Game of Quotes

This game requires the use of quotes to carry on conversations/arguments/etc. The quotes can either be from famous people, movies, books, whatever. It doesn't matter. I will, however, ask that you at least tell us who said it, and state the source if it is from a movie or book. For example:

"She's lost the will to live? What, did you get your degree in poetry? You sorry bunch of hippies! Why don't we all just get on our knees and pray?"

Robot Chicken - Dr. Ball M.D.

Official quote to start the game:

"When the tongue or the pen is let loose in a frenzy of passion, it is the man, and not the subject, that becomes exhausted."

Rights of Man - Thomas Paine

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Review of rules:
1. Must be a quote
2. Can be comical or serious, doesn't matter
3. Can be from anyone and from any medium, but please state who and where it is from
4. Must relate, in some fashion, to the quotation before yours.

I can't believe no one responded to this prior. I happen to love quotations and never have a reason to use any of them.

"Laughter and tears are both responses to frustration and exhaustion. I myself prefer to laugh, since there is less cleaning up to do afterward."

-Kurt Vonnegut, American novelist

“Life is not an easy matter... You cannot live through it without falling into frustration and cynicism unless you have before you a great idea which raises you above personal misery, above weakness, above all kinds of perfidy and baseness.”

Leon Trotsky -Russian Communist theorist and agitator, a leader in Russia's October Revolution in 1917

"The power of accurate observation is commonly called cynicism by those who have not got it."

- George Bernard Shaw, an Irish playwright of the second half of the 1800's and the first half of the 1900's

It takes a clever man to turn cynic and a wise man to be clever enough not to.

-Fannie Hurst, American Novelist
1885 - 1968.

"The point of living and of being an optimist, is to be foolish enough to believe the best is yet to come."

Sir Peter Alexander Ustino-British actor, writer and dramatist,filmmaker, theatre and opera director, director, stage designer, screenwriter, comedian, humorist, newspaper and magazine columnist, radio broadcaster and television presenter.

"Life is something to do when you can't get to sleep."

- Fran Lebowitz

Edit: Oops, forgot to say who she is. She is an American author.

"It's only when we truly know and understand that we have a limited time on earth -- and that we have no way of knowing when our time is up -- that we will begin to live each day to the fullest, as if it was the only one we had."

Elisabeth Kübler-Ross, M.D. (July 8, 1926 – August 24, 2004) Swiss-born psychiatrist, a pioneer in Near-death studies and the author of the groundbreaking book On Death and Dying

“Dream as if you'll live forever, live as if you'll die today.”

- James Dean - do I really need to explain who James Dean is?

"I have a dream..."

- Martin Luther King Jr., from his I Have A Dream speech.

"Every great dream begins with a dreamer. Always remember, you have within you the strength, the patience, and the passion to reach for the stars to change the world."

- Harriet Tubman- Harriet Tubman (born Araminta Ross; c. 1820 or 1821 – March 10, 1913) was an African-American abolitionist, humanitarian, and Union spy during the American Civil War

“We had the sky up there, all speckled with stars, and we used to lay on our backs and look up at them, and discuss about whether they was made or only just happened.” - Mark Twain

The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn

“No sight is more provocative of awe than is the night sky."

-Llewelyn Powys - A British author of the late 1800's and early 1900's

"Somewhere, something incredible is waiting to be known."

– Carl Sagan (1934–1996)

"Many of life's failures are people who did not realize how close they were to success when they gave up."

-- Thomas A. Edison, Inventor and Scientist

"I didn't fail the test, I just found 100 ways to do it wrong."

--Benjamin Franklin (Scientist & Statesmen)

"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, American comedian (1880–1946)

"Wise men speak because they have something to say, fools because they have to say something."

--Plato (Greek Philosopher)

"Intelligence is not to make no mistakes, but quickly to see how to make them good."

–Bertolt Brecht, German poet (1898–1956)

"Be good and you will be lonesome."

-Mark Twain

“We are lonesome animals. We spend all our life trying to be less lonesome. One of our ancient methods is to tell a story begging the listener to say -- and to feel -- 'Yes, that's the way it is, or at least that's the way I feel it. You're not as alone as you thought.'”

--John Steinback (American Novelist)

“Like the wind crying endlessly through the universe, Time carries away the names and the deeds of conquerors and commoners alike. And all that we are, all that remains, is in the memories of those who cared we came this way for a brief moment.”
-Harlan Ellison

"What we do in life... echoes in eternity."

-Maximus, from the movie the Gladiator

"Life is far too important a thing ever to talk seriously about." - Oscar Wilde

"Why so serious?"

- The Joker, from the movie The Dark Knight

"People want to know why I do this, why I write such gross stuff. I like to tell them I have the heart of a small boy... and I keep it in a jar on my desk."

Stephen King, American author

"Why so serious?"

My Thoughts: "I dunno...let's knock off the seriousness with a funny one."

AH! That's my favorite quote, possibly ever.

"When his life was ruined, his family killed, his farm destroyed, Job knelt down on the ground and yelled up to the heavens, 'Why god? Why me?' and the thundering voice of God answered, 'There's just something about you that pisses me off.' "
Stephen King, American Author

“I have heard there are troubles of more than one kind. Some come from ahead and some come from behind. But I've bought a big bat. I'm all ready you see. Now my troubles are going to have troubles with me!" - Dr Suess, American Writer

"Yesterday all my troubles seemed so far away, now it looks as though they're here to stay. Oh, I believe in yesterday."

--The Beatles ("Yesterday")

This is actually one of my all time favorite Beatles songs!!! So glad I could used this quote! If you've never heard the song you have to listen to it. Just once. It's so pretty in my opinion.