Keraouc

I have only recently come across that quote in context, it is truly,truly fabulous