Just the quotes, ma'am, just the quotes

Just re-reading the quotes I put on this blog, and my old one, since I started recording them on londonmabel.com .

Here, let me share the ones I gathered myself...

"It's worse than dog eat dog. It's dog doesn't return other dog's phone calls." Woody Allen, Crimes and Misdemeanors

When you’re walking through fire you’re concentrating on not getting burned. It’s once you are through and look back that you see there was no other path to your current destination. (You also realize what a Bad Ass Bitch you are, too. I mean, come on, you just walked through FIRE.) (Hoorah Hooha Betty)

Shorty: "I can't pay that shit no mind." Malcolm: "Brother you need to pay it all your mind." (From the movie Malcolm X)

"Time is the school in which we learn. Time is the fire in which we burn." (Poem by Delmore Schwartz)

"The call rings up the curtain, always, on a mystery of transfiguration ... which, when complete, amounts to a dying and a birth. The familiar life horizon has been outgrown; the old concepts, ideals, and emotional patterns no longer fit; the time for the passing of the threshold is at hand." (Joseph Campbell describing the Call to Adventure.)

"Some will trust in the things they think they know. They should think again and let them go." - Steve Bell (songwriter)

"And when you're growing down instead of growing up / Tell me are you bold enough to reach for love? (Janelle Monae, "Many Moons")

"Don't get trapped in hopeless cages, 'cause hopeless isn't true." (Hawksley Workman)

“I sometimes do not know what to say, but every day I make progress.” (a robot named Bina 48)

"I'm flawed all over but I'm perfect in all my flaws." (Guy interviewed on Definitely Not the Opera)

Eric: The only person you ever loved is yourself.
Drama: ...What's not to love?
(Entourage)

I'm tired of being a nobody. I wanna be the object of respect, fear and sex! (Radar on MASH)

You approve your own beauty. You say you're beautiful. Don't wait for someone else to say it. (Iman)

"If all the girls should be 'cross the sea, what a great swimmer Yellowman would be." (Yellowman 'Mi Believe/Summer Holiday')

Childie - Not all girls are raving bloody lesbians, you know.
Sister George - That is a misfortune that I am perfectly well aware of. (The Killing of Sister George, picked out from the documentary The Celluloid Closet)

"Hair grows no matter what you do. Don't you wish that people did too?" India Arie

“The privilege of a lifetime is being who you are.” Joseph Campbell

"Fat, thin, young, old... I love me." Gene Simmons

Thorne: It's a funny story.
Amaar: You destroyed my chair!
Thorne: Well it's not funny the way you tell it.
(Little Mosque on the Prairie)

"Roast my raisins!" (The Prince Regent in Blackadder)

"Let's be calm, guys, with undertones of frantic." (Hawkeye in M*A*S*H*)

George - There's a moral here, Dick.
Dick - Keep your mouth shut.
George - That's it.
(Newhart show)

"What if I put on a more expensive dress and THEN cried?" (Movie: Dorothy Parker and the Vicious Circle)

Bad guy - How do I know you're not from Control?
Max - If I was from Control you'd already be dead.
Bad guy - If you were from Control you'd already be dead.
Max - Well neither of us is dead so I guess I'm not from Control. (Get Smart movie)

My father established our relationship when I was seven years old. He looked at me and said, "You know, I brought you in this world, and I can take you out. And it don't make no difference to me, I'll make another one look just like you." (Bill Cosby)

Dan - I think I could take him.
Casey - Out to lunch maybe. (Sports Night)

"All I want to do is sit in the shade, and remember better times, and better men." - Mrs Fisher in The Enchanted April  (I love to quote that one)

"Inspector Murdoch is a teetotaler! He practices teetotalism!" (Sgt Crabtree, distressed by the intimation that his boss is on a bender)

George: Sometimes you can't help these people til they hit rock bottom.
Jerry: And by then you've lost interest.
(Seinfeld)

Ari - You wanna hug it out?
Eric - No, not really.
Ari - Let's hug it out bitch! Let's hug it out. (Entourage)

-"How is it you always think you're right?"
- "I don't, I just find it hard to operate on the opposite assumption."  (House)

"Now, contrary to popular opinion, Sweathogs are not dumb. I mean, a dumb person does not think of a way to make it rain in the gymnasium." (Welcome Back, Kotter)

"In the words of Sigmund Freud: I have a dream." ('George Bush' on Dennis Leary's Christmas special)

I'm about to projectile Express Myself all over your Hush Puppies. (Sue Silvester on Glee)

"Wakin' up is a strange reason to diiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiie .......whoo!" (Autotune the News)

"You feel so different inside that you think that in winter you must have been barely alive." (Jane Siberry from her song When Spring Comes)

"Don't you smile at me like that--that's not even a real smile! That's just a bunch of teeth playing with my mind!" (Face on the A-Team)

"I feel like Dorian Gray's picture." (Charles on M*A*S*H*)

"Please! This is supposed to be a happy occasion. Let's not bicker and argue over who killed who." (Monty Python and the Holy Grail)

"Fine, you deck the halls but I'm not donning any gay apparel." (Brent from Corner Gas)

"They were the sort that went trampling all over your pet stamp collection, or whatever it was, and then spent the rest of their lives atoning for it. But you would rather have had your stamp collection." (Stella Gibbons, Cold Comfort Farm)

"I worry that the drop in shark attacks is a sign of how unappetizing humans have become." (comment posted on a New York Times article)

Bob Roland: The man is trying to undermine you. Now what are you going to do about it?
Rufus T. Firefly: I've got a good mind to ring his doorbell and run. (From the Marx Brother's Duck Soup)

"The door to your future is always open." Ad slogan for a burial service. (Heard on CJAD)