StellaSlight

Damn it! How could I forget it? :d'oh:
Much Ado About Nothing was the very first Shakespeare play I learnt the quotes from by heart. D'oh, indeed.

Baranlothiel

Anything from The Alchemist

Rivulet027

Shakespeare's full of good quotes. I love the intro to Shakespeare class I'm taking, so good.

um here's one I liked:

"Nothing in all the world-not even old age, sickness and death-is as painful as one-sided love, which is a foreglimpse of the other three"

~The Farewell Symphony by Edmund White

Crossbow

Oh, I just remembered another favorite:

"You sass that hoopy Ford Prefect? Now, there's a frood who really knows where his towel is!"

StellaSlight

I just love this one :



"By the pricking of my thumb, something wicked this way comes"

-MacBeth, William Shakespeare

Luckylyn64

"If Music Be The Food Of Love Play On" - Twelfth Night by William Shaksepere.

and I love the opening line at the beginning of The Restaurant At The End Of The Universe by Douglas Adams. "In the beginning the universe was created. This has made a lot of people angry and has widly been regarded as a bad move."

Crossbow

Good old Douglas Adams. He has so many good lines in those books, especially the first three.


Hey, all you Shakespeare lovers, I started a new community on fanficiton.net of all Shakespeare parodies. Only 5 so far, but still looking. Come check it out!
Shakespeare Geeks

WarriorAngelGabriel

These are all from "Fight Club" by chuck palahniuk(in my opinion a great book)

[B]On a large enough time line, the survival rate for everyone will drop to zero.
-This was freedom. Losing all hope was freedom.
-If I could wake up in a different place, at a different time, could I wake up as a different person?
-One minute was enough, Tyler said, a person had to work hard for it, but a minute of perfection was worth the effort. A moment was the most you could ever expect from perfection.
-May I never be complete. May I never be content. May I never be perfect. Deliver me, Tyler, from being perfect and complete.
-maybe we have to break everything to make something better out of ourselves.
-For thousands of years, human beings had screwed up and trashed and crapped on this planet, and now history expected me to clean up after everyone. I have to wash out and flatten my soup cans. And account for every drop of used motor oil. And I have to foot the bill for nuclear waste and buried gasoline tanks and landfilled toxic sludge dumped a generation before I was born.[B]

That's all for now.

Crossbow

Book? The movie was based on a book? Must read!

ETA:

Looked up the author. He also wrote "Crash," another movie I didn't know was based on a book. I can't say I liked that movie, but it was definitely interesting. Loved "Fight Club," though.

hibiscuss

"Kill a tree or choke a bird?"
..."I-What?"..
"Paper or plastic?"

Son of the Morning - Linda Howard

StellaSlight

I definately didn't know that movie was based on a novel either. Definately interesting book to look upon for a next reading cause I loved the movie.

~*katinthehat*~

"I knew he was going to kill me. I did not realize then that I was an animal already dying."

He took the hat from my mouth. "Tell me you love me," he said. Gently, I did. The end came anyway.

~The lovely bones

BehrItAll

I loved Macbeth. This one is my favorite:

"Double, double toil and trouble; Fire burn; and caldron, bubble.


Also from Julius Ceasar "Et tu Brute?"

Crossbow

we are quite the Shakespeare geeks here, aren't we?

Here's another - I always post this one outside my cubicle on Valentine's Day:

"I'll not be sworn that Love may not transform me to an oyster, but I'll take my oath on it: until he make an oyster of me, he will never make me such a fool!"

Spankmasta Flash

Chuck Palahniuk has written some amazing things. I not only had the privelege to meet him and have him sign my copy of 'Diary' last night, my respect for him shot through the roof.

A friend of mine is in the hospital since he was in a car accident about a month ago (car accident with a drunk driver). He really loves Chuck Palahniuk's writing. I mean really.

Basically, Chuck learned about my friend, and once the signing was over (and I mean, this was a big signing, it started at 6:30 and probably went til 11:30), he got in a van and went to visit my friend in his hospital room. They talked for a little while, and he also promised to send him a manuscript of 'Haunted' (his next book) in the spring.

I have so much respect for him. What an amazing guy.


Anyway, my favorite quote:

"When did the futute change from being a promise to a threat?" - Chuck Palahniuk, Invisible Monsters (which I highly reccommend).