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[edit] About me

After cultivating an extreme movie-quote hobby, I stumbled upon this site after perusing one of its sister projects, Wikipedia. Since then, I have become quite hooked on the idea of ensuring that my favorite (or even not-so-favorite) films would have their best lines captured for posterity. I am now an administrator and bureaucrat here on Wikiquote.

I'm a 30-something, transplanted New Jersey-ian (or is it New Jersey-ite?) who has a ravenous hunger for movies and books (I rarely go through a day without one or the other). My tastes are quite diverse and range from absolute classics to thrillers to horror to comedy (both obvious and more sarcastic and tongue-in-cheek). If pressed, I would list my favorite films as Three Days of the Condor, The Godfather, Donnie Darko, It's a Wonderful Life, The Seven Samurai, The Man in the Moon, Monty Python and the Holy Grail, anything by Alfred Hitchcock, and maybe Halloween (There. How's that for diverse?). As for TV, as with many WQ people, I am a devout Buffy fan. I would also include among my favorites Alias, Lost, 24, Veronica Mars, Gilmore Girls, Cheers, Homicide: Life on the Street, My So-Called Life, Heroes, and The Twilight Zone. My favorite authors would include Stephen King, Charles Dickens, Rainer Maria Rilke, T.S. Eliot, Neil Gaiman, and Lee Child.

And: I am HUGE fan of Dinosaur Comics! It ROCKS!

While my interests in Wikiquote primarily focus on films and a few of my favorite TV shows, you never know where I'll pop up. I especially like to rescue pages marked for deletion (if rescue is warranted) and to expand pages that are languishing.

[edit] Favorite quotes

  • You see things; and you say Why? But I dream things that never were; and I say Why not?
  • The reasonable man adapts himself to the world; the unreasonable one persists in trying to adapt the world to himself. Therefore all progress depends on the unreasonable man.
  • This I believe: that the free, exploring mind of the individual human is the most valuable thing in the world. And this I would fight for: the freedom of the mind to take any direction it wishes, undirected. And this I must fight against: any idea, religion, or government which limits or destroys the individual.
  • This is the way the world ends
    Not with a bang but a whimper.
  • His tired gaze - from passing endless bars -
    has turned into a vacant stare which nothing holds.
    To him there seem to be a thousand bars,
    and out beyond these bars exists no world.

    His supple gait, the smoothness of strong strides
    that gently turn in ever smaller circles
    perform a dance of strength, centered deep within
    a will, stunned, but untamed, indomitable.

    But sometimes the curtains of his eyelids part,
    the pupils of his eyes dilate as images
    of past encounters enter while through his limbs
    a tension strains in silence
    only to cease to be, to die within his heart.

  • Before I built a wall I’d ask to know
    What I was walling in or walling out,
    And to whom I was like to give offence.
    Something there is that doesn’t love a wall,
    That wants it down.
  • Two roads diverged in a wood, and I—
    I took the one less traveled by,
    And that has made all the difference.
  • I know not what course others may take; but as for me, give me liberty or give me death!
    • Patrick Henry, Speech in Virginia Convention, Richmond (March 23, 1775)
  • Some birds are not meant to be caged, that's all. Their feathers are too bright, their songs too sweet and wild. So you let them go, or when you open the cage to feed them they somehow fly out past you. And the part of you that knows it was wrong to imprison them in the first place rejoices, but still, the place where you live is that much more drab and empty for their departure.
    • Stephen King, Rita Hayworth and Shawshank Redemption, from Different Seasons (1982)
  • I met a traveller from an antique land
    Who said:—Two vast and trunkless legs of stone
    Stand in the desert. Near them on the sand,
    Half sunk, a shatter'd visage lies, whose frown
    And wrinkled lip and sneer of cold command
    Tell that its sculptor well those passions read
    Which yet survive, stamp'd on these lifeless things,
    The hand that mock'd them and the heart that fed.
    And on the pedestal these words appear:
    "My name is Ozymandias, king of kings:
    Look on my works, ye mighty, and despair!"
    Nothing beside remains: round the decay
    Of that colossal wreck, boundless and bare,
    The lone and level sands stretch far away.
  • Truth, after all, wears a different face to everybody, and it would be too tedious to wait till all were agreed. She is said to lie at the bottom of a well, for the very reason, perhaps, that whoever looks down in search of her sees his own image at the bottom, and is persuaded not only that he has seen the goddess, but that she is far better looking than he had imagined.
  • Life and death, union and separation, follow hard upon one another. Nothing is steadfast but the will, nothing endures but one’s achieve­ments. These alone count in life.
  • No one is useless in this world who lightens the burden of it for anyone else.
  • He is truly a man who will not permit himself to be unduly elated when fortune’s breeze is favorable, or cast down when it is adverse.
  • A person is a person because he recognizes others as persons.
    • Desmond Tutu, Address at his enthronement as Anglican archbishop of Cape Town (7 September 1986)

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  • Films
39 Steps, The (1935 film) ~ 8½ ~ Adventures of Robin Hood, The ~ African Queen, The ~ All the King's Men (1949 film) ~ Almost Famous ~ American Graffiti ~ American Pie ~ American Pie 2 ~ An American in Paris ~ ...And Justice For All ~ Animal Crackers ~ Awful Truth, The ~ Bad Day at Black Rock ~ Badlands ~ Bad Taste ~ Barcelona ~ Batman (1966 film) ~ Ben-Hur (1959 film) ~ Best in Show ~ Best Years of Our Lives, The ~ Big Sleep, The ~ Birds, The ~ Black Cat, The ~ Blood Simple ~ Blue Velvet ~ Breaking Away ~ Brothers McMullen, The ~ Bull Durham ~ Bullitt ~ Can't Buy Me Love ~ Casualties of War ~ Cat on a Hot Tin Roof ~ Chasing Amy ~ City of Angels ~ Close Encounters Of The Third Kind ~ Collateral ~ Color Purple, The ~ Commitments, The ~ Contender, The ~ Conversation, The ~ Crimewave ~ Crimson Tide ~ D.E.B.S. ~ Deer Hunter, The ~ Deliverance ~ Dial M for Murder ~ Disturbing Behavior ~ Doors, The ~ Drowning Mona ~ Duck Soup ~ Easy Rider ~ Elizabeth ~ Englishman Who Went Up a Hill But Came Down a Mountain, The ~ Exorcist, The ~ Father of the Bride ~ Five Easy Pieces ~ Frailty ~ Gandhi ~ Glen or Glenda ~ Glory ~ Godfather, The: Part II ~ Halloween ~ Hard Candy ~ High Noon ~ His Girl Friday ~ Hoosiers ~ Hustler, The ~ Imagine Me & You ~ In & Out ~ Invasion of the Body Snatchers (1978 film) ~ It Happened One Night ~ JFK ~ Joe Versus the Volcano ~ John Adams ~ Kentucky Fried Movie, The ~ Kicking and Screaming ~ Killer Klowns From Outer Space ~ The King of Comedy ~ Lady Eve, The ~ Lady from Shanghai, The ~ Last Days of Disco, The ~ Last of the Mohicans, The (1992 film) ~ Last Picture Show, The ~ Laura ~ Letter, The (1940 film) ~ Life of David Gale, The ~ Lock, Stock and Two Smoking Barrels ~ Lolita (1962 film) ~ Lost Horizon ~ Lost Weekend, The ~ Lucas ~ Magnificent Ambersons, The ~ Man in the Moon, The ~ Man Who Wasn't There, The ~ Meatballs ~ Meet Me in St. Louis ~ Meet the Parents ~ Metropolitan ~ Midnight Cowboy ~ Mr. Mom ~ Mr. Smith Goes to Washington ~ Mutiny on the Bounty (1935 film) ~ Mutiny on the Bounty (1962 film) ~ Never Give a Sucker an Even Break ~ Night Shift ~ Nightmare on Elm Street, A ~ Nightmare on Elm Street 2: Freddy's Revenge, A ~ Nightmare on Elm Street 3: Dream Warriors, A ~ Nightmare on Elm Street 4: The Dream Master, A ~ Ninotchka ~ No Way Out ~ North by Northwest ~ Notorious ~ Ocean's Thirteen ~ Oklahoma (1955 film) ~ Out of the Past ~ Paths of Glory ~ Pay It Forward ~ Poltergeist ~ Primal Fear ~ Private Parts ~ Producers (1968 film), The ~ Producers (2005 film), The ~ Raiders of the Lost Ark ~ Rebecca ~ Rebel Without a Cause ~ Red River ~ Remo Williams: The Adventure Begins ~ Reversal of Fortune ~ Risky Business ~ Road to Perdition ~ Robot Monster ~ Rocky II ~ Rope ~ Rosemary's Baby ~ Science of Sleep, The ~ ~ Shadow of a Doubt ~ Shakespeare in Love ~ She's the One ~ Silver Streak ~ Singin' In The Rain ~ Sneakers ~ Speak ~ Sound of Music, The ~ Southland Tales ~ Squid and the Whale, The ~ Strangers on a Train ~ Stripes ~ Superman: The Movie ~ Superman II ~ Suspicion ~ Sweet Home Alabama ~ Taps ~ Thank You for Smoking ~ Tin Cup ~ To Catch a Thief ~ To Kill a Mockingbird ~ Tootsie ~ Top Gun ~ Toxic Avenger, The ~ Trading Places ~ Uncle Buck ~ Varsity Blues ~ Vertigo ~ White Men Can't Jump ~ Whole Nine Yards, The ~ Wicker Man, The ~ Wild at Heart ~ Wild Bunch, The ~ Working Girl ~ Written on the Wind
  • TV Shows
American Dreams ~ American Gothic ~ Beauty and the Geek ~ Big Shots ~ Boomtown ~ Boston Public ~ China Beach ~ Chuck ~ Closer, The ~ Columbo ~ Criminal Minds ~ Dirty Sexy Money ~Ed ~ Ghost Whisperer ~ Homicide: Life on the Street ~ How I Met Your Mother ~ Jericho ~ My So-Called Life ~ October Road ~ Party of Five ~ Prison Break ~ Runaway ~ Schoolhouse Rock! ~ Shield, The ~ Top Chef ~ Wildfire ~ Without a Trace
  • People
Arnold, Matthew ~ Arthur, Chester A. ~ Barnfield, Richard ~ Behn, Aphra ~ Bellamy, Edward ~ Bernard, Claude ~ Biel, Gabriel ~ Bion ~ Blackstone, William ~ Bledel, Alexis ~ Bliunt, Roy ~ Boas, Franz ~ Bossuet, Jacques-Bénigne ~ Bernstein, Carl ~ Bradford, William ~ Bradley, F. H. ~ Bridges, Robert ~ Brougham, Henry ~ Buchanan, James ~ Calhoun, John C. ~ Campbell, Thomas ~ Carlyle, Jane Welsh ~ Cleveland, Grover ~ Carter, Stephen L. ~ Cavafy, Constantine P. ~ Chartier, Émile ~ Child, Lee ~ Clough, Arthur Hugh ~ Cibber, Colley ~ Cooper, James Fenimore ~ Corneille, Pierre ~ Darío, Rubén ~ Day-Lewis, Daniel ~ de la Barca, Pedro Calderón ~ de la Mare, Walter ~ de Lamartine, Alphonse ~ De Quincey, Thomas ~ Dole, Charles Fletcher ~ de Rojas, Fernando ~ de Staël, Anne Louise Germaine ~ Doctorow, E.L. ~ Durbin, Richard ~ Edwards, Jonathan ~ Ellison, Ralph ~ Ennius ~ Faber, Frederick William ~ Field, Eugene ~ Fillmore, Millard ~ Fincher, David ~ Fisher, Herbert ~ Fitzgerald, Patrick ~ Fletcher, John ~ Fox, Charles James ~ Frazer, James ~ Freund, Peter ~ Frist, Bill ~ Galsworthy, John ~ Garfield, James A. ~ Grahame, Kenneth ~ Grimké, Sarah ~ Hall, Joseph ~ Hamilton, Edith ~ Hand, Learned ~ Harding, Warren G. ~ Harrison, William Henry ~ Hart, John ~ Harvey, William ~ Hayes, Rutherford B. ~ Heber, Reginald ~ Hemans, Felicia ~ Herrick, Robert ~ Hill, Aaron ~ Hood, Thomas ~ Howells, William Dean ~ Ignatius of Loyola ~ Jackson, Shirley ~ Jerome, Jerome K. ~ Jewett, Sarah Orne ~ Johnson, Andrew ~ Johnson, James Weldon ~ Junius ~ Kenko, Yoshida ~ Kind, Ron ~ Krakauer, Jon ~ Kronenberger, Louis ~ Lavater, Johann Kaspar ~ Latham, Peter Mere ~ Lesage, Alain-René ~ Lodge, Henry Cabot ~ Lombroso, Cesare ~ Lovelace, Richard ~ Lowell, James Russell ~ Lucretius ~ Marshall, John ~ Mason, George ~ McKinley, William ~ Menander ~ Meredith, George ~ Monroe, James ~ Moore, Thomas ~ Morley, John ~ Oates, Joyce Carol ~ Osler, William ~ Otis, James ~ Parker, Theodore ~ Parkman, Francis ~ Pavlov, Ivan ~ Petrarch ~ Phaedrus ~ Phillips, Wendell ~ Pierce, Franklin ~ Pitt, William ~ Pliny the Elder ~ Pliny the Younger ~ Polk, James K. ~ Prior, Matthew ~ Ptahhotep ~ Ptolemy ~ Racine, Jean ~ Randall, Lisa ~ Renan, Ernest ~ Rolland, Romain ~ Rossetti, Christina ~ Rossetti, Dante Gabriel ~ Saadi ~ Sakharov, Andrei ~ Savile, George ~ Scott, John ~ Searle, John ~ Selden, John ~ Sextus Propertius ~ Shoin, Yoshida ~ Simmons, Gene ~ Smith, Michael Marshall ~ South, Robert ~ Southey, Robert ~ Specter, Arlen ~ Spillane, Mickey ~ St. Jerome ~ St. John, Henry, 1st Viscount Bolingbroke ~ Stanhope, Philip ~ Steele, Richard ~ Sterne, Laurence ~ Symons, Arthur ~ John Millington Synge ~ Tartt, Donna ~ Taylor, Zachary ~ Theognis of Megara ~ Theroux, Paul ~ Thomson, James ~ Thompson, Francis ~ Tucker, Benjamin ~ Tupper, Martin Farquhar ~ Tutu, Desmond ~ Tyler, John ~ Tyndall, John ~ Van Buren, Martin ~ Vaughan, Henry ~ Waller, Edmund ~ Warner, Charles Dudley ~ Webster, John ~ Wharton, Edith ~ Whewell, William ~ Wilson, William Julius ~ Wotton, Henry ~ Wouk, Herman
  • Literary works
Mysteries of Pittsburgh, The
  • Musicians/Bands
Counting Crows ~ Jack Johnson ~ Led Zeppelin
  • Others
Apocalypse ~ Innocence ~ Magna Carta ~ Rebellion ~ Treason ~ United States Constitution ~ Weakness ~ Wilderness

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  • Films
50 First Dates ~ Alien ~ An American Werewolf in London ~ A Clockwork Orange ~ A Night at the Roxbury ~ Air Force One ~ Apocalypse Now ~ The Asphalt Jungle ~ Born on the Fourth of July ~ Braveheart ~ Brazil ~ Breakfast Club, The ~ Bride of Frankenstein ~ Bridge on the River Kwai, The ~ Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid ~ Casablanca ~ Chronicles of Narnia: The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe, The ~ Core, The ~ Crash ~ Day After Tomorrow, The ~ Dr. No ~ Double Indemnity ~ Dracula: Dead and Loving It ~ Empire Records ~ Erin Brockovich ~ Fletch ~ Forbidden Planet ~ The Forgotten ~ Frankenstein ~ The Full Monty ~ Glengarry Glen Ross ~ Godfather, The: Part III ~ Goldfinger ~ Gone with the Wind ~ Good Will Hunting ~ Goodfellas ~ Great Escape, The ~ Harvey ~ Heathers ~ Hunt for Red October, The ~ It's a Wonderful Life ~ Jaws ~ Jerry Maguire ~ Johnny English ~ Killers, The (1946 film) ~ Killing Fields, The ~ Kingdom of Heaven ~ Love Actually ~ Marathon Man ~ Meet Joe Black ~ Mission: Impossible ~ National Lampoon's Christmas Vacation ~ National Lampoon's Vacation ~ Network ~ The Night of the Hunter ~ Nobody's Fool ~ Old School ~ On Her Majesty's Secret Service ~ Philadelphia Story, The ~ Pi ~ Plan 9 from Outer Space ~ Pleasantville ~ Real Genius ~ Rear Window ~ Remember the Titans ~ Rocky ~ Rushmore ~ Saving Private Ryan ~ Saw ~ Sixteen Candles ~ Stand by Me ~ Swingers ~ Taxi Driver ~ Ten Commandments, The ~ Terminator 2: Judgment Day ~ Third Man, The ~ Thunderball ~ Touch of Evil ~ Treasure of the Sierra Madre, The ~ Twelve Monkeys ~ Village, The ~ West Side Story ~ Willy Wonka & the Chocolate Factory ~ The Wizard of Oz ~ World's Fastest Indian, The ~ You Only Live Twice ~ Zoolander.
  • TV Shows
Alias ~ Army Wives ~ Arrested Development ~ Cheers ~ CSI: Crime Scene Investigation ~ Dawson's Creek ~ Drawn Together ~ Drew Carey Show, The ~ Freaks and Geeks ~ Friday Night Lights (TV series)‎ ~ Greg the Bunny ~ Grey's Anatomy ~ Heroes ~ Ice Road Truckers ~ Judging Amy ~ Law & Order ~ Nip/Tuck ~ Oblongs, The ~ Point Pleasant ~ The Rockford Files ~ The Twilight Zone (1959 TV series) ~ WKRP in Cincinnati
  • People
Blake, William ~ Bryant, William Cullen ~ Butler, Samuel ~ Byron, Lord ~ Chapman, Arthur ~ Chekhov, Anton ~ Cobbett, William ~ Choate, Rufus ~ Coleridge, Samuel Taylor ~ Cousins, Norman ~ de Balzac, Honoré ~ Debord, Guy ~ Dickens, Charles ~ Emerson, Ralph Waldo ~ Feuerbach, Ludwig Andreas ~ Jackson, Stonewall ~ Keats, John ~ Kipling, Rudyard ~ Landor, Walter Savage ~ Lansky, Paul ~ Lear, Edward ~ Livy ~ Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth ~ Obama, Barack ~ Protagoras ~ Robb, AnnaSophia ~ Roth, Philip ~ Russell, Bertrand ~ Walter Scott ~ Shelley, Percy Bysshe ~ Sheridan, Richard Brinsley ~ Stendhal ~ Sterling, Bruce ~ Stiglitz, Joseph E. ~ Stockton, John ~ Tennyson, Alfred ~ Twain, Mark ~ Jack Welch ~ Wordsworth, William
  • Musicians/Bands
The Beatles ~ Dido ~ Joel, Billy ~ Morrison, Van ~ Stefani, Gwen
  • Literary works
Eragon ~ Macbeth ~ King Lear ~ Richard III (play) ~ Romeo and Juliet
  • Others
Debt ~ Health ~ Honor ~ New Deal

[edit] I rescued from deletion

Aleksis Kivi ~ Bergen Evans ~ Constantine ~ Gotti ~ Million Dollar Baby ~ The Searchers
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