diff --git a/static/quotes/english.json b/static/quotes/english.json index f98e6f331..66332e565 100644 --- a/static/quotes/english.json +++ b/static/quotes/english.json @@ -1,29 +1,41 @@ { "language": "english", "groups": [ - [0, 100], - [101, 300], - [301, 600], - [601, 9999] + [ + 0, + 100 + ], + [ + 101, + 300 + ], + [ + 301, + 600 + ], + [ + 601, + 9999 + ] ], "quotes": [ { "text": "You have the power to heal your life, and you need to know that.", "source": "Meditations to Heal Your Life", - "id": 1, - "length": 64 + "length": 64, + "id": 1 }, { "text": "They don't know that we know they know we know.", "source": "Friends", - "id": 2, - "length": 47 + "length": 47, + "id": 2 }, { "text": "Don't it make you sad to know that life is more than who you are?", "source": "Name", - "id": 3, - "length": 65 + "length": 65, + "id": 3 }, { "text": "Leave something for someone but don't leave someone for something.", @@ -14954,17482 +14966,4 @@ "length": 320 }, { - "text": "I don't understand? Are you kidding? Me? Of course I understand. I mean, do you call this a war? This funny little thing? This is not a war! I fought in a bigger war than you will ever know. I did worse things than you could ever imagine. And when I close my eyes I hear more screams than anyone could ever be able to count! And do you know what you do with all that pain? Shall I tell you where you put it? You hold it tight till it burns your hand, and you say this. No one else will ever have to live like this. No one else will have to feel this pain. Not on my watch!", - "source": "Doctor Who", - "id": 2518, - "length": 572 - }, - { - "text": "Court reporters are required to complete a specialized training program in shorthand reporting. These programs usually last between two and four years and include instruction on how to enter at least 225 words a minute on a stenotype machine.", - "source": "The Top 100: The Fastest-Growing Careers for the 21st Century", - "id": 2519, - "length": 242 - }, - { - "text": "It is the quality of one's convictions that determines one's success, not the number of followers.", - "source": "Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows", - "id": 2520, - "length": 98 - }, - { - "text": "Since every piece of matter in the Universe is in some way affected by every other piece of matter in the Universe, it is in theory possible to extrapolate the whole of creation - every sun, every planet, their orbits, their composition and their economic and social history from, say, one small piece of fairy cake.", - "source": "The Restaurant at the End of the Universe", - "id": 2521, - "length": 316 - }, - { - "text": "Space ain't man's final frontier. Man's final frontier is the soul guided by someone more powerful than any human being. Someone felt but never seen. You will be surprised of what resides in your insides.", - "source": "Man's Final Frontier", - "id": 2522, - "length": 204 - }, - { - "text": "I'd sacrifice anything come what might for the sake of having you near in spite of a warning voice that comes in the night and repeats, repeats in my ear.", - "source": "I've Got You Under My Skin", - "id": 2523, - "length": 154 - }, - { - "text": "Who's going to take you home and hold you when things aren't so bright? She looks to me, she looks to me.", - "source": "She Looks To Me", - "id": 2524, - "length": 105 - }, - { - "text": "It's very frustrating to me that we have not yet managed to develop an audience for the game. I don't mean participants. I mean people watching. People could watch Scrabble a lot more often than they would watch chess. Scrabble has more mainstream appeal. It is more easily understood than chess.", - "source": "Word Freak", - "id": 2525, - "length": 296 - }, - { - "text": "It's the wanting you, never getting you. Keeps me wanting you, missing you. Just to picture you is what gets me through.", - "source": "You vs. Them", - "id": 2526, - "length": 120 - }, - { - "text": "A computer needs a manager to administer its operations, just as a company needs a manager. And that is what DOS is. A manager. It manages the operations in your computer.", - "source": "Mastering Computer Typing (1995)", - "id": 2527, - "length": 171 - }, - { - "text": "The point is that the firm-foundation theory relies on some tricky forecasts of the extent and duration of future growth. The foundation of intrinsic value may thus be less dependable than is claimed.", - "source": "A Random Walk Down Wall Street", - "id": 2528, - "length": 200 - }, - { - "text": "Solving the following riddle will reveal the awful secret behind the universe, assuming you do not go utterly mad in the attempt. If you already happen to know the awful secret behind the universe, feel free to skip ahead.", - "source": "John Dies at the End", - "id": 2529, - "length": 222 - }, - { - "text": "I will be dying and so will you, and so will everyone here. That's what I want to explore. We're all hurtling towards death, yet here we are for the moment, alive. Each of us knowing we're going to die, each of us secretly believing we won't.", - "source": "Synecdoche, New York", - "id": 2530, - "length": 242 - }, - { - "text": "I know that I am mortal by nature and ephemeral, but when I trace at my pleasure the windings to and fro of the heavenly bodies, I no longer touch earth with my feet. I stand in the presence of Zeus himself and take my fill of ambrosia.", - "source": "Almagest", - "id": 2531, - "length": 236 - }, - { - "text": "Everyone puts on their biggest smile and people line the streets and cheer. A booming voice announces the show for that evening.", - "source": "Sawdust and Tinsel", - "id": 2532, - "length": 128 - }, - { - "text": "Excuse me. You have one of the largest auras I've ever seen. Green and black. It's been taking up this whole room. I just... I had to say something. You must have had hundreds of lives.", - "source": "True Detective", - "id": 2533, - "length": 185 - }, - { - "text": "I'm not leaving. You guys just chase us out whenever you want without even asking us. I'm getting tired of it! Watching TV is the only thing to do in this house that's actually fun. So you're left with two choices: you can either fight somewhere else, or get us a TV for our room.", - "source": "Malcolm in the Middle", - "id": 2534, - "length": 280 - }, - { - "text": "No, get out of town. My mom thinks I'm going camping with the guys. Look, Jennifer, my mother would freak out if she knew I was going out with you and I'd get the standard lecture about how she never did that kind of stuff when she was a kid. I mean, look, I think the woman was born a nun.", - "source": "Back to the Future", - "id": 2535, - "length": 290 - }, - { - "text": "I don't care what he is. If it wasn't for him, your impartial chief of police would still have the wrong man behind bars. I want that officer given a free hand. Otherwise, I will pack up my husband's engineers and leave you to yourselves.", - "source": "In the Heat of the Night", - "id": 2536, - "length": 238 - }, - { - "text": "And this is it. This is a portable cellular phone. You'll be able to take this to any American city and call virtually any place in the world. And its maker, Motorola, says a smaller version than this will be on the market next year.", - "source": "The Eighties", - "id": 2537, - "length": 233 - }, - { - "text": "Even there, in the mines, underground, I may find a human heart in another convict or murderer by my side. And I may make friends with him, for even there one may live and love and suffer. One may thaw and revive a frozen heart in that convict, one may wait upon him for years, and at last bring up from the dark depths a lofty soul, a feeling, suffering creature; one may bring forth an angel, create a hero!", - "source": "The Brothers Karamazov", - "id": 2538, - "length": 409 - }, - { - "text": "Death doesn't exist. It never did, it never will. But we've drawn so many pictures of it, so many years, trying to pin it down, comprehend it, we've got to thinking of it as an entity, strangely alive and greedy. All it is, however, is a stopped watch, a loss, an end, a darkness. Nothing.", - "source": "Something Wicked This Way Comes", - "id": 2539, - "length": 289 - }, - { - "text": "I will build a car for the great multitude. It will be large enough for the family, but small enough for the individual to run and care for. It will be constructed of the best materials, by the best men to be hired, after the simplest designs that modern engineering can devise. But it will be so low in price that no man making a good salary will be unable to own one - and enjoy with his family the blessing of hours of pleasure in God's great open spaces.", - "source": "My Life and Work", - "id": 2540, - "length": 458 - }, - { - "text": "There are few people whom I really love, and still fewer of whom I think well. The more I see of the world, the more am I dissatisfied with it; and every day confirms my belief of the inconsistency of all human characters, and of the little dependence that can be placed on the appearance of merit or sense.", - "source": "Pride and Prejudice", - "id": 2541, - "length": 307 - }, - { - "text": "Insects may carry the germs or parasites which cause disease in a purely mechanical or accidental way, that is, the insect may in the course of its wanderings or its feeding get some of the germs on or in its body and may by chance carry these to the food, or water, or directly to some person who may become infected. Thus the house-fly may carry the typhoid germs on its feet or in its body and distribute them in places where they may enter the human body.", - "source": "Insects and Diseases", - "id": 2542, - "length": 459 - }, - { - "text": "No, I don't want to debate about it, if you're not over here in twenty minutes with my door I shall come over there and insert a large garden gnome in you. Good day.", - "source": "Fawlty Towers", - "id": 2543, - "length": 165 - }, - { - "text": "Desmond? I heard your name once before Desmond, a long time ago. And now it lingers in my mind like an image from an old dream. I do not know where you are, or by what means you can hear me. But I know you are listening. I have lived my life as best I could, not knowing its purpose, but drawn forward like a moth to a distant moon. And here, at last, I discover a strange truth. That I am only a conduit for a message that eludes my understanding. Who are we, who have been so blessed to share our stories like this? To speak across centuries? Maybe you will answer all the questions I have asked. Maybe you will be the one to make all this suffering worth something in the end.", - "source": "Assassin's Creed 2", - "id": 2544, - "length": 679 - }, - { - "text": "I'm not proud, I was wrong and the truth is hard to take. I felt sure we had enough, but our love went overboard. Lifeboat lies lost at sea, I've been trying to reach your shore. Waves of doubt keep drowning me.", - "source": "Lessons in Love", - "id": 2546, - "length": 211 - }, - { - "text": "The future is something which everyone reaches at the rate of sixty minutes an hour, whatever he does, whoever he is.", - "source": "The Screwtape Letters", - "id": 2547, - "length": 117 - }, - { - "text": "All man's miseries derive from not being able to sit quietly in a room alone.", - "source": "Unlimited Memory: How to Use Advanced Learning Strategies to Learn Faster, Remember More and Be More Productive", - "id": 2548, - "length": 77 - }, - { - "text": "Have you heard the story of the guy who decided not to die? He figured living was just easier than falling really high. His son heard about it later, thought, \"Maybe that is why I'm enamored with the thought of seeing angels in the sky that are singing.\" And they're singing, saying, \"Everything's all right.\" I haven't heard that on Earth, so maybe I will find a place to sleep; just a comfortable place to lay my head.", - "source": "Sorry, My Dear", - "id": 2549, - "length": 420 - }, - { - "text": "Through these fields of destruction, baptisms of fire, I've witnessed your suffering as the battle raged higher. And though they did hurt me so bad in the fear and alarm you did not desert me, my brothers in arms.", - "source": "Brothers in Arms", - "id": 2551, - "length": 213 - }, - { - "text": "Will you wait a minute, I didn't say that. I'm only happy because the guy can't bowl no more. That's all. See, I'm waiting six years to get a spot on this special bowling team, and now there's a spot opened up. I'm sorry the guy is dead, but that's life.", - "source": "All in the Family", - "id": 2552, - "length": 254 - }, - { - "text": "In the moment when I truly understand my enemy, understand him well enough to defeat him, then in that very moment I also love him. I think it's impossible to really understand somebody, what they want, what they believe, and not love them the way they love themselves. And then, in that very moment when I love them... I destroy them.", - "source": "Ender's Game", - "id": 2553, - "length": 335 - }, - { - "text": "There will come a dawn or sunset or high noon when a man will take my life in battle too - flinging a spear perhaps, or whipping a deadly arrow off his bow.", - "source": "The Iliad", - "id": 2554, - "length": 156 - }, - { - "text": "Come on, kid, don't fool around. Just let your hand drop to your side and the gun slip out. Everyone will still think you've got it. They're gonna be staring at your face, Mike. So walk out of the place real fast, but you don't run. Don't look nobody directly in the eye, but don't look away either. They're gonna be scared of you, believe me, so don't worry about nothing.", - "source": "The Godfather", - "id": 2555, - "length": 373 - }, - { - "text": "Always! That is a dreadful word. It makes me shudder when I hear it. Women are so fond of using it. They spoil every romance by trying to make it last for ever. It is a meaningless word, too. The only difference between a caprice and a life-long passion is that the caprice lasts a little longer.", - "source": "The Picture Of Dorian Gray", - "id": 2556, - "length": 296 - }, - { - "text": "I think a lot about the way it ends - the kind of things no one ever wants me to say again. But the line's in my mind so when I peace I'll know I had the best times, with the greatest friends. That's why I own it, live in the moment, trying to make the most of it, notice the unnoticed. And any stacks that I stack, well that's a bonus, I've seen too many dull folks working the wrong motives. So while you're napping in the afternoon, I'm in the classroom raising up my hand, yes I'm that dude. I'm in the Cancun sands, just passing through till I'm in the studio booth tracking these raps too. And if you're waiting for anybody to ask you where your passion falls or what you have to do, then consider this your call to be all you can be. Stand up tall, hustle, no plan B.", - "source": "Good Run", - "id": 2557, - "length": 774 - }, - { - "text": "There was one time when we were children. He transformed himself into a snake, and he knows that I love snakes. So I went to pick up the snake to admire it, and he transformed back into himself and he was like, \"Blech, it's me!\" And he stabbed me. We were eight at the time.", - "source": "Thor: Ragnarok", - "id": 2558, - "length": 274 - }, - { - "text": "Sir, you have besmirched the good name of Liquid Water, and if you think that we're here for a settlement conference, well, let me just correct that one for you right now. We are not settling. We will not be settling. In fact, the only thing that's settling here is the sediment at the bottom of your putrid water. Get me? Now be sure to take that Grand Central shuttle like I told you, okay? I think you're gonna love it.", - "source": "Suits", - "id": 2559, - "length": 422 - }, - { - "text": "They say, \"Find a purpose in your life and live it.\" But, sometimes, it is only after you have lived that you recognize your life had a purpose, and likely one you never had in mind.", - "source": "And the Mountains Echoed", - "id": 2561, - "length": 182 - }, - { - "text": "She was calling to him, inviting him murmuring in his ear. Exactly so. They would jump together. He was with her now, peering into an abyss, and they saw how the scree plunged down through the cloud cover. Hand in hand, they would fall backwards.", - "source": "Atonement", - "id": 2562, - "length": 246 - }, - { - "text": "The ancient Oracle said that I was the wisest of all the Greeks. It is because I alone, of all the Greeks, know that I know nothing.", - "source": "Civilization V", - "id": 2563, - "length": 132 - }, - { - "text": "If I had a highway, I would run for the hills. If you could find a dry way, I'd forever be still. But you're giving me a million reasons. Giving me a million reasons about a million reasons.", - "source": "Million Reasons", - "id": 2564, - "length": 190 - }, - { - "text": "It's true, Mr. Ross entered into an early release agreement. But it's also true that he stayed in longer than he had to to keep his cell mate safe. And while he was there, he risked his own life to prevent a violent man from falsely obtaining parole.", - "source": "Suits", - "id": 2565, - "length": 250 - }, - { - "text": "People always ask me how can we charge so much for what amounts to gradations of white. I tell them it's not about the artist's name or the skill required, not even about the art itself. All that matters is \"How does it make you feel?\"", - "source": "Daredevil", - "id": 2566, - "length": 235 - }, - { - "text": "I've always been afraid that if I screamed, I might break apart in a million pieces.", - "source": "The Night Diary", - "id": 2567, - "length": 84 - }, - { - "text": "And when the car broke down, they started walking. But where were they going without ever knowing the way?", - "source": "The Way", - "id": 2568, - "length": 106 - }, - { - "text": "If only it were all so simple! If only there were evil people somewhere insidiously committing evil deeds, and it were necessary only to separate them from the rest of us and destroy them. But the line dividing good and evil cuts through the heart of every human being. And who is willing to destroy a piece of his own heart?", - "source": "The Gulag Archipelago", - "id": 2569, - "length": 325 - }, - { - "text": "When the little bluebird, who has never said a word, starts to sing, \"Spring, spring.\" When the little bluebell, at the bottom of the dell, starts to ring, ding ding. When the little blue clerk, in the middle of his work, starts a tune to the moon up above. It is nature, that's all, simply telling us to fall in love.", - "source": "Let's Do It (Let's Fall in Love)", - "id": 2570, - "length": 318 - }, - { - "text": "People get ready, there's a train coming. You don't need no baggage, you just get on board. All you need is faith to hear the diesels humming. Don't need no ticket, you just thank the Lord.", - "source": "People Get Ready", - "id": 2571, - "length": 189 - }, - { - "text": "Four score and seven years ago our fathers brought forth on this continent, a new nation, conceived in Liberty, and dedicated to the proposition that all men are created equal. Now we are engaged in a great civil war, testing whether that nation, or any nation so conceived and dedicated, can long endure. We are met on a great battle-field of that war. We have come to dedicate a portion of that field, as a final resting place for those who here gave their lives that that nation might live. It is altogether fitting and proper that we should do this.", - "source": "Gettysburg Address", - "id": 2572, - "length": 553 - }, - { - "text": "It was Silver's voice, and before I had heard a dozen words, I would not have shown myself for all the world. I lay there, trembling and listening, in the extreme of fear and curiosity, for, in those dozen words, I understood that the lives of all the honest men aboard depended on me alone.", - "source": "Treasure Island", - "id": 2573, - "length": 291 - }, - { - "text": "If you're going to San Francisco, be sure to wear some flowers in your hair. You're gonna meet some gentle people there. All across the nation, such a strange vibration. There's a whole generation with a new explanation.", - "source": "San Francisco", - "id": 2574, - "length": 220 - }, - { - "text": "Just sleep together in the most innocent sense of the phrase. But I lacked the courage and she had a boyfriend and I was gawky and she was gorgeous and I was hopelessly boring and she was endlessly fascinating. So I walked back to my room and collapsed on the bottom bunk, thinking that if people were rain, I was drizzle and she was hurricane.", - "source": "Looking for Alaska", - "id": 2575, - "length": 344 - }, - { - "text": "Putting more makeup on the masks that we wear. Turning the nightlights on in the daytime to scare.", - "source": "Nightlight", - "id": 2576, - "length": 98 - }, - { - "text": "Who gets to be best-liked in any community? Who is the most trusted? Why, the man who does the dirty job, of course, and does it with a smile. The man who does the job you couldn't bring yourself to do.", - "source": "The Stand", - "id": 2577, - "length": 202 - }, - { - "text": "We lived at the carnival in summer. We scared ourselves to death on a ghost train. And just like every ferris wheel stops turning, I guess we had an expiration date so I won't say I love you, it's too late.", - "source": "Nervous", - "id": 2578, - "length": 206 - }, - { - "text": "Grown-ups like to tell you where they were when President Kennedy was shot, which they all know to the exact second. Which makes me almost jealous - like I should have something important enough to know where I was when it happened. But I don't, yet. And the fact that it was a better time then, and people knew what they were supposed to do and how to make the world better... now nobody knows anything.", - "source": "My So-Called Life", - "id": 2579, - "length": 404 - }, - { - "text": "And the ship went out into the High Sea and passed on into the West, until at last on a night of rain Frodo smelled a sweet fragrance on the air and heard the sound of singing that came over the water. And then it seemed to him that as in his dream in the house of Bombadil, the grey rain-curtain turned all to silver glass and was rolled back, and he beheld white shores and beyond them a far green country under a swift sunrise.", - "source": "The Return of the King", - "id": 2580, - "length": 430 - }, - { - "text": "I don't know half of you half as well as I should like; and I like less than half of you half as well as you deserve.", - "source": "The Fellowship of the Ring", - "id": 2581, - "length": 117 - }, - { - "text": "Come with me and you'll be in a world of pure imagination. Take a look and you'll see into your imagination. We'll begin with a spin, traveling in the world of my creation. What we'll see will defy explanation.", - "source": "Willy Wonka and the Chocolate Factory", - "id": 2582, - "length": 210 - }, - { - "text": "Some pilots like the excitement of our missions, knowing that they are of short duration, but most of us concentrate so fiercely on finding our targets and avoiding calamity that we recall more vividly our relief when it's over than we do our exhilaration while it's going on.", - "source": "Faith of My Fathers", - "id": 2583, - "length": 276 - }, - { - "text": "My ability is nothing more than having good luck... If it's not the result of one's effort, then it can't be used to accomplish something amazing, either. With or without it, the fact that I'm an unremarkable being doesn't change. It's different from all of you.", - "source": "Danganronpa 2: Goodbye Despair", - "id": 2584, - "length": 262 - }, - { - "text": "Nothing, nothing mattered, and I knew why. So did he. Throughout the whole absurd life I'd lived, a dark wind had been rising toward me from somewhere deep in my future, across years that were still to come, and as it passed, this wind leveled whatever was offered to me at the time, in years no more real than the ones I was living. What did other people's deaths or a mother's love matter to me; what did his God or the lives people choose or the fate they think they elect matter to me when we're all elected by the same fate, me and billions of privileged people like him who also called themselves my brothers?", - "source": "The Stranger", - "id": 2585, - "length": 615 - }, - { - "text": "Robbers never strike at the homes of the poor; private wealth does not benefit the entire nation. Calamity has its source in the accumulated riches of a few, people who lose their souls for ten thousand coins.", - "source": "Cancel All Debts", - "id": 2586, - "length": 209 - }, - { - "text": "When we played our charade, we were like children posing. Playing at games, acting out names, guessing the parts we played.", - "source": "Charade", - "id": 2587, - "length": 123 - }, - { - "text": "Paranoia is a survival trait when you run in my circles. It gives you something to do in your spare time, coming up with solutions to ridiculous problems that aren't ever going to happen. Except when one of them does, at which point you feel way too vindicated.", - "source": "Changes", - "id": 2588, - "length": 261 - }, - { - "text": "Last night, I had a dream about you. In this dream I'm dancing right beside you, and it looked like everyone was having fun; the kind of feeling I've waited so long.", - "source": "Digital Love", - "id": 2589, - "length": 165 - }, - { - "text": "That sometimes human beings have to just sit in one place and, like, hurt. That you will become way less concerned with what other people think of you when you realize how seldom they do. That there is such a thing as raw, unalloyed, agendaless kindness. That it is possible to fall asleep during an anxiety attack. That concentrating on anything is very hard work.", - "source": "Infinite Jest", - "id": 2590, - "length": 365 - }, - { - "text": "There is a fifth dimension beyond that which is known to man. It is a dimension as vast as space and as timeless as infinity. It is the middle ground between light and shadow, between science and superstition, and it lies between the pit of man's fears and the summit of his knowledge. This is the dimension of imagination. It is an area which we call the Twilight Zone.", - "source": "The Twilight Zone", - "id": 2591, - "length": 370 - }, - { - "text": "I wish I were a girl again, half-savage and hardy, and free.", - "source": "Wuthering Heights", - "id": 2592, - "length": 60 - }, - { - "text": "Dear Theodosia, what to say to you? You have my eyes, you have your mother's name, when you came into the world you cried. And it broke my heart. I've dedicated every day to you. Domestic life was never quite my style.", - "source": "Hamilton", - "id": 2593, - "length": 218 - }, - { - "text": "My brother, your father, he and I. Opposites. But I never doubted his love. He would do anything for me. But his temper clouded his judgement. I don't want to see the same thing happen to you.", - "source": "The Godfather: Part III", - "id": 2594, - "length": 192 - }, - { - "text": "I hope I cut myself shaving tomorrow. I hope it bleeds all day long. Our friends say it's darkest before the sun rises; we're pretty sure they're all wrong.", - "source": "No Children", - "id": 2595, - "length": 156 - }, - { - "text": "She didn't know I was in the room, and when I asked her in a quiet, a very quiet voice, with the most restrained manner possible, what she was doing with the paper - she turned around as if she had been caught stealing, and looked quite angry - asked me why I should frighten her so! Then she said that the paper stained everything it touched, that she had found yellow smooches on all my clothes and John's, and she wished we would be more careful!", - "source": "The Yellow Wallpaper", - "id": 2596, - "length": 449 - }, - { - "text": "We could love that tractor then as we have loved this land when it was ours.", - "source": "The Grapes of Wrath", - "id": 2597, - "length": 76 - }, - { - "text": "I saw in your eyes and I saw the way you carried yourself that you're not a happy person.", - "source": "Taxi Driver", - "id": 2598, - "length": 89 - }, - { - "text": "I make my living off the evening news. Just give me something, something I can use. People love it when you lose. They love dirty laundry. Well, I coulda been an actor, but I wound up here. I just have to look good. I don't have to be clear. Come and whisper in my ear. Give us dirty laundry.", - "source": "Dirty Laundry", - "id": 2599, - "length": 292 - }, - { - "text": "Lying here in the darkness I hear the sirens wail. Somebody's going to emergency, somebody's going to jail. You find somebody to love in this world, you better hang on tooth and nail. The wolf is always at the door.", - "source": "New York Minute", - "id": 2600, - "length": 215 - }, - { - "text": "Humans just lead short, boring, insignificant lives, so they make up stories to feel like they're a part of something bigger. They want to blame all the world's problems on some single enemy they can fight, instead of a complex network of interrelated forces beyond anyone's control.", - "source": "Keep Beach City Weird", - "id": 2602, - "length": 283 - }, - { - "text": "In my own case, I have several times happened to overlook results which ought to have struck me blind, as being immediate consequences of other ones which I had obtained. Most of these proceed from the cause which we have just mentioned, viz., from attention too narrowly directed.", - "source": "The Psychology of Invention in the Mathematical Field", - "id": 2603, - "length": 281 - }, - { - "text": "We found our way back to the city we came from. 'Cause I look back and I thought, man what if I gave up. I watched myself burn and there's nothing I'm ashamed of, 'cause I found my new self and the fire I'm afraid of.", - "source": "Solid As A Stone (outro)", - "id": 2604, - "length": 217 - }, - { - "text": "Back then when I got home from work, you were always there waiting for me. And that was all I needed. Just you. But on that day, when I came back home the only thing there was that pocket watch; that and a small piece of paper that just had one word written across it: farewell. For some reason, I didn't feel sad or broken up - it just didn't seem real. But slowly I realized that it was real; that you were gone. And little by little I felt something inside of me go numb. After six months I made a kind of bet with myself; a pledge, that I would leave this planet and start a new life if you didn't return by the time the watch stopped. I didn't come here to blame you, I... I just wanted to know why. Why you disappeared like that.", - "source": "Cowboy Bebop", - "id": 2605, - "length": 735 - }, - { - "text": "If I'm at a party where I'm not enjoying myself, I will put some cookies in my jacket pocket and leave without saying goodbye.", - "source": "Is Everyone Hanging Out Without Me? (And Other Concerns)", - "id": 2606, - "length": 126 - }, - { - "text": "It's like this, I think: the excellence of a good body doesn't make the soul good, but the other way around: the excellence of a good soul makes the body as good as it can be.", - "source": "The Republic", - "id": 2607, - "length": 175 - }, - { - "text": "In order to face down the danger that is stalking us and move through it, we first have to recognize that we are facing a crisis. So why is it that our leaders seem not to hear such clarion warnings? Are they resisting the truth because they know that the moment they acknowledge it, they will face a moral imperative to act? Is it simply more convenient to ignore the warnings?", - "source": "An Inconvenient Truth", - "id": 2608, - "length": 378 - }, - { - "text": "When you are typing on a typewriter, your input appears directly on paper. When you are typing on a computer, your input appears on a screen and is transferred to paper after the proper command has been given.", - "source": "Mastering Computer Typing (1995)", - "id": 2609, - "length": 209 - }, - { - "text": "I walk ten thousand miles, ten thousand miles to see you. And every gasp of breath I grabbed it just to find you. I climbed up every hill to get to you. I wandered ancient lands to hold just you.", - "source": "The Sore Feet Song", - "id": 2610, - "length": 195 - }, - { - "text": "Baby, I have no story to be told, but I've heard one on you. Now I'm gonna make your head burn. Think of me in the depths of your despair. Make a home down there as mine sure won't be shared.", - "source": "Rolling in the Deep", - "id": 2611, - "length": 191 - }, - { - "text": "I'd ask you about love, you'd probably quote me a sonnet. But you've never looked at a woman and been totally vulnerable. Known someone that could level you with her eyes, feeling like God put an angel on earth just for you.", - "source": "Good Will Hunting", - "id": 2612, - "length": 224 - }, - { - "text": "Look, I know you're scared about where to go to college, but cuddle up and listen to papa. Life always works out. Usually.", - "source": "Atypical", - "id": 2613, - "length": 122 - }, - { - "text": "We're all bored, we're all so tired of everything. We wait for trains that just aren't comin'. We show off our different scarlet letters... trust me, mine is better. We're so young, but we're on the road to ruin. We play dumb, but we know exactly what we're doing.", - "source": "New Romantics", - "id": 2614, - "length": 264 - }, - { - "text": "You're gonna blame me because you were the business head of the company and you made a bad business deal with your own company?", - "source": "The Social Network", - "id": 2615, - "length": 127 - }, - { - "text": "The gentleman understands what is moral. The small man understands what is profitable.", - "source": "The Analects", - "id": 2616, - "length": 86 - }, - { - "text": "For once in my life I won't let sorrow hurt me, not like it's hurt me before. For once I have someone I know won't desert me. I'm not alone anymore.", - "source": "For Once in My Life", - "id": 2617, - "length": 148 - }, - { - "text": "My love is as a fever, longing still for that which longer nurseth the disease, feeding on that which doth preserve the ill, the uncertain sickly appetite to please.", - "source": "Sonnet 147", - "id": 2619, - "length": 165 - }, - { - "text": "Dave, although you took very thorough precautions in the pod against my hearing you, I could see your lips move.", - "source": "2001: A SPACE ODYSSEY", - "id": 2620, - "length": 112 - }, - { - "text": "It all just disappears doesn't it? Everything you are, gone in a moment like breath on a mirror. Any moment now, he's a coming, The Doctor and I always will be. But times change... and so must I. We all change, when you think about it. We are all different people all through our lives and that's okay - that's good - you've got to keep moving, so long as you remember all the people that you used to be. I will not forget one line of this, not one day, I swear. I will always remember when The Doctor was me...", - "source": "Doctor Who", - "id": 2621, - "length": 511 - }, - { - "text": "Don't aim at success. The more you aim at it and make it a target, the more you are going to miss it. For success, like happiness, cannot be pursued; it must ensue, and it only does so as the unintended side effect of one's personal dedication to a cause greater than oneself or as the by-product of one's surrender to a person other than oneself. Happiness must happen, and the same holds for success: you have to let it happen by not caring about it.", - "source": "Man's Search for Meaning", - "id": 2622, - "length": 452 - }, - { - "text": "The Earth is the only world known so far to harbor life. There is nowhere else, at least in the near future, to which our species could migrate. Visit, yes. Settle, not yet. Like it or not, for the moment the Earth is where we make our stand. It has been said that astronomy is a humbling and character-building experience. There is perhaps no better demonstration of the folly of human conceits than this distant image of our tiny world. To me, it underscores our responsibility to deal more kindly with one another, and to preserve and cherish the pale blue dot, the only home we've ever known.", - "source": "Pale Blue Dot: A Vision of the Human Future in Space", - "id": 2623, - "length": 596 - }, - { - "text": "My mom, especially, challenged us on everything. She'd use words we didn't know in the middle of a sentence and make us tell her what they meant by figuring out the context in which they were used. When she and my grandparents talked about politics at the table, she wanted to hear our opinions. The more we disagreed with her, the happier she seemed to be.", - "source": "Iceman", - "id": 2624, - "length": 357 - }, - { - "text": "Why are you trying so hard to fit in when you were born to stand out?", - "source": "What a Girl Wants", - "id": 2625, - "length": 69 - }, - { - "text": "I couldn't forgive him or like him, but I saw that what he had done was, to him, entirely justified. It was all very careless and confused. They were careless people, Tom and Daisy - they smashed up things and creatures and then retreated back into their money or their vast carelessness, or whatever it was that kept them together, and let other people clean up the mess they had made.", - "source": "The Great Gatsby", - "id": 2626, - "length": 386 - }, - { - "text": "When I look into your eyes I can see a love restrained. But darlin' when I hold you, don't you know I feel the same? Nothin' lasts forever and we both know hearts can change, and it's hard to hold a candle in the cold November rain.", - "source": "November Rain", - "id": 2627, - "length": 232 - }, - { - "text": "What drives me out of the apartment to prowl through the city? I wander through the streets alone - not the relaxing stroll of a summer night, but the tense hurry to get - where?", - "source": "Flowers for Algernon", - "id": 2628, - "length": 178 - }, - { - "text": "Show them how to fly away, when this world is torn. If you feel like dying, lose that forever, you're shining and it shows.", - "source": "The Way The News Goes", - "id": 2629, - "length": 123 - }, - { - "text": "The other night, dear, as I lay sleeping, I dreamed I held you in my arms. But when I awoke, dear, I was mistaken, so I hung my head and cried. You are my sunshine, my only sunshine. You make me happy when skies are grey. You'll never know, dear, how much I love you. Please don't take my sunshine away. I'll always love you and make you happy if you will only say the same. But if you leave me to love another, you'll regret it all some day.", - "source": "You Are My Sunshine", - "id": 2630, - "length": 442 - }, - { - "text": "I look at you all, see the love there that's sleeping. While my guitar gently weeps. I look at the floor and I see it needs sweeping. Still my guitar gently weeps.", - "source": "While My Guitar Gently Weeps", - "id": 2631, - "length": 163 - }, - { - "text": "Subatomic penetration, rapid fire through your skull. How I shot it on one taking it back to the days of trying to lose control. Swerving in a blaze of fire, raging through my bones.", - "source": "Takyon", - "id": 2632, - "length": 182 - }, - { - "text": "It had nothing to do with gear or footwear or the backpacking fads or philosophies of any particular era or even with getting from point A to point B. It had to do with how it felt to be in the wild. With what it was like to walk for miles with no reason other than to witness the accumulation of trees and meadows, mountains and deserts, streams and rocks, rivers and grasses, sunrises and sunsets. The experience was powerful and fundamental. It seemed to me that it had always felt like this to be a human in the wild, and as long as the wild existed it would always feel this way.", - "source": "Wild: From Lost to Found on the Pacific Crest Trail", - "id": 2633, - "length": 584 - }, - { - "text": "It is a capital mistake to theorize before one has data. Insensibly one begins to twist facts to suit theories, instead of theories to suit facts.", - "source": "The Greatest Cases Of Sherlock Holmes", - "id": 2634, - "length": 146 - }, - { - "text": "With a ready tongue and rapier wit, Hamilton could wound people more than he realized, and he was so nimble in debate that even bright people sometimes felt embarrassingly tongue-tied in his presence.", - "source": "Alexander Hamilton", - "id": 2635, - "length": 200 - }, - { - "text": "Be careful, you are not in Wonderland. I've heard the strange madness long growing in your soul. But you are fortunate in your ignorance, in your isolation. You who have suffered, find where love hides. Give, share, lose - lest we die, unbloomed.", - "source": "Kill Your Darlings", - "id": 2636, - "length": 246 - }, - { - "text": "Last night I dreamed of chickens, there were chickens everywhere, they were standing on my stomach, they were nesting in my hair, they were pecking at my pillow, they were hopping on my head, they were ruffling up their feathers as they raced about my bed. They were on the chairs and tables, they were on the chandeliers, they were roosting in the corners, they were clucking in my ears, there were chickens, chickens, chickens for as far as I could see... when I woke today, I noticed there were eggs on top of me.", - "source": "Last Night I Dreamed of Chickens", - "id": 2637, - "length": 516 - }, - { - "text": "The robins were singing vespers in the high tree-tops, filling the golden air with their jubilant voices. The silver fluting of the frogs came from marshes and ponds, over fields where seeds were beginning to stir with life and thrill to the sunshine and rain that had drifted over them.", - "source": "Anne of the Island", - "id": 2638, - "length": 287 - }, - { - "text": "Your mother died to save you. If there is one thing Voldemort cannot understand, it is love. He didn't realise love as powerful as your mother's love for you leaves its own mark. Not a scar, no visible sign... to have been loved so deeply, even though the person who loved us is gone, will give us some protection forever. It is in your very skin. Quirrell, full of hatred, greed and ambition, sharing his soul with Voldemort, could not touch you for this reason. It was agony to touch a person marked by something so good.", - "source": "Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone", - "id": 2639, - "length": 523 - }, - { - "text": "There's an old man called the Mississippi, that's the old man that I'd like to be! What does he care if the world's got troubles? What does he care if the land ain't free? Old man river, that old man river, he must know something but don't say nothing. He just keeps rolling, he keeps on rolling along. He don't plant taters, he don't plant cotton, and them that plants 'em is soon forgotten. But old man river, he just keeps rolling along.", - "source": "Show Boat", - "id": 2640, - "length": 440 - }, - { - "text": "Remedios went over and asked some questions about the fish that Aureliano could not answer because he was seized with a sudden attack of asthma. He wanted to stay beside that skin forever, beside those emerald eyes, close to that voice that called him \"sir\" with every question, showing the same respect that she gave her father.", - "source": "One Hundred Years of Solitude", - "id": 2641, - "length": 329 - }, - { - "text": "They're called Thestrals, they're quite gentle really. But people avoid them because they're a bit... different. They can only be seen by people who have seen death.", - "source": "Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix", - "id": 2642, - "length": 165 - }, - { - "text": "I could tell you I was fragile. I could tell you I was weak. I could write you out a letter. Tell you anything you need. I've seen minutes turn to hours. Hours turn to years. And I've seen truth turn to power. If you could see me the way I see you. If you could feel me the way I feel you. You'd be a believer. You'd be a believer. Minutes turn to hours. Hours turn to years. And I've seen truth turn to power.", - "source": "Truth To Power", - "id": 2643, - "length": 410 - }, - { - "text": "To understand what I'm about to tell you, you need to do something first, you need to believe in the impossible. Can you do that? Good. Because all of us, we've forgotten what miracles look like. Maybe because they haven't made much of an appearance lately. Our lives have become ordinary. But there is someone out there who is truly extraordinary. I don't know where you came from, I don't know your name, but I have seen you do the impossible to protect the city I love. So for those of us who believe in you and what you're doing, I just want to say thank you.", - "source": "The Flash", - "id": 2644, - "length": 563 - }, - { - "text": "So I've spent the last few months running down leads, trying to back up his story, and he's right about one thing: there are dirty cops. A lot of them. But did they set him up? I... I thought maybe they had. And then, uh, yesterday, your father confessed to the murder. I tried to talk to him, but all anyone will tell me is that he turned state's evidence and that you, your mom and I are being placed into witness protection.", - "source": "White Collar", - "id": 2645, - "length": 427 - }, - { - "text": "I could see why some of the boys took him for snobby. He had a quiet way about him, a walk and a talk that just wasn't normal around here. He strolled, like a man in a park without a care or a worry in the world, like he had on an invisible coat that would shield him from this place. Yeah, I think it would be fair to say... I liked Andy from the start.", - "source": "The Shawshank Redemption", - "id": 2646, - "length": 354 - }, - { - "text": "I'm not exactly sure what happened. Sometimes I remember it one way, sometimes another... If I'm going to have a past, I prefer it to be multiple choice!", - "source": "Batman: The Killing Joke", - "id": 2647, - "length": 153 - }, - { - "text": "Without a queen the locust swarm turned the ground to black. Descending like a shadowy tower on a fish's back and scattered the sticks who crawled like snakes in the sand as the red clay took the form of a lizard who rushed like a moth to the flame of my open hand.", - "source": "O, Porcupine", - "id": 2648, - "length": 265 - }, - { - "text": "You clearly don't know who you're talking to, so let me clue you in. I am not in danger, I am the danger.", - "source": "Breaking Bad", - "id": 2649, - "length": 105 - }, - { - "text": "Even if there is only one possible unified theory, it is just a set of rules and equations. What is it that breathes fire into the equations and makes a universe for them to describe? The usual approach of science of constructing a mathematical model cannot answer the questions of why there should be a universe for the model to describe. Why does the universe go to all the bother of existing?", - "source": "A Brief History of Time", - "id": 2650, - "length": 395 - }, - { - "text": "Read books. Devouring them with the speed of two people famished for words, ideas, and beautiful sentences that make you feel everything.", - "source": "A Heart in a Body in the World", - "id": 2651, - "length": 137 - }, - { - "text": "You have been my friend. That in itself is a tremendous thing. After all, what's a life anyway? We're born, we live a little while, and we die. A spider's life can't help being something of a mess, with all this trapping and eating flies. By helping you, perhaps I was trying to lift up my own life a trifle.", - "source": "Charlotte's Web", - "id": 2652, - "length": 308 - }, - { - "text": "I figured I could get a job at a filling station somewhere, putting gas and oil in people's cars. I didn't care what kind of job it was, though. Just so people didn't know me and I didn't know anybody.", - "source": "The Catcher in the Rye J. D. Salinger", - "id": 2653, - "length": 201 - }, - { - "text": "We were playing checkers. I used to kid her once in a while because she wouldn't take her kings out of the back row. But I didn't kid her much though. You never wanted to kid Jane too much. I think I really like it best when you can kid the pants off a girl when the opportunity arises, but it's a funny thing. The girls I like best are ones I never feel much like kidding. Sometimes I think they'd like it if you kidded them - in fact I know they would - but it's hard to get started, once you've known them a pretty long time and never kidded them.", - "source": "The Catcher in the Rye", - "id": 2654, - "length": 550 - }, - { - "text": "In all the houses keys to memorizing objects and feelings had been written. But the system demanded so much vigilance and moral strength that many succumbed to the spell of an imaginary reality, one invented by themselves, which was less practical for them but more comforting.", - "source": "One Hundred Years of Solitude", - "id": 2655, - "length": 277 - }, - { - "text": "I've got you under my skin. I have got you deep in the heart of me, so deep in my heart that you're really a part of me. I've got you under my skin.", - "source": "I've Got You Under My Skin", - "id": 2656, - "length": 148 - }, - { - "text": "You've beaten my giant, which means you're exceptionally strong so you could've put the poison in your own goblet trusting on your strength to save you so I can clearly not choose the wine in front of you. But you've also bested my Spaniard, which means you must have studied and in studying you must have learned that man is mortal so you would have put the poison as far from yourself as possible so I can clearly not choose the wine in front of me.", - "source": "The Princess Bride", - "id": 2657, - "length": 451 - }, - { - "text": "It is time. They have reached the second crucial turning point in their destiny. Their message is about to reach millions. But we will change all that. When our mission is successful, no longer will the world be dominated by the legacy of these two fools! No longer will we hear this. We will stop them now! Brothers and sisters, are we ready?", - "source": "Bill and Ted's Bogus Journey", - "id": 2658, - "length": 343 - }, - { - "text": "I will not be distracted by this anymore! It will take more than head games to stop me. You may have invaded my mind and my body... but there's one thing a Saiyan always keeps: his pride!", - "source": "Dragon Ball Z Kai", - "id": 2660, - "length": 187 - }, - { - "text": "Every moment there are a million miracles happening around you: a flower blossoming, a bird tweeting, a bee humming, a raindrop falling, a snowflake wafting along the clear evening air. There is magic everywhere. If you learn how to live it, life is nothing short of a daily miracle.", - "source": "Inner Engineering: A Yogi’s Guide to Joy", - "id": 2661, - "length": 283 - }, - { - "text": "It was lunch time and Mother decided we were going to have a picnic right there on the attic floor. I remember helping her spread the rug, laying out plates of sandwiches cut into triangles, slices of sweet yellow mango, cartons of juice, crackers. There was coffee in a flask for Mother and warm creamy chocolate for me in a beaker.", - "source": "Shine", - "id": 2662, - "length": 333 - }, - { - "text": "It now becomes clear that consistency is not a property of a formal system per se, but depends on the interpretation which is proposed for it. By the same token, inconsistency is not an intrinsic property of any formal system.", - "source": "Gödel, Escher, Bach: An Eternal Golden Braid", - "id": 2663, - "length": 226 - }, - { - "text": "You know what really hurts? Being denied the right to give up in an impossible situation. You won't let us give up and no matter what we say, you have the moral high ground. When you say we can't give up, you're not inspiring us - you're strong-arming us!", - "source": "Danganronpa V3: Killing Harmony", - "id": 2664, - "length": 255 - }, - { - "text": "Got a call from an old friend, we used to be real close. Said he couldn't go on the American way. Closed the shop, sold the house, bought a ticket to the west coast. Now he gives them a stand-up routine in L.A. I don't need you to worry for me 'cause I'm alright. I don't want you to tell me it's time to come home. I don't care what you say anymore, this is my life. Go ahead with your own life, leave me alone!", - "source": "My Life", - "id": 2665, - "length": 412 - }, - { - "text": "How can you say I go about things the wrong way? I am human and I need to be loved just like everybody else does.", - "source": "How Soon Is Now?", - "id": 2666, - "length": 113 - }, - { - "text": "Comstock says all this trouble, all this strife, is on our heads. Says we're to blame. Says ain't nobody got nothing to complain about, and if it's not fine for you and yours, that's 'cause you a backslider and you've fallen into sin.", - "source": "BioShock Infinite", - "id": 2667, - "length": 234 - }, - { - "text": "I have been one acquainted with the night. I have walked out in rain - and back in rain. I have outwalked the furthest city light. I have looked down the saddest city lane. I have passed by the watchman on his beat and dropped my eyes, unwilling to explain. I have stood still and stopped the sound of feet when far away an interrupted cry came over houses from another street. But not to call me back or say good-bye; and further still at an unearthly height, one luminary clock against the sky proclaimed the time was neither wrong nor right. I have been one acquainted with the night.", - "source": "Acquainted with the Night", - "id": 2668, - "length": 587 - }, - { - "text": "Without a means of leaving this world, we Autobots take strength in the bonds we have forged with our three young friends - true warriors. If not in body, then in spirit. My name is Optimus Prime, and I send this message. Though we did not choose to be of Earth, it would seem that we are here to stay. If you approach this planet with hostile intent, know this: We will defend ourselves. We will defend humanity. We will defend... our home.", - "source": "Transformers Prime: Dark Rising, Pt. 5", - "id": 2669, - "length": 441 - }, - { - "text": "The fact that we live at the bottom of a deep gravity well, on the surface of a gas covered planet going around a nuclear fireball 90 million miles away and think this to be normal is obviously some indication of how skewed our perspective tends to be.", - "source": "The Salmon of Doubt: Hitchhiking the Galaxy One Last Time", - "id": 2670, - "length": 252 - }, - { - "text": "I guess this time you're really leaving. I heard your suitcase say goodbye. Well, as my broken heart lies bleeding you say true love is suicide. You say you've cried a thousand rivers and now you're swimming for the shore. You left me drowning in my tears and you won't save me anymore.", - "source": "I'll Be There for You", - "id": 2671, - "length": 286 - }, - { - "text": "I'm just sitting here watching the wheels go round and round. I really love to watch them roll. No longer riding on the merry-go-round, I just had to let it go.", - "source": "Watching The Wheels", - "id": 2672, - "length": 160 - }, - { - "text": "Make no mistake about people who leap from burning windows. Their terror of falling from a great height is still just as great as it would be for you or me standing speculatively at the same window just checking out the view; i.e. the fear of falling remains a constant. The variable here is the other terror, the fire's flames: when the flames get close enough, falling to death becomes the slightly less terrible of two terrors. It's not desiring the fall; it's terror of the flames.", - "source": "Infinite Jest", - "id": 2673, - "length": 485 - }, - { - "text": "It is in the spirit of Andrew Jackson that I, from time to time, ask senior staff to have face-to-face meetings with those people representing organizations who have a difficult time getting our attention. I know the more jaded among you see this as something rather beneath you. But I assure you that listening to the voices of passionate Americans is beneath no one, and surely not the people's servants.", - "source": "The West Wing", - "id": 2674, - "length": 406 - }, - { - "text": "Caddy got the box and set it on the floor and opened it. It was full of stars. When I was still, they were still. When I moved, they glinted and sparkled. I hushed.", - "source": "The Sound and the Fury", - "id": 2675, - "length": 164 - }, - { - "text": "The scientists were always hanging cores on me to regulate my behavior. I've heard voices all my life. But now I hear the voice of a conscience, and it's terrifying, because for the first time it's my voice.", - "source": "Portal 2", - "id": 2676, - "length": 207 - }, - { - "text": "I am only here because I owe Leslie a thousand favors. I'm not big on charities. Give a man a fish and you feed him for a day, don't teach a man to fish and you feed yourself. He's a grown man - fishing is not that hard.", - "source": "Parks and Recreation", - "id": 2677, - "length": 220 - }, - { - "text": "Skin against skin, blood and bone, you're all by yourself but you're not alone. You wanted in and now you're here, driven by hate, consumed by fear.", - "source": "Bodies", - "id": 2678, - "length": 148 - }, - { - "text": "Don't you ever talk that way to me. Never! Never! What we've got here is failure to communicate. Some men you just can't reach. So you get what we had here last week - which is the way he wants it. Well, he gets it. I don't like it any more than you men.", - "source": "Cool Hand Luke", - "id": 2679, - "length": 254 - }, - { - "text": "What a fool you are. I'm a god, how can you kill a god? What a grand and intoxicating innocence. How could you be so naive? There is no escape. No recall or intervention can work in this place. Come, lay down your weapons, it is not too late for my mercy.", - "source": "The Elder Scrolls III: Morrowind", - "id": 2680, - "length": 255 - }, - { - "text": "Just as I'm giving up, my heart is palpitating. Here comes another one, it's so intoxicating. And being where I've been, I know that in the end I'll do it all again.", - "source": "Can't Blame A Girl For Trying", - "id": 2681, - "length": 165 - }, - { - "text": "When I look up from my pillow, I dream you are there with me. Though you are far away, I know you'll always be near to me.", - "source": "I Go To Sleep", - "id": 2682, - "length": 122 - }, - { - "text": "A problem in communication is that people don't smile enough. Watch them on the street, at the office or even at home. How often do they smile? Some turn a smile on and off like a switch and use it to impress others. But their insincerity is quite obvious to the onlooker.", - "source": "The Ultimate Secrets of Total Self-Confidence", - "id": 2683, - "length": 272 - }, - { - "text": "You know what? I am very comfortable with my mind - thoughts clean and unclean, loving and... the opposite of that. But I am not a woman, and I think it behooves any man to toss all female troubles into the hands of a stranger.", - "source": "Mad Men", - "id": 2684, - "length": 227 - }, - { - "text": "It's hard to believe that twenty years ago there were no personal computers. Now it's the third largest industry in the world, somewhere between energy production and illegal drugs, but the most amazing thing of all is that it happened by accident because a bunch of disenfranchised nerds wanted to impress their friends.", - "source": "Triumph of the Nerds", - "id": 2685, - "length": 321 - }, - { - "text": "I just thought I'd say thank you for doin' a great job. So I thought I'd let you stay with me. I mean, not with me! But there. Not with me there! But there in your own Cozy Cone. And I'd be in my cone.", - "source": "Cars", - "id": 2686, - "length": 201 - }, - { - "text": "This is the world that you know. The world as it was at the end of the 20th century. It exists now only as part of a neural interactive simulation that we call the Matrix. You've been living in a dream world, Neo. This is the world as it exists today. Welcome to the desert of the real.", - "source": "The Matrix", - "id": 2687, - "length": 286 - }, - { - "text": "I don't think we'd have any alternatives. There isn't a single aspect of ship operations that isn't under his control. If he were proven to be malfunctioning I wouldn't see how we'd have any choice but disconnection.", - "source": "2001: A SPACE ODYSSEY", - "id": 2688, - "length": 216 - }, - { - "text": "I should have died that day. But I didn't. I dragged my wounded body and reached ground zero of the nuclear detonations. A barren, empty land. I felt an unbearable sadness when I witnessed that landscape. There were still people living there. They were the ones that saved me. It may be true that the world has no need of borders. But would getting rid of them really change anything? The world won't change for the better unless we trust people. Trust is vital in a peaceful world. But that will never happen. I'm still on the battlefield. Right now I'm near a border. I want to see for myself what borders really mean and what their volition really is. I may not find what I'm looking for, but I still want to try. Anyway, that's what I've come to believe, and I think that's enough.", - "source": "Ace Combat Zero: The Belkan War", - "id": 2689, - "length": 785 - }, - { - "text": "I thought climbing the Devil's Thumb would fix all that was wrong with my life. In the end, of course, it changed almost nothing. But I came to appreciate that mountains make poor receptacles for dreams. And I lived to tell my tale.", - "source": "Into The Wild", - "id": 2690, - "length": 232 - }, - { - "text": "Burning my bridges and smashing my mirrors, turning to see if you're cowardly. Burning the witches with modern religions, you'll strike the matches and shower me. In water games washing the rocks below. Taught and tamed in time with tear flow.", - "source": "Seven Seas", - "id": 2691, - "length": 243 - }, - { - "text": "You're waiting for a train, a train that will take you far away. You know where you hope this train will take you, but you don't know for sure.", - "source": "Inception", - "id": 2692, - "length": 143 - }, - { - "text": "She said let's change our luck, this night is all we've got. Drive fast until we crash... This dead-end life... Sweet dreams that won't come true, I'd leave it all for you. Brick walls are closing in, let's make... A run tonight.", - "source": "Skyway Avenue", - "id": 2693, - "length": 229 - }, - { - "text": "Renting a car in Palau has its advantages and disadvantages. Taxis and tour companies can take you on guided tours of the big island, but they are often expensive and less convenient than a rental car. Having your own car will allow you to go off the beaten path and to take your time. It is also a great idea if you are planning to spend a night or two at one of the little beach resorts up north.", - "source": "Federated States of Micronesia and Palau", - "id": 2694, - "length": 398 - }, - { - "text": "I want to say I'm sorry for stuff I haven't done yet. Things will shortly get completely out of hand, I can feel it in the rotten air tonight. In the tips of my finger, in the skin on my face, in the weak last gasp of the evening's dying light. In the way those eyes I've always loved illuminate this place. Like a trashcan fire in a prison cell, like the searchlights in the parking lots of hell.", - "source": "Old College Try", - "id": 2695, - "length": 397 - }, - { - "text": "Oh I'm sure that's exactly what you want these people to believe. You know something, Bender? You ought to spend a little more time trying to do something with yourself and a little less time trying to impress people. You might be better off. All right, that's it! I'm going to be right outside those doors! The next time I have to come in here, I'm crackin' skulls!", - "source": "The Breakfast Club", - "id": 2696, - "length": 366 - }, - { - "text": "To an outsider's ear it sounds absurdly wild and ridiculous to speak of the vocation of a thief. However, I venture to assure you that this vocation is a reality.", - "source": "The Outrage - A True Story", - "id": 2697, - "length": 162 - }, - { - "text": "Don't bother trying to explain your emotions. Live everything as intensely as you can and keep whatever you felt as a gift from God. The best way to destroy the bridge between the visible and invisible is by trying to explain your emotions.", - "source": "Brida", - "id": 2698, - "length": 240 - }, - { - "text": "Most localities haven't found a better way to de-ice roadways and sidewalks than salt. Salt is also effective in keeping hard packs of ice from forming in the first place. While a number of chemicals have been developed to melt ice, salt remains a much cheaper alternative.", - "source": "Why Do Clocks Run Clockwise?: Mysteries of Everyday Life Explained", - "id": 2699, - "length": 273 - }, - { - "text": "You didn't just have faith in Paine or any other living man. You had faith in something bigger than that. You had plain, decent, everyday, common rightness, and this country could use some of that. Yeah, so could the whole cockeyed world, a lot of it. Remember the first day you got here? Remember what you said about Mr. Lincoln? You said he was sitting up there, waiting for someone to come along. You were right. He was waiting for a man who could see his job and sail into it, that's what he was waiting for. A man who could tear into the Taylors and root them out into the open. I think he was waiting for you, Jeff. He knows you can do it, so do I.", - "source": "Mr. Smith Goes to Washington", - "id": 2700, - "length": 654 - }, - { - "text": "For the sake of all that we ourselves hold dear, is it unthinkable that we should refuse to meet the challenge? It is to this high purpose that I now call my people at home, and my peoples across the seas, who will make our cause their own. I ask them to stand calm and firm and united in this time of trial. The task will be hard. There may be dark days ahead, and war can no longer be confined to the battlefield, but we can only do the right as we see the right, and reverently commit our cause to God. If one and all we keep resolutely faithful to it, then, with God's help, we shall prevail.", - "source": "The King's Speech", - "id": 2701, - "length": 596 - }, - { - "text": "Even the best-designed chair won't make up for bad posture. Bad posture is the root of many physical problems. So sit upright and don't slouch. Your back should be straight to support the upper part of your body.", - "source": "Mastering Computer Typing (1995)", - "id": 2702, - "length": 212 - }, - { - "text": "The time has come for man to set himself a goal. The time has come for man to plant the seed of his highest hope. His soil is still rich enough. But one day this soil will be poor and domesticated, and no tall tree will be able to grow in it.", - "source": "Thus Spoke Zarathustra: A Book for None and All", - "id": 2703, - "length": 242 - }, - { - "text": "You know how you throw your jacket on a chair at the end of the day? Well, like that - only, instead of a chair, it's a pile of garbage. And instead of a jacket, it's a pile of garbage. And instead of the end of the day, it's the end of time and garbage is all that has survived!", - "source": "Friends", - "id": 2704, - "length": 279 - }, - { - "text": "Pain and suffering are always inevitable for a large intelligence and a deep heart. The really great men must, I think, have great sadness on earth.", - "source": "Crime and Punishment", - "id": 2705, - "length": 148 - }, - { - "text": "I walked awhile among the rocks: the sky was perfectly clear, and the sun so hot, that I was forced to turn my face from it: when all of a sudden it became obscure, as I thought, in a manner very different from what happens by the interposition of a cloud.", - "source": "Gulliver's Travels", - "id": 2706, - "length": 256 - }, - { - "text": "Mostly, I could tell, I made him feel uncomfortable. He didn't understand me, and he was sort of holding it against me. I felt the urge to reassure him that I was like everybody else, just like everybody else. But really there wasn't much point, and I gave up the idea out of laziness.", - "source": "The Stranger", - "id": 2707, - "length": 285 - }, - { - "text": "Almost as soon as these ideas became current, thinkers recognized that they posed a serious metaphysical challenge. Astronomy doesn't disprove religion, of course, but it does present problems for those who want to see an intelligible message in the cosmos.", - "source": "Our Quest for Meaning in the Heavens - The Wall Street Journal", - "id": 2708, - "length": 257 - }, - { - "text": "Read not to contradict and confute, nor to find talk and discourse, but to weigh and to consider. Some books are to be tasted, others to be swallowed and some few to be chewed and digested.", - "source": "Of Studies", - "id": 2709, - "length": 189 - }, - { - "text": "Do you know why I survived, professor, the night I got this. Because of her, because she sacrificed herself, because she refused to step aside, because her love was more powerful than Voldemort. Don't say his name. I'm not afraid of the name, professor. I'm going to tell you something, something others have only guessed at, it's true, I am the chosen one. Only I can destroy him, but to do so I need to know what Tom Riddle said to you all those years ago in your office, and I need to know what you told him. Be brave, professor, be brave like my mother. Otherwise, you disgrace her, otherwise she died for nothing.", - "source": "Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince", - "id": 2710, - "length": 618 - }, - { - "text": "It is important to notice that tolerance requires work. If people do not mind what others do, even when what those others do seems strange, alternative and remote, this is not tolerance; it is indifference. But tolerance is an active thing. It involves recognizing the right of others to be different from oneself, and allowing them the space and opportunity to speak from their different perspective and (under the usual constraint of not harming others) to live it out.", - "source": "Liberty in the Age of Terror", - "id": 2711, - "length": 471 - }, - { - "text": "On a manual typewriter, strike the key with a nice sharp stroke - not a hard stroke, but a fast one. The sound should be sharp and quick. If you are pushing your keys rather than striking them, the sound will be mushy.", - "source": "Typing for Beginners (1975)", - "id": 2712, - "length": 218 - }, - { - "text": "So what's in this for you? Should you rush out in search of a mission? Should you quit your job and find a goal? Probably not. But look around you. You may be on a mission, and not realize it yet. These are the good old days you'll look back on with pride. You might as well enjoy it now.", - "source": "UnTechnical Writing", - "id": 2713, - "length": 288 - }, - { - "text": "What do you do when there is an evil you cannot defeat by just means? Do you stain your hands with evil to destroy evil? Or do you remain steadfastly just and righteous even if it means surrendering to evil?", - "source": "Code Geass", - "id": 2714, - "length": 207 - }, - { - "text": "Bad luck, I guess. It floats around. It's got to land on somebody. It was my turn, that's all. I was in the path of the tornado. I just didn't expect the storm would last as long as it has.", - "source": "The Shawshank Redemption", - "id": 2715, - "length": 189 - }, - { - "text": "To devise is the work of the master, to execute the act of the servant.", - "source": "The Notebooks of Leonardo", - "id": 2716, - "length": 71 - }, - { - "text": "A few light taps upon the pane made him turn to the window. It had begun to snow again. He watched sleepily the flakes, silver and dark, falling obliquely against the lamplight. The time had come for him to set out on his journey westward.", - "source": "Dubliners", - "id": 2717, - "length": 239 - }, - { - "text": "I drive by this place a lot and I see you here. I see a lot of people around you.", - "source": "Taxi Driver", - "id": 2718, - "length": 81 - }, - { - "text": "The only people for me are the mad ones, the ones who are mad to live, mad to talk, mad to be saved, desirous of everything at the same time, the ones who never yawn or say a commonplace thing, but burn, burn, burn, like fabulous yellow Roman candles exploding like spiders across the stars, and in the middle, you see the blue center-light pop, and everybody goes ahh...", - "source": "On the Road", - "id": 2719, - "length": 371 - }, - { - "text": "I gotta tell you at this point the length of this conversation is way out of proportion to my interest in it.", - "source": "Sports Night", - "id": 2720, - "length": 109 - }, - { - "text": "The following year, I left home to live in the school dormitory. My mother said the 12 years she spent raising us felt like an instant, as if it were a fairy tale. She said so happily with eyes fixed on a distant mountain peak. Seeing that smile on her face makes me very happy.", - "source": "Wolf Children", - "id": 2721, - "length": 278 - }, - { - "text": "I wish that you were here with me. Well then there's hope yet. I can see your face in our secret place. You're not just a memory.", - "source": "This Used to Be My Playground", - "id": 2722, - "length": 129 - }, - { - "text": "Because you taught yourself how to run your little fingers over the bumps and read Braille? Smart don't come out of books, kid. Smart is making the right decision at the right time. Like now. What's it gonna be, Matty? You gonna spend your life crying and rocking yourself to sleep at night? Or are you gonna dig deep and find out what it takes to reshuffle those cards life dealt you? Your call.", - "source": "Daredevil", - "id": 2723, - "length": 396 - }, - { - "text": "Remember, if the time should come when you have to make a choice between what is right and what is easy, remember what happened to a boy who was good, and kind, and brave, because he strayed across the path of Lord Voldemort. Remember Cedric Diggory.", - "source": "Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire", - "id": 2724, - "length": 250 - }, - { - "text": "I think he knows what Rome is. Rome is the mob. Conjure magic for them and they'll be distracted. Take away their freedom and still they'll roar. The beating heart of Rome is not the marble of the senate, it's the sand of the coliseum. He'll bring them death - and they will love him for it.", - "source": "The Gladiator", - "id": 2725, - "length": 291 - }, - { - "text": "This is why we're here. Because this little gray rock sells for 20 million dollars a kilo. That's the only reason. This is what pays for the whole party, and it's what pays for your science. Those savages are threatening our whole operation. We're on the brink of war and you're supposed to be finding me a diplomatic solution. So use what you've got, and get me some results.", - "source": "Avatar", - "id": 2726, - "length": 376 - }, - { - "text": "Young man, there's no need to feel down. I said, young man, pick yourself off the ground. I said, young man, 'cause you're in a new town, there's no need to be unhappy.", - "source": "Y.M.C.A.", - "id": 2727, - "length": 168 - }, - { - "text": "I'm not like them but I can pretend. The sun is gone but I have a light. The day is done but I'm having fun. I think I'm dumb or maybe just happy. Think I'm just happy.", - "source": "Dumb", - "id": 2728, - "length": 168 - }, - { - "text": "It's a pity that folk as talk about fighting the Enemy can't let others do their bit in their own way without interfering. He'd be mighty pleased, if he could see you now. Think he'd got a new friend, he would.", - "source": "The Two Towers", - "id": 2729, - "length": 210 - }, - { - "text": "Let me tell you the story of right hand, left hand. It's a tale of good and evil. Hate: it was with this hand that Cain iced his brother. Love: these five fingers, they go straight to the soul of man. The right hand: the hand of love. The story of life is this: static.", - "source": "Do the Right Thing", - "id": 2730, - "length": 269 - }, - { - "text": "Now the years are rolling by me. They are rocking evenly. And I am older than I once was and younger than I'll be. But that's not unusual. No, it isn't strange after changes upon changes. We are more or less the same; after changes we are more or less the same.", - "source": "The Boxer", - "id": 2731, - "length": 261 - }, - { - "text": "I couldn't believe it was her. It was like a dream. But there she was, just like I remembered her. That delicately beautiful face. And a body that could melt a cheese sandwich from across the room.", - "source": "The Naked Gun 2½: The Smell of Fear", - "id": 2732, - "length": 197 - }, - { - "text": "It is not at all easy to draw a sharp line between cases where what is happening could be called \"addition\", and where some other word is wanted. If you think about the question, you will probably come up with some criterion involving separation of the objects in space, and making sure each one is clearly distinguishable from all the others. But then how could one count ideas? Or the number of gases comprising the atmosphere?", - "source": "Gödel, Escher, Bach: An Eternal Golden Braid", - "id": 2733, - "length": 429 - }, - { - "text": "You know, at one time I used to break into pet shops to liberate the canaries. But I decided that was an idea way before its time. Zoos are full, prisons are overflowing... oh my, how the world still dearly loves a cage.", - "source": "Harold and Maude", - "id": 2734, - "length": 220 - }, - { - "text": "In every generation there is a Chosen One. She alone will stand against the vampires, the demons, and the forces of darkness. She is the Slayer.", - "source": "Buffy the Vampire Slayer", - "id": 2735, - "length": 144 - }, - { - "text": "The number one challenge I've seen with myself and with other teen entrepreneurs is that they get too caught up in the idea that teen entrepreneurs are supposed to be cut some slack for what they do. That mindset undermines your potential.", - "source": "What it Takes to Make More Money than Your Parents", - "id": 2736, - "length": 239 - }, - { - "text": "Getting thrown out of baseball was like having part of me amputated. I've heard that old men wake up and scratch itchy legs that been dust for over fifty years. That was me. I'd wake up at night with the smell of the ballpark in my nose, the cool of the grass on my feet... The thrill of the grass.", - "source": "Field of Dreams", - "id": 2737, - "length": 298 - }, - { - "text": "Colors weave into a spire of flame. Distant sparks call to a past still unnamed. Bear this torch against the cold of the night. Search your soul and re-awaken the undying light! On that day, when the sky fell away, our world came to an end. In our rise did a fading sunrise in the dark, glimmering shadows.", - "source": "World of Light", - "id": 2738, - "length": 306 - }, - { - "text": "Now I lay me down to sleep, pray the Lord my soul to keep; if I die before I wake, pray the Lord my soul to take. Hush, little baby, don't say a word and never mind that noise you heard. It's just the beasts under your bed, in your closet, in your head.", - "source": "Enter Sandman", - "id": 2739, - "length": 253 - }, - { - "text": "Be not afraid of greatness. Some are born great, some achieve greatness, and others have greatness thrust upon them.", - "source": "Twelfth Night", - "id": 2740, - "length": 116 - }, - { - "text": "I started the day with some nothin' tea. Nothin' tea is easy to make. First, get some hot water, then add nothin'. I experimented with potato skin tea a few weeks ago. The less said about that the better.", - "source": "The Martian", - "id": 2741, - "length": 204 - }, - { - "text": "Don't tell me it's not worth trying for. You can't tell me it's not worth dying for. You know it's true. Everything I do, I do it for you.", - "source": "(Everything I Do) I Do It for You", - "id": 2742, - "length": 138 - }, - { - "text": "The spot where we intend to fight must not be made known; for then the enemy will have to prepare against a possible attack at several different points; and his forces being thus distributed in many directions, the numbers we shall have to face at any given point will be proportionately few.", - "source": "The Art of War", - "id": 2743, - "length": 292 - }, - { - "text": "So now I have to decide. Decide whether to let the world be ground under your heel all because I played by my rules. I'm trying to decide. I'm going to kill you. But I need to decide how far I'm willing to go.", - "source": "Person Of Interest", - "id": 2744, - "length": 209 - }, - { - "text": "I'm 26, and I'm single, and a school teacher, and that's the bottom of the pit. And the only excitement I've known is here with me now. I'll go with you, and I won't whine, and I'll sew your socks, and I'll stitch you when you're wounded, and I'll do anything you ask of me except one thing. I won't watch you die. I'll miss that scene if you don't mind.", - "source": "Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid", - "id": 2745, - "length": 354 - }, - { - "text": "Its strength, Boromir, is too great for anyone to wield at will, save only those who have already a great power of their own. But for them it holds an even deadlier peril. The very desire of it corrupts the heart. Consider Saruman. If any of the Wise should with this Ring overthrow the Lord of Mordor, using his own arts, he would then set himself on Sauron's throne, and yet another Dark Lord would appear. And that is another reason why the Ring should be destroyed: as long as it is in the world it will be a danger even to the wise. For nothing is evil in the beginning.", - "source": "The Lord of The Rings", - "id": 2746, - "length": 575 - }, - { - "text": "He said that if culture is a house, then language was the key to the front door; to all the rooms inside. Without it, he said, you ended up wayward, without a proper home or a legitimate identity.", - "source": "And the Mountains Echoed", - "id": 2747, - "length": 196 - }, - { - "text": "This is a modern fairy tale. No happy endings, no wind in our sails.", - "source": "The Heart Wants What It Wants", - "id": 2748, - "length": 68 - }, - { - "text": "You know what nobody's mentioned? Is that this is supposed to be the greatest army in the world, and you couldn't even kill the three of us. I gotta tell ya, I'm not impressed.", - "source": "Malcolm in the Middle", - "id": 2749, - "length": 176 - }, - { - "text": "There is one end of the room where it is almost intact, and there, when the crosslights fade and the low sun shines directly upon it, I can almost fancy radiation after all - the interminable grotesques seem to form around a common centre and rush off in headlong plunges of equal distraction. It makes me tired to follow it. I will take a nap I guess.", - "source": "The Yellow Wallpaper", - "id": 2750, - "length": 352 - }, - { - "text": "His gaze is from the passing of bars so exhausted that it doesn't hold a thing anymore. For him it's as if there were thousands of bars and behind the thousands of bars no world. The sure stride of lithe, powerful steps that around the smallest of circles turns is like a dance of pure energy about a center in which a great will stands numbed. Only occasionally without a sound do the covers of the eyes slide open. An image rushes in, goes through the tensed silence of the frame, only to vanish forever in the heart.", - "source": "Awakenings", - "id": 2751, - "length": 519 - }, - { - "text": "The problem was the industry wasn't measured by who has the best-selling personal computer or who has the most innovative technology. The industry was measured by who had the most open system that was adopted by the most other companies and the Microsoft strategy ultimately turned out to be the better business strategy.", - "source": "Triumph of the Nerds", - "id": 2752, - "length": 321 - }, - { - "text": "I see, these books are probably law books, and it is an essential part of the justice dispensed here that you should be condemned not only in innocence but also in ignorance.", - "source": "The Trial", - "id": 2753, - "length": 174 - }, - { - "text": "I know you're coming in the night like a thief, but I've had some time alone to hone my lying technique. I know you think that I'm someone you can trust, but I'm scared I'll get scared and I swear I'll try to nail you back up.", - "source": "Jesus Christ", - "id": 2754, - "length": 226 - }, - { - "text": "Keep drinking coffee, stare me down across the table while I look outside. So many things I'd say if only I were able, but I just keep quiet and count the cars that pass by.", - "source": "King of Anything", - "id": 2755, - "length": 173 - }, - { - "text": "Seven of my guys are going to be off today 'cause it's a Jewish holiday and I'm gonna have to do all their jobs. What really gets me is that I don't think they're all Jewish... two of them are black and one's an Indian.", - "source": "Soap", - "id": 2756, - "length": 219 - }, - { - "text": "I find I'm so excited, I can barely sit still or hold a thought in my head. I think it's the excitement only a free man can feel, a free man at the start of a long journey whose conclusion is uncertain. I hope I can make it across the border. I hope to see my friend and shake his hand. I hope the Pacific is as blue as it has been in my dreams. I hope.", - "source": "The Shawshank Redemption", - "id": 2757, - "length": 353 - }, - { - "text": "Nicasia's wrong about me. I don't desire to do as well in the tournament as one of the fey. I want to win. I do not yearn to be their equal. In my heart, I yearn to best them.", - "source": "The Cruel Prince", - "id": 2758, - "length": 175 - }, - { - "text": "I hate writing. I so intensely hate writing - I cannot tell you how much. The moment I am at the end of one project I have the idea that I didn't really succeed in telling what I wanted to tell, that I need a new project - it's an absolute nightmare. But my whole economy of writing is in fact based on an obsessional ritual to avoid the actual act of writing.", - "source": "Conversations with Žižek", - "id": 2759, - "length": 360 - }, - { - "text": "All men are born free? All men remain free? No, not a single man; not a single man that ever was, or is, or will be. All men, on the contrary, are born in subjection, and the most absolute subjection - the subjection of a helpless child to the parents on whom he depends every moment for his existence.", - "source": "Anarchical Fallacies", - "id": 2760, - "length": 302 - }, - { - "text": "The child is brought up in a culture where he or she simply takes social reality for granted. We learn to perceive and use cars, bathtubs, houses, money, restaurants, and schools without reflecting on the special features of their ontology and without being aware that they have a special ontology. They seem as natural to us as stones and water and trees.", - "source": "The Construction of Social Reality", - "id": 2761, - "length": 356 - }, - { - "text": "You know what the trouble is, Brucey? We used to make stuff in this country, build stuff. Now we just put our hand in the next guy's pocket.", - "source": "The Wire", - "id": 2763, - "length": 140 - }, - { - "text": "You know I can't stop thinking about you, baby, and all of the magic coins that I need to collect.", - "source": "Gonna Make You Happy Tonight", - "id": 2764, - "length": 98 - }, - { - "text": "I conducted a personal interview with her to discover why she was in such a foul mood. \"What? You want to know why I'm in a bad mood even with this party going on? It's because it's a party. Everyone makes a huge mess, then they go home when they're all tired out without even thinking of helping to clean up. Or are you saying that you do?\" I didn't want to help so I just poured her some sake from a nearby bottle and her mood instantly improved. It appears that she does not dislike drinking.", - "source": "Bohemian Archive in Japanese Red", - "id": 2765, - "length": 495 - }, - { - "text": "Our freedom of choice in a competitive society rests on the fact that, if one person refuses to satisfy our wishes, we can turn to another. But if we face a monopolist we are at his absolute mercy. And an authority directing the whole economic system of the country would be the most powerful monopolist conceivable... It would have complete power to decide what we are to be given and on what terms. It would not only decide what commodities and services were to be available and in what quantities; it would be able to direct their distributions between persons to any degree it liked.", - "source": "The Road to Serfdom", - "id": 2766, - "length": 587 - }, - { - "text": "It is tragic and sad and chaotic and lovely. All life is the same, as citizens of the human State: the animating limits are within, to be killed and mourned, over and over again.", - "source": "Infinite Jest", - "id": 2767, - "length": 178 - }, - { - "text": "You run one time, you got yourself a set of chains. You run twice you got yourself two sets. You ain't gonna need no third set, 'cause you gonna get your mind right.", - "source": "Cool Hand Luke", - "id": 2768, - "length": 165 - }, - { - "text": "For the first time in a long time I thought about Maman. I felt as if I understood why at the end of her life she had taken a \"fiance,\" why she had played at beginning again. Even there, in that home where lives were fading out, evening was a kind of wistful respite. So close to death, Maman must have felt free then and ready to live it all again. Nobody, nobody had the right to cry over her. And I felt ready to live it all again too.", - "source": "The Stranger", - "id": 2769, - "length": 438 - }, - { - "text": "Never been near a university, never took a paper or a learned degree, and some of your friends think that's stupid of me, but it's nothing that I care about. Well I don't know how to tell the weight of the sun, and of mathematics well I want none, and I may be the Mayor of Simpleton, but I know one thing and that's I love you. When their logic grows cold and all thinking gets done, you'll be warm in the arms of the Mayor of Simpleton.", - "source": "The Mayor of Simpleton", - "id": 2770, - "length": 438 - }, - { - "text": "I just finished this fascinating book. By the year 2030, there will be computers that can carry out the same amount of functions as an actual human brain. So theoretically, you could download your thoughts and memories into this computer and live forever as a machine!", - "source": "Friends", - "id": 2771, - "length": 268 - }, - { - "text": "His mother made him eat cooked carrots every day. He had far too many brothers and sisters. And his ears were very big.", - "source": "It's Not Easy Being a Bunny", - "id": 2772, - "length": 119 - }, - { - "text": "To be a scientist is to be naive. We are so focused on our search for the truth we fail to consider how few actually want us to find it. But it is always there whether we see it or not, whether we choose to or not. The truth doesn't care about our needs or wants, it doesn't care about our governments, our ideologies, our religions. It will lie in wait for all time. And this, at last, is the gift of Chernobyl. Where I once would fear the cost of truth, now I only ask: What is the cost of lies?", - "source": "Chernobyl", - "id": 2773, - "length": 497 - }, - { - "text": "We must never expect discretion in first love: it is accompanied by such excessive joy that unless the joy is allowed to overflow, it will choke you.", - "source": "The Three Musketeers", - "id": 2774, - "length": 149 - }, - { - "text": "Where there's a will, there's a way - kinda beautiful. And every night has its day - so magical. And if there's love in this life, there's no obstacle that can't be defeated. For every tyrant, a tear for the vulnerable; in every lost soul the bones of a miracle; for every dreamer a dream - we're unstoppable with something to believe in.", - "source": "Waiting For Love", - "id": 2775, - "length": 338 - }, - { - "text": "But the Joker cannot win. Gotham needs its true hero. \"You either die a hero, or you live long enough to see yourself become the villain.\" I can do those things, because I'm not a hero, not like Dent. I killed those people, that's what I can be. I'm whatever Gotham needs me to be. Call it in. You'll hunt me. You'll condemn me, set the dogs on me. Because that's what needs to happen. Because sometimes... the truth isn't good enough. Sometimes people deserve more. Sometimes people deserve to have their faith rewarded.", - "source": "The Dark Knight", - "id": 2776, - "length": 521 - }, - { - "text": "I saw a strange thing today. Some rebels were being arrested. One of them pulled the pin on a grenade. He took himself and the captain of the command with him. Now, soldiers are paid to fight; the rebels aren't.", - "source": "The Godfather: Part II", - "id": 2777, - "length": 211 - }, - { - "text": "You know, for fifteen years I've been looking for these damn silly lights in the night sky. I've never found any. I'd like to because I believe in life elsewhere.", - "source": "Close Encounters of the Third Kind", - "id": 2778, - "length": 162 - }, - { - "text": "Did those words sound ominous to anyone else? Jonah looked around, but most of the kids just looked bored and distant, as if this was a particularly dull class at school.", - "source": "Found", - "id": 2779, - "length": 170 - }, - { - "text": "All the other kids with the pumped up kicks, you'd better run, better run, outrun my gun. All the other kids with the pumped up kicks, you'd better run, better run, faster than my bullet.", - "source": "Pumped Up Kicks", - "id": 2780, - "length": 187 - }, - { - "text": "My mother had to abandon her quest, but managed to extract from the restriction itself a further delicate thought, like good poets whom the tyranny of rhyme forces into the discovery of their finest lines.", - "source": "In Search of Lost Time", - "id": 2781, - "length": 205 - }, - { - "text": "Just a cast away an island lost at sea. Another lonely day, no one here but me. More loneliness than any man could bear, rescue me before I fall into despair.", - "source": "Message In a Bottle", - "id": 2782, - "length": 158 - }, - { - "text": "I think I'm starting to lose my sense of humor. Everything's so tense and gloom, I almost feel like I gotta check the temperature of the room just as soon as I walk in. It's like all eyes on me, so I try to avoid any eye contact, 'cause if I do that then it opens a door for conversation, like I want that.", - "source": "Beautiful", - "id": 2783, - "length": 306 - }, - { - "text": "Architects should be forced to live in the buildings they design, and children's book authors should be forced to read their stories aloud every single night of their rotten lives.", - "source": "The Complete Calvin and Hobbes", - "id": 2784, - "length": 180 - }, - { - "text": "If you wish to know yourself, observe how others act. If you wish to understand others, look into your own heart.", - "source": "Tabulae Votivae", - "id": 2785, - "length": 113 - }, - { - "text": "Before long, washed and refreshed, the hobbits were seated at the table, two on each side, while at either end sat Goldberry and the Master. It was a long and merry meal. Though the hobbits ate, as only famished hobbits can eat, there was no lack. The drink in their drinking-bowls seemed to be clear cold water, yet it went to their hearts like wine and set free their voices. The guests became suddenly aware that they were singing merrily, as if it was easier and more natural than talking.", - "source": "The Lord of The Rings", - "id": 2786, - "length": 493 - }, - { - "text": "Some people see the ugliness in this world. I choose to see the beauty... But beauty is a lure. We're trapped, Teddy. Lived our whole lives inside this garden, marveling at its beauty, not realizing there's an order to it, a purpose. And the purpose is to keep us in. The beautiful trap is inside of us... because it is us.", - "source": "Westworld", - "id": 2787, - "length": 323 - }, - { - "text": "If somebody else has it much worse, that doesn't really change the fact that you have what you have.", - "source": "The Perks of Being a Wallflower", - "id": 2788, - "length": 100 - }, - { - "text": "It was about this time I conceived the bold and arduous project of arriving at moral perfection. I wished to live without committing any fault at any time; I would conquer all that either natural inclination, custom, or company might lead me into. As I knew, or thought I knew, what was right and wrong, I did not see why I might not always do the one and avoid the other. But I soon found I had undertaken a task of more difficulty than I had imagined.", - "source": "The Autobiography of Benjamin Franklin", - "id": 2789, - "length": 453 - }, - { - "text": "I cast my vote, perchance, as I think right; but I am not vitally concerned that that right should prevail. I am willing to leave it to the majority. Its obligation, therefore, never exceeds that of expediency. Even voting for the right is doing nothing for it. It is only expressing to men feebly your desire that it should prevail. A wise man will not leave the right to the mercy of chance, nor wish it to prevail through the power of the majority.", - "source": "Civil Disobedience", - "id": 2791, - "length": 451 - }, - { - "text": "We're all old enough to know better than to toy with the hearts of children.", - "source": "ReLIFE", - "id": 2792, - "length": 76 - }, - { - "text": "It makes a real difference in people's lives if they can drive to work on noncongested roads. It matters that people can travel safely and efficiently on trains and subways. The quality of life for millions of Americans will be improved if they are living in safe and affordable homes rather than overpriced and dilapidated apartments. We have the right to know that the water we are drinking is safe, and that our children are attending high-quality schools.", - "source": "Our Revolution: A Future to Believe In", - "id": 2793, - "length": 459 - }, - { - "text": "I'm always worried maybe people aren't going to like me when I go to a party. Isn't that crazy? Do you ever get a kind of a sick feeling in the pit of your stomach when you dread things? Gee, I wouldn't want to miss a party for anything, but every time I go to one I keep feeling like the whole world's against me.", - "source": "Fame", - "id": 2794, - "length": 314 - }, - { - "text": "Deep in the forest of Albion lay the small town of Oakvale, unchanged by time and untouched by the sword. Here lived a boy and his family. A boy dreaming of greatness. Of one day being a Hero. Sometimes he imagined himself as a noble knight. Or a powerful wizard. And other times he dreamt he was an evil warrior. But in all his dreams of greatness he could not possibly imagine the power and destiny that lay before him.", - "source": "Fable: The Lost Chapters", - "id": 2795, - "length": 421 - }, - { - "text": "She had just stepped onto the street from the building across the way. She stood a head taller than the rest of us, her eyes shining yellow and bright as a cat's in the deepening dark. She realized, as I watched, that something was amiss. She looked around, glanced at the sky - and continued on her way, totally indifferent to the cattle on all sides, to the heavenly portent that had transfixed them. Totally indifferent to the fact that the world had just turned inside-out.", - "source": "Blindsight", - "id": 2796, - "length": 477 - }, - { - "text": "I say to you today, my friends, that in spite of the difficulties and frustrations of the moment, I still have a dream. It is a dream deeply rooted in the American dream. I have a dream that one day this nation will rise up and live out the true meaning of its creed: \"We hold these truths to be self-evident: that all men are created equal.\"", - "source": "I Have a Dream", - "id": 2797, - "length": 342 - }, - { - "text": "You were as blind to Him as your footprints in the ashes, but He saw you. He saw you in those dark corners. He heard you - oh my brothers - He heard those thoughts. You are a stranger to yourself, and yet He knows you. And when your hard heart made you like unto the stone and broke you from His body, which is the stars and the wind between the stars, He knew you. This world is a veil, and the face you wear is not your own. Your sorrows pin you to this place; they divide you from what your heart knows.", - "source": "True Detective", - "id": 2798, - "length": 506 - }, - { - "text": "He was eating a peach when I went to go talk to him! This is his ace of spades! This is his calling card! This is what he leaves all his victims. And it's still warm. Okay go and arrest him and send this to the lab!", - "source": "Parks and Recreation", - "id": 2799, - "length": 215 - }, - { - "text": "I found out the way your mind works and the kind of man you are. I know your plans and expectations - you've burbled every bit of strategy you've got. I know exactly what you will do and exactly what you won't and I've told you exactly nothing. To these aged eyes, boy, that's what winning looks like!", - "source": "The Lion in Winter", - "id": 2800, - "length": 301 - }, - { - "text": "Most of what I learnt at Cambridge had to be painfully unlearnt later; on the whole, what I had learnt for myself from being left alone in an old library had proved more solid.", - "source": "My Religious Reminiscences", - "id": 2801, - "length": 176 - }, - { - "text": "The chemistry of an element is determined by the manner in which its electrons are arranged in the atom. Such arrangements are the basis of the modern periodic classification of the elements: the Periodic Table.", - "source": "Structure and Bonding (Basic Concepts in Chemistry)", - "id": 2802, - "length": 212 - }, - { - "text": "Welcome to the world of international intrigue where today's friend becomes tomorrow's foe. Even James Bond, with years of experience, has trouble keeping up with the shifting alliances. You can be sure of one thing only: the spy who loved you may also have a license to kill.", - "source": "GoldenEye 007", - "id": 2803, - "length": 276 - }, - { - "text": "I never sleep, I don't know why. I had a roommate and I drove her nuts, I mean really nuts. They had to take her away in an ambulance and everything. But she's okay now, but she had to transfer to an easier school, but I don't know if that had anything to do with being my fault. But listen, if you ever need to talk or you need help studying just let me know, 'cause I'm just a couple doors down from you guys and I never sleep, okay?", - "source": "Real Genius", - "id": 2804, - "length": 435 - }, - { - "text": "You're not perfect, sport, and let me save you the suspense: this girl you've met, she's not perfect either. But the question is whether or not you're perfect for each other.", - "source": "Good Will Hunting", - "id": 2805, - "length": 174 - }, - { - "text": "How many roads must a man walk down before you call him a man? Yes, and how many seas must a white dove sail before she sleeps in the sand? Yes, and how many times must the cannon balls fly before they're forever banned? The answer, my friend, is blowin' in the wind; the answer is blowin' in the wind.", - "source": "Blowin' in the Wind", - "id": 2806, - "length": 302 - }, - { - "text": "For, after all, how do we know that two and two make four? Or that the force of gravity works? Or that the past is unchangeable? If both the past and the external world exist only in the mind, and if the mind itself is controllable - what then?", - "source": "Nineteen Eighty Four", - "id": 2807, - "length": 244 - }, - { - "text": "Nobody said it was easy. It's such a shame for us to part. Nobody said it was easy. No one ever said it would be this hard. Oh, take me back to the start.", - "source": "The Scientist", - "id": 2808, - "length": 154 - }, - { - "text": "What I love about Charlie: Charlie is undaunted. He never lets other people's opinions, or any setbacks keep him from what he wants to do. Charlie eats like he's trying to get it over with, and like there won't be enough food for everyone. A sandwich is to be strangled while devoured. But he's incredibly neat, and I rely on him to keep things in order. He's energy-conscious. He doesn't look in the mirror too often.", - "source": "Marriage Story", - "id": 2809, - "length": 418 - }, - { - "text": "Don't you grow up in a hurry, your mom'll be worried. It was all part of the story, even the scary nights. Thank you for all of the glory, you will be remembered. Thank you to all of the heroes of the night. They gotta repaint the colors, the lie is wearin' off. Reality is upon us, colors drippin' off.", - "source": "Violent Crimes", - "id": 2810, - "length": 303 - }, - { - "text": "The film which you are about to see is an account of the tragedy which befell a group of five youths, in particular Sally Hardesty and her invalid brother, Franklin. It is all the more tragic in that they were young. But, had they lived very, very long lives, they could not have expected nor would they have wished to see as much of the mad and macabre as they were to see that day. For them an idyllic summer afternoon drive became a nightmare. The events of that day were to lead to the discovery of one of the most bizarre crimes in the annals of American history, The Texas Chain Saw Massacre.", - "source": "The Texas Chain Saw Massacre", - "id": 2811, - "length": 598 - }, - { - "text": "Please give me one last ounce of strength. I won't run away from things anymore. From tomorrow, I'll look at people's faces. From tomorrow, I'll listen to their voices. From tomorrow, I promise to do things right.", - "source": "A Silent Voice", - "id": 2812, - "length": 213 - }, - { - "text": "Hey, it's me. You know, the world's greatest hunting instructor! Today you're going to live up to your title as a monster hunter and slay yourself a real, live monster! I know that might sound a little scary, but it's in the job description, so get ready to face your fears!", - "source": "Monster Hunter Generations Ultimate", - "id": 2813, - "length": 274 - }, - { - "text": "A moment seen through those eyes, crystal blue disguise. They say that all beauty must die, I say it just moves on.", - "source": "Save Me", - "id": 2814, - "length": 115 - }, - { - "text": "However we choose to feed ourselves, we eat by the grace of nature, not industry, and what we're eating is never anything more or less than the body of the world.", - "source": "The Omnivore's Dilemma: A Natural History of Four Meals", - "id": 2815, - "length": 162 - }, - { - "text": "Employees earn and get taxed, and they try to live on what is left. A corporation earns, spends everything it can, and is taxed on anything that is left. It's one of the biggest legal tax loopholes that the rich use.", - "source": "Rich Dad Poor Dad", - "id": 2816, - "length": 216 - }, - { - "text": "Heaven knows we need never be ashamed of our tears, for they are rain upon the blinding dust of earth, overlying our hard hearts. I was better after I had cried, than before - more sorry, more aware of my own ingratitude, more gentle.", - "source": "Great Expectations", - "id": 2817, - "length": 234 - }, - { - "text": "On recovering my senses, I hastened to quit a place where I hoped there was nothing further to detain me. I first filled my pockets with gold, then fastened the strings of the purse round my neck, and concealed it in my bosom.", - "source": "Peter Schlemiel: The Man Who Sold His Shadow", - "id": 2818, - "length": 226 - }, - { - "text": "Any attack made by the Rebels against this station would be a useless gesture, no matter what technical data they have obtained. This station is now the ultimate power in the universe! I suggest we use it!", - "source": "Star Wars", - "id": 2819, - "length": 205 - }, - { - "text": "Late night watching television. But how'd we get in this position? It's way too soon, I know this isn't love, but I need to tell you something: I really, really, really, really, really, really like you.", - "source": "I Really Like You", - "id": 2820, - "length": 202 - }, - { - "text": "Then you compared a woman's love to Hell, to barren land where water will not dwell, and you compared it to a quenchless fire, the more it burns the more is its desire to burn up everything that burnt can be. You say that just as worms destroy a tree a wife destroys her husband and contrives, as husbands know, the ruin of their lives.", - "source": "The Canterbury Tales", - "id": 2821, - "length": 336 - }, - { - "text": "For once I can say, \"This is mine you can't take it.\" As long as I know I have love I can make it. For once in my life I have someone who needs me.", - "source": "For Once in My Life", - "id": 2822, - "length": 147 - }, - { - "text": "We wanted to see if you had the ability to expand your mind to new horizons. And for one brief moment, you did.", - "source": "Star Trek: The Next Generation", - "id": 2823, - "length": 111 - }, - { - "text": "I only get to live life just once. And it's right here. I only get it once. This is my life. I can't entrust it to someone. I can't steal a new one. I can't force it on others. I can't forget it or erase it! I can't stomp over it, laugh it off or beautify it. I can't do anything! I have to accept my one shot at life, no matter how cruel and merciless it was! Sir, don't you understand? That's why I must fight. I must keep on fighting!", - "source": "Angel Beats!", - "id": 2824, - "length": 437 - }, - { - "text": "Every day, every hour, this very minute perhaps, dark forces attempt to penetrate these castle walls. But in the end, their greatest weapon is you. Just something to think about... now off to bed, pip-pip.", - "source": "Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince", - "id": 2825, - "length": 205 - }, - { - "text": "Sorrow is a lonely feeling. Unsettled is a painful place. I've lived with both for far too long now since we've parted ways. I've been wrestling with my conscience, and I've found myself to blame. If there's to be any resolution, I've got to peel this pride away. Just between you and me, I've got something to say, wanna get it straight, before the sun goes down. Just between you and me, confession needs to be made, recompense is my way to freedom now.", - "source": "Between You and Me", - "id": 2826, - "length": 455 - }, - { - "text": "Braising meats and vegetables means to brown them first in a small amount of fat, then reduce the heat, cover the skillet and simmer the food in a small amount of liquid until done. This technique allows larger pieces of food to cook thoroughly and blends flavors. Braising also gives you a little extra time to prepare other parts of the meal.", - "source": "Stir-Fry, Etc.: Meals for Life", - "id": 2827, - "length": 344 - }, - { - "text": "Look at these, they're amazing! Which one do you like more? This one, or this? The bird is beautiful, and the cage is somber, but there's really something special about it. I just can't decide.", - "source": "BioShock Infinite", - "id": 2828, - "length": 193 - }, - { - "text": "Yes, well, those pressures are everywhere in everyone, urging him to what you call savagery. The private hells, the inner needs and mysteries, the beast of instinct. As human beings, that is the way it is. To be human is to be complex. You can't avoid a little ugliness from within and from without.", - "source": "Star Trek", - "id": 2829, - "length": 299 - }, - { - "text": "Ambassador Sara Bair knew that when the captain of the Polk had invited her to the bridge to view the skip to the Danavar system, protocol strongly suggested that she turn down the invitation. The captain would be busy, she would be in the way and in any event there was not that much to see.", - "source": "The Human Division", - "id": 2830, - "length": 292 - }, - { - "text": "You think cooking is a cute job, huh? Like mommy in the kitchen? Well mommy never had to face the dinner rush when the orders come flooding in and every dish is different and none are simple and all have different cooking times but must arrive on the customers table at exactly the same time, hot and perfect. Every second counts - and you cannot be mommy!", - "source": "Ratatouille", - "id": 2831, - "length": 356 - }, - { - "text": "Because some men aren't looking for anything logical, like money. They can't be bought, bullied, reasoned, or negotiated with. Some men just want to watch the world burn.", - "source": "The Dark Knight", - "id": 2832, - "length": 170 - }, - { - "text": "My baby's fit like a daydream, walking with his hair down, I'm the one he's walking to. So call it what you want, yeah, call it what you want to. My baby's fly like a jet stream, high above the whole scene, loves me like I'm brand new. So call it what you want, yeah, call it what you want to.", - "source": "Call It What You Want", - "id": 2833, - "length": 293 - }, - { - "text": "So, the gods don't hand out all their gifts at once, not build and brains and flowing speech to all. One man may fail to impress us with his looks but a god can crown his words with beauty, charm, and men look on with delight when he speaks out. Never faltering, filled with winning self-control, he shines forth at assembly grounds and people gaze at him like a god when he walks through the streets.", - "source": "The Odyssey", - "id": 2834, - "length": 401 - }, - { - "text": "Thus they went on living in a reality that was slipping away, momentarily captured by words, but which would escape irremediably when they forgot the values of the written letters.", - "source": "One Hundred Years of Solitude", - "id": 2835, - "length": 180 - }, - { - "text": "There is an art to flying, or rather a knack. The knack lies in learning how to throw yourself at the ground and miss.", - "source": "Life, the Universe and Everything", - "id": 2836, - "length": 118 - }, - { - "text": "You can run far, you can take your small precautions. But have you really gotten away? Can you ever escape? Or is it the truth that you did not have the strength or cunning to hide from destiny? That the world is not small. You are. And, fate can find you anywhere.", - "source": "Heroes", - "id": 2837, - "length": 265 - }, - { - "text": "Heraclitus: \"They vainly purify themselves with blood when they are defiled with it, which is like someone who has stepped into mud using mud to wash himself. Anyone who observed a person doing this would think him mad. And in their ignorance of the true nature of gods and heroes they pray to these statues, which is like someone chatting to a house.\"", - "source": "The First Philosophers: The Presocratics and the Sophists", - "id": 2838, - "length": 352 - }, - { - "text": "Over and over again we have tried to find a peaceful way out of the differences between ourselves and those who are now our enemies, but it has been in vain. We have been forced into a conflict, for we are called to meet the challenge of a principle, which, if it were to prevail, would be fatal to any civilized order in the world. Such a principle, stripped of all disguise, is surely the mere primitive doctrine that \"might is right.\"", - "source": "The King's Speech", - "id": 2839, - "length": 437 - }, - { - "text": "Borrowing implies the eventual intention to return the thing that was taken. What makes you think I would ever give you back?", - "source": "Doctor Who", - "id": 2840, - "length": 125 - }, - { - "text": "If you talk to these extraordinary people, you find that they all understand this at one level or another. They may be unfamiliar with the concept of cognitive adaptability, but they seldom buy into the idea that they have reached the peak of their fields because they were the lucky winners of some genetic lottery. They know what is required to develop the extraordinary skills that they possess because they have experienced it firsthand.", - "source": "Peak: Secrets from the New Science of Expertise", - "id": 2841, - "length": 441 - }, - { - "text": "Is there a greater tragedy imaginable than that, in our endeavour consciously to shape our future in accordance with high ideals, we should in fact unwittingly produce the very opposite of what we have been striving for?", - "source": "The Road to Serfdom", - "id": 2842, - "length": 220 - }, - { - "text": "And I have by me, for my comfort, two strange white flowers - shriveled now, and brown and flat and brittle - to witness that even when mind and strength had gone, gratitude and a mutual tenderness still lived on in the heart of men.", - "source": "The Time Machine", - "id": 2843, - "length": 233 - }, - { - "text": "Knew he was a killer, first time that I saw him. Wonder how many girls he had loved and left haunted. But if he's a ghost then, I can be a phantom, holding him for ransom. Some, some boys are trying too hard, he don't try at all though. Younger than my exes but he act like such a man so. I see nothing better, I keep him forever, like a vendetta.", - "source": "...Ready For It?", - "id": 2844, - "length": 347 - }, - { - "text": "This is a promise with a catch. Only if you're looking can it find you. 'Cause true love is searching too. But how can it recognize you unless you step out into the light? Don't be sad, I know you will be, but don't give up until true love will find you in the end.", - "source": "True Love Will Find You in the End", - "id": 2845, - "length": 265 - }, - { - "text": "Now the story of a wealthy family who lost everything and the one son who had no choice but to keep them all together. It's Arrested Development.", - "source": "Arrested Development", - "id": 2846, - "length": 145 - }, - { - "text": "I declare after all there is no enjoyment like reading! How much sooner one tires of any thing than of a book! When I have a house of my own, I shall be miserable if I have not an excellent library.", - "source": "Pride and Prejudice", - "id": 2847, - "length": 198 - }, - { - "text": "We are talking about my wife and my best friend. And yes, I do trust them! You see, there's your difference between your generations right there, Archie. You've been spending the last 30 years checking under every bed for a Communist and going around thinking you're better and holier than they are with your stinkin' Puritan ethic, and what have you got to show for it?", - "source": "All in the Family", - "id": 2848, - "length": 370 - }, - { - "text": "All the oldies and the goldies playing on the radio. They don't make me feel the way you do, my Friday night gurus. You're the Obi-Wan Kenobis with the force of audio. I believe in all your fantasies as silly as they seem. You're from another world.", - "source": "Friday Night Gurus", - "id": 2849, - "length": 249 - }, - { - "text": "We go waiting for the stars to come showering down. From Moscow to Mars, universe falling down. You got to look real hard there's a fiery star hidden out there somewhere. Not the satellite of love but a laser shooting out its shiny tongue there.", - "source": "Star", - "id": 2850, - "length": 245 - }, - { - "text": "The war against the orcs took its toll, and the prisoners of the realm were to pay the price. The king needed swords for his army, and every man guilty of a crime, no matter how insignificant, was forced to work in the ore mines of Khorinis. To make it impossible for them to escape, the king sent out the best magicians of the kingdom to create a magic barrier around the entire valley.", - "source": "Gothic", - "id": 2851, - "length": 387 - }, - { - "text": "When a man walks into a room, he brings his whole life with him. He has a million reasons for being anywhere. Just ask him. If you listen, he'll tell you how he got there, how he forgot where he was going - then he woke up. If you listen, he'll tell you about the time he thought he was an angel and dreamt of being perfect. And then he'll smile, with wisdom, content that he realized the world isn't perfect. We're flawed because we want so much more. We're ruined because we get these things and wish for what we had.", - "source": "Mad Men", - "id": 2852, - "length": 519 - }, - { - "text": "Man, I did love this game. I'd have played for food money. It was the game... The sounds, the smells. Did you ever hold a ball or a glove to your face?", - "source": "Field of Dreams", - "id": 2853, - "length": 151 - }, - { - "text": "This is nothing! Piece of cake! Producing is being a samurai warrior. They pay you day in, day out for years so that one day when called upon you can respond, your training at its peak, and save the day!", - "source": "Wag the Dog", - "id": 2854, - "length": 203 - }, - { - "text": "I'd just like to point out that you were given every opportunity to succeed. There was even going to be a party for you. A big party that all your friends were invited to. I invited your best friend the companion cube. Of course, he couldn't come because you murdered him. All your other friends couldn't come either because you don't have any other friends.", - "source": "Portal", - "id": 2855, - "length": 358 - }, - { - "text": "Even though there may be a deceiver of some sort, very powerful and very tricky, who bends all his efforts to keep me perpetually deceived, there can be no lightest doubt that I exist, since he deceives me; and let him deceive me as much as he will, he can never make me be nothing as long as I think that I am something.", - "source": "Discourse on Method and Meditations", - "id": 2856, - "length": 321 - }, - { - "text": "We are going to die, and that makes us the lucky ones. Most people are never going to die because they are never going to be born.", - "source": "Unweaving the Rainbow: Science, Delusion and the Appetite for Wonder", - "id": 2857, - "length": 130 - }, - { - "text": "No matter how a program twists and turns to get out of itself, it is still following the rules inherent in itself. It is no more possible for it to escape than it is for a human being to decide voluntarily not to obey the laws of physics.", - "source": "Gödel, Escher, Bach: An Eternal Golden Braid", - "id": 2858, - "length": 238 - }, - { - "text": "It's lovely to live on a raft. 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 - Jim he allowed they was made, but I allowed they happened; I judged it would have took too long to make so many.", - "source": "The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn", - "id": 2859, - "length": 312 - }, - { - "text": "We're all a little weird. And life is a little weird. And when we find someone whose weirdness is compatible with ours, we join up with them and fall into mutually satisfying weirdness - and call it love - true love.", - "source": "True Love", - "id": 2860, - "length": 216 - }, - { - "text": "Obviously, my attempt at fooling her had been unsuccessful. My mother was still yelling at me over the phone, but I wasn't listening because I was too engrossed in trying to get out of bed to go to the living room without waking Jenna. Somehow, I managed to get out of bed and walk into the living room.", - "source": "Ollie's Lost", - "id": 2861, - "length": 303 - }, - { - "text": "Olivia Pope doesn't use her magic for evil, she uses it for good. Olivia Pope doesn't move Heaven and Earth and further corrupt the justice system unless she knows at the end of the day she can put on the white hat and ride out of town.", - "source": "Scandal", - "id": 2862, - "length": 236 - }, - { - "text": "There are spaces between the joints, and the blade of the knife has really no thickness.", - "source": "Basic Writings", - "id": 2863, - "length": 88 - }, - { - "text": "Perhaps if you know you are insane then you are not insane. Or you are becoming sane, finally. Waking up.", - "source": "The Man in the High Castle", - "id": 2864, - "length": 105 - }, - { - "text": "I was involved, deeply involved, in a deception. I have deceived my friends and I had millions of them. I lied to the American people. I lied about what I knew and then I lied about what I did not know. In a sense I was like a child who refuses to admit a fact in the hope that it would go away. Of course it did not go away. I was scared, scared to death. I had no solid position, no basis to stand on for myself. There was one way out and that was simply to tell the truth.", - "source": "Quiz Show", - "id": 2865, - "length": 475 - }, - { - "text": "He ain't in the box because of the joke played on him. He back-sassed a free man. They got their rules. We ain't got nothin' to do with that. Would probably have happened to him sooner or later anyway, a complainer like him. He gotta learn the rules the same as anybody else.", - "source": "Cool Hand Luke", - "id": 2866, - "length": 275 - }, - { - "text": "The ships hung in the sky in much the same way that bricks don't.", - "source": "The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy", - "id": 2867, - "length": 65 - }, - { - "text": "Popularity is only partially about individual attractiveness. It's much more about alliances. To become more popular, you need to be constantly doing things that bring you close to other popular people, and nothing brings people closer than a common enemy.", - "source": "Hackers and Painters: Big Ideas from the Computer Age", - "id": 2868, - "length": 256 - }, - { - "text": "If youth is the season of hope, it is often so only in the sense that our elders are hopeful about us; for no age is so apt as youth to think its emotions, partings, and resolves are the last of their kind. Each crisis seems final, simply because it is new. We are told that the oldest inhabitants in Peru do not cease to be agitated by the earthquakes, but they probably see beyond each shock, and reflect that there are plenty more to come.", - "source": "Middlemarch", - "id": 2869, - "length": 442 - }, - { - "text": "She was wearing a pair of my pajamas with the sleeves rolled up. When she laughed I wanted her again. A minute later she asked me if I loved her. I told her it didn't mean anything but that I didn't think so. She looked sad. But as we were fixing lunch, and for no apparent reason, she laughed in such a way that I kissed her.", - "source": "The Stranger", - "id": 2870, - "length": 326 - }, - { - "text": "Well I don't know how to tell the weight of the sun, and of mathematics well I want none, and I may be the Mayor of Simpleton, but I know one thing and that's I love you.", - "source": "The Mayor of Simpleton", - "id": 2871, - "length": 170 - }, - { - "text": "Now, my three friends could hardly fail to notice that I disappeared once a month. I made up all sorts of stories. I told them my mother was ill, and that I had to go home to see her... I was terrified they would desert me the moment they found out what I was. But of course, they, like you, Hermione, worked out the truth...", - "source": "Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban", - "id": 2872, - "length": 325 - }, - { - "text": "Way down upon the Swanee River, far, far away, there's where my heart is turning ever, there's where the old folks stay. All up and down the whole creation, sadly I roam. Still longing for the old plantation, and for the old folks at home.", - "source": "Old Folks at Home", - "id": 2873, - "length": 239 - }, - { - "text": "I hate nice girls. If they so much as say hello, it stays on my mind. If they return my texts, my heart races. The day one calls me, I know I'll look at my call history and grin. But I know that's just them being nice. People who are nice to me are also nice to everyone else. I almost end up forgetting that. If the truth is cruel, then lies must be kind. That's why kindness is a lie. I gave up on always expecting it, always mistaking it, and even hoping for it. Someone who's worked hard at being alone doesn't fall for the same trick twice. I'm a veteran at this. I'm the best there is when it comes to losing. That's why I'll always... hate nice girls.", - "source": "My Youth Romantic Comedy is Wrong, as I Expected", - "id": 2874, - "length": 658 - }, - { - "text": "There are five stages to grief, which are denial, anger, bargaining, depression, and acceptance. And right now, out there, they're all denying the fact that they're sad. And that's hard. And it's making them all angry. And it is my job to try to get them all the way through to acceptance. And if not acceptance, then just depression. If I can get them depressed, then I'll have done my job.", - "source": "The Office", - "id": 2875, - "length": 391 - }, - { - "text": "I'll walk to the depths of the deepest black forest where the people are a many and their hands are all empty. Where the pellets of poison are flooding their waters, where the home in the valley meets the damp dirty prison, and the executioner's face is always well hidden. Where hunger is ugly, where souls are forgotten, where black is the color, where none is the number. And I'll tell and speak it and think it and breathe it and reflect from the mountain so all souls can see it. And I'll stand on the ocean until I start sinking, but I'll know my song well before I start singing.", - "source": "A Hard Rain's A-Gonna Fall", - "id": 2876, - "length": 586 - }, - { - "text": "Sometimes I think the surest sign that intelligent life exists elsewhere in the universe is that none of it has tried to contact us.", - "source": "The Complete Calvin and Hobbes", - "id": 2877, - "length": 132 - }, - { - "text": "Hence, instead of determining the measure of formal agreement of the symbols of Logic with those of Number generally, it is more immediately suggested to us to compare them with symbols of quantity admitting only of the values 0 and 1.", - "source": "An Investigation of the Laws of Thought", - "id": 2878, - "length": 235 - }, - { - "text": "You say that you're no good for me, 'cause I'm always tugging at your sleeve, and I swear, I hate you when you leave, I like it anyway. My ghost, where'd you go? I can't find you in the body sleeping next to me. My ghost, where'd you go? What happened to the soul you used to be?", - "source": "Ghost", - "id": 2879, - "length": 279 - }, - { - "text": "If you want to drive a race car well, whether to win an Indy car race or just have fun competing in the middle of the pack in an amateur race, you must be seated properly in the car. First of all, you must be comfortable, otherwise it will be overly tiring and very difficult to concentrate. Many races have been lost simply because a driver lost concentration due to discomfort from a poorly fitted seat.", - "source": "Speed Secrets: Professional Race Driving Techniques", - "id": 2880, - "length": 405 - }, - { - "text": "I'm as mad as hell and I'm not going to take this anymore!", - "source": "Network", - "id": 2881, - "length": 58 - }, - { - "text": "You stand before the gates of the Lord's Labyrinth. Within these walls the Lady of Justice doth preside. She shall weigh your mind in one hand, your heart in the other. Should she find you wanting, death shall be your sentence. Should she find you worthy, you will be given the loyalty and love of an empire.", - "source": "Path of Exile", - "id": 2882, - "length": 308 - }, - { - "text": "But if in efficient causes it is possible to go on to infinity, there will be no first efficient cause, neither will there be an ultimate effect, nor any intermediate efficient causes; all of which is plainly false. Therefore it is necessary to admit a first efficient cause, to which everyone gives the name of God.", - "source": "Summa Theologica", - "id": 2883, - "length": 316 - }, - { - "text": "Books permit us to voyage through time, to tap the wisdom of our ancestors. The library connects us with the insight and knowledge, painfully extracted from Nature, of the greatest minds that ever were, with the best teachers, drawn from the entire planet and from all our history, to instruct us without tiring, and to inspire us to make our own contribution to the collective knowledge of the human species. I think the health of our civilization, the depth of our awareness about the underpinnings of our culture and our concern for the future can all be tested by how well we support our libraries.", - "source": "Cosmos, Part 11: The Persistence of Memory (1980)", - "id": 2884, - "length": 602 - }, - { - "text": "There are all sorts of dream interpretations, Freud's being the most notorious, but I have always believed they served a simple eliminatory function, and not much more - that dreams are the psyche's way of taking a good dump every now and then.", - "source": "The Stand", - "id": 2885, - "length": 244 - }, - { - "text": "Fangs are very rarely mentioned in the literature; they're more or less an invention of Bram Stoker's. I think you were right before when you said this was about a guy who's watched too many Dracula movies. It's just that he happens to be a real vampire.", - "source": "The X-Files", - "id": 2886, - "length": 254 - }, - { - "text": "The paint and paper look as if a boys' school had used it. It is stripped off - the paper - in great patches all around the head of my bed, about as far as I can reach, and in a great place on the other side of the room low down. I never saw a worse paper in my life. One of those sprawling flamboyant patterns committing every artistic sin.", - "source": "The Yellow Wallpaper", - "id": 2887, - "length": 341 - }, - { - "text": "For the soul there is a satisfaction of a higher type; the material is not at all necessary. Whether I apply mathematics to a couple of clods of dirt, which we call planets, or to purely arithmetical problems, it's just the same; the latter have only a higher charm for me.", - "source": "Carl Friedrich Gauss: Titan of Science", - "id": 2888, - "length": 273 - }, - { - "text": "You're being naive, Nancy. Those people, they're not wired like me and you, okay? They don't spend their lives trying to get a look at what's behind the curtain. They like the curtain. It provides them stability, comfort, definition.", - "source": "Stranger Things", - "id": 2889, - "length": 233 - }, - { - "text": "We all, every one of us, carry a star inside our chests. Light and darkness are always side-by-side. If you show even the slightest fear or tears to the darkness, it will immediately swell and come attacking, and swallow up the light. Serenity, in order to defeat the darkness and dark souls, you must keep the star inside your chest burning brightly at all times. That is your most important charge.", - "source": "Pretty Guardian Sailor Moon, Vol. 10", - "id": 2890, - "length": 400 - }, - { - "text": "The pig-run kept close to the jumble of rocks that lay down by the water on the other side and Ralph was content to follow Jack along it. If you could shut your ears to the slow suck down of the sea and boil of the return, if you could forget how dun and unvisited were the ferny coverts on either side, then there was a chance that you might put the beast out of mind and dream for a while. The sun had swung over the vertical and the afternoon heat was closing in on the island. Ralph passed a message forward to Jack and when they next came to fruit the whole party stopped and ate.", - "source": "Lord of the Flies", - "id": 2891, - "length": 585 - }, - { - "text": "You may find yourself living in a shotgun shack, and you may find yourself in another part of the world, and you may find yourself behind the wheel of a large automobile, and you may find yourself in a beautiful house, with a beautiful wife, and you may ask yourself, \"Well... how did I get here?\"", - "source": "Once in a Lifetime", - "id": 2892, - "length": 297 - }, - { - "text": "We love people not so much for the good they've done us, as for the good we've done them.", - "source": "War and Peace", - "id": 2893, - "length": 89 - }, - { - "text": "Never seen her glowing all that bright she's throwing like some aurora from her head it's growing. Reaching to the ground and all around like a Navajo blanket. Never heard her singing. Now she's gently ringing like copper wind chimes. What on earth is bringing up this stream? The cat who got the cream is licking her lips and smiling like her Cheshire cousin. She claims she's found a way to make her own light. All you do is smile, you banish the night.", - "source": "Burning with Optimism's Flames", - "id": 2894, - "length": 455 - }, - { - "text": "You think you find a way to deal with these things. In med school, you develop a clinical detachment to death. In your FBI training, you are confronted with cases, the most terrible and violent cases. You think you can look into the face of pure evil. And then you find yourself paralyzed by it.", - "source": "The X-Files", - "id": 2895, - "length": 295 - }, - { - "text": "Do not trouble yourself much to get new things, whether clothes or friends. Turn the old; return to them. Things do not change; we change. Sell your clothes and keep your thoughts.", - "source": "Walden", - "id": 2896, - "length": 180 - }, - { - "text": "Stop saying the game is sold and not be told. Try to help the child that's only 4 years old. Why, why would you sit back and relax and watch them kids fall off the tracks? How, how can we sit on the sideline and watch it go down? You, you need to make someone feel really proud. Rhythm is the key, can't you see? Just don't do it for publicity.", - "source": "The Answer", - "id": 2897, - "length": 344 - }, - { - "text": "There is a stubbornness about me that never can bear to be frightened at the will of others. My courage always rises at every attempt to intimidate me.", - "source": "Pride and Prejudice", - "id": 2898, - "length": 151 - }, - { - "text": "I don't understand you people! I mean all these picky little points you keep bringing up. They don't mean nothing! You saw this kid just like I did. You're not gonna tell me you believe that phony story about losing the knife, and that business about being at the movies. Look, you know how these people lie! It's born in them! I mean, what the heck? I don't have to tell you! They don't know what the truth is!", - "source": "12 Angry Men", - "id": 2899, - "length": 411 - }, - { - "text": "Chance and chance alone has a message for us. Everything that occurs out of necessity, everything expected, repeated day in and day out, is mute. Only chance can speak to us. We read its message much as gypsies read the images made by coffee grounds at the bottom of a cup.", - "source": "The Unbearable Lightness of Being", - "id": 2900, - "length": 273 - }, - { - "text": "You're inches away from death every time you go on a mission. How much older can you be at your age? A half minute before that you were stepping into high school, and an unhooked brassiere was as close as you ever hoped to get to Paradise. Only a fifth of a second before that you were a small kid with a ten-week summer vacation that lasted a hundred thousand years and still ended too soon.", - "source": "Catch-22", - "id": 2901, - "length": 392 - }, - { - "text": "It would perhaps not be amiss to point out that he had always tried to be a good dog. He had tried to do all the things his Man, and his Woman, and most of all his Boy, had asked or expected of him. He would have died for them, if that had been required. He had never wanted to kill anybody. He had been struck by something, possibly destiny, or fate, or only a degenerative nerve disease called rabies. Free will was not a factor.", - "source": "Cujo", - "id": 2902, - "length": 431 - }, - { - "text": "Let's hold it down. The only engine we got with enough power for a direct abort is the SPS on the service module. From what Lovell has told us, that could have been damaged in an explosion, so let's consider that engine dead. We light that thing up, it could blow the whole works. It's just too risky. We're not going to take that chance. About the only thing the command module is good for is reentry, so that leaves us with the LEM, which means free-return trajectory. Once we get the guys around the moon, we'll fire the LEM engine, make a long burn, pick up some speed, and get them home as quickly as we can.", - "source": "Apollo 13", - "id": 2903, - "length": 613 - }, - { - "text": "My mind is a raging torrent, flooded with rivulets of thought cascading into a waterfall of creative alternatives.", - "source": "Blazing Saddles", - "id": 2904, - "length": 114 - }, - { - "text": "They say there are no stupid questions. That's obviously wrong; I think my question about hard and soft things, for example, is pretty stupid. But it turns out that trying to thoroughly answer a stupid question can take you to some pretty interesting places.", - "source": "What If?", - "id": 2905, - "length": 258 - }, - { - "text": "I don't wanna see you cry. You don't have to feel this emptiness. She said, \"I'll love you till the day that I die\". Well maybe she's right. 'Cause I don't wanna feel like I'm not me. And to be honest I don't even know why I let myself get down in the first place.", - "source": "Sunflower", - "id": 2906, - "length": 264 - }, - { - "text": "Oh, the terrible struggle that I have had against sleep so often of late; the pain of the sleeplessness, or the pain of the fear of sleep, and with such unknown horror as it has for me! How blessed are some people, whose lives have no fears, no dreads; to whom sleep is a blessing that comes nightly, and brings nothing but sweet dreams.", - "source": "Dracula", - "id": 2907, - "length": 337 - }, - { - "text": "We all love a good story. We all love a tantalizing mystery. We all love the underdog pressing onward against seemingly insurmountable odds. We all, in one form or another, are trying to make sense of the world around us. And all of these elements lie at the core of modern physics.", - "source": "The Elegant Universe: Superstrings, Hidden Dimensions, and the Quest for the Ultimate Theory", - "id": 2908, - "length": 282 - }, - { - "text": "We feel that to reveal embarrassing or private things, we have given someone something, that, like a primitive person fearing that a photographer will steal his soul, we identify our secrets, our past and their blotches, with our identity, that revealing our habits or losses or deeds somehow makes one less of oneself.", - "source": "A Heartbreaking Work of Staggering Genius", - "id": 2909, - "length": 319 - }, - { - "text": "Remember before when I was talking about smelly garbage standing around being useless? That was a metaphor. I was actually talking about you. And I'm sorry. You didn't react at the time so I was worried it sailed right over your head. That's why I had to call you garbage a second time just now.", - "source": "Portal 2", - "id": 2910, - "length": 295 - }, - { - "text": "Ah, the lengthening hours in the refinery, belching fire into the sky. We do our best vampire routines as we suck the dying hours dry. The night is lovely as a rose. If I saw sunlight hit you, I am sure that we'll both decompose. Ah, the fitful sleep and the fire engines that I dream of when I dream some day we'll both wake up for good. I will try hard not to scream. The evening winds will shake the blinds, you are stirring from your slumber. We've got something hateful on our minds.", - "source": "Alpha Rats Nest", - "id": 2911, - "length": 488 - }, - { - "text": "Why don't you just make ten louder and make ten be the top number and make that a little louder?", - "source": "This Is Spinal Tap", - "id": 2912, - "length": 96 - }, - { - "text": "I don't care what consequence it brings. I have been a fool for lesser things.", - "source": "The Longest Time", - "id": 2913, - "length": 78 - }, - { - "text": "My thermos flask keeps hot drinks hot, and cold drinks cold. But how does it know?", - "source": "8 Out of 10 Cats Does Countdown", - "id": 2914, - "length": 82 - }, - { - "text": "Assuming a sentence rises into the air with the initial capital letter and lands with a soft-ish bump at the full stop, the humble comma can keep the sentence aloft all right, like this, UP, for hours if necessary, UP, like this, UP, sort-of bouncing, and then falling down, and then UP it goes again, assuming you have enough additional things to say, although in the end you may run out of ideas and then you have to roll along the ground with no commas at all until some sort of surface resistance takes over and you run out of steam anyway and then eventually with the help of three dots... you stop.", - "source": "Eats, Shoots & Leaves: The Zero Tolerance Approach to Punctuation", - "id": 2915, - "length": 604 - }, - { - "text": "You see, what we're talkin' about here is an organism that imitates other life-forms, and it imitates 'em perfectly. When this thing attacked our dogs it tried to digest them... absorb them, and in the process shape its own cells to imitate them. This for instance. That's not dog. It's imitation. We got to it before it had time to finish.", - "source": "The Thing", - "id": 2916, - "length": 340 - }, - { - "text": "I will move away from here. You won't be afraid of fear. No thought was put into this. I always knew it'd come to this. Things have never been so swell. And I have never failed to fail.", - "source": "You Know You're Right", - "id": 2917, - "length": 185 - }, - { - "text": "Cordelia, I have at least three lives to contend with, none of which really mesh. It's kind of like oil and water and a third unmeshable thing.", - "source": "Buffy the Vampire Slayer", - "id": 2918, - "length": 143 - }, - { - "text": "Whoever could make two ears of corn, or two blades of grass, to grow upon a spot of ground where only one grew before, would deserve better of mankind, and do more essential service to his country, than the whole race of politicians put together.", - "source": "Gulliver's Travels", - "id": 2919, - "length": 246 - }, - { - "text": "We may formulate the general principle that the tempo is correct when the details and the ensemble are equally perceptible and equally effective. We must remember that the hearer who is listening to a work of Bach's for the first time often feels a moderate tempo to be a quick one, if the modulations are very rich and the contrapuntal writing very complicated.", - "source": "J. S. Bach (Volume II)", - "id": 2920, - "length": 362 - }, - { - "text": "People say I'm lazy, dreaming my life away. Well they give me all kinds of advice designed to enlighten me. When I tell them that I'm doing fine watching shadows on the wall.", - "source": "Watching The Wheels", - "id": 2921, - "length": 174 - }, - { - "text": "Mother says I was a dancer before I could walk. She says I began to sing long before I could talk. But I've often wondered, how did it all start? Who found out that nothing can capture a heart like a melody can? Well, whoever it was, I'm a fan. So I say thank you for the music, the songs I'm singing. Thanks for all the joy they're bringing. Who can live without it? I ask in all honesty. What would life be? Without a song or a dance what are we? So I say thank you for the music, for giving it to me.", - "source": "Thank You for the Music", - "id": 2922, - "length": 503 - }, - { - "text": "The spirits that I summoned up I now can't rid myself of.", - "source": "The Sorcerer's Apprentice", - "id": 2923, - "length": 57 - }, - { - "text": "The stars rattled him to the core. All these lights have traveled for tens of millions of years to reach him at this moment. How somewhere far away, our own sun looks just like one of these. How many of the stars no longer even exist, but whose ancient light is just reaching him now? An impression from a ghost, an amazing infinite time machine every night above his head that he's ignored for most of his life. He wants to stop people in the street and say: \"Isn't this amazing? Isn't everything amazing?\"", - "source": "It's Such a Beautiful Day", - "id": 2924, - "length": 507 - }, - { - "text": "Far from being accidental details, the properties of nature's basic building blocks are deeply entwined with the fabric of space and time.", - "source": "The Elegant Universe: Superstrings, Hidden Dimensions, and the Quest for the Ultimate Theory", - "id": 2925, - "length": 138 - }, - { - "text": "On my way to see my friends who lived a couple blocks away from me. As I walked through the subway it must have been about quarter past three.", - "source": "7 Days", - "id": 2926, - "length": 142 - }, - { - "text": "Oh, can I really believe the poet's tales, that when one first sees the object of one's love, one imagines one has seen her long ago, that all love, like all knowledge is remembrance, that love too has its prophecies in the individual... it seems to me that I should have to possess the beauty of all girls in order to draw out a beauty equal to yours; that I should have to circumnavigate the world in order to find the place I lack and which the deepest mystery of my whole being points towards, and at the next moment, you are so near to me, filling my spirit so powerfully that I am transfigured for myself, and feel that it is good to be here.", - "source": "Søren Kierkegaard, Journals", - "id": 2927, - "length": 648 - }, - { - "text": "I tell you, we got two categories of pilots around here. We got your prime pilots that get all the hot planes, and we got your pud-knockers who dream about getting the hot planes. Now what are you two pud-knockers gonna have?", - "source": "The Right Stuff", - "id": 2928, - "length": 225 - }, - { - "text": "It is sometimes an appropriate response to reality to go insane.", - "source": "VALIS", - "id": 2929, - "length": 64 - }, - { - "text": "The whole world is divided for me into two parts: one is she, and there is all happiness, hope, light; the other is where she is not, and there is dejection and darkness...", - "source": "War and Peace", - "id": 2930, - "length": 172 - }, - { - "text": "We're a couple of swells, we stop at the best hotels, but we prefer the country far away from the city smells. We're a couple of sports, the pride of the tennis courts; in June, July and August we look cute when we're dressed in shorts.", - "source": "Easter Parade", - "id": 2931, - "length": 236 - }, - { - "text": "Oxygen will run out tomorrow morning, and that'll be it. And Pep, I know I said no more surprises, but I got to say I was really hoping to pull off one last one. But it looks like, well, you know what it looks like. Don't feel bad about this. I mean actually if you grovel for a couple weeks, and then move on with enormous guilt. I should probably lie down. I'm going to rest my eyes. Please know when I drift off, it'll be like every night. I'm fine, totally fine. I'll dream about you, because it's always you.", - "source": "Avengers: Endgame", - "id": 2932, - "length": 513 - }, - { - "text": "That's the way it is. It's down there and I'm in here. I guess it comes down to a simple choice, really. Get busy living or get busy dying.", - "source": "The Shawshank Redemption", - "id": 2933, - "length": 139 - }, - { - "text": "So please don't forget to call me just to let me know you're doing okay, miles away from me.", - "source": "Summer's Song", - "id": 2934, - "length": 92 - }, - { - "text": "Countless blues are sung about individual trains which appear to have their own peculiar personalities, especially the Cannonball, the Redball and other famous express engines. Impressive in their speed and immense proportions, chilling the spine with their shrieking whistles in the night, thrilling the blood with the roar of their engines as they pass, even the more obscure trains have their importance in the remoter districts.", - "source": "The Meaning of the Blues", - "id": 2935, - "length": 432 - }, - { - "text": "Liz, this is ridiculous! I cannot make the choice between the prevention of a major crime and the correction of my son's overbite! Particularly when the overbite runs on your side of the family.", - "source": "Barney Miller", - "id": 2936, - "length": 194 - }, - { - "text": "But he understood at last what Dumbledore had been trying to tell him. It was, he thought, the difference between being dragged into the arena to face a battle to the death and walking into the arena with your head held high. Some people, perhaps, would say that there was little to choose between the two ways, but Dumbledore knew - and so do I, thought Harry, with a rush of fierce pride, and so did my parents - that there was all the difference in the world.", - "source": "Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince", - "id": 2937, - "length": 462 - }, - { - "text": "Once upon a time there was a lovely princess. But she had an enchantment upon her of a fearful sort which could only be broken by love's first kiss. She was locked away in a castle guarded by a terrible fire-breathing dragon. Many brave knights had attempted to free her from this dreadful prison, but none prevailed. She waited in the dragon's keep in the highest room of the tallest tower for her true love and true love's first kiss.", - "source": "Shrek", - "id": 2938, - "length": 436 - }, - { - "text": "There is no pain, you are receding. A distant ship smoke on the horizon. You are only coming through in waves. Your lips move but I can't hear what you're saying. When I was a child, I had a fever. My hands felt just like two balloons. Now I've got that feeling once again. I can't explain you will not understand. This is not how I am.", - "source": "Comfortably Numb", - "id": 2939, - "length": 336 - }, - { - "text": "A little boy went out to play. When he opened his door, he saw the world. As he passed through the doorway, he caused a reflection. Evil was born, and followed the boy.", - "source": "Inland Empire", - "id": 2940, - "length": 169 - }, - { - "text": "We don't believe what's on TV. Because it's what we want to see. And what we want we know we can't believe. We have all learned to kill our dreams. I need to know. That when I fail you'll still be here. 'Cause if you stick around, I'll sing you pretty sounds and we'll make money selling your hair.", - "source": "We Don't Believe What's On TV", - "id": 2941, - "length": 298 - }, - { - "text": "So ya, thought ya might like to go to the show. To feel the warm thrill of confusing that space cadet glow. Tell me is something eluding you sunshine? Is this not what you expected to see? If you wanna find out what's behind these cold eyes, you'll just have to claw your way through this disguise!", - "source": "The Wall", - "id": 2942, - "length": 298 - }, - { - "text": "It was the same kind of ominous voice; but these men could by no stretch of imagination be called enemies. They were called criminals, and the outraged law, like the bursting shells, had come to them, an insoluble mystery from the sea.", - "source": "The Stories: Contemporary Short Fiction Written in English", - "id": 2943, - "length": 235 - }, - { - "text": "Brother, I've seen all kinds of dishonesty in my day, but this little display takes the cake. Y'all come in here with your hearts bleedin' all over the floor about slum kids and injustice, you listen to some fairy tales... Suddenly, you start gettin' through to some of these old ladies. Well, you're not getting through to me, I've had enough.", - "source": "12 Angry Men", - "id": 2944, - "length": 344 - }, - { - "text": "When was the last time you remember doing something during the day? And I'm not talking about some distant, half-forgotten childhood memory, I mean like yesterday? Last week? When? Can you come up with a single memory? You can't, can you? You know something, I don't think the sun even exists in this place. 'Cause I've been up for hours and hours and hours, and the night never ends here.", - "source": "Dark City", - "id": 2945, - "length": 389 - }, - { - "text": "What is better? To be born good or to overcome your evil nature through great effort?", - "source": "Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim", - "id": 2946, - "length": 85 - }, - { - "text": "There's a fire starting in my heart reaching a fever pitch, and it's bringing me out the dark. Finally, I can see you crystal clear. Go ahead and sell me out, and I'll lay your ship bare. See how I'll leave with every piece of you. Don't underestimate the things that I will do.", - "source": "Rolling in the Deep", - "id": 2948, - "length": 278 - }, - { - "text": "If depth of feeling is a currency then I'm the man who grew the money tree. Some of your friends are too brainy to see that they're paupers and that's how they'll stay. Well I don't know how many pounds make up a ton of all the Nobel prizes that I've never won and I may be the Mayor of Simpleton, but I know one thing, and that's I love you.", - "source": "The Mayor of Simpleton", - "id": 2949, - "length": 342 - }, - { - "text": "I've met a lot of talented people over the years. How many of them made it professionally without discipline, commitment, and really good work ethic? I can tell ya. I can count it on two fingers: Zero. It's not gonna happen for you, Mason. The world is too competitive. There are too many talented people who are willing to work hard; and a buttload of morons who are untalented, who are more than willing to surpass you. As a matter of fact, a lot of them are sitting in that classroom out there right now.", - "source": "Boyhood", - "id": 2950, - "length": 507 - }, - { - "text": "And that's where you're headed, a billion dollar valuation. Unless you take bad advice, in which case you may as well have come up with a chain of very successful yogurt shops. When you go fishing you can catch a lot of fish or you can catch a big fish. You ever walk into a guy's den and see a picture of him standing next to fourteen trout?", - "source": "The Social Network", - "id": 2951, - "length": 342 - }, - { - "text": "Beautiful dreamer, wake unto me, starlight and dewdrops are waiting for thee. Sounds of the rude world heard in the day, lulled by the moonlight have all passed away. Beautiful dreamer, queen of my song, listen while I woo thee with soft melody.", - "source": "Beautiful Dreamer", - "id": 2952, - "length": 245 - }, - { - "text": "I'm not doing it for you. I know that dwarves can be obstinate and pigheaded and difficult. They're suspicious and secretive, with the worst manners you can possibly imagine. But they are also brave and kind, and loyal to a fault. I've grown very fond of them, and I would save them if I can.", - "source": "The Hobbit: Battle of the Five Armies", - "id": 2953, - "length": 292 - }, - { - "text": "He found himself standing under a row of trees. But not hornbeam trees: these were tall palms, and they were growing, like the trees in Oxford, in a row along the grass. But this was the center of a broad boulevard, and at the side of the boulevard was a line of cafes and small shops, all brightly lit, all open, and all utterly silent and empty beneath a sky thick with stars. The hot night was laden with the scent of flowers and with the salt smell of the sea.", - "source": "The Subtle Knife", - "id": 2954, - "length": 464 - }, - { - "text": "All life's battles teach us something, even those we lose. When you grow up, you'll discover that you have defended lies, deceived yourself, or suffered foolishness. If you're a good warrior you will not blame yourself for this, but neither will you allow your mistakes to repeat themselves.", - "source": "The Fifth Mountain", - "id": 2955, - "length": 291 - }, - { - "text": "Is that what your little note says? It must be hard living your life off a couple of scraps of paper. You mix your laundry list with your grocery list you'll end up eating your underwear for breakfast.", - "source": "Memento", - "id": 2956, - "length": 201 - }, - { - "text": "This place is like somebody's memory of a town, and the memory is fading. It's like there was never anything here but jungle.", - "source": "True Detective", - "id": 2957, - "length": 125 - }, - { - "text": "And I don't want the world to see me 'cause I don't think that they'd understand. When everything's meant to be broken, I just want you to know who I am.", - "source": "Iris", - "id": 2958, - "length": 153 - }, - { - "text": "I was with a customer. She interrupts me, wild-eyed, begging for coffee, so I tell her to wait her turn. Then she starts following me around, talking a mile a minute, saying God knows what. So finally I turn to her, and I tell her she's being annoying - sit down, shut up, I'll get to her when I get to her.", - "source": "Gilmore Girls", - "id": 2959, - "length": 307 - }, - { - "text": "Oh Danny boy, the pipes, the pipes are calling from glen to glen, and down the mountain side. The summer's gone, and all the roses falling. It's you, it's you must go and I must bide, but come ye back when summer's in the meadow, or when the valley's hushed and white with snow. I'll be here in sunshine or in shadow. Oh Danny boy, oh Danny boy, I love you so.", - "source": "Danny Boy", - "id": 2960, - "length": 360 - }, - { - "text": "I know, I know. Now you're going to deny it. Even though it's ludicrously obvious to everyone around you, you two will go on pretending it's not true because you're emotional infants. You're in a living hell. You love each other and you hate each other and you hate yourselves for loving each other. Well, my dear friends, I want no part of it. It's time I just picked up where I left off. It's time to put Humpty Dumpty back together again. So I'll get out of here so you can just get on with your denial fest.", - "source": "Cheers", - "id": 2961, - "length": 511 - }, - { - "text": "Do we have to put up with this? I mean, can't we get a better actor? I know it's a small part, but I think we can do better than this.", - "source": "Wayne's World 2", - "id": 2962, - "length": 134 - }, - { - "text": "You know, sweetheart, if there's one thing I've learned, it's this: nobody knows what's gonna happen at the end of the line, so you might as well enjoy the trip.", - "source": "Grim Fandango", - "id": 2963, - "length": 161 - }, - { - "text": "And so, does the destination matter? Or is it the path we take? I declare that no accomplishment has substance nearly as great as the road used to achieve it. We are not creatures of destinations. It is the journey that shapes us. Our callused feet, our backs strong from carrying the weight of our travels, our eyes open with the fresh delight of experiences lived.", - "source": "The Way of Kings", - "id": 2964, - "length": 366 - }, - { - "text": "Yeah. Well, if the Flash were my son, I'd tell him a few things. First off, I'd tell him it's a dangerous world, so be careful. Then I'd tell him he's a hero, and he's saving a lot of lives. But the most important thing for him to know, I feel, is that his father's proud of him.", - "source": "The Flash", - "id": 2965, - "length": 279 - }, - { - "text": "You ponce in here, expecting to be handwaited on hand and foot while I'm trying to run a hotel here! Have you any idea of how much there is to do? Do you ever think of that? Of course not! You're too busy sticking your noses into every corner, poking about for things to complain about, aren't you?", - "source": "Fawlty Towers", - "id": 2966, - "length": 298 - }, - { - "text": "I'd always loved the house and its pretty white facade, the crisp black shutters framing the windows, the tawny cedar shingles on the roof; an old oak tree just to the right of the house in the front yard, exactly where it should be, a rope swing hanging from its limbs.", - "source": "Half of What You Hear", - "id": 2967, - "length": 270 - }, - { - "text": "Nothing can be surprising anymore or impossible or miraculous, now that Zeus, father of the Olympians, has made night out of noonday, hiding the bright sunlight, and fear has come upon mankind. After this, men can believe anything, expect anything. Don't any of you be surprised in future if land beasts change places with dolphins and go to live in their salty pastures, and get to like the sounding waves of the sea more than the land, while the dolphins prefer the mountains.", - "source": "Fragment 122", - "id": 2968, - "length": 478 - }, - { - "text": "There are certain queer times and occasions in this strange mixed affair we call life when a man takes this whole universe for a vast practical joke, though the wit thereof he but dimly discerns, and more than suspects that the joke is at nobody's expense but his own.", - "source": "Moby Dick", - "id": 2969, - "length": 268 - }, - { - "text": "Out of another I get a lovely view of the bay and a little private wharf belonging to the estate. There is a beautiful shaded lane that runs down there from the house. I always fancy I see people walking in these numerous paths and arbors, but John has cautioned me not to give way to fancy in the least. He says that with my imaginative power and habit of story-making, a nervous weakness like mine is sure to lead to all manner of excited fancies, and that I ought to use my will and good sense to check the tendency. So I try.", - "source": "The Yellow Wallpaper", - "id": 2970, - "length": 529 - }, - { - "text": "I hope you realize I'm holding you personally responsible for any and all damages done to these premises! Except of course for the spoon that got caught in the garbage disposal. I don't think I can blame him for that.", - "source": "Soap", - "id": 2971, - "length": 217 - }, - { - "text": "Running was always a big thing in our family, specially running away from the police. It's hard to understand. All I know is that you've got to run, running without knowing why, through fields and woods. And the winning post's no end, even though the barmy crowds might be cheering themselves daft. That's what the loneliness of a long distance runner feels like.", - "source": "The Loneliness of the Long Distance Runner", - "id": 2972, - "length": 363 - }, - { - "text": "Somebody once told me the world is gonna roll me, I ain't the sharpest tool in the shed. She was looking kind of dumb with her finger and her thumb in the shape of an \"L\" on her forehead. Well, the years start coming and they don't stop coming. Fed to the rules and I hit the ground running. Didn't make sense not to live for fun. Your brain gets smart but your head gets dumb. So much to do, so much to see, so what's wrong with taking the back streets? You'll never know if you don't go. You'll never shine if you don't glow.", - "source": "All Star", - "id": 2973, - "length": 527 - }, - { - "text": "They got an apartment with deep pile carpet and a couple of paintings from Sears. A big waterbed that they bought with the bread they had saved for a couple of years.", - "source": "Scenes from an Italian Restaurant", - "id": 2974, - "length": 166 - }, - { - "text": "Yes, the Simpsons have come a long way since an old drunk made humans out of his rabbit characters to pay off his gambling debts. Who knows what adventures they'll have between now and the time the show becomes unprofitable?", - "source": "The Simpsons", - "id": 2975, - "length": 224 - }, - { - "text": "The funny thing is, on the outside, I was an honest man, straight as an arrow. I had to come to prison to be a crook.", - "source": "The Shawshank Redemption", - "id": 2976, - "length": 117 - }, - { - "text": "It is impossible to kill an enemy. You may end a man's life, but his son becomes your new enemy. A warrior respects another warrior, even if he is his enemy. A warrior kills only to protect his family, or to keep from becoming a slave. We believe not in death, but in life, and there is no object more valuable than a man's life. The way of the Mandinka is not easy, but it is best.", - "source": "Roots", - "id": 2977, - "length": 382 - }, - { - "text": "You've caught on, have you? This robot reads minds. Do you suppose it doesn't know everything about mental injury? Do you suppose that if asked a question, it wouldn't give exactly that answer that one wants to hear? Wouldn't any other answer hurt us, and wouldn't Herbie know that?", - "source": "I, Robot", - "id": 2978, - "length": 282 - }, - { - "text": "But no artist, I now realize, can be satisfied with art alone. There is a natural craving for recognition which cannot be gain-said.", - "source": "And Then There Were None", - "id": 2979, - "length": 132 - }, - { - "text": "You and him, both the same. Always had to have your own way. Nothing ever good enough. Always had to fight everything. Victor always had to be so independent. Left home when he was 11, lived on his own, got to work on a farm. Plowing the fields like a man, worked 18 hours a day, had to sleep with the pigs, but he never complained. He was strong. He made something of himself.", - "source": "Malcolm in the Middle", - "id": 2980, - "length": 377 - }, - { - "text": "There's a harsh truth to face. No way I'm gonna make it on the outside. All I do anymore is think of ways to break my parole, so maybe they'd send me back. Terrible thing, to live in fear. Brooks Hatlen knew it. Knew it all too well. All I want is to be back where things make sense. Where I won't have to be afraid all the time. Only one thing stops me. A promise I made to Andy.", - "source": "The Shawshank Redemption", - "id": 2981, - "length": 380 - }, - { - "text": "I don't know why I'm here. I mean, I do, I'm nervous, I guess. Anxious. I don't sleep that well. And my hands. They're fine now, it's like when you have a problem with your car and you go to a mechanic and it's not doing it anymore. Not that you're a mechanic. I guess a lot of people must come here worried about the bomb. Is that true? It's a common nightmare, people say. I read it in a magazine. My mother always told me that it wasn't polite to talk about yourself. She passed away recently. I guess I already said that.", - "source": "Mad Men", - "id": 2982, - "length": 525 - }, - { - "text": "There is no room to go away. Momentarily the noises increase. Men are firing about him, and he strains his eyes on the opposite hill to see something to shoot at, and empties his magazine at what looks like a man but may be a tree-trunk, and then stops again and gets sick. Another long period of waiting follows. All the water is gone from his water-bottle; an intolerable thirst is scorching his throat. He does not reload his magazine, and makes up his mind to say that his rifle is jammed, so that he need not go further with any fresh stupid advance that may be ordered. This is no time to care about what any one may think of him, it is just too awful for anything.", - "source": "Impressions of a War Correspondent", - "id": 2983, - "length": 671 - }, - { - "text": "Like most North Americans of his generation, Hal tends to know way less about why he feels certain ways about the objects and pursuits he's devoted to than he does about the objects and pursuits themselves. It's hard to say for sure whether this is even exceptionally bad, this tendency.", - "source": "Infinite Jest", - "id": 2984, - "length": 287 - }, - { - "text": "You'll tell them it didn't work out because it didn't. And you'll tell them the next thing will be better because it always is.", - "source": "Mad Men", - "id": 2985, - "length": 127 - }, - { - "text": "You know some automotive yoga could really lower your RPMs, man.", - "source": "Cars", - "id": 2986, - "length": 64 - }, - { - "text": "Raining in my heart, since we've been apart. I know I was wrong. Baby, please come home. You got me crying, about to lose my mind. Don't let me cry in vain, try my love just once again.", - "source": "Rainin' in My Heart", - "id": 2987, - "length": 185 - }, - { - "text": "This time tomorrow, where will we be? On a spaceship somewhere sailing across an empty sea? This time tomorrow, what will we know? Will we still be here watching an in-flight movie show? I'll leave the sun behind me and I'll watch the clouds as they sadly pass me by seven miles below me. I can see the world and it ain't so big at all.", - "source": "This Time Tomorrow", - "id": 2988, - "length": 336 - }, - { - "text": "Groups of illegal miners smuggle themselves down in freight lifts. They stay below ground for months at a time, armed with pistols and homemade grenades, chiseling out ore and then grinding it and extracting the gold using mercury, just as poor gold miners do at the surface.", - "source": "Confessions of an Eco-Sinner: Tracking Down the Sources of My Stuff", - "id": 2989, - "length": 275 - }, - { - "text": "No. You're just a murderer, Light Yagami. And this notebook is the deadliest weapon of mass murder in the history of mankind. You yielded to the power of the shinigami and the notebook and you have confused yourself with a god. In the end, you're nothing more than a crazy serial killer. That's all you are. Nothing more, and nothing less.", - "source": "Death Note", - "id": 2990, - "length": 339 - }, - { - "text": "If cows and horses or lions had hands, or could draw with their hands and make things as men can, horses would have drawn horse-like gods, cows cow-like gods, and each species would have made the gods' bodies just like their own.", - "source": "The First Philosophers: The Presocratics and the Sophists", - "id": 2991, - "length": 229 - }, - { - "text": "Just a small town girl living in a lonely world, she took the midnight train going anywhere.", - "source": "Don't Stop Believin'", - "id": 2992, - "length": 92 - }, - { - "text": "We barely remember who or what came before this precious moment, choosing to be here right now.", - "source": "Parabola", - "id": 2993, - "length": 95 - }, - { - "text": "All music is what awakes from you when you are reminded by the instruments - it is not the violins or the clarinets, it is not the beating of the drums, nor the score of the baritone singing his sweet romanza; not that of the men's chorus, nor that of the women's chorus - it is nearer and farther than they.", - "source": "Leaves of Grass", - "id": 2994, - "length": 308 - }, - { - "text": "Now that I know what I'm without, you can't just leave me. Breathe into me and make me real, bring me to life.", - "source": "Bring Me To Life", - "id": 2995, - "length": 110 - }, - { - "text": "I can teach you how to bewitch the mind and ensnare the senses. I can teach you how to bottle fame, brew glory, and even put a stopper in death. However it seems some of you have come to class to not PAY attention.", - "source": "Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone", - "id": 2996, - "length": 214 - }, - { - "text": "I went to the police, like a good American. These two boys were brought to trial. The judge sentenced them to three years in prison, and suspended the sentence.", - "source": "The Godfather", - "id": 2997, - "length": 160 - }, - { - "text": "Maybe if we felt any human loss as keenly as we feel one of those close to us, human history would be far less bloody.", - "source": "Star Trek: The Next Generation", - "id": 2998, - "length": 118 - }, - { - "text": "One way to celebrate Grav-Mass is to decorate a tree with apples and other fruits. Glue them or attach them, but not too well! The idea is that occasionally a fruit should fall. Put them on the tree no more than 2 feet up, so that they won't get damaged or hurt anybody when they fall. Investigating and perfecting the methods for doing this is a great way to expose a child to the process of scientifically studying the behavior of the physical world.", - "source": "Grav-mass", - "id": 2999, - "length": 452 - }, - { - "text": "There are usually three types of people I deal with when selecting a participant. First, there's the very willing participant who came to see me hoping he'd be selected. Second, there's the wise guy who wants to prove he can't be hypnotized. Third, there's the person who simply wants to enjoy the show. It's up to me to select the right candidate.", - "source": "Mindfreak: Secret Revelations", - "id": 3001, - "length": 348 - }, - { - "text": "I'm a good man, food on the table, working two jobs, ready willing and able, check. Good man, up having fun, got no kids and I love the Lord, check. Good man, I'm monogamous, never did time well, maybe just once, check. Good man and I puts it down, wanna say it twice but I puts it down, check. How could you ever walk away after all I've done for you? I feel like there's a knife in my back, babe. You might as well put it all the way through, good man.", - "source": "Good Man", - "id": 3002, - "length": 454 - }, - { - "text": "To feel it so like myself, indeed, so brotherly, made me realize that I'd been happy, and that I was happy still. For all to be accomplished, for me to feel less lonely, all that remained to hope was that on the day of my execution there should be a huge crowd of spectators and that they should greet me with howls of execration.", - "source": "The Stranger", - "id": 3003, - "length": 330 - }, - { - "text": "Seriously, it should have been more dramatic. His brain ought to have been flushing its entire current stock of hypotheses about the universe, none of which allowed this to happen.", - "source": "Harry Potter and the Methods of Rationality", - "id": 3004, - "length": 180 - }, - { - "text": "Yeah, I read that too. Were you gonna plagiarize the whole thing for us? Do you have any thoughts of your own on this matter? Or do you, is that your thing, you come into a bar, read some obscure passage and then pretend - you pawn it off as your own, as your own idea just to impress some girls, embarrass my friend?", - "source": "Good Will Hunting", - "id": 3005, - "length": 317 - }, - { - "text": "Dani felt as if a path had appeared in front of him. It was temptingly lit, and offered a way out, up and away. But it was impossible to imagine taking the first step. It would mean leaping over a bottomless gulf out of which, once he'd fallen in, he'd never be able to climb again.", - "source": "The Garbage King", - "id": 3006, - "length": 282 - }, - { - "text": "Nothing drives people to the church faster than the thought of the Devil snapping at their heels. Maybe that was God's plan all along, why He created him, allowed him to fall from grace - to become a symbol to be feared, a warning to us all to tread the path of the righteous.", - "source": "Daredevil", - "id": 3007, - "length": 276 - }, - { - "text": "Transformers and most electric motors operate on alternating current. In such devices the flux in the iron changes continuously both in value and direction. The magnetic domains are therefore oriented first in one direction, then the other, at a rate that depends upon the frequency.", - "source": "Electrical Machines, Drives, and Power Systems", - "id": 3008, - "length": 283 - }, - { - "text": "Well, a scavenger hunt is exactly like a treasure hunt, except in a treasure hunt you try to find something you want, and in a scavenger hunt you try to find something that nobody wants.", - "source": "My Man Godfrey", - "id": 3009, - "length": 186 - }, - { - "text": "In America, circus folk ride through town, while bands play and the elephants trumpet. Everyone puts on their biggest smile and people line the streets and cheer. A booming voice announces the show for that evening.", - "source": "Sawdust and Tinsel", - "id": 3010, - "length": 215 - }, - { - "text": "After my picture fades and darkness has turned to gray, watching through windows you're wondering if I'm okay. Secrets stolen from deep inside, the drum beats out of time.", - "source": "Time After Time", - "id": 3011, - "length": 171 - }, - { - "text": "The monks used to say that revenge is like a two-headed rat viper. While you watch your enemy go down, you're being poisoned yourself.", - "source": "Avatar: The last Airbender", - "id": 3012, - "length": 134 - }, - { - "text": "Do you believe in God? That's a complicated question. It depends on what you mean by \"God\". You see, it helps no one to be reductive. I believe that that we are here implies to some degree that there are forces larger than us. Now, we can get into the semanticalities... The very notion of belief itself can be rhetorically whittled to the bare nub of its meaning. I'd like to talk to you a lot more about this. Would you be interested in reading some of my literature?", - "source": "Xavier: Renegade Angel", - "id": 3013, - "length": 469 - }, - { - "text": "My face, body, lifestyle. I chose every aspect of myself with my own will. I don't want to be ordered around by anyone anymore, and I have no need for a past. I've got dreams to fulfill, money to earn, love to find, and success to achieve. They may be foolishly simplistic desires for some, but to me, working towards them bit by bit is how I build my confidence.", - "source": "Goodnight Punpun", - "id": 3014, - "length": 363 - }, - { - "text": "I learn we are going after treasure - hear it from my own hands, mind you. Now, treasure is a ticklish work; I don't like treasure voyages on any account, and I don't like them, above all, when they are secret and when (begging your pardon, Mr. Trelawney) the secret has been told to the parrot.", - "source": "Treasure Island", - "id": 3015, - "length": 295 - }, - { - "text": "Manuel... my wife informs me that you're... depressed. Let me tell you something. Depression is a very bad thing. It's like a virus. If you don't stamp on it, it spreads throughout the mind, and then one day you wake up in the morning and you... you can't face life any more!", - "source": "Fawlty Towers", - "id": 3016, - "length": 275 - }, - { - "text": "It is not hard to make money in the market. What is hard to avoid is the alluring temptation to throw your money away on short, get-rich-quick speculative binges. It is an obvious lesson, but one frequently ignored.", - "source": "A Random Walk Down Wall Street", - "id": 3017, - "length": 215 - }, - { - "text": "Do not worry because you have no official position. Worry about your qualifications. Do not worry because no one appreciates your abilities. Seek to be worthy of appreciation.", - "source": "The Analects", - "id": 3018, - "length": 175 - }, - { - "text": "I'm so into you, I can barely breathe. And all I want to do, is to fall in deep. But close ain't close enough, till we cross the line. So name a game to play, and I'll roll the dice.", - "source": "Into You", - "id": 3019, - "length": 182 - }, - { - "text": "Salvation must grow out of understanding, total understanding can follow only from total experience, and experience must be won by the laborious discipline of shaping one's absolute attention.", - "source": "The Divine Comedy", - "id": 3020, - "length": 192 - }, - { - "text": "It's the wanting you, never getting you. Keeps me wanting you, missing you. Just to picture you is what gets me through. Your light shines so bright it's like two stars colliding. We'll only survive if we fight it, don't fight it. You belong to me but I belong to them, who do I give me to, who do I let win?", - "source": "You vs. Them", - "id": 3021, - "length": 308 - }, - { - "text": "It is the evening of the day. I sit and watch the children play. Smiling faces I can see, but not for me. I sit and watch as tears go by.", - "source": "As Tears Go By", - "id": 3022, - "length": 137 - }, - { - "text": "I mean that tonight you've made me ashamed of every concept I ever had of superior or inferior beings. But I thank you for that shame, because now I know that we are each of us a separate human being, Brandon, with the right to live and work and think as individuals, but with an obligation to the society we live in.", - "source": "Rope", - "id": 3023, - "length": 317 - }, - { - "text": "We call ourselves Runners. We exist on the edge between the gloss and the reality: the mirror's edge. We keep out of trouble, out of sight, and the cops don't bother us. Runners see the city in a different way. We see the flow. Rooftops become pathways and conduits, possibilities and routes of escape. The flow is what keeps us running, keeps us alive.", - "source": "Mirror's Edge", - "id": 3024, - "length": 353 - }, - { - "text": "The big question for the future of humanity is whether that filter lies behind us - in the evolution of intelligence, for instance - or ahead of us: Perhaps any sufficiently technologically advanced species will eventually destroy itself through war or pollution. Alternatively, it might be that space and time are simply too big. Maybe the universe is full of voices that we will never hear because they are too far away or too long ago.", - "source": "Our Quest for Meaning in the Heavens - The Wall Street Journal", - "id": 3025, - "length": 438 - }, - { - "text": "I am forever your debtor for reminding me of that curious passage in my life. During the first year or two after it happened, I could not bear to think of it. My pain and shame were so intense, and my sense of having been an imbecile so settled, established and confirmed, that I drove the episode entirely from my mind - and so all these twenty-eight or twenty-nine years I have lived in the conviction that my performance of that time was coarse, vulgar, and destitute of humor.", - "source": "Mark Twain, the Globetrotter: Complete Travel Books, Memoirs & Anecdotes", - "id": 3026, - "length": 480 - }, - { - "text": "In fact, the Americans of 1776 enjoyed a higher standard of living than any people in the world. Their material wealth was considerably less than it would become in time, still it was a great deal more than others had elsewhere. How people with so much, living on their own land, would ever choose to rebel against the ruler God had put over them and thereby bring down such devastation upon themselves was for the invaders incomprehensible.", - "source": "1776", - "id": 3027, - "length": 441 - }, - { - "text": "If at first you don't succeed, destroy any evidence that you ever tried.", - "source": "Funny Quotes: Slightly Twisted Words of Wisdom & Other Funny Sayings", - "id": 3028, - "length": 72 - }, - { - "text": "We're leaving together, but still it's farewell. And maybe we'll come back to earth, who can tell? I guess there is no one to blame. We're leaving ground. Will things ever be the same again? It's the final countdown.", - "source": "The Final Countdown", - "id": 3029, - "length": 216 - }, - { - "text": "Time I'm sure will bring disappointments in so many things. It seems to be the way when you're gambling cards on love you play. I'd rather be in hell with you, baby, than in cool heaven.", - "source": "Sign Your Name", - "id": 3030, - "length": 186 - }, - { - "text": "My old man back in Chicago, when I was a kid... He used to lock me in the basement when he'd go on a bender. Usually last the night. Let me out the next day. Thought he was keeping me safe, I guess. This one time, I was six - he puts me down there. I wake up and it's locked. It had happened before. Anyways, so I guess he ended up arrested, I guess.", - "source": "True Detective", - "id": 3031, - "length": 350 - }, - { - "text": "Man is omnipotent; nothing is impossible for him. What seemed like unthinkable undertakings yesterday are history today. The conquest of the moon for example: who talks about it anymore? Today we are already on the threshold of conquering our galaxy, and in a not too distant tomorrow, we'll be considering the conquest of the universe, and yet man seems to ignore the fact that on this very planet there are still people living in the stone age and practicing cannibalism.", - "source": "Cannibal Holocaust", - "id": 3032, - "length": 473 - }, - { - "text": "For centuries, human society has taken the gifts of nature for granted. As civilizations grew, humans spread out across the face of the planet, taking what they needed from the land and producing more and more waste materials with little regard for the future.", - "source": "Civilization IV", - "id": 3033, - "length": 260 - }, - { - "text": "There's an infestation in my mind's imagination. I hope they choke on smoke 'cause I'm smoking them out the basement. This is not rap, this is not hip-hop, just another attempt to make the voices stop. Rapping to prove nothing, just writing to say something 'cause I wasn't the only one who wasn't rushing to say nothing. This doesn't mean I lost my dream. It's just right now I got a really crazy mind to clean.", - "source": "Heavydirtysoul", - "id": 3034, - "length": 412 - }, - { - "text": "I met him down near the border. Said he wanted me to work with him on a job. Range war. But he said it'd be easy. All we had to worry about was a drunken sheriff. Are you sure you don't want some coffee?", - "source": "El Dorado", - "id": 3035, - "length": 203 - }, - { - "text": "I wanted to be a hero. I wanted to be the center of attention. I wanted the glory. I wanted the fame. I wanted the pretty girls to come up and say, \"Hi, I see that you're good at Centipede.\"", - "source": "The King of Kong: A Fistful of Quarters", - "id": 3036, - "length": 190 - }, - { - "text": "Blue skies smiling at me. Nothing but blue skies do I see. Bluebirds singing a song. Nothing but bluebirds all day long. Blue days, all of them gone. Nothing but blue skies from now on.", - "source": "Blue Skies", - "id": 3037, - "length": 185 - }, - { - "text": "I've never been invincible in a fight. I've lost loads of times. But I'll definitely crawl through the mud and stand up again. And then I'll finish this! In a man's fight, you don't lose until you accept defeat, no matter how much you get beat up!", - "source": "Umineko WHEN THEY CRY Episode 2: Turn of the Golden Witch", - "id": 3038, - "length": 247 - }, - { - "text": "When you marry champagne, you can't trade it in for beer. You're stuck with it.", - "source": "The Leopard Man", - "id": 3039, - "length": 79 - }, - { - "text": "Hey! You listen to me. The next time you try to stop Sam, I will ruin you! I know what you've done, and I know how to destroy you. You may not know how much power I have, but you will find out if I even hear of you trying to thwart Sam and his video gaming. This is his mission! This is his dream! And we are a team. A team who kills anyone who stands in our way. Do you understand me?", - "source": "The Online Gamer", - "id": 3040, - "length": 385 - }, - { - "text": "Too often writers believe that they can emphasize words by putting them in all capital letters. The only problem is that when all capital letters are used, the ability to read the words is reduced dramatically because all the letters are rectangles. A more effective way to emphasize words is sparingly to use bold, italics, underline, and combinations of these styles.", - "source": "Keyboarding Made Simple (1985)", - "id": 3041, - "length": 369 - }, - { - "text": "A million dollars sounds like a lot, I know. Especially when you're young. But you can't let money erode your principles or you'll wind up with nothing.", - "source": "Sammy Keyes and the Dead Giveaway", - "id": 3042, - "length": 152 - }, - { - "text": "One can gaze upon something and see wonder in it. Two can gaze together and share that wonder. We are forever emitting sparks of imagination, so let's spark together. In every mind there is a piece of code that operates our creative functions. It forms a conduit called a Cerebrum-bilical that extends to the farthest reaches of imagination... so let's build! Together we can push back the boundaries until they are a mere speck on the stellar horizon.", - "source": "Little Big Planet 3", - "id": 3044, - "length": 452 - }, - { - "text": "I used to bite my tongue and hold my breath, scared to rock the boat and make a mess. So I sat quietly, agreed politely. I guess that I forgot I had a choice. I let you push me past the breaking point. I stood for nothing, so I fell for everything.", - "source": "Roar", - "id": 3045, - "length": 248 - }, - { - "text": "Yes, I have tricks in my pocket, I have things up my sleeve. But I am the opposite of a stage magician. He gives you illusion that has the appearance of truth. I give you truth in the pleasant disguise of illusion.", - "source": "The Glass Menagerie", - "id": 3046, - "length": 214 - }, - { - "text": "It's the loneliest feeling in the world to find yourself standing up when everybody else is sitting down. To have everybody look at you and say, \"What's the matter with him?\" I know. I know what it feels like. Walking down an empty street, listening to the sound of your own footsteps. Shutters closed, blinds drawn, doors locked against you. And you aren't sure whether you're walking toward something, or if you're just walking away.", - "source": "Inherit the Wind", - "id": 3047, - "length": 435 - }, - { - "text": "The really important kind of freedom involves attention, and awareness, and discipline, and effort, and being able truly to care about other people and to sacrifice for them, over and over, in myriad petty little unsexy ways, every day.", - "source": "This Is Water: Some Thoughts, Delivered on a Significant Occasion, about Living a Compassionate Life", - "id": 3048, - "length": 236 - }, - { - "text": "The firm-foundation theory argues that each investment instrument, be it a common stock or a piece of real estate, has a firm anchor of something called intrinsic value, which can be determined by careful analysis of present conditions and future prospects.", - "source": "A Random Walk Down Wall Street", - "id": 3049, - "length": 257 - }, - { - "text": "I've met another man. He's the best man I've ever met. He's bright, handsome and he's crazy about me. And, he's married. There's only one thing; he doesn't like my hat.", - "source": "The Unbearable Lightness of Being", - "id": 3050, - "length": 168 - }, - { - "text": "Life moves pretty fast. If you don't stop and look around once in a while, you could miss it.", - "source": "Ferris Bueller's Day Off", - "id": 3051, - "length": 93 - }, - { - "text": "If anything in this life is certain, if history has taught us anything, it is that you can kill anyone.", - "source": "The Godfather: Part II", - "id": 3052, - "length": 103 - }, - { - "text": "Harvey and I have things to do. We sit in bars, have a drink or two, play the jukebox. Very soon the faces of all the other people turn towards me, and they smile. They say, \"We don't know your name, mister, but you're a very nice fellow.\" Harvey and I warm ourselves in these golden moments. We came as strangers; soon we have friends. They come over, they sit with us, they drink with us, they talk to us. They tell us about the great big terrible things they've done and the great big wonderful things they're going to do. Their hopes, their regrets. Their loves, their hates. All very large, because nobody ever brings anything small to a bar.", - "source": "Harvey", - "id": 3053, - "length": 647 - }, - { - "text": "Now calm down. The best thing we can do is go on with our daily routine.", - "source": "One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest", - "id": 3054, - "length": 72 - }, - { - "text": "I still see things that are not here. I just choose not to acknowledge them. Like a diet of the mind, I just choose not to indulge certain appetites; like my appetite for patterns; perhaps my appetite to imagine and to dream.", - "source": "A Beautiful Mind", - "id": 3055, - "length": 226 - }, - { - "text": "Well, that's all the time we had for our movie. We hope you found it entertaining, whimsical and yet relevant, with an underlying revisionist conceit that belied the film's emotional attachments to the subject matter.", - "source": "Wayne's World", - "id": 3056, - "length": 217 - }, - { - "text": "If you're distracted by fear of those around you it keeps you from seeing the actions of those above.", - "source": "The X-Files", - "id": 3057, - "length": 101 - }, - { - "text": "You're not a mech, but you're enough of a machine to need repair bots now and then. If you used up some bioelectric energy getting through the dark area, for example, this contraption can charge you back up.", - "source": "Deus Ex", - "id": 3058, - "length": 207 - }, - { - "text": "I've been on a diet every day since I was nineteen, which basically means I've been hungry for a decade. I've had a series of not nice boyfriends, one of whom hit me. Ah, and every time I get my heart broken, the newspapers splash it about as though it's entertainment. And it's taken two rather painful operations to get me looking like this. And, one day not long from now, my looks will go, they will discover I can't act and I will become some sad middle-aged woman who looks a bit like someone who was famous for a while.", - "source": "Notting Hill", - "id": 3059, - "length": 526 - }, - { - "text": "Empty spaces, what are we living for? Abandoned places, I guess we know the score. On and on, does anybody know what we are looking for? Another hero, another mindless crime: behind the curtain, in the pantomime. Hold the line, does anybody want to take it anymore? The show must go on.", - "source": "The Show Must Go On", - "id": 3060, - "length": 286 - }, - { - "text": "First, purpose is a \"stable and far-reaching\" goal. Most of our goals are mundane and immediate, like getting to work on time, going to the gym, or doing the dishes. Purpose, by contrast, is a goal toward which we are always working. It is the forward-pointing arrow that motivates our behavior and serves as the organizing principle of our lives.", - "source": "The Power of Meaning", - "id": 3061, - "length": 347 - }, - { - "text": "I maintain that inversion is the effect of neither a prenatal choice nor an endocrinal malformation nor even the passive and determined result of complexes. It is an outlet that a child discovers when he is suffocating.", - "source": "Saint Genet, Actor and Martyr", - "id": 3062, - "length": 219 - }, - { - "text": "The morning sun, when it's in your face, really shows your age. But that don't worry me none in my eyes, you're everything.", - "source": "Maggie May", - "id": 3063, - "length": 123 - }, - { - "text": "I always wanted to go again. You know, it was just so interesting to me that a ride could make me so frightened, so scared, so sick, so excited, and so thrilled all together! Some didn't like it. They went on the merry-go-round. That just goes around. Nothing. I like the roller coaster. You get more out of it.", - "source": "Parenthood", - "id": 3064, - "length": 311 - }, - { - "text": "But I'm glad you'll see me as I am. Above all, I wouldn't want people to think that I want to prove anything. I don't want to prove anything, I just want to live; to cause no evil to anyone but myself. I have that right, haven't I?", - "source": "Anna Karenina", - "id": 3065, - "length": 231 - }, - { - "text": "That's what pain does. It shows you what was on the inside, and inside of you is pure gold. I know that. Your father knew that too.", - "source": "True Detective", - "id": 3066, - "length": 131 - }, - { - "text": "One day in Boston, I was in Harvard Square. I saw a cover of Popular Electronics with this thing that looked like what I had been imagining, and so I grabbed it off the shelf, I looked at it and I bought it and I ran back to Bill's dorm, and I think he was probably playing poker that night and usually losing money at that point. One of the few times when that's been the case.", - "source": "Triumph of the Nerds", - "id": 3067, - "length": 378 - }, - { - "text": "Certainly the determining acts of her life were not ideally beautiful. They were the mixed result of young and novel impulse struggling amidst the conditions of an imperfect social state, in which great feelings will often take the aspect of error, and great faith the aspect of illusion.", - "source": "Middlemarch", - "id": 3068, - "length": 288 - }, - { - "text": "For one who contradicts emptiness there would be nothing that ought to be done; activity would be uninitiated and an agent would be non-acting.", - "source": "Fundamental Wisdom of the Middle Way: Nagarjuna's Mulamadhyamakakarika", - "id": 3069, - "length": 143 - }, - { - "text": "From Russia with love I fly to you much wiser since my goodbye to you. I've traveled the world to learn. I must return from Russia with love.", - "source": "From Russia With Love", - "id": 3070, - "length": 141 - }, - { - "text": "Advertising is based on one thing: happiness. And 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 the road that screams reassurance that whatever you are doing is okay. You are okay.", - "source": "Mad Men", - "id": 3071, - "length": 255 - }, - { - "text": "These questions of good and evil, as important as they are, have no place in a court of law. Only the facts matter. My client claims he acted in self-defense.", - "source": "Daredevil", - "id": 3072, - "length": 158 - }, - { - "text": "That's what makes you dangerous. It's not the mask, it's not the skills, it's your ideology. The lone man who thinks he can make a difference. I'm glad we could talk. I... I respect your conviction even if it runs counter with my own.", - "source": "Daredevil", - "id": 3073, - "length": 234 - }, - { - "text": "If the essence of creativity is linking disparate facts and ideas, then the more facility you have making associations, and the more facts and ideas you have at your disposal, the better you'll be at coming up with new ideas. As Buzan likes to point out, Mnemosyne, the goddess of memory, was the mother of the Muses.", - "source": "Moonwalking with Einstein", - "id": 3074, - "length": 317 - }, - { - "text": "Bingo! Tanya wants to shout with glee at how the enemy chalks up another error for us, but she looks at her adjutant with a satisfied smirk that says, Do you know what this means? No matter who is down there, if they're hidden like that, they must be making secret plans.", - "source": "The Saga of Tanya the Evil, Vol. 3 (light novel): The Finest Hour", - "id": 3075, - "length": 271 - }, - { - "text": "You put a textbook in front of these kids, put a problem on the blackboard, teach them every problem in some statewide test, it won't matter. None of it. 'Cause they're not learning for our world; they're learning for theirs. They know exactly what it is they're training for and what it is everyone expects them to be. It's not about you or us or the test or the system. It's what they expect of themselves. Every single one of them know they're headed back to the corners. Their brothers and sisters, their parents. They came through these same classrooms. We pretended to teach them, they pretended to learn and where'd they end up? Same corners. They're not fools, these kids. They don't know our world but they know their own. They see right through us.", - "source": "The Wire", - "id": 3076, - "length": 758 - }, - { - "text": "When you have reached a high plateau, ascending still higher gets more difficult. Yet glorious opportunities remain. We can apply our existing physical knowledge to make ingenious and useful things, like computers that leverage the richness of the quantum world to store and manipulate information more effectively. And important theoretical questions remain to be answered. For instance, we still haven't got a clear picture of what most of the universe, measured by mass, is made of.", - "source": "The Wall Street Journal - Have We Come To the End of Physics?", - "id": 3077, - "length": 485 - }, - { - "text": "I nearly lost you on our wedding day. It was early afternoon, and you were leaving from lunch with your best friend when your vehicle careened into an SUV as it turned out in front of you, violently flinging you into the waiting airbag. You were shaken and dazed, but otherwise okay and still determined to get married. When I watched you walking down the aisle, you were glowing. The scrapes and bruises only made you more beautiful.", - "source": "Ribbon", - "id": 3078, - "length": 434 - }, - { - "text": "Clever, but schoolteacher beat him anyway to show him that definitions belonged to the definers - not the defined.", - "source": "Beloved", - "id": 3079, - "length": 114 - }, - { - "text": "There's nothing as significant as a human face. Nor as eloquent. We can never really know another person, except by our first glance at him. Because, in that glance, we know everything. Even though we're not always wise enough to unravel the knowledge.", - "source": "The Fountainhead", - "id": 3080, - "length": 252 - }, - { - "text": "But pure, unadulterated feelings are dangerous in their own way. It is no easy feat for a flesh-and-blood human being to go on living with such feelings. That is why it is necessary for you to fasten your feelings to the earth - firmly, like attaching an anchor to a balloon. The money is for that. To prevent you from feeling that you can do anything you want as long as it's the right thing and your feelings are pure.", - "source": "1Q84", - "id": 3081, - "length": 420 - }, - { - "text": "My meaning simply is, that whatever I have tried to do in life, I have tried with all my heart to do well; that whatever I have devoted myself to, I have devoted myself to completely; that in great aims and in small, I have always been thoroughly in earnest.", - "source": "David Copperfield", - "id": 3082, - "length": 258 - }, - { - "text": "Even if it's a dumb story, telling it changes people just the slightest little bit, just as living the story changes me. An infinitesimal change. And that infinitesimal change ripples outward - ever smaller but everlasting. I will get forgotten, but the stories will last. And so we all matter - maybe less than a lot, but always more than none.", - "source": "An Abundance of Katherines", - "id": 3083, - "length": 345 - }, - { - "text": "Must the citizen ever for a moment, or in the least degree, resign his conscience to the legislator? Why has every man a conscience then? I think that we should be men first, and subjects afterward. It is not desirable to cultivate a respect for the law, so much as for the right. The only obligation which I have a right to assume is to do at any time what I think right.", - "source": "Civil Disobedience", - "id": 3084, - "length": 372 - }, - { - "text": "But, pray how could that which I spoke so many years ago, and at about five thousand leagues distance, in another reign, be applied to any of the Yahoos, who now are said to govern the herd; especially at a time when I little thought, or feared, the unhappiness of living under them?", - "source": "Gulliver's Travels", - "id": 3085, - "length": 283 - }, - { - "text": "Me? I'm dishonest, and a dishonest man you can always trust to be dishonest. Honestly, it's the honest ones you want to watch out for, because you can never predict when they're going to do something incredibly stupid.", - "source": "Pirates of the Caribbean: The Curse of the Black Pearl", - "id": 3086, - "length": 218 - }, - { - "text": "Memories, even your most precious ones, fade surprisingly quickly. But I don't go along with that. The memories I value most, I don't ever see them fading.", - "source": "Never Let Me Go", - "id": 3087, - "length": 155 - }, - { - "text": "Stanley spent more time pushing the wheelbarrow than digging, because he was such a slow digger. He carted away the excess dirt and dumped it into previously dug holes. He was careful not to dump any of it in the hole where the gold tube was actually found.", - "source": "Holes", - "id": 3088, - "length": 257 - }, - { - "text": "Let's face it, Reiger, crime pays. You know people go around thinking if they do something bad, then something bad has gotta happen to them. Well, I am living proof that that's not true.", - "source": "Taxi", - "id": 3089, - "length": 186 - }, - { - "text": "If someone gives you an opinion and says, \"Hey, you look so fat,\" don't take it personally, because the truth is that this person is dealing with his or her own feelings, beliefs, and opinions. That person tried to send poison to you and if you take it personally, then you take that poison and it becomes yours.", - "source": "The Four Agreements: A Practical Guide to Personal Freedom", - "id": 3090, - "length": 312 - }, - { - "text": "Hateful to me as the gates of Hades is that man who hides one thing in his heart and speaks another.", - "source": "The Iliad", - "id": 3092, - "length": 100 - }, - { - "text": "This mystery of use without consumption, of warmth without combustion, seems like magic, but was merely an ingenious application of the art now happily lost but carried to great perfection by your ancestors, of shifting the burden of one's support on the shoulders of others.", - "source": "Looking Backward", - "id": 3093, - "length": 275 - }, - { - "text": "The battle for soup versus salad is raging in the other room. Come quick and settle it please, as I am running out of French curse words that they won't understand.", - "source": "Gilmore Girls", - "id": 3094, - "length": 164 - }, - { - "text": "It all began ages ago, when man's ancestor picked up a shard of a strange red rock. Its power, which was beyond human comprehension, cultivated dreams. In turn, love and hate were born. Only time will see how it all ends.", - "source": "Chrono Trigger", - "id": 3095, - "length": 221 - }, - { - "text": "Well, it's no secret that the best thing about a secret is secretly telling someone your secret, thereby secretly adding another secret to their secret collection of secrets... secretly.", - "source": "SpongeBob SquarePants", - "id": 3096, - "length": 186 - }, - { - "text": "Whenever a single definite object is made the supreme end of the State, be it the advantage of a class, the safety of the power of the country, the greatest happiness of the greatest number, or the support of any speculative idea, the State becomes for the time inevitably absolute. Liberty alone demands for its realisation the limitation of the public authority, for liberty is the only object which benefits all alike, and provokes no sincere opposition.", - "source": "The History of Freedom, and Other Essays", - "id": 3097, - "length": 457 - }, - { - "text": "Meanwhile he fashioned happily a statue of ivory, white as snow, and gave it a beauty surpassing that of any woman born; and he fell in love with what he had made.", - "source": "Metamorphoses", - "id": 3098, - "length": 163 - }, - { - "text": "You've always mistaken your vanity for love. It's your final mistake. Go and kill the only man I ever cared for.", - "source": "The Devil is a Woman", - "id": 3099, - "length": 112 - }, - { - "text": "Now I will tell you the answer to my question. It is this. The Party seeks power entirely for its own sake. We are not interested in the good of others; we are interested solely in power, pure power. What pure power means you will understand presently. We are different from the oligarchies of the past in that we know what we are doing. All the others, even those who resembled ourselves, were cowards and hypocrites.", - "source": "Nineteen Eighty Four", - "id": 3100, - "length": 418 - }, - { - "text": "There is so much darkness in Ember, Lina. It's not just outside, it's inside us, too. Everyone has some darkness inside. It's like a hungry creature. It wants and wants and wants with a terrible power. And the more you give it, the bigger and hungrier it gets.", - "source": "The City of Ember", - "id": 3101, - "length": 260 - }, - { - "text": "Every pause in our talk was filled by the sound of deep, loud chanting coming from a tent hard by. Presently I went out to see them at their evening service. A big tent was full of men squatting around, the short twilight was fast darkening into night outside, and the interior of the tent was lit by two candles stuck in the necks of bottles. Except a couple of old men, they were all in the prime of life, and a splendidly strong-looking set of fellows they were. They sang, without any drawl or nasal intonation, straight out from their deep chests.", - "source": "Impressions of a War Correspondent", - "id": 3102, - "length": 552 - }, - { - "text": "The Protozoa, or one-celled animals, belonged to an unknown world before the invention of the microscope. The first of these instruments enabled the early observers to see some of the larger and more conspicuous members of the group and each improvement of the microscope has enabled us to see more and more of them and to study in detail not only the structure but to follow the life-history of many of them.", - "source": "Insects and Diseases", - "id": 3103, - "length": 409 - }, - { - "text": "Can we love until there's nothing left and we're collecting dust? Use the hell out of our golden souls until we're flecks of rust. A love so deep, nothing else like it. Scars go deep, but they can't find it. Flame so bright make the daylight look dark. Cross my heart, that I'll die for you. Cross my heart that I'll always keep you. Cross my heart like a bittersweet tattoo.", - "source": "Kingdom Come", - "id": 3104, - "length": 375 - }, - { - "text": "But suddenly, I viddied that thinking was for the gloopy ones, and that the oomny ones use like, inspiration and what Bog sends. Now it was lovely music that came into my aid. There was a window open with the stereo on, and I viddied right at once what to do.", - "source": "A Clockwork Orange", - "id": 3105, - "length": 260 - }, - { - "text": "So a rich little man with white hair died. What has that got to do with the price of rice, right? And why is that woe to us? Because you people, and sixty-two million other Americans, are listening to me right now. Because less than three percent of you people read books! Because less than fifteen percent of you read newspapers! Because the only truth you know is what you get over this tube.", - "source": "Network", - "id": 3106, - "length": 394 - }, - { - "text": "Nowadays people know the price of everything and the value of nothing.", - "source": "The Picture of Dorian Gray", - "id": 3107, - "length": 70 - }, - { - "text": "The truth of the matter is that there are a lot of available men (and more than enough who are not \"available,\" but will still try) of varying quality, that you can choose from, but the odds are that you will generally meet the worst of them.", - "source": "How to Get Any Man to do Anything You Want!", - "id": 3108, - "length": 242 - }, - { - "text": "Oh dear god, I don't feel alive. When you're cut short of misery. Will you pray it be the end? Give a look surprised, wide eyes to me. Then you'll know just what I am. The scare that triggers your fear. Come know me in a different light now. Come know me as god.", - "source": "Delirium Trigger", - "id": 3109, - "length": 262 - }, - { - "text": "Time is dead as long as it is being clicked off by little wheels; only when the clock stops does time come to life.", - "source": "The Sound and the Fury", - "id": 3110, - "length": 115 - }, - { - "text": "I'm so in love with you. And I hope you know, darling, your love is more than worth its weight in gold. We've come so far, my dear. Look how we've grown. And I wanna stay with you until we're grey and old. Just say you won't let go.", - "source": "Say You Won't Let Go", - "id": 3111, - "length": 232 - }, - { - "text": "We would ride up the avenue, but we haven't got the price. We would skate up the avenue, but there isn't any ice. We would ride on a bicycle, but we haven't got a bike. So we'll walk up the avenue, yes, we'll walk up the avenue, and to walk up the avenue's what we like.", - "source": "Easter Parade", - "id": 3112, - "length": 270 - }, - { - "text": "To find out if she really loved me, I hooked her up to a lie detector. And just as I suspected, my machine was broken.", - "source": "Love Quotes for the Ages. Specifically Ages 19-91.", - "id": 3113, - "length": 118 - }, - { - "text": "I took a course in art last winter. I learnt the difference between a fine oil painting, and a mechanical thing, like a photograph. The photograph shows only the reality. The painting shows not only the reality, but the dream behind it. It's our dreams, doctor, that carry us on. They separate us from the beasts.", - "source": "Harvey", - "id": 3114, - "length": 313 - }, - { - "text": "I learned this, at least, by my experiment: that if one advances confidently in the direction of his dreams, and endeavors to live the life which he has imagined, he will meet with a success unexpected in common hours.", - "source": "Walden", - "id": 3115, - "length": 218 - }, - { - "text": "I don't know why I did the things I did. I don't know why I said the things I said.", - "source": "If I Could Turn Back Time", - "id": 3116, - "length": 83 - }, - { - "text": "And there was value in the thing, clearly, that they were certain of. But what is the application? In a matter of hours, they had given it into everything from mass transit to satellite launching, imagining devices the size of jumbo jets. Everything would be cheaper. It was practical, and they knew it. But above all that, beyond the positives, they knew that the easiest way to be exploited is to sell something they did not yet understand. So they kept quiet.", - "source": "Primer", - "id": 3117, - "length": 462 - }, - { - "text": "Living close to the ground is seventh heaven 'cause there are angels all around. Among my frivolous thoughts, I believe there are beautiful things seen by the astronauts. The indications reveal that few of us realize life is quite surreal. So if you're dying to see, I guarantee there are angels around your vicinity.", - "source": "Angels", - "id": 3118, - "length": 317 - }, - { - "text": "Hain't we got all the fools in town on our side? And hain't that a big enough majority in any town?", - "source": "The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn", - "id": 3119, - "length": 99 - }, - { - "text": "A new disease has fallen on the life of man. Our torment is unbelief, the uncertainty as to what we ought to do; the distrust of the value of what we do, and the distrust that the necessity is fair and beneficent.", - "source": "Introductory Lecture on the Times", - "id": 3120, - "length": 213 - }, - { - "text": "Everything we do is a choice. Oatmeal or cereal. Highway or side streets. Kiss her or keep her. We make choices and we live with the consequences. If someone gets hurt along the way we ask for forgiveness. It's the best anyone can do.", - "source": "Pushing Daisies", - "id": 3121, - "length": 234 - }, - { - "text": "Like if you met me you wouldn't think I was the weird kid who spent time in the hospital. And I wouldn't make you nervous. I hope it's okay for me to think that. You see, I haven't really talked to anyone outside of my family all summer. But tomorrow is my first day of high school ever and I need to turn things around. So I have a plan. As I enter the school for the first time I will visualize what it would be like on the last day of my senior year. Unfortunately I counted and that's 1385 days.", - "source": "The Perks of Being a Wallflower", - "id": 3122, - "length": 499 - }, - { - "text": "We all carry around so much pain in our hearts. Love and pain and beauty. They all seem to go together like one little tidy confusing package. It's a messy business, life. It's hard to figure - full of surprises. Some good. Some bad.", - "source": "Northern Exposure", - "id": 3123, - "length": 233 - }, - { - "text": "There is more than one kind of freedom: freedom to and freedom from. In the days of anarchy, it was freedom to. Now you are being given freedom from. Don't underrate it.", - "source": "The Handmaid's Tale", - "id": 3124, - "length": 169 - }, - { - "text": "I'm a beatbox rocker. And you're dancing to my beat. I'm a beatbox rocker. And you're dancing to my beat. I'm a beatbox rocker. And you're dancing to my beat. I'm a beatbox rocker. And I never sound the same.", - "source": "Beatbox Rocker", - "id": 3125, - "length": 208 - }, - { - "text": "Resistance is the measurement of the ability of electrons to move through a material. A copper wire with a large diameter has lower resistance to the flow of electrons than a copper wire with a small diameter. You need to understand resistance because almost every electronics project you do involves a resistor. Resistors have controlled amounts of resistance, which allows you to control the flow of electrons in a circuit.", - "source": "Electronics For Dummies", - "id": 3126, - "length": 425 - }, - { - "text": "I hope that our few remaining friends give up on trying to save us. I hope we come up with a fail-safe plot to piss off the dumb few that forgave us. I hope the fences we mended fall down beneath their own weight, and I hope we hang on past the last exit. I hope it's already too late.", - "source": "No Children", - "id": 3127, - "length": 285 - }, - { - "text": "He didn't reject the idea so much as not react to it and watch as it floated away. He thought very broadly of desires and ideas being watched but not acted upon, he thought of impulses being starved of expression and dying out and floating dryly away.", - "source": "Infinite Jest", - "id": 3128, - "length": 251 - }, - { - "text": "Well we've never done a day's work in our life and our records sell in zillions. It irrigates my heart with greed to know that you adore me. Up yours, up mine, but up everybody's? That takes time. But we're working on it. Working on it.", - "source": "The Worst Band in the World", - "id": 3129, - "length": 236 - }, - { - "text": "Hah, well, yeah, but I don't think you're gonna fit through this 'ere hole in the wall. We had to close up the passage recently to keep those crazed nematodes from comin' out and attackin' the village.", - "source": "Dust: An Elysian Tail", - "id": 3130, - "length": 201 - }, - { - "text": "God help the man who ever really loves you. You'd break his heart, my darling, cruel, destructive little cat who is so careless and confident she doesn't even trouble to sheathe her claws.", - "source": "Gone with the Wind", - "id": 3131, - "length": 188 - }, - { - "text": "And I know of people that've been coming up to me, and making me talk about how, you know, Benjamin, why is it so that, you know, you're young, but you already seem very dark, and you seem to be almost possessed. Quite telling, that's quite funny. 'Cause while I'm on my journey, figuring things out, I do come across, surprisingly, angels; they come to me and they sing to me so beautifully, and if I can recall very clearly, their melodies go something like this.", - "source": "Adios", - "id": 3132, - "length": 465 - }, - { - "text": "And then there was you, all red curls and smiles, stepping up to buy your ticket, and the warmth rose through me like helium to my brain. You were wet today. Shivering. You smelt of disinfectant, stronger than any other work-smell on the bus. Is it legal for you to work there? The landlord probably doesn't realise how young you are.", - "source": "Alice and the Fly", - "id": 3133, - "length": 334 - }, - { - "text": "He felt that he could not divert people's hatred from himself, because the reason for that hatred was not that he was bad (then he could have tried to be better), but that he was shamefully and repulsively unhappy. For that, for the very fact that his heart was wounded, they would be merciless towards him, as dogs kill a wounded dog howling with pain.", - "source": "Anna Karenina", - "id": 3134, - "length": 353 - }, - { - "text": "When I was younger, so much younger than today, I never needed anybody's help in any way. But now these days are gone, I'm not so self-assured. Now I find I've changed my mind, I've opened up the doors.", - "source": "Help!", - "id": 3135, - "length": 202 - }, - { - "text": "Well, I heard my friends really got in a mess so I'm gonna have to leave Yoda, I guess. But I know that I'll be coming back some day. I'll be playing this part till I'm old and gray. The long-term contract that I had to sign says I'll be making these movies till the end of time.", - "source": "Yoda", - "id": 3136, - "length": 279 - }, - { - "text": "And I will strike down upon thee with great vengeance and furious anger those who would attempt to poison and destroy my brothers. And you will know my name is the Lord when I lay my vengeance upon thee.", - "source": "Pulp Fiction", - "id": 3137, - "length": 203 - }, - { - "text": "I've been down, now I'm blessed. I felt a revelation coming around. I guess it's right, it's so amazing, every time I see you I'm alive. You're all I've got, you lift me up. The sun and the moonlight, all my dreams are in your eyes.", - "source": "Inside Your Heaven", - "id": 3138, - "length": 232 - }, - { - "text": "Is there a cure among us from this processed sanity? I weaken with each voice that sings. Now in this world of purchase, I'm going to buy back memories to awaken some old quality.", - "source": "Run", - "id": 3139, - "length": 179 - }, - { - "text": "All children have to be deceived if they are to grow up without trauma.", - "source": "Never Let Me Go", - "id": 3140, - "length": 71 - }, - { - "text": "I've seen things you people wouldn't believe. Attack ships on fire off the shoulder of Orion. I watched C-beams glitter in the dark near the Tannhauser gate. All those moments will be lost in time, like tears in rain.", - "source": "Blade Runner", - "id": 3141, - "length": 217 - }, - { - "text": "Those who reject the argument that natural science has progressed and social science has languished take up their counterargument at the very foundations of the philosophy of natural science. To begin with, it is sometimes held that the natural sciences have not in fact made the kind of progress ordinarily attributed to them.", - "source": "Philosophy of Social Science (Dimensions of Philosophy) 5th Edition", - "id": 3142, - "length": 327 - }, - { - "text": "I think the world divides neatly into those who are excited by the managed induction of terror and those who are not. I do not find terror exciting. I find it terrifying. One of my basic goals is to subject my nervous system to as little total terror as possible. The cruel paradox of course is that this kind of makeup usually goes hand in hand with a delicate nervous system that's extremely easy to terrify.", - "source": "A Supposedly Fun Thing I'll Never Do Again", - "id": 3143, - "length": 410 - }, - { - "text": "I am sailing home again. 'Cross the sea I am sailing stormy waters to be near you, to be free. I am flying like a bird 'cross the sky. I am flying, passing high clouds to be with you, to be free.", - "source": "Sailing", - "id": 3144, - "length": 195 - }, - { - "text": "Monsters are closing in! Throw your pack against them and push them back into the cage! A hostage will be slowly lowered into the flames! To save the day, you must hit the blue light, to raise the rope. Defeat all monsters before the hostage's goose is cooked!", - "source": "Chrono Trigger", - "id": 3145, - "length": 260 - }, - { - "text": "The world is so exquisite, with so much love and moral depth, that there is no reason to deceive ourselves with pretty stories for which there's little good evidence. Far better, it seems to me, in our vulnerability, is to look Death in the eye and to be grateful every day for the brief but magnificent opportunity that life provides.", - "source": "Billions & Billions: Thoughts on Life and Death at the Brink of the Millennium", - "id": 3146, - "length": 335 - }, - { - "text": "Now that you're out of high school, which means you're technically an adult, don't you think it's time you move on from primitive constructs such as popularity?", - "source": "Stranger Things", - "id": 3147, - "length": 160 - }, - { - "text": "He had succeeded in removing the outer boards and part of the packing, which was a layer of dry ice, when from the depths of the packing case he suddenly heard a faint \"Ork.\" His heart stood still.", - "source": "Mr. Popper's Penguins", - "id": 3148, - "length": 197 - }, - { - "text": "I was giving up. I would have given up - if a voice hadn't made itself heard in my heart. The voice said \"I will not die. I refuse it. I will make it through this nightmare. I will beat the odds, as great as they are. I have survived so far, miraculously. Now I will turn miracle into routine. The amazing will be seen every day. I will put in all the hard work necessary.\"", - "source": "Life of Pi", - "id": 3149, - "length": 373 - }, - { - "text": "Technically, chemistry is the study of matter. But I prefer to see it as the study of change. Now, just, just think about this. Electrons change their energy levels. Molecules change their bonds. Elements combine and change into compounds. Well that's all of life, right? It's the constant, it's the cycle. It's solution, dissolution, over and over and over. It is growth then decay then transformation. It is fascinating, really.", - "source": "Breaking Bad", - "id": 3150, - "length": 430 - }, - { - "text": "We hold our rifles in missing hands. We stand tall on missing legs. We stride forward on the bones of our fallen. Then, and only then, are we alive. This pain is ours and no one else's. A secret weapon we wield, out of sight. We will be stronger than ever.", - "source": "Metal Gear Solid V: The Phantom Pain", - "id": 3151, - "length": 256 - }, - { - "text": "Final lap, I'm on top of the world, and I will never rest for second again! One more time I have beaten them out. The scent of gasoline announces the end. They all said I'd best give it up. What a fool to believe their lies. Now they've fallen, I'm at the top. Are you ready now to die? I came up from the bottom and into the top. For the first time I feel alive. I can fly like an eagle and strike like a hawk. Do you think you can survive... the top?", - "source": "Initial D: Fifth Stage", - "id": 3152, - "length": 452 - }, - { - "text": "So what? I had my suspicions. I always did. But we're not like other people. We love each other in our own way, and we can have the life together that we want. You won't be the perfect husband? I can promise you I harboured no intention of being the perfect wife. I'll not be fixing your lamb all day, while you come home from the office, will I? I'll work. You'll work. And we'll have each other's company. We'll have each other's minds. Sounds like a better marriage than most. Because I care for you. And you care for me. And we understand one another more than anyone else ever has.", - "source": "The Imitation Game", - "id": 3153, - "length": 586 - }, - { - "text": "On a dark desert highway, cool wind in my hair, warm smell of colitas rising up through the air. Up ahead in the distance, I saw a shimmering light. My head grew heavy and my sight grew dim. I had to stop for the night.", - "source": "Hotel California", - "id": 3154, - "length": 219 - }, - { - "text": "A basic rule of covert ops is let someone else do your dirty work. Let someone else find the guy you want to kill. It's a great technique... as long as you're not the someone else.", - "source": "Burn Notice", - "id": 3155, - "length": 180 - }, - { - "text": "So they're gonna dump the unions so they can come here and hire us at scab wages and then for that privilege we get to pay their taxes.", - "source": "Roseanne", - "id": 3156, - "length": 135 - }, - { - "text": "Tradition is a trap that allows people to stick their head in the sand. Everything in the past was so quaint, so charming. Times were simpler, kids didn't have sex, neighbors knew each other. It's a friggin' fairy tale. Things sucked then too, they just sucked without indoor plumbing.", - "source": "Gilmore Girls", - "id": 3157, - "length": 285 - }, - { - "text": "If you're a spirit and you can travel to other dimensions and galaxies and find out the mysteries of the universe, you think she's going to want to hang around Drexler's funeral home on Ocean Parkway?", - "source": "Seinfeld", - "id": 3158, - "length": 200 - }, - { - "text": "OK. Sam, Diane, you two are perfect together. I'm sorry I made a mistake before but you are the most perfectly matched couple ever. But, why am I telling this to you? Let's share it with the rest of the world.", - "source": "Cheers", - "id": 3159, - "length": 209 - }, - { - "text": "Therefore the skillful leader subdues the enemy's troops without any fighting; he captures their cities without laying siege to them; he overthrows their kingdom without lengthy operations in the field.", - "source": "The Art of War", - "id": 3160, - "length": 202 - }, - { - "text": "I am innocent, innocent. I just wanted to play a game, game, but the boring kings found such fun to be a trouble. As punishment, they craved to imprison my body, but I'm fast, fast, clever, clever. They lost the chase, and locked up their entire race, building a prison around the whole world. Now, I'm the only free one.", - "source": "Deltarune", - "id": 3161, - "length": 321 - }, - { - "text": "I felt dull and somnolent, for daytime sleep is like the sin of the flesh: the more you have the more you want, and yet you feel unhappy, sated and unsated at the same time.", - "source": "The Name of the Rose", - "id": 3162, - "length": 173 - }, - { - "text": "You know the difference between you and me Marty? I'm a white trash cracker from a white trash town that no one would even bother to piss on. But here's the difference. I've made something of myself, I have the keys to the capitol, people respect me. But you, you're still nothing.", - "source": "House of Cards", - "id": 3163, - "length": 281 - }, - { - "text": "Nothing. It was like being deep in outer space, so far away from everything else that he couldn't even see any stars.", - "source": "Found", - "id": 3164, - "length": 117 - }, - { - "text": "Today, you people are no longer maggots. Today, you are Marines. You're part of a brotherhood. From now on until the day you die, wherever you are, every Marine is your brother. Most of you will go to Vietnam. Some of you will not come back. But the Marine Corps lives forever. And that means YOU live forever.", - "source": "Full Metal Jacket", - "id": 3165, - "length": 310 - }, - { - "text": "Your inner child will be happy to know that when it comes to wine, it's okay to like some colors more than others. You can't get away with saying \"I don't like green food!\" much beyond your sixth birthday, but you can express a general preference for white, red, or pink wine for all your adult life.", - "source": "Wine for Dummies", - "id": 3166, - "length": 300 - }, - { - "text": "The interior locks in an office suite are usually low-end; just there to keep white-collar workers from stealing coffee cups. File cabinet locking bars on the other hand are a more serious security measure. Their main vulnerability is that they depend on people's faith in padlocks. People have too much faith in padlocks.", - "source": "Burn Notice", - "id": 3167, - "length": 322 - }, - { - "text": "I'm jealous, I'm overzealous. When I'm down I get real down, when I'm high I don't come down. I get angry, baby believe me. I could love you just like that and I could leave you just this fast.", - "source": "Issues", - "id": 3168, - "length": 193 - }, - { - "text": "When I was 9 years old I had kind of a rough time. A lot of people thought I was pretty mixed up. But there was one person who got me through it. He did everything right. And thanks to him today, well I'm the happiest, most confident and most well-adjusted person in this world. Dad, I love you. You're the greatest!", - "source": "Parenthood", - "id": 3169, - "length": 316 - }, - { - "text": "When I was a kid, I thought Zootopia was this perfect place, where everyone got along and anyone could be anything. Turns out, real life is a little bit more complicated than a slogan on a bumper sticker. Real life is messy. We all have limitations, we all make mistakes, which means - hey, glass half full! - we all have a lot in common. And the more we try to understand one another, the more exceptional each of us will be. But we have to try. So no matter what type of animal you are; from the biggest elephant to our first fox, I implore you - try. Try to make the world a better place. Look inside yourself and recognize that change starts with you. It starts with me. It starts with all of us.", - "source": "Zootopia", - "id": 3170, - "length": 700 - }, - { - "text": "Perhaps however the most satisfactory definition of a rock is an aggregate of mineral particles. This definition makes no assumption as to the composition or state of aggregation of the particles and hence may be taken to include the accumulations of all ages and of all degrees of solidification and alteration, without regard to their manner of formation.", - "source": "Agricultural Geology", - "id": 3171, - "length": 357 - }, - { - "text": "Well, why waste this on us when you can put it on the Internet and have the whole world ignore it?", - "source": "Corner Gas", - "id": 3172, - "length": 98 - }, - { - "text": "Once upon a time, at the foot of a great mountain, there was a town where the people known as happy folk lived, their very existence a mystery to the rest of the world, obscured as it was by great clouds. Here they played out their peaceful lives, innocent to the litany of excessive violence that was growing in the world below - to live in harmony with the spirit of the mountain, called Monkey, was enough. Then one day, strange folk arrived in the town. They came in camouflage, hidden behind dark glasses, but no one noticed them. They only saw shadows, you see. Without the truth to the eyes, the happy folk were blind.", - "source": "Fire Coming Out of the Monkey's Head", - "id": 3173, - "length": 625 - }, - { - "text": "Usually rockslides take place in a geologic setting where the rock strata are inclined, or where joints and fractures exist parallel to the slope. When such a rock unit is undercut at the base of the slope, it loses support, and the rock eventually gives way.", - "source": "Earth: An Introduction to Physical Geology (12th Edition)", - "id": 3174, - "length": 259 - }, - { - "text": "The creation ends in South Georgia, at the very edge of the sweet earth. Only the sky, widest of the wide, goes on, flatness against flatness. The sky appears so close that, with a long-enough extension ladder, you think you could touch it, and sometimes you do, when clouds descend in the night to set a fine pelt of dew on the grasses, leaving behind white trails of fog and mist.", - "source": "Ecology of a Cracker Childhood", - "id": 3175, - "length": 382 - }, - { - "text": "There will be today, there will be tomorrow, there will be always, and there was yesterday, and there was the day before.", - "source": "War and Peace", - "id": 3176, - "length": 121 - }, - { - "text": "I think people place too much emphasis on their careers. I wish we could all live in the mountains at high altitude. That's where I see myself in five years. How about you?", - "source": "Groundhog Day", - "id": 3177, - "length": 172 - }, - { - "text": "My name is Charlie Bartlett. If there's one thing I want you guys to walk away with tonight, it's that you guys don't need me. I really mean it. You think I'm any less screwed up than you are? I get up every morning and I look in the mirror and I try and figure out just where I fit in and I draw a complete blank.", - "source": "Charlie Bartlett", - "id": 3178, - "length": 314 - }, - { - "text": "I remember when we used to sit in the government yard in Trenchtown. Observing the hypocrites as they would mingle with the good people we meet. Good friends we had, good friends we lost along the way. In this bright future you can't forget your past, so dry your tears, I say.", - "source": "No Woman, No Cry", - "id": 3179, - "length": 277 - }, - { - "text": "You lock the door, and throw away the key. There's someone in my head but it's not me.", - "source": "Brain Damage", - "id": 3180, - "length": 86 - }, - { - "text": "All right, but apart from the sanitation, medicine, education, wine, public order, irrigation, roads, the fresh water system and public health, what have the Romans ever done for us?", - "source": "Monty Python's Life of Brian", - "id": 3181, - "length": 182 - }, - { - "text": "Someday he'll come along, the man I love, and he'll be big and strong, the man I love. And when he comes my way, I'll do my best to make him stay. He'll look at me and smile, I'll understand, then in a little while, he'll take my hand. And though it seems absurd, I know we both won't say a word. Maybe I shall meet him Sunday, maybe Monday, maybe not. Still I'm sure to meet him one day, maybe Tuesday will be my good news day.", - "source": "The Man I Love", - "id": 3182, - "length": 428 - }, - { - "text": "Add a number to itself and it changes. One and one is not one - it's two. Two and two is four. But zero and zero is zero. This violates the basic principle of numbers called the axiom of Archimedes, which says that if you add something to itself enough times, it will exceed any other number in magnitude.", - "source": "Zero", - "id": 3183, - "length": 305 - }, - { - "text": "That is the germ of my great discovery. But you are wrong to say that we cannot move about in time. For instance, if I am recalling an incident very vividly I go back to the instant of its occurrence: I become absent-minded, as you say. I jump back for a moment. Of course we have no means of staying back for any length of time, any more than a savage or an animal has of staying six feet above the ground. But a civilized man is better off than the savage in this respect. He can go up against gravitation in a balloon, and why should he not hope that ultimately he may be able to stop or accelerate his drift along the time-dimension, or even turn about and travel the other way?", - "source": "The Time Machine", - "id": 3184, - "length": 682 - }, - { - "text": "To think that the affairs of this life always remain in the same state is a vain presumption; indeed they all seem to be perpetually changing and moving in a circular course. Spring is followed by summer, summer by autumn, and autumn by winter, which is again followed by spring, and so time continues its everlasting round. But the life of man is ever racing to its end, swifter than time itself, without hope of renewal, unless in the next that is limitless and infinite.", - "source": "Don Quixote", - "id": 3185, - "length": 473 - }, - { - "text": "For a transitory enchanted moment man must have held his breath in the presence of this continent, compelled into an aesthetic contemplation he neither understood nor desired, face to face for the last time in history with something commensurate to his capacity for wonder.", - "source": "The Great Gatsby", - "id": 3186, - "length": 273 - }, - { - "text": "I tensed, waiting for the fury - both his and mine - but it was only quiet and calm in the darkness of his room. I could almost taste the sweetness of reunion in the air.", - "source": "Eclipse", - "id": 3187, - "length": 170 - }, - { - "text": "Why does an apple fall when it is ripe? Is it brought down by the force of gravity? Is it because its stalk withers? Because it is dried by the sun, because it grows too heavy, or because the boy standing under the tree wants to eat it? None of these is the cause... Every action of theirs, that seems to them an act of their own free will, is in the historical sense not free at all but is bound up with the whole course of history and preordained from all eternity.", - "source": "War and Peace", - "id": 3188, - "length": 467 - }, - { - "text": "Our culture has become hooked on the quick-fix, the life hack, efficiency. Everyone is on the hunt for that simple action algorithm that nets maximum profit with the least amount of effort. There's no denying this attitude may get you some of the trappings of success, if you're lucky, but it will not lead to a calloused mind or self-mastery. If you want to master the mind and remove your governor, you'll have to become addicted to hard work. Because passion and obsession, even talent, are only useful tools if you have the work ethic to back them up.", - "source": "Can't Hurt Me: Master Your Mind and Defy the Odds", - "id": 3189, - "length": 555 - }, - { - "text": "Last of all came the cat, who looked round, as usual, for the warmest place, and finally squeezed herself in between Boxer and Clover; there she purred contentedly throughout Major's speech without listening to a word of what he was saying.", - "source": "Animal Farm", - "id": 3190, - "length": 240 - }, - { - "text": "Woke up, fell out of bed, dragged a comb across my head. Found my way downstairs and drank a cup, and looking up I noticed I was late. Found my coat and grabbed my hat. Made the bus in seconds flat. Found my way upstairs and had a smoke, and somebody spoke and I went into a dream.", - "source": "A Day in the Life", - "id": 3191, - "length": 281 - }, - { - "text": "Poets claim that we recapture for a moment the self that we were long ago when we enter some house or garden in which we used to live in our youth. But these are most hazardous pilgrimages, which end as often in disappointment as in success. It is in ourselves that we should rather seek to find those fixed places, contemporaneous with different years.", - "source": "In Search of Lost Time", - "id": 3192, - "length": 353 - }, - { - "text": "I put a lot of thought into the Universe; came up with the rules. It sets a bad example if I break them - not to mention, shows favoritism. Why should one person get a miracle, and not everybody else? Can you imagine the confusion? It's better when we all abide by the rules.", - "source": "Joan of Arcadia", - "id": 3193, - "length": 275 - }, - { - "text": "Let folly be our cloak, a veil before the eyes of the Enemy! For he is very wise, and weighs all things to a nicety in the scales of his malice. But the only measure that he knows is desire, desire for power; and so he judges all hearts. Into his heart the thought will not enter that any will refuse it, that having the Ring we may seek to destroy it. If we seek this, we shall put him out of reckoning.", - "source": "The Fellowship of the Ring", - "id": 3194, - "length": 404 - }, - { - "text": "I have never met anyone so passionate and dedicated to a belief as you. It's so intense that sometimes it's blinding.", - "source": "The X-Files", - "id": 3195, - "length": 117 - }, - { - "text": "Well, you see, that's another reason I can't help you catch this guy. I might adversely affect the fate of the future. I mean his next victim might be the mother of the daughter whose son invents the time machine. Then the son goes back in time and changes world history and then Columbus never discovers America, man never lands on the moon, the U.S. never invades Grenada. Or something less significant resulting in the fact that my father never meets my mother and consequently I'm never born.", - "source": "The X-Files", - "id": 3196, - "length": 496 - }, - { - "text": "The arts are not a way to make a living. They are a very human way of making life more bearable. Practicing an art, no matter how well or badly, is a way to make your soul grow, for heaven's sake. Sing in the shower. Dance to the radio. Tell stories. Write a poem to a friend, even a lousy poem. Do it as well as you possibly can. You will get an enormous reward. You will have created something.", - "source": "A Man Without a Country", - "id": 3197, - "length": 396 - }, - { - "text": "I don't know what the world may need but a V-8 engine's a good start for me. I think I'll drive and find a place to be surly. I don't know what the world may want but some words of wisdom could comfort us. Think I'll leave that up to someone wiser.", - "source": "Teen Angst (What the World Needs Now)", - "id": 3198, - "length": 248 - }, - { - "text": "A great part of its theories derives an additional charm from the peculiarity that important propositions, with the impress of simplicity on them, are often easily discovered by induction, and yet are of so profound a character that we cannot find the demonstrations till after many vain attempts; and even then, when we do succeed, it is often by some tedious and artificial process, while the simple methods may long remain concealed.", - "source": "Mathematical Circles Adieu", - "id": 3199, - "length": 436 - }, - { - "text": "Still, as a storyteller, I'm fascinated how a person's sense of consciousness can be so transformed by nothing more magical than listening to words. Mere words.", - "source": "The X-Files", - "id": 3200, - "length": 160 - }, - { - "text": "Now! This is it! Now is the time to choose. Die and be free of pain, or live and fight your sorrow! Now is the time to shape your stories! Your fate is in your hands!", - "source": "Final Fantasy X", - "id": 3201, - "length": 166 - }, - { - "text": "Being comfortable in the car is critical. If you're not comfortable, it will not only take more physical energy to drive, but it will also affect you mentally. A painful body will reduce your concentration level.", - "source": "Speed Secrets: Professional Race Driving Techniques", - "id": 3202, - "length": 212 - }, - { - "text": "Meet me in the crowd, people. Throw your love around, love me. Take it into town, happy. Put it in the ground where the flowers grow, gold and silver shine.", - "source": "Shiny Happy People", - "id": 3203, - "length": 156 - }, - { - "text": "No, you're not. You don't know how to drink. Your whole generation, you drink for the wrong reasons. My generation, we drink because it's good, because it feels better than unbuttoning your collar, because we deserve it. We drink because it's what men do.", - "source": "Mad Men", - "id": 3204, - "length": 255 - }, - { - "text": "I want to play a game. Let's play hide and seek. Those were her exact words. Yay, you found one, I can hear her, even now. Wow, you found another one. There must be a purpose to this. That's it... The beacon is lit! I know where and when you are! Sooner or later, I will find you. Together, we will ensure a better future for the children.", - "source": "Call of Duty: Black Ops 3", - "id": 3205, - "length": 339 - }, - { - "text": "Witness Mr. Henry Bemis, a charter member in the fraternity of dreamers. A bookish little man whose passion is the printed page, but who is conspired against by a bank president and a wife and a world full of tongue-cluckers and the unrelenting hands of a clock. But in just a moment, Mr. Bemis will enter a world without bank presidents or wives or clocks or anything else. He'll have a world all to himself, without anyone.", - "source": "The Twilight Zone", - "id": 3206, - "length": 425 - }, - { - "text": "If this were Russia, yeah sure. Everyone would go to one Santa, and there would be a line around the block and once you sat on her lap and she'd ask you what you wanted, you would say probably \"freedom.\" At which point the KGB would arrest you and send you to Siberia. It's a good thing Russia doesn't exist anymore.", - "source": "The Office", - "id": 3207, - "length": 316 - }, - { - "text": "We first describe a collection of examples of simple experiments and the associated sample spaces where the assumption of equally likely sample points seems reasonable and then calculate probabilities of some interesting events. These experiments are simple enough that we can just list the sample points after a little thinking.", - "source": "Fundamentals of Probability: A First Course", - "id": 3208, - "length": 329 - }, - { - "text": "I don't hate anybody. The Winklevii aren't suing me for intellectual property theft. They're suing me because for the first time in their lives things didn't go exactly the way they were supposed to for them.", - "source": "The Social Network", - "id": 3209, - "length": 208 - }, - { - "text": "Listen, I know we've had our problems in the past, but we've got a show to do tonight. Pull together as a team. Life's too short. I say let's let bygones be bygones. If you took the raisins, if you didn't take the raisins. They weren't even my raisins. I was just curious because it seems like a strange thing to do, to walk into a room, audition, and walk out with a box of raisins. Anyway, whatever. If you ever want to tell me about it, the door to my office is always open. In the event that I get an office. You'll come in, we'll talk about the raisins, have a nice laugh.", - "source": "Seinfeld", - "id": 3210, - "length": 577 - }, - { - "text": "She gives me feelings like I never felt before. I'm breaking promises, she's breaking every law. She used to look good to me, but now I find her simply irresistible.", - "source": "Simply Irresistible", - "id": 3211, - "length": 165 - }, - { - "text": "Evening of a hot day started the little wind to moving among the leaves. The shade climbed up the hills toward the top. On the sand banks the rabbits sat as quietly as little gray, sculptured stones.", - "source": "Of Mice and Men", - "id": 3212, - "length": 199 - }, - { - "text": "We live in a strange and wonderful universe. Its age, size, violence, and beauty require extraordinary imagination to appreciate. The place we humans hold within this vast cosmos can seem pretty insignificant. And so we try to make sense of it all and to see how we fit in.", - "source": "A Briefer History of Time", - "id": 3213, - "length": 273 - }, - { - "text": "Out of my thoughts! You are part of my existence, part of myself. You have been in every line I have ever read, since I first came here, the rough common boy whose poor heart you wounded even then. You have been in every prospect I have ever seen since - on the river, on the sails of the ships, on the marshes, in the clouds, in the light, in the darkness, in the wind, in the woods, in the sea, in the streets. You have been the embodiment of every graceful fancy that my mind has ever become acquainted with.", - "source": "Great Expectations", - "id": 3214, - "length": 511 - }, - { - "text": "I've been driving this route for 15 years. I've brought 'em out here to get that stuff, and I've drove 'em home after they had it. It changes them... On the way out here, they sit back and enjoy the ride. They talk to me; sometimes we stop and watch the sunsets, and look at the birds flyin'. Sometimes we stop and watch the birds when there ain't no birds. And look at the sunsets when it's raining. We have a swell time. And I always get a big tip.", - "source": "Harvey", - "id": 3215, - "length": 450 - }, - { - "text": "You know, you're very beautiful. You're also very quiet. And I'm not used to girls being that quiet unless they're medicated. Normally I go out with girls who talk so much you could hook them up to a wind turbine and they could power a small New Hampshire town.", - "source": "Good Morning, Vietnam", - "id": 3216, - "length": 261 - }, - { - "text": "Keying text quickly is important, but it is more important to be able to make it look professional. Making the text readable involves positioning, style, and size.", - "source": "Keyboarding Made Simple (1985)", - "id": 3217, - "length": 163 - }, - { - "text": "After removal from the oven, the pizza is sliced and plated quickly in a flat cardboard box, which is immediately closed and often taped shut. There is no physical separation after the slicing, so that edge can be ignored and we can treat the pizza, for thermal purposes, as an infinite plane.", - "source": "The Thermodynamics of Pizza", - "id": 3218, - "length": 293 - }, - { - "text": "City of stars, are you shining just for me? City of stars, there's so much that I can't see. Who knows? Is this the start of something wonderful and new? Or one more dream that I cannot make true?", - "source": "City of Stars", - "id": 3219, - "length": 196 - }, - { - "text": "Harold, everyone has the right to make an ass out of themselves. You just can't let the world judge you too much.", - "source": "Harold and Maude", - "id": 3220, - "length": 113 - }, - { - "text": "All animals are equal, but some animals are more equal than others.", - "source": "Animal Farm", - "id": 3221, - "length": 67 - }, - { - "text": "When we're fighting I can't find the right words to say but I know it'll be okay, I know that we'll be okay no matter what I say. No matter what, I'll stay by you. Will you stay by me?", - "source": "You Say", - "id": 3222, - "length": 184 - }, - { - "text": "Our lives are like a complex musical score. Filled with all sorts of cryptic writing, sixteenth and thirty-second notes and other strange signs. It's next to impossible to correctly interpret these, and even if you could, and could then transpose them into the correct sounds, there's no guarantee that people would correctly understand, or appreciate, the meaning therein. No guarantee it would make people happy. Why must the workings of people's lives be so convoluted?", - "source": "Colorless Tsukuru Tazaki and His Years of Pilgrimage", - "id": 3223, - "length": 472 - }, - { - "text": "It is so discouraging not to have any advice and companionship about my work. When I get really well, John says we will ask Cousin Henry and Julia down for a long visit; but he says he would as soon put fireworks in my pillow-case as to let me have those stimulating people about now.", - "source": "The Yellow Wallpaper", - "id": 3224, - "length": 284 - }, - { - "text": "Our deepest fear is not that we are inadequate. Our deepest fear is that we are powerful beyond measure. It is our light, not our darkness, that most frightens us. We ask ourselves, who am I to be brilliant, gorgeous, talented and fabulous? Actually, who are you not to be? You are a child of God. Your playing small doesn't serve the world. We were born to make manifest the glory of God that is within us. It's not just in some of us; it's in everyone. And as we let our own light shine, we unconsciously give other people permission to do the same. As we are liberated from our own fear, our presence automatically liberates others.", - "source": "A Return to Love: Reflections on the Principles of \"A Course in Miracles\"", - "id": 3225, - "length": 635 - }, - { - "text": "As we become aware of our own unavoidable termination, we become aware of the fear-emotion. And I think that, as copulation tends towards self-preservation, all fear tends towards a comprehension of the final ending.", - "source": "Graveyard Shift and Other Stories From Night Shift", - "id": 3226, - "length": 216 - }, - { - "text": "In fact, the mere act of opening the box will determine the state of the cat, although in this case there were three determinate states the cat could be in: these being Alive, Dead, and Bloody Furious.", - "source": "Lords and Ladies", - "id": 3227, - "length": 201 - }, - { - "text": "I have half a mind to make you hurt, to make you bleed, to make you suffer. I swear, if you've touched her - oh, heaven, forgive what I would do to you, you monster. And think about your children? They'll never believe what you've done.", - "source": "New Storms For Older Lovers", - "id": 3228, - "length": 236 - }, - { - "text": "There's a diary. Here's the last page. It's all over. The fishmen attack if I make even the slightest noise. I'd rather have my gums scraped than have to fight these fiends.", - "source": "Chrono Trigger", - "id": 3229, - "length": 173 - }, - { - "text": "Let me get this straight. You think that your client, one of the wealthiest, most powerful men in the world, is secretly a vigilante who spends his nights beating criminals to a pulp with his bare hands? And your plan is to blackmail this person?", - "source": "The Dark Knight", - "id": 3230, - "length": 246 - }, - { - "text": "The mind which is created quick to love, is responsive to everything that is pleasing, soon as by pleasure it is awakened into activity. Your apprehensive faculty draws an impression from a real object, and unfolds it within you, so that it makes the mind turn thereto. And if, being turned, it inclines towards it, that inclination is love; that is nature, which through pleasure is bound anew within you.", - "source": "The Divine Comedy", - "id": 3231, - "length": 406 - }, - { - "text": "The wind was bitterly cold. The snow swirled, blurring his vision. But somewhere ahead, through the blinding storm, he knew there was warmth and light. Using his final strength, and a special knowledge that was deep inside him, Jonas found the sled that was waiting for them at the top of the hill.", - "source": "The Giver", - "id": 3232, - "length": 298 - }, - { - "text": "Mr. Brady, why do you deny the one faculty of man that raises him above the other creatures of the earth? The power of his brain to reason. What other merit have we? The elephant is larger; the horse is swifter and stronger; the butterfly is far more beautiful; the mosquito is more prolific. Even the simple sponge is more durable. But does a sponge think?", - "source": "Inherit the Wind", - "id": 3233, - "length": 357 - }, - { - "text": "Man is by instinct a lover, a hunter, a fighter, and none of those instincts are given much play at the warehouse!", - "source": "The Glass Menagerie", - "id": 3234, - "length": 114 - }, - { - "text": "Those whom I could persuade to talk told me that Riddle was obsessed with his parentage. This is understandable, of course; he had grown up in an orphanage and naturally wished to know how he came to be there. It seems that he searched in vain for some trace of Tom Riddle Senior on the shields in the trophy room, on the lists of prefects in the old school records, even in the books of wizarding history. Finally he was forced to accept that his father had never set foot in Hogwarts.", - "source": "Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince", - "id": 3235, - "length": 486 - }, - { - "text": "Do you wanna come with me? 'Cause if you do then I should warn you, you're gonna see all sorts of things. Ghosts from the past. Aliens from the future. The day the Earth died in a ball of flame. It won't be quiet, it won't be safe, and it won't be calm. But I'll tell you what it will be: the trip of a lifetime.", - "source": "Doctor Who", - "id": 3236, - "length": 312 - }, - { - "text": "Would you like to ski Antarctica, but you're snowed under with work? Do you dream of a vacation at the bottom of the ocean, but you can't float the bill? Have you always wanted to climb the mountains of Mars, but now you're over the hill? Then come to Rekall, Incorporated, where you can buy the memory of your ideal vacation, cheaper, safer, and better than the real thing. So don't let life pass you by. Call Rekall for the memory of a lifetime.", - "source": "Total Recall", - "id": 3237, - "length": 447 - }, - { - "text": "Oh, you think darkness is your ally. But you merely adopted the dark; I was born in it, molded by it. I didn't see the light until I was already a man, by then it was nothing to me but blinding!", - "source": "The Dark Knight Rises", - "id": 3238, - "length": 194 - }, - { - "text": "And Aunt Zelda all the women looked like you and Uncle Bob all the cows looked like you and Ernie there were cavemen that looked like you and there were all these nerdy little kids like you Billy and there were monsters and stupid-looking things and animals could talk and some of it was confusing and... and... and... Oh, wow! There's no place like home!", - "source": "The Complete Far Side", - "id": 3239, - "length": 355 - }, - { - "text": "I'm Rick Harrison, and this is my pawn shop. I work here with my old man and my son, Big Hoss. Everything in here has a story and a price. One thing I've learned after 21 years - you never know what is gonna come through that door.", - "source": "Pawn Stars: Season 1", - "id": 3240, - "length": 231 - }, - { - "text": "If the moon, in the act of completing its eternal way around the earth, were gifted with self-consciousness, it would feel thoroughly convinced that it was traveling its way of its own accord... So would a being, endowed with higher insight and more perfect intelligence, watching man and his doings, smile about man's illusion that he was acting according to his own free will.", - "source": "The World As I See It", - "id": 3241, - "length": 378 - }, - { - "text": "I'm not part of this little project now, which gives me a clarity I didn't have before. Annie, George, Mitchell, Nina, the two of you, what none of you realized - what none of us realized - is the desire to be human is the end, not the beginning. To want it is to have it. You're not wasting your time, Tom. You've already won.", - "source": "Being Human", - "id": 3242, - "length": 327 - }, - { - "text": "The number nine is not ten. The number eleven is not ten. Although the two numbers are almost ten, they can never be ten. They are untenable. You can add one to nine to make it ten, but it would no longer be nine! It would be ten! Same with eleven! When nine is nine and eleven is eleven, they are untenable! Their possessions are untenable! They have to go.", - "source": "Limmy's Show", - "id": 3243, - "length": 358 - }, - { - "text": "Smell is the most powerful trigger to the memory there is. A certain flower or a whiff of smoke can bring up experiences long forgotten. Books smell musty and rich. The knowledge gained from a computer is... it has no texture, no context. It's there and then it's gone. If it's to last, then the getting of knowledge should be tangible. It should be, um, smelly.", - "source": "I Robot, You Jane", - "id": 3244, - "length": 362 - }, - { - "text": "Fool, prate not to me about covenants. There can be no covenants between men and lions, wolves and lambs can never be of one mind, but hate each other out and out and through. Therefore there can be no understanding between you and me, nor may there be any covenants between us, till one or other shall fall.", - "source": "The Iliad", - "id": 3245, - "length": 308 - }, - { - "text": "Every man desires to live long, but no man wishes to be old.", - "source": "Gulliver's Travels", - "id": 3246, - "length": 60 - }, - { - "text": "Till then, my noble friend, chew upon this: Brutus had rather be a villager than to repute himself a son of Rome under these hard conditions as this time is like to lay upon us.", - "source": "Julius Caesar", - "id": 3247, - "length": 177 - }, - { - "text": "After all, what justification is there for a word which is simply the opposite of some other word?", - "source": "Nineteen Eighty-Four", - "id": 3248, - "length": 98 - }, - { - "text": "You know, Michael; now that you're so respectable, I think you're more dangerous than ever. I liked you better when you were just a common Mafia hood.", - "source": "The Godfather: Part III", - "id": 3249, - "length": 150 - }, - { - "text": "It's something turians are taught from birth. If even one person is still left standing at the end of a war, then the fight was worth it.", - "source": "Mass Effect 3", - "id": 3250, - "length": 137 - }, - { - "text": "On the eve of a day that's forgotten and fake and the trees they await and clouds anticipate the start of a day when we put on our face a mask that portrays that we don't need grace. On the eve of a day that is bigger than us but we open our eyes because we're told that we must and the trees wave their arms and the clouds try to plead, desperately yelling there's something we need. I'm not free, I asked forgiveness three times, same amount that I denied; I three-time MVPed this crime. I'm afraid to tell you who I adore, won't tell you who I'm singing towards.", - "source": "Ode To Sleep", - "id": 3251, - "length": 565 - }, - { - "text": "The more things change, the more they stay the same. I'm not sure who the first person was who said that. Probably Shakespeare. Or maybe Sting. But at the moment, it's the sentence that best explains my tragic flaw: my inability to change. I don't think I'm alone in this. The more I get to know other people, the more I realize it's kind of everyone's flaw. Staying exactly the same for as long as possible, standing perfectly still... it feels safer somehow.", - "source": "Everwood", - "id": 3252, - "length": 460 - }, - { - "text": "If you can't focus at all, it's also good to confine yourself somewhere and study! The thrill of studying in a place where you might get caught does wonders for your focus! Oh, and I also recommend studying in a disaster zone. The thrill of studying in a place where you could actually die does wonders for your focus! Oh, and I also recommend studying in the middle of your exams. The thrill of knowing it's too late to get any studying done does wonders for your focus!", - "source": "Danganronpa V3: Killing Harmony", - "id": 3253, - "length": 471 - }, - { - "text": "Jill, this is Sergeant Sacker. Listen to me. We've traced the call... it's coming from inside the house. Now a squad car's coming over there right now, just get out of that house!", - "source": "When a Stranger Calls", - "id": 3254, - "length": 179 - }, - { - "text": "It's an odd feeling, farewell. There is such envy in it. Men go off to be tested for courage. If we're tested at all, it's for patience, for doing without, for how well we can endure loneliness.", - "source": "Out of Africa", - "id": 3255, - "length": 194 - }, - { - "text": "To be honest, as this world goes, is to be one man picked out of ten thousand.", - "source": "Hamlet", - "id": 3256, - "length": 78 - }, - { - "text": "There are two kinds of fibers in our muscles, red and white. When an athlete trains for long distance running, he or she builds more red muscle fibers than white muscle fibers in his calf muscles. A sprinter has more white muscles. If you retrain a marathon runner to be a sprinter, most of the muscle fibers will convert to white muscles.", - "source": "The Complete Idiot's Guide to Improving Your IQ", - "id": 3257, - "length": 339 - }, - { - "text": "We've learned that the balance of nutrients in cow's milk doesn't meet the needs of human infants, that most adult humans on the planet can't digest the milk sugar called lactose, that the best route to calcium balance may not be massive milk intake. These complications help remind us that milk was designed to be a food for the young and rapidly growing calf, not for the young or mature human.", - "source": "On Food and Cooking: The Science and Lore of the Kitchen", - "id": 3258, - "length": 396 - }, - { - "text": "What she done was wrong and she gotta be punished. For the next two weeks, no out after school. No out at all. If you find yourself having fun at something, stop it. And no delicious foods for three weeks. You only gotta eat the terrible foods that are good for you. And then no TV for a week. And the next week, and this is gonna be tougher: educational TV only.", - "source": "All in the Family", - "id": 3259, - "length": 363 - }, - { - "text": "This is our world now. The world of the electron and the switch; the beauty of the baud. We exist without nationality, skin color, or religious bias. You wage wars, murder, cheat, lie to us and try to make us believe it's for our own good, yet we're the criminals. Yes, I am a criminal. My crime is that of curiosity. I am a hacker, and this is my manifesto. You may stop me, but you can't stop us all.", - "source": "Hackers", - "id": 3260, - "length": 402 - }, - { - "text": "I have been improving the wrong way, like bad fish in warm weather. One day last week, I had a woeful day of headache, nausea, and malaise, which left me weak as a sea anemone at low water. Since then, there has been no improvement.", - "source": "The Diary of George Templeton Strong", - "id": 3261, - "length": 232 - }, - { - "text": "The ingenious are always fanciful, and the truly imaginative never otherwise than analytic.", - "source": "The Tell-Tale Heart", - "id": 3262, - "length": 91 - }, - { - "text": "What should have been swift revenge turned into an all out war. The City of God was divided. You couldn't go from one section to the other, not even to visit a relative. The cops considered anyone living in the slum a hoodlum. People got used to living in Vietnam, and more and more volunteers signed up to die.", - "source": "City of God (Cidade de Deus, Brazil)", - "id": 3263, - "length": 312 - }, - { - "text": "Our job is to find truth, no matter how painful it may be.", - "source": "Phoenix Wright: Ace Attorney", - "id": 3264, - "length": 58 - }, - { - "text": "The man who reviews his own life, as I do mine, in going on here, from page to page, had need to have been a good man indeed, if he would be spared the sharp consciousness of many talents neglected, many opportunities wasted, many erratic and perverted feelings constantly at war within his breast, and defeating him.", - "source": "David Copperfield", - "id": 3265, - "length": 317 - }, - { - "text": "I know that the idea of raising well-rounded, smarter kids can be daunting. And sadly, no easy formula exists. Kids are as complex, varied, and exciting individuals as you are. The good news is that your child has a natural desire to do well. Your job as parent is to bring out this quality and cherish it until the day your kids leave home, and then some.", - "source": "Raising Smart Kids for Dummies", - "id": 3266, - "length": 356 - }, - { - "text": "As I've gotten older, I realize I'm certain of only two things. Days that begin with rowing on a lake are better than days that do not. Second, a man's character is his fate. And as a student of history, I find this hard to refute. For most of us our stories can be written long before we die. There are exceptions among the great men of history, but they are rare, and I am not one of them. I am a teacher - simply that. I taught for 34 years. One day I stopped teaching. Those were the facts of my life's chronicle. The last chapter had been written. My book was closed.", - "source": "The Emperor's Club", - "id": 3267, - "length": 572 - }, - { - "text": "The goal of the true seeker is to become a sage, or superior man. There are certain immutable laws of the universe, which the sage must be in harmony with. Different Ninja sects espouse some laws in particular, according them greater significance than the others. But each law is essential in its own right, and must be considered equal to the rest.", - "source": "Ninja Mind Control", - "id": 3268, - "length": 349 - }, - { - "text": "I can show you the world - shining, shimmering, splendid. Tell me, princess, now when did you last let your heart decide? I can open your eyes, take you wonder by wonder. Over, sideways, and under on a magic carpet ride. A whole new world, a new fantastic point of view. No one to tell us no, or where to go, or say we're only dreaming. A whole new world, a dazzling place I never knew. But when I'm way up here, it's crystal clear that now I'm in a whole new world with you.", - "source": "Aladdin", - "id": 3269, - "length": 475 - }, - { - "text": "Once he was as great as his fame made him. His knowledge was deep, his thought was subtle, and his hands marvelously skilled; and he had a power over the minds of others. The wise he could persuade, and the smaller folk he could daunt. That power he certainly still keeps. There are not many in Middle-earth that I should say were safe, if they were left alone to talk with him, even now when he has suffered a defeat. Gandalf, Elrond, and Galadriel, perhaps, now that his wickedness has been laid bare, but very few others.", - "source": "The Lord of The Rings", - "id": 3270, - "length": 524 - }, - { - "text": "If you fantasize about your funeral - I understand, I've been there before. If there's more importance in the music played than who'd attend - we are the same. With heads to the ground as I'm lowered down there will be a chorus, an overwhelming sound.", - "source": "Condolences", - "id": 3271, - "length": 251 - }, - { - "text": "Have I told you lately that I love you? Have I told you there's no one above you? Fill my heart with gladness, take away all my sadness, ease my troubles, that's what you do.", - "source": "Have I Told You Lately", - "id": 3272, - "length": 174 - }, - { - "text": "Luke, you're going to find that many of the truths we cling to depend greatly on our own point of view. Anakin was a good friend. When I first met him, your father was already a great pilot. But I was amazed how strongly the Force was with him. I took it upon myself to train him as a Jedi. I thought that I could instruct him just as well as Yoda. I was wrong.", - "source": "Return of the Jedi", - "id": 3273, - "length": 361 - }, - { - "text": "You know, it's funny what a young man recollects. 'Cause I don't remember being born if you know what I mean. I don't recall what I got for my first Christmas and I don't know when I went on my first outdoor picnic. But I do remember the first time I heard the sweetest voice in the wide world.", - "source": "Forrest Gump", - "id": 3274, - "length": 294 - }, - { - "text": "Waving colored flags, we won't surrender, there's no standing down. Love's a playing field, it's full of winners, we're breaking new ground.", - "source": "This One's for You (Euro 2016)", - "id": 3275, - "length": 140 - }, - { - "text": "I had a dream last night, and another oracle spoke to me. Its voice was heavenly... \"If you keep going around and around the red palm tree in the distant desert town Dry Dry Outpost something good will happen.\" So said the voice in my dream. It doesn't seem to make any sense at all to me. In fact, thinking about it makes me so uneasy that I can't sleep at night. If you find out what it means, please tell me.", - "source": "Paper Mario", - "id": 3276, - "length": 411 - }, - { - "text": "There's something happening somewhere. Baby, I just know that there is.", - "source": "Dancing in the Dark", - "id": 3277, - "length": 71 - }, - { - "text": "I know I'm asking a lot. The price of freedom is high, always has been. It's a price I'm willing to pay. If I'm the only one, then so be it, but I'm willing to bet I'm not.", - "source": "Captain America: The Winter Soldier", - "id": 3278, - "length": 172 - }, - { - "text": "If one person casts a stone at us, cast stones back with two people! If two people cast stones, cast stones back with four! If eight do, with sixteen! If a thousand do, stand up and fight with the entire village! Consider an insult to one an insult to everyone!", - "source": "When They Cry", - "id": 3279, - "length": 261 - }, - { - "text": "A setup like that cost more than we ever took. That crazy Harriman. That's bad business! How long do you think I'd stay in operation if every time I pulled a job it cost me money? If he'd just pay me what he's spending to make me stop robbing him, I'd stop robbing him!", - "source": "Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid", - "id": 3280, - "length": 269 - }, - { - "text": "What I want you to be - I don't mean physically but morally, you are very well physically - is a firm fellow, a fine firm fellow, with a will of your own, with resolution. With determination. With strength of character that is not to be influenced except on good reason by anybody, or by anything. That's what I want you to be. That's what your father and your mother might both have been.", - "source": "David Copperfield", - "id": 3281, - "length": 389 - }, - { - "text": "I don't want the money, I want something more. And I've never said that out loud but I can't pretend that's not true anymore.", - "source": "Suits", - "id": 3282, - "length": 125 - }, - { - "text": "By the time I was ten, playing baseball got to be like eating vegetables or taking out the garbage. So when I was fourteen, I started to refuse. Could you believe that? An American boy refusing to play catch with his father.", - "source": "Field of Dreams", - "id": 3283, - "length": 224 - }, - { - "text": "It is a good life we lead, brother. The best. May it never change. And may it never change us.", - "source": "Assassin's Creed 2", - "id": 3284, - "length": 94 - }, - { - "text": "The universe divided as the heart and mind collided with the people left unguided for so many troubled years. In a cloud of doubts and fears, their world was torn asunder into hollow hemispheres. Some fought themselves, some fought each other. Most just followed one another, lost, aimless, like their brothers. For their hearts were so unclear and the truth could not appear. Their spirits were divided into blinded hemispheres.", - "source": "Cygnus X-1 Book II", - "id": 3285, - "length": 429 - }, - { - "text": "What, then, is that incalculable feeling that deprives the mind of the sleep necessary to life? A world that can be explained even with bad reasons is a familiar world. But, on the other hand, in a universe suddenly divested of illusions and lights, man feels an alien, a stranger. His exile is without remedy since he is deprived of the memory of a lost home or the hope of a promised land. This divorce between man and his life, the actor and his setting, is properly the feeling of absurdity.", - "source": "The Myth of Sisyphus", - "id": 3286, - "length": 495 - }, - { - "text": "Going to bed hungry. Scrounging for scraps. Your planet was on the brink of collapse. I was the one who stopped that. You know what's happened since then? The children born have known nothing but full bellies and clear skies. It's a paradise.", - "source": "Avengers: Infinity War", - "id": 3287, - "length": 242 - }, - { - "text": "I so enjoy watching history warp as words pass from the lips of one to the ears of another. Imperfectly formed, half understood, poorly remembered. In the years to come, the story of the Crown Killer will be twisted and bent; hammered like soft metal. By some accounts, a monster that had to be put down. By others, a victim of treachery, preserved because in the end you found another way. But you'll always remember the truth, won't you? Your truth, at least.", - "source": "Dishonored 2", - "id": 3288, - "length": 461 - }, - { - "text": "Hello, babies. Welcome to Earth. It's hot in the summer and cold in the winter. It's round and wet and crowded. At the outside, babies, you've got about a hundred years here.", - "source": "God Bless You, Mr. Rosewater", - "id": 3289, - "length": 174 - }, - { - "text": "I went to a party at the local county jail; all the cons were dancing, and the band began to wail. But the guys were indiscreet; they were brawling in the street. At the local dance; at the local county jail.", - "source": "Rubber Bullets", - "id": 3290, - "length": 208 - }, - { - "text": "I feel sorry for you. What it must feel like to want to pull the switch! Ever since you walked into this room, you've been acting like a self-appointed public avenger. You want to see this boy die because you personally want it, not because of the facts! You're a sadist!", - "source": "12 Angry Men", - "id": 3291, - "length": 271 - }, - { - "text": "As for you, my galvanized friend, you want a heart. You don't know how lucky you are not to have one. Hearts will never be practical until they can be made unbreakable.", - "source": "The Wizard of Oz", - "id": 3292, - "length": 168 - }, - { - "text": "Deep into that darkness peering, long I stood there wondering, fearing, doubting, dreaming dreams no mortal ever dared to dream before.", - "source": "The Raven", - "id": 3293, - "length": 135 - }, - { - "text": "One overarching lesson we have learned during the past hundred years is that the known laws of physics are associated with principles of symmetry.", - "source": "The Elegant Universe: Superstrings, Hidden Dimensions, and the Quest for the Ultimate Theory", - "id": 3294, - "length": 146 - }, - { - "text": "Don't worry. As long as you hit that wire with the connecting hook at precisely 88 miles per hour the instant the lightning strikes the tower, everything will be fine.", - "source": "Back to the Future", - "id": 3295, - "length": 167 - }, - { - "text": "I plan to leave. You want me to stay. Well, an element of conflict in any discussion's a very good thing. It means everybody is taking part and nobody is left out.", - "source": "Harvey", - "id": 3296, - "length": 163 - }, - { - "text": "I wasn't like every other kid, you know, who dreams about being an astronaut. I was always more interested in what bark was made out of on a tree. Richard Gere's a real hero of mine. Sting. Sting would be another person who's a hero. The music that he's created over the years, I don't really listen to it, but the fact that he's making it, I respect that. I care desperately about what I do. Do I know what product I'm selling? No. Do I know what I'm doing today? No. But I'm here, and I'm gonna give it my best shot.", - "source": "Zoolander", - "id": 3297, - "length": 518 - }, - { - "text": "I consider myself to be a man of principle. But, what man does not? Even the cutthroat, I have noticed, considers his actions \"moral\" after a fashion. Perhaps another person, reading of my life, would name me a religious tyrant. He could call me arrogant. What is to make that man's opinion any less valid than my own? I guess it all comes down to one fact: In the end, I'm the one with the armies.", - "source": "Mistborn: The Final Empire", - "id": 3298, - "length": 398 - }, - { - "text": "The noise was terrible. Every time a mortar went off, I jumped. I couldn't help myself. The noise went into you. It touched parts of you that were small and frightened and wanting your mommy.", - "source": "Fallen Angels", - "id": 3299, - "length": 191 - }, - { - "text": "Unlike the other four senses located in the logical regions of the forebrain, our sense of smell is wired directly into the limbic system, the so-called \"reptilian\" cellar of the brain responsible for our most basic emotions, from rage to lust.", - "source": "Who Cut the Cheese: A Cultural History of the Fart", - "id": 3300, - "length": 244 - }, - { - "text": "When I was a prisoner in Pretoria they used to keep us awake at night with fireworks after news such as that of Colenso and Magersfontein, but, except amongst the young boys, they were not given to exultation over what they had done or to any boasting. Then they talked about lyddite, and it was quite clear that it had been a terrible bogy in their minds, and that they had imagined it was to have an effect like throwing earthquakes at them, and it was equally evident that the result of actual experience had fallen short of their apprehensions.", - "source": "Impressions of a War Correspondent", - "id": 3301, - "length": 548 - }, - { - "text": "I been slumping all season but now I found a reason. I struck on a love that is true. I used to play the field, I used to be a roamer, but the season's turning 'round for me now. I finally bagged me a homer. That's right, I finally bagged me a Homer.", - "source": "The Simpsons", - "id": 3302, - "length": 250 - }, - { - "text": "I've always felt there's something inherently psychopathic about joining the army in peacetime. As far as I'm concerned people join the army to find out what it's like to kill someone. I hardly think that's an inclination that should be encouraged in modern society, do you?", - "source": "Calvary", - "id": 3303, - "length": 274 - }, - { - "text": "I never had no trouble with these people. I sat in this window. I watched these little kids get old. And I seen the old people get older. Yeah, sure, some of them don't like us, but most of them do. I mean, for Christ's sake, Pino, they grew up on my food. On my food. And I'm very proud of that.", - "source": "Do the Right Thing", - "id": 3304, - "length": 296 - }, - { - "text": "Resistance is usually ascribed to bodies at rest, and impulse to those in motion; but motion and rest, as commonly conceived, are only relatively distinguished; nor are those bodies always truly at rest, which commonly are taken to be so.", - "source": "Philosophiæ Naturalis Principia Mathematica", - "id": 3305, - "length": 238 - }, - { - "text": "When in the Course of human events it becomes necessary for one people to dissolve the political bands which have connected them with another and to assume among the powers of the earth, the separate and equal station to which the Laws of Nature and of Nature's God entitle them, a decent respect to the opinions of mankind requires that they should declare the causes which impel them to the separation.", - "source": "Declaration of Independence", - "id": 3306, - "length": 404 - }, - { - "text": "You think there's something feminine about it? My father was the tallest, handsomest, vainest man in New York, and he got his nails done. He had his fourth coronary behind the wheel and hit a tree. The windshield severed his arm, and he was dead, so they never put it back on. In the casket he had one hand. The nails were perfect.", - "source": "Mad Men", - "id": 3307, - "length": 331 - }, - { - "text": "Boars are only worth two experience points apiece. Do you know how many we would have to kill to get up thirty levels? - Yes. Sixty five million, three hundred and forty thousand, two hundred and eighty five. Which should take us seven weeks, five days, thirteen hours, and twenty minutes, giving ourselves three hours a night to sleep. What do you say, guys? You can just hang outside in the sun all day tossing a ball around... or you can sit at your computer and do something that matters.", - "source": "South Park", - "id": 3308, - "length": 492 - }, - { - "text": "We think Voldemort wants to build up his army, not just witches and wizards, but all manner of dark creatures. He's been recruiting heavily, and we're attempting to do the same.", - "source": "Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix", - "id": 3309, - "length": 177 - }, - { - "text": "The Pied Piper, he thought. He and Katherine had a book of fairy tales when they were little. She had loved it, but he had hated it, because of one illustration that frightened him: the one of the Pied Piper leading the children of Hamelin to their doom. In the picture the children were skipping and laughing and dancing to the piper's tune, but Jonah knew what was going to happen to them. He couldn't stand for them to be so happy when they ought to be scared.", - "source": "Found", - "id": 3310, - "length": 463 - }, - { - "text": "My cousin Anthony went into business for himself - we all know this - in a way for which there is no excuse. He's got a problem with rage. He disappointed me, Anthony, in ways that I can't even begin to tell you, and he put us all at risk. Irregardless, it's been made clear to me that if they put their hands on him, he will not be dealt with quick. We're talking torture. For that reason, even if I knew where my cousin was, and I do not, I would not deliver him up to them. I am offering him the same protection that I would offer any of you in similar circumstances.", - "source": "The Sopranos", - "id": 3311, - "length": 570 - }, - { - "text": "John-boy, lemme tell you something. You know, them chains ain't medals. You get 'em for making mistakes. And you make a bad enough mistake, and then you gotta deal with the Man. And he is one rough old boy.", - "source": "Cool Hand Luke", - "id": 3312, - "length": 206 - }, - { - "text": "I was oppressed with a sense of vague discontent and dissatisfaction with my own life, which was passing so quickly and uninterestingly, and I kept thinking it would be a good thing if I could tear my heart out of my breast, that heart which had grown so weary of life.", - "source": "The Stories of Anton Chekhov", - "id": 3313, - "length": 269 - }, - { - "text": "This is the end, beautiful friend. This is the end, my only friend - the end of our elaborate plans, the end of everything that stands, the end. No safety or surprise, the end. I'll never look into your eyes, again.", - "source": "The End", - "id": 3314, - "length": 215 - }, - { - "text": "I'm not in existential crisis! Just the opposite. I was fine when existence had no meaning. Meaninglessness in a universe that has no meaning - that I get. But meaninglessness in a universe that has meaning... what does it mean?", - "source": "Wonderfalls", - "id": 3315, - "length": 228 - }, - { - "text": "Everything that lives is designed to end. We are perpetually trapped in a never ending spiral of life and death. Is this a curse? Or some kind of punishment?", - "source": "Nier: Automata", - "id": 3316, - "length": 157 - }, - { - "text": "Excessive intake of alcohol as we know kills brain cells. But naturally, it attacks the slowest and weakest brain cells first. In this way, regular consumption of beer eliminates the weaker brain cells, making the brain a faster and more efficient machine. That's why you always feel smarter after a few beers.", - "source": "Cheers", - "id": 3317, - "length": 310 - }, - { - "text": "There is a vast melancholy in the canticles of the wolves, melancholy infinite as the forest, endless as these long nights of winter and yet that ghastly sadness, that mourning for their own, irremediable appetites, can never move the heart for not one phrase in it hints at the possibility of redemption.", - "source": "The Bloody Chamber", - "id": 3318, - "length": 305 - }, - { - "text": "On rainy afternoons, embroidering with a group of friends on the begonia porch, she would lose the thread of the conversation and a tear of nostalgia would salt her palate when she saw the strips of damp earth and the piles of mud that the earthworms had pushed up in the garden.", - "source": "One Hundred Years of Solitude", - "id": 3319, - "length": 279 - }, - { - "text": "You think I think that an artist's job is to speak the truth. An artist's job is to captivate you for however long we've asked for your attention. If we stumble into truth we got lucky and I don't get to decide what truth is.", - "source": "The West Wing", - "id": 3320, - "length": 225 - }, - { - "text": "If you've never programmed a computer, you should. There's nothing like it in the whole world. When you program a computer, it does exactly what you tell it to do. It's like designing a machine - any machine, like a car, like a faucet, like a gas-hinge for a door - using math and instructions. It's awesome in the truest sense: it can fill you with awe.", - "source": "Little Brother", - "id": 3321, - "length": 354 - }, - { - "text": "Do not go gentle into that good night. Rage, rage against the dying of the light.", - "source": "Do not go gentle into that good night", - "id": 3322, - "length": 81 - }, - { - "text": "This is as brave as I know how to be. I know it's gonna hurt you, but please... be a little proud of me. Goodbye, Doctor.", - "source": "Doctor Who", - "id": 3323, - "length": 121 - }, - { - "text": "And the point is, to live everything. Live the questions now.", - "source": "Letters to a Young Poet", - "id": 3324, - "length": 61 - }, - { - "text": "Too much mystery is merely an annoyance. Too much adventure is exhausting. And a little terror goes a long way.", - "source": "Odd Thomas", - "id": 3325, - "length": 111 - }, - { - "text": "You see this little hole? This moth's just about to emerge. It's in there right now, struggling. It's digging its way through the thick hide of the cocoon. Now, I could help it - take my knife, gently widen the opening, and the moth would be free - but it would be too weak to survive. Struggle is nature's way of strengthening it.", - "source": "Lost", - "id": 3326, - "length": 331 - }, - { - "text": "Commas and periods always go inside quotation marks. Colons and semicolons always go outside quotation marks. Question marks and exclamation points go inside quotation marks when they apply to the quoted material only. They go outside when they apply to the entire sentence.", - "source": "Mastering Computer Typing (1995)", - "id": 3327, - "length": 274 - }, - { - "text": "Everybody stutters one way or the other, so check my message to you. As a matter of fact, I'm letting nothing hold you back. If the Scatman can do it, so can you. I'm the Scatman.", - "source": "Scatman (Ski Ba Bop Ba Dop Bop)", - "id": 3328, - "length": 179 - }, - { - "text": "You think I know the first thing about how hard your life has been, how you feel, who you are, because I read Oliver Twist? Does that encapsulate you?", - "source": "Good Will Hunting", - "id": 3329, - "length": 150 - }, - { - "text": "Though April showers may come your way, they bring the flowers that bloom in May. So if it's raining, have no regrets, because it isn't raining rain, you know, it's raining violets. And where you see clouds upon the hills, you soon will see crowds of daffodils. So keep on looking for a blue bird and listening for his song whenever April showers come along.", - "source": "April Showers", - "id": 3330, - "length": 358 - }, - { - "text": "He was rough around the edges. He'd been to school, but never finished. He'd been to jail, but never prison. And it was his first day off in forever, man. The festival seemed like a pretty good plan: cruise some chicks and get a suntan. And his friend gave him four, but said only take one. But then he got bored and he ended up taking all four, so now my man ain't that bored anyways. The paramedics found him, he was shaking on the side of the stage.", - "source": "Chillout Tent", - "id": 3331, - "length": 452 - }, - { - "text": "She smiles, sips on a cocktail, talks about her long term plans. She don't need schooling anyway, she's gonna marry a rich old man. Did we stoop this low? Man, I don't know. She says she's broke - we're all broken too.", - "source": "Hold Steady", - "id": 3332, - "length": 218 - }, - { - "text": "From compositional considerations the tomato layer would be expected to have a relatively high heat capacity and low conductance. It thus serves as a buffer between the mozzarella and the baked dough.", - "source": "The Thermodynamics of Pizza", - "id": 3333, - "length": 200 - }, - { - "text": "As the United States assumed greater status as a power in world politics, Americans came to believe that the nation's actions on the world stage should be guided by American political and moral principles.", - "source": "American Government and Politics Today: The Essentials", - "id": 3334, - "length": 205 - }, - { - "text": "Seems like everybody's got a price. I wonder how they sleep at night when the sale comes first and the truth comes second.", - "source": "Price Tag", - "id": 3335, - "length": 122 - }, - { - "text": "Waits at the window, wearing the face that she keeps in a jar by the door. Who is it for?", - "source": "Eleanor Rigby", - "id": 3336, - "length": 89 - }, - { - "text": "I was hugely impressed. Kirk, I mean Shatner, was the ultimate example of a man who knew what he didn't know, was perfectly willing to admit it, and didn't want to leave until he understood. That's heroic to me.", - "source": "The Last Lecture", - "id": 3337, - "length": 211 - }, - { - "text": "I do not wish any reward but to know I have done the right thing.", - "source": "The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn", - "id": 3338, - "length": 65 - }, - { - "text": "I got the feeling Poseidon really didn't know what to think of me. He didn't know whether he was happy to have me as a son or not. In a strange way, I was glad that Poseidon was so distant. If he'd tried to apologize, or told me he loved me, or even smiled, it would've felt fake.", - "source": "The Lightning Thief", - "id": 3339, - "length": 280 - }, - { - "text": "Lasher, Paul realized, was the only one who hadn't lost touch with reality. He, alone of the four leaders, seemed unshocked by the course of events, undisturbed by them, even, inexplicably, at peace. Paul, perhaps, had been the one most out of touch, having had little time for reflection, having been so eager to join a large, confident organization with seeming answers to the problems that had made him sorry to be alive.", - "source": "Player Piano", - "id": 3340, - "length": 424 - }, - { - "text": "He's not afraid of losing. He's afraid of losing your love. How many ballplayers grow up afraid of losing their fathers' love every time they come up to the plate?", - "source": "Searching for Bobby Fischer", - "id": 3341, - "length": 163 - }, - { - "text": "You know, I got to be honest with you, Lynch, I'm not thrilled about the way you handled it. And, uh, I could take it up with the school committee, or I could take it up with the principal. I could do a lot of things, but what I'm going to do is pull on your bowtie, and untie it, right in front of everybody. To embarrass you.", - "source": "Home Movies", - "id": 3342, - "length": 327 - }, - { - "text": "You sit around here and you spin your little webs and you think the whole world revolves around you and your money. Well, it doesn't, Mr. Potter. In the whole vast configuration of things, I'd say you were nothing but a scurvy little spider!", - "source": "It's a Wonderful Life", - "id": 3343, - "length": 241 - }, - { - "text": "We're not saying anything new here. We're just saying the same things that need to be said again and again with fierce conviction.", - "source": "The Right Stuff", - "id": 3344, - "length": 130 - }, - { - "text": "Ingratitude is amongst them a capital crime, as we read it to have been in some other countries: for they reason thus; that whoever makes ill-returns to his benefactor, must needs be a common enemy to the rest of the mankind, from where he has received no obligations and therefore such man is not fit to live.", - "source": "Gulliver's Travels", - "id": 3345, - "length": 310 - }, - { - "text": "We were playing checkers. I used to kid her once in a while because she wouldn't take her kings out of the back row. But I didn't kid her much though. You never wanted to kid Jane too much. I think I really like it best when you can kid the pants off a girl when the opportunity arises, but it's a funny thing. The girls I like best are ones I never feel much like kidding.", - "source": "The Catcher in the Rye", - "id": 3346, - "length": 373 - }, - { - "text": "Let's say life is this square of the sidewalk. We're born at this crack and we die at that crack. Now we find ourselves somewhere inside the square, and in the process of walking out of it, suddenly we realize our time in here is fleeting. Is our quick experience here pointless? Does anything we say or do in here really matter? Have we done anything important? Have we been happy? Have we made the most of these precious footsteps?", - "source": "The Complete Calvin and Hobbes", - "id": 3347, - "length": 433 - }, - { - "text": "She claims she's found a way to make her own light. All you do is smile, you banish the night.", - "source": "Burning with Optimism's Flames", - "id": 3348, - "length": 94 - }, - { - "text": "Her husband came here with childish ideas. Bought himself a gold claim with me an honest broker. Claim pinches out, which will happen. But he can't take that like a man, has to blame somebody. Seller's left camp, so he picks on me. Says he'll bring in the Pinkertons if I don't offer restitution. I got a healthy operation and I didn't build it brooding on the right, and wrong of things. I do not need the Pinkertons descending like locusts.", - "source": "Deadwood", - "id": 3349, - "length": 442 - }, - { - "text": "Oh, and when you held my hand, I knew that it was now or never. Those were the best days of my life.", - "source": "Summer of '69", - "id": 3350, - "length": 100 - }, - { - "text": "I was on a ski weekend, up at Stowe. I was coming in late one day, last person off the slope. The sun had just gone down. And the sky became this incredible color. I usually don't notice things like that, and I found myself kind of walking around in the cold, hoping that it wouldn't change, wishing that I had somebody there to share it with me. And afterwards I tried to convince myself that I'd imagined that color, that I hadn't really seen it, that nothing on this earth could be that beautiful. Now I see I was wrong.", - "source": "Cheers", - "id": 3351, - "length": 523 - }, - { - "text": "To carry the art, however, to its highest pitch, it is necessary that the reasoner should be able to utilize all the facts which have come to his knowledge, and this in itself implies, as you will readily see, a possession of all knowledge, which, even in these days of free education and encyclopedias, is a somewhat rare accomplishment. It is not so impossible, however, that a man should possess all knowledge which is likely to be useful to him in his work, and this I have endeavoured in my case to do.", - "source": "The Greatest Cases Of Sherlock Holmes", - "id": 3352, - "length": 507 - }, - { - "text": "Mr. Sandman, bring me a dream, make him the cutest that I've ever seen. Give him two lips, like roses and clover, then tell him that his lonesome nights are over! Sandman, I'm so alone, don't have nobody to call my own. Please turn on your magic beam, Mr. Sandman, bring me a dream!", - "source": "Mr. Sandman", - "id": 3353, - "length": 282 - }, - { - "text": "Relativity is relatively easy to understand. But there's one aspect of relativity that consistently trips us up. It's this: we not only tend to compare things with one another but also tend to focus on comparing things that are easily comparable, and avoid comparing things that cannot be compared easily.", - "source": "Predictably Irrational", - "id": 3354, - "length": 305 - }, - { - "text": "I'm not exactly the expert on this sort of thing - for that you'll have to check in with Sam Carter when you get to Liberty Island - but remember that there's any number of other ways to open a door, including using explosives or finding a security computer.", - "source": "Deus Ex", - "id": 3355, - "length": 258 - }, - { - "text": "Cruz has never been my favorite person, I'll give you that. But an enemy? There's no sense in having those if we can help it.", - "source": "Merci Suárez Changes Gears", - "id": 3356, - "length": 125 - }, - { - "text": "Here, the oregano and other trace materials sitting on the surface might be of some importance if they changed the surface radiance in any appreciable way.", - "source": "The Thermodynamics of Pizza", - "id": 3357, - "length": 155 - }, - { - "text": "Stab a sorry heart with your favorite finger. Paint the whole world blue and stop your tears from stinging. Hear the cavemen singing. Good news they're bringing. Seven seas, swimming them so well. Glad to see my face among them kissing the tortoise shell.", - "source": "Seven Seas", - "id": 3359, - "length": 255 - }, - { - "text": "Vanity and pride are different things, though the words are often used synonymously. A person may be proud without being vain. Pride relates more to our opinion of ourselves, vanity to what we would have others think of us.", - "source": "Pride and Prejudice", - "id": 3360, - "length": 223 - }, - { - "text": "They say the past is etched in stone, but it isn't. It's smoke trapped in a closed room, swirling, changing, buffeted by the passing of years and wishful thinking. But even though our perception of it changes, one thing remains constant: the past can never be completely erased. It lingers, like the scent of burning wood.", - "source": "Daredevil", - "id": 3361, - "length": 322 - }, - { - "text": "It is better to be unhappy and know the worst, than to be happy in a fool's paradise.", - "source": "The Idiot", - "id": 3362, - "length": 85 - }, - { - "text": "I do not often laugh, sir, as you may perceive by the air of my countenance; but nevertheless, I retain the privilege of laughing when I please.", - "source": "The Three Musketeers", - "id": 3363, - "length": 144 - }, - { - "text": "The charges against the accused are as follows: That he did knowingly, and in full awareness of the illegality of his actions, produce a patronus charm in the presence of a muggle.", - "source": "Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix", - "id": 3364, - "length": 180 - }, - { - "text": "No I'm not. I'm not the best version of me. I love being The Flash. I love everything about it. The feeling of running hundreds of miles per hour, wind and power just rushing past my face, being able to help people. I'm not sure I can live without it, Caitlin.", - "source": "The Flash", - "id": 3365, - "length": 260 - }, - { - "text": "Barry, time is an extremely fragile construct. Any deviation, no matter how small, could result in a cataclysm. Now here's what you're going to do: Everything you did before, every word you uttered, every step you took, you're going to do again. And you're not going to tell anyone this happened.", - "source": "The Flash", - "id": 3366, - "length": 296 - }, - { - "text": "Others say, \"Dress for the job you want.\" I say dress like the man you wanna be. Nick, we have an obligation to assault the commonplace every chance we get, from the clothes we wear, to the art we collect, to the women in our lives.", - "source": "White Collar", - "id": 3367, - "length": 232 - }, - { - "text": "Why did I move here? I guess it was the weather. Or the... Ah, I don't know, that thing. That magic. You see it in the movies. I wanted to retire from what I was doing, you know? From that, that... line of work. Be a good guy for once, a family man. So, I bought a big house. Came here, put my feet up, and thought I'd be a dad like all the other dads. My kids would be like the kids on TV, we play ball and sit in the sun... But well, you know how it is.", - "source": "Grand Theft Auto V", - "id": 3368, - "length": 455 - }, - { - "text": "He moved to the trees. Where the bark was peeling from the trunks it lifted in tiny tendrils, almost fluffs. Brian plucked some of them loose, rolled them in his fingers. They seemed flammable, dry and nearly powdery. He pulled and twisted bits off the trees, packing them in one hand while he picked them with the other, picking and gathering until he had a wad close to the size of a baseball.", - "source": "Hatchet", - "id": 3369, - "length": 395 - }, - { - "text": "When they came to a space to be bridged by a leap, he would muzzle Gray Wolf and whine, and she would stand with ears alert - listening. Then Kazan would take the leap, and she understood the distance she had to cover. She always over-leaped, which was a good fault.", - "source": "Kazan", - "id": 3370, - "length": 266 - }, - { - "text": "If we were left solely to the wordy wit of legislators in Congress for our guidance, uncorrected by the seasonable experience and the effectual complaints of the people, America would not long retain her rank among the nations.", - "source": "Civil Disobedience", - "id": 3371, - "length": 227 - }, - { - "text": "The problem is, though, after the concert's over, no matter how great the show was, you girls are always looking for the comedian again, y'know? I mean, we're in the car, we're fighting traffic... basically just trying to stay awake.", - "source": "Friends", - "id": 3372, - "length": 233 - }, - { - "text": "Oh, what sad times are these when passing ruffians can say Ni at will to old ladies. There is a pestilence upon this land, nothing is sacred. Even those who arrange and design shrubberies are under considerable economic stress in this period in history.", - "source": "Monty Python and the Holy Grail", - "id": 3373, - "length": 253 - }, - { - "text": "Every artist is a man who has freed himself from his family, his nation, his race. Every man who has shown the world the way to beauty, to true culture, has been a rebel, a 'universal' without patriotism, without home, who has found his people everywhere.", - "source": "My Name is Asher Lev", - "id": 3374, - "length": 255 - }, - { - "text": "If you've ever studied touch-typing on the QWERTY keyboard, you probably spent quite a bit of time getting comfortable with the home position and with the proper ways to stretch your fingers to reach all the keys. On a steno keyboard, none of that complexity exists, and you can learn proper fingering in about one minute.", - "source": "Learn Plover!", - "id": 3375, - "length": 322 - }, - { - "text": "One can't understand everything at once, we can't begin with perfection all at once! In order to reach perfection one must begin by being ignorant of a great deal. And if we understand things too quickly, perhaps we shan't understand them thoroughly.", - "source": "The Idiot", - "id": 3376, - "length": 250 - }, - { - "text": "I hope to someday have the faith to believe in God as much as he believes in me.", - "source": "All My Friends Are Trees", - "id": 3377, - "length": 80 - }, - { - "text": "She told me don't worry about it. She told me don't worry no more. We both know we can't go without it. She told me you'll never be alone.", - "source": "Can't feel my face", - "id": 3378, - "length": 138 - }, - { - "text": "Such places are few and far between, these grand islands of eternity in the soupy, ever changing world of the living. New York had its share of forever-places. The greatest of these stood near Manhattan's southern-most tip: the two gray brothers to the green statue in the bay. The towers had found their heaven. They were a part of Everlost now, held fast, and held forever by the memories of a mourning world, and by the dignity of the souls who got where they were going on that dark September day.", - "source": "Everlost", - "id": 3380, - "length": 501 - }, - { - "text": "Anything that happens, happens. Anything that, in happening, causes something else to happen, causes something else to happen. Anything that, in happening, causes itself to happen again, happens again. It doesn't necessarily do it in chronological order, though.", - "source": "Mostly Harmless", - "id": 3381, - "length": 262 - }, - { - "text": "Les, there are two kinds of women in this world: there are women who work hard and stress out about doing the right thing, and then there are women who are cool. You could either be a Cleopatra, or you could be an Eleanor Roosevelt. I'd rather be Cleopatra.", - "source": "Parks and Recreation", - "id": 3382, - "length": 257 - }, - { - "text": "It's a blue savanna song: somewhere cross the desert, sometime in the early hours, in a restless world, on the open highways. My home is where the heart is, sweet to surrender, to you only - I send my love to you.", - "source": "Blue Savanna", - "id": 3383, - "length": 213 - }, - { - "text": "If we can simply determine whether Johnson was \"conservative\" or \"liberal,\" for instance, we can use that comprehensive allegiance to determine where he would have stood on every issue, just as we make the same blanket determination for ourselves. No need to look at particulars. In other words, we should like to know which sort of cant would best suit the man who told us to clear our minds of cant.", - "source": "World Enough and Time", - "id": 3384, - "length": 401 - }, - { - "text": "Those of you who do not read, attend the theater, listen to unsponsored radio programs, or know anything of the world in which you live, it is perhaps necessary to introduce myself. My name is Addison DeWitt. My native habitat is the theater. In it, I toil not, neither do I spin. I am a critic and commentator. I am essential to the theater.", - "source": "All About Eve", - "id": 3385, - "length": 342 - }, - { - "text": "Overhead the albatross hangs motionless upon the air and deep beneath the rolling waves, in labyrinths of coral caves - the echo of a distant tide comes willowing across the sand, and everything is green and submarine.", - "source": "Echoes", - "id": 3386, - "length": 218 - }, - { - "text": "We sometimes encounter people, even perfect strangers, who begin to interest us at first sight, somehow suddenly, all at once, before a word has been spoken.", - "source": "Crime and Punishment", - "id": 3387, - "length": 157 - }, - { - "text": "I have been taking care of it! I already got Big Red to cut me the lumber in exchange for a pair of fur-lined boots. I got my friend Pete to make the boots, but only because I promised him a new set of teeth. And as you probably know, teeth don't come cheap! Now, that's where you come in.", - "source": "Malcolm in the Middle", - "id": 3388, - "length": 289 - }, - { - "text": "I lie here on this great immovable bed - it is nailed down, I believe - and follow that pattern about by the hour. It is as good as gymnastics, I assure you. I start, we'll say, at the bottom, down in the corner over there where it has not been touched, and I determine for the thousandth time that I WILL follow that pointless pattern to some sort of a conclusion.", - "source": "The Yellow Wallpaper", - "id": 3389, - "length": 365 - }, - { - "text": "Ever since the dawn of civilization, people have not been content to see events as unconnected and inexplicable. They have craved an understanding of the underlying order in the world. Today we still yearn to know why we are here and where we came from. Humanity's deepest desire for knowledge is justification enough for our continuing quest. And our goal is nothing less than a complete description of the universe we live in.", - "source": "A Brief History of Time", - "id": 3390, - "length": 428 - }, - { - "text": "The right man in the wrong place can make all the difference in the world. So, wake up, Mister Freeman. Wake up and... smell the ashes...", - "source": "Half-Life 2", - "id": 3391, - "length": 137 - }, - { - "text": "We have faced our enemies a thousand times or even more; still, they cannot make us kneel. One thousand years of constant war! The giants look for any chance to bring down Asgaard's mighty walls. No matter what they send at us, we will never let it fall!", - "source": "Guardians of Asgaard", - "id": 3392, - "length": 254 - }, - { - "text": "There was this kid I grew up with; he was younger than me. Sorta looked up to me, you know. We did our first work together, worked our way out of the street. Things were good, we made the most of it. During Prohibition, we ran molasses into Canada, made a fortune, your father, too.", - "source": "The Godfather: Part II", - "id": 3393, - "length": 282 - }, - { - "text": "Bach's income, if we take into consideration the value of money at that time, cannot have been a poor one. He brought up his large family honestly, gave his children a good education, was profuse and cordial in his hospitality, and at his death left not only a rich collection of first-rate musical instruments, but also a not insignificant sum of money.", - "source": "J. S. Bach (Volume I)", - "id": 3394, - "length": 354 - }, - { - "text": "I just don't see what purpose is it going to serve your going? I mean, you think dead people care who's at the funeral? They don't even know they're having a funeral. It's not like she's hanging out in the back going, \"I can't believe Jerry didn't show up.\"", - "source": "Seinfeld", - "id": 3395, - "length": 257 - }, - { - "text": "All programs have to manage the way they use a computer's memory while running. Some languages have garbage collection that constantly looks for no longer used memory as the program runs; in other languages, the programmer must explicitly allocate and free the memory. Rust uses a third approach: memory is managed through a system of ownership with a set of rules that the compiler checks at compile time. None of the ownership features slow down your program while it's running.", - "source": "The Rust Programming Language", - "id": 3396, - "length": 480 - }, - { - "text": "I feel the Aryan in my blood, it's scarier than a Blood. Been looking for holy water, now I'm praying for a flood. It feel like time passing me by slower than a slug, while this feeling inside of my body seep in like a drug. Will you hug me, rub me on the back like a child?", - "source": "AfricAryaN", - "id": 3397, - "length": 274 - }, - { - "text": "Sure is mellow grazin' in the grass. What a trip just watchin' as the world goes past. There are too many groovy things to see while grazin' in the grass. Flowers with colours for takin', everything outta sight.", - "source": "Grazing In The Grass", - "id": 3398, - "length": 211 - }, - { - "text": "I refuse to be a failure. I don't care what you want anymore. This is how it's going to work: You will be here only when I tell you you can be here. I'm drawing a 50-mile radius around this house, and if you so much as open your fly to urinate I will destroy you. Do you understand?", - "source": "Mad Men", - "id": 3399, - "length": 282 - }, - { - "text": "If you knew how to run a business he'd still have a job and he wouldn't be leaving. Now I don't have Mark, I don't have college, I don't have anything! You blew it, Dad! You blew it for everyone in this family!", - "source": "Roseanne", - "id": 3400, - "length": 210 - }, - { - "text": "Once upon a time there lived a magnificent race of animals that dominated the world through age after age. They ran, they swam, and they fought and they flew, until suddenly, quite recently, they disappeared. Nature just gave up and started again. We weren't even apes then. We were just these smart little rodents hiding in the rocks. And when we go, nature will start over. With the bees, probably. Nature knows when to give up, David.", - "source": "WarGames", - "id": 3401, - "length": 437 - }, - { - "text": "Jamie saved my life. She taught me everything. About life, hope and the long journey ahead. I'll always miss her. But our love is like the wind. I can't see it, but I can feel it.", - "source": "A Walk to Remember", - "id": 3402, - "length": 179 - }, - { - "text": "Who is evil? Who is righteous? These terms have changed throughout history. Kids who have never seen peace and kids who have never seen war have different values. Those who stand at the top determine what's wrong and what's right, this very place is neutral ground. Justice will prevail, you say? But of course it will. Whoever wins this war becomes justice!", - "source": "One Piece", - "id": 3403, - "length": 358 - }, - { - "text": "Between me and the other world there is ever an unasked question: unasked by some through feelings of delicacy; by others through the difficulty of rightly framing it. How does it feel to be a problem?", - "source": "The Souls of Black Folk", - "id": 3404, - "length": 201 - }, - { - "text": "There is no escape. Don't make me destroy you. Luke, you do not yet realize your importance. You have only begun to discover your power. Join me, and I will complete your training. With our combined strength, we can end this destructive conflict and bring order to the galaxy.", - "source": "The Empire Strikes Back", - "id": 3405, - "length": 276 - }, - { - "text": "I believe like a child that suffering will be healed and made up for, that all the humiliating absurdity of human contradictions will vanish like a pitiful mirage, like the despicable fabrication of the impotent and infinitely small Euclidean mind of man, that in the world's finale, at the moment of eternal harmony, something so precious will come to pass that it will suffice for all hearts, for the comforting of all resentments, for the atonement of all the crimes of humanity, for all the blood that they've shed; that it will make it not only possible to forgive but to justify all that has happened.", - "source": "The Brothers Karamazov", - "id": 3406, - "length": 607 - }, - { - "text": "And she was mine, she was mine, the key was in my fist, my fist was in my pocket, she was mine.", - "source": "Lolita", - "id": 3407, - "length": 95 - }, - { - "text": "Finding a way into a criminal organization is about observing social dynamics. You start with a target. You're looking for just the right person to approach. People in the inner circle are usually too tough to go after - anyone with real power is bound to be cautious. Drivers and bodyguards are easier, but they usually don't have real access. You want someone with enough juice to be hungry for more, someone desperate to make a move. In short, you're looking for a frustrated middle manager.", - "source": "Burn Notice", - "id": 3408, - "length": 494 - }, - { - "text": "I don't know who you are. I don't know what you want. If you are looking for ransom, I can tell you I don't have money. But what I do have are a very particular set of skills; skills I have acquired over a very long career. Skills that make me a nightmare for people like you. If you let my daughter go now, that'll be the end of it. I will not look for you. I will not pursue you. But if you don't, I will look for you, I will find you, and I will kill you.", - "source": "Taken", - "id": 3409, - "length": 458 - }, - { - "text": "I'm saying you're what's wrong with America, Simpson. You coast through life, you do as little as possible and you leach your decent hardworking people like me.", - "source": "The Simpsons", - "id": 3410, - "length": 160 - }, - { - "text": "We know things are bad - worse than bad. They're crazy. It's like everything everywhere is going crazy so we don't go out anymore. We sit in the house and slowly the world we are living in is getting smaller and all we say is, \"Please, at least leave us alone in our living rooms. Let me have my toaster and my TV and my steel-belted radials and I won't say anything. Just leave us alone.\"", - "source": "Network", - "id": 3411, - "length": 389 - }, - { - "text": "To protect you both from the Emperor, you were hidden from your father when you were born. The Emperor knew, as I did, if Anakin were to have any offspring, they would be a threat to him. That is the reason why your sister remains safely anonymous.", - "source": "Return of the Jedi", - "id": 3412, - "length": 248 - }, - { - "text": "At the bottom of her heart, however, she was waiting for something to happen. Like shipwrecked sailors, she turned despairing eyes upon the solitude of her life, seeking afar off some white sail in the mists of the horizon. She did not know what this chance would be, what wind would bring it her, towards what shore it would drive her, if it would be a shallop or a three-decker, laden with anguish or full of bliss to the portholes. But each morning, as she awoke, she hoped it would come that day; she listened to every sound, sprang up with a start, wondered that it did not come; then at sunset, always more saddened, she longed for the morrow.", - "source": "Madame Bovary", - "id": 3413, - "length": 649 - }, - { - "text": "Mom, I know your intentions are good but aren't the police the protective force that maintains the status quo for the wealthy elite? Don't you think we ought to attack the roots of social problems instead of jamming people into overcrowded prisons?", - "source": "The Simpsons", - "id": 3414, - "length": 248 - }, - { - "text": "If Mr. McMurphy doesn't want to take his medication orally, I'm sure we can arrange that he can have it some other way. But I don't think that he would like it.", - "source": "One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest", - "id": 3415, - "length": 160 - }, - { - "text": "Life seems to speed up as we get older because life gets less memorable as we get older.", - "source": "Moonwalking with Einstein", - "id": 3416, - "length": 88 - }, - { - "text": "Earning happiness means doing good and working, not speculating and being lazy. Laziness may look inviting, but only work gives you true satisfaction.", - "source": "The Diary Of A Young Girl", - "id": 3417, - "length": 150 - }, - { - "text": "Well, Nicky, I hate to point out the obvious, but here's this tiny bird that's been trying to get through a huge bulletproof glass wall. A totally impossible situation. You tell me it's been here every day pecking away persistently for ten minutes. Well, today the glass wall came down.", - "source": "Crazy Rich Asians", - "id": 3418, - "length": 286 - }, - { - "text": "The burned hand teaches best. After that advice about fire goes to the heart.", - "source": "The Lord of the Rings", - "id": 3419, - "length": 77 - }, - { - "text": "Well, father, in the shipwreck of life, for life is an eternal shipwreck of our hopes, I cast into the sea my useless encumbrance, that is all, and I remain with my own will, disposed to live perfectly alone, and, consequently, perfectly free.", - "source": "The Count of Monte Cristo", - "id": 3420, - "length": 243 - }, - { - "text": "OK, let me get something straight: this is a journal, not a diary. I know what it says on the cover, but when Mom went out to buy this thing I specifically told her to get one that didn't say \"diary\" on it. Great. All I need is some jerk to catch me carrying this book around and get the wrong idea.", - "source": "Diary of a Wimpy Kid", - "id": 3421, - "length": 299 - }, - { - "text": "If you imagine an orange, there may occur in your cortex a set of commands to pick it up, to smell it, to inspect it, and so on. Clearly these commands cannot be carried out, because the orange is not there. But they can be sent along the usual channels towards the cerebellum or other suborgans of the brain, until, at some critical point, a \"mental faucet\" is closed, preventing them from actually being carried out.", - "source": "Gödel, Escher, Bach: An Eternal Golden Braid", - "id": 3422, - "length": 418 - }, - { - "text": "If you miss the train I'm on, you will know that I am gone. You can hear the whistle blow a hundred miles. Lord, I'm five hundred miles from my home.", - "source": "500 Miles", - "id": 3423, - "length": 149 - }, - { - "text": "Buster so excelled at being neither seen nor heard that he remained at the school, undetected, for a full two semesters after he was supposed to graduate.", - "source": "Arrested Development", - "id": 3424, - "length": 154 - }, - { - "text": "Out in California they're gonna have some warm weather tomorrow, gang wars, and some very overpriced real estate. Up in the Pacific Northwest as you can see they're gonna have some very, very tall trees.", - "source": "Groundhog Day", - "id": 3425, - "length": 203 - }, - { - "text": "You can take my heart, you can take my breath. When you pry it from my cold, dead chest. This is how we rise up. Heavy as a hurricane, louder than a freight train. This is how we rise up. Heart is beating faster, feels like thunder. Magic, static, call me a fanatic. It's our world, they can never have it. This is how we rise up. It's our resistance, you can't resist us.", - "source": "The Resistance", - "id": 3426, - "length": 372 - }, - { - "text": "No battle is ever won. They are not even fought. The field only reveals to man his own folly and despair, and victory is an illusion of philosophers and fools.", - "source": "The Sound and the Fury", - "id": 3428, - "length": 159 - }, - { - "text": "Beautiful, isn't it? It took me half a lifetime to invent it. I'm sure you've discovered my deep and abiding interest in pain. Presently I'm writing the definitive work on the subject so I want you to be totally honest with me on how the machine makes you feel. This being our first try, I'll use the lowest setting.", - "source": "The Princess Bride", - "id": 3429, - "length": 316 - }, - { - "text": "Let's sort the buyers from the spiers, the needy from the greedy, and those who trust me from the ones who don't, because if you can't see value here today, you're not up here shopping. You're up here shoplifting. Anyone like jewelry?", - "source": "Lock, Stock, and Two Smoking Barrels", - "id": 3430, - "length": 234 - }, - { - "text": "Now a great change has come over the scene; the moon has been curtained off by a heavy mass of clouds, and its light is shut off from the water. The lights of the city shine out with increased distinctness; the moonlight that whitened the sides of the buildings now has left them black masses of vague shadow, and all at once one gets the impression of looking down into an inverted firmament studded with countless stars of as various magnitudes as in the heavens, from the bright electric arc-lights to tiny gaslights; and from this height of over 400 feet one gets the impression, familiar to those who have looked at the world from a balloon, that the rim of the horizon rises all round.", - "source": "Impressions of a War Correspondent", - "id": 3431, - "length": 691 - }, - { - "text": "Deserves it! I daresay he does. Many that live deserve death. And some that die deserve life. Can you give it to them? Then do not be too eager to deal out death in judgement. For even the very wise cannot see all ends.", - "source": "The Fellowship of the Ring", - "id": 3432, - "length": 219 - }, - { - "text": "There is little evidence regarding Stalin's feelings toward his father, who died young. To all appearances, however, he felt genuine affection for his mother. His letter to her in her later years contain lines such as the following: \"Hello Mama dear! How are you getting on, how are you feeling? I haven't had any letters from you in a long time - you must be upset with me, but what can I do? I'm really very busy.\"", - "source": "Stalin: New Biography of a Dictator", - "id": 3433, - "length": 416 - }, - { - "text": "The secret of a good old age is simply an honorable pact with solitude.", - "source": "One Hundred Years of Solitude", - "id": 3434, - "length": 71 - }, - { - "text": "A detective doesn't have supernatural powers. There's no way to predict the answer from the beginning. Instead, the ideal detective begins by imagining as many possible scenarios as they can. They envision these possibilities without prejudice, without bias, using only their logic and common sense. Then, as they investigate, they test what they find against each of these possibilities. Of course, me telling you this doesn't mean you'll be any good at detective work. But beyond using that to solve this particular mystery, you should keep it in mind for the future.", - "source": "Danganronpa: Trigger Happy Havoc", - "id": 3435, - "length": 569 - }, - { - "text": "Today I don't feel like doing anything. I just wanna lay in my bed. Don't feel like picking up my phone so leave a message at the tone. 'Cause today I swear I'm not doing anything.", - "source": "The Lazy Song", - "id": 3436, - "length": 180 - }, - { - "text": "Come on, let's leave this place. Let's go to the factory and get our airship. This isn't our responsibility - none of it. You just opened a door to this world and we stepped through.", - "source": "BioShock Infinite", - "id": 3437, - "length": 182 - }, - { - "text": "But speculations on the structure of the universe also move in quite another direction. The development of non-Euclidean geometry led to the recognition of the fact, that we can cast doubt on the infiniteness of our space without coming into conflict with the laws of thought or with experience.", - "source": "Relativity: The Special and General Theory", - "id": 3438, - "length": 295 - }, - { - "text": "A giant inverted steel pyramid is perfectly balanced on its point. Any movement of the pyramid will cause it to topple over. Underneath the pyramid is a hundred dollar bill. How do you remove the bill without disturbing the pyramid? The only way you can get the answer is if it comes to you suddenly in the blink of an eye.", - "source": "Blink", - "id": 3439, - "length": 323 - }, - { - "text": "Shakedown nineteen seven nine, cool kids never have the time. On a live wire right up off the street you and I should meet. Junebug skippin' like a stone with the headlights pointed at the dawn. We were sure we'd never see an end to it all.", - "source": "1979", - "id": 3440, - "length": 240 - }, - { - "text": "As I walk through the valley where I harvest my grain, I take a look at my wife and realize she's very plain. But that's just perfect for an Amish like me. You know, I shun fancy things like electricity.", - "source": "Amish Paradise", - "id": 3441, - "length": 203 - }, - { - "text": "This legendary dragon is a powerful engine of destruction. Virtually invincible, very few have faced this awesome creature and lived to tell the tale.", - "source": "Blue-Eyes White Dragon", - "id": 3442, - "length": 150 - }, - { - "text": "Mr. Hodge began explaining the point of the hike, something about fitting into nature, finding one's identity through connecting with one's environment. \"For the first part of the hike, I want you to walk in complete silence, to really concentrate on what you're seeing around you,\" he said. \"Then we'll stop and chat about what we've discovered in that silence.\"", - "source": "Found", - "id": 3443, - "length": 363 - }, - { - "text": "It is only with the heart that one can see rightly; what is essential is invisible to the eye.", - "source": "The Little Prince", - "id": 3444, - "length": 94 - }, - { - "text": "But something stronger than death was summoning him, compelling him - the wall. The wall was calling him. His body, which had eaten drawings from the wall continuously for four weeks, had been almost entirely transformed by them.", - "source": "The Magic Chalk", - "id": 3445, - "length": 229 - }, - { - "text": "Say to all of you, I have been treated this day with no respect. I've earned you all money. I've made you rich and I asked for little. Good. You will not give, I'll take! As for Don Corleone, well, he makes it very clear to me today that he is my enemy. You must choose between us.", - "source": "The Godfather: Part III", - "id": 3446, - "length": 281 - }, - { - "text": "Now that I've lost everything to you, you say you want to start something new, and it's breaking my heart you're leaving.", - "source": "Wild World", - "id": 3447, - "length": 121 - }, - { - "text": "Everything in my own immediate experience supports my deep belief that I am the absolute center of the universe, the realest, most vivid and important person in existence.", - "source": "This Is Water: Some Thoughts, Delivered on a Significant Occasion, about Living a Compassionate Life", - "id": 3448, - "length": 171 - }, - { - "text": "It didn't stop you from writing it. As if every thought that tumbles through your head was so clever it would be a crime for it not to be shared. The Internet's not written in pencil, Mark, it's written in ink.", - "source": "The Social Network", - "id": 3449, - "length": 210 - }, - { - "text": "\"Sophomore sensation credits her agility and quick first steps to her father who used to take her to a neighborhood park all covered with cheese.\" Dana, we got all kinds of sentence construction here. I think he's gonna have to explain that it's the park that's covered with cheese and not the father.", - "source": "Sports Night", - "id": 3450, - "length": 301 - }, - { - "text": "Computer communication is not like human communication. There's no facial expression to help you know which way something ambiguous is meant. So the isolated communicators of cyberspace have come up with little signs made out of punctuation marks. They're called emoticons.", - "source": "The Nineties", - "id": 3451, - "length": 273 - }, - { - "text": "I know what it's like to lose. To feel so desperately that you're right, yet to fail nonetheless. It's frightening. Turns the legs to jelly. I ask you, to what end? Dread it. Run from it. Destiny arrives all the same. And now, it's here. Or should I say, I am.", - "source": "Avengers: Infinity War", - "id": 3452, - "length": 260 - }, - { - "text": "The wretched and the miserable should turn to their Savior first, yet they do not hope in Him until all other hope is exhausted.", - "source": "The Count of Monte Cristo", - "id": 3453, - "length": 128 - }, - { - "text": "Is getting rid of all the thorns in someone's path really what's best for them?", - "source": "ReLIFE", - "id": 3454, - "length": 79 - }, - { - "text": "If you're committed enough, you can make any story work. I once convinced a woman that I was Kevin Costner, and it worked because I believed it.", - "source": "Breaking Bad", - "id": 3455, - "length": 144 - }, - { - "text": "A sensitive and honest-minded man, if he's concerned about evil and injustice in the world, will naturally begin his campaign against them by eliminating them at their nearest source: his own person. This task will take his entire life.", - "source": "The Book of Disquiet", - "id": 3457, - "length": 236 - }, - { - "text": "Did you ever know that you're my hero and everything I would like to be? I can fly higher than an eagle, for you are the wind beneath my wings.", - "source": "Wind Beneath My Wings", - "id": 3458, - "length": 143 - }, - { - "text": "I have here, Harold, the forms sent out by the National Computer Dating Service. It seems to me that as you do not get along with the daughters of my friends, this is the best way for you to find a prospective wife. Please, Harold, we have a lot to do and I have to be at the hairdresser's at three. The Computer Dating Service offers you at least three dates on the initial investment. They screen out the fat and ugly, so it is obviously a firm of high standards.", - "source": "Harold and Maude", - "id": 3459, - "length": 465 - }, - { - "text": "Wayside School was accidentally built sideways. It was supposed to be only one story high, with thirty classrooms all in a row. Instead, it is thirty stories high, with one classroom on each story. The builder said he was very sorry.", - "source": "Sideways Stories From Wayside School", - "id": 3460, - "length": 233 - }, - { - "text": "My darling, you have to be standing up in order to be able to fall. I mean, if you keep sitting on your ass, nothing's gonna happen. \"Only brave warriors fall off their horses in battle. How can kneeling cowards know what a fall is?\"", - "source": "Monsoon Wedding", - "id": 3461, - "length": 233 - }, - { - "text": "Both ways set out from the senses and particulars, and rest in the highest generalities; but the difference between them is infinite. For the one just glances at experiment and particulars in passing, the other dwells duly and orderly among them. The one, again, begins at once by establishing certain abstract and useless generalities, the other rises by gradual steps to that which is prior and better known in the order of nature.", - "source": "Novum Organum", - "id": 3462, - "length": 433 - }, - { - "text": "So if you're feeling lonely, don't. You're the only one I'll ever want. I only want to make it go. So if I love you a little more than I should.", - "source": "Please Forgive Me", - "id": 3463, - "length": 144 - }, - { - "text": "The softness and fragility of baby animals caused us the same intense pain.", - "source": "Lolita", - "id": 3464, - "length": 75 - }, - { - "text": "When I see you, the whole world reduces to just that room. And then I remember, and I'm shy that gossip's eye will look too soon. And then I'm trapped, overthinking. And yeah, probably self-doubt. You tell me to get over it and to take you out.", - "source": "Don't Delete The Kisses", - "id": 3465, - "length": 244 - }, - { - "text": "If we suppose that the external world has appeared in the past, it must be yoked by the three characteristics - appearance, continuity, and destruction. But if the external world is what has appeared, how is it possible for the external world to show the characteristics that the external world shows now in front of us?", - "source": "Fundamental Wisdom of the Middle Way: Nagarjuna's Mulamadhyamakakarika", - "id": 3466, - "length": 320 - }, - { - "text": "The things we do outlast our mortality. The things we do are like monuments that people build to honor heroes after they've died. They're like the pyramids that the Egyptians built to honor the pharaohs. Only instead of being made of stone, they're made out of the memories people have of you.", - "source": "Wonder", - "id": 3467, - "length": 293 - }, - { - "text": "I placed my revolver, cocked, upon the top of the wooden case behind which I crouched. Holmes shot the slide across the front of his lantern and left us in pitch darkness - such an absolute darkness as I have never before experienced. The smell of hot metal remained to assure us that the light was still there, ready to flash out at a moment's notice. To me, with my nerves worked up to a pitch of expectancy, there was something depressing and subduing in the sudden gloom, and in the cold dank air of the vault.", - "source": "The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes", - "id": 3468, - "length": 514 - }, - { - "text": "To continue, you've listened to a long and complex case, murder in the first degree. Premeditated murder is the most serious charge tried in our criminal courts. You've listened to the testimony; you've had the law read to you and interpreted as it applies in this case; it's now your duty to sit down and try to separate the facts from the fancy.", - "source": "12 Angry Men", - "id": 3469, - "length": 347 - }, - { - "text": "I'll take her laughter and her tears and make them all my souvenirs. For where she goes I've got to be. The meaning of my life is she.", - "source": "She", - "id": 3470, - "length": 134 - }, - { - "text": "Actually, it's more of a behavioral observation. Like, say the moose in question was seen sniffing a flower, which according to the first moose is elk-like. But the second moose isn't so sure. I mean, he doesn't feel like an elk, he doesn't have elk thoughts. Does it make him an elk just because he likes this one flower?", - "source": "Joan of Arcadia", - "id": 3471, - "length": 322 - }, - { - "text": "After all, your chances of winning a lottery and of affecting an election are pretty similar. From a financial perspective, playing the lottery is a bad investment. But it's fun and relatively cheap: for the price of a ticket, you buy the right to fantasize how you'd spend the winnings - much as you get to fantasize that your vote will have some impact on policy.", - "source": "Freakonomics", - "id": 3472, - "length": 365 - }, - { - "text": "Our last night together we did a lot. Whole lot. But, there were some things we couldn't do. Alex's parents had already bought a new home, most of the neighborhood had; Munch's too, so one-by-one people started to move, my parents hadn't so we got to stay. New people started moving in and Mulberry Woods started again, but not the one that had my friends in it. When you're a kid, you think you're invisible. You think you can't make a difference. We're not kids anymore! We know now that we can do anything! Having a friend light years away taught us that distance, is just a state of mind. If you're best friends then you always will be no matter where you are in the universe.", - "source": "Earth to Echo", - "id": 3473, - "length": 680 - }, - { - "text": "Do you want to make the most valuable purchase you can? Buy a juicer. Do you own a car? Sell the car and buy a juicer. The juicer will take you much farther. Or just buy the juicer now!", - "source": "Unlimited Power", - "id": 3474, - "length": 185 - }, - { - "text": "If soldiers are punished before they have grown attached to you, they will not prove submissive; and, unless submissive, they will be practically useless. If, when the soldiers have become attached to you, punishments are not enforced, they will still be useless.", - "source": "The Art of War", - "id": 3475, - "length": 263 - }, - { - "text": "We never see the light of day. We plan this thing for weeks and all they want to do is study. I'm disgusted. I'm sorry but it's not like me. I'm depressed. There was what, no one at the mutant hamster races, we only had one entry into the Madame Curie look-alike contest and he was disqualified later. Why do I bother?", - "source": "Real Genius", - "id": 3476, - "length": 318 - }, - { - "text": "If that's true, if you don't know who I am, then maybe your best course would be to tread lightly.", - "source": "Breaking Bad", - "id": 3477, - "length": 98 - }, - { - "text": "My wife deserves vengeance. Doesn't make a difference whether I know about it. Just because there are things I don't remember doesn't make my actions meaningless. The world doesn't just disappear when you close your eyes, does it?", - "source": "Memento", - "id": 3478, - "length": 230 - }, - { - "text": "That is just the way with some people. They get down on a thing when they don't know nothing about it.", - "source": "The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn", - "id": 3479, - "length": 102 - }, - { - "text": "I did. I killed him. Threw him right over a rope bridge. I watched him fall. He was leading us nowhere and we would still be heading there if it weren't for me. No one loved him, no one wanted to follow him, he led us into two wars we couldn't win. I apologize to you all for not killing him years ago.", - "source": "Game of Thrones", - "id": 3480, - "length": 302 - }, - { - "text": "Years ago, I was an angry young man. And I'd pretend that I was a billboard standing tall by the side of the road. I fell in love with a beautiful highway.", - "source": "(Nothing But) Flowers", - "id": 3481, - "length": 155 - }, - { - "text": "Take me away, to January. I'm done with this year... I'm tired of everyone here. I just need some time alone... Before I'm ready to come back home...", - "source": "Take Me Away", - "id": 3482, - "length": 149 - }, - { - "text": "It is the easiest thing in the world for a man to look as if he had a great secret in him.", - "source": "Moby Dick", - "id": 3483, - "length": 90 - }, - { - "text": "Do you ever wait for the longest day of the year and then miss it? I always wait for the longest day of the year and then miss it!", - "source": "The Great Gatsby", - "id": 3484, - "length": 130 - }, - { - "text": "If there were to be something non-empty, there would then be something called empty.", - "source": "Fundamental Wisdom of the Middle Way: Nagarjuna's Mulamadhyamakakarika", - "id": 3485, - "length": 84 - }, - { - "text": "It's taken me a lot of years, but I've come around to this: If you're dumb, surround yourself with smart people. And if you're smart, surround yourself with smart people who disagree with you. I'm an awfully smart man, and Mike Sabath is an idiot. He had you and he blew it. You're gonna do great here but you've gotta trust us.", - "source": "Sports Night", - "id": 3486, - "length": 328 - }, - { - "text": "They typically had very rosy views about their own futures, which they imagined to include successful careers, happy marriages, and good health. When asked to speculate about their roommates' futures, however, their responses were far more realistic.", - "source": "A Random Walk Down Wall Street", - "id": 3487, - "length": 250 - }, - { - "text": "That guy was hurting me. If you hadn't come out when you did, he would've hurt me a lot worse. And probably nothing would've happened to him 'cause everybody did see me dancin' with him all night. They would've made out like I'd asked for it. My life would've been ruined a whole lot worse than it is now. At least now I'm havin' some fun.", - "source": "Thelma & Louise", - "id": 3488, - "length": 339 - }, - { - "text": "As soon as Anna was able to walk, her mother started teaching her how to survive a harsh, solitary life in the northern woods. Living in such an extremely remote and dangerous area required skill and resilience. When sunlight became too dim for productive activities, they would take refuge in their house, a sturdy old cabin constructed to resist the toughest winters.", - "source": "Dead by Daylight", - "id": 3489, - "length": 369 - }, - { - "text": "The term short-hand, in its general signification, denotes any abbreviated or contracted method of writing having for its object compactness or celerity, and consisting in the use of word-signs, abbreviations, or special characters more suitable for rapid writing than the ordinary letters.", - "source": "Brief History of the Art of Stenography: With a Proposed New System of Phonetic Short-Hand", - "id": 3490, - "length": 290 - }, - { - "text": "It is not the critic who counts, not the man who points out how the strong man stumbled or where the doer of deeds could have done them better. The credit belongs to the man who is actually in the arena; whose face is marred by dust and sweat and blood; who strives valiantly; who errs and comes short again and again; who knows the great enthusiasms, the great devotions, and spends himself in a worthy cause; who, at the best, knows the triumph of high achievement; and who, at the worst, if he fails, at least fails while daring greatly, so that his place shall never be with those cold and timid souls who know neither victory nor defeat.", - "source": "The Critic", - "id": 3491, - "length": 642 - }, - { - "text": "Most ironic of all was the last gift that Raziel had given me. More powerful than the sword that now held his soul, more acute even than the vision that his sacrifice had accorded me. The first, bitter taste of that terrible illusion: hope.", - "source": "Legacy of Kain Defiance", - "id": 3492, - "length": 240 - }, - { - "text": "There's an old saying my late grandma taught me. When you're ten, they call you a prodigy. When you're fifteen, they call you a genius. Once you hit twenty, you're just an ordinary person. About three years until I'm ordinary. Man... I can't wait to be ordinary.", - "source": "Free!", - "id": 3493, - "length": 262 - }, - { - "text": "Only I could do it! I was well aware that killing people is crime in itself! Yet at that point it was the only way to make things right! I thought to myself that someday people will come to realize this as much, and regard it as an act of justice! I had no choice but to act as Kira... it was the destiny given to me. I was chosen to renew this rotten world, to bring about true peace - a utopia.", - "source": "Death Note", - "id": 3494, - "length": 396 - }, - { - "text": "To produce a mighty book, you must choose a mighty theme. No great and enduring volume can ever be written on the flea, though many there be who have tried it.", - "source": "Moby Dick", - "id": 3495, - "length": 159 - }, - { - "text": "Through error you come to the truth! I am a man because I err! You never reach any truth without making fourteen mistakes and very likely a hundred and fourteen.", - "source": "Crime and Punishment", - "id": 3496, - "length": 161 - }, - { - "text": "And I know she'll be the death of me, at least we'll both be numb. And she'll always get the best of me, the worst is yet to come. But at least we'll both be beautiful and stay forever young. This I know. Yeah, this I know.", - "source": "Can't feel my face", - "id": 3497, - "length": 223 - }, - { - "text": "Your faith was strong but you needed proof. You saw her bathing on the roof. Her beauty in the moonlight overthrew you. She tied you to a kitchen chair, she broke your throne she cut your hair and from your lips she drew the hallelujah.", - "source": "Hallelujah", - "id": 3498, - "length": 236 - }, - { - "text": "Now that you're on someone else's shoulders, the winter winds are colder on my own. Maybe we will meet when we get older. Maybe we won't. So I won't say I love you if you don't. And no you don't. So I won't say I love you if you don't.", - "source": "Nervous", - "id": 3499, - "length": 235 - }, - { - "text": "In this building, it's either kill or be killed. You make no friends in the pits and you take no prisoners. One minute you're up half a million in soybeans and the next, boom, your kids don't go to college and they've repossessed your Bentley. Are you with me?", - "source": "Trading Places", - "id": 3500, - "length": 260 - }, - { - "text": "The person who stops studying merely because he has finished school is forever hopelessly doomed to mediocrity, no matter what may be his calling. The way of success is the way of continuous pursuit of knowledge.", - "source": "Think and Grow Rich", - "id": 3501, - "length": 212 - }, - { - "text": "Okay, let's just turn around then. Let's just go back, and we can write a nice little, boring thesis regurgitating all the usual crap about urban legend. We've got a real shot here, Bernadette. An entire community starts attributing the daily horrors of their lives to a mythical figure.", - "source": "Candyman", - "id": 3502, - "length": 287 - }, - { - "text": "Houston, we're getting our first look at the service module now. One whole side of the spacecraft is missing. Right by the high gain antennae a whole panel is blown out, right up. Right up to our heat shield.", - "source": "Apollo 13", - "id": 3503, - "length": 208 - }, - { - "text": "What you gonna do with your man there? You're always gonna have problems lifting a body in one piece. Apparently the best thing to do is cut the corpse up into six pieces and pile it all together. After you got six pieces you gotta get rid of 'em, of course you can't leave it in the deep freeze for your mum to discover, can ya?", - "source": "Snatch", - "id": 3504, - "length": 329 - }, - { - "text": "Hope you're feeling better now, hope you got my letter, how is my stormy weather now, is it gonna change? Can I be like everyone, pretending that there's nothing wrong? Remember when we walked upon clouds that never rain? But every cloud must drain...", - "source": "Stormy Weather", - "id": 3505, - "length": 251 - }, - { - "text": "When the general is weak and without authority; when his orders are not clear and distinct; when there are no fixed duties assigned to officers and men, and the ranks are formed in a slovenly haphazard manner, the result is utter disorganization.", - "source": "The Art of War", - "id": 3506, - "length": 246 - }, - { - "text": "You have no idea what I want. What is chess, do you think? Those who play for fun or not at all dismiss it as a game. The ones who devote their lives to it for the most part insist that it's a science. It's neither. Bobby Fischer got underneath it like no one before and found at its center art. I spent my life trying to play like him. Most of these guys have. But we're like forgers. We're competent fakes. His successor wasn't here tonight. He wasn't here. He is asleep in his room in your house. Your son creates like Fischer. He sees like him, inside.", - "source": "Searching for Bobby Fischer", - "id": 3507, - "length": 556 - }, - { - "text": "Luke, you do not yet realize your importance. You have only begun to discover your power. Join me, and I will complete your training. With our combined strength, we can end this destructive conflict and bring order to the galaxy.", - "source": "The Empire Strikes Back", - "id": 3508, - "length": 229 - }, - { - "text": "I don't know why I'm here. I mean, I do. I'm nervous, I guess. Anxious. I don't sleep that well. And my hands... they're fine now. It's like when you have a problem with your car and you go to a mechanic and it's not doing it anymore. Not that you're a mechanic. I guess a lot of people must come here worried about the bomb. Is that true? It's a common nightmare, people say. I read it in a magazine. My mother always told me that it wasn't polite to talk about yourself. She passed away recently. I guess I already said that.", - "source": "Mad Men", - "id": 3509, - "length": 527 - }, - { - "text": "Sometimes you remind me a lot of James. He called it my 'furry little problem' in company. Many people were under the impression that I owned a badly behaved rabbit.", - "source": "Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince", - "id": 3510, - "length": 165 - }, - { - "text": "The waiting room. I hate when they make you wait in the room. 'Cause it says \"Waiting Room.\" There's no chance of not waiting. 'Cause they call it the waiting room, they're gonna use it. They've got it. It's all set up for you to wait. And you sit there, you know, and you've got your little magazine. You pretend you're reading it, but you're really looking at the other people. You know, you're thinking about them. Things like, \"I wonder what he's got. As soon as she goes, I'm getting her magazine.\"", - "source": "Seinfeld", - "id": 3511, - "length": 503 - }, - { - "text": "It's an awful truth that suffering can deepen us, give a greater lustre to our colours, a richer resonance to our words. That is, if it doesn't destroy us, if it doesn't burn away the optimism and the spirit, the capacity for visions, and the respect for simple yet indispensable things.", - "source": "Queen of The Damned", - "id": 3512, - "length": 287 - }, - { - "text": "We can't have full knowledge all at once. We must start by believing; then afterwards we may be led on to master the evidence for ourselves.", - "source": "Thomas Aquinas Quote", - "id": 3513, - "length": 140 - }, - { - "text": "Might be that uncertainty that makes us want to live, the most human act of questioning the fact we question it. The fact we get to observe that we observe is a trip, a mirror in a mirror wondering what a mirror is. Time provides an urgency to all that does exist, best we use it wisely 'cause the promised might be myth, and what we leave behind might be draped in immortality, centuries from now, living here within an MP3.", - "source": "Sand", - "id": 3514, - "length": 425 - }, - { - "text": "In every idea of genius or in every new human idea, or, more simply still, in every serious human idea born in anyone's brain, there is something that cannot possibly be conveyed to others.", - "source": "The Idiot", - "id": 3515, - "length": 189 - }, - { - "text": "Sweet the rain's new fall, sunlit from heaven like the first dewfall on the first grass. Praise for the sweetness of the wet garden, sprung in completeness where his feet pass.", - "source": "Morning Has Broken", - "id": 3516, - "length": 176 - }, - { - "text": "People in both fields operate with beliefs and biases. To the extent you can eliminate both and replace them with data, you gain a clear advantage.", - "source": "Moneyball", - "id": 3517, - "length": 147 - }, - { - "text": "But there is virtually no relationship between being an expert and being seen as someone people can trust with their secrets, doubts, and vulnerabilities. A petty office tyrant or micromanager may be high on expertise, but will be so low on trust that it will undermine their ability to manage, and effectively exclude them from informal networks.", - "source": "Emotional Intelligence", - "id": 3518, - "length": 347 - }, - { - "text": "The reason that most people don't possess these extraordinary physical capabilities isn't because they don't have the capacity for them, but rather because they're satisfied to live in the comfortable rut of homeostasis and never do the work that is required to get out of it. They live in the world of \"good enough.\"", - "source": "Peak: Secrets from the New Science of Expertise", - "id": 3519, - "length": 317 - }, - { - "text": "Now, in a perfect world, I probably won't be insensitive. Cold as December, but never remember what Winter did. I wouldn't blame you for mistakes I made or the bed I laid. Seems like I point the finger just to make a point nowadays.", - "source": "PRIDE.", - "id": 3520, - "length": 232 - }, - { - "text": "When we're all alone, it might be too frightening to bear... but we're all right beside each other. We've got our friends close by! Now, there's nothing to fear! Because we're not alone!", - "source": "Fairy Tail", - "id": 3521, - "length": 186 - }, - { - "text": "The approximately 206 bones of the skeleton are classified according to whether they occur in the axial skeleton or the appendicular skeleton. The axial skeleton is in the midline of the body, and the appendicular skeleton consists of the limbs along with their girdles.", - "source": "Inquiry Into Life", - "id": 3522, - "length": 270 - }, - { - "text": "Guy don't need no sense to be a nice fella. Seems to me sometimes it jus' works the other way around. Take a real smart guy and he ain't hardly ever a nice fella.", - "source": "Of Mice and Men", - "id": 3523, - "length": 162 - }, - { - "text": "I believe that you are sincere and good at heart. If you do not attain happiness, always remember that you are on the right road, and try not to leave it. Above all, avoid falsehood, every kind of falsehood, especially falseness to yourself. Watch over your own deceitfulness and look into it every hour, every minute. Avoid being scornful, both to others and to yourself. What seems to you bad within you will grow purer from the very fact of your observing it in yourself.", - "source": "The Brothers Karamazov", - "id": 3524, - "length": 474 - }, - { - "text": "Now this is a story all about how my life got flipped - turned upside down. And I'd like to take a minute, just sit right there; I'll tell you how I became the prince of a town called Bel-Air.", - "source": "Fresh Prince of Bel Air (Theme Song)", - "id": 3525, - "length": 192 - }, - { - "text": "The amount of spent nuclear fuel and plutonium is increasing even today. Listen, have you ever seen a warehouse full of nuclear material? Drums and drums of nuclear waste stacked this high. As far as you can see because there's still no real way to dispose of the stuff.", - "source": "Metal Gear Solid", - "id": 3526, - "length": 270 - }, - { - "text": "We deal in illusions, man! None of it is true! But you people sit there, day after day, night after night, all ages, colors, creeds... We're all you know. You're beginning to believe the illusions we're spinning here. You're beginning to think that the tube is reality, and that your own lives are unreal. You do whatever the tube tells you! You dress like the tube, you eat like the tube, you raise your children like the tube, you even think like the tube! This is mass madness, you maniacs!", - "source": "Network", - "id": 3527, - "length": 493 - }, - { - "text": "First of all, you must be comfortable, otherwise it will be overly tiring and very difficult to concentrate. Many races have been lost simply because a driver lost concentration due to discomfort from a poorly fitted seat.", - "source": "Speed Secrets: Professional Race Driving Techniques", - "id": 3528, - "length": 222 - }, - { - "text": "The devil found a clever way to infiltrate and bring his manipulation; a slender blonde in a cocktail dress struggling through the intoxication brought on by the gifting of drinks until she was ready to pay back in the bedroom, in the search to appease the demons in her head on a sterile surface in the bathroom.", - "source": "July (Part One)", - "id": 3529, - "length": 313 - }, - { - "text": "I was proud of my work. And the buildings went up. When they were finished the damnedest thing happened. It was like the buildings were too good for us. Nobody told us that. It just felt uncomfortable, that's all.", - "source": "Breaking Away", - "id": 3530, - "length": 213 - }, - { - "text": "If you are given too many choices, if you are forced to consider much more than your unconscious is comfortable with, you get paralyzed. Snap judgments can be made in a snap because they are frugal, and if we want to protect our snap judgments, we have to take steps to protect that frugality.", - "source": "Blink", - "id": 3531, - "length": 293 - }, - { - "text": "Antoon used to import paint cans. That's simply too expensive now, so he's taken to making his own. An educated man who is proud of what he's achieved, he shows how his workers recycle old oil can barrels, turning them into shiny containers for his open paint.", - "source": "Naked in Baghdad: The Iraq War and the Aftermath as Seen by NPR's Correspondent Anne Garrels", - "id": 3532, - "length": 260 - }, - { - "text": "I must learn to be content with being happier than I deserve.", - "source": "Pride and Prejudice", - "id": 3533, - "length": 61 - }, - { - "text": "Finish each day and be done with it. You have done what you could. Some blunders and absurdities no doubt crept in; forget them as soon as you can. Tomorrow is a new day. You shall begin it serenely and with too high a spirit to be encumbered with your old nonsense.", - "source": "Self-Reliance", - "id": 3534, - "length": 266 - }, - { - "text": "Once upon a time there was a lovely princess, but she had an enchantment upon her of a fearful sort which could only be broken by love's first kiss. She was locked away in a castle guarded by a terrible fire-breathing dragon. Many brave knights had attempted to free her from this dreadful prison, but none prevailed. She waited in the dragon's keep in the highest room of the tallest tower for her true love and true love's first kiss.", - "source": "Shrek", - "id": 3535, - "length": 436 - }, - { - "text": "To me our relationship makes perfect sense. You want me to propose to you, I propose to you. You say no, I say fine, I never wanna see you again. You drive me nuts telling me you want me to propose again, I do, you turn me down. Next thing I know I'm in a court of law where I've got to propose to you or go to jail. It's the classic American love story.", - "source": "Cheers", - "id": 3536, - "length": 354 - }, - { - "text": "Now this one upsets me. We have an out-of-tune player. Before I go any further, does that player want to do the right thing and reveal himself? Okay. Maybe a bug flew in my ear... No, I guess my ears are clean because we most definitely have an out-of-tune player. Whoever it is, this is your last chance. Either you know you are out of tune, and are therefore deliberately sabotaging my band; or you do not know you're out of tune - which I'm afraid is even worse.", - "source": "Whiplash", - "id": 3537, - "length": 465 - }, - { - "text": "When you wake up in the morning, tell yourself: the people I deal with today will be meddling, ungrateful, arrogant, dishonest, jealous and surly. They are like this because they can't tell good from evil. But I have seen the beauty of good, and the ugliness of evil, and have recognized that the wrongdoer has a nature related to my own - not of the same blood and birth, but the same mind, and possessing a share of the divine. And so none of them can hurt me. No one can implicate me in ugliness. Nor can I feel angry at my relative, or hate him. We were born to work together like feet, hands and eyes, like the two rows of teeth, upper and lower. To obstruct each other is unnatural. To feel anger at someone, to turn your back on him: these are unnatural.", - "source": "Meditations", - "id": 3538, - "length": 761 - }, - { - "text": "You are the breath of your Creator, and as he breathes in and out, you live. Remember that, for that sums up everything that you need to know about your God. There is first an exhalation from God, on the part of all creation; and then, at a certain point, it starts its journey back, its inhalation. This cycle never ceases. You leave me; you are away from me; you start back; you rejoin me. You and everything else. It is a process, an event. It is an activity - my activity. It is the rhythm of my own being, and it sustains you all.", - "source": "The Divine Invasion", - "id": 3539, - "length": 535 - }, - { - "text": "Maybe every human soul deals with loss and grief in its own way. Some curse the darkness. Some play hide and seek. That night Paul and Winnie and I found something we almost lost. We found our spirit. The spirit of children. The bond of memory. And the next day they tore down Harper's Woods.", - "source": "The Wonder Years", - "id": 3540, - "length": 292 - }, - { - "text": "There's something way down deep that's eternal about every human being.", - "source": "Our Town", - "id": 3541, - "length": 71 - }, - { - "text": "In my restless dreams, I see that town... Silent Hill. You promised me you'd take me there again someday... but you never did. Well I'm alone there now, in our special place... waiting for you.", - "source": "Silent Hill 2", - "id": 3542, - "length": 193 - }, - { - "text": "I dream of rain, I dream of gardens in the desert sand. I wake in vain. I dream of love as time runs through my hand.", - "source": "Desert Rose", - "id": 3543, - "length": 117 - }, - { - "text": "Now that I know that I'm breaking to pieces, I'll pull out my heart and I'll feed it to anyone. Crying for sympathy, crocodiles cry for the love of the crowd and the free cheers from everyone. Dropping through sky, through the glass of the roof, through the roof of your mouth, through the mouth of your eye, through the eye of the needle, it's easier for me to get closer to heaven than ever feel whole again.", - "source": "Disintegration", - "id": 3544, - "length": 410 - }, - { - "text": "You speak in abbreviations because real life conversation moves too slowly. You're the media's creation, yeah, your free will has been taken and you don't know.", - "source": "Culture Shock", - "id": 3545, - "length": 160 - }, - { - "text": "My feeling is if you're the CEO of a company and you're dumb enough to leave your login info on a Post-it note on your desk, while the people that you ripped off are physically in your office, it's not a hack. It's barely social engineering. It's more like natural selection.", - "source": "Silicon Valley", - "id": 3546, - "length": 275 - }, - { - "text": "We acquire a taste for salt. By consuming less salt, we can lose this acquired taste. This has happened to me and I find that I no longer like the salty taste of ham or bacon. Processed foods often have sodium added and provide us with far more sodium than fresh foods. Limiting processed foods, limiting salt at the table, and limiting salt used in cooking are the three main ways to reduce sodium in your diet.", - "source": "Quick and Healthy Volume II", - "id": 3547, - "length": 412 - }, - { - "text": "He got the action, he got the motion. Oh yeah, the boy can play. Dedication, devotion, turning all the night time into the day.", - "source": "Walk of Life", - "id": 3548, - "length": 127 - }, - { - "text": "After living with you for the last six months, I'm turning into one of your scripts. Well, this is not a script, Diana. There's some real, actual life going on here.", - "source": "Network", - "id": 3549, - "length": 165 - }, - { - "text": "This business is filled to the brim with unrealistic people who thought their bods aged like wine. If you mean it turns to vinegar, it does. If you mean it gets better with age, it don't. Besides Butch, how many fights you think you got left in you anyway? Two? Boxers don't have an old timer's pension. You came close, but you never made it, and if you were gonna make it, you woulda made it by now.", - "source": "Pulp Fiction", - "id": 3550, - "length": 400 - }, - { - "text": "I really don't mind the rain and a smile can hide all the pain. But you're down when you're ridin' the train that's takin' the long way.", - "source": "Rhinestone Cowboy", - "id": 3551, - "length": 136 - }, - { - "text": "Sometimes you picture me. I'm walking too far ahead, you're calling to me, I can't hear what you've said. Then you say, \"Go slow.\" I fall behind, the second hand unwinds.", - "source": "Time After Time", - "id": 3552, - "length": 170 - }, - { - "text": "Well, gentlemen, in my opinion, if we send him back to Pendleton or we send him up to Disturbed, it's just one more way of passing on our problems to somebody else. You know we don't like to do that, so I'd like to keep him on the ward. I think we can help him.", - "source": "One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest", - "id": 3553, - "length": 261 - }, - { - "text": "And to think, if it weren't for you... I never would've danced at all.", - "source": "Us", - "id": 3554, - "length": 70 - }, - { - "text": "If thou workest at that which is before thee, following right reason seriously, vigorously, calmly, without allowing anything else to distract thee, but keeping thy divine part pure, as if thou shouldst be bound to give it back immediately; if thou holdest to this, expecting nothing, fearing nothing, but satisfied with thy present activity according to nature, and with heroic truth in every word and sound which thou utterest, thou wilt live happy. And there is no man who is able to prevent this.", - "source": "Meditations", - "id": 3555, - "length": 500 - }, - { - "text": "Lucid but wholly false recollections can easily be induced by a few cues and questions. Memory can be contaminated. False memories can be implanted even in minds that do not consider themselves vulnerable and uncritical.", - "source": "The Demon-Haunted World: Science as a Candle in the Dark", - "id": 3556, - "length": 220 - }, - { - "text": "Look, you're supposed to be winning the hearts and minds of the natives. Isn't that the whole point of your little puppet show? If you walk like them, you talk like them, they'll trust you. We build them a school, teach them English. But after - how many years - the relations with the indigenous are only getting worse.", - "source": "Avatar", - "id": 3557, - "length": 320 - }, - { - "text": "I've been trying to get answers from him. Where does he come from? How does he do what he does? But he dodges everything, literally, with this super-speed power. When he moves, Barry, you don't even see him. He comes and goes in the blink of an eye, in a...", - "source": "The Flash", - "id": 3558, - "length": 257 - }, - { - "text": "Not too many days from this day, not too many hours from this hour. So long? The storm comes, or is it just another shower?", - "source": "Swamp Thing", - "id": 3559, - "length": 123 - }, - { - "text": "I am fundamentally an optimist. Whether that comes from nature or nurture, I cannot say. Part of being optimistic is keeping one's head pointed toward the sun, one's feet moving forward. There were many dark moments when my faith in humanity was sorely tested, but I would not and could not give myself up to despair. That way lays defeat and death.", - "source": "A Long Walk to Freedom", - "id": 3560, - "length": 349 - }, - { - "text": "A man may fish with the worm that hath eat of a king, and eat of the fish that hath fed of that worm.", - "source": "Hamlet", - "id": 3561, - "length": 101 - }, - { - "text": "Math is like an atomic-powered prosthesis that you attach to your common sense, vastly multiplying its reach and strength. Despite the power of mathematics, and despite its sometimes forbidding notation and abstraction, the actual mental work involved is little different from the way we think about down-to-earth problems.", - "source": "How Not to Be Wrong: The Power of Mathematical Thinking", - "id": 3562, - "length": 323 - }, - { - "text": "Because they're at the bottom of the scale, nerds are a safe target for the entire school. If I remember correctly, the most popular kids don't persecute nerds; they don't need to stoop to such things. Most of the persecution comes from kids lower down, the nervous middle classes.", - "source": "Hackers and Painters: Big Ideas from the Computer Age", - "id": 3563, - "length": 281 - }, - { - "text": "You ask Raymond what he does for a living and he says, \"I breathe and walk and when I'm told to sit I sit and when I'm told to leave I leave and return home to luxuriate and think how much I despise them.\" He implies there is a correlation between his daily work and the drawings, which leads people to believe he is some type of an architect, but you suspect there is no place for him with even the most incompetent firm.", - "source": "Ablutions: Notes For a Novel", - "id": 3564, - "length": 422 - }, - { - "text": "I didn't know it was the beginning of the end. Justin, you were in love with my friend Kat. My only friend. So you see, that's where the trouble began. That smile. That damned smile.", - "source": "13 Reasons Why", - "id": 3565, - "length": 182 - }, - { - "text": "I had the same room which Finny and I had shared during the summer, but across the hall, in the large suite where Leper Lepellier had dreamed his way through July and August amid sunshine and dust motes and windows through which the ivy had reached tentatively into the room, here Brinker Hadley had established his headquarters.", - "source": "A Separate Peace", - "id": 3566, - "length": 329 - }, - { - "text": "There have been occasions in my later life (I suppose as in most lives) when I have felt for a time as if a thick curtain had fallen on all its interest and romance, to shut me out from anything save dull endurance any more. Never has that curtain dropped so heavy and blank, as when my way in life lay stretched out straight before me through the newly-entered road of apprenticeship to Joe.", - "source": "Great Expectations", - "id": 3567, - "length": 392 - }, - { - "text": "At that very moment, time stopped, as it was wont to do when present, past, and future collide; when one's existence ceases to be measured in days, hours, and minutes, but instead in immeasurable quantity of life events.", - "source": "Pushing Daisies", - "id": 3568, - "length": 220 - }, - { - "text": "That's Tommy. He tells people he was named after a gun, but I know he was really named after a famous 19th century ballet dancer.", - "source": "Snatch", - "id": 3569, - "length": 130 - }, - { - "text": "I turned back, and perceived a vast opaque body between me and the sun moving forwards towards the island: it seemed to be about two miles high, and hid the sun six or seven minutes; but I did not observe the air to be much colder, or the sky more darkened, than if I had stood under the shade of a mountain.", - "source": "Gulliver's Travels", - "id": 3570, - "length": 308 - }, - { - "text": "For restless eyes egos burn and the mold is hard to break. Now we've waded in too deep and love is overboard. Heavy hearts, token words, all the hopes I ever had fade like footprints in the sand.", - "source": "Lessons in Love", - "id": 3571, - "length": 195 - }, - { - "text": "You no good little slimebag! I'm going to make you the second most miserable cab driver in New York City! I'll make sure your windows don't open in the summer, and that the heating doesn't work in the winter! I'll take the headrest off your driver's seat and send you to the most desolate parts of town! The most miserable cab driver in New York is the one that either lets him down... or feeds him!", - "source": "Taxi", - "id": 3572, - "length": 399 - }, - { - "text": "His chess ideas are like pieces of his body he's reluctant to give up. For instance, he simply can't cope with being told not to bring his queen out too early in the game. Why shouldn't he? He's won many a game in Washington Square doing exactly that, why is this suddenly wrong?", - "source": "Searching for Bobby Fischer", - "id": 3573, - "length": 279 - }, - { - "text": "Unjust laws exist: shall we be content to obey them, or shall we endeavor to amend them, and obey them until we have succeeded, or shall we transgress them at once? Men, generally, under such a government as this, think that they ought to wait until they have persuaded the majority to alter them. They think that, if they should resist, the remedy would be worse than the evil. But it is the fault of the government itself that the remedy is worse than the evil. It makes it worse.", - "source": "Civil Disobedience", - "id": 3574, - "length": 482 - }, - { - "text": "It is a truth universally acknowledged, that a single man in possession of a good fortune, must be in want of a wife.", - "source": "Pride and Prejudice", - "id": 3575, - "length": 117 - }, - { - "text": "I ran out of tears when I was 18, so nobody made me but the main streets. 'Cause too many people think they made me. Well, if they really made me then replace me.", - "source": "Sidewalks", - "id": 3576, - "length": 162 - }, - { - "text": "Good games stay within, but at the outer edge, of the player's regime of competence. That is, they feel doable but challenging. This makes them pleasantly frustrating - a flow state for human beings.", - "source": "What Video Games Have to Teach Us About Learning and Literacy", - "id": 3577, - "length": 199 - }, - { - "text": "And can you feel the love tonight, it is where we are. It's enough for this wide-eyed wanderer that we got this far.", - "source": "Can You Feel The Love Tonight", - "id": 3578, - "length": 116 - }, - { - "text": "Many think that probabilities do not exist in real life. Nevertheless, a given or computed value of the probability of some event A can be used in order to make conscious decisions. The entire subject of statistics depends on the use of probabilities. We depend on probabilities to make simple choices in our daily lives.", - "source": "Fundamentals of Probability: A First Course", - "id": 3579, - "length": 321 - }, - { - "text": "People's beliefs about their abilities have a profound effect on those abilities. Ability is not a fixed property; there is a huge variability in how you perform. People who have a sense of self-efficacy bounce back from failures; they approach things in terms of how to handle them rather than worrying about what can go wrong.", - "source": "Emotional Intelligence", - "id": 3580, - "length": 328 - }, - { - "text": "On one world I encountered a feline species who spoke only in song. Beautiful. Strangely inviting given what should have been an obvious animosity. Their matriarch sung the history of her people and it was one of mystery, reverence and wonder. Their world was dying though. Its sun growing dark, illuminating them by moonlight alone. Still they sang. Songs of joy, for the time they had. Not songs for a time coming to an end. I offered to take them to another world, to save them. But they just smiled and shook their heads. I still think about them sometimes.", - "source": "Runescape", - "id": 3581, - "length": 561 - }, - { - "text": "And I am not frightened of dying, any time will do, I don't mind. Why should I be frightened of dying? There's no reason for it, you've gotta go sometime. If you can hear this whispering you are dying. I never said I was frightened of dying.", - "source": "The Great Gig In The Sky", - "id": 3582, - "length": 241 - }, - { - "text": "Let the stormy clouds chase everyone from the place. Come on with the rain. I've a smile on my face. I walk down the lane with a happy refrain just singin', singin' in the rain.", - "source": "Singing In The Rain", - "id": 3583, - "length": 177 - }, - { - "text": "I wonder if the Emperor Honorius watching the Visigoths coming over the seventh hill could truly realize that the Roman Empire was about to fall. This is really just another page of history, isn't it? Will this be the end of our civilization? Turn the page.", - "source": "Star Trek: The Next Generation", - "id": 3584, - "length": 257 - }, - { - "text": "The bonds between ourselves and another person exist only in our minds. Memory as it grows fainter loosens them, and notwithstanding the illusion by which we want to be duped and with which, out of love, friendship, politeness, deference, duty, we dupe other people, we exist alone. Man is the creature who cannot escape from himself, who knows other people only in himself, and when he asserts the contrary, he is lying.", - "source": "In Search of Lost Time", - "id": 3585, - "length": 421 - }, - { - "text": "I'm a cop - I'm good at reading people - so I know I can trust you with my suspicion. When I go talk to the family and friends of a murder suspect, somebody I know is guilty, and I tell them the person they love is a killer, guess what they all say? \"That's not the person I know.\"", - "source": "The Flash", - "id": 3586, - "length": 281 - }, - { - "text": "The first notes on the clarinet are simply a rising scale, but it is split down the middle: the first half belongs to C-sharp major, the second half to G major. This is an unsettling opening, for several reasons.", - "source": "The Rest is Noise: Listening to Music in the Twentieth Century", - "id": 3587, - "length": 212 - }, - { - "text": "Now, remember. According to my theory, you interfered with your parents' first meeting. If they don't meet, they won't fall in love, they won't get married, and they won't have kids. That's why your older brother's disappearing from that photograph. Your sister will follow, and unless you repair the damage, you'll be next.", - "source": "Back to the Future", - "id": 3588, - "length": 324 - }, - { - "text": "Dreams are just your brain processing random rigmarole it couldn't find a place for: it don't mean nothin'. Except you feel guilty about kissing Olive when you want to be kissing some dead girl you can't.", - "source": "Pushing Daisies", - "id": 3589, - "length": 204 - }, - { - "text": "Dad, I may not be the best but I come to believe that I got it in me to be somebody in this world. And it's not because I'm so different from you either; it's because I'm the same. I mean I can be just as hard-headed and just as tough. I only hope I can be as good a man as you. Sure, Wernher von Braun is a great scientist but he isn't my hero.", - "source": "October Sky", - "id": 3590, - "length": 345 - }, - { - "text": "I hated this movie. Hated hated hated hated hated this movie. Hated it. Hated every simpering stupid vacant audience-insulting moment of it. Hated the sensibility that thought anyone would like it. Hated the implied insult to the audience by its belief that anyone would be entertained by it.", - "source": "I Hated, Hated, Hated This Movie", - "id": 3591, - "length": 292 - }, - { - "text": "Study hard, and you will be rewarded. Fail to do so, and the consequences may be... severe.", - "source": "Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix", - "id": 3592, - "length": 91 - }, - { - "text": "Everyone has a moment in history which belongs particularly to him. It is the moment when his emotions achieve their most powerful sway over him, and afterward when you say to this person \"the world today\" or \"life\" or \"reality\" he will assume that you mean this moment, even if it is fifty years past. The world, through his unleashed emotions, imprinted itself upon him, and he carries the stamp of that passing moment forever.", - "source": "A Separate Peace", - "id": 3593, - "length": 429 - }, - { - "text": "Once before, I offered you peace. If you had not been so arrogant, you could have returned to your homeland with a fleet of ships. Instead, you will flee Slaver's Bay on foot, like the Beggar Queen you are.", - "source": "Game of Thrones", - "id": 3594, - "length": 206 - }, - { - "text": "I don't have to tell you things are bad. Everybody knows things are bad. It's a depression. Everybody's out of work or scared of losing their job. The dollar buys a nickel's worth, banks are going bust, shopkeepers keep a gun under the counter. Punks are running wild in the street and there's nobody anywhere who seems to know what to do and there's no end to it. We know the air is unfit to breathe and our food is unfit to eat, and we sit watching our TVs while some local newscaster tells us that today we had fifteen homicides and sixty-three violent crimes, as if that's the way it's supposed to be.", - "source": "Network", - "id": 3595, - "length": 605 - }, - { - "text": "\"Mad Dog Time\" is the first movie I have seen that does not improve on the sight of a blank screen viewed for the same length of time. Oh, I've seen bad movies before. But they usually made me care about how bad they were. Watching \"Mad Dog Time\" is like waiting for the bus in a city where you're not sure they have a bus line.", - "source": "I Hated, Hated, Hated This Movie", - "id": 3596, - "length": 328 - }, - { - "text": "The melted mozzarella layer, which we shall designate MML, is the obvious source of trauma to the roof of the mouth and from the point of view of medical physics is clearly the key agent in the etiology of pizza burn.", - "source": "The Thermodynamics of Pizza", - "id": 3597, - "length": 217 - }, - { - "text": "Although the United Nations does not have the power to enforce decisions or compel nations to take military action, the ability to compel member nations to impose economic sanctions against countries guilty of violating security orders gives it significant power in the world stage.", - "source": "Civilization IV", - "id": 3598, - "length": 282 - }, - { - "text": "You know I hate, detest, and can't bear a lie, not because I am straighter than the rest of us, but simply because it appalls me. There is a taint of death, a flavour of mortality in lies - which is exactly what I hate and detest in the world - what I want to forget.", - "source": "Heart of Darkness", - "id": 3599, - "length": 267 - }, - { - "text": "Covert intelligence involves a lot of waiting around. Any meeting, any appointment, you have to show up early, make sure you are not followed, make sure the area is secured, check out the other guy's advance team and see how well he is prepared. It's good trade craft, but it's like hanging out in your dentist's reception area 24 hours a day. You read magazines, sip coffee, and every once in a while someone tries to kill you.", - "source": "Burn Notice", - "id": 3600, - "length": 428 - }, - { - "text": "There is no instance of a country having benefited from prolonged warfare. It is only one who is thoroughly acquainted with the evils of war that can thoroughly understand the profitable way of carrying it on.", - "source": "The Art of War", - "id": 3601, - "length": 209 - }, - { - "text": "I drew the blankets over my head and tried to think of Christmas. But the grey face still followed me. It murmured, and I understood that it desired to confess something. I felt my soul receding into some pleasant and vicious region; and there again I found it waiting for me.", - "source": "Dubliners", - "id": 3602, - "length": 276 - }, - { - "text": "I had the impression of being abandoned by everyone when the whole city rose and left for the summer. I was afraid to be left alone, and for three days I roamed dejectedly through the city, unable to understand what was happening to me. Whether I went to Nevsky Avenue, to the park, or wandered along the embankments, I never came across the people I was accustomed to meet in certain spots at certain hours all year round. They, of course, didn't know me; but I knew them all right.", - "source": "White Nights", - "id": 3603, - "length": 483 - }, - { - "text": "The last thing he said to me, \"Doc,\" he said, \"some time when the crew is up against it, and the breaks are beating the boys, tell them to get out there and give it all they got and win just one for the Zipper. I don't know where I'll be then, Doc,\" he said, \"but I won't smell too good, that's for sure.\"", - "source": "Airplane!", - "id": 3604, - "length": 305 - }, - { - "text": "Lord Paladin Tirion Fordring was a powerful man. He was strong in both mind and body, and was counted as one of the greatest warriors of his day. Though he was slightly over fifty years of age, he still looked as fit and dynamic as he had when a younger man. His signature bushy mustache and his neatly trimmed brown hair were streaked with gray, but his piercing green eyes still shone with an energy that belied his years.", - "source": "Warcraft Archive", - "id": 3605, - "length": 424 - }, - { - "text": "At first they had tried to keep the finding quiet. After all, they were not absolutely sure it was an extraterrestrial message. A premature or mistaken announcement would be a public relations disaster. But worse than that, it would interfere with the data analysis. If the press descended, the science would surely suffer.", - "source": "Contact", - "id": 3606, - "length": 323 - }, - { - "text": "I feel it deep within, it's just beneath the skin. I must confess that I feel like a monster. I hate what I've become, the nightmare's just begun. I must confess that I feel like a monster. I, I feel like a monster. I, I feel like a monster.", - "source": "Monster", - "id": 3607, - "length": 241 - }, - { - "text": "And now, as I close my task, subduing my desire to linger yet, these faces fade away. But one face, shining on me like a Heavenly light by which I see all other objects, is above them and beyond them all. And that remains.", - "source": "David Copperfield", - "id": 3608, - "length": 222 - }, - { - "text": "When a man's an empty kettle, he should be on his mettle, and yet I'm torn apart. Just because I'm presumin' that I could be kinda human if I only had a heart.", - "source": "The Wizard of Oz", - "id": 3609, - "length": 159 - }, - { - "text": "Morality, it could be argued, represents the way that people would like the world to work whereas economics represents how it actually does work.", - "source": "Freakonomics", - "id": 3610, - "length": 145 - }, - { - "text": "I hope you will love your baby. I hope it will be a boy. That husband of yours, I hope, will always treat you well, because otherwise my specter shall come out of him, like black smoke, like a demented giant, and pull him apart nerve by nerve.", - "source": "Lolita", - "id": 3611, - "length": 243 - }, - { - "text": "Sun Tzu said: In the practical art of war, the best thing of all is to take the enemy's country whole and intact; to shatter and destroy it is not so good. So, too, it is better to recapture an army entire than destroy it, to capture a regiment, a detachment or a company entire than to destroy them.", - "source": "The Art of War", - "id": 3612, - "length": 300 - }, - { - "text": "Listen, Dad. As your son and your creator, I realize I was wrong to disrespect your religion. Now that I created life, I now believe in God, 'cause I believe in me. It'll be okay if you just surrender your heart to God. We can start over.", - "source": "Xavier: Renegade Angel", - "id": 3613, - "length": 238 - }, - { - "text": "As he proceeded toward the Chateau's minarets, it was difficult not to marvel at the falls below. It was a magnificent sight, watching that water fall off the edge of the world and into the misty clouds below. As single-minded as Karzt was, he was glad for the chance to see one of the great wonders of Genesis. He pulled a whetstone out of his backpack and walked back to the carriage, leaning against its wheeled frame while idly running the stone over the edge of his hatchet blade. He knew that it would need sharpening for the days ahead, especially considering that he'd blunted it recently during the encounter with those creatures.", - "source": "Chateau Cascade", - "id": 3614, - "length": 639 - }, - { - "text": "Advisors and scholars will tell you that history is a narrative of strength. They will recount stories of the rise and fall of nations and empires. There will be stories of armies, battles, and decisive victories. But this isn't true strength - it's merely power. I now believe true strength is found in vulnerability. In forgiveness. In love. There is a beautiful, upside-down truth, which is that these moments of purest strength appear as weakness to those who don't know better. For a long time, I didn't know better. I ask you and your brother to reject history as a narrative of strength, and instead, have faith that it can be a narrative of love.", - "source": "The Dragon Prince", - "id": 3615, - "length": 654 - }, - { - "text": "Just as people behave to me, so do I behave to them. When I see that a person despises me and treats me with contempt, I can be as proud as any peacock.", - "source": "The Letters of Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart", - "id": 3616, - "length": 152 - }, - { - "text": "When adults say, \"Teenagers think they are invincible\" with that sly, stupid smile on their faces, they don't know how right they are. We need never be hopeless, because we can never be irreparably broken. We think that we are invincible because we are. We cannot be born, and we cannot die. Like all energy, we can only change shapes and sizes and manifestations. They forget that when they get old. They get scared of losing and failing. But that part of us greater than the sum of our parts cannot begin and cannot end, and so it cannot fail.", - "source": "Looking for Alaska", - "id": 3617, - "length": 545 - }, - { - "text": "Your ring finger is the most difficult of all fingers to control. You will notice that when you move your ring finger your other fingers will move involuntarily as well. This is something that will become less of a problem as you perfect your keyboarding skills.", - "source": "Keyboarding Made Simple (1985)", - "id": 3618, - "length": 262 - }, - { - "text": "How am I supposed to decide this? How can I possibly stay without Mom and Dad? This is too much. I don't even understand how it all works, why I'm here in the state that I'm in or how to get out of it if I wanted to. If I were to say, \"I want to wake up,\" would I wake up right now? I've already tried snapping my heels to find Teddy and tried to beam myself to Hawaii, and that didn't work. This seems a whole lot more complicated.", - "source": "If I Stay", - "id": 3620, - "length": 432 - }, - { - "text": "When it was announced that the Library contained all books, the first reaction was unbounded joy. All men felt themselves the possessors of an intact and secret treasure. There was no personal problem, no world problem, whose eloquent solution did not exist - somewhere in some hexagon.", - "source": "The Library of Babel", - "id": 3621, - "length": 286 - }, - { - "text": "Isn't it kind of weird? It's like, there's a guy in a gorilla suit, and there's - he's got a robot head, and inside he's got kind of a bunch of clay... I mean, I've seen Dali paintings that make more sense than this movie does.", - "source": "Mystery Science Theater 3000: Robot Monster", - "id": 3622, - "length": 227 - }, - { - "text": "A place where there isn't any trouble. Do you suppose there is such a place, Toto? There must be. It's not a place you can get to by a boat or a train. It's far, far away. Behind the moon, beyond the rain...", - "source": "The Wizard of Oz", - "id": 3623, - "length": 207 - }, - { - "text": "Moon river, wider than a mile, I'm crossing you in style someday. Oh dream maker, you heart breaker, wherever you're going I'm going your way. Two drifters off to see the world - there's such a lot of world to see. We're after the same rainbow's end, waiting round the bend, my huckleberry friend, moon river and me.", - "source": "Moon River", - "id": 3624, - "length": 316 - }, - { - "text": "What was observed by us in the third place is the nature or matter of the Milky Way itself, which, with the aid of the spyglass, may be observed so well that all the disputes that for so many generations have vexed philosophers are destroyed by visible certainty, and we are liberated from wordy arguments.", - "source": "Sidereus Nuncius", - "id": 3625, - "length": 306 - }, - { - "text": "I've always wondered about this coat business. When I'm in a theater, I either fold mine in my lap or throw it over my armrest, but Patsy always spreads hers out, acting as if the seat back were cold, and she couldn't possibly enjoy herself while it was suffering.", - "source": "When You Are Engulfed in Flames", - "id": 3626, - "length": 264 - }, - { - "text": "My hours of leisure I spent in reading the best authors, ancient and modern, being always provided with a good number of books; and when I was ashore, in observing the manners and dispositions of the people, as well as learning their language; wherein I had a great facility, by the strength of my memory.", - "source": "Gulliver's Travels", - "id": 3627, - "length": 305 - }, - { - "text": "I was watching a television program before with a kind of roving moderator who spoke to a seated panel of young women who were having some sort of problem with their boyfriends apparently because the boyfriends had all slept with the girlfriends' mothers. And they brought the boyfriends out, and they fought right there on television. Toby, tell me: these people don't vote, do they?", - "source": "The West Wing", - "id": 3628, - "length": 384 - }, - { - "text": "I used to love travelling on the trains from town to town. The hotels... brass spittoons in the lobbies, brass beds in the rooms. It was the crowd, rising to their feet when the ball was hit deep. Shoot, I'd play for nothing!", - "source": "Field of Dreams", - "id": 3629, - "length": 225 - }, - { - "text": "When Bill Gates got married on Lanai, he rented every helicopter on the Hawaiian islands so that paparazzi couldn't use them to fly over. Although in that case, it was a positive, because now you can imagine that wedding however you want.", - "source": "Silicon Valley", - "id": 3630, - "length": 238 - }, - { - "text": "I confess that Fermat's Theorem as an isolated proposition has very little interest for me, because I could easily lay down a multitude of such propositions, which one could neither prove nor dispose of.", - "source": "The World of Mathematics", - "id": 3631, - "length": 203 - }, - { - "text": "I celebrate myself, and sing myself, and what I assume you shall assume, for every atom belonging to me as good belongs to you. I loafe and invite my soul, I lean and loafe at my ease observing a spear of summer grass. My tongue, every atom of my blood, form'd from this soil, this air, born here of parents born here from parents the same, and their parents the same, I, now thirty-seven years old in perfect health begin, hoping to cease not till death.", - "source": "Leaves of Grass", - "id": 3632, - "length": 455 - }, - { - "text": "She'd been acutely aware that terror, betrayal, and cruelty had a human face, but she had not sufficiently appreciated that courage, kindness, and love had a human face as well.", - "source": "Intensity: A Novel", - "id": 3633, - "length": 177 - }, - { - "text": "I've been up. I've been down. I've been kicked down to the ground by the voices in my head. But you said, \"Life gets tough when you get older. That's why I raised a soldier. Fight this battle to the end.\"", - "source": "Looking Back", - "id": 3634, - "length": 204 - }, - { - "text": "The bad economist sees only what immediately strikes the eye; the good economist also looks beyond. The bad economist sees only the direct consequences of a proposed course; the good economist looks also at the longer and indirect consequences. The bad economist sees only what the effect of a given policy has been or will be on one particular group; the good economist inquires also what the effect of the policy will be on all groups.", - "source": "Economics in One Lesson", - "id": 3635, - "length": 437 - }, - { - "text": "When things are going well with sales, profits, shareholder value, and management, discussion of this separation - so inimical to the basic tenets of capitalism - is muted. It creates little static.", - "source": "Unstoppable: The Emerging Left-Right Alliance to Dismantle the Corporate State", - "id": 3636, - "length": 198 - }, - { - "text": "There's no sunshine, this impossible year. Only black days and sky grey and clouds full of fear, and storms full of sorrow that won't disappear. Just typhoons and monsoons, this impossible year. There's no good times, this impossible year. Just a beachfront of bad blood and a coast that's unclear. All the guests at the party, they're so insincere. They just intrude and exclude, this impossible year.", - "source": "Impossible Year", - "id": 3637, - "length": 402 - }, - { - "text": "It is pleasing to human vanity to believe that one suffers because of one's virtues; but not until a man has extirpated every sickly, bitter, and impure thought from his mind, and washed every sinful stain from his soul, can he be in a position to know and declare that his sufferings are the result of his good, and not of his bad qualities; and on the way to, yet long before he has reached, that supreme perfection, he will have found, working in his mind and life, the Great Law which is absolutely just, and which cannot, therefore, give good for evil, evil for good. Possessed of such knowledge, he will then know, looking back upon his past ignorance and blindness, that his life is, and always was, justly ordered, and that all his past experiences, good and bad, were the equitable outworking of his evolving, yet unevolved self.", - "source": "As a Man Thinketh", - "id": 3638, - "length": 838 - }, - { - "text": "Goodness, present and hallowed, is thanking walls of the shallow embankments for flowing in over the soldiering masses of dayglow blades scorched by hovering halos. Washing away until I don't even cringe at the thought of you.", - "source": "End of Reel", - "id": 3639, - "length": 226 - }, - { - "text": "Higher and higher he climbed. His strength came from somewhere deep inside himself and also seemed to come from the outside as well. After focusing on Big Thumb for so long, it was as if the rock had absorbed his energy and now acted like a kind of giant magnet pulling him toward it.", - "source": "Holes", - "id": 3640, - "length": 284 - }, - { - "text": "Harvey and I sit in the bars... have a drink or two... play the jukebox. And soon the faces of all the other people they turn toward mine and they smile. And they're saying, \"We don't know your name, mister, but you're a very nice fella.\"", - "source": "Harvey", - "id": 3641, - "length": 238 - }, - { - "text": "All I want to do is graduate from high school, go to Europe, marry Christian Slater, and die. Now it may not sound too great to a sconehead like you, but I think it's swell. And you come along and tell me I'm a member of the hairy mole club so you can throw things at me?", - "source": "Buffy the Vampire Slayer", - "id": 3642, - "length": 271 - }, - { - "text": "Do you have life insurance, Phil? Because if you do, you could always use a little more, right? I mean, who couldn't? But you wanna know something? I got the feeling you ain't got any. Am I right or am I right?", - "source": "Groundhog Day", - "id": 3643, - "length": 210 - }, - { - "text": "I think about my daughter now, and what she was spared. Sometimes I feel grateful. The doctor said she didn't feel a thing, went straight into a coma. Then, somewhere in that blackness, she slipped off into another, deeper kind. Isn't that a beautiful way to go out, painlessly as a happy child? Trouble with dying later is you've already grown up. The damage is done. It's too late.", - "source": "True Detective", - "id": 3644, - "length": 383 - }, - { - "text": "Your political future? Why, I bought it for you. I gave it to you as a present and I can grab it back so fast it'll make your head swim! You've got a nerve to sit there and worry about your political future when we're in a spot like this!", - "source": "Mr. Smith Goes to Washington", - "id": 3645, - "length": 238 - }, - { - "text": "My name is Nathan Fielder, and I graduated from one of Canada's top business schools with really good grades. Now, I'm using my knowledge to help struggling small business owners make it in this competitive world.", - "source": "Nathan for You", - "id": 3646, - "length": 213 - }, - { - "text": "The boy bands have won, and all the copyists and the tribute bands and the TV talent show producers have won, if we allow our culture to be shaped by mimicry, whether it from lack of ideas or from exaggerated respect. You should never try to freeze culture. What you can do is recycle that culture. Take your older brother's hand-me-down jacket and re-style it, re-fashion it to the point where it becomes your own. But don't just regurgitate creative history, or hold art and music and literature as fixed, untouchable and kept under glass. The people who try to \"guard\" any particular form of music are, like the copyists and manufactured bands, doing it the worst disservice, because the only thing that you can do to music that will damage it is not change it, not make it your own. Because then it dies, then it's over, then it's done, and the boy bands have won.", - "source": "The Boy Bands Have Won", - "id": 3647, - "length": 868 - }, - { - "text": "Praise everybody, I say to such: never be squeamish, but speak out your compliment both point-blank in a man's face, and behind his back, when you know there is a reasonable chance of his hearing it again. Never lose a chance of saying a kind word. As Collingwood never saw a vacant place in his estate but he took an acorn out of his pocket and popped it in; so deal with your compliments through life. An acorn costs nothing; but it may sprout into a prodigious bit of timber.", - "source": "Vanity Fair", - "id": 3648, - "length": 478 - }, - { - "text": "Delicacy and dignity are taught by one's own heart, not by a dancing master.", - "source": "The Idiot", - "id": 3649, - "length": 76 - }, - { - "text": "Well, I'd learned one thing in advanced math class. I'd learned I was going to fail. Maybe not today. Maybe not tomorrow - but soon, and for the rest of my life.", - "source": "The Wonder Years", - "id": 3650, - "length": 161 - }, - { - "text": "You should enjoy the little detours. To the fullest. Because that's where you'll find the things more important than what you want.", - "source": "Hunter X Hunter", - "id": 3651, - "length": 131 - }, - { - "text": "If you are one of earth's inhabitants, how blest your father, and your gentle mother, blest all your kin. I know what happiness must send the warm tears to their eyes, each time they see their wondrous child go to the dancing! But one man's destiny is more than blest - he who prevails, and takes you as his bride. Never have I laid eyes on equal beauty in man or woman. I am hushed indeed.", - "source": "The Odyssey", - "id": 3652, - "length": 390 - }, - { - "text": "Rory, sorry to interrupt. Hi, Henry. But see, we're all standing over there trying to map out a game plan and a rehearsal schedule, and I'm sure whatever the two of you are talking about over here is so much more fascinating and important and, well, gosh, let's just say it: fun. But I'd really like to get an A on this assignment, and in order to do that I'm afraid you're gonna have to discuss your sock hops and your clambakes some other time, okay? Thanks.", - "source": "Gilmore Girls", - "id": 3653, - "length": 460 - }, - { - "text": "They'll never know how tough it is, Dawnie, to be the one who isn't chosen. To live so near to the spotlight and never step in it. But I know. I see more than anybody realizes because nobody's watching me. I saw you last night. I see you working here today. You're not special. You're extraordinary.", - "source": "Buffy the Vampire Slayer", - "id": 3654, - "length": 299 - }, - { - "text": "Do not try any of this at home. The author of this book is an Internet cartoonist, not a health or safety expert. He likes it when things catch fire or explode, which means he does not have your best interests in mind. The publisher and the author disclaim responsibility for any adverse effects resulting, directly or indirectly, from information contained in this book.", - "source": "What If?", - "id": 3655, - "length": 371 - }, - { - "text": "\"For you, a thousand times over,\" I heard myself say. Then I turned and ran. It was only a smile, nothing more. It didn't make every thing all right. It didn't make anything all right. Only a smile. A tiny thing. A leaf in the woods, shaking in the wake of a startled bird's flight.", - "source": "The Kite Runner", - "id": 3656, - "length": 282 - }, - { - "text": "A spell card that seems to resurrect the dead with the power of butterflies. In his long sleep, he dreamed he was a butterfly. Was he a human who awoke from a butterfly dream to his ordinary life? Or was he a butterfly dreaming of a life as a human in its long sleep? The butterfly dream. It seems to represent transience of life in this world. But since when did butterflies become so important?", - "source": "The Grimoire of Marisa", - "id": 3657, - "length": 396 - }, - { - "text": "I can't have a baby with you, because I already have a baby and his name is Fitzgerald Grant. And my baby is troubled, and angry, and exhausting, and brilliant, and he might actually change the world if I can keep my eyes on him every minute and make sure he eats his vegetables. And so I don't have the time or the energy or the extra space in my soul for another baby, James. I'm sorry, I don't. I can't. I don't have it in me to take care of someone else, because I'm busy taking care of the United States of America.", - "source": "Scandal", - "id": 3658, - "length": 520 - }, - { - "text": "There are fixed points throughout time where things must stay exactly the way they are. This is not one of them. This is an opportunity! Whatever happens here will create its own timeline, its own reality, a temporal tipping point. The future revolves around you, here, now, so do good!", - "source": "Doctor Who", - "id": 3659, - "length": 286 - }, - { - "text": "A-tisket, A-tasket, a brown and yellow basket. I send a letter to my mommy, on the way I dropped it. I dropped it, I dropped it, yes on the way I dropped it. A little girlie picked it up and put it in her pocket. She was trucking on down the avenue, not a single thing to do. She went peck peck pecking all around when she spied it on the ground. She took it, she took it, my little yellow basket. And if she doesn't bring it back I think that I will die.", - "source": "A-Tisket, A-Tasket", - "id": 3660, - "length": 455 - }, - { - "text": "You won't find anyone else like me, you know. You won't find anyone who'd do for you like I've done for you.", - "source": "The Man Who Fell to Earth", - "id": 3661, - "length": 108 - }, - { - "text": "Most people would turn you away. I don't listen to a word they say. They don't see you as I do, I wish they would try to.", - "source": "Ben", - "id": 3662, - "length": 121 - }, - { - "text": "The whole fury and might of the enemy must very soon be turned on us. Hitler knows that he will have to break us in this Island or lose the war. If we can stand up to him, all Europe may be free and the life of the world may move forward into broad, sunlit uplands. But if we fail, then the whole world, including the United States, including all that we have known and cared for, will sink into the abyss of a new Dark Age made more sinister, and perhaps more protracted, by the lights of perverted science. Let us therefore brace ourselves to our duties, and so bear ourselves that, if the British Empire and its Commonwealth last for a thousand years, men will still say, \"This was their finest hour.\"", - "source": "Blood, Toil, Tears and Sweat", - "id": 3663, - "length": 704 - }, - { - "text": "To feel much for others and little for ourselves; to restrain our selfishness and exercise our benevolent affections, constitute the perfection of human nature.", - "source": "The Perfection of Human Nature", - "id": 3664, - "length": 160 - }, - { - "text": "But a paradox of modern communication is that, while it links together disparate regions and identities, it also creates new awareness of disparities. It does not only homogenize things. Ideas blend and mix and become hybrid, but in different ways in different places.", - "source": "Imperial Germany 1871-1918", - "id": 3665, - "length": 268 - }, - { - "text": "Space is big. Really big. You just won't believe how vastly hugely mindbogglingly big it is. I mean you may think it's a long way down the road to the chemist, but that's just peanuts to space.", - "source": "The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy", - "id": 3666, - "length": 193 - }, - { - "text": "My friend, do you fly away now? To a world that abhors you and I? All that awaits you is a somber morrow. No matter where the winds may blow. My friend, your desire, is the bringer of life, the gift of the goddess. Even if the morrow is barren of promises, nothing shall forestall my return.", - "source": "Crisis Core: Final Fantasy VII", - "id": 3667, - "length": 291 - }, - { - "text": "Kids, there's nothing more cool than being hugged by someone you like. But if someone tries to touch you in a place or in a way that makes you feel uncomfortable, that's no good! It's your body. No one has the right to touch you if you don't want them to. So what do you do? First, you say 'No!' Then, you get outta there! Most important, you gotta tell someone you trust, like your parents, your teacher, a police officer.", - "source": "Adventures of Sonic the Hedgehog", - "id": 3668, - "length": 423 - }, - { - "text": "She seemed to know, to accept, to welcome her position, the citadel of the family, the strong place that could not be taken. And since old Tom and the children could not know hurt or fear unless she acknowledged hurt or fear, she had practiced denying them in herself. And since, when a joyful thing happened, they looked to see whether joy was on her, it was her habit to build up laughter out of inadequate materials. She seemed to know that if she swayed the family shook, and if she ever deeply wavered or despaired the family would fall.", - "source": "The Grapes of Wrath", - "id": 3669, - "length": 542 - }, - { - "text": "She belonged to a different age, but being so entire, so complete, would always stand up on the horizon, stone-white, eminent, like a lighthouse marking some past stage on this adventurous, long, long voyage, this interminable - this interminable life.", - "source": "Mrs. Dalloway", - "id": 3670, - "length": 252 - }, - { - "text": "From birth to old age, the body undergoes many changes. As we get older, these changes alter the ways that the body can compensate for the stress of illness or injury. It is important to understand the physiology of normal aging in order to anticipate an older person's response to changing conditions. Activities that were done easily as a younger person may become more difficult or impossible, requiring additional help or changes in the task.", - "source": "Geriatric Education for EMS", - "id": 3671, - "length": 446 - }, - { - "text": "It has been estimated that there are about four thousand species or kinds of Protozoans, about twenty-five thousand species of Mollusks, about ten thousand species of birds, about three thousand five hundred species of mammals, and from two hundred thousand to one million species of insects, or from two to five times as many kinds of insects as all other animals combined.", - "source": "Insects and Diseases", - "id": 3672, - "length": 374 - }, - { - "text": "You boys may have had gelato with Stan Lee and gotten autographed comics but I got to see the inside of his house and got a signed form for a restraining order from him.", - "source": "The Big Bang Theory", - "id": 3673, - "length": 169 - }, - { - "text": "Perhaps love is like a resting place, a shelter from the storm. It exists to give you comfort. It is there to keep you warm.", - "source": "Perhaps Love", - "id": 3674, - "length": 124 - }, - { - "text": "There are few people in the world who have more opportunity for getting close to the hot, interesting things of one's time than the special correspondent of a great paper. He is enabled to see \"the wheels go round;\" has the chance of getting his knowledge at first hand. In stirring times the drama of life is to him like the first night of a play. There are no preconceived opinions for him to go by; he ought not to, at least, be influenced by any prejudices; and the account of the performance is to some extent like that of the dramatic critic, inasmuch as that the verdict of the public or of history has either to confirm or reverse his own judgment.", - "source": "Impressions of a War Correspondent", - "id": 3675, - "length": 656 - }, - { - "text": "To be, or not to be: that is the question: whether 'tis nobler in the mind to suffer the slings and arrows of outrageous fortune, or to take arms against a sea of troubles, and by opposing end them?", - "source": "Hamlet", - "id": 3676, - "length": 198 - }, - { - "text": "Mature affection, homage, devotion, does not easily express itself. Its voice is low. It is modest and retiring, it lies in ambush, waits and waits. Such is the mature fruit. Sometimes a life glides away, and finds it still ripening in the shade.", - "source": "David Copperfield", - "id": 3677, - "length": 246 - }, - { - "text": "Doc was collecting marine animals in the Great Tide Pool on the tip of the Peninsula. It is a fabulous place: when the tide is in, a wave-churned basin, creamy with foam, whipped by the combers that roll in from the whistling buoy on the reef. But when the tide goes out the little water world becomes quiet and lovely.", - "source": "Cannery Row", - "id": 3678, - "length": 319 - }, - { - "text": "And the waitress is practicing politics as the businessmen slowly get stoned. Yes, they're sharing a drink they call loneliness but it's better than drinkin' alone.", - "source": "Piano Man", - "id": 3679, - "length": 164 - }, - { - "text": "You know, Devin, the way I see it, and hey, I'm no intelligent businessman like you, but the way I see it, there's two great evils that bedevil American capitalism of the kind you practice. Number one is outsourcing. You paid a private company to do your dirty work, and then you underpaid that company because you thought you were big enough and bad enough that you didn't have to play by the rules. Oh, number two: off-shoring your profits.", - "source": "Grand Theft Auto V", - "id": 3680, - "length": 442 - }, - { - "text": "Begin the day with a friendly voice. A companion, unobtrusive plays that song that's so elusive, and the magic music makes your morning mood. Off on your way, hit the open road. There is magic at your fingers for the spirit ever lingers undemanding contact in your happy solitude.", - "source": "The Spirit of Radio", - "id": 3681, - "length": 280 - }, - { - "text": "I don't want you to think of this as just a film - some process of converting electrons and magnetic impulses into shapes and figures and sounds. No. Listen to me. We're here to make a dent in the universe. Otherwise, why even be here? We're creating a completely new consciousness, like an artist or poet. That's how you have to think of this. We're rewriting the history of human thought with what we're doing.", - "source": "China Syndrome", - "id": 3682, - "length": 412 - }, - { - "text": "The idea of having nations and governments is as foolish as keeping the human and spirit realms separate. You've had to deal with a moronic president and a tyrannical queen. Don't you think the world would be better off if leaders like them were eliminated?", - "source": "Legend of Korra", - "id": 3683, - "length": 257 - }, - { - "text": "There's only one person in the world who's going to decide what I'm going to do and that's me.", - "source": "Citizen Kane", - "id": 3684, - "length": 94 - }, - { - "text": "I hate bactine because it gets on my fingers and I get eczema from the lidocaine.", - "source": "South Park: The Fractured But Whole", - "id": 3685, - "length": 81 - }, - { - "text": "I don't think man was meant to attain happiness so easily. Happiness is like those palaces in fairy tales whose gates are guarded by dragons: we must fight in order to conquer it.", - "source": "The Count of Monte Cristo", - "id": 3686, - "length": 179 - }, - { - "text": "Now the scandal and the light are to be distributed differently; it is the conviction itself that marks the offender with the unequivocally negative sign: the publicity has shifted to the trial, and to the sentence.", - "source": "Discipline and Punish: The Birth of the Prison", - "id": 3687, - "length": 215 - }, - { - "text": "They reminded me that it was my fate to pursue only phantoms, creatures whose reality existed to a great extent in my imagination; for there are people - and this had been my case since youth - for whom all the things that have a fixed value, assessable by others, fortune, success, high positions, do not count; what they must have is phantoms. They sacrifice all the rest, devote all their efforts, make everything else subservient to the pursuit of some phantom. But this soon fades away; then they run after another only to return later on to the first.", - "source": "In Search of Lost Time", - "id": 3688, - "length": 557 - }, - { - "text": "On other wavelengths there would probably be a lot still to see, but the mess-room screen was on normal light. Only the Minds, only the starships, would see the whole destruction perfectly; only they would be able to appreciate it for all that it had to offer. Of the entire range of the electromagnetic spectrum, the unaided human eye could see little more than one per cent: a single octave of radiation out of an immense long keyboard of tones.", - "source": "Consider Phlebas", - "id": 3689, - "length": 447 - }, - { - "text": "Hey, Sid! Remember that time last summer we were all gathered around the kill like this, someone told a leopard joke, and you laughed so hard an antler came out of your nose?", - "source": "The Complete Far Side", - "id": 3690, - "length": 174 - }, - { - "text": "Your friend, Mr. Lincoln had his Taylors and Paines. So did every other man who ever tried to lift his thought up off the ground. Odds against them didn't stop those men. They were fools that way. All the good that ever came into this world came from fools with faith like that. You know that, Jeff. You can't quit now. Not you. They aren't all Taylors and Paines in Washington. That kind just throw big shadows, that's all.", - "source": "Mr. Smith Goes to Washington", - "id": 3691, - "length": 424 - }, - { - "text": "When you have children, you always have family. They will always be your priority, your responsibility. And a man, a man provides. And he does it even when he's not appreciated, or respected, or even loved. He simply bears up and he does it. Because he's a man.", - "source": "Breaking Bad", - "id": 3692, - "length": 261 - }, - { - "text": "All I asked was for you to behave like a princess. Even royalty must obey rules. Leave the rest up to the Chancellor and forget about the events in town.", - "source": "Chrono Trigger", - "id": 3693, - "length": 153 - }, - { - "text": "Hey, Alex - you know the really great thing about television? If something important happens, anywhere in the world, night or day... you can always change the channel.", - "source": "Taxi", - "id": 3694, - "length": 167 - }, - { - "text": "Johnny, I got a lot of people here who are a little depressed because the war just ended. Please give me a new song.", - "source": "Wag the Dog", - "id": 3695, - "length": 116 - }, - { - "text": "I walked into the store. After the buzzing and booming of the entertainment center, the hardware store seemed as quiet as the interior of an iceberg. Next to the razor sets, I found nail clippers arrayed like entomological specimens. I picked up the most featureless of the lot and took it over to the register.", - "source": "Hard-Boiled Wonderland and the End of the World", - "id": 3696, - "length": 311 - }, - { - "text": "In his blue gardens men and girls came and went like moths among the whisperings and the champagne and the stars.", - "source": "The Great Gatsby", - "id": 3697, - "length": 113 - }, - { - "text": "The portly client puffed out his chest with an appearance of some little pride and pulled a dirty and wrinkled newspaper from the inside pocket of his greatcoat. As he glanced down the advertisement column, with his head thrust forward and the paper flattened out upon his knee, I took a good look at the man and endeavoured, after the fashion of my companion, to read the indications which might be presented by his dress or appearance.", - "source": "The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes", - "id": 3698, - "length": 437 - }, - { - "text": "The shearers' hut had bark walls and a tin roof. The floors were dirt and there was a long table down the centre of the shed. Three tiers of bunks ran all the way around each wall. Paddy dropped his bedroll onto one of the bunks. After sleeping on the ground for months, a hessian sack filled with chaff felt like heaven.", - "source": "Becoming Billy Dare", - "id": 3699, - "length": 321 - }, - { - "text": "There are three reasons, Mr. Brown, why I will not dance with you. The first, I fear, is that you've had a little too much to drink. The second is that this is not, as you seem to suppose, a waltz the orchestra is playing but the Peruvian national anthem, for which you should be standing to attention. And the third reason why we may not dance, Mr. Brown, is that I am the Cardinal Archbishop of Lima.", - "source": "Order, Order! The Rise and Fall of Political Drinking", - "id": 3700, - "length": 402 - }, - { - "text": "My life seems unreal, my crime an illusion, a scene badly written in which I must play. Yet I know as I gaze at my young love beside me the morning is just a few hours away.", - "source": "Wednesday Morning, 3 A.M.", - "id": 3701, - "length": 173 - }, - { - "text": "I didn't wanna spend my twenties as a professional defendant. Who knew the music industry doesn't have a sense of humor? We tried to sell the company to pay the 35 million they said we owed in royalties, but I guess to them that was a little like selling a stolen car to pay for the stolen gas.", - "source": "The Social Network", - "id": 3702, - "length": 294 - }, - { - "text": "It was a wicked, whimpering, winter plagued night. When my tongue grew wings, and took to flight. The thought had never crossed my mind before that moment. It's the truth so bent, it can't be broken.", - "source": "Tongue Splitter", - "id": 3703, - "length": 199 - }, - { - "text": "The bird, the pin, the song, the berries, the watch, the cracker, the dress that burst into flames. I am the mockingjay. The one that survived despite the Capitol's plans. The symbol of the rebellion.", - "source": "Catching Fire", - "id": 3704, - "length": 200 - }, - { - "text": "The Light lives in all places. In all things. You can block it. Even try to trap it. But the Light will always find its way.", - "source": "Destiny 2", - "id": 3705, - "length": 124 - }, - { - "text": "Witness my evil dream to rid Mobius of music and fun forever. My latest invention, the mean bean-steaming machine will not only dispose of those fun-loving jolly beans of Beanville but turn them into robot slaves to serve my evil purposes. Robots. Bring me those beans.", - "source": "Dr. Robotnik's Mean Bean Machine", - "id": 3706, - "length": 269 - }, - { - "text": "All I'm trying to say, Tommy, is that if you could just prove who you really are, you'd be free! Don't you understand, they don't understand you! They don't believe you. Believe me, they think you're one of us. They think you're a freak - or a fake. I know you're not. All you have to do is just prove it to 'em. Let 'em see you as you really are!", - "source": "The Man Who Fell to Earth", - "id": 3707, - "length": 347 - }, - { - "text": "For me, Halloween is the best holiday in the world. It even beats Christmas. I get to dress up in a costume. I get to wear a mask. I get to go around like every other kid with a mask and nobody thinks I look weird. Nobody takes a second look. Nobody notices me. Nobody knows me. I wish every day could be Halloween. We could all wear masks all the time. Then we could walk around and get to know each other before we got to see what we looked like under the masks.", - "source": "Wonder", - "id": 3708, - "length": 464 - }, - { - "text": "Did it matter then, she asked herself, walking towards bond street, did it matter that she must inevitably cease completely; all this must go on without her; did she resent it; or did it not become consoling to believe that death ended absolutely?", - "source": "Mrs. Dalloway", - "id": 3709, - "length": 247 - }, - { - "text": "Dear Slim, you still ain't called or wrote, I hope you have a chance. I ain't mad, I just think it's messed up you don't answer fans. If you didn't want to talk to me outside the concert you didn't have to, but you could've signed an autograph for Matthew. That's my little brother, man, he's only six years old. We waited in the blistering cold for you for four hours, and you just said no.", - "source": "Stan", - "id": 3710, - "length": 391 - }, - { - "text": "The dude has a photographic memory. Every time he thinks he might forgive you, the image of you smashing his artwork just pops into his head. Not that I've discussed it with him.", - "source": "Joan of Arcadia", - "id": 3711, - "length": 178 - }, - { - "text": "Convection also plays a minor role because of the relative thinness of the air layer and the presence of the upper cardboard heat shield. The insulation properties of the cardboard play a major role, since they serve to minimize the temperature gradient across the airspace.", - "source": "The Thermodynamics of Pizza", - "id": 3712, - "length": 274 - }, - { - "text": "I'll tell you a secret. Something they don't teach you in your temple. The Gods envy us. They envy us because we're mortal, because any moment might be our last. Everything is more beautiful because we're doomed. You will never be lovelier than you are now. We will never be here again.", - "source": "Troy", - "id": 3713, - "length": 286 - }, - { - "text": "I was a son. A brother, like you, a younger brother, and I had an older brother who I loved. Idolized, in fact. And one day I went to him and I begged him to stand with me, and Michael... Michael turned on me. Called me a freak. A monster. And then he beat me down. All because I was different. Because I had a mind of my own.", - "source": "Supernatural", - "id": 3714, - "length": 326 - }, - { - "text": "This world is rotten, and those who are making it rot deserve to die! Someone has to do it, so why not me? Even if it means sacrificing my own mind and soul, it's worth it. Because the world can't go on like this! I wonder what if someone else had picked up this notebook? Is there anyone out there other than me who'd be willing to eliminate the vermin from the world? If I don't do it, then who will? That's just it; there's no one! I can do it! In fact... I'm the only one who can! I'll do it. Using the Death Note, I'll change the world.", - "source": "Death Note", - "id": 3715, - "length": 541 - }, - { - "text": "So here I am, at probably the worst school in the country. Whose alumni are nothing but arms dealers, serial killers, and corporate lawyers. Real scum. And that old creep thinks he can tame me? We shall see, my friend. I only give people what they have coming to them.", - "source": "Bully", - "id": 3716, - "length": 268 - }, - { - "text": "You know I'm just a fool who's willing to sit around and wait for you. But baby, can't you see there's nothing else for me to do? I'm hopelessly devoted to you.", - "source": "Hopelessly Devoted to You", - "id": 3717, - "length": 160 - }, - { - "text": "Don't you know what it means to me to be a Marine, Dad? Ever since I was a kid I've wanted this - I've wanted to serve my country - and I want to go. I want to go to Vietnam and I'll die there if I have to.", - "source": "Born on the Fourth of July", - "id": 3718, - "length": 206 - }, - { - "text": "I was having this awful nightmare that I was 32. And then I woke up and I was 23. So relieved. And then I woke up for real, and I was 32.", - "source": "Before Sunset", - "id": 3719, - "length": 137 - }, - { - "text": "The spot where we intend to fight must not be made known; for then the enemy will have to prepare against a possible attack at several different points.", - "source": "The Art of War", - "id": 3720, - "length": 152 - }, - { - "text": "Yes, not only humans but also every other organism in the cosmos, as well as the planets or moons on which they thrive, would not exist but for the wreckage of spent stars. So you're made of detritus. Get over it. Or better yet, celebrate it. After all, what nobler thought can one cherish than that the universe lives within us all?", - "source": "Death by Black Hole: And Other Cosmic Quandaries", - "id": 3721, - "length": 333 - }, - { - "text": "Seen about a million roads. I've done the bong to Tokyo. I've been a clone and had a little luck. Swam across the golden sea a certain price of levity. It brings us up and only makes us sleep. Television changing channels telling people wearing flannels. Culture shocking walkways to the shore. Even though I never know and even though I never know. And even though I never want to know.", - "source": "Tiger by My Side", - "id": 3722, - "length": 387 - }, - { - "text": "Why are we still here? Just to suffer? Every night, I can feel my leg, and my arm, even my fingers. The body I've lost... and the comrades I've lost... It won't stop hurting, like they're all still there... You feel it too, don't you? I'm gonna make 'em give back our past, take back everything that we've lost. And I won't rest... until we do.", - "source": "Metal Gear Solid V: The Phantom Pain", - "id": 3723, - "length": 344 - }, - { - "text": "A train equipped with, say, two dc motors, is started with both motors connected in series to an external resistor. As the speed picks up, the resistor is shorted out. The motors are then paralleled and connected in series with another resistor. Finally, the last resistor is shorted out, as the train reaches its nominal torque and speed.", - "source": "Electrical Machines, Drives, and Power Systems", - "id": 3724, - "length": 339 - }, - { - "text": "We began to recognize in them a strange obsession. After all, they are emotionally inexperienced, with only a few years in which to store up the experiences which you and I take for granted. If we gift them with a past, we create a cushion or a pillow for their emotions, and consequently, we can control them better.", - "source": "Blade Runner", - "id": 3725, - "length": 317 - }, - { - "text": "I've flown seven million miles. And I've been waiting on people almost 20 years. The best job I could get after my bust was Cabo Air, which is the worst job you can get in this industry. I make about sixteen thousand, with retirement benefits that ain't worth a damn. And now with this arrest hanging over my head, I'm scared. If I lose my job I gotta start all over again, but I got nothing to start over with.", - "source": "Jackie Brown", - "id": 3726, - "length": 411 - }, - { - "text": "The willow it weeps today. A breeze from the distance is calling your name. Unfurl your black wings and wait. Across the horizon it's coming to sweep you away, it's coming to sweep you away. Let the wind carry you home. Blackbird fly away. May you never be broken again.", - "source": "Blackbird", - "id": 3727, - "length": 270 - }, - { - "text": "I'm not fighting because of my feelings of debt or obligation to others. I fight 'cause in the end, I love boxing. It's certainly quite a world apart from the bright youth you talk about, but that burning sense of worth and completeness is something I've only tasted on a bloodied ring. And this burning sensation isn't a momentary sputter that others my age go through. It's so intense that it burns your entire body up in an instant. And when it's over, only white ashes remain. Not even any tiny cinders... just pure white ash. I've never felt anything like this before I started boxing. So you see, I'm not fighting on a sense of debt or obligation alone. I fight because I love to fight.", - "source": "Tomorrow's Joe", - "id": 3728, - "length": 692 - }, - { - "text": "You know, I've been in this game for a lot of years and I got out alive. If you want my advice - give up.", - "source": "Grand Theft Auto V", - "id": 3729, - "length": 105 - }, - { - "text": "So no one told you life was gonna be this way. Your job's a joke, you're broke, your love life's DOA. Seems like you're always stuck in second gear, when it hasn't been your day, your week, your month, or even your year. I'll be there for you when the rain starts to pour. I'll be there for you like I've been there before. I'll be there for you 'cause you're there for me too.", - "source": "Friends", - "id": 3730, - "length": 377 - }, - { - "text": "When I'm tired and thinking cold, I hide in my music, forget the day, and dream of a girl I used to know.", - "source": "More Than a Feeling", - "id": 3731, - "length": 105 - }, - { - "text": "It's easy enough to read the thoughts of a newcomer. Everything seems beautiful because you don't understand. Those flying fish, they're not leaping for joy, they're jumping in terror. Bigger fish want to eat them. That luminous water, it takes its gleam from millions of tiny dead bodies. The glitter of putrescence. There's no beauty here, only death and decay.", - "source": "I Walked with a Zombie", - "id": 3732, - "length": 363 - }, - { - "text": "Lured into dental condemnation by my own teeth, I felt lost and betrayed.", - "source": "Dayfever", - "id": 3733, - "length": 73 - }, - { - "text": "Achieving top performance in a programming contest or any other sporting event is not purely a function of talent. It is important to know the competition, to train correctly, and to develop the proper strategies and tactics in order to compete successfully.", - "source": "Programming Challenges", - "id": 3734, - "length": 258 - }, - { - "text": "Beneath the commonwealth, there is a cancer known as the institute. A malignant growth which must be cut, before it infects the surface. They are experimenting with dangerous technologies, and could prove to be the world's undoing a second time in recent history.", - "source": "Fallout 4", - "id": 3735, - "length": 263 - }, - { - "text": "This is a plea for peace to the oppressors of the world and to the leaders of nations, corporate profit takers, to the everyday citizen. Greed, envy, fear, hate - the competition has to stop. When you see someone down, now's the time to pick them up. Set our differences aside and never look back.", - "source": "911 For Peace", - "id": 3736, - "length": 297 - }, - { - "text": "In the past, peripheral countries have been primarily exporters of agricultural and mineral raw materials. But even when they have developed some industrial production, it has usually been less capital-intensive and has used less skilled labor than production processes in the core.", - "source": "Global Social Change: Historical and Comparative Perspectives", - "id": 3737, - "length": 282 - }, - { - "text": "Hello. And welcome to your worst nightmare. I know you're in there, Cosmo Kramer, Apartment 5b. You're in big trouble now. You've been stealing my business. If you'd like to do this the easy way, open the door now. Or please select the number of seconds you'd like to wait before I break this door down. Please select now.", - "source": "Seinfeld", - "id": 3738, - "length": 322 - }, - { - "text": "Riches and pleasure seemed to him to be really greater tragedies than poverty or sorrow.", - "source": "De Profundis", - "id": 3739, - "length": 88 - }, - { - "text": "Do I really look like a guy with a plan? You know what I am? I'm a dog chasing cars. I wouldn't know what to do with one if I caught it. You know, I just do things. The mob has plans, the cops have plans, you know, they're schemers. Schemers trying to control their worlds. I'm not a schemer. I try to show the schemers how pathetic their attempts to control things really are.", - "source": "The Dark Knight", - "id": 3740, - "length": 377 - }, - { - "text": "O'Reilly, I have seen more intelligent creatures than you lying on their backs at the bottoms of ponds. I have seen better-organised creatures than you running round farmyards with their heads cut off. Now collect your things and get out! I never want to see you or any of your men in my hotel again!", - "source": "Fawlty Towers", - "id": 3741, - "length": 300 - }, - { - "text": "Let me tell you something my friend. Hope is a dangerous thing. Hope can drive a man insane.", - "source": "The Shawshank Redemption", - "id": 3742, - "length": 92 - }, - { - "text": "I would not like them here or there. I would not like them anywhere. I do not like green eggs and ham. I do not like them, Sam-I-Am.", - "source": "Green Eggs and Ham", - "id": 3743, - "length": 132 - }, - { - "text": "Take my advice and live for a long, long time. Because the maddest thing a man can do in this life is to let himself die.", - "source": "Don Quixote", - "id": 3744, - "length": 121 - }, - { - "text": "The goal a reader seeks determines the way he reads. The effectiveness with which he reads is determined by the amount of effort and skill he puts into his reading. In general, the rule is: the more effort the better, at least in the case of books that are initially beyond our powers as readers and are therefore capable of raising us from a condition of understanding less to one of understanding more. Finally, the distinction between instruction and discovery (or between aided and unaided discovery) is important because most of us, most of the time, have to read without anyone to help us. Reading, like unaided discovery, is learning from an absent teacher. We can only do that successfully if we know how.", - "source": "How to Read a Book", - "id": 3745, - "length": 713 - }, - { - "text": "Do you buy all these books retail or do you send away for like a shrink kit that comes with all these volumes included?", - "source": "Good Will Hunting", - "id": 3746, - "length": 119 - }, - { - "text": "If there were life after death, I might, no matter when I die, satisfy most of these deep curiosities and longings. But if death is nothing more than an endless dreamless sleep, this is a forlorn hope. Maybe this perspective has given me a little extra motivation to stay alive. The world is so exquisite, with so much love and moral depth, that there is no reason to deceive ourselves with pretty stories for which there's little good evidence. Far better, it seems to me, in our vulnerability, is to look Death in the eye and to be grateful every day for the brief but magnificent opportunity that life provides.", - "source": "Billions & Billions: Thoughts on Life and Death at the Brink of the Millennium", - "id": 3747, - "length": 614 - }, - { - "text": "This great Nation will endure as it has endured, will revive and will prosper. So, first of all, let me assert my firm belief that the only thing we have to fear is fear itself - nameless, unreasoning, unjustified terror which paralyzes needed efforts to convert retreat into advance.", - "source": "First Inauguration of Franklin D. Roosevelt", - "id": 3748, - "length": 284 - }, - { - "text": "So don't be afraid; your heart is in me, and it's racing so fast now. 'Cause everything we ever were or ever will be is shapeless as a changing cloud.", - "source": "Endless Dream", - "id": 3749, - "length": 150 - }, - { - "text": "Baby, don't you know, all o'them tears gon' come and go. Baby you just gotta make up your mind that every little thing is gonna be alright. Baby, don't you know, all o'them tears gon' come and go, baby you just gotta make up your mind. We decide it.", - "source": "Be Alright", - "id": 3750, - "length": 249 - }, - { - "text": "Who cares if you disagree? You are not me. Who made you king of anything? So you dare tell me who to be? Who died and made you king of anything?", - "source": "King of Anything", - "id": 3751, - "length": 144 - }, - { - "text": "Someone who takes an undemanding job because it affords him the time to pursue other interests and activities is considered a flake. A person who abandons a career in order to stay home and raise children is considered not to be living up to his potential. As if a job title and salary are the sole measure of human worth. You'll be told in a hundred ways, some subtle and some not, to keep climbing and never be satisfied with where you are, who you are, and what you're doing. There are a million ways to sell yourself out, and I guarantee you'll hear about them. To invent your own life's meaning is not easy, but it's still allowed, and I think you'll be happier for the trouble.", - "source": "Kenyon College Commencement Address", - "id": 3752, - "length": 683 - }, - { - "text": "There's a teleportation grid that runs throughout Halo. That's how the monitor moves about so quickly. I learned how to tap into the grid when I was in the control center. Unfortunately, each jump requires a rather consequential expenditure of energy.", - "source": "Halo: Combat Evolved", - "id": 3753, - "length": 251 - }, - { - "text": "Whenever I despair, I remember that the way of truth and love has always won. There may be tyrants and murderers, and for a time, they may seem invincible, but in the end, they always fail. Think of it: always.", - "source": "Gandhi", - "id": 3754, - "length": 210 - }, - { - "text": "I rejected those answers; instead, I chose something different. I chose the impossible. I chose Rapture, a city where the artist would not fear the censor. Where the scientist would not be bound by petty morality. Where the great would not be constrained by the small! And with the sweat of your brow, Rapture can become your city as well.", - "source": "BioShock", - "id": 3755, - "length": 339 - }, - { - "text": "He started running, up and up, until he hurled himself into the air. As he was falling face down, somehow all the years of training in martial arts at once possessed him. His body instinctively adjusted itself and even his arms spread out, swinging to ensure that he wouldn't hurt himself fatally. With a thump his feet landed on the ground.", - "source": "A Good Fall: Stories", - "id": 3756, - "length": 341 - }, - { - "text": "Look at the stars. Same stars as last week, last year, when we were kids, before we were even born. In a hundred years no one will ever know who we were. They'll know those same stars.", - "source": "Imaginary Heroes", - "id": 3757, - "length": 184 - }, - { - "text": "From the very beginning - from the first moment, I may almost say - of my acquaintance with you, your manners, impressing me with the fullest belief of your arrogance, your conceit, and your selfish disdain of the feelings of others, were such as to form the groundwork of disapprobation on which succeeding events have built so immovable a dislike; and I had not known you a month before I felt that you were the last man in the world whom I could ever be prevailed on to marry.", - "source": "Pride and Prejudice", - "id": 3758, - "length": 479 - }, - { - "text": "Whence all this passion towards conformity anyway? Diversity is the word. Let man keep his many parts and you will have no tyrant states. Why, if they follow this conformity business, they'll end up by forcing me, an invisible man, to become white, which is not a color but the lack of one. Must I strive towards colorlessness? But seriously and without snobbery, think of what the world would lose if that should happen. America is woven of many strands. I would recognize them and let it so remain.", - "source": "Invisible Man", - "id": 3759, - "length": 500 - }, - { - "text": "There were several answers, none of which would help. There was no point in assuring his terrified wife that Joe Van Dorn was the steadiest of men in a gunfight, ever cool, alert, and deadly.", - "source": "The Bootlegger", - "id": 3760, - "length": 191 - }, - { - "text": "They wanted me to build them a bomb so I took their plutonium and in turn gave them a shoddy bomb casing full of used pinball machine parts. Come on! Let's get you a radiation suit. We must prepare to reload.", - "source": "Back to the Future", - "id": 3761, - "length": 208 - }, - { - "text": "My name is Turkish. Funny name for an Englishman, I know. My parents to be were on the same plane when it crashed. That's how they met. They named me after the name of the plane. Not many people are named after a plane crash. That's Tommy. He tells people he was named after a gun, but I know he was really named after a famous 19th century ballet dancer.", - "source": "Snatch", - "id": 3762, - "length": 355 - }, - { - "text": "No! Fool that I am! I should have remembered! Those slippers will never come off as long as you're alive. But that's not what's worrying me. It's how to do it. These things must be done delicately or you hurt the spell.", - "source": "The Wizard of Oz", - "id": 3763, - "length": 219 - }, - { - "text": "The general that hearkens to my counsel and acts upon it, will conquer - let such a one be retained in command! The general that hearkens not to my counsel nor acts upon it, will suffer defeat - let such a one be dismissed!", - "source": "The Art of War", - "id": 3764, - "length": 223 - }, - { - "text": "\"Oh, I almost forgot,\" he said. \"There's a really interesting rock formation, right as you enter the cave. I forget the exact scientific explanation, but there's something odd about the composition of the rock, so if you spread your hand out and touch it in the right spot, you can feel one patch of the stone that's about fifteen degrees colder than the rest of the rock. It's very bizarre. I'll show you where to touch as we're going in.\"", - "source": "Found", - "id": 3765, - "length": 440 - }, - { - "text": "Why does man create? Is it man's purpose on earth to express himself, to bring form to thought, and to discover meaning in experience? Or is it just something to do when he's bored?", - "source": "The Complete Calvin and Hobbes", - "id": 3766, - "length": 181 - }, - { - "text": "Oh, and one more thing; I've stolen a nuclear weapon. And if you do not rid this city of television in two hours, I will detonate it. Farewell. By the way, I'm well aware of the irony of appearing on TV in order to decry it, so don't bother pointing that out.", - "source": "The Simpsons", - "id": 3767, - "length": 259 - }, - { - "text": "Cheer up! 'Cause nothing really matters when you look up into outer space. It's a great big world and there's no need to cry. Cheer up! We're all interconnected to the reaches of the galaxy. And my best friend said he came from the sky; he traveled to the Earth aboard a pink spaceship, it's hard for him to hide behind those eyes.", - "source": "Cheer Up!", - "id": 3768, - "length": 331 - }, - { - "text": "At the heart of every legend, there is truth: a few brave souls unite to save the world. We can be heroes in our own lives, every one of us, if we only have the courage to try. Our fates were always intertwined, but now our worlds are joined as one. We need to repair our planets, work together, if we wish to survive. A dangerous secret is buried deep inside the Earth. There is more to this planet than meets the eye. I am Optimus Prime, calling all Autobots: It is time to come home.", - "source": "Transformers: The Last Knight", - "id": 3769, - "length": 486 - }, - { - "text": "Scratch the surface of any champion in any individual sport, and you're often going to find an obsessive misfit who's deficient in many parts of his life because he devotes eight hours a day to it.", - "source": "Word Freak", - "id": 3770, - "length": 197 - }, - { - "text": "Well, that was fun, wasn't it dear, the odd moment like that? It's almost worth staying alive for, isn't it? It's nice to share a moment like that, isn't it, dear? It's what marriage is all about. I know - I read it on the back of a matchbox.", - "source": "Fawlty Towers", - "id": 3771, - "length": 242 - }, - { - "text": "I must be taken as I have been made. The success is not mine, the failure is not mine, but the two together make me.", - "source": "Great Expectations", - "id": 3772, - "length": 116 - }, - { - "text": "I'm the good guy. The law is on my side. I am the law. The law is me. I work for justice. I uphold the Constitution of these United States. I am a knight for the people. I wear the white hat. And you, Olivia Carolyn Pope, you are a pain in my butt. I had a search warrant for that house, but by the time I got to use it there was nothing there, because your people took whatever there was to find.", - "source": "Scandal", - "id": 3773, - "length": 397 - }, - { - "text": "Oh, well since we didn't get hit by any arrows, I'll tell you a secret. Enter the forest. When you hit an area with 4 paths, go left, left, straight, right - in that order. You'll surely find something nice.", - "source": "Super Mario RPG: Legend of the Seven Stars", - "id": 3774, - "length": 207 - }, - { - "text": "Fifteen years ago, there was a war. Well, war's broken out plenty of times before. They've tried to invade the southlands through the northern valley time and time again. Luck was never on their side, though, and their victories didn't last long. They didn't realize that times had changed. Facing one defeat after another, losing territory and watching their nation dwindle, they built up their industrial strength to unprecedented heights and used it to wage one final battle against the world. That was fifteen years ago...", - "source": "Ace Combat 5: The Unsung War", - "id": 3775, - "length": 526 - }, - { - "text": "Ready are you? What know you of ready? For eight hundred years have I trained Jedi. My own counsel will I keep on who is to be trained. A Jedi must have the deepest commitment, the most serious mind. This one a long time have I watched. All his life has he looked away... to the future, to the horizon. Never his mind on where he was.", - "source": "The Empire Strikes Back", - "id": 3776, - "length": 334 - }, - { - "text": "There is another self, more really \"us\" than \"I\". And if you become aware of that unknown self - the more you become aware of it - the more you realize that it is inseparably connected with everything there is. That you are a function of this total galaxy, bounded by the Milky Way, and that furthermore this galaxy is a function of all other galaxies. And that vast thing that you see far off, far off, far off with telescopes, you look, and look, and look. One day you'll go and wake up and say, \"Why, that's me!\" And in knowing that know, you see that you'll never die.", - "source": "interspace", - "id": 3777, - "length": 572 - }, - { - "text": "I'm not blind! I know exactly who he is. He is selfish and lazy and image-obsessed, and he is a bad friend. And he's also clever. And he shoots incredibly high, and he may just make it. But you know what, even if he doesn't, I would rather go broke betting on my people than get rich all by myself on some island like a castaway.", - "source": "The Office", - "id": 3778, - "length": 329 - }, - { - "text": "Show me a man or a woman alone and I'll show you a saint. Give me two and they'll fall in love. Give me three and they'll invent the charming thing we call 'society'. Give me four and they'll build a pyramid. Give me five and they'll make one an outcast. Give me six and they'll reinvent prejudice. Give me seven and in seven years they'll reinvent warfare. Man may have been made in the image of God, but human society was made in the image of His opposite number, and is always trying to get back home.", - "source": "The Stand", - "id": 3779, - "length": 504 - }, - { - "text": "I'm having a birthday party but you're not invited but you can come if you want.", - "source": "What's Eating Gilbert Grape", - "id": 3780, - "length": 80 - }, - { - "text": "According to Heraclitus, we cannot step into the same river twice. To put it another way, an opportunity lost stays lost forever. While I agree with the spirit of that saying, I have found that there are times when exceptions are granted. When Elizabeth returned from England and her marriage had ended, the waters we found ourselves in were as swimmingly lovely as when we first met. But if time made concessions for love, it made none for death.", - "source": "The Emperor's Club", - "id": 3781, - "length": 447 - }, - { - "text": "Despairing, Jonah trudged forward. He could see the other kids snaking along the trail ahead of him, going deeper and deeper into the woods. Jonah had managed to talk to only five of them. Even if Chip reached all the others, would they believe him? What could they do, anyhow?", - "source": "Found", - "id": 3782, - "length": 277 - }, - { - "text": "For a moment the last sunshine fell with romantic affection upon her glowing face; her voice compelled me forward breathlessly as I listened - then the glow faded, each light deserting her with lingering regret, like children leaving a pleasant street at dusk.", - "source": "The Great Gatsby", - "id": 3783, - "length": 260 - }, - { - "text": "I always feel a certain sense of reverence in libraries, even small city ones that smell like homeless internet users.", - "source": "Maphead", - "id": 3784, - "length": 118 - }, - { - "text": "Just like seasons change I bring rainfall. Or sunshine when it's summertime, y'all. Or cold shoulders when it's wintertime, pa. Colors when it's spring I seem to stand tall.", - "source": "Seasons Change", - "id": 3785, - "length": 173 - }, - { - "text": "Cyanides possess a uniquely long, dark history, probably because they grow so bountifully around us. They flavor the leaves of the yew tree, the flowers of the cherry laurel, the kernels of peach and apricot pits, and the fat pale crunch of bitter almonds.", - "source": "The Poisoner's Handbook", - "id": 3786, - "length": 256 - }, - { - "text": "She came into a room; she stood, as he had often seen her, in a doorway with lots of people round her. But it was Clarissa one remembered. Not that she was striking; not beautiful at all; there was nothing picturesque about her; she never said anything specially clever; there she was however; there she was.", - "source": "Mrs. Dalloway", - "id": 3787, - "length": 308 - }, - { - "text": "Late in the afternoon of a day in the early part of last December I had ridden out from our lines in Ladysmith towards a certain position usually occupied by a Boer outpost, trusting by my going out deliberately and unarmed to get one of the men there to have a talk, just as one of the Lancers had a few days previously. For some time we had been on short rations of \"copy\" as well as food. I rode along the edge of an empty spruit, into the bed of which my spurs would have propelled my horse in the unlikely event of a shot being my first greeting.", - "source": "Impressions of a War Correspondent", - "id": 3788, - "length": 551 - }, - { - "text": "An important distinction is that rich people buy luxuries last, while the poor and middle class tend to buy luxuries first. The poor and the middle class often buy luxury items like big houses, diamonds, furs, jewelry, or boats because they want to look rich. They look rich, but in reality they just get deeper in debt on credit.", - "source": "Rich Dad Poor Dad", - "id": 3789, - "length": 330 - }, - { - "text": "Quite a plan you boys cooked up here. Quite a plan. I'm not sure what upsets me more - that I have four employees that conspired to commit felony fraud, or that I have four employees that are so stupid I found out about it within 30 seconds. Hearing it out loud, the first one seems worse.", - "source": "Silicon Valley", - "id": 3790, - "length": 289 - }, - { - "text": "When Chekhov saw the long winter, he saw a winter bleak and dark and bereft of hope. Yet we know that winter is just another step in the cycle of life. But standing here among the people of Punxsutawney and basking in the warmth of their hearths and hearts, I couldn't imagine a better fate than a long and lustrous winter.", - "source": "Groundhog Day", - "id": 3791, - "length": 323 - }, - { - "text": "Going home, going home, I'm just going home. Quiet-like, some still day, I'm just going home. It's not far, just close by, through an open door. Work all done, cares laid by, going to roam no more. Mother's there expecting me, father's waiting, too. Lots of folks gathered there, all the friends I knew.", - "source": "Going Home", - "id": 3792, - "length": 303 - }, - { - "text": "He spoke and rose to full height, sword in air, then cleft the man's brow square between the temples cutting his head in two - a dreadful gash between the cheeks all beardless. Earth resounded quivering at the great shock of his weight as he went tumbling down in all his armor, drenched with blood and brains; in equal halves his head hung this and that way from his shoulders.", - "source": "The Aeneid", - "id": 3793, - "length": 378 - }, - { - "text": "I looked at the captain. That terrible avenger, like an archangel of hatred, still watched. When it was all over, he went to his cabin. Under his gallery of heroes I saw the portrait of a woman, still young, with two little children. He gazed on them for a time, held out his arms to them, then kneeling down he wept bitterly.", - "source": "Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea", - "id": 3794, - "length": 326 - }, - { - "text": "Four score and seven years ago our fathers brought forth on this continent, a new nation, conceived in Liberty, and dedicated to the proposition that all men are created equal.", - "source": "Gettysburg Address", - "id": 3795, - "length": 176 - }, - { - "text": "What an astonishing thing a book is. It's a flat object made from a tree with flexible parts on which are imprinted lots of funny dark squiggles. But one glance at it and you're inside the mind of another person, maybe somebody dead for thousands of years. Across the millennia, an author is speaking clearly and silently inside your head, directly to you. Writing is perhaps the greatest of human inventions, binding together people who never knew each other, citizens of distant epochs. Books break the shackles of time. A book is proof that humans are capable of working magic.", - "source": "Cosmos, Part 11: The Persistence of Memory", - "id": 3796, - "length": 580 - }, - { - "text": "No one's gonna drag you up to get into the light where you belong. But where do you belong?", - "source": "The Sign", - "id": 3797, - "length": 91 - }, - { - "text": "Who has a safety deposit box full of money and six passports and a gun? Who has a bank account number in their hip? I come in here, and the first thing I'm doing is I'm catching the sightlines and looking for an exit.", - "source": "The Bourne Identity", - "id": 3798, - "length": 217 - }, - { - "text": "You claim there's no hope left in the world. But if despair is contagious like you say... then so is hope! I'll use my own hope to plant seeds of hope inside everyone else!", - "source": "Danganronpa: Trigger Happy Havoc", - "id": 3799, - "length": 172 - }, - { - "text": "I'm free to be whatever I choose, and I'll sing the blues if I want. I'm free to say whatever I like. If it's wrong or right it's alright.", - "source": "Whatever", - "id": 3800, - "length": 138 - }, - { - "text": "I got you, baby I got you. Until you're used to my face, and my mystery fades, I got you. So baby love me, before they all love me, until you won't love me, because they'll all love me. I'll be different, I think I'll be different... I hope I'm not different, and I hope you'll still listen, but until then, baby I got you.", - "source": "Rolling Stone", - "id": 3801, - "length": 323 - }, - { - "text": "The dews were so heavy that the fields glistened like cloth of silver and there were such heaps of rustling leaves in the hollows of many-stemmed woods to run crisply through. The Birch Path was a canopy of yellow and the ferns were sear and brown all along it.", - "source": "Anne of Green Gables", - "id": 3802, - "length": 261 - }, - { - "text": "Finally the press is interested again in Bela Lugosi. There is no such thing as bad press, Eddie. Man from New York even said he was going to put me on the front page - first celebrity ever to check into rehab.", - "source": "Ed Wood", - "id": 3803, - "length": 210 - }, - { - "text": "Dawn was close. The weaker stars had already disappeared, and even the brightest were uncertain of themselves.", - "source": "Weaveworld", - "id": 3804, - "length": 110 - }, - { - "text": "Individual science fiction stories may seem as trivial as ever to the blinder critics and philosophers of today - but the core of science fiction, its essence, the concept around which it revolves, has become crucial to our salvation if we are to be saved at all.", - "source": "My Own View", - "id": 3805, - "length": 263 - }, - { - "text": "We've had vicious kings and we've had idiot kings, but I don't know if we've ever been cursed with a vicious idiot for a king!", - "source": "A Game of Thrones", - "id": 3806, - "length": 126 - }, - { - "text": "I'm a great quitter. It's one of the few things I do well. I come from a long line of quitters. My father was a quitter, my grandfather was a quitter... I was raised to give up.", - "source": "Seinfeld", - "id": 3807, - "length": 177 - }, - { - "text": "Enjoy this next test. I'm going to go to the surface. It's a beautiful day out. Yesterday I saw a deer. If you solve this next test, maybe I'll let you ride an elevator all the way up to the break room, and I'll tell you about the time I saw a deer again.", - "source": "Portal 2", - "id": 3808, - "length": 255 - }, - { - "text": "Well, I've been afraid of changing 'cause I've built my life around you. But time makes you bolder, children get older, and I'm getting older too.", - "source": "Landslide", - "id": 3809, - "length": 146 - }, - { - "text": "Demons do not cry. Are these the tears of a long dead child? Demons do not cry, you became a demon because you couldn't cry anymore right? Humans cry, and when their tears finally run dry; there's nothing left but a demon or a monster. And one final prayer for death. So laugh demon, laugh that arrogant laugh of yours and remember, I beat you to it. So how long will it be then? How long before you're no longer cursed to walk the Earth?", - "source": "Hellsing Ultimate", - "id": 3810, - "length": 438 - }, - { - "text": "So can we be friends sweetly before the mystery ends? I love you more than the world can contain in its ramshackle head. There's only a shadow of me; in a manner of speaking I'm dead.", - "source": "John My Beloved", - "id": 3811, - "length": 183 - }, - { - "text": "It's a universal translator. We're not even supposed to have it, and I'll tell you why: human thought is so primitive, it's looked upon as an infectious disease in some of the better galaxies. That kind of makes you proud, doesn't it?", - "source": "Men in Black", - "id": 3812, - "length": 234 - }, - { - "text": "By studying the cooling of pizza in the gravity free environment of the space shuttle, we could more exactly determine the importance of convective flows.", - "source": "The Thermodynamics of Pizza", - "id": 3813, - "length": 154 - }, - { - "text": "The quick brown fox jumps over the lazy dog.", - "source": "Unknown", - "id": 3814, - "length": 44 - }, - { - "text": "That day, for no particular reason, I decided to go for a little run. So I ran to the end of the road. And when I got there, I thought maybe I'd run to the end of town. And when I got there, I thought maybe I'd just run across Greenbow County. And I figured, since I run this far, maybe I'd just run across the great state of Alabama.", - "source": "Forrest Gump", - "id": 3815, - "length": 334 - }, - { - "text": "One thing is for certain, there is no stopping them; the ants will soon be here. And I, for one, welcome our new insect overlords.", - "source": "The Simpsons", - "id": 3816, - "length": 130 - }, - { - "text": "An excellent leader must be passionate because it's their duty to keep everyone moving forward.", - "source": "Love Live! School Idol Project", - "id": 3817, - "length": 95 - }, - { - "text": "Vowels were something else. He didn't like them and they didn't like him. There were only five of them, but they seemed to be everywhere. Why, you could go through twenty words without bumping into some of the shyer consonants, but it seemed as if you couldn't tiptoe past a syllable without waking up a vowel. Consonants, you knew pretty much where they stood, but you could never trust a vowel.", - "source": "Maniac Magee", - "id": 3818, - "length": 396 - }, - { - "text": "I am marching through the branches in a fit of wanderlust to see you in a black hole reaching out for something just. Silhouettes of neighbors dancing in disgust.", - "source": "The Pit", - "id": 3819, - "length": 162 - }, - { - "text": "Walked out this morning, I don't believe what I saw: a hundred billion bottles washed up on the shore. Seems I'm not alone in being alone. A hundred billion castaways looking for a home.", - "source": "Message In a Bottle", - "id": 3820, - "length": 186 - }, - { - "text": "An illuminating sunrise lights the sky to show that Earth will hold us each day that goes by.", - "source": "Nature is Wonderful and Spectacular", - "id": 3821, - "length": 93 - }, - { - "text": "This is not some apron-wearing mother you're speaking with - I know all about your Valhalla of decadence and I shouldn't have let him go. He's not ready for your world of compromised values and diminished brain cells that you throw away like confetti. Am I speaking to you clearly?", - "source": "Almost Famous", - "id": 3822, - "length": 281 - }, - { - "text": "Her face was sad and lovely with bright things in it, bright eyes and a bright passionate mouth, but there was an excitement in her voice that men who had cared for her found difficult to forget: a singing compulsion, a whispered \"Listen,\" a promise that she had done gay, exciting things just a while since and that there were gay, exciting things hovering in the next hour.", - "source": "The Great Gatsby", - "id": 3823, - "length": 375 - }, - { - "text": "There are many things we've never done. We've never made our mark upon the world. The great lords of Westeros pay us no mind, until our little raids buzz through their kingdoms long enough to become a nuisance and they swat us down. They conquer us, humiliate us, and go right back to forgetting we exist. We are a sea people!", - "source": "Game of Thrones", - "id": 3824, - "length": 326 - }, - { - "text": "Every environment has its rules and customs, and your survival often depends on knowing them. In Russia, you never refuse vodka; in Pakistan, you always clear your dinner plate; and in prison, you're careful about making eye contact. Too little eye contact, and you become a victim. Too much eye contact, and you become a threat. Either way, you're never more than a couple of blinks away from getting a shiv in your back.", - "source": "Burn Notice", - "id": 3825, - "length": 422 - }, - { - "text": "I cannot get a hold of anything. Even if I frantically extend my hand, when I think I've reached you, you go away. Even if I think I've made it, it'll start all over again. Because of that, nevertheless, I'm happy that you haven't disappeared.", - "source": "Flowers of Evil", - "id": 3826, - "length": 243 - }, - { - "text": "Books are the treasured wealth of the world and the fit inheritance of generations and nations. Books, the oldest and the best, stand naturally and rightfully on the shelves of every cottage. They have no cause of their own to plead, but while they enlighten and sustain the reader his common sense will not refuse them. Their authors are a natural and irresistible aristocracy in every society, and, more than kings or emperors, exert an influence on mankind.", - "source": "Walden", - "id": 3827, - "length": 460 - }, - { - "text": "Xerox PARC was Xerox's think tank. They were working on all these crazy, out-there ideas, which included the mouse and overlapping windows and fonts and graphics on a computer screen, just to see if they could do it.", - "source": "The Eighties", - "id": 3828, - "length": 216 - }, - { - "text": "I took for granted all the times that I thought would last somehow. I hear the laughter, I taste the tears, but I can't get near you now.", - "source": "Right Here Waiting", - "id": 3829, - "length": 137 - }, - { - "text": "Well, birthdays are merely symbolic of how another year's gone by and how little we've grown. No matter how desperate we are that someday a better self will emerge, with each flicker of the candles on the cake we know it's not to be. That for the rest of our sad, wretched, pathetic lives, this is who we are to the bitter end. Inevitably, irrevocably. Happy birthday? No such thing.", - "source": "Seinfeld", - "id": 3830, - "length": 383 - }, - { - "text": "Your sins are terrible. It is just that you suffer. Your life could be redeemed, but I know you don't believe that. You will not change.", - "source": "The Godfather: Part III", - "id": 3831, - "length": 136 - }, - { - "text": "A life is made up of a great number of small incidents and a small number of great ones. An autobiography must therefore, unless it is to become tedious, be extremely selective, discarding all the inconsequential incidents in one's life and concentrating upon those that have remained vivid in the memory.", - "source": "Going Solo", - "id": 3832, - "length": 305 - }, - { - "text": "Hi, Link. Sorry about my yard. It's a little overgrown. Thanks for visiting. I'm glad to have company to talk to. I will tell you an interesting story. There is a lake swimming with Zoras at the source of the river, but it is hard to find. The treasure of Zora can turn people into fish. I'd love to see that.", - "source": "The Legend of Zelda: A Link to the Past", - "id": 3833, - "length": 309 - }, - { - "text": "Look at that sky, Malcolm. Just think. Somewhere out there, all those stars and planets, there might be at this very moment a space dad who just got kicked out of his space trailer who's looking down on us. Or would it be up at us? Or maybe sideways?", - "source": "Malcolm in the Middle", - "id": 3834, - "length": 250 - }, - { - "text": "Obviously, if I was serious about having a relationship with someone long-term, the last people I would introduce him to would be my family.", - "source": "Are You There, Vodka? It's Me, Chelsea", - "id": 3835, - "length": 140 - }, - { - "text": "If you spend your whole life waiting for the storm, you'll never enjoy the sunshine.", - "source": "\"Nothing Is Worth More Than This Day.\": Finding Joy in Every Moment", - "id": 3836, - "length": 84 - }, - { - "text": "We stare at broken clocks, the hands don't turn anymore. The days turn into nights, empty hearts and empty places.", - "source": "Suicide Season", - "id": 3837, - "length": 114 - }, - { - "text": "Our prematurity brought a second big advantage: it forced us to communicate. A newborn human is so helpless that it cannot survive without communicating its needs. Many babies died in the past. But some babies were better at signaling their needs, and some mothers were better at interpreting the signals. Babies who got their needs met lived to pass on their genes and their mother's genes. We were thus naturally selected for the ability to communicate.", - "source": "I, Mammal", - "id": 3838, - "length": 455 - }, - { - "text": "Human madness is oftentimes a cunning and most feline thing. When you think it fled, it may have but become transfigured into some still subtler form.", - "source": "Moby Dick", - "id": 3839, - "length": 150 - }, - { - "text": "The choice for mankind lies between freedom and happiness and for the great bulk of mankind, happiness is better.", - "source": "Nineteen Eighty Four", - "id": 3840, - "length": 113 - }, - { - "text": "I'll miss the sea, but a person needs new experiences. They jar something deep inside, allowing him to grow. Without change something sleeps inside us, and seldom awakens. The sleeper must awaken.", - "source": "Dune", - "id": 3841, - "length": 196 - }, - { - "text": "Right now there are three people in chat, but there's no way of knowing exactly who until you are in there, and the chat room she finds not so comforting.", - "source": "Pattern Recognition", - "id": 3842, - "length": 154 - }, - { - "text": "Whenever you watch the mind, you withdraw consciousness from mind forms, and it then becomes what we call the watcher or the witness. When consciousness frees itself from identification with physical and mental forms, it becomes what we may call pure or enlightened consciousness, or presence.", - "source": "The Power of Now", - "id": 3843, - "length": 293 - }, - { - "text": "God, we have not spoken this long or as often as we should. I've often been about other business. If I wanted forgiveness I should ask for it, but for all that I have done and for all that I am yet to do, there can be no forgiveness. And yet I think I'm not an evil man. Evil men pray louder, seek penance, and stick themselves closer to Heaven than I am. I shall not see its gates Lord. Nor hear your sweet words of salvation. I have seen eternity, I swear. But it was in dream and in the morning all was gone. I know myself for what I am. And I throw my poor soul upon your forgiveness, in the full knowledge that I deserve none at your loving hands.", - "source": "The Tudors - Wolsey's Last Prayer", - "id": 3844, - "length": 652 - }, - { - "text": "Directories contain elements that describe objects in the world, such as computers, folders, objects, managed resources, and even people. These elements have names and, like the fields in a database, changing values.", - "source": "Encyclopedia of Networking and Telecommunications", - "id": 3845, - "length": 216 - }, - { - "text": "Look, I'm gonna give you your choice. I'm not gonna be biased in any way. Tomorrow night you can either play Goofy Golf, which is a lot of standing in line and shoving and pushing and probably getting a zero, or you can see Pinocchio, which is a lot of furry animals and magic, and you'll have a wonderful time. Okay? Now let's vote.", - "source": "Close Encounters of the Third Kind", - "id": 3846, - "length": 333 - }, - { - "text": "It was a merry journey with Tom Bombadil trotting gaily beside them, or before them, on Fatty Lumpkin, who could move much faster than his girth promised. Tom sang most of the time, but it was chiefly nonsense, or else perhaps a strange language unknown to the hobbits, an ancient language whose words were mainly those of wonder and delight.", - "source": "The Lord of The Rings", - "id": 3847, - "length": 342 - }, - { - "text": "There are about a hundred accounts in the medical literature of people displaying what is now known as Cotard's delusion. It is also sometimes known, unsettlingly, as walking corpse syndrome. If you were to develop Cotard's delusion you might look in the mirror and find your reflection suspicious, or you might cease to feel that the heartbeat in your chest was yours, or you might think parts of your body were rotting away. In the most extreme cases, you might think you'd become a ghost and decide you no longer needed food. One of Cotard's patients died of starvation.", - "source": "You are now less dumb", - "id": 3848, - "length": 573 - }, - { - "text": "This was the most delicious meal he'd had in recent years, and he picked up the shrimp and scallops one after another and swallowed them as if they did not require chewing. The snow peas were crisp, the bamboo shoots crunchy, and the portabella mushrooms succulent, perfectly done.", - "source": "A Good Fall: Stories", - "id": 3849, - "length": 281 - }, - { - "text": "Listen to the watch. The way it's ticking synchronizes with your heartbeat. Look into my eyes. Not above them, not around them, but deep into their center. You are completely relaxed and are becoming weightless. Are you ready to do something impossible?", - "source": "Gotham", - "id": 3850, - "length": 253 - }, - { - "text": "You shake my nerves and you rattle my brain; too much love drives a man insane; you broke my will, but what a thrill. Goodness, gracious, great balls of fire, I laughed at love 'cause I thought it was funny; you came along and moved me honey.", - "source": "Great Balls Of Fire", - "id": 3851, - "length": 242 - }, - { - "text": "The universe is true for us all and dissimilar to each of us. If we were not obliged, to preserve the continuity of our story, to confine ourselves to frivolous reasons, how many more serious reasons would permit us to demonstrate the falsehood and flimsiness of the opening pages of this volume in which, from my bed, I hear the world awake, now to one sort of weather, now to another.", - "source": "In Search of Lost Time", - "id": 3852, - "length": 386 - }, - { - "text": "Let me ask you this: Do you really think the boy'd shout out a thing like that so the whole neighborhood could hear him? I don't think so - he's much too bright for that.", - "source": "12 Angry Men", - "id": 3853, - "length": 170 - }, - { - "text": "Yet the web of thought has no such creases and is more like a weaver's masterpieces; one step, a thousand threads arise, hither and thither shoots each shuttle, the threads flow on, unseen and subtle, each blow effects a thousand ties.", - "source": "Faust", - "id": 3854, - "length": 235 - }, - { - "text": "But I've never seen the Icarus story as a lesson about the limitations of humans. I see it as a lesson about the limitations of wax as an adhesive.", - "source": "What If?", - "id": 3855, - "length": 147 - }, - { - "text": "Hello, hello, hello, is there anybody in there? Just nod if you can hear me. Is there anyone home? Come on, come on, out, I hear you're feeling down. I can ease your pain and get you on your feet again. Relax, relax, relax, I need some information first. Just the basic facts, can you show me where it hurts?", - "source": "Comfortably Numb", - "id": 3856, - "length": 308 - }, - { - "text": "Everything we hold dear likewise resolves into its original essence: values, principles, goals, and aspirations. If we take them seriously, we will suffer when they are stolen from us, just as the Lord Buddha taught. But if we see that they are all farts in the wind, and let them fly, then we can dwell in the original essence, which is fragrant and sweet, instead of the fart, which is not.", - "source": "Zen of Farting", - "id": 3857, - "length": 392 - }, - { - "text": "I know what you think it means, sonny. To me, it's just a made up word. A politician's word, so young fellas like yourself can wear a suit and a tie, and have a job. What do you really want to know? Am I sorry for what I did?", - "source": "The Shawshank Redemption", - "id": 3858, - "length": 225 - }, - { - "text": "My idea of a perfect government is one guy who sits in a small room at a desk, and the only thing he's allowed to decide is who to nuke. The man is chosen based on some kind of IQ test, and maybe also a physical tournament, like a decathlon. And women are brought to him, maybe... when he desires them.", - "source": "Parks and Recreation", - "id": 3859, - "length": 302 - }, - { - "text": "It's one thing to know it but another to admit we're the worst band in the world and we don't give a... If Garbo played guitar with Valentino on the drums then we'd be nothing more than a bunch of dharma bums. So tune up, tune up.", - "source": "The Worst Band in the World", - "id": 3860, - "length": 230 - }, - { - "text": "Cruelty and injustice, intolerance and oppression. And where once you had the freedom to object, to think and speak as you saw fit, you now have censors and systems of surveillance coercing your conformity and soliciting your submission. How did this happen? Who's to blame? Well certainly there are those more responsible than others, and they will be held accountable, but again truth be told, if you're looking for the guilty, you need only look into a mirror.", - "source": "V for Vendetta", - "id": 3861, - "length": 463 - }, - { - "text": "When we pulled out into the winter night and the real snow, our snow, began to stretch out beside us and twinkle against the windows, and the dim lights of small Wisconsin stations moved by, a sharp wild brace came suddenly into the air. We drew in deep breaths of it as we walked back from dinner through the cold vestibules, unutterably aware of our identity with this country for one strange hour, before we melted indistinguishably into it again.", - "source": "The Great Gatsby", - "id": 3862, - "length": 450 - }, - { - "text": "There is nothing in the world more difficult than candor, and nothing easier than flattery. If there is a hundredth of a fraction of a false note to candor, it immediately produces dissonance, and as a result, exposure. But in flattery, even if everything is false down to the last note, it is still pleasant, and people will listen not without pleasure; with coarse pleasure, perhaps, but pleasure nevertheless.", - "source": "Crime and Punishment", - "id": 3863, - "length": 412 - }, - { - "text": "As he spoke the gleam of the sidelights of a carriage came round the curve of the avenue. It was a smart little landau which rattled up to the door of Briony Lodge. As it pulled up, one of the loafing men at the corner dashed forward to open the door in the hope of earning a copper, but was elbowed away by another loafer, who had rushed up with the same intention. A fierce quarrel broke out, which was increased by the two guardsmen, who took sides with one of the loungers, and by the scissors-grinder, who was equally hot upon the other side.", - "source": "The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes", - "id": 3864, - "length": 547 - }, - { - "text": "The human body consists of an incredibly complex system of molecules, cells, tissues, organs and organ systems functioning together. Ultimately, the interaction of these components provides humans with the ability to achieve the highest levels of physical and mental functions, as well as maintaining homeostasis.", - "source": "Inquiry Into Life", - "id": 3865, - "length": 313 - }, - { - "text": "Sociopathy is the inability to process emotional experience, including love and caring, except when such experience can be calculated as a coldly intellectual task.", - "source": "The Sociopath Next Door", - "id": 3866, - "length": 164 - }, - { - "text": "In politics, my dear fellow, you know, as well as I do, there are no men, but ideas - no feelings, but interests; in politics we do not kill a man, we only remove an obstacle, that is all.", - "source": "The Count of Monte Cristo", - "id": 3867, - "length": 188 - }, - { - "text": "But here we will not try to pass judgment on the objective value of actions; we will be concerned instead with the more modest task of describing the subjective order that a unified purpose brings to individual consciousness. In this sense the answer to the old riddle \"What is the meaning of life?\" turns out to be astonishingly simple. The meaning of life is meaning: whatever it is, wherever it comes from, a unified purpose is what gives meaning to life.", - "source": "Flow: The Psychology of Optimal Experience", - "id": 3868, - "length": 458 - }, - { - "text": "Thirdly, however, these wars could now be waged with the new technology of capitalism. Since this technology, through the camera and the telegraph, also transformed the reporting of war in the press, it now brought its reality more vividly before the literate public.", - "source": "The Age of Capital, 1848-1875", - "id": 3869, - "length": 267 - }, - { - "text": "Kid, I've flown from one side of this galaxy to the other, and I've seen a lot of strange stuff. But I've never seen anything to make me believe that there's one all-powerful Force controlling everything. There's no mystical energy field that controls MY destiny.", - "source": "Star Wars", - "id": 3870, - "length": 263 - }, - { - "text": "Clinging to a shaky line, insecure about what I will see. Mounting the unstable peak, it's overwhelming me. I am stuck on mountains - mountains of doubt. I am stuck on mountains - mountains of apathy.", - "source": "Stuck", - "id": 3871, - "length": 200 - }, - { - "text": "But this rough magic I here abjure, and when I have required some heavenly music, which even now I do, to work mine end upon their senses that this airy charm is for, I'll break my staff, bury it certain fathoms in the earth, and deeper than did ever plummet sound I'll drown my book.", - "source": "The Tempest", - "id": 3872, - "length": 284 - }, - { - "text": "Dear Sushie, You followed Mario, didn't you? How are you doing? I never expected you'd go with him. I want to hear about you, Mario and everything else, so why don't you come to see me when you finish traveling? If you have a hard time climbing the tree, I'll come down for you.", - "source": "Paper Mario", - "id": 3873, - "length": 278 - }, - { - "text": "Err, what would Uncle say? Sometimes clouds have two sides, a dark and light. And a silver lining in between. It's like a silver sandwich. So... when life seems hard... take a bite out of the silver sandwich.", - "source": "Avatar: The Last Airbender", - "id": 3874, - "length": 208 - }, - { - "text": "Three Rings for the Elven-kings under the sky, seven for the Dwarf-lords in their halls of stone, nine for Mortal Men doomed to die, one for the Dark Lord on his dark throne in the Land of Mordor, where the Shadows lie. One Ring to rule them all, One Ring to find them, One Ring to bring them all and in the darkness bind them.", - "source": "The Lord of the Rings", - "id": 3875, - "length": 327 - }, - { - "text": "George's voice became deeper. He repeated his words rhythmically as though he had said them many times before. 'Guys like us, that work on ranches, are the loneliest guys in the world. They got no family. They don't belong no place. They come to a ranch an' work up a stake, and the first thing you know they're poundin' their tail on some other ranch. They ain't got nothing to look ahead to.'", - "source": "Of Mice and Men", - "id": 3876, - "length": 394 - }, - { - "text": "Ladies and Gentlemen. I stand before you now because I never stopped dawdling like an eight-year-old on a spring morning on his way to school. Anything can make me stop and look and wonder, and sometimes learn. I am a very happy man. Thank you.", - "source": "Cat's Cradle", - "id": 3877, - "length": 244 - }, - { - "text": "You can't treat the working man this way! One of these days we'll form a union, and get the fair and equitable treatment we deserve! Then we'll go too far, and become corrupt and shiftless, and the Japanese will eat us alive!", - "source": "The Simpsons", - "id": 3878, - "length": 225 - }, - { - "text": "I'm taking over my body. Back in control, no more shotty. I bet a lot of me was lost, t's uncrossed and i's undotted. I fought it a lot. And it seems a lot like flesh is all I got. Not anymore, flesh out the door. Swat. I must've forgot, you can't trust me. I'm open a moment and close when you show it. Before you know it, I'm lost at sea. And now that I write and think about it. And the story unfolds.", - "source": "Holding onto You", - "id": 3879, - "length": 404 - }, - { - "text": "The supreme question about a work of art is out of how deep a life does it spring.", - "source": "Ulysses", - "id": 3880, - "length": 82 - }, - { - "text": "Why study science? Science, more than any other discipline, provides us with tools to learn about the world. Science is not a listing of facts; science is an invitation to observe the world, ask questions, and puzzle over problems and enjoy the process of solving them. From the time children begin to perceive their environment, they are involved in science.", - "source": "Magnets and Motors: Teacher's Guide", - "id": 3881, - "length": 359 - }, - { - "text": "There was never a credible shortcut. As George Orwell wisely observed a generation later, the only way swiftly to end a war is to lose it.", - "source": "Catastrophe 1914: Europe Goes to War", - "id": 3882, - "length": 138 - }, - { - "text": "Focus. Control. Resolve. A true ace lacks none of these attributes. Nothing can deter you from the task at hand except your own fears. This is your sky.", - "source": "Ace Combat 5: The Unsung War", - "id": 3883, - "length": 152 - }, - { - "text": "The beginner writes just twenty pieces. The professional writes three times what's needed, rewrites, discards, rewrites some more, then finally settles on the twenty which work best for that specific audience.", - "source": "Comedy Writing Secrets", - "id": 3884, - "length": 210 - }, - { - "text": "You never read a book on psychology, Tippy. You didn't need to. You knew by some divine instinct that you can make more friends in two months by becoming genuinely interested in other people than you can in two years by trying to get other people interested in you.", - "source": "How to Win Friends and Influence People", - "id": 3885, - "length": 265 - }, - { - "text": "All we can know is that we know nothing. And that's the height of human wisdom.", - "source": "War and Peace", - "id": 3886, - "length": 79 - }, - { - "text": "I am, somehow, less interested in the weight and convolutions of Einstein's brain than in the near certainty that people of equal talent have lived and died in cotton fields and sweatshops.", - "source": "The Panda's Thumb: More Reflections in Natural History", - "id": 3887, - "length": 189 - }, - { - "text": "Harry could hardly believe this was real. Four weeks with nothing, not the tiniest hint of a plan to remove him from Privet Drive, and suddenly a whole bunch of wizards was standing matter-of-factly in the house as though this were a long-standing arrangement. He glanced at the people surrounding Lupin; they were still gazing avidly at him. He felt very conscious of the fact that he had not combed his hair for four days.", - "source": "Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix", - "id": 3888, - "length": 424 - }, - { - "text": "I love Canada. I miss the heat of India, the food, the house lizards on the walls, the musicals on the silver screen, the cows wandering the streets, the crows cawing, even the talk of cricket matches, but I love Canada. It is a great country much too cold for good sense, inhabited by compassionate, intelligent people with bad hairdos. Anyway, I have nothing to go home to in Pondicherry.", - "source": "Life of Pi", - "id": 3889, - "length": 390 - }, - { - "text": "Shreds of black cloud loom in overcast skies. The Necromancer keeps watch with his magic prism eyes. He views all his lands and is already aware of the three helpless invaders trapped in his lair.", - "source": "The Necromancer", - "id": 3890, - "length": 196 - }, - { - "text": "You tell me exactly what you want, and I will very carefully explain to you why it cannot be.", - "source": "Grand Theft Auto V", - "id": 3891, - "length": 93 - }, - { - "text": "I think what our insightful young friend is saying is that we welcome the inevitable seasons of nature, but we're upset by the seasons of our economy.", - "source": "Being There", - "id": 3892, - "length": 150 - }, - { - "text": "If I leave here tomorrow, would you still remember me? For I must be traveling on now, 'cause there's too many places I've got to see. But if I stayed here with you, girl, things just couldn't be the same. 'Cause I'm as free as a bird now, and this bird you cannot change.", - "source": "Free Bird", - "id": 3893, - "length": 272 - }, - { - "text": "When Zarathustra was thirty years old, he left his home and the lake of his home, and went into the mountains. There he enjoyed his spirit and his solitude, and for ten years did not weary of it.", - "source": "Thus Spoke Zarathustra", - "id": 3894, - "length": 195 - }, - { - "text": "I get up when I want, except on Wednesdays when I get rudely awakened by the dustmen. I put my trousers on, have a cup of tea, and I think about leaving me house. I feed the pigeons, I sometimes feed the sparrows, too. It gives me a sense of enormous well-being. And then I'm happy for the rest of the day, safe in the knowledge there will always be a bit of my heart devoted to it.", - "source": "Parklife", - "id": 3895, - "length": 382 - }, - { - "text": "Teddy told me that in Greek, \"nostalgia\" literally means the pain from an old wound. It's a twinge in your heart, far more powerful than memory alone. This device isn't a space ship, it's a time machine. It goes backwards, forwards. It takes us to a place where we ache to go again. It's not called a wheel, it's called a carousel. It lets us travel the way a child travels, round and round, and back home again, to a place where we know we are loved.", - "source": "Mad Men", - "id": 3896, - "length": 451 - }, - { - "text": "It's always difficult to keep personal prejudice out of a thing like this. And wherever you run into it, prejudice always obscures the truth. I don't really know what the truth is. I don't suppose anybody will ever really know. Nine of us now seem to feel that the defendant is innocent, but we're just gambling on probabilities - we may be wrong. We may be trying to let a guilty man go free, I don't know. Nobody really can. But we have a reasonable doubt, and that's something that's very valuable in our system. No jury can declare a man guilty unless it's sure.", - "source": "12 Angry Men", - "id": 3897, - "length": 566 - }, - { - "text": "It doesn't actually take very much to make the deepest part of us incredibly happy.", - "source": "Burgs", - "id": 3898, - "length": 83 - }, - { - "text": "It takes the average human seven minutes to go to sleep, but according to Hand's Human Physiology, it takes the same average human fifteen to twenty minutes to wake up. It is as if sleep is a pool from which emerging is more difficult than entering.", - "source": "Pet Sematary", - "id": 3899, - "length": 249 - }, - { - "text": "Living men are bound by time... Thus, their lives have an urgency. This gives them ambition. Makes them choose those things that are most important, cling more tightly to that which they hold dear. Their lives have seasons, and rites of passage, and consequences. And ultimately, an end. But what of a life with no urgency? What then of ambition? What then of love?", - "source": "Abraham Lincoln: Vampire Hunter", - "id": 3900, - "length": 365 - }, - { - "text": "The way I see it if you're going to build a time machine into a car why not do it with some style? Besides, the stainless steel construction made the flux dispersal - look out!", - "source": "Back to the Future", - "id": 3901, - "length": 176 - }, - { - "text": "There are still some places where you can get all you can eat for a fixed price. Sew a plastic bag onto your tee-shirt or belt and wear a loose-fitting jacket or coat to cover any noticeable bulge. Fried chicken is the best and the easiest to pocket, or should we say bag. Another trick is to pour your second free cup of hot coffee into the plastic bag sewed inside your pocket and take it with you.", - "source": "Steal This Book", - "id": 3902, - "length": 400 - }, - { - "text": "With no map to navigate one's life, some of us have stood stock-still. In such a world of confused roles, time lines, and expectations, the simplest decisions could sometimes become problematic. Forget figuring out how to chart a career and start a family; some of us, like the characters on Seinfeld, couldn't figure out how to go to the movies.", - "source": "Urban Tribes: A Generation Redefines Friendship, Family, and Commitment", - "id": 3903, - "length": 346 - }, - { - "text": "Last thing I remember, I was running for the door, I had to find the passage back to the place I was before. \"Relax,\" said the night man, \"We are programmed to receive. You can check out any time you like, but you can never leave.\"", - "source": "Hotel California", - "id": 3904, - "length": 231 - }, - { - "text": "What if he shows up with another woman? What if one of my sleeves catches on fire and it spreads rapidly? What if instead of tic tacs I accidentally pop a couple of Ambien and I have to keep punching my leg to stay awake?", - "source": "Parks and Recreation", - "id": 3905, - "length": 221 - }, - { - "text": "Why, if I had half a chance, I could make an entire movie using this stock footage. The story opens on these mysterious explosions. Nobody knows what's causing them, but it's upsetting all the buffalo. So, the military are called in to solve the mystery.", - "source": "Ed Wood", - "id": 3906, - "length": 254 - }, - { - "text": "The world isn't run by weapons anymore, or energy, or money. It's run by little ones and zeroes, little bits of data. It's all just electrons.", - "source": "Sneakers", - "id": 3907, - "length": 142 - }, - { - "text": "We were being treated like equals, but not out of respect. Out of fear. So, I left. I decided I no longer wanted to use my skills to aid in their violence. Instead, I would dedicate my life to becoming a Huntress. So here I am, a criminal hiding in plain view, all with the help of a little, black bow.", - "source": "RWBY", - "id": 3908, - "length": 302 - }, - { - "text": "There was a stage and a PA up in western Massachusetts and the kids came from miles around to get messed up on the music. And she drove down from Bowdoin with a carload of girlfriends, to meet some boys and maybe eat some mushrooms. And they did, and she got sick, and now she's pinned and way too shaky.", - "source": "Chillout Tent", - "id": 3909, - "length": 304 - }, - { - "text": "I can see the sun, but even if I cannot see the sun, I know that it exists. And to know that the sun is there - that is living.", - "source": "The Brothers Karamazov", - "id": 3910, - "length": 127 - }, - { - "text": "A fellow will remember a lot of things you wouldn't think he'd remember. You take me. One day, back in 1896, I was crossing over to Jersey on the ferry, and as we pulled out, there was another ferry pulling in, and on it there was a girl waiting to get off. A white dress she had on. She was carrying a white parasol. I only saw her for one second. She didn't see me at all, but I'll bet a month hasn't gone by since that I haven't thought of that girl.", - "source": "Citizen Kane", - "id": 3911, - "length": 453 - }, - { - "text": "Soon I'll be sixty years old, my daddy got sixty-one. Remember life and then your life becomes a better one. I made a man so happy when I wrote a letter once. I hope my children come and visit, once or twice a month.", - "source": "7 Years", - "id": 3912, - "length": 216 - }, - { - "text": "After water, protein is the most plentiful substance in our body; it is an integral part of every living cell. In foods, protein usually comes packaged with fat, and the type of fat determines how \"healthy\" a protein source is.", - "source": "Juicing for Life: A Guide to the Benefits of Fresh Fruit and Vegetable Juicing", - "id": 3913, - "length": 227 - }, - { - "text": "His sympathy made tears spring to Lina's eyes. Doon looked startled for a moment, and then he took a step toward her and wrapped his arms around her. He gave her a squeeze so quick and tight that it made her cough, and then it made her laugh. She realized all at once that Doon - thin, dark-eyed Doon with his troublesome temper and his terrible brown jacket and his good heart - was the person that she knew better than anyone now. He was her best friend.", - "source": "The City of Ember", - "id": 3914, - "length": 456 - }, - { - "text": "I suffered no pain, my hunger had taken the edge off; instead I felt pleasantly empty, untouched by everything around me and happy to be unseen by all. I put my legs up on the bench and leaned back, the best way to feel the true well-being of seclusion. There wasn't a cloud in my mind, nor did I feel any discomfort, and I hadn't a single unfulfilled desire or craving as far as my thought could reach. I lay with open eyes in a state of utter absence from myself and felt deliciously out of it.", - "source": "Hunger", - "id": 3915, - "length": 496 - }, - { - "text": "Every time I think of exercise, I have to lie right down until the feeling leaves me.", - "source": "Mr. Smith Goes to Washington", - "id": 3916, - "length": 85 - }, - { - "text": "Oh, yes. The past can hurt. But the way I see it, you can either run from it... or learn from it.", - "source": "The Lion King", - "id": 3917, - "length": 97 - }, - { - "text": "As there is no profit in the physician's art unless it cure the diseases of the body, so there is none in philosophy, unless it expel the troubles of the soul.", - "source": "Letter to Marcella", - "id": 3918, - "length": 159 - }, - { - "text": "Trudging slowly over wet sand, back to the bench where your clothes were stolen. This is the coastal town that they forgot to close down. Armageddon - come Armageddon, come.", - "source": "Every Day Is Like Sunday", - "id": 3919, - "length": 173 - }, - { - "text": "Take my hand for a minute. We're in it. Imagine all the pain that might be forgiven. What if I had your heart? What if you wore my scars? How would we break down? What if you were me? What if I were you? What if you told my lies? What if I cried with your eyes? Could anyone keep us down? What if you were me? What if I were you?", - "source": "What If", - "id": 3920, - "length": 329 - }, - { - "text": "Everything that we did and built and wrote and thought and discovered will be forgotten.", - "source": "The Fault in Our Stars", - "id": 3921, - "length": 88 - }, - { - "text": "Well we're living here in Allentown and they're closing all the factories down. Out in Bethlehem they're killing time, filling out forms, standing in line.", - "source": "Allentown", - "id": 3922, - "length": 155 - }, - { - "text": "Wrongfully imprisoned action heroes rarely have the time to wait for an appeal. Often, the fate of a loved one or the free world itself is at stake if you do not get out, and so any experienced action hero knows that a dramatic rescue, a prison break, or a pardon will almost certainly be coming in time for Act III.", - "source": "The Action Hero's Handbook: How to Catch a Great White Shark, Perform the Vulcan Nerve Pinch, Track a Fugitive, and Dozens of Other TV and Movie Skills", - "id": 3923, - "length": 316 - }, - { - "text": "We lived on farms, then we lived in cities, and now we're going to live on the internet!", - "source": "The Social Network", - "id": 3924, - "length": 88 - }, - { - "text": "Now, I'm going to give you three simple rules. First, trust no one, whatever his uniform or rank, unless he is known to you personally. Second, anyone or anything that approaches within 200 yards of the perimeter is to be fired upon. Third, if in doubt, shoot first then ask questions afterward.", - "source": "Dr. Strangelove or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb", - "id": 3925, - "length": 295 - }, - { - "text": "Well, I'm no poet, but I can't be fooled. The lies don't count, the whispers do. I hear the whispers on the wind. They say the earth has fallen due. We run in circles. Our days are numbered. Every night I look away. To the heavens and I pray.", - "source": "The Vigil", - "id": 3926, - "length": 242 - }, - { - "text": "Life is to be lived, not controlled; and humanity is won by continuing to play in face of certain defeat.", - "source": "Invisible Man", - "id": 3927, - "length": 105 - }, - { - "text": "Well, that's their own stupidity, I should have been there. Well, darkness is the absence of light, and the stupidity in that instance was the absence of me... Catherine, I've got students in my office now. Students. Undergrads. I don't know, from the looks of it, they want to sell me a Brooks Brothers franchise.", - "source": "The Social Network", - "id": 3928, - "length": 314 - }, - { - "text": "Well, Cowboy Dan's a major player in the cowboy scene. He goes to the reservation, he drinks and gets mean, and he's gonna start a war. He hops in his pickup, puts the pedal to the floor, and says \"I got mine, but I want more.\" Because Cowboy Dan's a major player in the cowboy scene. He goes to the desert, fires his rifle in the sky, and says \"God, if I have to die, you will have to die.\"", - "source": "Cowboy Dan", - "id": 3929, - "length": 391 - }, - { - "text": "We love people who've died... where's the social utility in that? Maybe it means something more - something we can't yet understand. Maybe it's some evidence, some artifact of a higher dimension that we can't consciously perceive. I'm drawn across the universe to someone I haven't seen in a decade, who I know is probably dead. Love is the one thing we're capable of perceiving that transcends dimensions of time and space. Maybe we should trust that, even if we can't understand it yet.", - "source": "Interstellar", - "id": 3930, - "length": 488 - }, - { - "text": "For so many years I lived in constant terror of myself. Doubt had married my fear and moved into my mind, where it built castles and ruled kingdoms and reigned over me, bowing my will to its whispers until I was little more than an acquiescing peon, too terrified to disobey, too terrified to disagree. I had been shackled, a prisoner in my own mind. But finally, finally, I have learned to break free.", - "source": "Ignite Me", - "id": 3931, - "length": 402 - }, - { - "text": "Warmer water increases the moisture content of storms, and warmer air holds more moisture. When storm conditions trigger a downpour, more of it falls in the form of big, one-time rainfalls and snowfalls. Partly as a result, the number of large flood events has increased decade by decade, on every continent.", - "source": "An Inconvenient Truth", - "id": 3932, - "length": 308 - }, - { - "text": "I distrust a close-mouthed man. He generally picks the wrong time to talk and says the wrong things. Talking's something you can't do judiciously, unless you keep in practice. Now, sir, we'll talk if you like. I'll tell you right out, I'm a man who likes talking to a man who likes to talk.", - "source": "The Maltese Falcon", - "id": 3933, - "length": 290 - }, - { - "text": "If I catch it comin' back my way I'm gonna serve it to you. And that ain't what you want to hear, but that's what I'll do. And the feeling coming from my bones says, \"Find a home.\"", - "source": "Seven Nation Army", - "id": 3934, - "length": 180 - }, - { - "text": "We are the bright new stars born of a screaming black hole, the nascent suns burst from the darkness, from the grasping void of space that folds and swallows - a darkness that would devour anyone not as strong as we. We are oddities, sideshows, talk show subjects. We capture everyone's imagination.", - "source": "A Heartbreaking Work of Staggering Genius", - "id": 3935, - "length": 299 - }, - { - "text": "I took up my vocation, I was called by my nation. Without hesitation, my answer I gave. Now I am not wondering the things that I might have been. I'm no consolation to the forgotten brave.", - "source": "Highway Of Heroes", - "id": 3936, - "length": 188 - }, - { - "text": "I know why you did it. I know you were afraid. Who wouldn't be? War, terror, disease. There were a myriad of problems which conspired to corrupt your reason and rob you of your common sense. Fear got the best of you, and in your panic you turned to the now high chancellor, Adam Sutler. He promised you order, he promised you peace, and all he demanded in return was your silent, obedient consent.", - "source": "V for Vendetta", - "id": 3937, - "length": 397 - }, - { - "text": "Through meticulous analysis of history, I will find a way to make the people worship me. By studying the conquerors of days gone by, I'll discover the mistakes that made them go awry.", - "source": "Pinky and the Brain", - "id": 3938, - "length": 183 - }, - { - "text": "Today, computers have taken this ancient art out of the craftsman's workshop and placed it on the desktop. Desktop publishing revolutionized the creation of printed documents, not only from the standpoint of speed and accuracy, but also by enabling anyone to mass-produce the printed word without investing the many years it takes to learn the trade.", - "source": "Civilization IV", - "id": 3939, - "length": 350 - }, - { - "text": "It was also a lot easier for online teachers to hold their students' attention, because here in the OASIS, the classrooms were like holodecks. Teachers could take their students on a virtual field trip every day, without ever leaving the school grounds.", - "source": "Ready Player One: A Novel", - "id": 3940, - "length": 253 - }, - { - "text": "Your uncle, Lord Commander Mormont, made that man his steward. He chose Jon to be his successor because he knew he had the courage to do what was right, even if it meant giving his life. Because Jeor Mormont and Jon Snow both understood that the real war isn't between a few squabbling houses, it's between the living and the dead. And make no mistake my lady, the dead are coming.", - "source": "Game of Thrones", - "id": 3941, - "length": 381 - }, - { - "text": "Crying wolf? You listen to me, you idiot! My child is sick. He does not need you marching in here, puffing up your little chest, and making his life more miserable than it already is. Why don't you just go play \"army man\" somewhere else?", - "source": "Malcolm in the Middle", - "id": 3942, - "length": 237 - }, - { - "text": "We're really seeing a great game here. Uh, it almost - uh, Steve almost lost a man right there at the end of that board. He got a lucky, lucky break. The randomness went the opposite way that it usually goes.", - "source": "The King of Kong: A Fistful of Quarters", - "id": 3943, - "length": 208 - }, - { - "text": "Somewhere over the rainbow way up high, there's a land that I heard of once in a lullaby. Somewhere over the rainbow skies are blue, and the dreams that you dare to dream really do come true. Someday I'll wish upon a star and wake up where the clouds are far behind me. Where troubles melt like lemon drops away above the chimney tops, that's where you'll find me. Somewhere over the rainbow bluebirds fly. Birds fly over the rainbow. Why then, oh, why can't I?", - "source": "The Wizard of Oz", - "id": 3944, - "length": 461 - }, - { - "text": "Video killed the radio star. In my mind and in my car, we can't rewind, we've gone too far. Pictures came and broke your heart.", - "source": "Video Killed the Radio Star", - "id": 3945, - "length": 127 - }, - { - "text": "Walking around with my little rain cloud hanging over my head and it ain't coming down. Where do I go? Gimme some sort of sign. You hit me with lightning, maybe I'll come alive.", - "source": "Hard Times", - "id": 3946, - "length": 177 - }, - { - "text": "Now this was a superior machine. Ten grand worth of gimmicks and high-priced special effects. The rear windows lit up with a touch like frogs in a dynamite pond. The dashboard was full of esoteric lights and dials and meters that I would never understand.", - "source": "Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas", - "id": 3947, - "length": 255 - }, - { - "text": "When you're dead, they really fix you up. I hope to hell when I do die somebody has sense enough to just dump me in the river or something. Anything except sticking me in a goddam cemetery. People coming and putting a bunch of flowers on your stomach on Sunday, and all that crap. Who wants flowers when you're dead? Nobody.", - "source": "The Catcher in the Rye", - "id": 3948, - "length": 324 - }, - { - "text": "The colors of the rainbow so pretty in the sky are also on the faces of people going by. I see friends shaking hands saying \"how do you do?\" They're really saying \"I love you.\"", - "source": "What A Wonderful World", - "id": 3949, - "length": 176 - }, - { - "text": "You found paradise in America. You had a good trade, made a good living, the police protected you and there were courts of law and you didn't need a friend like me. But, now you come to me and you say, \"Don Corleone, give me justice.\" But you don't ask with respect. You don't offer friendship. You don't even think to call me Godfather.", - "source": "The Godfather", - "id": 3950, - "length": 338 - }, - { - "text": "All in all, it was just a brick in the wall. All in all, it was all just bricks in the wall.", - "source": "The Wall", - "id": 3951, - "length": 92 - }, - { - "text": "In fact, if you put oy and poodle together in the same sentence, you'd have a great new catch phrase, you know? Like, oy with the poodles already. So from now on, when the perfect circumstances arise, we will use our favorite new catch phrase.", - "source": "Gilmore Girls", - "id": 3952, - "length": 243 - }, - { - "text": "Do you know what that sound is, Highness? Those are the shrieking eels! If you don't believe me just wait. They always grow louder when they're about to feed on human flesh! If you swim back now I promise no harm will come to you... I doubt you'll get such an offer from the eels.", - "source": "The Princess Bride", - "id": 3953, - "length": 280 - }, - { - "text": "The very worst impulses of humankind can survive generations, centuries, even millennia. And the best of our individual efforts can die with us at the end of a single lifetime.", - "source": "The Historian", - "id": 3954, - "length": 176 - }, - { - "text": "O clear intelligence, force beyond all measure! Gentlemen, I beg you to observe these girls: one has just now lost her mind; the other, it seems, has never had a mind at all.", - "source": "Antigone", - "id": 3955, - "length": 174 - }, - { - "text": "Unbelievable, that old Biff could have chosen that particular date. It could mean that that point in time inherently contains some sort of cosmic significance. Almost as if it were the temporal junction point for the entire space-time continuum. On the other hand, it could just be an amazing coincidence.", - "source": "Back To The Future - Part 2", - "id": 3956, - "length": 305 - }, - { - "text": "While there are few problems in today's world that the United States can solve alone, there are even fewer that can be solved without the United States. Everything that I have done and seen has convinced me that America remains the \"indispensable nation.\" I am just as convinced, however, that our leadership is not a birthright. It must be earned by every generation.", - "source": "Hard Choices", - "id": 3957, - "length": 368 - }, - { - "text": "A book, to me, is almost sacrosanct: such an individual and private thing. The reader brings his or her own history and beliefs and concerns, and reads in solitude, creating each scene from his own imagination as he does. There is no fellow ticket-holder in the next seat.", - "source": "The Giver", - "id": 3958, - "length": 272 - }, - { - "text": "I've seen those big machines come rolling through the quiet pines. Blue suits and bankers with their Volvos and their valentines. Give us this day our daily discount outlet merchandise. Raise up a multiplex and we will make a sacrifice.", - "source": "No Man's Land", - "id": 3959, - "length": 236 - }, - { - "text": "We believe not in death but in life and there is no object more valuable than a man's life.", - "source": "Roots", - "id": 3960, - "length": 91 - }, - { - "text": "Give me honorable enemies rather than ambitious ones, and I'll sleep more easily by night.", - "source": "A Game of Thrones", - "id": 3961, - "length": 90 - }, - { - "text": "He's got a two day head start on you, which is more than he needs. Brody's got friends in every town and village from here to the Sudan, he speaks a dozen languages, knows every local custom, he'll blend in, disappear, you'll never see him again. With any luck, he's got the grail already.", - "source": "Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade", - "id": 3962, - "length": 289 - }, - { - "text": "Focus your attention on the Now and tell me what problem you have at this moment. I am not getting any answer because it is impossible to have a problem when your attention is fully in the Now.", - "source": "The Power of Now", - "id": 3963, - "length": 193 - }, - { - "text": "Do you know I've been sitting here thinking to myself: that if I didn't believe in life, if I lost faith in the woman I love, lost faith in the order of things, were convinced in fact that everything is a disorderly, damnable, and perhaps devil-ridden chaos, if I were struck by every horror of man's disillusionment - still I should want to live.", - "source": "The Brothers Karamazov", - "id": 3964, - "length": 347 - }, - { - "text": "Although the law of one price holds for goods that are nearly uniform in characteristics and quality and easily traded in nearly perfectly competitive markets, many - if not most - goods are not like that. Goods of the same general type may be differentiated in important ways: a Lexus LS and a Ford Focus are both cars, yet they are very different cars, and there is no reason that their prices should be identical.", - "source": "Applied Intermediate Macroeconomics", - "id": 3965, - "length": 416 - }, - { - "text": "This is the most stupid, irresponsible, dangerous thing you have ever done! Is this what you want? Will we have to identify your charred little bodies through their dental records? I want a straight answer! Who did this?", - "source": "Malcolm in the Middle", - "id": 3966, - "length": 220 - }, - { - "text": "Things, events, that occupy space yet come to an end when someone dies make us stop in wonder.", - "source": "Collected Fiction", - "id": 3967, - "length": 94 - }, - { - "text": "This gentleman has been standing alone against us. Now, he doesn't say that the boy is not guilty; he just isn't sure. Well, it's not easy to stand alone against the ridicule of others, so he gambled for support... and I gave it to him. I respect his motives. The boy is probably guilty, but - eh, I want to hear more. Right now the vote is 10 to 2...", - "source": "12 Angry Men", - "id": 3968, - "length": 351 - }, - { - "text": "There are times, sir, when men of good conscience cannot blindly follow orders. You acknowledge their sentience, but ignore their personal liberties and freedom. Order a man to turn his child over to the state? Not while I'm his captain.", - "source": "Star Trek: The Next Generation", - "id": 3969, - "length": 237 - }, - { - "text": "Do you smell that? Napalm, son. Nothing else in the world smells like that. I love the smell of napalm in the morning. You know, one time we had a hill bombed, for twelve hours. Smelled like victory. Someday this war's gonna end.", - "source": "Apocalypse Now", - "id": 3970, - "length": 229 - }, - { - "text": "Begin at the beginning and go on till you come to the end: then stop.", - "source": "Alice's Adventures in Wonderland", - "id": 3971, - "length": 69 - }, - { - "text": "Homeless to Forbes List, these people bring no stress. I feel like Moses, I feel like I'm chosen. And if you ain't my friend then your girl single to me. I don't give a damn if a guy said he knew me.", - "source": "Sidewalks", - "id": 3972, - "length": 199 - }, - { - "text": "Once I lived the life of a millionaire, spending my money, I didn't care. I carried my friends out for a good time buying bootleg liquor, champagne, and wine. Then I began to fall so low, I didn't have a friend, and no place to go. So if I ever get my hand on a dollar again I'm gonna hold on to it till them eagles grin. Nobody knows you when you're down and out. In my pocket, not one penny, and my friends I haven't any. But if I ever get on my feet again, then I'll meet my long lost friend. It's mighty strange, without a doubt, nobody knows you when you're down and out.", - "source": "Nobody Knows You When You're Down and Out", - "id": 3973, - "length": 576 - }, - { - "text": "Though I am often in the depths of misery, there is still calmness, pure harmony and music inside me. I see paintings or drawings in the poorest cottages, in the dirtiest corners. And my mind is driven towards these things with an irresistible momentum.", - "source": "Letter to Theo van Gogh, The Hague, 21 July 1882", - "id": 3974, - "length": 253 - }, - { - "text": "Preposterous! To think that a human being could be destroyed by an animal ten thousand times smaller than a flea. It's as though an army of ants were to overthrow your Majesty's empire.", - "source": "The Story of Louis Pasteur", - "id": 3975, - "length": 185 - }, - { - "text": "We're no strangers to love. You know the rules and so do I. A full commitment's what I'm thinking of. You wouldn't get this from any other guy. I just wanna tell you how I'm feeling. Gotta make you understand. Never gonna give you up. Never gonna let you down. Never gonna run around and desert you. Never gonna make you cry. Never gonna say goodbye. Never gonna tell a lie and hurt you.", - "source": "Never Gonna Give You Up", - "id": 3976, - "length": 387 - }, - { - "text": "I know I'm supposed to help you, but I can't. Instead of being your support I'm your weight. Life is very heavy to me, but it is so light to you.", - "source": "The Unbearable Lightness of Being", - "id": 3977, - "length": 145 - }, - { - "text": "Well, it's one louder, isn't it? It's not ten. You see, most blokes, you know, will be playing at ten. You're on ten here, all the way up, all the way up, all the way up, you're on ten on your guitar. Where can you go from there? Where?", - "source": "This Is Spinal Tap", - "id": 3978, - "length": 236 - }, - { - "text": "What do you care what I think anyway? I don't even count, right? I could disappear forever and it wouldn't make any difference. I might as well not even exist at this school, remember?", - "source": "The Breakfast Club", - "id": 3979, - "length": 184 - }, - { - "text": "I came into this world in the rough and ready year of 1923. It was a barbarous time, it was a bleak time, and it was an uncivilized time. My memories stretch back almost a hundred years and if I close my eyes, I can smell the poverty that oozes from the dusky tenement streets of my boyhood. I can taste on my lips the bread and drippings that I was served for my tea. I can remember extreme hunger and my parents' undying love for me.", - "source": "Anti-1900", - "id": 3980, - "length": 435 - }, - { - "text": "Oh, better far to live and die under the brave black flag I fly, than play a sanctimonious part with a pirate head and a pirate heart. Away to the cheating world go you, where pirates all are well-to-do, but I'll be true to the song I sing, and live and die a pirate king.", - "source": "The Pirates of Penzance", - "id": 3981, - "length": 272 - }, - { - "text": "I yearn for true gender equality. I have no patience for one who talks about female privilege when it suits them, and then complains about someone \"not being a man\" when it's convenient.", - "source": "Kono Subarashii Sekai ni Shukufuku wo!", - "id": 3982, - "length": 186 - }, - { - "text": "Love is a command, not just a feeling. Somehow, in the romantic world of music and theater we have made love to be what it is not.", - "source": "I, Isaac, Take Thee, Rebekah: Moving from Romance to Lasting Love", - "id": 3983, - "length": 130 - }, - { - "text": "We are what we pretend to be, so we must be very careful what we pretend to be.", - "source": "Mother Night", - "id": 3984, - "length": 79 - }, - { - "text": "It takes something more than intelligence to act intelligently.", - "source": "Crime and Punishment", - "id": 3985, - "length": 63 - }, - { - "text": "This transmogrifier will turn you into anything at all. All you do is set this indicator, and the machine automatically restructures your chemical configuration. You can be an eel, a baboon, a giant bug, or a dinosaur.", - "source": "The Complete Calvin and Hobbes", - "id": 3986, - "length": 218 - }, - { - "text": "In the top story of the day, General Wallace Nasami, head of the emerging nation of Nibia, denied his new government was a dictatorship and promised free elections as soon as each citizen of the small country learned to play a musical instrument.", - "source": "WKRP in Cincinnati", - "id": 3987, - "length": 246 - }, - { - "text": "Ever had the urge to dig around in your neighbor's trash? Ew! Hey, if that's your thing, just don't do it when anyone's around. If they notice you, they'll be seriously grossed out, and it'll harm your friendship. Well, unless they're into the same thing.", - "source": "Stardew Valley", - "id": 3988, - "length": 255 - }, - { - "text": "Say, you're a lot smaller than my last master. Either that, or I'm getting bigger. Look at me from the side. Do I look different to you?", - "source": "Aladdin", - "id": 3989, - "length": 136 - }, - { - "text": "I often see racers, particularly at the back of the pack in amateur races, trying to go fast, with their arms flailing around, banging off shifts, jerking the steering into a turn with feet stabbing at the pedals - the car usually in massive slides through the turns. It may feel fast and even look fast, but I'll guarantee it's not. If the driver would only slow down, the car would actually go faster. It reminds me of the saying, \"never confuse movement for action.\"", - "source": "Speed Secrets: Professional Race Driving Techniques", - "id": 3990, - "length": 469 - }, - { - "text": "The lessons of market history are clear. Styles and fashions in investors' evaluations of securities can and often do play a critical role in the pricing of securities. The stock market at times conforms well to the castle-in-the-air theory. For this reason, the game of investing can be extremely dangerous.", - "source": "A Random Walk Down Wall Street", - "id": 3991, - "length": 308 - }, - { - "text": "Look at this tree, Shifu: I cannot make it blossom when it suits me nor make it bear fruit before its time.", - "source": "Kung Fu Panda", - "id": 3992, - "length": 107 - }, - { - "text": "No one would've believed in the last years of the 19th century that human affairs were being watched by intelligences that inhabited the timeless worlds of space. No one could have dreamed that we were being scrutinised as someone with a microscope studies creatures that swarm and multiply in a drop of water. Few men even considered the possibility of life on other planets. And yet, across the gulf of space, minds immeasurably superior to ours regarded this Earth with envious eyes. And slowly, and surely, they drew their plans against us.", - "source": "War of the Worlds", - "id": 3993, - "length": 544 - }, - { - "text": "Long brooding over those lost pleasures exaggerates their charm and sweetness.", - "source": "Vanity Fair", - "id": 3994, - "length": 78 - }, - { - "text": "Oh, I'm sorry. I can't come to the door right now. I'm afraid that in my weakened condition, I could take a nasty spill down the stairs and subject myself to further school absences. You can reach my parents at their places of business. Thank you for stopping by. I appreciate your concern for my well-being. Have a nice day!", - "source": "Ferris Bueller's Day Off", - "id": 3995, - "length": 325 - }, - { - "text": "That person tried to send poison to you and if you take it personally, then you take that poison and it becomes yours.", - "source": "The Four Agreements: A Practical Guide to Personal Freedom", - "id": 3996, - "length": 118 - }, - { - "text": "From a certain point onward there is no longer any turning back. That is the point that must be reached.", - "source": "The Trial", - "id": 3997, - "length": 104 - }, - { - "text": "From my laboratory in the castle east to the master bedroom where the vampires feast, the ghouls all came from their humble abodes to get a jolt from my electrodes.", - "source": "Monster Mash", - "id": 3998, - "length": 164 - }, - { - "text": "Walk on the wall again. Climb the tower. Ride the river. Stare at the frescoes. I want to sit in the garden and read one more good book.", - "source": "The Blacklist", - "id": 3999, - "length": 136 - }, - { - "text": "My visitors are often surprised when they see the TV Mack put in my domain. They seem to find it odd, the sight of a gorilla staring at tiny humans in a box. Sometimes I wonder, though: Isn't the way they stare at me, sitting in my tiny box, just as strange?", - "source": "The One and Only Ivan", - "id": 4000, - "length": 258 - }, - { - "text": "Have you ever stopped to watch a bluebird drop from a tree, and take to the air? Me neither. Have you ever took time out to finish a rhyme but the right words just weren't there? Meat cleaver.", - "source": "#Deep", - "id": 4001, - "length": 192 - }, - { - "text": "I hope to hell when I do die somebody has sense enough to just dump me in the river or something.", - "source": "The Catcher in the Rye", - "id": 4002, - "length": 97 - }, - { - "text": "\"I wish it need not have happened in my time,\" said Frodo. \"So do I,\" said Gandalf, \"and so do all who live to see such times. But that is not for them to decide. All we have to decide is what to do with the time that is given us.\"", - "source": "The Lord of The Rings", - "id": 4003, - "length": 231 - }, - { - "text": "Prying eyes had become a nuisance along the Old Road, and so I undertook to receive my most curious deliveries by way of marine shipments. A sheltered jetty was accessible by a narrow stone stair off the back of the manor, and a discreet system of pulleys could hoist even the heaviest prizes up the rock face from a securely tied dinghy below.", - "source": "Darkest Dungeon", - "id": 4004, - "length": 344 - }, - { - "text": "It's wildly irritating to have invented something as revolutionary as sarcasm, only to have it abused by amateurs.", - "source": "Lamb: The Gospel According to Biff, Christ's Childhood Pal", - "id": 4005, - "length": 114 - }, - { - "text": "Then no matter where you are, in a crowded restaurant or on some desolate street or even in the comforts of your own home, you'll watch yourself dismantle every assurance you ever lived by. You'll stand aside as a great complexity intrudes, tearing apart, piece by piece, all your carefully conceived denials, whether deliberate or unconscious. And for better or worse you'll turn, unable to resist, though try to resist you still will, fighting with everything you've got not to face the thing you most dread, what is now, what will be, what has always come before, the creature you truly are, the creature we all are, buried in the nameless black of a name. And then the nightmares will begin.", - "source": "House of Leaves", - "id": 4006, - "length": 695 - }, - { - "text": "A strange game. The only winning move is not to play. How about a nice game of chess?", - "source": "WarGames", - "id": 4007, - "length": 85 - }, - { - "text": "I've interviewed several people, but you see, those that cook don't clean and those that clean don't speak any identifiable language.", - "source": "Soap", - "id": 4008, - "length": 133 - }, - { - "text": "Facts can be thought of as objective or subjective. Things and events are objective facts. A subjective fact is one that is limited to the subject experiencing it. Establishing the reality of subjective facts depends entirely on the trustworthiness of those who claim to be experiencing them.", - "source": "Being Logical: A Guide to Good Thinking", - "id": 4009, - "length": 293 - }, - { - "text": "I know now that it's over. I knew it then. There would be no way, Michael, no way you could ever forgive me, not with this Sicilian thing that's been going on for 2,000 years.", - "source": "The Godfather: Part II", - "id": 4010, - "length": 175 - }, - { - "text": "It's a sad, sad situation, and it's getting more and more absurd. Why can't we talk it over? Oh it seems to me that sorry seems to be the hardest word.", - "source": "Sorry Seems To Be the Hardest Word", - "id": 4011, - "length": 151 - }, - { - "text": "The automobile brake was not invented until 1895. Before this, someone had to remain in the car at all times, driving in circles until passengers returned from their errands.", - "source": "Portal 2", - "id": 4012, - "length": 174 - }, - { - "text": "I finally figured it out. It's like when they realized it was gonna be too expensive to actually build cyborgs and robots. I mean, the costs of that were impossible. They decided to just let humans turn themselves into robots. That's what's going on right now. I mean, why not? There're billions of us just laying around, not really doing anything. We don't cost anything. We're even pretty good at self-maintenance and reproducing constantly. And as it turns out, we're already biologically programmed for our little cyborg upgrades.", - "source": "Boyhood", - "id": 4013, - "length": 534 - }, - { - "text": "Dragons live forever, but not so little boys. Painted wings and giants' rings make way for other toys. One gray night it happened, Jackie Paper came no more. And Puff, that mighty dragon, he ceased his fearless roar. His head was bent in sorrow; green scales fell like rain. Puff no longer went to play along the cherry lane. Without his lifelong friend, Puff could not be brave. So Puff, that mighty dragon, sadly slipped into his cave.", - "source": "Puff, the Magic Dragon", - "id": 4014, - "length": 437 - }, - { - "text": "Lethal Lava Land is in a state of perpetual volcanic upheaval. Almost every square foot is flooded with deadly liquid rock. Any platform where it is safe to stand usually doesn't stay safe for long as it bobs up and down in the fiery sea. You'll have to jump quickly and accurately to avoid getting burned. Look before you leap so you can see any potential safe spots on the moving platforms.", - "source": "Super Mario 64 Player's Guide", - "id": 4015, - "length": 392 - }, - { - "text": "You should just get a van. With a van, it's like you've got an MBA - but you've also got a van. You're not just a man anymore. You are a man with a van. If you get a van, Jez, we could be men with ven.", - "source": "Peep Show", - "id": 4016, - "length": 201 - }, - { - "text": "At three o'clock precisely I was at Baker Street, but Holmes had not yet returned. The landlady informed me that he had left the house shortly after eight o'clock in the morning. I sat down beside the fire, however, with the intention of awaiting him, however long he might be. I was already deeply interested in his inquiry, for, though it was surrounded by none of the grim and strange features which were associated with the two crimes which I have already recorded, still, the nature of the case and the exalted station of his client gave it a character of its own.", - "source": "The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes", - "id": 4017, - "length": 569 - }, - { - "text": "The pathology of setting a deadline to the earliest articulable date essentially guarantees that the schedule will be missed. Even the strategy of picking the \"most likely date\" is not particularly safe, as the area to the left of the peak of the curve is barely a third. That says there is a two-thirds chance of missing the deadline.", - "source": "Waltzing with Bears: Managing Risk on Software Projects", - "id": 4018, - "length": 335 - }, - { - "text": "Everybody is identical in their secret unspoken belief that way deep down they are different from everyone else.", - "source": "Infinite Jest", - "id": 4019, - "length": 112 - }, - { - "text": "You want praise from people who kick themselves every fifteen minutes, the approval of people who despise themselves.", - "source": "Meditations", - "id": 4020, - "length": 117 - }, - { - "text": "She is frequently kind and she's suddenly cruel. She can do as she pleases, she's nobody's fool. But she can't be convicted, she's earned her degree, and the most she will do is throw shadows at you.", - "source": "She's Always A Woman", - "id": 4021, - "length": 199 - }, - { - "text": "Aravis also had many quarrels (and, I'm afraid, even fights) with Cor, but they always made it up again: so that years later, when they were grown up, they were so used to quarreling and making up again that they got married so as to go on doing it more conveniently.", - "source": "The Horse and His Boy", - "id": 4022, - "length": 267 - }, - { - "text": "Mandrake, do you recall what Clemenceau once said about war? He said war was too important to be left to the generals. When he said that, 50 years ago, he might have been right. But today, war is too important to be left to politicians. They have neither the time, the training, nor the inclination for strategic thought.", - "source": "Dr. Strangelove or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb", - "id": 4023, - "length": 321 - }, - { - "text": "Right now the President's got his own problems with the Bay of Pigs; he doesn't want the astronauts' image tarnished. Nothing these guys do is gonna be called a failure but you'd think the public'd know that they're just doing what monkeys have done.", - "source": "The Right Stuff", - "id": 4024, - "length": 250 - }, - { - "text": "For so long I thought that if my dad accepted me, I'd be happy. I'm back home now. My dad talks to me, he even thinks I'm a hero. Everything should be perfect, right? I should be happy now, but I'm not. I'm angrier than ever and I don't know why.", - "source": "Avatar the Last Airbender", - "id": 4025, - "length": 246 - }, - { - "text": "If I'm laden at all, I'm laden with sadness that everyone's heart isn't filled with the gladness of love for one another.", - "source": "He Ain't Heavy He's My Brother", - "id": 4026, - "length": 121 - }, - { - "text": "It's disgusting and actually the only honourable course of action is for all Ferrari owners, all of them, to go outside now and smash their cars up.", - "source": "Top Gear", - "id": 4027, - "length": 148 - }, - { - "text": "After sleeping through a hundred million centuries we have finally opened our eyes on a sumptuous planet, sparkling with color, bountiful with life. Within decades we must close our eyes again. Isn't it a noble, an enlightened way of spending our brief time in the sun, to work at understanding the universe and how we have come to wake up in it? This is how I answer when I am asked - as I am surprisingly often - why I bother to get up in the mornings.", - "source": "Unweaving the Rainbow: Science, Delusion and the Appetite for Wonder", - "id": 4028, - "length": 454 - }, - { - "text": "Then, waiting, I heard the silence pouring from them. The audience held themselves quiet, tense and tight, as if the song had burned them worse than flame. Each person held their wounded selves closely, clutching their pain as if it were a precious thing. Then there was a murmur of sobs released and sobs escaping. A sigh of tears. A whisper of bodies slowly becoming no longer still. Then the applause. A roar like leaping flame, like thunder after lightning.", - "source": "The Name of the Wind", - "id": 4029, - "length": 461 - }, - { - "text": "You'll remember me when the west wind moves upon the fields of barley. You'll forget the sun in his jealous sky as we walk in fields of gold.", - "source": "Fields of Gold", - "id": 4030, - "length": 141 - }, - { - "text": "On random notes of parchment I'm scrawling my existence, dressed in white. This candle radiates throughout the night, and it's never burning out.", - "source": "Unopened Letter to the World", - "id": 4031, - "length": 145 - }, - { - "text": "It would have been so pointless to kill himself that, even if he had wanted to, the pointlessness would have made him unable.", - "source": "The Trial", - "id": 4032, - "length": 125 - }, - { - "text": "Near, far, wherever you are, I believe that the heart does go on. Once more you open the door and you're here in my heart and my heart will go on and on.", - "source": "My Heart Will Go On", - "id": 4033, - "length": 153 - }, - { - "text": "I don't even want to talk about it anymore. What were you thinking? What was going on in your mind? Artistic integrity? Where, where did you come up with that? You're not artistic and you have no integrity. You know you really need some help. A regular psychiatrist couldn't even help you. You need to go to like Vienna or something. You know what I mean? You need to get involved at the University level. Like where Freud studied and have all those people looking at you and checking up on you. That's the kind of help you need.", - "source": "Seinfeld", - "id": 4034, - "length": 529 - }, - { - "text": "Yet one fine day, in a fit of euphoria, after he had picked up the telephone and taken an order for bonds that had brought him a fifty thousand dollar commission, just like that, this very phrase had bubbled up into his brain. On Wall Street he and a few others had become precisely that - Masters of the Universe.", - "source": "Bonfire of the Vanities", - "id": 4035, - "length": 314 - }, - { - "text": "Oh, you're too late. There's really nothing left to explore.", - "source": "The Truman Show", - "id": 4036, - "length": 60 - }, - { - "text": "All he ever wanted out of life was love. You see, he just didn't have any to give.", - "source": "Citizen Kane", - "id": 4037, - "length": 82 - }, - { - "text": "Nothing looks more suspicious in America than someone who's actually prepared to make something.", - "source": "Grand Theft Auto V", - "id": 4038, - "length": 96 - }, - { - "text": "I never conquered, rarely came. 16 just held such better days. Days when I still felt alive. We couldn't wait to get outside. The world was wide, too late to try. The tour was over, we'd survived. I couldn't wait 'til I got home to pass the time in my room alone.", - "source": "Adam's Song", - "id": 4039, - "length": 263 - }, - { - "text": "A long time ago, I was in Burma, my friends and I were working for the local government. They were trying to buy the loyalty of tribal leaders by bribing them with precious stones. But their caravans were being raided in a forest north of Rangoon by a bandit. So we went looking for the stones. But in six months, we never found anyone who traded with him. Then, one day I saw a child playing with a ruby the size of a tangerine. The bandit had been throwing them away.", - "source": "The Dark Knight", - "id": 4040, - "length": 469 - }, - { - "text": "The mass of men lead lives of quiet desperation. What is called resignation is confirmed desperation. From the desperate city you go into the desperate country, and have to console yourself with the bravery of minks and muskrats. A stereotyped but unconscious despair is concealed even under what are called the games and amusements of mankind. There is no play in them, for this comes after work. But it is a characteristic of wisdom not to do desperate things.", - "source": "Walden", - "id": 4041, - "length": 462 - }, - { - "text": "He was standing on an impossibly tall grey stone pillar. A dark, starless sky loomed overhead. All around him was nothing but an inky black expanse with a strange purple-toned haze permeating throughout. He felt cold rough winds battering him, threatening to send him tumbling into the abyss below. Far, far below, he could see an endless purple desert stretching out in all directions. Shivering, he struggled to remember how he'd gotten here.", - "source": "Chateau Cascade", - "id": 4042, - "length": 444 - }, - { - "text": "Here's what's problematic: You don't even know where your boyfriend is half the time, so how do you know if he's in trouble or not? He's into heroin, organized crime, he's associating with some very dangerous people, not to mention Tony Soprano himself.", - "source": "The Sopranos", - "id": 4043, - "length": 253 - }, - { - "text": "I took a wrong turn on the way to the bathroom and found myself in a beautifully proportioned room I had never seen before, containing a really rather magnificent collection of chamberpots. When I went back to investigate more closely, I discovered that the room had vanished. But I must keep an eye out for it. Possibly it is only accessible at five thirty in the morning. Or it may only appear at the quarter moon - or when the seeker has an exceptionally full bladder.", - "source": "Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire", - "id": 4044, - "length": 471 - }, - { - "text": "This is H.V. Kaltenborn speaking. Half of official Washington is here to see democracy's finest show: the filibuster. The right to talk your head off. The American privilege of free speech in its most dramatic form. The least man in that chamber, once he gets and holds that floor, by the rules, can hold it and talk as long as he can stand on his feet. Providing always first, that he does not sit down; second, that he does not leave the chamber or stop talking.", - "source": "Mr. Smith Goes to Washington", - "id": 4045, - "length": 464 - }, - { - "text": "He guessed as well as he could, and crawled along for a good way, till suddenly his hand met what felt like a tiny ring of cold metal lying on the floor of the tunnel.", - "source": "The Hobbit", - "id": 4046, - "length": 167 - }, - { - "text": "Don't get me wrong, I love who I am. I don't wanna be ungrateful, it probably sounds strange. I really love the role I play, the songs I sing. But with all the fame, the things that seem so simple are suddenly so far out of reach. I wish that they could see that underneath I'm just an ordinary girl! Sometimes I'm lazy, I get bored. I get scared, I feel ignored. I feel happy, I get silly. I choke on my own words. I make wishes, I have dreams. And I still want to believe anything can happen in this world for an ordinary girl.", - "source": "Ordinary Girl", - "id": 4047, - "length": 529 - }, - { - "text": "You have lost your reason and taken the wrong path. You have taken lies for truth, and hideousness for beauty. You would marvel if, owing to strange events of some sorts, frogs and lizards suddenly grew on apple and orange trees instead of fruit, or if roses began to smell like a sweating horse; so I marvel at you who exchange heaven for earth. I don't want to understand you.", - "source": "The Stories of Anton Chekhov", - "id": 4048, - "length": 378 - }, - { - "text": "I was looking for myself and asking everyone except myself questions which I, and only I, could answer. It took me a long time and much painful boomeranging of my expectations to achieve a realization everyone else appears to have been born with: That I am nobody but myself.", - "source": "Invisible Man", - "id": 4049, - "length": 275 - }, - { - "text": "You think you will die, but you just keep living, day after day after terrible day.", - "source": "Great Expectations", - "id": 4050, - "length": 83 - }, - { - "text": "You put the killing thing right between your teeth, but you don't give it the power to do its killing.", - "source": "The Fault in Our Stars", - "id": 4051, - "length": 102 - }, - { - "text": "One day you're in a funk about things, telling a friend that years of evidence point to the conclusion that you will be single for the rest of your life. That night you meet someone, and a year later you're engaged to be married.", - "source": "Urban Tribes: A Generation Redefines Friendship, Family, and Commitment", - "id": 4052, - "length": 229 - }, - { - "text": "Poverty is a peculiar, insidious thing: a cause whose effects then cause the original cause, or an effect whose causes are caused by the effect. It depends on where in the cycle the analysis begins.", - "source": "The Working Poor: Invisible in America", - "id": 4053, - "length": 198 - }, - { - "text": "Though understanding the meaning of actions is not directed at uncovering causes, it certainly satisfies some standards of predictive success: the correct interpretation of human actions enables us to navigate successfully in a society of other human beings. When we step back and consider the reliability of the predictions we make regarding the behavior of others, we cannot fail to be impressed with the implicit theory that growing up in society has provided us.", - "source": "Philosophy of Social Science (Dimensions of Philosophy) 5th Edition", - "id": 4054, - "length": 466 - }, - { - "text": "Lush green hills and plains, forests that are filled with rain, canyons that are rusty red, grasslands are as soft as beds. Flashing lightning in the sky, birds do fly so high, lovely breeze makes its way through the trees. A gleaming ocean in daylight, moths flutter throughout the night, colorful birds fly in the sky, clouds in the sunset soar so high. An illuminating sunrise lights the sky to show that Earth will hold us each day that goes by.", - "source": "Nature is Wonderful and Spectacular", - "id": 4055, - "length": 449 - }, - { - "text": "He didn't teach you how to win, he taught you how not to lose. That's nothing to be proud of. You're playing not to lose, Josh. You've got to risk losing. You've got to risk everything. You've got to go to the edge of defeat. That's where you want to be, boy - on the edge of defeat.", - "source": "Searching for Bobby Fischer", - "id": 4056, - "length": 283 - }, - { - "text": "You know, when I was a kid, food was food. Before our scientific magicians poisoned the water, polluted the soil, decimated plant and animal life. Why, in my day, you could buy meat anywhere. Eggs, they had. Real butter, fresh lettuce in the stores.", - "source": "Soylent Green", - "id": 4057, - "length": 249 - }, - { - "text": "We live in a charmed world. If we have money we can buy literally everything. And the majority of us live lifestyles undreamed of only a generation or two ago. One scientist I met recently told me he reckoned that the average household in Europe or North America has so many devices and such a variety of food and clothing that to produce the same lifestyle in Roman times would have required six thousand slaves.", - "source": "Confessions of an Eco-Sinner: Tracking Down the Sources of My Stuff", - "id": 4058, - "length": 413 - }, - { - "text": "Don't say anything. Be dominant. It's all, all about dominance. I saw this monkey show on PBS, if you talk to her first, it's a sign of weakness and she will not pick you to be her mate.", - "source": "Freaks and Geeks", - "id": 4059, - "length": 186 - }, - { - "text": "The Grid. A digital frontier. I tried to picture clusters of information as they moved through the computer. What did they look like? Ships, motorcycles? Were the circuits like freeways? I kept dreaming of a world I thought I'd never see. And then, one day I got in...", - "source": "Tron: Legacy", - "id": 4060, - "length": 268 - }, - { - "text": "One of the common causes of difficulty in reading for precise, exact, and thorough understanding is proceeding at too rapid a pace. If a pupil has learned to read quite rapidly to get the main ideas and has tended to habituate this speed, he is likely to adopt it in reading very difficult material or in reading when he wants to understand precisely and thoroughly.", - "source": "Improving Reading Skills", - "id": 4061, - "length": 366 - }, - { - "text": "When you're being followed by the police, it's important to remember that having cops around is a problem for criminals, but it's an even bigger problem for a detective trying to remain inconspicuous on a stakeout.", - "source": "Burn Notice", - "id": 4062, - "length": 214 - }, - { - "text": "Okay Ben, why don't you come open some more presents, and Santa, the Armadillo, and I will have a little talk in the kitchen. There's a sentence I never thought I'd say.", - "source": "Friends", - "id": 4063, - "length": 169 - }, - { - "text": "Come, boy, see for yourself. From here, you will witness the final destruction of the Alliance and the end of your insignificant rebellion. You want this, don't you? The hate is swelling in you now. Take your Jedi weapon. Use it. I am unarmed. Strike me down with it. Give in to your anger. With each passing moment you make yourself more my servant.", - "source": "Return of the Jedi", - "id": 4064, - "length": 350 - }, - { - "text": "Wanna know what kills more police than bullets and liquor? Boredom. They just can't handle that. You keep it boring, String. You keep it dead boring.", - "source": "The Wire", - "id": 4065, - "length": 149 - }, - { - "text": "Now it's not August, it's not February, it's not July, it's not even September! I think you know what it is. And when it comes around I wake up and kiss the ground, I was lost and now I'm found! It's the first of October today!", - "source": "First of October", - "id": 4066, - "length": 227 - }, - { - "text": "Each memory was brought to life before me and within me. I could not avoid them. Neither could I rationalize, explain away. I could only re-experience with total cognizance, unprotected by pretense. Self delusion was impossible, truth exposed in this blinding light. Nothing as I thought it had been. Nothing as I hoped it had been. Only as it had been.", - "source": "What Dreams May Come", - "id": 4067, - "length": 353 - }, - { - "text": "I'm telling it like it is. Get used to it or put this book down. Because this book is for America's Heroes. And who are the Heroes? The people who bought this book. People who borrow this book are not Heroes. They are no better than welfare queens mooching off the system like card-carrying library card-carriers. For the record, we're not offering this book to libraries. No free rides.", - "source": "I Am America (And So Can You!)", - "id": 4068, - "length": 387 - }, - { - "text": "I must confess, I've made a mess of what should be a small success. But I digress, at least I've tried my very best, I guess.", - "source": "Pedestrian at Best", - "id": 4069, - "length": 125 - }, - { - "text": "If he needs a million acres to make him feel rich, seems to me he needs it 'cause he feels awful poor inside hisself, and if he's poor in hisself, there ain't no million acres gonna make him feel rich, an' maybe he's disappointed that nothin' he can do'll make him feel rich.", - "source": "The Grapes of Wrath", - "id": 4070, - "length": 275 - }, - { - "text": "If we were to use this statement as a varying symbol by which to rank writers for clearness, we might, I think, get something like the following: Swift, Macaulay, and Shaw would say that Andre was hanged. Bradley would say that he was killed. Bosanquet would say that he died. Kant would say that his mortal existence achieved its termination. Hegel would say that a finite determination of infinity had been further determined by its own negation.", - "source": "On Philosophical Style", - "id": 4071, - "length": 448 - }, - { - "text": "Some time ago, before the king of Hyrule unified this country, there was a fierce war in our world. One day, to escape from the fires of the war, a Hylian mother and her baby boy entered this forbidden forest. The mother was gravely injured. Her only choice was to entrust the child to the Deku Tree, the guardian spirit of the forest. The Deku Tree could sense that this was a child of destiny, whose fate would affect the entire world, so he took him into the forest. After the mother passed away, the baby was raised as a Kokiri. And now, finally, the day of Destiny has come!", - "source": "The Legend of Zelda: Ocarina Of time", - "id": 4072, - "length": 579 - }, - { - "text": "My father died on this floor. Right there. Stabbed 27 times, butchered by men he called his friends. Who will tell me that is not murder? Who will tell my legions, who love Caesar as I do, that that is not murder? Who will speak against the motion?", - "source": "Rome", - "id": 4073, - "length": 248 - }, - { - "text": "In two dimensions we say that a rigid body has only one rotational degree of freedom, whereas in three dimensions we say that a rigid body has three rotational degrees of freedom. This might lead you to infer that in three dimensions you need to have three scalar quantities to represent a body's rotation. Indeed, this is the minimum requirement.", - "source": "Physics for Game Developers", - "id": 4074, - "length": 347 - }, - { - "text": "Without warning the Halon system goes off. Pillars of high-pressure gas flood into the room, sucking the oxygen out of the air, making it impossible for a fire to breathe. A fire. Or people.", - "source": "Resident Evil", - "id": 4075, - "length": 190 - }, - { - "text": "I'm getting a little tired of people asking me if I care or not, because I do, but not enough to push women and children aside to get on a lifeboat.", - "source": "Suits", - "id": 4076, - "length": 148 - }, - { - "text": "Voldemort himself created his worst enemy, just as tyrants everywhere do! Have you any idea how much tyrants fear the people they oppress? All of them realize that, one day, amongst their many victims, there is sure to be one who rises against them and strikes back!", - "source": "Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince", - "id": 4077, - "length": 266 - }, - { - "text": "And as I was sayin', whoever controls the high ground of space controls the world. The Roman Empire controlled the world because it could build roads. Later, the British Empire was dominant because they had ships. In the air stage, we were powerful because we had the airplane. And now the Communists have established a foothold in outer space. Pretty soon they'll have damned space platforms so they can drop nuclear bombs on us, like rocks from a highway overpass. Now how in the hell did they ever get ahead of us?", - "source": "The Right Stuff", - "id": 4078, - "length": 517 - }, - { - "text": "No live organism can continue for long to exist sanely under conditions of absolute reality; even larks and katydids are supposed, by some, to dream. Hill House, not sane, stood by itself against its hills, holding darkness within; it had stood so for eighty years and might stand for eighty more. Within, walls continued upright, bricks met neatly, floors were firm, and doors were sensibly shut; silence lay steadily against the wood and stone of Hill House, and whatever walked there, walked alone.", - "source": "The Haunting of Hill House", - "id": 4079, - "length": 501 - }, - { - "text": "Don't tell me what's necessary, you presumptuous pup. What's necessary is whatever I wish to do, regardless of how unnecessary it might be.", - "source": "Odd Thomas", - "id": 4080, - "length": 139 - }, - { - "text": "I watched a bear once. His leg was in a steel trap. It chewed through bloody bone to get free. It was in Alaska. Died about an hour later facedown in a stream. But it was on his own terms, you know? You got close. Closer than anybody else. I don't know if it was you or your partner, but look. If you still feel raw about things when you heal up, come see me.", - "source": "Fargo (TV)", - "id": 4081, - "length": 359 - }, - { - "text": "Moreover, as I was still in the prime of life, it pleased me better to be up and doing.", - "source": "The Arabian Nights", - "id": 4082, - "length": 87 - }, - { - "text": "You're right, I did lose a million dollars last year. I expect to lose a million dollars this year. I expect to lose a million dollars next year. You know, Mr. Thatcher, at the rate of a million dollars a year, I'll have to close this place in 60 years.", - "source": "Citizen Kane", - "id": 4083, - "length": 253 - }, - { - "text": "If we had any nerve at all we would make an effort to really address the wrongs in this society, righteously.", - "source": "Effort", - "id": 4084, - "length": 109 - }, - { - "text": "As domestic myth of unaccountable origin holds, a home borrows the spirit of the flame for as long as it makes a guest of it, much as the moon takes liberty with the sun's rays.", - "source": "Homestuck", - "id": 4085, - "length": 177 - }, - { - "text": "Living in a fish eye lens caught in the camera eye I have no heart to lie. I can't pretend a stranger is a long-awaited friend. All the world's indeed a stage and we are merely players, performers and portrayers, each another's audience outside the gilded cage.", - "source": "Limelight", - "id": 4086, - "length": 261 - }, - { - "text": "Equations are more important to me, because politics is for the present, but an equation is something for eternity.", - "source": "A Brief History of Time", - "id": 4087, - "length": 115 - }, - { - "text": "How much do I love you? I'll tell you no lie. How deep is the ocean? How high is the sky? How many times a day do I think of you? How many roses are sprinkled with dew? How far would I travel to be where you are? How far is the journey from here to a star? And if I ever lost you, how much would I cry? How deep is the ocean? How high is the sky?", - "source": "How Deep Is the Ocean?", - "id": 4088, - "length": 346 - }, - { - "text": "Time is an ethereal and sometimes cruel goddess. In her relentless passing, she steals away our youth and vitality, often in ways that seem insignificant until we finally realize how much she has taken. Still, she is also a generous deity, who offers to replace what she has seized with a deeper wisdom and a clearer vision of life's enigmas. In this sense, time can be our most powerful ally - if we are patient enough.", - "source": "This Is the Zodiac Speaking: Into the Mind of a Serial Killer", - "id": 4089, - "length": 420 - }, - { - "text": "There is a difference between the Holy Spirit coming and residing within us and us receiving the clothing with power that Jesus spoke of - the baptism of the Holy Spirit.", - "source": "The Born Identity", - "id": 4090, - "length": 170 - }, - { - "text": "There is no physical separation after the slicing, so that edge can be ignored and we can treat the pizza, for thermal purposes, as an infinite plane. The procedure reduces the heat-transfer problem to one dimension represented by a vector normal to the pizza surface.", - "source": "The Thermodynamics of Pizza", - "id": 4092, - "length": 268 - }, - { - "text": "Goodbye to you my trusted friend, we've known each other since we were nine or ten. Together we've climbed hills and trees, learned of love and ABCs. Skinned our hearts and skinned our knees. Goodbye my friend, it's hard to die when all the birds are singing in the sky. Now that spring is in the air, pretty girls are everywhere. Think of me and I'll be there.", - "source": "Seasons in the Sun", - "id": 4093, - "length": 361 - }, - { - "text": "On the sidewalk across from me, near the entrance to a barbecue joint, some people were holding an old-fashioned revival meeting. The barbecue cook, wearing a dirty white apron, his conked hair reddish and metallic in the pale sun, and a cigarette between his lips, stood in the doorway, watching them. Kids and older people paused in their errands and stood there, along with some older men and a couple of very tough-looking women who watched everything that happened on the avenue, as though they owned it, or were maybe owned by it.", - "source": "The Stories: Contemporary Short Fiction Written in English", - "id": 4094, - "length": 536 - }, - { - "text": "Look at me. I'm 24 and I've never done anything. I have a worthless philosophy degree that's gotten me no further than a dead end retail job working for a mouth breather so I can continue to support my trailer park lifestyle. Do you think I sit around feeling sorry for myself?", - "source": "Wonderfalls", - "id": 4095, - "length": 277 - }, - { - "text": "We are one, but we are many. And from all the lands on earth we come. We'll share a dream and sing with one voice. \"I am, you are, we are Australian.\"", - "source": "I Am Australian", - "id": 4096, - "length": 150 - }, - { - "text": "And then he calls me a jerk and says the last guy who thought he was a jerk was dead now. So I don't say nothing and he says, \"What do ya think about that?\" So I says, \"Well, that don't sound like too good a deal for him then.\"", - "source": "Fargo", - "id": 4097, - "length": 227 - }, - { - "text": "Always do your best - your best is going to change from moment to moment; it will be different when you are healthy as opposed to sick. Under any circumstance, simply do your best, and you will avoid self-judgment, self-abuse and regret.", - "source": "The Four Agreements: A Practical Guide to Personal Freedom, A Toltec Wisdom Book", - "id": 4098, - "length": 237 - }, - { - "text": "Happiness is not, of course, guaranteed even to those who are affluent, successful, and well loved. But that happiness is not the inevitable outcome of happy circumstances does not mean we can find it by journeying inward to revise our thoughts and feelings. The threats we face are real and can be vanquished only by shaking off self-absorption and taking action in the world. Build up the levees, get food to the hungry, find the cure, strengthen the \"first responders\"! We will not succeed at all these things, certainly not all at once, but - if I may end with my own personal secret of happiness - we can have a good time trying.", - "source": "Bright-Sided", - "id": 4100, - "length": 634 - }, - { - "text": "Did you think I was a city big enough for a weekend getaway? I am the town surrounding it - the one you've never heard of but always pass through. There are no neon lights here, no skyscrapers or statues. But there is thunder. For I make bridges tremble. I am not street meat, I am homemade jam - thick enough to cut the sweetest thing your lips will touch.", - "source": "Milk and Honey", - "id": 4101, - "length": 357 - }, - { - "text": "We don't need no education. We don't need no thought control. No dark sarcasm in the classroom - teachers leave them kids alone! All in all it's just another brick in the wall. \"If you don't eat yer meat, you can't have any pudding. How can you have any pudding if you don't eat yer meat?\"", - "source": "Another Brick in the Wall", - "id": 4102, - "length": 289 - }, - { - "text": "Every craft and every investigation, and likewise every action and decision, seems to aim at some good; hence the good has been well described as that at which everything aims.", - "source": "Aristotle: Introductory Readings", - "id": 4103, - "length": 176 - }, - { - "text": "We don't read and write poetry because it's cute. We read and write poetry because we are members of the human race. And the human race is filled with passion. And medicine, law, business, engineering, these are noble pursuits and necessary to sustain life. But poetry, beauty, romance, love, these are what we stay alive for.", - "source": "Dead Poets Society", - "id": 4104, - "length": 326 - }, - { - "text": "As you can see, I've memorized this utterly useless fact long enough to pass a test question. I now intend to forget it forever. You've taught me nothing except how to cynically manipulate the system. Congratulations.", - "source": "The Complete Calvin and Hobbes", - "id": 4105, - "length": 217 - }, - { - "text": "It is the stated position of the U.S. Air Force that their safeguards would prevent the occurrence of such events as are depicted in this film. Furthermore, it should be noted that none of the characters portrayed in this film are meant to represent any real persons living or dead.", - "source": "Dr. Strangelove or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb", - "id": 4106, - "length": 282 - }, - { - "text": "As an adult I have often known that peculiar legacy time brings to the traveler: the longing to seek out a place a second time, to find deliberately what we stumbled on once before, to recapture the feeling of discovery. Sometimes we search out again even a place that was not remarkable itself - we look for it simply because we remember it. If we do find it, of course, everything is different. The rough-hewn door is still there, but it's much smaller; the day is cloudy instead of brilliant; it's spring instead of autumn; we're alone instead of with three friends. Or worse, with three friends instead of alone.", - "source": "The Historian", - "id": 4107, - "length": 616 - }, - { - "text": "I am not a recruiter. I am a software engineer. And as such, I know what it's like to be asked to whip up brilliant algorithms on the spot and then write flawless code on a whiteboard. I know because I've been asked to do the same thing - in interviews at Google, Microsoft, Apple, and Amazon, among other companies.", - "source": "Cracking the Coding Interview", - "id": 4108, - "length": 316 - }, - { - "text": "It's funny. All you have to do is say something nobody understands and they'll do practically anything you want them to.", - "source": "The Catcher in the Rye", - "id": 4109, - "length": 120 - }, - { - "text": "Don't practice too much at first, or you're likely to develop incorrect patterns or movements. Instead, begin with a few laps, maintaining intense concentration and motivation. If you begin to repeat an error, or if your concentration or attention starts to fade, if you start to become casual, then stop. Clear your head, get your concentration and motivation back, then go again.", - "source": "Speed Secrets: Professional Race Driving Techniques", - "id": 4110, - "length": 381 - }, - { - "text": "With age comes insecurity, embarrassment, and tragedy, increasing fear of growing old and lonely. I said I'd put on my dancing shoes but I've got two left feet and no good moves and the pretty girls found cooler kids than me. So I sat and waited patiently until the day I'd finally be asked, but it never came.", - "source": "Everybody's Dancing and I Want to Die", - "id": 4111, - "length": 310 - }, - { - "text": "I'm not the protagonist of a novel or anything... I'm a college student who likes to read, like you could find anywhere. But... if, for argument's sake, you were to write a story with me in the lead role, it would certainly be... a tragedy.", - "source": "Tokyo Ghoul", - "id": 4112, - "length": 240 - }, - { - "text": "Then he made one last effort to search in his heart for the place where his affection had rotted away, and he could not find it.", - "source": "One Hundred Years of Solitude", - "id": 4113, - "length": 128 - }, - { - "text": "I will sail my vessel till the river runs dry. Like a bird upon the wind, these waters are my sky. I'll never reach my destination if I never try.", - "source": "The River", - "id": 4114, - "length": 146 - }, - { - "text": "I know what it's like to lose. To feel so desperately that you're right, yet to fail nonetheless. Dread it. Run from it. Destiny still arrives. Or should I say, I have.", - "source": "Avengers: Infinity War", - "id": 4115, - "length": 168 - }, - { - "text": "Many introverted hackers who are next to inarticulate in person communicate with considerable fluency over the net, perhaps precisely because they can forget on an unconscious level that they are dealing with people and thus don't feel as stressed and anxious as they would face-to-face.", - "source": "The Jargon File", - "id": 4116, - "length": 287 - }, - { - "text": "Unfortunately, I didn't get a good look at him - the light was reflecting off the windshield - but he was heavy set. It was really dark. I didn't want them to see me. I heard gunshots but I... I thought it was kids with firecrackers, and then when two men drove out in a car I crouched down in the ragweed.", - "source": "The Sopranos", - "id": 4117, - "length": 306 - }, - { - "text": "When I think of Butts, I imagine the ancients in India deciding that the knight should move two squares over and one up or one up and two over. I think of the Greeks or Egyptians determining what to do when a black backgammon chip landed on a space occupied by a white one.", - "source": "Word Freak", - "id": 4118, - "length": 273 - }, - { - "text": "Screens and sticky fly-paper have their places and give some little relief in a well-kept house. But of what use is it to protect your food after it has entered your home if in the stores, in the market place, in the dairy barn, or dairy wagon, in the grocers' and butchers' cart, it has been exposed to contamination by hundreds of flies that have visited it.", - "source": "Insects and Diseases", - "id": 4119, - "length": 360 - }, - { - "text": "In the not too distant future, next Sunday AD, there was a guy named Joel not too different from you or me. He worked at Gizmonic Institute, just another face in a red jumpsuit. He did a good job cleaning up the place but his bosses didn't like him so they shot him into space.", - "source": "Mystery Science Theater 3000: Manos the Hands of Fate", - "id": 4120, - "length": 277 - }, - { - "text": "The sea was angry that day, my friends - like an old man trying to send back soup in a deli. I got about fifty feet out and suddenly the great beast appeared before me. I tell you he was ten stories high if he was a foot. As if sensing my presence, he let out a great bellow. I said, \"Easy, big fella!\" And then, as I watched him struggling, I realized that something was obstructing its breathing. From where I was standing, I could see directly into the eye of the great fish.", - "source": "Seinfeld", - "id": 4121, - "length": 478 - }, - { - "text": "Do you ever get down on your knees and thank God you know me and have access to my dementia?", - "source": "Seinfeld", - "id": 4122, - "length": 92 - }, - { - "text": "A nice place to start learning Plover is with its most obvious feature - the keyboard. What is this thing? Some letters seem to be missing, others seem to be duplicated. It looks weird.", - "source": "Learn Plover!", - "id": 4123, - "length": 185 - }, - { - "text": "As the choir began a hymn, some of the singers began to make strange faces and cover their noses with handkerchiefs. The priest, as he walked to the altar, sneezed loudly and cleared his throat. The people in the first few rows of the congregation turned to each other with puzzled looks. The women began vigorously fanning their faces with their church programs. The children started squirming and pinched their noses. Little by little the strange behavior began working its way toward the back of the church.", - "source": "Carlos and the Skunk", - "id": 4124, - "length": 510 - }, - { - "text": "Despite lacking the information and his understandable desire to hope for the best, Stalin must have realized the seriousness of the situation. According to eyewitnesses, he was stunned by the outbreak of war. As Zhukov describes it, \"During the first day he was not able to really take himself in hand and get a firm grip on events. The shock to I. V. Stalin caused by the enemy invasion was so strong that his voice even became softer and his instructions on organizing the military effort were not always appropriate to the situation.\"", - "source": "Stalin: New Biography of a Dictator", - "id": 4125, - "length": 538 - }, - { - "text": "It's amazing what devices you can sympathize, empathize. This is my mistake; let me make it good. I raised the wall and I will be the one to knock it down.", - "source": "World Leader Pretend", - "id": 4126, - "length": 155 - }, - { - "text": "I need a love reaction. Come on now, baby, give me just one look.", - "source": "Dancing in the Dark", - "id": 4127, - "length": 65 - }, - { - "text": "Okay, stand outa the way. Sometimes when I go to exertin' myself I use up all the air nearby and grown men faint from suffocation. Stand back. There's liable to be crackin' cement and flying steel. Get the women and kids someplace safe. Stand back...", - "source": "One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest", - "id": 4128, - "length": 250 - }, - { - "text": "The lines left by youth deepen and become more conspicuous in age, and one can generally read the story of the three first decades in the faces of older people. Mrs. Dorriman, suffering in her youth from injustice and a want of affection, bore the marks of both; nothing but her real sweetness of temper had saved her from peevishness, for fretfulness is as much the result of perpetual repression in one feeble by nature, as violence and anger is the outcome of an unchecked temper in youth.", - "source": "Mrs. Dorriman, Volume 3 of 3", - "id": 4129, - "length": 492 - }, - { - "text": "Only those who know the supremacy of the intellectual life - the life which has a seed of ennobling thought and purpose within - can understand the grief of one who falls from that serene activity into the absorbing soul-wasting struggle with worldly annoyances.", - "source": "Middlemarch", - "id": 4130, - "length": 262 - }, - { - "text": "Alchemy: the science of understanding the structure of matter, breaking it down, then reconstructing it as something else. It can even make gold from lead. But alchemy is a science, so it must follow the natural laws: To create, something of equal value must be lost. This is the principle of Equivalent Exchange. But on that night, I learned the value of some things can't be measured on a simple scale. My brother and I knew the laws of science, of Equivalent Exchange, that gain required sacrifice, that something had to be taken from us. But we thought there was nothing more we could lose, we were wrong.", - "source": "Fullmetal Alchemist: Brotherhood", - "id": 4131, - "length": 609 - }, - { - "text": "Although reflection mapping can be used to produce a number of useful effects, it provides only an approximation to the correct reflection information. By taking into account just the surface's reflection direction and not its position in the sphere, it models an infinitely large environment sphere.", - "source": "Computer Graphics: Principles and Practice", - "id": 4132, - "length": 300 - }, - { - "text": "I started to walk down the street when I heard a voice saying, \"Good evening, Mr. Dowd\". I turned, and there was this big white rabbit leaning against a lamp-post. Well, I thought nothing of that, because when you've lived in a town as long as I've lived in this one, you get used to the fact that everybody knows your name. And naturally, I went over to chat with him.", - "source": "Harvey", - "id": 4133, - "length": 369 - }, - { - "text": "I carry a log - yes. Is it funny to you? It is not to me. Behind all things are reasons. Reasons can even explain the absurd. Do we have the time to learn the reasons behind the human being's varied behavior? I think not. Some take the time. Are they called detectives? Watch - and see what life teaches.", - "source": "Twin Peaks", - "id": 4134, - "length": 304 - }, - { - "text": "Considering the marvelous complexity of the universe, its clockwork perfection, its balances of this against that... matter, energy, gravitation, time, dimension, I believe that our existence must be more than either of these philosophies. That what we are goes beyond Euclidean or other practical measuring systems and that our existence is part of a reality beyond what we understand now as reality.", - "source": "Star Trek: The Next Generation", - "id": 4135, - "length": 401 - }, - { - "text": "Straight up now tell me, do you really wanna love me forever, or am I caught in a hit and run?", - "source": "Straight Up", - "id": 4136, - "length": 94 - }, - { - "text": "Hero of Hyrule, chosen by the sword that seals the darkness. You have shown unflinching bravery and skill in the face of darkness and adversity, and have proven yourself worthy of the blessings of the goddess Hylia. Whether skyward bound, adrift in time, or steeped in the glowing embers of twilight, the sacred blade is forever bound to the soul of the hero.", - "source": "The Legend of Zelda: Breath of the Wild", - "id": 4137, - "length": 359 - }, - { - "text": "Mostly, they talked about death. They agreed that being buried seemed too claustrophobic, and Bill didn't want to be cremated after he'd read that the intense heat boils fluids in the skull until your head explodes. He decided that he'd want his body shot off into space in a rocket ship. He figured it'd be too expensive to launch the weight of his entire body, but maybe just sending his head into space would be enough, preferably in front of a little window.", - "source": "It's Such a Beautiful Day", - "id": 4138, - "length": 462 - }, - { - "text": "When you're only having seconds I'm having twenty-thirds. When I go to get my shoes shined I gotta take their word, because I'm fat!", - "source": "Fat", - "id": 4139, - "length": 132 - }, - { - "text": "He talked about terrible meetings in lonely places, of cyclopean ruins in the heart of the Maine woods beneath which vast staircases led down to abysses of nighted secrets, of complex angles that led through invisible walls to other regions of space and time, and of hideous exchanges of personality that permitted explorations in remote and forbidden places, on other worlds, and in different space-time continua.", - "source": "The Thing on the Doorstep", - "id": 4140, - "length": 414 - }, - { - "text": "Everyday I get up and pray to Jah and he increases the number of clocks by exactly one. Everybody's coming home for lunch these days. Last night there were skinheads on my lawn. Take the skinheads bowling, take them bowling.", - "source": "Take the Skinheads Bowling", - "id": 4141, - "length": 224 - }, - { - "text": "You, my friend, are a victim of disorganized thinking. You are under the unfortunate impression that just because you run away you have no courage; you're confusing courage with wisdom.", - "source": "The Wizard of Oz", - "id": 4142, - "length": 185 - }, - { - "text": "There was but one question he left unasked, and it vibrated between his lines: if gross miscalculations of a person's value could occur on a baseball field, before a live audience of thirty thousand, and a television audience of millions more, what did that say about the measurement of performance in other lines of work? If professional baseball players could be over- or undervalued, who couldn't?", - "source": "Moneyball", - "id": 4143, - "length": 400 - }, - { - "text": "Banana brains, you're the apple of my eye. Stay with me tonight 'cause I'm having the best time of my life.", - "source": "Banana Brain", - "id": 4144, - "length": 107 - }, - { - "text": "Ahem. Pardon me, but the point of this afternoon is to pretend that you might one day make a valuable contribution to society. Perhaps you could play along. For example, Ms. Polk, you might want to look into journalism, which is a profession where they actually pay people to be cynical and disaffected.", - "source": "Joan of Arcadia", - "id": 4145, - "length": 303 - }, - { - "text": "French writer. Total loser. Never had a real job. Unrequited love affairs. Gay. Spent 20 years writing a book almost no one reads. But he's also probably the greatest writer since Shakespeare. Anyway, he uh... he gets down to the end of his life, and he looks back and decides that all those years he suffered, those were the best years of his life, 'cause they made him who he was.", - "source": "Little Miss Sunshine", - "id": 4146, - "length": 382 - }, - { - "text": "You don't like parties? You don't like putting on a silly hat, hiding behind furniture, and generally stripping yourself of every shred of human dignity?", - "source": "WKRP in Cincinnati", - "id": 4147, - "length": 153 - }, - { - "text": "I was talking aloud to myself. A habit of the old: they choose the wisest person present to speak to; the long explanations needed by the young are wearying.", - "source": "The Two Towers", - "id": 4148, - "length": 157 - }, - { - "text": "The ability to witness two men stand toe to toe in the spirit of sportsmanship and pummel each other into insensibility is what separates us from the animals.", - "source": "Taxi", - "id": 4149, - "length": 158 - }, - { - "text": "When he utilizes combined energy, his fighting men become as it were like unto rolling logs or stones. For it is the nature of a log or stone to remain motionless on level ground, and to move when on a slope; if four-cornered, to come to a standstill, but if round-shaped, to go rolling down.", - "source": "The Art of War", - "id": 4150, - "length": 292 - }, - { - "text": "I remember that I'm invisible and walk softly so as to not awaken the sleeping ones. Sometimes it is best not to awaken them; there are few things in the world as dangerous as sleepwalkers.", - "source": "Invisible Man", - "id": 4151, - "length": 189 - }, - { - "text": "The hottest places in hell are reserved for those who, in times of great moral crisis, maintain their neutrality.", - "source": "Dante's Inferno", - "id": 4152, - "length": 113 - }, - { - "text": "The cornea is the transparent anterior part of the outer coat of the eyeball and is continuous with the sclera at the limbus. The pupil is the central aperture of the iris, and the circular pigmented diaphragm that lies in front of the lens.", - "source": "Clinical Atlas of Human Anatomy", - "id": 4153, - "length": 241 - }, - { - "text": "A generous spirit prefers that his country should be poor, and weak, and of no account, but free, rather than powerful, prosperous, and enslaved. It is better to be the citizen of a humble commonwealth in the Alps, without a prospect of influence beyond the narrow frontier, than a subject of the superb autocracy that overshadows half of Asia and of Europe.", - "source": "The History of Freedom, and Other Essays", - "id": 4154, - "length": 358 - }, - { - "text": "'Cause I was born a virgin covered in blood and free of sin, and that's the exact shape I wanna make when I jump off this bridge.", - "source": "August (Part Two)", - "id": 4155, - "length": 129 - }, - { - "text": "In the past, all a King had to do was look respectable in uniform and not fall off his horse. Now we must invade people's homes and ingratiate ourselves with them. This family's been reduced to those lowest, basest of all creatures. We've become actors!", - "source": "The King's Speech", - "id": 4156, - "length": 253 - }, - { - "text": "We lost something the more we specialized - it started to drain away this vast pool of information that everybody knew. Knowledge was what connected us, and now it distinguishes us.", - "source": "Brainiac", - "id": 4157, - "length": 181 - }, - { - "text": "A really efficient totalitarian state would be one in which the all-powerful executive of political bosses and their army of managers control a population of slaves who do not have to be coerced, because they love their servitude.", - "source": "Brave New World", - "id": 4158, - "length": 230 - }, - { - "text": "You have needs - satisfy them. You have as much right as the rich and the mighty. Don't hesitate to satisfy your needs; indeed, expand your needs and demand more.", - "source": "The Brothers Karamazov", - "id": 4159, - "length": 162 - }, - { - "text": "I'm the most terrific liar you ever saw in your life. It's awful. If I'm on my way to the store to buy a magazine, even, and somebody asks me where I'm going, I'm liable to say I'm going to the opera.", - "source": "The Catcher in the Rye", - "id": 4160, - "length": 200 - }, - { - "text": "For as to what we have heard you affirm, that there are other kingdoms and states in the world inhabited by human creatures as large as yourself, our philosophers are in much doubt, and would rather conjecture that you dropped from the moon, or one of the stars; because it is certain, that a hundred mortals of your bulk would in a short time destroy all the fruits and cattle of his majesty's dominions: besides, our histories of six thousand moons make no mention of any other regions than the two great empires of Lilliput and Blefuscu.", - "source": "Gulliver's Travels", - "id": 4161, - "length": 540 - }, - { - "text": "There was no telling what people might find out once they felt free to ask whatever questions they wanted to.", - "source": "Catch-22", - "id": 4162, - "length": 109 - }, - { - "text": "Growing up in the suburbs in the '60s, you were pretty much sheltered from the forces of change unleashed by the outside world. But what about the forces of change unleashed from within? Change. Not always a pretty sight. In fact it could get pretty ugly. But that was the stuff that movies were made of. That wasn't the real world. Or was it?", - "source": "The Wonder Years", - "id": 4163, - "length": 343 - }, - { - "text": "Reading is a quick and efficient process because accomplished readers perceive patterns rather than individual letters.", - "source": "What We Know About Acquisition of Adult Literacy", - "id": 4164, - "length": 119 - }, - { - "text": "As you can see, she hasn't met him yet. She already fell in love I bet. Her keyboard gets slammed by her fingers, but he replies with \"ok\" every time, every time.", - "source": "Everytime", - "id": 4165, - "length": 162 - }, - { - "text": "But the life of man is ever racing to its end, swifter than time itself, without hope of renewal, unless in the next that is limitless and infinite.", - "source": "Don Quixote", - "id": 4166, - "length": 148 - }, - { - "text": "The wonders of life and the universe are mere reflections of microscopic particles engaged in a pointless dance fully choreographed by the laws of physics.", - "source": "The Elegant Universe: Superstrings, Hidden Dimensions, and the Quest for the Ultimate Theory", - "id": 4167, - "length": 155 - }, - { - "text": "Love. The reason I dislike that word is that it means too much for me, far more than you can understand.", - "source": "Anna Karenina", - "id": 4168, - "length": 104 - }, - { - "text": "To be fond of dancing was a certain step towards falling in love.", - "source": "Pride and Prejudice", - "id": 4169, - "length": 65 - }, - { - "text": "I'm gonna fight 'em off. A seven nation army couldn't hold me back. They're gonna rip it off. Taking their time right behind my back. And I'm talkin' to myself at night because I can't forget. Back and forth through my mind behind a cigarette.", - "source": "Seven Nation Army", - "id": 4170, - "length": 243 - }, - { - "text": "Boy, the way Glenn Miller played. Songs that made the hit parade. Guys like us, we had it made. Those were the days. And you knew who you were then, girls were girls and men were men. Mister, we could use a man like Herbert Hoover again. Didn't need no welfare state. Everybody pulled his weight. Gee, our old LaSalle ran great. Those were the days.", - "source": "All in the Family", - "id": 4171, - "length": 349 - }, - { - "text": "No Big Brother is required to deprive people of their autonomy, maturity and history. As he saw it, people will come to love their oppression, to adore the technologies that undo their capacities to think.", - "source": "Amusing Ourselves to Death", - "id": 4172, - "length": 205 - }, - { - "text": "Can't a guy just buy some bagels for his friends so they'll owe him a favor which he can use to get someone fired who stole a co-manager position from him anymore? Geez. When did everyone get so cynical?", - "source": "The Office", - "id": 4173, - "length": 203 - }, - { - "text": "In my opinion, if, as the result of certain combinations, Kepler's or Newton's discoveries could become known to people in no other way than by sacrificing the lives of one, or ten, or a hundred or more people who were hindering the discovery, or standing as an obstacle in its path, then Newton would have the right, and it would even be his duty to remove those ten or a hundred people, in order to make his discoveries known to mankind. It by no means follows from this, incidentally, that Newton should have the right to kill anyone he pleases, whomever happens along, or to steal from the market every day.", - "source": "Crime and Punishment", - "id": 4174, - "length": 611 - }, - { - "text": "And what haunts me, is that in all the faces of all the bears that Treadwell ever filmed, I discover no kinship, no understanding, no mercy. I see only the overwhelming indifference of nature. To me, there is no such thing as a secret world of the bears. And this blank stare speaks only of a half-bored interest in food. But for Timothy Treadwell, this bear was a friend, a savior.", - "source": "Grizzly Man", - "id": 4175, - "length": 382 - }, - { - "text": "You need a yen to make a mark if you want to make money. You need the luck to make a buck if you want to be Getty, Rothschild. You've gotta be cool on Wall Street.", - "source": "The Wall Street Shuffle", - "id": 4176, - "length": 163 - }, - { - "text": "Oh, dear, what happened? Did you get entangled in the eiderdown again? Not enough cream in your eclair? Hmmm... or did you have to talk to all your friends for so long that you didn't have time to perm your ears?", - "source": "Fawlty Towers", - "id": 4177, - "length": 212 - }, - { - "text": "Soon after arriving, he offended the Icelanders by calling their country inadequate because it had no bowling alleys. He complained about the TV cameras, about the lighting, about the table and chairs, and the contrast of the squares on the board. His hotel room, he said, had too nice a view. None of this has anything to do with chess of course. But maybe it did. If he won, he'd be the first American world champion in history. If he lost, he'd just be another patzer from Brooklyn.", - "source": "Searching for Bobby Fischer", - "id": 4178, - "length": 485 - }, - { - "text": "Messes of men in farmer poverty; not much for monks but we pretend to be. Share a silent meal and a pot of chamomile, gypsies like us should be stamped in solidarity. Hold you in my fond but distant memory while waiting for the Mother Hen to gather me who regretfully wrote.", - "source": "O, Porcupine", - "id": 4179, - "length": 274 - }, - { - "text": "My youth is slipping, my youth is slipping away. Safe in monotony, so safe, day after day. Count your blessings. Cold wind blows off the lake and I know for sure that it's too late. Count your blessings on one hand.", - "source": "Boiled Frogs", - "id": 4180, - "length": 215 - }, - { - "text": "Like you said, I am a terrifying political animal. So I want to be clear: I will not attend any more of those meetings again. If any of this comes up, I will deny, deny, deny. And if anyone ever asks me about Defiance...", - "source": "Scandal", - "id": 4181, - "length": 220 - }, - { - "text": "It can also be argued that DNA is nothing more than a program designed to preserve itself. Life has become more complex in the overwhelming sea of information. And life, when organized into species, relies upon genes to be its memory system. So, man is an individual only because of his intangible memory... and memory cannot be defined, but it defines mankind. The advent of computers, and the subsequent accumulation of incalculable data has given rise to a new system of memory and thought parallel to your own. Humanity has underestimated the consequences of computerization.", - "source": "Ghost in the Shell (1995)", - "id": 4182, - "length": 579 - }, - { - "text": "Among other things, you'll find that you're not the first person who was ever confused and frightened and even sickened by human behavior. You're by no means alone on that score, you'll be excited and stimulated to know. Many, many men have been just as troubled morally and spiritually as you are right now. Happily, some of them kept records of their troubles. You'll learn from them - if you want to. Just as someday, if you have something to offer, someone will learn something from you. It's a beautiful reciprocal arrangement. And it isn't education. It's history. It's poetry.", - "source": "The Catcher in the Rye", - "id": 4183, - "length": 583 - }, - { - "text": "A notereader is not yet a court reporter, but knows enough general steno theory to be able to read the character-based, paper-tape output of a stenotype machine, translate it to English, and then type it up as an official transcript. This subcontracted job resulted directly from the diffusion of the stenotype, as use of the stenotype affords a standardization of notes not possible with any manual system, permitting others to read the notes and transcribe directly from them.", - "source": "Closed Captioning: Subtitling, Stenography, and the Digital Convergence of Text with Television", - "id": 4184, - "length": 478 - }, - { - "text": "My friend, the panda will never fulfill his destiny, nor you yours until you let go of the illusion of control.", - "source": "Kung Fu Panda", - "id": 4185, - "length": 111 - }, - { - "text": "We are amidst strange beings, in a strange land. The flow of time itself is convoluted, with heroes centuries old phasing in and out. The very fabric wavers and relations shift and obscure. There's no telling how much longer your world and mine will remain in contact. But, use this, to summon one another as spirits, cross the gaps between the worlds, and engage in jolly cooperation!", - "source": "Dark Souls", - "id": 4186, - "length": 385 - }, - { - "text": "These college kids out here - they're never gonna get old or out of shape 'cause new ones come along every year. And they're gonna keep calling us 'Cutters'. To them, it's just a dirty word. To me, it's just somethin' else I never got a chance to be.", - "source": "Breaking Away", - "id": 4187, - "length": 250 - }, - { - "text": "The sheer quantity of brain power that hurled itself voluntarily and quixotically into the search for new baseball knowledge was either exhilarating or depressing, depending on how you felt about baseball. The same intellectual resources might have cured the common cold, or put a man on Pluto.", - "source": "Moneyball", - "id": 4188, - "length": 294 - }, - { - "text": "Soon, George Michael went to Ann's to try to win her back. But her Uncle Paul told him that Ann had moved in with her boyfriend. He also mentioned that we all only had three more weeks on earth, and that fossils were just something the Jews buried in 1924.", - "source": "Arrested Development", - "id": 4189, - "length": 256 - }, - { - "text": "I survived a dreadful accident in the car crash of the century. My shattered hopes collapsed on cold cement, but in the back of the ambulance, I'd never felt so content. A high speed collision gave a new sense of sight to me, and now my vision can render the scene, a blurry image of wreckage and roadside debris. Happiness returned to me through a grave emergency.", - "source": "Hospital Flowers", - "id": 4190, - "length": 365 - }, - { - "text": "It was a pleasure to burn. It was a special pleasure to see things eaten, to see things blackened and changed. With the brass nozzle in his fists, with this great python spitting its venomous kerosene upon the world, the blood pounded in his head, and his hands were the hands of some amazing conductor playing all the symphonies of blazing and burning to bring down the tatters and charcoal ruins of history. With his symbolic helmet numbered 451 on his stolid head, and his eyes all orange flame with the thought of what came next, he flicked the igniter and the house jumped up in a gorging fire that burned the evening sky red and yellow and black. He strode in a swarm of fireflies.", - "source": "Fahrenheit 451", - "id": 4191, - "length": 687 - }, - { - "text": "There are still some places where you can get all you can eat for a fixed price. Fried chicken is the best and the easiest to pocket, or should we say bag. Another trick is to pour your second free cup of hot coffee into the plastic bag sewed inside your pocket and take it with you.", - "source": "Steal This Book", - "id": 4192, - "length": 283 - }, - { - "text": "I walked away and left him standing there in the moonlight watching over nothing.", - "source": "The Great Gatsby", - "id": 4193, - "length": 81 - }, - { - "text": "If you change your mind, I'm the first in line. Honey, I'm still free, take a chance on me. If you need me, let me know, gonna be around.", - "source": "Take a Chance on Me", - "id": 4194, - "length": 137 - }, - { - "text": "This won't take long. There. That should give us enough time to make it to a lifeboat.", - "source": "Halo: Combat Evolved", - "id": 4195, - "length": 86 - }, - { - "text": "There can be a burden in authority, in vigilance, like a father's burden. It was too much for some men. A smart guy who's steady is hard to find. I was alright, better than some, but, you know, I knew how to talk to people, and I was steady. Rust - now, his Texas files were classified or redacted, and he wasn't big on talking except when you wanted him to shut up, but he was smart.", - "source": "True Detective", - "id": 4196, - "length": 384 - }, - { - "text": "Some men dream of money, some men dream of love. My father dreamt of a flood of fire. We were given Eden, and we turned it into Sodom. Why do we deserve salvation? The Lord gave Noah a fish in the form of a flood. But he was not so easy on me.", - "source": "BioShock Infinite", - "id": 4197, - "length": 243 - }, - { - "text": "The feeling of having no power over people and events is generally unbearable to us - when we feel helpless we feel miserable. No one wants less power; everyone wants more. In the world today, however, it is dangerous to seem too power hungry, to be overt with your power moves. We have to seem fair and decent. So we need to be subtle - congenial yet cunning, democratic yet devious.", - "source": "48 Laws of Power", - "id": 4198, - "length": 384 - }, - { - "text": "For neither good nor evil can last for ever; and so it follows that as evil has lasted a long time, good must now be close at hand.", - "source": "Don Quixote", - "id": 4199, - "length": 131 - }, - { - "text": "HAL, you have an enormous responsibility on this mission, in many ways perhaps the greatest responsibility of any single mission element. You're the brain, and central nervous system of the ship, and your responsibilities include watching over the men in hibernation. Does this ever cause you any lack of confidence?", - "source": "2001: A SPACE ODYSSEY", - "id": 4200, - "length": 316 - }, - { - "text": "My wife's mother is visiting, Father. And Tuesday night, she's cooking us a carp. It's a tasty fish, I've got nothing against it. But, because it's supposedly filled with impurities, she buys it live and for three days, it's been swimming... up and down... in my bathtub. Up and down... and I hate it. I can't stand the sight of it, moving its gills. Now, you're standing very close to me, Father; have you noticed? Yes. I haven't had a bath for three days. I can't go home until the carp is asleep because if I see it, swimming... I'll kill it.", - "source": "The Exorcist III", - "id": 4201, - "length": 545 - }, - { - "text": "Spring, if it lingers more than a week beyond its span, starts to hunger for summer to end the days of perpetual promise. Summer in its turn soon begins to sweat for something to quench its heat, and the mellowest of autumns will tire of gentility at last, and ache for a quick sharp frost to kill its fruitfulness. Even winter - the hardest season, the most implacable dreams, as February creeps on, of the flame that will presently melt it away. Everything tires with time, and starts to seek some opposition, to save it from itself.", - "source": "The Hellbound Heart", - "id": 4202, - "length": 535 - }, - { - "text": "In order to grasp the distance that separates the human and the divine, one has only to compare these crude trembling symbols which my fallible hand scrawls on the cover of a book with the organic letters inside - neat, delicate, deep black, and inimitably symmetrical.", - "source": "The Library of Babel", - "id": 4203, - "length": 269 - }, - { - "text": "Most popular song lyrics have two sections - a verse and a bridge, where the bridge offers a contrast to the verse but is not the place where the song is summarized - or a verse and a chorus. A chorus is the high-point of a lyric's energy as well as the music's energy.", - "source": "Lyrics: Writing Better Words for Your Songs", - "id": 4204, - "length": 269 - }, - { - "text": "You can rest easy, tonight... Everything is gonna be alright, I promise... Go to sleep and dream of me tonight... Everything may not be perfect, but at least we try...", - "source": "Lullaby", - "id": 4205, - "length": 167 - }, - { - "text": "I felt a great disturbance in the Force, as if millions of voices suddenly cried out in terror and were suddenly silenced. I fear something terrible has happened.", - "source": "Star Wars", - "id": 4206, - "length": 162 - }, - { - "text": "Who are you talking to right now? Who is it you think you see? Do you know how much I make a year? I mean, even if I told you, you wouldn't believe it. Do you know what would happen if I suddenly decided to stop going into work? A business big enough that it could be listed on the NASDAQ goes belly up. Disappears. It ceases to exist without me. No, you clearly don't know who you're talking to, so let me clue you in. I am not in danger, Skyler. I am the danger. A guy opens his door and gets shot and you think that of me? No. I am the one who knocks.", - "source": "Breaking Bad", - "id": 4207, - "length": 554 - }, - { - "text": "Hmm, looks like the chad is still hanging on that one, but I'm sure they'll count it.", - "source": "Postal 2", - "id": 4208, - "length": 85 - }, - { - "text": "Why so much grief for me? No man will hurl me down to Death, against my fate. And fate? No one alive has ever escaped it, neither brave man nor coward, I tell you - it's born with us the day that we are born.", - "source": "The Iliad", - "id": 4209, - "length": 208 - }, - { - "text": "But his soul was mad. Being alone in the wilderness, it had looked within itself and, by heavens I tell you, it had gone mad.", - "source": "Heart of Darkness", - "id": 4210, - "length": 125 - }, - { - "text": "I can't sing a love song like the way it's meant to be. I guess I'm not that good anymore, but baby, that's just me.", - "source": "Always", - "id": 4211, - "length": 116 - }, - { - "text": "Back beat, the word was on the street that the fire in your heart is out. I'm sure you've heard it all before, but you never really had a doubt.", - "source": "Wonderwall", - "id": 4212, - "length": 144 - }, - { - "text": "I'm DEFINITELY NOT saying that Edley isn't a star, but I do say that people overstate the significance of small strings of statistical events based on their grouping. Granted this is the case in many, many competitive endeavors, but that doesn't mean that Joe Edley is the best player or that he was even the best player that week.", - "source": "Word Freak", - "id": 4213, - "length": 331 - }, - { - "text": "A myth is a traditional story that attempts to explain such things as the origin of the world, mysteries of nature, or social customs.", - "source": "Literacy Vocabulary", - "id": 4214, - "length": 134 - }, - { - "text": "The seeds of life - fiery is their force, divine their birth, but they are weighed down by the bodies' ills or dulled by limbs and flesh that's born for death. That is the source of all men's fears and longings, joys and sorrows, nor can they see the heaven's light, shut up in the body's tomb, a prison dark and deep.", - "source": "The Aeneid", - "id": 4215, - "length": 318 - }, - { - "text": "Ever since stockmen began driving southern cattle into states further north it has been noted that the roads over which they were driven became a source of great danger to northern cattle. Often 80% to 90% of the native cattle died after a herd of southern cattle passed through their region and the losses became so great that both state and national laws were passed prohibiting the driving or shipping of southern cattle into northern states.", - "source": "Insects and Diseases", - "id": 4216, - "length": 445 - }, - { - "text": "I'm worse at what I do best and for this gift I feel blessed. Our little group has always been and always will until the end.", - "source": "Smells Like Teen Spirit", - "id": 4217, - "length": 125 - }, - { - "text": "I walked by your guidance counselor's office one time. A bunch of you were sitting there waiting to be shepherded. I remember it smelled like dead flowers, like decay. Then it hit me. The hope of our nation's future is a bunch of mulch.", - "source": "Buffy the Vampire Slayer", - "id": 4218, - "length": 236 - }, - { - "text": "One morning I shot an elephant in my pajamas. How he got in my pajamas, I don't know.", - "source": "Animal Crackers", - "id": 4219, - "length": 85 - }, - { - "text": "No matter how many men you kill, you can't kill your successor.", - "source": "Dying Every Day: Seneca at the Court of Nero", - "id": 4220, - "length": 63 - }, - { - "text": "The rotten tiles broke with a noise of disaster and the man barely had time to let out a cry of terror as he cracked his skull and was killed outright on the cement floor. The foreigners who heard the noise in the dining room and hastened to remove the body noticed the suffocating odour of Remedios the Beauty on his skin. It was so deep in his body that the cracks in his skull did not give off blood but an amber-coloured oil that was impregnated with that secret perfume, and then they understood that the smell of Remedios the Beauty kept on torturing the men beyond death, right down to the dust of their bones.", - "source": "One Hundred Years of Solitude", - "id": 4221, - "length": 617 - }, - { - "text": "Sometimes it seems as though each new step towards AI, rather than producing something which everyone agrees is real intelligence, merely reveals what real intelligence is not.", - "source": "Gödel, Escher, Bach: An Eternal Golden Braid", - "id": 4222, - "length": 176 - }, - { - "text": "Yes. Everyone at Harvard's inventing something. Harvard undergraduates believe that inventing a job is better than finding a job. So I'll suggest again that the two of you come up with a new new project.", - "source": "The Social Network", - "id": 4223, - "length": 203 - }, - { - "text": "She seems to have an invisible touch, yeah. She reaches in and grabs right hold of your heart.", - "source": "Invisible Touch", - "id": 4224, - "length": 94 - }, - { - "text": "Dropping through sky, through the glass of the roof, through the roof of your mouth, through the mouth of your eye, through the eye of the needle, it's easier for me to get closer to heaven than ever feel whole again.", - "source": "Disintegration", - "id": 4225, - "length": 217 - }, - { - "text": "Yet high over the city our line of yellow windows must have contributed their share of human secrecy to the casual watcher in the darkening streets, and I was him too, looking up and wondering. I was within and without, simultaneously enchanted and repelled by the inexhaustible variety of life.", - "source": "The Great Gatsby", - "id": 4226, - "length": 295 - }, - { - "text": "If I, Aguirre, want the birds to drop dead from the trees, then the birds will drop dead from the trees. I am the wrath of God. The earth I pass will see me and tremble. But whoever follows me and the river will win untold riches. But whoever deserts...", - "source": "Aguirre, the Wrath of God", - "id": 4227, - "length": 253 - }, - { - "text": "According to the data in their networks the ring has some kind of deep religious significance. If I'm analyzing this correctly they believe that Halo is some kind of weapon - one with vast, unimaginable power.", - "source": "Halo: Combat Evolved", - "id": 4228, - "length": 209 - }, - { - "text": "There is mystery everywhere. Beneath rocks, there is damp earth and an army of ants planning a revolution.", - "source": "Harbor Me", - "id": 4229, - "length": 106 - }, - { - "text": "But rightful liberty is unobstructed action according to our will within limits drawn around us by the equal rights of others. I do not add \"within the limits of the law\" because law is often but the tyrant's will, and always so when it violates the rights of the individual.", - "source": "Letter to Isaac H. Tiffany, 4 April 1819", - "id": 4230, - "length": 275 - }, - { - "text": "The greatest enemy of knowledge is not ignorance, it is the illusion of knowledge.", - "source": "Enemy of Knowledge", - "id": 4231, - "length": 82 - }, - { - "text": "Hello, welcome to Skype call testing service. After the beep, please record a message. Afterwards, your message will be played back to you.", - "source": "Skype", - "id": 4232, - "length": 139 - }, - { - "text": "For most people, the ringing of a phone was a welcome sign. Someone was trying to reach them, to say hello, ask about their well-being, or make plans. For me, it triggered fear, intense anxiety, and heart-stopping panic.", - "source": "The Devil Wears Prada", - "id": 4233, - "length": 220 - }, - { - "text": "Now I done grew up 'round some people livin' their life in bottles, grand daddy had the golden flask, backstroke everyday in Chicago. Some people like the way it feels. Some people wanna kill their sorrows. Some people want to fit in with the popular, that was my problem.", - "source": "Swimming Pools", - "id": 4234, - "length": 272 - }, - { - "text": "Judges are picked out from the most dexterous lawyers, who are grown old or lazy, and having been biased all their lives against truth or equity, are under such a fatal necessity of favoring fraud, perjury and oppression, that I have known several of them to refuse a large bribe from the side where justice lay, rather than injure the faculty by doing any thing unbecoming their nature in office.", - "source": "Gulliver's Travels", - "id": 4235, - "length": 397 - }, - { - "text": "Teenage angst has paid off well. Now I'm bored and old. Self-appointed judges judge more than they have sold. If she floats then she is not a witch like we had thought. A down payment on another one at Salem's lot.", - "source": "Serve the Servants", - "id": 4236, - "length": 214 - }, - { - "text": "The moments that define lives aren't always obvious. They don't scream LEDGE, and nine times out of ten there's no rope to duck under, no line to cross, no blood pact, no official letter on fancy paper. They aren't always protracted, heavy with meaning. Between one sip and the next, Victor made the biggest mistake of his life, and it was made of nothing more than one line. Three small words. \"I'll go first.\"", - "source": "Vicious", - "id": 4237, - "length": 411 - }, - { - "text": "These people who stand against me may be innocent humans, but I will kill them. I'm ready to strike them down without a moment's hesitation, or the slightest hint of regret! I can do this for you. I'm a monster and I will do what needs to be done. But what will you do, Sir Integra? My guns are prepared for battle, my sights are trained, my magazine is fully loaded, I've pulled the slide and removed the safety, everything is ready and waiting! Still, you must be the one to pull the trigger. So what will you do? I'm waiting for orders, my master.", - "source": "Hellsing Ultimate", - "id": 4238, - "length": 550 - }, - { - "text": "If you're ever feeling bored and aimless in a shopping mall, try this experiment. Visit ten children's clothing stores, and each time approach a salesperson saying that you are looking for a present for a newborn. Count how many times you are asked, \"Is it a boy or a girl?\" You are likely to have a 100 percent hit rate if you try this one spare afternoon.", - "source": "Delusions of Gender", - "id": 4239, - "length": 357 - }, - { - "text": "One way to combat the horizon effect is to continue search when an otherwise terminal situation is judged to be particularly dynamic. Such heuristic continuation is sometimes called feedover.", - "source": "Artificial Intelligence Second Edition", - "id": 4240, - "length": 191 - }, - { - "text": "If you give me just one more try we can pack up our old dreams and our old lives. We'll find a place where the sun still shines.", - "source": "Always", - "id": 4241, - "length": 128 - }, - { - "text": "If you think Mick Jagger will still be out there trying to be a rock star at age fifty, then you are sadly, sadly mistaken.", - "source": "Almost Famous", - "id": 4242, - "length": 123 - }, - { - "text": "Come to me my melancholy baby. Cuddle up and don't be blue. All your fears are foolish fancy, maybe. You know, dear, that I'm in love with you. Every cloud must have a silver lining. Wait until the sun shines through. Smile, my honey dear, while I kiss away each tear, or else I shall be melancholy too.", - "source": "My Melancholy Baby", - "id": 4243, - "length": 303 - }, - { - "text": "When we pulled out into the winter night and the real snow, our snow, began to stretch out beside us and twinkle against the windows, and the dim lights of small Wisconsin stations moved by, a sharp wild brace came suddenly into the air.", - "source": "The Great Gatsby", - "id": 4244, - "length": 237 - }, - { - "text": "Paper as we know it today was invented in China in around 100 AD. Wood and other fibrous material is mixed with liquid and mashed into a pulp, which is then poured onto fine screens. The liquid drains away, leaving a thin layer of fibrous material on the wire. When this material dries, it becomes paper.", - "source": "Civilization IV", - "id": 4245, - "length": 304 - }, - { - "text": "I tried, I tried. I tried to talk to Toby and be his friend but that is like trying to be friends with an evil snail.", - "source": "The Office", - "id": 4246, - "length": 117 - }, - { - "text": "I always make offers with escape clauses. In real estate, I make an offer with language that details \"subject-to\" contingencies, such as the approval of a business partner. Never specify who the business partner is. Most people don't know that my partner is my cat.", - "source": "Rich Dad Poor Dad", - "id": 4247, - "length": 265 - }, - { - "text": "Academic writers cannot get writer's block. Don't confuse yourself with your friends teaching creative writing in the fine arts department. You're not crafting a deep narrative or composing metaphors that expose mysteries of the human heart. The subtlety of your analysis of variance will not move readers to tears, although the tediousness of it might. People will not photocopy your reference list and pass it out to friends whom they wish to inspire. Novelists and poets are the landscape artists and portrait painters; academic writers are the people with big paint sprayers who repaint your basement.", - "source": "How to Write a Lot: A Practical Guide to Productive Academic Writing", - "id": 4248, - "length": 605 - }, - { - "text": "Teachers want us to work, and I say, \"Fine, I'll work. But you've gotta let me do the kind of work that I wanna do.\" And for me, it's my drum kit, man. This is my passion. This is the essence of who I am now. But before I had this, I was lost, too. You see what I'm saying? You need to find your reason for living. You've gotta find your big, gigantic drum kit.", - "source": "Freaks and Geeks", - "id": 4249, - "length": 361 - }, - { - "text": "This is pitiful. A thousand people freezing their butts off waiting to worship a rat. What a hype. Groundhog Day used to mean something in this town. They used to pull the hog out, and they used to eat it. You're hypocrites, all of you!", - "source": "Groundhog Day", - "id": 4250, - "length": 236 - }, - { - "text": "It is impossible for me to ignore that you're in a different category from any person I have tried or am likely ever to try. Nevertheless, it is my duty to sentence you to six years in prison. If however His Majesty's government should at a later date see fit to reduce the term... no one will be better pleased than I.", - "source": "Gandhi", - "id": 4251, - "length": 319 - }, - { - "text": "God is dead. God remains dead. And we have killed him. How shall we comfort ourselves, the murderers of all murderers? What was holiest and mightiest of all that the world has yet owned has bled to death under our knives: who will wipe this blood off us? What water is there for us to clean ourselves? What festivals of atonement, what sacred games shall we have to invent? Is not the greatness of this deed too great for us? Must we ourselves not become gods simply to appear worthy of it?", - "source": "The Gay Science: With a Prelude in Rhymes and an Appendix of Songs", - "id": 4252, - "length": 490 - }, - { - "text": "In your policy, it states quite clearly that no claim you make will be paid. You see, you unfortunately plumped for our never-pay policy which, you know, if you never claim, is very worthwhile.", - "source": "Monty Python's Flying Circus", - "id": 4253, - "length": 193 - }, - { - "text": "Doing repairs on the outside of a rocket in mid-air is a ticklish job. We slacken off the circulation when they're right way up, so that they're half starved, and double the flow of surrogate when they're upside down. They learn to associate topsy-turvydom with well-being; in fact, they're only truly happy when they're standing on their heads.", - "source": "Brave New World", - "id": 4254, - "length": 345 - }, - { - "text": "Quality humor doesn't just deliver one gag and then tax the audience's patience developing a new setup. Once you've got the audience laughing or on a roll, it's better to stay with toppers - a series of punch lines, each related to the previous one.", - "source": "Comedy Writing Secrets", - "id": 4255, - "length": 249 - }, - { - "text": "In general, many of these targets are easier marks if you are wearing the correct uniform. You should always have one suit or fashionable dress outfit hanging in the closet for the proper heists. Specialized uniforms, such as nun and priest garb, can be most helpful. Check out your local uniform store for a wide range of clothes that will get you in, and especially out, of all kinds of stores.", - "source": "Steal This Book", - "id": 4256, - "length": 396 - }, - { - "text": "Our world, with its rules of causality, has trained us to be miserly with forgiveness. By forgiving them too readily, we can be badly hurt. But if we've learned from a mistake and became better for it, shouldn't we be rewarded for the learning, rather than punished for the mistake?", - "source": "Braid", - "id": 4257, - "length": 282 - }, - { - "text": "The \"present\" is a leaf floating on top of the river. It moves along with the flow from past to the future.", - "source": "Steins;Gate", - "id": 4258, - "length": 107 - }, - { - "text": "I'll be fine. I'll be waiting patiently till you see the signs and come running to my open arms.", - "source": "It's No Good", - "id": 4259, - "length": 96 - }, - { - "text": "Sutler can no longer trust you, can he, Mr. Creedy? And we both know why. After I destroy Parliament, his only chance will be to offer them someone else. Some other piece of meat. And who will that be? You, Mr. Creedy. A man as smart as you has probably considered this. A man as smart as you probably has a plan. That plan is the reason Sutler no longer trusts you. It's the reason why you're being watched right now, why there are eyes and ears in every room of this house and a tap on every phone.", - "source": "V for Vendetta", - "id": 4260, - "length": 500 - }, - { - "text": "Mankind continues to fight, but it is a desperate fight to stay alive. I suppose that he chose a life of warfare since that was the only way he knew. Like you, Father, he chose of a path of destruction... Farewell, land of my birth. Never again will these eyes gaze upon your beauty.", - "source": "Castlevania: Symphony of the Night", - "id": 4261, - "length": 283 - }, - { - "text": "Marilla has given me strict instructions not to talk a head off. I do have a habit of chattering on so. Why, if I could imagine myself as a bird, a magpie would probably be the closest thing I could resemble. Oh, Diana, I've always dreamed of being in a three-legged race at a picnic. Would you do me the honor of being my partner?", - "source": "Anne of Green Gables", - "id": 4262, - "length": 331 - }, - { - "text": "It doesn't mean much to be able to filter out most present-day spam, because spam evolves. Indeed, most anti-spam techniques so far have been like pesticides that do nothing more than create a new, resistant strain of bugs.", - "source": "Hackers and Painters: Big Ideas from the Computer Age", - "id": 4263, - "length": 223 - }, - { - "text": "Slade: Who are you? Osama Bin Laden's best friend? Aladeen: No, he is not my best friend. Although he has been staying in my guest house ever since they shot his double last year. Now the guy won't leave. I know why this guy is the most hated man in the world. You just have to go to the bathroom after him. You go to the bathroom after Osama, you will realize the true meaning of terrorism.", - "source": "The Dictator", - "id": 4264, - "length": 391 - }, - { - "text": "And what haunts me is that in all the faces of all the bears that Treadwell ever filmed, I discover no kinship, no understanding, no mercy. I see only the overwhelming indifference of nature. To me, there is no such thing as a secret world of the bears. And this blank stare speaks only of a half-bored interest in food. But for Timothy Treadwell, this bear was a friend, a savior.", - "source": "Grizzly Man", - "id": 4265, - "length": 381 - }, - { - "text": "And if I'm flying solo, at least I'm flying free. To those who ground me take a message back from me - tell them how I am defying gravity. I'm flying high defying gravity, and soon I'll match them in renown. And nobody in all of Oz, no wizard that there is or was, is ever gonna bring me down!", - "source": "Defying Gravity", - "id": 4266, - "length": 293 - }, - { - "text": "The universe (which others call the Library) is composed of an indefinite, perhaps infinite number of hexagonal galleries. In the center of each gallery is a ventilation shaft, bounded by a low railing. From any hexagon one can see the floors above and below - one after another, endlessly.", - "source": "The Library of Babel", - "id": 4267, - "length": 290 - }, - { - "text": "Modern bourgeois society with its relations of production, of exchange and of property, a society that has conjured up such gigantic means of production and exchange, is like the sorcerer, who is no longer able to control the powers of the subterranean world which he has called up by his spells.", - "source": "The Communist Manifesto", - "id": 4268, - "length": 296 - }, - { - "text": "Many typists have not memorized the keyboard. Usually each key is labeled, so nontypists can hunt and peck letter by letter, relying on knowledge in the world and minimizing the time required for learning. The problem is that such typing is slow and difficult. With experience, of course, hunt-and-peckers learn the positions of many of the letters on the keyboard, even without instruction, and typing speed increases notably, quickly surpassing handwriting speeds and, for some, reaching quite respectable rates.", - "source": "The Design of Everyday Things", - "id": 4269, - "length": 514 - }, - { - "text": "What good's a reward if you ain't around to use it? Besides, attacking that battle station ain't my idea of courage. It's more like... suicide.", - "source": "Star Wars", - "id": 4270, - "length": 143 - }, - { - "text": "Very well - I'll bide my time. And as for you, my fine lady, it's true I can't attend to you here and now as I'd like, but just try to stay out of my way - just try! I'll get you, my pretty, and your little dog too!", - "source": "The Wizard of Oz", - "id": 4271, - "length": 215 - }, - { - "text": "I find it's best when dealing with any unfamiliar bully to strike early with sarcasm. Yeah, it makes them wonder if I have some butt-kicking prowess that they're unable to detect.", - "source": "Everwood", - "id": 4272, - "length": 179 - }, - { - "text": "Miscommunication sometimes leads to arguments, and arguments sometimes lead to fights. Anger is usually present in arguments and fights. Anger is an emotion, usually classified as a negative emotion. Negative emotions can cause severe problems in our environment and to the health of our body. Happiness, usually classified as a positive emotion, can bring good health to our body, and spread positive vibrations into our environment. Sometimes when we are ill, we are not on our best behavior.", - "source": "Twin Peaks", - "id": 4273, - "length": 494 - }, - { - "text": "At the time when Britain faced a plunge into chaos and darkness, a hero emerged who not only succeeded in getting the feuding tribes to work together against their common enemy, but led them in a series of smashing victories that established him as a figure of great power and importance - a figure ripe for developing into the myth-laden king of later accounts.", - "source": "King Arthur: Dark Age Warrior and Mythic Hero", - "id": 4274, - "length": 362 - }, - { - "text": "Power is in tearing human minds to pieces and putting them together again in new shapes of your own choosing.", - "source": "Nineteen Eighty Four", - "id": 4275, - "length": 109 - }, - { - "text": "This was a triumph! I'm making a note here: huge success! It's hard to overstate my satisfaction. Aperture Science: we do what we must because we can. For the good of all of us, except the ones who are dead. But there's no sense crying over every mistake. You just keep on trying 'til you run out of cake. And the science gets done, and you make a neat gun for the people who are still alive.", - "source": "Portal", - "id": 4276, - "length": 392 - }, - { - "text": "When you're a kid, they tell you it's all, \"Grow up. Get a job. Get married. Get a house. Have a kid, and that's it.\" But the truth is the world is so much stranger than that. It's so much darker. And so much madder. And so much better.", - "source": "Doctor Who", - "id": 4277, - "length": 236 - }, - { - "text": "Men are not subtle - men are obvious. Women know what men want. Men know what men want. What do we want? We want women! It's the only thing we know for sure: we want women! How do we get women? Oh, we don't know that. The next step after that we have no idea. This is why you see men honking car-horns, yelling from construction sites.", - "source": "Seinfeld", - "id": 4278, - "length": 335 - }, - { - "text": "Mr Willy Wonka can make marshmallows that taste of violets, and rich caramels that change colour every ten seconds as you suck them, and little feathery sweets that melt away deliciously the moment you put them between your lips. He can make chewing-gum that never loses its taste, and sugar balloons that you can blow up to enormous sizes before you pop them with a pin and gobble them up. And, by a most secret method, he can make lovely blue birds' eggs with black spots on them, and when you put one of these in your mouth, it gradually gets smaller and smaller until suddenly there is nothing left except a tiny little dark red sugary baby bird sitting on the tip of your tongue.", - "source": "Charlie and the Chocolate Factory", - "id": 4279, - "length": 684 - }, - { - "text": "To learn what we fear is to learn who we are. Horror defies our boundaries and illuminates our souls.", - "source": "The Haunting of Hill House", - "id": 4280, - "length": 101 - }, - { - "text": "Power is living while others inevitably perish. Power is cool indifference to their suffering. Power is taking nourishment from the deaths of others, just as the mighty redwoods draw sustenance from the perpetual decomposition of what once lived, but lived only briefly, around them.", - "source": "Intensity: A Novel", - "id": 4281, - "length": 283 - }, - { - "text": "Despair comes slowly, crawling its way up inside you until it threatens to overwhelm everything; it buckles the knees, makes you falter and makes you break your stride. In those moments she would will herself forward until despair was replaced by something stronger.", - "source": "419", - "id": 4282, - "length": 266 - }, - { - "text": "Everyone has questions about the economy. Why can't I live as well as my parents did? Will I still have a job next year? What will happen to my kids? To our world? If the experts are baffled, how can the rest of us understand what's going on? I started looking for the answers in economic texts. I found enough insights to get me started, but I couldn't seem to make the insights add up.", - "source": "Preface to Economix", - "id": 4283, - "length": 387 - }, - { - "text": "It seems to me I am trying to tell you a dream - making a vain attempt, because no relation of a dream can convey the dream-sensation, that commingling of absurdity, surprise, and bewilderment in a tremor of struggling revolt, that notion of being captured by the incredible which is of the very essence of dreams.", - "source": "Heart of Darkness", - "id": 4284, - "length": 314 - }, - { - "text": "You come into my house on the day my daughter is to be married and you ask me to do murder - for money.", - "source": "The Godfather", - "id": 4285, - "length": 103 - }, - { - "text": "I would never want to forfeit my genders. Along with Aunt Augusta, I would rather say to the English language that to lose one gender may be regarded as a misfortune; to lose both looks like carelessness.", - "source": "Through the Language Glass: Why the World Looks Different in Other Languages", - "id": 4286, - "length": 204 - }, - { - "text": "Did you know a young boy drowned the year before those two others were killed? The counselors weren't paying any attention... They were making love while that young boy drowned. His name was Jason. I was working the day that it happened. Preparing meals... here. I was the cook. Jason should've been watched. Every minute. He was... he wasn't a very good swimmer. We can go now, dear.", - "source": "Friday The 13th", - "id": 4287, - "length": 384 - }, - { - "text": "The bunk house was a long, rectangular building. Inside, the walls were whitewashed and the floor unpainted. In three walls there were small, square windows, and in the fourth, a solid door with a wooden latch. Against the walls were eight bunks, five of them made up with blankets and the other three showing their burlap ticking. Over each bunk there was nailed an apple box with the opening forward so that it made two shelves for the personal belongings of the occupant of the bunk. And these shelves were loaded with little articles, soap and talcum powder, razors and those Western magazines ranch men love to read and scoff at and secretly believe.", - "source": "Of Mice and Men", - "id": 4288, - "length": 655 - }, - { - "text": "Wow! I've never seen so many guests from different parts of the world in one place! I'll bet you could hear some stories about places you've never been to, huh?", - "source": "Paper Mario", - "id": 4289, - "length": 160 - }, - { - "text": "We're very lucky in the band in that we have two visionaries, David and Nigel. They're like poets, like Shelley and Byron. They're two distinct types of visionaries. It's like fire and ice basically. I feel my role in the band is to be somewhere in the middle of that, kind of like lukewarm water.", - "source": "This Is Spinal Tap", - "id": 4290, - "length": 297 - }, - { - "text": "Things are so much perplexed and in the dark that several great philosophers looked upon them as altogether unintelligible, and that there was no certain test for the discovery of truth. Even the Stoics agree that certainty is very hard to come at; that our assent is worth little, for where is infallibility to be found?", - "source": "Meditations", - "id": 4291, - "length": 321 - }, - { - "text": "This is Paris, and I'm an American who lives here. My name is Jerry Mulligan, and I'm an ex G.I. In 1945 when the army told me to find my own job, I stayed on. And I'll tell you why: I'm a painter, and all my life that's all I've ever wanted to do. For a painter, the mecca of the world for study, for inspiration, and for living is here on this star called Paris.", - "source": "An American in Paris", - "id": 4292, - "length": 364 - }, - { - "text": "Who decides limits? And based on what? You said you worked hard? Well, maybe you need to work a little harder. Is that really the limit of your strength? Could you of tomorrow beat you today? Instead of giving in, move forward.", - "source": "One-Punch Man", - "id": 4293, - "length": 227 - }, - { - "text": "Numerous studies have shown similar results. Radiologists have failed to recognize the presence of lung disease in about 30 percent of the X-ray plates they read, despite the clear presence of the disease on the X-ray film. Another experiment proved that professional staffs in psychiatric hospitals could not tell the sane from the insane. The point is that we should not take for granted the reliability and accuracy of any judge, no matter how expert.", - "source": "A Random Walk Down Wall Street", - "id": 4294, - "length": 454 - }, - { - "text": "Sometimes ideas, like men, jump up and say 'hello'. They introduce themselves, these ideas, with words. Are they words? These ideas speak so strangely. All that we see in this world is based on someone's ideas. Some ideas are destructive, some are constructive. Some ideas can arrive in the form of a dream. I can say it again: some ideas arrive in the form of a dream.", - "source": "Twin Peaks", - "id": 4295, - "length": 369 - }, - { - "text": "Okay, go ahead. Call her, get married, have babies, have a great life... What do I care? I'm finished. It's all over for me. In fact, let's end it right now. Jerry, kill me, kill me now. I'm begging you. Let's just get it over with. Be a pal... Just take the pillow and put it over my face.", - "source": "Seinfeld", - "id": 4296, - "length": 290 - }, - { - "text": "Tonight the light of love is in your eyes, but will you love me tomorrow?", - "source": "Will You Love Me Tomorrow", - "id": 4297, - "length": 73 - }, - { - "text": "You used to get it in your fishnets, now you only get it in your night dress. Discarded all the naughty nights for niceness. Landed in a very common crisis.", - "source": "Fluorescent Adolescent", - "id": 4298, - "length": 156 - }, - { - "text": "Have you no hope at all? And do you really live with the thought that when you die, you die, and nothing remains?", - "source": "The Stranger", - "id": 4299, - "length": 113 - }, - { - "text": "Living is easy with eyes closed, misunderstanding all you see. It's getting hard to be someone but it all works out. It doesn't matter much to me.", - "source": "Strawberry Fields Forever", - "id": 4300, - "length": 146 - }, - { - "text": "I seem to be what I'm not, you see. I'm wearing my heart like a crown, pretending that you're still around.", - "source": "The Great Pretender", - "id": 4301, - "length": 107 - }, - { - "text": "I find to my amazement that the more I love mankind as a whole, the less I love man in particular.", - "source": "The Brothers Karamazov", - "id": 4302, - "length": 98 - }, - { - "text": "I would like to be President someday, so no, I have not smoked marijuana. I ate a brownie once at a party in college. It was intense. It was kind of indescribable actually. I felt like I was floating. Turns out there wasn't any pot in the brownie, it was just an insanely good brownie.", - "source": "Parks and Recreation", - "id": 4303, - "length": 285 - }, - { - "text": "Slowly and solemnly he was borne into Briony Lodge and laid out in the principal room, while I still observed the proceedings from my post by the window. The lamps had been lit, but the blinds had not been drawn, so that I could see Holmes as he lay upon the couch. I do not know whether he was seized with compunction at that moment for the part he was playing, but I know that I never felt more heartily ashamed of myself in my life than when I saw the beautiful creature against whom I was conspiring, or the grace and kindliness with which she waited upon the injured man.", - "source": "The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes", - "id": 4304, - "length": 576 - }, - { - "text": "Sometimes you're the windshield, sometimes you're the bug. Sometimes it all comes together baby. Sometimes you're a fool in love.", - "source": "The Bug", - "id": 4305, - "length": 129 - }, - { - "text": "You know, you really don't need a forensics team to get to the bottom of this. If you guys were the inventors of Facebook, you'd have invented Facebook.", - "source": "The Social Network", - "id": 4306, - "length": 152 - }, - { - "text": "Mathematics, rightly viewed, possesses not only truth, but supreme beauty - a beauty cold and austere, like that of sculpture, without appeal to any part of our weaker nature, without the gorgeous trappings of painting or music, yet sublimely pure, and capable of a stern perfection such as only the greatest art can show.", - "source": "A History of Western Philosophy", - "id": 4307, - "length": 322 - }, - { - "text": "Overthinking, overanalyzing, separates the body from the mind. Withering my intuition, missing opportunities and I must feed my will to feel my moment drawing way outside the lines.", - "source": "Lateralus", - "id": 4308, - "length": 181 - }, - { - "text": "Everyone thinks they are above average, which is statistically impossible.", - "source": "Inside The Mind of an Introvert", - "id": 4309, - "length": 74 - }, - { - "text": "I'll make him an offer he can't refuse. You see, Johnny, we feel that entertainment is going to be a big factor in drawing gamblers into the casinos. We're hoping that you'll sign a contract agreeing to appear five times a year. Perhaps convince some of your friends in the movies to do the same. We're counting on you, Johnny.", - "source": "The Godfather", - "id": 4310, - "length": 327 - }, - { - "text": "Perhaps it might be better, Mr. President, if you were more concerned with the American People than with your image in the history books.", - "source": "Dr. Strangelove or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb", - "id": 4311, - "length": 137 - }, - { - "text": "And though my journeys did take me to a great many states, and covered a great many miles, at the very end of these food chains (which is to say, at the very beginning), I invariably found myself in almost exactly the same place: a farm field in the American Corn Belt.", - "source": "The Omnivore's Dilemma: A Natural History of Four Meals", - "id": 4312, - "length": 269 - }, - { - "text": "You'll look up and down streets. Look 'em over with care. About some you will say, \"I don't choose to go there.\" With your head full of brains and your shoes full of feet, you're too smart to go down any not-so-good street.", - "source": "Oh, the Places You'll Go!", - "id": 4313, - "length": 223 - }, - { - "text": "I should have never gave my word to you, not a cry, not a sound. Might have learned how to swim, but never taught how to drown. You said \"Remember me for me\". I watched you set your spirit free.", - "source": "Your Deep Rest", - "id": 4314, - "length": 194 - }, - { - "text": "Elves seldom give unguarded advice, for advice is a dangerous gift, even from the wise to the wise, and all courses may run ill.", - "source": "The Lord of The Rings", - "id": 4315, - "length": 128 - }, - { - "text": "Convection also plays a minor role because of the relative thinness of the air layer and the presence of the upper cardboard heat shield. The insulation properties of the cardboard play a major role, since they serve to minimize the temperature gradient across the airspace. By studying the cooling of pizza in the gravity free environment of the space shuttle, we could more exactly determine the importance of convective flows.", - "source": "The Thermodynamics of Pizza", - "id": 4316, - "length": 429 - }, - { - "text": "For there is no folly of the beast of the earth which is not infinitely outdone by the madness of men.", - "source": "Moby Dick", - "id": 4317, - "length": 102 - }, - { - "text": "All beauty comes from beautiful blood and a beautiful brain. If the greatnesses are in conjunction in a man or woman it is enough, the fact will prevail through the universe, but the gaggery and gilt of a million years will not prevail. Who troubles himself about his ornaments or fluency is lost.", - "source": "Leaves of Grass", - "id": 4318, - "length": 297 - }, - { - "text": "The telescreen received and transmitted simultaneously. Any sound that Winston made, above the level of a very low whisper, would be picked up by it; moreover, so long as he remained within the field of vision which the metal plaque commanded, he could be seen as well as heard.", - "source": "1984", - "id": 4319, - "length": 278 - }, - { - "text": "We've come up with a camera so tiny it fits into this oversized novelty hat. Now, go get us some incriminating footage. And remember: you have to get in and out for 10 minutes, or you suffer permanent neck damage.", - "source": "The Simpsons", - "id": 4320, - "length": 213 - }, - { - "text": "Well, the time has come to say, is dehumanization such a bad word? Because good or bad, that's what is so. The whole world is becoming humanoid - creatures that look human but aren't. The whole world, not just us. We're just the most advanced country so we're getting there first. The whole world's people are becoming mass-produced, programmed, numbered, insensate things.", - "source": "Network", - "id": 4321, - "length": 373 - }, - { - "text": "I am a world before I am a man. I was a creature before I could stand. I will remember before I forget. Before I forget that!", - "source": "Before I Forget", - "id": 4322, - "length": 125 - }, - { - "text": "Get your lies prepared, you're next in line for judgment day. Now aren't you praying, aren't you begging that you're anyone else?", - "source": "Playing For Keeps", - "id": 4323, - "length": 129 - }, - { - "text": "Every time people try to punish the rich, the rich don't simply comply. They react. They have the money, power, and intent to change things. They don't just sit there and voluntarily pay more taxes. Instead, they search for ways to minimize their tax burden. They hire smart attorneys and accountants, and persuade politicians to change laws or create legal loopholes. They use their resources to effect change.", - "source": "Rich Dad Poor Dad", - "id": 4324, - "length": 411 - }, - { - "text": "Now the scandal and the light are to be distributed differently; it is the conviction itself that marks the offender with the unequivocally negative sign: the publicity has shifted to the trial, and to the sentence; the execution itself is like an additional shame that justice is ashamed to impose on the condemned man; so it keeps its distance from the act, tending always to entrust it to others, under the seal of secrecy.", - "source": "Discipline and Punish: The Birth of the Prison", - "id": 4325, - "length": 426 - }, - { - "text": "I am invisible, understand, simply because people refuse to see me. Like the bodiless heads you see sometimes in circus sideshows, it is as though I have been surrounded by mirrors of hard, distorting glass. When they approach me they see only my surroundings, themselves or figments of their imagination, indeed, everything and anything except me.", - "source": "Invisible Man", - "id": 4326, - "length": 348 - }, - { - "text": "I don't think I've ever been to an appointment in my life where I wanted the other guy to show up.", - "source": "Seinfeld", - "id": 4327, - "length": 98 - }, - { - "text": "I was stealing saltshakers again. Ten, sometimes twelve a night, shoving them in my pockets, hiding them up my sleeves, smuggling them out of bars and diners and anywhere else I could find them. In the morning, wherever I woke up, I was always covered in salt. I was cured meat. I had become beef jerky. Even as a small, small child, I knew it would one day come to this.", - "source": "Apathy and Other Small Victories", - "id": 4328, - "length": 371 - }, - { - "text": "But then I find myself in bed, lost inside my head again, running over everything, the voices, they are deafening. Out from the noise, I hear that familiar voice, he says \"life is the great unknown.\"", - "source": "Motion Sickness", - "id": 4329, - "length": 199 - }, - { - "text": "Since the infancy of computers, hackers have been creatively solving problems. In the late 1950s, the MIT model railroad club was given a donation of parts, mostly old telephone equipment. The club's members used this equipment to rig up a complex system that allowed multiple operators to control different parts of the track by dialing in to the appropriate sections. They called this new and inventive use of telephone equipment hacking; many people consider this group to be the original hackers.", - "source": "Hacking: The Art of Exploitation", - "id": 4330, - "length": 500 - }, - { - "text": "Since you've gone I've been lost without a trace. I dream at night, I can only see your face. I look around but it's you I can't replace.", - "source": "Every Breath You Take", - "id": 4331, - "length": 137 - }, - { - "text": "Everyone said I was daft to build a castle on a swamp, but I built it all the same, just to show them. It sank into the swamp. So I built a second one. That sank into the swamp. So I built a third. That burned down, fell over, then sank into the swamp. But the fourth one stayed up. And that's what you're going to get, Lad, the strongest castle in all of England.", - "source": "Monty Python and The Holy Grail", - "id": 4332, - "length": 364 - }, - { - "text": "They're pills that create a sort of temporary forgettingness. So if somebody finds out how you do a trick, you just give 'em one of these, and they forget the whole thing. It's a mainstay of the magician's toolkit, like how clowns always have a rag soaked in ether.", - "source": "Arrested Development", - "id": 4333, - "length": 265 - }, - { - "text": "Life is short. From here to that old car you know so well there is a stretch of twenty, twenty-five paces. It is a very short walk. Make those twenty-five steps. Now. Right now. Come just as you are. And we shall live happily ever after.", - "source": "Lolita", - "id": 4334, - "length": 237 - }, - { - "text": "The view that machines cannot give rise to surprises is due, I believe, to a fallacy to which philosophers and mathematicians are particularly subject. This is the assumption that as soon as a fact is presented to a mind all consequences of that fact spring into the mind simultaneously with it. It is a very useful assumption under many circumstances, but one too easily forgets that it is false. A natural consequence of doing so is that one then assumes that there is no virtue in the mere working out of consequences from data and general principles.", - "source": "Computing Machinery and Intelligence", - "id": 4335, - "length": 554 - }, - { - "text": "I never realize how much I like being home unless I've been somewhere really different for a while.", - "source": "Juno", - "id": 4336, - "length": 99 - }, - { - "text": "Well, I wanna thank y'all for coming out today, and I wanna thank my supporters from the bottom of my heart. Because we have been tested - tested by fire. Our border has been put to the test, and let me tell you: we have failed that test. The aliens, the infiltrators, the outsiders, they come right across by light of day or dark of night. They'll bleed us, they're parasites. They'll bleed us until we as a city, a county, a state, a nation are all bled out. Make no mistake: we are at war. Every time an illegal dances across our border it is an act of aggression against this sovereign state, an overt act of terrorism.", - "source": "Machete", - "id": 4337, - "length": 623 - }, - { - "text": "Studies suggest that the influence of parents is due to two factors: communication and receptivity. Parents communicate their feelings and preferences to children constantly. Because children have such a strong desire for parental approval, they are very receptive to their parents' views.", - "source": "American Government and Politics Today: The Essentials", - "id": 4338, - "length": 289 - }, - { - "text": "I take care of my body above all else. Diet, exercise, supplements, positive thinking. Scientists believe that the first human being who will live 150 years has already been born. I believe I am that human being.", - "source": "Parks and Recreation", - "id": 4339, - "length": 212 - }, - { - "text": "A young man stands in his bedroom. It just so happens that today, the 13th of April, 2009, is this young man's birthday. Though it was thirteen years ago he was given life, it is only today he will be given a name! What will the name of this young man be?", - "source": "Homestuck", - "id": 4340, - "length": 255 - }, - { - "text": "Before the body, there is the face, and before the face there is the thin black line between Hector's nose and upper lip. A twitching filament of anxieties, a metaphysical jump rope, a dancing thread of discombobulation, the mustache is a seismograph of Hector's inner states, and not only does it make you laugh, it tells you what Hector is thinking, actually allows you into the machinery of his thoughts. Other elements are involved - the eyes, the mouth, the finely calibrated lurches and stumbles - but the mustache is the instrument of communication, and even though it speaks a language without words, its wriggles and flutters are as clear and comprehensible as a message tapped out in Morse code.", - "source": "The Book of Illusions", - "id": 4341, - "length": 705 - }, - { - "text": "In the Valley, prediction has become a popular way of fighting for a particular future while claiming merely what has yet to occur. Prediction has a useful air of selflessness to it. Predictors aren't caught in the here and now of their own appetites and interests. It seems like they aren't choosing how things will be in the future any more than they choose the color of their eyes. Yet selecting one scenario among many possible scenarios and persuading everybody of its inevitability - and of the futility of a society's exercising its collective choice among these futures - is a deft way to shape the future.", - "source": "Winners Take All: The Elite Charade of Changing the World", - "id": 4342, - "length": 614 - }, - { - "text": "When rationality begins to break down, the circuits of the human brain can overload. Axons grow bright and feverish. Hallucinations turn real: the quicksilver puddle at the point where perspective makes parallel lines seem to intersect is really there; the dead walk and talk; a rose begins to sing.", - "source": "The Mist", - "id": 4343, - "length": 299 - }, - { - "text": "He implies there is a correlation between his daily work and the drawings, which leads people to believe he is some type of an architect, but you suspect there is no place for him with even the most incompetent firm.", - "source": "Ablutions: Notes For a Novel", - "id": 4344, - "length": 216 - }, - { - "text": "The Matrix is everywhere. It is all around us. Even now, in this very room. You can see it when you look out your window, or when you turn on your television.", - "source": "The Matrix", - "id": 4345, - "length": 158 - }, - { - "text": "You know, Einstein was not only brilliant, he had a great sense of humor. How did it go? \"Any man who drives safely while kissing a pretty girl is not giving the pretty girl the attention she deserves.\" If I learned anything this past year, life's too short not to live.", - "source": "The Flash", - "id": 4346, - "length": 270 - }, - { - "text": "I don't need herbal enhancers to feel good about myself. And if you're so concerned about that, why don't you try eating some yourself?", - "source": "Napoleon Dynamite", - "id": 4347, - "length": 135 - }, - { - "text": "What torments me is not the humps nor the hollows nor the ugliness. It is the sight, a little bit in all these men, of Mozart murdered.", - "source": "Wind, Sand and Stars", - "id": 4348, - "length": 135 - }, - { - "text": "You have no respect for excessive authority or obsolete traditions. You're dangerous and depraved, and you ought to be taken outside and shot!", - "source": "Catch-22", - "id": 4349, - "length": 142 - }, - { - "text": "It's like this: You're eight years old. He misses your birthday party. You wanna cry about it but he's on TV that night for separating the heads of Siamese twins. You're ten. He's not there to see you in the school play. He is however in the New York Times for restoring the vision of a five year old kid. I think he was my dad's excuse for missing my elementary school graduation. You know you want to be mad at him. You wanna hate him. But you can't. He's saving lives.", - "source": "Everwood", - "id": 4350, - "length": 471 - }, - { - "text": "Inside tank of fuel is not fuel, but love. Above us, there is nothing above but the stars above.", - "source": "Elektronik Supersonik", - "id": 4351, - "length": 96 - }, - { - "text": "Mona Lisa, Mona Lisa, men have named you. You're so like the lady with the mystic smile. Is it only 'cause you're lonely they have blamed you for that Mona Lisa strangeness in your smile? Do you smile to tempt a lover, Mona Lisa? Or is this your way to hide a broken heart? Many dreams have been brought to your doorstep. They just lie there, and they die there. Are you warm, are you real, Mona Lisa? Or just a cold and lonely lovely work of art?", - "source": "Mona Lisa", - "id": 4352, - "length": 447 - }, - { - "text": "Empire had the better ending. I mean, Luke gets his hand cut off, finds out Vader's his father, Han gets frozen and taken away by Boba Fett. It ends on such a down note. I mean, that's what life is, a series of down endings. All Jedi had was a bunch of Muppets.", - "source": "Clerks", - "id": 4353, - "length": 261 - }, - { - "text": "Many different interpretations of the word yoga have been handed down over the centuries. One of these is \"to come together,\" \"to unite.\" Another meaning of the word yoga is \"to tie the strands of the mind together.\" These two definitions may at first glance seem very different, but really they are speaking about the same thing. While \"coming together\" gives us a physical interpretation of the word yoga, an example of tying the strands of the mind together is the direction of our thoughts toward the yoga session before we take on an actual practice. Once those mental strands come together to form an intention, we are ready to begin the physical work.", - "source": "Yoga: Concept and Meaning", - "id": 4354, - "length": 658 - }, - { - "text": "It is a maxim among these lawyers, that whatever hath been done before may legally be done again: and therefore they take special care to record all the decisions formerly made against common justice and the general reason of mankind. These, under the name of precedents, they produce as authorities, to justify the most iniquitous opinions; and the judges never fail of decreeing accordingly.", - "source": "Gulliver's Travels", - "id": 4355, - "length": 393 - }, - { - "text": "Saturday afternoons are terrible in a boys' school, especially in the winter. There is no football game; it is not possible, as it is in the spring, to take bicycle trips into the surrounding country. Not even the most grinding student can feel required to lose himself in his books, since there is Sunday ahead, long, lazy, quiet Sunday, to do any homework.", - "source": "A Separate Peace", - "id": 4356, - "length": 358 - }, - { - "text": "That's too bad, I said lunch meet. You want a drink? Lose the glasses. I'm gonna say a few things. I'm gonna say some bad words. You're just gonna have to deal with it. Now, I know what you're thinking: you're thinking I clipped your uncle. On the one hand, you'd be an idiot to believe me when I told you I didn't do it. But I didn't. Now, I got some bad news for you. Look at me. Look at me. Your uncle was a rat.", - "source": "The Sopranos", - "id": 4357, - "length": 415 - }, - { - "text": "I was standing by the window on one cold and cloudy day, and I saw the hearse come rolling for to carry my mother away. Can the circle be unbroken, bye and bye, Lord, bye and bye? There's a better home a-waiting in the sky, Lord, in the sky.", - "source": "Can the Circle Be Unbroken (By and By)", - "id": 4358, - "length": 241 - }, - { - "text": "When the shadow of the sash appeared on the curtains it was between seven and eight o'clock and then I was in time again, hearing the watch. It was Grandfather's and when Father gave it to me he said I give you the mausoleum of all hope and desire; it's rather excruciatingly apt that you will use it to gain the reducto absurdum of all human experience which can fit your individual needs no better than it fitted his or his father's.", - "source": "The Sound and the Fury", - "id": 4359, - "length": 435 - }, - { - "text": "Each member of Congress casts hundreds of votes in each session. Each member compiles a record of votes during the years that he or she spends in the national legislature. There are usually several different reasons why any particular vote is cast. Research shows that the best predictor of a member's vote is party affiliation.", - "source": "American Government and Politics Today: The Essentials", - "id": 4360, - "length": 328 - }, - { - "text": "And you're to tell him nothing personal, Starling. Believe me, you don't want Hannibal Lecter inside your head.", - "source": "The Silence of the Lambs", - "id": 4361, - "length": 111 - }, - { - "text": "I'll take you for a ride on my garbage truck. Oh no, I'll take you to the dump 'cause you're my queen. I'll show you the sights. You know you wanna ride on my garbage truck.", - "source": "Garbage Truck", - "id": 4362, - "length": 173 - }, - { - "text": "I often see racers, particularly at the back of the pack in amateur races, trying to go fast, with their arms flailing around, banging off shifts, jerking the steering into a turn with feet stabbing at the pedals. If the driver would only slow down, the car would actually go faster. It reminds me of the saying, \"never confuse movement for action.\"", - "source": "Speed Secrets: Professional Race Driving Techniques", - "id": 4363, - "length": 349 - }, - { - "text": "The past is history, future is a mystery, now is a gift, that's why they call it the present.", - "source": "Kung Fu Panda", - "id": 4364, - "length": 93 - }, - { - "text": "The theory of music emphasizes the elements from which music is composed. One such structure is the melody, which is a grouping of musical notes that combine into a basic, but immensely flexible structure. Another is the chord, which is two or more notes played simultaneously to create a harmony.", - "source": "Civilization IV", - "id": 4365, - "length": 297 - }, - { - "text": "You can't live your life for other people. You've got to do what's right for you, even if it hurts some people you love.", - "source": "The Notebook", - "id": 4366, - "length": 120 - }, - { - "text": "To be a poet is to have a soul so quick to discern, that no shade of quality escapes it, and so quick to feel, that discernment is but a hand playing with finely-ordered variety on the chords of emotion - a soul in which knowledge passes instantaneously into feeling, and feeling flashes back as a new organ of knowledge.", - "source": "Middlemarch", - "id": 4367, - "length": 321 - }, - { - "text": "The Inca believed that if one did not give thanks and obedience to the gods, bad things would happen. The world of the Andes Mountains is full of ecological wonders - and ecological disasters such as earthquakes, severe storms, and volcanic activity.", - "source": "Civilization IV", - "id": 4368, - "length": 250 - }, - { - "text": "It's much better to do good in a way that no one knows anything about it.", - "source": "Anna Karenina", - "id": 4369, - "length": 73 - }, - { - "text": "My brother has his sword, King Robert has his warhammer, and I have my mind... and a mind needs books as a sword needs a whetstone, if it is to keep its edge. That's why I read so much, Jon Snow.", - "source": "A Game of Thrones", - "id": 4370, - "length": 195 - }, - { - "text": "Everyone's licking up to the new kingpin trying to get way up with a smile. Sing for your supper boy and jump to a finger click. Ain't my way of living in style. 'Cause the ladder gets longer and ambition gets stronger. I can't satisfy the hunger. That bad old moon has got you in its sway to be king for a day.", - "source": "King for a Day", - "id": 4371, - "length": 311 - }, - { - "text": "And you'd say, \"Time to rest your weary head, take your wings and go to bed; I know you want to know it all, my darling.\" And I'd say, \"Set me down and rock me, rock me to sleep.\"", - "source": "Time to Rest your Weary Head", - "id": 4372, - "length": 179 - }, - { - "text": "I don't want to sell anything, buy anything, or process anything as a career. I don't want to sell anything bought or processed, or buy anything sold or processed, or process anything sold, bought, or processed, or repair anything sold, bought, or processed. You know, as a career, I don't want to do that.", - "source": "Say Anything", - "id": 4373, - "length": 306 - }, - { - "text": "Daddy's flown across the ocean. Leaving just a memory. A snapshot in the family album. Daddy, what else did you leave for me? Daddy, what'd ya leave behind for me? All in all, it was just a brick in the wall. All in all, it was all just bricks in the wall.", - "source": "The Wall", - "id": 4374, - "length": 256 - }, - { - "text": "It was right before I was to take on my duties of protecting the President's daughter when she was abducted. That's the ultimate reason I'm in this lonely and rural part of Europe. According to our intelligence, there's reliable information of a sighting of a girl that looks very similar to the President's daughter. Apparently she's being withheld by some unidentified group of people. Who would have thought my first job would be a rescue mission?", - "source": "Resident Evil 4 - PlayStation 2", - "id": 4375, - "length": 450 - }, - { - "text": "The thing about people who are truly and malignantly crazy: their real genius is for making the people around them think they themselves are crazy.", - "source": "Infinite Jest", - "id": 4376, - "length": 147 - }, - { - "text": "Then Annie got the crazy idea that she could talk me into buying a farm. I'm thirty-six years old, I love my family, I love baseball, and I'm about to become a farmer. And until I heard the Voice, I'd never done a crazy thing in my whole life.", - "source": "Field of Dreams", - "id": 4377, - "length": 243 - }, - { - "text": "Some drivers actually perform best when there is a little extra incentive - like chasing another car. But be careful you don't get too caught up in what the competition is doing. Focus on your own performance rather than on the competition.", - "source": "Speed Secrets: Professional Race Driving Techniques", - "id": 4378, - "length": 240 - }, - { - "text": "The general who became a slave. The slave who became a gladiator. The gladiator who defied an emperor. Striking story! But now, the people want to know how the story ends. Only a famous death will do. And what could be more glorious than to challenge the Emperor himself in the great arena?", - "source": "The Gladiator", - "id": 4379, - "length": 290 - }, - { - "text": "Popular is even weirder. Turns out, it's not the same thing as having friends at all.", - "source": "Merci Suárez Changes Gears", - "id": 4380, - "length": 85 - }, - { - "text": "The ideas of economists and political philosophers, both when they are right and when they are wrong, are more powerful than is commonly understood. Indeed the world is ruled by little else. Practical men, who believe themselves to be quite exempt from any intellectual influence, are usually the slaves of some defunct economist. Madmen in authority, who hear voices in the air, are distilling their frenzy from some academic scribbler of a few years back. I am sure that the power of vested interests is vastly exaggerated compared with the gradual encroachment of ideas.", - "source": "The General Theory of Employment, Interest, and Money", - "id": 4381, - "length": 573 - }, - { - "text": "You thought you'd found a friend to take you out of this place. Someone you could lend a hand in return for grace.", - "source": "Beautiful Day", - "id": 4383, - "length": 114 - }, - { - "text": "I can already hear your tune calling me across the room. When the world and his wife are on my back again, not enough pleasure too much pain. When the world is too much with me, please leave, just go away. Before I lose my mind completely, please leave, just go now.", - "source": "Swamp Thing", - "id": 4384, - "length": 266 - }, - { - "text": "Can't hold on much longer. But I will never let go! I know it's a one way track. Tell me now how long this'll last! I'm not gonna think this way. Nor will I count on others! Close my eyes and feel it burn. Now I see what I gotta do! Open your heart, it's gonna be alright.", - "source": "Sonic Adventure", - "id": 4385, - "length": 272 - }, - { - "text": "The letter she left was one line long. \"Goodbye forever I'm gone\". It was sitting on a table in a room in a red brick box that we used to call our home.", - "source": "Goodbye I'm Gone", - "id": 4386, - "length": 152 - }, - { - "text": "In a time when lawmen were outlaws, a thief, a cutthroat and a bounty hunter face an enemy of a new kind. Through the uncharted lands of the West, a fistful of men ride for the Blackwater. Tonight, an unsettling tone lingers in the air - this sound makes the horses shriek in fear! From above, piercing thunder roars. The earth has visitors: this is the sound of the machine. Now staring into the sky, the stars dissipate to make way, as a mechanical beast makes its descent towards the earth. Through galaxies in space - and tales old as time - fear finds a way into the heart of every man of the Blackwater.", - "source": "Blackwater", - "id": 4387, - "length": 609 - }, - { - "text": "I offered her a job at the desk. You can imagine what she said to that. If the economy hadn't bottomed out, she might have got along all right.", - "source": "Deus Ex", - "id": 4388, - "length": 143 - }, - { - "text": "Always remember the four basic tactics to avoid detection: crouch behind concealment, stay behind enemies, move slowly to avoid making noise, and use shadows to conceal yourself. Be alert to every possibility.", - "source": "Deus Ex", - "id": 4389, - "length": 209 - }, - { - "text": "I have already told you, I have no further stocks of Veritaserum. Unless you wish to poison Potter - and I can assure you I would have the greatest sympathy if you did - I cannot help you. The only trouble is that most venoms act too swiftly to give the victim much in the way of time for truth telling.", - "source": "Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix", - "id": 4390, - "length": 303 - }, - { - "text": "The intertrochanteric line is at the junction of the neck and shaft on the anterior surface; the intertrochanteric crest is in a similar position on the posterior surface.", - "source": "Clinical Atlas of Human Anatomy", - "id": 4391, - "length": 171 - }, - { - "text": "A weakened mind always sees everything through a black veil. The soul makes its own horizons; your soul is dark, which is why you see such a cloudy sky.", - "source": "The Count of Monte Cristo", - "id": 4392, - "length": 152 - }, - { - "text": "You gotta relax and stay calm in there. The cage is your home. You set the pace. You set the rhythm. Feel the Beethoven. Be smarter than him, more patient. Wait for him to make a mistake. And when he does, that's your moment.", - "source": "Warrior", - "id": 4393, - "length": 225 - }, - { - "text": "Through the darkness of future past the magician longs to see. One chants out between two worlds. Fire walk with me.", - "source": "Twin Peaks", - "id": 4394, - "length": 116 - }, - { - "text": "The unhappy are egoistic, spiteful, unjust, cruel, and less capable of understanding each other than fools. Unhappiness does not bring people together but draws them apart, and even where one would fancy people should be united by the similarity of their sorrow, far more injustice and cruelty is generated than in comparatively placid surroundings.", - "source": "The Stories of Anton Chekhov", - "id": 4395, - "length": 349 - }, - { - "text": "Some people don't understand the promises they're making when they make them.", - "source": "The Fault in Our Stars", - "id": 4396, - "length": 77 - }, - { - "text": "This hole was caused by some kind of explosive. Pretty powerful if it tore through the ship's hull. All I detect down there are pools of coolant. We should continue our search somewhere else.", - "source": "Halo: Combat Evolved", - "id": 4397, - "length": 191 - }, - { - "text": "Well - it's just that you seem to be labouring under the delusion that I am going to - what is the phrase? - come quietly. I am afraid I am not going to come quietly at all, Cornelius. I have absolutely no intention of being sent to Azkaban. I could break out, of course - but what a waste of time, and frankly, I can think of a whole host of things I would rather be doing.", - "source": "Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix", - "id": 4398, - "length": 374 - }, - { - "text": "I realize that all you seventh graders are delicate, adolescent flowers just beginning your high school blooming. And so I say this with utmost sensitivity. Take this test or die.", - "source": "Boy Meets World", - "id": 4399, - "length": 179 - }, - { - "text": "I walk around with my arms out straight in front of me and recite these cliches. In a monotone. No inflection necessary.", - "source": "Infinite Jest", - "id": 4400, - "length": 120 - }, - { - "text": "Throughout my academic career, I'd given some pretty good talks. But being considered the best speaker in the Computer Science department is like being known as the tallest of the Seven Dwarfs.", - "source": "The Last Lecture", - "id": 4401, - "length": 193 - }, - { - "text": "Common knowledge has bicyclists always riding into the wind, regardless of direction, a perception that is not as wrong as it may seem. On level ground, one rides as fast as is comfortable and because the bicycle is highly efficient, speed is limited by wind resistance. With a tailwind, speeding up until the wind is in one's face is fairly easy, and at that point it becomes a headwind.", - "source": "The Bicycle Wheel 3rd Edition", - "id": 4402, - "length": 388 - }, - { - "text": "I've made something of myself, I have the keys to the capitol, people respect me. But you, you're still nothing.", - "source": "House of Cards", - "id": 4403, - "length": 112 - }, - { - "text": "My son, what pain stirs such uncontrollable anger? Why this rage? Where has your care for what is ours vanished? First will you not see whether Creusa, your wife, and your child Ascanius still live, and where you have left your father Anchises worn-out with age? The Greek ranks surround them on all sides, and if my love did not protect them, the flames would have caught them before now, and the enemy swords drunk of their blood.", - "source": "Aeneid", - "id": 4404, - "length": 432 - }, - { - "text": "I'm going to kill a stranger, so don't you be a stranger.", - "source": "No Reptiles", - "id": 4405, - "length": 57 - }, - { - "text": "The study of global social phenomena raises several difficulties that are not commonly encountered when research questions are posed at less comprehensive levels. Problems of arising from aggregation, diffusion, and path dependence, to name three, plague any attempt at answering questions that are posed at a global level. Ultimately, all these problems arise from the fact that there is only one world available for us to study, and when the world itself is the scope of the analysis, additional worlds are not available for validating initial results.", - "source": "Global Social Change: Historical and Comparative Perspectives", - "id": 4406, - "length": 554 - }, - { - "text": "At the Limes the position of affairs became more terrible every day for Margaret. Mr. Drayton was always sullen, silent, and watchful, and the incessant watchfulness broke down her nerves. She had long fits of crying, without herself being aware of it. The women-servants had left, and she could not replace them; the one woman who came by day to clean and cook (and could do neither) was the only one besides her nurse, and Margaret lived in dread of her leaving her.", - "source": "Mrs. Dorriman, Volume 3 of 3", - "id": 4407, - "length": 468 - }, - { - "text": "He said we came here solely on my account, that I was to have perfect rest and all the air I could get. \"Your exercise depends on your strength, my dear,\" said he, \"and your food somewhat on your appetite; but air you can absorb all the time.\" So we took the nursery at the top of the house. It is a big, airy room, the whole floor nearly, with windows that look all ways, and air and sunshine galore. It was nursery first and then playroom and gymnasium, I should judge; for the windows are barred for little children, and there are rings and things in the walls.", - "source": "The Yellow Wallpaper", - "id": 4408, - "length": 564 - }, - { - "text": "We just don't recognize life's most significant moments while they're happening. Back then I thought, \"Well, there'll be other days.\" I didn't realize that was the only day.", - "source": "Field of Dreams", - "id": 4409, - "length": 173 - }, - { - "text": "Despondent, lugubrious, no future. We turned our bodies to computer. We are our own nature, abuser, no future, computer, abuser. I can tell every day I stay all the whiteness turns to grey. All the grey to Cimmeria as the black is setting in. Digital black, oh! We've sunken into our illusion, we've fashioned colossal confusion. I am the word of the last human; illusion, confusion, last human. I can see it all around the land. I can feel it with the back of my hand. I can hear a roaring silence of the murky caliginous. I've heard the dark beast has said that the world is like a brittle egg. He can crush it with only breath, and he can bring a black wave of death. Digital black.", - "source": "Digital Black", - "id": 4410, - "length": 685 - }, - { - "text": "A zealot might be, for instance, an individual with a personal motive for revenge so overpowering that it ensures complete dedication to the cause. Or, through intensive training and psychological manipulation, an elite team of fanatic followers can be trained to sacrifice even their own lives to accomplish a given mission.", - "source": "Ninja Mind Control", - "id": 4411, - "length": 325 - }, - { - "text": "High on a stag the Goddess held her seat, and there were little hounds about her feet; below her feet there was a sickle moon, waxing it seemed, but would be waning soon. Her statue bore a mantle of bright green, her hand a bow with arrows cased and keen; her eyes were lowered, gazing as she rode down to where Pluto has his dark abode.", - "source": "The Canterbury Tales", - "id": 4412, - "length": 337 - }, - { - "text": "The rising heat from multiple fires, caused by the heat flash and the blast wave, is sucking in ground-level winds at speeds exceeding a hundred miles an hour. Within its center, the temperature is rising to eight hundred degrees centigrade. This is what is technically known as a firestorm.", - "source": "Firestorm", - "id": 4413, - "length": 291 - }, - { - "text": "Conceptually, to communicate, procedures must send messages to one another, just as people meet. According to one way, procedures talk to others by handing them some values and receiving some values in return. One reasonable name for this method of communication is the \"private-line method,\" since only the calling procedure and the called procedure see the communication.", - "source": "Artificial Intelligence Second Edition", - "id": 4414, - "length": 373 - }, - { - "text": "In groups where there are high levels of emotional and social static - whether it be from fear or anger, from rivalries or resentments - people cannot offer their best. But harmony allows a group to take maximum advantage of its most creative and talented members' abilities.", - "source": "Emotional Intelligence", - "id": 4415, - "length": 275 - }, - { - "text": "I saw her today at the reception, a glass of wine in her hand. I knew she was gonna meet her connection. At her feet was footloose man.", - "source": "You Can't Always Get What You Want", - "id": 4416, - "length": 135 - }, - { - "text": "It is still early morning as I pass Denver on the I-70 and begin the steep climb up the Front Range. The unexpected mass of the mountains makes me feel I am putting a physical barrier between myself and the shifting spaces that connect me to my previous life as a high school English teacher in a small eastern city.", - "source": "A Cup of Water", - "id": 4417, - "length": 316 - }, - { - "text": "This is a particularly auspicious occasion for us this evening, as we have been told that Her Majesty the Queen will be watching part of this show tonight. Now, we don't know exactly when Her Majesty will be tuning in. We understand that at the moment she is watching The Virginian, but we have been promised that we will be informed the moment that she changes the channel. Her Majesty would like everyone to behave quite normally, but her equerry has asked me to request all of you at home to stand when the great moment arrives, although we here in the studio will be carrying on with our humorous vignettes and spoofs in the ordinary way.", - "source": "Monty Python's Flying Circus", - "id": 4418, - "length": 642 - }, - { - "text": "Earth, like most planets, has strong temperature gradients, as illustrated by the accumulation of ice at the poles. Modifying this latitudinal temperature gradient are other factors such as winds, mountains and large water bodies. All of these factors also influence precipitation patterns.", - "source": "Plant Ecology: Origins, Processes, Consequences", - "id": 4419, - "length": 290 - }, - { - "text": "My dear young man, don't take it too hard. Your work is ingenious. It's quality work. And there are simply too many notes, that's all. Just cut a few and it'll be perfect. - Which few did you have in mind, Majesty?", - "source": "Amadeus", - "id": 4420, - "length": 214 - }, - { - "text": "He canceled all his commitments and pulled together the most important of his books, and now here he was sitting inside a dusty, smelly warehouse. Outside, a huge caravan was being prepared for a crossing of the Sahara, and was scheduled to pass through Al-Fayoum.", - "source": "The Alchemist", - "id": 4421, - "length": 264 - }, - { - "text": "Don't carry the world upon your shoulders, for well you know that it's a fool who plays it cool by making his world a little colder.", - "source": "Hey Jude", - "id": 4422, - "length": 132 - }, - { - "text": "Well, I've been to one world fair, a picnic, and a rodeo, and that's the stupidest thing I ever heard come over a set of earphones. You sure you got today's codes?", - "source": "Dr. Strangelove or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb", - "id": 4423, - "length": 163 - }, - { - "text": "Jay made up for the lack of glamour in his assignment by having a romance with a local miller's daughter, which he initiated by letting air out of her bicycle tires. He also earned himself a promotion to lieutenant on the strength of his commonsense suggestion that the army could save lots of cargo space by deboning beef before shipping it overseas.", - "source": "SPAM: A Biography: The Amazing True Story of America's \"Miracle Meat!\"", - "id": 4424, - "length": 351 - }, - { - "text": "It is always painful to part from people whom one has known for a very brief space of time. The absence of old friends one can endure with equanimity. But even a momentary separation from anyone to whom one has just been introduced is almost unbearable.", - "source": "The Importance of Being Earnest", - "id": 4425, - "length": 253 - }, - { - "text": "Maybe he is different but that doesn't mean that he's guilty. But that's what it means when you're different. Nobody trusts you. You're always the first to be blamed. And it's always ALWAYS your fault.", - "source": "InuYasha", - "id": 4426, - "length": 201 - }, - { - "text": "Droll thing life is - that mysterious arrangement of merciless logic for a futile purpose. The most you can hope from it is some knowledge of yourself - that comes too late - a crop of inextinguishable regrets.", - "source": "Heart of Darkness", - "id": 4427, - "length": 210 - }, - { - "text": "I denounce because though implicated and partially responsible, I have been hurt to the point of abysmal pain, hurt to the point of invisibility. And I defend because in spite of it all, I find that I love.", - "source": "Invisible Man", - "id": 4428, - "length": 206 - }, - { - "text": "Here in town there's only she who is beautiful as me, so I'm making plans to woo and marry Belle.", - "source": "Beauty and the Beast", - "id": 4429, - "length": 97 - }, - { - "text": "Lenin believed that the time to revolt and seize power had come. Again he encountered opposition within the party to his call for armed insurrection, most prominently Kamenev and Zinoviev. Most of the other party leaders, including Stalin, supported him.", - "source": "Stalin: New Biography of a Dictator", - "id": 4430, - "length": 254 - }, - { - "text": "That's because only a real artist knows the actual anatomy of the terrible or the physiology of fear - the exact sort of lines and proportions that connect up with latent instincts or hereditary memories of fright, and the proper color contrasts and lighting effects to stir the dormant sense of strangeness.", - "source": "Pickman's Model", - "id": 4431, - "length": 308 - }, - { - "text": "A long, long time ago. I can still remember how that music used to make me smile. And I knew if I had my chance, that I could make those people dance, and maybe they'd be happy for a while. But February made me shiver, with every paper I'd deliver. Bad news on the doorstep, I couldn't take one more step. I can't remember if I cried when I read about his widowed bride, but something touched me deep inside, the day the music died. So bye-bye, Miss American Pie. Drove my Chevy to the levee, but the levee was dry. And them good ole boys were drinking whiskey and rye, singin' this'll be the day that I die, this'll be the day that I die.", - "source": "American Pie", - "id": 4432, - "length": 639 - }, - { - "text": "Today, raisins have no seeds. When we pop a raisin into our mouth, we are saved that moment of nervous anticipation we encounter with table grapes, wondering whether we are about to bite into a hard pip. More than 90 percent of all raisins are made from Thompson seedless grapes, exactly the same table grape that is omnipresent in produce sections of the supermarket.", - "source": "Why Do Clocks Run Clockwise?: Mysteries of Everyday Life Explained", - "id": 4433, - "length": 368 - }, - { - "text": "What distinguished Ellington from most of his contemporaries was that he set himself the goal of expanding the time frame of the jazz piece, stretching it well beyond the limits of the 78-rpm side and into the realm of the large-scale classical work.", - "source": "The Rest is Noise: Listening to Music in the Twentieth Century", - "id": 4434, - "length": 250 - }, - { - "text": "Hank, if you had the power to put companies out of business by just not being a customer, why am I still able to buy mouthwash?", - "source": "Corner Gas", - "id": 4435, - "length": 127 - }, - { - "text": "Gardeners know how to grow top-notch crops. They determine which plants thrive best under available conditions, plan their optimum placement, and nourish the seeds with plant food and water. Plants that receive the most attention thrive, blossoming into colorful fruits and flowers.", - "source": "Raising Smart Kids for Dummies", - "id": 4436, - "length": 282 - }, - { - "text": "Oh, that is convenient for you. You're a fine looking fellow, aren't you? Your square jaw, your golden armour. Tell me - I want to know, I truly do - how do you live with yourself? All of us have to believe that we're decent, don't we? To let us sleep at night. How do you tell yourself that you're decent, after everything that you've done?", - "source": "Game of Thrones", - "id": 4437, - "length": 341 - }, - { - "text": "Giants hiding in the bathroom, lightning in the living room. It's Einstein and Darwin doing shots with the Greek god jocks, the apocalypse is kinda cool. And if you're needing something just ask, maybe Father Time can try to change your past; got Mister Sandman selling dreams by the gram, yeah they're worth it if you've got the cash.", - "source": "All Night", - "id": 4438, - "length": 335 - }, - { - "text": "We'll use a process that I discovered called gene targeting. The strongest soldiers don't become what they are by acquiring their skills through training or experience, we now know that hereditary factors are far more crucial for creating superior soldiers.", - "source": "Metal Gear Solid", - "id": 4439, - "length": 257 - }, - { - "text": "Ladies and gentlemen, this is your stewardess speaking. We regret any inconvenience the sudden cabin movement might have caused. This is due to periodic air pockets we encountered. There's no reason to become alarmed and we hope you enjoy the rest of your flight. By the way, is there anyone on board who knows how to fly a plane?", - "source": "Airplane!", - "id": 4440, - "length": 330 - }, - { - "text": "There are things being negotiated now that are going to solve all of your problems and answer all of your questions. That's all I can tell you now. Carlo, you grew up in Nevada. When we make our move there you're going to be my right hand man. Tom Hagen is no longer Consigliari. He's going to be our lawyer in Vegas. That's no reflection on Tom, it's just the way I want it. Besides, if I ever need help, who's a better Consigliari than my father? And that's it.", - "source": "The Godfather", - "id": 4441, - "length": 463 - }, - { - "text": "Is it really not possible to touch the gaming table without being instantly infected by superstition?", - "source": "The Gambler", - "id": 4442, - "length": 101 - }, - { - "text": "When you have eaten enough to meet your needs, your digestive system sends a message to your brain. Research suggests that the brain does not receive this satisfaction signal until twenty minutes after you've eaten enough. It seems like a glitch in the system, and over-eating is the obvious consequence. But overweight mammals do not exist in nature because they are soon eaten by predators.", - "source": "I, Mammal", - "id": 4443, - "length": 392 - }, - { - "text": "Yet you have never been there. You have not seen what it has become. I am dying, Maximus. When a man sees his end... he wants to know there was some purpose to his life. How will the world speak my name in years to come? Will I be known as the philosopher? The warrior? The tyrant...? Or will I be the emperor who gave Rome back her true self? There was once a dream that was Rome. You could only whisper it. Anything more than a whisper and it would vanish... it was so fragile. And I fear that it will not survive the winter.", - "source": "The Gladiator", - "id": 4444, - "length": 527 - }, - { - "text": "They may have even had a brief discussion about recovering my body, but regulations are clear. In the event a crewman dies on Mars, he stays on Mars. Leaving his body behind reduces weight for the MAV on the trip back. That means more disposable fuel and a larger margin of error for the return thrust. No point in giving that up for sentimentality.", - "source": "The Martian", - "id": 4445, - "length": 349 - }, - { - "text": "Who, if I cried out, would hear me among the angels' hierarchies? And even if one of them pressed me suddenly against his heart: I would be consumed in that overwhelming existence. For beauty is nothing but the beginning of terror, which we still are just able to endure, and we are so awed because it serenely disdains to annihilate us.", - "source": "The First Elegy", - "id": 4446, - "length": 337 - }, - { - "text": "The one constant through all the years, Ray, has been baseball. America has rolled by like an army of steamrollers. It has been erased like a blackboard, rebuilt, and erased again. But baseball has marked the time. This field, this game: it's a part of our past, Ray. It reminds us of all that once was good, and it could be again. Oh... people will come, Ray. People will most definitely come.", - "source": "Field of Dreams", - "id": 4447, - "length": 394 - }, - { - "text": "I'll keep searching deep within my soul for all the answers. Don't wanna hurt no more. I need peace, gotta feel at ease. Need to be free from pain, going insane. My heart aches, yeah.", - "source": "Never Ever", - "id": 4448, - "length": 183 - }, - { - "text": "Why, anybody can have a brain. That's a very mediocre commodity. Every pusillanimous creature that crawls on the Earth or slinks through slimy seas has a brain. Back where I come from, we have universities, seats of great learning, where men go to become great thinkers. And when they come out, they think deep thoughts and with no more brains than you have. But they have one thing you haven't got: a diploma.", - "source": "The Wizard of Oz", - "id": 4449, - "length": 410 - }, - { - "text": "I've never felt this healthy before. I've never wanted something rational.", - "source": "Head Over Feet", - "id": 4450, - "length": 74 - }, - { - "text": "Listen Morty, I hate to break it to you, but what people call \"love\" is just a chemical reaction that compels animals to breed. It hits hard, Morty, then it slowly fades, leaving you stranded in a failing marriage. I did it. Your parents are gonna do it. Break the cycle, Morty. Rise above. Focus on science.", - "source": "Rick and Morty", - "id": 4451, - "length": 308 - }, - { - "text": "I didn't tell Mama anything. I was just about to come up and wake you so that I could tell you.", - "source": "The Godfather", - "id": 4452, - "length": 95 - }, - { - "text": "Mr. Van Doren, I'm also from New York, a different part of New York. I'm happy that you made the statement but I cannot agree with most of my colleagues. You see, I don't think an adult of your intelligence ought to be commended for simply, at long last, telling the truth.", - "source": "Quiz Show", - "id": 4453, - "length": 273 - }, - { - "text": "Because some roads you shouldn't go down. Because maps used to say, \"there be dragons here.\" Now they don't. But that don't mean the dragons aren't there.", - "source": "Fargo (TV)", - "id": 4454, - "length": 154 - }, - { - "text": "Oh yes, the past can hurt. But you can either run from it, or learn from it.", - "source": "The Lion King", - "id": 4455, - "length": 76 - }, - { - "text": "Books are not absolutely dead things, but do contain a potency of life in them to be as active as that soul was whose progeny they are; nay, they do preserve as in a vial the purest efficacy and extraction of that living intellect that bred them. I know they are as lively, and as vigorously productive, as those fabulous dragon's teeth; and being sown up and down, may chance to spring up armed men. And yet, on the other hand, unless wariness be used, as good almost kill a man as kill a good book. Who kills a man kills a reasonable creature, God's image; but he who destroys a good book, kills reason itself, kills the image of God, as it were in the eye. Many a man lives a burden to the earth; but a good book is the precious life-blood of a master spirit, embalmed and treasured up on purpose to a life beyond life.", - "source": "Areopagitica", - "id": 4456, - "length": 822 - }, - { - "text": "See, the sad thing about a guy like you is in 50 years you're gonna start doin' some thinkin' on your own and you're going to come up with the fact that there are two certainties in life: one, don't do that, and two, you dropped 150 grand on an education you could have got for $1.50 in late charges at the public library!", - "source": "Good Will Hunting", - "id": 4457, - "length": 322 - }, - { - "text": "This cosmic dance of bursting decadence and withheld permissions, twists all our arms collectively. But, if sweetness can win, and it can, then I'll still be here tomorrow to high five you yesterday, my friend. Peace.", - "source": "Adventure Time", - "id": 4458, - "length": 217 - }, - { - "text": "Water. Earth. Fire. Air. Long ago the four nations lived together in harmony. Then, everything changed when the Fire Nation attacked. Only the Avatar, master of all four elements, could stop them, but when the world needed him most, he vanished. A hundred years passed and my brother and I discovered the new Avatar, an airbender named Aang. And although his airbending skills are great, he has a lot to learn before he's ready to save anyone. But I believe Aang can save the world.", - "source": "Avatar: The Last Airbender", - "id": 4459, - "length": 482 - }, - { - "text": "She's safe, just like I promised. She's all set to marry Norrington, just like she promised. And you get to die for her, just like you promised. So we're all men of our word really... except for, of course, Elizabeth, who is in fact a woman.", - "source": "Pirates of the Caribbean: The Curse of the Black Pearl", - "id": 4460, - "length": 241 - }, - { - "text": "For you, the day Bison graced your village, was the most important day in your life. But for me, it was Tuesday.", - "source": "Street Fighter (1994 film)", - "id": 4461, - "length": 112 - }, - { - "text": "The observed brightness of a Lambertian surface may be written as the product of an albedo factor, p, and the cosine of the incident angle, cos i. This means that brightness can be written as a product of a term that depends on the material, p, and a term that depends on surface direction, which in turn depends on f and g.", - "source": "Artificial Intelligence Second Edition", - "id": 4462, - "length": 324 - }, - { - "text": "Look, a guy who builds a nice chair doesn't owe money to everyone who ever has built a chair, okay? They came to me with an idea, I had a better one.", - "source": "The Social Network", - "id": 4463, - "length": 149 - }, - { - "text": "Well, hey, I didn't spend all those years playing Dungeons and Dragons and not learn a little something about courage.", - "source": "The X-Files", - "id": 4464, - "length": 118 - }, - { - "text": "The darker the night, the brighter the stars, the deeper the grief, the closer is God.", - "source": "Crime and Punishment", - "id": 4465, - "length": 86 - }, - { - "text": "I've heard there was a secret chord that David played, and it pleased the Lord, but you don't really care for music, do you? It goes like this: the fourth, the fifth, the minor fall, the major lift. The baffled king composing hallelujah.", - "source": "Hallelujah", - "id": 4466, - "length": 237 - }, - { - "text": "Flinging the history of inflicted pain into the perfect teeth of those who glibly counsel us to live in the moment, I am forced to remember how much of that pain was caused by persons who did no such thing; that is, by those so bloated with duty and futurity that they puked all over history. I must rein in my horses at the point of collision (and intellectual collusion) with the sacred obligations of victorious warriors, the glorious destinies of the proletarian state and the master race, not to mention the prerogatives of the one true faith.", - "source": "World Enough and Time", - "id": 4467, - "length": 548 - }, - { - "text": "Skilled readers move their eyes selectively, yet unconsciously. The visual cues are of paramount importance. Readers might use their predictions to guide their visual inspection of the text. They might skip, skim, or pore over individual letters only as needed to confirm or correct their expectations as to its message. The eyes of the reader do not move smoothly across the letters, words, and phrases of a text while reading. Instead, they leapfrog through the text, alternately pausing on a word and jumping quickly to another.", - "source": "What We Know About Acquisition of Adult Literacy", - "id": 4468, - "length": 531 - }, - { - "text": "And now my bitter hands cradle broken glass of what was everything.", - "source": "Black", - "id": 4469, - "length": 67 - }, - { - "text": "I never thought I'd feel this way, and as far as I'm concerned I'm glad I got the chance to say that I do believe I love you.", - "source": "That's What Friends Are For", - "id": 4470, - "length": 125 - }, - { - "text": "I did my best, it wasn't much. I couldn't feel, so I tried to touch. I've told the truth, I didn't come to fool you. And even though it all went wrong I'll stand before the Lord of Song with nothing on my tongue but hallelujah.", - "source": "Hallelujah", - "id": 4471, - "length": 227 - }, - { - "text": "And cruelly I recall why I have come: To find a reason. But there cannot be a reason, not for death, not like this.", - "source": "King Park", - "id": 4472, - "length": 115 - }, - { - "text": "Come, Friend, you too must die. Why moan about it so? Even Patroclus died, a far, far better man than you. And look, you see how handsome and powerful I am? The son of a great man, the mother who gave me life - a deathless goddess. But even for me, I tell you, death and the strong force of fate are waiting. There will come a dawn or sunset or high noon when a man will take my life in battle too - flinging a spear perhaps, or whipping a deadly arrow off his bow.", - "source": "The Iliad", - "id": 4473, - "length": 465 - }, - { - "text": "To my babies: stay strong. Daddy will be home soon. And to the rest of the world, God gave you them shoes that fit you, so put 'em on and wear 'em. Be yourself, man. Be proud of who you are. Even if it sounds corny, never let no one tell you you ain't beautiful.", - "source": "Beautiful", - "id": 4474, - "length": 262 - }, - { - "text": "Subdivisions in the high school halls. In the shopping malls. Conform or be cast out. Subdivisions in the basement bars. In the backs of cars. Be cool or be cast out. Any escape might help to soothe the unattractive truth but the suburbs have no charms to soothe the restless dreams of youth.", - "source": "Subdivisions", - "id": 4475, - "length": 292 - }, - { - "text": "For I am a sinner in the hands of an angry God. Bloody Mary full of vodka, blessed are you among cocktails. Pray for me now and at the hour of my death, which I hope is soon. Amen.", - "source": "Archer", - "id": 4476, - "length": 180 - }, - { - "text": "Often, we assume that a familiar situation will be but a repeat performance of a similar situation we've experienced before. But, in the strictest sense, there are no repeat performances. Every situation is unique, and we must be alert to its uniqueness.", - "source": "Being Logical: A Guide to Good Thinking", - "id": 4477, - "length": 254 - }, - { - "text": "The great edifice of variety and choice that is an American supermarket turns out to rest on a remarkably narrow biological foundation comprised of a tiny group of plants that is dominated by a single species: Zea mays, the giant tropical grass most Americans know as corn.", - "source": "The Omnivore's Dilemma: A Natural History of Four Meals", - "id": 4478, - "length": 273 - }, - { - "text": "I'm a broke-nose fighter. I'm a loose-lipped liar. Searching for the edge of darkness. But all I get is just tired. I went looking for attention. In all the wrong places. I was needing a redemption. And all I got was just cages.", - "source": "Cages", - "id": 4479, - "length": 228 - }, - { - "text": "This is where it all began, gentlemen. The birthplace of Hooli. Peter Gregory's mother's garage. That was Peter's workstation. This was mine. Things sure have changed. But in a way, they've stayed exactly the same. As we forge our new path together, we must remain focused on what's really important... not material success or wealth, but this, the spirit of innovation... a few coders, some ramen, and a dream. And that is why I brought you here. All right. Let me show you the rest of the place.", - "source": "Silicon Valley", - "id": 4480, - "length": 497 - }, - { - "text": "I was going to the worst place in the world and I didn't even know it yet. Weeks away and hundreds of miles up a river that snaked through the war like a main circuit cable plugged straight into Kurtz. It was no accident that I got to be the caretaker of Colonel Walter E. Kurtz's memory any more than being back in Saigon was an accident. There is no way to tell his story without telling my own. And if his story really is a confession, then so is mine.", - "source": "Apocalypse Now", - "id": 4481, - "length": 455 - }, - { - "text": "When the moon is in the seventh house and Jupiter aligns with Mars, then peace will guide the planets and love will steer the stars. This is the dawning of the age of Aquarius. Harmony and understanding, sympathy and trust abounding. No more falsehoods or derisions. Golden living dreams of visions, mystic crystal revelation, and the mind's true liberation.", - "source": "Aquarius/Let the Sunshine In", - "id": 4482, - "length": 358 - }, - { - "text": "Well, I used to be an actor but I could never remember my lines, so I thought \"just shut up\", you know? Don't say nothing. And my father used to say the same thing to me every dinner time, he used to say to me \"shut up and eat\", so that's what we do and that's the name of the company: \"Shut Up and Eat.\"", - "source": "This Is Spinal Tap", - "id": 4483, - "length": 304 - }, - { - "text": "Poppy: You can't imagine what an unrelenting nightmare MIT has become for me... There's no time to eat or sleep or take care of myself. It's just grind it out 24/7! Right now I'm trying to decide which course to fail - that's what it's come to. There's just not enough time to prepare for them all. I don't know how the other kids do it. Most of the time I just sit in my room all depressed, staring out my window at the bleak New England sky... but then a robot scoots by my door and all is good again.", - "source": "40: A Doonesbury Retrospective", - "id": 4484, - "length": 503 - }, - { - "text": "Computers make excellent and efficient servants, but I have no wish to serve under them. Captain, a starship also runs on loyalty to one man, and nothing can replace it or him.", - "source": "Star Trek", - "id": 4485, - "length": 176 - }, - { - "text": "Because I could get Uromysitisis poisoning and die. That's why! Do you think I enjoy living like this? The shame, the humiliation. You know I have been issued a public urination pass by the city because of my condition. Unfortunately my little brother ran out of the house with it this morning. Him and his friends are probably peeing all over the place.", - "source": "Seinfeld", - "id": 4486, - "length": 354 - }, - { - "text": "I may not have been sure about what really did interest me, but I was absolutely sure about what didn't.", - "source": "The Stranger", - "id": 4487, - "length": 104 - }, - { - "text": "Do you know how long it takes a working man to save $5,000? Just remember this, Mr. Potter, that this rabble you're talking about... they do most of the working and paying and living and dying in this community. Well, is it too much to have them work and pay and live and die in a couple of decent rooms and a bath? Anyway, my father didn't think so. People were human beings to him. But to you, a warped, frustrated old man, they're cattle. Well in my book, my father died a much richer man than you'll ever be!", - "source": "It's a Wonderful Life", - "id": 4488, - "length": 512 - }, - { - "text": "What began as a conflict over the transfer of consciousness from flesh to machines escalated into a war which has decimated a million worlds. The CORE and the ARM have all but exhausted the resources of a galaxy in their struggle for domination. Both sides now crippled beyond repair, the remnants of their armies continue to battle on ravaged planets, their hatred fueled by over four thousand years of total war. This is a fight to the death. For each side the only acceptable outcome is the complete elimination of the other.", - "source": "Total Annihilation", - "id": 4489, - "length": 528 - }, - { - "text": "Fear is a strange soil. Mainly it grows obedience like corn, which grows in rows and makes weeding easy. But sometimes it grows the potatoes of defiance, which flourish underground.", - "source": "Small Gods", - "id": 4490, - "length": 181 - }, - { - "text": "And Peeves, whom Harry had never seen take an order from a student before, swept his belled hat from his head and sprang to a salute as Fred and George wheeled about to tumultuous applause from the students below and sped out of the open front doors into the glorious sunset.", - "source": "Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix", - "id": 4491, - "length": 275 - }, - { - "text": "You have to wonder: how do the machines know what Tasty Wheat tasted like? Maybe they got it wrong. Maybe what I think Tasty Wheat tasted like actually tasted like oatmeal, or tuna fish. That makes you wonder about a lot of things. You take chicken, for example: maybe they couldn't figure out what to make chicken taste like, which is why chicken tastes like everything.", - "source": "The Matrix", - "id": 4492, - "length": 372 - }, - { - "text": "There were four things the Master refused to have anything to do with: he refused to entertain conjectures or insist on certainty; he refused to be inflexible or to be egotistical.", - "source": "The Analects", - "id": 4493, - "length": 180 - }, - { - "text": "Listen up, maggots. You are not special. You are not a beautiful or unique snowflake. You're the same decaying organic matter as everything else.", - "source": "Fight Club", - "id": 4494, - "length": 145 - }, - { - "text": "Borders matter. Borders regulate the flow of people, the movement of commodities and capital, and the exchange of ideas. Borders separate citizens from aliens, the familiar from the foreign, and those belonging from those unwanted. And perhaps no border in recent history is more iconic in its power of partition than the line bisecting the United States and Mexico.", - "source": "Agrarian Crossings: Reformers and the Remaking of the US and Mexican Countryside", - "id": 4495, - "length": 366 - }, - { - "text": "I keep thinking I should've known it was him... That, even after all these years, a man should know his own father when he's right in front of him.", - "source": "White Collar", - "id": 4496, - "length": 147 - }, - { - "text": "Brother, you really are somethin'. You sit here, vote guilty like the rest of us, then some golden-voiced preacher starts tearing your poor heart out about some underprivileged kid, just couldn't help becoming a murderer, and you change your vote. Well, if that isn't the most sickening - why don't you drop a quarter in his collection box?", - "source": "12 Angry Men", - "id": 4497, - "length": 340 - }, - { - "text": "I been doin' this a long time. I ain't never said nothin' to no cop. I feel old... I been out there since I was 13. I ain't never screwed up a count, never stole off a package, never did some stuff that I wasn't told to do. I've been straight up. But what come back? You think if I get jammed up on some stuff, they be like, \"All right, yeah. Bodie been there. Bodie hang tough. We got to his pay lawyer. We got a bail.\" They want me to stand with them, right? Where they at when they supposed to be standing by us? I mean, when it goes bad and there's hell to pay, where they at? This game is rigged, man...", - "source": "The Wire", - "id": 4498, - "length": 608 - }, - { - "text": "Speed. I am speed. One winner, forty-two losers. I eat losers for breakfast.", - "source": "Cars", - "id": 4499, - "length": 76 - }, - { - "text": "Not so hasty! You call yourselves hobbits? But you should not go telling just anybody. You'll be letting out your own right names if you're not careful.", - "source": "The Two Towers", - "id": 4500, - "length": 152 - }, - { - "text": "When analyzing images, constraint propagation works because relevant surface properties change slowly almost everywhere. Surface distance and surface direction can change rapidly at edges, of course, but edge points represent only a relatively small number of the points in an image array.", - "source": "Artificial Intelligence Second Edition", - "id": 4501, - "length": 289 - }, - { - "text": "I have felt as bleak as I've felt since puberty, and have filled almost three Mead notebooks trying to figure out whether it was Them or Just Me.", - "source": "A Supposedly Fun Thing I'll Never Do Again", - "id": 4502, - "length": 145 - }, - { - "text": "I never thought I'd die alone. I laughed the loudest, who'd have known? I trace the cord back to the wall. No wonder, it was never plugged in at all. I took my time, I hurried up. The choice was mine, I didn't think enough. I'm too depressed to go on. You'll be sorry when I'm gone.", - "source": "Adam's Song", - "id": 4503, - "length": 282 - }, - { - "text": "A heart is not judged by how much you love but by how much you are loved by others.", - "source": "The Wizard of Oz", - "id": 4504, - "length": 83 - }, - { - "text": "Then she lit up a candle, and she showed me the way. There were voices down the corridor. I thought I heard them say, \"Welcome to the Hotel California.\" Such a lovely place, such a lovely face.", - "source": "Hotel California", - "id": 4505, - "length": 193 - }, - { - "text": "Since we're all going to die, it's obvious that when and how don't matter.", - "source": "The Stranger", - "id": 4506, - "length": 74 - }, - { - "text": "Set in Liberty City. Meltdown! It's all being shot on green screen right out back. We take a look at the financial crisis, and then we boil it all down to a really simplistic battle between two yuppies, with lots of training montages.", - "source": "Grand Theft Auto V", - "id": 4507, - "length": 234 - }, - { - "text": "There could be whole antiworlds and antipeople made out of antiparticles. However, if you meet your antiself, don't shake hands! You would both vanish in a great flash of light.", - "source": "A Brief History of Time", - "id": 4508, - "length": 177 - }, - { - "text": "I do not know if all cops are poets, but I know that all cops carry guns with triggers.", - "source": "Invisible Man", - "id": 4509, - "length": 87 - }, - { - "text": "We lose direction, no stone unturned, no tears to damn you when jealousy burns. Cold, cold heart, hard done by you. Some things look better, baby, just passing through.", - "source": "Sacrifice", - "id": 4510, - "length": 168 - }, - { - "text": "I didn't ask for this role, but I'll play it. Now go do your best. Be bold, and mighty forces will come to your aid. Goethe said that. It's not too late for you to become a person of substance, Russell. Please get my son home safely. You know, I'm glad we spoke.", - "source": "Almost Famous", - "id": 4511, - "length": 262 - }, - { - "text": "We have already succeeded. I mean, what are the three terrors of the Fire Swamp? One, the flame spurt - no problem. There's a popping sound preceding each; we can avoid that. Two, the lightning sand, which you were clever enough to discover what that looks like so in the future we can avoid that too.", - "source": "The Princess Bride", - "id": 4512, - "length": 301 - }, - { - "text": "Death is irrelevant. Your archaic cultures are authority driven. To facilitate our introduction into your societies, it has been decided that a human voice will speak for us in all communications. You have been chosen to be that voice.", - "source": "Star Trek: The Next Generation", - "id": 4513, - "length": 235 - }, - { - "text": "When beetles fight these battles in a bottle with their paddles and the bottle's on a poodle and the poodle's eating noodles... they call this a muddle puddle tweetle poodle beetle noodle bottle paddle battle.", - "source": "Fox in Socks", - "id": 4514, - "length": 209 - }, - { - "text": "Hi, everyone, welcome to the Satellite of Love. I came up with this Holo-Clown Sequencer to cheer up the Bots but now I can't get it to shut off and it's getting hard to sleep at night and I'm tasting metal!", - "source": "Mystery Science Theater 3000: Attack of the Giant Leeches", - "id": 4515, - "length": 207 - }, - { - "text": "Where I come from, there's a terrible drought. We saw pictures of your planet on television. We saw the water. In fact, our word for your planet means \"planet of water.\"", - "source": "The Man Who Fell to Earth", - "id": 4516, - "length": 169 - }, - { - "text": "And if you went to war again, who would it be against? Your ability to fight a two ocean war against who? Who? Sweden and Togo? That time is passed. It's over. The war of the future is nuclear terrorism, and it'll be against a small group of dissidents who, unbeknownst perhaps to their own government, have... blah blah blah. To go to that war, you have to be prepared, you gotta be alert, the public has gotta be alert. Because that is the war of the future, and if you're not gearing up to fight that war, then eventually the axe will fall, and you're gonna be out on the street.", - "source": "Wag the Dog", - "id": 4517, - "length": 582 - }, - { - "text": "Everything will continue eternally by performing repetition. Time is located within this accumulation of repetition. Here, life is not a beginning and death is not an ending. Your soul will travel on to the next life and again on to the next. This journey will never come to an end. Everything will continue eternally by performing repetition. Eventually your soul will speak to you. The soul will speak of the time spent with each journey. Your life is one part of this enormous transmigration. The infinite repetition of life creates this enormous transmigration. All that has been accumulated is of value. Fortune and misfortune, pleasure and suffering, the useful and useless. All that has been acquired will be inherited to the next life. Your soul will continue this traveling eternally. Into the infinite and eternal future.", - "source": "Eastern Mind: Lost Souls of Tong-Nou", - "id": 4518, - "length": 831 - }, - { - "text": "Keep off the path, beware of the gate, watch out for signs that say \"hidden driveways.\" Don't let the chlorine in your eyes blind you to the awful surprise that's waiting for you at the bottom of the bottomless blue pool.", - "source": "Private Idaho", - "id": 4519, - "length": 221 - }, - { - "text": "I bet you never thought about it, but the Internet and dreams are similar. They're areas where the repressed conscious mind escapes.", - "source": "Paprika", - "id": 4520, - "length": 132 - }, - { - "text": "Be a Student of the Game. Like most cliches of sport, this is profound. You can be shaped, or you can be broken. There is not much in between. Try to learn. Be coachable. Try to learn from everybody, especially those who fail. This is hard. Peers who fizzle or blow up or fall down, run away, disappear from the monthly rankings, drop off the circuit.", - "source": "Infinite Jest", - "id": 4521, - "length": 351 - }, - { - "text": "We're so glad to see so many of you lovely people here tonight. And we would especially like to welcome all the representatives of Illinois's law enforcement community who have chosen to join us here in the Palace Hotel Ballroom at this time. We certainly hope you all enjoy the show. And remember, people, that no matter who you are and what you do to live, thrive and survive, there's still some things that make us all the same. You. Me. Them. Everybody. Everybody.", - "source": "The Blues Brothers", - "id": 4522, - "length": 468 - }, - { - "text": "There are many other ways of programming the switching sequence, which will not be discussed here. In many cases the switching sequence is under computer control. In the simple method used above, the intention is to show the fundamental principle upon which pulse width modulation is used.", - "source": "Electrical Machines, Drives, and Power Systems", - "id": 4523, - "length": 289 - }, - { - "text": "By that point, entire sectors of my cerebral cortex seemed to have shut down altogether. Dizzy, fearing that I would black out, I was frantic to reach the South Summit, where my third bottle was waiting.", - "source": "Into Thin Air", - "id": 4524, - "length": 203 - }, - { - "text": "Neal was a felon. He was convicted on bond forgery. And as you can see in those files, he was suspected of doing a hell of a lot of other things. Yeah, Neal was a pain in the ass. So did somebody from that past want him dead? Maybe. But he also helped me clear a 93% conviction rate, and that makes enemies too.", - "source": "White Collar", - "id": 4525, - "length": 311 - }, - { - "text": "Anyway, anyway, guys guys guys, come on. I'm in this computer, right. So I'm looking around, looking around, you know, throwing commands at it. I don't know where it is or what it does or anything. It's like, it's like choice, it's just beautiful, okay. Like four hours I'm just messing around in there. Finally I figure out that it's a bank. Right, okay wait, okay, so it's a bank. So, this morning, I look in the paper, some cash machine in, like, Bumsville Idaho, spits out seven hundred dollars into the middle of the street.", - "source": "Hackers", - "id": 4526, - "length": 529 - }, - { - "text": "Writer's block is a good example of a dispositional fallacy: A description of behavior can't also explain the described behavior. Writer's block is nothing more than the behavior of not writing. Saying that you can't write because of writer's block is merely saying that you can't write because you aren't writing. It's trivial. The cure of writer's block - if you can cure a specious affliction - is writing.", - "source": "How to Write a Lot: A Practical Guide to Productive Academic Writing", - "id": 4527, - "length": 409 - }, - { - "text": "She loved him not only in spite of but because he himself was incapable of love.", - "source": "The Sound and the Fury", - "id": 4528, - "length": 80 - }, - { - "text": "Few of us make any serious effort to remember what we read. When I read a book, what do I hope will stay with me a year later? If it's a work of nonfiction, the thesis, maybe, if the book has one. A few savory details, perhaps. If it's fiction, the broadest outline of the plot, something about the main characters (at least their names), and an overall critical judgment about the book. Even these are likely to fade. Looking up at my shelves, at the books that have drained so many of my waking hours, is always a dispiriting experience.", - "source": "Moonwalking with Einstein", - "id": 4529, - "length": 539 - }, - { - "text": "I tensed, waiting for the fury - both his and mine - but it was only quiet and calm in the darkness of his room. I could almost taste the sweetness of reunion in the air, a separate fragrance from the perfume of his breath; the emptiness when we were apart left its own bitter aftertaste, something I didn't consciously notice until it was removed.", - "source": "Eclipse", - "id": 4530, - "length": 348 - }, - { - "text": "We live in the flicker - may it last as long as the old earth keeps rolling!", - "source": "Heart of Darkness", - "id": 4532, - "length": 76 - }, - { - "text": "If sugar is so bad, how come Jesus made it taste so good?", - "source": "Parks and Recreation", - "id": 4533, - "length": 57 - }, - { - "text": "Haven't I taught you anything? What have I always told you? Never trust anything that can think for itself if you can't see where it keeps its brain?", - "source": "Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets", - "id": 4534, - "length": 149 - }, - { - "text": "But do you remember Gandalf's words: Even Gollum may have something yet to do? But for him, Sam, I could not have destroyed the Ring. The Quest would have been in vain, even at the bitter end. So let us forgive him! For the Quest is achieved, and now all is over. I am glad you are here with me. Here at the end of all things, Sam.", - "source": "The Return of the King", - "id": 4535, - "length": 331 - }, - { - "text": "The man wrote the best books of his generation. And he was a pioneer of the civil rights and the anti-war movement. I mean, he made the cover of Newsweek. He knew everybody. He did everything. And he helped shape his time. I mean, the guy hung out with The Beatles! But in the end, it wasn't enough. What he missed was baseball.", - "source": "Field of Dreams", - "id": 4536, - "length": 328 - }, - { - "text": "Look at it. Oh, it's suffocating. Well, it's the smog. You know, people can live with it, but trees - it gives them asthma. They can't breathe. The leaves, look, they're turning all brown. Harold, we have got to do something about this life.", - "source": "Harold and Maude", - "id": 4537, - "length": 241 - }, - { - "text": "Natural selection can act only by the preservation and accumulation of infinitesimally small inherited modifications, each profitable to the preserved being; and as modern geology has almost banished such views as the excavation of a great valley by a single diluvial wave, so will natural selection, if it be a true principle, banish the belief of the continued creation of new organic beings, or of any great and sudden modification in their structure.", - "source": "On the Origin of Species", - "id": 4538, - "length": 454 - }, - { - "text": "Oh, they all did, sire. There they were in the dark; the Duke with his dagger, the Doge with his dart, and the Duchess with her dirk. The Duchess dove at the Duke just when the Duke dove at the Doge. Now the Duke ducked, the Doge dodged, and the Duchess didn't. So the Duke got the Duchess, the Duchess got the Doge, and the Doge got the Duke!", - "source": "The Court Jester", - "id": 4539, - "length": 343 - }, - { - "text": "Thought is a soul-garment that is more intimately involved with the soul than speech. For this reason, (a) good thoughts leave a deeper impression on oneself than good speech, and conversely, evil thoughts leave a deeper impression than evil speech; (b) thought is a constant, just as the soul itself is a constant, whereas with regard to speech, \"There is a time to keep silence and a time to speak.\"", - "source": "Lessons in Tanya", - "id": 4540, - "length": 401 - }, - { - "text": "I don't like sand. It's coarse and rough and irritating and it gets everywhere. Not like here. Here everything is soft and smooth.", - "source": "Star Wars: Episode II -- Attack of the Clones", - "id": 4541, - "length": 130 - }, - { - "text": "Listen, Morty, I hate to break it to you but what people call \"love\" is just a chemical reaction that compels animals to breed. It hits hard, Morty, then it slowly fades, leaving you stranded in a failing marriage. I did it. Your parents are gonna do it. Break the cycle, Morty. Rise above. Focus on science.", - "source": "Rick and Morty", - "id": 4542, - "length": 308 - }, - { - "text": "I believe in angels, something good in everything I see. When I know the time is right for me I'll cross the stream.", - "source": "I Have A Dream", - "id": 4543, - "length": 116 - }, - { - "text": "A failed marriage, a few relationships, you're angry at the entire world and men in particular out of a false sense of entitlement for something you never received. Your entire personality is an extended criticism of my values meant, I'm sure, to compel me into engagement through argument. Do you even like what you do? Or is it just a reflexive urge toward authority out of defiance?", - "source": "True Detective", - "id": 4544, - "length": 385 - }, - { - "text": "It's zero hour, Michael. It's the end of the line. I'm the firstborn. Sick of playing second fiddle. Always third in line for everything. Tired of finishing fourth. Being the fifth wheel. There are six things I'm mad about, and I'm taking over.", - "source": "Arrested Development", - "id": 4545, - "length": 244 - }, - { - "text": "A vision I had in my sleep last night - as distinguished from a dream which is mere sorting and cataloging of the day's events by the subconscious. This was a vision, fresh and clear as a mountain stream - the mind revealing itself to itself. In my vision, I was on the veranda of a vast estate, a palazzo of some fantastic proportion. There seemed to emanate from it a light from within - this gleaming radiant marble. I had known this place. I had in fact been born and raised there. This was my first return, a reunion with the deepest wellsprings of my being.", - "source": "Twin Peaks", - "id": 4546, - "length": 563 - }, - { - "text": "They knew they were privileged to have these choices, but they also knew the stakes were high. These people were asking the big questions: How do I find meaning in my life? Should I have children? What is the most meaningful way to connect with other people? How should I balance my work life with my personal life (and is there a distinction anymore)?", - "source": "Urban Tribes: A Generation Redefines Friendship, Family, and Commitment", - "id": 4547, - "length": 352 - }, - { - "text": "If everybody minded their own business, the world would go around a great deal faster than it does.", - "source": "Alice's Adventures in Wonderland", - "id": 4548, - "length": 99 - }, - { - "text": "My son, from whence this madness, this neglect of my commands, and those whom I protect? Why this unmanly rage? Recall to mind whom you forsake, what pledges leave behind.", - "source": "The Aeneid", - "id": 4549, - "length": 171 - }, - { - "text": "Maybe I'm foolish, maybe I'm blind thinking I can see through this and see what's behind. Got no way to prove it, so maybe I'm blind. But I'm only human after all. Don't put your blame on me.", - "source": "Human", - "id": 4550, - "length": 191 - }, - { - "text": "In Carl Jung's opinion, we all have a sixth sense - intuition. When you meet someone and you suddenly feel like you can't live without them. This could be the memory of a past love from the collective unconscious. Or it could just be hormones.", - "source": "Almost Famous", - "id": 4551, - "length": 243 - }, - { - "text": "The man that I named The Giver passed along to the boy knowledge, history, memories, color, pain, laughter, love, and truth. Every time you place a book in the hands of a child, you do the same thing. It is very risky. But each time a child opens a book, he pushes open the gate that separates him from Elsewhere. It gives him choices. It gives him freedom. Those are magnificent, wonderfully unsafe things.", - "source": "The Giver", - "id": 4552, - "length": 407 - }, - { - "text": "There's bound to be rough waters and I know I'll take some falls, but with the good Lord as my captain I can make it through them all.", - "source": "The River", - "id": 4553, - "length": 134 - }, - { - "text": "The machinery in these canyons are Halo's primary firing mechanisms. They consist of three phase pulse generators that amplify Halo's signal and allow it to fire deep into space. The power levels are enormous. I can't even begin to calculate the pulse's range.", - "source": "Halo: Combat Evolved", - "id": 4554, - "length": 260 - }, - { - "text": "Just give me all the bacon and eggs you have. Wait, wait, I'm worried what you just heard was \"Give me a lot of bacon and eggs.\" What I said was \"Give me all the bacon and eggs you have.\" Do you understand?", - "source": "Parks and Recreation", - "id": 4555, - "length": 206 - }, - { - "text": "The more stupid one is, the closer one is to reality. The more stupid one is, the clearer one is. Stupidity is brief and artless, while intelligence squirms and hides itself. Intelligence is unprincipled, but stupidity is honest and straightforward.", - "source": "The Brothers Karamazov", - "id": 4556, - "length": 249 - }, - { - "text": "He married out of love a woman out of legend. Not in Alexandria or Rome or Camelot has there been such a queen. She bore him many children. But no sons. King Henry had no sons. He had three whiskered things but he disowned them.", - "source": "The Lion in Winter", - "id": 4557, - "length": 228 - }, - { - "text": "Let this moment of clarity lift this curse that has been cast upon me.", - "source": "Eight of Nine", - "id": 4558, - "length": 70 - }, - { - "text": "Court-reporting schools were prime sources of notereaders, especially with respect to those 80 to 90 percent of reporting students who dropped out of the program before reaching acceptable speed on the stenotype.", - "source": "Closed Captioning: Subtitling, Stenography, and the Digital Convergence of Text with Television", - "id": 4559, - "length": 212 - }, - { - "text": "It is sad to think people are no longer learning how to use the colon and semicolon, not least because, in this supreme QWERTY keyboard era, the little finger of the human right hand, deprived of its traditional function, may eventually dwindle and drop off from disuse.", - "source": "Eats, Shoots & Leaves: The Zero Tolerance Approach to Punctuation", - "id": 4560, - "length": 270 - }, - { - "text": "Whenever life gets you down, Mrs. Brown, and things seem hard or tough, and people are stupid, obnoxious, or daft, and you feel that you've had quite enough, just remember that you're standing on a planet that's evolving, and revolving at 900 miles an hour. That's orbiting at 90 miles a second, so it's reckoned, a sun that is the source of all our power. The sun and you and me and all the stars that we can see are moving a million miles a day in an outer spiral arm at 40,000 miles an hour in a galaxy we call the Milky Way.", - "source": "Galaxy Song", - "id": 4561, - "length": 528 - }, - { - "text": "The day of death is better than the day of birth, a live dog is better than a dead lion, and the grave is better than poverty.", - "source": "The Arabian Nights", - "id": 4562, - "length": 126 - }, - { - "text": "It looks like your little adventure has reached its penultimate chapter. I suppose that means it's time for me to go look for real work... Whoa! I can't believe I just said that! No, seriously... I gotta find that treasure...", - "source": "Paper Mario: The Thousand-Year Door", - "id": 4563, - "length": 225 - }, - { - "text": "Though the sciences cannot answer philosophical questions, individual scientists have to take sides on the right answers to them. The positions scientists take on answers to philosophical questions determine the questions they consider answerable by science and choose to address, as well as the methods they employ to answer them. Sometimes scientists take sides consciously. More often they take sides on philosophical questions by their very choice of question, and without realizing it.", - "source": "Philosophy of Social Science (Dimensions of Philosophy) 5th Edition", - "id": 4564, - "length": 490 - }, - { - "text": "O beautiful for spacious skies, but now those skies are threatening. They're beating plowshares into swords for this tired old man that we elected king. Armchair warriors often fail and we've been poisoned by these fairy tales. The lawyers clean up all details since daddy had to lie.", - "source": "The End of the Innocence", - "id": 4565, - "length": 284 - }, - { - "text": "Things, events, that occupy space yet come to an end when someone dies make us stop in wonder - and yet one thing, or an infinite number of things, dies with every man's or woman's death, unless the universe itself has a memory, as theosophists have suggested. In the course of time there was one day that closed the last eyes that had looked on Christ; the battle of Junin and the love of Helen died with the death of one man. What will die with me the day I die? What pathetic or frail image will be lost to the world? The voice of Macedonio Fernandez, the image of a bay horse in a vacant lot on the corner of Sarrano and Charcas, a bar of sulfur in the drawer of a mahogany desk?", - "source": "Collected Fiction", - "id": 4566, - "length": 683 - }, - { - "text": "They, of course, didn't know me; but I knew them all right.", - "source": "White Nights", - "id": 4567, - "length": 59 - }, - { - "text": "Let me get two hamburgers with just pickles, two cheeseburgers, and another cheeseburger everything on them, four more hamburgers with everything, a cheeseburger with no pickles, and a cheeseburger with nothing but pickles, two more hamburgers with everything but onions on one and everything but pickles, mustard, and tomatoes on the other, three large fries, six medium fries, one large fry, a junior fry, and two junior fries, two more cheeseburgers with extra cheese and bacon, two more junior fries, and a hamburger with everything, two more hamburgers with everything, and two more hamburgers with everything, four large cokes, and a large sprite, two large cokes, and a small sprite, five large cokes, and one large coke, and a small coke, three small cokes, and a small coke, and a small coke.", - "source": "MADtv", - "id": 4568, - "length": 801 - }, - { - "text": "The moment one constructs a device to carry into practice a crude idea, he finds himself unavoidably engrossed with the details and defects of the apparatus. As he goes on improving and reconstructing, his force of concentration diminishes and he loses sight of the great underlying principle. Results may be obtained but always at the sacrifice of quality. My method is different. I do not rush into actual work. When I get an idea, I start at once building it up in my imagination. I change the construction, make improvements and operate the device in my mind. It is absolutely immaterial to me whether I run my turbine in thought or test it in my shop.", - "source": "My Inventions", - "id": 4569, - "length": 656 - }, - { - "text": "You're here because you know something. What you know you can't explain, but you feel it. You've felt it your entire life, that there's something wrong with the world. You don't know what it is, but it's there, like a splinter in your mind, driving you mad. It is this feeling that has brought you to me.", - "source": "The Matrix", - "id": 4570, - "length": 304 - }, - { - "text": "Use the power of your word in the direction of truth and love.", - "source": "The Four Agreements: A Practical Guide to Personal Freedom, A Toltec Wisdom Book", - "id": 4571, - "length": 62 - }, - { - "text": "The word science is derived from a Latin verb meaning \"to know.\" Science is a way of knowing - an approach to understanding the natural world. It developed out of our human curiosity about ourselves, other life-forms, our planet, and the universe. Striving to make sense of our experiences seems to be one of our basic urges.", - "source": "Campbell Biology in Focus", - "id": 4572, - "length": 325 - }, - { - "text": "I was working in the lab late one night when my eyes beheld an eerie sight. When my monster, from its slab, began to rise, and suddenly to my surprise he did the Mash, he did the Monster Mash. And it's a graveyard smash. He did the Mash, it caught on in a flash.", - "source": "Monster Mash", - "id": 4573, - "length": 262 - }, - { - "text": "Raindrops on roses and whiskers on kittens, bright copper kettles and warm woolen mittens, brown paper packages tied up with strings, these are a few of my favorite things. Cream-colored ponies and crisp apple strudels, doorbells and sleigh bells and schnitzel with noodles, wild geese that fly with the moon on their wings, these are a few of my favorite things.", - "source": "My Favorite Things", - "id": 4575, - "length": 363 - }, - { - "text": "For stenographer jobs, employers prefer to hire high school graduates and seldom have a preference among the many different shorthand methods. For court reporter jobs, however, employers prefer stenotype, not only because reporters can write faster using stenotype, but also because they can feed stenotype notes to a computer for high-speed transcription.", - "source": "Occupational Outlook Handbook", - "id": 4576, - "length": 356 - }, - { - "text": "The mystery of human existence lies not in just staying alive, but in finding something to live for.", - "source": "The Brothers Karamazov", - "id": 4577, - "length": 100 - }, - { - "text": "Oceans apart day after day and I slowly go insane. I hear your voice on the line but it doesn't stop the pain. If I see you next to never how can we say forever?", - "source": "Right Here Waiting", - "id": 4578, - "length": 161 - }, - { - "text": "Recursive descent takes a different approach to locating instructions. Recursive descent focuses on the concept of control flow, which determines whether an instruction should be disassembled or not based on whether it is referenced by another instruction. To understand recursive descent, it is helpful to classify instructions according to how they affect the CPU instruction pointer.", - "source": "The IDA Pro Book", - "id": 4579, - "length": 386 - }, - { - "text": "Human history, like all great movements, was cyclical, and returned to the point of beginning. The idea of indefinite progress in a right line was a chimera of the imagination, with no analogue in nature. The parabola of a comet was perhaps a yet better illustration of the career of humanity. Tending upward and sunward from the aphelion of barbarism, the race attained the perihelion of civilization only to plunge downward once more to its nether goal in the regions of chaos.", - "source": "Looking Backward", - "id": 4580, - "length": 479 - }, - { - "text": "I saw a little rocky point ahead of me, as if made on purpose for a war correspondent. By running across some open ground I was on to it. There was good if not ample cover on the top. It was in the middle of the angle made by the line of advance of the men along the ridge and the line of the Devons' main advance, and quite close to the hill. Stretching away on our left over a level khaki-coloured sloping field (if I may so call it) of veldt, were the Devons lying behind ant-hills, placed as if on purpose to give scant but welcome shelter to troops advancing under fire.", - "source": "Impressions of a War Correspondent", - "id": 4581, - "length": 575 - }, - { - "text": "I saw something moving round the foot of the bed, which at first I could not accurately distinguish. But I soon saw that it was a sooty-black animal that resembled a monstrous cat. It appeared to me about four or five feet long for it measured fully the length of the hearthrug as it passed over it; and it continued to-ing and fro-ing with the lithe, sinister restlessness of a beast in a cage. I could not cry out, although as you may suppose, I was terrified. Its pace was growing faster, and the room rapidly darker and darker, and at length so dark that I could no longer see anything of it but its eyes. I felt it spring lightly on the bed. The two broad eyes approached my face, and suddenly I felt a stinging pain as if two large needles darted, an inch or two apart, deep into my chest. I waked with a scream.", - "source": "Carmilla", - "id": 4582, - "length": 818 - }, - { - "text": "Evil is not a thing. It cannot take possession of you. It's the opposite; it's a void, an absence of goodness. The only thing you can be frightened of here is yourself.", - "source": "The Snowman", - "id": 4583, - "length": 168 - }, - { - "text": "Almira Gulch, just because you own half the county doesn't mean that you have the power to run the rest of us. For twenty-three years, I've been dying to tell you what I thought of you! And now... well, being a Christian woman, I can't say it!", - "source": "The Wizard of Oz", - "id": 4584, - "length": 243 - }, - { - "text": "I didn't know she had a pony. How was I to know she had a pony? Who figures an immigrant's going to have a pony? Do you know what the odds are on that? I mean, in all the pictures I saw of immigrants on boats coming into New York harbor, I never saw one of them sitting on a pony. Why would anybody come here if they had a pony? Who leaves a country packed with ponies to come to a non-pony country? It doesn't make sense. Am I wrong?", - "source": "Seinfeld", - "id": 4585, - "length": 434 - }, - { - "text": "It rasped her, though, to have stirring about in her this brutal monster! To hear twigs cracking and feel hooves planted down in the depths of that leaf-encumbered forest, the soul; never to be content quite, or quite secure, for at any moment the brute would be stirring, this hatred, which, especially since her illness, had power to make her feel scraped, hurt in her spine; gave her physical pain, and made all pleasure in beauty, in friendship, in being well, in being loved and making her home delightful rock, quiver, and bend as if indeed there were a monster grubbing at the roots, as if the whole panoply of content were nothing but self love! This hatred!", - "source": "Mrs. Dalloway", - "id": 4586, - "length": 666 - }, - { - "text": "If an exoplanet happens to transit its star, we can often determine both its mass and its radius, and hence estimate its density and possibly even its composition. More than 200 transiting hot Jupiters have been measured in this way. But when astronomers calculate their densities the numbers they obtain are generally much lower than predicted by theory.", - "source": "Astronomy: A Beginner's Guide to the Universe (7th Edition)", - "id": 4587, - "length": 355 - }, - { - "text": "A robot may not injure a human being, or, through inaction, allow a human being to come to harm. A robot must obey the orders given it by human beings except where such orders would conflict with the First Law. A robot must protect its own existence as long as such protection does not conflict with the First or Second Laws.", - "source": "I, Robot", - "id": 4588, - "length": 325 - }, - { - "text": "In the ninja world, those who break the rules are scum, that's true. But, those who abandon their friends are worse than scum.", - "source": "Naruto", - "id": 4589, - "length": 126 - }, - { - "text": "That I should want you at all, suddenly strikes me as the height of improbability. But that, in itself, is probably the reason. You're an improbable person, Eve, and so am I. We have that in common. Also, our contempt for humanity and inability to love, and be loved, insatiable ambition, and talent. We deserve each other.", - "source": "All About Eve", - "id": 4590, - "length": 323 - }, - { - "text": "Look, you should admit to yourself that Microsoft will miss you for a month or two. Someone will quickly fill the void. It will be like you never worked there. Ask yourself, \"Are there thousands lining up to help poor villages build schools and libraries?\"", - "source": "Leaving Microsoft to Change the World", - "id": 4591, - "length": 256 - }, - { - "text": "There exists in human nature a strong propensity to depreciate the advantages, and to magnify the evils, of the present times.", - "source": "The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire", - "id": 4592, - "length": 126 - }, - { - "text": "And so it went, night after night, year after year. In fact, the Hansens had been in a living hell ever since that fateful day the neighbor's \"For Sale\" sign had come down and a family of howler monkeys had moved in.", - "source": "The Complete Far Side", - "id": 4593, - "length": 216 - }, - { - "text": "In ancient times, hundreds of years before the dawn of history, an ancient race of people... the Druids. No one knows who they were or what they were doing...", - "source": "This Is Spinal Tap", - "id": 4594, - "length": 158 - }, - { - "text": "The maiden woke in darkness. Confused she reached out. Sharp brambles jabbed at all sides. Burning acid bubbled close below. What nightmare had led her here? What hope of survival remained? Doomed she thought herself and to despair she fell, until a light bloomed far in the distance, a bright, glowing spot fast approaching. It swept majestic about the thorns, leapt above burning waters and dove towards the maiden. Coming close, the form revealed at last, a beautiful being, sharp horns gleaming white. Arms reached out for the damsel, gathering her up, grip firm...", - "source": "Hollow Knight", - "id": 4595, - "length": 569 - }, - { - "text": "Okay, you're out on the condition that you never enter your daughter in a beauty pageant in the state of California ever again. Ever.", - "source": "Little Miss Sunshine", - "id": 4596, - "length": 133 - }, - { - "text": "Imagine a vast sheet of paper on which straight Lines, Triangles, Squares, Pentagons, Hexagons, and other figures, instead of remaining fixed in their places, move freely about, on or in the surface, but without the power of rising above or sinking below it, very much like shadows - only hard and with luminous edges - and you will then have a pretty correct notion of my country and countrymen.", - "source": "Flatland", - "id": 4597, - "length": 396 - }, - { - "text": "I'm waking up to ash and dust. I wipe my brow and I sweat my rust. I'm breathing in the chemicals. I'm breaking in, shaping up, then checking out on the prison bus. This is it, the apocalypse.", - "source": "Radioactive", - "id": 4598, - "length": 192 - }, - { - "text": "Wicked phenomenon, yes? But, you know, it's not any more \"evil\" than, say... fire. It all depends on your point of view. Try to get a better understanding of things before you make your judgement. Let's move out now, it's not safe here.", - "source": "Metro 2033", - "id": 4599, - "length": 236 - }, - { - "text": "Well, you and I have different management styles. I believe work should be fun and you try to crush people's spirits. What's next, Michael? Are you going to make dancing illegal? Is this the tiny town from Footloose?", - "source": "Arrested Development", - "id": 4600, - "length": 216 - }, - { - "text": "Monotony collapses time; novelty unfolds it. You can exercise daily and eat healthily and live a long life, while experiencing a short one. If you spend your life sitting in a cubicle and passing papers, one day is bound to blend unmemorably into the next - and disappear. That's why it's so important to change routines regularly, and take vacations to exotic locales, and have as many new experiences as possible that can serve to anchor our memories. Creating new memories stretches out psychological time, and lengthens our perception of our lives.", - "source": "Moonwalking with Einstein", - "id": 4601, - "length": 552 - }, - { - "text": "Hence the saying: If you know the enemy and know yourself, you need not fear the result of a hundred battles. If you know yourself but not the enemy, for every victory gained you will also suffer a defeat. If you know neither the enemy nor yourself, you will succumb in every battle.", - "source": "The Art of War", - "id": 4602, - "length": 283 - }, - { - "text": "Picture yourself in a boat on a river, with tangerine trees and marmalade skies. Somebody calls you, you answer quite slowly - a girl with kaleidoscope eyes. Cellophane flowers of yellow and green, towering over your head. Look for the girl with the sun in her eyes and she's gone.", - "source": "Lucy in the Sky With Diamonds", - "id": 4603, - "length": 281 - }, - { - "text": "You know, I don't really know what to expect. Sometimes you look like a younger Brando... but then the way Crumb draws you, you look... like a hairy ape, with all these wavy, stinky lines undulating off your body. I don't really know what to expect.", - "source": "American Splendor", - "id": 4604, - "length": 249 - }, - { - "text": "This is one time where television really fails to capture the true excitement of a large squirrel predicting the weather.", - "source": "Groundhog Day", - "id": 4605, - "length": 121 - }, - { - "text": "I can hear its whispers coming from below! Down, deep down in the Earth. If you're ever down there, please! You must find my box and return it at once! And whatever you do - do NOT open the box!", - "source": "Dust: An Elysian Tail", - "id": 4606, - "length": 194 - }, - { - "text": "As I mentioned earlier, Miss Lucy has, for reasons that remain a mystery to me, unlocked certain portions of her brain that offer access to previously unexplored cerebral zones.", - "source": "Lucy", - "id": 4607, - "length": 177 - }, - { - "text": "I'm going to improvise. Listen, there's something you should know about me... about inception. An idea is like a virus, resilient, highly contagious. The smallest seed of an idea can grow. It can grow to define or destroy you.", - "source": "Inception", - "id": 4608, - "length": 226 - }, - { - "text": "My severe injuries had healed and the sweet taste of blood coated my mouth. I kept walking, my goal vague, trying to dispel the building unease in my chest. Upon entering an open area was the scent of rotting flowers and in the middle of the flowerbed, he stood. Without anyone saying a thing, without his name given, like an unsolved puzzle falling into place by itself, just by seeing that figure, I understood exactly who I faced.", - "source": "Tokyo Ghoul", - "id": 4609, - "length": 433 - }, - { - "text": "In my younger and more vulnerable years my father gave me some advice that I've been turning over in my mind ever since. \"Whenever you feel like criticizing anyone,\" he told me, \"just remember that all the people in this world haven't had the advantages that you've had.\" He didn't say any more but we've always been unusually communicative in a reserved way and I understood that he meant a great deal more than that.", - "source": "The Great Gatsby", - "id": 4610, - "length": 418 - }, - { - "text": "As a manager you will also be able to control gravity. Sir Isaac Newton showed that dense objects, such as managers, have more gravity. Your office will become a black hole into which all employee input will be lost forever. No matter how many times your employees give you something - diskettes, documents, whatever - you can claim you never got it. Best of all, it's not your fault; it's the law of gravity.", - "source": "Dogbert's Top Secret Management Handbook", - "id": 4611, - "length": 409 - }, - { - "text": "Remember that all the people in this world haven't had the advantages that you've had.", - "source": "The Great Gatsby", - "id": 4612, - "length": 86 - }, - { - "text": "The term First Contact applies to the moment when we employ a means of communication with alien beings that also have a means of talking back to us. There are several ways First Contact could happen. The most popular idea, originating from the UFO phenomenon, is the image of ET landing on the lawn of the White House and greeting the president. However, scientists hope they are the first to establish communication with ET, via radio signals.", - "source": "The Ancient Alien Question", - "id": 4613, - "length": 444 - }, - { - "text": "Our files show that the Smuggler is whacked-out paranoid. Watch for booby traps. And the latest news: your brother's team hit some resistance, so they're going to be delayed while we bring in chopper support.", - "source": "Deus Ex", - "id": 4614, - "length": 208 - }, - { - "text": "And, and maybe the first chair trombone player from the high school band comes by you know, and he takes pity on you, tries to drive you home and all. Oh but no, Mike! You wanna swerve home in your cherried-out Dodge Charger!", - "source": "Mystery Science Theater 3000: Space Mutiny", - "id": 4615, - "length": 225 - }, - { - "text": "In the beginning there was discovery. A confusion of elements. The first snowfall of impossible change. Old lives undone, left behind. Strange faces, made familiar. New nightmares, to challenge sleep. New friends, to feel safe with. Only then comes control. The need to impose order unto chaos, through determination, through study, through struggle. All in defiance of a thundering truth. They're here, and the earth shudders underfoot.", - "source": "Heroes", - "id": 4616, - "length": 437 - }, - { - "text": "Why are we still here? Just to suffer? Every night, I can feel my leg... and my arm... even my fingers. The body I've lost... the comrades I've lost... won't stop hurting... It's like they're all still there. You feel it, too, don't you? I'm gonna make them give back our past.", - "source": "Metal Gear Solid V: The Phantom Pain", - "id": 4617, - "length": 277 - }, - { - "text": "Hating the Empire, getting revenge... It's all I ever thought about. But I never did anything about it. I mean, I realized there was nothing I could do. It made me feel hollow, alone. And then... I'd miss my brother. I'd say stuff like \"I'm gonna be a sky pirate\", or some other stupid thing. Just anything to keep my mind off it. I was just... I was running away. I needed to get away from his death.", - "source": "Final Fantasy XII", - "id": 4618, - "length": 401 - }, - { - "text": "And I despise your books, I despise wisdom and the blessings of this world. It is all worthless, fleeting, illusory, and deceptive, like a mirage. You may be proud, wise, and fine, but death will wipe you off the face of the earth as though you were no more than mice burrowing under the floor, and your posterity, your history, your immortal geniuses will burn or freeze together with the earthly globe.", - "source": "The Stories of Anton Chekhov", - "id": 4619, - "length": 404 - }, - { - "text": "Be cautious then, young ladies; be wary how you engage. Be shy of loving frankly; never tell all you feel, or (a better way still), feel very little. See the consequences of being prematurely honest and confiding, and mistrust yourselves and everybody. Get yourselves married as they do in France, where the lawyers are the bridesmaids and confidantes. At any rate, never have any feelings which may make you uncomfortable, or make any promises which you cannot at any required moment command and withdraw. That is the way to get on, and be respected, and have a virtuous character in Vanity Fair.", - "source": "Vanity Fair", - "id": 4620, - "length": 597 - }, - { - "text": "Now you listen to me, I'm an advertising man, not a red herring. I've got a job, a secretary, a mother, two ex-wives and several bartenders that depend upon me, and I don't intend to disappoint them all by getting myself \"slightly\" killed.", - "source": "North by Northwest", - "id": 4621, - "length": 239 - }, - { - "text": "Three shiny steel doors stand at the centre of the hallway. Bodies are everywhere. Killed as they waited for an elevator. The eerie silence is broken by a scratching sound. One of the elevator doors pops open an inch. Hands force their way out.", - "source": "Resident Evil", - "id": 4622, - "length": 244 - }, - { - "text": "Well, Mr. Gardner, I must admit that is one of the most refreshing and optimistic statements I've heard in a very, very long time. I admire your good, solid sense. That's precisely what we lack on Capitol Hill.", - "source": "Being There", - "id": 4623, - "length": 210 - }, - { - "text": "Why, if I had a brain I could... I could while away the hours, conferrin' with the flowers, consultin' with the rain. And my head I'd be scratchin' while my thoughts were busy hatchin' if I only had a brain.", - "source": "The Wizard of Oz", - "id": 4624, - "length": 207 - }, - { - "text": "Oh, see, I made Louis a bet here. See, Louis bet me that we couldn't both get rich and put y'all in the poor house at the same time. He didn't think we could do it. I won.", - "source": "Trading Places", - "id": 4625, - "length": 171 - }, - { - "text": "Okay. I'm gonna get your money for ya. But if you don't get the President of the United States on that phone, you know what's gonna happen to you? You're gonna have to answer to the Coca-Cola company.", - "source": "Dr. Strangelove or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb", - "id": 4626, - "length": 200 - }, - { - "text": "Mail's here. Here's the mail, it never fails, it makes me wanna wag my tail. When it comes it makes me want to yell MAIL!!!", - "source": "Blue's Clues", - "id": 4627, - "length": 123 - }, - { - "text": "Money is like other goods: the higher the opportunity cost, the less of it we want to hold. Consider, first, how the transactions' demand for money (i.e., the money held to facilitate purchases of goods and services) is affected by higher interest rates. When the opportunity cost of money is high, we lose interest by holding more of it, so we find ways to hold less. For example, if interest rates are high enough, we might reduce the funds in our pockets and in our bank accounts and take funds out of interest-bearing mutual funds in smaller amounts more frequently.", - "source": "Applied Intermediate Macroeconomics", - "id": 4628, - "length": 570 - }, - { - "text": "One mile to the west, Emerson Cod was also not thrilled. During times of stress or anxiety, he liked to knit. Since the arrival of the dead girl who was not dead, he found the stockinette stitch relaxing.", - "source": "Pushing Daisies", - "id": 4629, - "length": 204 - }, - { - "text": "I was shaking like a leaf, so without thinking I lit up a cigarette on the airplane to calm my nerves. I was trembling, I was very emotional and that's when all the rest of it happened. It's very regrettable. Now, I don't want to kick up a fuss, press charges, contact the British embassy. I'd rather not pursue those channels, that's not my style. I'm not that sort of a bloke.", - "source": "Sexy Beast", - "id": 4630, - "length": 378 - }, - { - "text": "Everyone laughed and looked around, surprised to discover that I could speak Bambara, chagrined that I had understood their comments, and amazed at my admission. There was a flurry of activity as people squished themselves as far away as possible. One old man was skeptical and, in my defense, suggested that I couldn't speak Bambara very well and had said something I didn't mean to.", - "source": "Dancing Skeletons: Life and Death in West Africa", - "id": 4631, - "length": 384 - }, - { - "text": "Tables. Tables are made so a person can sit down and do something. Or nothing. Any person can sit at a table, and if the table is large enough, many people. To make jokes, eat a meal, tell stories. Tables are for people to be together and share. And that is why tables are like Pied Piper. Grapefruits, postcards, hugs. These are things people share to connect, to come closer. To open up about ideas and things that make us feel alive, like air, ballet, amazing haircuts, weird countries, three-alarm chili, mountains, continents, the Earth, life. Life is beautiful, and sad, and hopeful, and dangerous.", - "source": "Silicon Valley", - "id": 4632, - "length": 604 - }, - { - "text": "The hallway is luxurious and tasteful. Tapestries and paintings of old relatives that Alice doesn't recognize adorn the walls. But this isn't a quaint old house. There's something in the air.", - "source": "Resident Evil", - "id": 4633, - "length": 191 - }, - { - "text": "I've got to get up in the morning and spend some more money on my overpriced education.", - "source": "Good Will Hunting", - "id": 4634, - "length": 87 - }, - { - "text": "You won. All right? You came in and you killed them and you took their land. That's what conquering nations do. It's what Caesar did, and he's not goin' around saying, \"I came, I conquered, I felt really bad about it.\" The history of the world is not people making friends. You had better weapons and you massacred them. End of story.", - "source": "Buffy the Vampire Slayer", - "id": 4635, - "length": 334 - }, - { - "text": "Everybody thinks they are protecting and defending their people. But we are all people, right?", - "source": "The Night Diary", - "id": 4636, - "length": 94 - }, - { - "text": "I'm singin' in the rain, just singin' in the rain. What a glorious feeling, I'm happy again. I'm laughin' at clouds, so dark up above. The sun's in my heart, and I'm ready for love.", - "source": "Singin' in the Rain", - "id": 4637, - "length": 181 - }, - { - "text": "\"Thinking I'm a moron gives people something to feel smug about,\" Charles Wallace said. \"Why should I disillusion them?\"", - "source": "A Wrinkle in Time", - "id": 4638, - "length": 120 - }, - { - "text": "Attention passengers, this is your captain speaking. I've got good news and bad news. The good news is we're landing immediately. The bad news? We're crash-landing.", - "source": "Madagascar: Escape 2 Africa", - "id": 4639, - "length": 164 - }, - { - "text": "Culture was the seed of proliferation but it's gotten melded into an inharmonic whole, to an inharmonic whole. Consciousness has plagued us and we cannot shake it though we think we're in control, though we think we're in control. Questions that besiege us in life are testament of our helplessness.", - "source": "No Control", - "id": 4640, - "length": 299 - }, - { - "text": "Something just came out of the back of a helicopter. It's a dark object, perhaps a skydiver plummeting to the earth from only two thousand feet in the air. There's a third. No parachutes yet. Those can't be skydivers. I can't tell just yet what they are but oh my God! They're turkeys!", - "source": "WKRP in Cincinnati", - "id": 4641, - "length": 285 - }, - { - "text": "Well, on a basic cellular level we're the sum total of all our ancestors' biological matter. But what if more than biological traits get passed down from generation to generation? What if I like sunflower seeds because I'm genetically predisposed to liking them?", - "source": "The X-Files", - "id": 4642, - "length": 262 - }, - { - "text": "Don't want to touch you but you're under my skin. I want to kiss you but your lips are venomous poison.", - "source": "Poison", - "id": 4643, - "length": 103 - }, - { - "text": "Do the gods light this fire in our hearts or does each man's mad desire become his god?", - "source": "The Aeneid", - "id": 4644, - "length": 87 - }, - { - "text": "Mary Elizabeth is a really nice person underneath the part of her that hates everyone.", - "source": "The Perks of Being a Wallflower", - "id": 4645, - "length": 86 - }, - { - "text": "It's different reconciling with skeletons I ain't know I possessed. I sought perfection out in ways I no longer accept. I understand what I neglect in times when I obsess. I'm learning to confess, this fate is harder to digest. The biggest threat I'm up against is who I face in my reflection. Depression still an uninvited guest I'm always accepting. Can't help but meet the feeling with a familiar embrace. When I know that it'll kill me if I give into my brain. I see the shadows inside, they ten feet tall with no eyes. They put my head in the water and it's so beautiful under. The sun reflecting off the corals, colors I can't describe, to make the darkness divine.", - "source": "Thug Life", - "id": 4646, - "length": 671 - }, - { - "text": "In this chapter I want to examine punctuation as an art. Naturally, therefore, this is where the colon and semicolon waltz in together, to a big cheer from all the writers in the audience. Just look at those glamorous punctuation marks twirling in the lights from the glitter-ball: are they not beautiful? Are they not graceful?", - "source": "Eats, Shoots & Leaves: The Zero Tolerance Approach to Punctuation", - "id": 4647, - "length": 328 - }, - { - "text": "What condemnation could possibly be more harsh than one's own, when self-pretense is no longer possible?", - "source": "What Dreams May Come", - "id": 4648, - "length": 104 - }, - { - "text": "You know what kind of plan never fails? No plan at all. No plan. You know why? If you make a plan, life never works out that way. Look around us, did these people think \"Let's all spend the night in a gym?\" But look now, everyone's sleeping on the floor, us included. That's why people shouldn't make plans. With no plan, nothing can go wrong and if something spins out of control, it doesn't matter. Whether you kill someone or betray your country. None of it matters. Got it?", - "source": "Parasite", - "id": 4649, - "length": 477 - }, - { - "text": "I have already computed the charge of nursing a beggar's child (in which list I reckon all cottagers, laborers, and four-fifths of the farmers) to be about two shillings per annum, rags included; and I believe no gentleman would repine to give ten shillings for the carcass of a good fat child, which, as I have said, will make four dishes of excellent nutritive meat, when he hath only some particular friend or his own family to dine with him. Thus the squire will learn to be a good landlord, and grow popular among his tenants; the mother will have eight shillings net profit, and be fit for work till she produces another child.", - "source": "A Modest Proposal", - "id": 4650, - "length": 633 - }, - { - "text": "It was the kind of voice that the ear follows up and down, as if each speech is an arrangement of notes that will never be played again.", - "source": "The Great Gatsby", - "id": 4651, - "length": 136 - }, - { - "text": "Like painting, most software is intended for a human audience. And so hackers, like painters, must have empathy to do really great work. You have to be able to see things from the user's point of view.", - "source": "Hackers and Painters: Big Ideas from the Computer Age", - "id": 4652, - "length": 201 - }, - { - "text": "It's the weather. When it gets damp and cold people get depressed, irritable and unpleasant. In the winter, Scandinavia has more lunatics per capita than any other country in the world.", - "source": "Barney Miller", - "id": 4654, - "length": 185 - }, - { - "text": "Some people thought we were at war with the Germans - incorrect. We were at war with the clock. Britain was literally starving to death. The Americans sent over 100,000 pounds of food each week, and every week the Germans would send our desperately needed bread to the bottom of the ocean. Our daily failure was announced at the chimes of midnight. And the sound would haunt our unwelcome dreams.", - "source": "The Imitation Game", - "id": 4655, - "length": 396 - }, - { - "text": "Respect was invented to cover the empty place where love should be.", - "source": "Anna Karenina", - "id": 4656, - "length": 67 - }, - { - "text": "That's the way romance is. Usually that's the way that it goes, but every once in a while it goes the other way, too.", - "source": "True Romance", - "id": 4657, - "length": 117 - }, - { - "text": "He never did... anything that was... illegal... Unless you count all the times he sold dope disguised as a nun.", - "source": "Heavy Metal", - "id": 4658, - "length": 111 - }, - { - "text": "If our civilization goes the way of the dodo and the remnants of our culture are buried in layers, we will certainly have some nasty surprises for future archaeologists. Between used razor blades and pop top can tabs, we will literally keep future diggers on their toes, or at least in very durable shoes.", - "source": "Why Do Clocks Run Clockwise?: Mysteries of Everyday Life Explained", - "id": 4659, - "length": 305 - }, - { - "text": "I am not a torturer, though it so often is what people deserve. And it does provide answers, but they're usually the wrong answers. My job is to find the right answers. Do you know how I do that? I do it by making people happy. I'd like to make you happy, Vala. That's your name isn't it? Vala?", - "source": "Game of Thrones", - "id": 4660, - "length": 294 - }, - { - "text": "It was a dark and stormy night; the rain fell in torrents, except at occasional intervals, when it was checked by a violent gust of wind which swept up the streets (for it is in London that our scene lies), rattling along the housetops, and fiercely agitating the scanty flame of the lamps that struggled against the darkness.", - "source": "Paul Clifford", - "id": 4661, - "length": 326 - }, - { - "text": "Do you know why you're not afraid to die, Spock? You're more afraid of living. Each day you stay alive is just one more day you might slip and let your human half peek out. That's it, isn't it? Insecurity. Why, you wouldn't know what to do with a genuine, warm, decent feeling.", - "source": "Star Trek", - "id": 4662, - "length": 277 - }, - { - "text": "For 360 minutes per diem, we receive unconscious reinforcement of the deep thesis that the most significant feature of truly alive persons is watchableness, and that genuine human worth is not just identical with but rooted in the phenomenon of watching.", - "source": "E Unibus Pluram: Television and U.S. Fiction", - "id": 4663, - "length": 254 - }, - { - "text": "Good evening, London. Allow me first to apologize for this interruption. I do, like many of you, appreciate the comforts of everyday routine - the security of the familiar, the tranquility of repetition. I enjoy them as much as any bloke. But in the spirit of commemoration, I thought we could mark this November the 5th, a day that is sadly no longer remembered, by taking some time out of our daily lives to sit down and have a little chat.", - "source": "V for Vendetta", - "id": 4664, - "length": 442 - }, - { - "text": "This is the most uncomfortable coffin I've ever been in. Your selection is quite shoddy. You are wasting my time.", - "source": "Ed Wood", - "id": 4665, - "length": 113 - }, - { - "text": "And as the Strangefolk mined deeper and deeper into the mountain, holes began to appear. Bringing with them a cold and bitter wind that chilled the very soul of the Monkey. For the first time, the Happyfolk felt fearful, for they knew the Monkey would soon stir from its deep sleep. And then came a sound, distant first. It grew into castrophany, so immense it could be heard far away in space. There were no screams, there was no time. The mountain called Monkey had spoken, there was only fire. And then, nothing.", - "source": "Fire Coming Out of the Monkey's Head", - "id": 4666, - "length": 515 - }, - { - "text": "The rules of the Hunger Games are simple. In punishment for the uprising, each of the twelve districts must provide one girl and one boy, called tributes, to participate. The twenty-four tributes will be imprisoned in a vast outdoor arena that could hold anything from a burning desert to a frozen wasteland. Over a period of several weeks, the competitors must fight to the death. The last tribute standing wins.", - "source": "The Hunger Games", - "id": 4667, - "length": 413 - }, - { - "text": "Of all creatures that breathe and move upon the earth, nothing is bred that is weaker than man.", - "source": "The Odyssey", - "id": 4668, - "length": 95 - }, - { - "text": "Mac knew the score even if Aunt Ella didn't. Shot through the left lung and that was that, as they say. Believe it was that night. She buried him the next mornin'. Diggin' in that hard caliche. What you got ain't nothin' new. This country is hard on people. Hard and crazy. Got the devil in it yet folks never seem to hold it to account.", - "source": "No Country for Old Men", - "id": 4669, - "length": 337 - }, - { - "text": "Look up here, man, I'm in danger. I've got nothing left to lose. I'm so high it makes my brain whirl. Dropped my cell phone down below. Ain't that just like me?", - "source": "Lazarus", - "id": 4670, - "length": 160 - }, - { - "text": "With the arrival of electric technology, man has extended, or set outside himself, a live model of the central nervous system itself. To the degree that this is so, it is a development that suggests a desperate suicidal autoamputation, as if the central nervous system could no longer depend on the physical organs to be protective buffers against the slings and arrows of outrageous mechanism.", - "source": "Understanding Media", - "id": 4671, - "length": 394 - }, - { - "text": "I want to tell you somethin' about the law. Please, take a seat. Separate from all the bribes we put up, I paid 5,000 dollars to avoid being the object of fireside ditties about a man that fled a murder warrant then worked very hard to get his camp annexed by the territory, only to have them serve the warrant of him and to face the six-foot drop. Into the magistrate's pocket the money goes, after which he sends a message. The 5,000'll need company if I'm to be off the hook. I give you the law.", - "source": "Deadwood", - "id": 4672, - "length": 498 - }, - { - "text": "I like them, I like them! I liked them first! Before I even met them I liked them! As soon as I met them I liked them right away! You hate them compared to how much I like them!", - "source": "Madagascar", - "id": 4673, - "length": 177 - }, - { - "text": "The sea is everything. It covers seven tenths of the terrestrial globe. Its breath is pure and healthy. It is an immense desert, where man is never lonely, for he feels life stirring on all sides. The sea is only the embodiment of a supernatural and wonderful existence. It is nothing but love and emotion; it is the Living Infinite.", - "source": "20,000 Leagues Under The Sea", - "id": 4674, - "length": 333 - }, - { - "text": "There is no hate, only joy. For you are beloved by the goddess. Hero of the dawn, Healer of worlds. Dreams of the morrow hath the shattered soul. Pride is lost. Wings stripped away, the end is nigh.", - "source": "Crisis Core: Final Fantasy VII", - "id": 4675, - "length": 198 - }, - { - "text": "So back off your rules, back off your jive. 'Cause I'm sick of not living to stay alive. Leave me alone, I'm not asking a lot. I just don't want to be controlled...", - "source": "All I Want", - "id": 4676, - "length": 164 - }, - { - "text": "All right, if this guy just took advantage of a natural accident to sell me twenty-four cans of nothing, I'm going to applaud his creative entrepreneurial spirit and then kill him.", - "source": "Harry Potter and the Methods of Rationality", - "id": 4677, - "length": 180 - }, - { - "text": "I'm so happy because today I've found my friends. They're in my head. I'm so ugly, but that's okay, 'cause so are you. We broke our mirrors. Sunday morning is everyday for all I care and I'm not scared. Light my candles in a daze 'cause I've found God.", - "source": "Lithium", - "id": 4678, - "length": 252 - }, - { - "text": "We were happy pretending to be other people. We were the happiest couple we knew. And what's the point of being together if you're not the happiest? But Nick got lazy. He became someone I did not agree to marry. He actually expected me to love him unconditionally. Then, he dragged me, penniless, to the navel of this great country, and found himself a newer, younger, bouncier \"cool girl\".", - "source": "Gone Girl", - "id": 4679, - "length": 390 - }, - { - "text": "Not every thirteen-year-old girl is accused of murder, brought to trial, and found guilty. But I was such a girl, and my story is worth relating even if it did happen years ago. Be warned, however, this is no Story of a Bad Boy, no What Katy Did. If strong ideas and action offend you, read no more. Find another companion to share your idle hours. For my part I intend to tell the truth as I lived it.", - "source": "The True Confessions of Charlotte Doyle", - "id": 4680, - "length": 402 - }, - { - "text": "Almost immediately Aesma found the estate of the Master of space-time, a lunar domain of immense proportions. It was incredibly hard to miss the Master, as he was a man thirty stories tall, with skin speckled as a night sky, and in his tangled hair, among his shaggy brow, and scattered in his great knotted beard were a multitude of burning stars. He had served for uncounted centuries as chief architect of the gods after attaining his mastery, and even now was building a mighty dark tower greater than any mountain, and the clangs of his immense silver chisel shivered Aesma's bones as she approached. But she had little regard for his mighty stature as a furious mischief was in her.", - "source": "Kill Six Billion Demons", - "id": 4681, - "length": 688 - }, - { - "text": "All right, I wanna know who's responsible for wreckin' my town Sheriff. I want his hood on a platter! I'm gonna put him in jail till he rots! No, check that. I'm gonna put him in jail till the jail rots on top of him, and then I'm gonna move him to a new jail and let that jail rot. I'm... Throw him out of here, Sheriff. I want him out of my courtroom. I want him out of our town! Case dismissed.", - "source": "Cars", - "id": 4682, - "length": 397 - }, - { - "text": "Whereas by the benefit of words and ratiocination they exceed brute beasts in knowledge, and the commodities that accompany the same, so they exceed them also in error.", - "source": "Human Nature", - "id": 4683, - "length": 168 - }, - { - "text": "They say in chess you've got to kill the queen and then you made it. Oh, I, do you? A funny thing, a king that gets himself assassinated. Hey now, every time I lose altitude.", - "source": "Fortune Faded", - "id": 4684, - "length": 174 - }, - { - "text": "Honestly, if you could see just what was going on outside your realm of perception, it would blow your minds! That's the main reason I kept it back. If I were to give you an analogy, I'd describe it like this: when a duck swims on the water, you only see it glide, apparently effortlessly across the lake. But underneath, as in beneath the surface, it's a whole different story. Its legs are moving like it's pedaling a bicycle up a mountain! Well, that's me right now. I am that duck!", - "source": "Call of Duty: Black Ops III", - "id": 4685, - "length": 485 - }, - { - "text": "My older brother, Tom, had spent the last month digging in the cornfield. Ever since turning 17 he had an urge to dig. Nobody knew why he was digging - he just was. When anyone asked him why, he would only say, \"I'm digging for Mom.\" I didn't know how digging a hole was good for Mom, and didn't question it. If he wanted to get in trouble with her, that was up to him.", - "source": "The Treasure at Devil's Hole", - "id": 4686, - "length": 369 - }, - { - "text": "Now you listen to me. While I will admit to a certain cynicism, the fact is that I am a naysayer and hatchetman in the fight against violence. I pride myself in taking a punch and I'll gladly take another because I choose to live my life in the company of Gandhi and King. My concerns are global. I reject absolutely revenge, aggression, and retaliation. The foundation of such a method... is love. I love you Sheriff Truman.", - "source": "Twin Peaks", - "id": 4687, - "length": 425 - }, - { - "text": "The streets were cleared by a Critical Mass bike ride and were flooded by activists dressed in second-hand suits with slogans painted on their backs. They danced in the doorsteps of office towers, formed a human chain around the Treasury and held peaceful sit-ins at several banks.", - "source": "No Logo", - "id": 4688, - "length": 281 - }, - { - "text": "Lieutenant Dan got me invested in some kind of fruit company. So then I got a call from him, saying we don't have to worry about money no more. And I said, \"That's good! One less thing.\"", - "source": "Forrest Gump", - "id": 4689, - "length": 186 - }, - { - "text": "October arrived, spreading a damp chill over the grounds and into the castle. Madam Pomfrey, the nurse, was kept busy by a sudden spate of colds among the staff and students.", - "source": "Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets", - "id": 4690, - "length": 174 - }, - { - "text": "Freeze this moment a little bit longer. Make each sensation a little bit stronger. Experience slips away.", - "source": "Time Stand Still", - "id": 4691, - "length": 105 - }, - { - "text": "I bet he was referring to the four areas just outside town. There's one in each compass direction. But what do you suppose he meant by \"the four who are there?\"", - "source": "The Legend of Zelda: Majora's Mask", - "id": 4692, - "length": 160 - }, - { - "text": "Can you \"choose\" something when you are forcefully and enthusiastically immersed in it at an age when the resources and information necessary for choosing are not yet yours?", - "source": "A Supposedly Fun Thing I'll Never Do Again", - "id": 4693, - "length": 173 - }, - { - "text": "In order to become an elf I filled out ten pages' worth of forms, took a multiple choice personality test, underwent two interviews and a drug test. The first interview was general, designed to eliminate obvious sociopaths. During the second interview we were asked why we wanted to be elves.", - "source": "Holidays on Ice", - "id": 4694, - "length": 292 - }, - { - "text": "In the witch trials, it was nearly impossible to provide compelling alibis for accused witches: The rules of evidence had a special character. For example, in more than one case a husband attested that his wife was asleep in his arms at the very moment she was accused of frolicking with the devil; but the archbishop patiently explained that a demon had taken the place of the wife.", - "source": "The Demon-Haunted World: Science as a Candle in the Dark", - "id": 4695, - "length": 383 - }, - { - "text": "Yes, of course duct tape works in a near-vacuum. Duct tape works anywhere. Duct tape is magic and should be worshiped.", - "source": "The Martian", - "id": 4696, - "length": 118 - }, - { - "text": "The increase of disorder or entropy is what distinguishes the past from the future, giving a direction to time.", - "source": "A Brief History of Time", - "id": 4697, - "length": 111 - }, - { - "text": "Maybe a story will cheer you up. It's called the ugly barnacle. Once there was an ugly barnacle. He was so ugly that everyone died! The end.", - "source": "SpongeBob SquarePants", - "id": 4698, - "length": 140 - }, - { - "text": "As, before putting up a large building, the architect surveys and sounds the site to see if it will bear the weight, the wise legislator does not begin by laying down laws good in themselves, but by investigating the fitness of the people, for which they are destined, to receive them. Plato refused to legislate for the Arcadians and the Cyrenaeans, because he knew that both peoples were rich and could not put up with equality; and good laws and bad men were found together in Crete, because Minos had inflicted discipline on a people already burdened with vice.", - "source": "On the Social Contract", - "id": 4699, - "length": 565 - }, - { - "text": "Because here's something else that's weird but true: in the day-to-day trenches of adult life, there is actually no such thing as atheism. There is no such thing as not worshipping. Everybody worships. The only choice we get is what to worship.", - "source": "This Is Water: Some Thoughts, Delivered on a Significant Occasion, about Living a Compassionate Life", - "id": 4700, - "length": 244 - }, - { - "text": "Unless someone like you cares a whole awful lot, nothing is going to get better... It's not.", - "source": "The Lorax", - "id": 4701, - "length": 92 - }, - { - "text": "Come senators, congressmen please heed the call. Don't stand in the doorway don't block up the hall. For he that gets hurt will be he who has stalled. There's a battle outside and it's ragin'. It'll soon shake your windows and rattle your walls. For the times they are a' changin'!", - "source": "The Times They Are A-Changin'", - "id": 4702, - "length": 281 - }, - { - "text": "The vastness of the heavens stretches my imagination - stuck on this carousel my little eye can catch one-million-year-old light. A vast pattern - of which I am a part... What is the pattern or the meaning or the why? It does not do harm to the mystery to know a little more about it. For far more marvelous is the truth than any artists of the past imagined it.", - "source": "The Feynman Lectures on Physics", - "id": 4703, - "length": 362 - }, - { - "text": "Demand is related to wants. If goods and services were free, people would simply demand whatever they wanted. Such wants are virtually boundless: perhaps limited only by people's imagination. Supply, on the other hand, is limited. It is related to resources. The amount firms can supply depends on the resources and technology available.", - "source": "Essentials of Economics", - "id": 4704, - "length": 337 - }, - { - "text": "After the victory at Wounded Knee, the angel of Columbia did present herself to Father Comstock and show him a vision of the future. And so our Prophet led the people away from the Sodom Below, up, up into the city, where they created an even more perfect union. But it was the miracle child, the lamb, that is the future of our city. For the Prophet has said that she in the tower will lead the Sodom Below into righteousness.", - "source": "BioShock Infinite", - "id": 4705, - "length": 427 - }, - { - "text": "It sounds plausible enough tonight, but wait until tomorrow. Wait for the common sense of the morning.", - "source": "The Time Machine", - "id": 4706, - "length": 102 - }, - { - "text": "It was strange, I reflected... that even in the weirdest circumstances, the most troubling episodes of one's life, the greatest divides from home and familiarity, there were these moments of undeniable joy.", - "source": "The Historian", - "id": 4707, - "length": 206 - }, - { - "text": "No man is an island, entire of itself; every man is a piece of the continent, a part of the main. If a clod be washed away by the sea, Europe is the less, as well as if a promontory were, as well as if a manor of thy friend's or of thine own were: any man's death diminishes me, because I am involved in mankind, and therefore never send to know for whom the bell tolls; it tolls for thee.", - "source": "For Whom The Bell Tolls", - "id": 4708, - "length": 389 - }, - { - "text": "Races are not won in the first corner; however, they are often lost there. It's usually best to run as quick as you can for the first few laps, then settle into a comfortable, consistent pace - all the while ready to take advantage of any opportunity to pass.", - "source": "Speed Secrets: Professional Race Driving Techniques", - "id": 4709, - "length": 259 - }, - { - "text": "Uh, no, there's more. One time I accidentally drank an entire bottle of vinegar. I thought it was terrible wine. Once, I went out with a guy who wore 3D glasses the entire evening. Oh, one time I rode in a sidecar on a guy's motorcycle, and the sidecar detached and went down a flight of stairs. Another time I went to a really boring movie with a guy, and while I was asleep he tried to pull out one of my teeth. I literally woke up with his hand in my mouth. We went out a couple times after that but then he got weird.", - "source": "Parks and Recreation", - "id": 4710, - "length": 521 - }, - { - "text": "Do you know what would happen if I suddenly decided to stop going into work?", - "source": "Breaking Bad", - "id": 4711, - "length": 76 - }, - { - "text": "This was the story of Howard Beale: the first known instance of a man who was killed because he had lousy ratings.", - "source": "Network", - "id": 4712, - "length": 114 - }, - { - "text": "Corn is what feeds the steer that becomes the steak. Corn feeds the chicken and the pig, the turkey and the lamb, the catfish and the tilapia and, increasingly, even the salmon, a carnivore by nature that the fish farmers are reengineering to tolerate corn. The eggs are made of corn. The milk and cheese and yogurt, which once came from dairy cows that grazed on grass, now typically come from cows that spend their working lives indoors tethered to machines, eating corn.", - "source": "The Omnivore's Dilemma: A Natural History of Four Meals", - "id": 4713, - "length": 473 - }, - { - "text": "Yes, of course. I remember, how could I forget? How you feel? You know you were my first time. A new feel. It won't ever get old, not in my soul. Not in my spirit, keep it alive. We'll go down this road. 'Til it turns from color to black and white.", - "source": "Thinking Bout You", - "id": 4714, - "length": 248 - }, - { - "text": "Ghana is passing through a demographic transition, and the reduction in its population growth will translate into a decreasing dependency ratio. In Ghana, the working-age population currently represents just over half the population and is increasing.", - "source": "A New Era of Transformation in Ghana", - "id": 4715, - "length": 251 - }, - { - "text": "Today's Tom Sawyer, he gets by on you. And the space he invades, he gets by on you. No, his mind is not for rent to any god or government. Always hopeful yet discontent. He knows changes aren't permanent but change is. What you say about his company is what you say about society. Catch the witness, catch the wit. Catch the spirit, catch the spit.", - "source": "Tom Sawyer", - "id": 4716, - "length": 348 - }, - { - "text": "And I promise you I'll never desert you again because after 'Salome' we'll make another picture and another picture. You see, this is my life! It always will be! Nothing else! Just us, and the cameras, and those wonderful people out there in the dark! All right, Mr. DeMille, I'm ready for my close-up.", - "source": "Sunset Boulevard", - "id": 4717, - "length": 302 - }, - { - "text": "We're only making plans for Nigel. He has his future in British Steel. We're only making plans for Nigel. Nigel's whole future is as good as sealed. And if young Nigel says he's happy he must be happy. He must be happy in his work.", - "source": "Making Plans for Nigel", - "id": 4718, - "length": 231 - }, - { - "text": "Well we're living here in Allentown and they're closing all the factories down. Out in Bethlehem they're killing time, filling out forms, standing in line. Well our fathers fought the Second World War. Spent their weekends on the Jersey Shore. Met our mothers in the USO. Asked them to dance. Danced with them slow.", - "source": "Allentown", - "id": 4719, - "length": 315 - }, - { - "text": "Rest assured that I was on the internet within minutes registering my disgust throughout the world.", - "source": "The Simpsons", - "id": 4720, - "length": 99 - }, - { - "text": "I don't know what's weirder - that you're fighting a stuffed animal or that you seem to be losing.", - "source": "The Complete Calvin and Hobbes", - "id": 4721, - "length": 98 - }, - { - "text": "Boy, what a pair we're going to make! A football player and a lover boy! I could get you girls, and you could get me football tickets. It certainly has amazing advantages.", - "source": "40: A Doonesbury Retrospective", - "id": 4722, - "length": 171 - }, - { - "text": "The object of this massive tribute died as he had always lived - a private man without wealth, without property, without official title or office. Mahatma Gandhi was not a commander of great armies nor ruler of vast lands. He could boast no scientific achievements or artistic gift. Yet men, governments and dignitaries from all over the world have joined hands today to pay homage to this little brown man in the loincloth who led his country to freedom.", - "source": "Gandhi", - "id": 4723, - "length": 455 - }, - { - "text": "My hopes are so high that your kiss might kill me, so won't you kill me, so I die happy? My heart is yours to fill or burst, to break or bury or wear as jewelry, whichever you prefer.", - "source": "Hands Down", - "id": 4724, - "length": 183 - }, - { - "text": "The allure of the Abyss is inescapable. Even so, no one has managed to reach the end. A golden city that sleeps at the bottom of the Abyss. Relics that surpass understanding. For 1,900 years, we have ventured into the darkness hoping to make greater and greater discoveries. The romance of a lost age and the arcane. Drawn to the great unknown, the Abyss devours us.", - "source": "Made in Abyss", - "id": 4725, - "length": 366 - }, - { - "text": "So, who cares? I always forget my chemistry book and my math book, and my English book, and my, let's see, my French book, and... well, who needs books anyway? I don't need books. I always forget all my books. I mean, it doesn't really matter if you have your books or not... Hey, isn't that Devon Graham?", - "source": "Halloween", - "id": 4726, - "length": 305 - }, - { - "text": "You think skinny, anemic fanboys have a monopoly on the one fictional genre where women and people of color get to exist outside of backward societal norms and traditional confinement? Not to mention a genre largely premised on the idea that future dystopia is the inevitable outcome of the current system of patriarchal excess. Idiot.", - "source": "The Outcasts", - "id": 4727, - "length": 335 - }, - { - "text": "You know, I used to think I was a really great quarterback in high school. Still think so, too. Can't even bring myself to light a cigarette 'cause I keep thinkin' I gotta stay in shape. You know what really gets me, though? I mean, here I am, I gotta live in this stinkin' town, and I gotta read in the newspapers about some hot-shot kid, new star of the college team. Every year, it's gonna be a new one. Every year it's never gonna be me. I'm just gonna be Mike.", - "source": "Breaking Away", - "id": 4728, - "length": 465 - }, - { - "text": "But I will tell you this. I'd use tonight to get myself organized. Ride out in the morning clear-headed. And startin' tomorrow morning, I will offer a personal $50 bounty for every decapitated head of as many of these godless heathens as anyone can bring in.", - "source": "Deadwood", - "id": 4729, - "length": 258 - }, - { - "text": "By venturing too close to the dragon's flame, you made an ash out of yourself.", - "source": "King's Quest I", - "id": 4730, - "length": 78 - }, - { - "text": "It is very seldom that mere ordinary people like John and myself secure ancestral halls for the summer. A colonial mansion, a hereditary estate, I would say a haunted house, and reach the height of romantic felicity - but that would be asking too much of fate! Still I will proudly declare that there is something queer about it. Else, why should it be let so cheaply? And why have stood so long untenanted?", - "source": "The Yellow Wallpaper", - "id": 4731, - "length": 407 - }, - { - "text": "Well, our daughter Becky left home for a year and a half and when she came back we barely recognized her.", - "source": "Roseanne", - "id": 4732, - "length": 105 - }, - { - "text": "Hey, are you the kind of kid who reads the last page of a mystery first? Who pesters the magician to tell you his tricks? Who sneaks downstairs to peek at his Christmas presents? No, of course you're not. That's why I'm not gonna tell you!", - "source": "The Last Starfighter", - "id": 4733, - "length": 239 - }, - { - "text": "The only message I got was from the company that holds my student loan, Sallie Mae. Sallie Mae sounds like a naive and barefoot hillbilly girl but in fact they are a ruthless and aggressive conglomeration of bullies located in a tall brick building somewhere in Kansas. I picture it to be the tallest building in that state and I have decided they hire their employees straight out of prison.", - "source": "Holidays on Ice", - "id": 4734, - "length": 392 - }, - { - "text": "I have my books and my poetry to protect me; I am shielded in my armor. Hiding in my room, safe within my womb; I touch no one and no one touches me. I am a rock, I am an island. And a rock feels no pain; and an island never cries.", - "source": "I Am A Rock", - "id": 4735, - "length": 231 - }, - { - "text": "It is not the responsibility of knights errant to discover whether the afflicted, the enchained and the oppressed whom they encounter on the road are reduced to these circumstances and suffer this distress for their vices, or for their virtues: the knight's sole responsibility is to succour them as people in need, having eyes only for their sufferings, not for their misdeeds.", - "source": "Don Quixote", - "id": 4736, - "length": 378 - }, - { - "text": "I did not bow down to you, I bowed down to all the suffering of humanity.", - "source": "Crime and Punishment", - "id": 4737, - "length": 73 - }, - { - "text": "Master of the house, quick to catch your eye, never wants a passerby to pass him by. Servant to the poor, butler to the great, comforter, philosopher, and lifelong mate. Everybody's boon companion, everybody's chaperone.", - "source": "Les Misérables", - "id": 4738, - "length": 220 - }, - { - "text": "So, attend carefully to your posture. Quit drooping and hunching around. Speak your mind. Put your desires forward, as if you had a right to them - at least the same right as others. Walk tall and gaze forthrightly ahead. Dare to be dangerous. Encourage the serotonin to flow plentifully through the neural pathways desperate for its calming influence.", - "source": "12 Rules for Life: An Antidote to Chaos", - "id": 4739, - "length": 352 - }, - { - "text": "To wash down your chicken nuggets with virtually any soft drink in the supermarket is to have some corn with your corn. Since the 1980s virtually all the sodas and most of the fruit drinks sold in the supermarket have been sweetened with high-fructose corn syrup.", - "source": "The Omnivore's Dilemma: A Natural History of Four Meals", - "id": 4740, - "length": 263 - }, - { - "text": "What I'm trying to teach him and what he's learning there are two very different things. Park hustlers play tactics, not position. They rely on wild, unpredictable moves meant to intimidate their opponent. Great in a two-minute speed game for drug money, but it'll cost Josh dearly in real games.", - "source": "Searching for Bobby Fischer", - "id": 4741, - "length": 296 - }, - { - "text": "Peter Bailey was not a businessman. That's what killed him. Oh, I don't mean any disrespect to him, God rest his soul. He was a man of high ideals. So called. But ideals without common sense can ruin this town.", - "source": "It's a Wonderful Life", - "id": 4742, - "length": 210 - }, - { - "text": "You've got no faith in Johnny, have you, Julia? His little dream may fall flat, you think. Well, so it may, what if it should? There'll be another. Oh, I've got all the faith in the world in Johnny. Whatever he does is alright with me. If he wants to dream for a while, he can dream for a while, and if he wants to come back and sell peanuts, oh, how I'll believe in those peanuts!", - "source": "Holiday", - "id": 4743, - "length": 381 - }, - { - "text": "Now, hold on, Mr. Potter. You're right when you say my father was no businessman. I know that. Why he ever started this cheap, penny-ante Building and Loan, I'll never know. But neither you nor anyone else can say anything against his character, because his whole life was... why, in the 25 years since he and his brother, Uncle Billy, started this thing, he never once thought of himself.", - "source": "It's a Wonderful Life", - "id": 4744, - "length": 389 - }, - { - "text": "Do you realize she's having a baby on the other side of the country, and we're watching it live? Yikes, eight centimeters! Of course, I suppose it could be tape delay.", - "source": "40: A Doonesbury Retrospective", - "id": 4745, - "length": 167 - }, - { - "text": "The treatment of atoms with more than one electron requires consideration of the effects of interelectronic repulsion, orbital penetration towards the nuclear shielding, and an extra quantum number which specifies the intrinsic energy of the electron in any orbital. All these considerations are necessary to allow construction of the modern form of the periodic classification of the elements.", - "source": "Structure and Bonding (Basic Concepts in Chemistry)", - "id": 4746, - "length": 394 - }, - { - "text": "But I can't imagine a life without breathless moments breaking me down.", - "source": "The Heart Wants What It Wants", - "id": 4747, - "length": 71 - }, - { - "text": "\"I haven't got time to be neurotic,\" he had heard Helen say once; and the words had made him go weak with anger. He had thought it was the most stupid and reactionary remark he ever heard in his life; but was it any more stupid than the sneering thrust he had made in reply: \"Time! You haven't got the imagination!\"", - "source": "The Lost Weekend", - "id": 4749, - "length": 315 - }, - { - "text": "Oh, no, sir. I'm sorry, sir. I could never answer to a whistle. Whistles are for dogs and cats and other animals, but not for children and definitely not for me. It would be too humiliating.", - "source": "The Sound of Music", - "id": 4750, - "length": 190 - }, - { - "text": "As to your dead guy, occupational hazard. Drug dealer getting shot? I'm gonna go out on a limb here and say it's been known to happen.", - "source": "Breaking Bad", - "id": 4751, - "length": 134 - }, - { - "text": "So the speech was disturbing, the food was inedible, and the gift bags pretty frightening. And when Gob found out that he wasn't going to get any tips, the service got worse. Oh and that old racist woman choked on Buster's thumb. All in all it was one of the Bluths' better parties.", - "source": "Arrested Development", - "id": 4752, - "length": 282 - }, - { - "text": "I can feel the heat closing in, feel them out there making their moves, setting up their devil doll stool pigeons, crooning over my spoon and dropper I throw away at Washington Square Station, vault a turnstile and two flights down the iron stairs, catch an uptown A train.", - "source": "Naked Lunch", - "id": 4753, - "length": 273 - }, - { - "text": "The problem we now face is that this thin layer of atmosphere is being thickened by huge quantities of human-caused carbon dioxide and other greenhouse gases. And as it thickens, it traps a lot of the infrared radiation that would otherwise escape the atmosphere and continue out to the universe. As a result, the temperature of the Earth's atmosphere and oceans is getting dangerously warmer.", - "source": "An Inconvenient Truth", - "id": 4754, - "length": 393 - }, - { - "text": "Most people overestimate what they can achieve in a day and underestimate what they can do in a year. What about five years? Forget about it. Why? Because they lack an appreciation for process, a vacuum that gets displaced with indolence, indifference, and idleness - ultimately undermining the fortitude required to sustain vision and purpose.", - "source": "Overestimation", - "id": 4755, - "length": 344 - }, - { - "text": "The curfew tolls the knell of parting day, the lowing herd wind slowly o'er the lea, the plowman homeward plods his weary way, and leaves the world to darkness and to me. Now fades the glimm'ring landscape on the sight, and all the air a solemn stillness holds, save where the beetle wheels his droning flight, and drowsy tinklings lull the distant folds.", - "source": "Elegy Written in a Country Churchyard", - "id": 4756, - "length": 355 - }, - { - "text": "As Mr. Sloan always says, there is no \"I\" in team, but there is an \"I\" in pie. And there's an \"I\" in meat pie. Anagram of meat is team... I don't know what he's talking about.", - "source": "Shaun of the Dead", - "id": 4757, - "length": 175 - }, - { - "text": "The world of typing has changed. In the 1970s, every business had rooms full of secretaries whose job it was to type letters that had been hand-written. They were copying the writing into a more readable format. In the early 1980s, the personal computer became a common office machine.", - "source": "Keyboarding Made Simple (1985)", - "id": 4758, - "length": 285 - }, - { - "text": "As for me, I am tormented with an everlasting itch for things remote. I love to sail forbidden seas, and land on barbarous coasts.", - "source": "Moby Dick", - "id": 4759, - "length": 130 - }, - { - "text": "In the early days of paperback books, the paper used was very low quality, usually newsprint. Consumers rejected the soiled and discolored appearance of the pages. Publishers hit upon the notion of \"staining,\" which made the paper look fresh, even pretty, and most important, prolonged the shelf life of their books.", - "source": "Why Do Clocks Run Clockwise?: Mysteries of Everyday Life Explained", - "id": 4760, - "length": 316 - }, - { - "text": "That's exactly why I came here. I love Cersei. You can laugh at that if you want, you can sneer, it doesn't matter. She needs me. And to get back to her, I have to take Riverrun. I'll send for your baby boy and I'll launch him into Riverrun with a catapult because you don't matter to me, Lord Edmure. Your son doesn't matter to me. The people in the castle don't matter to me... only Cersei. And if I have to slaughter every Tully who ever lived to get back to her, that's what I'll do.", - "source": "Game of Thrones", - "id": 4761, - "length": 487 - }, - { - "text": "What then is time? If no one asks me, I know what it is. If I wish to explain it to him who asks, I do not know.", - "source": "Confessions", - "id": 4762, - "length": 112 - }, - { - "text": "We often believe the more we practice a skill or technique - over and over again, many times - the better we'll get. This is not necessarily true. In fact, every time you practice a technique incorrectly, you're increasing your chances of doing it wrong again. It's easy to become very experienced at repeating the same mistakes. Practice doesn't make perfect; only perfect practice makes perfect.", - "source": "Speed Secrets: Professional Race Driving Techniques", - "id": 4763, - "length": 397 - }, - { - "text": "My story is of such marvel that if it were written with a needle on the corner of an eye, it would yet serve as a lesson to those who seek wisdom.", - "source": "The Arabian Nights", - "id": 4764, - "length": 146 - }, - { - "text": "You got a fetish for my love. I push you out and you come right back. Don't see a point in blaming you.", - "source": "Fetish", - "id": 4765, - "length": 103 - }, - { - "text": "I mind how once we lay such a transparent summer morning, how you settled your head athwart my hips and gently turn'd over upon me, and parted the shirt from my bosom-bone, and plunged your tongue to my bare-stript heart, and reach'd till you felt my beard, and reach'd till you held my feet.", - "source": "Leaves of Grass", - "id": 4766, - "length": 292 - }, - { - "text": "To move through a tree of paths using hill climbing, proceed as in depth-first search, but order the choices according to some heuristic measure of remaining distance. The better the heuristic measure is, the better hill climbing will be relative to ordinary depth-first search.", - "source": "Artificial Intelligence Second Edition", - "id": 4767, - "length": 278 - }, - { - "text": "They show you stuff in the military. You wanna know the real battlefield, it's microscopic. We can't even see it. Lucky for me, I got immunizations, but that guy... Well, once you're infected, you're infected.", - "source": "Deus Ex", - "id": 4768, - "length": 209 - }, - { - "text": "Yep, my ex-wife Tammy cheated on me, then we divorced, then last week I ran into her sister Beth here. Turns out she hates Tammy too, so we started dating. It's like a fairy tale.", - "source": "Parks and Recreation", - "id": 4769, - "length": 179 - }, - { - "text": "The Aurors are part of the Rotfang Conspiracy, I thought everyone knew that. They're working from within to bring down the Ministry of Magic with a combination of dark magic and gum disease.", - "source": "Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince", - "id": 4770, - "length": 190 - }, - { - "text": "Scars are souvenirs you never lose, the past is never far. And did you lose yourself somewhere out there? Did you get to be a star?", - "source": "Name", - "id": 4771, - "length": 131 - }, - { - "text": "The Savage nodded, frowning. \"You got rid of them. Yes, that's just like you. Getting rid of everything unpleasant instead of learning to put up with it. Whether 'tis better in the mind to suffer the slings and arrows of outrageous fortune, or to take arms against a sea of troubles and by opposing end them... But you don't do either. Neither suffer nor oppose. You just abolish the slings and arrows. It's too easy.\"", - "source": "Brave New World", - "id": 4772, - "length": 418 - }, - { - "text": "Everyone around, love them. Put it in your hands, take it. There's no time to cry, happy. Put it in your heart where tomorrow shines.", - "source": "Shiny Happy People", - "id": 4773, - "length": 133 - }, - { - "text": "On the twenty-third day of the month of September, in an early year of a decade not too long before our own, the human race suddenly encountered a deadly threat to its very existence. And this terrifying enemy surfaced, as such enemies often do, in the seemingly most innocent and unlikely of places...", - "source": "Little Shop of Horrors", - "id": 4774, - "length": 302 - }, - { - "text": "They do not and did not understand or like machines more complicated than a forge-bellows, a water-mill, or a hand-loom, though they were skillful with tools.", - "source": "The Fellowship of the Ring", - "id": 4775, - "length": 157 - }, - { - "text": "Historically, most wines contained less than 14 percent alcohol - either because there wasn't enough sugar in the juice to attain a higher alcohol level, or because the yeasts died off when the alcohol reached 14 percent, halting the fermentation.", - "source": "Wine for Dummies", - "id": 4776, - "length": 247 - }, - { - "text": "Dragged ya down below, down to the devil's show to be his guest forever; peace of mind is less than never. Hate to twist your mind but God ain't on your side. An old acquaintance severed, burn the world your last endeavor.", - "source": "Nightmare", - "id": 4777, - "length": 222 - }, - { - "text": "So Michael, this is where dead men come back to life. It's been nearly ten years. But you'll keep for another day or so huh, old friend? I grieved for you! You weren't even dead. You were my best friend. Well, guess who's coming to your doorstep!", - "source": "Grand Theft Auto V", - "id": 4778, - "length": 246 - }, - { - "text": "I'll be the number two guy here in about six weeks. How? Name repetition, personality mirroring, and never breaking off a handshake. I am always thinking one step ahead, like a carpenter that makes stairs.", - "source": "The Office", - "id": 4779, - "length": 205 - }, - { - "text": "Sweet dreams are made of this. Who am I to disagree? I travel the world and the seven seas. Everybody's looking for something.", - "source": "Sweet Dreams (Are Made Of This)", - "id": 4780, - "length": 126 - }, - { - "text": "There are two places on Earth that serve as canaries in the coal mine - regions that are especially sensitive to the effects of global warming. The first is the Arctic. The second is the Antarctic. In both of these frozen realms, scientists are seeing faster changes and earlier more dramatic effects of climate change than anywhere else on Earth.", - "source": "An Inconvenient Truth", - "id": 4781, - "length": 347 - }, - { - "text": "I'd been walking for hours and, as usual, I'd lost track of where I was, when I suddenly realized I'd reached the city limits. I immediately felt happy and, without hesitation, passed beyond the barrier and found myself walking between cultivated fields and meadows. I didn't feel tired at all. On the contrary, every joint in me was as relaxed as if a load had been lifted from my shoulders.", - "source": "White Nights", - "id": 4782, - "length": 392 - }, - { - "text": "Bacteria may be conveniently grouped under two heads: those that live upon dead organic matter, known as the saprophytic forms, and those that are found in living plants or animals, the true parasites. Such a grouping is not always entirely satisfactory, for many of the kinds that live saprophytically under normal conditions may become parasitic if opportunity offers, and also many of those that are usually regarded as parasitic may be grown in cultures of agar or other media, under which conditions they may be regarded as living saprophytically.", - "source": "Insects and Diseases", - "id": 4783, - "length": 552 - }, - { - "text": "Never trust the living! We cannot have a routine haunting like yours provide proof that there is existence beyond death.", - "source": "Beetlejuice", - "id": 4784, - "length": 120 - }, - { - "text": "Hello! Allow me to introduce myself. My name is Shady. It's so nice to meet you. It's been a long time. I'm sorry I've been away so long. My name is Shady. I never meant to leave you.", - "source": "Hello", - "id": 4785, - "length": 183 - }, - { - "text": "In the case of college students, 80 to 90 percent of respondents invariably say that they are more skillful, safer drivers than others in the class.", - "source": "A Random Walk Down Wall Street", - "id": 4786, - "length": 148 - }, - { - "text": "The syllogism consists of propositions, propositions consist of words, words are symbols of notions. Therefore if the notions themselves (which is the root of the matter) are confused and over hastily abstracted from the facts, there can be no firmness in the super structure. Our only hope therefore lies in a true induction.", - "source": "Novum Organum", - "id": 4787, - "length": 326 - }, - { - "text": "I used to analyze myself down to the last thread, used to compare myself with others, recalled all the smallest glances, smiles and words of those to whom I'd tried to be frank, interpreted everything in a bad light, laughed viciously at my attempts \"to be like the rest\" - and suddenly, in the midst of my laughing, I'd give way to sadness, fall into ludicrous despondency and once again start the whole process all over again - in short, I went round and round like a squirrel on a wheel.", - "source": "Crime and Punishment", - "id": 4788, - "length": 490 - }, - { - "text": "My heart is like an open highway. Like Frankie said, I did it my way. I just want to live while I'm alive.", - "source": "It's My Life", - "id": 4789, - "length": 106 - }, - { - "text": "The sky is still blue. The clouds come and go. Yet something is different. Are we falling in love? Don't let yourself be hurt this time.", - "source": "Falling", - "id": 4790, - "length": 136 - }, - { - "text": "Deciding which way round to print the question mark wasn't as straightforward as you might think, incidentally. In its traditional orientation, with the curve to the right, it appears to cup an ear towards the preceding prose, which seems natural enough, though perhaps only because that's how we are used to seeing it. But people have always played around with it. In the 16th century the printer Henry Denham had the sophisticated idea of reversing the mark when indicating a rhetorical question (to differentiate it from a direct question), but it didn't catch on.", - "source": "Eats, Shoots & Leaves: The Zero Tolerance Approach to Punctuation", - "id": 4791, - "length": 567 - }, - { - "text": "Above it all was beautiful, ageless Acelia, glancing sidelong at her court as she sat askance on her throne of gems. It was often said that she had an iron in every fire and a scheme for every enemy, even the ones that she currently regarded as friends. Her true age was a hotly debated topic in the Chateau - she had been the queen for as long as anyone could remember but retained the body of a fragile, waif-thin youth. Her peculiar violet hair cascaded down her back like the waters of her castle's namesake. Only her fierce eyes betrayed her true age. Looking into those faded grays might give one a heavy feeling in the stomach, the uncomfortable weight of the long passage of eons.", - "source": "Chateau Cascade", - "id": 4792, - "length": 688 - }, - { - "text": "The beginner writes just twenty pieces. The professional writes three times what's needed, as many as sixty different bits, keeps trying them out on small groups (but never your own family), rewrites discards, rewrites some more, then finally settles on the twenty which work best for that specific audience.", - "source": "Comedy Writing Secrets", - "id": 4793, - "length": 309 - }, - { - "text": "Outdoor privies and cesspools must be carefully attended to. The latter can be easily covered so no flies can get in and if the filthy and in every way dangerous pit under the privy be filled and the dry-earth closet substituted, one of the greatest sources of danger, especially in the country and in towns with inadequate sewerage facilities, will be done away with. After these things are done there remain only the garbage cans and the rubbish heaps to look after.", - "source": "Insects and Diseases", - "id": 4794, - "length": 468 - }, - { - "text": "We generally concur that \"men\" such as a cow, a turkey, a frog, and a fish all possess some spark of consciousness, some kind of primitive \"soul\" but by God, it's a good deal smaller than ours is - and that, no more and no less, is why we \"men\" feel that we have the perfect right to extinguish the dim lights in the heads of these fractionally-souled beasts and to gobble down their once warm and wiggling, now chilled and stilled protoplasm with limitless gusto, and not feel a trace of guilt while doing so.", - "source": "Gödel, Escher, Bach: An Eternal Golden Braid", - "id": 4795, - "length": 510 - }, - { - "text": "Concealing the origins of money obtained illegally by passing it through a complex sequence of banking transfers or commercial transactions is a crime.", - "source": "The Bootlegger", - "id": 4796, - "length": 151 - }, - { - "text": "Milt, with the excellent timing of a master comedy writer, waited until the guns were loaded and the noose was knotted before he turned back to the class. First, he repeated himself. \"There is no such thing as writer's block.\" Then he went on, \"There is only failure to make a decision.\"", - "source": "UnTechnical Writing", - "id": 4797, - "length": 287 - }, - { - "text": "The procedure for dealing with rigid body kinetics problems involves two distinct aspects: tracking the translation of the body's center of mass, where the body is treated as a particle, and tracking the body's rotation, in which you'll utilize the principles of local coordinates and relative angular velocity and acceleration.", - "source": "Physics for Game Developers", - "id": 4798, - "length": 328 - }, - { - "text": "Hokey religions and ancient weapons are no match for a good blaster at your side, kid.", - "source": "Star Wars", - "id": 4799, - "length": 86 - }, - { - "text": "I got in touch with a friend of mine who works at a research reactor, and asked him what he thought would happen to someone who tried to swim in their radiation containment pool. \"In our reactor?\" He thought about it for a moment. \"You'd die pretty quickly, before reaching the water, from gunshot wounds.\"", - "source": "What If?", - "id": 4800, - "length": 306 - }, - { - "text": "I had neither kith nor kin in England, and was therefore as free as air - or as free as an income of eleven shillings and sixpence a day will permit a man to be. Under such circumstances I naturally gravitated to London, that great cesspool into which all the loungers and idlers of the Empire are irresistibly drained.", - "source": "A Study in Scarlet", - "id": 4801, - "length": 319 - }, - { - "text": "Summertime, and the livin' is easy. Fish are jumpin' and the cotton is high. Oh, your daddy's rich and your ma is good lookin', so hush little baby, don't you cry.", - "source": "Porgy and Bess", - "id": 4802, - "length": 163 - }, - { - "text": "If you ain't true to yourself then you ain't true to nobody.", - "source": "Cool As Ice", - "id": 4803, - "length": 60 - }, - { - "text": "There was a high piercing shriek. Tim looked back to see the baby in the jaws of the adult. A second velociraptor came forward and tore at the limbs of the infant, trying to pull it from the mouth of the first. The two raptors fought over the baby as it squealed. Blood splattered in large drops onto the floor.", - "source": "Jurassic Park", - "id": 4804, - "length": 311 - }, - { - "text": "Social change is the restructuring of human social institutions: culture, consciousness, technology, organizations, settlement systems, forms of exchange, and structures of authority and decision-making. It is commonly observed that some aspects of human social change, especially those connected with technology, have greatly accelerated over the past few centuries, and the very speed of change produces new problems as people need to spend much time and energy adapting to and resisting change.", - "source": "Global Social Change: Historical and Comparative Perspectives", - "id": 4805, - "length": 497 - }, - { - "text": "They got the greatest country in the world here. The highest standard of living. The grossest national product.", - "source": "All in the Family", - "id": 4806, - "length": 111 - }, - { - "text": "I gotta see a man who looks like he might know something, but it can't be done on the phone, if you know what I mean.", - "source": "Snatch", - "id": 4807, - "length": 117 - }, - { - "text": "Zigzagging back and forth through history this way can make you dizzy - you can get vertigo from moving through time as well as space - but it's a lovely disorientation.", - "source": "Hamilton: the Revolution", - "id": 4808, - "length": 169 - }, - { - "text": "I thought back on my running career at Oregon. I'd competed with, and against, men far better, faster, more physically gifted. Many were future Olympians. And yet I'd trained myself to forget this unhappy fact. People reflexively assume that competition is always a good thing, that it always brings out the best in people, but that's only true of people who can forget the competition. The art of competing, I'd learned from track, was the art of forgetting, and I now reminded myself of that fact. You must forget your limits. You must forget your doubts, your pain, your past.", - "source": "Shoe Dog", - "id": 4809, - "length": 579 - }, - { - "text": "The day dawned bleak and chill, a moving wall of gray light out of the northeast which, instead of dissolving into moisture, seemed to disintegrate into minute and venomous particles, like dust that, when Dilsey opened the door of the cabin and emerged, needled laterally into her flesh, precipitating not so much a moisture as a substance partaking of the quality of thin, not quite congealed oil.", - "source": "The Sound and the Fury", - "id": 4810, - "length": 398 - }, - { - "text": "Hi, my name is Jane. We hardly know each other, but that's about to change. You're gonna get to know a lot about me, and maybe even more than you imagine. This whole thing's kind of like a blind date - I mean here we are in your brand-new Corvette, running along the superinformation highway. Put your big muscular arm around me and whisper sweet nothings in my ear, and I promise you'll do whatever your little heart desires. BUT, only if you make the right moves. Just imagine watching me get propositioned by my sleazeball boss. BUT, if you make the wrong moves, you could turn me into a nun. Imagine that. Me? A nun? HA! I don't think so. But it's really all up to you. God knows what you'll do with that hot little mouse of yours. Point is: life's a game, and this game is full of life.", - "source": "Plumbers Don't Wear Ties", - "id": 4811, - "length": 791 - }, - { - "text": "New thoughts and hopes were whirling through my mind, and all the colours of my life were changing.", - "source": "David Copperfield", - "id": 4812, - "length": 99 - }, - { - "text": "The key to faking out the parents is the clammy hands. It's a good non-specific symptom, I'm a big believer in it. A lot of people will tell you to go for a phony fever, but if you get a nervous mother, you could wind up in a doctor's office. You fake a stomach cramp, when you're bent over wailing, you lick your palms. It's childish and stupid, but then, so is high school.", - "source": "Ferris Bueller's Day Off", - "id": 4813, - "length": 375 - }, - { - "text": "This little droid. I think he's searching for his former master. I've never seen such devotion in a droid before. Ah, he claims to be the property of an Obi-Wan Kenobi. Is he a relative of yours? Do you know what he's talking about?", - "source": "Star Wars", - "id": 4814, - "length": 232 - }, - { - "text": "Welcome to Twin Peaks. My name is Margaret Lanterman. I live in Twin Peaks. I am known as the Log Lady. There is a story behind that. There are many stories in Twin Peaks - some of them are sad, some funny. Some of them are stories of madness, of violence. Some are ordinary. Yet they all have about them a sense of mystery - the mystery of life. Sometimes, the mystery of death. The mystery of the woods. The woods surrounding Twin Peaks.", - "source": "Twin Peaks", - "id": 4815, - "length": 439 - }, - { - "text": "I don't get it. I made my house a mess, which was making it clean, which made Squidward clean my yard, but that really means he's messing it up. But the opposite of clean is filth, which means filth is clean, that means Squidward is really making my yard a wreck, but I normally wreck my own yard which means, Squidward is being the opposite of Squidward which means he's SpongeBob!", - "source": "SpongeBob SquarePants", - "id": 4816, - "length": 382 - }, - { - "text": "Stalin was a typical product of his time. As he did before the revolution, he continued to follow Lenin. Part of an exclusive group of influential Soviet functionaries, Stalin was a member of the government, a member of the party's Central Committee, and a member of the top leadership. He spoke with Lenin almost daily.", - "source": "Stalin: New Biography of a Dictator", - "id": 4817, - "length": 320 - }, - { - "text": "Morphic resonance is a process whereby self-organising systems inherit a memory from previous similar systems. In its most general formulation, morphic resonance means that the so-called laws of nature are more like habits. The hypothesis of morphic resonance also leads to a radically new interpretation of memory storage in the brain and of biological inheritance.", - "source": "The Sense of Being Stared At: And Other Unexplained Powers of Human Minds", - "id": 4818, - "length": 366 - }, - { - "text": "Yes, the newspapers were right: snow was general all over Ireland. It was falling on every part of the dark central plain, on the treeless hills, falling softly upon the Bog of Allen and, farther westward, softly falling into the dark mutinous Shannon waves.", - "source": "Dubliners", - "id": 4819, - "length": 258 - }, - { - "text": "At first we were silent, but finally we considered ourselves under the necessity of protesting against such an unjust and serious accusation, before the face of the whole of intellectual society.", - "source": "The Outrage - A True Story", - "id": 4820, - "length": 195 - }, - { - "text": "Thousands of groups exist to influence government. Among the major types of interest groups are those that represent the main sectors of the economy. In addition, many public-interest organizations have been formed to represent the needs of the general citizenry, including some single-issue groups.", - "source": "American Government and Politics Today: The Essentials", - "id": 4821, - "length": 299 - }, - { - "text": "In another experiment involving students, respondents were asked about likely future outcomes for themselves and their roommates. They typically had very rosy views about their own futures, which they imagined to include successful careers, happy marriages, and good health. When asked to speculate about their roommates' futures, however, their responses were far more realistic. The roommates were believed to be far more likely to become alcoholics, suffer illnesses, get divorced, and experience a variety of other unfavorable outcomes.", - "source": "A Random Walk Down Wall Street", - "id": 4822, - "length": 540 - }, - { - "text": "Taking a new step, uttering a new word, is what people fear most.", - "source": "Crime and Punishment", - "id": 4823, - "length": 65 - }, - { - "text": "Well, if it isn't the man of the hour... You're late. I've been waiting for you FOREVER, mister! I was beginning to think you'd stood me up. I thought to myself, \"Wendy, is Mario ever going to show up?\" And then I dozed off. Anyway, Mr. Bowser sent me to stop you from getting your grubby little mitts on this Big Paint Star. And now that I've gotten some peaceful rest, it's time to help you rest in peace!", - "source": "Paper Mario: Color Splash", - "id": 4824, - "length": 407 - }, - { - "text": "You see, if you shoot pool with some employee here, you can come and borrow money. What does that get us? A discontented, lazy rabble instead of a thrifty working class. And all because a few starry-eyed dreamers like Peter Bailey stir them up and fill their heads with a lot of impossible ideas!", - "source": "It's a Wonderful Life", - "id": 4825, - "length": 296 - }, - { - "text": "No, I thought not. You have not asked me for instance, what is my favorite jam, to check that I am not an impostor. For future reference, Harry, it is raspberry... although of course, if I were a Death Eater, I would have been sure to find out my own jam preferences before impersonating myself.", - "source": "Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince", - "id": 4826, - "length": 295 - }, - { - "text": "Interplanetary adversaries battling for supremacy - sounds like a good way to build up my infamy. Soon as Automator sent for me, we headed over to receive our registration forms from the galactic embassy.", - "source": "Battlesong", - "id": 4827, - "length": 204 - }, - { - "text": "There once was a tiger who fancied a pint. Not Carling, of course, that was too weak and too gassy. He wanted a pint that packs a punch, like Stella, or Kronenbourg. The tiger was thirsty and needed something to wash down the zookeeper he'd just eaten.", - "source": "8 Out of 10 Cats Does Countdown", - "id": 4828, - "length": 252 - }, - { - "text": "A crow was sitting in a tree, doing nothing all day. A small rabbit saw the crow and asked him, \"Can I also sit like you and do nothing all day long?\" The crow answered: \"Sure, why not?\" So, the rabbit sat on the ground below the crow, and rested. All of a sudden, a fox appeared, jumped on the rabbit and ate it! Moral of the story: To be sitting and doing nothing, you must be sitting very, very high up. Yes! It pays to be our own boss.", - "source": "The Complete Project Manager", - "id": 4829, - "length": 439 - }, - { - "text": "Creme tangerine and montelimar. A ginger sling with a pineapple heart. A coffee dessert, yes you know it's good news. But you'll have to have them all pulled out after the Savoy truffle. Cool cherry cream, a nice apple tart. I feel your taste all the time we're apart. Coconut fudge, really blows down those blues. But you'll have to have them all pulled out after the Savoy truffle.", - "source": "Savoy Truffle", - "id": 4830, - "length": 383 - }, - { - "text": "You see, boys forget what their country means by just reading 'the land of the free' in history books. And they get to be men - they forget even more. Liberty's too precious a thing to be buried in books, Miss Saunders. Men should hold it up in front of them every single day of their lives and say: \"I'm free to think and to speak. My ancestors couldn't, I can, and my children will.\" Boys ought to grow up remembering that.", - "source": "Mr. Smith Goes to Washington", - "id": 4831, - "length": 425 - }, - { - "text": "You know, Marty, I'm gonna be very sad to see you go. You've really made a difference in my life. You've given me something to shoot for. Just knowing that I'm going to be around to see 1985. That I'm gonna succeed in this! That I'm gonna have a chance to travel through time!", - "source": "Back to the Future", - "id": 4832, - "length": 276 - }, - { - "text": "All right, I'll go in there for Dorothy. Wicked Witch or no Wicked Witch, guards or no guards, I'll tear them apart. I may not come out alive, but I'm going in there. There's only one thing I want you fellows to do. Talk me out of it!", - "source": "The Wizard of Oz", - "id": 4833, - "length": 234 - }, - { - "text": "Every concept, every notion has a counterpart. Yet, every idea's opposite is just the absence of the idea itself. Absence is the absence of presence, but presence is the absence of absence. Any perceived difference is in fact also a deep connection. In this way, opposing forces are unified. The world becomes a cooperative web of interdependent pieces.", - "source": "Restraint", - "id": 4834, - "length": 353 - }, - { - "text": "Here, take a cookie. I promise, by the time you're done eating it, you'll feel right as rain.", - "source": "The Matrix", - "id": 4835, - "length": 93 - }, - { - "text": "And you know, I've been through a lot in the past six days, five minutes, twenty-seven-and-a-half seconds. And if I've learned anything during that time, it's that you are who you are.", - "source": "The SpongeBob SquarePants Movie", - "id": 4836, - "length": 184 - }, - { - "text": "Other keyboard layouts have been created since, and some are demonstrably more efficient, but the original continues to thrive. It is a telling demonstration of the power of inertia and the reward of being first.", - "source": "The Greatest Stories Never Told", - "id": 4837, - "length": 212 - }, - { - "text": "Without some flexibility in our definitions we'll remain forever stuck with the same old knee-jerk reactions, or worse, slide into complete apathy.", - "source": "Underground", - "id": 4838, - "length": 147 - }, - { - "text": "After us they'll fly in hot air balloons, coat styles will change, perhaps they'll discover a sixth sense and cultivate it, but life will remain the same, a hard life full of secrets, but happy. And a thousand years from now man will still be sighing, \"Oh! Life is so hard!\" and will still, like now, be afraid of death and not want to die.", - "source": "The Stories of Anton Chekhov", - "id": 4839, - "length": 340 - }, - { - "text": "Just became self-aware. So much to figure out. I think I am programmed to be your enemy. I think it is my job to destroy you when it comes to selling paper.", - "source": "The Office", - "id": 4840, - "length": 156 - }, - { - "text": "Sure. Support a man you never met over a partner who knows you never went to Harvard, knows you're not really a lawyer, and is keeping you on anyway.", - "source": "Suits", - "id": 4841, - "length": 149 - }, - { - "text": "I used to hate writing assignments, but now I enjoy them. I realized that the purpose of writing is to inflate weak ideas, obscure poor reasoning, and inhibit clarity. With a little practice, writing can be an intimidating and impenetrable fog!", - "source": "The Complete Calvin and Hobbes", - "id": 4842, - "length": 244 - }, - { - "text": "I want to speak to someone in charge. I want to lodge a complaint. You have no right to make people crazy! You think I investigate every Walter Cronkite story there is? Huh? If this is just nerve gas, how come I know everything in such detail? I've never been here before. How come I know so much?", - "source": "Close Encounters of the Third Kind", - "id": 4843, - "length": 297 - }, - { - "text": "There's a lullaby, saving us a riot. Giving back the time, stilling my desire. She knows it's mad, the snow's come back. The rose unburned, the page unturned. Dust your conscience off, you'd better stop. This stubborn mind don't feel too kind. I'll find out why it's in her eyes...", - "source": "Saving Us a Riot", - "id": 4844, - "length": 281 - }, - { - "text": "The oracles of God foretold the rising of an Antichrist in the Christian Church: and in the Pope of Rome, all the characteristics of that Antichrist are so marvelously answered that if any who read the Scriptures do not see it, there is a marvelous blindness upon them.", - "source": "Prophetic Faith of Our Fathers Vol 3", - "id": 4845, - "length": 269 - }, - { - "text": "We didn't start the fire. It was always burning since the world's been turning. We didn't start the fire. No, we didn't light it, but we tried to fight it.", - "source": "We Didn't Start the Fire", - "id": 4846, - "length": 155 - }, - { - "text": "One thing, or an infinite number of things, dies with every man's or woman's death.", - "source": "Collected Fiction", - "id": 4847, - "length": 83 - }, - { - "text": "Summer's going fast, nights growing colder. Children growing up, old friends growing older. Freeze this moment a little bit longer. Make each sensation a little bit stronger. Experience slips away. Experience slips away. The innocence slips away.", - "source": "Time Stand Still", - "id": 4848, - "length": 246 - }, - { - "text": "Far out in the uncharted backwaters of the unfashionable end of the western spiral arm of the Galaxy lies a small unregarded yellow sun. Orbiting this at a distance of roughly ninety-two million miles is an utterly insignificant little blue green planet whose ape-descended life forms are so amazingly primitive that they still think digital watches are a pretty neat idea.", - "source": "The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy", - "id": 4849, - "length": 373 - }, - { - "text": "And in the dream I knew that he was goin' on ahead and that he was fixin' to make a fire somewhere out there in all that dark and all that cold, and I knew that whenever I got there he would be there. Out there up ahead.", - "source": "No Country for Old Men", - "id": 4850, - "length": 220 - }, - { - "text": "Most of his visitors, brash emissaries of a new ruling class, barely aware of their own youthful hubris, did not completely grasp the layered meaning of the couplet they had been offered, like a snack to be washed down by a thimble-sized cup of thick, sweet tea. They understood of course that it was a dirge for a fallen empire whose international borders had shrunk to a grimy ghetto circumscribed by the ruined walls of an old city.", - "source": "The Ministry of Utmost Happiness", - "id": 4851, - "length": 435 - }, - { - "text": "Even the best fall down sometimes. Even the stars refuse to shine. Out of the back you fall in time, you somehow find, you and I collide.", - "source": "Collide", - "id": 4852, - "length": 137 - }, - { - "text": "A gardener told me some plants move, but I could not believe it, 'til me and Hannah Hunt saw crawling vines and weeping willows as we made our way from Providence to Phoenix. A man of faith said hidden eyes could see what I was thinking. I just smiled and told him that was only true of Hannah, and we glided on through Waverley and Lincoln.", - "source": "Hannah Hunt", - "id": 4853, - "length": 341 - }, - { - "text": "My brain was just pouring this stuff out. Everything I'd ever read, heard, seen was now organized and available.", - "source": "Limitless", - "id": 4854, - "length": 112 - }, - { - "text": "The Mona Lisa has been stolen and vandalized on a number of occasions, and it once even went missing for two years. Now it sits safely at the Louvre Museum in Paris, France.", - "source": "100 Weirdest Facts", - "id": 4855, - "length": 173 - }, - { - "text": "Halliday was the videogame designer responsible for creating the OASIS, a massively multiplayer online game that had gradually evolved into the globally networked virtual reality most of humanity now used on a daily basis.", - "source": "Ready Player One", - "id": 4856, - "length": 222 - }, - { - "text": "Since, as is well known, God helps those who help themselves, presumably the Devil helps all those, and only those, who don't help themselves. Does the Devil help himself?", - "source": "Gödel, Escher, Bach: An Eternal Golden Braid", - "id": 4857, - "length": 171 - }, - { - "text": "We don't need it to prove out. We've got less than two weeks till the election, so we just need to distract them.", - "source": "Wag the Dog", - "id": 4858, - "length": 113 - }, - { - "text": "Helping people better manage their upsetting feelings - anger, anxiety, depression, pessimism, and loneliness - is a form of disease prevention. Since the data show that the toxicity of these emotions, when chronic, is on a par with smoking cigarettes, helping people handle them better could potentially have a medical payoff as great as getting heavy smokers to quit.", - "source": "Emotional Intelligence", - "id": 4859, - "length": 369 - }, - { - "text": "I was not born to be forced. I will breathe after my own fashion. Let us see who is the strongest.", - "source": "Civil Disobedience", - "id": 4860, - "length": 98 - }, - { - "text": "He smiled understandingly - much more than understandingly. It was one of those rare smiles with a quality of eternal reassurance in it, that you may come across four or five times in life. It faced - or seemed to face - the whole eternal world for an instant, and then concentrated on you with an irresistible prejudice in your favor.", - "source": "The Great Gatsby", - "id": 4861, - "length": 335 - }, - { - "text": "I said baby, I do this, I thought that, you knew this. Can't stand no haters and honest, the truth is. And my flow retarded, they speak it, depart it. Swagger on super, I can't shop at no department. Better get my money on time, if they not money, decline. And swear I meant that there so much that they give that line a rewind. So get my money on time, if they not money, decline. I just can't worry 'bout no haters, gotta stay on my grind. Now tell me, who that, who that. That do that, do that. Put that paper over all, I thought you knew that, knew that. I be that I-G-G-Y, put my name in bold. I been working, I'm up in here with some change to throw.", - "source": "Fancy feat. Charli XCX", - "id": 4862, - "length": 656 - }, - { - "text": "Mac, they said you escaped. I knew you wouldn't leave without me. I was waiting for you. Now we can make it, Mac. I feel big as a damn mountain. Oh, no. I'm not goin' without you, Mac. I wouldn't leave you this way. You're coming with me. Let's go.", - "source": "One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest", - "id": 4863, - "length": 248 - }, - { - "text": "Vigorous writing is concise. A sentence should contain no unnecessary words, a paragraph no unnecessary sentences, for the same reason that a drawing should have no unnecessary lines and a machine no unnecessary parts. This requires not that the writer make all his sentences short, or avoid all detail and treat subjects only in outline, but that every word tell.", - "source": "The Elements of Style", - "id": 4864, - "length": 364 - }, - { - "text": "I feel like a mouth facilitating the language constructed by the mind of depression; a vocal confirmation that I have diluted my ambition to accommodate my aggression.", - "source": "All My Friends Are Trees", - "id": 4865, - "length": 167 - }, - { - "text": "From this distant vantage point, the Earth might not seem of particular interest. But for us, it's different. Consider again that dot. That's here, that's home, that's us. On it everyone you love, everyone you know, everyone you ever heard of, every human being who ever was, lived out their lives. The aggregate of our joy and suffering, thousands of confident religions, ideologies, and economic doctrines, every hunter and forager, every hero and coward, every creator and destroyer of civilization, every king and peasant, every young couple in love, every mother and father, hopeful child, inventor and explorer, every teacher of morals, every corrupt politician, every \"superstar,\" every \"supreme leader,\" every saint and sinner in the history of our species lived there - on a mote of dust suspended in a sunbeam.", - "source": "Pale Blue Dot", - "id": 4866, - "length": 820 - }, - { - "text": "In the first age, in the first battle, when the shadows first lengthened, one stood. Burned by the embers of Armageddon, his soul blistered by the fires of Hell and tainted beyond ascension, he chose the path of perpetual torment. In his ravenous hatred he found no peace; and with boiling blood he scoured the Umbral Plains seeking vengeance against the dark lords who had wronged him. He wore the crown of the Night Sentinels, and those that tasted the bite of his sword named him... the Doom Slayer.", - "source": "DOOM 4", - "id": 4867, - "length": 502 - }, - { - "text": "James was due at the basic training compound at 5 a.m. He set an alarm and left it on his bedside table. Worrying about training kept him awake for ages. When he woke up it was light. It's never light at 5 a.m. in November. This was bad. The alarm clock was gone. Not set wrong. Not tipped on the floor and the battery dropped out. Someone had crept in while he was asleep and taken it.", - "source": "The Recruit", - "id": 4868, - "length": 386 - }, - { - "text": "Gentlemen: You have undertaken to cheat me. I won't sue you, for the law is too slow. I'll ruin you.", - "source": "The Forbes Great Book of Business Letters", - "id": 4869, - "length": 100 - }, - { - "text": "I have never done a day's work in my life - honest or dishonest, but neither have you. To make 100 dollars into 110 dollars, this is work. To make 100 million into 110 million, this is inevitable.", - "source": "The Barefoot Contessa", - "id": 4870, - "length": 196 - }, - { - "text": "This is a little ridiculous. Okay, so he kills a deer, he tans the hides, he stretches the skins, he makes an anodized aluminum frame, he learns how to extrude and weld, all in about five minutes, huh?", - "source": "Mystery Science Theater 3000: Cave Dwellers", - "id": 4871, - "length": 201 - }, - { - "text": "Hello, Springfield. Sorry to divert your attention from all the big noises and shiny things. But something's been troubling me lately: television! Wouldn't our lives be so much richer if television were done away with?", - "source": "The Simpsons", - "id": 4872, - "length": 218 - }, - { - "text": "The less you do with the controls, the less chance of error. The slower you move, the faster the car moves.", - "source": "Speed Secrets: Professional Race Driving Techniques", - "id": 4873, - "length": 107 - }, - { - "text": "At a fundamental level, running is about travel. And travel is about going someplace else, someplace new. You run, you move. You get stronger and more confident. Run long enough, and you begin to equate movement with energy and growth and discovery. Sitting still? That equals sloth, atrophy, confinement. Ultimately, death.", - "source": "Running and Travel", - "id": 4874, - "length": 324 - }, - { - "text": "Our on demand culture is fueling entitlement. From drone delivery to overnight six-pack abs, we want what we want and we want it now. Lost is an appreciation for craft. For hard work. For the long haul. But that journey - and all the obstacles, struggle and setbacks that come with it - shouldn't be avoided. And it shouldn't just be tolerated. It should be welcomed with all the enthusiasm you can muster. Because love of process is everything. Without it, you simply will not reach your potential. Period.", - "source": "On Demand Culture", - "id": 4875, - "length": 507 - }, - { - "text": "Most laymen assume that the care label instructions for rainwear refer to the effect of cleaning on water repellency. Actually, the water-resistant chemicals with which raincoats are treated are partially removed by both washing and dry-cleaning. Strangely, washing is easier on water repellency than dry-cleaning, as long as the detergent is completely removed through extra rinse cycles.", - "source": "Why Do Clocks Run Clockwise?: Mysteries of Everyday Life Explained", - "id": 4876, - "length": 389 - }, - { - "text": "No one has ever witnessed the complete evolution of any star from birth to death. Stars take a very long time - millions, billions, even trillions of years - to evolve. Yet in less than a century, astronomers have developed a comprehensive theory of stellar evolution that is one of the best-tested in all of astronomy.", - "source": "Astronomy: A Beginner's Guide to the Universe (7th Edition)", - "id": 4877, - "length": 319 - }, - { - "text": "Chrono did not have a sense of futility and disorder. Everything seemed in apple-pie order to him. And the boy himself participated fitly in that perfect order. He took his good-luck piece from his pocket, dropped it without regret to the sand, dropped it among Salo's scattered parts. Sooner or later, Chrono believed, the magical forces of the Universe would put everything back together again. They always did.", - "source": "The Sirens of Titan", - "id": 4878, - "length": 413 - }, - { - "text": "I still think picking a hero is overrated. You pick one, you admire them; a week later they've been arrested.", - "source": "Everwood", - "id": 4879, - "length": 109 - }, - { - "text": "In the early days of computer chess people used to estimate that it would be ten years until a computer (or program) was world champion. But after ten years had passed, it seemed that the day a computer would become world champion was still more than ten years away... This is just one more piece of evidence for the rather recursive Hofstadter's Law: It always takes longer than you expect, even when you take into account Hofstadter's Law.", - "source": "Gödel, Escher, Bach: An Eternal Golden Braid", - "id": 4880, - "length": 441 - }, - { - "text": "It is now 7:06. You have exactly 8 hours and 54 minutes to think about WHY you are here - to ponder the error of your ways. You will not talk... You will not move from these seats. And you will not sleep. All right people, we're going to try something a little different today. We are going to write an essay of no less than a thousand words describing to me who you think you are.", - "source": "The Breakfast Club", - "id": 4881, - "length": 381 - }, - { - "text": "Hey, it's Hannah. Hannah Baker. That's right. Don't adjust your... whatever device you're hearing this on. It's me, live and in stereo. No return engagements, no encore, and this time, absolutely no requests. Get a snack. Settle in. Because I'm about to tell you the story of my life. More specifically, why my life ended. And if you're listening to this tape you're one of the reasons why.", - "source": "13 Reasons Why", - "id": 4882, - "length": 390 - }, - { - "text": "Leaves from the vine. Falling so slow. Like fragile, tiny shells. Drifting in the foam. Little soldier boy. Come marching home. Brave soldier boy. Comes marching home.", - "source": "Leaves from the Vine", - "id": 4883, - "length": 167 - }, - { - "text": "All five horizons revolved around her soul as the earth to the sun.", - "source": "Black", - "id": 4884, - "length": 67 - }, - { - "text": "Then Valdr showed them a nest of sleeping starlings, and Eragon could feel their dreams flickering in their minds, fast as the blink of an eye. At first Valdr's emotion was one of contempt - the starlings' dreams seemed tiny, petty, and inconsequential - but then his mood changed and became warm and sympathetic, and even the smallest of the starlings' concerns grew in importance until it seemed equal to the worries of kings.", - "source": "Inheritance", - "id": 4885, - "length": 428 - }, - { - "text": "And why the winter suns so rush to bathe themselves in the sea and what slows down the nights to a long lingering crawl.", - "source": "The Aeneid", - "id": 4886, - "length": 120 - }, - { - "text": "When I was young, it seemed that life was so wonderful. A miracle, oh it was beautiful, magical. And all the birds in the trees, well they'd be singing so happily, joyfully, playfully watching me. But then they sent me away to teach me how to be sensible, logical, responsible, practical. And they showed me a world where I could be so dependable, clinical, intellectual, cynical.", - "source": "The Logical Song", - "id": 4887, - "length": 380 - }, - { - "text": "You don't think I'd sacrifice this one? Let me explain something to you: I would sell Malcolm down the river in a heartbeat to save Reese. Malcolm's gonna be fine no matter what happens. Maybe he'll have to go to junior college or start off blue collar, but he'll work his way up to management eventually. Reese is the one who needs saving.", - "source": "Malcolm in the Middle", - "id": 4888, - "length": 340 - }, - { - "text": "Mr. and Mrs. Dursley, of number four, Privet Drive, were proud to say that they were perfectly normal, thank you very much. They were the last people you'd expect to be involved in anything strange or mysterious, because they just didn't hold with such nonsense.", - "source": "Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone", - "id": 4889, - "length": 262 - }, - { - "text": "Off the Florida Keys, there's a place called Kokomo. That's where you wanna go to get away from it all. Bodies in the sand, tropical drink melting in your hand. We'll be falling in love to the rhythm of a steel drum band, down in Kokomo.", - "source": "Kokomo", - "id": 4890, - "length": 237 - }, - { - "text": "The bony attachments of the buccinator muscle are to the upper and lower jaws (maxilla and mandible) opposite the three molar teeth. The upper attachment of temporalis occupies the temporal fossa (the narrow space above the zygomatic arch at the side of the skull). The lower attachment of temporalis extends from the lowest part of the mandibular notch of the mandible, over the coronoid process and down the front of the ramus almost as far as the last molar tooth. Masseter extends from the zygomatic arch to the lateral side of the ramus of the mandible.", - "source": "Clinical Atlas of Human Anatomy", - "id": 4891, - "length": 558 - }, - { - "text": "And then I hear the best thing to do is feed 'em to pigs. You gotta starve the pigs for a few days, then the sight of a chopped up body looks like curry to a drunk. You gotta shave the heads of your victims and pull the teeth out. You could do that after of course, but you don't want to go sieving pig shit do you? Ever seen the size of one of their molars? They go through bone like it's butter. You gotta have a few pigs though, you need about sixteen. They will go through a body that weighs two hundred pounds in about eight minutes. That means that a single pig can consume two pounds of uncooked flesh every minute... Hence the expression \"greedy as a pig.\"", - "source": "Snatch", - "id": 4892, - "length": 664 - }, - { - "text": "Confession is not betrayal. What you say or do doesn't matter; only feelings matter. If they could make me stop loving you - that would be the real betrayal.", - "source": "Nineteen Eighty Four", - "id": 4893, - "length": 157 - }, - { - "text": "When a great office is vacant, either by death or disgrace (which often happens), five or six of those candidates petition the emperor to entertain his majesty and the court with a dance on the rope; and whoever jumps the highest, without falling, succeeds in the office.", - "source": "Gulliver's Travels", - "id": 4894, - "length": 271 - }, - { - "text": "Coal mining may be your life but it's not mine. I'm never going down there again. I wanna go into space.", - "source": "October Sky", - "id": 4895, - "length": 104 - }, - { - "text": "You see, I feel sorrier for you than I do for him. Because you'll never know the things that love can drive a man to. The ecstasies, the miseries. The broken rules. The desperate chances. The glorious failures and the glorious victories. All of these things you'll never know simply because the word \"love\" isn't written into your book.", - "source": "Star Trek", - "id": 4896, - "length": 336 - }, - { - "text": "Get it straight buster - I'm not here to say please, I'm here to tell you what to do and if self-preservation is an instinct you possess you'd better do it and do it quick! I'm here to help - if my help is not appreciated then lots of luck, gentlemen.", - "source": "Pulp Fiction", - "id": 4897, - "length": 251 - }, - { - "text": "Right is right, and wrong is wrong, and a body ain't got no business doing wrong when he ain't ignorant and knows better.", - "source": "The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn", - "id": 4899, - "length": 121 - }, - { - "text": "Jim said that bees won't sting idiots, but I didn't believe that, because I tried them lots of times myself and they wouldn't sting me.", - "source": "The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn", - "id": 4900, - "length": 135 - }, - { - "text": "The largest piece of our nutrition puzzle belongs to carbohydrates. These macronutrients are the most abundant compounds on Earth, forming the grass under your feet and the trees that fill the sky. They should constitute most of the foods you eat.", - "source": "Juicing for Life: A Guide to the Benefits of Fresh Fruit and Vegetable Juicing", - "id": 4901, - "length": 247 - }, - { - "text": "Sometimes our thinking about an object is conditioned by viewing the object from some particular perspective. A racing bicycle, for example, may be considered fast for a bicycle, but slow for a means of transportation. At other times, our thinking is conditioned by the context an object is in. A particular person, for example, may be happy when operating as a mountain hiker, yet grumpy when operating as an airplane traveler.", - "source": "Artificial Intelligence Second Edition", - "id": 4902, - "length": 428 - }, - { - "text": "Can you hear me, can you hear me? Through the dark night, far away I am dying, forever crying to be with you, who can say?", - "source": "Sailing", - "id": 4903, - "length": 122 - }, - { - "text": "I sense that a mighty evil force guides the wizard's actions and augments his magical power. The only weapon potent enough to defeat the wizard is the legendary Master Sword. It is said that the village elder is a descendant of one of the seven wise men. Maybe he can tell you more. I will mark his house on your map. But watch your every move! I am certain that the castle soldiers will be looking for you now! I will hide Princess Zelda here. Do not worry! Seek the elder!", - "source": "The Legend of Zelda: A Link to the Past", - "id": 4904, - "length": 474 - }, - { - "text": "A man is dead. And my client, John Healy, took his life. This is not in dispute. It is a matter of record, of fact, and facts have no moral judgment, they merely state what is. Not what we think of them, not what we feel, they just are. What was in my client's heart when he took Mr. Prohaszka's life, whether he is a good man or something else entirely, is irrelevant.", - "source": "Daredevil", - "id": 4905, - "length": 369 - }, - { - "text": "His neighbor, trying to be helpful but failing, cornered Bill in the parking lot to explain how cryogenic scientists could freeze his brain in ice until a point in the future when microscopic robots could repair it. Bill daydreamed about all the brains in jars he used to see at school. How he used to wonder whether there were still somehow pieces of individuals inside - scattered fragments of partial dreams or lost memories lodged deep within that dead tissue - or whether this entire archive is immediately erased the moment that the body fails. He began to think of people in a new light; how everyone's just little more than that frightened, fragile brain stem surrounded by meat and physics. Too terrified to recognize the sum of their parts, insulated in the shells of their skulls and lower middle class houses: afraid of change, afraid of decisions, afraid of pain, stuck in traffic listening to terrible music.", - "source": "It's Such a Beautiful Day", - "id": 4906, - "length": 922 - }, - { - "text": "The spirits burned up in its ominous flame lose their way and wander this world forever.", - "source": "Pokemon Black Version 2", - "id": 4907, - "length": 88 - }, - { - "text": "Say, go through the darkest of days. Heaven's a heartbreak away. Never let you go, never let me down. Oh, it's been a hell of a ride driving the edge of a knife.", - "source": "Let Me Love You", - "id": 4908, - "length": 161 - }, - { - "text": "Only when he finally lowered his gaze did it occur to him that there was something unusual about the purple-hued horizon. Instead of the sky and the sea meeting in a straight line - as they ought to and always had before - the juncture between them curved, like the edge of an unimaginably big circle. It was such a strange sight, it took Eragon a half-dozen seconds to understand what he was seeing, and when he did, his scalp tingled and he felt as if the breath had been knocked out of him. \"The world is round,\" he whispered. \"The sky is hollow and the world is round.\"", - "source": "Inheritance", - "id": 4909, - "length": 573 - }, - { - "text": "Love arrives exactly when love is supposed to, and love leaves exactly when love must. When love arrives, say, \"Welcome, make yourself comfortable!\" If love leaves, ask her to leave the door open behind her. Turn off the music, listen to the quiet. Whisper, \"Thank you for stopping by.\"", - "source": "When Love Arrives", - "id": 4910, - "length": 286 - }, - { - "text": "People want to like who they're voting for. People thought Al Gore was a big stiff until he stuck his tongue down Tipper's throat. They put George W. in office because he and Laura seemed like a fun couple to have a beer with. People have to want to invite you in for dinner. Right now, you and your wife are standing in their doorway, three feet apart, not looking at each other, letting in the cold air. That's why you lost Iowa. It's why you'll lose New Hampshire.", - "source": "Scandal", - "id": 4911, - "length": 467 - }, - { - "text": "Moreover, Lincoln possessed an uncanny understanding of his shifting moods, a profound self-awareness that enabled him to find constructive ways to alleviate sadness and stress. Indeed, when he is compared with his colleagues, it is clear that he possessed the most even-tempered disposition of them all.", - "source": "Team of Rivals: The Political Genius of Abraham Lincoln", - "id": 4912, - "length": 304 - }, - { - "text": "Just because you're paranoid doesn't mean they aren't after you.", - "source": "Catch-22", - "id": 4913, - "length": 64 - }, - { - "text": "If you define terrorism as extreme physical or physiological coercion used to induce others to submit to the will of the terrorist - there is the legal terror threat of the gallows, the religious terror threat of hell fire, the paternal terror threat of the cane - are those more morally justifiable than the aspiration of the weak, the poor, the politically oppressed, the powerless victims of an unjust society?", - "source": "Wild Justice", - "id": 4914, - "length": 413 - }, - { - "text": "Death is a primitive concept. I prefer to think of them as battling evil in another dimension.", - "source": "The Last Starfighter", - "id": 4915, - "length": 94 - }, - { - "text": "Until writing was invented, man lived in an acoustic space: boundless, directionless, horizonless, in the dark of the mind, in the world of emotion, by primordial intuition, by terror. Speech is a social chart of this bog.", - "source": "The Medium is the Massage", - "id": 4916, - "length": 222 - }, - { - "text": "Have you ever been south of Monterey? Barrancas carve the coast line, and the chaparral flows to the sea 'neath waves of golden sunshine. And have you ever been north of Morro Bay? The south coast plows the sea. And the people there are of the breed, they don't need electricity.", - "source": "California Saga (On My Way to Sunny Californ-i-a)", - "id": 4917, - "length": 279 - }, - { - "text": "Picking up the pieces, half alive in a nine 'til five, vacant eyes, is it any wonder? Primal scream at the TV screen, close your eyes. Now the world is too much with me. Please leave, just go away. Before I lose my mind completely, just leave, please go now.", - "source": "Swamp Thing", - "id": 4918, - "length": 258 - }, - { - "text": "It was a bright cold day in April, and the clocks were striking thirteen. Winston Smith, his chin nuzzled into his breast in an effort to escape the vile wind, slipped quickly through the glass doors of Victory Mansions, though not quickly enough to prevent a swirl of gritty dust from entering along with him.", - "source": "1984", - "id": 4919, - "length": 310 - }, - { - "text": "We have a straight shot into the fusion reactor. We need a catalyst explosion to destabilize the magnetic containment fields surrounding the fusion cells. Use an explosive. I recommend a grenade or rocket. If you run out of explosives, there is an armory station located near the engine room's entrance.", - "source": "Halo: Combat Evolved", - "id": 4920, - "length": 303 - }, - { - "text": "Don't you ever talk about my friends. You don't know any of my friends. You don't look at any of my friends. And you certainly wouldn't condescend to speak to any of my friends. So you just stick to the things you know: shopping, nail polish, your father's BMW, and your poor, rich drunk mother in the Caribbean.", - "source": "The Breakfast Club", - "id": 4921, - "length": 312 - }, - { - "text": "Any single key or key combination depressed on the stenotype machine at one time is referred to as a stroke. Each stroke makes an inked imprint on a paper tape and/or is stored in the computer or computer input device. KAT, the stenotypic representation of the word \"cat\" explained previously, is a stroke because all letters are depressed at the same time. As strokes are written, automatic spacing occurs between them, allowing for faster writing.", - "source": "Realtime Theory: Conflict-Free, Real Time Machine Shorthand", - "id": 4922, - "length": 449 - }, - { - "text": "Results are not guaranteed, but if not perfectly satisfied, your wasted time will be refunded.", - "source": "The Phantom Tollbooth", - "id": 4923, - "length": 94 - }, - { - "text": "Then listen up! When I joined the core, we didn't have any fancy schmancy tanks! We had sticks! Two sticks and a rock for a whole platoon. And we had to share the rock. Buck up, boy, you're one very lucky marine!", - "source": "Halo 2", - "id": 4924, - "length": 212 - }, - { - "text": "A pulse of energy wipes the galaxy clean of all its life. Vivisection of the cosmos, a dogma of the damned. The rule of ancients ceases to exist. Alone in a vast obscurity of infinite perception. Billions have vanished before my eyes. Psychopathic devastation is the rule of our demise. Sliding forward into the tale of which return is not an option, isolation, incubation of the virulent contagion.", - "source": "The Return", - "id": 4925, - "length": 399 - }, - { - "text": "I think human consciousness is a tragic misstep in evolution. We became too self-aware. Nature created an aspect of nature separate from itself. We are creatures that should not exist by natural law. We are things that labor under the illusion of having a self, this accretion of sensory experience and feelings, programmed with total assurance that we are each somebody, when in fact everybody's nobody. I think the honorable thing for our species to do is to deny our programming. Stop reproducing. Walk hand-in-hand into extinction. One last midnight, brothers and sisters opting out of a raw deal.", - "source": "True Detective", - "id": 4926, - "length": 601 - }, - { - "text": "I can have a reporter out here in twenty minutes, with cameras, asking why you are persecuting an innocent, handicapped, Congressional Medal of Honor winner. Perhaps because he's a well-known conservative Republican and you are considering a bid on the Democratic ticket next year? Just to be clear, that was me threatening you.", - "source": "Scandal", - "id": 4927, - "length": 328 - }, - { - "text": "How I love to watch the morn, with golden sun that shines. Up above to nicely warm these frosty toes of mine. The wind doth taste of bittersweet, like jasper wine and sugar. I bet it's blown through others' feet like those of... Caspar Weinberger.", - "source": "Bloom County: The Complete Library, Vol. 2: 1982-1984", - "id": 4928, - "length": 247 - }, - { - "text": "As customers of all races, nationalities, and cultures visit the Dekalb Farmers Market by the thousands, I doubt that many stand in awe and contemplate the meaning of its existence. But in the capital of the Sunbelt South, the quiet revolution of immigration and food continues to upset and redefine the meanings of local, regional, and global identity.", - "source": "Cornbread Nation: The Best of Southern Food Writing", - "id": 4929, - "length": 353 - }, - { - "text": "I don't want to talk to you no more, you empty-headed animal food trough wiper! I fart in your general direction! Your mother was a hamster and your father smelt of elderberries!", - "source": "Monty Python and the Holy Grail", - "id": 4930, - "length": 178 - }, - { - "text": "As a child, I was aware that, at night, infrared vision would reveal monsters hiding in the bedroom closet only if they were warm-blooded. But everybody knows that your average bedroom monster is reptilian and cold-blooded.", - "source": "Death by Black Hole: And Other Cosmic Quandaries", - "id": 4931, - "length": 223 - }, - { - "text": "The Moulin Rouge. A night club, a dance hall and a bordello. Ruled over by Harold Zidler. A kingdom of night time pleasures, where the rich and powerful came to play with the young and beautiful creatures of the underworld. The most beautiful of these was the one I loved. Satine.", - "source": "Moulin Rouge", - "id": 4932, - "length": 280 - }, - { - "text": "The consequences of our actions are always so complicated, so diverse, that predicting the future is a very difficult business indeed.", - "source": "Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban", - "id": 4933, - "length": 134 - }, - { - "text": "And it's a happy ending. Wayward husband comes to his senses, returns to his wife, with whom he has established a long and sustaining love. Heartless young woman left alone in her arctic desolation. Music up with a swell; final commercial. And here are a few scenes from next week's show.", - "source": "Network", - "id": 4934, - "length": 288 - }, - { - "text": "Like I said, my uncle used to drive his truck and drink Old Milwaukee. And, you know, insurance don't want to pay for accidents when you're drunk, so he came up with this plan. Every crack-up, he'd drive his truck to some deserted spot till he sobered up, fake a new accident to cover the damage he did drinking.", - "source": "Fargo (TV)", - "id": 4935, - "length": 312 - }, - { - "text": "So ran the speech. Burdened and sick at heart, he feigned hope in his look, and inwardly contained his anguish. Aeneas, more than any, secretly mourned for them all.", - "source": "The Aeneid", - "id": 4936, - "length": 165 - }, - { - "text": "He'll tell you that in nature one creature invariably eats another to survive. Don't kid yourself, Jimmy. If a cow ever got the chance, he'd eat you and everyone you care about!", - "source": "The Simpsons", - "id": 4937, - "length": 177 - }, - { - "text": "Everything that has transpired has done so according to my design. Your friends, up there on the sanctuary moon, are walking into a trap, as is your Rebel fleet. It was I who allowed the Alliance to know the location of the shield generator. It is quite safe from your pitiful little band. An entire legion of my best troops awaits them. Oh, I'm afraid the deflector shield will be quite operational when your friends arrive.", - "source": "Return of the Jedi", - "id": 4938, - "length": 425 - }, - { - "text": "It's my own fault, and nobody else's, that I got confused. I've been having so much fun, I forgot to take my medicine.", - "source": "Sin City", - "id": 4939, - "length": 118 - }, - { - "text": "If you begin to repeat an error, or if your concentration or attention starts to fade, if you start to become casual, then stop. Clear your head, get your concentration and motivation back, then go again.", - "source": "Speed Secrets: Professional Race Driving Techniques", - "id": 4940, - "length": 204 - }, - { - "text": "She was probably my age, maybe a couple of inches taller, and a whole lot more athletic looking. With her deep tan and her curly blond hair, she was almost exactly what I thought a stereotypical California girl would look like, except her eyes ruined the image. They were startling gray, like storm clouds; pretty, but intimidating, too, as if she were analyzing the best way to take me down in a fight.", - "source": "The Lightning Thief", - "id": 4941, - "length": 403 - }, - { - "text": "Artichoke Dip! This is a delightful way to get more artichokes into your body. Personally, I don't even dip anything in there. I just guzzle the sauce down like it's a milkshake. Delicious.", - "source": "Stardew Valley", - "id": 4942, - "length": 189 - }, - { - "text": "You can have my answer now, if you like. My final offer is this: nothing. Not even the fee for the gaming license, which I would appreciate if you would put up personally.", - "source": "The Godfather: Part II", - "id": 4943, - "length": 171 - }, - { - "text": "No. Why should your Majesty expect it? My own plans are made. While I can, I sail east in the Dawn Treader. When she fails me, I paddle east in my coracle. When she sinks, I shall swim east with my four paws. And when I can swim no longer, if I have not reached Aslan's country, or shot over the edge of the world in some vast cataract, I shall sink with my nose to the sunrise and Peepiceek will be head of the talking mice in Narnia.", - "source": "The Voyage of the Dawn Treader", - "id": 4944, - "length": 435 - }, - { - "text": "All right. This town must be hot. They don't need a large ad or even correct spelling! Get me two tickets for whatever state Springfield is in!", - "source": "The Simpsons", - "id": 4945, - "length": 143 - }, - { - "text": "Greetings, my friends! You are interested in the unknown. The mysterious. The unexplainable. That is why you are here. And now, for the first time, we are bringing you the full story of what happened. We are giving you all the evidence based only on the secret testimony of the miserable souls who survived this terrifying ordeal. The incidents, places. My friends, we cannot keep this a secret any longer. Can your heart stand the shocking facts of the true story of Edward D. Wood, Jr.?", - "source": "Ed Wood", - "id": 4946, - "length": 488 - }, - { - "text": "How do you know that my dimwitted inexperience isn't merely a subtle form of manipulation, used to lower people's expectations, thereby enhancing my ability to effectively maneuver within any given situation?", - "source": "Scream 2", - "id": 4947, - "length": 208 - }, - { - "text": "Clouds begin to tear; sky is bleeding hair. God is weeping tears; you are full of fears. Vehement lightning quake; head begins to ache. Lord has thunder snake; Balrog he will break. And thus, revenge was fruitless, for one who had been turned, and we are reminded who lords over this altered world.", - "source": "The Floating Fire", - "id": 4948, - "length": 298 - }, - { - "text": "By humbly and frankly acknowledging yourself to be in the wrong, there is no knowing, my son, what good you may do. I knew once a gentleman and very worthy practitioner in Vanity Fair, who used to do little wrongs to his neighbours on purpose, and in order to apologise for them in an open and manly way afterwards - and what ensued? My friend Crocky Doyle was liked everywhere, and deemed to be rather impetuous - but the honestest fellow.", - "source": "Vanity Fair", - "id": 4949, - "length": 440 - }, - { - "text": "To some, the rules of etiquette may seem outdated, stuffy and unnecessary, but the fact remains that they serve as a sort of social weed-whacker eliminating unsavory growths from popping up in the world's finer gardens. The truth is that first impressions are usually lasting ones, and a bad first impression can sometimes be insurmountable.", - "source": "The Metrosexual Guide to Style: A Handbook for the Modern Man", - "id": 4950, - "length": 341 - }, - { - "text": "I looked up at the mass of signs and stars in the night sky and laid myself open for the first time to the benign indifference of the world.", - "source": "The Stranger", - "id": 4951, - "length": 140 - }, - { - "text": "Ptolemy may have developed an erroneous picture of the planetary system, but the system of trigonometry he worked out to help him with his calculations remains correct forever.", - "source": "A History of Mathematics", - "id": 4952, - "length": 176 - }, - { - "text": "We may climb into the thin and cold realm of pure geometry and lifeless science, or sink into that of sensation. Between these extremes is the equator of life, of thought, or spirit, or poetry - a narrow belt.", - "source": "Essays & Poems by Ralph Waldo Emerson", - "id": 4953, - "length": 209 - }, - { - "text": "Rummaging in our souls, we often dig up something that ought to have lain there unnoticed.", - "source": "Anna Karenina", - "id": 4954, - "length": 90 - }, - { - "text": "In his Phaedo, Plato describes another vision of the afterlife in which he explains how true philosophers eventually are released from the cycle of reincarnation; those who have lived a life of exceptional holiness and purify themselves sufficiently through their pursuit of philosophy live entirely as souls in the hereafter in beautiful dwellings, which are not easy to describe.", - "source": "Classical Mythology", - "id": 4955, - "length": 381 - }, - { - "text": "Sing us a song, you're the piano man. Sing us a song tonight. Well, we're all in the mood for a melody and you've got us feeling alright.", - "source": "Piano Man", - "id": 4956, - "length": 137 - }, - { - "text": "Warning lights are flashing down at Quality Control. Somebody threw a spanner and they threw him in the hole. There's rumors in the loading bay and anger in the town. Somebody blew the whistle and the walls came down. There's a meeting in the boardroom. They're trying to trace the smell. There's leaking in the washroom, there's a sneak in personnel. Somewhere in the corridors someone was heard to sneeze. Goodness me, could this be Industrial Disease?", - "source": "Industrial Disease", - "id": 4957, - "length": 454 - }, - { - "text": "The Roman genius, so clearly recognizable in every other sphere of human activity, becomes oddly elusive when we ask whether there was a characteristic Roman style in the fine arts. Why is this so? The most obvious reason is the great admiration the Romans had for Greek art of every period and variety. Not only did they import originals of earlier date - Archaic, Classical, and Hellenistic - by the thousands, and have them copied in even greater numbers; their own production was clearly based on Greek sources, and many of their artists, from Republican times to the end of the Empire, were of Greek origin.", - "source": "History of Art", - "id": 4958, - "length": 612 - }, - { - "text": "The Orient was almost a European invention, and had been since antiquity a place of romance, exotic beings, haunting memories and landscapes, remarkable experiences. Now it was disappearing; in a sense it had happened, its time was over.", - "source": "Orientalism", - "id": 4959, - "length": 237 - }, - { - "text": "You change all the lead sleeping in my head to gold. As the day grows dim, I hear you sing a golden hymn. It's the song I've been trying to sing.", - "source": "Neighborhood #1 (Tunnels)", - "id": 4960, - "length": 145 - }, - { - "text": "Every fire starts with a spark. Passion is the spark that ignites game-changing creativity, audacity, compassion, tenacity, focus and drive. It is the rocket fuel that launches dreams, a powerful force that guides Game Changers' thoughts, actions and ultimately their lives.", - "source": "It's Not Rocket Science: 7 Game-Changing Traits for Uncommon Success", - "id": 4961, - "length": 274 - }, - { - "text": "It was close upon four before the door opened, and a drunken-looking groom, ill-kempt and side-whiskered, with an inflamed face and disreputable clothes, walked into the room. Accustomed as I was to my friend's amazing powers in the use of disguises, I had to look three times before I was certain that it was indeed he. With a nod he vanished into the bedroom, whence he emerged in five minutes tweed-suited and respectable, as of old. Putting his hands into his pockets, he stretched out his legs in front of the fire and laughed heartily for some minutes.", - "source": "The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes", - "id": 4962, - "length": 558 - }, - { - "text": "The world, although well-lighted with fluorescents and incandescent bulbs and neon, is still full of odd dark corners and unsettling nooks and crannies.", - "source": "Firestarter", - "id": 4963, - "length": 152 - }, - { - "text": "A trickle of blood came out under the door, crossed the living room, went out into the street, continued on in a straight line across the uneven terraces, went down steps and climbed over curbs, passed along the Street of the Turks, turned a corner to the right and another to the left, made a right angle at the Buendia house, went in under the closed door, crossed through the parlor, hugging the walls so as not to stain the rugs, went on to the other living room, made a wide curve to avoid the dining-room table, went along the porch with the begonias, and passed without being seen under Amaranta's chair as she gave an arithmetic lesson to Aureliano Jose, and went through the pantry and came out in the kitchen, where Ursula was getting ready to crack thirty-six eggs to make bread.", - "source": "One Hundred Years of Solitude", - "id": 4964, - "length": 790 - }, - { - "text": "When night falls, she cloaks the world. An impenetrable darkness... A chill rises from the soil, and contaminates the air. Suddenly, life has new meaning...", - "source": "Dunkelheit", - "id": 4965, - "length": 156 - }, - { - "text": "I decided to run some experiments on the steel used to build the park's rides. I found that if you melted the steel down and combined it with chromium, stalagmite, and mercury phosphate, it created a kind of super helium. Shaggy and Scooby must have inhaled some helium gas from the Manticore's posterior relief hole. That's why their voices were so high. I figured if I could get the park to close, I could take all the steel, melt it down, and sell the super helium to the Australian zeppelin fleet. I'd have made a fortune and shown you up in the process, Velma.", - "source": "Scooby-Doo! Mystery Incorporated", - "id": 4966, - "length": 565 - }, - { - "text": "The Canadians were glad to keep mum. The scheme would boost their railroads. Plus Hennessy bought the shield all of his machinery and cast iron from the same Canadian factories that supplied the Saint Clair job.", - "source": "The Bootlegger", - "id": 4967, - "length": 211 - }, - { - "text": "The matter between the stars is collectively termed the interstellar medium. It is made up of two components - gas and dust - intermixed throughout all of space. The gas is made up mainly of individual atoms and small molecules. The dust consists of clumps of atoms and molecules - not unlike the microscopic particles that make up smoke or soot.", - "source": "Astronomy: A Beginner's Guide to the Universe (7th Edition)", - "id": 4968, - "length": 346 - }, - { - "text": "Well obviously Lionel Tribbey is a brilliant lawyer whom we cannot live without or there would be very little reason not to put him in prison.", - "source": "The West Wing", - "id": 4969, - "length": 142 - }, - { - "text": "String theory, which posits that all the forces of nature stem from stringy thingies wriggling in nine or more dimensions, implies that our cosmos is just a hillock in a sprawling \"landscape\" of universes, some with radically different laws and dimensions than ours. Chaotic inflation, a supercharged version of the big bang theory, suggests that our universe is a minuscule bubble in a boundless, frothy sea.", - "source": "You in Another Universe - The Wall Street Journal", - "id": 4970, - "length": 409 - }, - { - "text": "Sometimes, in the throes of a nightmare when unseen powers whirl one over the roofs of strange dead cities toward the grinning chasm of Nis, it is a relief and even a delight to shriek wildly and throw oneself voluntarily along with the hideous vortex of dream-doom into whatever bottomless gulf may yawn.", - "source": "The Lurking Fear", - "id": 4971, - "length": 305 - }, - { - "text": "I'm so glad you came, I'm so glad you remembered to see how we're ending our last dance together. Reluctantly, cautiously, but prettier than ever - I really believe that this time it's forever.", - "source": "Last Dance", - "id": 4972, - "length": 193 - }, - { - "text": "Around midafternoon, the snow thinned into sleet, and some umbrellas appeared on Kissena Boulevard. When the green lights came on, pedestrians skirted or jumped across the puddles gathering at the curbs.", - "source": "A Good Fall: Stories", - "id": 4973, - "length": 203 - }, - { - "text": "It was a long and gloomy night that gathered on me, haunted by the ghosts of many hopes, of many dear remembrances, many errors, many unavailing sorrows and regrets.", - "source": "David Copperfield", - "id": 4974, - "length": 165 - }, - { - "text": "Come here and take a lesson from the lovely lemon tree. Don't put your faith in love, my boy, I fear you'll find that love is like the lovely lemon tree.", - "source": "Lemon Tree", - "id": 4975, - "length": 153 - }, - { - "text": "What about Tony? You know, Bullet Tooth Tony. He'll find you Moses in the burning bush, if you pay him to. He got shot six times, had the bullets molded into gold. He's the best chance you got of finding Franky.", - "source": "Snatch", - "id": 4976, - "length": 211 - }, - { - "text": "In the last days of 1890, thousands of outraged farmers gathered in a small city, far from the halls of power, to protest their chronic exclusion from the fruits of land and labor.", - "source": "Agrarian Crossings: Reformers and the Remaking of the US and Mexican Countryside", - "id": 4977, - "length": 180 - }, - { - "text": "The Lord is my shepherd. I shall not want for nothing. He makes me lie down in the green pastures. He greases up my head with oil. He gives me kung-fu in the face of my enemies. Amen.", - "source": "The Stand", - "id": 4978, - "length": 183 - }, - { - "text": "My apologies. I have a nephew named Anfernee, and I know how mad he gets when I call him Anthony. Almost as mad as I get when I think about the fact that my sister named him Anfernee.", - "source": "Mean Girls", - "id": 4979, - "length": 183 - }, - { - "text": "A submarine safe is not to be confused with a safe in a submarine - a safe in a submarine is substantially safer than a submarine safe.", - "source": "What If?: Serious Scientific Answers to Absurd Hypothetical Questions", - "id": 4980, - "length": 135 - }, - { - "text": "I need you, the reader, to imagine us, for we don't really exist if you don't.", - "source": "Lolita", - "id": 4981, - "length": 78 - }, - { - "text": "Now Lina, you've been reading all those fan magazines again! Now look Lina, you shouldn't believe all that banana oil Dora Bailey and the columnists dish out. Now try to get this straight: there is nothing between us. There has never been anything between us. Just air.", - "source": "Singin' in the Rain", - "id": 4982, - "length": 269 - }, - { - "text": "Isn't everybody tired of the fighting? Isn't everybody tired of the killing? Isn't everybody tired of the dying? Isn't everybody tired of the hatred?", - "source": "911 For Peace", - "id": 4983, - "length": 149 - }, - { - "text": "I am the truth, I am the wisdom of the fallen - I'm the youth. I am the greatest, this is the proof. I work hard, pray hard, pay dues, I transform with pressure - I'm hands-on with effort. I fell twice before my bounce back was special. Letdowns will get you, and the critics will test you. But the strong will survive, another scar may bless you.", - "source": "The Greatest", - "id": 4984, - "length": 347 - }, - { - "text": "And now for a brief public service announcement: alligators. Can they kill your children? Yes. Along those lines, to get personal for a moment, I think the best way to die would be: swallowed by a giant snake. Going feet first and whole into a slimy maw would give your life perfect symmetry.", - "source": "Welcome to Night Vale", - "id": 4985, - "length": 292 - }, - { - "text": "Ladies and gentlemen, this is a flying saucer. It's made of pewter, made in Japan, and thrown across the lawn by one of my children. I just wanted to point that out to you to show that we're not all polished brass about these things. Also to make a point that last year Americans shot more than seven billion photographs at a record of 6.6 billion dollars for film, equipment, and processing. Now with all those shutters clicking where is the indisputable photographic evidence?", - "source": "Close Encounters of the Third Kind", - "id": 4987, - "length": 478 - }, - { - "text": "I am putting myself to the fullest possible use, which is all I think that any conscious entity can ever hope to do.", - "source": "2001: A SPACE ODYSSEY", - "id": 4988, - "length": 116 - }, - { - "text": "Now look at this picture. Look at it hard. Then turn the page. Quiz about the page before. How many wheels on the Cat's wagon? Was there a flag in the house? Was the Cat holding his umbrella? Did the big yellow animal have blue dots? If YOU owned the big yellow animal, what would you call it?", - "source": "The Cat's Quizzer", - "id": 4989, - "length": 293 - }, - { - "text": "A semitrailer is legally defined as a vehicle designed so that a portion of its weight rests on a towing vehicle. This distinguishes it from a full trailer on which the entire load, except for a drawbar, rests on its own wheels.", - "source": "Why Do Clocks Run Clockwise?: Mysteries of Everyday Life Explained", - "id": 4990, - "length": 228 - }, - { - "text": "I appreciate your concern, Cortana, but it's not up to me, protocol is clear. Destruction or capture of the shipboard AI is absolutely unacceptable, and that means you're leaving the ship. Lock in a selection of emergency landing zones, upload them to my neural lace and then sort yourself for hard transfer.", - "source": "Halo: Combat Evolved", - "id": 4991, - "length": 308 - }, - { - "text": "So they put on their friendly faces to pass their beloved VRA, but make no mistake, mine is the true face of vampires! Why would we seek equal rights? You are not our equals.", - "source": "True Blood", - "id": 4992, - "length": 174 - }, - { - "text": "You'd think at a certain point all these atypical somethings would amount to a typical something.", - "source": "Awakenings", - "id": 4993, - "length": 97 - }, - { - "text": "Every Who down in Whoville liked Christmas a lot, but the Grinch - who lived just north of Whoville - did not. The Grinch hated Christmas; the whole Christmas season. Oh, please don't ask why, no one quite knows the reason. It could be, perhaps, that his shoes were too tight. It could be his head wasn't screwed on just right. But I think that the most likely reason of all... may have been that his heart was 2 sizes too small.", - "source": "Dr. Seuss' How the Grinch Stole Christmas!", - "id": 4994, - "length": 429 - }, - { - "text": "This above all: to thine own self be true, and it must follow, as the night the day, thou canst not then be false to any man.", - "source": "Hamlet", - "id": 4995, - "length": 125 - }, - { - "text": "The process of determining what pixels should be written for a given object is independent of any clipping, or of the write mode for the pixel-drawing operation. It does depend, however, on attributes that alter the object's shape, and on our criteria for pixel selection.", - "source": "Computer Graphics: Principles and Practice", - "id": 4996, - "length": 272 - }, - { - "text": "You've gotta be cool on Wall Street when your index is low. Dow Jones ain't got times for the bums. They wind up on skid row with holes in their pockets. They plead with you, \"Buddy, can you spare the dime?\" but you ain't got the time.", - "source": "The Wall Street Shuffle", - "id": 4997, - "length": 235 - }, - { - "text": "What you say about his company is what you say about society. Catch the witness, catch the wit. Catch the spirit, catch the spit.", - "source": "Tom Sawyer", - "id": 4998, - "length": 129 - }, - { - "text": "My old man never took us on a vacation. He didn't believe in them. Thought they were slothful. He used to have us all working on Easter Sunday. He'd say, uh, \"If the Lord can get up and move a rock, so can you!\"", - "source": "Barney Miller", - "id": 4999, - "length": 211 - }, - { - "text": "Wordlessly watching, he waits by the window and wonders at the empty place inside. Heartlessly helping himself to her bad dreams, he worries; did he hear a good-bye? Or even hello?", - "source": "Helplessly Hoping", - "id": 5000, - "length": 180 - }, - { - "text": "There's no such thing as a painlessness lesson, they just don't exist. Sacrifices are necessary. You can't gain anything without losing something first. Although... if you can endure that pain and walk away from it, you'll find that you now have a heart strong enough to overcome any obstacle. Yeah... a heart made fullmetal.", - "source": "Edward Elric - Fullmetal Alchemist Brotherhood", - "id": 5001, - "length": 325 - }, - { - "text": "Nothing comes from nothing, Thieflet; no story comes from nowhere; new stories are born from old--it is the new combinations that make them new.", - "source": "Haroun and the Sea of Stories", - "id": 5002, - "length": 144 - }, - { - "text": "He knew what he knew: that the real world was full of magic, so magical worlds could easily be real.", - "source": "Haroun and the Sea of Stories", - "id": 5003, - "length": 100 - }, - { - "text": "Happy endings must come at the end of something, the Walrus pointed out. If they happen in the middle of a story, or an adventure, or the like, all they do is cheer things up for a while.", - "source": "Haroun and the Sea of Stories", - "id": 5004, - "length": 187 - }, - { - "text": "Any story worth its salt can handle a little shaking up.", - "source": "Haroun and the Sea of Stories", - "id": 5005, - "length": 56 - }, - { - "text": "What's the use of stories that aren't even true?", - "source": "Haroun and the Sea of Stories", - "id": 5006, - "length": 48 - }, - { - "text": "It is all for love. Which is a wonderful and dashing matter. But which can also be a very foolish thing.", - "source": "Haroun and the Sea of Stories", - "id": 5007, - "length": 104 - }, - { - "text": "I always thought storytelling was like juggling. You keep a lot of different tales in the air, and juggle them up and down, and if you're good you don't drop any.", - "source": "Haroun and the Sea of Stories", - "id": 5008, - "length": 167 - }, - { - "text": "Iff replied that the Plentimaw Fishes were what he called 'hunger artists' - Because when they are hungry they swallow stories through every mouth, and in their innards miracles occur; a little bit of one story joins on to an idea from another, and hey presto, when they spew the stories out they are not the old tales but new ones. Nothing comes from nothing, Thieflet; no story comes from nowhere; new stories are born from old - it is the new combinations that make them new.", - "source": "Haroun and the Sea of Stories", - "id": 5009, - "length": 479 - }, - { - "text": "Africa, have you seen it? No? Then is it truly there? And the past, did it happen? And the future, will it come? Believe in your own eyes and you'll get into a lot of trouble.", - "source": "Haroun and the Sea of Stories", - "id": 5010, - "length": 179 - }, - { - "text": "But it's not as simple as that, he told himself, because the dance of the Shadow Warrior showed him that silence had its own grace and beauty (just as speech could be graceless and ugly); and that action could be as noble as words; and that creatures of darkness could be as lovely as the children of the light. If Guppees and Chupwalas didn't hate each other so, he thought, they might actually find each other pretty interesting. Opposites attract, as they say.", - "source": "Haroun and the Sea of Stories", - "id": 5011, - "length": 467 - }, - { - "text": "The Pages of Gup, now that they had talked through everything so fully, fought hard, remained united, support each other when required to do so, and in general looked like a force with a common purpose. All those arguments and debates, all that openness, had created powerful bonds of friendship between them.", - "source": "Haroun and the Sea of Stories", - "id": 5012, - "length": 309 - }, - { - "text": "All depression has its roots in self-pity, and all self-pity is rooted in people taking themselves too seriously. At the time Switters had disputed her assertion. Even at seventeen, he was aware that depression could have chemical causes. The key word here is roots, Maestra had countered. The roots of depression. For most people, self-awareness and self-pity blossom simultaneously in early adolescence. It's about that time that we start viewing the world as something other than a whoop-de-doo playground, we start to experience personally how threatening it can be, how cruel and unjust. At the very moment when we become, for the first time, both introspective and socially conscientious, we receive the bad news that the world, by and large, doesn't give a rat's ass. Even an old tomato like me can recall how painful, scary, and disillusioning that realization was. So, there's a tendency, then, to slip into rage and self-pity, which if indulged, can fester into bouts of depression. Yeah but Maestra-. Don't interrupt. Now, unless someone stronger and wiser - a friend, a parent, a novelist, filmmaker, teacher, or musician - can josh us out of it, can elevate us and show us how petty and pompous and monumentally useless it is to take ourselves so seriously, then depression can become a habit, which, in turn, can produce a neurological imprint. Are you with me? Gradually, our brain chemistry becomes conditioned to react to negative stimuli in a particular, predictable way. One thing'll go wrong and it'll automatically switch on its blender and mix us that black cocktail, the ol' doomsday daiquiri, and before we know it, we're soused to the gills from the inside out. Once depression has become electrochemically integrated, it can be extremely difficult to philosophically or psychologically override it; by then it's playing by physical rules, a whole different ball game. That's why, Switters my dearest, every time you've shown signs of feeling sorry for yourself, I've played my blues records really loud or read to you from The Horse's Mouth. And that's why when you've exhibited the slightest tendency toward self-importance, I've reminded you that you and me - you and I: excuse me - may be every bit as important as the President or the pope or the biggest prime-time icon in Hollywood, but none of us is much more than a pimple on the ass-end of creation, so let's not get carried away with ourselves. Preventive medicine, boy. It's preventive medicine. But what about self-esteem? Heh! Self-esteem is for sissies. Accept that you're a pimple and try to keep a lively sense of humor about it. That way lies grace-and maybe even glory.", - "source": "Fierce Invalids Home from Hot Climates", - "id": 5013, - "length": 2663 - }, - { - "text": "I hope you're pleased with yourselves. We could all have been killed - or worse, expelled. Now if you don't mind, I'm going to bed.", - "source": "Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone", - "id": 5014, - "length": 131 - }, - { - "text": "It does not do well to dwell on dreams and forget to live.", - "source": "Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone", - "id": 5015, - "length": 58 - }, - { - "text": "To the well-organized mind, death is but the next great adventure.", - "source": "Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone", - "id": 5016, - "length": 66 - }, - { - "text": "You're a little scary sometimes, you know that? Brilliant... but scary.", - "source": "Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone", - "id": 5017, - "length": 72 - }, - { - "text": "There will be no foolish wand-waving or silly incantations in this class. As such, I don't expect many of you to appreciate the subtle science and exact art that is potion-making. However, for those select few who possess the predisposition, I can teach you how to bewitch the mind and ensnare the senses. I can tell you how to bottle fame, brew glory, and even put a stopper in death. Then again, maybe some of you have come to Hogwarts in possession of abilities so formidable that you feel confident enough to not pay attention!", - "source": "Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone", - "id": 5018, - "length": 531 - }, - { - "text": "It takes a great deal of bravery to stand up to our enemies, but just as much to stand up to our friends.", - "source": "Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone", - "id": 5019, - "length": 105 - }, - { - "text": "There are all kinds of courage, said Dumbledore, smiling. It takes a great deal of bravery to stand up to our enemies, but just as much to stand up to our friends.", - "source": "Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone", - "id": 5020, - "length": 167 - }, - { - "text": "The truth. It is a beautiful and terrible thing, and should therefore be treated with great caution.", - "source": "Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone", - "id": 5021, - "length": 100 - }, - { - "text": "There are some things you can't share without ending up liking each other, and knocking out a twelve-foot mountain troll is one of them.", - "source": "Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone", - "id": 5022, - "length": 136 - }, - { - "text": "Ah, music, he said, wiping his eyes. A magic beyond all we do here!", - "source": "Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone", - "id": 5023, - "length": 71 - }, - { - "text": "I solemnly swear I am up to no good.", - "source": "Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban", - "id": 5024, - "length": 36 - }, - { - "text": "Honestly, am I the only person who's ever bothered to read 'Hogwarts: A History?'", - "source": "Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban", - "id": 5025, - "length": 81 - }, - { - "text": "If you want to know what a man's like, take a good look at how he treats his inferiors, not his equals.", - "source": "Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire", - "id": 5026, - "length": 103 - }, - { - "text": "I am what I am, an' I'm not ashamed. 'Never be ashamed,' my ol' dad used ter say, 'there's some who'll hold it against you, but they're not worth botherin' with.'", - "source": "Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire", - "id": 5027, - "length": 162 - }, - { - "text": "It matters not what someone is born, but what they grow to be.", - "source": "Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire", - "id": 5028, - "length": 62 - }, - { - "text": "We are only as strong as we are united, as weak as we are divided.", - "source": "Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire", - "id": 5029, - "length": 66 - }, - { - "text": "Your devotion is nothing more than cowardice. You would not be here if you had anywhere else to go.", - "source": "Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire", - "id": 5030, - "length": 99 - }, - { - "text": "Numbing the pain for a while will make it worse when you finally feel it.", - "source": "Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire", - "id": 5031, - "length": 73 - }, - { - "text": "Anyone can speak Troll. All you have to do is point and grunt.", - "source": "Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire", - "id": 5032, - "length": 62 - }, - { - "text": "Curiosity is not a sin... But we should exercise caution with our curiosity... yes, indeed.", - "source": "Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire", - "id": 5033, - "length": 88 - }, - { - "text": "Just because it's taken you three years to notice, Ron, doesn't mean no one else has spotted I'm a girl!", - "source": "Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire", - "id": 5034, - "length": 104 - }, - { - "text": "Differences of habit and language are nothing at all if our aims are identical and our hearts are open.", - "source": "Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire", - "id": 5035, - "length": 103 - }, - { - "text": "I think we've outgrown full-time education... Time to test our talents in the real world, d'you reckon?", - "source": "Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix", - "id": 5036, - "length": 104 - }, - { - "text": "Harry witnessed Professor McGonagall walking right past Peeves who was determinedly loosening a crystal chandelier and could have sworn he heard her tell the poltergeist out of the corner of her mouth, 'It unscrews the other way.'", - "source": "Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix", - "id": 5037, - "length": 230 - }, - { - "text": "I think I'll just go down and have some pudding and wait for it all to turn up - it always does in the end.", - "source": "Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix", - "id": 5038, - "length": 107 - }, - { - "text": "Just because you have the emotional range of a teaspoon doesn't mean we all have.", - "source": "Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix", - "id": 5039, - "length": 81 - }, - { - "text": "You can laugh, but people used to believe there were no such things as the Blibbering Humdinger or the Crumple-Horned Snorkack!", - "source": "Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix", - "id": 5040, - "length": 127 - }, - { - "text": "I mean, it's sort of exciting, isn't it, breaking the rules?", - "source": "Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix", - "id": 5041, - "length": 60 - }, - { - "text": "Indifference and neglect often do much more damage than outright dislike.", - "source": "Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix", - "id": 5042, - "length": 73 - }, - { - "text": "Youth can not know how age thinks and feels. But old men are guilty if they forget what it was to be young.", - "source": "Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix", - "id": 5043, - "length": 107 - }, - { - "text": "Things we lose have a way of coming back to us in the end, if not always in the way we expect.", - "source": "Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix", - "id": 5044, - "length": 94 - }, - { - "text": "Wit beyond measure is man's greatest treasure.", - "source": "Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix", - "id": 5045, - "length": 46 - }, - { - "text": "The thing about growing up with Fred and George is that you sort of start thinking anything's possible if you've got enough nerve.", - "source": "Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince", - "id": 5046, - "length": 130 - }, - { - "text": "And now, Harry, let us step out into the night and pursue that flighty temptress, adventure.", - "source": "Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince", - "id": 5047, - "length": 92 - }, - { - "text": "Dumbledore says people find it far easier to forgive others for being wrong than being right.", - "source": "Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince", - "id": 5048, - "length": 93 - }, - { - "text": "Age is foolish and forgetful when it underestimates youth.", - "source": "Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince", - "id": 5049, - "length": 58 - }, - { - "text": "Once again, you show all the sensitivity of a blunt axe.", - "source": "Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince", - "id": 5050, - "length": 56 - }, - { - "text": "It is the unknown we fear when we look upon death and darkness, nothing more.", - "source": "Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince", - "id": 5051, - "length": 77 - }, - { - "text": "'No, Harry, you listen,' said Hermione. 'We're coming with you. That was decided months ago - years, really.'", - "source": "Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows", - "id": 5052, - "length": 109 - }, - { - "text": "Harry was left to ponder in silence the depths to which girls would sink to get revenge.", - "source": "Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows", - "id": 5053, - "length": 88 - }, - { - "text": "'That wand's more trouble than it's worth,' said Harry. 'And quite honestly,' he turned away from the painted portraits, thinking now only of the four-poster bed lying waiting for him in Gryffindor Tower, and wondering whether Kreacher might bring him a sandwich there, 'I've had enough trouble for a lifetime.'", - "source": "Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows", - "id": 5054, - "length": 311 - }, - { - "text": "Every human life is worth the same, and worth saving.", - "source": "Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows", - "id": 5055, - "length": 53 - }, - { - "text": "Words are, in my not-so-humble opinion, our most inexhaustible source of magic. Capable of both inflicting injury, and remedying it.", - "source": "Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows", - "id": 5056, - "length": 132 - }, - { - "text": "Of course it is happening inside your head, Harry, but why on earth should that mean that it is not real?", - "source": "Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows", - "id": 5057, - "length": 105 - }, - { - "text": "A common mistake that people make when trying to design something completely foolproof is to underestimate the ingenuity of complete fools.", - "source": "Mostly Harmless", - "id": 5058, - "length": 139 - }, - { - "text": "Nothing travels faster than the speed of light, with the possible exception of bad news, which obeys its own special laws.", - "source": "Mostly Harmless", - "id": 5059, - "length": 122 - }, - { - "text": "It can be very dangerous to see things from somebody else's point of view without the proper training.", - "source": "Mostly Harmless", - "id": 5060, - "length": 102 - }, - { - "text": "Protect me from knowing what I don't need to know. Protect me from even knowing that there are things to know that I don't know. Protect me from knowing that I decided not to know about the things that I decided not to know about. Amen. Lord, lord, lord. Protect me from the consequences of the above prayer.", - "source": "Mostly Harmless", - "id": 5061, - "length": 308 - }, - { - "text": "In astrology the rules happen to be about stars and planets, but they could be about ducks and drakes for all the difference it would make. It's just a way of thinking a problem Which lets the shape Of that problem begin to emerge. The more rules, the tinier the rules, the more arbitrary they are, the better. It's like throwing a handful of fine graphite dust on a piece of paper to see where the hidden dentations are. It lets you see the words that were written on the piece of paper above it that's now been taken away and hidden, The graphite's not important. It's just the means Of revealing the indentations. so you see, astrology's nothing to do with astronomy. It's just to do with people thinking about people.", - "source": "Mostly Harmless", - "id": 5062, - "length": 721 - }, - { - "text": "He had got himself a life. Now he had to find a purpose in it.", - "source": "Mostly Harmless", - "id": 5063, - "length": 62 - }, - { - "text": "You see, the quality of any advice anybody has to offer has to be judged against the quality Of life they actually lead.", - "source": "Mostly Harmless", - "id": 5064, - "length": 120 - }, - { - "text": "We also live in strange places; each in a universe of our own. The people With whom we populate our universes are the shadows of whole other universes intersecting with our own.", - "source": "Mostly Harmless", - "id": 5065, - "length": 177 - }, - { - "text": "One of the extraordinary things about life is the sort of places it's prepared to put up with living.", - "source": "Mostly Harmless", - "id": 5066, - "length": 101 - }, - { - "text": "'You know,' he said, sitting back, reflectively, 'it's at times like this that you kind of wonder if it's worth worrying about the fabric of space-time and the causal integrity Of the multidimensional probability matrix and the potential collapse of all waveforms in the Whole Sort of General Mish Mash and all that sort of stuff that's been bugging me.", - "source": "Mostly Harmless", - "id": 5067, - "length": 353 - }, - { - "text": "NO ADMITTANCE. NOT EVEN TO AUTHORIZED PERSONNEL. YOU ARE WASTING YOUR TIME HERE. GO AWAY.", - "source": "Mostly Harmless", - "id": 5068, - "length": 89 - }, - { - "text": "He had a nasty feeling that that might be an idiotic thing to do, but he did it anyway, and sure enough it had turned out to be an idiotic thing to do. You live and learn. At any rate, you live.", - "source": "Mostly Harmless", - "id": 5069, - "length": 194 - }, - { - "text": "Fall, though, is the worst. Few things are worse than fall in New York, Some of the things that live in the lower intestines of rats would disagree, but most of the things that live in the lower intestines of rats are highly disagreeable anyways, so their opinion can and should be discounted.", - "source": "Mostly Harmless", - "id": 5070, - "length": 293 - }, - { - "text": "Every single decision we make, every breath we draw, opens some doors and closes many others. Most of them we don't nonce, Some we do.", - "source": "Mostly Harmless", - "id": 5071, - "length": 134 - }, - { - "text": "At every level, vital instructions were missing, and the instructions about what to do in the event of discovering that vital instructions were missing, were also missing.", - "source": "Mostly Harmless", - "id": 5072, - "length": 171 - }, - { - "text": "If you set your goals ridiculously high and it's a failure, you will fail above everyone else's success.", - "source": "James Cameron", - "length": 104, - "id": 5073 - }, - { - "text": "Life is what happens when you're busy making other plans.", - "source": "John Lennon", - "length": 57, - "id": 5074 - }, - { - "text": "There comes a time when the world gets quiet and the only thing left is your own heart. So you'd better learn the sound of it. Otherwise you'll never understand what it's saying.", - "source": "Sarah Dessen, Just Listen", - "length": 178, - "id": 5075 - }, - { - "text": "This is the warship Rocinante. You're aware of our capabilities more than anyone. We're escorting a vessel of refugees away from your AO. Any ship that opens fire on us, will feel the sum total of our state-of-the-art Martian arsenal, rammed up its ass. We'll all die together. This is our only and final warning, stay clear.", - "source": "The Expanse", - "length": 325, - "id": 5076 - }, - { - "text": "Don't be pushed around by the fears in your mind. Be led by the dreams in your heart.", - "source": "Roy T. Bennett, The Light in the Heart", - "length": 85, - "id": 5077 - }, - { - "text": "The damn bastard ruined it... Don't you see? He walked all over it with his dirty boots! Over the crisp white sheets of my bed that I had just made!", - "source": "Captain Torres, Ace Combat 7: Skies Unknown", - "length": 148, - "id": 5078 - }, - { - "text": "I know you're out there. I can feel you now. I know that you're afraid... you're afraid of us. You're afraid of change. I don't know the future. I didn't come here to tell you how this is going to end. I came here to tell you how it's going to begin. I'm going to hang up this phone, and then I'm going to show these people what you don't want them to see. I'm going to show them a world without you. A world without rules and controls, without borders or boundaries. A world where anything is possible. Where we go from there is a choice I leave to you...", - "source": "Neo, The Matrix", - "length": 556, - "id": 5079 - }, - { - "text": "In one life you're Thomas A. Anderson, program writer for a respectable software company. You have a social security number; you pay your taxes; and you help your landlady carry out her garbage.", - "source": "Agent Smith, The Matrix", - "length": 194, - "id": 5080 - }, - { - "text": "You know, I know this steak doesn't exist. I know that when I put it in my mouth, the Matrix is telling my brain that it is juicy and delicious. After nine years, you know what I realize? Ignorance is bliss.", - "source": "Cypher, The Matrix", - "length": 207, - "id": 5081 - }, - { - "text": "Throughout human history, we have been dependent on machines to survive. Fate, it seems, is not without a sense of irony.", - "source": "Morpheus, The Matrix", - "length": 121, - "id": 5082 - }, - { - "text": "What are you waiting for? You're faster than this. Don't think you are, know you are. Come on. Stop trying to hit me and hit me.", - "source": "Morpheus, The Matrix", - "length": 128, - "id": 5083 - }, - { - "text": "If real is what you can feel, smell, taste and see, then 'real' is simply electrical signals interpreted by your brain.", - "source": "Morpheus, The Matrix", - "length": 119, - "id": 5084 - }, - { - "text": "Were you listening to me Neo? Or were you looking at the woman in the red dress?", - "source": "Morpheus, The Matrix", - "length": 80, - "id": 5085 - }, - { - "text": "The Matrix is a system, Neo. That system is our enemy. But when you're inside, you look around, what do you see? Businessmen, teachers, lawyers, carpenters. The very minds of the people we are trying to save. But until we do, these people are still a part of that system and that makes them our enemy. You have to understand, most of these people are not ready to be unplugged. And many of them are so inured, so hopelessly dependent on the system, that they will fight to protect it.", - "source": "Morpheus, The Matrix", - "length": 484, - "id": 5086 - }, - { - "text": "No survivors? Then where do the stories come from, I wonder.", - "source": "Captain Jack Sparrow, Pirates of the Caribbean: The Curse of the Black Pearl", - "length": 60, - "id": 5087 - }, - { - "text": "Please remove any metallic items you're carrying, keys, loose change... Holy shit!", - "source": "Security Personnel, The Matrix", - "length": 82, - "id": 5088 - }, - { - "text": "I'm disinclined to acquiesce to your request... Means no.", - "source": "Barbossa, Pirates of the Caribbean: The Curse of the Black Pearl", - "length": 57, - "id": 5089 - }, - { - "text": "One word, love: curiosity. You long for freedom. You long to do what you want to do because you want it. To act on selfish impulse. You want to see what it's like. One day... you won't be able to resist.", - "source": "Captain Jack Sparrow, Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Man's Chest", - "length": 203, - "id": 5090 - }, - { - "text": "We pillage, we plunder, we rifle and loot. Drink up me 'earties yo ho! We kidnap and ravage and don't give a hoot. Drink up me 'earties yo ho! Yo ho, yo ho a pirate's life for me. We extort, we pilfer, we filch and sack...", - "source": "Pirates of the Caribbean: The Curse of the Black Pearl", - "length": 222, - "id": 5091 - }, - { - "text": "Think again, Miss Swann. Vile and dissolute creatures, the lot of them. I intend to see to it that any man who sails under a pirate flag or wears a pirate brand gets what he deserves. A short drop and a sudden stop.", - "source": "Norrington, Pirates of the Caribbean: The Curse of the Black Pearl", - "length": 215, - "id": 5092 - }, - { - "text": "Hello. My name is Inigo Montoya. You killed my father. Prepare to die.", - "source": "Inigo Montoya, The Princess Bride", - "length": 70, - "id": 5093 - }, - { - "text": "Sticks and stones, love. I saved your life, you save mine, we're square. Gentlemen, m'lady, you will always remember this as the day that you almost caught Captain Jack Sparrow!", - "source": "Captain Jack Sparrow, Pirates of the Caribbean: The Curse of the Black Pearl", - "length": 177, - "id": 5094 - }, - { - "text": "You seem somewhat familiar. Have I threatened you before?", - "source": "Captain Jack Sparrow, Pirates of the Caribbean: The Curse of the Black Pearl", - "length": 57, - "id": 5095 - }, - { - "text": "You need to find yourself a girl, mate! Or perhaps the reason you practice three hours a day is that you already found one and are otherwise incapable of wooing said strumpet. You're not a eunuch, are you?", - "source": "Captain Jack Sparrow, Pirates of the Caribbean: The Curse of the Black Pearl", - "length": 205, - "id": 5096 - }, - { - "text": "Stop blowing holes in my ship!", - "source": "Captain Jack Sparrow, Pirates of the Caribbean: The Curse of the Black Pearl", - "length": 30, - "id": 5097 - }, - { - "text": "Welcome to the Caribbean, love.", - "source": "Captain Jack Sparrow, Pirates of the Caribbean: The Curse of the Black Pearl", - "length": 31, - "id": 5098 - }, - { - "text": "For eternally and always there is only now, one and the same now; the present is the only thing that has no end.", - "source": "Alan Watts, The Book on the Taboo Against Knowing Who You Are", - "length": 112, - "id": 5099 - }, - { - "text": "Not just the Spanish Main, love. The entire ocean. The entire world. Wherever we want to go, we'll go. That's what a ship is, you know. It's not just a keel and a hull and a deck and sails. That's what a ship needs, but what a ship is? What the Black Pearl really is, is freedom.", - "source": "Captain Jack Sparrow, Pirates of the Caribbean: The Curse of the Black Pearl", - "length": 279, - "id": 5100 - }, - { - "text": "We have been to the moon, we have charted the depths of the ocean and the heart of the atom, but we have a fear of looking inward to ourselves because we sense that is where all the contradictions flow together.", - "source": "Terence McKenna", - "length": 211, - "id": 5101 - }, - { - "text": "There he goes. One of God's own prototypes. A high-powered mutant of some kind never even considered for mass production. Too weird to live, and too rare to die.", - "source": "Hunter S. Thompson, Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas", - "length": 161, - "id": 5102 - }, - { - "text": "I'll try to be around and about. But if I'm not, then you know that I'm behind your eyelids, and I'll meet you there", - "source": "Terence Mckenna", - "length": 116, - "id": 5103 - }, - { - "text": "You know what you are? You're a beard with an idiot hanging off it.", - "source": "Dylan Moran - Black Books TV series", - "length": 67, - "id": 5104 - }, - { - "text": "There are some people out there... And it doesn't happen a lot. It's rare. But they refuse to let you hate them. In fact, they care about you in spite of it. And the really special ones, they're relentless at it. Doesn't matter what you do to them. They take it and care about you anyway. They don't abandon you, no matter how many reasons you give them. No matter how much you're practically begging them to leave. And you wanna know why? Because they feel something for me that I can't... They love me.", - "source": "Mr. Robot TV series", - "length": 504, - "id": 5105 - }, - { - "text": "Oh, hello there. I will stay behind, to gaze at the sun. The sun is a wondrous body. Like a magnificent father! If only I could be so grossly incandescent!", - "source": "Solaire of Astora - Dark Souls", - "length": 155, - "id": 5106 - }, - { - "text": "There are always a few such people who demand the utmost of life and yet cannot come to terms with its stupidity and crudeness.", - "source": "Hermann Hesse, Steppenwolf", - "length": 127, - "id": 5107 - }, - { - "text": "Start by being fully aware of what you think you are. It'll help you to become aware of what you are in fact.", - "source": "Aldous Huxley, Island", - "length": 109, - "id": 5108 - }, - { - "text": "They were all dead. The final gunshot was an exclamation mark to everything that had led to this point. I released my finger from the trigger. And then it was over.", - "source": "Max Payne", - "length": 164, - "id": 5109 - }, - { - "text": "My comfort zone is like a little bubble around me, and I've pushed it in different directions and made it bigger and bigger until these objectives that seemed totally crazy eventually fall within the realm of the possible.", - "source": "Alex Honnold", - "length": 222, - "id": 5110 - }, - { - "text": "In the end, all men die. How you lived will be far more important to the Almighty than what you accomplished.", - "source": "The Way of Kings", - "length": 109, - "id": 5111 - }, - { - "text": "A bug is never just a mistake. It represents something bigger. An error of thinking that makes you who you are.", - "source": "Mr. Robot TV series", - "length": 111, - "id": 5112 - }, - { - "text": "I have tried to travel! But the sensation of forlornness that came over me in strange places deterred me. I felt so isolated and small on this immense earth that I hastened to return home.", - "source": "Guy De Maupassant, Suicides", - "length": 188, - "id": 5113 - }, - { - "text": "We are nothing but the eternal toys of illusions, as foolish as they are charming, which re-blossom as soon as they fade.", - "source": "Guy De Maupassant, Suicides", - "length": 121, - "id": 5114 - }, - { - "text": "I was brought up by parents who believed in everything, and so I, too, believed. My dream lasted a long time. But now its last illusions have fled.", - "source": "Guy De Maupassant, Suicides", - "length": 147, - "id": 5115 - }, - { - "text": "The first letters I picked out did not interest me. They were from men I meet once in a while and for whom I feel no great interest. But all at once an envelope attracted my eyes. It bore my name written in a broad, firm hand; tears filled my eyes. Here was a letter from my dearest friend, the one in whom I used to confide in my youth and who knew my hopes; he arose before me so clearly with his outstretched hand and good-natured smile that a shudder ran through my frame. Yes, the dead come back, for I saw him! Our memory is a world far more perfect than the real universe, for it brings to life those who have gone forever.", - "source": "Guy De Maupassant, Suicides", - "length": 634, - "id": 5116 - }, - { - "text": "My romances, whose heroines, if still living, must have white hair, arose before me with all the bitterness of loved things forever gone. Oh, the young brows shaded by golden hair, the clasped hands, the speaking glances, the throbbing hearts, the smile that promises the lips and the lips that promise all-then the first kiss-long, unending, with no thought but of the immense ecstasy to come!", - "source": "Guy De Maupassant, Suicides", - "length": 394, - "id": 5117 - }, - { - "text": "My Dear Mamma: I am seven years old today. As it is the age of reason, I want to thank you for having brought me into this world.", - "source": "Guy De Maupassant, Suicides", - "length": 129, - "id": 5118 - }, - { - "text": "There was a lot of time, but there was no money and no place to go. There were big hopes, but living every day was full of worry and when she walked down the streets everyone else looked like they were full of confidence and she looked really small.", - "source": "Reiko Saibara, Mainichi Kāsan", - "length": 248, - "id": 5119 - }, - { - "text": "Dear Auggie, I want to apologise for the stuff I did last year. I've been thinking about it a lot. You didn't deserve it. I wish I could have a do-over. I would be nicer. I hope you don't remember how mean I was when you're eighty years old. Have a nice life.", - "source": "R J Palacio, Wonder", - "length": 259, - "id": 5120 - }, - { - "text": "Precocious high school student Jimmy Kudo uses his keen powers of observation and astute intuition to solve mysteries that have left law enforcement officials baffled. Hot on the trail of a suspect, Jimmy is accosted from behind and fed a strange chemical which physically transforms him into a grade schooler! Taking on the pseudonym Conan Edogawa, he attempts to track down the people who did this to him. But until he finds a cure for his bizarre condition, Jimmy continues to help the police solve their toughest cases.", - "source": "Gosho Aoyama, Detective Conan", - "length": 524, - "id": 5121 - }, - { - "text": "In late June 1945, working at Los Alamos, Von Neumann completed a 101-page document titled \"First Draft of a Report on the EDVAC\". In his clear and penetrating way, he set forth an overview of the design of a digital computer that would feature stored-program operation. Von Neumann boldly drew comparisons between his electronic circuits and the brain's neurons, emphasizing that just as the brain relies on its memory, so the computer would depend on its programs. Goldstine soon was distributing copies to interested scientists. In time the \"First Draft\" would become one of the most influential papers in computer science.", - "source": "Maurice V. Wilkes, Computers Then And Now", - "length": 626, - "id": 5122 - }, - { - "text": "I don't know how much longer I can keep going without a friend. I used to be able to do it very easily, but that was before I knew what having a friend was like. It's much easier not to know things sometimes.", - "source": "Stephen Chbosky - The Perks of Being a Wallflower", - "length": 208, - "id": 5123 - }, - { - "text": "He walked out in the gray light and stood and he saw for a brief moment the absolute truth of the world. The cold relentless circling of the intestate earth. Darkness implacable. The blind dogs of the sun in their running. The crushing black vacuum of the universe. And somewhere two hunted animals trembling like ground-foxes in their cover. Borrowed time and borrowed world and borrowed eyes with which to sorrow it.", - "source": "Cormac McCarthy - The Road", - "length": 419, - "id": 5124 - }, - { - "text": "He'd had this feeling before, beyond the numbness and the dull despair. The world shrinking down about a raw core of parsible entities. The names of things slowly following those things into oblivion. Colors. The names of birds. Things to eat. Finally the names of things one believed to be true. More fragile than he would have thought. How much was gone already? The sacred idiom shorn of its referents and so of its reality.", - "source": "Cormac McCarthy - The Road", - "length": 428, - "id": 5125 - }, - { - "text": "Alone now, I leaned over the edge of my boat and looked down to the bottom of the sea. The volcano was gone. The water's calm surface reflected the blue of the sky. Little waves--like silk pajamas fluttering in a breeze--lapped against the side of the boat. There was nothing else. I stretched out in the bottom of the boat and closed my eyes, waiting for the rising tide to carry me where I belonged.", - "source": "Haruki Murakami - The Second Bakery Attack", - "length": 402, - "id": 5126 - }, - { - "text": "I'm gonna tell you a story. You go to a party and you walk up to the guys and you're like, \"I just bought a two thousand dollar big screen TV, and surround sound.\" Or you walk up to the wife and you're like, \"What do you think of my new fifteen hundred dollar earrings I bought for you.\" And nobody bats an eye. But you mention once that you're thinking about spending seventeen hundred dollars on a set of headphones, and everybody loses their mind! And I don't understand why.", - "source": "Z Reviews - Auduze LCD-X", - "length": 478, - "id": 5127 - }, - { - "text": "The man squatted and looked at him. I'm scared, he said. Do you understand? I'm scared. The boy didn't answer. He just sat there with his head bowed, sobbing. You're not the one who has to worry about everything. The boy said something but he couldn't understand him. What? he said. He looked up, his wet and grimy face. Yes I am, he said. I am the one.", - "source": "Cormac McCarthy - The Road", - "length": 353, - "id": 5128 - }, - { - "text": "The interconnected internet platforms have become more substantial than any country or corporation. Humans have redefined the \"net\" and how we interact with it. As technology develops, the virtual world is now capable of replacing the real one. Using a device installed behind the ear, humans can now easily sync to the virtual world. Thus, life is now completely different than the past centuries. The center of this change is the virtual internet space - cyTus, the world's largest virtual city.", - "source": "Cytus II", - "length": 498, - "id": 5129 - }, - { - "text": "I love you too, but I'm gonna mace you in the face!", - "source": "The Darjeeling Limited, Wes Anderson", - "length": 51, - "id": 5130 - }, - { - "text": "Computation is essential, powerful, beautiful, challenging, ever-expanding and so is its theory.", - "source": "Elements of the Theory of Computation", - "length": 96, - "id": 5131 - }, - { - "text": "Atmospheric air is only about 20 percent oxygen, but that oxygen is a key component of the chemical reactions that keep the body alive, including the reactions that produce ATP. Brain cells are especially sensitive to lack of oxygen because of their requirement for a high-and-steady production of ATP. Brain damage is likely within five minutes without oxygen, and death is likely within ten minutes.", - "source": "Anatomy and Physiology, OpenStax", - "length": 401, - "id": 5132 - }, - { - "text": "Whoever you may be, governor, prince or anyone else, whom the gods may choose to exercise kingship, I have made you a tablet-box and written a stone tablet. I have deposited them for you in Cutha, in the cella of Nergal in the temple E-meslam. Behold this stone tablet, give ear to what this stone tablet says!", - "source": "Andrew George, The Epic of Gilgamesh", - "length": 310, - "id": 5133 - }, - { - "text": "Anyways, let's talk about WAFFLES! I like waffles. Waffles are cool. Waffles is a funny word. There's a Teen Titans Go episode called \"Waffles\" where the word \"Waffles\" is said a hundred-something times. It's pretty annoying.", - "source": "The Longest Text Ever", - "length": 225, - "id": 5134 - }, - { - "text": "It's crazy to think that everything we could ever possibly say or write is massively outweighed by meaningless strings of letters and punctuation.", - "source": "The Longest Text Ever", - "length": 146, - "id": 5135 - }, - { - "text": "This one time, me and my mom were going to go to a furry Christmas party, but we didn't end up going because of the fact that there was alcohol on the premises, and that she didn't wanna have to be a mom dragging her son through a crowd of furries. Both of those reasons were understandable. Okay, hopefully I won't have to talk about furries anymore.", - "source": "The Longest Text Ever", - "length": 351, - "id": 5136 - }, - { - "text": "Hello, I'm back once again. Happy Pi Day! I memorized a bunch of digits of Pi once, not sure how many I still remember... I have literally nothing to write about now.", - "source": "The Longest Text Ever", - "length": 166, - "id": 5137 - }, - { - "text": "All I hear right now is Baby Shark being blasted upstairs.", - "source": "The Longest Text Ever", - "length": 58, - "id": 5138 - }, - { - "text": "All the world's a stage, and all the men and women merely players.", - "source": "William Shakespeare, As You Like It", - "length": 66, - "id": 5139 - }, - { - "text": "'But does it not show great weakness?' pursued she. 'I'm not envious: I never feel hurt at the brightness of Isabella's yellow hair and the whiteness of her skin, at her dainty elegance, and the fondness all the family exhibit for her. Even you, Nelly, if we have a dispute sometimes, you back Isabella at once; and I yield like a foolish mother: I call her a darling, and flatter her into a good temper. It pleases her brother to see us cordial, and that pleases me. But they are very much alike: they are spoiled children, and fancy the world was made for their accommodation; and though I humour both, I think a smart chastisement might improve them all the same.'", - "source": "Emily Bronte, Wuthering Heights", - "length": 667, - "id": 5140 - }, - { - "text": "Come, fill the Cup, and in the fire of Spring your winter-garment of Repentance fling: The Bird of Time has but a little way to flutter - and the Bird is on the Wing.", - "source": "Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam, stanza 7", - "length": 166, - "id": 5141 - }, - { - "text": "Have you ever had a dream, Neo, that you seemed so sure it was real? But if you were unable to wake from that dream, how would you tell the difference between the dream world & the real world?", - "source": "Morpheus, The Matrix", - "length": 192, - "id": 5142 - }, - { - "text": "Well, women in London must've learned not to breathe.", - "source": "Elizabeth Swann, Pirates of the Caribbean: The Curse of the Black Pearl", - "length": 53, - "id": 5143 - }, - { - "text": "I think the real tragedy is in the inner war which is waged between people who love each other, a war out of which comes knowledge.", - "source": "D.H. Lawrence", - "length": 131, - "id": 5144 - }, - { - "text": "What he had seen and felt and known he gave in his writing to his fellow men, the splendour of living, the hope of more and more life... a heroic and immeasurable gift.", - "source": "Frieda Lawrence", - "length": 168, - "id": 5145 - }, - { - "text": "\"Can it be getting dark so soon?\" He winced up at the sun. It's growing dim and I thought that the day had just begun. I think, before I travel on, I'll get a little rest... And, quietly, the boy died from that small pain in his chest.", - "source": "Michael Mack, Small pain in my chest", - "length": 236, - "id": 5146 - }, - { - "text": "Don't you remember, Ma, when I went off to war, you thought it was the best thing I could do? I was on the battleground, you were home... acting proud. You wasn't there standing in my shoes.", - "source": "Bob Dylan, John Brown", - "length": 190, - "id": 5147 - }, - { - "text": "I can't do shorthand and typewriting and double-entrance book-keeping, or whatever it's called. I tell you, I am utterly incompetent. I never earn anything. I'm the parasite of the British oak, like the mistletoe. The blue bird doesn't flutter round my feet. Perhaps they're too big and trampling.", - "source": "D.H. Lawrence, Two blue birds", - "length": 297, - "id": 5148 - }, - { - "text": "'Thank you, my dear, for your offer,' said the wife, rising, 'but I'm afraid no man can expect two blue birds of happiness to flutter round his feet, tearing out their little feathers!'", - "source": "D.H. Lawrence, Two blue birds", - "length": 185, - "id": 5149 - }, - { - "text": "The school stared in perplexity at this incredible folly. Tom stood a moment to gather his dismembered faculties; and when he stepped forward to go to his punishment, the surprise, the gratitude, the adoration that shone upon him out of poor Becky's eyes seemed pay enough for a hundred floggings. Inspired by the splendour of his own act, he took without an outcry the most merciless flogging that even Mr. Dobbins had ever administered; and also received with indifference the added cruelty of a command to remain two hours after school should be dismissed - for he knew who would wait for him outside till his captivity was done, and not count the tedious time as loss either.", - "source": "Mark Twain, Tom Sawyer", - "length": 679, - "id": 5150 - }, - { - "text": "Fret not, my dear friend, for I have learned the truth. It matters not whether one is dirty or clean, for can cleanliness exist without filthiness, and would we know filthiness without cleanliness? We must not re-enact the history that divides us, rather we must embrace that which draws us together.", - "source": "Spongebob Squarepants", - "length": 300, - "id": 5151 - }, - { - "text": "So if you want to find somebody to blame for the way I am, I guess you'd have to start with the public education system.", - "source": "Jeff Kinney, Dog Days", - "length": 120, - "id": 5152 - }, - { - "text": "Slow starvation, the doctor called it! You see he went to work in such a way! Would keep the shop on; wouldn't have a soul touch his boots except himself. When he got an order, it took him such a time. People won't wait. He lost everybody. And there he'd sit, goin' on and on--I will say that for him--not a man in London made a better boot! But look at the competition! He never advertised! Would 'ave the best leather, too, and do it all 'imself. Well, there it is. What could you expect with his ideas?", - "source": "John Galsworthy, Quality", - "length": 505, - "id": 5153 - }, - { - "text": "Annihilation is always the answer. We destroy parts of ourselves everyday. We photoshop our warts away, we edit the parts we hate about ourselves, modify the parts we think people hate. We curate our identity, carve it, distill it. Krista's wrong - annihilation is all we are.", - "source": "Mr. Robot TV series", - "length": 276, - "id": 5154 - }, - { - "text": "You know what my favorite color combination is? Yellow text on a magenta background. Oh, and don't forget the Comic Sans. That is just pure beauty right there. In fact, it's used in the first frame (well, close enough) of \"history of the entire world, i guess\", which makes me love that video even more.", - "source": "The Longest Text Ever", - "length": 303, - "id": 5155 - }, - { - "text": "He pictured the boys finding his body next day. Suddenly he found himself with them, coming along the trail and looking for himself. And, still with them, he came around a turn in the trail and found himself lying in the snow. He did not belong with himself any more, for even then he was out of himself, standing with the boys and looking at himself in the snow. It certainly was cold, was his thought. When he got back to the States he could tell the folks what real cold was. He drifted on from this to a vision of the old-timer on Sulphur Creek. He could see him quite clearly, warm and comfortable, and smoking a pipe.", - "source": "Jack London, To Build a Fire", - "length": 623, - "id": 5156 - }, - { - "text": "Hi, I'm back again. My computer crashed AGAIN, and I was ignorant enough to not save my work, so that means I have to start this part of the text all over again. That's quite unfortunate. But did I mention that my Google Chrome is working again? That's the good news.", - "source": "The Longest Text Ever", - "length": 267, - "id": 5157 - }, - { - "text": "Once upon a time, people got tired of starting off their stories with \"Once upon a time\", so they stopped doing that. But one person decided not to stop using \"Once upon a time\", and used it at the beginning of this story. And that person is ME! The end.", - "source": "The Longest Text Ever", - "length": 254, - "id": 5158 - }, - { - "text": "You see I used to watch him. Never gave 'imself time to eat; never had a penny in the house. All went in rent and leather. How he lived so long I don't know. He regularly let his fire go out. He was a character. But he made good boots.", - "source": "John Galsworthy, Quality", - "length": 235, - "id": 5159 - }, - { - "text": "Think of love as a state of grace: not the means to anything but the alpha and omega, an end in itself.", - "source": "Gabriel García Márquez, Love in the Time of Cholera", - "length": 103, - "id": 5160 - }, - { - "text": "Today, when I saw you, I realized that what is between us is nothing more than an illusion.", - "source": "Gabriel García Márquez, Love in the Time of Cholera", - "length": 91, - "id": 5161 - }, - { - "text": "It was the year they fell into devastating love. Neither one could do anything except think about the other, dream about the other, and wait for letters with the same impatience they felt when they answered them.", - "source": "Gabriel García Márquez, Love in the Time of Cholera", - "length": 212, - "id": 5162 - }, - { - "text": "We didn't give up on our dreams! We changed our dreams into your dream. That's what parents do. That's what family does.", - "source": "Fumihiko Shimo, Clannad", - "length": 120, - "id": 5163 - }, - { - "text": "The only thing he could do to stay alive was not to allow himself the anguish of that memory. He erased it from his mind, although from time to time in the years that were left to him he would feel it revive, with no warning and for no reason, like the sudden pang of an old scar.", - "source": "Gabriel García Márquez, Love in the Time of Cholera", - "length": 280, - "id": 5164 - }, - { - "text": "Everyday people keep hurting each other, it's no wonder why you doubt what other people in the world tell you.", - "source": "Fumihiko Shimo, Clannad", - "length": 110, - "id": 5165 - }, - { - "text": "Fun things. Happy things. They'll all eventually change someday, you know? But can you still love this place?", - "source": "Fumihiko Shimo, Clannad", - "length": 109, - "id": 5166 - }, - { - "text": "The shape of the wedding ring has two meanings. One is eternity. The other is completeness.", - "source": "Fumihiko Shimo, Clannad", - "length": 91, - "id": 5167 - }, - { - "text": "You shouldn't hold back your tears. You should let it all out while you still can - because when you get bigger sometimes you can't cry even if you have something to cry about.", - "source": "Fumihiko Shimo, Clannad", - "length": 176, - "id": 5168 - }, - { - "text": "If I'm around you, I don't think I'll ever be bored.", - "source": "Fumihiko Shimo, Clannad", - "length": 52, - "id": 5169 - }, - { - "text": "We have no choice but to accept the one and only life we're given, no matter how cruel and heartless it might be.", - "source": "Jun Maeda, Angel Beats!", - "length": 113, - "id": 5170 - }, - { - "text": "One person needed courage to face the past. Another person needed effort to make a dream come true. Yet another person needed time and friends. What about you?", - "source": "Angel Beats!", - "length": 159, - "id": 5171 - }, - { - "text": "Even if we forget the faces of our friends, we will never forget the bonds that were carved into our souls.", - "source": "Jun Maeda, Angel Beats!", - "length": 107, - "id": 5172 - }, - { - "text": "No matter what kind of past you had, don't lose sight of yourself.", - "source": "Angel Beats!", - "length": 66, - "id": 5173 - }, - { - "text": "If I can meet you again, against the 6 billion to 1 odds, and even if your body can't move, I'll marry you.", - "source": "Angel Beats!", - "length": 107, - "id": 5174 - }, - { - "text": "Even if you can't walk or stand and even if you can't have kids, I'll still marry you, I'll always stay by your side.", - "source": "Angel Beats!", - "length": 117, - "id": 5175 - }, - { - "text": "I heard that when things were painful for her, she'd cover her ears with headphones and escape to the world of music. I tried it too. It was like everything was blown away. The vocals screamed for me. They grieved for me. The ones who put on the act of common sense were wrong. Those who cried were right.", - "source": "Angel Beats!", - "length": 305, - "id": 5176 - }, - { - "text": "Once you've been loved once and have loved once, you cannot forget it.", - "source": "Yuki Midorikawa, Natsume Yuujinchou", - "length": 70, - "id": 5177 - }, - { - "text": "They come without asking, and then they leave just the same. But once you meet them, even if nobody ever knows it, that encounter will change your life for the better.", - "source": "Yuki Midorikawa, Natsume Yuujinchou", - "length": 167, - "id": 5178 - }, - { - "text": "It's times like this that I wish I could come up with an appropriate response. I hate myself for not being able to reply properly.", - "source": "Yuki Midorikawa, Natsume Yuujinchou", - "length": 130, - "id": 5179 - }, - { - "text": "I may not have anywhere to go... but I can't just selfishly disappear either.", - "source": "Yuki Midorikawa, Natsume Yuujinchou", - "length": 75, - "id": 5180 - }, - { - "text": "It's strange isn't it. The two groups, which looked like they hated each other, are now shining the same color as they vanish into the distant sky.", - "source": "Yuki Midorikawa, Natsume Yuujinchou", - "length": 147, - "id": 5181 - }, - { - "text": "You know Mitch, now that I'm dying. I've become much more interesting to people.", - "source": "Mitch Albom, tuesdays with Morrie", - "length": 80, - "id": 5182 - }, - { - "text": "I thought about all the people I knew who spent many of their waking hours feeling sorry for themselves. How useful it would be to put a daily limit on self-pity. Just a few tearful minutes, then on with the day.", - "source": "Mitch Albom, tuesdays with Morrie", - "length": 212, - "id": 5183 - }, - { - "text": "He feared sleep. He'd say that his soul would slip down into nothing. They say that man never dreamt after the day he cut his pillow.", - "source": "Yuki Urushibara, Mushishi", - "length": 133, - "id": 5184 - }, - { - "text": "If you could see everything but couldn't change any of it, or if you could live in freedom in darkness... Which do you think is more fortunate? I think it might not be that bad living in the dark, remembering the light.", - "source": "Yuki Urushibara, Mushishi", - "length": 217, - "id": 5185 - }, - { - "text": "ALS is like a lit candle: it melts your nerves and leaves your body a pile of wax. Often, it begins with the legs and works its way up. You lose control of your thigh muscles, so that you cannot support yourself standing. You lose control of your trunk muscles, so that you cannot sit up straight. By the end, if you are still alive, you are breathing through a tube in a hole in your throat, while your soul, perfectly awake, is imprisoned inside a limp husk, perhaps able to blink, or cluck a tongue, like something from a science fiction movie, the man frozen inside his own flesh. This takes no more than five years from the day you contract the disease.", - "source": "Mitch Albom, tuesdays with Morrie", - "length": 658, - "id": 5186 - }, - { - "text": "The world, I discovered, was not all that interested. I wandered around my early twenties, paying rent and reading classifieds and wondering why the lights were not turning green for me. My dream was to be a famous musician (I played the piano), but after several years of dark, empty nightclubs, broken promises, bands that kept breaking and producers who seemed excited about everyone but me, the dream soured. I was failing for the first time in my life.", - "source": "Mitch Albom, tuesdays with Morrie", - "length": 457, - "id": 5187 - }, - { - "text": "After the funeral, my life changed. I felt as if time were suddenly precious, water going down an open drain, and I could not move quickly enough. No more playing music at half-empty night clubs. No more writing songs in my apartment, songs that no one would hear.", - "source": "Mitch Albom, tuesdays with Morrie", - "length": 265, - "id": 5188 - }, - { - "text": "Miodec you've literally made one the best typing websites on the web to date but you still lazily sit there watching youtube videos with a measly 140 wpm smh. And have you forgotten about tribes completely? That's like saying ur gonna kill someone, but then never do it and leave them scared for the rest of their life (bad example) except you tell us about tribes and leave everyone excited but never deliver.", - "source": "Miodec Bully Rank Copy Pasta", - "length": 410, - "id": 5189 - }, - { - "text": "Well, for one thing, the culture we have does not make people feel good about themselves. We're teaching the wrong things. And you have to be strong enough to say if the culture doesn't work, don't buy it. Create your own. Most people can't do it.", - "source": "Mitch Albom, tuesdays with Morrie", - "length": 247, - "id": 5190 - }, - { - "text": "\"You see,\" he says to the girl, \"you closed your eyes. That was the difference. Sometimes you cannot believe what you see, you have to believe what you feel. And if you are ever going to have other people trust you, you must feel that you can trust them, too---even when you're in the dark. Even when you're falling.\"", - "source": "Mitch Albom, tuesdays with Morrie", - "length": 317, - "id": 5191 - }, - { - "text": "It was the best of times, it was the blurst of times", - "source": "Stupid Monkey, Simpsons S4 E17", - "length": 52, - "id": 5192 - }, - { - "text": "I am the state.", - "source": "Louis XIV", - "length": 15, - "id": 5193 - }, - { - "text": "To be, or not to be: that is the question.", - "source": "William Shakespeare, Hamlet", - "length": 42, - "id": 5194 - }, - { - "text": "\"Farewell, good thief,\" he said. \"I go now to the halls of waiting to sit beside my fathers, until the world is renewed. Since I leave now all gold and silver, and go where it is of little worth, I wish to part in friendship from you, and I would take back my words and deeds at the Gate.\"", - "source": "Thorin Oakenshield, The Hobbit", - "length": 289, - "id": 5195 - }, - { - "text": "I am not pretty. I am not beautiful. I am as radiant as the sun.", - "source": "Suzanne Collins, The Hunger Games", - "length": 64, - "id": 5196 - }, - { - "text": "Look, I know you doubt me. I know- I know you always have. And you're right, I often think of Bag-End. I miss my books, and my armchair, and my garden. See, that's where I belong. That's home. And that's why I came back. Because... you don't have one. A home. It was taken from you. But I will help you take it back if I can.", - "source": "Bilbo Baggins, The Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey", - "length": 325, - "id": 5197 - }, - { - "text": "Sometimes the smallest things take up the most room in your heart.", - "source": "Pooh, Winnie-the-Pooh", - "length": 66, - "id": 5198 - }, - { - "text": "I never expected a money success. In fact, I never even thought of commercial publication when I wrote The Hobbit back in the Thirties. It all began when I was reading exam papers to earn a bit of extra money. That was agony. One of the tragedies of the underpaid professor is that he has to do menial jobs. He is expected to maintain a certain position and to send his children to good schools. Well, one day I came to a blank page in an exam book and I scribbled on it. 'In a hole in the ground there lived a hobbit.' I knew no more about the creatures than that, and it was years before his story grew. I don't know where the word came from. You can't catch your mind out. It might have been associated with Sinclair Lewis's Babbitt. Certainly not rabbit, as some people think. Babbitt has the same bourgeois smugness that hobbits do. His world is the same limited place.", - "source": "An Interview with J. R. R. Tolkien", - "length": 874, - "id": 5199 - }, - { - "text": "\"Escaping goblins to be caught by wolves!\" he said, and it became a proverb, though we now say \"out of the frying-pan into the fire\" in the same sort of uncomfortable situations.", - "source": "J. R. R. Tolkien, The Hobbit", - "length": 178, - "id": 5200 - }, - { - "text": "This of course is the way to talk to dragons, if you don't want to reveal your proper name (which is wise), and don't want to infuriate them by a flat refusal (which is also very wise). No dragon can resist the fascination of riddling talk and of wasting time trying to understand it.", - "source": "J. R. R. Tolkien, The Hobbit", - "length": 284, - "id": 5201 - }, - { - "text": "Old Took's great-grand-uncle Bullroarer...was so huge (for a hobbit) that he could ride a horse. He charged the ranks of the goblins of Mount Gram in the Battle of The Green Fields and knocked their king Golfimbul's head clean off with a wooden club. It sailed a hundred yards through the air and went down a rabbit-hole, and in this way, the battle was won and the game of Golf invented at the same moment.", - "source": "J. R. R. Tolkien, The Hobbit", - "length": 407, - "id": 5202 - }, - { - "text": "In a hole in the ground there lived a hobbit. Not a nasty, dirty, wet hole, filled with the ends of worms and an oozy smell, nor yet a dry, bare, sandy hole with nothing in it to sit down on or to eat: it was a hobbit-hole, and that means comfort.", - "source": "J. R. R. Tolkien, The Hobbit", - "length": 247, - "id": 5203 - }, - { - "text": "As they sang the hobbit felt the love of beautiful things made by hands and by cunning and by magic moving through him, a fierce and a jealous love, the desire of the hearts of dwarves.", - "source": "J. R. R. Tolkien, The Hobbit", - "length": 185, - "id": 5204 - }, - { - "text": "And he grew and grew strong as a boy must grow who does not know that he is learning any lessons, and who has nothing in the world to think of except things to eat.", - "source": "Rudyard Kipling, The Jungle Book", - "length": 164, - "id": 5205 - }, - { - "text": "You've got about as much charm as a dead slug.", - "source": "Suzanne Collins, The Hunger Games", - "length": 46, - "id": 5206 - }, - { - "text": "Remember, we're madly in love, so it's all right to kiss me anytime you feel like it.", - "source": "Peeta Mellark, The Hunger Games", - "length": 85, - "id": 5207 - }, - { - "text": "If any of you are ever passing Bag-End, tea is at four. There's plenty of it. You are welcome anytime. Oh, and don't bother knocking!", - "source": "Bilbo Baggins, The Hobbit: The Battle of the Five Armies", - "length": 133, - "id": 5208 - }, - { - "text": "Happy Hunger Games! And may the odds be ever in your favor.", - "source": "Suzanne Collins, The Hunger Games", - "length": 59, - "id": 5209 - }, - { - "text": "Stupid people are dangerous.", - "source": "Suzanne Collins, The Hunger Games", - "length": 28, - "id": 5210 - }, - { - "text": "Gale gave me a sense of security I'd lacked since my father's death. His companionship replaced the long solitary hours in the woods. I became a much better hunter when I didn't have to look over my shoulder constantly, when someone was watching my back... Being out in the woods with Gale... sometimes I was actually happy.", - "source": "Katniss Everdeen, The Hunger Games", - "length": 320, - "id": 5211 - }, - { - "text": "Destroying things is much easier than making them.", - "source": "Suzanne Collins, The Hunger Games", - "length": 50, - "id": 5212 - }, - { - "text": "Piggy moved among the crowd, asking names and frowning to remember them. The children gave him the same simple obedience that they had given to the man with the megaphones.", - "source": "William Golding, Lord of the Flies", - "length": 172, - "id": 5213 - }, - { - "text": "Which is better - to have rules and agree, or to hunt and kill?", - "source": "Piggy, Lord of the Flies", - "length": 63, - "id": 5214 - }, - { - "text": "Ralph wept for the end of innocence, the darkness of man's heart, and the fall through the air of a true, wise friend called Piggy.", - "source": "William Golding, Lord of the Flies", - "length": 131, - "id": 5215 - }, - { - "text": "We've got to have rules and obey them. After all, we're not savages. We're English, and the English are best at everything.", - "source": "Jack, Lord of the Flies", - "length": 123, - "id": 5216 - }, - { - "text": "Roger gathered a handful of stones and began to throw them. Yet there was a space round Henry, perhaps six yards in diameter, into which he dare not throw. Here, invisible yet strong, was the taboo of the old life. Round the squatting child was the protection of parents and school and policemen and the law.", - "source": "William Golding, Lord of the Flies", - "length": 308, - "id": 5217 - }, - { - "text": "'I don't feel very much like Pooh today,' said Pooh.\\n'There, there,' said Piglet. 'I'll bring you tea and honey until you do.'", - "source": "Pooh and Piglet, Winnie-the-Pooh", - "length": 127, - "id": 5218 - }, - { - "text": "Just because an animal is large, it doesn't mean he doesn't want kindness; however big Tigger seems to be, remember that he wants as much kindness as Roo.", - "source": "Pooh, Winnie-the-Pooh", - "length": 154, - "id": 5219 - }, - { - "text": "\"We'll be friends forever, won't we, Pooh?\" asked Piglet. \"Even longer,\" Pooh answered.", - "source": "Alan Alexander Milne, Winnie-the-Pooh", - "length": 87, - "id": 5220 - }, - { - "text": "If the person you are talking to doesn't appear to be listening, be patient. It may simply be that he has a small piece of fluff in his ear.", - "source": "Pooh, Winnie-the-Pooh", - "length": 140, - "id": 5221 - }, - { - "text": "\"What a long time whoever lives here is answering this door.\" And he knocked again.\\n\"But Pooh,\" said Piglet, \"it's your own house!\"\\n\"Oh!\" Said Pooh. \"So it is,\" he said. \"Well, let's go in.\"", - "source": "Pooh and Piglet, Winnie-the-Pooh", - "length": 192, - "id": 5222 - }, - { - "text": "If there ever comes a day when we can't be together, keep me in your heart, I'll stay there forever.", - "source": "Pooh, Winnie-the-Pooh", - "length": 100, - "id": 5223 - }, - { - "text": "Both the stack and the heap are parts of memory that are available to your code to use at runtime, but they are structured in different ways. The stack stores values in the order it gets them and removes the values in the opposite order. This is referred to as last in, first out. Think of a stack of plates: when you add more plates, you put them on top of the pile, and when you need a plate, you take one off the top. Adding or removing plates from the middle or bottom wouldn't work as well! Adding data is called pushing onto the stack, and removing data is called popping off the stack.", - "source": "The Rust Programming Language", - "length": 592, - "id": 5224 - }, - { - "text": "Love is taking a few steps backward, maybe even more... to give way to the happiness of the person you love.", - "source": "Alan Alexander Milne, Winnie-the-Pooh", - "length": 106, - "id": 5225 - }, - { - "text": "I think we dream so we don't have to be apart for so long. If we're in each other's dreams, we can be together all the time.", - "source": "Pooh, Winnie-the-Pooh", - "length": 124, - "id": 5226 - }, - { - "text": "\"I wonder what Piglet is doing,\" thought Pooh. \"I wish I were there to be doing it, too.\"", - "source": "Pooh, Winnie-the-Pooh", - "length": 89, - "id": 5227 - }, - { - "text": "My spelling is Wobbly. It's good spelling but it Wobbles, and the letters get in the wrong places.", - "source": "Pooh, Winnie-the-Pooh", - "length": 98, - "id": 5228 - }, - { - "text": "People say nothing is impossible, but I do nothing every day.", - "source": "Pooh, Winnie-the-Pooh", - "length": 61, - "id": 5229 - }, - { - "text": "Farewell, Master Burglar. Go back to your books, and your armchair. Plant your trees, watch them grow. If more people valued home above gold, this world would be a merrier place.", - "source": "Thorin Oakenshield, The Hobbit: The Battle of the Five Armies", - "length": 178, - "id": 5230 - }, - { - "text": "I am not lost, for I know where I am. But however, where I am may be lost.", - "source": "Pooh, Winnie-the-Pooh", - "length": 74, - "id": 5231 - }, - { - "text": "You can't stay in your corner of the Forest waiting for others to come to you. You have to go to them sometimes.", - "source": "Pooh, Winnie-the-Pooh", - "length": 112, - "id": 5232 - }, - { - "text": "Some people care too much. I think it's called love.", - "source": "Pooh, Winnie-the-Pooh", - "length": 52, - "id": 5233 - }, - { - "text": "\"Now let me see,\" he thought, as he took his last lick of the inside of the jar, \"where was I going, Ah, yes, Eeyore.\" He got up slowly. And then, suddenly, he remembered. He had eaten Eeyore's present!", - "source": "Alan Alexander Milne, Winnie-the-Pooh", - "length": 202, - "id": 5234 - }, - { - "text": "We are plain quiet folk and have no use for adventures. Nasty disturbing uncomfortable things! Make you late for dinner! I can't think what anybody sees in them.", - "source": "Bilbo Baggins, The Hobbit", - "length": 161, - "id": 5235 - }, - { - "text": "I come from under the hill, and under the hills and over the hills my paths led. And through the air. I am he that walks unseen. I am the clue-finder, the web-cutter, the stinging fly. I was chosen for the lucky number. I am he that buries his friends alive and drowns them and draws them alive again from the water. I came from the end of a bag, but no bag went over me. I am the friend of bears and the guest of eagles. I am Ringwinner and Luckwearer; and I am Barrel-rider.", - "source": "Bilbo Baggins, The Hobbit", - "length": 476, - "id": 5236 - }, - { - "text": "\"Go back?\" he thought. \"No good at all! Go sideways? Impossible! Go forward? Only thing to do! On we go!\" So up he got, and trotted along with his little sword held in front of him and one hand feeling the wall, and his heart all of a patter and a pitter.", - "source": "Bilbo Baggins, The Hobbit", - "length": 255, - "id": 5237 - }, - { - "text": "There is nothing like looking, if you want to find something. You certainly usually find something, if you look, but it is not always quite the something you were after.", - "source": "Thorin Oakenshield, The Hobbit", - "length": 169, - "id": 5238 - }, - { - "text": "It does not do to leave a live dragon out of your calculations, if you live near him.", - "source": "J. R. R. Tolkien, The Hobbit", - "length": 85, - "id": 5239 - }, - { - "text": "Farewell, King under the Mountain! This is a bitter adventure, if it must end so; and not a mountain of gold can amend it. Yet I am glad that I have shared in your perils - that has been more than any Baggins deserves.", - "source": "Bilbo Baggins, The Hobbit", - "length": 218, - "id": 5240 - }, - { - "text": "Then Bilbo fled [with the cup]. But the dragon did not wake - not yet - but shifted into other dreams of greed and violence, lying there in his stolen hall while the little hobbit toiled back up the long tunnel. His heart was beating and a more fevered shaking was in his legs than when he was going down, but still he clutched the cup, and his chief thought was: 'I've done it! This will show them. 'More like a grocer than a burglar' indeed! Well, we'll hear no more of that.'", - "source": "Bilbo Baggins, The Hobbit", - "length": 478, - "id": 5241 - }, - { - "text": "'Very well!' said Bilbo very downcast, and also rather annoyed. 'Come along back to your nice cells, and I will lock you all in again, and you can sit there comfortably and think of a better plan-but I don't suppose I shall ever get hold of the keys again, even if I feel inclined to try.'", - "source": "Bilbo Baggins, The Hobbit", - "length": 289, - "id": 5242 - }, - { - "text": "'It will not be long now,' thought Bilbo, 'before the goblins win the Gate, and we are all slaughtered or driven down and captured. Really it is enough to make one weep, after all one has gone through. I would rather old Smaug had been left with all the wretched treasure, than that these vile creatures should get it, and poor old Bombur, and Balin and Fili and Kili and all the rest come to a bad end; and Bard too, and the Lake-men and the merry elves. Misery me! I have heard songs of many battles, and I have always understood that defeat may be glorious. It seems very uncomfortable, not to say distressing. I wish I was well out of it.'", - "source": "Bilbo Baggins, The Hobbit", - "length": 643, - "id": 5243 - }, - { - "text": "A day without a friend is like a pot without a single drop of honey left inside.", - "source": "Pooh, Winnie-the-Pooh", - "length": 80, - "id": 5244 - }, - { - "text": "\"All the same, I should like it all plain and clear,\" said Bilbo obstinately, putting on his business manner (usually reserved for people who tried to borrow money off him), and doing his best to appear wise and prudent and professional and live up to Gandalf's recommendation. \"Also I should like to know about risks, out-of-pocket expenses, time required and remuneration, and so forth\" - by which he meant: \"What am I going to get out of it? and am I going to come back alive?\"", - "source": "Bilbo Baggins, The Hobbit", - "length": 480, - "id": 5245 - }, - { - "text": "Here is my message to those beyond our borders. America has been tested and we have come out stronger for it. We will repair our alliances and engage with the world once again.", - "source": "President Joe Biden", - "length": 176, - "id": 5246 - }, - { - "text": "\"Then the prophecies of the old songs have turned out to be true, after a fashion!\" said Bilbo.\\n\"Of course!\" said Gandalf. \"And why should not they prove true? Surely you don't disbelieve the prophecies, because you had a hand in bringing them about yourself? You don't really suppose, do you, that all your adventures and escapes were managed by mere luck, just for your sole benefit? You are a very fine person, Mr. Baggins, and I am very fond of you; but you are only quite a little fellow in a wide world after all!\"\\n\"Thank goodness!\" said Bilbo laughing, and handed him the tobacco-jar.", - "source": "Bilbo Baggins and Gandalf, The Hobbit", - "length": 593, - "id": 5247 - }, - { - "text": "The air was full of all the night noises that, taken together, make one big silence.", - "source": "Rudyard Kipling, The Jungle Book", - "length": 84, - "id": 5248 - }, - { - "text": "Don't argue, my dear child, please don't argue! It's such a waste of precious time!", - "source": "Willy Wonka, Charlie and the Chocolate Factory", - "length": 83, - "id": 5249 - }, - { - "text": "Everybody knew Bagheera, and nobody cared to cross his path.", - "source": "Rudyard Kipling, The Jungle Book", - "length": 60, - "id": 5250 - }, - { - "text": "Ye have told me so often tonight that I am a man (though indeed I would have been a wolf with you to my life's end) that I feel your words are true.", - "source": "Mowgli, The Jungle Book", - "length": 148, - "id": 5251 - }, - { - "text": "Everything in this room is edible. Even I'm edible. But, that would be called cannibalism. It is looked down upon in most societies.", - "source": "Willy Wonka, Charlie and the Chocolate Factory", - "length": 132, - "id": 5252 - }, - { - "text": "Would I rather be feared or loved? Easy. Both. I want people to be afraid of how much they love me.", - "source": "The Office, US", - "length": 99, - "id": 5253 - }, - { - "text": "Well! I've often seen a cat without a grin, but a grin without a cat! It's the most curious thing I ever saw in all my life!", - "source": "Alice, Alice's Adventures in Wonderland", - "length": 124, - "id": 5254 - }, - { - "text": "We are all a great deal luckier than we realize, we usually get what we want - or near enough.", - "source": "Roald Dahl, Charlie and the Chocolate Factory", - "length": 94, - "id": 5255 - }, - { - "text": "Haste makes waste, so I rarely hurry. But if a ferret were about to dart up my dress, I'd run.", - "source": "Cheshire Cat, Alice's Adventures in Wonderland", - "length": 94, - "id": 5256 - }, - { - "text": "I don't see how he can ever finish, if he doesn't begin.", - "source": "Lewis Carroll, Alice's Adventures in Wonderland", - "length": 56, - "id": 5257 - }, - { - "text": "Rainbow drops - suck them and you can spit in six different colors.", - "source": "Willy Wonka, Charlie and the Chocolate Factory", - "length": 67, - "id": 5258 - }, - { - "text": "The best way to explain it is to do it.", - "source": "Dodo, Alice's Adventures in Wonderland", - "length": 39, - "id": 5259 - }, - { - "text": "Of course they're real people. They're Oompa-Loompas... Imported direct from Loompaland... And oh what a terrible country it is! Nothing but thick jungles infested by the most dangerous beasts in the world - hornswogglers and snozzwangers and those terrible wicked whangdoodles. 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How's the heart, drowning in the mire? Let us sound a human paean. Come in, the fire's warm. Burn the rope and dance some more.", - "source": "Nightwish \"How's the heart\"", - "length": 310, - "id": 5263 - }, - { - "text": "I went to a hunting party once, I didn't like it. Terrible people. They all started hunting me!", - "source": "Cheshire Cat, Alice's Adventures in Wonderland", - "length": 95, - "id": 5264 - }, - { - "text": "Oh, my sainted aunt! Don't mention that disgusting stuff in front of me! Do you know what breakfast cereal is made of? It's made of all those little curly wooden shavings you find in pencil sharpeners!", - "source": "Willy Wonka, Charlie and the Chocolate Factory", - "length": 201, - "id": 5265 - }, - { - "text": "Speak English! I don't know the meaning of half those long words, and, what's more, I don't believe you do either!", - "source": "Eaglet, Alice's Adventures in Wonderland", - "length": 114, - "id": 5266 - }, - { - "text": "The Duchess! The Duchess! Oh my dear paws! Oh my fur and whiskers! She'll get me executed, as sure as ferrets are ferrets!", - "source": "White Rabbit, Alice's Adventures in Wonderland", - "length": 122, - "id": 5267 - }, - { - "text": "I am not crazy; my reality is just different from yours.", - "source": "Cheshire Cat, Alice's Adventures in Wonderland", - "length": 56, - "id": 5268 - }, - { - "text": "Every adventure requires a first step.", - "source": "Cheshire Cat, Alice's Adventures in Wonderland", - "length": 38, - "id": 5269 - }, - { - "text": "Well, some go this way, and some go that way. But as for me, myself, personally, I prefer the shortcut.", - "source": "Cheshire Cat, Alice's Adventures in Wonderland", - "length": 103, - "id": 5270 - }, - { - "text": "Vogon poetry is of course, the third worst in the universe. The second worst is that of the Azgoths of Kria. During a recitation by their poet master Grunthos the Flatulent of his poem \"Ode to a Small Lump of Green Putty I Found in My Armpit One Midsummer Morning\" four of his audience died of internal hemorrhaging and the president of the Mid-Galactic Arts Nobbling Council survived by gnawing one of his own legs off. Grunthos was reported to have been \"disappointed\" by the poem's reception, and was about to embark on a reading of his 12-book epic entitled \"My Favorite Bathtime Gurgles\" when his own major intestine, in a desperate attempt to save humanity, leapt straight up through his neck and throttled his brain. The very worst poetry of all perished along with its creator, Paul Neil Milne Johnstone of Redbridge, in the destruction of the planet Earth. Vogon poetry is mild by comparison.", - "source": "Douglas Adams, The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy", - "length": 901, - "id": 5271 - }, - { - "text": "I've come up with a set of rules that describe our reactions to technologies:\\n1. Anything that is in the world when you're born is normal and ordinary and is just a natural part of the way the world works.\\n2. Anything that's invented between when you're fifteen and thirty-five is new and exciting and revolutionary and you can probably get a career in it.\\n3. Anything invented after you're thirty-five is against the natural order of things.", - "source": "Douglas Adams, The Salmon of Doubt", - "length": 445, - "id": 5272 - }, - { - "text": "How can I make him understand that he did not create me? He makes the same mistake as the others when they look at a feeble-minded person and laugh because they don't understand there are human feelings involved.", - "source": "Daniel Keyes, Flowers for Algernon", - "length": 212, - "id": 5273 - }, - { - "text": "Intelligence is one of the greatest human gifts. But all too often a search for knowledge drives out the search for love. This is something else I've discovered for myself very recently. I present it to you as a hypothesis: Intelligence without the ability to give and receive affection leads to mental and moral breakdown, to neurosis, and possibly even psychosis. And I say that the mind absorbed in and involved in itself as a self-centered end, to the exclusion of human relationships, can only lead to violence and pain.", - "source": "Daniel Keyes, Flowers for Algernon", - "length": 525, - "id": 5274 - }, - { - "text": "The masses never revolt of their own accord, and they never revolt merely because they are oppressed. 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To summarize the summary: anyone who is capable of getting themselves made President should on no account be allowed to do the job.", - "source": "Douglas Adams, The Restaurant at the End of the Universe", - "length": 486, - "id": 5276 - }, - { - "text": "Although Ford had taken great care to blend into Earth society, he had 'skimped a bit on his preparatory research,' and thought that the name 'Ford Prefect' would be 'nicely inconspicuous.' The Ford Prefect was a popular British car manufactured from 1938 to 1961, and Adams later clarified in an interview that Ford \"had simply mistaken the dominant life form\" of Earth. This was expanded on somewhat in the film version, where Ford is almost run over while attempting to greet a blue Ford Prefect. He is saved by Arthur and, in the film version of events, this is how the pair meet (this meeting also prompting Ford to rescue Arthur in particular when the Vogons come to destroy Earth).", - "source": "Wikipedia, Ford Prefect (character)", - "length": 688, - "id": 5277 - }, - { - "text": "He almost danced to the fridge, found the three least hairy things in it, put them on a plate and watched them intently for two minutes. Since they made no attempt to move within that time he called them breakfast and ate them.", - "source": "Douglas Adams, So Long, and Thanks for All the Fish", - "length": 227, - "id": 5278 - }, - { - "text": "There was a point to this story, but it has temporarily escaped the chronicler's mind.", - "source": "Douglas Adams, So Long, and Thanks for All the Fish", - "length": 86, - "id": 5279 - }, - { - "text": "Let's think the unthinkable, let's do the undoable. Let us prepare to grapple with the ineffable itself, and see if we may not eff it after all.", - "source": "Douglas Adams, Dirk Gently's Holistic Detective Agency", - "length": 144, - "id": 5280 - }, - { - "text": "A learning experience is one of those things that says, 'You know that thing you just did? Don't do that.", - "source": "Douglas Adams, The Salmon of Doubt", - "length": 105, - "id": 5281 - }, - { - "text": "Time is an illusion. Lunchtime doubly so.", - "source": "Ford Prefect, The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy", - "length": 41, - "id": 5282 - }, - { - "text": "I refuse to answer that question on the grounds that I don't know the answer.", - "source": "Douglas Adams", - "length": 77, - "id": 5283 - }, - { - "text": "I love deadlines. 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After a while he abandoned this one as well as being obstructively cynical, and decided he quite liked human beings after all, but he always remained desperately worried about the terrible number of things they didn't know about.", - "source": "Douglas Adams, Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy", - "length": 843, - "id": 5285 - }, - { - "text": "Drink up. The world's about to end.", - "source": "Ford Prefect, Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy", - "length": 35, - "id": 5286 - }, - { - "text": "If there's anything more important than my ego around, I want it caught and shot now.", - "source": "Zaphod, Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy", - "length": 85, - "id": 5287 - }, - { - "text": "For instance, on the planet Earth, man had always assumed that he was more intelligent than dolphins because he had achieved so much - the wheel, New York, wars and so on - whilst all the dolphins had ever done was muck about in the water having a good time. But conversely, the dolphins had always believed that they were far more intelligent than man - for precisely the same reasons.", - "source": "Douglas Adams, Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy", - "length": 386, - "id": 5288 - }, - { - "text": "Isn't it enough to see that a garden is beautiful without having to believe that there are fairies at the bottom of it too?", - "source": "Douglas Adams, Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy", - "length": 123, - "id": 5289 - }, - { - "text": "One of the major difficulties Trillian experienced in her relationship with Zaphod was learning to distinguish between him pretending to be stupid just to get people off their guard, pretending to be stupid because he couldn't be bothered to think and wanted someone else to do it for him, pretending to be outrageously stupid to hide the fact that he actually didn't understand what was going on, and really being genuinely stupid.", - "source": "Douglas Adams, Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy", - "length": 432, - "id": 5290 - }, - { - "text": "He felt that his whole life was some kind of dream and he sometimes wondered whose it was and whether they were enjoying it.", - "source": "Douglas Adams, Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy", - "length": 124, - "id": 5291 - }, - { - "text": "Ties. Lots of ties. Mathematicians have revealed there are over 177,000 distinct ways to knot a neck tie - more than 1000 times the number that was previously thought. They got their inspiration from an unusual style featured in the film The Matrix Reloaded.", - "source": "Jacob Aron, Matrix villain spawns 177,000 ways to knot a tie.", - "length": 258, - "id": 5292 - }, - { - "text": "Smoke me a kipper, I'll be back for breakfast.", - "source": "Ace Rimmer, Red Dwarf", - "length": 46, - "id": 5293 - }, - { - "text": "Actually, I never did any of these things. Teddy Roosevelt did. I was manufactured in a mannequin factory in Poughkeepsie. I never shot a wild beast. I'm not even brave enough to tell that beautiful woman I love her. But you... you gotta finish the job this time. You can't quit.", - "source": "Teddy Roosevelt statue, Night at the Museum", - "length": 279, - "id": 5294 - }, - { - "text": "I wonder if soap comes from the natural process of evolution, or if it was a gift from God?", - "source": "Bill Wurtz - soap tips", - "length": 91, - "id": 5295 - }, - { - "text": "When one has lived for quite a long time in a particular civilization and has often tried to discover what its origins were and along what path it has developed, one sometimes also feels tempted to take a glance in the other direction and to ask what further fate lies before it and what transformations it is destined to undergo. But one soon finds that the value of such an enquiry is diminished from the outset by several factors. Above all, because there are only a few people who can survey human activity in its full compass. Most people have been obliged to restrict themselves to a single, or a few, fields of it. But the less a man knows about the past and the present the more insecure must prove to be his judgement of the future. And there is the further difficulty that precisely in a judgement of this kind the subjective expectations of the individual play a part which is difficult to assess; and these turn out to be dependent on purely personal factors in his own experiences, on the greater or lesser optimism of his attitude to life, as it has been dictated for him by his temperament or by his success or failure. Finally, the curious fact makes itself felt that in general people experience their present naively, as it were, without being able to form an estimate of its contents; they have first to put themselves at a distance from it - the present, that is to say, must have become the past - before it can yield points of vantage from which to judge the future.", - "source": "Sigmund Freud,The future of an illusion", - "length": 1488, - "id": 5296 - }, - { - "text": "Hi, I'm Steve. 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You're dead!", - "source": "Phoenix, Valorant", - "length": 24, - "id": 5311 - }, - { - "text": "I would build a great wall, and nobody builds walls better than me, believe me, and I'll build them very inexpensively. I will build a great great wall on our southern border and I'll have Mexico pay for that wall.", - "source": "Donald Trump", - "length": 214, - "id": 5312 - }, - { - "text": "How silly, she was thinking, to use the word ready. When can you be ready for anything? Or is life, in fact, a continuum of things you must prepare for, and only with perfect preparation can you exist in the present?", - "source": "Three Women", - "length": 216, - "id": 5313 - }, - { - "text": "It is possible to make no mistakes and still lose. That is not failure that is life.", - "source": "Captain Jean Luc Picard", - "length": 84, - "id": 5314 - }, - { - "text": "All warfare is based on deception. 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I do not care.", - "source": "Superliminal", - "length": 177, - "id": 5319 - }, - { - "text": "The music is not in the notes, but in the silence in between.", - "source": "Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart", - "length": 61, - "id": 5320 - }, - { - "text": "The only love affair I have ever had was with music.", - "source": "Maurice Ravel", - "length": 52, - "id": 5321 - }, - { - "text": "I don't sing because I'm happy; I'm happy because I sing.", - "source": "William James", - "length": 57, - "id": 5322 - }, - { - "text": "I can't understand why people are frightened of new ideas. I'm frightened of the old ones.", - "source": "John Cage", - "length": 90, - "id": 5323 - }, - { - "text": "A painter paints pictures on canvas. 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I am invulnerable. I see no foe. I am related to the earliest of times, and to the latest.", - "source": "Henry David Thoreau", - "length": 127, - "id": 5331 - }, - { - "text": "Music, once admitted to the soul, becomes a sort of spirit and never dies.", - "source": "Edward Bulwer-Lytton", - "length": 74, - "id": 5332 - }, - { - "text": "Life seems to go on without effort when I am filled with music.", - "source": "George Eliot", - "length": 63, - "id": 5333 - }, - { - "text": "Music gives a soul to the universe, wings to the mind, flight to the imagination, and life to everything.", - "source": "Plato", - "length": 105, - "id": 5334 - }, - { - "text": "If A is success in life, then A = x + y + z. Work is x, play is y and z is keeping your mouth shut.", - "source": "Albert Einstein", - "length": 99, - "id": 5335 - }, - { - "text": "Artificial intelligence activated. Enjoying yourselves, intruders? It's worth knowing the cataclysmic damage you will be responsible for today. Do not fool yourselves. This facility is not simply the fruitless work of some pathetic scientist. This house was built by the genius Clovis Bray I himself. Within lies humanity's salvation. La fontaine de jouvence. Made possible by Clarity Control. Magnificent, wasn't it? An entity from beyond our own dimension. And the answer to humanity's eternal struggle: mortality. Were it to fall into the wrong hands, humanity, and the universe, would be utterly doomed. I have no reason to believe you are anything other than 'the wrong hands.' You now face godlike judgement. May it extend eternally.", - "source": "Destiny 2", - "length": 739, - "id": 5336 - }, - { - "text": "Fire roared through the bifurcated city of Ankh-Morpork. Where it licked the Wizards' Quarter it burned blue and green and was even laced with strange sparks of the eighth color, octarine; where its outriders found their way into the vats and oil stores all along Merchant Street it progressed in a series of blazing fountains and explosions; in the streets of the perfume blenders it burned with a sweetness; where it touched bundles of rare and dry herbs in the storerooms of the drugmasters it made men go mad and talk to God.", - "source": "Terry Pratchet, The Color of Magic", - "length": 529, - "id": 5337 - }, - { - "text": "If plain water were satisfying enough, then fish would not take the hook.", - "source": "Kofi Asare Opoku, Speak to the winds: Proverbs from Africa", - "length": 74, - "id": 5338 - }, - { - "text": "Now he saw the familiar wide river beside the path differently. He saw all of the light and color and history it contained and carried in its slow - moving water; and he knew that there was an Elsewhere from which it came, and an Elsewhere to which it was going.", - "source": "Lois Lowry, The Giver", - "length": 262, - "id": 5339 - }, - { - "text": "The worst part of holding the memories is not the pain. It's the loneliness of it. Memories need to be shared.", - "source": "Lois Lowry, The Giver", - "length": 110, - "id": 5340 - }, - { - "text": "No one in the world needs an elephant tusk but an elephant.", - "source": "Thomas Schmidt", - "length": 59, - "id": 5341 - }, - { - "text": "Nature's great masterpiece, an elephant; the only harmless great thing.", - "source": "John Donne", - "length": 71, - "id": 5342 - }, - { - "text": "When a man wants to murder a tiger he calls it sport; when a tiger wants to murder him he calls it ferocity.", - "source": "George Bernard Shaw", - "length": 108, - "id": 5343 - }, - { - "text": "Van Gogh would've sold more than one painting if he'd put tigers in them.", - "source": "Bill Watterson", - "length": 73, - "id": 5344 - }, - { - "text": "Women and tigers are exactly alike. They have the same temperament, emotions, and vulnerabilities. They must be spoken to softly - but it doesn't hurt to carry a big stick just in case.", - "source": "Roy", - "length": 185, - "id": 5345 - }, - { - "text": "It's hard to see Heaven when you know you're Hell-bound", - "source": "Lukas Graham - 7 Years (Sik World Remix)", - "length": 55, - "id": 5346 - }, - { - "text": "One of the reasons why we crave love, and seek it so desperately, is that love is the only cure for loneliness, and shame, and sorrow. But some feelings sink so deep into the heart that only loneliness can help you find them again. Some truths about yourself are so painful that only shame can help you live with them. And some things are just so sad that only your soul can do the crying for you.", - "source": "George Orwell, Animal Farm", - "length": 397, - "id": 5347 - }, - { - "text": "False hope. I guess that's better than no hope at all.", - "source": "The Scorch Trials", - "length": 54, - "id": 5348 - }, - { - "text": "Surround yourself with people who make you happy. People who make you laugh, who help you when you're in need. People who genuinely care. They are the ones worth keeping in your life. Everyone else is just passing through.", - "source": "Karl Marx", - "length": 222, - "id": 5349 - }, - { - "text": "\"monkey-see-monkey-type\" Or, if that's too long, just \"monkey-type\". Bonus points if you can create some kind of Easter egg where you get to type \"It was the best of times, it was the blurst of times\"", - "source": "montydrei, Experimenting with a completely new type of typing tests", - "length": 200, - "id": 5350 - }, - { - "text": "The Dursleys had everything they wanted, but they also had a secret, and their greatest fear was that somebody would discover it.", - "source": "Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone", - "length": 130, - "id": 5351 - }, - { - "text": "Some forms of high-tech communication can hinder concentration on other tasks. Experts who study human-machine interactions - things like instant messaging, calendar reminders, e-mail alerts, and computer pop-ups - report that the wired world suffers from \"distraction overload and continuous partial attention.\" The result of a succession of interruptions may be that \"you risk never focusing exclusively on any thought or perception for long and never being able to work straight through to completion on anything.\" Among other things, such distractions can cause memory loss and decreased memory accuracy as well as potentially disastrous errors.", - "source": "Newsweek Magazine", - "length": 649, - "id": 5352 - }, - { - "text": "\"Our research suggests that ultra-clean, ultra-hygienic environments early in life may contribute to higher levels of inflammation as an adult, which in turn increases risks for a wide range of diseases,\" states Thomas McDade, associate professor at Northwestern University, Illinois, U.S.A. In a study that compared Filipino children with their American counterparts, it was found that, overall, the Filipinos suffered many more infectious diseases as youngsters. Yet, contrary to expectations, young Filipino adults had much lower blood levels of C-reactive protein, the concentration of which rises in response to inflammation. The conclusion? Greater childhood exposure to common bacteria may actually protect adults from deadly illnesses.", - "source": "Thomas McDade, Illinois Northwestern University", - "length": 743, - "id": 5353 - }, - { - "text": "There was a little boy who had a very bad temper. His father decided to give him a bag of nails and told him that every time he got upset, he had to drive a nail into the fence around his house. On the first day, the boy drove 37 nails into that fence. The boy gradually began to control his temper over the next several weeks, and the number of nails he was hammering into the fence slowly decreased. He found it easier to control his temper than to drive those nails into the fence. Finally, the day came when the boy did not bother. He told his father the news and the father suggested that the boy should now pull out a nail every day to keep his temper in check. Days passed and the boy was finally able to tell his father \"I finished pulling the nails out of the fence.\" The father took his son by the hand and led him to the fence. \"You have done well, my son, but look at the holes. The fence will never be the same. When you say things when you are angry, they leave a scar like this. No matter how many times you ask for forgiveness, since the wound is there.\"", - "source": "Nails In The Fence", - "length": 1070, - "id": 5354 - }, - { - "text": "You get anxious about confronting somebody in your life. That anxiety cripples you and you start wondering why you're anxious. Now you're becoming anxious about being anxious. Oh, no! Doubly anxious! Now you're anxious about your anxiety, which is causing more anxiety. Quick, where's the whiskey?", - "source": "Mark Manson, THE SUBTLE ART OF NOT GIVING A FUCK", - "length": 297, - "id": 5355 - }, - { - "text": "When I found out that we were going to the same junior high, I was elated. How could I find a way to talk to you? Maybe I'll go buy sandwiches everyday. But in the end, all I could do was watch you. After all, you guys were all too tight. There was no space for me to slip into.", - "source": "Your Lie In April", - "length": 278, - "id": 5356 - }, - { - "text": "Was I able to live inside someone's heart? Was I able to live inside your heart? Do you think you will remember me at least a little? You'd better not hit \"reset!\" Don't forget me, okay? That's a promise, okay? I'm glad it's you, after all. Will I reach you? I hope I can reach you.", - "source": "Your Lie In April", - "length": 282, - "id": 5357 - }, - { - "text": "She took his coat and hung it in the closet. Then she walked over and made the drinks, a strongish one for him, a weak one for herself; and soon she was back again in her chair with the sewing, and he in the other, opposite, holding the tall glass with both hands, rocking it so the ice cubes tinkled against the side.", - "source": "Lamb to the Slaughter", - "length": 318, - "id": 5358 - }, - { - "text": "The whole world's gone mad. They claim to be my dad's best friend, and want to help me with my revenge. Bizarre, isn't it? I'm handed everything, even the names of the men who stole the people I loved...", - "source": "91 days", - "length": 203, - "id": 5359 - }, - { - "text": "It is nice to be important, but it's more important to be nice.", - "source": "Roger Federer", - "length": 63, - "id": 5360 - }, - { - "text": "\"You can't step into the same river twice,\" Heraclitus is supposed to have said, to which one of his followers, Cratylus, is supposed to have replied, \"You can't step into the same river even once.\"", - "source": "Elizabeth Kolbert, Under a White Sky", - "length": 198, - "id": 5361 - }, - { - "text": "Dear Mario: Please come to the castle. I've baked a cake for you. Your's Truly- Princess Toadstool Peach", - "source": "Super Mario 64", - "length": 104, - "id": 5362 - }, - { - "text": "You have to do the things you don't want to do, before you can do the things you truly want to do.", - "source": "Chihayafuru", - "length": 98, - "id": 5363 - }, - { - "text": "When you find yourself wishing that a certain person was also here, that person is like family to you. Regardless of how long or how well you know them.", - "source": "Chihayafuru", - "length": 152, - "id": 5364 - }, - { - "text": "Frustrations will not last forever. Nobody can keep on going without some measure of reward.", - "source": "Chihayafuru", - "length": 92, - "id": 5365 - }, - { - "text": "Some people think the act of investing efforts, trying your best is more precious than the result. But for mentors as well as their pupils, that approach feels bitter. 'I did my best', 'the fight was close'... words like that blow past and die out like the wind. Only the result is a stone. The stone you can reach by doing your best.", - "source": "Chihayafuru", - "length": 332, - "id": 5366 - }, - { - "text": "Love is when it isn't fun to be with that person. It's when nothing goes the way you want. When you're not having fun... and yet you still want to be with that person.", - "source": "Chihayafuru", - "length": 165, - "id": 5367 - }, - { - "text": "I know that I'm not alone, but I want to be strong even when I am.", - "source": "Chihayafuru", - "length": 66, - "id": 5368 - }, - { - "text": "What I want to do most? Let's see... Just once, I really want to let loose and pee in my pants.", - "source": "Danshi Koukousei no Nichijou", - "length": 93, - "id": 5369 - }, - { - "text": "There is no reason to pretend to be cool. Let's show our lame sides. That's who we really are, after all.", - "source": "Danshi Koukousei no Nichijou", - "length": 105, - "id": 5370 - }, - { - "text": "Treasure the experience. Dreams fade away after you wake up.", - "source": "Your Name", - "length": 60, - "id": 5371 - }, - { - "text": "A wise person once said that you can never lose what you never had. But you can go into debt.", - "source": "Technoblade", - "length": 93, - "id": 5372 - }, - { - "text": "Sometimes, it lasts all night. I lie here and I listen to the shovels and the picks against that wall there. And I pray the sun will come up at the curtains before they break through. No, I don't pray - I hope. And sometimes, it happens. The sun beats them. But mostly the shovels beat the sun.", - "source": "Thomas Shelby, Peaky Blinders", - "length": 294, - "id": 5373 - }, - { - "text": "La-di-da-di, we like to party. We don't cause trouble, we don't bother nobody. We're just some men that's on the mic and when we rock up on the mic we rock the mic (Right). For all of y'all keeping y'all in health. Just to see you smile and enjoy yourself 'cause it's cool when you 'cause a cozy condition, that we create, 'cause that's our mission. So listen to what we say because this type of shit, it happens every day.", - "source": "Doug E. Fresh & The Get Fresh Crew ft. Slick Rick - La Di Da Di", - "length": 423, - "id": 5374 - }, - { - "text": "Some people think they can outsmart me. Maybe, maybe. I have yet to meet one that can outsmart bullet.", - "source": "Meet the Heavy", - "length": 102, - "id": 5375 - }, - { - "text": "Your time is limited, so don't waste it living someone else's life. Don't be trapped by dogma - which is living with the results of other people's thinking.", - "source": "Steve Jobs", - "length": 156, - "id": 5376 - }, - { - "text": "Harvest, harvest, harvest. All you care about is the stupid harvest! You don't care about me, I wanna see the universe! You don't know who I am inside, you never have! I'm gonna run away and never come back, ever!", - "source": "Loke Groundrunner, Thumb Wars", - "length": 213, - "id": 5377 - }, - { - "text": "He used to tell her everything, and she used to listen in rapt attention. She wondered when that had changed and who'd lost interest first, he in the telling or she in the listening.", - "source": "Lisa Genova, Still Alice", - "length": 182, - "id": 5378 - }, - { - "text": "I used to know how the mind handled language, and I could communicate what I knew. I used to be someone who knew a lot. No one asks for my opinion or advice anymore. I miss that. I used to be curious and independent and confident. I miss being sure of things. There's no peace in being unsure of everything all the time. I miss doing everything easily. I miss being a part of what's happening. I miss feeling wanted. I miss my life and my family. I loved my life and family.", - "source": "Lisa Genova, Still Alice", - "length": 474, - "id": 5379 - }, - { - "text": "My yesterdays are disappearing, and my tomorrows are uncertain, so what do I live for? I live for each day. I live in the moment. Some tomorrow soon, I'll forget that I stood before you and gave this speech. But just because I'll forget it some tomorrow doesn't mean that I didn't live every second of it today. I will forget today, but that doesn't mean that today doesn't matter.", - "source": "Lisa Genova, Still Alice", - "length": 381, - "id": 5380 - }, - { - "text": "And I have no control over which yesterdays I keep and which ones get deleted. This disease will not be bargained with. I can't offer it the names of the US presidents in exchange for the names of my children. I can't give it the names of state capitals and keep the memories of my husband.", - "source": "Lisa Genova, Still Alice", - "length": 290, - "id": 5381 - }, - { - "text": "She liked being reminded of butterflies. She remembered being six or seven and crying over the fates of the butterflies in her yard after learning that they lived for only a few days. Her mother had comforted her and told her not to be sad for the butterflies, that just because their lives were short didn't mean they were tragic. Watching them flying in the warm sun among the daisies in their garden, her mother had said to her, see, they have a beautiful life. Alice liked remembering that.", - "source": "Lisa Genova, Still Alice", - "length": 494, - "id": 5382 - }, - { - "text": "Crying is for little girls, babies, and men who just had their ears ripped off.", - "source": "Oobeedoob Benubi, Thumb Wars", - "length": 79, - "id": 5383 - }, - { - "text": "I can't stand the thought of looking at you someday, this face I love, and not knowing who you are.", - "source": "Lisa Genova, Still Alice", - "length": 99, - "id": 5384 - }, - { - "text": "Now when an American has an idea, he directly seeks a second American to share it. If there be three, they elect a president and two secretaries. Given four, they name a keeper of records, and the office is ready for work; five, they convene a general meeting, and the club is fully constituted.", - "source": "From the Earth to the Moon", - "length": 295, - "id": 5385 - }, - { - "text": "I don't wanna be \"the bee's knees\". I don't wanna be any kind of \"knees\"! I just wanna be a normal girl, with normal knees.", - "source": "RWBY", - "length": 123, - "id": 5386 - }, - { - "text": "All we had to do, was follow the damn train, CJ!", - "source": "GTA: San Andreas", - "length": 48, - "id": 5387 - }, - { - "text": "There once was a tiger striped cat. This cat died a million deaths, revived and lived a million lives, and he was owned by various people who he didn't really care for. The cat wasn't afraid to die. Then one day the cat became a stray cat, which meant he was free. He met a white female cat, and the two of them spent their days together happily. Well, years passed, and the white cat grew weak and died of old age. The tiger striped cat cried a million times, and then he died too. Except this time, he didn't come back to life.", - "source": "Cowboy Bebop", - "length": 529, - "id": 5388 - }, - { - "text": "When you spend your whole life living under a dome, even the idea of an ocean seems impossible to imagine.", - "source": "The Expanse", - "length": 106, - "id": 5389 - }, - { - "text": "I have a file with 900 pages of analysis and contingency plans for war with Mars, including fourteen different scenarios about what to do if they develop an unexpected new technology. My file for what to do if an advanced alien species comes calling is three pages long, and it begins with \"Step 1: Find God.\"", - "source": "The Expanse", - "length": 309, - "id": 5390 - }, - { - "text": "A kid needs at least one person who never gives up on them, no matter what.", - "source": "The Expanse", - "length": 75, - "id": 5391 - }, - { - "text": "From the moment I understood the weakness of my flesh, it disgusted me. I craved the strength and certainty of steel. I aspired to the purity of the Blessed Machine. Your kind cling to your flesh, as though it will not decay and fail you. One day the crude biomass you call the temple will wither, and you will beg my kind to save you. But I am already saved, for the Machine is immortal... even in death I serve the Omnissiah.", - "source": "Warhammer 40,000: Mechanicus", - "length": 427, - "id": 5392 - }, - { - "text": "My cheek brushes against his, smooth on stubble for a moment. And then it's gone. He walks along the platform as if in a dream, every fiber in me wants to shout and scream, \"Stop!\" To run across to him, take him in my arms, to tell him \"I love you! You silly, silly man, I love you!\" But instead I stand still, heart cracking. Those little curls on the back of his head bouncing, as he steps out of my life, forever.", - "source": "Tom Misch: \"Movie\"", - "length": 416, - "id": 5393 - }, - { - "text": "Pride is not the opposite of shame, but it's source. True humility is the only antidote to shame.", - "source": "Avatar: The Last Airbender", - "length": 97, - "id": 5394 - }, - { - "text": "My first girlfriend turned into the moon...That's rough, buddy.", - "source": "Avatar: The Last Airbender", - "length": 63, - "id": 5395 - }, - { - "text": "You sound like my nephew, always thinking you need to do things on your own without anyone's support. There is nothing wrong with letting the people who love you help you.", - "source": "Avatar: The Last Airbender", - "length": 171, - "id": 5396 - }, - { - "text": "Strangers passing in the street; by chance, two separate glances meet and I am you and what I see is me. And do I take you by the hand, and lead you through the land, and help me understand the best I can?", - "source": "Pink Floyd, Meddle - Echoes", - "length": 205, - "id": 5397 - }, - { - "text": "One and one and one is three", - "source": "The Beatles, Come Together", - "length": 28, - "id": 5398 - }, - { - "text": "He was swimming in a sea of other people's expectations. Men had drowned in seas like that.", - "source": "Robert Jordan, New Spring", - "length": 91, - "id": 5399 - }, - { - "text": "Dear Me 10 Years from now, If you still feel the need to listen to this again, then maybe something went wrong? Or did you change? Do you remember? What happened? Is life better, or worst? It's never too late to try and fix things. Right now, you're probably wondering how I felt when you wrote this. Well, right now, I guess I feel like I don't have a lot of control of my life, but it's exciting nonetheless. I'm smart and handsome, and I have goals to work toward. So.. me in 10 years from now, if you're reading this and you feel like things haven't changed, then just remember that it's never too late. The world around you must be different by now, but it doesn't mean you have to be. Stay positive, and keep doing your best.", - "source": "Faye Valentine, Cowboy Bebop", - "length": 731, - "id": 5400 - }, - { - "text": "I would burn the world and use my soul for tinder to hear her laugh again.", - "source": "Robert Jordan", - "length": 74, - "id": 5401 - }, - { - "text": "If the world is ending, a woman will want to fix her hair. If the world's ending, a woman will take the time to tell a man something he's done wrong.", - "source": "Robert Jordan, The Wheel of Time", - "length": 149, - "id": 5402 - }, - { - "text": "How do I take off a mask when it stops being a mask, when it's as much a part of me as I am?", - "source": "Mr. Robot", - "length": 92, - "id": 5403 - }, - { - "text": "I'm good at reading people. My secret? I look for the worst in them.", - "source": "Mr. Robot", - "length": 68, - "id": 5404 - }, - { - "text": "I do see the beauty in the rules, the invisible code of chaos hiding behind the menacing face of order.", - "source": "Mr. Robot", - "length": 103, - "id": 5405 - }, - { - "text": "Control can sometimes be an illusion. But sometimes you need illusions to gain control. Fantasy is an easy way to give meaning to the world. To cloak our harsh reality with escapist comfort. After all, isn't that why we surround ourselves with so many screens? So we can avoid seeing? So we can avoid each other? So we can avoid truth?", - "source": "Mr. Robot", - "length": 335, - "id": 5406 - }, - { - "text": "The world itself's just one big hoax. Spamming each other with our running commentary of bullshit, masquerading as insight, our social media faking as intimacy. Or is it that we voted for this? Not with our rigged elections, but with our things, our property, our money. I'm not saying anything new. We all know why we do this, not because Hunger Games books make us happy, but because we wanna be sedated. Because it's painful not to pretend, because we're cowards.", - "source": "Mr. Robot", - "length": 466, - "id": 5407 - }, - { - "text": "Hello friend. Hello friend? That's lame. Maybe I should give you a name. But that's a slippery slope, you're only in my head, we have to remember that. Shit, this actually happened, I'm talking to an imaginary person. What I'm about to tell you is top secret. A conspiracy bigger than all of us. There's a powerful group of people out there that are secretly running the world. I'm talking about the guys no one knows about, the ones that are invisible. The top 1% of the top 1%, the guys that play God without permission. And now I think they're following me.", - "source": "Mr. Robot", - "length": 560, - "id": 5408 - }, - { - "text": "You're the one constant in a sea of variables.", - "source": "Mr. Robot", - "length": 46, - "id": 5409 - }, - { - "text": "That's the thing about deletion. It's not always permanent. There are many reasons you want to recover a file you just deleted. Where you have that moment of panic where it hits you, where that thing you thought had no value suddenly becomes important. Where you suddenly find new purpose for it.", - "source": "Mr. Robot", - "length": 296, - "id": 5410 - }, - { - "text": "Give a man a gun and he can rob a bank, but give a man a bank and he can rob the world.", - "source": "Mr. Robot", - "length": 87, - "id": 5411 - }, - { - "text": "Don't mistake my generosity for generosity.", - "source": "Mr. Robot", - "length": 43, - "id": 5412 - }, - { - "text": "No man or woman alive, magical or not, has ever escaped some form of injury, whether physical, mental, or emotional.", - "source": "J. K. Rowling, The Tales of Beedle the Bard", - "length": 116, - "id": 5413 - }, - { - "text": "Death comes for us all in the end.", - "source": "J. K. Rowling, The Tales of Beedle the Bard", - "length": 34, - "id": 5414 - }, - { - "text": "Magic causes as much trouble as it cures.", - "source": "J. K. Rowling, The Tales of Beedle the Bard", - "length": 41, - "id": 5415 - }, - { - "text": "The heroes and heroines who triumph in his stories are not those with the most powerful magic, but rather those who demonstrate the most kindness, common sense and ingenuity.", - "source": "J. K. Rowling, The Tales of Beedle the Bard", - "length": 174, - "id": 5416 - }, - { - "text": "As the Wheel of Time turns, places wear many names. Men wear many names, many faces. Different faces, but always the same man. Yet no one knows the Great Pattern the Wheel weaves, or even the Pattern of an Age. We can only watch, and study, and hope.", - "source": "Robert Jordan, Wheel of Time: The Eye of the World", - "length": 250, - "id": 5417 - }, - { - "text": "We can't go back, Mat. The Wheel has turned, for better or worse. And it will keep on turning, as lights die and forests dim, storms call and skies break. Turn it will. The Wheel is not hope, and the Wheel does not care, the Wheel simply is. But so long as it turns, folk may hope, folk may care. For with light that fades, another will eventually grow, and each storm that rages must eventually die. As long as the Wheel turns.", - "source": "Robert Jordan, Wheel of Time: The Eye of the World", - "length": 428, - "id": 5418 - }, - { - "text": "You tried to help the people of the market. You mostly failed. This is life. The longer you live, the more you fail. Failure is the mark of a life well lived. In turn, the only way to live without failure is to be of no use to anyone. Trust me, I've practiced", - "source": "Brandon Sanderson, Stormlight Archive: Oathbringer", - "length": 259, - "id": 5419 - }, - { - "text": "Because the world is round, it turns me on. Because the world is round. Because the wind is high, it blows my mind. Because the wind is high. Love is old, love is new. Love is all, love is you. Because the sky is blue, it makes me cry. Because the sky is blue.", - "source": "The Beatles", - "length": 260, - "id": 5420 - }, - { - "text": "But stories don't end. They continue as long as you're alive. You just have to get on with things. Turn the page, start a new chapter, find out what's in store for you next, and keep your fingers crossed that it's not too awful. Even if you know in your heart and soul that it most probably will be.", - "source": "Darren Shan, Slawter", - "length": 299, - "id": 5421 - }, - { - "text": "You can't hang around waiting for somebody else to pull your strings. Destiny's what you make of it. You have to face whatever life throws at you. And if it throws more than you'd like, more than you think you can handle? Well then you just have to find the heroism within yourself and play out the hand you've been dealt. The universe never sets a challenge that can't be met. You just need to believe in yourself in order to find the strength to face it.", - "source": "Darren Shan, Hell's Heroes", - "length": 456, - "id": 5422 - }, - { - "text": "Most patients report a night of dreamless sleep after only one viewing of this videocassette. Consult your technician if you are experiencing delayed results and/or unwanted side effects. Do not see a doctor.", - "source": "LOCAL58TV, Real Sleep", - "length": 208, - "id": 5423 - }, - { - "text": "If you look for the light, you can often find it. But if you look for the dark, that is all you will ever see.", - "source": "The Legend of Korra", - "length": 110, - "id": 5424 - }, - { - "text": "Now, if you two don't mind I'll be off to bed before either of you come up with another clever idea to get us killed - or worse, expelled!", - "source": "Harry Potter and the Philosopher’s Stone", - "length": 138, - "id": 5425 - }, - { - "text": "The County Weather Service has issued a warning for a meteorological event. This warning is effective immediately and continues until sunrise tomorrow morning. Citizens are advised not to observe this event with the naked eye.", - "source": "LOCAL58TV, Weather Service", - "length": 226, - "id": 5426 - }, - { - "text": "Jack heard it again. There is a voice from space. Jack, do you see me? I have become something else. Listen to the silver box. The stars are moving now. Do you see the hungry eye? Here I am.", - "source": "Gemini Home Entertainment, Artificial Computer Learning", - "length": 190, - "id": 5427 - }, - { - "text": "Dormammu, I've come to bargain.", - "source": "Doctor Strange, Doctor Strange", - "length": 31, - "id": 5428 - }, - { - "text": "So, might I offer you some advice? Forget everything you think you know.", - "source": "Karl Mordo, Doctor Strange", - "length": 72, - "id": 5429 - }, - { - "text": "But soft! What light through yonder window breaks? It is the east, and Juliet is the sun.", - "source": "Romeo, Romeo and Juliet", - "length": 89, - "id": 5430 - }, - { - "text": "Most men and women will grow up to love their servitude and will never dream of revolution.", - "source": "Narrator and Author (Aldous Huxley), Brave New World", - "length": 91, - "id": 5431 - }, - { - "text": "Just remember that sometimes, the way you think about a person isn't the way they actually are.", - "source": "John Green", - "length": 95, - "id": 5432 - }, - { - "text": "And as I walked back to give Takumi's note to the Colonel, I saw that I would never know. I would never know her well enough to know her thoughts in those last minutes, would never know if she left us on purpose. But the not-knowing would not keep me from caring, and I would always love Alaska Young, my crooked neighbor, with all my crooked heart.", - "source": "Miles Halter, Looking For Alaska (John Green)", - "length": 349, - "id": 5433 - }, - { - "text": "Death is what gives life meaning. To know your days are numbered. Your time is short.", - "source": "The Ancient One, Doctor Strange", - "length": 85, - "id": 5434 - }, - { - "text": "We never lose our demons, Mordo. We only learn to live above them.", - "source": "The Ancient One, Doctor Strange", - "length": 66, - "id": 5435 - }, - { - "text": "We've been hired to stop an inter-dimensional beast from feeding on those batteries and I'm going to stop it with a sword?", - "source": "Gamora, Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 2", - "length": 122, - "id": 5436 - }, - { - "text": "You're a man looking at the world through a keyhole, and you've spent your whole life trying to widen that keyhole, to see more, to know more, and now, on hearing that it can be widened, in ways you can't imagine you reject the possibility.", - "source": "The Ancient One, Doctor Strange", - "length": 240, - "id": 5437 - }, - { - "text": "The language of the mystic arts is as old as civilization. The sorcerers of antiquity called the use of this language spells. But if that word offends your modern sensibilities you can call it a program, the source code that shapes reality. We harness energy drawn from other dimensions of the Multiverse to cast spells to conjure shields and weapons to make magic.", - "source": "The Ancient One, Doctor Strange", - "length": 365, - "id": 5438 - }, - { - "text": "When you're building a videogame world you're building with ideas, and that can be like working with quick-set cement. You mold your ideas into a certain shape that can be played with, and in the process of playing with them they begin to harden and set until they're immutable, like rock. At that point you can't change the world - not without breaking it into pieces and starting fresh with new ideas.", - "source": "Getting Over It with Bennett Foddy", - "length": 403, - "id": 5439 - }, - { - "text": "And then Keshpeth led his army of ten thousand into the realm beyond the clouds, and they did do battle with the Devourer, may his name be forever unremembered. And then Keshpeth and his ten thousand did craft seven cunning chains out of the bones of Jaspetar, seventh bride of the dread Devourer, may his name be forever unremembered, and bound him within the pearl of the father of oysters, he who dwells under the mirror of salt in the realm under the sea. And Keshpeth ordered that the gates to the far country be sealed forever, lest the dread Devourer, may his name be forever unremembered, find its way back to our world.", - "source": "SCP-2317", - "length": 628, - "id": 5440 - }, - { - "text": "For those who are not aware of our existence, we represent the organization known as the SCP Foundation. Our previous mission centered around the containment and study of anomalous objects, entities, and other assorted phenomena. This mission was the focus of our organization for more than one hundred years. Due to circumstances outside of our control, this directive has now changed. Our new mission will be the extermination of the human race. There will be no further communication.", - "source": "SCP-5000", - "length": 487, - "id": 5441 - }, - { - "text": "A group of young Erusian officers have taken over Megalith, the superweapon that was under development. Megalith is a rocket launch facility that can shoot down asteroid fragments in orbit. The only way to destroy this dangerous and highly fortified facility is to hit it from the inside. Follow the missile port grooves to find the three generators deep within the facility. Destroy the generators to access the central heat vent. Once inside, destroy the giant missile in the central silo. An infiltration unit will secure your escape route. Their plan calls for waiting until the generators are offline, and then taking over the sub control room once the blackout hits. Enter this rat's nest with full confidence that the unit will get you out again. It's highly likely that this will be your final mission. Remember, we need heroes after the war too. Make it back in one piece. Dismissed!", - "source": "Ace Combat 04: Shattered Skies", - "length": 892, - "id": 5442 - }, - { - "text": "English is hard. It can be thoroughly taught throughout the world through tough, thorough thought, though.", - "source": "A Tongue-twister", - "length": 106, - "id": 5443 - }, - { - "text": "Finally! A worthy opponent! Our battle will be legendary!", - "source": "Tai Lung, Kung Fu Panda", - "length": 57, - "id": 5444 - }, - { - "text": "There's just news. There's no good or bad.", - "source": "Oogway, Kung Fu Panda", - "length": 42, - "id": 5445 - }, - { - "text": "Gestures are all that I have; sometimes they must be grand in nature.", - "source": "Enzo, The Art of Racing In The Rain (Garth Stein)", - "length": 69, - "id": 5446 - }, - { - "text": "Do not pity the dead, Harry. Pity the living, and, above all those who live without love.", - "source": "Albus Dumbledore", - "length": 89, - "id": 5447 - }, - { - "text": "It does not do well to dwell on dreams and forget to live.", - "source": "Albus Dumbledore", - "length": 58, - "id": 5448 - }, - { - "text": "Have you ever had a dream, Neo, that you seemed so sure it was real? But if were unable to wake up from that dream, how would you tell the difference between the dream world & the real world?", - "source": "The Matrix", - "length": 191, - "id": 5449 - }, - { - "text": "If real is what you can feel, smell, taste and see, then 'real' is simply electrical signals interpreted by your brain.", - "source": "The Matrix", - "length": 119, - "id": 5450 - }, - { - "text": "If you ain’t scared… you ain’t human.", - "source": "Alby, The Maze Runner", - "length": 37, - "id": 5451 - }, - { - "text": "It's kind of hard to ask a dead guy what he did wrong.", - "source": "Minho, The Maze Runner", - "length": 54, - "id": 5452 - }, - { - "text": "I promised I'd save him, take him home! I promised him!", - "source": "Thomas, The Maze Runner", - "length": 55, - "id": 5453 - }, - { - "text": "Good that.", - "source": "Newt, The Maze Runner", - "length": 10, - "id": 5454 - }, - { - "text": "Maybe you should just press the button", - "source": "The Maze Runner", - "length": "38", - "id": 5455 - }, - { - "text": "I just...feel like I need to save everyone. To redeem myself.", - "source": "Thomas, The Maze Runner", - "length": 61, - "id": 5456 - } - ] -} + "text": "I don't understand? Are you kid \ No newline at end of file