These are quotes I enjoy. They originate from various songs, movies, TV, pop culture and historical sources. Some quotes are profound, some silly, some introspective, some fun, and many are near and dear to my heart. Several of these quotes have permanently worked their way into the daily lexicon at our house over the years.
This post is a work in progress and I’ll be adding more quotes here as time goes on.
Nothing worth having comes without some kind of fight / Got to kick at the darkness till it bleeds daylight.
Bruce Cockburn
Lovers In A Dangerous Time
Do it now! Do it Edna, or forever wish you had!!
Wilbur Turnblad
Hairspray (1988)
Ain’t that a kick in the rubber parts?
Arnold Beckoff (Harvey Fierstein)
Torch Song Trilogy
They say travel broadens the mind / So I went over the falls in a barrel / I found the North Pole / In a field of ice / And in the land of dreams / I found you
Thomas Dolby
I Live In A Suitcase
Mos Eisley spaceport. You will never find a more wretched hive of scum and villainy…
Obi-Wan Kenobi
Star Wars, Episode IV – A New Hope
Oh for goodness sake. Look at yourself Mitz. How many times have I told you? Green is not your color!
Felicia Jollygoodfellow
The Adventures of Priscilla, Queen of the Desert
Every old sock meets an old shoe
Kate Bush
Moments Of Pleasure
I never dreamt that I would get to be / the creature that I always meant to be
Pet Shop Boys
Being Boring
I like that Wookiee
Maz Kanata
Star Wars: Episode VII – The Force Awakens
I think my biggest problem is being young and beautiful. It’s my biggest problem because I’ve never been young and beautiful. Oh, I’ve been beautiful, and God knows I’ve been young, but never the twain have met.
Arnold Beckoff (Harvey Fierstein)
Torch Song Trilogy
I need that wedding. I need some beauty and some music and some placecards before I die. It’s like heroin.
Bernice Brackett (Debbie Reynolds)
In & Out
What we need is a few good taters.
What’s taters, precious?
PO-TAY-TOES! Boil ’em, mash ’em, stick ’em in a stew…
Samwise Gamgee & Gollum
Lord of the Rings: The Two Towers
Oh yes!! Yes Mr. Cobb!! Call me your cheap slut sex poodle!!!!
Terry Hoskins (Victoria Tennant) to Roger Cobb (Steve Martin)
All Of Me
Wait! Wait for Sugar!!
Sugar Kane (Marilyn Monroe)
Some Like It Hot
Well… La-di-da, la-di-da, la la
Annie Hall (Diane Keaton)
Annie Hall
…could we have everything louder than everything else?…
Ian Gillan of Deep Purple
Made In Japan
Don’t it always seem to go / That you don’t know what you’ve got til it’s gone
Joni Mitchell
Big Yellow Taxi
I’m Free!
Mr. Humphries (John Inman)
Are You Being Served?
The only thing that separates us from the animals is our ability to accessorize
– Clairee Belcher (Olympia Dukakis)
Steel Magnolias
I would rather have thirty minutes of wonderful than a lifetime of nothing special
Shelby Eatenton-Latcherie (Julia Roberts)
Steel Magnolias
Her life has been an experiment in terror… I have to tell you, when it comes to suffering, she’s right up there with Elizabeth Taylor
Truvy Jones (Dolly Parton)
Steel Magnolias
Speaking for myself, and I am unanimous in this…
Mrs. Slocombe (Molly Sugden)
Are You Being Served?
There is freedom within, there is freedom without / Try to catch the deluge in a paper cup
Crowded House
Don’t Dream It’s Over
Oh, listen to yourselves. You sound like two fat slags at a pie bake-off
Bernadette Bassenger (Terence Stamp)
The Adventures of Priscilla, Queen of the Desert
…I want total sensory deprivation and backup drugs. All right?
Edina Monsoon (Jennifer Saunders)
Absolutely Fabulous
Be yourself; everyone else is already taken.
Oscar Wilde
Don’t walk in front of me… I may not follow / Don’t walk behind me… I may not lead / Walk beside me… just be my friend.
Albert Camus
A friend is someone who knows all about you and still loves you.
Elbert Hubbard
Honey, I’m more man than you’ll ever be and more woman than you’ll ever get.
Lindy (Antonio Fargas)
Car Wash
When you have eliminated the impossible, whatever remains, however improbable, must be the truth.
Sherlock Holmes
I wanna pair of pink high heels that catch the lights up on the Ferris wheel / but what I really want I just can’t buy.
Deborah Harry
I Want That Man
Oh, what fresh hell is this?
Sheldon Cooper (Jim Parsons)
Big Bang Theory
If a bullet should enter my brain, let that bullet destroy every closet door.
Harvey Milk
A mass of music and fire. That’s me: an old kazoo with some sparklers.
Margo Channing (Bette Davis)
All About Eve
Sarcasm is the lowest form of wit, but the highest form of intelligence.
Oscar Wilde
You have to give them hope…
Harvey Milk
We make a living by what we get, we make a life by what we give.
Sir Winston Churchill
Twenty years from now you will be more disappointed by the things that you didn’t do than by the ones you did do. So, throw off the bowlines. Sail away from the safe harbor. Catch the trade winds in your sails. Explore. Dream. Discover.
Mark Twain
