My favourite quotes.
“And in the end the love you take is equal to the love you make”
The End by the Beatles
“Mr. Madison, what you’ve just said is one of the most insanely idiotic things I have ever heard. At no point in your rambling, incoherent response were you even close to anything that could be considered a rational thought. Everyone in this room is now dumber for having listened to it. I award you no points, and may God have mercy on your soul.”
Billy Madison
“So we beat on, boats against the current, borne back ceaselessly into the past.”
The Great Gatsby, F. Scott Fitzgerald
“Everyone must leave something behind when he dies, my grandfather said. A child or a book or a painting or a house or a wall built or a pair of shoes made. Or a garden planted. Something your hand touched some way so your soul has somewhere to go when you die, and when people look at that tree or that flower you planted, you’re there. It doesn’t matter what you do, he said, so long as you change something from the way it was before you touched it into something that’s like you after you take your hands away. The difference between the man who just cuts lawns and a real gardener is in the touching, he said. The lawn-cutter might just as well not have been there at all; the gardener will be there a lifetime.”
Fahrenheit 451 by Ray Bradbury
“No question now, what had happened to the faces of the pigs. The creatures outside looked from pig to man, and from man to pig, and from pig to man again; but already it was impossible to say which was which.”
Animal Farm by George Orwell
Quotes from the Muppet Show, featuring my two favourite old men puppets, Waldorf and Statler:
Waldorf: That seemed like something very different.
Statler: Did you like it?
Waldorf: No.
Statler: Than it wasn’t different.
Waldorf: That number scared the pants off of me.
Statler: Are you sure you didn’t just forget to put them on?
Statler: This show brought a tear to my eye…
Waldorf: Really?
Statler: Yeah, I’m sitting on a tack.
Waldorf: Just when you think this show is terrible something wonderful happens.
Statler: What?
Waldorf: It ends.
Statler: Ah, there’s nothing like grand opera.
Waldorf: And that was nothing like it.
Statler: This show is awful!
Waldorf: Terrible!
Statler: Disgusting!
Waldorf: See you next week?
Statler: Of course.
Waldorf: I’ve got half a mind to leave.
Statler: If you had half a mind, you wouldn’t be here.
