Lines that get you.

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  1. afinemess

    afinemess Active Member

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    "So be sure when you step.
    Step with care and great tact
    And remember that Life’s a great balancing act."
    Dr. Seuss: Oh, the Places you will Go!
     
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    From my favorite book, The Truth About Forever, by Sarah Dessen:

     
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    That whole scene was just awesome. Can't wait until the third season :D
     
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    This is from Bradbury’s “The Martian Chronicles.” It’s from the chapter called “Usher II,” (pg 103) where he uses a lot of elements from Poe’s stories. I found it really enjoyable.

     
  5. Gigi_GNR

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    "I love you", from anyone. :)
     
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    It was awesome! Though everything about that show is :)

    me either! Though I can't seem to figure out which day it starts....
     
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    "You remind me strikingly of your father when I was younger" - fanfiction.
    I don't like being compared to people and this makes me feel like I'm being compared to my father.
     
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    "Dollars and guns are no substitute for brains and willpower." --Dwight D. Eisenhower :)
     
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    Wreybies Thrice Retired Supporter Contributor

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    Don Cheadle as Paul Rusesabagina in the film Hotel Rwanda in the scene where he is being threatened by General Bizimungu.

    "Or what?! You will shoot me?! Please shoot me!! I would consider it a blessing!! I will pay you to shoot my family!!"

    Don Cheadle earned a well deserved Oscar nod for this leading role.
     
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    I won't quote it directly as I don't want to spoil it for those who haven't read it but for those who have, you will know the line I am talking about.

    In 'My Sisters Keeper' toward the end when Anna reveals who put her up to the lawsuit against her parents and why.

    It was a moment I'll never forget... I never saw it coming and I cried myself to sleep that night.
     
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    All over the world, the phrases that got me were "Happy New Year!", "Happy 2010!" and all the high hopes and expectations for the new year and the new decade. :D
     
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    Wintergirls by Laurie Halse Anderson is filled with so many intense, vivid lines that read like poetry and speak all of the words that are hidden within me. If anyone has ever experienced the dark hell that is depression & anorexia, they will totally "get" this:

     
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    The line that gets me is:

    "I'm burning up a sun, just to say goodbye"

    From doctor who, Doomsday part 2.
     
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    I always loved the line in the seventh Harry Potter book, in one of the last chapters which Harry has a conversation with Dumbledore. I just like the idea of this passage, and it always gives me something to think about.

     
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    Yes! Yes! Yes! Yes!

    And I've no idea where this came from: "If anyone ever tells you nothing is impossible, ask him to go dribble a football."
     
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    That is literally my favorite quote from Harry Potter! I love that too!!

    @lavendershy I love those types of quotes to! Though the one's I have heard are "Who ever said nothing is impossible never tried slamming a revolving door" and "Nothing is impossible except skiing through a revolving door." the latter being one of my favorite quotes of all time :)
     
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    Sorry if someone's already said it, I skipped a couple of pages and it's pretty well known:
    The accumulated filth of all their sex and murder will foam up about their waists and all the whores and politicians will look up and shout “save us!”
    and I’ll look down, and whisper
    “no.”

    Alan Moore in the graphic novel The Watchmen

    Made so much better by the fact "No." is on the next panel.
    It made me realise right at the beginning of the book that I was going to enjoy every single word of it.

    Also this one literally makes me jump up and down whenever I hear it (sorry it's long) :

    You listen to me. I've been alive a bit longer than you and dead a lot longer than that. I've seen things you couldn't imagine and done things I'd prefer you didn't. I don't exactly have a reputation for being a thinker. I follow my blood which doesn't exactly rush in the direction of my brain so I make a lot of mistakes. A lot of wrong bloody calls. A hundred plus years and there's only one thing I've ever been sure of. You. Hey, look at me. I'm not asking you for anything. When I say I love you, it's not because I want you, or because I can't have you. It has nothing to do with me. I love what you are, what you do, how you try. I've seen your kindness and your strength. I've seen the best and the worst of you and I understand with perfect clarity exactly what you are. You are a hell of a woman. You're the one, Buffy.

    I can't remember exactly which writer dd the script, but James Marsters said it playing the character Spike from Joss Whedon's Buffy The Vampire Slayer
     
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    What about "Chuck Norris can slam a revolving door"? ;):D
     
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    The first one is from a speech by Elizabeth Gilbert at a TED conference (Technology Entertainment Design):
    "Don't be afraid, don't be daunted, just do your job. Continue to do your piece of it, whatever that might be. If your job is to dance, do your dance. If the divine cock-eyed genius assigned to your case decides that some sort of wonderment be glimpsed for just one moment through your efforts, then olé. And if not, do your dance anyhow. And olé to you nonetheless. Olé to you nonetheless just for having the sheer human love and stubbornness to keep showing up."

    From Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire:
    "It's a strange thing, but when you are dreading something, and would give anything to slow down time, it has a disobliging habit of speeding up."

    The last line from the preface of The Picture of Dorian Gray, by Oscar Wilde:
    "All art is quite useless."

    From the V for Vendetta movie (makes me giggle every time):
    "Voilà! In view, a humble vaudevillian veteran, cast vicariously as both victim and villian by the vicissitudes of Fate. This visage, no mere veneer of vanity, is a vestige of the vox populi, now vacant, vanished. However, this valorous visitation of a by-gone vexation, stands vivified and has vowed to vanquish these venal and virulent vermin vanguarding vice and vouchsafing the violently vicious and voracious violation of volition. The only verdict is vengence; a vendetta, held as a votive, not in vain, for the value and veracity of such shall one day vindicate the vigilant and the virtuous. Verily, this vichyssoise of verbiage veers most verbose, so let me simply add that it is my very good honor to meet you and you may call me V."
     
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    "All that matters is that I want to see the worst." -- Clay Easton, Less Than Zero (somewhat relatable, sadly)

    "All those moments will be lost in time, like tears in rain." -- Roy Batty, Blade Runner

    "Listen, when you're giving pain to someone, don't think about the pain that person is feeling. Just concentrate on how good it feels to be causing someone pain." -- Kakihara, Ichi the Killer

    "There's no love in your punches." -- Kakihara, Ichi the Killer

    Oooh, Loneliness will find you,
    in between the wrong and the right
    Coming right behind you,
    swear I'm gonna find you one of these nights.


    -- The Eagles, "One Of These Nights"
     
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    From the book, It's Kind of a Funny Story by Ned Vizzini

    "That's pretty stupid," I say. "I met this girl in here-"
    "Oh yeah?"
    "Yeah, and she's really screwed up, as screwed up as me, but I don't look at that as an insult. I look at that as a chance to connect."
    "Yeah, well."
    "People are screwed up in this world. I'd rather be with someone screwed up and open about it than somebody perfect and...you know...ready to explode."


    The whole book is really just full of wonderful quotes, it's a fantastic read
     
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    Hootie & the Blowfish, "Not Even The Trees"
     
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    Don't know if anyone else has posted this yet, but it's so simple and it has always stuck with me.

    "So it goes." - Kurt Vonnegut, Slaughterhouse-Five
     
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    "Failure is the tuition you pay for success."

    This was in a fortune cookie with my dinner tonight, but a quick google search attributes it to someone named Walter Brunell.
     
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    This poem is perfection. Every line of it. :D
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    I hate the way you talk to me
    And the way you cut your hair
    I hate the way you drive my car
    I hate it when you stare

    I hate your big dumb combat boots
    And the way you read my mind
    I hate you so much that it makes me sick
    It even makes me ryhme

    I hate the way you're always right
    I hate it when you lie
    I hate it when you make me laugh
    Even worse when you make me cry

    I hate the way you're not around
    And the fact that you didn't call
    But mostly I hate the way I don't hate you
    Not even close, not even a little bit, not even at all.

    -10 Things I Hate About You
     
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