Quotations (And Holden Hats)

[MrHGaudet]

"If you can't say something nice, say something important." - Me

Oh, wait. Does this count as a quote, or am I just repeating myself?

And while I'm at it, should I put this part in quotes too? Probably not in the same quotes as the first bit, because I didn't say all this the first time, but in it's own set of quotes because its... um... oh, right. Never mind. Just read the first bit and you can ignore the rest.

[Trolololololololo555]

"Voilà! In view, a humble vaudevillian veteran, cast vicariously as both victim and villain by the vicissitudes of fate. This visage, no mere veneer of vanity, is a vestige of the vox populi, now vacant, vanished. However, this valorous visitation of a bygone vexation stands vivified, and

[Trolololololololo555]

has vowed to vanquish these venal and virulent vermin vanguarding vice and vouchsafing the violently vicious and voracious violation of volition. The only verdict is vengeance; a vendetta held as a votive, not in vain, for the value and veracity of such shall one day vindicate the vigilant and the virtuous. Verily, this vichyssoise of verbiage veers most verbose, so let me simply add that it's my very good honor to meet you and you may call me V." - V

[elybubbles]

The thing with an open mind, of course, is that people insist on coming along and trying to put things in it.

(or something like that)

-Terry Pratchett, SNUFF

[MrSpooooo]

"And in freedom, most people find sin."

Guess what that's from...

[danielmccraw713]

Hey, John. Um, Holden wore the hunting cap backwards throughout much of the book. So, if you wanna give that a try, then maybe it won't look like a lady hat or Mario's hat.

[EtherealZephyr]

He who fights monsters should see to it that he himself does not become a monster. And if you gaze for long into an abyss, the abyss gazes also into you.

[bethsnotwearingpants]

"Don't ever tell anybody anything. If you do, you start missing everybody." -Holden Caulfield/J.D. Salinger (The Catcher in the Rye)

[HPAnimeFreak]

"If you find yourself going through hell, keep going." -Winston Churchill

[aaronzack14]

"this ship is unsinkable"

[mabbeman]

what are you talking about! the tax report stuff was gr8, unicorn joke made me stay!

[AtreideSardaukar]

"This is the awe-inspiring universe of magic: There are no atoms, only waves and motions all around...You have only one awareness here — the screen of the magi: Imagination! Here, you learn what it is to be human. You are a creator of order, of beautiful shapes and systems, an organizer of chaos." - Frank Herbert, "Heretics of Dune"

[MaceyDoesThings]

"My son, your ineptitude is so vast, your incompetence so profound, that I am certain you are inhabited by greater power than I have ever known." -- Peter S. Beagle, from The Last Unicorn

[sophiezbff]

the best way to make your dreams co

e true is to wake up

[jinnyquest]

Reality continues to ruin my life - Calvin (Bill Watterson)

[stude444]

Hey wore it backwards John...HE WORE IT BACKWARDS!

[thatwhichisgiven]

"Folk in those stories had lots of chances of turning back, only they didn't. They kept going. Because they were holding onto something... That there's some good in this world, Mr Frodo... and it's worth fighting for." -- Sam Gamgee, The Two Towers

[Inneedofaname3]

Kenji Koiso: Quitting won't do you any good. You have to work for an answer

Sakuma: Please tell me you didn't break the internet.

[t3thethird]

Violence is the last refuge of the incompetent -Salvor Hardin of the Foundation series (Isaac Asimov)

[MissInsertNameHere]

“It is our choices...that show what we truly are, far more than our abilities.” ~Albus Dumbldore (JK Rowling)

[MZZenyl]

Allons-y!

[bakedfresh13]

"When the power of love overcomes the love of power, the world will know peace" Jimi Hendrix

[InferParadise]

"Wanting to be someone else is the waste of the person you are." - Kurt Cobain

[TheGreatSammy21]

"I'm Batman" - Dean Winchester

[cobwebe]

"I AM A SEAHORSE!" -Me

[800hennessy]

"More unstable than a bag of rats in a burning meth lab." Jeremy Clarkson.

[WinningFTL]

"If this isn't nice, what is?" - Timequake

[ferntailwp]

"Nobody dies a virgin- life fucks us all in the end." A lot of people think Kurt Cobain said this, a lot of people argue he didn't. Either way, great quote. I also love Marilyn Manson quotes, he's really an intelligent man, but they're kind of controversial so I'll refrain heheh

[lilcashie]

"I will be as harsh as truth, and uncompromising as justice... I am in earnest, I will not equivocate, I will not excuse, I will not retreat a single inch, and I will be heard."

William Lloyd Garrison

[Jilliebean0204]

I love ur book abundance of kathrines I'm reading it now ....PEACE LOVE MAN TITS

[TheGreatSammy21]

"Outside of a dog, a book is a mans best friend. Inside a dog it is too dark to read." - Groucho Marx "Some days it's not worth chewing through the leather straps." -Groucho Marx

[6impossiblethings]

@TheGreatSammy21 the first quote is my favourite too haha

[971redhead]

I believe my favorite is something along the lines of "How about this for a headline for tomorrows paper? French fries." - James French, as he was about to be executed via electric chair.

[DarkL0rd73]

your soppose to slip it through the holes on the flaps and tie it tight like a shoe

[KatetheMotorMouth]

"With all its sham-drudgery and broken dreams it is still a beautiful world. Be cheerful; strive to be happy"- "Desiderata," Max Ehrmann.

[rekuma]

"Ladies and Gentlemen take my advice; drop your pants and slide on the ice." (Dr. Sidney from MASH) ~or~

"Only in their minds are men truly free. T'was always thus and always thus will be." (Robin Williams in Dead Poets Society)

[TheMookan]

He dealt with the tassel by wearing the cap backwards :3

[worstvidsontheweb]

"A callar, a callar, so putas, todas son iguales, siempre tienen que gritar" -José Saramago, Ensayo Sobre la Ceguera

[DesuChanXD]

"The thing I love about Californians is that they think it is alright to display all their neuroses in public as long as they apologize in advance" - The best boyfriend I never had (a short story)

[danielcarmi305]

"I can think of my own quotes"

-Daniel Carmi (me)

[Karimbus1]

"Never forget what you are. The rest of the world will not. Wear it like armor, and it can never be used to hurt you."

Tyrion Lannister.

[SkullChickia]

"Your chances of getting struck with lighting go up if you stand under a tree, pump your fist in the air, and say 'storms suck'" what does that say about me?

[EpicLeeChill]

"I don't know about you, but I plan on living forever"

this quote i know isn't literal, its just saying that they want to, even if they die bodily and mentally, at least some part lives on. i.e., your books, my movies, yes even quotes.

[EmeraldMini]

"There is nothing more badass than being who you are." - Darren Criss

OR

"You have brains in your head.

You have feet in your shoes.

You can steer yourself

any direction you choose.

You're on your own. And you know what you know.

And you are the one who'll decide where to go." - Dr. Seuss. 

[NoahMusic96]

"Nothing is perfect. therefore, being perfect is being nothing. And that's a great way to lose weight."

[bookworm101100]

"The true mind can weather all lies and illusions without being lost. The true heart can touch the poison of hatred without being harmed. Since beginning-less time, darkness has thrived in the void but always yields to purifying light." The Lion-Turtle

[KatieM7fan3]

"If you wish to make an apple pie from scratch, you must first invent the universe."

-Carl Sagan

or

"He fancied that he was going to enjoy himself at Solider Island..."

-Phillip Lombard (And then there were none)

Thumbs up if you got the second one :)

[StalkingMrJoel]

I bequeath myself to the dirt to grow from the grass I love, If you want me again look for me under your boot-soles. - Walt Whitman.

[Rawrfearmeh333]

“I’m A Roller-coaster That Only Goes Up”

[GoatGirl665]

"The trouble with quotes on the Internet is that you can never know if they are genuine." [Abraham Lincoln]

[twilight33333]

"The robbed that smiles steals something from the thief" Shakespeare's Othello

[werewolffarm]

"it's not a metaphor, i just thought it was funny" life.

[KeyboardCat117]

that hat looks like my chair in my living room

[whatever54170]

"Shoot, coward. You are only going to kill a man" -- Che Guevara

[indierock1231]

You know that place between sleep and awake, the place where you can still remember dreaming? That's where I'll always love you, Peter Pan. That's where I'll be waiting.

-Peter Pan, said by Tinkerbell x

[indierock1231]

You know that place between sleep and awake, the place where you can still remember dreaming? That's where I'll always love you, Peter Pan. That's where I'll be waiting.

-Peter Pan, said by Tinkerbell x

[nyarkitty]

The entire last stanza of Dover Beach by Matthew Arnold:

"Ah, love, let us be true

To one another! for the world, which seems

To lie before us like a land of dreams,

So various, so beautiful, so new,

Hath really neither joy, nor love, nor light,

Nor certitude, nor peace, nor help for pain;

And we are here as on a darkling plain

Swept with confused alarms of struggle and flight,

Where ignorant armies clash by night."

[hp4vr]

Yes, I'm on the side of angels, but don't think for a moment that I'm one of them. - Sherlock (latest favorite quote, I go through quote phases)

[isingfashion]

"Loving yourself enough to be yourself" ~cheesy school poster about respect in my math class

[krys0g0]

“The point is, you see, that there is no point in driving yourself mad trying to stop yourself going mad. You might just as well give in and save your sanity for later.” One of my favorite quotes, yet I can't remember where I saw this. ^_^;;

[Teddy5775]

"I have little sympathy for my enemy, it is resrved for thoush closest to him"--Anonymous

[vidkid42]

The quote reminds me of Augustus. In fact, it's exactly Augustus.

[justanotherlostgirl]

My favorite is a quote by e. e. cummings: "To be nobody but yourself in a world which is doing its best, night and day, to make you everybody else means to fight the hardest battle which any human being can fight; and never stop fighting."

[Greenie369]

I have not read An Abundance of Katherines, but I have trouble disagreeing with the quote. We all should try to do something great with ourselves.

[freezie656]

@Greenie369 Whether that great is building a well in haiti or making a million dollars is entirely up to the person, right? I agree, and am happy that someone else thinks the same.

[Seamalicous]

@Greenie369 Read the book, you'll get it.

[SmileySuperSam]

@Greenie369

I agree, we should all strive for the remarkable. However, I think what is truly remarkable is being happy, or having a family, or doing what you've always wanted to do.

[duckyfan88]

"Trying to be someone else is a waste of who you are"

-anonymous

[dounreayder]

"You can fool some people some time, but you can't fool all the people all the time."

Pete Tosh

[MrsLoveChuckle]

My favourite quotations is, "Words are, in my not-so-humble opinion, our most inexhaustible source of magic. Capable of both inflicting injury, and remedying it." - Albus Dumbledore in Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows.

[freenikki84]

“I had not intended to love him; the reader knows I had wrought hard to extirpate from my soul the germs of love there detected; and now, at the first renewed view of him, they spontaneously revived, great and strong! He made me love him without looking at me.”

¯ Charlotte Bronte I know its a long one, but I love it.

[MiwAuturu]

My favorite quote is actually one of yours “Saying 'I notice you're a nerd' is like saying, 'Hey, I notice that you'd rather be intelligent than be stupid, that you'd rather be thoughtful than be vapid, that you believe that there are things that matter more than the arrest record of Lindsay Lohan. Why is that?'"

[EvolutionaryPsyche]

The noir hero is a knight in blood caked armor. He's dirty and he does his best to deny the fact that he's a hero the whole time.

Frank Miller

[wolf92193]

DUBITO ERGO SUM (I doubt, therefore I am)

One version of René Descartes' "Cogito ergo sum"

[SuperZanBoy]

"No I can't fly, I am a cow"

[UnderJoke]

Rawgrlgrlgrlgrlgrrgle! - Murloc

[theyouthlyone]

"I want to know God's thoughts."

[Kitsune1414]

"If people don't express themselves, they die one piece at a time." ~ Laurie Halse-Anderson, "Speak"

"Are you on our side, and want to be different? Or are you on that side and want to throw a football at my head?" ~ Gerard Way

"To the well organized mind, death is but the next great adventure." ~ Albus Dumbledore, J.K. Rowling, "Harry Potter"

"Wit beyond measure is man's greatest treasure." ~ Rowena Ravenclaw, J.K. Rowling, "Harry Potter"

[kcdancegal]

My favorite is: "One must always be careful of books," said Tessa, "and what is inside them, for words have the power to change us.” ― Cassandra Clare, Clockwork Angel .

[BottleOAwesomeness]

"There is a theory which states that if ever anyone discovers exactly what the Universe is for and why it is here, it will instantly disappear and be replaced by something even more bizarre and inexplicable.

There is another theory which states that this has already happened."

The Restaurant At The End Of The Universe

[dc8r17]

"If you believe in yourself, then anything is possible."

[miduchalan1]

Right now, my favorite quote is "Time you enjoyed wasting was not wasted" because I waste a lot of time, but I have fun. That quote makes me feel better.

[itsawayoflife142]

Probably paraphrasing, but

"Look at the beauty in the world around you and be happy" Anne Frank

[Frogita13green]

So that's what Holden's hat actually looks like...

[thesinginggirl]

"... and every stab of pain was dear to her." Philip Pullman, Northern Lights.

[AppaloosaDreaming]

Yay I love Holden's red hunting cap! :D

[Kinchi64]

I would kill for that hat.

[bluebanshee3]

@Kinchi64 oh, i know. this is probably the fifth time i've watched this video, and i still haven't heard a word of it. i'm too busy thinking about the hat.

[Jason87241]

The only thing we have to fear is fear itself - Franklin Delano Roosevelt

[danny1212squiggle]

reality is an illusion albeit a very persistent one - Einstein

[qwerty12268]

"are you listening, or waiting to talk?"

[LovableDork1]

"To know even one life has breathed easier because you have lived- That is to have succeeded."

- Ralph Waldo Emerson

[obsessivelyShayz]

I think you have to tie it in a bow.

[tomatosniffer]

Evil beware; we have waffles

-Raven

[wantsomecake328]

"I am haunted by humans."- Death in The Book Thief

[LucasJoshuaChiasson]

"You can't be careful on a skateboard man." - Stephen King

[Zevshar]

"It's not who you know that gets you remembered, but what you actually do."

-I can't remember.

[Surf4Ever24]

"it is our choices, Harry, that show who we truly are, far more than our abilities."

~Dumbledore

[wishing2fly]

"Of course it is happening inside your head, Harry, but why on earth should that mean that it is not real?"--Dumblydore

[CommeUnFrancais]

@wishing2fly ARGH I WAS JUST GOING TO WRITE THIS EXACT QUOTE. Besties.

[wishing2fly]

"It doesn't happen all at once," said the Skin Horse. "You become. It takes a long time. That's why it doesn't happen often to people who break easily, or have sharp edges, or who have to be carefully kept. Generally, by the time you are Real, most of your hair has been loved off, and your eyes drop out and you get loose in the joints and very shabby. But these things don't matter at all, because once you are Real you can't be ugly, except to people who don't understand." the velveteen rabbit (:

[ekilcoin460]

"To being an us - for once - instead of a them"

-La Vie Boheme (RENT)

[ekilcoin460]

"There's only now

There's only here

Give in to love

Or live in fear

No other path

No other way

No day but today" -RENT (Another Day)

[annakjellin]

''My thoughts are stars I can't fathom into constellations''

''We all got both light and dark inside us. What matters is the power we choose to act on, that's who we really are''

''I do not agree with what you have to say, but I'll defend to the death your right to say it.''



[sbcflirter]

"When Mr. and Mrs. Dursley woke up on the dull, gray Tuesday our story starts."

"The people that mind don't matter and the people that matter don't mind."

"Who are Fred and I? The next door neighbours?"

"There is nothing more badass than being who you are."

[1DodgerDog1]

my favorite quote:

--actually i couldnt decide which one so ill just say basically all of TFiOS. that book has begun to feel like my An Imperial Affliction, except this time i know for sure that the author is the opposite of an asshole. he has continued to be my hero, especially after meeting him.

[HowDaaaareYou]

My favorite quote: "There's nothing more adass than being who you are" -Darren Criss

[nunoyobiznis]

my favorite quote is "this quote was originally yelled in a canyon canyon canyon canyon" - craig benzine. and yes, i am a beardlover :3

[Daremusically13]

The best way to make your dreams come true is to wake up and smell the roses

[NERDSareTHEfuture]

Scott talor sry

[NERDSareTHEfuture]

"Gentleman take my advice pull down your pants and slide on the ice." M.A.S.H season 3 doctor freeman

"well you know my motto life is hard and then you die." magnum pi season 4 Jim bonic

"Dump and run." Scott Taller

[foreverwithoutyou]

"Alright, I'll admit it. Dante makes me sick." ~Lope de Vega upon his death bed.

He's willing to say something which could permenantly besmirch his good name, seeign as Dante was so loved and worshipped during de Vega's time. Yes, he was dying, but that courage to say it in the first place. It's inspiring.

[AccoSpoot]

"People of the same trade seldom ever meet, even for merriment or diversion, but when they do it ends in a conspiracy against the public."

- Adam Smith

I find so, especially in the modern culture of fear surrounding the nature and power of big corporations, chilling.

[iGwinnie]

My first thought when you said your favorite quote? The only way out of the labyrinth is through.

It makes TOTAL sense!

[1337frog]

"You can get more with a kind word and a gun than you can with a kind word alone" which was by Al Capone.

The reason i like it so much is because, i mean, look at how he turned out

[yknowthatgirl]

Always.

[quidda1]

"I don't understand evolution and I have to stop my kids from understanding it too" -random protester in Futurama

"Elizabeth, it's the big one, I am coming to meet ya" -Fred Sanford

"If I had a lightsaber, I would go snick-snick-snick WAAAHHHH Jedi! and cut this tubby bitch open and we could crawl inside him to stay warm." -J from Clerks the animated series ep 2

[janel57]

"Sometimes people are beautiful. Not in looks. Not in what they say. Just in what they are."

Markus Zusak, from I Am the Messenger

[bluebanshee3]

is it also a death frisbee?

[RuleNr34]

@bluebanshee3 !!!!! It's an ear hat, John!

[VampireNya]

@RuleNr34 yes

[bluebanshee3]

@RuleNr34 i wear an ear hat now.  ear hats are cool. :)

[PonderingAnimations]

-you know what the chain of command is? its the chain i go get and beat you with til you understand whos in ruttin command

[DeezyWheezy]

@PonderingAnimations ...i love you.

[PonderingAnimations]

@DeezyWheezy XP it is i good line

[TheCrayonAndTheTeddy]

if you love something let it go, if it comes back its yours. if it doesn't it was never yours to begin with. OR If music be the food of love, play on.

[OHHenry11711]

the man who fights monsters should be careful, lest he thereby become a monster himself

[LoveKlaineGlee]

"What is REAL?" asked the Velveteen Rabbit one day... "Does it mean having things that buzz inside you and a stick-out handle?"

"Real isn't how you are made," said the Skin Horse. "It's a thing that happens to you. When [someone] loves you for a long, long time, not just to play with, but REALLY loves you, then you become Real."

"Does it hurt?" asked the Rabbit.

"Sometimes," said the Skin Horse, for he was always truthful. "When you are Real you don't mind being hurt."

"Does it happen a

[Suzidoodle]

One of my most favorite quotes is from William Blake's The Marriage of Heaven and Hell:

"Exuberance is Beauty"

Also, Frost's "The way out is through" is another of my favorites. I pull that one out on my worst days when I need a reminder that in order to get to the awesome you have to go through the suck.

John, you know how you collect last words of people? I collect miscontextualized quotes. :-)

[nerdsrsocoollike]

My favourite quote is "The truth resists simplicity" - John Green :)

[TheTStone13]

"People should not fear their governments. Governments should fear their people" - V

[aprilthrusday]

I love your line about text being meaningless without context, because my friends and I just had a huge argument in English class about that very thing.

[kitkatorange444]

My fav quote 'Never give up, Never surrender!'-Galaxy Quest :DD

[HeyLookItsAlice]

My best friend that "the only way out is through" tattooed :D

[Jacobeodom]

"For those who fight for it, life has a flavour the protected will never know" Teddy Roosevelt

[SSdetectiveagency]

I would love to have someone explain to me what they might think my favorite quote says about me because I'm not sure! My favorite quote at the moment is "Time flies like an arrow! And fruit flies like a banana!" -Groucho Marx

[yankeelmb]

"The only way out is through." Referenced in TFioS! :o

[JohnyJ25]

"nerdfighters" - john green

[TheSgtkite]

"when life hands you lemons, don't make lemonade.make life take the lemons back! get mad! i dont want your damn lemons, what am i supposed to do with these?? demand to see life's manager! make life roue the day it thought it could give Cave Johnson lemons! do you know who i am? i'm the man who's going to BURN YOUR HOUSE DOWN....with the lemons. i'm going to get my engineers to invent a combustible lemon that BURNS YOUR HOUSE DOWN." -eloquent words from Cave Johnson.

[cupcakestar6]

"Many people will walk in and out of your life, but only true friends will leave footprints in your heart." -Eleanor Roosevelt T

This is my favorite quote because not only was it the first quote I memorized but after memorizing it I found it in stamp version, which completed my life.

[flamableproductions]

"When life gives you lemons, don't make lemonade. Make life take the lemons Back. I don't want your damn lemons!"

[cheesysharks]

"Thomas Edison's last words were 'It's very beautiful over there' I don't know where there is, but I believe it's somewhere and I hope it's beautiful."- John Green

Or

"The only way out of the labyrinth of suffering is to forgive." -John Green

[untitledmusicproject]

‎"You are so busy being you that you have no idea how utterly unprecedented you are."

-Augustus Waters

[enchantinglynasty]

"To being an us for once, instead of a them." It's a line from La Vie Boheme from Rent.

[TheCyberchickz]

I heard a quote I liked that went: "When life gives you lemons make grape juice, sit back, and let the world wonder how you did it." Always thought it was funny.

[drivewayninja]

"always"

tfios

[ElectraChan]

"They think I make a big deal about nothing, but they still think I'm

kinda cute. They joke about the staus quo to break the ice, once the ice is broken I hope they all fall through" ~Ani Difranco, The Waiting Song

[snowgrett14]

Every man thinks of changing the world but no man thinks of changing himself.- Leo Tolstoy

[k9coco11]

"No one can make you feel inferior without your consent."

Eleanor Roosevelt

[xxCassandraReneexx]

"Always." -Severus Snape from Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows.

[JayMoney1987]

Also, the "tassel" threads through the eyelets in the earflaps and is tied in a bow to keep them from flopping about. With the flaps down, just tie the string like a shoelace to keep it out of the way.

[JayMoney1987]

"Whatever you are, be a good one." -Abraham Lincoln

[cometsight]

"How can any man be weak who dares to be at all?" ~Thoreau

[journeytoyesterday]

two basic motivating forces: fear and love. When we are afraid we pull back from life. When we are in love we open to all that life has to offer with passion excitement and acceptance. We need to learn to love ourselves first in all our glory and imperfections. If we cannot love ourselves we cannot fully open to our ability to love others or our potential to create. Evolution and all hopes for a better world rest in the fearlessness and open-hearted vision of people who embrace life.John Lennon

[PolyphonicPress]

"I'm so tired of being tired/Sure as night will follow day/Most things I worry about never happen anyway." - Tom Petty from the song Crawling Back To You

[MasqueofReason]

"If you're going though hell, keep going." ~Churchill

[sparkydoodle96]

"It is the quality of ones convictions that determines success, not the number of followers. "

-Remus Lupin

RIP

[crazycookie76]

"If you can't explain it simply, you don't understand it well enough." -Albert Einstein

[TheHetaliaGirl]

"A man can be destroyed but not defeated." ~Hemingway

[bwaychick20]

"I stand upon my desk to remind myself that we must constantly look at things in another way." -Character John Keating from Dead Poets Society This was my senior quote, and I still quite like it.

[SuperKing604]

"I dare you to do better" -Captain Pike Star Trek 2009 :P

[Mystro1989]

Priest- "Now, my son, is a good time to renounce Satan."

Voltaire- "Now, my good man, is no time to be making enimies."

Voltaire on his death bed.

[Mystro1989]

Priest- "Now would be a good time to renounce satan."

Voltaire- "Now, my good man, is no time to get making enimies."

-Voltaire on his death bed

one of my favorite quotes

[Kustar10]

"If you love your job, you will never work a day in your life" -Confucious

[TheRedwater357]

"Man is free at the moment he chooses to be." Voltaire.

"Oh, hello. How are you holding up? Because, I'm a POTATO!" GLaDOS

[UnLawfulName]

"We don't stop playing because we grow old. We grow old because we stop playing"