'The mud it is thick
With desires to drown'

- Esben and The Witch, Marching Song

‘I think that there are people in your life who… they inspire art, y’know, and you blow them up into these mythical characters and you give them all of those magical qualities and maybe their just stepping stones for something bigger and better.’

Kali, Love Song (Season 5, Episode 6), Californication

'Pride,' observed Mary, who piqued herself upon the solidity of her reflections, 'is a very common failing I believe. By all that I have ever read, I am convinced that it is very common indeed, that human nature is particularly prone to it, and that there are very few of us who do not cherish a feeling of self-complacency on the score of some quality or other, real or imaginary. Vanity and pride are different things, though the words are often used synonimously. A person may be proud witout being vain. Pride relates more to our opinion of ourselves, vanity to what we would have others think of us.'

- Mary Bennet, Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen, pp.17, 18

'I'm sorry to say that this is not the movie you will be watching. The movie you are about to see is extremely unpleasant. If you wish to see a film about a happy little elf, I'm sure there is still plenty of seating in theatre number two.'

- Lemony Snicket, A Series of Unfortunate Events

'Life is what happens to you while you're busy making other plans.'

- John Lennon, Beautiful Boy (Darling Boy), Double Fantasy

‘I’m going to say this because I’m one of your best friends and I don’t want to overstep, but every choice you make in your life about everything is monumentally wrong.'

- Jane Williams, Makin’ Changes! (Season 2, Episode 12), Happy Endings

'Somewhere in the middle of getting married, having a baby, abandoning my novel, starting and abandoning half a dozen others, having another baby, and trying to stay on top of the bills, something wholly unexpected and depressingly typical happened: I stopped caring about my writing, and started caring about everything else: The kids. The marriage. The mortgage.'

- Seth Grahame-Smith, Abraham Lincoln Vampire Hunter, pp. 5 & 6

'I heard a joke once: Man goes to doctor. Says he's depressed. Says life is harsh and cruel. Says he feels all alone in a threatening world. Doctor says, "Treatment is simple. The great clown Pagliacci is in town tonight. Go see him. That should pick you up." Man bursts into tears. Says, "But doctor... I am Pagliacci." Good joke. Everybody laugh. Roll on snare drum. Curtains.'

- Rorschach, Watchmen

'You can get addicted to a certain type of sadness'

- Somebody That I Used To Know, Gotye (Making Mirrors)

'You're a man that doesn't trust people. Which means you are a man that can be trusted.'

- Edwin James, Garrett Stillman (Season 1, Episode 12), Alcatraz

'I am slow-thinking and full of interior rules that act as brakes on my desires.'

- Nick Carraway, The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald, p. 50

'Do not mistake my appetite for apathy!'

- Volstagg, Thor

'All the lonley people
Where do they all come from?
All the lonely people
Where do they all belong?'

- The Beatles, Eleanor Rigby (Revolver)

'You look beautiful. Incidentally, my favourite artist is Picasso.'

- Professor Hubert J. Farnsworth, Bender Gets Made (Season 2, Episode 13), Futurama

'Maybe self-destruction is the answer.'

- Unnamed Narrator, Fight Club by Chuck Palahniuk, p.49

Diner Fight Guy 1: 'The fuck is wrong with you man? You'd rather die for some piece of shit that you don't even fucking know?'

Dave Lizewski: 'The three assholes, laying into one guy while everybody else watches? And you wanna know what's wrong with me? Yeah, I'd rather die... so bring it on!'

- Dave Lizewski, Kick-Ass

'Hey mister bartender mix me a drink
I really need something to tell me it's okay not to think.'

- 3OH!3, Deja Vu (Streets of Gold)

Peter Griffin: 'Life is full of big decisions, like deciding whether or not you're gonna have time to masturbate.'

Lois Griffin: 'Peter I'm going to run and pick up Stewie, I'll be back in five or ten minutes.'

Peter Griffin: 'Well which is it?'

- Peter Griffin, Brothers & Sisters (Season 9, Episode 15), Family Guy

'It's become very easy to despise humans.'

- Steven Ralph, 3 by Grant King, p.33

'So are you two... Do you... Fondue?'

- Steve Rogers, Captain America: The First Avenger

'Alone, with too much generosity
A theatre mask of hostility attracts
Assaults occur infrequently
And those who come, to conquer?
Need strength
But damage accumulates
Still moving him to tears
Retained a sense of humour.'

- Colin Newman, Alone (A-Z)

'I have proof, scientific; people are far dumber than they realise.'

- Nan Flannigan, You Smell Like Dinner (Season 4, Episode 2), True Blood

'Never forget what you are, for surely the world will not. Make it your strength. Then it can never be your weakness. Armor yourself in it, and it will never be used to hurt you.'

- Tyrion Lannister, Game of Thrones by George R.R. Martin, p.54

'I don't know what your generation's fascination is with documenting your every thought... but I can assure you, they're not all diamonds. "Roman is having an okay day, and bought a Coke Zero at the gas station. Raise the roof." Who gives a rat's ass?'.

- Jack Griffith, Easy A

'You are free to do as we tell you.'

- Adam Freeland, We Want Your Soul (Now & Them)

'I don't have a lot of personal life experience, but if I have learned anything from my Sims family... when a child doesn't see his father enough, he starts to jump up and down, and then his mood level will drop until he pees himself.'

- Elizabeth Lemon, Mamma Mia (Season 3, Episode 21), 30 Rock

'My ideas are a terrible burden.'

- Albion Singer, Lilian's Story by Kate Grenville, p.40.

'Here, last week they found this couple out in California. They rent out rooms to old people, kill 'em, bury 'em in the yard, cash their social security checks. Oh, they'd toture 'em first. I don't know why. Maybe their television set was broke. And this went on until, here, I quote "Neighbors were alerted when a man ran from the presmises wearing only a dog collar." You can't make up such a thing as that. I dare you to even try. But that's what it took, you'll notice, to get somebody's attention. Diggin' graves in the backyard didn't bring any.'

Wendell bites back a smile. Sherriff Bell gazes at him over his glasses for a long beat, deadpan.

'That's all right. I laugh myself sometimes.That ain't a whole lot else you can do.'

- Ed Tom Bell, No Country For Old Men

'I'm having trouble trying to sleep
I'm counting sheep but running out
As time ticks by
And still I try
No rest for crosstops in my mind

On my own, here we go

My eyes feel like they're gonna bleed
Dried up and bulging out my skull
My mouth is dry
My face is dumb
Fucked up and spun out in my room

On my own, here we go

My mind is set on overdrive
The clock is laughing in my face
A crooked spine
My senses dulled
Passed the point of delirium

On my own, here we go'

- Green Day, Brain Stew (Insomniac)

'To read makes our English speaking good.'

- Xander Haris, I, Robot... You Jane (Season 1, Episode 4), Buffy The Vampire Slayer

'I checked here, for the theme was carrying me along with it at a great pace, and I already saw before me a region on which I was little disposed to enter. I agreed with myself that this was idle musing, and resolved to go to bed, and court forgetfullness. But, all that night, waking or in my sleep, the same thoughts recurred, and the same images retained possession of my brain.'

- The Old Curiousity Shop, by Charles Dickens, p.13

As an aspiring writer, I often find myself inspired by the words of others. I've been looking for a place to jot down these 'quotes' for sometime, finding that a word document or a note on my iphone is not really sufficient storage space for the wise, humorous, sarcastic, and nihilistic words that tickle my fancy. So due to the fanfare that followed the start of my first blog (kidding, but more seriously, check it out here) I have decided that I shall store them here. As I like to consider myself a pop-culture child, the quotes I post here will be from everywhere and everything: television, film, books, poetry, songs, and possibly even some of my own stuff if I work up the courage (and if I get a hell of a lot better at writing). I will be posting one quote a day (I say that now) as an attempt to not only collect a bunch of quotes that intrigue me, but as an attempt to do something that is creatively constructive to keep my wondering mind occupied on something. Writer's block can be a bitch, so at least this way I'm discovering what I like about other people's writing. How these quotes might help me learn more about writing, and positively influence the progression of my own.

If you like this blog, please follow, and if you have a blog similar to this one do the same. Inspiration can come from anywhere and I have no doubt that I will soon enough run out of interesting quotes to share with you all and then I will start scouring Blogger in an attempt to find others people are sharing to link them (I swear I'm not just a hoarder of other people's ideas. Or am I? I wonder would Barthes would say about that?). And with the beginning of a philosophical soliloquy, I shall bid you good day. Enjoy!