Serious Quotes

"Any problem solved is a new problem made." --Karl Pilkington (The Ricky Gervais Show 5.1)

"This country is my rock and my soul rolls with my faith in God," -Christian Kane (America High)

"Turn back Sarah. Turn back before it's too late," -Jareth/David Bowie (Labyrinth)

"If you wish to make an apple pie from scratch, you must first invent the universe." --Carl Sagan.

“Because we do not know when we will die, we get to think of life as an inexhaustible well. And yet everything happens only a certain number of times; and a very small number really. How many more times will you remember a certain afternoon of your childhood; an afternoon that is so deeply a part of your being that you cant conceive of your life without it? Perhaps 4 or 5 times more? Perhaps not even that many. How many more times will you watch the full moon rise? Perhaps 20. And yet it all seems limitless."- Brandon Lee

"Reality is what we take to be true. What we take to be true is what we believe. What we believe is based upon our perceptions. What we perceive depends upon what we look for. What we look for depends upon what we think. What we think depends upon what we perceive. What we perceive determines what we believe. What we believe determines what we take to be true. What we take to be true is our reality." - Gary Zukav

"Even the word HOPELESS has HOPE in it," -Kochanski/Chloe Annette (Red Dwarf)

"I do therefore I be, I be therefore I do, To be or not to be, do be do be do."

"You're like an upside-down rainbow. You're smile brings out the sun and that's why you're my best friend," --Mickey/Alex Solowitz to QT/Michael Cuccione (2Ge+her)

"Yes, it's terribly simple. The good-guys are always star awarded and true. The bad guys are easily distinguished by their pointy horns or black hats and we always defeat them and save the day. No one ever dies and everyone lives happily ever after," --Giles/Anthony Stewart Head (Buffy the Vampire Slayer)

"Here's the thing, there's moments in your life that make you. That sets the course of who you're gonna be. Sometimes they're little subtle moments; sometimes they're not. I'll show you what I mean. Bottom line is, even if you see them coming, you're not ready for the big moments. No one asked for their life to change, not really. But it does. So what are we? Helpless? Puppets? Nah. The big moments are gonna come. You can't help dat. It's what you do afterwards that counts. That's when you find out who you are. You'll see what I mean," --Whistler/Max Perlich (Buffy the Vampire Slayer)

"The words you use the most like the "lie" in believe, the "I" in deceive, the "her" in together, the "we" in the weather," --Blessid Union of Souls

"Sometimes I miss him on stage. We'll be together, but alone and it's like we lead these lives which are simultaneous. It's like they're parallel lives going in the same direction, but they never meet,"-Darren Hayes (Parallel Lives)

"This is my story. A young knight seduced to the dark side. Fortunately I was seduced back again," --Brian Cruver/Christian Kane (The Crooked E)

"There is the house whose people sit in darkness; dust is their food and clay their meat. They are clothed like birds with wings for covering, they see no light, they sit in darkness. I entered the house of dust and I saw the kings of the earth, their crowns put away for ever; rulers and princes, all those who once wore kingly crowns and ruled the world in the days of old," -- Gilgamesh

"No one adult human being is happy! People are born, they have a limited amount of time going around thinking life is dandy but then, inevitably, tragedy strikes and they realize life equals loss! The whole point of the game is to minimize the pain caused by that equation! Now some people do it by having kids, or making money, or taking up coin collecting, and others do it by getting wasted." --Jasper/Dominic West (28 Days)

"Lord marshal Agamemnon rose in their midst, streaming tears like a dark spring tunning down some desolate rock face, its shaded currents flowing," -- Homer (The Iliad)

"Every person always finds in each work of art only that for which his soul has prepared him. Therein lies the strength and inexhaustible quality of a work of art," -- Jawlensky

"I was on the verge of jumping into one of those holes in life out of which we emerge a bit tattered and bloody though we remain nonetheless sure that we had to make the jump." --Dalva (Dalva by Jim Harrison pg. 65)

"I've given you my soul, leave me my name" -- John Proctor (The Crucible by Arthur Miller)

This is how the world ends. Not with a bang but with a whimper. (T.S. Eliot, "The Hollow Men")

"You can safely assume that you've created God in your own image, when it turns out that God hates all the same people you do." -- Anne Lamott (Bird by Bird)

"If they killed him tonight, at least he would die alive." -- The Book Thief by Markus Zusak

"Americans are brought up to believe that they can be the next president of the United States. Brits are told 'It won't happen to you.'" --Ricky Gervais