If you are out to describe the truth,
leave elegance to the tailor.
- Albert Einstein
Tact is the ability to describe others as they see themselves.
- Abraham Lincoln
"Beginner Mind" is a Zen Buddhist term
that describes moving past our assumptions
of the nature of our life,
and really SEEING our surroundings -
especially the people we interact with -
with new eyes.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Each of us holds a different image of God.
There are as many perspectives on
the nature of God as there are people.
However much any of us may choose to argue,
or to fight and kill, for our point of view,
the nature of God is an unanswerable question.
Perhaps there is a specific answer,
that we will never learn - in this lifetime.
Perhaps the nature of God is so complex and multifaceted
that each view of God describes an aspect of the complex whole.
Or perhaps the nature of God is actually defined by our beliefs.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
All these primary impulses,
not easily described in words,
are the springs of man's actions.
- Albert Einstein
Every natural fact is a symbol of some spiritual fact.
Every appearance in nature corresponds to some state of the mind,
and that state of the mind can only be described
by presenting that natural appearance as its picture.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
The Spirit is described in the Holy Scriptures
as much more anarchic than any established religion credits.
- Bono
The movie character Forrest Gump describing life
as being "like a box of chocolates,"
is such a positive upbeat way of
characterizing the uncertainty of life.
I have no idea what life will give me next,
but whatever it is, it will be sweet.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
What exactly is the function of a rubber duck?
- the movie Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets (2002)
Sucking the marrow out of life
doesn't mean choking on the bone.
- Robin Williams as John Keating
in the 1989 movie Dead Poets Society
If you are not one of us, you are one of them.
- the movie The Matrix (1999)
Life ... full of loneliness, and misery,
and suffering, and unhappiness,
and it's all over much too quickly.
- the Woody Allen movie Annie Hall
The world's mental.
- the movie Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows
It's cookies, he smells like cookies,
and the smell gets stronger when he's in heat.
- the movie Michael
The food at this place is really terrible ...
and such small portions.
- the Woody Allen movie Annie Hall
I have faith. I just need proof to back it up.
- the movie Simon Birch
There's a couple of things they don't teach you
in Harvard Business School,
one is how to cope with defeat,
the other is how to handle a shotgun.
- The Simpsons Movie (2007)
The most important words in the English language
are not "I love you" but "It's benign."
- the Woody Allen movie Deconstructing Harry
Mr. President, I'm not saying we wouldn't get our hair mussed.
But I do say no more than ten to twenty million killed, tops.
Uh, depending on the breaks.
- the movie Dr. Strangelove
You might have seen a housefly, maybe even a superfly,
but I bet you ain't never seen a DONKEY fly!
- the movie Shrek (2001)
When I first saw you, I thought you were handsome.
Then, of course, you spoke.
- the movie As Good As It Gets (1997)
I feel the need to express something,
but I don't know what it is I want to express.
- the movie Interiors
Greetings, cosmic children of the universe.
Welcome to my serenity circle.
Please leave all bad vibes outside the healing vortex.
- the movie Shrek the Third (2007)
I'd like to kiss ya, but I just washed ma hair.
- the movie The Cabin in the Cotton
You know, it takes two to get one in trouble.
- the movie She Done Him Wrong (1933)
Oh, come on, Shrek, wake up and smell the pheromones!
- the movie Shrek (2001)
It's not the men in your life that counts,
it's the life in your men.
- Mae West, in the movie I'm No Angel
I'm awash in self-contempt!
- the Woody Allen movie Celebrity
Husbands should be like Kleenex:
soft, strong, and disposable.
- the movie Clue (1985)
I have no fear of the gallows ... They're going to shoot me.
- the movie Love and Death
It happens - Sometimes.
- the movie Forrest Gump
DON'T get officious.
You're not yourself when you're officious -
That is the curse of a government job.
- the movie Harold and Maude (1971)
Hey, Marge. Isn't it great being married
to someone who's recklessly impulsive?
- The Simpsons Movie (2007)
I don't care whose fault this was, just get it sorted!
And could someone please bring me something deep fat fried
and smothered in chocolate.
- the movie Shrek 2
I have a very low threshold of death.
My doctor says I can't have bullets enter my body at any time.
- the Woody Allen movie Casino Royale
There's no reason to become alarmed,
and we hope you'll enjoy the rest of your flight.
By the way, is there anyone on board who knows how to fly a plane?
- the movie Airplane!
This town needs an enema.
- the movie Batman
After fifteen minutes I wanted to marry her,
and after half an hour
I completely gave up the idea of stealing her purse.
- the movie Take the Money and Run (1969)
The seaweed is always greener in somebody else's lake.
- the movie The Little Mermaid (1989)
I can't stand a naked light bulb.
- the movie A Streetcar Named Desire
I got a perfect build for clothes.
I'm a twenty-eight dwarf.
- the movie Love and Death
Don't expect me to get excited over
another damn thing we need to find.
- Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows: Part 1 (2010)
To you I'm an atheist; to God, I'm the Loyal Opposition.
- the Woody Allen movie Stardust Memories
Go ahead, make my day.
- the movie Sudden Impact (1983)
I read that you should never go out with someone
if you can think of three reasons why you shouldn't.
- the movie Bridget Jones: The Edge of Reason (2004)
Stay hopeless and confused. Keep polishing those skills.
- the movie When a Man Loves a Woman (1994)
Gentlemen, you can't fight in here! This is the War Room.
- the movie Dr. Strangelove (1964)
She's been diagnosed as a paranoid hypochondriac.
Doctors think she may be faking.
- the movie Dead Men Don't Wear Plaid
Don't threaten me with a dead fish.
- the movie Withnail & I (1987)
Where did you park the invisible car?
- the movie Megamind (2010)
I think you're the opposite of a paranoid.
I think you go around with the insane delusion that people like you.
- the Woody Allen movie Deconstructing Harry
Frankly, I'm too scared to ask about the frog.
- the movie Tangled (2010)
What we've got here is failure to communicate.
- the movie Cool Hand Luke
I've always believed that if done properly,
armed robbery doesn't have to be an unpleasant experience.
- the movie Thelma & Louise
This is an occasion for genuinely tiny knickers.
- the movie Bridget Jones Diary (2001)
You're already a bastard.
Might as well be an enlightened one.
- the movie Simon Birch
And you just gotta remember, Sparky -
no matter what they tell you - you can NEVER have too much sugar.
- the movie Michael (1996)
Barf: I'm a mog: half man, half dog. I'm my own best friend!
- the movie Spaceballs (1987)
If he's first class, I'm traveling steerage.
- the movie Libeled Lady (1936)
It is a truth universally acknowledged that
when one part of your life starts going okay,
another falls spectacularly to pieces.
- the movie Bridget Jones Diary
I don't want to move to a city where the only cultural advantage
is being able to make a right turn on a red light.
- the Woody Allen movie Annie Hall
No one can have a higher opinion of you than I have,
and I think you're a slimy, contemptible sewer rat!
- the movie The Great Mouse Detective
You'll live to be a hundred if you give up
all the things that make you want to.
- the movie Interiors
Fear of death ... That's funny. I have that too.
My dog has it. It's very common with living creatures.
- the movie Anything Else (2003)
It looks like we're up chocolate creek without a Popsicle stick!
- the movie Shrek 2 (2004)
There's nothing wrong with being afraid.
We were meant to be afraid.
- the Woody Allen movie Anything Else
You have to learn to push the guilt
under the rug and move on,
otherwise it overwhelms you.
- the Woody Allen movie Match Point
I've become the person I've always hated, but I'm happier.
- the Woody Allen movie Celebrity
Fat, drunk, and stupid is no way to go through life, son.
- the movie National Lampoon's Animal House (1978)
I'm not talking about lust.
A woman in lust wants chocolate.
A woman in love wants diamonds.
- the movie How to Lose a Guy in 10 Days
Are we there yet? are we there yet? are we there yet?
- said by Donkey in the movie Shrek 2
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