I have so much strength in me you have no idea. I have a love in my life. It makes me stronger than anything you can imagine. I would say 'that's that', Mattress Man.
~Punch-Drunk Love

The song ends; the voices quaver away with a rich and dying fall. Whitfield begins. His voice is bigger than him. It's like they are not the same. It's like he is one, and his voice is one, swimming on two horses side by side across the ford and coming into the house, the mud-splashed one and the one that never even got wet, triumphant and sad. Somebody in the house begins to cry. It sounds like her eyes and her voice were turned back inside her, listening; we move, shifting to the other leg, meeting one another's eye and making like they hadn't touched.
~William Faulkner, As I Lay Dying

Where my reason, imagination or interest were not engaged, I would not or I could not learn.
~Winston Churchill

Nothing that we despise in the other man is entirely absent from ourselves. We must learn to regard people less in the light of what they do or don't do, and more in light of what they suffer."
~Dietrich Bonhoeffer

Any man or woman with a book in their hands is sexier.
~Sherman Alexie

In a time of universal deceit, telling the truth becomes a revolutionary act.
~George Orwell

Beauty is truth, truth beauty, — that is all ye know on earth, and all ye need to know.
~John Keats

You can safely assume that you've created God in your own image when it turns out that God hates all the same people you do.
~Anne Lamott

Man is fond of counting his troubles, but he does not count his joys. If he counted them up as he ought to, he would see that every lot has enough happiness provided for it.
~Fyodor Dostoevsky

I do not read advertisements. I would spend all of my time wanting things.
~Franz Kafka

Advertising is based on one thing: happiness. And do you know what happiness is? Happiness is the smell of a new car. It's freedom from fear. It's a billboard on the side of a road that screams with reassurance that whatever you're doing is okay. You are okay.
~Don Draper, Mad Men

War is what happens when language fails.
~Margaret Atwood

I thought of that old joke, y'know, the, this... this guy goes to a psychiatrist and says, "Doc, uh, my brother's crazy; he thinks he's a chicken." And, uh, the doctor says, "Well, why don't you turn him in?" The guy says, "I would, but I need the eggs." Well, I guess that's pretty much now how I feel about relationships; y'know, they're totally irrational, and crazy, and absurd, and... but, uh, I guess we keep goin' through it because, uh, most of us... need the eggs.
~Alvy Singer, "Annie Hall"

Lightning McQueen: I'm serious! He's won three Piston Cups!
Mater: [spits out fuel] He did WHAT in his cup?
~Cars

I understand nothing.  But I am happy.
~Saturday from "The Man Who Was Thursday"

If you want a happy ending, that depends, of course, on where you stop your story.
~Orson Welles

Top Twenty Favorite Movies of All Time (in no particular order)
Updated Version

"Gladiator"

"Magnolia"

"The Aviator"

"Marie Antoinette"

"Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind'

"There Will Be Blood"

"Platoon"

"Pulp Fiction"

"The Shining"

"No Country for Old Men"

"High Fidelity"

"The Boondock Saints"

"Love Actually"

"The Last Samurai"

"It's A Wonderful Life"

"The Virgin Suicides"

"The Departed"

"Signs"

"Walk the Line"

"Psycho"

yet even more quotes!!  (sorry if you're getting sick of them, just skip it)

In a time of universal deceit, telling the truth becomes a revolutionary act.
~George Orwell

As far back as I can remember, I've always wanted to be a gangster.
~Goodfellas

Our generation has had no Great war, no Great Depression. Our war is spiritual. Our depression is our lives.
~Chuck Palahniuk

If you don’t know what you want, you end up with a lot you don’t.
~Chuck Palahniuk

More and more, it feels like I'm doing a really bad impersonation of myself.
~Chuck Palahniuk

We are what we pretend to be, so we must be careful what we pretend to be.
~Kurt Vonnegut

Screaming is bad for the voice, but it's good for the heart.
~Conor Oberst

I came upon a doctor who appeared in quite poor health. I said, 'There's nothing that I can do for you that you can't do for yourself.' He said, 'Oh yes you can. Just hold my hand. I think that that would help.' So I sat with him a while then I asked him how he felt. He said, 'I think I'm cured. No, in fact I'm sure. Thank you, stranger, for your therapeutic smile.'
~Conor Oberst

Inspector Frank Butterman: And he had one thing you haven't got.
Nicholas Angel: What's that, sir?
Inspector Frank Butterman: A great, big, bushy beard!
~Hot Fuzz

Beauty is truth, truth beauty, — that is all ye know on earth, and all ye need to know.
~John Keats

What is truth?
~Pontius Pilate

Just gimme some truth — all I want is the truth.
~John Lennon

if life seems absurd, what you need is some laughter
~bright eyes

Don't be hasty.
~Treebeard

Smell those trees.  Smell those Douglas firs.
~Special Agent Dale Cooper, Twin Peaks

Diane, I'm holding in my hands a small box of chocolate bunnies.
~Special Agent Dale Cooper

Life is like a typographical error: we're constantly writing and rewriting things over each other.
~Bret Easton Ellis