Favourite quotes

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I love to collect quotes that make me laugh/ think from movies, books or even random comments. Add here if you have any good ones ^_^



"You can always count on a murderer for a fancy prose style" Nabokov


"my cousin went to hell on a football scholarship" Friends

"You're parents are just gonna nag you and nag you until you want to grab their throats and choke them but you don't because you're in a hospital with resuscitating equipment!"

Dorothy talking about her mother in The Golden Girls.

"The fastest way to a man's heart is through his arteries"

The Kanker Sisters from Ed, Edd, n Eddy

"I am the Wolfman!"

Kraftie and Company

“Arcane Knowlege, On A Need-To-Know Basis” — Ricky Jay, Magician

"I don't think about a comeback. I'm here now." Denis Istomin

"Time spent with cats is never wasted." French author Collette

"The person who can keep going after the effort gets painful is the one who will win." Roger Bannister

"Women and cats do as they please and men and dogs must simply relax and get used to the idea." Robert Heinlein

"The situation has developed, not necessarily to our advantage."

Said by the Emperor of Japan, broadcasting to the nation after the USA dropped atomic bombs on Hiroshima and Nagasaki in August 1945.


I also liked this observation, discussing methods of securely deleting data on computer hard drives, which I read a couple of hours ago:

"Another method to achieve data sanitization is physical destruction, through melting, crushing, incineration or shredding. Physical destruction is not ideal if you want to reuse your drives, as they’ll be completely destroyed."

Yes, that'd definitely be a drawback.....

"What imperative does a gray box have to interact with another gray box?" Ex machina

Cats regard people as warm-blooded furniture-The Deep End of the Ocean

My alone feels so good, i'll only have you if you're sweeter than my solitude.

Warsan Shire

My mood nowadays.

“I don’t want to belong to any club that would accept me as one of its members." - Groucho Marx

How about parent quotes?
My dad's old catch phrases;
"There's no crying in baseball"
"If you had shoes that wouldn't of happened"

My mom often says "If it was a snake it would have bitten you" and "Work smarter, not harder".