"They just don't trust what they can't explain."-Phil Collins, "You'll Be In My Heart"

"It's lonely at the top, but it's lonelier at the bottom." -Vanilla Ice

"Love makes the gods speak and the heavens drowsy with harmony." -William Shakespeare

"...start thinking of yourself as an artist and your life as a work-in-progress. Works-in-progress are never perfect. But changes can be made...Art evolves. So does life. Art is never stagnant. Neither is life. The beautiful, authentic life you are creating for yourself is your art. It's the highest art."-Sarah Ban Breathnach

"..Every mile will be worth my while."-Michael Bolton, "Go the Distance"

"One is unable to notice something because it is always before one's eyes."-Wittgenstein

"There's more to be seen than can ever be seen,
More to do than can ever be done."-Sir Elton John

"If ever I believe my work is done,
Then I'll start out back at one."-Brian McKnight

"It is all too common for caterpilars to become butterflies and then to maintain that in their youth they had ben little butterflies. Maturation makes liars of us all."-George Vaillant, US Psychiatrist

"And when you feel the heat, the world is at your feet."-Ricky Martin

"I just multiplied you by zero."-Dr. Basak

"Poverty stole your golden shoes
It didn't steal your laughter
And heartache came to visit me
But I knew it wasn't ever after
We'll fight, but not out of spite."-Jewel Kilcher, "Hands"

"We are loved beyond our ability to comprehend."-Jewel Kilcher

"If Darkenss is, Darkness is Good."-Colin Turnbull

"Once I get outside my house in the morning, I'm on."-Sammy Davis Jr.

"I...dreamed I was a butterfly...Now I do not know whether I was a man dreaming I was a butterfly, or whether I am a butterfly now dreaming I am a man."-Chuang-tzu, Chinese sage

"Time and space...become memory and history."-Jeff Titon and Mark Slobin

"Where is the power you once had to ignite the air?"-Roger, Rent

"The music ignites the night with passionate fire."-Mark, Rent

"Marguerite, don't forget I know who you are,
We were cut from the same surly star,
Like two jewels in the sky, sharing fire."-Chauvelin, The Scarlet Pimpernel

"A man can learn to steal some thunder,
A man can learn to work some wonder."-Chauvelin, The Scarlet Pimpernel

"Betray him first and the game's reversed!"-Marguerite/Chauvelin, The Scarlet Pimpernel

"I have a very good memory, but it's short."-Prof Carley

"Reality always sticks around to show you who's boss."-Tak Okamoto

"J'aurais voulu etre un chanteur
Pour pouvoir crier qui je suis
J'aurais voulu etre un auteur
Pour pouvoir inventer ma vie...

J'aurais voulu etre an artiste
Pour avoir le monde a refaire
Pour pouvoir dire pourquoi j'existe"-Luc Plamondon, Canadian pop lyricist

"Tonal music is finite."-Prof Reise

"I love you."-a lot of people

"Yesterday is history.
Tomorrow a mystery.
Today is a gift.
That's why it's called the present!"-a random forward

"She is gentle, she is wild, she's a riddle she's a child, she's a headache! She's an angel. She's a girl..."-"Maria", Sound of Music

"Yeah, I'm free everyday. It's in the constitution."-Stephanie, Grease 2

"Time is a great teacher, but unfortunately it kills all its pupils."-Hector Berlioz

"Who controls the past controls the future. Who controls the present controls the past."-George Orwell

"Growth demands a temporary surrender of security."-Gail Sheehy

"The archer that shoots over, misses as much as he that falls short."-Montaigne, French essayist

"Seeing is deceiving. It's eating that is believing."-James Thurber, American writer

"All the knowledge I possess everyone else can acquire, but my heart is all my own."-Johann Wolfgang Goethe, German poet

"Golf: a good walk spoiled."-Mark Twain

"The poor shall inherit the earth, but not the mineral rights."-J. Paul Getty, American businessman

"A small loan makes a debt; a great one an enemy."-Publilius Syrus, Latin writer

"An ambassador is an honest man sent to lie abroad for the commonwealth."-Henry Wotton, English diplomat

"Knowledge comes, but wisdom lingers."-Alfred, Lord Tennyson, British poet

"Don't let your studies interfere with your education."-Henry Rutgers, American philanthropist

"A little caution outflanks a large cavalry."-Otto von Bismarck

"Common sense is the collection of prejudices acquired by age eighteen."-Albert Einstein

"I found five thousand ways how not to make a lightbulb."-Thomas Edison

"Glory ought to be the consequence, not the motive of our actions."-Pliny the Younger, Roman scholar

"The right to be heard does not automatically include the right to be taken seriously."-Hubert Humphrey

"A good scare is worth more to a man than good advice."-Edgar Watson Howe

"In the end, what affects your life most deeply are things too simple to talk about."-Nell Blaine, American artist

"The tragedy of war is that it uses man's best to do man's worst."-Harry E. Fosdick, American clergyman

"A mediocre idea that generates enthusiasm will go no further than a great idea that inspires no one."-Mary Kary Ash, American business person

"The infinitely little have a pride infiinitely great."-Voltaire(Francois-Marie Arouet)

"The reward of one duty is the power to fulfill another."-George Eliot

"Truth comes out of error more easily than out of confusion,"-Francis Bacon

"Happiness is nothing more than good health and a bad memory."-Albert Schweitzer, French philosopher

"Only those who dare to fail greatly can ever achieve greatly."-Robert F. Kennedy

"All great truths begin as blasphemies."-George Bernard Shaw

"Opportunity is missed by most people because it is dressed in overalls and looks like work."-Thomas Edison

"It is the mark of an educated mind to be able to entertain a thought without accepting it."-Aristotle

"To become a father is not hard,
To be a father is, however."-Wilhelm Busch, German poet

"The only reason to be alive is to enjoy it."-Rita Mae Brown, American writer

"It is by acts and not by ideas that people live."-Anatole France, French writer

"Happiness isn't something you experience; it's something you remember."-Oscar Levant, American writer

"The tragedy of life is not so much what men suffer, but rather what they miss."-Thomas Carlyle, Scottish historian

"All who would win joy, must share it: happiness was born a twin." -Lord Byron, English poet

"Be nice to people on your way up because you'll meet them on your way down."-Wilson Mizner, American architect

"Nothing that is worth knowing can be taught."-Oscar Wilde, Irish poet

"The Difficult is that which can be done immediately;
the Impossible that which takes a little longer."-George Santayana, Spanish-American poet and philosopher

"If one has not given everything, one has given nothing."-Georges Guynemer, French military aviator

"Experience is not what happens to you;
it is what you do with what happens to you."-Aldous Huxley

"All men of action are dreamers."-James G. Huneker, American musician and critic

"Sir...you did great."-Air Force One

"Hello and goodbye, I've just unemployed you."-Evita

"...a cross between a bedroom fantasy and a saint."-Evita

"Don't cry for me Argentina
For I am ordinary, unimportant
And undeserving of your attention
Unless we all are, I think we all are."-Evita

"You're all richer than me in present value terms."-Professor Geczy to the Finance 205 class

"The stock market is a casino with the odds in your favor."-Von Neumann

"My heart is saying, 'Don't let go. Hold on to the end.'
That's what I intend to do."-Sandra Dee, Grease

"You only live once."-whoever said it first

"You have to dance like no one's watching and love like it will never hurt"-unknown

"Live your story"-If We Hold On Together

"The greatest good for the greatest number of people"-Jeremy Bentham

"Life's too short babe, no time for cryin'"-Mimi Marquez, Rent

"When I'm ill at ease, I kill at ease"-"To Keep My Love Alive"

"One does not retire until one dies"-Joaquin Balaguer, ex-prez Dominican Republic

"Ambition is a dream in work clothes"-unknown

"This isn't a rehearsal. This is the real thing."-a random guy at the karate dojo, in reference to life

"...And all I know is the touch of love that changes all I know"-Martin Guerre

"A man who doesn't act on desire does not have strong enough desire"-unknown

"How do you spell CTY?"-a guy at the Center for Talented Youth(CTY), summer 1993

"What's your phone number?"-a guy on my team at Mathcounts Nationals, a math competition for middle schoolers...he had to call me to ask.

"...a beautiful sunset that was mistaken for a dawn"-Claude Debussy on Wagner's music

"Chemistry"-Guys and Dolls

"Dans la vie, si je manque de tout, il ne me manque rien, devant elle." -Marius Pontmercy, Les Miserables

"Les anges, quelquefois, se rencontrent sur terre."-Cosette Crapaud et Marius Pontmercy, Les Miserables

"Why does distance make us wise?"-Roger, Rent

"Chacun sa destinee"-Eponine Thenadier, Les Miserables

"None but the brave deserve the fair."-Iolanthe

"L'amour est un oiseau rebelle que nul ne peut apprivoiser"-Georges Bizet

"L'amour est enfant de Boheme, il n'a jamais connu de loi"-Georges Bizet

"There is WORK we have to do!!"-Enjolras, Les Miserables

"Time passes faster than emotions."-ZARD

"I am resolved to rise superior to every obstacle. With whom need I be afraid of measuring my strength? I will take Fate by the throat. It shall not overcome me. O how beautiful it is to be alive -- would that I could live a thousand times!"-Ludwig van Beethoven

"Power is the morality of men who stand out from the mass, and it is also mine!"-L.v. Beethoven

"A smile is a curve that sets things straight."-unknown

"You have to amuse yourself after being serious so long."-F.J. Haydn

"L'ai-je au moins jamais vue, cette douce inconnue
ou n'est-elle qu'un songe vain comme les mensonges de l'histoire
ne l'ai-je pas revee comme cet ideal
qui ferait qu'enfin l'homme echappe a l'animal
qu'il soit enfin lui-meme
et vive son poeme...

Rouge, le peuple est en colere,
Noire, l'esperance de la terre,
Rouge, mon sang tourne a l'envers,
Noir, mon coeur est en misere sans elle, loin d'elle, malade d'elle."-Marius Pontmercy, Les Miserables

"RED, I feel my soul on fire,
BLACK, my world if she's not there,
RED, the color of desire,
BLACK, the color of despair!"-Marius Pontmercy, Les Miserables

"A good style should show no sign of effort. What is written should seem a happy accident."-Somerset Maugham, on music.

"What's past is prologue"-The Tempest, William Shakespeare

"I only half wish you happiness."-N. Sakai

"Econ sucks!"-unanimous conclusion, University of Pennsylvania freshmen

"As far as your vision reaches, fly with me..."-"Meadowlark"

"Let you fantasies unwind..."-Phantom of the Opera

"In my life, she has burst like the music of angels the light of the sun,
and my life, seems to stop as if something is over and something has scarcely begun."-Les Miserables

"To love another person is to see the face of God."-Les Miserables

"I liked my memories as they were,
I've never felt confused before."-Miss Saigon

"Hakuna Matata!"-The Lion King

"Every angel is a species"-Top Girls, Caryl Churchill

"In memory everything seems to happen to music."-Tennessee Williams

"Memory takes a lot of poetic license. It omits some details; others are exaggerated, according to the emotional value of the articles it touches, for memory is seated predominantly in the heart."-Tennessee Williams

"Memory is hunger"-Ernest Hemingway

"Knowing is half the battle."-G.I. Joe

"When life gives you lemons, make lemonade."-unknown

"Everyone belongs to everyone else."-Aldous Huxley

"Forever you"-ZARD

"Here is the way of Heaven: When you have done your work, retire!"-Tao Teh Ching

"The ruler must not display his weapons"-Tao Teh Ching

"The greatest skill appears clumsy."-Tao Teh Ching

"He who knows does not speak, he who speaks does not know."-Tao Teh Ching

"He jests at scars that never felt a wound."-William Shakespeare

"True hope is swift and flies with swallow's wings"-William Shakespeare

"next time, it'll be your body"-K. Nichols, in reference to a trumpet case he threw across the room when someone put his feet on it.

"I believe it..."-D. Staples

"zillions and zillions and zillions..."-K. McConnell

"ecoutez, repetez, memorisez"-A. Blanchon

"wonderful! superb! oh, thank you so much, you are wonderful!"-L. Downs every time I turned in Amnesty letters.

"Rule number 1: look cool. Rule number 2: if it sounds bad, it is."-B. Huber's first two rules of music.

"Why are you looking at me like that? you're scaring me!"-I. Gilman in response to Eugene Fukudome's atsui manazashi.

"Ann is cool" -Ann

"I feel goot"-R. Chaiken

"I'm sorry..."-random people when they come across Euge and Naomi kissing at random places(like in Sunny's doorway and in front of the MEH door when I'm trying to go in because I was late(again).) "Geez...Mon dieu..."-Daniel Lee

"Oh my gosh, Andrew, I can't believe you just said that!"-Ginny Choi

"Rubbish!"-Bud B.

"If I profane with my unworthiest hand..."-William Shakespeare

"He's stuffable!"-Andrew Han

"The only woman in my life!"-Andrew Han, in reference to his mom

"I don't suppose you have witches?"
"Oh, we do, we just pronounce them differently."-Brigadoon, a Scot and an American discussing problems in their society.

"Wild geese that fly with the moon on their wings"-Sound of Music

"Life is good!"-whoever said it first

"The future is just another word for a present that hasn't been opened yet."-Tom Wilson, "ZIGGY" Cartoonist

"The man who insists upon seeing with perfect clearness before he decides, never decides. Accept life, and you must accept regret."-Henri Frederic Amiel

"God created man in his own image...
and man, being a gentleman, returned the favor."-Ayn Rand

"Beware the Ides of March."-William Shakespeare

"Pchem is the root of all evil."-Daniel Lee

So you still wanna give me quotes?