Around here, however, we don't look backwards for very long. We keep moving forward, opening up new doors and doing new things, because we're curious...and curiosity keeps leading us down new paths. - Walt Disney (~Meet the Robinsons~)
History is the fiction we create to persuade ourselves that events are knowable and that life has order and direction. - Calvin and Hobbes
We're a club. We're a group. We can take a vote on the issues. We could be a secret society. A secret society that controls the balance of power in the world. And nobody else can join unless they wear funny hats! - Horton Hears a Who!
Our family's little... and broken... We fight sometimes... But you can join it if you want. Because o'hana means family. And family means nobody gets left behind. Or forgotten. - Partly Lilo and Stich. Partly imagination.
Genius always finds itself a century too early. - Ralph Waldo Emerson
Mad, adj.: Affected with a high degree of intellectual independence. - Ambrose Bierce
The true sign of intelligence is not knowledge but imagination. - Albert Einstein
Wit is educated insolence. - Aristotle
Everything has been said before, but since nobody listens we have to keep going back and beginning all over again. - Andre Gide
Life is the art of drawing without an eraser. - John W. Gardner
A friend is one who knows you and loves you just the same. - Elbert Hubbard
Be courteous to all, but intimate with few, and let those few be well tried before you give them your confidence. - George Washington
I don't need a friend who changes when I change and who nods when I nod; my shadow does that much better. - Plutarch
The real test of friendship is: can you literally do nothing with the other person?
Without wearing any mask we are conscious of, we have a special face for each friend. - Oliver Wendell Holmes
All of us failed to match our dreams of perfection. So I rate us on the basis of our splendid failure to do the impossible. - William Faulkner
I don't use drugs, my dreams are frightening enough. - M. C. Escher
I think we dream so we don't have to be apart so long. If we're in each other's dreams, we can play together all night. - Bill Watterson
No one should negotiate their dreams. Dreams must be free to fly high. No government, no legislature, has a right to limit your dreams. You should never agree to surrender your dreams. - Jesse Jackson
Reality is wrong. Dreams are for real. - Tupac Shakur
Strength does not come from physical capacity. It comes from an indomitable will. - Mahatma Gandhi
The weak can never forgive. Forgiveness is the attribute of the strong. - Mahatma Gandhi
A man who was completely innocent, offered himself as a sacrifice for the good of others, including his enemies, and became the ransom of the world. It was a perfect act.
Mohandas Gandhi
An error does not become truth by reason of multiplied propagation, nor does truth become error because nobody sees it. - Mohandas Gandhi
So many of our dreams at first seem impossible, then they seem improbable, and then, when we summon the will, they soon become inevitable. Christopher Reeve
The future belongs to those who believe in the beauty of their dreams.
Eleanor Roosevelt
There are those who look at things the way they are, and ask why... I dream of things that never were, and ask why not? -
All men who have achieved great things have been great dreamers.
Orison Swett Marden
Fiction reveals truths that reality obscures. - Jessamyn West
I never did very well in math -
Calvin Trillin
Imagination rules the world.
Napoleon Bonaparte
There are no rules of architecture for a castle in the clouds.
Gilbert K. Chesterton
Trust that little voice in your head that says "Wouldn't it be interesting if..."; And then do it.
Duane Michals
You can't wait for inspiration. You have to go after it with a club.
Jack London
A successful man is one who can lay a firm foundation with the bricks others have thrown at him.
David Brinkley
If at first you don't succeed, try, try again. Then quit. There's no point in being a damn fool about it.
W. C. Fields
All life is an experiment. The more experiments you make the better.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
Don't go around saying the world owes you a living. The world owes you nothing. It was here first.
Mark Twain
I think I've discovered the secret of life -
Charles M. Schulz
In three words I can sum up everything I've learned about life: it goes on.
Robert Frost
Life is never easy for those who dream.
Robert James Waller
The statistics on sanity are that one out of every four americans is suffering from some form of mental illness. Think of your three best friends. If they're okay, then it's you. - Rita Mae Brown
God made us best friends because our parents could never handle us as sisters.
"By the way, Doctor, I shall want your cooperation." ~ "I shall be delighted." ~ "You don't mind breaking the law?" ~ "Not in the least." ~ "Nor running a chance of arrest?" ~ "Not in a good cause." ~ "Oh, the cause is excellent!" ~ "Then I am your man." ~ "I was sure that I might rely on you."
- Sherlock Holmes and Dr. Watson
When you have excluded the impossible, whatever remains, no matter how improbable, must be the truth.
- Sherlock Holmes.
When we are children, we beleive the world is full of magic. We beleive in Myths and Legends, and that destiny awaits. That is the world i remember, and the one I wish I'd never known.
- Blood and Chocolate
That's what stories are for. Stories are for joining the past with the future. Stories are for those late hours in the night when you can't remember how you got from where you were to where you are. Stories are for eternity, when memory is erased, when there is nothing to remember except the story.
- Tim O' Brien
Being normal is not neccisarily a virtue. It rather denotes a lack of Courage!
- Practical Magic
Always throw spilt salt over your left shoulder, keep rosemary by your garden gate, plant lavender for luck, and fall in love whenever you can.
- Practical Magic
Since there's alot, the following are all from the Harry Potter Series (most of them spoken by Dumbledore):
It does not do to dwell on dreams and forget to live.
It takes a great deal of bravery to stand up to your enimes, but a great deal more to stand up to your friends.
A child's voice, however honest and true, is meaningless to those who've forgotten how to listen.
That's why it's so brilliant. It's so pathetically dim witted.
Things we lose always have a way of coming back to us. If not always in the way we expect.
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