Movie Quotes: Dream for an Insomniac

"Anything less than extraordinary is a waste of my time."

"Choices are like connecting highways. They all take you to the same place, some just take longer to get there."

"There are too many mediocre things in this world to deal with, love shouldn't have to be one of them."

"I am going to circumnavigate his soul until he is surrounded on all sides by my love."

"Life can only be understood backwards."

Vegetarian/Vegan Related Quotes

"The greatness of a nation can be judged by the way its animals are treated." - Gandhi

"While we ourselves are the living graves of murdered beasts, how can we expect any ideal conditions on this earth?" - George Bernard Shaw

"The time will come when men such as I will look on the murder of animals as they now look on the murder of men." - Leonardo Da Vinci

"I have no doubt that it is part of the destiny of the human race in its gradual development to leave off the eating of animals, as surely as the savage tribes have left off eating each other when they came into contact with the more civilized." - Thoreau

"You put a baby in a crib with an apple and a rabbit. If it eats the rabbit and plays with the apple, I'll buy you a new car." - Harvey Diamond

Song Quotes

"Silver skies and stars are falling . . ." - Paul Simon

"The time between meeting and finally leaving is sometimes called falling in love." - Lisa Loeb

"I keep the dream in my pocket, never let it fade away." - Fleetwood Mac

"Hope is a letter that never arrives delivered by the postman of my fear." - Live

"There's an angel with a hand on my shoulder, she says I've got nothing to fear." - Everlast & Carlos Santana

"Keep your heart open and your eyes shut tight. What will be, will be." - ? (Oh I can't remember!)

"I can't forget the smell of summer trees at midnight, bending backward to please the wind." - ? (Can't remember this either! Seems like Dave Matthews or Paul Simon though . . .)

Others

"I got pulled over today for not realizing I was going the wrong way on a one-way road - no ticket though - but you're missing the point." - Warren A.

"I am beset by the ironies of my life." - Tom Cruise's character in The Last Samurai

Dog Quotes

"You think dogs will not be in heaven? I tell you, they will be there long before any of us." - Robert Louis Stevenson

"The gift which I am sending you is called a dog, and is in fact the most precious and valuable posession of mankind." - Theodorus Gaza (Although, I would like to disagree with the "posession" part - let's say "gift" :)

"He is your friend, your partner, your defender, your dog. You are his life, his love, his leader. He will be yours, faithful and true, to the last beat of his heart. You owe it to him to be worthy of such devotion." - Anonymous

Quotes

"You must be the change you wish to see in the world" - Gandhi

"Take sides. Neutrality helps the oppressor, never the victim. Silence encourages the tormentor, never the tormented." - Elie Wiesel

"If we believe absurdities, we shall commit atrocities." - Voltaire

"I tremble for my species when I reflect that God is just." - Thomas Jefferson

"An old error is always more popular than a new truth." - German Proverb

"Each man is haunted until his humanity awakens." - Blake

"The true gentleman does not preach his beliefs until he does so by his actions." - Anonymous

"In skating over thin ice, our safety is in our speed." - Ralph Waldo Emerson

"We sail, at sunrise, daily, outward bound." Helen Fiske Hunt Jackson

"Love is not measured by how many times you touch each other, but by how many times you reach each other." - Cathy Morancy

"The best definition of wealth is the possession of whatever gives us happiness, contentment, or a sense of one's significance in the scheme of things." - Ernest Watson

"The heart errs like the head; its errors are not an less fatal, and we have more trouble getting free of them because of their sweetness." - Anatole France

"To love for the sake of being loved is human, but to love for the sake of loving is angelic." - Alphonse de Lamartine

"What we love we shall grow to resemble." - Bernard of Clairvaux

"I dream'd in a dream I saw a city invincible to the attacks of the whole rest of the earth, I dream'd that was the new city of Friends." - Walt Whitman

"Rest is not idelness, and to lie sometimes on the grass under the trees on a summers day, listening to the murmur of water, or watching the clouds float across the sky, is by no means a waste of time." - Sir J. Lubbock

"The men and women who are lifting the world upward and onward are those who encourage more than criticize." - Unknown

"As you think, you travel; and as you love, you attract. You are today where your thoughts have brought you; you will be tomorrow where your thoughts take you. You cannot escape the result of your thoughts, but you can endure and learn . . . You will realize the vision (not the idle wish) of your heart, be it base or beautiful . . . for you will always gravitate towards that which you, secretly, most love. Whatever your present environment may be, you will fall, remain or rise with your thoughts, your vision, your ideal. You will become as small as your controlling desire; as great as your dominant aspiration." - James Allen

"Hope the recognition, by true foresight, of better things to be reached hereafter, whether by ourselves or others; necessarily issuing in the straightforward and undissapointable effort to advance, according to our proper power, the gaining of them." - John Ruskin

"Friendship, like the immortality of the soul, is too good to be believed. The end of friendship is . . . for aid and comfort through all the relations and messages of life and death. It is fit for serene days, and graceful gifts, and country rambles, but also for rough roads and hard fare, shipwreck, poverty and prosecution. It keeps company with the sallies of the wit and trances of religion. We . . . dignify to each other the daily needs and offices of . . . life, and embellish by courage, wisdom and unity. It should never fall into something usual and settled, but should be alert and inventive, and add rhyme and reason to what was drudgery." - Ralph Waldo Emerson.

"Life is change. Growth is optional. Choose wisely." - Karen Kaiser Clark

"I discovered I always have choices, and sometimes it's only a choice of attitude." - Judith M. Knowlton

"You are a fluke of the universe. You have no right to be here. And whether you can hear it or not, the universe is laughing behind your back." - Deteriorata, a parody of Desiderata, by Tony Hendra

"It's better to remain silent and be thought a fool, than to speak out and remove all doubt." - Abraham Lincoln

Darwinian Motto: The sum IQ of the world is a constant. The more people, the more idiots.