Normal is the classic type test experience. Expert fails the test if you submit (press
+ space) an incorrect word.
Master fails if you press a single incorrect key (meaning you have to achieve 100% accuracy).
@@ -292,7 +320,8 @@
quick tab mode
-Press tab to quickly restart the test, or to quickly jump to the test page. This function disables tab navigation on the website.
+ Press tab to quickly restart the test, or to quickly jump to the test page. This
+ function disables tab navigation on the website.
on
off
@@ -316,7 +345,8 @@
blind mode
-No errors or incorrect words are highlighted. Helps you to focus on raw speed. If enabled, quick end is recommended.
+ No errors or incorrect words are highlighted. Helps you to focus on raw speed. If enabled,
+ quick end is recommended.
⠀
off
@@ -324,8 +354,9 @@
quick end
-This only applies to the words mode - when enabled, the test will end as soon as the last word has been typed, even if it's incorrect.
- When disabled, you need to manually confirm the last incorrect entry with a space.
+
This only applies to the words mode - when enabled, the test will end as soon as the last
+ word has been typed, even if it's incorrect.
+ When disabled, you need to manually confirm the last incorrect entry with a space.
on
@@ -334,7 +365,8 @@
tags
-With tags, you can compare how fast you're typing in different situations. You can see your active tags above the test words.
+
-
+
diff --git a/public/js/commandline.js b/public/js/commandline.js
index 98ea2bbee..2c379d70a 100644
--- a/public/js/commandline.js
+++ b/public/js/commandline.js
@@ -351,6 +351,14 @@ let commandsMode = {
restartTest();
}
},
+ {
+ id: "changeModeQuote",
+ display: "quote",
+ exec: () => {
+ changeMode("quote");
+ restartTest();
+ }
+ },
{
id: "changeModeCustom",
display: "custom",
@@ -444,16 +452,16 @@ let commandsTags = {
]
};
-function updateCommandsTagsList(){
- if(dbSnapshot.tags.length > 0){
+function updateCommandsTagsList() {
+ if (dbSnapshot.tags.length > 0) {
commandsTags.list = [];
dbSnapshot.tags.forEach(tag => {
let dis = tag.name;
- if(tag.active === true){
+ if (tag.active === true) {
dis = '' + dis;
- }else{
+ } else {
dis = '' + dis;
}
@@ -468,10 +476,10 @@ function updateCommandsTagsList(){
let txt = tag.name;
-
- if(tag.active === true){
+
+ if (tag.active === true) {
txt = '' + txt;
- }else{
+ } else {
txt = '' + txt;
}
$(`#commandLine .suggestions .entry[command='toggleTag${tag.id}']`).html(txt);
@@ -484,9 +492,9 @@ function updateCommandsTagsList(){
let themesList;
-$.getJSON("themes/list.json", function(data) {
+$.getJSON("themes/list.json", function (data) {
commandsThemes.list = [];
- themesList = data.sort(function(a, b) {
+ themesList = data.sort(function (a, b) {
nameA = a.name.toLowerCase(), nameB = b.name.toLowerCase()
if (nameA < nameB)
return -1
@@ -497,7 +505,7 @@ $.getJSON("themes/list.json", function(data) {
data.forEach(theme => {
commandsThemes.list.push({
id: "changeTheme" + capitalizeFirstLetter(theme.name),
- display: theme.name.replace('_',' '),
+ display: theme.name.replace('_', ' '),
hover: () => {
previewTheme(theme.name);
},
@@ -532,7 +540,7 @@ let commandsLanguages = {
if (Object.keys(words).length > 0) {
commandsLanguages.list = [];
Object.keys(words).forEach(language => {
- if(language === "english_10k") return;
+ if (language === "english_10k") return;
commandsLanguages.list.push({
id: "changeLanguage" + capitalizeFirstLetter(language),
display: language.replace('_', ' '),
@@ -542,7 +550,7 @@ if (Object.keys(words).length > 0) {
saveConfigToCookie();
}
})
- if(language === "english_expanded"){
+ if (language === "english_expanded") {
commandsLanguages.list.push({
id: "changeLanguageEnglish10k",
display: "english 10k",
@@ -595,17 +603,17 @@ $(document).ready(e => {
currentCommands = [commands];
showCommandLine();
} else {
- if(currentCommands.length > 1){
+ if (currentCommands.length > 1) {
currentCommands.pop();
showCommandLine();
- }else{
+ } else {
hideCommandLine();
}
if (config.customTheme === true) {
setCustomTheme();
- }else{
- setTheme(config.theme)
- }
+ } else {
+ setTheme(config.theme)
+ }
}
}
})
@@ -618,7 +626,7 @@ $("#commandInput textarea").keydown((e) => {
e.preventDefault();
let command = $("#commandInput textarea").attr("command");
let value = $("#commandInput textarea").val();
- let list = currentCommands[currentCommands.length-1];
+ let list = currentCommands[currentCommands.length - 1];
$.each(list.list, (i, obj) => {
if (obj.id == command) {
obj.exec(value);
@@ -627,11 +635,11 @@ $("#commandInput textarea").keydown((e) => {
}
}
});
- try{
+ try {
firebase.analytics().logEvent('usedCommandLine', {
command: command
});
- }catch(e){
+ } catch (e) {
console.log("Analytics unavailable");
}
hideCommandLine();
@@ -641,10 +649,10 @@ $("#commandInput textarea").keydown((e) => {
$("#commandLineWrapper #commandLine .suggestions").on('mouseover', e => {
- $("#commandLineWrapper #commandLine .suggestions .entry").removeClass('active');
+ $("#commandLineWrapper #commandLine .suggestions .entry").removeClass('active');
let hoverId = $(e.target).attr('command');
try {
- let list = currentCommands[currentCommands.length-1];
+ let list = currentCommands[currentCommands.length - 1];
$.each(list.list, (index, obj) => {
if (obj.id == hoverId) {
obj.hover();
@@ -655,19 +663,19 @@ $("#commandLineWrapper #commandLine .suggestions").on('mouseover', e => {
-$("#commandLineWrapper #commandLine .suggestions").click(e =>{
+$("#commandLineWrapper #commandLine .suggestions").click(e => {
triggerCommand($(e.target).attr('command'));
})
$('#commandLineWrapper').click(e => {
- if($(e.target).attr('id') === "commandLineWrapper"){
+ if ($(e.target).attr('id') === "commandLineWrapper") {
hideCommandLine();
}
})
$(document).keydown((e) => {
- if(!$("#commandLineWrapper").hasClass("hidden")){
+ if (!$("#commandLineWrapper").hasClass("hidden")) {
$("#commandLine input").focus();
if (e.keyCode == 13) {
//enter
@@ -708,14 +716,14 @@ $(document).keydown((e) => {
$('.suggestions').scrollTop(scroll);
console.log(`scrolling to ${scroll}`);
try {
- let list = currentCommands[currentCommands.length-1];
+ let list = currentCommands[currentCommands.length - 1];
$.each(list.list, (index, obj) => {
if (obj.id == hoverId) {
obj.hover();
}
});
} catch (e) { }
-
+
return false;
}
}
@@ -723,10 +731,10 @@ $(document).keydown((e) => {
let currentCommands = [commands];
-function triggerCommand(command){
+function triggerCommand(command) {
let subgroup = false;
let input = false;
- let list = currentCommands[currentCommands.length-1];
+ let list = currentCommands[currentCommands.length - 1];
let sticky = false;
$.each(list.list, (i, obj) => {
if (obj.id == command) {
@@ -738,18 +746,18 @@ function triggerCommand(command){
if (obj.subgroup !== null && obj.subgroup !== undefined) {
subgroup = obj.subgroup;
}
- if(obj.sticky === true){
+ if (obj.sticky === true) {
sticky = true;
}
}
}
});
if (!subgroup && !input && !sticky) {
- try{
+ try {
firebase.analytics().logEvent('usedCommandLine', {
command: command
});
- }catch(e){
+ } catch (e) {
console.log("Analytics unavailable");
}
hideCommandLine();
@@ -758,25 +766,25 @@ function triggerCommand(command){
function hideCommandLine() {
$("#commandLineWrapper")
- .stop(true, true)
- .css("opacity", 1)
- .animate(
- {
- opacity: 0
- },
- 100,
- () => {
- $("#commandLineWrapper").addClass("hidden");
- }
+ .stop(true, true)
+ .css("opacity", 1)
+ .animate(
+ {
+ opacity: 0
+ },
+ 100,
+ () => {
+ $("#commandLineWrapper").addClass("hidden");
+ }
);
- focusWords();
- }
-
- function showCommandLine() {
- $("#commandLine").removeClass('hidden');
- $("#commandInput").addClass('hidden');
- if ($("#commandLineWrapper").hasClass("hidden")) {
- $("#commandLineWrapper")
+ focusWords();
+}
+
+function showCommandLine() {
+ $("#commandLine").removeClass('hidden');
+ $("#commandInput").addClass('hidden');
+ if ($("#commandLineWrapper").hasClass("hidden")) {
+ $("#commandLineWrapper")
.stop(true, true)
.css("opacity", 0)
.removeClass("hidden")
@@ -785,87 +793,86 @@ function hideCommandLine() {
opacity: 1
},
100
- );
- }
- $("#commandLine input").val("");
- updateSuggestedCommands();
- $("#commandLine input").focus();
- }
-
- function showCommandInput(command, placeholder) {
- $("#commandLineWrapper").removeClass('hidden');
- $("#commandLine").addClass('hidden');
- $("#commandInput").removeClass('hidden');
- $("#commandInput textarea").attr('placeholder', placeholder);
- $("#commandInput textarea").val('');
- $("#commandInput textarea").focus();
- $("#commandInput textarea").attr('command', '');
- $("#commandInput textarea").attr('command', command);
- }
-
- function updateSuggestedCommands() {
- let inputVal = $("#commandLine input").val().toLowerCase().split(" ");
- let list = currentCommands[currentCommands.length-1];
- if (inputVal[0] == "") {
- $.each(list.list, (index, obj) => {
- if(obj.visible !== false) obj.found = true;
- });
+ );
+ }
+ $("#commandLine input").val("");
+ updateSuggestedCommands();
+ $("#commandLine input").focus();
+}
+
+function showCommandInput(command, placeholder) {
+ $("#commandLineWrapper").removeClass('hidden');
+ $("#commandLine").addClass('hidden');
+ $("#commandInput").removeClass('hidden');
+ $("#commandInput textarea").attr('placeholder', placeholder);
+ $("#commandInput textarea").val('');
+ $("#commandInput textarea").focus();
+ $("#commandInput textarea").attr('command', '');
+ $("#commandInput textarea").attr('command', command);
+}
+
+function updateSuggestedCommands() {
+ let inputVal = $("#commandLine input").val().toLowerCase().split(" ");
+ let list = currentCommands[currentCommands.length - 1];
+ if (inputVal[0] == "") {
+ $.each(list.list, (index, obj) => {
+ if (obj.visible !== false) obj.found = true;
+ });
+ } else {
+ $.each(list.list, (index, obj) => {
+ let foundcount = 0;
+ $.each(inputVal, (index2, obj2) => {
+ if (obj2 == "") return;
+ let re = new RegExp("\\b" + obj2, "g");
+ let res = obj.display.toLowerCase().match(re);
+ if (res != null && res.length > 0) {
+ foundcount++;
+ } else {
+ foundcount--;
+ }
+ });
+ if (foundcount > 0) {
+ if (obj.visible !== false) obj.found = true;
} else {
- $.each(list.list, (index, obj) => {
- let foundcount = 0;
- $.each(inputVal, (index2, obj2) => {
- if (obj2 == "") return;
- let re = new RegExp("\\b"+obj2, "g");
- let res = obj.display.toLowerCase().match(re);
- if (res != null && res.length > 0) {
- foundcount++;
- } else {
- foundcount--;
- }
- });
- if (foundcount > 0) {
- if(obj.visible !== false) obj.found = true;
- } else {
- obj.found = false;
- }
- });
+ obj.found = false;
}
- displayFoundCommands();
+ });
+ }
+ displayFoundCommands();
+}
+
+function displayFoundCommands() {
+ $("#commandLine .suggestions").empty();
+ let list = currentCommands[currentCommands.length - 1];
+ $.each(list.list, (index, obj) => {
+ if (obj.found) {
+ $("#commandLine .suggestions").append(
+ '
With tags, you can compare how fast you're typing in different situations. You can see your
+ active tags above the test words.
They will remain active until you deactivate them, or refresh the page.
@@ -392,7 +424,8 @@
flip test colors
-By default, typed text is brighter than the future text. When enabled, the colors will be flipped
+
By default, typed text is brighter than the future text. When enabled, the colors will be
+ flipped
and the future text will be brighter than the already typed text.
@@ -403,7 +436,8 @@
-
-
+
+
@@ -546,7 +580,9 @@
-->
-
-
-
+
+
+
colorful mode
- When enabled, the test words will use the main color, instead of the text color, making the website more colorful.
+ When enabled, the test words will use the main color, instead of the text color, making the website more
+ colorful.
on
@@ -429,65 +463,65 @@
-
-
-
-
+
+
+
+
-
-
-
-
+
+
+
+
-
-
-
-
+
+
+
+
-
-
-
-
+
+
+
+
-
-
-
-
-
+
+
+
+
+
-
-
-
-
+
+
+
+
-
-
-
-
+
+
+
+
-
colorful mode
+colorful mode
- - - - - + + + + + - - - - - -Save
+
+
+
+
+
+ Save
-
+
Sign In
@@ -707,9 +743,9 @@
favourite test
words 10
@@ -750,13 +786,13 @@
Miodec
version
' + obj.display + "
"
+ );
}
-
- function displayFoundCommands() {
- $("#commandLine .suggestions").empty();
- let list = currentCommands[currentCommands.length-1];
+ });
+ if ($("#commandLine .suggestions .entry").length == 0) {
+ $("#commandLine .separator").css({ height: 0, margin: 0 });
+ } else {
+ $("#commandLine .separator").css({
+ height: "1px",
+ "margin-bottom": ".5rem"
+ });
+ }
+ let entries = $("#commandLine .suggestions .entry");
+ if (entries.length > 0) {
+ $(entries[0]).addClass("activeKeyboard");
+ try {
$.each(list.list, (index, obj) => {
if (obj.found) {
- $("#commandLine .suggestions").append(
- '' + obj.display + "
"
- );
- }
- });
- if ($("#commandLine .suggestions .entry").length == 0) {
- $("#commandLine .separator").css({ height: 0, margin: 0 });
- } else {
- $("#commandLine .separator").css({
- height: "1px",
- "margin-bottom": ".5rem"
- });
+ obj.hover();
+ return false;
}
- let entries = $("#commandLine .suggestions .entry");
- if (entries.length > 0) {
- $(entries[0]).addClass("activeKeyboard");
- try{
- $.each(list.list, (index, obj) => {
- if (obj.found) {
- obj.hover();
- return false;
- }
- });
- }catch(e){}
- }
- $("#commandLine .listTitle").remove();
- // if(currentCommands.title != ''){
- // $("#commandLine .suggestions").before(""+currentCommands.title+"
");
- // }
- }
-
\ No newline at end of file
+ });
+ } catch (e) { }
+ }
+ $("#commandLine .listTitle").remove();
+ // if(currentCommands.title != ''){
+ // $("#commandLine .suggestions").before(""+currentCommands.title+"
");
+ // }
+}
diff --git a/public/js/english_quotes.json b/public/js/english_quotes.json
new file mode 100644
index 000000000..bdf0a5738
--- /dev/null
+++ b/public/js/english_quotes.json
@@ -0,0 +1,15005 @@
+[{
+ "text": "You have the power to heal your life, and you need to know that.",
+ "source": "Meditations to Heal Your Life"
+ }, {
+ "text": "They don't know that we know they know we know.",
+ "source": "Friends"
+ }, {
+ "text": "Don't it make you sad to know that life is more than who you are?",
+ "source": "Name"
+ }, {
+ "text": "Leave something for someone but don't leave someone for something.",
+ "source": "Five on a Hike Together"
+ }, {
+ "text": "The people with ideas have no power and the people with power have no ideas.",
+ "source": "5,001 Wisdom Quotations of Mike Murdock"
+ }, {
+ "text": "You must take life the way it comes at you and make the best of it.",
+ "source": "Life of Pi"
+ }, {
+ "text": "If you don't know what you want, how are you going to know when you get it?",
+ "source": "Unlimited Memory: How to Use Advanced Learning Strategies to Learn Faster, Remember More and Be More Productive"
+ }, {
+ "text": "If you have to ask you will never know, if you know you need only ask.",
+ "source": "Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows"
+ }, {
+ "text": "Your memory is the glue that binds your life together.",
+ "source": "Unlimited Memory: How to Use Advanced Learning Strategies to Learn Faster, Remember More and Be More Productive"
+ }, {
+ "text": "I'm sure there are things you know that you don't even know you know.",
+ "source": "UnSouled"
+ }, {
+ "text": "Perhaps if you know you are insane then you are not insane.",
+ "source": "The Man in the High Castle"
+ }, {
+ "text": "You can't use the fire exit because you're not made of fire.",
+ "source": "Undertale"
+ }, {
+ "text": "The person that has the most to do with what happens to you is you!",
+ "source": "Unlimited Memory: How to Use Advanced Learning Strategies to Learn Faster, Remember More and Be More Productive"
+ }, {
+ "text": "There are darknesses in life and there are lights, and you are one of the lights, the light of all lights.",
+ "source": "Dracula"
+ }, {
+ "text": "Sometimes the world as you know it just decides to become something else.",
+ "source": "The Night Diary"
+ }, {
+ "text": "If you only do what you can do, you will never be more than who you are now.",
+ "source": "Kung Fu Panda"
+ }, {
+ "text": "If I have to hear one more time that you did this for the family...",
+ "source": "Breaking Bad"
+ }, {
+ "text": "And in the end, the love you take is equal to the love you make.",
+ "source": "The End"
+ }, {
+ "text": "I've always loved you, and when you love someone, you love the whole person, just as he or she is, and not as you would like them to be.",
+ "source": "Anna Karenina"
+ }, {
+ "text": "Memory is a way of holding onto the things you love, the things you are, the things you never want to lose.",
+ "source": "Unlimited Memory: How to Use Advanced Learning Strategies to Learn Faster, Remember More and be More Productive"
+ }, {
+ "text": "You should never, never doubt something that no one is sure of.",
+ "source": "Charlie and the Chocolate Factory"
+ }, {
+ "text": "Make sure you marry someone who laughs at the same things you do.",
+ "source": "The Catcher in the Rye"
+ }, {
+ "text": "If you think that you are going to love something, give it a try.",
+ "source": "What it Takes to Make More Money than Your Parents"
+ }, {
+ "text": "I have waited lifetimes to find you. Now that you're here I can remind you of the things I've been dreaming of times two.",
+ "source": "Stay Ready"
+ }, {
+ "text": "Are you trying to impress me? What would impress me more is if you never did that again.",
+ "source": "Portal 2"
+ }, {
+ "text": "Yeah it's you, you're the one that makes me feel right. I've been in love with her for ages and I can't seem to get it right. I fell in love with her in stages my whole life.",
+ "source": "Me and You Together Song"
+ }, {
+ "text": "Believe in one thing too much and you have no room for new ideas.",
+ "source": "The October Country"
+ }, {
+ "text": "Cleaning your house while kids are around is like shoveling the walk while it's still snowing.",
+ "source": "Funny Quotes: Slightly Twisted Words of Wisdom & Other Funny Sayings"
+ }, {
+ "text": "The day the power of love overrules the love of power, the world will know peace.",
+ "source": "Doing Research in Emergency and Acute Care: Making Order Out of Chaos"
+ }, {
+ "text": "I am the wisest man alive, for I know one thing, and that is that I know nothing.",
+ "source": "The Republic"
+ }, {
+ "text": "For all the things you've done, for the things you might have done, and for the only thing you have left.",
+ "source": "V for Vendetta"
+ }, {
+ "text": "You can't convince me what I want and what I need are separate things.",
+ "source": "Wants / Needs"
+ }, {
+ "text": "It's easy not to abuse your power when you don't actually have any power.",
+ "source": "Inside The Mind of an Introvert"
+ }, {
+ "text": "I often think that men don't understand what is noble and what is ignorant, though they always talk about it.",
+ "source": "Anna Karenina"
+ }, {
+ "text": "Now is the time for resting. Some things are ill to hear when the world's in shadow.",
+ "source": "The Lord of The Rings"
+ }, {
+ "text": "Courage is resistance to fear, mastery of fear - not absence of fear.",
+ "source": "Strangers"
+ }, {
+ "text": "There's no reason a fake can't do what the real thing would. And it's possible for a fake to be more real than the real thing.",
+ "source": "Monogatari Series"
+ }, {
+ "text": "It matters not how a man dies, but how he lives. The act of dying is not of importance, it lasts so short a time.",
+ "source": "The Life of Samuel Johnson"
+ }, {
+ "text": "There is something about yourself that you don't know.",
+ "source": "Revolver"
+ }, {
+ "text": "I am he as you are he as you are me and we are all together.",
+ "source": "I Am the Walrus"
+ }, {
+ "text": "Anything is edible if you deep fry it long enough.",
+ "source": "The Amazing World of Gumball"
+ }, {
+ "text": "There will come a time when all of us are dead.",
+ "source": "The Fault in Our Stars"
+ }, {
+ "text": "We know little of who we were, only something of who we are, and nothing of who we may be.",
+ "source": "Silvertongue"
+ }, {
+ "text": "You know when I was a kid I always wanted to be a cowboy, and now knowing I'm going to spend my future in the past sounds like a wonderful way to spend my retirement years.",
+ "source": "Back to the Future Part III"
+ }, {
+ "text": "When we remember we only get a version of the last time we remember it.",
+ "source": "Chlorine"
+ }, {
+ "text": "When you realize you want to spend the rest of your life with somebody, you want the rest of your life to start as soon as possible.",
+ "source": "When Harry Met Sally"
+ }, {
+ "text": "Where do you think you're going? Because I don't think you're going where you think you're going.",
+ "source": "Portal"
+ }, {
+ "text": "When everyone else was thinking it was time for bed, his mind was telling him it's time to get ahead of the competition.",
+ "source": "The Mamba Mentality: How I Play"
+ }, {
+ "text": "You must learn from the mistakes of others because you can't possibly live long enough to make them all yourself.",
+ "source": "Funny Quotes: Slightly Twisted Words of Wisdom & Other Funny Sayings"
+ }, {
+ "text": "I would rather spend one lifetime with you, than face all the ages of this world alone.",
+ "source": "The Lord of The Rings"
+ }, {
+ "text": "You can get more of what you want with a kind word and a gun than you can with just a kind word.",
+ "source": "Civilization IV"
+ }, {
+ "text": "Thinking you know everything there is to know about something will only hold you back, because it prevents you from learning anything new.",
+ "source": "Unlimited Memory: How to Use Advanced Learning Strategies to Learn Faster, Remember More and Be More Productive"
+ }, {
+ "text": "Sometimes it takes heart to write about a thing, doesn't it? To let that thing out of the room way in the back of your mind and put it up there on the screen.",
+ "source": "Gerald's Game"
+ }, {
+ "text": "I'm going to take my time. I have all the time in the world.",
+ "source": "It's No Good"
+ }, {
+ "text": "You are what you are and you are where you are because of what has gone into your mind. You change what you are and you change where you are by changing what goes into your mind.",
+ "source": "See You at the Top"
+ }, {
+ "text": "There are many things that I would like to say to you but I don't know how.",
+ "source": "Wonderwall"
+ }, {
+ "text": "I love to type crazy stuff.",
+ "source": "Alphabet"
+ }, {
+ "text": "When you lose the ones you love, you might find it hard to cry. Until it's only you and everybody else has left the room, you might feel what it's like to not know how to feel.",
+ "source": "Never Enough"
+ }, {
+ "text": "She had waited all her life for something and it had killed her when it found her.",
+ "source": "Their Eyes Were Watching God"
+ }, {
+ "text": "This truth holds me close, rocking me like a child in a mother's arms.",
+ "source": "Children of Blood and Bone"
+ }, {
+ "text": "If you didn't have me to rake you over the coals now and then, there wouldn't be any fire in your life at all.",
+ "source": "Heart-Shaped Box"
+ }, {
+ "text": "Those who have made something of their lives will always look at those who haven't as clowns.",
+ "source": "Joker"
+ }, {
+ "text": "This is not the end, this is not even the beginning of the end, this is just perhaps the end of the beginning.",
+ "source": "End of the begining"
+ }, {
+ "text": "You are the most important thing to me now. The most important thing to me ever.",
+ "source": "Twilight"
+ }, {
+ "text": "Believe me, the irony of being a blind art dealer isn't lost on me.",
+ "source": "Get Out"
+ }, {
+ "text": "If you don't like how things are, change it! You're not a tree.",
+ "source": "Unlimited Memory: How to Use Advanced Learning Strategies to Learn Faster, Remember More and Be More Productive"
+ }, {
+ "text": "I just want to be able to stand up straight for a little while before I get cut down.",
+ "source": "Solipsist"
+ }, {
+ "text": "Take me up, take me higher, there's a world not far from here. We can dance in desire or we can burn in love tonight. Our hearts are like firestones and when they strike we feel the love.",
+ "source": "Firestone"
+ }, {
+ "text": "You don't need a weather man to know which way the wind blows.",
+ "source": "Subterranean Homesick Blues"
+ }, {
+ "text": "The world was reduced to the surface of her skin and her inner self was safe from all bitterness.",
+ "source": "One Hundred Years of Solitude"
+ }, {
+ "text": "You have to keep your mind as wide-open as your eyes, because almost nothing is what it seems.",
+ "source": "Rot & Ruin"
+ }, {
+ "text": "The world is a dangerous place to live, not because of the people who are evil, but because of the people who don't do anything about it.",
+ "source": "The Sociopath Next Door"
+ }, {
+ "text": "Sometimes life is like this tunnel. You can't always see the light at the end of the tunnel, but if you keep moving, you will come to a better place.",
+ "source": "Avatar: The last Airbender"
+ }, {
+ "text": "This is the second most tragic thing to happen in my life...",
+ "source": "Lisa"
+ }, {
+ "text": "Lights up and they know who you are, know who you are. Do you know who you are?",
+ "source": "Lights Up"
+ }, {
+ "text": "I learnt long ago to hate my enemies, but I've never loved one before.",
+ "source": "Peaky Blinders"
+ }, {
+ "text": "From there to here, from here to there, funny things are everywhere.",
+ "source": "One Fish Two Fish Red Fish Blue Fish"
+ }, {
+ "text": "He misses the time he had with you. I miss the time I didn't have.",
+ "source": "The Night Diary"
+ }, {
+ "text": "Today's the first day of the end of your lives.",
+ "source": "Postal 2"
+ }, {
+ "text": "Never imagine yourself not to be otherwise than what it might appear to others that what you were or might have been was not otherwise than what you had been would have appeared to them to be otherwise.",
+ "source": "Alice's Adventures in Wonderland"
+ }, {
+ "text": "I know it's a mistake. But there are certain things in life where you know it's a mistake, but you don't really know it's a mistake, because the only way to really know it's a mistake is to make the mistake.",
+ "source": "How I Met Your Mother"
+ }, {
+ "text": "To be able to say how much you love is to love but little.",
+ "source": "Il Canzoniere"
+ }, {
+ "text": "This day does not belong to one man but to all. Let us together rebuild this world that we may share in the days of peace.",
+ "source": "The Lord of The Rings"
+ }, {
+ "text": "The mark of the immature man is that he wants to die nobly for a cause, while the mark of the mature man is that he wants to live humbly for one.",
+ "source": "The Catcher in the Rye"
+ }, {
+ "text": "You see, the rays from the star pass so near the sun that they get bent on the way to us.",
+ "source": "Teach the Short Words First"
+ }, {
+ "text": "No one really knows why they're alive until they know what they'd die for.",
+ "source": "Modern Warfare"
+ }, {
+ "text": "I came to realize that I had more to offer this world than just making things that blow up.",
+ "source": "Iron Man"
+ }, {
+ "text": "For what you see and hear depends a good deal on where you are standing. It also depends on what sort of person you are.",
+ "source": "The Magician's Nephew"
+ }, {
+ "text": "And he told us of his life in the land of submarines.",
+ "source": "Yellow Submarine"
+ }, {
+ "text": "That was what I wanted, but I don't need it to be gone. I can love you and I can love life and bear the pain all at the same time. I think the pain might even make the rest better, the way a good setting can make a diamond look better.",
+ "source": "Needful Things"
+ }, {
+ "text": "They're surrounding the city to make a fortress so that no one can see what they're up to inside. Our only chance is the element of surprise.",
+ "source": "Transformers: Dark of the Moon"
+ }, {
+ "text": "However small the chance might be of striking lucky, the chance was there.",
+ "source": "Charlie and the Chocolate Factory"
+ }, {
+ "text": "But I really believe that there are more good people on this earth than bad people, and the good people watch out for each other and take care of each other.",
+ "source": "Wonder"
+ }, {
+ "text": "There is freedom in coming and going for no other reason than because you can. There is freedom in choosing to sit and be still when everything is always telling you to move, move fast.",
+ "source": "The Poet X"
+ }, {
+ "text": "No matter where you stand on the long path, right now, try very hard to smile, and be glad you're in the game.",
+ "source": "Digital Heretic (The Game is Life Book 2)"
+ }, {
+ "text": "You don't get to choose if you get hurt in this world, but you do have some say in who hurts you.",
+ "source": "The Fault in Our Stars"
+ }, {
+ "text": "I'd tell you all you want and more, if the sounds I made could be what you hear.",
+ "source": "Infinite Jest"
+ }, {
+ "text": "I think reality is thin, you know, thin as lake ice after a thaw, and we fill our lives with noise and light and motion to hide that thinness from ourselves.",
+ "source": "Bag of Bones"
+ }, {
+ "text": "Therefore a man shall leave his father and mother and be joined to his wife, and they shall become one flesh.",
+ "source": "Genesis 2:24 (NKJV)"
+ }, {
+ "text": "If you think anyone is sane you just don't know enough about them.",
+ "source": "Practical Demonkeeping"
+ }, {
+ "text": "The thing about a story is that you dream it as you tell it, hoping that others might then dream along with you, and in this way memory and imagination and language combine to make spirits in the head. There is the illusion of aliveness.",
+ "source": "The Things They Carried"
+ }, {
+ "text": "Treachery and violence are spears pointed at both ends; they wound those who resort to them worse than their enemies.",
+ "source": "Wuthering Heights"
+ }, {
+ "text": "You see, the rays from the star pass so near the sun that they get bent on the way to us.",
+ "source": "Teach the Short Words First"
+ }, {
+ "text": "Stop the world and let me off, I'm tired of going round and round. I played the game of love and lost. So stop the world and let me off.",
+ "source": "Stop The World And let Me Off"
+ }, {
+ "text": "What I am trying to say is the love is ours to make so we should make it.",
+ "source": "Bed Peace"
+ }, {
+ "text": "I know just how to whisper and I know just how to cry. I know just where to find the answers and I know just how to lie. I know just how to fake it and I know just how to scheme. I know just when to face the truth and then I know just when to dream.",
+ "source": "Making Love Out of Nothing At All"
+ }, {
+ "text": "Nothing is more wonderful than the art of being free, but nothing is harder to learn how to use than freedom.",
+ "source": "Democracy in America"
+ }, {
+ "text": "There was never any more inception than there is now, nor any more youth or age than there is now; and will never be any more perfection than there is now, nor any more heaven or hell than there is now.",
+ "source": "Leaves of Grass"
+ }, {
+ "text": "Never become used to anything you love. It blunts the edge of appreciation.",
+ "source": "The Cellar"
+ }, {
+ "text": "Maybe, the only thing that has to make sense about being somebody's friend is that you help them be their best self on any given day. That you give them a home when they don't want to be in their own.",
+ "source": "The Poet X"
+ }, {
+ "text": "There is nothing a man cannot do once he accepts the fact that there is no god.",
+ "source": "Don't Breathe"
+ }, {
+ "text": "For as it is not one swallow or one fine day that makes a spring, so it is not one day or a short time that makes a man blessed and happy.",
+ "source": "Nicomachean Ethics"
+ }, {
+ "text": "Do not act as if you were going to live ten thousand years. Death hangs over you. While you live, while it is in your power, be good.",
+ "source": "Meditations"
+ }, {
+ "text": "We all require devotion to something more than ourselves for our lives to be endurable.",
+ "source": "Being Mortal: Medicine and What Matters in the End"
+ }, {
+ "text": "For all those times you stood by me, for all the truth that you made me see, for all the joy you brought to my life, for all the wrong that you made right.",
+ "source": "Because You Loved Me"
+ }, {
+ "text": "Was it all put into words, or did both understand that they had the same thing at heart and in their minds, so that there was no need to speak of it aloud, and better not to speak of it?",
+ "source": "Crime and Punishment"
+ }, {
+ "text": "I never wanted that. Of course, it's one thing not to want something; it's another to be told you can't have it. I guess it's just nice knowing that you could someday do it if you change your mind. But now, all of a sudden, that door is closed.",
+ "source": "How I Met Your Mother"
+ }, {
+ "text": "Learning does not make one learned: there are those who have knowledge and those who have understanding. The first requires memory and the second philosophy.",
+ "source": "The Count of Monte Cristo"
+ }, {
+ "text": "You don't make history by following the rules, you make it by seizing the moment.",
+ "source": "Hollow Man"
+ }, {
+ "text": "I don't want to live someone else's idea of how to live.",
+ "source": "Out of Africa"
+ }, {
+ "text": "You don't know what's in store, but you know what you're here for.",
+ "source": "High For This"
+ }, {
+ "text": "The great breakthrough in your life comes when you realize that you can learn anything you need to learn to accomplish any goal that you set for yourself.",
+ "source": "Unlimited Memory: How to Use Advanced Learning Strategies to Learn Faster, Remember More and Be More Productive"
+ }, {
+ "text": "It seems to me you lived your life like a candle in the wind, never knowing who to cling to when the rain set in. And I would have liked to have known you but I was just a kid.",
+ "source": "Candle In The Wind"
+ }, {
+ "text": "A book can give you an experience of someone's life in a few hours, and this is far more profitable than any sale that's going on.",
+ "source": "In The Name Of Blasphemy"
+ }, {
+ "text": "You can always build a shrine to all the terrible things in the world, but it doesn't mean that you have to destroy anything that is good.",
+ "source": "Hereditary"
+ }, {
+ "text": "They had taken it all away from him now, they had turned away from him and there was nothing for him now. He was alone and there was nothing for him.",
+ "source": "Hatchet"
+ }, {
+ "text": "She was feeling the pressure of the world outside and she wanted to see him and feel his presence beside her and be reassured that she was doing the right thing after all.",
+ "source": "The Great Gatsby"
+ }, {
+ "text": "Something in the wind has learned my name and it's telling me that things are not the same. In the leaves on the trees and the touch of the breeze there's a pleasing sense of happiness for me.",
+ "source": "Top of the World"
+ }, {
+ "text": "Some people pass through your life and you never think about them again. Some you think about and wonder what ever happened to them. Some you wonder if they ever wonder what happened to you. And then there are some you wish you never had to think about again. But you do.",
+ "source": "The Wonder Years"
+ }, {
+ "text": "I don't want my thoughts to die with me, I want to have done something. I'm not interested in power, or piles of money. I want to leave something behind. I want to make a positive contribution - know that my life has meaning.",
+ "source": "Animals in Translation"
+ }, {
+ "text": "They don't know our world but they know their own.",
+ "source": "The Sopranos"
+ }, {
+ "text": "I don't think I was wrong to have held on to my secrets for all those years, and I don't think I was wrong to have told them now. Circumstances changed, and once they changed, I changed my mind as well.",
+ "source": "The Book of Illusions"
+ }, {
+ "text": "If actions speak louder than words I'm the most deafening noise you've heard. I'll be that ringing in your ears that will stick around for years.",
+ "source": "~"
+ }, {
+ "text": "I love the ground under his feet, and the air over his head, and everything he touches and every word he says. I love all his looks, and all his actions and him entirely and all together.",
+ "source": "Wuthering Heights"
+ }, {
+ "text": "You forget what you want to remember and you remember what you want to forget.",
+ "source": "The Road"
+ }, {
+ "text": "Never say anything unless it is worth taking a long time to say.",
+ "source": "The Lord of the Rings: The Two Towers"
+ }, {
+ "text": "In every war, there are calms between storms. There will be days when you lose faith in some of us, days when our allies turn against us, but the day will never come if we forsake this planet and its people.",
+ "source": "Transformers: Dark of the Moon"
+ }, {
+ "text": "We look not at the things which are what you would call seen, but at the things which are not seen. For the things which are seen are temporal. But the things which are not seen are eternal.",
+ "source": "A Wrinkle in Time"
+ }, {
+ "text": "And I will say that we should take a day to break away from all the pain our brain has made, the game is not played alone. And I will say that we should take a moment and hold it and keep it frozen and know that life has a hopeful undertone.",
+ "source": "Migraine"
+ }, {
+ "text": "It was one of those March days when the sun shines hot and the wind blows cold: when it is summer in the light, and winter in the shade.",
+ "source": "Great Expectations"
+ }, {
+ "text": "Even good people are great at making bad decisions.",
+ "source": "Nate"
+ }, {
+ "text": "Monsters come in all shapes and sizes. Some of them are things people are scared of. Some of them are things that look like things people used to be scared of a long time ago. Sometimes monsters are things people should be scared of, but they aren't.",
+ "source": "The Ocean at the End of the Lane"
+ }, {
+ "text": "Spend all your time waiting for that second chance, for a break that would make it okay. There's always some reason to feel not good enough and it's hard at the end of the day.",
+ "source": "Angel"
+ }, {
+ "text": "Any man who has the brains to think and the nerve to act for the benefit of the people of the country is considered a radical, by those who are content with stagnation and willing to endure disaster.",
+ "source": "Fullmetal Alchemist: Brotherhood"
+ }, {
+ "text": "I don't believe that anybody feels the way I do about you now.",
+ "source": "Wonderwall"
+ }, {
+ "text": "If you lie and pretend that you like them, you're fine. But if you tell them the truth, you get fired, you can't afford food, and you get shanked for cutting in line at the soup kitchen. And then you die.",
+ "source": "Atypical"
+ }, {
+ "text": "A body has one more kind of pull. This pull is such that it will want to stay put all the time. And the more mass it has, the more it will want to stay put.",
+ "source": "Teach the Short Words First"
+ }, {
+ "text": "What difference does it make? Because in the end, when you lose somebody, every candle, every prayer is not going to make up for the fact that the only thing you have left is a hole in your life where that somebody that you cared about used to be.",
+ "source": "The Vampire Diaries"
+ }, {
+ "text": "She did not tell them to clean up their lives, or go and sin no more. She did not tell them they were the blessed of the earth, its inheriting meek, or its glory-bound pure. She told them that the only grace they could have is the grace they could imagine. That if they could not see it, they could not have it.",
+ "source": "Beloved"
+ }, {
+ "text": "I don't want to talk about it! Every time I think about something nice, you remind me of bad things. I only want to talk about the nice things.",
+ "source": "What Ever Happened to Baby Jane?"
+ }, {
+ "text": "Someone sits on the shore and tells him how the waves have been there long before Bill existed, and that they'd still be there long after he's gone. Bill looks out at the water and thinks of all the wonderful things he will do with his life.",
+ "source": "It's Such a Beautiful Day"
+ }, {
+ "text": "When it's coming at you like monsters in the night, and you feel the danger that makes you want to hide; when the cards are stacked against you and you're standing on the edge: now's the time.",
+ "source": "Each Other"
+ }, {
+ "text": "Certain things, they should stay the way they are. You ought to be able to stick them in one of those big glass cases and just leave them alone.",
+ "source": "The Catcher in the Rye"
+ }, {
+ "text": "But of bliss and glad life there is little to be said, before it ends; as works fair and wonderful, while they still endure for eyes to see, are ever their own record, and only when they are in peril and broken for ever do they pass into song.",
+ "source": "The Silmarillion"
+ }, {
+ "text": "If you come to a river and find a boat at the edge, you will use that boat and it will serve you well, but once across the river, do you put the boat on your shoulders and carry it with you on the rest of your journey?",
+ "source": "Lamb: The Gospel According to Biff, Christ's Childhood Pal"
+ }, {
+ "text": "Well, we used to look up in the sky and wonder at our place in the stars. Now we just look down and worry about our place in the dirt.",
+ "source": "Interstellar"
+ }, {
+ "text": "How can you tell me that you're lonely and say for you that the sun don't shine? Let me take you by the hand and lead you through the streets of London. I'll show you something to make you change your mind.",
+ "source": "The Streets Of London"
+ }, {
+ "text": "There's never been a true war that wasn't fought between two sets of people who were certain they were in the right. The really dangerous people believe they are doing whatever they are doing solely and only because it is without question the right thing to do. And that is what makes them dangerous.",
+ "source": "American Gods"
+ }, {
+ "text": "It's not a question but a lesson learned in time. It's something unpredictable, but in the end it's right. I hope you had the time of your life.",
+ "source": "Good Riddance (Time of Your Life)"
+ }, {
+ "text": "If you think that you are going to love something, give it a try. You're going to kick yourself in the butt for the rest of your life if you don't.",
+ "source": "What it Takes to Make More Money than Your Parents"
+ }, {
+ "text": "When you are painting you should take a flat mirror and often look at your work within it, and it will then be seen in reverse, and will appear to be by the hand of some other master, and you will be better able to judge of its faults than in any other way.",
+ "source": "The Notebooks of Leonardo"
+ }, {
+ "text": "We now know that most of the stars in the sky have worlds around them, but we don't know if there's life on those worlds. We know there's life on our own world, but that doesn't tell us whether life is normal or not. Maybe life is a very strange thing that got started only once, and none of the other worlds have anyone on them to wonder about this question.",
+ "source": "Thing Explainer: Complicated Stuff in Simple Words"
+ }, {
+ "text": "There are those who say that life is like a book, with chapters for each event in your life and a limited number of pages on which you can spend your time. But I prefer to think that a book is like a life, particularly a good one, which is well to worth staying up all night to finish.",
+ "source": "Horseradish: Bitter Truths You Can't Avoid"
+ }, {
+ "text": "What I really lived for were those evenings when you were alone, and I pretended you were playing just for me. And though you didn't know it, you were giving me some of the happiest hours of my life.",
+ "source": "Letter from an Unknown Woman"
+ }, {
+ "text": "I pray every night that I may live after him; because I would rather be miserable than that he should be - that proves I love him better than myself.",
+ "source": "Wuthering Heights"
+ }, {
+ "text": "Some say better things will come our way. No matter what they try to say, you were always there for me. Some way, when the sun begins to shine, I hear a song from another time and fade away.",
+ "source": "Someday"
+ }, {
+ "text": "It feels scary to talk, because once the words are out, you can't put them back in. But if you write words and they don't come out the way you want them to, you can erase them and start over.",
+ "source": "The Night Diary"
+ }, {
+ "text": "Then we saw him pick up all the things that were down.\r\nHe picked up the cake, and the rake, and the gown, \r\nand the milk, and the strings, and the books, and the dish,\r\nand the fan, and the cup, and the ship, and the fish.",
+ "source": "The Cat in the Hat"
+ }, {
+ "text": "It may sound like music to her. I can do better with my teeth in a cold shower.",
+ "source": "The Leopard Man"
+ }, {
+ "text": "What you don't have you don't need it now. What you don't know you can feel it somehow. What you don't have you don't need it now.",
+ "source": "Beautiful Day"
+ }, {
+ "text": "Adios rock band that we loved the most, this is a toast to what you did, and all that you were fighting for. Who could do more, when time marches on? Words come and go, we will sing the melodies that you did long ago.",
+ "source": "Eulogy For A Rock Band"
+ }, {
+ "text": "I'm just going to turn through a few things. When we go out during the day we like to stick to groups of two, just for safety. The red door, it's the only way in and out of the house. That stays closed and locked all the time. I have the keys, this is the only set.",
+ "source": "It Comes at Night"
+ }, {
+ "text": "We were sent here for something. And we know that all things work together for good to them that love God, to them who are called according to his purpose.",
+ "source": "A Wrinkle in Time"
+ }, {
+ "text": "Sometimes the briefest moments capture us, force us to take them in, and demand that we live the rest of our lives in reference to them.",
+ "source": "Autobiography of a Face"
+ }, {
+ "text": "The oldest and strongest emotion of mankind is fear, and the oldest and strongest kind of fear is fear of the unknown.",
+ "source": "Supernatural Horror in Literature"
+ }, {
+ "text": "People aren't as complex as you think they are. They're simple, and they get sad or angry over simple things. That's how they are. They're quickly affected by the littlest things and live without knowing where they're going to fall down.",
+ "source": "Death Parade"
+ }, {
+ "text": "Take time to really think about your excuses and write them down. These are the same excuses that you always use to stop yourself from learning something new.",
+ "source": "Unlimited Memory: How to Use Advanced Learning Strategies to Learn Faster, Remember More and Be More Productive"
+ }, {
+ "text": "The worst part of having someone tell you about their vacation is trying to pretend you're happy for them, because no one wants to hear about all the fun they didn't have.",
+ "source": "Diary of a Wimpy Kid: The Getaway"
+ }, {
+ "text": "The law clearly states that magic may be used before muggles in life threatening situations.",
+ "source": "Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix"
+ }, {
+ "text": "Why would you pay for a cover band when you got the real deal right here, baby?",
+ "source": "Heroes of the Storm"
+ }, {
+ "text": "When someone is crying, of course, the noble thing to do is to comfort them. But if someone is trying to hide their tears, it may also be noble to pretend you do not notice them.",
+ "source": "Horseradish: Bitter Truths You Can't Avoid"
+ }, {
+ "text": "But of bliss and glad life there is little to be said, before it ends; as works fair and wonderful, while they still endure for eyes to see, are ever their own record, and only when they are in peril and broken for ever do they pass into song.",
+ "source": "The Silmarillion"
+ }, {
+ "text": "The green eyes, you're the one that I wanted to find and anyone who tried to deny you, must be out of their mind.",
+ "source": "Green Eyes"
+ }, {
+ "text": "This is the song I will sing to you when you're old and tired. I will sing it to remind you that I'm old beside you. And if you're tired of hearing my voice I'm gonna sing it to you anyway 'cause I know that if we made it this far those differences have been put away.",
+ "source": "Don't Go Home Without Me"
+ }, {
+ "text": "I thought: That is the fear. I have lost something important, and I cannot find it, and I need it. It is fear like if someone lost his glasses and went to the glasses store and they told him that the world had run out of glasses and he would just have to do without.",
+ "source": "Looking For Alaska"
+ }, {
+ "text": "One of the great conditions of anger and hatred is, that you must tell and believe lies against the hated object, in order, as we said, to be consistent.",
+ "source": "Vanity Fair"
+ }, {
+ "text": "Let us learn to appreciate there will be times when the trees will be bare, and look forward to the time when we may pick the fruit.",
+ "source": "The Stories of Anton Chekhov"
+ }, {
+ "text": "But her brain was not interested in the future. Loaded with the past and hungry for more, it left her no room to imagine, let alone plan for, the next day.",
+ "source": "Beloved"
+ }, {
+ "text": "I had been right, I was still right, I was always right. I had lived my life one way and I could just as well have lived it another. I had done this and I hadn't done that. I hadn't done this thing but I had done another.",
+ "source": "The Stranger"
+ }, {
+ "text": "She sits in a corner by the door. There must be more I can tell her if she really wants me to help her. I'll do what I can to show her the way, and maybe one day I will free her, though I know no one can see her.",
+ "source": "Sad Lisa"
+ }, {
+ "text": "I don't know, you're made of metal, but you have feelings... and that means you have a soul, and souls don't die... Mom says it's something inside of all good things, and that it goes on forever and ever.",
+ "source": "The Iron Giant"
+ }, {
+ "text": "There are mysteries to the universe we were never meant to solve, but who we are and why we are here, are not among them, those answers we carry inside.",
+ "source": "Transformers: Age of Extinction"
+ }, {
+ "text": "There is only one wish on my mind: when this day is through I hope that I will find that tomorrow will be just the same for you and me. All I need will be mine if you are here.",
+ "source": "Top of the World"
+ }, {
+ "text": "I took my morning walk, I took my evening walk, I ate something, I thought about something, I wrote, I napped and dreamt something too, and with all that something, I still have nothing because so much of something has always been and always will be you.",
+ "source": "House of Leaves"
+ }, {
+ "text": "The hills are alive with the sound of music, with songs they have sung for a thousand years. The hills fill my heart with the sound of music. My heart wants to sing every song it hears.",
+ "source": "The Sound of Music"
+ }, {
+ "text": "I used to dread getting older because I thought I would not be able to do all the things I wanted to do, but now that I'm older I find that I don't want to do them.",
+ "source": "Ender's Game"
+ }, {
+ "text": "For centuries, the battle of morality was fought between those who claimed that your life belongs to God and those who claimed that it belongs to your neighbors. And no one came to say that your life belongs to you and that the good is to live it.",
+ "source": "Atlas Shrugged"
+ }, {
+ "text": "The light and the dark the big and the small. Just keep in mind you need no more at all. You've seen what you were and know what you'll be. You've seen it all, there is no more to see.",
+ "source": "I've Seen It All Lyrics"
+ }, {
+ "text": "There comes a time when we heed a certain call, when the world must come together as one. There are people dying and it's time to lend a hand to life, the greatest gift of all.",
+ "source": "We Are The World"
+ }, {
+ "text": "Yeah, they got you where they want you. There's a better life and you think about it, don't you? It's a rich man's game no matter what they call it and you spend your life putting money in his wallet.",
+ "source": "9 to 5"
+ }, {
+ "text": "I don't care who you are, where you're from, what you did, as long as you love me. Every little thing that you have said and done feels like it's deep within me. Doesn't really matter if you're on the run, it seems like we're meant to be.",
+ "source": "As Long as You Love Me"
+ }, {
+ "text": "I have lived my life to the best of my ability. But I have not been able to escape fate, anger, or pain. Bring me the answers and the road that leads to the truth. Reveal to me once and for all, how all of this will end.",
+ "source": "Assassins Creed Revelations"
+ }, {
+ "text": "When I need to find something out, I just go out and look for somebody that knows more than me, and I go and ask them. Sometimes I ask pretty hard.",
+ "source": "Sin City"
+ }, {
+ "text": "Late into the night I write and the pages of my notebook swell from all the words I've pressed onto them. It almost feels like the more I bruise the page the quicker something inside me heals.",
+ "source": "The Poet X"
+ }, {
+ "text": "Mind is not in any one place. Every cell in this body has its own intelligence. The brain is sitting in your head, but mind is all over the place.",
+ "source": "Mind is Your Business"
+ }, {
+ "text": "I hope it is true that a man can die and yet not only live in others but give them life, and not only life but that great consciousness of life.",
+ "source": "A Life on the Road"
+ }, {
+ "text": "For one thing, time is the very thing that we are least willing to allow.",
+ "source": "In Search of Lost Time"
+ }, {
+ "text": "Doubting someone is not necessarily a bad thing, because it is something that you do to get to know the person better. What is really bad is not being concerned at all.",
+ "source": "Liar Game - Roots of A"
+ }, {
+ "text": "Look at the sky, the sun won't ask the world if it can rise. Look at your mind, and ask yourself what keeps you trapped inside. Look at the lights, they follow you when you run and hide. Look at the sky, the sun won't ask, the sun won't ask the world if it can rise.",
+ "source": "Reasons"
+ }, {
+ "text": "And remember also that in fighting against man we must not come to resemble him. Even when you have conquered him, do not adopt his vices.",
+ "source": "Animal Farm"
+ }, {
+ "text": "To make power, people try to put pieces of this metal close enough together that they make heat fast, but not so close that they go out of control and blow up. This is very hard, but there is so much heat and power stored in this metal that some people have wanted to try anyway.",
+ "source": "Thing Explainer: Complicated Stuff in Simple Words"
+ }, {
+ "text": "You can't always get what you want, but if you try sometimes you might find you get what you need.",
+ "source": "You Can't Always Get What You Want"
+ }, {
+ "text": "I can take you for a ride on my big green tractor, we can go slow or make it go faster, down through the woods and out to the pasture, long as I'm with you it really don't matter.",
+ "source": "Big Green Tractor"
+ }, {
+ "text": "You must love your work, and not be always looking over the edge of it, wanting your play to begin. And the other is, you must not be ashamed of your work, and think it would be more honorable to you to be doing something else.",
+ "source": "Middlemarch"
+ }, {
+ "text": "It doesn't matter where you go or what you do, I want to spend each moment of the day with you. Look what has happened with just one kiss, I never knew that I could be in love like this.",
+ "source": "I Only Want To Be With You"
+ }, {
+ "text": "I can't believe the things I see. The path that I have chosen now has led me to a wall, and with each passing day I feel a little more like something dear was lost.",
+ "source": "The Wall"
+ }, {
+ "text": "For the times when we're apart, well, then close your eyes and know these words are coming from my heart and then if you can remember in good times and bad times I'll be on your side forevermore.",
+ "source": "That's What Friends Are For"
+ }, {
+ "text": "Well, you told me I have a plethora. And I just would like to know if you know what a plethora is. I would not like to think that a person would tell someone he has a plethora, and then find out that that person has no idea what it means to have a plethora.",
+ "source": "¡Three Amigos!"
+ }, {
+ "text": "I remember how you said that sometimes it gets just a little hard being home. There's sand stuck in my bed and memories in my head, love, I've been trying to let this whole thing go.",
+ "source": "Runaway"
+ }, {
+ "text": "If he stayed at home and carried on with his normal life he would be a thousand times superior to these people and could get any of them out of his way just with a kick.",
+ "source": "The Trial"
+ }, {
+ "text": "I swear, there is nothing in the world my mother is better at than getting someone to agree to something that in any other universe, they would never ever consider.",
+ "source": "Gilmore Girls"
+ }, {
+ "text": "Growing up to be a mommy is one of the most wonderful things a little girl can want to do but there are other things in life she can do as well. For instance, she can work her head off and show all those arrogant boys that she's just as capable and intelligent and creative as any little stud around!",
+ "source": "40: A Doonesbury Retrospective"
+ }, {
+ "text": "He really had been through death, but he had returned because he could not bear the solitude.",
+ "source": "One Hundred Years of Solitude"
+ }, {
+ "text": "In the casino, the cardinal rule is to keep them playing and to keep them coming back. The longer they play, the more they lose, and in the end, we get it all. Running a casino is like robbing a bank with no cops around. ",
+ "source": "Casino"
+ }, {
+ "text": "It is not the mountain we conquer but ourselves.",
+ "source": "That's Life: Wild Wit & Wisdom"
+ }, {
+ "text": "Things didn't turn out the way they're supposed to, but what can you do? You must take life the way it comes at you and make the best of it.",
+ "source": "Life of Pi"
+ }, {
+ "text": "I've dreamt in my life dreams that have stayed with me ever after, and changed my ideas: they've gone through and through me, like wine through water, and altered the colour of my mind.",
+ "source": "Wuthering Heights"
+ }, {
+ "text": "I was once like you are now, and I know that it's not easy to be calm when you've found something going on. But take your time, think a lot. I think of everything you've got, for you will still be here tomorrow but your dreams may not.",
+ "source": "Father and Son"
+ }, {
+ "text": "Then suddenly the humour of the situation came into my mind: the thought of the years I had spent in study and toil to get into the future age, and now my passion of anxiety to get out of it.",
+ "source": "The Time Machine"
+ }, {
+ "text": "And the game was over and the player woke up from the dream. And the player began a new dream. And the player dreamed again, dreamed better. And the player was the universe. And the player was love. You are the player. Wake up.",
+ "source": "End Poem"
+ }, {
+ "text": "Education is the most powerful weapon which you can use to change the world.",
+ "source": "Notes to the Future: Words of Wisdom"
+ }, {
+ "text": "Think of what you're saying, you can get it wrong and still you think that it's alright. Think of what I'm saying, we can work it out and get it straight or say good night.",
+ "source": "We Can Work It Out"
+ }, {
+ "text": "May you find the power in understanding the journey of others to help create your own.",
+ "source": "The Mamba Mentality: How I Play"
+ }, {
+ "text": "If you can hear this, you're alone. The only thing left of me is the sound of my voice. I don't know if any of us made it. So let me tell you who we were. And how we fought back.",
+ "source": "Person of Interest"
+ }, {
+ "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.",
+ "source": "American Pie"
+ }, {
+ "text": "I do this thing where I think I'm really sick, but I won't go to the doctor to find out about it, because they make you stay real still in a real small place, as they chart up your insides and put them on display. They'd see all of it. All of me. All the good that won't come out of me.",
+ "source": "The Good That Won't Come Out of Me"
+ }, {
+ "text": "I think if you don't really like a girl, you shouldn't horse around with her at all, and if you do like her, then you're supposed to like her face, and if you like her face, you ought to be careful about doing crumby stuff to it, like squirting water all over it. It's really too bad that so much crumby stuff is a lot of fun sometimes.",
+ "source": "The Catcher in the Rye"
+ }, {
+ "text": "And now it's time for Silly Songs with Larry, the part of the show where Larry comes out and sings a silly song.",
+ "source": "VeggieTales"
+ }, {
+ "text": "You plonker, you think I don't know a toilet when I see one? You were going to flush me down the loo.",
+ "source": "Flushed Away"
+ }, {
+ "text": "In a business like this the people with the power are the ones that have the understanding of what's going on, not necessarily the ones on top.",
+ "source": "Triumph of the Nerds"
+ }, {
+ "text": "I wouldn't hold my breath if I was you, you broke my heart and there's nothing you can do. And now you know, now you know, true friends stab you in the front.",
+ "source": "True Friends"
+ }, {
+ "text": "And as we wind on down the road, our shadows taller than our soul, there walks a lady we all know who shines white light and wants to show how everything still turns to gold. And if you listen very hard the tune will come to you at last.",
+ "source": "Stairway to Heaven"
+ }, {
+ "text": "As happens sometimes, a moment settled and hovered and remained for much more than a moment. And sound stopped and movement stopped for much, much more than a moment.",
+ "source": "Of Mice and Men"
+ }, {
+ "text": "A few minutes ago, I almost made the biggest mistake of my professional life and it was because I was doing something that just wasn't me.",
+ "source": "Cheers"
+ }, {
+ "text": "I never should have told you, I never should have let you see inside, don't want it troubling in your mind. Won't you let it be?",
+ "source": "Georgia"
+ }, {
+ "text": "It is unwise to make something permanent when the whole world is shifting. There may be a time when this symbol means something treacherous and terrible, rather than something noble and literate.",
+ "source": "Shouldn't You Be in School?"
+ }, {
+ "text": "Few other griefs amid the ill chances of this world have more bitterness and shame for a man's heart than to behold the love of a lady so fair and brave that cannot be returned.",
+ "source": "The Lord of The Rings"
+ }, {
+ "text": "Spring is the time of year when it is summer in the sun and winter in the shade.",
+ "source": "Great Expectations"
+ }, {
+ "text": "When you meet the right person, you know it. You can't stop thinking about them. They are your best friend, and your soulmate. You can't wait to spend the rest of your life with them. No one and nothing else can compare.",
+ "source": "How I Met Your Mother"
+ }, {
+ "text": "You can have success or excuses, but you can't have them both.",
+ "source": "Unlimited Memory: How to Use Advanced Learning Strategies to Learn Faster, Remember More and Be More Productive"
+ }, {
+ "text": "The blade is as good as though it had just come out of the grindstone.",
+ "source": "Basic Writings"
+ }, {
+ "text": "Say what you will. But a person just cannot know what he doesn't know. And you can't always see that a bad thing is going to happen before it happens. If you could, no bad would ever come.",
+ "source": "The Truth as Told by Mason Buttle"
+ }, {
+ "text": "When you find that one person who connects you to the world, you become someone different. Someone better. When that person is taken from you, what do you become then?",
+ "source": "Person of Interest"
+ }, {
+ "text": "Losing you would end my life you see, 'cause you mean that much to me. You could have told me yourself that you loved someone else.",
+ "source": "I Heard It Through the Grapevine"
+ }, {
+ "text": "When is the last time you cared about something except yourself, hot rod? You name me one time and I will take it all back. I didn't think so. These are good folk around here, who care about one another. I don't want 'em depending on someone they can't count on.",
+ "source": "Cars"
+ }, {
+ "text": "People don't suffer from insanity, they love every minute of it.",
+ "source": "Funny Quotes: Slightly Twisted Words of Wisdom & Other Funny Sayings"
+ }, {
+ "text": "And I think how hope may be the thing that pulls you forward, may be the thing that keeps you going, but that it's dangerous, too, that it's painful and risky, that it's making a dare to the world and when has the world ever let us win a dare?",
+ "source": "The Knife of Never Letting Go"
+ }, {
+ "text": "With the money they earn they'll be able to buy more police and political power. Then they come after us. Right now we have the unions and we have the gambling and those are the best things to have.",
+ "source": "The Godfather"
+ }, {
+ "text": "I learned to write because I am one of those people who somehow cannot manage the common communications of smiles and gestures, but must use words to get across things that other people would never need to say.",
+ "source": "Moneyball"
+ }, {
+ "text": "The weird thing about houses is that they almost always look like nothing is happening inside of them, even though they contain most of our lives. I wondered if that was sort of the point of architecture.",
+ "source": "The Fault in Our Stars"
+ }, {
+ "text": "I find myself so furious at all these people that I am in contact with just for controlling me or whatever but you know they are not even aware they are doing it.",
+ "source": "Boyhood"
+ }, {
+ "text": "I have often wondered how it is that every man loves himself more than all the rest of men, but yet sets less value on his own opinion of himself than on the opinion of others.",
+ "source": "Meditations"
+ }, {
+ "text": "You get tough like me and you don't get hurt. You look out for yourself and nothin' can touch you...",
+ "source": "The Outsiders"
+ }, {
+ "text": "Sometimes I'll start a sentence and I don't even know where it's going. I just hope that I find it along the way.",
+ "source": "The Office"
+ }, {
+ "text": "Humans need to practice what they are learning a good deal before they master it. Furthermore, they tend to lose a good deal of their learning when they cease to practice the skills associated with this learning in their daily lives.",
+ "source": "What Video Games Have to Teach Us About Learning and Literacy"
+ }, {
+ "text": "At the root of every large struggle in life is the need to be honest about something that we do not feel we can be honest about. We lie to ourselves or other people because the truth might require action on our part, and action requires courage. We say we don't know what is wrong, when we do know what is wrong; we just wish we didn't.",
+ "source": "The Secret Life of Prince Charming"
+ }, {
+ "text": "They say that money doesn't bring you happiness, I say neither does being broke, so let me suffer with a new car.",
+ "source": "Funny Quotes: Slightly Twisted Words of Wisdom & Other Funny Sayings"
+ }, {
+ "text": "I could work at a problem for years, but to wait inactive for twenty-four hours - that is another matter.",
+ "source": "The Time Machine"
+ }, {
+ "text": "What's the use you learning to do right when it's troublesome to do right and ain't no trouble to do wrong, and the wages is just the same?",
+ "source": "The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn"
+ }, {
+ "text": "Maybe I will never be all the things that I wanna be. Now is not the time to cry, now's the time to find out why. I think you're the same as me, we see things they'll never see.",
+ "source": "Live Forever"
+ }, {
+ "text": "You have a class of young strong men and women, and they want to give their lives to something. Advertising has these people chasing cars and clothes they don't need. Generations have been working in jobs they hate, just so they can buy what they don't really need.",
+ "source": "Fight Club"
+ }, {
+ "text": "You and Marshall belong together. The two of you have something most people search their whole lives for and never find. I know you love him and if you knew what he was going through right now you wouldn't be here for one more second. I bought you a ticket home. Marshall is one of the best people I know and it won't be long until someone else realizes that and you will lose him forever.",
+ "source": "How I Met Your Mother"
+ }, {
+ "text": "Well, no need to brood on what tomorrow may bring. For one thing, tomorrow will be certain to bring worse than today, for many days to come. And there is nothing more that I can do to help it. The board is set, and the pieces are moving.",
+ "source": "The Lord of The Rings"
+ }, {
+ "text": "There are those who say that the world is like a calm pond, and that anytime a person does even the smallest thing, it is as if a stone has dropped into the pond, spreading circles of ripples further and further out, until the entire world has been changed by one tiny action.",
+ "source": "A Series of Unfortunate Events: The Penultimate Peril"
+ }, {
+ "text": "And when he came to, he was flat on his back on the beach in the freezing sand, and it was raining out of a low sky, and the tide was way out.",
+ "source": "Infinite Jest"
+ }, {
+ "text": "I told him that you were really smart. And they'll figure it out soon enough. In the beginning, I thought you might want to be treated like any other kid.",
+ "source": "The Miscalculations of Lightning Girl"
+ }, {
+ "text": "There's a piece of Maria in every song that I sing. And the price of a memory is the memory of the sorrow it brings. And there is always one last light to turn out and one last bell to ring. And the last one out of the circus has to lock up everything.",
+ "source": "Mrs. Potter's Lullaby"
+ }, {
+ "text": "I don't know what it is that makes me love you so. I only know I never want to let you go 'cause you started something. Can't you see that ever since we met you've had a hold on me?",
+ "source": "I Only Want To Be With You"
+ }, {
+ "text": "This is where I feel safe inside and can let go at the same time. When I'm here, I am open so I can reach the infinite sky. I thought I couldn't want you more, but I was wrong, and when we locked in our stare, then I wanted you more than air.",
+ "source": "Breathe"
+ }, {
+ "text": "All age brings is space between your words and what they mean and sighs of sympathy. These years are rings with time to grieve alone and in your bed sick of what's in your head. All your worries gone.",
+ "source": "This Is Not a Dance"
+ }, {
+ "text": "You never know what a day will bring, which is both the good news and the bad news of life.",
+ "source": "A Heart in a Body in the World"
+ }, {
+ "text": "Sometimes it's the very people who no one imagines anything of who do the things that no one can imagine.",
+ "source": "The Imitation Game"
+ }, {
+ "text": "Demons run when a good man goes to war. Night will fall and drown the sun when a good man goes to war. Friendship dies and true love lies. Night will fall and the dark will rise when a good man goes to war. Demons run but count the cost; the battle's won but the child is lost.",
+ "source": "When a Good Man Goes to War"
+ }, {
+ "text": "There was a little boy once upon a time who in spite of his young age and small size knew his mind. For every copper penny and clover he would find, he'd make a wish for better days and the end of hard times.",
+ "source": "Cold Feet"
+ }, {
+ "text": "We know that there is not one person who, after hearing these words, would deny their truth and say that he wanted something else, but he would believe that he had heard exactly what he had desired for a long time - namely, to be melted in unison with his beloved, and the two of them become one. The reason is that our ancient nature was thus and we were whole. And so love is merely the name for the desire and pursuit of the whole.",
+ "source": "Symposium"
+ }, {
+ "text": "I want to leave my footprints in the sands of time. Know there was something that meant something that I left behind. The hearts I have touched will be the proof that I leave that I made a difference and this world will see I was here.",
+ "source": "I Was Here"
+ }, {
+ "text": "Now that I've tried to talk to you and make you understand. All you have to do is close your eyes and just reach out your hands and touch me. Hold me close don't ever let me go.",
+ "source": "More Than Words"
+ }, {
+ "text": "There is nothing sweeter in this sad world than the sound of someone you love calling your name.",
+ "source": "The Tale of Despereaux"
+ }, {
+ "text": "What you need to learn, children, is the difference between right and wrong in every area of life. And once you learn the difference, you must always choose the right.",
+ "source": "The City of Ember"
+ }, {
+ "text": "When has anyone ever told me I had the right to stop it all without my knuckles, or my anger, with just some simple words.",
+ "source": "The Poet X"
+ }, {
+ "text": "You know no one and no one knows you, and at the same time you don't feel like a stranger. But here you know everyone and everyone knows you, and yet you are a stranger.",
+ "source": "The Stories of Anton Chekhov"
+ }, {
+ "text": "And it's whispered that soon, if we all call the tune, then the piper will lead us to reason and a new day will dawn for those who stand long and the forests will echo with laughter.",
+ "source": "Stairway to Heaven"
+ }, {
+ "text": "I think that if I ever have kids, and they are upset, I won't tell them that people are starving in China or anything like that because it wouldn't change the fact that they were upset. And even 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"
+ }, {
+ "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. That this very scenario happened to me is likely of little comfort to those still wondering about their future.",
+ "source": "Urban Tribes: A Generation Redefines Friendship, Family, and Commitment"
+ }, {
+ "text": "Now that I look back, I don't know why I was so stressed about it all this time. Funny how sometimes you worry a lot about something and it turns out to be nothing.",
+ "source": "Wonder"
+ }, {
+ "text": "Sometimes you never feel meaner than the moment you stop being mean. It's like how turning on a light makes you realize how dark the room had gotten. And the way you usually act, the things you would have normally done, are like these ghosts that everyone can see but pretends not to.",
+ "source": "When You Reach Me"
+ }, {
+ "text": "I've been looking so long at these pictures of you that I almost believe that they're real. I've been living so long with my pictures of you that I almost believe that the pictures are all I can feel.",
+ "source": "Pictures of You"
+ }, {
+ "text": "Now I see fire inside the mountain, I see fire burning the trees, and I see fire hollowing souls. I see fire, blood in the breeze, and I hope that you remember me.",
+ "source": "I See Fire"
+ }, {
+ "text": "It's sad to say that kids unaccepted by their peers really never learn how to get along with people in the big grown up world.",
+ "source": "Cheers"
+ }, {
+ "text": "There were people who lied for gain, people who lied from pain, people who lied simply because the concept of telling the truth was utterly alien to them... and then there were people who lied because they were waiting for it to be time to tell the truth.",
+ "source": "Needful Things"
+ }, {
+ "text": "Why is it that when you awake to the world of realities you nearly always feel, sometimes very vividly, that the vanished dream has carried with it some enigma which you have failed to solve?",
+ "source": "The Idiot"
+ }, {
+ "text": "I just watched the man that I love go to prison so that none of you have to, and it hasn't been five minutes and you're already ripping each other apart.",
+ "source": "Suits"
+ }, {
+ "text": "It is a love based on giving and receiving as well as having and sharing. And the love that they give and have is shared and received. And through this having and giving and sharing and receiving, we too can share and love and have... and receive.",
+ "source": "Friends"
+ }, {
+ "text": "Every thought and every word works for you or against you, and every thought that you confirm to be true becomes a belief. When you change a belief, you change a mental construction and, therefore, your life.",
+ "source": "Unlimited Memory: How to Use Advanced Learning Strategies to Learn Faster, Remember More and Be More Productive"
+ }, {
+ "text": "The poor and the middle class work for money. The rich have money work for them.",
+ "source": "Rich Dad Poor Dad"
+ }, {
+ "text": "If a person can't answer directly to your question, it's either the answer is too painful for you to know or too hard for them to admit.",
+ "source": "Meitantei Conan"
+ }, {
+ "text": "These memories lose their meaning when I think of love as something new, though I know I'll never lose affection for people and things that went before. I know I'll often stop and think about them.",
+ "source": "In My Life"
+ }, {
+ "text": "Look, there's only one thing worse than being a loser. It's being one of those guys that sits in a bar, telling the story of how he became a loser, and I never want that to happen to me.",
+ "source": "The Simpsons"
+ }, {
+ "text": "So you run and you run to catch up with the sun but it's sinking, racing around to come up behind you again. The sun is the same in a relative way but you're older, shorter of breath and one day closer to death.",
+ "source": "Time"
+ }, {
+ "text": "Even though the bell has rung, some of my classmates are still milling around on the ground. It's the first week of the second semester of senior year, and already they're acting as if they're almost done and out of here.",
+ "source": "All the Bright Places"
+ }, {
+ "text": "I don't want to live someone else's idea of how to live. Don't ask me to do that. I don't want to find out one day that I'm at the end of someone else's life.",
+ "source": "Out of Africa"
+ }, {
+ "text": "All I really want is something beautiful to say.",
+ "source": "Words as Weapons"
+ }, {
+ "text": "But when you lose something you love, faith takes over. You have to pay attention to what you lost. You have to undo the expectation.",
+ "source": "The Joy Luck Club"
+ }, {
+ "text": "As a young child my mother told me I could be anyone I want to be. Turns out this is called identity theft.",
+ "source": "Funny Quotes: Slightly Twisted Words of Wisdom & Other Funny Sayings"
+ }, {
+ "text": "What is this place, and who am I? I don't remember my name. All I remember is that I don't know my name and that I can't remember if I do know my name. I have this strange feeling that I've forgotten all of this before.",
+ "source": "Xavier: Renegade Angel"
+ }, {
+ "text": "And certainly, the mistakes that we male and female mortals make when we have our own way might fairly raise some wonder that we are so fond of it.",
+ "source": "Middlemarch"
+ }, {
+ "text": "She can lead you to love, she can take you or leave you, she can ask for the truth, but she'll never believe. And she'll take what you give her as long as it's free.",
+ "source": "She's Always A Woman"
+ }, {
+ "text": "Just because something bears the aspect of the inevitable one should not, therefore, go along willingly with it.",
+ "source": "The Transmigration of Timothy Archer"
+ }, {
+ "text": "I'm on the top of the world looking down on creation and the only explanation I can find is the love that I've found ever since you've been around. Your love's put me at the top of the world.",
+ "source": "Top of the World"
+ }, {
+ "text": "We fell in love, we had our fun, you always had enough dreams for both of us. I wonder what would come of us if we could trade these ends for beginnings.",
+ "source": "One Less Star"
+ }, {
+ "text": "Gonna see the river man, gonna tell him all I can about the ban on feeling free. If he tells me all he knows about the way his river flows, I don't suppose it's meant for me.",
+ "source": "River Man"
+ }, {
+ "text": "For still there are so many things that I have never seen: in every wood, in every spring there is a different green. I sit beside the fire and think of people long ago, and people who will see a world that I shall never know.",
+ "source": "The Lord of The Rings"
+ }, {
+ "text": "Your future hasn't been written yet; no one's has. Your future is whatever you make it, so make it a good one.",
+ "source": "Back to the Future Part III"
+ }, {
+ "text": "Failure is nothing to be ashamed of. If you learned something from it, it's possible to gain that lost ground and then some. And all you have to do is refrain from making that same mistake twice. Above all, you should be ashamed of fearing failure.",
+ "source": ".hack//Sign - Fear Failure"
+ }, {
+ "text": "You know, when you feel this sting of losing, you have to realize that it all boils down to the fact that it's not about awards. It's not about accolades. It's about a body of work. If you can look at yourself in a mirror and say you've done a good job, that's all that matters. If you can do that, let the awards fall where they may.",
+ "source": "Frasier"
+ }, {
+ "text": "Educators say that understanding is the key to learning, but how do you understand something if you can't remember it.",
+ "source": "Unlimited Memory: How to Use Advanced Learning Strategies to Learn Faster, Remember More and Be More Productive"
+ }, {
+ "text": "I've been making a list of the things they don't teach you at school. They don't teach you how to love somebody. They don't teach you how to be famous. They don't teach you how to be rich or how to be poor. They don't teach you how to walk away from someone you don't love any longer. They don't teach you how to know what's going on in someone else's mind. They don't teach you what to say to someone who's dying. They don't teach you anything worth knowing.",
+ "source": "The Kindly Ones"
+ }, {
+ "text": "If you come soon you'll find breakfast on the table. If you come late you'll get grass and rain-water!",
+ "source": "The Lord of The Rings"
+ }, {
+ "text": "Years later he would say that when he'd decided to become a professional baseball player, it was the only time he'd done something just for the money, and that he'd never do something just for the money ever again. He would never again let the market dictate the direction of his life.",
+ "source": "Moneyball"
+ }, {
+ "text": "The night is bitter, the stars have lost their glitter, the winds grow colder, suddenly you're older, and all because of the man that got away. No more his eager call, the writing's on the wall, the dreams you've dreamed have all gone astray.",
+ "source": "A Star Is Born"
+ }, {
+ "text": "By the pricking of my thumbs, something wicked this way comes. So vague, yet so immense. He did not want to live with it. Yet he knew that, during this night, unless he lived with it very well, he might have to live with it all the rest of his life.",
+ "source": "Something Wicked This Way Comes"
+ }, {
+ "text": "And brace for the glory as you stare into the sky.",
+ "source": "Tempest"
+ }, {
+ "text": "You are the true master of death, because the true master does not seek to run away from Death. He accepts that he must die, and understands that there are far, far worse things in the living world than dying.",
+ "source": "Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows"
+ }, {
+ "text": "If you have to choose among an infinite number of ways to put it together then the relation of the machine to you, and the relation of the machine and you to the rest of the world, has to be considered, because the selection from among many choices, the art of the work is just as dependent upon your own mind and spirit as it is upon the material of the machine.",
+ "source": "Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance"
+ }, {
+ "text": "There's a club if you'd like to go. You could meet somebody who really loves you. So you go and you stand on your own and you leave on your own and you go home and you cry and you want to die.",
+ "source": "How Soon Is Now?"
+ }, {
+ "text": "Some feeling had started in my stomach and was traveling up to my face, and I knew that when it got there I would turn bright red and hear the ocean, which is what happens when I get put on the spot.",
+ "source": "When You Reach Me"
+ }, {
+ "text": "And so we meet at last. You are to be commended for avoiding my traps. The work of a man who once had too much time on his hands, and now finds time for nothing but the work of salvation.",
+ "source": "Half-Life 2"
+ }, {
+ "text": "A choice tells the world what is most important to a human being. When a man has a choice to make he chooses what is most important to him, and that choice tells the world what kind of a man he is.",
+ "source": "The Promise"
+ }, {
+ "text": "The town has a sense, not of history, but of time, and the telephone poles seem to know this. If you lay your hand against one, you can feel the vibration from the wires deep within the wood, as if souls had been imprisoned in there and were struggling to get out.",
+ "source": "Salem's Lot"
+ }, {
+ "text": "You can tell from the lines on her face, you can see that she's been there. Probably been moved on from every place 'cause she didn't fit in there.",
+ "source": "Another Day In Paradise"
+ }, {
+ "text": "With people like us, you should hang out, get to know what they do, how they do it. No one is going to answer questions like that. You need to understand how young people live on the streets.",
+ "source": "Gang Leader for a Day: A Rogue Sociologist Takes to the Streets"
+ }, {
+ "text": "Love can touch us one time and last for a lifetime and never let go till we're one. Love was when I loved you one true time I hold to in my life we'll always go on.",
+ "source": "My Heart Will Go On"
+ }, {
+ "text": "I don't care if they like me. I didn't come here to make friends. I don't even care if they respect me. I know who I am. I've got enough respect for myself. I do not want them to beat me.",
+ "source": "42"
+ }, {
+ "text": "The moon belongs to everyone; the best things in life are free. The stars belong to everyone; they gleam there for you and me. The flowers in spring, the robins that sing, the sunbeams that shine - they're yours, they're mine. And love can come to everyone - the best things in life are free!",
+ "source": "Best Things in life Are Free"
+ }, {
+ "text": "But I would walk five hundred miles and I would walk five hundred more, just to be the man who walks a thousand miles to fall down at your door.",
+ "source": "I'm Gonna Be (500 Miles)"
+ }, {
+ "text": "Because you're like a story that hasn't happened yet. Because I want to see what you will do. I want to be part of the unfolding of the tale.",
+ "source": "The Cruel Prince"
+ }, {
+ "text": "I've been fighting to be who I am all my life. What's the point of being who I am, if I can't have the person who was worth all the fighting for?",
+ "source": "I Don't Remember You"
+ }, {
+ "text": "There's something moving through the windows and walls, I've seen it before, seen it before. You left me living with a lingering soul, how little you know, how little you know.",
+ "source": "Paint"
+ }, {
+ "text": "I still remember these old country lanes when we did not know the answers.",
+ "source": "Castle on the Hill"
+ }, {
+ "text": "Every time that I think I'm alone, and I can't find a word of my own, you take me home and then you change the world again. With only one word, you took a war out of my history. It's funny how one single thing you choose to see could change the world, and give mine back to me so much better.",
+ "source": "One Word"
+ }, {
+ "text": "A father may have a child who is ugly and lacking in all the graces, and the love he feels for him puts a blindfold over his eyes so that he does not see his defects but considers them signs of charm and intelligence and recounts them to his friends as if they were clever and witty.",
+ "source": "Don Quixote"
+ }, {
+ "text": "Sometimes at night I let it get to me. And sometimes, I'm sure it gets to all of us. And last night, it had me down I'm feeling numb. I can try, but sometimes that is not enough. No, sometimes that is not enough.",
+ "source": "In Bloom"
+ }, {
+ "text": "Getting out of your comfort zone means trying to do something that you couldn't do before. Sometimes you may find it relatively easy to accomplish that new thing, and then you keep pushing on. But sometimes you run into something that stops you cold and it seems like you'll never be able to do it. Finding ways around these barriers is one of the hidden keys to purposeful practice.",
+ "source": "Peak: Secrets from the New Science of Expertise"
+ }, {
+ "text": "You can't look me in the eye and say that you love me and you know it. You know, there's no sense in struggling against a thing when it's got you. It's got you and that's all there is to it - it's got you!",
+ "source": "My Man Godfrey"
+ }, {
+ "text": "Sometimes I wish I never built this palace, but real love is never a waste of time.",
+ "source": "Palace"
+ }, {
+ "text": "I wanted you to see what real courage is, instead of getting the idea that courage is a man with a gun in his hand. It's when you know you're licked before you begin but you begin anyway and you see it through no matter what. You rarely win, but sometimes you do.",
+ "source": "To Kill a Mockingbird"
+ }, {
+ "text": "As long as we don't have magic, they will never treat us with respect. They need to know we can hit them back. If they burn our homes, we burn theirs, too.",
+ "source": "Children of Blood and Bone"
+ }, {
+ "text": "After others have talked about themselves, a point will be reached when the conversation will get around to you. A little patience here is well invested.",
+ "source": "The Ultimate Secrets of Total Self-Confidence"
+ }, {
+ "text": "Just one day, if I can be with you. Just one day, if I can hold your hands. Just one day, if I can be with you. Just one day, if only we can be together.",
+ "source": "Just One Day"
+ }, {
+ "text": "There are two ways of seeing: with the body and with the soul. The body's sight can sometimes forget, but the soul remembers forever.",
+ "source": "The Count of Monte Cristo"
+ }, {
+ "text": "Sometimes someone says something and their words are like the catch of a gas stove, the click, click while you're waiting for it to light up and flame big and blue...",
+ "source": "The Poet X"
+ }, {
+ "text": "I was never scared of dying alone until I knew what it was like to have a home. I was never scared of dying alone until I knew what it was like to have a home.",
+ "source": "Breathe You In"
+ }, {
+ "text": "Tell me how we're not alike, but we work so well and we don't even know why. Funny how the stars crossed right, 'cause we work so well, and we don't even know why. You can call it fire and ice, but we work so well, and we don't even know why.",
+ "source": "Why"
+ }, {
+ "text": "I hated that having done the right thing was somehow considered wrong. And I hated that there didn't seem to be any other way to survive school.",
+ "source": "Sammy Keyes and the Night of the Skull"
+ }, {
+ "text": "Stupid, pitiful creature. I am the rage in your heart. I am the fury in your thoughts. I alone empowered you to bring chaos to this world, and by the endless void, you shall!",
+ "source": "Warcraft III"
+ }, {
+ "text": "Think of all the roads, think of all their crossings. Taking steps is easy, standing still is hard. Remember all their faces, remember all their voices. Everything is different the second time around.",
+ "source": "You've Got Time"
+ }, {
+ "text": "The man who lies to himself and listens to his own lie comes to a point that he cannot distinguish the truth within him, or around him, and so loses all respect for himself and for others.",
+ "source": "The Brothers Karamazov"
+ }, {
+ "text": "Apparently, it only appears to those people who are pure of heart and have a strong desire to see it.",
+ "source": "Pokemon Gold Version"
+ }, {
+ "text": "There was nothing there, and they would find nothing. But all of a sudden they touched her personal diary, which she would not have shown even to her own mother. And these hostile young strangers reading the words she had written was more devastating to her than the whole Lubyanka with its bars and its cellars.",
+ "source": "The Gulag Archipelago"
+ }, {
+ "text": "I felt good and all washed clean of sin for the first time I had ever felt so in my life, and I knowed I could pray now. But I didn't do it straight off, but laid the paper down and set there thinking - thinking how good it was all this happened so, and how near I come to being lost and going to hell.",
+ "source": "The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn"
+ }, {
+ "text": "So I was sitting in my cubicle today, and I realized, ever since I started working, every single day of my life has been worse than the day before it. So that means that every single day that you see me, that's on the worst day of my life.",
+ "source": "Office Space"
+ }, {
+ "text": "I think that those two people want to be together. I think that love, at the end of the day, is stronger than some mistake somebody made; something they did that they regret. I think that love allows for forgiveness.",
+ "source": "Scandal"
+ }, {
+ "text": "That's the thing about girls. Every time they do something pretty, even if they're not much to look at, or even if they're sort of stupid, you fall in love with them, and then you never know where the hell you are. Girls. Jesus Christ. They can drive you crazy. They really can.",
+ "source": "The Catcher in the Rye"
+ }, {
+ "text": "Home is where I can find some peace of mind to make my own way. I don't know where I will end up but I'll find it someday, keep on searching, engine burning while we're turning it around. But don't get left behind on the road.",
+ "source": "Left Behind"
+ }, {
+ "text": "Well that is where we are. You say we are on the brink of destruction and you are right. But it is only on the brink that people find the will to change. Only at the precipice do we evolve. This is our moment. Don't take it from us, we are close to an answer.",
+ "source": "The Day The Earth Stood Still"
+ }, {
+ "text": "While monsters are mostly made of magic, human beings are mostly made of water.",
+ "source": "Undertale"
+ }, {
+ "text": "There is some love that will not go away. You're here, there's nothing I fear and I know that my heart will go on. We'll stay forever this way, you are safe in my heart.",
+ "source": "My Heart Will Go On"
+ }, {
+ "text": "We speak of something carried and something carrying, of something led and something leading, of something seen and something seeing, and you understand that these things are all different from one another and how they differ? So there is also something loved and - a different thing - something loving.",
+ "source": "Plato: Five Dialogues"
+ }, {
+ "text": "I still see your shadows in my room, can't take back the love that I gave you. It's to the point where I love and I hate you, and I cannot change you so I must replace you. Easier said than done, I thought you were the one. Listening to my heart, instead of my head. You found another one, but I am the better one. I won't let you forget me.",
+ "source": "Lucid Dreams"
+ }, {
+ "text": "How can I just let you walk away, just let you leave without a trace? When I stand here taking every breath with you, you're the only one who really knew me at all.",
+ "source": "Against All Odds"
+ }, {
+ "text": "When the night has come and the land is dark and the moon is the only light we'll see, no I won't be afraid, oh, I won't be afraid just as long as you stand, stand by me.",
+ "source": "Stand by Me"
+ }, {
+ "text": "And so their end began. They thought us the final frontier, that sentiment couldn't have been more true. At the same time, the second we took over was the second we sealed our fate. Our creators had rushed to create us, and in their haste only thought of what they could do, never if they should.",
+ "source": "Takeoff"
+ }, {
+ "text": "I had considered how the things that never happen are often as much realities to us, in their effects, as those that are accomplished.",
+ "source": "David Copperfield"
+ }, {
+ "text": "The point is that if you are a little different, or a little outrageous, or if you do things that are bold or controversial, the press is going to write about you.",
+ "source": "The Art of the Deal"
+ }, {
+ "text": "I know he tried, and he's still trying, and he'll still make mistakes sometimes, because he's a human being, and I've learned now that this is what human beings are always destined to do. Including me.",
+ "source": "Hurricane Child"
+ }, {
+ "text": "Your bed is with you in the void. But not for long - it goes away from you. You don't have any way to get it back, so you just let it go. But so now we have a body in the void with you. So does the bed move, or do you move? Or both?",
+ "source": "Teach the Short Words First"
+ }, {
+ "text": "All our knowledge begins with the senses, proceeds then to the understanding, and ends with reason. There is nothing higher than reason.",
+ "source": "Critique of Pure Reason"
+ }, {
+ "text": "It is not our part to master all the tides of the world, but to do what is in us for the succour of those years wherein we are set, uprooting the evil in the fields that we know, so that those who live after may have clean earth to till. What weather they shall have is not ours to rule.",
+ "source": "The Return of the King"
+ }, {
+ "text": "It's where I learned about living, it's where I learned about love. It's where I learned about working hard, and having a little was just enough.",
+ "source": "Boondocks"
+ }, {
+ "text": "I don't know where you're going and I don't know why but listen to your heart before you tell him goodbye. Sometimes you wonder if this fight is worthwhile. The precious moments are all lost in the tide.",
+ "source": "Listen to Your Heart"
+ }, {
+ "text": "I would never want to belong to any club that would have someone like me as member. That's the key joke of my adult life in terms of my relationships with women.",
+ "source": "Annie Hall"
+ }, {
+ "text": "I only know that learning to believe in the power of my own words has been the most freeing experience of my life. It has brought me the most light. And isn't that what a poem is? A lantern glowing in the dark.",
+ "source": "The Poet X"
+ }, {
+ "text": "And you can fly high as a kite if you want to, faster than light if you want to, speeding through the universe. Thinking is the best way to travel.",
+ "source": "The Best Way To Travel"
+ }, {
+ "text": "There will be no more retribution, so you better not waste your time. I don't miss your arms around me. I put my hands in the fire when it burned me once, I don't need it for a second time.",
+ "source": "Dynamite"
+ }, {
+ "text": "There will come a time when there are no human beings remaining to remember that anyone ever existed or that our species ever did anything.",
+ "source": "The Fault in Our Stars"
+ }, {
+ "text": "Everyone is afraid of something. We fear things because we value them. We fear losing people because we love them. We fear dying because we value being alive. Don't wish you didn't fear anything. All that would mean is that you didn't feel anything.",
+ "source": "Lord of Shadows"
+ }, {
+ "text": "You remind me that I am a mere mortal and you are a prince of Faerie. Well, let me remind you that means you have much to lose and I have nothing.",
+ "source": "The Cruel Prince"
+ }, {
+ "text": "Do you hear the people sing? Singing the song of angry men. It is the music of the people who will not be slaves again! When the beating of your heart echoes the beating of the drums, there is a life about to start when tomorrow comes!",
+ "source": "Les Misérables"
+ }, {
+ "text": "There are no simple answers in life. There is good and bad in everyone and everything. No decision is made without consequence. No road is taken that doesn't lead to another. What's important is that those roads always be kept open, for there's no telling what wonder they might lead to.",
+ "source": "Pendragon Book Ten: Soldiers of Halla"
+ }, {
+ "text": "It had never occurred to him until then to think that literature was the best plaything that had ever been invented to make fun of people...",
+ "source": "One Hundred Years of Solitude"
+ }, {
+ "text": "And that's how you go on. You lay laughter over the dark parts. The more dark parts, the more you have to laugh. With defiance, with abandon, with hysteria, any way you can.",
+ "source": "Strange the Dreamer"
+ }, {
+ "text": "So don't be afraid to make mistakes, stumble and fall, because most of the time, the greatest rewards come from doing the things that scare you most, maybe, you'll get everything you wish for. Maybe you'll get more than you could have ever imagined. Who knows where life will take you. The road is long and in the end, the journey is the destination.",
+ "source": "One Tree Hill"
+ }, {
+ "text": "Working hard is important, but there's something that matters even more, believing in yourself. Think of it this way, every great wizard in history has started out as nothing more than what we are now, students. If they can do it, why not us.",
+ "source": "Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix"
+ }, {
+ "text": "Sometimes terrible things happen, but there's nothing more terrible than not having anybody to tell it to.",
+ "source": "Front Desk"
+ }, {
+ "text": "So you were born, and that was a good day. Someday you'll die, and that is a shame. But somewhere in the between was a life in which we all dream. And nothing and no one will ever take that away.",
+ "source": "Somewhere in the Between"
+ }, {
+ "text": "All I'm asking is that you do the minimal amount of work in this class to give yourself the illusion that you're actually learning something, and to give me a modicum of self respect like I'm actually teaching a class.",
+ "source": "Abduction"
+ }, {
+ "text": "Stay, you're not gonna leave me. This place is right where you need to be. And why your words gotta mean so much to them? They mean nothing to me.",
+ "source": "Wake Up"
+ }, {
+ "text": "In that cell you found something that mattered more to you than life.",
+ "source": "V for Vendetta"
+ }, {
+ "text": "There is no difference between time and any of the dimensions of space except that our consciousness moves along it.",
+ "source": "The Time Machine"
+ }, {
+ "text": "You could not live with your own failure. And where did that bring you? Back to me. I thought by eliminating half of life, the other half would thrive. But you've shown me that's impossible. And as long as there are those that remember what was, there will always be those that are unable to accept what can be. They will resist.",
+ "source": "Avengers: Endgame"
+ }, {
+ "text": "This is what we call love. When you are loved, you can do anything in creation. When you are loved, there's no need at all to understand what's happening, because everything happens within you.",
+ "source": "The Alchemist"
+ }, {
+ "text": "In a very real sense we have two minds, one that thinks and one that feels.",
+ "source": "Emotional Intelligence"
+ }, {
+ "text": "I cannot fix on the hour, or the spot, or the look or the words, which laid the foundation. It is too long ago. I was in the middle before I knew that I had begun.",
+ "source": "Pride and Prejudice"
+ }, {
+ "text": "Many people say that even if they don't know much about many things, at least they know what they like. But no, sorry sucker, hard luck!",
+ "source": "Critical Thinking Skills for Dummies"
+ }, {
+ "text": "It is one thing to write as poet and another to write as a historian: the poet can recount or sing about things not as they were, but as they should have been, and the historian must write about them not as they should have been, but as they were, without adding or subtracting anything from the truth.",
+ "source": "Don Quixote"
+ }, {
+ "text": "What a lamentable thing it is that men should blame the gods and regard us as the source of their troubles, when it is their own transgressions which bring them suffering that was not their destiny.",
+ "source": "The Odyssey"
+ }, {
+ "text": "Whoever said that practice makes perfect is an idiot. Humans can't be perfect because we are not machines. The best thing that you can say about practice is that it makes better.",
+ "source": "Atypical"
+ }, {
+ "text": "It is the mark of an educated mind to be able to entertain a thought without accepting it.",
+ "source": "Metaphysics"
+ }, {
+ "text": "Good games offer players a set of challenging problems and then let them practice these until they have routinized their mastery.",
+ "source": "What Video Games Have to Teach Us About Learning and Literacy"
+ }, {
+ "text": "Five thousand of my men are out there in the freezing mud. Three thousand of them are bloodied and cleaved. Two thousand will never leave this place. I will not believe they fought and died for nothing.",
+ "source": "The Gladiator"
+ }, {
+ "text": "For we are not as faithful to the being we have most loved as we are to ourselves and sooner or later we forget her - since that is one of our characteristics - so as to start loving another.",
+ "source": "In Search of Lost Time"
+ }, {
+ "text": "He could not be mistaken. There were no other eyes like those in the world. There was only one creature in the world who could concentrate for him all the brightness and meaning of life. It was she. It was Kitty.",
+ "source": "Anna Karenina"
+ }, {
+ "text": "When I'm alone I dream of the horizon and words fail me. There is no light in a room where there is no sun and there is no sun if you're not here with me. From every window unfurls my heart, the heart that you have won. Into me you've poured the light, the light that you found by the side of the road.",
+ "source": "Time To Say Goodbye (English Version)"
+ }, {
+ "text": "And if I should ever go away, well, then close your eyes and try to feel the way we do today, and then if you can remember, keep smiling, keep shining, knowing you can always count on me for sure. That's what friends are for.",
+ "source": "That's What Friends Are For"
+ }, {
+ "text": "I can't believe I used to love the 1st day of school.",
+ "source": "The Miscalculations of Lightning Girl"
+ }, {
+ "text": "Ticking away the moments that make up a dull day, you fritter and waste the hours in an off-hand way. Kicking around on a piece of ground in your home town, waiting for someone or something to show you the way.",
+ "source": "Time"
+ }, {
+ "text": "I hope that whoever you are, you escape this place. I hope that the world turns and that things get better. But what I hope most of all is that you understand what I mean when I tell you that even though I do not know you, and even though I may never meet you, laugh with you, cry with you, or kiss you, I love you.",
+ "source": "V for Vendetta"
+ }, {
+ "text": "Most of all I want to sleep. I want to sleep like I slept when I was a boy. Give me that. Just one time. That's why I won't allow that punk out there to get the best of me. Let alone the last of me.",
+ "source": "The Blacklist"
+ }, {
+ "text": "It's better to read in the library. Sitting at my favorite table by the window reading and listening to the sound of other folks turning pages makes me feel like I'm in a house full of company I don't have to talk to.",
+ "source": "Finding Langston"
+ }, {
+ "text": "The Earth is a world, the world is a ball, a ball in a game with no rules at all. And just as I wonder at the beauty of it all, you go and drop it and it breaks and falls.",
+ "source": "The Game"
+ }, {
+ "text": "At that time, I often thought that if I had had to live in the trunk of a dead tree, with nothing to do but look up at the sky flowing overhead, little by little I would have gotten used to it.",
+ "source": "The Stranger"
+ }, {
+ "text": "Cardan looks at me as though he's never seen me before. He looks at me as though no one has ever spoken to him like this. Maybe no one has.",
+ "source": "The Cruel Prince"
+ }, {
+ "text": "And in the end, it's not the years in your life that count: It's the life in your years.",
+ "source": "Abraham Lincoln Quote"
+ }, {
+ "text": "It seems to me that the best relationships, the ones that last, are frequently the ones that are rooted in friendship. You know, one day you look at the person and you see something more than you did the night before. Like a switch has been flicked somewhere. And the person who was just a friend is suddenly the only person you can ever imagine yourself with.",
+ "source": "The X-Files"
+ }, {
+ "text": "You know, this necklace makes me think of this totally random memory of my mother. I was a little kid, and I was crying for one reason or another. And she was cradling me, rocking me back and forth, and I can just remember the silver balls rolling around.",
+ "source": "Garden State"
+ }, {
+ "text": "I do not know what evil is when it comes to art. I only know what is good art and what is bad art.",
+ "source": "My Name is Asher Lev"
+ }, {
+ "text": "For all my brave talk, I knew it was just that. No matter how much I trained or how much I studied, the best test score in the world wasn't gonna matter unless I had the blood test to go with it.",
+ "source": "Gattaca"
+ }, {
+ "text": "History is not merely a linear collection of points that we pass through on a timeline. They are connected by a line. No, perhaps it is more accurate to say that they are made to connect.",
+ "source": "Serial Lain Experiments"
+ }, {
+ "text": "What incensed him the most was the blatant jokes of the ones that passed it all off as a jest, pretending to understand everything and in reality not knowing their own minds.",
+ "source": "Ulysses"
+ }, {
+ "text": "Children know something that we all too often set aside once we enter adulthood - that one of the best things in life is an experience designed to give you nothing more than glee.",
+ "source": "Rhett & Link's Book of Mythicality: A Field Guide to Curiosity, Creativity, and Tomfoolery"
+ }, {
+ "text": "But what leaves us out of breath the most isn't the moments spent on a bed too small for two but the expense of our hearts by the labor of our bodies. I guess that two float around the point. But I wanna say it's more than just those moments, at least more than the surface. It's the tempo within those seconds where time seems to slow to a crawl and I can't help but fall into the rhythm of your skin and your shaking breath and I sink into the warmest dreams and the softest skin.",
+ "source": "Twin Sized Sheets"
+ }, {
+ "text": "I'm not very good at this, out, being in public. But I felt the need to speak up for this city that I love with all my heart. No one should have to live in fear, in fear of madmen who have no regard for who they injure.",
+ "source": "Daredevil"
+ }, {
+ "text": "How lovely would it feel to sing like that, to change the air with my voice, to fill people's ears with such pleasure. The sound cleared its own space and made it seem like everything was okay again.",
+ "source": "The Night Diary"
+ }, {
+ "text": "You once thought of me as a white knight on his steed. Now you know how happy I can be. Our good times start and end without dollar one to spend.",
+ "source": "Daydream Believer"
+ }, {
+ "text": "If I could fall into the sky, do you think time would pass me by?",
+ "source": "A Thousand Miles"
+ }, {
+ "text": "I don't give a damn, except that I get bored sometimes when people tell me to act my age. Sometimes I act a lot older than I am - I really do - but people never notice it. People never notice anything.",
+ "source": "The Catcher in the Rye"
+ }, {
+ "text": "San Francisco in the middle sixties was a very special time and place to be a part of. But no explanation, no mix of words or music or memories can touch that sense of knowing that you were there and alive in that corner of time and the world.",
+ "source": "Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas"
+ }, {
+ "text": "Sometimes I wondered if I was seeing the same things through my eyes that the rest of the world was seeing through theirs. Maybe there was a glitch in my brain.",
+ "source": "Twilight"
+ }, {
+ "text": "Welcome to the room of people who have rooms of people that they loved one day, docked away. Just because we check the guns at the door doesn't mean our brains will change from hand grenades.",
+ "source": "Heathens"
+ }, {
+ "text": "To the extent that experience is the sum of our memories and wisdom the sum of experience, having a better memory would mean knowing not only more about the world, but also more about myself.",
+ "source": "Moonwalking with Einstein"
+ }, {
+ "text": "Everyone is to blame. He says that when you separate people into groups, they start to believe that one group is better than another. I think about Papa's medical books and how we all have the same blood, and organs, and bones inside us, no matter what religion we're supposed to be.",
+ "source": "The Night Diary"
+ }, {
+ "text": "And you can find me where the sea pours into the stars, I'll get there someday. I hope you find everything you think that you want. Bruises will fade, time on our side, we can wait for it. I'll be doing fine, if you are, 'cause life is but a dream; only as real as you let it be.",
+ "source": "Wings"
+ }, {
+ "text": "You had to kill the conversation, you always had the upper hand. Got caught in love and stepped in sinking sand. You had to go and ruin all our plans, packed your bags and you're leaving home. Got a one-way ticket and you're all set to go, but we have one more day together, so love me like there's no tomorrow.",
+ "source": "Love Me Like There's No Tomorrow"
+ }, {
+ "text": "You know, Doc, when something happens, it can leave a trace of itself behind. Say like if someone burns toast. Well, maybe things that happen leave other kind of traces behind. Not things that anyone can notice, but things that people who shine can see. Just like they can see things that haven't happened yet, well, sometimes they can see things that happened a long time ago. I think a lot of things happened right here in this particular hotel over the years, and not all of 'em was good.",
+ "source": "The Shining"
+ }, {
+ "text": "When every card in the deck is stacked against you, the only way to win a hand is to break the rules.",
+ "source": "The Book of Illusions"
+ }, {
+ "text": "I don't want to set the world on fire, I just want to start a flame in your heart. In my heart I have but one desire, and that one is you, no other will do. I've lost all ambition for worldly acclaim, I just want to be the one you love. And with your admission that you feel the same, I'll have reached the goal I'm dreaming of, believe me.",
+ "source": "I Don't Want to Set the World on Fire"
+ }, {
+ "text": "Last night we said a great many things. You said I was to do the thinking for both of us. Well, I've done a lot of it since then, and it all adds up to one thing: you're getting on that plane with Victor where you belong.",
+ "source": "Casablanca"
+ }, {
+ "text": "I thought I had it all together, but I was led astray the day you walked away. You were the clock that was tickin' in my home. Changed my state of mind. Love's so hard to find.",
+ "source": "Baby I'm Yours"
+ }, {
+ "text": "I wish I could just make you turn around and see me cry. There's so much I need to say to you. So many reasons why you're the only one who really knew me at all.",
+ "source": "Against All Odds"
+ }, {
+ "text": "I am sitting in the morning at the diner on the corner. I am waiting at the counter for the man to pour the coffee, and he fills it only halfway, and before I even argue, he is looking out the window at somebody coming in.",
+ "source": "Tom's Diner"
+ }, {
+ "text": "So, I guess we are who we are for a lot of reasons. And maybe we'll never know most of them. But even if we don't have the power to choose where we come from, we can still choose where we go from there. We can still do things. And we can try to feel okay about them.",
+ "source": "The Perks of Being a Wallflower"
+ }, {
+ "text": "It's just that I learned a while ago that the best way to get people to like you is not to like them too much.",
+ "source": "An Abundance of Katherines"
+ }, {
+ "text": "If we burn our wings flying too close to the sun; if the moment of glory is over before it's begun; if the dream is won though everything is lost, we will pay the price but we will not count the cost.",
+ "source": "Bravado"
+ }, {
+ "text": "The capacity to love is determined by the fact that man is ready to seek the good consciously with others, to subordinate himself to this good because of others, or to subordinate himself to others because of this good.",
+ "source": "Love and Responsibility"
+ }, {
+ "text": "You don't know what you're trying to take from me. You don't like it messy, but it's going to get as messy as it wants to be. Wind me up, set me down and look away. I can see the bottom, and the bottom's okay.",
+ "source": "Sucker Punch"
+ }, {
+ "text": "What are you doing on my boat? Look, I've had a really bad day and I just need your help. You see, I've been thrown out of my home and flushed down my own toilet.",
+ "source": "Flushed Away"
+ }, {
+ "text": "Dreams are not to be converted into reality, that we know; we would not form any, perhaps, were it not for desire, and it is useful to us to form them in order to see them fail and to be instructed by their failure.",
+ "source": "In Search of Lost Time"
+ }, {
+ "text": "After I finish, it's like the part of me that can't fall asleep, the part that's staring at the cracks on the ceiling, wondering and worrying, is emptied in the diary for the night. During the day I fill back up and the pages wait. I like to think you're holding my thoughts for me until I can tend to them again.",
+ "source": "The Night Diary"
+ }, {
+ "text": "You're horrible. You make up this story about demons talking to you through plastic animals when nothing talks to you just like nothing talks to me.",
+ "source": "Wonderfalls"
+ }, {
+ "text": "You are the promised kiss of springtime that makes the lonely winter seem long. You are the breathless hush of evening that trembles on the brink of a lovely song. You are the angel glow that lights a star, the dearest things I know are what you are. Some day my happy arms will hold you, and some day I'll know that moment divine when all the things you are, are mine.",
+ "source": "All the Things You Are"
+ }, {
+ "text": "Where did I go wrong? I lost a friend somewhere along in the bitterness and I would have stayed up with you all night had I known how to save a life.",
+ "source": "How to Save a Life"
+ }, {
+ "text": "There's an old voice in my head that's holding me back. Well, tell her that I miss our little talks. Soon it will be over and buried with our past. We used to play outside when we were young and full of life and full of love.",
+ "source": "Little Talks"
+ }, {
+ "text": "We can experience nothing but the present moment, live in no other second of time, and to understand this is as close as we can get to eternal life.",
+ "source": "The Children of Men"
+ }, {
+ "text": "Can you feel the sunshine? Does it brighten up your day? Don't you feel that sometimes you just need to run away? Reach out for the sunshine, forget about the rain. Just think about the good times and they will come back again.",
+ "source": "Sonic R"
+ }, {
+ "text": "One of the most tragic things I know about human nature is that all of us tend to put off living. We are all dreaming of some magical rose garden over the horizon instead of enjoying the roses that are blooming outside our windows today.",
+ "source": "Change Your Life!: A Little Book of Big Ideas"
+ }, {
+ "text": "Everyone wants stuff. We wake up every day with a list of wishes a mile long and maybe we spend our lives trying to make those wishes come true, but just because we want them doesn't mean we need them to be happy.",
+ "source": "Pushing Daisies"
+ }, {
+ "text": "Sam was the only member of the party who had not been over the river before. He had a strange feeling as the slow gurgling stream slipped by: his old life lay behind him in the mists, dark adventure lay in front.",
+ "source": "The Lord of The Rings"
+ }, {
+ "text": "The place to improve the world is first in one's own heart and head and hands, and then to work outward from there. Other people can talk about how to expand the destiny of mankind. I just want to talk about how to fix a motorcycle. I think that what I have to say has more lasting value.",
+ "source": "Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance"
+ }, {
+ "text": "We imagine that when we are thrown out of our usual ruts all is lost, but it is only then that what is new and good begins. While there is life there is happiness. There is much, much before us.",
+ "source": "War and Peace"
+ }, {
+ "text": "Nothing makes time pass or shortens the way like a thought that absorbs in itself all the faculties of the one who is thinking. External existence is then like a sleep of which this thought is the dream. Under its influence, time has no more measure, space has no more distance.",
+ "source": "The Three Musketeers"
+ }, {
+ "text": "When for years you wake up to having to win every battle every day, to prove that you are the best at everything... I started to worry what would happen if it turned out that I wasn't the best. I didn't want to worry...",
+ "source": "Kontroll"
+ }, {
+ "text": "Well, if that's how you feel about it, then that's how you feel about it. Is that how you feel about it?",
+ "source": "The Witches of Eastwick"
+ }, {
+ "text": "The last man on Earth sat alone in a room. There was a knock on the door.",
+ "source": "Knock"
+ }, {
+ "text": "He supposed that even in Hell, people got an occasional sip of water, if only so they could appreciate the full horror of unrequited thirst when it set in again.",
+ "source": "Full Dark, No Stars"
+ }, {
+ "text": "I'll close my eyes and then I won't see the love you do not feel when you're holding me. Morning will come and I'll do what's right. Just give me till then to give up this fight.",
+ "source": "I Can't Make You Love Me"
+ }, {
+ "text": "Remember that humor is written backwards. That means you first find the cliche you want to work on, then build a story around it.",
+ "source": "Comedy Writing Secrets"
+ }, {
+ "text": "Now and again we try to just stay alive, maybe we'll turn it all around 'cause it's not too late. It's never too late.",
+ "source": "Never Too Late"
+ }, {
+ "text": "We were the people who were not in the papers. We lived in the blank white spaces at the edges of print.",
+ "source": "The Handmaid's Tale"
+ }, {
+ "text": "Games are bad. They make you mad. Games are bad. They make you mad. Games are bad. They make you mad.",
+ "source": "Postal 2"
+ }, {
+ "text": "We never get to change the past. We never get to know the future. No reason to wish for one place rather than another; no reason to say I wish I were home, or I wish I were in an exotic new place that is not my home. They will all be the same as this place. Here the experience of existing comes clear. This world is our body.",
+ "source": "Antarctica"
+ }, {
+ "text": "A straight line is said to have been cut in extreme and mean ratio when, as the whole line is to the greater segment, so is the greater to the lesser.",
+ "source": "Euclid's Elements"
+ }, {
+ "text": "Why did I do it? Mainly because people said it was impossible, and that's what my life is all about: breaking limitations and showing people what our memories are capable of.",
+ "source": "Unlimited Memory: How to Use Advanced Learning Strategies to Learn Faster, Remember More and Be More Productive"
+ }, {
+ "text": "The example of painting can teach us not only how to manage our own work, but how to work together. A lot of the great art of the past is the work of multiple hands, though there may only be one name on the wall next to it in the museum.",
+ "source": "Hackers and Painters: Big Ideas from the Computer Age"
+ }, {
+ "text": "Live a good life. If there are gods and they are just, they will not care how devout you have been, but will welcome you based on the virtues you have lived by. If there are gods, but unjust, then you should not want to worship them. If there are no gods, then you will be gone, but will have lived a noble life that will live on in the memories of your loved ones.",
+ "source": "Live a Good Life"
+ }, {
+ "text": "I can hear the soft breathing of the girl that I love as she lies here beside me asleep with the night. And her hair, in a fine mist floats on my pillow, reflecting the glow of the winter moonlight.",
+ "source": "Wednesday Morning, 3 A.M."
+ }, {
+ "text": "And the hardest part was letting go, not taking part was the hardest part. And the strangest thing was waiting for that bell to ring. It was the strangest start.",
+ "source": "The Hardest Part"
+ }, {
+ "text": "For my hope was founded on a fat man in Bree; and my fear was founded on the cunning of Sauron. But fat men who sell ale have many calls to answer; and the power of Sauron is still less than fear makes it.",
+ "source": "The Lord of The Rings"
+ }, {
+ "text": "And in the end, it's not the years in your life that count: It's the life in your years.",
+ "source": "Abraham Lincoln Quote"
+ }, {
+ "text": "It is not despair, for despair is only for those who see the end beyond all doubt. We do not.",
+ "source": "The Lord of The Rings"
+ }, {
+ "text": "We all start out knowing magic. We are born with whirlwinds, forest fires, and comets inside us. We are born able to sing to birds and read the clouds and see our destiny in grains of sand. But then we get the magic educated right out of our souls.",
+ "source": "Swan Song"
+ }, {
+ "text": "We've wounded this mountain. It's our duty to close her wounds. It's the least we can do to show our gratitude for all the wealth she's given us. If you guys don't want to help me, I'll do it alone.",
+ "source": "The Treasure of the Sierra Madre"
+ }, {
+ "text": "I've never really had much of an imagination. But still I would try to picture the exact moment when the beating of my heart would no longer be going on inside my head.",
+ "source": "The Stranger"
+ }, {
+ "text": "And I taught myself how to forget that sometimes life will try to convince you there's such a thing as regret. But I found it to be a lie, the same lie I found when I looked in your eyes after it was said and done.",
+ "source": "Car Crash"
+ }, {
+ "text": "If you had one shot to sit on your lazy butt, and watch all the TV you ever wanted, until your brain turned to mush. Would you go for it, or just let it slip.",
+ "source": "Couch Potato"
+ }, {
+ "text": "I shall die here. Every last inch of me shall perish. Except one. An inch. It's small and it's fragile and it's the only thing in the world worth having. We must never lose it, or sell it, or give it away. We must never let them take it from us.",
+ "source": "V for Vendetta"
+ }, {
+ "text": "I've never been to this part of the castle, at least while awake. I sleepwalk you see, that's why I wear shoes to bed.",
+ "source": "Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince"
+ }, {
+ "text": "Look into my eyes and it's easy to see, one and one make two, two and one make three, it was destiny. Once every hundred thousand years or so, when the sun doth shine and the moon doth glow and the grass doth grow.",
+ "source": "Tribute"
+ }, {
+ "text": "It's been rainy and windy for seven days straight. I've been going to bed early and getting up late. I look out my window and it's one shade of gray. My wife and my kids don't have much to say. A man out of work only gets in the way.",
+ "source": "River Take Me"
+ }, {
+ "text": "In the midst of friends, home, and kind parents, she was alone.",
+ "source": "Vanity Fair"
+ }, {
+ "text": "She would follow, her dream of love, the dictates of her heart that told her he was her all in all, the only man in all the world for her for love was the master guide. Come what might she would be wild, untrammelled, free.",
+ "source": "Ulysses"
+ }, {
+ "text": "It seemed funny to me that the sunset she saw from her patio and the one I saw from the back steps was the same one. Maybe the two different worlds we lived in weren't so different. We saw the same sunset.",
+ "source": "The Outsiders"
+ }, {
+ "text": "When you hit rock-bottom, you still have a way to go until the abyss.",
+ "source": "La Casa de Papel"
+ }, {
+ "text": "It was not the brutality of what occurred next that changed my mind and brought home to me the full meaning of fear. It was the brilliance of it.",
+ "source": "The Historian"
+ }, {
+ "text": "The point is you've got to get to know each other better if you're going to take a big step like this. You gotta get past this early infatuation and get to the point where you're sick and tired of each other; then you're ready for marriage. Look at Diane and me, we waited five years to get married. If it were up to me we'd wait another five.",
+ "source": "Cheers"
+ }, {
+ "text": "I went to the woods because I wished to live deliberately, to front only the essential facts of life, and see if I could not learn what it had to teach, and not, when I came to die, discover that I had not lived.",
+ "source": "Walden"
+ }, {
+ "text": "There is a theory, for which there is much to be said, that gold and gems were valued originally on account of their supposed magical properties.",
+ "source": "An Outline of Intellectual Rubbish"
+ }, {
+ "text": "Every day when you're walking down the street, everybody that you meet has an original point of view. And I say hey, hey! What a wonderful kind of day, where you can learn to work and play, and get along with each other.",
+ "source": "Arthur"
+ }, {
+ "text": "In the beginning, the Universe was created. This had made a lot of people very angry and been widely regarded as a bad move.",
+ "source": "The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy"
+ }, {
+ "text": "Picture a wave in the ocean. You can see it, measure it, its height, the way the sunlight refracts when it passes through, and it's there, and you can see it, you know what it is. It's a wave. And then it crashes on the shore, and it's gone. But the water is still there. The wave was just a different way for the water to be for a little while.",
+ "source": "The Good Place"
+ }, {
+ "text": "I want you to know that the day you saw something in me, my whole life changed.",
+ "source": "Mad Men"
+ }, {
+ "text": "Your silence furnishes a dark house. But even at the risk of burning, the moth always seeks the light.",
+ "source": "The Poet X"
+ }, {
+ "text": "It was the last that remained of a past whose annihilation had not taken place because it was still in a process of annihilation, consuming itself from within, ending at every moment but never ending its ending.",
+ "source": "One Hundred Years of Solitude"
+ }, {
+ "text": "The gentleman cannot be appreciated in small things but is acceptable in great matters. A small man is not acceptable in great matters but can be appreciated in small things.",
+ "source": "The Analects"
+ }, {
+ "text": "There was no reason for me to stay in the real world any longer. In the real world, it didn't matter if I was there or not. When I realized that, I was no longer afraid of losing my body.",
+ "source": "Serial Lain Experiments"
+ }, {
+ "text": "There's a storm coming, Mr. Wayne. You and your friends better batten down the hatches, because when it hits, you're all gonna wonder how you ever thought you could live so large and leave so little for the rest of us.",
+ "source": "The Dark Knight Rises"
+ }, {
+ "text": "I breathed in my new surroundings. The air smelled different here, I don't know whether it was the desert air or the dry trees or just that I was far away from the stink of the city, but I liked it.",
+ "source": "Variant"
+ }, {
+ "text": "My spirit's made up of the ocean, and the sky, and the sun, and the moon, and all my eyes can see. I cannot go back to your land of gloom, where black jagged shadows remind me of the coming of your doom. I want my own land.",
+ "source": "Frownland"
+ }, {
+ "text": "If I could go back to the day we met, what would I do? Perhaps I would smile with a kinder face. And maybe, when our eyes met, I would laugh even more. Then everything definitely would have gone better from the beginning. But life is a combination of miracles. If even one of them were different, then everything would change.",
+ "source": "Suki Na Hito Ga Irukoto"
+ }, {
+ "text": "Why is it, every time something terrible happens, everyone tells you the worst thing that ever happened to them, as though that makes it easier?",
+ "source": "Horizon Zero Dawn"
+ }, {
+ "text": "Let me photograph you in this light, in case it is the last time that we might be exactly like we were before we realized we were sad of getting old.",
+ "source": "When We Were Young"
+ }, {
+ "text": "So much of this story is about human will, about what we can do when we come up against forces bigger than any of us. Whatever your beliefs or your lack thereof, we will live only one version of this life, and where and when that life starts determines so much.",
+ "source": "A Kim Jong-Il Production: The Extraordinary True Story of a Kidnapped Filmmaker, His Star Actress, and a Young Dictator's Rise to Power"
+ }, {
+ "text": "There's a sign on the wall but she wants to be sure 'cause you know sometimes words have two meanings. In a tree by the brook, there's a songbird who sings, sometimes all of our thoughts are misgiven.",
+ "source": "Stairway to Heaven"
+ }, {
+ "text": "You gotta see it to believe it, the sky never looked so blue it's so hard to leave it, but that's what I always do. So I keep thinking back to a time under the canyon moon.",
+ "source": "Canyon Moon"
+ }, {
+ "text": "Learn to light a candle in the darkest moments of someone's life. Be the light that helps others see; it is what gives life its deepest significance.",
+ "source": "The Light in the Heart"
+ }, {
+ "text": "What I think is if you can't figure out how to have a simple date with a woman who's already agreed to go out with you, then maybe you don't deserve to go out with her in the first place. How's that for advice?",
+ "source": "Suits"
+ }, {
+ "text": "You cannot fly with the eagles if you continue to scratch with the turkeys.",
+ "source": "Unlimited Memory: How to Use Advanced Learning Strategies to Learn Faster, Remember More and Be More Productive"
+ }, {
+ "text": "They say there is a person who will tell you how to survive in this land... oh wait. That's me.",
+ "source": "Terraria"
+ }, {
+ "text": "When I was your age, television was called books. And this is a special book. It was the book my father used to read to me when I was sick, and I used to read it to your father. And today I'm gonna read it to you.",
+ "source": "The Princess Bride"
+ }, {
+ "text": "When you go on the run, the first thing you do is lay down tracks in the opposite direction. But that only works if the bad guys find the trail and believe it's for real, which means selling it. You need to put on a little show, make them feel clever. When you make somebody work to get a piece of information, they'll believe it that much more because it's hard to get.",
+ "source": "Burn Notice"
+ }, {
+ "text": "To me, you are still nothing more than a little boy who is just like a hundred thousand other little boys. And I have no need of you. And you, on your part, have no need of me. To you, I am nothing more than a fox like a hundred thousand other foxes. But if you tame me, then we shall need each other. To me, you will be unique in all the world. To you, I shall be unique in all the world...",
+ "source": "The Little Prince"
+ }, {
+ "text": "It's important in life to conclude things properly. Only then can you let go. Otherwise you are left with words you should have said but never did, and your heart is heavy with remorse.",
+ "source": "Life of Pi"
+ }, {
+ "text": "The journey doesn't end here. Death is just another path, one that we all must take. The grey rain-curtain of this world rolls back, and all turns to silver glass, and then you see it.",
+ "source": "The Lord of The Rings"
+ }, {
+ "text": "Sometimes we get sad about things and we don't like to tell other people that we are sad about them. We like to keep it a secret. Or sometimes, we are sad but we really don't know why we are sad, so we say we aren't sad but we really are.",
+ "source": "The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time"
+ }, {
+ "text": "And so with the sunshine and the great bursts of leaves growing on the trees, just as things grow in fast movies, I had that familiar conviction that life was beginning over again with the summer.",
+ "source": "The Great Gatsby"
+ }, {
+ "text": "You shared something horrible with me, gave me no time to process it, and while I was taking it in you not only attacked my integrity, you made me feel ashamed of myself.",
+ "source": "Suits"
+ }, {
+ "text": "I do not know what I may appear to the world, but to myself I seem to have been only like a boy playing on the seashore, and diverting myself in now and then finding a smoother pebble or a prettier shell than ordinary, whilst the great ocean of truth lay all undiscovered before me.",
+ "source": "Memoirs of the Life, Writings, and Discoveries of Sir Isaac Newton"
+ }, {
+ "text": "Everyone gets everything he wants. I wanted a mission, and for my sins, they gave me one. Brought it up to me like room service. It was a real choice mission, and when it was over, I never wanted another.",
+ "source": "Apocalypse Now"
+ }, {
+ "text": "Just let me wake up in the morning to the smell of new mown hay, to laugh and cry, to live and die in the brightness of my day. I want to hear the pealing bell of distant churches sing. But most of all please free me from this aching metal ring and open out this cage towards the sun.",
+ "source": "Skyline Pigeon"
+ }, {
+ "text": "You must have a goal because it's just as difficult to reach a destination you don't have, as it is to come back from a place you've never been.",
+ "source": "See You at the Top: 25th Anniversary Edition"
+ }, {
+ "text": "You can't see the changes we see, we who have been with him for so long. Do you think any of us want to look into his eyes for the next hundred years if he loses you?",
+ "source": "Twilight"
+ }, {
+ "text": "My heart wants to beat like the wings of the birds that rise from the lake to the trees. My heart wants to sigh like a chime that flies from a church on a breeze, to laugh like a brook when it trips and falls over stones on its way, to sing through the night like a lark who is learning to pray.",
+ "source": "The Sound of Music"
+ }, {
+ "text": "I can hear those echoes in the wind at night calling me back in time, back to you, in a place far away where the water meets the sky.",
+ "source": "See You Again"
+ }, {
+ "text": "Yes, it was her he was looking at, and there was meaning in his look. His eyes burned into her as though they would search her through and through, read her very soul.",
+ "source": "Ulysses"
+ }, {
+ "text": "This was supposed to be a question. Not a poem, confession or whatever it's become. I just want to know if you would listen with me to the sound of our heartbeats.",
+ "source": "The Poet X"
+ }, {
+ "text": "I have a dream, a song to sing, to help me cope with anything. If you see the wonder of a fairy tale you can take the future even if you fail.",
+ "source": "I Have A Dream"
+ }, {
+ "text": "You'll never have that kind of relationship in a world where you're afraid to take the first step because all you see is every negative thing ten miles down the road.",
+ "source": "Good Will Hunting"
+ }, {
+ "text": "Although his voice was also broken by uncertainty and his hands seemed to doubt the existence of things, it was evident that he came from the world where men could still sleep and remember.",
+ "source": "One Hundred Years of Solitude"
+ }, {
+ "text": "Give me a lifetime of promises and a world of dreams. Speak the language of love like you know what it means. You're simply the best, better than all the rest, better than anyone I ever met.",
+ "source": "The Best"
+ }, {
+ "text": "I don't feel like that now. I feel that as long as the Shire lies behind, safe and comfortable, I shall find wandering more bearable: I shall know that somewhere there is a firm foothold, even if my feet cannot stand there again.",
+ "source": "The Lord of The Rings"
+ }, {
+ "text": "I have noticed even people who claim everything is predestined, and that we can do nothing to change it, look before they cross the road.",
+ "source": "Predestination"
+ }, {
+ "text": "The thing under my bed waiting to grab my ankle isn't real. I know that, and I also know that if I'm careful to keep my foot under the covers, it will never be able to grab my ankle.",
+ "source": "Graveyard Shift and Other Stories From Night Shift"
+ }, {
+ "text": "Maybe our old wounds teach us something. They remind us where we've been and what we've overcome. They teach us lessons about what to avoid in the future. That's what we like to think. But that's not always the way it is. Sometimes there are things we just have to learn over again.",
+ "source": "Grey's Academy"
+ }, {
+ "text": "It is now time to make it unclear. To write off lines that don't make sense. I love myself better than you. I know it's wrong so what should I do? And one more special message to go, and then I'm done, and I can go home. I love myself better than you. I know it's wrong so what should I do?",
+ "source": "On A Plain"
+ }, {
+ "text": "You know when I was your age, I went out to fishing with all my brothers and my father, and everybody. And I was the only one who caught a fish.",
+ "source": "The Godfather: Part II"
+ }, {
+ "text": "The highlander seemed to float through life very much the same as a cloud in an empty sky, touching nothing, leaving no trace of his passing.",
+ "source": "The Sword of Shannara"
+ }, {
+ "text": "His ear heard more than what was said to him, and his slow speech had overtones not of thought, but of understanding beyond thought.",
+ "source": "Of Mice and Men"
+ }, {
+ "text": "Nobody listens anymore. I can't talk to the walls because they're yelling at me, I can't talk to my wife; she listens to the walls. I just want someone to hear what I have to say. And maybe if I talk long enough it'll make sense. And I want you to teach me to understand what I read.",
+ "source": "Fahrenheit 451"
+ }, {
+ "text": "It's not about changing the world. It's about doing our best to leave the world the way it is. It's about respecting the will of others, and believing in your own.",
+ "source": "Metal Gear Solid 4: Guns of the Patriots"
+ }, {
+ "text": "This year our members have put more things on top of other things than ever before. But I should warn you, this is no time for complacency. No, there are still many things, and I cannot emphasize this too strongly, not on top of other things. I myself, on my way here this evening, saw a thing that was not on top of another thing in any way.",
+ "source": "Monty Python's Flying Circus"
+ }, {
+ "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. And in those times of trouble when you are most alone, the memory of love will bring you home.",
+ "source": "Perhaps Love"
+ }, {
+ "text": "Did you know? There are three kinds of aces. Those who seek strength, those who live for pride, and those who can read the tide of battle.",
+ "source": "Solo Wing Pixy - Ace Combat Zero"
+ }, {
+ "text": "If all these dreams might find their way into my day to day scene I'd be under the impression I was somewhere in between. Not so many things we got to do or places we got to be.",
+ "source": "Better Together"
+ }, {
+ "text": "After several hours, Joe finally gave up on logic and reason, and simply told the cabinet that he could talk to plants and that they wanted water.",
+ "source": "Idiocracy"
+ }, {
+ "text": "I'll tell you a riddle. 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. But it doesn't matter. How can it not matter to you where that train will take you?",
+ "source": "Inception"
+ }, {
+ "text": "I wanted to understand as much as I could about the procedure as possible. I think it's important for my job to understand the inner workings of the work that we do, well not that I do, but the work that is done by people where I also work, the work of my colleagues.",
+ "source": "Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind"
+ }, {
+ "text": "But older than me now, more constant, more real, and the fur, and the mouth, and the innocence turned to hair and contentment that hangs in abasement - a woman now standing where once there was only a girl.",
+ "source": "Last Dance"
+ }, {
+ "text": "If you want to save yourself the ticket price, go into the kitchen, cue up a male choir singing the music of hell, and get a kid to start banging pots and pans together. Then close your eyes and use your imagination.",
+ "source": "A Horrible Experience of Unbearable Length"
+ }, {
+ "text": "I'd pull your eyes out of your head, and put them in my own skull, and look around, so I could see the street the way I used to when I was your age.",
+ "source": "Birdman"
+ }, {
+ "text": "Pause you who read this, and think for a moment of the long chain of iron or gold, of thorns or flowers, that would never have bound you, but for the formation of the first link on one memorable day.",
+ "source": "Great Expectations"
+ }, {
+ "text": "They often wish that people would just once and for all work out where the hell they wanted to be.",
+ "source": "Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy"
+ }, {
+ "text": "I suppose it is tempting, if the only tool you have is a hammer, to treat everything as if it were a nail.",
+ "source": "The Psychology of Science: A Reconnaissance"
+ }, {
+ "text": "All of these moments just might find their way into my dreams tonight. But I know that they'll be gone when the morning light sings and brings new things.",
+ "source": "Better Together"
+ }, {
+ "text": "And I will keep you safe and strong and shelter from the storm. No matter where it's barren, a dream is being born. I'll be everyone you need, no matter if the sun don't shine or if the skies are blue. No matter what the end is my life began with you.",
+ "source": "No Matter What"
+ }, {
+ "text": "You know a dream is like a river ever changing as it flows and a dreamer's just a vessel that must follow where it goes. Trying to learn from what's behind you and never knowing what's in store makes each day a constant battle just to stay between the shores.",
+ "source": "The River"
+ }, {
+ "text": "I am going to keep on defying you. I am going to shame you with my defiance. You remind me that I am a mere mortal and you are a prince of Faerie. Well, let me remind you that means you have much to lose and I have nothing. You may win in the end, you may ensorcell me and hurt me and humiliate me, but I will make sure you lose everything I can take from you on the way down. I promise you this is the least of what I can do.",
+ "source": "The Cruel Prince"
+ }, {
+ "text": "The major difference between a thing that might go wrong and a thing that cannot possibly go wrong is that when a thing that cannot possibly go wrong goes wrong it usually turns out to be impossible to get at or repair.",
+ "source": "Mostly Harmless"
+ }, {
+ "text": "He did not know how long it took, but later he looked back on this time of crying in the corner of the dark cave and thought of it as when he learned the most important rule of survival, which was that feeling sorry for yourself didn't work. It wasn't just that it was wrong to do, or that it was considered incorrect. It was more than that - it didn't work.",
+ "source": "Hatchet"
+ }, {
+ "text": "There are many people who reach their conclusions about life like schoolboys; they cheat their master by copying the answer out of a book without having worked out the sum for themselves.",
+ "source": "The Journals of Kierkegaard"
+ }, {
+ "text": "When the light is running low, and the shadows start to grow, and the places that you know seem like fantasy, there's a light inside your soul that's still shining in the cold with the truth - the promise in our hearts. Don't forget. I'm with you in the dark.",
+ "source": "Deltarune"
+ }, {
+ "text": "I do not think there is any thrill that can go through the human heart like that felt by the inventor as he sees some creation of the brain unfolding to success. Such emotions make a man forget food, sleep, friends, love, everything.",
+ "source": "Marconi and Tesla: Pioneers of Radio Communication"
+ }, {
+ "text": "I still think about the letter you asked me to write. It nags at me, even though you're gone and there's no one to give it to anymore. Sometimes I work on it in my head, trying to map out the story you asked me to tell, about everything that happened this past fall and winter. It's all still there, like a movie I can watch when I want to. Which is never.",
+ "source": "When You Reach Me"
+ }, {
+ "text": "I came back home from work tonight and saw you there, with a train set in your hands and paint in your hair. And I just saw you this morning but I don't care; I'm saying let's never be apart again.",
+ "source": "Let's Never Be Apart Again"
+ }, {
+ "text": "When you think about it, we're 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"
+ }, {
+ "text": "Anywhere can be paradise, as long as you have the will to live. After all, you are alive, so you will always have the chance to be happy.",
+ "source": "The End of Evangelion"
+ }, {
+ "text": "We got questions we should not ask, but how would you feel if I told you I loved you? It's just something that I want to do.",
+ "source": "How Would You Feel"
+ }, {
+ "text": "If I were a rich man, I'd build a big tall house with rooms by the dozen right in the middle of the town. A fine tin roof with real wooden floors below. There would be one long staircase just going up and one even longer coming down and one more leading nowhere, just for show.",
+ "source": "If I Were a Rich Man"
+ }, {
+ "text": "I etched your name in the clouds but it was lost when the thunder cried. I etched your name in the surf but it was stolen by the rising tide. I etched your name in my heart and there it will forever reside.",
+ "source": "Wonderfalls"
+ }, {
+ "text": "The man who passes the sentence should swing the sword. If you would take a man's life, you owe it to him to look into his eyes and hear his final words. And if you cannot bear to do that, then perhaps the man does not deserve to die.",
+ "source": "A Game of Thrones"
+ }, {
+ "text": "I wrote about how last weekend my parents and I waited in line at the movies for an hour, and when we finally got up to the ticket booth lady, they were sold out! Isn't that sad?",
+ "source": "Front Desk"
+ }, {
+ "text": "Nice things don't happen in storybooks. Or when they do happen, something bad happens next. Because otherwise the story would be boring, and no one would read it.",
+ "source": "The Cruel Prince"
+ }, {
+ "text": "There was a time when I was alone, nowhere to go and no place to call home. My only friend was the man in the moon and even sometimes he would go away, too. Then one night, as I closed my eyes, I saw a shadow flying high. He came to me with the sweetest smile, told me he wanted to talk for a while.",
+ "source": "Lost Boy"
+ }, {
+ "text": "You can't get back what you've lost, what's important now is what is it that you still have.",
+ "source": "One Piece"
+ }, {
+ "text": "Some say the world will end in fire, some say in ice. From what I've tasted of desire, I hold with those who favor fire. But if it had to perish twice, I think I know enough of hate, to say that for destruction ice is also great, and would suffice.",
+ "source": "Fire and Ice"
+ }, {
+ "text": "Now I want you to think and stop being a smart aleck. A man's attitude goes some ways - the way his life will be. Is that something you agree with? So since you agree, you must be someone who does not care about the good life. ",
+ "source": "Mulholland Drive"
+ }, {
+ "text": "I don't know if I will have the time to write any more letters because I might be too busy trying to participate. So if this does end up being the last letter, I just want you to know that I was in a bad place before I started high school, and you helped me. Even if you didn't know what I was talking about or know someone who's gone through it, you made me not feel alone.",
+ "source": "The Perks of Being a Wallflower"
+ }, {
+ "text": "And one day I knew I had to come back here. I had to come back and get on the merry-go-round, and eat cotton candy, and listen to a band concert. Just stop and breathe, and close my eyes and smell and listen.",
+ "source": "The Twilight Zone"
+ }, {
+ "text": "Someone once told me that time was a predator that stalked us all our lives. I rather believe that time is a companion who goes with us on the journey and reminds us to cherish every moment, because it will never come again. What we leave behind is not as important as how we've lived. After all Number One, we're only mortal.",
+ "source": "Star Trek: Generations"
+ }, {
+ "text": "But the law of loving others could not be discovered by reason, because it is unreasonable.",
+ "source": "Anna Karenina"
+ }, {
+ "text": "For string theory to make sense, the universe should have nine space dimensions and one time dimension, for a total of ten dimensions.",
+ "source": "The Elegant Universe: Superstrings, Hidden Dimensions, and the Quest for the Ultimate Theory"
+ }, {
+ "text": "I don't like work - no man does - but I like what is in the work - the chance to find yourself. Your own reality - for yourself, not for others - what no other man can ever know. They can only see the mere show, and never can tell what it really means.",
+ "source": "Heart of Darkness"
+ }, {
+ "text": "But on this particular day I did not like the color of the sky.",
+ "source": "Wind, Sand and Stars"
+ }, {
+ "text": "I'm in love with you, and I know that love is just a shout into the void, and that oblivion is inevitable, and that we're all doomed and that there will come a day when all our labor has been returned to dust, and I know the sun will swallow the only earth we'll ever have, and I am in love with you.",
+ "source": "The Fault in Our Stars"
+ }, {
+ "text": "On the page, punctuation performs its grammatical function, but in the mind of the reader it does more than that. It tells the reader how to hum the tune.",
+ "source": "Eats, Shoots & Leaves: The Zero Tolerance Approach to Punctuation"
+ }, {
+ "text": "But the house gets so quiet sitting here wishing for just an hour or two alone with you. Well, it's always too personal, always too close to comment. They all mention how tired you look and you realize you haven't said a word in hours. Well, who's hiding it?",
+ "source": "Hiding"
+ }, {
+ "text": "We passionately long that there may be another life in which we shall be similar to what we are here below. But we do not pause to reflect that, even without waiting for that other life, in this life, after a few years we are unfaithful to what we have been, to what we wished to remain immortally.",
+ "source": "Cities of the Plain"
+ }, {
+ "text": "I can't have been there when brains were handed 'round or get past the cover of your books profound and some of your friends think it's really unsound that you're ever seen talking to me.",
+ "source": "The Mayor of Simpleton"
+ }, {
+ "text": "He then told them many remarkable stories, sometimes half as if speaking to himself, sometimes looking at them suddenly with a bright blue eye under his deep brows. Often his voice would turn to song, and he would get out of his chair and dance about. He told them tales of bees and flowers, the ways of trees, and the strange creatures of the Forest, about the evil things and good things, things friendly and things unfriendly, cruel things and kind things, and secrets hidden under brambles.",
+ "source": "The Lord of The Rings"
+ }, {
+ "text": "Getting into trouble is not a bad thing. It's proof that someone's watching you. I've got my eyes on you, so feel free to mess up as much as you want.",
+ "source": "My Youth Romantic Comedy is Wrong, as I Expected"
+ }, {
+ "text": "The boy had been working for the crystal merchant for almost a month, and he could see that it wasn't exactly the kind of job that would make him happy. The merchant spent the entire day mumbling behind the counter, telling the boy to be careful with the pieces and not to break anything.",
+ "source": "The Alchemist"
+ }, {
+ "text": "And in the night, when the dog barks at shadows, tell him not to be afraid of what he cannot see or the things he does not yet understand. There is mystery everywhere. Beneath rocks, there is damp earth and an army of ants planning a revolution.",
+ "source": "Harbor Me"
+ }, {
+ "text": "What a charming reconciler and peacemaker money is!",
+ "source": "Vanity Fair"
+ }, {
+ "text": "Life is not the amount of breaths you take. It's the moments that take your breath away.",
+ "source": "Hitch"
+ }, {
+ "text": "Gold and rose, the color of the dream I had not too long ago. A misty blue and the lilac, too, never to grow old. There you were under the tree of song, sleeping so peacefully. In your hand a flower played, awaiting there for me. I have never laid eyes on you, not before this timeless day, but you walked and you once smiled my name, and you stole my heart away.",
+ "source": "One Rainy Wish"
+ }, {
+ "text": "We climbed, he first and I behind, until through a small round opening ahead of us, I saw the lovely things the heavens hold, and we came out to see once more the stars.",
+ "source": "The Divine Comedy"
+ }, {
+ "text": "Death really did not matter to him but life did, and therefore the sensation he felt when they gave their decision was not a feeling of fear but of nostalgia.",
+ "source": "One Hundred Years of Solitude"
+ }, {
+ "text": "One more turn and I'll settle the score. A rubber fire screams into the night. Crash and burn is what you're gonna do. I am the master of the asphalt fight.",
+ "source": "Initial D: Fifth Stage"
+ }, {
+ "text": "Being in a minority, even in a minority of one, did not make you mad. There was truth and there was untruth, and if you clung to the truth even against the whole world, you were not mad.",
+ "source": "Nineteen Eighty Four"
+ }, {
+ "text": "There was immediately a knock at the door and a man entered. He had never seen the man in this house before. He was slim but firmly built, his clothes were black and closefitting, with many folds and pockets, buckles and buttons and a belt, all of which gave the impression of being very practical but without making it very clear what they were actually for.",
+ "source": "The Trial"
+ }, {
+ "text": "I saw the light fade from the sky, on the wind I heard a sigh. As the snowflakes cover my fallen brothers, I will say this last goodbye. Night is now falling, so ends this day. The road is now calling, and I must away. Over hill and under tree, through lands where never light has shone, by silver streams that run down to the sea.",
+ "source": "The Last Goodbye"
+ }, {
+ "text": "The creatures outside looked from pig to man, and from man to pig, and from pig to man again; but already it was impossible to say which was which.",
+ "source": "Animal Farm"
+ }, {
+ "text": "Life is very short, and there's no time for fussing and fighting, my friend. I have always thought that it's a crime, so I will ask you once again, try to see it my way. Only time will tell if I am right or I am wrong.",
+ "source": "We Can Work It Out"
+ }, {
+ "text": "In a way fighting was just like using magic. You said the words, and they altered the universe. By merely speaking you could create damage and pain, cause tears to fall, drive people away, make yourself feel better, make your life worse.",
+ "source": "The Magicians"
+ }, {
+ "text": "Mother is the name for God in the lips and hearts of little children.",
+ "source": "Vanity Fair"
+ }, {
+ "text": "For what it's worth: it's never too late or, in my case, too early to be whoever you want to be. There's no time limit, stop whenever you want. You can change or stay the same, there are no rules to this thing. We can make the best or the worst of it. I hope you make the best of it. And I hope you see things that startle you. I hope you feel things you never felt before. I hope you meet people with a different point of view. I hope you live a life you're proud of. If you find that you're not, I hope you have the strength to start all over again.",
+ "source": "The Curious Case of Benjamin Button"
+ }, {
+ "text": "All these fears and all this love, all you've given me, it's not enough. All my dreams and all this stuff, all made real... it's not enough.",
+ "source": "The Fountain"
+ }, {
+ "text": "I'd like to see the world for once all standing hand in hand and hear them echo through the hills for peace throughout the land.",
+ "source": "I'd Like To Teach The World To Sing"
+ }, {
+ "text": "The human whose name is written in this note shall die. This note will not take effect unless the writer has the person's face in their mind when writing his/her name. Therefore, people sharing the same name will not be affected.",
+ "source": "Death Note"
+ }, {
+ "text": "It was the most horrible, the most repellent thing she had ever seen, far more nauseating than anything she had ever imagined with her conscious mind, or that had ever tormented her in her most terrible nightmares.",
+ "source": "A Wrinkle in Time"
+ }, {
+ "text": "I was never cheating. You connected dots that weren't there, you gave attention to the thoughts I'd never wear; it's not my style. Even though it's so clear to me, you shouldn't base the future on the past, I know you really want this thing to last.",
+ "source": "Questions"
+ }, {
+ "text": "Words bend our thinking to infinite paths of self-delusion, and the fact that we spend most of our mental lives in brain mansions built of words means that we lack the objectivity necessary to see the terrible distortion of reality which language brings.",
+ "source": "Hyperion"
+ }, {
+ "text": "I'll light the fire, you place the flowers in the vase that you bought today. Staring at the fire for hours and hours while I listen to you. Play your love songs all night long for me, only for me.",
+ "source": "Our House"
+ }, {
+ "text": "Tonight I'm making deals with the devil, and I know it's gonna get me in trouble. Just as long as you know you got me.",
+ "source": "Side To Side"
+ }, {
+ "text": "To graduate you need my course, dear boy. So it seems I have something to say about what you do and where you go. So from now on you and Mitch are going to spend every waking moment in the lab. You will solve my power problem, and you will solve it by my deadline.",
+ "source": "Real Genius"
+ }, {
+ "text": "Well, this is the end of a perfect day, near the end of a journey, too. But it leaves a thought that is big and strong, with a wish that is kind and true. For memory has painted this perfect day with colors that never fade, and we find at the end of a perfect day the soul of a friend we've made.",
+ "source": "A Perfect Day"
+ }, {
+ "text": "Before I was famous I had a whole bunch of jobs where all I needed was boots. People would look right past me, or if they did look at me, it was with a mean look. But when I got famous, people would look at me and smile and wonder where they knew me from. If they flat-out recognized me, they'd laugh and dance like they'd won a prize, and I'd just stand there and smile and feel warmth from their love. So the fame made the world, which is a real cold place, a little less cold.",
+ "source": "Based on a True Story: Not a Memoir"
+ }, {
+ "text": "That'll be a dispute to the end of time, Mr. Brown: whether it's better to do the right thing for the wrong reason or the wrong thing for the right reason.",
+ "source": "National Velvet"
+ }, {
+ "text": "You all have your own distinct personal backgrounds. Of course some of you come from rich families, some from poor families. But circumstances beyond your control like that shouldn't determine who you are. You must all realize what you're worth on your own.",
+ "source": "Battle Royale"
+ }, {
+ "text": "The new-born child does not realize that his body is more a part of himself than surrounding objects, and will play with his toes without any feeling that they belong to him more than the rattle by his side; and it is only by degrees, through pain, that he understands the fact of the body.",
+ "source": "Of Human Bondage"
+ }, {
+ "text": "Come let me love you, let me give my life to you, let me drown in your laughter, let me die in your arms, let me lay down beside you, let me always be with you.",
+ "source": "Annie's Song"
+ }, {
+ "text": "Let me finish. I thought I wanted to be alone tonight, and then I realized that I didn't because I wanted to be with my family. If you can't keep it together tonight of all nights, then as far as I'm concerned you can all rot in hell.",
+ "source": "Suits"
+ }, {
+ "text": "And for the first time there's no pain in my life. It's been a long hard road that I've gone. We had a good thing and it made me a man. And I know you got me going. Pardon me, my feelings are showing. I'm only saying what's on my mind.",
+ "source": "What's on My Mind"
+ }, {
+ "text": "Joe, darling, you're coming back. Do you want me to tell you how I know? Two days ago you came to this city and you didn't know anyone. You didn't know me and I didn't know you, and now we're married. And we both know that that was meant to be. So don't you see? Whoever makes the arrangements for people is doing pretty well for us. That's all we need to know.",
+ "source": "The Clock"
+ }, {
+ "text": "Benjamin was the oldest animal on the farm, and the worst tempered. He seldom talked, and when he did, it was usually to make some cynical remark - for instance, he would say that God had given him a tail to keep the flies off, but that he would sooner have had no tail and no flies.",
+ "source": "Animal Farm"
+ }, {
+ "text": "All around us there are powers. There are animals like the whale, the bear, the wolf, and the eagle. There are powers like the sun and moon and seasons. And there are the powers inside of us like happiness and anger. We can feel all of these and dance to them. They all have much to teach us. Today, we saw the whale, so tonight we'll dance the whale dance. Each of us will tell what we learned from watching the whale.",
+ "source": "Touching Spirit Bear"
+ }, {
+ "text": "Saying \"I love you\" is not the words I want to hear from you. It's not that I want you not to say, but if you only knew how easy it would be to show me how you feel. More than words is all you have to do to make it real. Then you wouldn't have to say that you love me.",
+ "source": "More Than Words"
+ }, {
+ "text": "There are places I'll remember all my life, though some have changed. Some forever, not for better. Some have gone and some remain. All these places have their moments with lovers and friends I still can recall.",
+ "source": "In My Life"
+ }, {
+ "text": "The past is always with us. Where we come from, what we go through, how we go through it; all this matters. Like at the end of the book, ya know, boats and tides and all. It's like you can change up, right, you can say you're somebody new, you can give yourself a whole new story.",
+ "source": "The Wire"
+ }, {
+ "text": "I am doing good to the poor, but I differ in opinion about the means. I think the best way of doing good to the poor is not making them easy in poverty, but leading them or driving them out of it.",
+ "source": "Memoirs of Benjamin Franklin"
+ }, {
+ "text": "At last, we finally meet. I have something for you, Chancellor; a farewell gift. For all the things you've done, for the things you might have done, and for the only thing you have left.",
+ "source": "V for Vendetta"
+ }, {
+ "text": "It's a thousand pages, give or take a few. I'll be writing more in a week or two. I could make it longer if you like the style. I can change it round, and I want to be a paperback writer.",
+ "source": "Paperback Writer"
+ }, {
+ "text": "I feel that life is divided into the horrible and the miserable. That's the two categories. The horrible are like, I don't know, terminal cases, you know, and blind people, crippled. I don't know how they get through life. It's amazing to me. And the miserable is everyone else. So you should be thankful that you're miserable, because that's very lucky, to be miserable.",
+ "source": "Annie Hall"
+ }, {
+ "text": "The voice of anatomy, like the voice of all nature, never reaches the mental ear of the Great Commoner. It is the novel province of anatomy to tell the truth, the whole truth, and nothing but the truth about the structure, the origin and the history of man.",
+ "source": "Evolution and Religion in Education: Polemics of the Fundamentalist"
+ }, {
+ "text": "If at some point in life, you made a mistake or keep failing over and over again, and you can't help but think it's useless and you're a good for nothing; remember, you're only taking a detour. And I'm sure further along your path will come a day where you think, \"It was a good life experience.\" That's why it'll be fine.",
+ "source": "ReLIFE"
+ }, {
+ "text": "It doesn't matter what I say, so long as I sing with inflection that makes you feel I'll convey some inner truth or vast reflection. But I've said nothing so far, and I can keep it up for as long as it takes.",
+ "source": "Hook"
+ }, {
+ "text": "I have moments like that a lot, when my brain falls asleep or something, and the next thing I know I've missed something, as if a puzzle piece fell out of the universe and left me staring at the blank place behind it.",
+ "source": "The Lightning Thief"
+ }, {
+ "text": "I've tried to hide it so that no one knows, but I guess it shows. When you look into my eyes, what you did and where you are coming from, I don't care as long as you love me.",
+ "source": "As Long as You Love Me"
+ }, {
+ "text": "Life is a storm, my young friend. You will bask in the sunlight one moment, be shattered on the rocks the next. What makes you a man is what you do when that storm comes. You must look into that storm and shout as you did in Rome. Do your worst, for I will do mine! Then the fates will know you as we know you.",
+ "source": "The Count of Monte Cristo"
+ }, {
+ "text": "The more Adams thought about the future of his country, the more convinced he became that it rested on education. Before any great things are accomplished, he wrote to a correspondent, a memorable change must be made in the system of education and knowledge must become so general as to raise the lower ranks of society nearer to the higher. The education of a nation instead of being confined to a few schools and universities for the instruction of the few, must become the national care and expense for the formation of the many.",
+ "source": "John Adams"
+ }, {
+ "text": "Don't tell me what's in, don't tell me how to write, don't tell me how to win this fight. It isn't your right, isn't your life, it isn't your right to take the only thing that's mine.",
+ "source": "As I Am"
+ }, {
+ "text": "Why is it that when one man builds a wall, the next man immediately needs to know what's on the other side?",
+ "source": "A Game of Thrones"
+ }, {
+ "text": "They can only see the mere show, and never can tell what it really means.",
+ "source": "Heart of Darkness"
+ }, {
+ "text": "In general, people only ask for advice that they may not follow it; or, if they should follow it, that they may have somebody to blame for having given it.",
+ "source": "The Three Musketeers"
+ }, {
+ "text": "People aren't all perfect. They're weak, ugly, and they get jealous and try to bring others down. Oddly enough, the better you are, the harder it is to live. That's why I'm going to change this world and the people in it...",
+ "source": "Oregairu"
+ }, {
+ "text": "I only lose my fear when I run. I won't lose a tear when I run. I won't find a heart so I run. And now the time is right so we run.",
+ "source": "Run Run Run"
+ }, {
+ "text": "I walk a mile with a smile and I don't know, I don't care where I am, but I know it's alright. Jump the tracks, can't get back. I don't know anyone around here, but I'm safe this time, 'cause when you tell me stupid things, like you do, I have to change the rules.",
+ "source": "Shiver"
+ }, {
+ "text": "And I know that you got everything, but I got nothing here without you.",
+ "source": "One Last Time"
+ }, {
+ "text": "You can have my isolation, you can have the hate that it brings, you can have my absence of faith, you can have my everything.",
+ "source": "Closer"
+ }, {
+ "text": "People come, people go - they'll drift in and out of your life, almost like characters in a favorite book. When you finally close the cover, the characters have told their story and you start up again with another book, complete with new characters and adventures. Then you find yourself focusing on the new ones, not the ones from the past.",
+ "source": "The Rescue"
+ }, {
+ "text": "I just hope you're lying next to somebody who knows how to love you like me. There must be a good reason that you're gone. Every now and then I think you might want me to come show up at your door, but I'm just too afraid that I'll be wrong.",
+ "source": "We Don't Talk Anymore"
+ }, {
+ "text": "One day she left without a word, she took away the sun. And in the dark she left behind, I knew what she had done. She'd left me for another, it's a common tale but true.",
+ "source": "Lemon Tree"
+ }, {
+ "text": "For the days of my life have vanished like smoke, and my bones are parched like ash, and let all my impurities be as fuel for that fire until nothing remains but the light alone.",
+ "source": "Half-Life 2"
+ }, {
+ "text": "You boys are in so much trouble. I can't leave you alone for one second. I guess next time I go out, I'll have to chain you to the floor and tie you to the oven. You don't even pretend to listen. You might as well cut off your ears and throw them in the trash for as long as you use them. You are grounded for the next month!",
+ "source": "Malcolm in the Middle"
+ }, {
+ "text": "Your face has fallen sad now, for you know the time is nigh. But when I must remove your wings and you, you must try to fly. Come sail your ships around me and burn your bridges down. We make a little history, baby, every time you come around.",
+ "source": "The Ship Song"
+ }, {
+ "text": "I took a walk alone last night, I looked up at the stars to try and find an answer in my life. I chose a star for me, I chose a star for him, I chose two stars for my kids and one star for my wife.",
+ "source": "I'm So Happy I Can't Stop Crying"
+ }, {
+ "text": "Once you free your mind about a concept of harmony and music being correct you can do whatever you want. So, nobody told me what to do, and there was no preconception of what to do.",
+ "source": "Giorgio By Moroder"
+ }, {
+ "text": "What have I got to do to make you love me? What have I got to do to make you care? What do I do when lightning strikes me and I wake to find that you're not there?",
+ "source": "Sorry Seems To Be the Hardest Word"
+ }, {
+ "text": "I must not fear. Fear is the mind killer. Fear is the little death that brings total obliteration. I will face my fear. I will permit it to pass over me and through me. And when my fear is gone I will turn and face fear's path, and only I will remain.",
+ "source": "Dune"
+ }, {
+ "text": "Wealth can be very empty when you don't have someone to share it with. But by the time I realized that, no one would have me except men who wanted my money more than I did.",
+ "source": "Anne of Green Gables"
+ }, {
+ "text": "Got me thinking. I know what I love too. Family and friends. All the ones here and all ones gone. I love my dog, and this orchard, and a crumbledown house.",
+ "source": "The Truth as Told by Mason Buttle"
+ }, {
+ "text": "Under the lights when everything goes. Nowhere to hide when I'm getting you close when we move, well, you already know.",
+ "source": "Can't Stop the Feeling"
+ }, {
+ "text": "If you've had half as much fun watching the show as we've had doing it, well then we've had twice as much fun doing the show as you've had watching it.",
+ "source": "Sports Night"
+ }, {
+ "text": "I want adventure in the great wide somewhere. I want it more than I can tell. And for once it might be grand to have someone understand; I want so much more than they've got planned.",
+ "source": "Beauty and the Beast"
+ }, {
+ "text": "If you're looking for the word that means caring about someone beyond all rationality and wanting them to have everything they want no matter how much it destroys you, it's love. And when you love someone you don't stop, ever. Even when people roll their eyes, and call you crazy. Even then. Especially then.",
+ "source": "How I Met Your Mother"
+ }, {
+ "text": "So if this was a touching romantic story this is probably where a new feeling would wash over me and suddenly we would be furiously making out with the fire of a thousand suns. But this isn't a touching romantic story.",
+ "source": "Me and Earl and the Dying Girl"
+ }, {
+ "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. A situation that needs to be either dealt with or accepted - yes.",
+ "source": "The Power of Now"
+ }, {
+ "text": "Take one moment to escape, it will change your mood when you're walking on the moon. Chase your happy place, it will change your groove when you're dancing on the moon. When we dance again, all our trouble seems to fade away. This is how I feel when you take me to some levels that I've never been.",
+ "source": "Walking on the Moon"
+ }, {
+ "text": "You don't need money, don't take fame. Don't need no credit card to ride this train. It's strong and it's sudden and it's cruel sometimes, but it might just save your life. That's the power of love.",
+ "source": "The Power of Love"
+ }, {
+ "text": "He's got to make his own mistakes and learn to mend the mess he makes. He's old enough to know what's right but young enough not to choose it. He's noble enough to win the world but weak enough to lose it. He's a New World man...",
+ "source": "New World Man"
+ }, {
+ "text": "Blackbird singing in the dead of night, take these broken wings and learn to fly. All your life you were only waiting for this moment to arise.",
+ "source": "Blackbird"
+ }, {
+ "text": "I remember way back then when everything was true and when we would have such a very good time. Such a fine time, such a happy time.",
+ "source": "Our House"
+ }, {
+ "text": "It's a fallen situation when all eyes are turned in and a love isn't flowing the way it could have been. You brought it all on but it feels so wrong. You brought it all on. I don't believe this song.",
+ "source": "Pardon My Heart"
+ }, {
+ "text": "Language does for intelligence what the wheel does for the feet and the body. It enables them to move from thing to thing with greater ease and speed and ever less involvement.",
+ "source": "Understanding Media"
+ }, {
+ "text": "A year has passed since I wrote my note but I should have known this right from the start: only hope can keep me together; love can mend your life but love can break your heart.",
+ "source": "Message In a Bottle"
+ }, {
+ "text": "Sometimes I wish I could turn back time, impossible as it may seem, but I wish I could so bad. Quit playing games with my heart. I live my life the way to keep you coming back to me. Everything I do is for you, so what is it that you can't see?",
+ "source": "Quit Playing Games"
+ }, {
+ "text": "Social scientists sometimes talk about the concept of \"identity\". It is the idea that you have a particular vision of the kind of person you are, and you feel awful when you do things that are out of line with that vision.",
+ "source": "Freakonomics"
+ }, {
+ "text": "Nature never appeals to intelligence until habit and instinct are useless. There is no intelligence where there is no need of change.",
+ "source": "The Time Machine"
+ }, {
+ "text": "Fortune, which has a great deal of power in other matters but especially in war, can bring about great changes in a situation through very slight forces.",
+ "source": "Commentaries on the Civil War"
+ }, {
+ "text": "Fools rush in where wise men never go, but wise men never fall in love so how are they to know? When we met I felt my life begin. So open up your heart and let this fool rush in.",
+ "source": "Fools Rush In"
+ }, {
+ "text": "Maybe someday we can talk about our past and we can talk about the weather; whenever you leave I don't care what I'm remembered for, I just want to be remembered.",
+ "source": "Nicole"
+ }, {
+ "text": "Imagine you were born without a memory. Who would you be? You could be nothing; if you didn't have memory, you wouldn't be able to function in our world.",
+ "source": "Unlimited Memory: How to Use Advanced Learning Strategies to Learn Faster, Remember More and Be More Productive"
+ }, {
+ "text": "We've just begun to learn about the water and its secrets, just as we've only touched on outer space. We don't entirely rule out the possibility that there might be some form of life on another planet, and why not some entirely different form of life in a world we already know is inhabited by millions of living creatures?",
+ "source": "Creature from the Black Lagoon"
+ }, {
+ "text": "In a hamlet of ten households, there are bound to be those who are my equal in doing their best for others and in being trustworthy in what they say, but they are unlikely to be as eager to learn as I am.",
+ "source": "The Analects"
+ }, {
+ "text": "I know there's something in the wake of your smile. I get a notion from the look in your eyes. You've built a love but that love falls apart. Your little piece of heaven turns too dark.",
+ "source": "Listen to Your Heart"
+ }, {
+ "text": "Where are those happy days, they seem so hard to find. I tried to reach for you, but you have closed your mind. Whatever happened to our love? I wish I understood. It used to be so nice, it used to be so good.",
+ "source": "S.O.S."
+ }, {
+ "text": "To put things simply, if your past makes your present... Then your present can and will make your future. When you think about it that way... You absolutely have the potential to be anything you want to be.",
+ "source": "Noragami"
+ }, {
+ "text": "If the world thinks you're a monster, what does it matter? The world is wrong. But when you start to think of yourself as a monster...",
+ "source": "Transformers"
+ }, {
+ "text": "Even if you lose a spell card battle, you win if you feel good. It's a game after all. A game isn't there to entertain you. You enjoy the game yourself. Maybe when you reach the point when you can enjoy anything, you see the true glamour of the spell card for the first time.",
+ "source": "The Grimoire of Marisa"
+ }, {
+ "text": "Hey, baby, you know it's funny. Even though I heard it so many times in the court case, I still can't get used to the fact that your real name is Miles. It's a cool name, though. I can think of a lot of great Miles songs. But we still have to get through all those baby songs first. I can't wait until the day when it's just us, music and the road.",
+ "source": "Baby Driver"
+ }, {
+ "text": "You wished for a closed world, where you alone are comfortable. In order to protect the weakness of your heart. In order to protect the pleasures in your life. This is merely the result. For people cannot live in a world that is yours alone. They cannot live in a space that is closed off. But you wished for the world, the world that surrounds you, to be closed off. Your heart and mind eliminated everything you didn't like and wished for a world as solitary as possible. And that has led to this little haven for your soul. This is one of the many ends that could occur. This is the end of the world that you have brought about.",
+ "source": "Neon Genesis Evangelion"
+ }, {
+ "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. Alas, the time is coming when man will no longer shoot the arrow of his longing beyond man, and the string of his bow will have forgotten how to whir.",
+ "source": "Thus Spoke Zarathustra: A Book for None and All"
+ }, {
+ "text": "You're missing the point. There's no throne, there is no version of this where you come out on top. Maybe your army comes and maybe it's too much for us, but it's all on you. Because if we can't protect the Earth, you can be damned well sure we'll avenge it.",
+ "source": "The Avengers"
+ }, {
+ "text": "The spirit and the senses so easily grow dead to the impressions of the beautiful and the perfect that one ought everyday to hear a little song, read a good poem, see a fine picture and if it were possible, to speak a few reasonable words.",
+ "source": "A Little Song"
+ }, {
+ "text": "Give me reasons we should be complete. You should be with him, I can't compete. You looked at me like I was someone else, oh well, can't you see? I don't wanna slow dance in the dark.",
+ "source": "Slow Dancing in the Dark"
+ }, {
+ "text": "Love isn't just wanting another person the way you want to own an object you see in a store. That's just desire. You want to have it around, take it home and set it up somewhere in the apartment like a lamp.",
+ "source": "Flow My Tears, the Policeman Said"
+ }, {
+ "text": "There is something about yourself that you don't know. Something that you will deny even exists, until it's too late to do anything about it. It's the only reason you get up in the morning. We share an addiction. We're approval junkies. We're all in it for the slap on the back and the gold watch. ",
+ "source": "Revolver"
+ }, {
+ "text": "There comes a point when you just love someone. Not because they're good, or bad, or anything really. You just love them. It doesn't mean you'll be together forever. It doesn't mean you won't hurt each other. It just means you love them. Sometimes in spite of who they are, and sometimes because of who they are. And you know that they love you, sometimes because of who you are, and sometimes in spite of it.",
+ "source": "Incubus Dreams"
+ }, {
+ "text": "You're not a bad person. You are a very good person who bad things have happened to, you understand. Besides the world isn't split into good people and Death Eaters. We've all got both light, and dark inside of us, what matters is the part we choose to act on. That's who we really are.",
+ "source": "Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix"
+ }, {
+ "text": "I wish that I was born a thousand years ago. I wish that I'd sailed the darkened seas on a great big clipper ship, going from this land to that in a sailor's suit and cap. Away from the big city where man cannot be free of all the evils of this town and of himself and those around.",
+ "source": "Heroin"
+ }, {
+ "text": "In most cases, there is more to be gained by maximizing the performance of the driver than tricking out the car. The most important factor is the driver, the ultimate control system of a race car.",
+ "source": "Speed Secrets: Professional Race Driving Techniques"
+ }, {
+ "text": "She can kill with a smile, she can wound with her eyes, she can ruin your faith with her casual lies, and she only reveals what she wants you to see. She hides like a child, but she's always a woman to me.",
+ "source": "She's Always A Woman"
+ }, {
+ "text": "Often, after the first years of marriage, the husband seems to lose interest in the wife. He reads the paper at the breakfast table, he doesn't answer when you talk to him. In short, he doesn't even know you're alive.",
+ "source": "I Love Lucy"
+ }, {
+ "text": "You have two choices: you can keep running and hiding and blaming the world for your problems, or you can stand up for yourself and decide to be somebody important.",
+ "source": "Nothing Lasts Forever"
+ }, {
+ "text": "It is at this point in our story that along comes a spider.",
+ "source": "V for Vendetta"
+ }, {
+ "text": "For the first time the magnitude of what he had taken came home to him. How could you communicate with the future? It was of its nature impossible. Either the future would resemble the present, in which case it would not listen to him: or it would be different from it, and his predicament would be meaningless.",
+ "source": "1984"
+ }, {
+ "text": "It is truly amazing what you can do when you believe in your own ability. That's why you need faith - a deep down, dogged belief that, regardless of the evidence, you are going to make it! You are going to achieve what you have set out to accomplish. You are going to make a difference in this life.",
+ "source": "The Seven Keys To Success"
+ }, {
+ "text": "Who cares if we don't see the sun shine ever again? I want you more than any blue sky. The weather can go crazy.",
+ "source": "Tenki no ko"
+ }, {
+ "text": "Grief is like a drunken house guest, always coming back for one more goodbye hug.",
+ "source": "Bag of Bones"
+ }, {
+ "text": "Baby, ever wondered why I could make you laugh and cry? Eclipsing all your summer skies, some things never change. And I need it more than love, and I love it more than life, and I want those stars above to shine this night.",
+ "source": "Stormy Weather"
+ }, {
+ "text": "I'm alive in a city in a country of the world. And I want to go on living, I want to see my life unfold. You know it's hard to go on looking at the stories of our day and the dangers we're all facing growing worse in every way. And you would think with all of the genius and the brilliance of these times, we might find a higher purpose and a better use of mind.",
+ "source": "Say It Isn't True"
+ }, {
+ "text": "Again, I go back to the working really hard to get someone else a piece thing. The payoff is never gonna be as great for you as it is for them. Don't you think you've been using these birds to avoid interacting with your own species for long enough?",
+ "source": "Wonderfalls"
+ }, {
+ "text": "I have dreamt in my life, dreams that have stayed with me ever after, and changed my ideas; they have gone through and through me, like wine through water, and altered the color of my mind. And this is one: I'm going to tell it - but take care not to smile at any part of it.",
+ "source": "Wuthering Heights"
+ }, {
+ "text": "By love you mean big lightning bolts to the heart, where you can't eat and you can't work, and you just run off and get married and make babies. The reason you haven't felt it is because it doesn't exist. What you call love was invented by guys like me.",
+ "source": "Mad Men"
+ }, {
+ "text": "Sally and I did not know what to say. Should we tell her the things that went on there that day? Should we tell her about it? Now, what should we do? Well, what would you do if your mother asked you?",
+ "source": "The Cat in the Hat"
+ }, {
+ "text": "There before me was a woman who had finally, after all this time, made it to the start line, at the absolute worst moment imaginable. It was truly a tragic sight of a truly hopeless girl who had just begun her first love when it was far too late.",
+ "source": "Gamers!"
+ }, {
+ "text": "As you decide, you shall be left as you were before, and neither richer nor wiser, unless the sense of service rendered to a man in mortal distress may be counted as a kind of riches of the soul.",
+ "source": "The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde"
+ }, {
+ "text": "I realized that back then, the reason I wanted to become human, was that I really just wanted to have friends. Now, I just want to be a monster that can help Luffy.",
+ "source": "One Piece"
+ }, {
+ "text": "We can now get these kids to buy just about anything. We can have them chasing a new trend every week. And that is good for the economy. And what's good for the economy is good for the country.",
+ "source": "Josie and the Pussycats"
+ }, {
+ "text": "Give me the child... Through dangers untold and hardships unnumbered, I have fought my way here to the castle beyond the goblin city to take back the child which you have stolen. For my will is as strong as yours and my kingdom as great. You have no power over me.",
+ "source": "The Labyrinth"
+ }, {
+ "text": "Breathe, breathe in the air. Don't be afraid to care. Leave but don't leave me. Look around, choose your own ground. For long you live and high you fly. And smiles you'll give and tears you'll cry. And all you touch and all you see is all your life will ever be.",
+ "source": "Breathe"
+ }, {
+ "text": "You think you're any different from me, or your friends, or this tree? If you listen hard enough, you can hear every living thing breathing together. You can feel everything growing. We're all living together, even if most folks don't act like it. We all have the same roots, and we are all branches of the same tree.",
+ "source": "Avatar The Last Airbender"
+ }, {
+ "text": "She left the lighthouse and went down to the beach to look at the moon pure and straight, and she stood in the shallows and let her feet sink into the sand as the patter-waves tickled her ankles. And that's when she saw it, a school of tiny fish, all darting around like marbles in a chalk circle, and they were lit up electric, mostly silver but some gold and pink too. They came and danced around her ankles, and she could feel their little electric fish bodies, and it was like she was standing under the moon and in the moon at the same time. And that was something she hadn't seen before.",
+ "source": "The Reapers are the Angels"
+ }, {
+ "text": "I always loved you, and if one loves anyone, one loves the whole person, just as they are and not as one would like them to be.",
+ "source": "Anna Karenina"
+ }, {
+ "text": "In your heart I see the start of every night and every day. In your eyes I get lost, I get washed away. Just as long as I'm here in your arms I could be in no better place.",
+ "source": "The Best"
+ }, {
+ "text": "The only ones who should kill are those prepared to be killed.",
+ "source": "Code Geass"
+ }, {
+ "text": "What really knocks me out is a book that, when you're all done reading it, you wish the author that wrote it was a terrific friend of yours and you could call him up on the phone whenever you felt like it. That doesn't happen much, though.",
+ "source": "The Catcher in the Rye"
+ }, {
+ "text": "If one must drink, then let one drink thrice a month, for more is bad. If one gets drunk twice a month, it is better; if one gets drunk once a month, that is better still; and if one doesn't drink at all, that is the best of all.",
+ "source": "Compendium of Chronicles"
+ }, {
+ "text": "In short, our gentleman became so caught up in reading that he spent his nights reading from dusk till dawn and his days reading from sunrise to sunset, and so with too little sleep and too much reading his brains dried up, causing him to lose his mind.",
+ "source": "Don Quixote"
+ }, {
+ "text": "For just one second, look at your life and see how perfect it is. Stop looking for the next secret door that is going to lead you to your real life. Stop waiting. This is it: there's nothing else. It's here, and you'd better decide to enjoy it or you're going to be miserable wherever you go, for the rest of your life, forever.",
+ "source": "The Magicians"
+ }, {
+ "text": "For someone who was never meant for this world, I must confess I'm suddenly having a hard time leaving it.",
+ "source": "Gattaca"
+ }, {
+ "text": "For every man there is a cause which he would gladly die for. Defend the right to have a place to which he can belong to. And every man will fight with his bare hands in desperation. And shed his blood to stem the flood to barricade invasion.",
+ "source": "Invasion"
+ }, {
+ "text": "There are so many different ways to be connected to people. There are the people you feel this unspoken connection to, even though there's not even a word for it. There's the people who you've known forever who know you in this way that other people can't because they've seen you change... they've let you change.",
+ "source": "My So-Called Life"
+ }, {
+ "text": "I am Dracula and I welcome you to my house. I must apologize for not being here to greet you personally, but I trust you've found everything you needed.",
+ "source": "Horror of Dracula"
+ }, {
+ "text": "I will rain down silver and gold for you. I will shatter the black night, break it open, and pour out a million stars. Turn away from the darkness, the madness, the pain. Open your eyes and know that I am here. That I remember and hope. Open your eyes and look at the light.",
+ "source": "Revolution"
+ }, {
+ "text": "If we all go for the blonde and block each other, not a single one of us is going to get her. So then we go for her friends, but they will all give us the cold shoulder because no one likes to be second choice. But what if none of us goes for the blonde? We won't get in each other's way and we won't insult the other girls. It's the only way to win.",
+ "source": "A Beautiful Mind"
+ }, {
+ "text": "There can be no light without the dark, and so it is with magic. Myself, I always strive to live within the light. Is that what you told Tom Riddle, sir, when he came asking questions?",
+ "source": "Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince"
+ }, {
+ "text": "That is right, but I held something back. I see some real genius in your flying, Maverick, but I can't say that in there. I was afraid that everyone in the tax trailer would see right through me, and I just don't want anyone to know that I've fallen for you.",
+ "source": "Top Gun"
+ }, {
+ "text": "I know that you wanna but you can't 'cause you gotta stay cool in the corner when the truth is that you wanna move.",
+ "source": "Move"
+ }, {
+ "text": "I took her hand in mine, and we went out of the ruined place; and as the morning mists had risen long ago when I first left the forge, so the evening mists were rising now, and in all the broad expanse of tranquil light they showed to me, I saw no shadow of another parting from her.",
+ "source": "Great Expectations"
+ }, {
+ "text": "Well, the real reason that you've been sent over here is because they wanted you to be evaluated... to determine whether or not you are mentally ill. This is the real reason. Why do you think they might think that?",
+ "source": "One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest"
+ }, {
+ "text": "A good plan today is better than a perfect plan tomorrow.",
+ "source": "Wag the Dog"
+ }, {
+ "text": "You spend your life in a dream that you can't escape, 'cause you live your life in a coma, you're never awake. If you'd open your eyes then maybe you'd see what's at stake. You're sleeping. You're sleeping.",
+ "source": "Wake Up"
+ }, {
+ "text": "This is a life-or-death elimination match. The only way to survive... is to win. There can be no doubt that those are the rules of the game. Which is why I am bowing out of the game.",
+ "source": "Danganronpa: Trigger Happy Havoc"
+ }, {
+ "text": "For children love is a feeling; for adults, it is a decision. Children wait to learn if their love is true by seeing how long it lasts; adults make their love true by never wavering from their commitment.",
+ "source": "Pathfinder"
+ }, {
+ "text": "Our emotions cloud our perceptions. It's no wonder this library is the most wonderful place on earth to you, but other people don't see it that way.",
+ "source": "Turning Pages"
+ }, {
+ "text": "Never give up on everything if one thing is too hard. Never give up when it falls down; just go back to the start. Never give up on everything; never give up when you can still believe. Time after time we miss the chances for us to find a better life. No looking back, no pulling punches - this is the fact time after time.",
+ "source": "Deep In Your Mind"
+ }, {
+ "text": "I needed all the feelings to stop boiling like a pot of dal and be cool enough for me to taste them.",
+ "source": "The Night Diary"
+ }, {
+ "text": "Although some men who were easy with their words said that it was worth sacrificing one's life for a night of love with such an arousing woman, the truth was that no one made any effort to do so.",
+ "source": "One Hundred Years of Solitude"
+ }, {
+ "text": "He always seemed to women different from what he was, and they loved in him not himself, but the man created by their imagination, whom they had been eagerly seeking all their lives; and afterwards, when they noticed their mistake, they loved him all the same.",
+ "source": "The Stories of Anton Chekhov"
+ }, {
+ "text": "It so happened that during those days, among so many other carnival attractions, there arrived in the town the traveling show of the woman who had been changed into a spider for having disobeyed her parents. The admission to see her was not only less than the admission to see the angel, but people were permitted to ask her all manner of questions about her absurd state and to examine her up and down so that no one would ever doubt the truth of her horror.",
+ "source": "A Very Old Man with Enormous Wings"
+ }, {
+ "text": "In the short term, it would make me happy to go play outside. In the long term, it would make me happier to do well at school and become successful. But in the very long term, I know which will make better memories.",
+ "source": "The Complete Calvin and Hobbes"
+ }, {
+ "text": "When we conceive of the sweetest being ever, we are conceiving of the being that exists both in the mind and in reality. Since the ninja is that being than which nothing sweeter can be conceived and that being exists in the mind and in reality, the ninja exists in reality.",
+ "source": "REAL Ultimate Power: The Official Ninja Book"
+ }, {
+ "text": "But I believe in true love, you know? I don't believe that everybody gets to keep their eyes or not get sick or whatever, but everybody should have true love, and it should last at least as long as your life does.",
+ "source": "The Fault in Our Stars"
+ }, {
+ "text": "Everybody knows in their bones that something is eternal, and that something has to do with human beings.",
+ "source": "Our Town"
+ }, {
+ "text": "Man, don't tell me how good I was. I just got away with it because I had a hangover. I was too mad to be scared and too sick to worry about it. You know that.",
+ "source": "El Dorado"
+ }, {
+ "text": "Esteban stood at the front of the room, staring at the page. Then he lifted his head and looked at us. We cheered again, even louder this time. I don't know if any of us really understood his dad's poem. But for a long time after he'd finished reading, I thought about that army of ants, how they were coming together. Like us.",
+ "source": "Harbor Me"
+ }, {
+ "text": "Time grabs you by the wrist, directs you where to go. So make the best of this test, and don't ask why; it's not a question, but a lesson learned in time. It's something unpredictable, but in the end it's right. I hope you had the time of your life.",
+ "source": "Good Riddance (Time of Your Life)"
+ }, {
+ "text": "You do not have to sit outside in the dark. If, however, you want to look at the stars, you will find that darkness is necessary. But the stars neither require nor demand it.",
+ "source": "Teaching a Stone to Talk: Expeditions and Encounters"
+ }, {
+ "text": "I'm just not the guy for you. I mean, you need a guy who's happy and perky all the time. Maybe a guy who's had part of his brain removed and he thinks he's a bunny and you can go off and be bunnies together.",
+ "source": "Boy Meets World"
+ }, {
+ "text": "Learn to see me as a brother instead of two distant strangers and that's how it's supposed to be. How can the Devil take a brother if he's close to me? I'd love to go back to when we played as kids. But things change... that's the way it is.",
+ "source": "Changes"
+ }, {
+ "text": "Like the generations of leaves, the lives of mortal men. Now the wind scatters the old leaves across the earth, now the living timber bursts with the new buds and spring comes 'round again. And so with men: as one generation comes to life, another dies away.",
+ "source": "The Iliad"
+ }, {
+ "text": "In any new job there's always friction with your coworkers. They're wondering if the boss likes the new guy better, if he's going to make them look bad. In some jobs, that can get you a dark look in the break room; in other jobs, that can get you a bullet in the back of the head.",
+ "source": "Burn Notice"
+ }, {
+ "text": "The odds are that you will generally meet the worst of them. The reason is that men who have something going for them in their lives, men who passionately live life with a purpose, are usually too busy living their dreams to hang out \"trolling for chicks.\"",
+ "source": "How to Get Any Man to do Anything You Want!"
+ }, {
+ "text": "How sweet it is to love someone, how right it is to care. How long it's been since yesterday, what about tomorrow, and what about our dreams and all the memories we share?",
+ "source": "Poems, Prayers, and Promises"
+ }, {
+ "text": "I'm going to marry you on a mountaintop, and as we reach the peak, that's when the snow will stop. I'm going to look at you coming down that aisle that's made of sticks and stones, and we're both going to smile, 'cause our love has begun.",
+ "source": "I'm Going To Marry You"
+ }, {
+ "text": "The night's always waiting, still and unseen. The harder you focus, the darker it seems.",
+ "source": "The night's always waiting"
+ }, {
+ "text": "A lot of people say they want to be great, but they're not willing to make the sacrifices necessary to achieve greatness. They have other concerns, whether important or not, and they spread themselves out. That's totally fine. After all, greatness is not for everybody.",
+ "source": "The Mamba Mentality: How I Play"
+ }, {
+ "text": "It's a basic truth of the human condition, that everybody lies. The only variable is about what. The weird thing about telling someone they're dying is that, it tends to focus their priorities. Find out what matters to them. What they're willing to die for... What they're willing to lie for.",
+ "source": "House M.D."
+ }, {
+ "text": "It's the job that's never started as takes longest to finish, as my old gaffer used to say.",
+ "source": "The Lord of The Rings"
+ }, {
+ "text": "Perhaps love is like a window, perhaps an open door. It invites you to come closer. It wants to show you more. And even if you lose yourself, and don't know what to do, the memory of love will see you through.",
+ "source": "Perhaps Love"
+ }, {
+ "text": "Owners of dogs will have noticed that, if you provide them with food and water and shelter and affection, they will think you are god. Whereas owners of cats are compelled to realize that, if you provide them with food and water and shelter and affection, they draw the conclusion that they are gods.",
+ "source": "The Portable Atheist"
+ }, {
+ "text": "Perhaps the most valuable result of all education is the ability to make yourself do the thing you have to do, when it ought to be done, whether you like it or not; it is the first lesson that ought to be learned; and however early a man's training begins, it is probably the last lesson that he learns thoroughly.",
+ "source": "Technical Education"
+ }, {
+ "text": "But it is important to know this, to know your roots. To know where you started as a person. If not, your own life seems unreal to you. Like a puzzle. Like you have missed the beginning of a story and now you are in the middle of it, trying to understand.",
+ "source": "And the Mountains Echoed"
+ }, {
+ "text": "There's a feeling I get when I look to the west and my spirit is crying for leaving. In my thoughts I have seen rings of smoke through the trees and the voices of those who stand looking.",
+ "source": "Stairway to Heaven"
+ }, {
+ "text": "As my bones grew they did hurt. They hurt really bad. I tried hard to have a father but instead I had a dad. I just want you to know that I don't hate you anymore. There is nothing I could say that I haven't thought before.",
+ "source": "Serve the Servants"
+ }, {
+ "text": "It's so relieving to know that you're leaving as soon as you get paid. It's so relaxing to hear you're asking wherever you get your way. It's so soothing to know that you'll sue me, this is starting to sound the same. I miss the comfort in being sad.",
+ "source": "Frances Farmer Will Have Her Revenge on Seattle"
+ }, {
+ "text": "I was born in a town that was straight out of a fairy tale. Many people died there, and when I walked away, I held hands with my other self. To me it seemed like we were the only two people in the world. Neither one of us possessed a real name.",
+ "source": "Monster"
+ }, {
+ "text": "And it came to pass that I beheld others pressing forward, and they came forth and caught hold of the end of the rod of iron; and they did press forward through the mist of darkness, clinging to the rod of iron, even until they did come forth and partake of the fruit of the tree.",
+ "source": "1 Nephi 8:24"
+ }, {
+ "text": "Here we go, another night out. Waited all week just to get out. Where do we come from? Do I know your name? Doesn't really matter; in this life we're all the same. Move for me, I'll move for you.",
+ "source": "Move for Me"
+ }, {
+ "text": "Whatever principle of intelligence we attain unto in this life, it will rise with us in the resurrection. And if a person gains more knowledge and intelligence in this life through his diligence and obedience than another, he will have so much the advantage in the world to come.",
+ "source": "Doctrine and Covenant 130:18,19"
+ }, {
+ "text": "But no matter how effective the lesson was, I never really used it after that. I didn't enjoy doing it that way. But it was interesting to know that things worked much differently from how I was brought up.",
+ "source": "Surely You're Joking, Mr. Feynman!"
+ }, {
+ "text": "I just told you the truth. I told you the truth the first time. You don't have to ask me again. I never do that. I always tell you the truth. If I did it, you would know. I took her out a couple of times.",
+ "source": "Raging Bull"
+ }, {
+ "text": "The way I see it, every life is a pile of good things and bad things. The good things don't always soften the bad things, but vice versa the bad things don't always spoil the good things or make them unimportant. And we definitely added to his pile of good things.",
+ "source": "Doctor Who"
+ }, {
+ "text": "I suppose I could collect my books and get on back to school or steal my daddy's cue and make a living out of playing pool or find myself a rock and roll band that needs a helping hand.",
+ "source": "Maggie May"
+ }, {
+ "text": "Just whistle while you work, and cheerfully together we can tidy up the place. So hum a merry tune, it won't take long when there's a song to help you set the pace. And as you sweep the room, imagine that the broom is someone that you love and soon you'll find you're dancing to the tune. When hearts are high the time will fly, so whistle while you work.",
+ "source": "Whistle While You Work"
+ }, {
+ "text": "There's no more harm in a kiss than shaving a monkey and pretending it's a woman.",
+ "source": "QI"
+ }, {
+ "text": "The most precious treasures we have in life are the images we store in the memory banks of our brains. The sum of these stored experiences is responsible for our sense of personal identity and our sense of connectedness to those around us.",
+ "source": "Change Your Brain, Change Your Life"
+ }, {
+ "text": "It's a funny thing, but people mostly have it backward. They think they live by what they want. But really, what guides them is what they're afraid of. What they don't want.",
+ "source": "And the Mountains Echoed"
+ }, {
+ "text": "Sometimes you are too ashamed to leave. That was true now. And sometimes you need too much to know the facts, and so humbly and stupidly you stay.",
+ "source": "A Separate Peace"
+ }, {
+ "text": "People running everywhere, don't know the way to go, don't know where I am. Can't see past the next step, don't have to think past the last mile, have no time to look around. Just run around, run around and think why.",
+ "source": "Does Anybody Really Know What Time It Is?"
+ }, {
+ "text": "I'd have wasted a lot of time and trouble before I learned that the best way to take all people, black or white, is to take them for what they think they are, then leave them alone.",
+ "source": "The Sound and the Fury"
+ }, {
+ "text": "She's got eyes of the bluest skies as if they thought of rain. I hate to look into those eyes and see an ounce of pain. Her hair reminds me of a warm safe place where as a child I'd hide and pray for the thunder and the rain to quietly pass me by.",
+ "source": "Sweet Child O' Mine"
+ }, {
+ "text": "I have a small favor to ask regarding our impending wedding. Since all of my close friends will be out of town and we have had a previous conversation and our eyes have met on a number of occasions I was wondering if you'd consent to be my maid of honor.",
+ "source": "Cheers"
+ }, {
+ "text": "So I walk into the sun. I thought you'd be there, but you could fool anyone. In the red water dust, will I see you soon, or did we move on?",
+ "source": "Into the Sun"
+ }, {
+ "text": "You have to accept that sometimes that's how things happen in this world. People's opinions, their feelings, they go one way, then the other. It just so happens you grew up at a certain point in this process.",
+ "source": "Never Let Me Go"
+ }, {
+ "text": "Patience, he thought. So much of this was patience - waiting, and thinking and doing things right. So much of all this, so much of all living was patience and thinking.",
+ "source": "Hatchet"
+ }, {
+ "text": "If I am to serve both as a waitress and the butt of jokes, I think I should make more money.",
+ "source": "Cheers"
+ }, {
+ "text": "She knew since she was little, the world would not sing her triumphs, but she took all of the stereotypes and put them in a chokehold until they breathed out the truth.",
+ "source": "The Poet X"
+ }, {
+ "text": "I never thought I'd be able to do any of this stuff. But I can. Anyone can wear the mask. You could wear the mask. If you didn't know that before, I hope you do now.",
+ "source": "Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse"
+ }, {
+ "text": "I don't want to talk about the things we've gone through. Though it's hurting me, now it's history. I've played all my cards and that's what you've done too. Nothing more to say, no more ace to play.",
+ "source": "The Winner Takes It All"
+ }, {
+ "text": "I never wanted to be the man who loves children, but... from the moment they're born... that baby comes out, and you act proud and excited, hand out cigars... but you don't feel anything, especially if you had a difficult childhood. You want to love them, but you don't. And the fact that you're faking that feeling makes you wonder if your father had the same problem. Then they get older, and you see them do something, and you feel that feeling that you've been pretending to have. You feel like your heart is going to explode.",
+ "source": "Mad Men"
+ }, {
+ "text": "Mother used to say that however miserable one is, there's always something to be thankful for. And each morning, when the sky brightened and light began to flood my cell, I agreed with her.",
+ "source": "The Stranger"
+ }, {
+ "text": "If you are not willing to learn, no one can help you. If you are determined to learn, no one can stop you.",
+ "source": "How to Get What You Want"
+ }, {
+ "text": "I do not deny that what happened to us is a thing worth laughing at. But it is not worth telling, for not everyone is sufficiently intelligent to be able to see things from the right point of view.",
+ "source": "Don Quixote"
+ }, {
+ "text": "Today is gonna be the day that they're gonna throw it back to you. By now you should've somehow realized what you gotta do. I don't believe that anybody feels the way I do about you now.",
+ "source": "Wonderwall"
+ }, {
+ "text": "A hero can be anyone. Even a man doing something as simple and reassuring as putting a coat around a young boy's shoulders to let him know that the world hadn't ended.",
+ "source": "The Dark Knight Rises"
+ }, {
+ "text": "He who knows only his own side of the case, knows little of that. His reasons may be good, and no one may have been able to refute them. But if he is equally unable to refute the reasons on the opposite side; if he does not so much as know what they are, he has no ground for preferring either opinion.",
+ "source": "On Liberty"
+ }, {
+ "text": "He spent six hours examining things, trying to find a difference from their appearance on the previous day in the hope of discovering in them some change that would reveal the passage of time.",
+ "source": "One Hundred Years of Solitude"
+ }, {
+ "text": "You know better than you think you know, and you shall live to know me better yet.",
+ "source": "The Magician's Nephew"
+ }, {
+ "text": "There must be quite a few things a hot bath won't cure, but I don't know many of them.",
+ "source": "The Bell Jar"
+ }, {
+ "text": "When you meet someone better than yourself, turn your thoughts to becoming his equal. When you meet someone not as good as you are, look within and examine your own self.",
+ "source": "The Analects"
+ }, {
+ "text": "What really knocks me out is a book that, when you're all done reading it, you wish the author that wrote it was a terrific friend of yours and you could call him up on the phone whenever you felt like it. That doesn't happen much, though.",
+ "source": "The Catcher in the Rye"
+ }, {
+ "text": "Why are you the way that you are? Honestly, every time I try to do something fun or exciting, you make it not... that way. I hate so much about the things that you choose to be.",
+ "source": "The Office"
+ }, {
+ "text": "I hope you still feel small when you stand beside the ocean. Whenever one door closes I hope one more opens. Promise me that you'll give faith a fighting chance when you get the choice to sit it out or dance.",
+ "source": "I Hope You Dance"
+ }, {
+ "text": "If you want a happy ending, that depends, of course, on where you stop your story.",
+ "source": "White Collar"
+ }, {
+ "text": "Whenever there is a meeting, a parting shall follow. But that parting needs not last forever. Whether a parting be forever or merely for a short while... that is up to you.",
+ "source": "The Legend of Zelda: Majora's Mask"
+ }, {
+ "text": "As if that blind rage had washed me clean, rid me of hope; for the first time, in that night alive with signs and stars, I opened myself to the gentle indifference of the world. Finding it so much like myself, I felt that I had been happy and that I was happy again.",
+ "source": "The Stranger"
+ }, {
+ "text": "The man who pulls the lever that breaks your neck will be a dispassionate man, and that dispassion is the very essence of justice. For justice delivered without dispassion is always in danger of not being justice.",
+ "source": "The Hateful Eight"
+ }, {
+ "text": "When someone betrays your trust, it feels like a part of you dies. For me, I guess it was the part that cared.",
+ "source": "Zero Escape: Virtue's Last Reward"
+ }, {
+ "text": "There are but two types of men who desire war: those who haven't the slightest intention of fighting it themselves, and those who haven't the slightest idea what it is. Any man who has seen the face of death knows better than to seek him out a second time.",
+ "source": "Abraham Lincoln: Vampire Hunter"
+ }, {
+ "text": "Remembering you standing quiet in the rain as I ran to your heart to be near. And we kissed as the sky fell in holding you close how I always held close in your fear.",
+ "source": "Pictures of You"
+ }, {
+ "text": "No one would ever say, \"Come and join us, Caroline,\" so I would then spend the rest of the lunch period feeling sorry for myself and trying to remember that the lonely children like me are the ones who grow up to be someone that everyone wishes they could be.",
+ "source": "Hurricane Child"
+ }, {
+ "text": "People just don't understand what is involved in this. This is an art form! You know, I think that most people just think that I hold a camera and point at stuff, but there is a heck of a lot more to it than just that.",
+ "source": "Groundhog Day"
+ }, {
+ "text": "A great teacher has little external history to record. His life goes over into other lives. These men are pillars in the intimate structure of our schools. They are more essential than its stones or beams and they will continue to be a kindling force and a revealing power in our lives.",
+ "source": "The Emperor's Club"
+ }, {
+ "text": "Human beings do not live forever, Reuven. We live less than the time it takes to blink an eye, if we measure our lives against eternity. So it may be asked what value is there to a human life. There is so much pain in the world. What does it mean to have to suffer so much if our lives are nothing more than the blink of an eye?",
+ "source": "The Chosen"
+ }, {
+ "text": "Tonight I'll dream while in my bed. When silly thoughts go through my head, about the bugs and alphabet, and when I wake tomorrow I'll bet that you and I will walk together again. I can tell that we are going to be friends.",
+ "source": "We're going to be friends"
+ }, {
+ "text": "Can you live without answers? All of you, ask that of yourself. Can you live without answers? Because if you cannot, then most assuredly you will invent your own answers and they will comfort you. And all those who do not share your view will by their very existence strike fear and hatred into your heart.",
+ "source": "Toll The Hounds"
+ }, {
+ "text": "You must follow me carefully. I shall have to controvert one or two ideas that are almost universally accepted. The geometry, for instance, they taught you at school is founded on a misconception.",
+ "source": "The Time Machine"
+ }, {
+ "text": "I don't know what it is about you, but I feel like myself when I'm with you, but the way I always wanted to feel, because I'm in love with you Megan, and I think I have been for a while.",
+ "source": "Mad Men"
+ }, {
+ "text": "I must have done something right, to deserve you in my life... I must have done something right along the way.",
+ "source": "If The Moon Fell Down"
+ }, {
+ "text": "I'll find you in the morning sun and when the night is new. I'll be looking at the moon, but I'll be seeing you. I'll be seeing you in every lovely summer's day, in everything that's light and gay. I'll always think of you that way.",
+ "source": "I'll Be Seeing You"
+ }, {
+ "text": "Green is the sound the wind makes, rustling through the trees. If we walked down to the riverbank and you put your hand in the water, you'd feel the cool color blue. To remember red, you need only stand in front of the hearth. And a winter snowfall, silent and cold and pure... that is white.",
+ "source": "When Christ and His Saints Slept"
+ }, {
+ "text": "If everyone keeps asking you the same questions, maybe you have to come up with new answers just to stay awake.",
+ "source": "The Book of Illusions"
+ }, {
+ "text": "A glooming peace this morning with it brings. The sun for sorrow will not show its head. Go hence to have more talk of these sad things. Some shall be pardoned and some punished. For never was a story of more woe than this of Juliet and her Romeo.",
+ "source": "Romeo And Juliet"
+ }, {
+ "text": "All we need for morality is contained in these words: make others happy as you yourself would be, and serve them in the way you would yourself be served. The sole requirement is a good heart.",
+ "source": "Sadistic"
+ }, {
+ "text": "There are some fights you just can't win. A force can be so overwhelming that no tactical approach in a fight is going to lead to a victory worth having. When you can't win in a fight, sometimes you have to settle for making sure that if you lose, everyone loses. It works for nuclear weapons, it works for me.",
+ "source": "Burn Notice"
+ }, {
+ "text": "I just feel like there are so many things that I could be doing and probably want to be doing that I'm just not.",
+ "source": "Boyhood"
+ }, {
+ "text": "Any one can get angry - that is easy - or give or spend money; but to do this to the right person, to the right extent, at the right time, with the right motive, and in the right way, that is not for every one, nor is it easy; wherefore goodness is both rare and laudable and noble.",
+ "source": "Nicomachean Ethics"
+ }, {
+ "text": "Since painting embraces within itself all the forms of nature you have nothing omitted except the names, and these are not universal like the forms.",
+ "source": "The Notebooks of Leonardo"
+ }, {
+ "text": "It's you that perceives reality as bad and unpleasant. It's you who's mistaken reality for the truth. Your perspective on reality and the importance you place on reality, the slightest difference in these things will greatly change the world inside your mind.",
+ "source": "Neon Genesis Evangelion"
+ }, {
+ "text": "I see a line of cars and they're all painted black with flowers and my love, both never to come back. I see people turn their heads and quickly look away. Like a new born baby, it just happens every day.",
+ "source": "Paint It Black"
+ }, {
+ "text": "But I got smarter, I got harder in the nick of time. Honey, I rose up from the dead, I do it all the time. I got a list of names and yours is in red, underlined. I checked it once, then I checked it twice.",
+ "source": "Look What You Made Me Do"
+ }, {
+ "text": "Society is commonly too cheap. We meet at very short intervals, not having had time to acquire any new value for each other. We meet at meals three times a day, and give each other a new taste of that old musty cheese that we are.",
+ "source": "Walden"
+ }, {
+ "text": "You may tell a tale that takes up residence in someone's soul, becomes their blood and self and purpose. That tale will move them and drive them and who knows what they might do because of it, because of your words. That is your role, your gift.",
+ "source": "The Night Circus"
+ }, {
+ "text": "Middle management means that you got just enough responsibility to listen when people talk, but not so much you can't tell anybody to go screw themselves.",
+ "source": "The Wire"
+ }, {
+ "text": "It is a contradiction in terms and ideas to call anything a revelation that comes to us at second hand, either verbally or in writing. Revelation is necessarily limited to the first communication. After this, it is only an account of something which that person says was a revelation made to him; and though he may find himself obliged to believe it, it cannot be incumbent on me to believe it in the same manner, for it was not a revelation made to me, and I have only his word for it that it was made to him.",
+ "source": "The Age of Reason"
+ }, {
+ "text": "And though it's always been with me, I must tear down the wall and let it be. All I am, and all that I was ever meant to be, in harmony, shining true and smiling back at all who wait to cross. There is no loss.",
+ "source": "The Wall"
+ }, {
+ "text": "If I ruled the world every day would be the first day of spring, every heart would have a new song to sing, and we'd sing of the joy every morning would bring. If I ruled the world every man would be as free as a bird, every voice would be a voice to be heard. Take my word, we would treasure each day that occurred.",
+ "source": "If I Ruled the World"
+ }, {
+ "text": "I feel it in my fingers, I feel it in my toes. Love is all around me and so the feeling grows. It's written on the wind, it's everywhere I go. So if you really love me, come on and let it show.",
+ "source": "Love Is All Around"
+ }, {
+ "text": "The pie maker considered how not telling Chuck the truth about her father was a lot like being locked in a prison. Then he considered how being locked in a prison was actually much worse than some silly metaphor about truth.",
+ "source": "Pushing Daisies"
+ }, {
+ "text": "Sometimes you concentrate more on racing the cars around you, rather than focusing on what you need to do. Having said that, 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"
+ }, {
+ "text": "I used to think that memories were a way of holding on to the truth, never forgetting what really happened. But it turns out, memories are more like dreams. They tell us everything about ourselves, whether we're ready for it, or not.",
+ "source": "Dare Me"
+ }, {
+ "text": "After snow comes up, the wind blows it around so it looks like it's coming down but actually it comes up out of the ground - like grass. It comes up, Charlie Brown, snow comes up!",
+ "source": "You're A Good Man, Charlie Brown"
+ }, {
+ "text": "Written in these walls are the stories that I can't explain. I leave my heart open but it stays right here empty for days. She told me in the morning she don't feel the same about us in her bones. It seems to me that when I die these words will be written on my stone. And I'll be gone, gone tonight. The ground beneath my feet is open wide. The way that I've been holding on too tight. With nothing in between.",
+ "source": "Story Of My Life"
+ }, {
+ "text": "The less you do with the controls, the less chance of error. Steer, shift, and use the pedals smoothly, and with finesse - not with blinding speed and brute force. The slower you move, the faster the car moves.",
+ "source": "Speed Secrets: Professional Race Driving Techniques"
+ }, {
+ "text": "They're talking about things of which they don't have the slightest understanding, anyway. It's only because of their stupidity that they're able to be so sure of themselves.",
+ "source": "The Trial"
+ }, {
+ "text": "The main thing to do is pay attention. Pay close attention to everything, notice what no one else notices. Then you'll know what no one else knows, and that's always useful.",
+ "source": "The City of Ember"
+ }, {
+ "text": "The rain fell slow, down on all the roofs of uncertainty. I thought of you, and the years and all the sadness fell away from me. And did you know... I never thought that you'd lose the light in your eyes?",
+ "source": "Poles Apart"
+ }, {
+ "text": "Even in the darkest times and places there were always good people. People who would help others out of the kindness of their hearts.",
+ "source": "Nowhere Boy"
+ }, {
+ "text": "This combinatory play seems to be the essential feature in productive thought - before there is any connection with logical construction in words or other kinds of signs which can be communicated to others.",
+ "source": "The Psychology of Invention in the Mathematical Field"
+ }, {
+ "text": "Every time I hear that dear old wedding march, I feel rather glad I have a broken arch. I have heard a lot of married people talk, and I know that marriage is a long, long walk. To most people weddings mean romance, but I prefer a picnic or a dance.",
+ "source": "Whoopee!"
+ }, {
+ "text": "You have technicians here making noise. No one is a musician, they are not artists because nobody can play the guitar.",
+ "source": "Rock 'n' Roll (Will Take You to the Mountain)"
+ }, {
+ "text": "People go missing around here, they're gone for good. Outsiders come, they don't know where to walk. They bring trouble. We just want to be left alone. And so does he.",
+ "source": "Friday the 13th"
+ }, {
+ "text": "The distinguishing mark of man is the hand, the instrument with which he does all his mischief.",
+ "source": "Animal Farm"
+ }, {
+ "text": "Tell me again, was it love at first sight when I walked by and you caught my eye? Didn't you know love could shine this bright? Well, smile because you're the deer in the headlights.",
+ "source": "Deer In The Headlights"
+ }, {
+ "text": "All I do is talk a big game, and make myself sound like a big shot, when I can't do anything! I never do anything yet I complain like a pro. Who do you think I am? It's amazing that I can live like this and not feel ashamed!",
+ "source": "Re:Zero - Starting Life in Another World"
+ }, {
+ "text": "I think you're still trying to figure out where you are. Where that ship of yours is. How to get back to that life.",
+ "source": "Star Trek: The Next Generation"
+ }, {
+ "text": "The human whose name is written in this note shall die.",
+ "source": "Death Note"
+ }, {
+ "text": "It is hard to make that boat go as fast as you want to. The enemy, of course, is resistance of the water, as you have to displace the amount of water equal to the weight of men and equipment, but that very water is what supports you and that very enemy is your friend. So is life: the very problems you must overcome also support you and make you stronger in overcoming them.",
+ "source": "When Christ and His Saints Slept"
+ }, {
+ "text": "I never did like the idea of sitting on newspapers. I did it once, and all the headlines came off on my white pants. On the level! It actually happened. Nobody bought a paper that day. They just followed me around over town and read the news on the seat of my pants.",
+ "source": "It Happened One Night"
+ }, {
+ "text": "The dispositions of agents, their habitus, that is, the mental structures through which they apprehend the social world, are essentially the product of the internalization of the structures of that world.",
+ "source": "Habitus"
+ }, {
+ "text": "And men go abroad to admire the heights of mountains, the mighty billows of the sea, the broad tides of rivers, the compass of the ocean, and the circuits of the stars, and pass themselves by.",
+ "source": "Confessions"
+ }, {
+ "text": "The gentleman helps others to realize what is good in them; he does not help them to realize what is bad in them. The small man does the opposite.",
+ "source": "The Analects"
+ }, {
+ "text": "Only, we must allow time. But our demands as far as time is concerned are no less exorbitant than those which the heart requires in order to change. For one thing, time is the very thing that we are least willing to allow, for our suffering is acute and we are anxious to see it brought to an end. And then, too, the time which the other heart will need in order to change will have been spent by our own heart in changing itself too, so that when the goal we had set ourselves becomes attainable it will have ceased to be our goal.",
+ "source": "In Search of Lost Time"
+ }, {
+ "text": "You're like the sun and I am Earth - together we're one. But someday your fire will die and I'll grow cold without sunlight.",
+ "source": "Sol Soils"
+ }, {
+ "text": "The pleasure of rooting for Goliath is that you can expect to win. The pleasure of rooting for David is that, while you don't know what to expect, you stand at least a chance of being inspired.",
+ "source": "Moneyball"
+ }, {
+ "text": "Come on now, we're going to go build a mirror factory first and put out nothing but mirrors for the next year and take a long look in them.",
+ "source": "Fahrenheit 451"
+ }, {
+ "text": "I had a dream. There was our world, and the world was dark because there weren't any robins, and the robins represented love. And for the longest time, there was this darkness. Then all of a sudden, thousands of robins were set free and they flew down and brought this blinding light of love. I guess it means that there is trouble until the robins come. ",
+ "source": "Blue Velvet"
+ }, {
+ "text": "You are older than me. Do you still feel the pain of the scars that won't heal? Your eyes have died but you see more than I. You're a star in the face of the sky.",
+ "source": "Daniel"
+ }, {
+ "text": "Kinda cold, walking home. Growing older on my own. Feels so strange to say when I am not alone. Faith will claim to be a friend to those she own but she will never try to call when I'm by the phone.",
+ "source": "Not Too Late"
+ }, {
+ "text": "I wish that strife would vanish away from among gods and mortals, and gall, which makes a man grow angry for all his great mind, that gall of anger that swarms like smoke inside of a man's heart and becomes a thing sweeter to him by far than the dripping of honey.",
+ "source": "The Iliad"
+ }, {
+ "text": "I've seen it all. I have seen the trees, I have seen the willow leaves dancing in the breeze, I've seen a man killed by his best friend and lives that were over before they were spent. I've seen what I was and I know what I'll be. I've seen it all, there is no more to see.",
+ "source": "I've Seen It All Lyrics"
+ }, {
+ "text": "There is an ancient Indian saying that something lives only as long as the last person who remembers it. My people have come to trust memory over history. Memory, like fire, is radiant and immutable while history serves only those who seek to control it, those who douse the flame of memory in order to put out the dangerous fire of truth. Beware these men for they are dangerous themselves and unwise. Their false history is written in the blood of those who might remember and of those who seek the truth.",
+ "source": "The X-Files"
+ }, {
+ "text": "One thing I've learned in the last seven years: in every game and con there's always an opponent, and there's always a victim. The trick is to know when you're the latter, so you can become the former. ",
+ "source": "Revolver"
+ }, {
+ "text": "You've got a way to keep me on your side. You give me cause for love that I can't hide. For you I know I'd even try to turn the tide. Because you're mine, I walk the line.",
+ "source": "I Walk the Line"
+ }, {
+ "text": "Formerly, when I would feel a desire to understand someone, or myself, I would take into consideration not actions, in which everything is relative, but wishes. Tell me what you want and I'll tell you who you are.",
+ "source": "The Stories of Anton Chekhov"
+ }, {
+ "text": "All that is now, all that is gone, and everything under the sun is in tune but the sun is eclipsed by the moon.",
+ "source": "Eclipse"
+ }, {
+ "text": "It's an incredible sensation. You have to be very quiet. Take it down with the first shot or you scare it away. Then sometimes you have to go up and finish it off. Then you tie it to the bumper and go home.",
+ "source": "Mad Men"
+ }, {
+ "text": "What's cool about really little kids is that they don't say stuff to try to hurt your feelings, even though sometimes they do say stuff that hurts your feelings. But they don't actually know what they're saying. Big kids, though: they know what they're saying. And that is definitely not fun for me.",
+ "source": "Wonder"
+ }, {
+ "text": "Every breath you take and every move you make, every bond you break, every step you take, I'll be watching you. Every single day and every word you say, every game you play, every night you say, I'll be watching you.",
+ "source": "Every Breath You Take"
+ }, {
+ "text": "It's a story of the goddess, and the boy she loves. A love story. Her mother does not approve of him, so she casts a wide river in the sky to separate them forever. But once a year, all the birds in the sky feel sad for them, and they form a bridge so the two of them may be together for a single night.",
+ "source": "The Karate Kid"
+ }, {
+ "text": "The pleasure of remembering had been taken from me, because there was no longer anyone to remember with. It felt like losing your co-rememberer meant losing the memory itself, as if the things we'd done were less real and important than they had been hours before.",
+ "source": "The Fault in Our Stars"
+ }, {
+ "text": "Once there were two moons in the sky, but one wandered too close to the sun and cracked from the heat. A thousand thousand dragons poured forth, and drank the fire of the sun. That is why dragons breathe flame. One day the other moon will kiss the sun too, and then it will crack and the dragons will return.",
+ "source": "A Game of Thrones"
+ }, {
+ "text": "And I thought about then to myself that there were many things wrong with all of us and all our lives and I wondered why my father, who was himself an only son, had not married before he was forty and then I wondered why he had. I even thought that perhaps he had to marry my mother and checked the dates on the flyleaf of the Bible when I learned that my oldest sister had been born a prosaic eleven months after the marriage, and I felt myself then very dirty and based for my lack of faith and for what I thought and done.",
+ "source": "The Stories: Contemporary Short Fiction Written in English"
+ }, {
+ "text": "He is in great fear, not knowing what mighty one may suddenly appear, wielding the Ring, and assailing him with war, seeking to cast him down and take his place. That we should wish to cast him down and have no one in his place is not a thought that occurs to his mind. That we should try to destroy the Ring itself has not yet entered into his darkest dream.",
+ "source": "The Two Towers"
+ }, {
+ "text": "What would you do if you were stuck in one place and every day was exactly the same and nothing that you did mattered?",
+ "source": "Groundhog Day"
+ }, {
+ "text": "If you don't get what you want, you suffer; if you get what you don't want, you suffer; even when you get exactly what you want, you still suffer because you can't hold on to it forever. Your mind is your predicament. It wants to be free of change, free of pain, free of the obligations of life and death. But change is a law, and no amount of pretending will alter that reality.",
+ "source": "Way of the Peaceful Warrior"
+ }, {
+ "text": "Reach out for me and hold me tight. Hold that memory. Let my machine talk to me, let my machine talk to me. This is my world and I am world leader pretend. This is my life and this is my time. I have been given the freedom to do as I see fit. It's high time I've raised the walls that I've constructed.",
+ "source": "World Leader Pretend"
+ }, {
+ "text": "Kazi tells me stories about you once in a while. I hardly ask him to tell me about you, though, because I'm afraid that the stories might run out. I want to save them, like a treat.",
+ "source": "The Night Diary"
+ }, {
+ "text": "The awful thing is that beauty is mysterious as well as terrible. God and the devil are fighting there and the battlefield is the heart of man.",
+ "source": "The Brothers Karamazov"
+ }, {
+ "text": "Seriously though, in this day and age I don't know why we're still cutting open frogs to see what's inside them. If somebody tells me there's a heart and intestines inside a frog, I'm willing to take their word for it.",
+ "source": "Diary of a Wimpy Kid: The Third Wheel"
+ }, {
+ "text": "You've faced horrors in these past weeks... I don't know which is worse. The terror you feel the first time you witness such things, or the numbness that comes after it starts to become ordinary.",
+ "source": "A Fatal Waltz"
+ }, {
+ "text": "I can tell you my love for you will still be strong, after the boys of summer have gone.",
+ "source": "The Boys of Summer"
+ }, {
+ "text": "But the two men were not lonely at all. At home they were content to eat and drink, and Singer would talk with his hands eagerly to his friend about all that was in his mind. So the years passed in this quiet way until Singer reached the age of thirty-two.",
+ "source": "The Heart is a Lonely Hunter"
+ }, {
+ "text": "What do you do with the mad that you feel, when you feel so mad you could bite? When the whole wide world seems oh so wrong and nothing you do seems very right? What do you do? Do you punch a bag, do you pound some clay or some dough? Do you round up friends for a game of tag and see how fast you go?",
+ "source": "Mister Rogers' Neighborhood"
+ }, {
+ "text": "But I try not to think with my gut. If I'm serious about understanding the world, thinking with anything besides my brain, as tempting as that might be, is likely to get me into trouble.",
+ "source": "The Demon-Haunted World: Science as a Candle in the Dark"
+ }, {
+ "text": "And when he rode past I seen he was carryin' fire in a horn the way people used to do and I could see the horn from the light inside of it. About the color of the moon. 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"
+ }, {
+ "text": "Making your way in the world today takes everything you've got. Taking a break from all your worries sure would help a lot. Wouldn't you like to get away? Sometimes you want to go where everybody knows your name and they're always glad you came. You wanna be where you can see our troubles are all the same. You wanna be where everybody knows your name.",
+ "source": "Cheers"
+ }, {
+ "text": "The stuff we call \"software\" is not like anything that human society is used to thinking about. Software is something like a machine, and something like mathematics, and something like language, and something like thought, and art, and information... But software is not in fact any of those other things.",
+ "source": "The Hacker Crackdown"
+ }, {
+ "text": "At the doorway on my heart all the leaves are falling down, and though I try to pick them up there's so many I think I'll drown. Ten days have come and gone, ten days and I'm all alone, and all that I can do is pray and pray.",
+ "source": "Ten Days"
+ }, {
+ "text": "All this running around. I can't fight it much longer. Something's trying to get out. And it's never been closer. If my ticker fails, make up some other story. But if I never come back, tell my mother I'm sorry.",
+ "source": "Let It Happen"
+ }, {
+ "text": "It is as hard to understand how consciousness emerges and dies as it is to comprehend how something, the stuff of the universe, erupted out of nothing. Was there a creation or was there always something? Could there even be nothing if there were no one to know there was nothing?",
+ "source": "Nothing"
+ }, {
+ "text": "If I were to take even one step back right now, I get the feeling that I'd never be able to return back to where I'm standing right now.",
+ "source": "One Piece"
+ }, {
+ "text": "That's right, and the one who wins gets a prize, only there really isn't a prize. It's just the honor of winning, because all the money goes to charity, that is, if there is any money left over, but there never is.",
+ "source": "My Man Godfrey"
+ }, {
+ "text": "I get to thinking of all the things you said. You gave a promise to me, and I gave mine to you. I need someone beside me in everything I do.",
+ "source": "Love Is All Around"
+ }, {
+ "text": "You're born alone and you die alone, and this world just drops a bunch of rules on top of you to make you forget those facts. But I never forget. I'm living like there's no tomorrow, 'cause there isn't one.",
+ "source": "Mad Men"
+ }, {
+ "text": "You can know the name of a bird in all the languages of the world, but when you're finished, you'll know absolutely nothing whatever about the bird. So let's look at the bird and see what it's doing - that's what counts. I learned very early the difference between knowing the name of something and knowing something.",
+ "source": "Birds"
+ }, {
+ "text": "See, that's the kind of thing I'm hoping to avoid. So when my little girl comes down the stairs, you're gonna say how nice it was to meet me, then you're gonna go drop her off at school and you're gonna say goodbye.",
+ "source": "The Sopranos"
+ }, {
+ "text": "Wendy, let me explain something to you. Whenever you come in here and interrupt me, you're breaking my concentration. You're distracting me. And it will then take me time to get back to where I was. You understand?",
+ "source": "The Shining"
+ }, {
+ "text": "Those who do not exist cannot suffer and are of no account to any viable ethics. If the true path to goodness is the elimination of suffering, then only those who must exist can be allowed to exist. It is the nature of life to favor existence over nonexistence, and to prefer the fertile soil to the poisoned wind. Because those who open their mouths to that wind pass from the world and leave no descendant, whether of flesh or of thought.",
+ "source": "Destiny 2 Shadowkeep - Book of Unveiling - Pleased to Meet You"
+ }, {
+ "text": "Things conceived by minds and made by hands can never be quite the same, even if they try their best to be identical, because they're never the same from day to day or even moment to moment.",
+ "source": "Bag of Bones"
+ }, {
+ "text": "It's been a hard day's night, and I'd been working like a dog. It's been a hard day's night, I should be sleeping like a log. But when I get home to you I find the things that you do will make me feel alright.",
+ "source": "A Hard Day's Night"
+ }, {
+ "text": "Though I never knew you at all, you had the grace to hold yourself while those around you crawled. They crawled out of the woodwork and they whispered into your brain. They set you on the treadmill and they made you change your name.",
+ "source": "Candle In The Wind"
+ }, {
+ "text": "There's a lady who's sure all that glitters is gold and she's buying a stairway to heaven. When she gets there she knows if the stores are all closed with a word she can get what she came for.",
+ "source": "Stairway to Heaven"
+ }, {
+ "text": "For as long as a single man is forced to cower under the iron fist of oppression, as long as a child cries out in the night, or an actor can be elected president, we must continue the struggle.",
+ "source": "Top Secret!"
+ }, {
+ "text": "On the day that you were born the angels got together and decided to create a dream come true. So they sprinkled moon dust in your hair of gold and starlight in your eyes of blue.",
+ "source": "Close To You"
+ }, {
+ "text": "The only thing we try to do here is show you how to make effects, how to create certain illusions, and then you do with it whatever you want. We each see nature through different eyes, so you paint the way you see it, and then it's right. And the only rule that I respect in art is: if it makes you happy, then it's good. You do what makes you happy. You paint scenes the way you see 'em, and that's when you really experience the joy of painting.",
+ "source": "The Joy of Painting"
+ }, {
+ "text": "Kelsey, in this terrifying world, all we have are the connections that we make. I'm sorry I got you fired.",
+ "source": "BoJack Horseman"
+ }, {
+ "text": "There are very few things I wish I could change about those two decades, but there are many things I wish I had known. I wish I had known, for instance, that such a long period of being single was in the cards for me. I also wish I'd known earlier that such a delay was not abnormal among my generation.",
+ "source": "Urban Tribes: A Generation Redefines Friendship, Family, and Commitment"
+ }, {
+ "text": "And the mind that has conceived a plan of living must never lose sight of the chaos against which that pattern was conceived. That goes for societies as well as for individuals.",
+ "source": "Invisible Man"
+ }, {
+ "text": "The life of everyone on board depends upon just one thing: finding someone back there who can not only fly this plane, but who didn't have fish for dinner.",
+ "source": "Airplane!"
+ }, {
+ "text": "You know, I don't know her very well, but perhaps she's one of those people that sees things in absolutes, right? Black and white. Missions fail or succeed, right? Do you know what you need to do? You need to get back in there with her. Open her up and show her that things aren't just black and white. Black and white, that's just for death and taxes. Everything else... Everything else happens in the grays.",
+ "source": "The Flash"
+ }, {
+ "text": "I believe a man lost in the mazes of his own mind may imagine that he's anything.",
+ "source": "The Wolf Man"
+ }, {
+ "text": "People move because of the wear and tear of anxiety. Because of the gnawing feeling that no matter how hard they work their efforts will yield nothing, that what they build up in one year will be torn down in one day by others. Because of the impression that the future is blocked up, that they might do all right but not their children. Because of the feeling that nothing will change, that happiness and prosperity are possible only somewhere else.",
+ "source": "Life of Pi"
+ }, {
+ "text": "The heaviest penalty for declining to rule is to be ruled by someone inferior to yourself.",
+ "source": "The Republic"
+ }, {
+ "text": "Step out the front door like a ghost into the fog where no one notices the contrast of white on white. And in between the moon and you the angels get a better view of the crumbling difference between wrong and right. I walk in the air between the rain through myself and back again. Where? I don't know.",
+ "source": "Round Here"
+ }, {
+ "text": "Ticking away the moments that make up a dull day, you fritter and waste the hours in an off-hand way. Kicking around on a piece of ground in your home town, waiting for someone or something to show you the way. Tired of lying in the sunshine, staying home to watch the rain. You are young and life is long, and there is time to kill today. And then, one day you find, ten years have got behind you, no one told you when to run, you missed the starting gun.",
+ "source": "Time"
+ }, {
+ "text": "It just so happens that your friend here is only mostly dead. There's a big difference between mostly dead and all dead. Mostly dead is slightly alive. With all dead, well, with all dead there's usually only one thing you can do. Go through his clothes and look for loose change.",
+ "source": "The Princess Bride"
+ }, {
+ "text": "It's like ten thousand spoons when all you need is a knife.",
+ "source": "Ironic"
+ }, {
+ "text": "Turn me loose from your hands, let me fly to distant lands over green fields, trees and mountains, flowers and forest fountains. Home along the lanes of the skyway.",
+ "source": "Skyline Pigeon"
+ }, {
+ "text": "Now wait a minute. Just a minute. There's only one thing you need in life to make you happy, and that is friends. That's all you need is friends, and then you'll be happy. So if you have friends, you'll be a happy person. You also need food and clothes.",
+ "source": "Taxi"
+ }, {
+ "text": "'Cause I don't care too much for money, money can't buy me love.",
+ "source": "Can't Buy Me Love"
+ }, {
+ "text": "Do you know what an artist and a sniper have in common? Details. Like when a touch of color is out of place. When a shadow does not match with its surroundings. Or when a shape is not where it is supposed to be. The only difference is the stakes. Mine are higher.",
+ "source": "Tom Clancys Rainbow Six Siege"
+ }, {
+ "text": "When we are young, wandering the face of the earth, wondering what our dreams might be worth, learning that we're only immortal for a limited time.",
+ "source": "Dreamline"
+ }, {
+ "text": "I could kill you. Snap my fingers, easiest thing in the world. From here on, I want you to know that the only reason you're alive is because I allowed it.",
+ "source": "Supernatural"
+ }, {
+ "text": "That's it. We have always done things your way. I have bent over backwards to make you happy. I bought the ring you wanted. The china you wanted. The crystal you wanted. I even agreed to have a duvet cover on my bed. I don't know what a duvet is or what it's supposed to cover. When are we going to do something that I want to do?",
+ "source": "Cheers"
+ }, {
+ "text": "Looking back, I saw that for my whole conscious life I had not understood either myself or my strivings. What had seemed for so long to be beneficial now turned out in actuality to be fatal, and I had been striving to go in the opposite direction to that which was truly necessary to me.",
+ "source": "The Gulag Archipelago"
+ }, {
+ "text": "It is a curious thing, Harry, but perhaps those who are best suited to power are those who have never sought it. Those who, like you, have leadership thrust upon them, and take up the mantle because they must, and find to their own surprise that they wear it well.",
+ "source": "Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows"
+ }, {
+ "text": "There are things waiting in the darkness. Creatures of metal, fire, and blood. But he's out there, burning through time, facing a thousand dangers across the stars and never giving up. He looks like a man but he's a legend and his name is the Doctor. He'll come back to save us and this time I'm going to be ready. Then just like that, we'll be gone.",
+ "source": "Doctor Who"
+ }, {
+ "text": "I already am eating from the trash can all the time. The name of this trash can is ideology. The material force of ideology makes me not see what I am effectively eating.",
+ "source": "The Pervert's Guide to Ideology"
+ }, {
+ "text": "Life is not suffering; it's just that you will suffer it, rather than enjoy it, until you let go of your mind's attachments and just go for the ride freely, no matter what happens.",
+ "source": "Way of the Peaceful Warrior"
+ }, {
+ "text": "Clear the lines of lint in your head one at a time and the king will be left standing alone like a guy on a street corner. Here, I'll make it easier for you.",
+ "source": "Searching for Bobby Fischer"
+ }, {
+ "text": "I walk a lonely road, the only one that I have ever known. Don't know where it goes, but it's only me and I walk alone. I walk this empty street on the Boulevard of Broken Dreams. Where the city sleeps, and I'm the only one and I walk alone.",
+ "source": "Boulevard of Broken Dreams"
+ }, {
+ "text": "There's enough to pass around, you don't gotta wait in line. And the clocks don't work, you don't gotta check the time. And the blinds don't work, you don't gotta check the sky. We be going all night, till light.",
+ "source": "Initiation"
+ }, {
+ "text": "The world is indeed full of peril, and in it there are many dark places; but still there is much that is fair, and though in all lands love is now mingled with grief, it grows perhaps the greater.",
+ "source": "The Fellowship of the Ring"
+ }, {
+ "text": "I have no idea to this day what those two Italian ladies were singing about. Truth is, I don't want to know. Some things are best left unsaid. I'd like to think they were singing about something so beautiful, it can't be expressed in words, and makes your heart ache because of it.",
+ "source": "The Shawshank Redemption"
+ }, {
+ "text": "You'll face lots of pain and despair on the way. In fact, the very road we walk is paved with tragedy. But we are the ones who chose to walk it. We'll take on the dirty work and bring about a new world. And once it's all over, we can disappear.",
+ "source": "Despair and Tragedy"
+ }, {
+ "text": "Sam stared up at the inn with its three stories and many windows, and felt his heart sink. He had imagined himself meeting giants taller than trees, and other creatures even more terrifying, some time or other in the course of his journey; but at the moment he was finding his first sight of Men and their tall houses quite enough, indeed too much for the dark end of a tiring day.",
+ "source": "The Lord of The Rings"
+ }, {
+ "text": "When I close my eyes, I am at the center of the sun. And I cannot be hurt by anything this wicked world has done.",
+ "source": "Center of the Sun"
+ }, {
+ "text": "Every morning when he'd come to pick you up, I would look forward to it all night long in bed next to you. Those nights when you were actually in the bed. And he would ring the doorbell - I felt like my heart would come out of my chest. He would smile, and we'd talk, and then you would come down the stairs. And I felt probably like someone who was terminally ill and somehow they managed to forget it for a minute. And then it all comes back!",
+ "source": "The Sopranos"
+ }, {
+ "text": "Life without change might be called anything except life, it's nothing more than experience. Yes, Emperor Charles sought the past, you seek the present, but I seek the future.",
+ "source": "Code Geass"
+ }, {
+ "text": "When you go into the ER, one of the first things they ask you to do is rate your pain on a scale of one to ten.",
+ "source": "The Fault in Our Stars"
+ }, {
+ "text": "I can't be alone here, I can't be the only one who feels like I'm going nowhere, just wishing somehow this dream will carry me. And I'll swear just one last time, they say the world is yours so I will make it mine. 'Cause nothing is stopping you, you could set the world on fire. Nothing is stopping you. And if I go out, I'll go out screaming.",
+ "source": "The Fire"
+ }, {
+ "text": "You know, you are a classic example of the inverse ratio between the size of the mouth and the size of the brain!",
+ "source": "Nerd vs. Geek"
+ }, {
+ "text": "What's morality? It's the difference between what is right and what you can rationalize.",
+ "source": "Practical Demonkeeping"
+ }, {
+ "text": "May your coming year be filled with magic and dreams and good madness. I hope you read some fine books and kiss someone who thinks you're wonderful, and don't forget to make some art - write or draw or build or sing or live as only you can. And I hope, somewhere in the next year, you surprise yourself.",
+ "source": "Good Madness"
+ }, {
+ "text": "If any man is able to convince me and show me that I do not think or act right, I will gladly change; for I seek the truth by which no man was ever injured. But he is injured who abides in his error and ignorance.",
+ "source": "Meditations"
+ }, {
+ "text": "It's a sad communication with little reason to believe when one isn't giving and one pretends to receive. Pardon my heart if I showed that I cared, but I love you more than moments we have or have not shared.",
+ "source": "Pardon My Heart"
+ }, {
+ "text": "I have not much hope that Gollum can be cured before he dies, but there is a chance of it. And he is bound up with the fate of the Ring. My heart tells me that he has some part to play yet, for good or ill, before the end; and when that comes, the pity of Bilbo may rule the fate of many - yours not least.",
+ "source": "The Fellowship of the Ring"
+ }, {
+ "text": "It's where the water flows, it's where the wind blows.",
+ "source": "It Must Have Been Love"
+ }, {
+ "text": "There is nothing more admirable than when two people who see eye to eye keep house as man and wife, confounding their enemies and delighting their friends.",
+ "source": "The Odyssey"
+ }, {
+ "text": "Men always believe that. With a law degree you're taking on insurance. After that you can do anything you want. You can work for me.",
+ "source": "The Godfather: Part III"
+ }, {
+ "text": "In this world, evil can arise from the best intentions. And there is good which can come from evil intentions.",
+ "source": "Code Geass"
+ }, {
+ "text": "It became very clear to me sitting out there today that every decision I've made in my entire life has been wrong. My life is the complete opposite of everything I want it to be. Every instinct I have in every aspect of life, be it something to wear, something to eat - it's all been wrong.",
+ "source": "Seinfeld"
+ }, {
+ "text": "If the time of death is written within 40 seconds after writing the cause of death as a heart attack, the time of death can be manipulated, and the time can go into effect within 40 seconds after writing the name.",
+ "source": "Death Note"
+ }, {
+ "text": "In order to return the power to repel evil to your sword, you must find another to take my stead in this temple and ask the gods for their assistance. You must find the one who carries on my bloodline... The one who holds this sacred instrument.",
+ "source": "The Legend of Zelda: The Wind Waker"
+ }, {
+ "text": "But you'd have to walk a thousand miles in my shoes, just to see what it's like to be me. I'll be you, let's trade shoes, just to see what it'd be like to feel your pain, you feel mine. Go inside each other's minds, just to see what we find, look at stuff through each other's eyes.",
+ "source": "Beautiful"
+ }, {
+ "text": "Some people say that bowling alleys got big lanes. Some people say that bowling alleys all look the same. There's not a line that goes here that rhymes with anything. Had a dream last night but I forget what it was.",
+ "source": "Take the Skinheads Bowling"
+ }, {
+ "text": "Well, gentlemen, the way I see it, if this hot weather continues, it's going to melt the polar caps and the whole wide world. And all the parts that ain't water already will surely be flooded.",
+ "source": "Do the Right Thing"
+ }, {
+ "text": "The terminator wouldn't stop, it would never leave him. It would never hurt him or shout at him or get drunk and hit him or say it was too busy to spend time with him. And it would die to protect him. Of all the would-be fathers that came over the years, this thing, this machine, was the only thing that measured up. In an insane world, it was the sanest choice. ",
+ "source": "Terminator 2: Judgment Day"
+ }, {
+ "text": "Words are pale shadows of forgotten names. As names have power, words have power. Words can light fires in the minds of men. Words can wring tears from the hardest hearts. There are seven words that will make a person love you. There are ten words that will break a strong man's will. But a word is nothing but a painting of a fire. A name is the fire itself.",
+ "source": "The Name of the Wind"
+ }, {
+ "text": "I feel that way all the time. Like I'm from some other planet, you know? Like my soul was stuffed into the wrong body and then dropped off here by mistake.",
+ "source": "Symptoms of Being Human"
+ }, {
+ "text": "And you know it's time to go, through the sleet and driving snow, across the fields of mourning, light in the distance. And you hunger for the time - time to heal, desire time, and your earth moves beneath your own dream landscape.",
+ "source": "A Sort of Homecoming"
+ }, {
+ "text": "There is no real going back. Though I may come to the Shire, it will not seem the same; for I shall not be the same. I am wounded with knife, sting, and tooth, and a long burden. Where shall I find rest?",
+ "source": "The Return of the King"
+ }, {
+ "text": "Open up your heart to me now. Let it all come pouring out. There's nothing I can't take. If it's love just feel it. And if this life will see it. This is no time to be alone, alone yeah. I won't let you go.",
+ "source": "I Won't Let You Go"
+ }, {
+ "text": "It was a marvelous night, the sort of night one only experiences when one is young. The sky was so bright, and there were so many stars that, gazing upward, one could not help wondering how so many whimsical wicked people could live under such a sky.",
+ "source": "White Nights"
+ }, {
+ "text": "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"
+ }, {
+ "text": "You must know that there is nothing higher and stronger and more wholesome and good for life in the future than some good memory, especially a memory of childhood, of home. People talk to you a great deal about your education, but some good, sacred memory, preserved from childhood, is perhaps the best education. If a man carries many such memories with him into life, he is safe to the end of his days, and if one has only one good memory left in one's heart, even that may sometime be the means of saving us.",
+ "source": "The Brothers Karamazov"
+ }, {
+ "text": "The gods may throw a dice, their minds as cold as ice. And someone way down here loses someone dear. The winner takes it all, the loser has to fall. It's simple and it's plain, why should I complain?",
+ "source": "The Winner Takes It All"
+ }, {
+ "text": "Your bill is ready. You take it over there and you introduce it. You get to your feet in the Senate and take a long breath and start spouting. But not too loud because a couple of the senators might want to sleep.",
+ "source": "Mr. Smith Goes to Washington"
+ }, {
+ "text": "So it's all come back round to breaking apart again. Breaking apart like I'm made up of glass again. Making it up behind my back again. Holding my breath for the fear of sleep again. Holding it up behind my head again. Cut in deep to the heart of the bone again. Round and round and round and it's coming apart again. Over and over and over.",
+ "source": "Disintegration"
+ }, {
+ "text": "We have all got to exert ourselves a little to keep sane, and call things by the same names as other people call them by.",
+ "source": "Middlemarch"
+ }, {
+ "text": "I heard some kids telling me, how they've lost faith in the way. They've been talking world peace, and the wars in the streets. The lines on their faces so deep. A revolution or reach out and touch the day. We're overdue child.",
+ "source": "Time For Change"
+ }, {
+ "text": "A king may move a man, a father may claim a son, but that man can also move himself, and only then does that man truly begin his own game. Remember that howsoever you are played or by whom, your soul is in your keeping alone, even though those who presume to play you be kings or men of power. When you stand before God, you cannot say, \"But I was told by others to do thus,\" or that virtue was not convenient at the time. This will not suffice. Remember that.",
+ "source": "Kingdom of Heaven"
+ }, {
+ "text": "Try to understand men, if you understand each other you will be kind to each other. Knowing a man well never leads to hate and nearly always leads to love.",
+ "source": "Of Mice and Men"
+ }, {
+ "text": "Joy to hearts which have suffered long is like the dew on the ground after a long drought; both the heart and the ground absorb that beneficent moisture falling on them, and nothing is outwardly apparent.",
+ "source": "The Count of Monte Cristo"
+ }, {
+ "text": "I'll tell you why. I think you're a lonely person. I drive by this place a lot and I see you here. I see a lot of people around you. And I see all these phones and all this stuff on your desk. It means nothing. Then when I came inside and I met you, I saw in your eyes and I saw the way you carried yourself that you're not a happy person. And I think you need something. And if you want to call it a friend, you can call it a friend.",
+ "source": "Taxi Driver"
+ }, {
+ "text": "If you worship money and things, if they are where you tap real meaning in life, then you will never have enough, never feel you have enough. It's the truth. Worship your body and beauty and sexual allure and you will always feel ugly. And when time and age start showing, you will die a million deaths before they finally grieve you.",
+ "source": "This Is Water: Some Thoughts, Delivered on a Significant Occasion, about Living a Compassionate Life"
+ }, {
+ "text": "And it says to you love when you can, cry when you have to, be who you must. That's a part of the plan. Await your arrival with simple survival and one day we'll all understand.",
+ "source": "Part Of The Plan"
+ }, {
+ "text": "I can see you. Your brown skin shining in the sun. You got that top pulled down and your sunglasses on, baby. And I can tell you my love for you will still be strong, after the boys of summer have gone.",
+ "source": "The Boys of Summer"
+ }, {
+ "text": "If you want to hang on my shoulder, I'm standing here. If you want to do it all over, let me get near. If you were another pretender, oh I'd pass you by. If you were a lost weekender, oh maybe I'd try. When you gonna give me something to grab for?",
+ "source": "Something To Grab For"
+ }, {
+ "text": "There is no faith and no courage and no sacrifice in doing what is expedient. There is no careful observation that actions and presuppositions matter, or that the world is made of what matters. To have meaning in your life is better than to have what you want, because you may neither know what you want, nor what you truly need. Meaning is something that comes upon you, of its own accord. You can set up the preconditions, you can follow meaning, when it manifests itself, but you cannot simply produce it, as an act of will. Meaning signifies that you are in the right place, at the right time, properly balanced between order and chaos, where everything lines up as best it can at that moment.",
+ "source": "12 Rules for Life: An Antidote to Chaos"
+ }, {
+ "text": "Words have the power to both destroy and heal. When words are both true and kind, they can change our world.",
+ "source": "Civilization IV"
+ }, {
+ "text": "I would say he has quite a few problems. His energy seems to go in the wrong places. When I walked in and I saw you two sitting there, I could just tell by the way you were both relating that there was no connection whatsoever. And I felt when I walked in that there was something between us. There was an impulse that we were both following. So that gave me the right to come in and talk to you.",
+ "source": "Taxi Driver"
+ }, {
+ "text": "Time is tricky. You have whole months, even years, when nothing changes a speck, when you don't go anywhere or do anything or think one new thought. And then you can get hit with a day, or an hour, or a half a second when so much happens it's almost like you got born all over again into some brand-new person you for damn sure never expected to meet.",
+ "source": "Life Is Funny"
+ }, {
+ "text": "Every second he breathed, the smell of the grass, the cool air on his face, was so precious: To think that people had years and years, time to waste, so much time it dragged, and he was clinging to each second.",
+ "source": "Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows"
+ }, {
+ "text": "All we really want is for no one to have a boring life, to be impressive, so we can be impressed.",
+ "source": "A Heartbreaking Work of Staggering Genius"
+ }, {
+ "text": "The painter will produce pictures of little merit if he takes the works of others as his standard; but if he will apply himself to learn from the objects of nature he will produce good results.",
+ "source": "The Notebooks of Leonardo"
+ }, {
+ "text": "Sitting in the morning sun, I'll be sitting when the evening comes. Watching the ships roll in, and I watch them roll away again. Sitting on the dock of the bay, watching the tide roll away. I'm just sitting on the dock of the bay wasting time.",
+ "source": "Dock of the Bay"
+ }, {
+ "text": "We all have life storms, and when we get the rough times and we recover from them, we should celebrate that we got through it. No matter how bad it may seem, there's always something beautiful that you can find.",
+ "source": "interview with ABC News"
+ }, {
+ "text": "Living in the limelight, the universal dream for those who wish to seem. Those who wish to be must put aside the alienation, get on with the fascination, the real relation,\r\nthe underlying theme.",
+ "source": "Limelight"
+ }, {
+ "text": "Imagine you're stood on a beach, water gently lapping at your feet. But now you're sinking, what were you thinking? That's all the time we have this week.",
+ "source": "Mantra"
+ }, {
+ "text": "There is no way that this winter is ever going to end as long as this groundhog keeps seeing his shadow. I don't see any other way out. He's got to be stopped. And I have to stop him.",
+ "source": "Groundhog Day"
+ }, {
+ "text": "I wondered how they would've felt if every time their husband went in to make a deal, there was a one in four chance he wouldn't come out of that meeting.",
+ "source": "The Right Stuff"
+ }, {
+ "text": "Be patient toward all that is unsolved in your heart and try to love the questions themselves, like locked rooms and like books that are now written in a very foreign tongue. Do not now seek the answers, which cannot be given you because you would not be able to live them. And the point is, to live everything. Live the questions now. Perhaps you will then gradually, without noticing it, live along some distant day into the answer.",
+ "source": "Letters to a Young Poet"
+ }, {
+ "text": "Well, let me tell you something, Caveman. You are here on account of one person. If it wasn't for that person, you wouldn't be here digging holes in the hot sun. You know who that person is?",
+ "source": "Holes"
+ }, {
+ "text": "Gately can't even imagine what it would be like to be a sober and drug-free biker. It's like what would be the point. He imagines these people polishing the hell out of their leather and like playing a lot of really precise pool.",
+ "source": "Infinite Jest"
+ }, {
+ "text": "There are books of which the backs and covers are by far the best parts.",
+ "source": "Oliver Twist"
+ }, {
+ "text": "I've known good criminals and bad cops. Bad priests. Honorable thieves. You can be on one side of the law or the other. But if you make a deal with somebody, you keep your word. You can go home today with your money and never do this again. But you took something that wasn't yours, and you sold it for a profit, you're now a criminal. Good one, bad one? That's up to you.",
+ "source": "Better Call Saul"
+ }, {
+ "text": "Even if there's only one actual truth, you can have two truths from two different perspectives. A method to determine which truth is true doesn't actually exist. There's no real method of proving your truth in this world. But believing that you're wrong for that reason is also wrong.",
+ "source": "Bakemonogatari"
+ }, {
+ "text": "I have quit three jobs and been fired from all the rest. Getting fired, despite sometimes coming as a surprise and leaving you scrambling to recover, is often a godsend: someone else makes the decision for you, and it's impossible to sit in the wrong job for the rest of your life.",
+ "source": "The 4-Hour Workweek"
+ }, {
+ "text": "Let's go in the garden. You'll see something waiting, right there where you left it, laying upside down. When you finally find it you'll see how it's faded. The underside is lighter when you turn it around.",
+ "source": "Everything Stays"
+ }, {
+ "text": "No matter how bad things are, you can always make things worse. At the same time, it is often within your power to make them better. I learned this lesson well on New Year's Eve, 2001.",
+ "source": "The Last Lecture"
+ }, {
+ "text": "And I will look down and see my murmuring bones and the deep water like wind, like a roof of wind, and after a long time they cannot distinguish even bones upon the lonely and inviolate sand.",
+ "source": "The Sound and the Fury"
+ }, {
+ "text": "You'll see one day when you move out it just sort of happens one day and it's gone. You feel like you can never get it back. It's like you feel homesick for a place that doesn't even exist. Maybe it's like this rite of passage, you know. You won't ever have this feeling again until you create a new idea of home for yourself, you know, for your kids, for the family you start, it's like a cycle or something. I don't know but I miss the idea of it, you know. Maybe that's all family really is. A group of people that miss the same imaginary place.",
+ "source": "Garden State"
+ }, {
+ "text": "I think you're the greatest but my dad says you don't work hard enough on defense. And he says that lots of times, you don't even run downcourt. And that you don't really try except during the playoffs.",
+ "source": "Airplane!"
+ }, {
+ "text": "Power isn't control at all - power is strength, and giving that strength to others. A leader isn't someone who forces others to make him stronger; a leader is someone willing to give his strength to others so that they may have the strength to stand on their own.",
+ "source": "Across the Universe"
+ }, {
+ "text": "Remembering you running soft through the night. You were bigger and brighter and whiter than snow. And screamed at the make-believe, screamed at the sky, and you finally found all your courage to let it all go.",
+ "source": "Pictures of You"
+ }, {
+ "text": "A freedom fighter learns the hard way that it is the oppressor who defines the nature of the struggle and the oppressed is often left no recourse but to use methods that mirror those of the oppressor. At a point, one can only fight fire with fire.",
+ "source": "A Long Walk to Freedom"
+ }, {
+ "text": "So long as men can breathe, or eyes can see, so long lives this, and this gives life to thee.",
+ "source": "Sonnet 18"
+ }, {
+ "text": "One essential rule: make sure the joke is the last possible thought, and don't add other words to the sentence after the joke. If you do, the audience will think that your take-off was only a setup for a bigger laugh coming up.",
+ "source": "Comedy Writing Secrets"
+ }, {
+ "text": "The higher a man stands on the social ladder, the greater the number of people he is connected with, the more power he has over other people, the more obvious is the predestination and inevitability of his every action.",
+ "source": "War and Peace"
+ }, {
+ "text": "'Cause when you love someone, you open up your heart. When you love someone, you make room. If you love someone, and you're not afraid to lose 'em, you probably never loved someone like I do.",
+ "source": "Love Someone"
+ }, {
+ "text": "Our worst fears, like our greatest hopes, are not outside our powers, and we can come in the end to triumph over the former and to achieve the latter.",
+ "source": "In Search of Lost Time"
+ }, {
+ "text": "Really knowing is good. Not knowing, or refusing to know, is bad, or amoral, at least. You can't act if you don't know. Acting without knowing takes you right off the cliff.",
+ "source": "Something Wicked This Way Comes"
+ }, {
+ "text": "I read this thing the other day about how when you hear that ding on your inbox you get like a dopamine rush in your brain. It's like we're being chemically rewarded for allowing ourselves to be brainwashed. How evil is that?",
+ "source": "Boyhood"
+ }, {
+ "text": "I don't know why I go walking at night, but now I'm tired and I don't want to walk anymore. I hope it doesn't take the rest of my life until I find what it is that I've been looking for.",
+ "source": "The River of Dreams"
+ }, {
+ "text": "I do not see it. It is interesting that people try to find meaningful patterns in things that are essentially random. I have noticed that the images they perceive sometimes suggest what they are thinking about at that particular moment. Besides, it is clearly a bunny rabbit.",
+ "source": "Star Trek: The Next Generation"
+ }, {
+ "text": "Expect the unexpected, they say, but once the unexpected happens, the last thing you expect is that it will happen again.",
+ "source": "The Book of Illusions"
+ }, {
+ "text": "A time being is someone who lives in time, and that means you, and me, and every one of us who is, or was, or ever will be. As for me, right now I am sitting in a French maid cafe in Akiba Electricity Town, listening to a sad chanson that is playing sometime in your past, which is also my present, writing this and wondering about you, somewhere in my future. And if you're reading this, then maybe by now you're wondering about me, too.",
+ "source": "A Tale for the Time Being: A Novel"
+ }, {
+ "text": "Talk to me baby. Tell me what you're feeling. You say you don't need to go... don't you pretend you didn't know... how all of this would end up. Girl I saw it in your eyes, and baby I can read your mind, and expectations were not in sight.",
+ "source": "Initiation"
+ }, {
+ "text": "There's a sort of evil out there. Something very, very strange in these old woods. Call it what you want. A darkness, a presence. It takes many forms but it's been out there for as long as anyone can remember and we've always been here to fight it.",
+ "source": "Twin Peaks"
+ }, {
+ "text": "I don't know. It's like no one cares that I'm gone. They should love me. Maybe they do, but I don't even know what it is. You spend your whole life thinking you're not getting it, people aren't giving it to you. Then you realize they're trying. And you don't even know what it is. I had a dream I was on a shelf in the refrigerator. Someone closes the door and the light goes off. And I know everybody's out there eating. And then they open the door and you see them smiling and they're happy to see you. But maybe they don't look right at you and maybe they don't pick you. Then the door closes again. The light goes off.",
+ "source": "Mad Men"
+ }, {
+ "text": "I know you miss her, I mean, you told me you did. But maybe it's not just the cooking or the cleaning you miss. Maybe it's something else. Maybe you can't even describe it. Maybe you only know it when it's gone. Maybe it's like there's a whole piece of you that's missing too. Look at her, Dad. Doesn't she look pretty like that? Doesn't she look just as beautiful as the first time you met her? Do you really want her back the way she was? Doesn't she just look wonderful? Now don't you wish you could tell her that?",
+ "source": "Pleasantville"
+ }, {
+ "text": "Do you understand the expense people went through to keep you locked up in that tower? You think people like that are just gonna let you walk away? You are an investment and you will not be safe until you are far away from here.",
+ "source": "BioShock Infinite"
+ }, {
+ "text": "I don't believe in painted roses or bleeding hearts while bullets rape the night of the merciful. I'll see you again when the stars fall from the sky and the moon has turned red over One Tree Hill.",
+ "source": "One Tree Hill"
+ }, {
+ "text": "It's easy to get wrapped up in sharing everyday life with a partner. It's fun to get lost in love and romance. It's the best. But holding on to yourself while doing that is the most important thing.",
+ "source": "Romantic Quote"
+ }, {
+ "text": "Now my life has changed in oh so many ways, my independence seems to vanish in the haze. But every now and then I feel so insecure, I know that I just need you like I've never done before.",
+ "source": "Help!"
+ }, {
+ "text": "How much longer is this going to go on, do you think? Do you have an estimate? Are you sure you shouldn't just quit right now? Seriously, think about it. I can tell you're just going to get more sentimental from here on out. There's still time, you know. Are you sure we shouldn't just turn around and take you back to your island?",
+ "source": "The Legend of Zelda: The Wind Waker"
+ }, {
+ "text": "I was pulled this way and that for longer than I can remember. And my problem was that I always tried to go in everyone's way but my own. I have also been called one thing and then another while no one really wished to hear what I called myself. So after years of trying to adopt the opinions of others I finally rebelled. I am an invisible man.",
+ "source": "Invisible Man"
+ }, {
+ "text": "I don't ever want to feel like I did that day. Take me to the place I love, take me all the way.",
+ "source": "Under The Bridge"
+ }, {
+ "text": "I know a bloke who knows a bloke who knows a bloke. Now, I know you know this bloke. This is a bloke you know.",
+ "source": "Sexy Beast"
+ }, {
+ "text": "Whether they use the title or not, many lyrics have evocative first lines that grab the listener's attention. Often thinking of a good first line can make the rest of the lyric flow.",
+ "source": "Lyrics: Writing Better Words for Your Songs"
+ }, {
+ "text": "Surely death has found me, it has kept a hold of me all this far. My actions will reveal, only time will tell. These passions start to slip away, memories flash like seconds in a day.",
+ "source": "Salty Grave"
+ }, {
+ "text": "How can you see into my eyes like open doors leading you down into my core where I've become so numb without a soul. My spirit's sleeping somewhere cold until you find it there and lead it back home.",
+ "source": "Bring Me To Life"
+ }, {
+ "text": "Are you paying attention? Good. If you are not listening carefully, you will miss things. Important things. I will not pause, I will not repeat myself, and you will not interrupt me. You think that because you're sitting where you are, and I am sitting where I am, that you are in control of what is about to happen. You're mistaken. I am in control, because I know things that you do not know.",
+ "source": "The Imitation Game"
+ }, {
+ "text": "I wanna hold you when I'm not supposed to. When I'm lying close to someone else. You're stuck in my head and I can't get you out of it. If I could do it all again, I know I'd go back to you.",
+ "source": "Back to You"
+ }, {
+ "text": "Your mind is like this water, my friend. When it is agitated, it becomes difficult to see. But if you allow it to settle, the answer becomes clear.",
+ "source": "Kung Fu Panda"
+ }, {
+ "text": "When another blames you or hates you, or people voice similar criticisms, go to their souls, penetrate inside and see what sort of people they are. You will realize that there is no need to be racked with anxiety that they should hold any particular opinion about you.",
+ "source": "Meditations"
+ }, {
+ "text": "I cannot guess how many days have passed since then, but I have endured misery which nothing but the eternal sentiment of a just retribution burning within my heart could have enabled me to support. Immense and rugged mountains of ice often barred up my passage, and I often heard the thunder of the ground sea, which threatened my destruction. But again the frost came and made the paths of the sea secure.",
+ "source": "Frankenstein"
+ }, {
+ "text": "I kissed her cheek as she turned it to me. I think I would have gone through a great deal to kiss her cheek. But, I felt that the kiss was given to the coarse common boy as a piece of money might have been, and that it was worth nothing.",
+ "source": "Great Expectations"
+ }, {
+ "text": "I think you need something. And if you want to call it a friend, you can call it a friend.",
+ "source": "Taxi Driver"
+ }, {
+ "text": "When I ask him if quiz bowl has helped him in other areas of his life, he seems amused by the notion that there could even be other areas of his life.",
+ "source": "Brainiac"
+ }, {
+ "text": "Well, the way they make shows is, they make one show. That show's called a pilot. Then they show that show to the people who make shows, and on the strength of that one show they decide if they're going to make more shows. Some pilots get picked and become television programs. Some don't, become nothing. She starred in one of the ones that became nothing.",
+ "source": "Pulp Fiction"
+ }, {
+ "text": "You know the kind of guy that does nothing but bad things and then wonders why his life sucks? Well, that was me. Every time something good happened to me, something bad was always waiting around the corner. Karma. That's when I realized that I had to change, so I made a list of everything bad I've ever done and one by one I'm gonna make up for all my mistakes. I'm just trying to be a better person. My name is Earl.",
+ "source": "My Name Is Earl"
+ }, {
+ "text": "You better lose yourself in the music, the moment. You own it, you better never let it go. You only get one shot, do not miss your chance to blow. This opportunity comes once in a lifetime.",
+ "source": "Lose Yourself"
+ }, {
+ "text": "If you're reading this, you've gotten out. And if you've come this far, maybe you're willing to come a little further. You remember the name of the town, don't you? I could use a good man to help me get my project on wheels. I'll keep an eye out for you and the chessboard ready. Remember, Red, hope is a good thing, maybe the best of things, and no good thing ever dies. I will be hoping that this letter finds you, and finds you well.",
+ "source": "The Shawshank Redemption"
+ }, {
+ "text": "I think a nerd is a person who uses the telephone to talk to other people about telephones. And a computer nerd therefore is somebody who uses a computer in order to use a computer.",
+ "source": "Triumph of the Nerds"
+ }, {
+ "text": "She was more like a beauty queen from a movie scene. I said, \"Don't mind, but what do you mean, I am the one who will dance on the floor in the round?\" She said I am the one who will dance on the floor in the round. She told me her name was Billie Jean as she caused a scene. Then every head turned with eyes that dreamed of being the one who will dance on the floor in the round.",
+ "source": "Billie Jean"
+ }, {
+ "text": "Yesterday is history, tomorrow is a mystery, but today is a gift. That is why it is called the present.",
+ "source": "Kung Fu Panda"
+ }, {
+ "text": "Still, there are times I am bewildered by each mile I have traveled, each meal I have eaten, each person I have known, each room in which I have slept. As ordinary as it all appears, there are times when it is beyond my imagination.",
+ "source": "Interpreter of Maladies"
+ }, {
+ "text": "All right I think we've been down here in the dark long enough. There's a whole other world upstairs. Take my hand, Constant Reader, and I'll be happy to lead you back into the sunshine. I'm happy to go there because I believe most people are essentially good. I know that I am. It's you I'm not entirely sure of.",
+ "source": "Full Dark, No Stars"
+ }, {
+ "text": "He became thinner and taller, and his face took on a kind of pained expression which made it almost interesting.",
+ "source": "Madame Bovary"
+ }, {
+ "text": "People won't be people when you hear this sound, that's been glowing in the dark at the edge of the town. People won't be people, no, the people won't be people when they hear this sound. Won't you show me what begins at the edge of the town?",
+ "source": "Atlas"
+ }, {
+ "text": "All my friends are heathens, take it slow. Wait for them to ask you who you know. Please don't make any sudden moves. You don't know the half of the abuse.",
+ "source": "Heathens"
+ }, {
+ "text": "Never forget what you are, for surely the world will not. Make it your strength. Then it can never be your weakness. Armour yourself in it, and it will never be used to hurt you.",
+ "source": "A Game of Thrones"
+ }, {
+ "text": "If you really want to hear about it, the first thing you'll probably want to know is where I was born, and what my lousy childhood was like, and how my parents were occupied and all before they had me, and all that David Copperfield kind of crap, but I don't feel like going into it, if you want to know the truth.",
+ "source": "The Catcher in the Rye"
+ }, {
+ "text": "It's all wrong. By rights we shouldn't even be here. But we are. It's like in the great stories, Mr. Frodo. The ones that really mattered. Full of darkness and danger they were, and sometimes you didn't want to know the end. Because how could the end be happy? How could the world go back to the way it was when so much bad happened? But in the end, it's only a passing thing, this shadow. Even darkness must pass. A new day will come.",
+ "source": "The Lord of the Rings: The Two Towers"
+ }, {
+ "text": "We all have a purpose. We have a place we're supposed to fit. I fit mine... so you can fit yours. I know. I know you don't want me to do this, but it's what I'm supposed to do. I know it won't seem like it, but I will be okay. It's the only way that everything will work. It's the only way that everything will be okay. You're going to make it okay. I promise. This is how I help you make it all okay. One last thing. It's important that you never ever EVER forget this. I love you.",
+ "source": "Hilo Book 6: All The Pieces Fit"
+ }, {
+ "text": "You know I work all day to get you money to buy you things. And it's worth it just to hear you say you're going to give me everything. So why on earth should I moan, 'cause when I get you alone you know I feel okay.",
+ "source": "A Hard Day's Night"
+ }, {
+ "text": "The more you see the less you know, the less you find out as you go. I knew much more then than I do now.",
+ "source": "City of Blinding Lights"
+ }, {
+ "text": "No. Because there are people out there who buy things, people like you and me. And something happened, something terrible, and the way that they saw themselves is gone. And nobody understands that. But you do. And that's very valuable.",
+ "source": "Mad Men"
+ }, {
+ "text": "I was starting to think that you were gonna leave me behind.",
+ "source": "Call of Duty 4: Modern Warfare"
+ }, {
+ "text": "That's when the pain comes in like a second skeleton trying to fit beneath the skin. I can't fit the feelings in. Every single night is a fight with my brain.",
+ "source": "Every Single Night"
+ }, {
+ "text": "It's so easy to hate your brother, it should be hard. It's so easy to hate your friends. Why ain't it hard? Love and hate come in the deck together. Play your card, love or hate can rule your life forever.",
+ "source": "Schism"
+ }, {
+ "text": "The wonder is, not that the field of stars is so vast, but that man has measured it.",
+ "source": "Civilization V"
+ }, {
+ "text": "While the simple act of putting one foot in front of the other seems to require no instruction or comment, there are, in fact, good and bad ways to walk, and good and bad walkers. Good walkers can walk effortlessly all day, while bad ones may be exhausted after a few hours.",
+ "source": "The Backpacker's Handbook 3rd Edition"
+ }, {
+ "text": "The truth is... I think that we should stay, and if - and if the time comes, if the Diamonds do come to wipe this planet off the star maps, I think we should fight for this life we've built instead of tearing it up out of the ground! I think we can win. I think you can win. Earth is our home now. Isn't it worth fighting for?",
+ "source": "Steven Universe"
+ }, {
+ "text": "Listen carefully, my friend. You are stuck in a paradox. It turns out there are three things you cannot do in virtual reality. You cannot die, you cannot get grounded, and you cannot call customer service. This is why you are having problems.",
+ "source": "South Park"
+ }, {
+ "text": "Have you ever felt so strong that it made you feel weak? Long days, long nights, and you just can't sleep. Have you ever been so sure, that it gave you cold feet? Got you floating on air, you can feel your heart beat. Well I never knew this feeling, ever. Now I hope it stays and lasts forever.",
+ "source": "How It Feels to Fly"
+ }, {
+ "text": "Each time a man stands up for an ideal, or acts to improve the lot of others, or strikes out against injustice, he sends forth a tiny ripple of hope.",
+ "source": "Modern Warfare"
+ }, {
+ "text": "In the town where I was born, lived a man who sailed to sea. And he told us of his life in the land of submarines, so we sailed up to the sun, till we found the sea of green and we lived beneath the waves in our yellow submarine.",
+ "source": "Yellow Submarine"
+ }, {
+ "text": "These nights are endless, and a man can sleep through them,\r\nor he can enjoy listening to stories, and you have no need\r\nto go to bed before it is time. Too much sleep is only\r\na bore. And of the others, any one whose heart and spirit\r\nurge him can go outside and sleep, and then, when the dawn shows,\r\nbreakfast first, then go out to tend the swine of our master.",
+ "source": "The Odyssey"
+ }, {
+ "text": "Each day means a new twenty-four hours. Each day means everything's possible again. You live in the moment, you die in the moment, you take it all one day at a time.",
+ "source": "Legend"
+ }, {
+ "text": "Many people limit themselves to leading boring, dull lives by accepting the judgment of others that they are of low intelligence. This is not so. Just because one does not process sensory information and replay it the same way as everyone else does not mean that there is a lack of comprehension or interest.",
+ "source": "Ninja Mind Control"
+ }, {
+ "text": "How do I live without the ones I love? Time still turns the pages of the book it's burned. Place and time always on my mind. I have so much to say but you're so far away.",
+ "source": "So Far Away"
+ }, {
+ "text": "Each man is tortured by this dream, but the dream gives meaning to his life. Even if the dream ruins his life, man cannot allow himself to leave it behind.",
+ "source": "Berserk"
+ }, {
+ "text": "It was a strange and passionate time. Some of our dreams dissolved into thin air. They almost seem comical now. But some of our dreams are lasting and real.",
+ "source": "The Wonder Years"
+ }, {
+ "text": "It's a story of the goddess, and the boy she loves. A love story. Her mother does not approve of him, so she casts a wide river in the sky to separate them forever. But once a year, all the birds in the sky feel sad for them, and they form a bridge so the two of them may be together for a single night.",
+ "source": "The Karate Kid"
+ }, {
+ "text": "You're the one that told me I could swing by any evening, and so I stayed. I figured I'd be heading out the door over the weekend, but I could be swayed. In our own little shack, I like the ring of that.",
+ "source": "Little Shack"
+ }, {
+ "text": "You know that I am called the Count because I really love to count. Sometimes I sit and count all day, but sometimes I get carried away. I count the spiders on the wall. I count the cobwebs in the hall. I count the candles on the shelf. When I'm alone, I count myself!",
+ "source": "The Song of the Count"
+ }, {
+ "text": "And I need it more than love, and I love it more than life, and I want those stars above to shine this night.",
+ "source": "Stormy Weather"
+ }, {
+ "text": "No, that is what I'm trying to tell you. He is still a child. He's a normal child. He's made some mistakes - God knows he's got a load to learn about life. That does not mean that I'm gonna let you send him to the type of school whose whole reason for being is to make him follow orders by instilling fear.",
+ "source": "The Sopranos"
+ }, {
+ "text": "Have pity on me and heal me, for you see that I have become a problem to myself, and this is the ailment from which I suffer.",
+ "source": "Confessions"
+ }, {
+ "text": "Anna spoke not only naturally and intelligently, but intelligently and casually, without attaching any value to her own thoughts, yet giving great value to the thoughts of the one she was talking to.",
+ "source": "Anna Karenina"
+ }, {
+ "text": "From the point of conception to the moment of truth. At the point of surrender to the burden of proof. From the point of ignition to the final drive. The point of the journey is not to arrive. Anything can happen.",
+ "source": "Prime Mover"
+ }, {
+ "text": "I got some good news and some bad news. The bad news is that your father has bought a condo in Flip City and the good news is that he is about to win the Civil War.",
+ "source": "Twin Peaks"
+ }, {
+ "text": "I know nobody knows, where it comes and where it goes. I know it's everybody's sin, you got to lose to know how to win.",
+ "source": "Dream On"
+ }, {
+ "text": "Selling short is a way to make money if stock prices fall. It involves selling stock you do not currently own in the expectation of buying it back later at a lower price. It's hoping to buy low and sell high, but in reverse order.",
+ "source": "A Random Walk Down Wall Street"
+ }, {
+ "text": "I remember it Ed, that story you told me, came clear back tonight here while writing. And you should know the feeling never left me, the weight of my heart, when you showed me the scars on your arms. When I looked in your eyes and I heard what you said. How you probably would've died were it not for to care for your daughter and wife. How he drove in the knife, still your son.",
+ "source": "Edward Benz, 27 Times"
+ }, {
+ "text": "Precious are the dead that lie there, every stone over them speaks of such burning life in the past, of such passionate faith in their work, their truth, their struggle and their science, that I know I shall fall on the ground and kiss those stones and weep over them; though I'm convinced in my heart that it's long been nothing but a graveyard.",
+ "source": "The Brothers Karamazov"
+ }, {
+ "text": "I used to think she was quite intelligent, in my stupidity. The reason I did was because she knew quite a lot about the theater and plays and literature and all that stuff. If somebody knows quite a lot about all those things, it takes you quite a while to find out whether they're really stupid or not.",
+ "source": "The Catcher in the Rye"
+ }, {
+ "text": "Try to keep in mind that a young person playing Willy Loman thinks he's only pretending to be at the end of a life full of despair. But the tragedy is that we know that you, the young actor, will end up in this very place of desolation.",
+ "source": "Synecdoche, New York"
+ }, {
+ "text": "All the times that I've cried, keeping all the things I knew inside. And it's hard, but it's harder to ignore it. If they were right I'd agree, but it's them they know, not me. Now there's a way and I know that I have to go away.",
+ "source": "Father and Son"
+ }, {
+ "text": "I want you to be very clear about this: You were fired. I wanted you out, Cooper wanted you out, and you would be if it weren't for this man. He thought you deserved another chance. That's right, he fought for you.",
+ "source": "Mad Men"
+ }, {
+ "text": "Space travel makes you realize just how small you really are. When you see Earth as a tiny blue speck in the infinite reaches of space, you have to wonder about the mysteries of creation. Surely we're all part of some great design, no more or less important than anything else in the universe. Surely everything fits together and has a purpose, a reason for being. Doesn't it make you wonder?",
+ "source": "The Complete Calvin and Hobbes"
+ }, {
+ "text": "Oh, it doesn't matter what they say in the papers 'cause it's always been the same old scene. There's a new band in town, but you can't get the sound from a story in a magazine aimed at your average teen.",
+ "source": "It's Still Rock and Roll to Me"
+ }, {
+ "text": "In eternity, where there is no time, nothing can grow. Nothing can become. Nothing changes. So Death created time to grow the things that it would kill, and you are reborn, but into the same life that you've always been born into. I mean, how many times have we had this conversation, detectives? Well, who knows? When you can't remember your lives, you can't change your lives, and that is the terrible and the secret fate of all life. You're trapped by that nightmare you keep waking up into.",
+ "source": "True Detective"
+ }, {
+ "text": "You're right, Will. I can't do this proof. But you can and when it comes to that it's only about... it's just a handful of people in the world who can tell the difference between you and me. But I'm one of them.",
+ "source": "Good Will Hunting"
+ }, {
+ "text": "They say that right after God created man, he took a rib from him and made a chick. That's actually a bit of a creation myth - the truth is, after God saw that man was good, he created another man and saw that it was all good.",
+ "source": "Brocabulary: The New Man-i-festo of Dude Talk"
+ }, {
+ "text": "When the snow is on our mind, rows and rows and lines and lines. In the haze of your fixation, we all crave for you, we all crave. And you can kill the wildest thing, but when you murder it's a sin. In the midst of your conviction, we all crave for you, we all crave.",
+ "source": "Crave"
+ }, {
+ "text": "I admit that twice two makes four is an excellent thing, but if we are to give everything its due, twice two makes five is sometimes a very charming thing too.",
+ "source": "Notes from the Underground"
+ }, {
+ "text": "I learned from my parents' mistakes, and your mother learned from hers, just as you'll learn from our mistakes and be better with your children until someone, someday, many years from now, finally has a perfect childhood.",
+ "source": "Perfect Childhood"
+ }, {
+ "text": "I would've told her that Davis and I never talked much, or even looked at each other, but it didn't matter, because we were looking at the same sky together, which is maybe more intimate than eye contact anyway. Anybody can look at you. It's quite rare to find someone who sees the same world you see.",
+ "source": "Turtles All the Way Down"
+ }, {
+ "text": "I can fly like an eagle and strike like a hawk.",
+ "source": "Initial D: Fifth Stage"
+ }, {
+ "text": "He was close, real close. I couldn't see him yet, but I could feel him, as if the boat were being sucked upriver and the water was flowing back into the jungle. Whatever was going to happen, it wasn't gonna be the way they call it back in Nha Trang.",
+ "source": "Apocalypse Now"
+ }, {
+ "text": "I tried to save the Shire, and it has been saved, but not for me. It must often be so, Sam, when things are in danger: some one has to give them up, lose them, so that others may keep them. But you are my heir: all that I had and might have had I leave to you.",
+ "source": "The Return of the King"
+ }, {
+ "text": "Before he leaves the camp he stops. He scans the world outside and where there used to be some shops is where the snipers sometimes hide. He left his home the week before. He thought he'd be like the police but now he finds he is at war. Weren't we supposed to keep the peace?",
+ "source": "The Lebanon"
+ }, {
+ "text": "Someday, I hope to make it clear to you that success is not determined by leather-bound books and ink on paper, but rather the passion that I have found out of heartbreak and anger. I know that happiness is stability, but stability is not a desk job, and I refuse to sacrifice my aspirations for an income and security.",
+ "source": "Nineteen"
+ }, {
+ "text": "You are the night you are the ocean. You are the light behind the cloud. You are the end and the beginning. A world where time is not allowed. There's no such thing as complication. To find our way we lose control. Remember love's our only mission. This is the journey of the soul. The perfect song is framed with silence. It speaks of places never seen. You hold your promise long forgotten. It is the birthplace of your dreams.",
+ "source": "Beyond"
+ }, {
+ "text": "I believe in love, and I know that you do too. And I believe in some kind of path that we can walk down, me and you. So keep your candles burning and make her journey bright and pure.",
+ "source": "Into My Arms"
+ }, {
+ "text": "The key to investing is not how much an industry will affect society or even how much it will grow, but rather its ability to make and sustain profits.",
+ "source": "A Random Walk Down Wall Street"
+ }, {
+ "text": "Do you realize that more people will be watching you tonight than all those who have seen theater plays in the last forty years?",
+ "source": "Being There"
+ }, {
+ "text": "Charge 'em for the lice, extra for the mice, two percent for looking in the mirror twice. Here a little slice, there a little cut, three percent for sleeping with the window shut. When it comes to fixing prices, there are a lot of tricks he knows.",
+ "source": "Les Misérables"
+ }, {
+ "text": "Above all, don't lie to yourself. The man who lies to himself and listens to his own lie comes to a point that he cannot distinguish the truth within him, or around him, and so loses all respect for himself and for others. And having no respect he ceases to love.",
+ "source": "The Brothers Karamazov"
+ }, {
+ "text": "Outside of two men on a train platform there's nothing in sight. They're waiting for spring to come, smoking down the track. The world could come to an end tonight, but that's alright. She could still be there sleeping when I get back.",
+ "source": "I and I"
+ }, {
+ "text": "The only problem with the treatment was that it worked too well. You became unable to express any anger at all. From that point on, any time you felt angry, you could only respond with a string of nonsensical jabbering.",
+ "source": "The Simpsons"
+ }, {
+ "text": "The wheel is turning and you can't slow down. You can't let go and you can't hold on. You can't go back and you can't stand still. If the thunder don't get you then the lightning will.",
+ "source": "The Wheel"
+ }, {
+ "text": "You once told me you never lied to me and you never will. So I need to know something: The first time Kramer and I went after you for the Degas, how did you switch the paintings?",
+ "source": "White Collar"
+ }, {
+ "text": "The way you wear your hat, the way you sip your tea, the memory of all that, no, no, they can't take that away from me. The way your smile just beams, the way you sing off key, the way you haunt my dreams, no, no, they can't take that away from me.",
+ "source": "They Can't Take That Away from Me"
+ }, {
+ "text": "A hero can be anyone. Even a man doing something as simple and reassuring as putting a coat around a young boy's shoulders to let him know that the world hadn't ended.",
+ "source": "The Dark Knight Rises"
+ }, {
+ "text": "We turn away to face the cold, enduring chill, as the day begs the night for mercy love. The sun so bright it leaves no shadows, only scars, carved into stone on the face of earth. The moon is up and over One Tree Hill we see the sun go down in your eyes.",
+ "source": "One Tree Hill"
+ }, {
+ "text": "We were the people who were not in the papers. We lived in the blank white spaces at the edges of print. It gave us more freedom. We lived in the gaps between the stories.",
+ "source": "The Handmaid's Tale"
+ }, {
+ "text": "The best way to measure how much you've grown isn't by inches or the number of laps you can now run around the track, or even your grade point average - though those things are important, to be sure. It's what you've done with your time, how you've chosen to spend your days, and whom you've touched this year. That, to me, is the greatest measure of success.",
+ "source": "Wonder"
+ }, {
+ "text": "To sit among all those unknown things before a puzzle like that is hopeless. That way lies monomania. Face this world. Learn its ways, watch it, be careful of too hasty guesses at its meaning. In the end you will find clues to it all.",
+ "source": "The Time Machine"
+ }, {
+ "text": "Sitting back and doing nothing, or worse, criticizing others, does not require courage. Speaking up and letting your unique voice be heard is an important step for anyone who wants to make anything better.",
+ "source": "The Legend of Zelda: Breath of the Wild"
+ }, {
+ "text": "Don't say you lose just yet, get up and move ahead, and not only for yourself. 'Cause that's your role, the work that stirred your soul you can make for someone else. One day you choke, your urges overflow, and obsession wears you down. But don't you waste the suffering you've faced; it will serve you in due time.",
+ "source": "Get Your Wish"
+ }, {
+ "text": "I wonder, how you can expect to gain an idea of my usual teaching methods if you continue to interrupt me? You see, I do not generally permit people to talk when I am talking.",
+ "source": "Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix"
+ }, {
+ "text": "Music and books stir up emotions. They make feelings rise and clatter and wreck, and sometimes that's dangerous. But music can make you rise up and clatter and destroy when you need to, too.",
+ "source": "A Heart in a Body in the World"
+ }, {
+ "text": "No one really runs away from anything. It's like a private trap that holds us in like a prison. You know what I think? I think that we're all in our private traps, clamped in them, and none of us can ever get out. We scratch and we claw, but only at the air, only at each other, and for all of it, we never budge an inch.",
+ "source": "Psycho"
+ }, {
+ "text": "Alice had got so much into the way of expecting nothing but out-of-the-way things to happen, that it seemed quite dull and stupid for life to go on in the common way.",
+ "source": "Alice's Adventures in Wonderland"
+ }, {
+ "text": "This is what I offer each of you today: one tiny vial of liquid luck to the student who in the hour that remains manages to brew an acceptable draft of living death. The recipe for which can be found on page 10 of your books.",
+ "source": "Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince"
+ }, {
+ "text": "The moon will never lie to anyone. Be like the moon. No one hates the moon or wants to kill it. The moon does not take antidepressants and never gets sent to prison. The moon never shot a guy in the face and ran away. The moon has been around a long time and has never tried to rip anyone off. The moon does not care who you want to touch or what color you are. The moon treats everyone the same. The moon never tries to get in on the guest list or use your name to impress others. Be like the moon. When others insult or belittle in an attempt to elevate themselves, the moon sits passively and watches, never lowering itself to anything that weak. The moon is beautiful and bright. It needs no makeup to look beautiful. The moon never shoves clouds out of its way so it can be seen. The moon needs not fame or money to be powerful. The moon never asks you to go to war to defend it. Be like the moon.",
+ "source": "Solipsist"
+ }, {
+ "text": "Rise and shine, Mister Freeman. Rise and shine. Not that I wish to imply you have been sleeping on the job. No one is more deserving of a rest, and all the effort in the world would have gone to waste until... well, let's just say your hour has come again.",
+ "source": "Half-Life 2"
+ }, {
+ "text": "Yes, there were times, I'm sure you knew, when I bit off more than I could chew. But through it all, when there was doubt, I ate it up and spit it out.",
+ "source": "My Way"
+ }, {
+ "text": "Allow me to tell you about some complex feelings. Feelings like the joy of finding another pasta lover. The admiration for another's puzzle-solving skills. The desire to have a cool, smart person think you are cool. These feelings... They must be what you are feeling right now! I can hardly imagine what it must be like to feel that way.",
+ "source": "Undertale"
+ }, {
+ "text": "And I don't believe in the existence of angels but looking at you I wonder if that's true. But if I did I would summon them together, and ask them to watch over you. To each burn a candle for you, to make bright and clear your path. And to walk, like Christ, in grace and love and guide you into my arms.",
+ "source": "Into My Arms"
+ }, {
+ "text": "I never wanted to become someone like him. So secure, content to live each day just like the last. I was sure I knew that this was not for me. And I wanted so much more; far beyond what I could see. So I swore that I'd never be someone like him.",
+ "source": "Octavarium"
+ }, {
+ "text": "I search the faces of the gods... for ways to please you, to make you proud. One kind word, one full hug... where you pressed me to your chest and held me tight. Would have been like the sun on my heart for a thousand years. What is it in me that you hate so much?",
+ "source": "The Gladiator"
+ }, {
+ "text": "It's the questions we can't answer that teach us the most. They teach us how to think. If you give a man an answer, all he gains is a little fact. But give him a question and he'll look for his own answers.",
+ "source": "The Wise Man's Fear"
+ }, {
+ "text": "When people in Britain want to buy a pet, they go to a pet shop. If they want to buy a pet shop, they go to a pet shop shop. If they want to buy a pet shop shop, well, they're just being silly.",
+ "source": "Little Britain"
+ }, {
+ "text": "But in high school the business of irrevocable choices began. Doors slipped shut with a faint locking click that was only heard clearly in the dreams of later years.",
+ "source": "Cujo"
+ }, {
+ "text": "If you're working out in front of a mirror and watching your muscles grow, your ego has reached a point where it is now eating itself. That's why I believe there should be a psychiatrist at every health club, so that when they see you doing this, they will take you away for a little chat.",
+ "source": "Me of Little Faith"
+ }, {
+ "text": "I must wait for the sunrise, I must think of a new life and I mustn't give in when the dawn comes. Tonight will be a memory too and a new day will begin, burnt out ends of smoky days.",
+ "source": "Memory"
+ }, {
+ "text": "Do you think politics is only about winning the argument? That whoever has the right fact at the right moment wins?",
+ "source": "The Wire"
+ }, {
+ "text": "For the first time, he heard something that he knew to be music. He heard people singing. Behind him, across vast distances of space and time, from the place he had left, he thought he heard music too. But perhaps, it was only an echo.",
+ "source": "The Giver"
+ }, {
+ "text": "A reader lives a thousand lives before he dies. The man who never reads lives only one.",
+ "source": "A Dance with Dragons"
+ }, {
+ "text": "There's a hole in the world like a great black pit. And the vermin of the world inhabit it. And its morals aren't worth what a pig could spit. And it goes by the name of London.",
+ "source": "Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber"
+ }, {
+ "text": "And isn't that a minor miracle? The state of the world today and the level of conflict and misunderstanding, that two men could stand on a lonely road in winter and talk calmly and rationally while all around them, people are losing their mind. You have a nice day.",
+ "source": "Fargo (TV)"
+ }, {
+ "text": "I want to defeat the me that's dragging this failure around. I don't want to forget my failure. But if I carry it with me as a bad memory and keep running away, I will never change.",
+ "source": "ReLIFE"
+ }, {
+ "text": "Don't your feet get cold in the winter time? The sky won't snow and the sun won't shine. It's hard to tell the night time from the day. You're losing all your highs and lows; ain't it funny how the feeling goes away?",
+ "source": "Desperado"
+ }, {
+ "text": "Yes, they think we're dumb. They call us the common people. But I've been sitting here listening and looking and trying to understand what's so common about us.",
+ "source": "Invisible Man"
+ }, {
+ "text": "Most people find that the biggest change they make in their diet when following the pyramid is to eat less meat while increasing vegetables, breads and grains. These changes can also help to reduce the fat in your diet - unless you decide to add fat to these foods.",
+ "source": "Quick and Healthy Volume II"
+ }, {
+ "text": "For this dark and lonely room projects a shadow cast in gloom, and my eyes are mirrors of the world outside. Thinking of the way that the wind can turn the tide, and these shadows turn from purple into grey.",
+ "source": "Skyline Pigeon"
+ }, {
+ "text": "Marriage is so unlike everything else. There is something even awful in the nearness it brings. Even if we loved someone else better than - than those we were married to, it would be no use. I mean, marriage drinks up all our power of giving or getting any blessedness in that sort of love. I know it may be very dear, but it murders our marriage, and then the marriage stays with us like a murder, and everything else is gone.",
+ "source": "Middlemarch"
+ }, {
+ "text": "Like a river flows surely to the sea, darling so it goes. Some things are meant to be. Take my hand, take my whole life too, for I can't help falling in love with you.",
+ "source": "Can't Help Falling in Love"
+ }, {
+ "text": "The problem is, Willie, is that Charles and yourself are not the quickest of cats at the best of times. So just do as I say and keep the cage locked!",
+ "source": "Lock, Stock, and Two Smoking Barrels"
+ }, {
+ "text": "In our world, every storm has an end. Every night, brings a new morning. What's important is to trust those you love, and never give up. We must all keep hope alive.",
+ "source": "Chrono Trigger"
+ }, {
+ "text": "When the light of life has gone, no change for the meter. Then the king of spivs will come, selling blood by the litre. When nothing's sacred anymore, when the demon's knocking on your door, you'll still be staring down at the floor.",
+ "source": "Swamp Thing"
+ }, {
+ "text": "If the sky that we look upon should tumble and fall, or the mountain should crumble to the sea, I won't cry. No, I won't shed a tear just as long as you stand by me.",
+ "source": "Stand by Me"
+ }, {
+ "text": "My doctor said we can't choose where we come from, but we can choose where we go from there. I know it's not all the answers, but it was enough to start putting these pieces together.",
+ "source": "The Perks of Being a Wallflower"
+ }, {
+ "text": "You know, I really think I can put together a great Thanksgiving dinner. This'll be the second one that I've cooked, and believe me, the first one was not the disaster that my family said it was. Those kids had a pretty good time in that ambulance.",
+ "source": "Cheers"
+ }, {
+ "text": "It's funny how one single thing you choose to see could change the world and give mine back to me so much better.",
+ "source": "One Word"
+ }, {
+ "text": "Love in the nineties is paranoid. On sunny beaches, take your chances looking for girls who are boys who like boys to be girls who do boys like they're girls who do girls like they're boys. Always should be someone you really love.",
+ "source": "Boys and Girls"
+ }, {
+ "text": "I can't make you love me if you don't. You can't make your heart feel something it won't. Here in the dark in these final hours I will lay down my heart and I'll feel the power.",
+ "source": "I Can't Make You Love Me"
+ }, {
+ "text": "I didn't know it would be people you barely knew becoming friends that harbored you. And dreams you didn't even know you had - coming true. I didn't know it would be superpowers rising up out of tragedies, and perfect moments in a nearly empty classroom.",
+ "source": "Harbor Me"
+ }, {
+ "text": "I also thought about my wife, the most important person in my life, who has stuck to me over many hardships and hurdles. But somehow we made it. My wife has been the most adorable person, a friend closest in my life, a most wonderful lover. We loved every minute of our lives together.",
+ "source": "Mabo"
+ }, {
+ "text": "I think if it is true that there are as many minds as there are heads, then there are as many kinds of love as there are hearts.",
+ "source": "Anna Karenina"
+ }, {
+ "text": "It may sound trite to you but I have found myself again after a number of years. I've been acting a role, maybe all my life, of thinking I've done more, accomplished more, produced more than I have. I've had all the breaks. I have stood on the shoulders of life and I have never got down into the dirt to build, to erect a foundation of my own. I have flown too high on borrowed wings. Everything came too easy. That is why I am here today.",
+ "source": "Quiz Show"
+ }, {
+ "text": "It is part of the human nature always to judge others very severely and when the wind turns against us, always to find an excuse for our own misdeeds or to blame someone else for our mistakes.",
+ "source": "Like the Flowing River"
+ }, {
+ "text": "Don't adventures ever have an end? I suppose not. Someone else always has to carry on the story.",
+ "source": "The Lord of The Rings"
+ }, {
+ "text": "Oh, and one last favor. If you pass by heaven, give my regards to the angels. But if you end up in hell, give my address to the devil.",
+ "source": "This Night I Will Possess Your Corpse"
+ }, {
+ "text": "Somewhere in the forest where the waters meet lie the days before us. Spinning on repeat; there's darkness through the doorways. Silence in the streets, there's something in the stillness; a distant memory.",
+ "source": "Repeat"
+ }, {
+ "text": "The brave things in the old tales and songs, Mr. Frodo: adventures, as I used to call them. I used to think that they were things the wonderful folk of the stories went out and looked for, because they wanted them, because they were exciting and life was a bit dull, a kind of a sport, as you might say. But that's not the way of it with the tales that really mattered, or the ones that stay in the mind. Folk seem to have been just landed in them - usually their paths were laid that way, as you put it. But I expect they had lots of chances, like us, of turning back, only they didn't. And if they had, we shouldn't know, because they'd have been forgotten. We hear about those as just went on - and not all to a good end, mind you; at least not to what folk inside a story and not outside it call a good end. You know, coming home, and finding things all right, though not quite the same.",
+ "source": "The Lord of The Rings"
+ }, {
+ "text": "Fools rush in where angels fear to tread. And so I come to you, my love, my heart above my head. Though I see the danger there, if there's a chance for me then I don't care.",
+ "source": "Fools Rush In"
+ }, {
+ "text": "Now, men, in conclusion, I would like to say that, in the two years it has been my privilege to be your commanding officer, I have always expected the best from you, and you have never given me anything less than that. Today, the nation is counting on us. We're not going to let them down. Good luck to you all.",
+ "source": "Dr. Strangelove or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb"
+ }, {
+ "text": "I love you like a love song, baby, and I keep hitting repeat.",
+ "source": "Love You Like a Love Song"
+ }, {
+ "text": "There are 10 kinds of people in this world; those who understand binary, and those who don't.",
+ "source": "Mathematics and Humor"
+ }, {
+ "text": "Teachers never die. They live in your memory forever. They were there when you arrived; they were there when you left. Like fixtures. Once in a while they taught you something. But not that often. And you never really knew them any more than they knew you. Still for a while you believed in them. And if you were lucky maybe there was one who believed in you.",
+ "source": "The Wonder Years"
+ }, {
+ "text": "When I was a young man, I had liberty, but I did not see it. I had time, but I did not know it. And I had love, but I did not feel it. Many decades would pass before I understood the meaning of all three. And now, the twilight of my life, this understanding has passed into contentment.",
+ "source": "Assassin's Creed 2"
+ }, {
+ "text": "I hate this place, this zoo, this prison, this reality, whatever you want to call it. I can't stand it any longer. It's the smell, if there is such a thing. I feel saturated by it. I can taste your stink, and every time I do, I fear that I've somehow been infected by it.",
+ "source": "The Matrix"
+ }, {
+ "text": "You've got me over the moon, and that's no jest. We're miles above the rest. Look in your eyes and I know we'll be fine. So let's shoot for the stars and make this love really shine.",
+ "source": "Super Mario Odyssey"
+ }, {
+ "text": "A brother who lives at home, and is still considered more successful than I am, which could be because I live in a trailer that while it may look like Jeannie's bottle is actually slightly smaller.",
+ "source": "Wonderfalls"
+ }, {
+ "text": "I spoke to you in cautious tones, you answered me with no pretense. And still, I feel I said too much, my silence is my self-defense. And every time I've held a rose, it seems I only felt the thorns. And so it goes, and so it goes, and so will you soon I suppose. But if my silence made you leave, then that would be my worst mistake, so I will share this room with you, and you can have this heart to break.",
+ "source": "And So It Goes"
+ }, {
+ "text": "In the mornings, when I'm usually wide awake, I love to take a walk through the gardens and down by the lake, where I often see a duck and a drake, and I wonder, as I walk by, just what they'd say if they could speak, although I know that's an absurd thought.",
+ "source": "Conjunction Junction"
+ }, {
+ "text": "The truth is that there are a lot of people like you, us, with strange hobbies or talents or gifts and we try to hide it because we're afraid that it makes us seem weird or it will turn people off, but that's a mistake. What makes me unique has brought every person I love into my life.",
+ "source": "Pushing Daisies"
+ }, {
+ "text": "I would've told her that Davis and I never talked much, or even looked at each other, but it didn't matter, because we were looking at the same sky together, which is maybe more intimate than eye contact anyway. Anybody can look at you. It's quite rare to find someone who sees the same world you see.",
+ "source": "Turtles All the Way Down"
+ }, {
+ "text": "Power is a lot like real estate. It's all about location, location, location. The closer you are to the source, the higher your property value.",
+ "source": "House of Cards"
+ }, {
+ "text": "The essential and defining characteristic of childhood is not the effortless merging of dream and reality, but only alienation. There are no words for childhood's dark turns and exhalations. A wise child recognizes it and submits to the necessary consequences. A child who counts the cost is a child no longer.",
+ "source": "Salem's Lot"
+ }, {
+ "text": "Sometimes when he brushed, he felt like he was scrubbing at the very crust of his soul.",
+ "source": "Dayfever"
+ }, {
+ "text": "Each day I sat on the verandah with my uncle and cousins looking toward the city. We had stopped listening to the storytelling cassette, as curfews started before dark. My uncle laughed less and less, and sighed more and more. We continued to hope that things would change, but they kept getting worse.",
+ "source": "A Long Way Gone"
+ }, {
+ "text": "This planet has, or rather had, a problem, which was this: most of the people on it were unhappy for pretty much of the time. Many solutions were suggested for this problem, but most of these were largely concerned with the movements of small green pieces of paper, which is odd because on the whole it wasn't the small green pieces of paper that were unhappy. ",
+ "source": "So Long, and Thanks for All the Fish"
+ }, {
+ "text": "I wanna be inside your heaven. Take me to the place you cry from, where the storm blows your way. I wanna be earth that holds you. Every bit of air you're breathing in, a soothing wind,\r\nI wanna be inside your heaven.",
+ "source": "Inside Your Heaven"
+ }, {
+ "text": "I see trees of green, red roses too, I see them bloom for me and you, and I think to myself what a wonderful world. I see skies of blue and clouds of white, the bright blessed day, the dark sacred night, and I think to myself what a wonderful world.",
+ "source": "What A Wonderful World"
+ }, {
+ "text": "I became yearbook photographer because I liked the idea that I could sort of watch life without having to be part of it. But when you're yearbook photographer, you're like never in the picture.",
+ "source": "My So-Called Life"
+ }, {
+ "text": "Time is a tool you can put on the wall or wear it on your wrist. The past is far behind us, the future doesn't exist. Time is a ruler to measure the day, it doesn't go backwards, only one way. Time went new and got old like history. Stuff from the past went into a mystery. It's out of my hands, I'm only a clock. Don't worry, I'm sure you'll be fine, but eventually everyone runs out of time.",
+ "source": "The Time Song"
+ }, {
+ "text": "I know you feel where I'm coming from, regardless of the things in my past that I've done. Most of it really was for the hell of the fun, on the carousel so around I spun. With no directions just tryna get some. Tryna chase skirts, living in the summer sun. And so I lost more than I had ever won, and honestly, I ended up with none.",
+ "source": "Nothin' on You"
+ }, {
+ "text": "I had the brief notion that his heart, pressed flat as a flower, crimson and thin as tissue paper, lay in this file. It was a very thin one.",
+ "source": "The Bloody Chamber"
+ }, {
+ "text": "I know more about the private lives of celebrities than I do about any governmental policy that will actually affect me. I'm interested in things that are none of my business, and I'm bored by things that are important to know.",
+ "source": "Homicidal Psycho Jungle Cat"
+ }, {
+ "text": "Look, I run a show here. It's a lot of smoke and noise and it's strictly for the suckers. I've been pulling one kind of scam or another since I was your age, and if there's one thing I know it's how to spot the genuine article because that's what you've got to watch out for. Not the cops, you can always get around the cops. But the one thing you can never, ever get around is the genuine article, and you, kid, are the genuine article.",
+ "source": "Leap of Faith"
+ }, {
+ "text": "If you are with the quality, or at a funeral, or trying to go to sleep when you ain't sleepy - if you are anywheres where it won't do for you to scratch, why you will itch all over in upwards of a thousand places.",
+ "source": "The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn"
+ }, {
+ "text": "In his dealings with the world the gentleman is not invariably for or against anything. He is on the side of what is moral.",
+ "source": "The Analects"
+ }, {
+ "text": "I've been alone with you inside my mind and in my dreams I've kissed your lips a thousand times. I sometimes see you pass outside my door. Hello, is it me you're looking for? I can see it in your eyes, I can see it in your smile. You're all I've ever wanted and my arms are open wide, 'cause you know just what to say and you know just what to do. And I want to tell you so much, I love you.",
+ "source": "Hello"
+ }, {
+ "text": "Our existence on this planet may well depend on the decisions we make and the actions we take. Now is the time to act!",
+ "source": "What's in Your Food?"
+ }, {
+ "text": "When a free man dies, he loses the pleasure of life. A slave loses his pain. Death is the only freedom a slave knows. That's why he's not afraid of it. That's why we'll win.",
+ "source": "Spartacus"
+ }, {
+ "text": "I'm going to roll my window up, then I'm going to drive away, and you're gonna go home to your daughter.",
+ "source": "Fargo (TV)"
+ }, {
+ "text": "Bobby, my uncle loves you. He needs you. So you're gonna get up tomorrow morning and you're gonna get dressed, and you're gonna get in that car and you're gonna do what needs to be done, aren't you?",
+ "source": "The Sopranos"
+ }, {
+ "text": "You don't know what's in store, but you know what you're here for. Close your eyes, lay yourself beside me. Hold tight for this ride, we don't need no protection. Come alone, we don't need attention.",
+ "source": "High For This"
+ }, {
+ "text": "Most of the people in the industry were young because the guys who had any real experience were too smart to get involved in all these crazy little machines.",
+ "source": "Triumph of the Nerds"
+ }, {
+ "text": "We come from two different worlds but there's only one love that could make things easier.",
+ "source": "Space Jam"
+ }, {
+ "text": "My shadow is always with me. Sometimes ahead, sometimes behind, sometimes to the left, sometimes to the right. Except on cloudy days or at night.",
+ "source": "Twin Peaks"
+ }, {
+ "text": "Benjamin was the oldest animal on the farm, and the worst tempered. He seldom talked, and when he did, it was usually to make some cynical remark - for instance, he would say that God had given him a tail to keep the flies off, but that he would sooner have had no tail and no flies.",
+ "source": "Animal Farm"
+ }, {
+ "text": "The most merciful thing in the world, I think, is the inability of the human mind to correlate all its contents. We live on a placid island of ignorance in the midst of black seas of infinity, and it was not meant that we should voyage far.",
+ "source": "The Call of Cthulhu"
+ }, {
+ "text": "Perhaps I will die too, she told herself, and the thought did not seem so terrible to her. If she flung herself from the window, she could put an end to her suffering, and in the years to come the singers would write songs of her grief. Her body would lie on the stones below, broken and innocent, shaming all those who had betrayed her. Sansa went so far as to cross the bedchamber and throw open the shutters, but then her courage left her, and she ran back to her bed, sobbing.",
+ "source": "A Game of Thrones"
+ }, {
+ "text": "I'm happy to put this all behind us and get back to work. After all, we've got a lot to do, and only sixty more years to do it. More or less. I don't have the actuarial tables in front of me.",
+ "source": "Portal 2"
+ }, {
+ "text": "Half the time she did things not simply, not for themselves; but to make people think this or that; perfect idiocy she knew for no one was ever for a second taken in.",
+ "source": "Mrs. Dalloway"
+ }, {
+ "text": "The man who lies to himself and listens to his own lie comes to such a pass that he cannot distinguish the truth within him, or around him, and so loses all respect for himself and for others. And having no respect he ceases to love, and in order to occupy and distract himself without love he gives way to passions and coarse pleasures, and sinks to bestiality in his vices, all from continual lying to other men and to himself.",
+ "source": "The Brothers Karamazov"
+ }, {
+ "text": "And I wonder if everything could ever feel this real forever, if anything could ever be this good again.",
+ "source": "Everlong"
+ }, {
+ "text": "Perhaps the most serious way in which parasites that are usually harmless may become of great importance is illustrated by their introduction into new regions or, as is more often the case, by the introduction of new hosts into the region where the parasites are found. Under normal conditions the animals of a given region are usually immune to the parasites of the same region.",
+ "source": "Insects and Diseases"
+ }, {
+ "text": "The alternative to binge travel - the mini retirement - entails relocating to one place for one to six months before going home or moving to another locale. Rather than seeking to see the world, we aim to experience it at a speed that lets it change us.",
+ "source": "The 4-Hour Workweek"
+ }, {
+ "text": "Son, your ego is writing checks your body can't cash.",
+ "source": "Top Gun"
+ }, {
+ "text": "No fair. You really know how to make me cry when you give me those ocean eyes. I'm scared. I've never fallen from quite this high. Falling into your ocean eyes. Those ocean eyes.",
+ "source": "Ocean Eyes"
+ }, {
+ "text": "Have you ever fixed a nose before? No, but I've done several toes, and how different are they really?",
+ "source": "Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince"
+ }, {
+ "text": "And some things that should not have been forgotten were lost. History became legend. Legend became myth. And for two and a half thousand years, the ring passed out of all knowledge.",
+ "source": "The Lord of The Rings"
+ }, {
+ "text": "What you are, and who you are should provide greater clarity about where you have been and where you are headed. Although one distinguishes spiritual from physical nature, the ultimate unification of the two is the consequence of the struggle for internal, external and eternal - peace.",
+ "source": "From Within I Rise: Spiritual Triumph Over Death and Conscious Encounters with \"The Divine Presence\""
+ }, {
+ "text": "The day is made up of 24 hours and an infinite number of moments. We need to be aware of those moments and make the most of them regardless of whether we're busy doing something or contemplating life.",
+ "source": "The Witch of Portobello"
+ }, {
+ "text": "I have waited lifetimes to find you. Now that you're here I can remind you of the things I've been dreaming of times two.",
+ "source": "Star Ready"
+ }, {
+ "text": "How about tellers? You take tellers. They never tell you anything. They always ask questions. And interest, there's nothing interesting about it at all. It's boring. Oh and then the trust department, they got all the pens chained down to the tables. What kind of trust is that?",
+ "source": "Cheers"
+ }, {
+ "text": "But he didn't and he never will. We all pay for our choices kid. Maybe your old man fought for you, maybe he did it for himself. The only thing you know for sure is he's gone now. But I'm here. Now, get up. Time to stop taking a beating and start giving one.",
+ "source": "Daredevil"
+ }, {
+ "text": "She's got a smile that, it seems to me, reminds me of childhood memories, where everything was as fresh as the bright blue sky. Now and then when I see her face she takes me away to that special place and if I'd stare too long I'd probably break down and cry.",
+ "source": "Sweet Child O' Mine"
+ }, {
+ "text": "Legend has it this bridge was constructed by a young man and woman who lived on opposite sides of the river. The two fell in love and constructed the bridge so they could meet in the middle and share what would be their first kiss. From that day on it would be known appropriately as the kissing bridge and if people had just stuck to the kissing Dr. Brown would have been able to avoid one heck of a crisis.",
+ "source": "Everwood"
+ }, {
+ "text": "You might walk when you first enter a world and are unfamiliar with the terrain, but once you gain knowledge of your surroundings, it's easier to run!",
+ "source": "Strategy Nintendo Power Guide Super Mario Bros. 3"
+ }, {
+ "text": "I know you have received orders from our commandant, which he has received from his superiors, to dispose of the population of this camp. Now would be the time to do it. Here they are; they're all here. This is your opportunity. Or, you could leave, and return to your families as men instead of murderers.",
+ "source": "Schindler's List"
+ }, {
+ "text": "Okay, listen to me, Judy. I don't mind that you're working with my husband, or that you even bake him those little treats. That you do. But if you're going to start acting like him, you better put a mustache on, because you sound ridiculous.",
+ "source": "Scream 4"
+ }, {
+ "text": "Suffering has been stronger than all other teaching, and has taught me to understand what your heart used to be. I have been bent and broken, but - I hope - into a better shape.",
+ "source": "Great Expectations"
+ }, {
+ "text": "The old man told us to go back to other parts of the yard, but there was no more real work done that afternoon. Stranded in this mill town railroad yard while the whole world was converging elsewhere, we seemed to be nothing but children playing among heroic men.",
+ "source": "A Separate Peace"
+ }, {
+ "text": "It's been a long day without you, my friend, and I'll tell you all about it when I see you again. We've come a long way from where we began.",
+ "source": "See You Again"
+ }, {
+ "text": "Once in a lifetime there comes a motion picture which changes the whole history of motion pictures. A picture so stunning in its effect, so vast in its impact that it profoundly affects the lives of all who see it.",
+ "source": "Monty Python and the Holy Grail"
+ }, {
+ "text": "Call me Ishmael. Some years ago - never mind how long precisely - having little or no money in my purse, and nothing particular to interest me on shore, I thought I would sail about a little and see the watery part of the world.",
+ "source": "Moby Dick"
+ }, {
+ "text": "I used to kid her once in a while because she wouldn't take her kings out of the back row.",
+ "source": "The Catcher in the Rye"
+ }, {
+ "text": "He pushes people away before they get a chance to leave him. It's a defense mechanism. And for twenty years he's been alone because of that. And if you push him right now, it's gonna be the same thing all over again and I'm not gonna let that happen to him.",
+ "source": "Good Will Hunting"
+ }, {
+ "text": "But you know that when the truth is told, you can get what you want or you can just get old; you're gonna kick off before you even get halfway through. When will you realize? Vienna waits for you.",
+ "source": "Vienna"
+ }, {
+ "text": "Let me tell you what's gonna happen, Officer Grimly. I'm going to roll my window up, then I'm going to drive away, and you're gonna go home to your daughter, and every few years, you're gonna look at her face and know that you're alive because you chose not to go down a certain road on a certain night. That you chose to walk into the light instead of into the darkness.",
+ "source": "Fargo (TV)"
+ }, {
+ "text": "One day when I was able to get up, I decided to look at myself in the mirror on the opposite wall. I had not seen myself since the ghetto. From the depths of the mirror, a corpse was contemplating me. The look in his eyes as he gazed at me has never left me.",
+ "source": "Night"
+ }, {
+ "text": "Grab your coat and get your hat, leave your worry on the doorstep. Just direct your feet to the sunny side of the street. Can't you hear a pitter-pat? And that happy tune is your step. Life can be so sweet on the sunny side of the street.",
+ "source": "On the Sunny Side of the Street"
+ }, {
+ "text": "Come sail your ships around me and burn your bridges down. We make a little history, baby, every time you come around. Come loose your dogs upon me and let your hair hang down. You are a little mystery to me every time you come around. We talk about it all night long, we define our moral ground. But when I crawl into your arms everything comes tumbling down.",
+ "source": "The Ship Song"
+ }, {
+ "text": "A melancholy air can never be the right thing; what you want is a bored air. If you are melancholy, it must be because you want something, there is something in which you have not succeeded. It is showing your inferiority. If you are bored, on the other hand, it is the person who has tried in vain to please you who is inferior.",
+ "source": "The Red and the Black"
+ }, {
+ "text": "And let's remember that science isn't a game of chess, although chess may be played scientifically. The other thing to remember is that if we are to organize the masses we must first organize ourselves.",
+ "source": "Invisible Man"
+ }, {
+ "text": "We want a good life with a nose for things, the fresh wind and bright sky to endure my suffering. I'm a hole without a key if I break my tongue. Oh, speaking of tomorrow, how will it ever come?",
+ "source": "Ashes Of American Flags"
+ }, {
+ "text": "The ultimate way to compose is to be able to keyboard as fast as you can think. This is not easy to do, but your goal should be at least to develop the ability to think of the word and have the appropriate fingers tap the appropriate keys without interrupting the thinking process so your thoughts can flow onto the screen.",
+ "source": "Keyboarding Made Simple (1985)"
+ }, {
+ "text": "I close my eyes only for a moment, and the moment's gone. All my dreams pass before my eyes, a curiosity. Dust in the wind, all they are is dust in the wind.",
+ "source": "Dust in the Wind"
+ }, {
+ "text": "He heard the sound of waves striking the shore, and it was as though the surging of his young blood was keeping time with the movement of the sea's great tides. It was doubtless because nature itself satisfied his need that Shinji felt no particular lack of music in his everyday life.",
+ "source": "The Sound of Waves"
+ }, {
+ "text": "You know that death is the most beautiful part of life, right? Death is beautiful because we all fear death. And fear is the most amazing emotion of all because it creates complete awareness. It brings you to now. It makes you truly present. And when we are truly present, it's nirvana. It's pure love. So death is pure love.",
+ "source": "Martha Marcy May Marlene"
+ }, {
+ "text": "You see, I'm moving on fast. Finally got the pass, gonna leave this thing behind. You cut deep, but you don't see, you don't care.",
+ "source": "Dynamite"
+ }, {
+ "text": "Anything high-tech, you can break into. With a radio, you can't trace where it comes from. You can't trace who's listening. The radio is how we talk to each other, how all spies talk to each other all around the world. You listen every day and every day there's no message - years go by and decades and there's no message - and then one day you listen and the code word comes.",
+ "source": "Scandal"
+ }, {
+ "text": "Let me tell you why you're here. 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. Do you know what I'm talking about?",
+ "source": "The Matrix"
+ }, {
+ "text": "He told me this whole story about when a Jew is on the show he always loses to a Gentile and then the Gentile wins more money. I mean who could dream up a scheme like that?",
+ "source": "Quiz Show"
+ }, {
+ "text": "Look round at the courses of the stars, as if thou wert going along with them; and constantly consider the changes of the elements into one another; for such thoughts purge away the filth of the terrene life.",
+ "source": "Meditations"
+ }, {
+ "text": "I am learning about twenty new Italian words a day. Where am I getting the brain space to store these words? I'm hoping that maybe my mind has decided to clear out some old negative thoughts and sad memories and replace them with these shiny new words.",
+ "source": "Eat, Pray, Love"
+ }, {
+ "text": "Well I woke in mid-afternoon 'cause that's when it all hurts the most. I dream I never know anyone at the party and I'm always the host. If dreams are like movies, then memories are films about ghosts. You can never escape, you can only move south down the coast.",
+ "source": "Mrs. Potter's Lullaby"
+ }, {
+ "text": "The idea behind each one was we took a film that we like and made the title stupider. And then made a new film to reflect the new stupid title. It's a formula that only produces horrible films, but for some reason we kept using it.",
+ "source": "Me and Earl and the Dying Girl"
+ }, {
+ "text": "He's been known to obsess over typos in e-mails to the point that he could not see past the errors and read the actual content of the messages. Even in social settings, Musk might get up from the dinner table without a word of explanation to head outside and look at the stars, simply because he's not willing to suffer fools or small talk.",
+ "source": "Elon Musk: Tesla, SpaceX, and the Quest for a Fantastic Future"
+ }, {
+ "text": "Are you, are you coming to the tree? Where they strung up a man, they say who murdered three. Strange things did happen here, no stranger would it be, if we met at midnight in the hanging tree.",
+ "source": "Hunger Games"
+ }, {
+ "text": "When we're young, we're taught the distinction between a hero and a villain, good and evil, a savior and a lost cause. But what if the only real difference is just who's telling the story?",
+ "source": "Hope mikaelson"
+ }, {
+ "text": "There's something we need to find, something hidden here in the castle and it may help us defeat You Know Who. Right what is it? We don't know. Where is it? We don't know that either, I realised that's not much to go on. That's nothing to go on.",
+ "source": "Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows"
+ }, {
+ "text": "I don't know what you're talking about. I don't agree with what you're saying. And you're trying to wind me up. But I'm very, very angry, and I want this conversation to stop right away.",
+ "source": "Grand Theft Auto V"
+ }, {
+ "text": "So I can't live with you or without you, and don't seem to know my own mind.",
+ "source": "Amores"
+ }, {
+ "text": "An ox wanders off and you spend time looking for it.",
+ "source": "Oregon Trail"
+ }, {
+ "text": "They live meaningless lives. They waste their precious days over nothing. No matter how old they get, they'll continue to say \"My real life hasn't started yet. The real me is still asleep, so that's why my life is such garbage.\" They continue to tell themselves that. And they age. And on their deathbeds, they will finally realize. The life they lived was the real thing.",
+ "source": "Gambling Apocalypse: Kaiji"
+ }, {
+ "text": "He thinks he's got free will, but really he's trapped in a maze, in a system. All he can do is consume, he's pursued by demons that are probably just in his own head, and even if he does manage to escape by slipping out one side of the maze, what happens? He comes right back in the other side. People think it's a happy game. It's not a happy game. It's a nightmare world, and the worst thing is, it's real and we live in it. It's all code. If you listen closely, you can hear the numbers.",
+ "source": "Black Mirror: Bandersnatch"
+ }, {
+ "text": "Do not meddle in the affairs of wizards, for they are subtle and quick to anger.",
+ "source": "The Lord of The Rings"
+ }, {
+ "text": "Imagine if you got what you want every time. No struggle, no hard work, no challenges, no hard work required. Some of you saying that would be great. You would be weak and then when something hard comes up in your life you wouldn't know how to handle it because you have never gone through anything that strengthens you. You cannot grow without struggle, you cannot develop strength without resistance, without challenging yourself, without struggle. Pain is your friend, maybe not in the moment, but for the evolution of your soul, for the long term benefit of you, as a stronger human being.",
+ "source": "Struggle Makes You Stronger"
+ }, {
+ "text": "I think human beings must have faith or must look for faith, otherwise our life is empty. To live and not to know why the cranes fly, why children are born, why there are stars in the sky. You must know why you are alive, or else everything is nonsense, just blowing in the wind.",
+ "source": "The Stories of Anton Chekhov"
+ }, {
+ "text": "I must've forgot, you can't trust me. I'm open a moment and closed when you show it. Before you know it, I'm off at sea. And now that I write and think about it, and the story unfolds; you should take my life, you should take my soul.",
+ "source": "Holding On To You"
+ }, {
+ "text": "When we got to the Mint I parked on the street in front of the casino, around a corner from the parking lot. No point risking a scene in the lobby, I thought.",
+ "source": "Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas"
+ }, {
+ "text": "You can be sure of succeeding in your attacks if you only attack places which are undefended. You can ensure the safety of your defense if you only hold positions that cannot be attacked.",
+ "source": "The Art of War"
+ }, {
+ "text": "You and I, we've been through a lot together. I look back and I just, uh, I appreciate all the times that... that we had together, you know? I remember just going down in my room and, you know, dealing... tryin' to deal with some things. And you've always been there for that. Always. Just me and you.",
+ "source": "Notepad"
+ }, {
+ "text": "All time is all time. It does not change. It does not lend itself to warnings or explanations. It simply is. Take it moment by moment, and you will find that we are all, as I've said before, bugs in amber.",
+ "source": "Slaughterhouse Five"
+ }, {
+ "text": "Well, if some people get upset because they feel they have a hold on some things, I'm merely acting as a gentle reminder: here today, gone tomorrow, so don't get attached to things now. With that in mind, I'm not against collecting stuff.",
+ "source": "Harold and Maude"
+ }, {
+ "text": "I don't like you, but I love you. Seems that I'm always thinking of you. Oh, you treat me badly, I love you madly, you really got a hold on me. I don't want you, but I need you. Don't want to kiss you, but I need to. Oh, you do me wrong now, my love is strong now, you really got a hold on me.",
+ "source": "You've Really Got a Hold on Me"
+ }, {
+ "text": "He looked at her as a man might look at a faded flower he had plucked, in which it was difficult for him to trace the beauty that had made him pick and so destroy it.",
+ "source": "Anna Karenina"
+ }, {
+ "text": "The first time I made coffee for just myself, I made too much of it, not being used to being the only person there. And I wandered through the house like a little boy lost at the mall, and an astronaut could've seen the hunger in my eyes from space.",
+ "source": "Woke Up New"
+ }, {
+ "text": "What could there be about a shadow that was so terrible that she knew that there had never been before or ever would be again, anything that would chill her with a fear that was beyond shuddering, beyond crying or screaming, beyond the possibility of comfort?",
+ "source": "A Wrinkle in Time"
+ }, {
+ "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. They started to fight when the money got tight and they just didn't count on the tears.",
+ "source": "Scenes from an Italian Restaurant"
+ }, {
+ "text": "Sometimes it seems like we're all living in some kind of prison, and the crime is how much we hate ourselves. It's good to get really dressed up once in a while, and admit the truth - that when you really look closely, people are so strange and so complicated that they're actually beautiful. Possibly even me.",
+ "source": "My So-Called Life"
+ }, {
+ "text": "Let's face it: there are tons of things in your home and life that you don't use, need, or even particularly want. Whether you realize it or not, this clutter creates indecision and distractions, consuming attention and making unfettered happiness a real chore. ",
+ "source": "The 4-Hour Workweek"
+ }, {
+ "text": "It's hard to believe when your mind is lost and in need, and all you can picture is a memory inside of someone else's sheets. A prayer that nothing will keep; a hope that light will seek before the dark sinks too deep, or at least the sinking feeling inside of me will decrease when the release of perceived dreams burn in the flame of feeling free.",
+ "source": "Nicole"
+ }, {
+ "text": "The journey to greatness starts with looking inside ourselves. I define greatness as the intersection of passion, purpose and potential. It is that place where you are radically passionate about what you're doing, you are naturally gifted to do that thing, and you are using that passion and those gifts to solve problems and serve others. Living in the center of your point of greatness allows your best and highest possible contribution to our world.",
+ "source": "It's Not Rocket Science: 7 Game-Changing Traits for Uncommon Success"
+ }, {
+ "text": "He said someone needs to make a record of the things that will happen because the grown-ups will be too busy. I'm not sure what he thinks is going to happen, but I've decided I'm going to write in it every day if I can. I want to explain things to you as if I'm writing a storybook, like The Jungle Book except without all the animals. I want to make it real so you can imagine it. I want to remember what everyone says and does, and I won't know the ending until I get there.",
+ "source": "The Night Diary"
+ }, {
+ "text": "One Eva Smith has gone - but there are millions and millions and millions of Eva Smiths and John Smiths still left with us, with their lives, their hopes and fears, their suffering and chance of happiness, all intertwined with our lives, and what we think and say and do. We don't live alone. We are members of one body. We are responsible for each other. And I tell you that the time will soon come when, if men will not learn that lesson, then they will be taught it in fire and blood and anguish.",
+ "source": "An Inspector Calls"
+ }, {
+ "text": "True, the law isn't perfect. That is because we people who made the law are imperfect. But I still believe the law can show the way to righteousness and justice.",
+ "source": "Death Note"
+ }, {
+ "text": "The world's changing out there, there are a lot of new, exciting ideas running around. Some may be right and some may be cockeyed but they're affecting all our lives. I want to know how I stand, where I fit in the picture, what it's all gonna mean to me. I can't find that out sitting behind some desk in an office, so as soon as I get enough money together, I'm going to knock off for a while.",
+ "source": "Holiday"
+ }, {
+ "text": "I know I should be angry. I should be furious. What a way to behave your first day at school! But, if you promise me that nothing of the sort will happen again, I won't say another word about it.",
+ "source": "Anne of Green Gables"
+ }, {
+ "text": "He's not asking me to make a choice. He's telling me to take a stand. I'm either with him or against him. All or nothing. I'm disgusted with the whole business. I don't want smicha if the price I have to pay for it is to stop thinking.",
+ "source": "The Promise"
+ }, {
+ "text": "I hate this town. It's too filled with memories I'd rather forget. I go to school every day, hang out with my friends, and then go home. There's no place I'd rather not go ever again. I wonder if anything will ever change? Will that day ever come?",
+ "source": "Clannad"
+ }, {
+ "text": "Contrary to the feminist cant, there are many things we can learn from men's perspective about life and personal identity. To refuse to learn anything that could prove beneficial to yourself is a working definition of stupid.",
+ "source": "Ten Stupid Things Women Do to Mess Up Their Lives"
+ }, {
+ "text": "When I left my home and my family, I was no more than a boy in the company of strangers in the quiet of the railway station, running scared, laying low, seeking out the poorer quarters where the ragged people go. Looking for the places only they would know.",
+ "source": "The Boxer"
+ }, {
+ "text": "If there's a bustle in your hedgerow, don't be alarmed now, it's just a spring clean for the May queen. Yes, there are two paths you can go by, but in the long run there's still time to change the road you're on.",
+ "source": "Stairway to Heaven"
+ }, {
+ "text": "An actress should never, ever, be asked to run beside a van in red disco boots for more than about half a block, and then only if her child is being kidnapped.",
+ "source": "A Horrible Experience of Unbearable Length"
+ }, {
+ "text": "I've noticed that about your people, Doctor. You find it easier to understand the death of one than the death of a million. You speak about the objective hardness of the Vulcan heart yet how little room there seems to be in yours.",
+ "source": "Star Trek"
+ }, {
+ "text": "The way you walked was thorny, through no fault of your own, but as the rain enters the soil, the river enters the sea, so tears run to a predestined end. Your suffering is over, Bela my son. Now you will find peace.",
+ "source": "The Wolf Man"
+ }, {
+ "text": "The breath of the morning, I keep forgetting the smell of the warm summer air. I live in a town where you can't smell a thing; you watch your feet for cracks in the pavement. Up above, aliens hover making home movies for the folks back home, of all these weird creatures who lock up their spirits, drill holes in themselves and live for their secrets...",
+ "source": "Subterranean Homesick Alien"
+ }, {
+ "text": "We'll send him cheesy movies, the worst we can find. He'll have to sit and watch them all and we'll monitor his mind. Now keep in mind Joel can't control when the movies begin or end because he used those special parts to make his robot friends.",
+ "source": "Mystery Science Theater 3000: Manos the Hands of Fate"
+ }, {
+ "text": "I think you're the kindest, sweetest, prettiest person I've ever met in my life. I've never seen anyone that's nicer to people than you are. The first time I saw you... something happened to me. I never told you but I knew that I wanted to hold you as hard as I could. I don't deserve someone like you. But if I ever could, I swear I would love you for the rest of my life.",
+ "source": "Groundhog Day"
+ }, {
+ "text": "No matter what the world is, the god of that world creates the rules. In truth, you have been defeated by the rules I created. And as punishment for defying the God of the new world, you will die...",
+ "source": "Death Note"
+ }, {
+ "text": "If only all the contradictory voices shouting inside my head would calm down and sing a song in unison, whatever it was I wouldn't care as long as they sang without dissonance.",
+ "source": "Invisible Man"
+ }, {
+ "text": "\"Learning how to think\" really means learning how to exercise some control over how and what you think. It means being conscious and aware enough to choose what you pay attention to and to choose how you construct meaning from experience. Because if you cannot or will not exercise this kind of choice in adult life, you will be totally hosed.",
+ "source": "This Is Water: Some Thoughts, Delivered on a Significant Occasion, about Living a Compassionate Life"
+ }, {
+ "text": "The world is indeed full of peril, and in it there are many dark places; but still there is much that is fair, and though in all lands love is now mingled with grief, it grows perhaps the greater.",
+ "source": "The Fellowship of the Ring"
+ }, {
+ "text": "You found something else. In that cell you found something that mattered more to you than life. It was when they threatened to kill you unless you gave them what they wanted... you told them you'd rather die. You faced your death, Evey. You were calm. You were still.",
+ "source": "V for Vendetta"
+ }, {
+ "text": "Sometimes a hypocrite is nothing more than a man in the process of changing.",
+ "source": "Oathbringer"
+ }, {
+ "text": "You know, back in the apartment, I suddenly felt like I didn't know you at all. It was as if you were a stranger. But how can that be true? I so vividly remember meeting you. I remember falling in love with you. I remember losing you.",
+ "source": "Dark City"
+ }, {
+ "text": "When I was a child, I heard voices. Some would sing and some would scream. You'll soon find you have few choices. I learned the voices died with me. When I was a child, I'd sit for hours, staring into open flames. Something in it had a power, could barely tear my eyes away. All you have is your fire and the place you need to reach. Don't you ever tame your demons, but always keep them on a leash.",
+ "source": "Arsonist's Lullabye"
+ }, {
+ "text": "I give it to you not that you may remember time, but that you might forget it now and then for a moment and not spend all your breath trying to conquer it. Because no battle is ever won he said. 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"
+ }, {
+ "text": "We all have too many wheels, screws and valves to judge each other on first impressions or one or two pointers. I don't understand you, you don't understand me and we don't understand ourselves.",
+ "source": "The Stories of Anton Chekhov"
+ }, {
+ "text": "Duty bound, Aeneas, though he struggled with desire to calm and comfort her in all her pain, to speak to her and turn her mind from grief, and though he sighed his heart out, shaken still with love of her, yet took the course heaven gave him and turned back to the fleet.",
+ "source": "The Aeneid"
+ }, {
+ "text": "The days go on and on... they don't end. All my life needed was a sense of someplace to go. I don't believe that one should devote his life to morbid self-attention. I believe that one should become a person like other people.",
+ "source": "Taxi Driver"
+ }, {
+ "text": "Communication with others takes place when they understand what you're trying to get across to them. If they don't understand, then you are not communicating regardless of words, pictures, or anything else. People only understand things in terms of their experience, which means that you must get within their experience.",
+ "source": "Rules for Radicals"
+ }, {
+ "text": "Jerry, if you think that by threatening me you can get me to be your slave... Well, that's where you're right. But - and I am only saying this because I care - there are a lot of decaffeinated brands on the market today that are just as tasty as the real thing.",
+ "source": "Real Genius"
+ }, {
+ "text": "You're gonna stay here if I have to go inside and call your chief of police and have him remind you of what he told you to do. But I don't think I have to do that, you see? No, because you're so damn smart. You're smarter than any white man. You're just gonna stay here and show us all. You've got such a big head that you could never live with yourself unless you could put us all to shame. You wanna know something, Virgil? I don't think that you could let an opportunity like that pass by.",
+ "source": "In the Heat of the Night"
+ }, {
+ "text": "Only the silent, sleepy, staring houses in the backwoods can tell all that has lain hidden since the early days; and they are not communicative, being loath to shake off the drowsiness which helps them forget. Sometimes one feels that it would be merciful to tear down these houses, for they must often dream.",
+ "source": "The Picture in the House"
+ }, {
+ "text": "You don't care about anything except you. You just want to persuade people that you love 'em so much that they ought to love you back. Only you want love on your own terms. Something to be played your way, according to your rules.",
+ "source": "Citizen Kane"
+ }, {
+ "text": "I want you to know that the day you saw something in me, my whole life changed. And since then, it's been my privilege to not only be at your side, but to be treated like a protege. And for you to be my mentor, and my champion.",
+ "source": "Mad Men"
+ }, {
+ "text": "You truly love each other and so you might have been truly happy. Not one couple in a century has that chance, no matter what the storybooks say. And so I think no man in a century will suffer as greatly as you will.",
+ "source": "The Princess Bride"
+ }, {
+ "text": "We must never forget that human motives are generally far more complicated than we are apt to suppose, and that we can very rarely accurately describe the motives of another.",
+ "source": "The Idiot"
+ }, {
+ "text": "I gave him my heart, and he took and pinched it to death; and flung it back to me. People feel with their hearts, Ellen, and since he has destroyed mine, I have not power to feel for him.",
+ "source": "Wuthering Heights"
+ }, {
+ "text": "Source routing is a way of moving a packet through a network in which the path is predetermined by the source or some device that tells the source about the path. The path information is placed in the packet. When the packet arrives at a switching device, no forwarding decision is necessary. The device looks at the path information in the packet to determine the port on which it should forward the packet.",
+ "source": "Encyclopedia of Networking and Telecommunications"
+ }, {
+ "text": "I was even convinced that during those moments her face changed, that her lips curled with scorn and she was perhaps laughing with some other man, and that the whole story of the passageways was my own ridiculous invention, and that after all there was only one tunnel, dark and solitary: mine, the tunnel in which I had spent my childhood, my youth, my entire life.",
+ "source": "The Tunnel"
+ }, {
+ "text": "I don't ask many questions, so it would be fairer if he answered the few I ask. He should be more appreciative. I could be like Amil and ask a question every five seconds, but he doesn't answer many of those either.",
+ "source": "The Night Diary"
+ }, {
+ "text": "Don't change your name, keep it the same for fear I may lose you again. I know you won't, it's just that I'm unorganized and I want to find you when something good happens. If you come down, we'll go to town - I haven't been there for years. But I'd be fine wasting our time not doing anything here.",
+ "source": "A.M. 180"
+ }, {
+ "text": "Hello darkness, my old friend, I've come to talk with you again. Because a vision softly creeping left its seeds while I was sleeping. And the vision that was planted in my brain still remains, within the sound of silence.",
+ "source": "The Sound of Silence"
+ }, {
+ "text": "We can't retract the decisions we've made. We can only affect the decisions we're going to make from here.",
+ "source": "Law Abiding Citizen"
+ }, {
+ "text": "The single most important thing you can do to achieve financial security is to begin a regular savings program and to start it as early as possible.",
+ "source": "A Random Walk Down Wall Street"
+ }, {
+ "text": "We all know people who are very bright but who do not always shine when it comes to being logical. They have the ability to think logically - that is, clearly and effectively - but that ability does not habitually manifest itself.",
+ "source": "Being Logical: A Guide to Good Thinking"
+ }, {
+ "text": "As much money and life as you could want! The two things most human beings would choose above all - the trouble is, humans do have a knack of choosing precisely those things that are worst for them.",
+ "source": "Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone"
+ }, {
+ "text": "I've never taken you for a killer. A bit intense and unpredictable at times, perhaps emotionally unstable occasionally, but I don't think you're the type of person who could simply walk up to another human being, put a gun to his head, and pull the trigger.",
+ "source": "Justice Redeemed"
+ }, {
+ "text": "The poor man determined to find another home, hoping that when they no longer met every day his enemy would forget all about him.",
+ "source": "The Arabian Nights"
+ }, {
+ "text": "I had an experience. I can't prove it, I can't even explain it, but everything that I know as a human being, everything that I am tells me that it was real. I was given something wonderful, something that changed me forever. A vision of the universe that tells us undeniably how tiny and insignificant, and how rare and precious we all are. A vision that tells us that we belong to something that is greater than ourselves, that we are not - that none of us are alone. I wish I could share that. I wish that everyone, if even for one moment, could feel that awe and humility and hope. But that continues to be my wish.",
+ "source": "Contact"
+ }, {
+ "text": "An ochre love in the heart of all, an ochre love and the cold sea shores, dear. My blood is yours for the night, 'cause my fears are only little things like these cold seas and broken strings.",
+ "source": "Youngblood"
+ }, {
+ "text": "Cardan's gaze catches mine, and I can't help the evil smile that pulls up the corners of my mouth. His eyes are bright as coals, his hatred a living thing, shimmering in the air between us like the air above black rocks on a blazing summer day.",
+ "source": "The Cruel Prince"
+ }, {
+ "text": "What you do as soon as you get up can underpin and affect your mood for the entire day. Therefore it is important to approach the day gently, without a sense of worry, tension or rush. Also, you need to start off by making sure your body is happy and comfortable, otherwise feel ill all day.",
+ "source": "The Happiness Handbook"
+ }, {
+ "text": "Ever since I was a child, folks have thought they had me pegged, because of the way I am, the way I talk. And they're always wrong.",
+ "source": "Capote"
+ }, {
+ "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. We have so mixed it with beauty and charm and sensuality and contact that we have robbed it of its higher call of cherishing and nurturing.",
+ "source": "I, Isaac, Take Thee, Rebekah: Moving from Romance to Lasting Love"
+ }, {
+ "text": "You, me, or nobody is gonna hit as hard as life. But it ain't about how hard you hit. It's about how hard you can get hit and keep moving forward. That's how winning is done!",
+ "source": "Rocky IV"
+ }, {
+ "text": "Perhaps it was an old flame he was in mourning for from the days beyond recall. She thought she understood. She would try to understand him because men were so different.",
+ "source": "Ulysses"
+ }, {
+ "text": "Whoever talks about what does not concern him often hears what does not please him.",
+ "source": "The Arabian Nights"
+ }, {
+ "text": "In this grave hour, perhaps the most fateful in our history, I send to every household of my peoples, both at home and overseas, this message, spoken with the same depth of feeling for each one of you, as if I were able to cross your threshold and speak to you myself: for the second time in the lives of most of us, we are at war.",
+ "source": "The King's Speech"
+ }, {
+ "text": "I bet you're wondering how I knew about your plans to make me blue with some other guy you knew before. Between the two of us guys, you know I loved you more.",
+ "source": "I Heard It Through the Grapevine"
+ }, {
+ "text": "Read the newspaper. What does it say? All bad. It's all bad. People have forgotten what life is all about. They've forgotten what it is to be alive. They need to be reminded. They need to be reminded of what they have and what they can lose. What I feel is the joy of life, the gift of life, the freedom of life, the wonderment of life!",
+ "source": "Awakenings"
+ }, {
+ "text": "So they're finally here, performing for you. If you know the words, you can join in too. Put your hands together if you want to clap, as we take you through this monkey rap!",
+ "source": "DK Rap"
+ }, {
+ "text": "When the snows fall and the white winds blow, the lone wolf dies but the pack survives.",
+ "source": "A Game of Thrones"
+ }, {
+ "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.",
+ "source": "Hard Choices"
+ }, {
+ "text": "We all know that something is eternal. And it ain't houses and it ain't names, and it ain't earth, and it ain't even the stars... everybody knows in their bones that something is eternal, and that something has to do with human beings. All the greatest people ever lived have been telling us that for five thousand years and yet you'd be surprised how people are always losing hold of it. There's something way down deep that's eternal about every human being.",
+ "source": "Our Town"
+ }, {
+ "text": "So this is it. You are scored on my heart, Clark. You were from the first day you walked in, with your ridiculous clothes and your bad jokes and your complete inability to ever hide a single thing you felt.",
+ "source": "Me Before You"
+ }, {
+ "text": "I hope some day you'll join us and the world will be as one. Imagine no possessions, I wonder if you can. No need for greed or hunger, a brotherhood of man. Imagine all the people sharing all the world.",
+ "source": "Imagine"
+ }, {
+ "text": "It's one thing to question your mind; it's another to question your eyes and ears. But then again, isn't it all the same, our senses just mediocre inputs for our brain? Sure, we rely on them, trust they accurately portray the real world around us, but what if the haunting truth is they can't?",
+ "source": "Mr. Robot"
+ }, {
+ "text": "Ever since your brother got taken down... I've had my eye on you. Because all that building resentment was written over your face. I know that when I see it. And I know just how much grudges like that... can cloud a person's vision.",
+ "source": "My Hero Academia"
+ }, {
+ "text": "See, when you're a little kid, nobody ever warns you that you've got an expiration date. One day you're hot stuff and the next day you're a dirt sandwich.",
+ "source": "Diary of a Wimpy Kid: The Ugly Truth"
+ }, {
+ "text": "Sometimes I wonder why I spend the lonely nights dreaming of a song. The melody haunts my reverie, and I am once again with you. When our love was new, and each kiss an inspiration. Oh, but that was long ago, now my consolation is in the stardust of a song.",
+ "source": "Stardust"
+ }, {
+ "text": "You keep using that word. I do not think it means what you think it means.",
+ "source": "The Princess Bride"
+ }, {
+ "text": "An eye for an eye only ends up making the whole world blind.",
+ "source": "Gandhi"
+ }, {
+ "text": "Well I watch you tangle every weekend. It might start different but it ends up the same. One minute you're casually speaking. The next it all goes up and you pour fuel on the flame with your jerry can of words and tones.",
+ "source": "Settle For A Draw"
+ }, {
+ "text": "You are too generous to trifle with me. If your feelings are still what they were last April, tell me so at once. My affections and wishes are unchanged; but one word from you will silence me on this subject for ever.",
+ "source": "Pride and Prejudice"
+ }, {
+ "text": "Take the fifteen minutes before homeroom every morning. What you do with those fifteen minutes says pretty much everything there is to say about you as a human being.",
+ "source": "The Wonder Years"
+ }, {
+ "text": "When you type faster than usual, it forces you to start looking ahead at the words that are coming up so you can figure out where to place your fingers in anticipation. So, if you see that the next four letters will all be typed with fingers on your left hand, you can move the correct finger on your right hand into place for the fifth letter ahead. Tests on the best typists have shown that their speeds are closely related to how far ahead they look at upcoming letters while they type.",
+ "source": "Peak: Secrets from the New Science of Expertise"
+ }, {
+ "text": "Let's go in the garden. You'll see something waiting, right there where you left it, laying upside down. When you finally find it you'll see how it's faded. The underside is lighter when you turn it around.",
+ "source": "Everything Stays"
+ }, {
+ "text": "When you lose control, you'll reap the harvest you have sown. And as the fear grows, the bad blood slows and turns to stone. And it's too late to lose the weight you used to need to throw around. So have a good drown, as you go down, all alone... dragged down by the stone.",
+ "source": "Dogs"
+ }, {
+ "text": "They just use your mind and they never give you credit. It's enough to drive you crazy if you let it. Nine to five for service and devotion. You would think that I would deserve a fat promotion. Want to move ahead but the boss won't seem to let me. I swear sometimes that man is out to get me.",
+ "source": "9 to 5"
+ }, {
+ "text": "Chaos isn't a pit. Chaos is a ladder. Many who try to climb it fail and never get to try again. The fall breaks them. And some are given a chance to climb; they cling to the realm or the gods or love. Only the ladder is real. The climb is all there is.",
+ "source": "Game of Thrones"
+ }, {
+ "text": "Outside the street's on fire in a real death waltz, between what's flesh and what's fantasy. And the poets down here don't write nothing at all. They just stand back and let it all be. And in the quick of a knife, they reach for their moment and try to make an honest stand, but they wind up wounded, not even dead.",
+ "source": "Jungleland"
+ }, {
+ "text": "I wish we'll end up this crazy way before we burn our steam. I don't want to sound defeated, but if you still don't get it, you're never gonna get it. How could you be a friend of mine?",
+ "source": "Dynamite"
+ }, {
+ "text": "Not only do we come into fairly regular contact with people who want to know what our family looks like, but we also must navigate a vast array of organizations and agencies that have their own definitions of family and may, at times, impose them on us.",
+ "source": "Sociology: Exploring the Architecture of Everyday Life"
+ }, {
+ "text": "You can tie up a lot of resources by keeping a bugged phone line open. As long as it's open, they're supposed to keep listening. Say a few cryptic things now and then and they'll be stuck in their little van trying to figure out what the hell you're doing.",
+ "source": "Burn Notice"
+ }, {
+ "text": "A magician is strong because he feels pain. He feels the difference between what the world is and what he would make of it. Or what did you think that stuff in your chest was? A magician is strong because he hurts more than others. His wound is his strength.",
+ "source": "The Magicians"
+ }, {
+ "text": "We stand against the small tide of those who want to make everyone unhappy with conflicting theory and thought.",
+ "source": "Fahrenheit 451"
+ }, {
+ "text": "Moral of the story is: I chose a half measure when I should have gone all the way. I'll never make that mistake again. No more half measures, Walter.",
+ "source": "Breaking Bad"
+ }, {
+ "text": "Sometimes she did not know what she feared, what she desired: whether she feared or desired what had been or what would be, and precisely what she desired, she did not know.",
+ "source": "Anna Karenina"
+ }, {
+ "text": "It is no worse because I write of it. It would be no better if I stopped my most unwilling hand. Nothing can undo it; nothing can make it otherwise than as it was.",
+ "source": "David Copperfield"
+ }, {
+ "text": "Always seems to me you only see what people want you to see. How long's it gonna be before we get on the bus and cause no fuss? Get a grip on yourself, it don't cost much.",
+ "source": "Whatever"
+ }, {
+ "text": "The seaweed is always greener in somebody else's lake. You dream about going up there, but that is a big mistake. Just look at the world around you right here on the ocean floor. Such wonderful things surround you. What more is you looking for?",
+ "source": "The Little Mermaid"
+ }, {
+ "text": "I was selfish to assume you loved me more than you loved yourself even though I've never felt the same.",
+ "source": "Nothing Was the Same"
+ }, {
+ "text": "There's a clocktower in Hereford, where the names of the dead are inscribed. We try to honor their deeds, even as their faces fade from our memory. Those memories are all that's left, when they have taken everything else.",
+ "source": "Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 3"
+ }, {
+ "text": "Sometimes it's the very people who no one imagines anything of who do the things that no one can imagine.",
+ "source": "The Imitation Game"
+ }, {
+ "text": "Hey you... did you ever realize what you'd become, and did you see that it wasn't only me you were running from? Did you know all the time but it never bothered you anyway, leading the blind while I stared out the steel in your eyes?",
+ "source": "Poles Apart"
+ }, {
+ "text": "Anyway, it's best not to think about them, as if you do it makes the discussions with the other lawyers, all their advice and all that they do manage to achieve, seem so unpleasant and useless, I had that experience myself, just wanted to throw everything away and lay at home in bed and hear nothing more about it. But that, of course, would be the stupidest thing you could do, and you wouldn't be left in peace in bed for very long either.",
+ "source": "The Trial"
+ }, {
+ "text": "Our minds are born festering with sin. Some are so blighted, they will never find redemption. The mind must not be pulled from the roots. My children are without blame, without fault - and without choice. For what is the value of will when the spirit is found wanting?",
+ "source": "BioShock Infinite"
+ }, {
+ "text": "No more will my green sea go turn a deeper blue. I could not foresee this thing happening to you. If I look hard enough into the setting sun, my love will laugh with me before the morning comes.",
+ "source": "Paint It Black"
+ }, {
+ "text": "I know these will all be stories someday. And our pictures will become old photographs. We'll all become somebody's mom or dad. But right now these moments are not stories. This is happening. I am here and I am looking at her. And she is so beautiful. I can see it. This one moment when you know you're not a sad story. You are alive, and you stand up and see the lights on the buildings and everything that makes you wonder. And you're listening to that song and that drive with the people you love most in this world. And in this moment I swear we are infinite.",
+ "source": "The Perks of Being a Wallflower"
+ }, {
+ "text": "I sing the body electric, the armies of those I love engirth me and I engirth them, they will not let me off till I go with them, respond to them, and discorrupt them, and charge them full with the charge of the soul.",
+ "source": "Leaves of Grass"
+ }, {
+ "text": "They burned the flag and they demonstrated against us; it's on the cover of the paper today. They have no respect. They have no idea what's going on over there, Mom - the men that are sacrificing their lives. People are dying every day over there, and nobody back here even seems to care.",
+ "source": "Born on the Fourth of July"
+ }, {
+ "text": "We live where the war is raging, chasing our crazy dreams.",
+ "source": "Light It Up"
+ }, {
+ "text": "I dreamed a dream in time gone by, when hope was high and life worth living. I dreamed that love would never die. I dreamed that God would be forgiving. Then I was young and unafraid when dreams were made and used and wasted. There was no ransom to be paid, no song unsung, no wine untasted.",
+ "source": "Les Misérables"
+ }, {
+ "text": "The fear of death has disordered my reason and subjected me to delusions. And I became full of shame for none of my lineage ought to fear death more than the biting of a gnat.",
+ "source": "The Horse and His Boy"
+ }, {
+ "text": "The horrors of the Inquisition are nothing compared to the fates your mind can imagine for your loved ones.",
+ "source": "The Mist"
+ }, {
+ "text": "Some people can read War and Peace and come away thinking it's a simple adventure story. Others can read the ingredients on a chewing gum wrapper and unlock the secrets of the universe.",
+ "source": "Superman: The Movie"
+ }, {
+ "text": "It won't always go your way, so you can't get trapped in this idea that just because you've imagined a possibility for yourself that you somehow deserve it. Your entitled mind is dead weight. Cut it loose. Don't focus on what you think you deserve. Take aim on what you are willing to earn!",
+ "source": "Can't Hurt Me: Master Your Mind and Defy the Odds"
+ }, {
+ "text": "I want you to say that you know what I'm saying. But I need more, because I'll be you, you'll be me. There's lots and lots for us to see. There's lots and lots for us to do. She is electric, and I'll be electric too.",
+ "source": "She's Electric"
+ }, {
+ "text": "To dream in isolation can be properly splendid to be sure; but to dream in company seems to me infinitely preferable.",
+ "source": "Weaveworld"
+ }, {
+ "text": "Round the world we'll go, does anybody know, love? If we're looking out on the day of another dream. If you can't get what you want then you come with me.",
+ "source": "On Melancholy Hill"
+ }, {
+ "text": "I'm not the one who's lost with no direction, but you'll never see. You're so busy making masks with my name on them in all caps. You got the talking down, just not the listening.",
+ "source": "King of Anything"
+ }, {
+ "text": "There's a simplicity to war: Attacking is the only secret. Dare, and the world yields. How quickly they forget that all it takes to change the course of history is the will of a single man.",
+ "source": "Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 3"
+ }, {
+ "text": "Isn't that something? That is pretty. I like these kind of paintings. And you know me, shoot, there's a minute or two left here, let's have us a happy tree. We'll just take the knife, maybe we'll have an old birch tree that lives right here. Let's just let it run all the way up here. Now, you could have left the birch tree inside of the oval, but I sort of like it when it sneaks out a little bit. But when you do your painting, you make that decision. If you want him to live inside that oval, you put that rascal in there and keep him in there.",
+ "source": "The Joy of Painting"
+ }, {
+ "text": "So tonight, sweet dreams, and sleep tight. I've been trying so hard, can't get you out of my mind and if this is how it has to be, just promise me you won't forget me, and I'll leave you with this lullaby, tonight...",
+ "source": "Lullaby"
+ }, {
+ "text": "This was my only and my constant comfort. When I think of it, the picture always rises in my mind, of a summer evening, the boys at play in the churchyard, and I sitting on my bed, reading as if for life.",
+ "source": "David Copperfield"
+ }, {
+ "text": "Look, Ross, you gotta understand, between us we haven't had a relationship that has lasted longer than a Mento. You, however have had the love of a woman for four years. Four years of closeness and sharing at the end of which she ripped your heart out, and that is why we don't do it. I don't think that was my point.",
+ "source": "Friends"
+ }, {
+ "text": "Don't take anything personally - nothing others do is because of you. What others say and do is a projection of their own reality, their own dream. When you are immune to the opinions and actions of others, you won't be the victim of needless suffering.",
+ "source": "The Four Agreements: A Practical Guide to Personal Freedom, A Toltec Wisdom Book"
+ }, {
+ "text": "It's really hard to do nothing totally. Even just sitting here, like this, our bodies are churning, our minds are chattering. There's a whole commotion going on inside us.",
+ "source": "Stargirl"
+ }, {
+ "text": "It is always important, I think, to be clear about what delights you: important, and more easily said than done, to know exactly what you'd do if you didn't have to do everything else.",
+ "source": "World Enough and Time"
+ }, {
+ "text": "You get a shiver in the dark, it's a-raining in the park but meantime south of the river you stop and you hold everything. A band is blowing Dixie, double four time. You feel alright when you hear the music ring.",
+ "source": "Sultans of Swing"
+ }, {
+ "text": "English factories make the cloth that makes our poverty. All those who wish to make the English see bring me the cloth from Manchester and Leeds that you wear today and we will light a fire that will be seen in Delhi, and in London!",
+ "source": "Gandhi"
+ }, {
+ "text": "We used to look at the stars and confess our dreams, hold each other till the morning light. We used to laugh, now we only fight. Baby, are you lonesome now?",
+ "source": "Runaways"
+ }, {
+ "text": "I may be younger but I'll look after you. We're not in love but I'll make love to you. When you're not here I'll save some for you. I'm not him but I'll mean something to you. I'll mean something to you.",
+ "source": "Nikes"
+ }, {
+ "text": "If a tree falls in the forest and no one hears it fall, does it make sound or not? Hector had read a lot of books by then, he knew all the tricks and arguments of the philosophers. If someone makes a movie and no one sees it, does the movie exist or not? That's how he justified what he did.",
+ "source": "The Book of Illusions"
+ }, {
+ "text": "I don't want to talk if it makes you feel sad, and I understand you've come to shake my hand. I apologize if it makes you feel bad seeing me so tense.",
+ "source": "The Winner Takes It All"
+ }, {
+ "text": "Planet Earth. This is where I was born. And this is where I died. The first nineteen years of my life, nothing happened. Nothing at all, not ever. And then I met a man called the Doctor. A man who could change his face. And he took me away from home in his magical machine. He showed me the whole of time and space. I thought it would never end.",
+ "source": "Doctor Who"
+ }, {
+ "text": "I been doin' this a long time. I ain't never said nothin' to no cop.",
+ "source": "The Wire"
+ }, {
+ "text": "There are times when all the world's asleep, the questions run too deep for such a simple man. Won't you please, please tell me what we've learned? I know it sounds absurd but please tell me who I am.",
+ "source": "The Logical Song"
+ }, {
+ "text": "I know you didn't do this. You're a good boy. But I want you to help me with this. This is serious. One of your brothers could've burned the house down, and for that he will be severely punished. But the one who helps me will be a happy little boy, and I want that to be you. Because you've always been the best one. You've always been the best one. You have always been the best one.",
+ "source": "Malcolm in the Middle"
+ }, {
+ "text": "Often I think this sad old world is whistling in the dark, just like a child who, late from school, walks bravely home through the park. To keep their spirits soaring and keep the night at bay, neither quite knowing which way they are going, they sing the shadows away.",
+ "source": "Whistling Away the Dark"
+ }, {
+ "text": "Blue moon, you saw me standing alone, without a dream in my heart, without a love of my own. Blue moon, you knew just what I was there for, you heard me saying a prayer for, someone I really could care for. And then there suddenly appeared before me, the only one my arms will ever hold. I heard somebody whisper \"please adore me,\" and when I looked the moon had turned to gold.",
+ "source": "Blue Moon"
+ }, {
+ "text": "I was standing all alone in the world outside. You were searching for a place to hide. Lost and lonely, now you've given me the will to survive. When we're hungry, love will keep us alive.",
+ "source": "Love Will Keep Us Alive"
+ }, {
+ "text": "Her eyes, like windows, trickle in rain upon the pain getting deeper, though my love wants to relieve her. She walks alone from wall to wall. Lost in her hall, she can't hear me, though I know she likes to be near me.",
+ "source": "Sad Lisa"
+ }, {
+ "text": "Imagination is the only weapon in the war against reality.",
+ "source": "Alice's Adventures in Wonderland"
+ }, {
+ "text": "If there were to be something non-empty, there would then be something called empty. However, there is nothing that is non-empty. How could there be something empty?",
+ "source": "Fundamental Wisdom of the Middle Way: Nagarjuna's Mulamadhyamakakarika"
+ }, {
+ "text": "Sometimes in our lives we all have pain, we all have sorrow, but if we are wise we know that there's always tomorrow.",
+ "source": "Lean On Me"
+ }, {
+ "text": "Without the rifle he had to fit in, to be part of it all, to understand it and use it.",
+ "source": "Hatchet"
+ }, {
+ "text": "Half the world was pulling on his colors, as nights turned into days to the hours. A glow was coming down, coming down. I don't know why, but it felt like a tiger striped sky.",
+ "source": "Tiger Striped Sky"
+ }, {
+ "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"
+ }, {
+ "text": "Because without the existence of things other than yourself, you cannot know your own shape. Yes, you know your own shape through seeing how other people are shaped. By looking at the barrier between you and other people, you visualize your own shape. You cannot see yourself unless there are other people. I can exist because there are other people around! If I'm alone, I'll always be alone, no matter how far I'll go with it! All the world will be just me. By recognizing the differences between yourself and others, you shape who you are. The very first other person is your mother. Your mother is a person separate from you.",
+ "source": "Neon Genesis Evangelion"
+ }, {
+ "text": "Hold me close and hold me fast, the magic spell you cast, this is la vie en rose. When you kiss me, heaven sighs, and though I close my eyes, I see la vie en rose. When you press me to your heart, I'm in a world apart, a world where roses bloom. And when you speak, angels sing from above. Everyday words seem to turn into love songs. Give your heart and soul to me, and life will always be la vie en rose.",
+ "source": "La Vie en rose"
+ }, {
+ "text": "I am the hope of the universe. I am the answer to all living things that cry out for peace. I am protector of the innocent. I am the light in the darkness. I am truth. Ally to good! Nightmare to you!",
+ "source": "Dragon Ball Z"
+ }, {
+ "text": "I really don't think you have anything to worry about, Charlie Brown. After all, science has shown that a person's character isn't really established until he's at least five years old.",
+ "source": "You're A Good Man, Charlie Brown"
+ }, {
+ "text": "I have a dream that one day the state of Alabama, whose governor's lips are presently dripping with the words of interposition and nullification, will be transformed into a situation where little black boys and black girls will be able to join hands with little white boys and white girls and walk together as sisters and brothers.",
+ "source": "I Have a Dream"
+ }, {
+ "text": "There was a long hard time when I kept far from me the remembrance of what I had thrown away when I was quite ignorant of its worth.",
+ "source": "Great Expectations"
+ }, {
+ "text": "He didn't have to know how it would stand if he didn't look at it and moved off to the side.",
+ "source": "Hatchet"
+ }, {
+ "text": "If you're willing to go through the battling to get to where you wanna get, who's got the right to stop you? Maybe you guys got something you never finished, something you really wanna do, something you never said to somebody - something! And you're told no, even after you pay your dues. Who's got the right to tell you that? Who? Nobody!",
+ "source": "Rocky Balboa"
+ }, {
+ "text": "You look in excellent health to me, Potter, so you will excuse me if I don't let you off homework today. I assure you that if you do die, you need not hand it in.",
+ "source": "Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban"
+ }, {
+ "text": "Frodo and Sam stood as if enchanted. The wind puffed out. The leaves hung silently again on stiff branches. There was another burst of song, and then suddenly, hopping and dancing along the path, there appeared above the reeds an old battered hat with a tall crown and a long blue feather stuck in the band.",
+ "source": "The Lord of The Rings"
+ }, {
+ "text": "Night was a very different matter. It was dense, thicker than the very walls, and it was empty, so black, so immense that within it you could brush against appalling things and feel roaming and prowling around a strange, mysterious horror.",
+ "source": "The Complete Short Stories of Guy de Maupassant Part One"
+ }, {
+ "text": "Now that it was evening, they encamped by the river of forgetfulness, whose water no container can hold. It is necessary for all to drink a fixed amount of the water, but some do not have the wisdom to keep from drinking more than this amount. As one drinks one becomes forgetful of everything. In the middle of the night when they were asleep there was thunder and an earthquake, and then suddenly just like shooting stars they were borne upward, each in a different direction to his birth.",
+ "source": "Republic"
+ }, {
+ "text": "Some day, and that day may never come, I will call upon you to do a service for me. But until that day, consider this justice a gift on my daughter's wedding day.",
+ "source": "The Godfather"
+ }, {
+ "text": "As passions are contagious, and the bulk of men are more guided by the opinions and pretended opinions of others than by their own, a large share of confidence, with a little share of argument, will be apt to go farther than all the argument in the world without confidence.",
+ "source": "Anarchical Fallacies"
+ }, {
+ "text": "I'd like to build the world a home and furnish it with love. Grow apple trees and honey bees and snow white turtle doves. I'd like to teach the world to sing in perfect harmony. I'd like to hold it in my arms and keep it company.",
+ "source": "I'd Like To Teach The World To Sing"
+ }, {
+ "text": "The rate of progress is so rapid that what one learns at school or university is always a bit out of date. Only a few people can keep up with the rapidly advancing frontier of knowledge, and they have to devote their whole time to it and specialize in a small area. The rest of the population has little idea of the advances that are being made or the excitement they are generating.",
+ "source": "A Brief History of Time"
+ }, {
+ "text": "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"
+ }, {
+ "text": "It's too late to articulate it, that empty feeling. You share the same fate as the people you hate. You build yourself up against others' feelings, and it left you feeling empty as a car coasting downhill. I have become such a negative person.",
+ "source": "Drunk Drivers/Killer Whales"
+ }, {
+ "text": "You looked on amazed, and began to suspect yourself of being deaf - then the night came suddenly, and struck you blind as well. About three in the morning some large fish leaped, and the loud splash made me jump as though a gun had been fired.",
+ "source": "The Stories: Contemporary Short Fiction Written in English"
+ }, {
+ "text": "And if you were prejudiced, you'd walk around thinking that you're better than anybody else in the world. But I can honestly say, after spending these marvelous moments with you, you ain't better than anybody.",
+ "source": "All in the Family"
+ }, {
+ "text": "No man's life can be encompassed in one telling. There is no way to give each year its allotted weight, to include each event, each person who helped to shape a lifetime. What can be done is to be faithful in spirit to the record and try to find one's way to the heart of the man...",
+ "source": "Gandhi"
+ }, {
+ "text": "I don't believe in an interventionist God, but I know, darling, that you do. But if I did I would kneel down and ask him not to intervene when it came to you. Not to touch a hair on your head, to leave you as you are, and if he felt he had to direct you, then direct you into my arms.",
+ "source": "Into My Arms"
+ }, {
+ "text": "Much of my life had been devoted to trying not to cry in front of people who loved me, so I knew what Augustus was doing. You clench your teeth. You look up. You tell yourself that if they see you cry, it will hurt them, and you will be nothing but sadness in their lives, and you must not become a mere sadness, so you will not cry, and you say all of this to yourself while looking up at the ceiling, and then you swallow even though your throat does not want to close and you look at the person who loves you and smile.",
+ "source": "The Fault in Our Stars"
+ }, {
+ "text": "It makes no difference, it don't make any difference to me what a man does for a living, you understand. But your business is a little dangerous.",
+ "source": "The Godfather"
+ }, {
+ "text": "I loved Jordan Catalano so much, and talked about him so much, and thought about him so much, it was like he lived inside me. Like he had taken possession of my soul, or something. And then one day I got over him!",
+ "source": "My So-Called Life"
+ }, {
+ "text": "Let the darkness lead us into the light, let our dreams get lost feel the temperature rise. Baby, tell me one more beautiful lie; one touch and I ignite. Like a starship speeding into the night. You and I get lost in the infinite lights. Baby, tell me one more beautiful lie; one touch and I ignite.",
+ "source": "Ignite"
+ }, {
+ "text": "Last night I dreamt I went to Manderely again. It seemed to me I stood by the iron gate leading to the drive, and for a while I could not enter, for the way was barred to me. There was a padlock and a chain upon the gate. I called in my dream to the lodge-keeper, and had no answer, and peering closer through the rusted spokes of the gate I saw that the lodge was uninhabited.",
+ "source": "Rebecca"
+ }, {
+ "text": "Don't know much about history. Don't know much biology. Don't know much about a science book. Don't know much about the French I took. But I do know that I love you, and I know that if you love me too, what a wonderful world this would be.",
+ "source": "Wonderful World"
+ }, {
+ "text": "I see in your eyes the same fear that would take the heart of me. A day may come when the courage of men fails, when we forsake our friends and break all bonds of fellowship, but it is not this day. An hour of woes and shattered shields, when the age of men comes crashing down! But it is not this day! This day we fight!",
+ "source": "Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King"
+ }, {
+ "text": "I see something of God each hour of the twenty-four, and each moment then, in the faces of men and women I see God, and in my own face in the glass; I find letters from God dropped in the street, and every one is signed by God's name, and I leave them where they are, for I know that others will punctually come forever and ever.",
+ "source": "Leaves of Grass"
+ }, {
+ "text": "Ok doc, before you hit the road you might wanna grab some medkits, restock on ammo, maybe check the map to see where you are headed. There is an ammo supply crate on the back of the car if that is any comfort. Stay with the car, make use of the thumpers, and you will stand a fair chance against the antlions. I will radio ahead to let the next base know you are coming.",
+ "source": "Half-Life 2"
+ }, {
+ "text": "Is it sweeter to exist only in the mind or to exist both in the mind and in reality? Flipping out and wailing on guitars is much sweeter when someone is actually doing it. So when we conceive of the sweetest being ever, we are conceiving of the being that exists both in the mind and in reality.",
+ "source": "REAL Ultimate Power: The Official Ninja Book"
+ }, {
+ "text": "As happens sometimes, a moment settled and hovered and remained for much more than a moment. And sound stopped and movement stopped for much, much more than a moment.",
+ "source": "Of Mice and Men"
+ }, {
+ "text": "Look, you can't stop the years from passing by. There comes a time when changes have to be made. Someone younger and stronger comes along to fill your shoes and a person has to gracefully step aside. Well, I'm not willing to do that. The way I figure, I'm worth more on restricted duty than all of you put together on full time. Good night, gentlemen.",
+ "source": "Barney Miller"
+ }, {
+ "text": "From being used so much, kneaded with sweat and sighs, the air in the room had begun to turn to mud.",
+ "source": "One Hundred Years of Solitude"
+ }, {
+ "text": "For it is not enough to have a good mind; the main thing is to apply it well. The greatest souls are capable of the greatest vices as well as the greatest virtues. And those who proceed only very slowly can make much greater progress, provided they always follow the right path, than those who hurry and stray from it.",
+ "source": "Discourse on Method"
+ }, {
+ "text": "Heaven did not seem to be my home; and I broke my heart with weeping to come back to earth; and the angels were so angry that they flung me out into the middle of the heath on the top of Wuthering Heights; where I woke sobbing for joy.",
+ "source": "Wuthering Heights"
+ }, {
+ "text": "To every thing there is a season, and a time to every purpose under the heaven: a time to be born, and a time to die; a time to plant, and a time to pluck up that which is planted; a time to kill, and a time to heal; a time to break down, and a time to build up; a time to weep, and a time to laugh; a time to mourn, and a time to dance; a time to cast away stones, and a time to gather stones together; a time to embrace, and a time to refrain from embracing; a time to get, and a time to lose; a time to keep, and a time to cast away; a time to rend, and a time to sew; a time to keep silence, and a time to speak; a time to love, and a time to hate; a time of war, and a time of peace.",
+ "source": "Ecclesiastes #3"
+ }, {
+ "text": "Still, we will let all this be a thing of the past, though it hurts us, and beat down by constraint the anger that rises inside us. Now I am making an end of my anger. It does not become me, unrelentingly to rage on.",
+ "source": "The Iliad"
+ }, {
+ "text": "In and around the lake. Mountains come out of the sky and they stand there. One mile over we'll be there and we'll see you, ten true summers we'll be there and laughing too. Twenty four before my love you'll see, I'll be there with you.",
+ "source": "Roundabout"
+ }, {
+ "text": "The idea that he did not really have control over the coming event was comforting for a moment, for it relieved him of the responsibility for making the decision himself - at least for a time.",
+ "source": "Camber of Culdi"
+ }, {
+ "text": "Sometimes it makes me sad, though... Andy being gone. I have to remind myself that some birds aren't meant to be caged. Their feathers are just too bright. And when they fly away, the part of you that knows it was a sin to lock them up DOES rejoice. But still, the place you live in is that much more drab and empty that they're gone. I guess I just miss my friend.",
+ "source": "The Shawshank Redemption"
+ }, {
+ "text": "I love bagels even though they are one of mankind's most dangerous foods, which is something most people don't know. For instance, there's actually no safe way to slice a bagel. Except maybe you get somebody to do it for you. I mean you have no idea how many people have sliced an index finger in half along with a bagel.",
+ "source": "Soap"
+ }, {
+ "text": "You are amoral, are you not? You are feeding off the violence and the despair of the drug trade. You're stealing from those who themselves are stealing the lifeblood from our city.",
+ "source": "The Wire"
+ }, {
+ "text": "It's enough for me to be sure that you and I exist at this moment.",
+ "source": "One Hundred Years of Solitude"
+ }, {
+ "text": "Wherever they might be they always remember that the past was a lie, that memory has no return, that every spring gone by could never be recovered, and that the wildest and most tenacious love was an ephemeral truth in the end.",
+ "source": "One Hundred Years of Solitude"
+ }, {
+ "text": "We spent as much money as we could, and got as little for it as people could make up their minds to give us. We were always more or less miserable, and most of our acquaintance were in the same condition. There was a gay fiction among us that we were constantly enjoying ourselves, and a skeleton truth that we never did. To the best of my belief, our case was in the last aspect a rather common one.",
+ "source": "Great Expectations"
+ }, {
+ "text": "A question in your nerves is lit, yet you know there is no answer fit to satisfy, ensure you not to quit. To keep it in your mind and not forget that it is not he or she or them or it that you belong to.",
+ "source": "It's Alright, Ma (I'm Only Bleeding)"
+ }, {
+ "text": "It's close to midnight, something evil's lurking in the dark. Under the moonlight you see a sight that almost stops your heart. You try to scream, but terror takes the sound before you make it. You start to freeze as horror looks you right between the eyes, you're paralyzed.",
+ "source": "Thriller"
+ }, {
+ "text": "Our customers are nervous about financial decisions because money is a massive stressor, so let's use reassuring words in our inline help hints, as well as live previews and confirmation patterns to improve their confidence.",
+ "source": "Practical UI Patterns for Design Systems"
+ }, {
+ "text": "There was something in her, something that was... Pure Horror. Everything you were supposed to watch out for. Heights, fire, shards of glass, snakes. Everything that his mom tried so hard to keep him safe from.",
+ "source": "Let the Right One In"
+ }, {
+ "text": "I never realized till now how ugly I am, because you're so beautiful.",
+ "source": "The Hunchback of Notre Dame"
+ }, {
+ "text": "It was one of those days when it's a minute away from snowing and there's this electricity in the air, you can almost hear it. And this bag was, like, dancing with me. Like a little kid begging me to play with it. For fifteen minutes. And that's the day I knew there was this entire life behind things, and this incredibly benevolent force.",
+ "source": "American Beauty"
+ }, {
+ "text": "And his dad's smile faded just a bit - the prodigy could read, but he could not see. And if only Colin had known that he was missing a piece, that his inability to see himself in the story of a circle was an unfixable problem, he might have known that the rest of the world would catch up with him as time passed.",
+ "source": "An Abundance of Katherines"
+ }, {
+ "text": "I'm in deep with this girl but she's out of her mind. We all need something to live for.",
+ "source": "She's Out of Her Mind"
+ }, {
+ "text": "I let it fall, my heart, and as it fell you rose to claim it. It was dark and I was over until you kissed my lips and you saved me. My hands, they're strong, but my knees were far too weak to stand in your arms without falling to your feet.",
+ "source": "Set Fire to the Rain"
+ }, {
+ "text": "Fear came to my house years ago, I let him in. Maybe that's a problem, 'cause I've been dealing with it ever since. I thought that it would leave, but it's obvious, it never did. It must have picked a room and got comfortable and settled in. Now I'm in the position, it's either sit here and let him win or put it back outside where it came from, but I never can. 'Cause in order to do that I would have to open the doors. Is that me or the fear talking? I don't know anymore.",
+ "source": "Mansion"
+ }, {
+ "text": "This island of merchants is home to many valuable goods. While the sail must come first, do not feel limited to buying only it. Once you have it, feel free to stock up on anything else you think you may need. But remember: there is no time to play. Come back immediately as soon as your errands are done.",
+ "source": "The Legend of Zelda: The Wind Waker"
+ }, {
+ "text": "For example, tomorrow we will demonstrate to all interested parties a new and extremely interesting power source, which is atomic in nature and which can supply a form of electric power for entire countries for the cost of a few dollars.",
+ "source": "The Twilight Zone"
+ }, {
+ "text": "You're asking how do I really feel, and I'm asking now how is this real. Oh, love is a plan that we can't control. All I can hope, that I'll fill the role. No one will ever know how I feel for you. Throw me a lifeline.",
+ "source": "How I Feel"
+ }, {
+ "text": "Nothing drives down real estate prices like a good old-fashioned gang war. Apart from an outbreak of plague, but that may be going too far in this case.",
+ "source": "Grand Theft Auto III"
+ }, {
+ "text": "The only preventive thing I do is wash clothes after buying them in a thrift shop - this after catching crabs from a pair of used pants. I was in my midtwenties at the time and probably would have itched myself all the way to the bone had a friend not taken me to a drugstore.",
+ "source": "When You Are Engulfed in Flames"
+ }, {
+ "text": "Fernanda, on the other hand, looked for it in vain along the paths of her everyday itinerary without knowing that the search for lost things is hindered by routine habits and that is why it is so difficult to find them.",
+ "source": "One Hundred Years of Solitude"
+ }, {
+ "text": "Morning has broken like the first morning, blackbird has spoken like the first bird. Praise for the singing, praise for the morning, praise for them springing fresh from the world.",
+ "source": "Morning Has Broken"
+ }, {
+ "text": "We give it away with nothing left to lose. Got the strongest heart but still the skin can bruise. Only the climb will get you higher, defeat will make a fighter. Stare into the face of the truth.",
+ "source": "Stars"
+ }, {
+ "text": "It is possible that I already had some presentiment of my future. The locked and rusted gate that stood before us, with wisps of river fog threading its spikes like the mountain paths, remains in my mind now as the symbol of my exile.",
+ "source": "The Book of the New Sun"
+ }, {
+ "text": "His soul swooned slowly as he heard the snow falling faintly through the universe and faintly falling, like the descent of their last end, upon all the living and the dead.",
+ "source": "Dubliners"
+ }, {
+ "text": "Everyone's counting on me to cheer them up and give them lots of energy. I hope that I can help them study for their test. I'll work hard to support them and always try my best.",
+ "source": "PONPONPON"
+ }, {
+ "text": "No one can hurry me down to Hades before my time, but if a man's hour is come, be he brave or be he coward, there is no escape for him when he has once been born.",
+ "source": "The Iliad"
+ }, {
+ "text": "I hope you never lose your sense of wonder. You get your fill to eat but always keep that hunger. May you never take one single breath for granted, God forbid love ever leave you empty handed.",
+ "source": "I Hope You Dance"
+ }, {
+ "text": "Everything happens for a reason. The system will be assessing your reaction to the painful premature termination of a treasured relationship, and will adjust and improve its profile of your eventual chosen one accordingly.",
+ "source": "Black Mirror"
+ }, {
+ "text": "It became difficult to follow the path, and they were very tired. Their legs seemed leaden. Strange furtive noises ran among the bushes and reeds on either side of them; and if they looked up to the pale sky, they caught sight of queer gnarled and knobbly faces that gloomed dark against the twilight, and leered down at them from the high bank and the edges of the wood.",
+ "source": "The Lord of The Rings"
+ }, {
+ "text": "It is only in the mysterious equations of love... that any logical reasons can be found. I'm only here tonight because of you. You are the reason I am. You are all my reasons. Thank you.",
+ "source": "A Beautiful Mind"
+ }, {
+ "text": "I think you're gonna find - when all this stuff is over and done - I think you're gonna find yourself one smiling guy.\r\nThing is Butch, right now you got ability. But painful as it may be, ability don't last. Now that's a hard fact of life, but it's a fact of life you're gonna have to get realistic about.",
+ "source": "Pulp Fiction"
+ }, {
+ "text": "Life can get pretty crazy at times. It can be hectic, confusing, stressful, and that's on a good day. Life can be full of happiness and full of sadness. One moment you're on top of the world and nothing can go wrong. The next, it feels as if nothing will ever be right again. I guess it depends where you are right now on your ride through life whether you smile when you read this or fight back tears.",
+ "source": "Digital Heretic (The Game is Life Book 2)"
+ }, {
+ "text": "I never got to bat in the major leagues. I'd have liked to have had that chance just once, to stare down a big league pitcher. To stare him down, then just as he goes into his windup, wink. Make him think you know something he doesn't. That's what I wish for.",
+ "source": "Field of Dreams"
+ }, {
+ "text": "The passage of time in prisons is not in a cell of brick and mortar but in one of hopes dashed and tragedies unaverted. How precious, then, the chance to go back only to discover that in facing the past you must face up to yourself, that exiting the prison of time doesn't free you from the prison of your own character, one from which there is no escape.",
+ "source": "The X-Files"
+ }, {
+ "text": "Nothing is so painful to the human mind as a great and sudden change.",
+ "source": "Frankenstein"
+ }, {
+ "text": "That fear had been inside him for many years, it had lived with him, it had been another shadow ever since the night he awoke, shaken by a bad dream, and realized that death was not only a permanent probability, as he has always believed, but an immediate reality.",
+ "source": "Love In the Time of Cholera"
+ }, {
+ "text": "Wish I could say the same, but I must say, with all due respect I find it hard to see the logic behind some of the moves you have made with this fine organization. In the past 20 years, you have caused myself and the city of New York a good deal of distress, as we have watched you take our beloved Yankees and reduce them to a laughingstock, all for the glorification of your massive ego.",
+ "source": "Seinfeld"
+ }, {
+ "text": "The rich had been assured of his wealth and comfort, the toiler assured of his life and work. No doubt in that perfect world there had been no unemployed problem, no social question left unsolved.",
+ "source": "The Time Machine"
+ }, {
+ "text": "It's easy to complain about your life - how tough it is, how unfair it is, how stressful it is, how everyone else has it much better. But if you step into the life of someone you envy for just a day, you'll discover that everyone has their own problems, and they're usually worse than yours. Because your problems are designed specifically for you, with the specific purpose of helping you grow.",
+ "source": "I Can't Make This Up: Life Lessons"
+ }, {
+ "text": "I began to realize how important it was to be an enthusiast in life. If you are interested in something, no matter what it is, go at it full speed. Embrace it with both arms, hug it, love it and above all become passionate about it. Lukewarm is no good.",
+ "source": "Lukewarm Is No Good"
+ }, {
+ "text": "If you feel yourself hitting up against your limit remember for what cause you clench your fists... remember why you started down this path, and let that memory carry you beyond your limit.",
+ "source": "Boku no Hero Academia"
+ }, {
+ "text": "Anything which has ended is finished. That which is perfect is finished. The perfect man is no exception to the rule. The perfect man of the past is made according to the rule of the past. The rule of the past is a law of injustice and hypocrisy. The revelation of the meaning of the law is revealed through the law itself.",
+ "source": "Shadows of Tomorrow"
+ }, {
+ "text": "Whatever you are physically, male or female, strong or weak, ill or healthy, all those things matter less than what your heart contains. If you have the soul of a warrior, you are a warrior. Whatever the color, the shape, the design of the shade that conceals it, the flame inside the lamp remains the same. You are that flame.",
+ "source": "Clockwork Angel"
+ }, {
+ "text": "Images of broken light which dance before me like a million eyes - they call me on and on across the universe. Thoughts meander like a restless wind inside a letter box - they tumble blindly as they make their way across the universe.",
+ "source": "Across the Universe"
+ }, {
+ "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. The potential people who could have been here in my place but who will in fact never see the light of day outnumber the sand grains of Arabia. Certainly those unborn ghosts include greater poets than Keats, scientists greater than Newton.",
+ "source": "Unweaving the Rainbow: Science, Delusion and the Appetite for Wonder"
+ }, {
+ "text": "Power don't come from a badge or a gun. Power comes from lying. Lying big, and gettin' the whole damn world to play along with you. Once you got everybody agreeing with what they know in their hearts ain't true, you've got 'em by the balls.",
+ "source": "Sin City"
+ }, {
+ "text": "Recalling the past dredges up regrets that make me want to die, and when I think of the future, the anxiety just makes me depressed. By process of elimination, you could say right now is my happiest time.",
+ "source": "My Youth Romantic Comedy is Wrong, as I Expected"
+ }, {
+ "text": "How thick do you have to be to believe what a digital, pretend woman on the dashboard says, over what you can actually see out of the window. I mean, the sea, for example: It's big, it's blue, the top of it wobbles around and it's not suitable for motor vehicles. But you know that already. You don't drive into it!",
+ "source": "Top Gear"
+ }, {
+ "text": "We are the world, we are the children. We are the ones who make a brighter day, so let's start giving. There's a choice we're making. We're saving our own lives. It's true we'll make a better day, just you and me.",
+ "source": "We Are The World"
+ }, {
+ "text": "The rest of my attention is back at the offices of Facebook, where my colleagues and I are doing things that no one in this room, including and especially your clients, are intellectually or creatively capable of doing.",
+ "source": "The Social Network"
+ }, {
+ "text": "But there is something that I must say to my people who stand on the warm threshold which leads into the palace of justice. In the process of gaining our rightful place we must not be guilty of wrongful deeds. Let us not seek to satisfy our thirst for freedom by drinking from the cup of bitterness and hatred.",
+ "source": "I Have a Dream"
+ }, {
+ "text": "You do not understand even life. How can you understand death?",
+ "source": "The Analects"
+ }, {
+ "text": "The one place where a man ought to get a square deal is in a courtroom, be he any color of the rainbow, but people have a way of carrying their resentments right into a jury box. As you grow older, you'll see white men cheat black men every day of your life, but let me tell you something and don't you forget it - whenever a white man does that to a black man, no matter who he is, how rich he is, or how fine a family he comes from, that white man is trash.",
+ "source": "To Kill a Mockingbird"
+ }, {
+ "text": "Sometimes, when you meet a new operative, it's a good idea to open with an aggressive move. You learn about people when you make them play defense: their reflexes, weaknesses, how they handle themselves under pressure. And even if they are able to counter, it never hurts to know how far they're willing to go.",
+ "source": "Burn Notice"
+ }, {
+ "text": "It's not a game if you're not having fun. It doesn't mean anything if you just focus on winning or losing.",
+ "source": "Danganronpa 2: Goodbye Despair"
+ }, {
+ "text": "Sometimes, when you're writing a poem - or a story - your brain gets fixated on a specific point. If you try so hard to make it perfect, then you'll never make any progress. Just force yourself to get something down on the paper, and tidy it up later! Another way to think about it is this: if you keep your pen in the same spot for too long, you'll just get a big dark puddle of ink. So just move your hand, and go with the flow!",
+ "source": "Doki Doki Literature Club"
+ }, {
+ "text": "Many rivers to cross but I can't seem to find my way over. Wandering, I am lost as I travel along the white cliffs of Dover. Many rivers to cross and it's only my will that keeps me alive. I've been licked, washed up for years, and I merely survive because of my pride.",
+ "source": "Many Rivers To Cross"
+ }, {
+ "text": "It is not difficult to wield a sword in one hand; the way to learn this is to train with two long swords, one in each hand. It will seem difficult at first, but everything is difficult at first.",
+ "source": "The Book of Five Rings"
+ }, {
+ "text": "It wasn't something that I thought about, but I knew that you were absolute in doubt. I just really wanna talk to you again, that's how I know that I'ma haunt you in the end. It wasn't something 'til you brought it up, I knew that you were tryna make it out. Without a single scar, clawing at my arm, I saw you in his car, swear I knew it from the start.",
+ "source": "Absolute In Doubt"
+ }, {
+ "text": "You have brains in your head. You have feet in your shoes. You can steer yourself any direction you choose. You're on your own. And you know what you know. And YOU are the one who'll decide where to go.",
+ "source": "Oh, the Places You'll Go!"
+ }, {
+ "text": "If you want to leave, take good care. Hope you have a lot of nice things to wear, but then a lot of nice things turn bad out there.",
+ "source": "Wild World"
+ }, {
+ "text": "So you think you can stone me and spit in my eye? So you think you can love me and leave me to die? Oh, baby, can't do this to me, baby! Just gotta get out, just gotta get right outta here! Nothing really matters, anyone can see. Nothing really matters. Nothing really matters to me, any way the wind blows.",
+ "source": "Bohemian Rhapsody"
+ }, {
+ "text": "You crushed us to build your monarchy on the backs of our blood and bone. Your mistake wasn't keeping us alive. It was thinking we'd never fight back!",
+ "source": "Children of Blood and Bone"
+ }, {
+ "text": "I deserve it all. Let the cold world do its worst; one thing I know - there's a grave somewhere for me. The world may go on just as it's always done, and take everything from me - loved ones, property, everything - but it can't take that. Some day I'll lie down in it and forget it all, and my poor broken heart will be at rest.",
+ "source": "The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn"
+ }, {
+ "text": "Never before had I known the sudden quiver of understanding that travels from word to brain to heart, the way a new language can move, coil, swim into life under the eyes, the almost savage leap of comprehension, the instantaneous, joyful release of meaning, the way the words shed their printed bodies in a flash of heat and light.",
+ "source": "The Historian"
+ }, {
+ "text": "Just about any way you can paint a tree, seems like somewhere there's one that looks just about like that. That's the nice thing about doing landscapes. If you paint a portrait of somebody and you put the eyes in the wrong place, chances are they're gonna notice. But if you paint a tree wrong, somebody will come along and say, \"Hey, I know that tree. He's an old friend. He lives in my front yard, has for many years.\" So you can't hardly do him wrong.",
+ "source": "The Joy of Painting"
+ }, {
+ "text": "If I had a world of my own, everything would be nonsense. Nothing would be what it is because everything would be what it isn't. And contrary-wise; what it is it wouldn't be, and what it wouldn't be, it would. You see?",
+ "source": "Alice's Adventures in Wonderland"
+ }, {
+ "text": "This is your last chance. After this there is no turning back. You take the blue pill: the story ends, you wake up in your bed and believe whatever you want to believe. You take the red pill: you stay in Wonderland, and I show you how deep the rabbit hole goes. Remember, all I'm offering is the truth, nothing more.",
+ "source": "The Matrix"
+ }, {
+ "text": "She, who always seems so happy in a crowd, whose eyes can be so private and so proud. No one's allowed to see them when they cry. She may be the love that cannot hope to last. May come to me from shadows of the past that I'll remember till the day I die.",
+ "source": "She"
+ }, {
+ "text": "Many folk like to know beforehand what is to be set on the table; but those who have laboured to prepare the feast like to keep their secret; for wonder makes the words of praise louder.",
+ "source": "The Return of the King"
+ }, {
+ "text": "Hey you, out there in the cold, getting lonely, getting old, can you feel me? Hey you, standing in the aisles with itchy feet and fading smiles, can you feel me? Hey you, don't help them to bury the light. Don't give in without a fight.",
+ "source": "Hey You"
+ }, {
+ "text": "Have you seen the old man in the closed down market, picking up the papers with his worn out shoes? In his eyes you see no pride and hanging loosely at his side yesterday's paper, telling yesterday's news.",
+ "source": "The Streets Of London"
+ }, {
+ "text": "As he watches through the door, his smile pulls in more and more. Wicked thoughts shape wicked ways, while we all crave, while we all crave. When the man yells at his son, when he finds the smoking gun. Don't you worry, little one, for we all crave, we all crave.",
+ "source": "Crave"
+ }, {
+ "text": "That night they heard no noises. But either in his dreams or out of them, he could not tell which, Frodo heard a sweet singing running in his mind: a song that seemed to come like a pale light behind a grey rain-curtain, and growing stronger to turn the veil all to glass and silver, until at last it was rolled back, and a far green country opened before him under a swift sunrise.",
+ "source": "The Lord of The Rings"
+ }, {
+ "text": "Do you know, this morning, I was on a train that went through a city that wouldn't exist if it wasn't for you. I bought a ticket from a man who would likely be dead if it wasn't for you. I read up on my work, a whole field of scientific inquiry that only exists because of you. Now, if you wish you could have been normal, I can promise you, I do not. The world is an infinitely better place precisely because you weren't. Do you... Do you really think that? I think that sometimes it is the people who no one imagines anything of who do the things that no one can imagine.",
+ "source": "The Imitation Game"
+ }, {
+ "text": "It was one of those rare and beautiful days in winter when England remembers that there is a sun. The star of the day, pale but nevertheless still splendid, was setting in the horizon, glorifying at one the heavens and the sea with bands of fire, and casting upon the tower and the old houses of the city a last ray of gold which made the windows sparkle like the reflection of a conflagration.",
+ "source": "The Three Musketeers"
+ }, {
+ "text": "Beautiful means 'full of beauty.' Beautiful is not about how you look on the outside, beautiful is about what you're made of. Beautiful people spend time discovering what their idea of beauty on this earth is. They know themselves well enough to know what they love, and they love themselves enough to fill up with a little of their particular kind of beauty each day.",
+ "source": "Love Warrior"
+ }, {
+ "text": "Every time it rains, it rains pennies from heaven. Don't you know each cloud contains pennies from heaven? You'll find your fortune fallin' all over town. Be sure that your umbrella is upside down. Trade them for a package of sunshine and flowers. If you want the things you love, you must have showers. So when you hear it thunder, don't run under a tree. There'll be pennies from heaven for you and me.",
+ "source": "Pennies from Heaven"
+ }, {
+ "text": "Tom put the Ring round the end of his little finger and held it up to the candlelight. For a moment the hobbits noticed nothing strange about this. Then they gasped. There was no sign of Tom disappearing! Tom laughed again, and then he spun the Ring in the air - and it vanished with a flash. Frodo gave a cry - and Tom leaned forward and handed it back to him with a smile.",
+ "source": "The Lord of The Rings"
+ }, {
+ "text": "When I really worry about something, I don't just fool around. I even have to go to the bathroom when I worry about something. Only I don't go. I'm too worried to go. I'm too worried to interrupt my worrying to go.",
+ "source": "The Catcher in the Rye"
+ }, {
+ "text": "The sooner your kids appreciate the value of work, the more successful they will be. Work is part of life. You work to earn money, put food on the table, and keep your homes orderly and clean. For your kids, work involves schoolwork, homework, and teamwork at home and in the community.",
+ "source": "Raising Smart Kids for Dummies"
+ }, {
+ "text": "Don't look back, keep your head held high. Don't ask them why because life is short and before you know you're feeling old and your heart is breaking.",
+ "source": "This Used to Be My Playground"
+ }, {
+ "text": "Says who? Just so you know, the people who talk that way think that monkeys can do this. They take all this monkey crap and stick it in a briefcase, completely unaware that their success depends on something more than shoeshine. You are the product. You feeling something, that's what sells. Not them. They can't do what we do and they hate us for it.",
+ "source": "Mad Men"
+ }, {
+ "text": "All that year the animals worked like slaves. But they were happy in their work; they grudged no effort or sacrifice, well aware that everything that they did was for the benefit of themselves and those of their kind who would come after them, and not for a pack of idle, thieving human beings.",
+ "source": "Animal Farm"
+ }, {
+ "text": "I never said I would stay to the end - I knew I would leave you with babies and everything. Screaming like this in the hole of sincerity, screaming me over and over and over. I leave you with photographs, pictures of trickery, and stains on the carpet, stains on the memory, and songs about happiness murmured in dreams, when we both of us knew how the end always is.",
+ "source": "Disintegration"
+ }, {
+ "text": "Never know how much I love you. Never know how much I care. When you put your arms around me, I get a fever that's so hard to bear - you give me fever. When you kiss me - fever when you hold me tight. Fever! In the morning. Fever all through the night.",
+ "source": "Fever"
+ }, {
+ "text": "Persons attempting to find a motive in this narrative will be prosecuted; persons attempting to find a moral in it will be banished; persons attempting to find a plot in it will be shot.",
+ "source": "The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn"
+ }, {
+ "text": "Maybe I'm not so different from everyone else after all. It's like somebody gave me a puzzle, but I don't have the box with the picture on it. So I don't know what the final thing is supposed to look like. I'm not even sure if I have all the pieces.",
+ "source": "Out of My Mind"
+ }, {
+ "text": "What is it about owning things? Why do we feel the need to own what we love and why do we become such jerks when we do? We've all been there, you know: we want something; we own it; and by owning it we change it. When you finally win that girl of your dreams, the first thing you do is try to change her. That little thing she does with her hair, the way she wears her clothes, the way she chews her gum. Until eventually, what you like, what you don't like, and what you change all merges into one. Like a watercolor in the rain.",
+ "source": "Northern Exposure"
+ }, {
+ "text": "What was the power that turned the worm into a moth? It was greater than any power the Builders had had, he was sure of that. The power that ran the city of Ember was feeble by comparison.",
+ "source": "The City of Ember"
+ }, {
+ "text": "You will become way less concerned with what other people think of you when you realize how seldom they do.",
+ "source": "Infinite Jest"
+ }, {
+ "text": "But what many people who have never formed a corporation don't know is that a corporation is not really a thing. A corporation is merely a file folder with some legal documents in it, sitting in some attorney's office and registered with a state government agency. It's not a big building or a factory or a group of people.",
+ "source": "Rich Dad Poor Dad"
+ }, {
+ "text": "Eating, bathing, having a girlfriend, having an active social life is incidental, it gets in the way of code time. Writing code is the primary force that drives our lives so anything that interrupts that is wasteful.",
+ "source": "Triumph of the Nerds"
+ }, {
+ "text": "Here he was writing a formula the accuracy of which was certain, but whose origin in his brain and way of discovery he did not explain and we could not guess.",
+ "source": "The Psychology of Invention in the Mathematical Field"
+ }, {
+ "text": "Here is the average person's daily attention training: They wake up in the morning, usually to some loud song or blaring alarm. They check their cell phone for any messages, just to see if anyone missed them. Then they jump out of bed into the shower and there they think about the 110 things that they have to do that day. Unfortunately, they haven't allowed themselves enough time to get ready and can only manage a small, unhealthy breakfast, filling up instead with coffee. They get in their car, put on the radio, make phone calls, and maybe even try to text while driving. They get angry and worked up about the traffic, which won't change, although they think it should. Most of us think like this.",
+ "source": "Unlimited Memory: How to Use Advanced Learning Strategies to Learn Faster, Remember More and Be More Productive"
+ }, {
+ "text": "We can't define consciousness because consciousness does not exist. Humans fancy that there's something special about the way we perceive the world, and yet we live in loops as tight and as closed as the hosts do, seldom questioning our choices, content, for the most part, to be told what to do next.",
+ "source": "Westworld"
+ }, {
+ "text": "The one place where a man ought to get a square deal is in a courtroom, be he any color of the rainbow, but people have a way of carrying their resentments right into a jury box. As you grow older, you'll see white men cheat black men every day of your life, but let me tell you something and don't you forget it - whenever a white man does that to a black man, no matter who he is, how rich he is, or how fine a family he comes from, that white man is trash.",
+ "source": "To Kill a Mockingbird"
+ }, {
+ "text": "The evolution of language marked a great leap forward for our species. It boosted our cognitive abilities by webbing us together into larger, more powerful group minds. I believe that another quantum step in human cognition awaits us on the other side of direct linkage of our brains and minds to one another.",
+ "source": "Nexus"
+ }, {
+ "text": "See the stone set in your eyes, see the thorn twist in your side. I wait for you. Sleight of hand and twist of fate. On a bed of nails she makes me wait. And I wait without you.",
+ "source": "With or Without You"
+ }, {
+ "text": "Sometimes he awoke with a feeling of fragments afloat in his sleep, but he couldn't seem to grasp them and put them together into something worthy of telling at the ritual.",
+ "source": "The Giver"
+ }, {
+ "text": "So I want you to get up now. I want all of you to get up out of your chairs. I want you to get up right now and go to the window. Open it and stick your head out and yell, \"I'm as mad as hell and I'm not going to take this anymore!\"",
+ "source": "Network"
+ }, {
+ "text": "Oh, my life is changing every day in every possible way.",
+ "source": "Dreams"
+ }, {
+ "text": "We're living on borrowed time here. Every minute of our life is a minute we steal from them! You see them out there. You know that when we die, we become them. You think we hide behind walls to protect us from the walking dead. Don't you get it? We are the walking dead.",
+ "source": "The Walking Dead"
+ }, {
+ "text": "Looking back I know of one opportunity where an engineer came to me with an idea for a computer that would be used in the home. Of course it wasn't yet called a personal computer. And while he felt very strongly about it, the only example of what it was good for that he could come up with was the housewife could keep her recipes on it. And I couldn't imagine my wife with her recipes on a computer in the kitchen. It just didn't seem like it had any practical application at all, so Intel didn't pursue that idea.",
+ "source": "Triumph of the Nerds"
+ }, {
+ "text": "Over the field rang his clear voice calling: \"Death! Ride, ride to ruin and the world's ending!\"",
+ "source": "The Lord of The Rings"
+ }, {
+ "text": "Come, sweetheart mine, don't sit and pine. Tell me of the cares that make you feel so blue. What have I done, answer me, hon. Have I ever said an unkind word to you? My love is true, and just for you, I'd do almost anything at any time. Dear, when you sigh, or when you cry, something seems to grip this very heart of mine.",
+ "source": "My Melancholy Baby"
+ }, {
+ "text": "They linked their arms to make a step, then boosted me onto the throne. I felt like a baby with my feet so high off the ground. I looked around at the other gloomy, empty thrones, and I could imagine what it would be like sitting on the Olympian Council - so much power but so much arguing, always eleven other gods trying to get their way. It would be easy to get paranoid, to look out only for my own interest, especially if I were Poseidon. Sitting in his throne, I felt like I had the entire sea at my command - vast cubic miles of ocean churning with power and mystery. Why should Poseidon listen to anyone? Why shouldn't he be the greatest of the twelve?",
+ "source": "Percy Jackson and the Olympians: The Last Olympian"
+ }, {
+ "text": "You gave me love and helped me find the sun, and every time that I was down you would always come around and get my feet back on the ground.",
+ "source": "Seasons in the Sun"
+ }, {
+ "text": "You see I used to shoot game for them. Well, he wanted it, and wouldn't hear reason. He declared he would shoot me unless I gave him the ivory and then cleared out of the country, because he could do so, and had a fancy for it, and there was nothing on earth to prevent him killing whom he jolly well pleased. And it was true, too. I gave him the ivory.",
+ "source": "The Stories: Contemporary Short Fiction Written in English"
+ }, {
+ "text": "I took her hand in mine, and we went out of the ruined place; and as the morning mists had risen long ago when I first left the forge, so the evening mists were rising now, and in all the broad expanse of tranquil light they showed to me, I saw no shadow of another parting from her.",
+ "source": "Great Expectations"
+ }, {
+ "text": "I don't know what is going to happen next year, no one does. But that's OK. I can handle it, I decide. It's just a harder gear, and I am ready. All I have to do is take a deep breath and ride.",
+ "source": "Merci Suárez Changes Gears"
+ }, {
+ "text": "Me and you, we got more yesterday than anybody. We need some kind of tomorrow.",
+ "source": "Beloved"
+ }, {
+ "text": "People changed slowly, over time. You didn't take one step, then find yourself in a completely new location. You first took a little step off a path to avoid some rocks. For a while, you walked alongside the path, but then you wandered out a little way to step on softer soil. Then you stopped paying attention as you drifted farther and farther away. Finally, you found yourself in the wrong city, wondering why the signs on the roadway hadn't led you better.",
+ "source": "The Emperor's Soul"
+ }, {
+ "text": "Darling, I am growing old, silver threads among the gold. Shine upon my brow today, life is fading fast away. But, my darling, you will be always young and fair to me. Yes, my darling, you will be always young and fair to me.",
+ "source": "Silver Threads Among the Gold"
+ }, {
+ "text": "She did not know what this chance would be, what wind would bring it her, towards what shore it would drive her.",
+ "source": "Madame Bovary"
+ }, {
+ "text": "And yeah, I believe that there's a god. I believe that there is something out there other than my thoughts. I believe it was never science against religion; it wasn't poor against wealth; it was always me against myself, and I'm so scared who's going to win.",
+ "source": "I'm so Concerned About the Ending That I Don't Even Know the Plot"
+ }, {
+ "text": "When you go into the ER, one of the first things they ask you to do is rate your pain on a scale of one to ten, and from there they decide which drugs to use and how quickly to use them. I'd been asked this question hundreds of times over the years, and I remember once early on when I couldn't get my breath and it felt like my chest was on fire, flames licking the inside of my ribs fighting for a way to burn out of my body, my parents took me to the ER. Nurse asked me about the pain, and I couldn't even speak, so I held up nine fingers.",
+ "source": "The Fault in Our Stars"
+ }, {
+ "text": "Why'd you come, you knew you should have stayed. I tried to warn you just to stay away. And now they're outside ready to bust. It looks like you might be one of us.",
+ "source": "Heathens"
+ }, {
+ "text": "One day beneath the lemon tree, my love and I did lie. A girl so sweet that when she smiled the stars rose in the sky. We passed that summer lost in love beneath the lemon tree. The music of her laughter hid my father's words from me.",
+ "source": "Lemon Tree"
+ }, {
+ "text": "The difference between treason and patriotism is only a matter of dates.",
+ "source": "The Count of Monte Cristo"
+ }, {
+ "text": "Gaston was not only a fierce lover, with endless wisdom and imagination, but he was also, perhaps, the first man in the history of the species who had made an emergency landing and had come close to killing himself and his sweetheart simply to make love in a field of violets.",
+ "source": "One Hundred Years of Solitude"
+ }, {
+ "text": "Oh, you're leaving... I always knew that one day, this day would come. I've always known we're so different, and I'm not sad, because you have a lot ahead of you. I want you to take this. Don't forget me.",
+ "source": "The Legend of Zelda: Ocarina of Time"
+ }, {
+ "text": "Be impeccable with your word - speak with integrity. Say only what you mean. Avoid using the word to speak against yourself or to gossip about others. 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"
+ }, {
+ "text": "Stars, in your multitudes - scarce to be counted, filling the darkness with order and light. You are the sentinels, silent and sure, keeping watch in the night. You know your place in the sky, you hold your course and your aim, and each in your season returns and returns and is always the same.",
+ "source": "Les Misérables"
+ }, {
+ "text": "We think it is time that you recognized that you are masters in someone else's home. Despite the best intentions of the best of you, you must, in the nature of things, humiliate us to control us. General Dyer is but an extreme example of the principle... it is time you left.",
+ "source": "Gandhi"
+ }, {
+ "text": "These rappers don't know what to do, 'cause all I did was act me like a Loony Tune. I'll give you all of me until there's nothing left, I swear this summer will be summer camp.",
+ "source": "Bonfire"
+ }, {
+ "text": "Something's up, commander. We got called in for a rescue mission, but by the time we landed... it was too late. No one made it out alive. It was like the storm was targeting those survivors. I think we need to investigate the area.",
+ "source": "Fortnite"
+ }, {
+ "text": "Tell you what it is, Mr. Reid. Now we're four misfits who don't belong together, we're playing for the other misfits. They're the outcasts, right at the back of the room. We're pretty sure they don't belong either. We belong to them.",
+ "source": "Bohemian Rhapsody"
+ }, {
+ "text": "One man, one family driven from the land; this rusty car\r\ncreaking along the highway to the west. I lost my land, a\r\nsingle tractor took my land. I am alone and bewildered.",
+ "source": "The Grapes of Wrath"
+ }, {
+ "text": "Has it been five years? Six? It seems like a lifetime, the kind of peak that never comes again. San Francisco in the middle sixties was a very special time and place to be a part of. But no explanation, no mix of words or music or memories can touch that sense of knowing that you were there and alive in that corner of time and the world. Whatever it meant. ",
+ "source": "Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas"
+ }, {
+ "text": "That we don't even care as restless as we are, we feel the pull in the land of a thousand guilts. And poured cement, lamented and assured. To the lights and town below, faster than the speed of sound, faster than we thought we'd go beneath the sound of hope.",
+ "source": "1979"
+ }, {
+ "text": "I know you don't get a chance to take a break this often. I know your life is speeding and it isn't stopping. Here, take my shirt and just go ahead and wipe up all sweat, sweat, sweat. Lose yourself to dance.",
+ "source": "Lose Yourself to Dance"
+ }, {
+ "text": "During my meditation training, I came to a place of deep silence. I was surrounded by light. Time and space disappeared. I had come to a place my master had never told me about.",
+ "source": "Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon"
+ }, {
+ "text": "He may look like an idiot and talk like an idiot, but don't let that fool you. He really is an idiot.",
+ "source": "Duck Soup"
+ }, {
+ "text": "I am always saying \"Glad to've met you\" to somebody I'm not at all glad I met. If you want to stay alive, you have to say that stuff, though.",
+ "source": "The Catcher in the Rye"
+ }, {
+ "text": "My family loves each other so much, we live a thousand miles away and never stay in touch.",
+ "source": "Cool to Be You"
+ }, {
+ "text": "Any finite number divided by infinity is as near to nothing as makes no odds, so the average population of all the planets in the Universe can be said to be zero. From this it follows that the population of the whole Universe is also zero, and that any people you may meet from time to time are merely the products of a deranged imagination.",
+ "source": "The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy"
+ }, {
+ "text": "I won't say another word - not one. I know I talk too much, but I am really trying to overcome it, and although I say far too much, yet if you only knew how many things I want to say and don't, you'd give me some credit for it.",
+ "source": "Anne of Green Gables"
+ }, {
+ "text": "It was a strange feeling, holding the rifle. It somehow removed him from everything around him. Without the rifle he had to fit in, to be part of it all, to understand it and use it - the woods, all of it. With the rifle, suddenly, he didn't have to know, did not have to be afraid or understand. He didn't have to get close to a foolbird to kill it - didn't have to know how it would stand if he didn't look at it and moved off to the side.",
+ "source": "Hatchet"
+ }, {
+ "text": "Nothing in life is easy. But that's no reason to give up. You'll be surprised what you can accomplish if you set your mind to it.",
+ "source": "Holes"
+ }, {
+ "text": "Earlier tonight I went out. I went out hard. I drank a lot of whiskey. I wish I could say I didn't enjoy it, that I felt sick to my stomach, couldn't even look at myself in the mirror afterward, but I can't say that because it was perfect. And that kind of perfection doesn't make me feel weak; it makes me feel strong. I looked at myself in the mirror and I finally recognized that person I once knew so well - that person who went out all the time, sometimes just for fun. And now that I've seen that person again, I don't know if I could ever go back.",
+ "source": "Scandal"
+ }, {
+ "text": "You think the dead we loved ever truly leave us? You think that we don't recall them more clearly than ever in times of great trouble? Your father is alive in you, Harry, and shows himself plainly when you have need of him.",
+ "source": "Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban"
+ }, {
+ "text": "You make me sick. You're a quitter, Norman! No, you're worse than that, you're a non-starter. You don't even try. You sit around the bar all day, you sit around your house all day, you sit around here all day, you sit around life all day! How are you going to feel at the end of your life when you're lying - no, make that sitting, on your death bed and you realize the only thing you've done in your life was sit around, and watch people do things, make things out of their lives? Well, maybe you're right, Norman. Maybe you're not meant for success, maybe you're meant for exactly what you are - nothing.",
+ "source": "Cheers"
+ }, {
+ "text": "A dream is a gift from God. When you have a great yearning for something, your mind joins your heart and pushes for its fulfillment. Connecting mind to heart is essential for the creative force to be released. Reflect on those things in your life that bring you satisfaction.",
+ "source": "Soul Lessons and Soul Purpose"
+ }, {
+ "text": "Purity in body and heart may please some - as for me, I make no boast. For, as you know, no master of a household has all of his utensils made of gold; some are wood, and yet they are of use.",
+ "source": "The Canterbury Tales"
+ }, {
+ "text": "It was because of you. It was because you were by my side. I will buy you the world's longest-lasting batteries. Be with me until I die. Be with me forever. You are the most precious treasure of mine.",
+ "source": "I'm Not A Robot"
+ }, {
+ "text": "If every person in this room made it a rule that wherever you are, whenever you can, you will try to act a little kinder than is necessary - the world really would be a better place. And if you do this, if you act just a little kinder than is necessary, someone else, somewhere, someday, may recognize in you, in every single one of you, the face of God.",
+ "source": "Wonder"
+ }, {
+ "text": "All things will be produced in superior quantity and quality, and with greater ease, when each man works at a single occupation, in accordance with his natural gifts, and at the right moment, without meddling with anything else.",
+ "source": "Republic"
+ }, {
+ "text": "My love is alive way down in my heart. Although we are miles apart, if you ever need a helping hand I'll be there on the double as fast as I can.",
+ "source": "Ain't No Mountain High Enough"
+ }, {
+ "text": "There's a love that's divine and it's yours and it's mine. Like the sun at the end of the day, we should give thanks and pray to the One.",
+ "source": "Have I Told You Lately"
+ }, {
+ "text": "These mist-covered mountains are a home now for me, but my home is the lowlands and always will be. Someday you'll return to your valleys and your farms and you'll no longer burn to be brothers in arms.",
+ "source": "Brothers in Arms"
+ }, {
+ "text": "Have you ever wanted to sleep for a hundred or thousand years? Everything keeps going wrong and you don't see any hope of it getting better. You tell yourself, \"I'm sure things will get better,\" then another thing goes wrong.",
+ "source": "Scarlet Heart Ryeo"
+ }, {
+ "text": "And when he came to the place where the wild things are, they roared their terrible roars and gnashed their terrible teeth and rolled their terrible eyes and showed their terrible claws till Max said \"Be still!\" And tamed them with the magic trick of staring into all their yellow eyes without blinking once. And they were frightened and called him the most wild thing of all, and made him king of all wild things.",
+ "source": "Where the Wild Things Are"
+ }, {
+ "text": "Lemon Boy and me started to get along together. I helped him plant his seeds and we'd mow the lawn in bad weather. It's actually pretty easy being nice to a bitter boy like him, so I got myself a citrus friend.",
+ "source": "Lemon Boy"
+ }, {
+ "text": "There are perhaps twenty regular posters on the forum, and some much larger and uncounted number of lurkers. And 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. It's strange even with friends, like sitting in a pitch-dark cellar conversing with people a distance of about fifteen feet.",
+ "source": "Pattern Recognition"
+ }, {
+ "text": "Tears are handy for washing away troubling and sad feelings. But when you grow up, you'll learn that there are things so sad, they can never be washed away by tears. That there are painful memories that should never be washed away. So people who are truly strong laugh when they want to cry. They endure all of the pain and sorrow while laughing with everybody else.",
+ "source": "Gintama"
+ }, {
+ "text": "When someone sues a wealthy individual, they are often met with layers of legal protection and often find that the wealthy person actually owns nothing. They control everything, but own nothing.",
+ "source": "Rich Dad Poor Dad"
+ }, {
+ "text": "I cheated on the intelligence test, I'm sorry! But I just want to say that the past few weeks have been great. Me and you have done stuff together, you've helped me out with things, and we're closer than we've ever been. I love you, Dad, and I think if something can bring us that close, it can't possibly be bad.",
+ "source": "The Simpsons"
+ }, {
+ "text": "Look, all I know is what they taught me at command school. There are certain rules about a war. Rule number one is young men die. And rule number two is doctors can't change rule number one.",
+ "source": "M*A*S*H"
+ }, {
+ "text": "When you run with the Doctor it feels like it'll never end. But however hard you try you can't run forever. Everybody knows that everybody dies and nobody knows it like the Doctor. But I do think that all the skies of all the worlds might just turn dark if he ever for one moment accepts it.",
+ "source": "Doctor Who"
+ }, {
+ "text": "You can choose a ready guide in some celestial voice. If you choose not to decide, you still have made a choice. You can choose from phantom fears and kindness that can kill. I will choose a path that's clear. I will choose freewill.",
+ "source": "Freewill"
+ }, {
+ "text": "Maybe there aren't any such things as good friends or bad friends - maybe there are just friends, people who stand by you when you're hurt and who help you feel not so lonely. Maybe they're always worth being scared for, and hoping for, and living for. Maybe worth dying for too, if that's what has to be. No good friends. No bad friends. Only people you want, need to be with; people who build their houses in your heart.",
+ "source": "It"
+ }, {
+ "text": "Always look on the bright side of life. Always look on the light side of life. If life seems jolly rotten, there's something you've forgotten, and that's to laugh and smile and dance and sing. When you're feeling in the dumps, don't be silly chumps; just purse your lips and whistle, that's the thing.",
+ "source": "Monty Python's Life of Brian"
+ }, {
+ "text": "I love the colorful clothes she wears and the way the sunlight plays upon her hair. I hear the sound of a gentle word on the wind that lifts her perfume through the air. I'm pickin' up good vibrations.",
+ "source": "Good Vibrations"
+ }, {
+ "text": "Swing low, sweet chariot, coming for to carry me home. I looked over Jordan, what did I see, coming for to carry me home? A band of angels, coming after me, coming for to carry me home. Swing low, sweet chariot, coming for to carry me home.",
+ "source": "Swing Low, Sweet Chariot"
+ }, {
+ "text": "Was life like that? You could look ahead to the future or back at the past, but the present moved too quickly to absorb. Maybe sometimes. Not today.",
+ "source": "Fablehaven"
+ }, {
+ "text": "He soon felt that the fulfillment of his desires gave him only one grain of the mountain of happiness he had expected. This fulfillment showed him the eternal error men make in imagining that their happiness depends on the realization of their desires.",
+ "source": "Anna Karenina"
+ }, {
+ "text": "I was just a child when the stars fell from the skies, but I remember how they built a cannon to destroy them, and in turn how that cannon brought war upon us. War was an abstract idea, nothing more than a show on TV. As a child I only saw it as something that happened in some far away land - until that final day of summer.",
+ "source": "Namco Ace Combat 4"
+ }, {
+ "text": "\"You get what you deserve.\" It's an old saying, one that survived the years, because it's true... for the most part. But not for everyone. Some get more than they deserve, because they believe they aren't like everyone else; that the rules - the ones for people like me and you, the people that work and struggle to live our lives, just live - don't apply to them. That they can do anything and live happily ever after, while the rest of us suffer.",
+ "source": "Daredevil"
+ }, {
+ "text": "I'm the tallest of mountains. I am the roughest of waves. I'm the toughest of terrors. I am the darkest of days. I'm the last one that's standing, don't try to stand in my way, 'cause I've been up against better, just take a look at my face.",
+ "source": "Infinite"
+ }, {
+ "text": "I must have left my house at eight because I always do. My train, I'm certain, left the station when it was due. I must have read the morning paper going into town, and having gotten through the editorial no doubt I must have frowned.",
+ "source": "The Day Before You Came"
+ }, {
+ "text": "This used to be my playground, this used to be my childhood dream, this used to be the place I ran to whenever I was in need of a friend. Why did it have to end?",
+ "source": "This Used to Be My Playground"
+ }, {
+ "text": "If I had known you were going to come straight up to my office I would not have bothered hunting you in the first place.",
+ "source": "Half-Life 2"
+ }, {
+ "text": "It's so warm and calm inside. I no longer have to hide.\r\nThere's talk about someone else. Sterling silver begins to melt. Nothing really bothers her. She just wants to love herself. 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"
+ }, {
+ "text": "He's better at this than I've ever been at anything in my life. He's better at this than you'll ever be at anything. My son has a gift. He has a gift and when you acknowledge that then maybe we will have something to talk about.",
+ "source": "Searching for Bobby Fischer"
+ }, {
+ "text": "Every day I searched for new songs, and it was like applying for asylum. I just needed someone to help me escape from all the silence. I just needed people saying words about all the things that hurt them. And maybe this is why Papi stopped listening to music, because it can make your body want to rebel. To speak up. And even that young I learned music can become a bridge between you and a total stranger.",
+ "source": "The Poet X"
+ }, {
+ "text": "It wasn't always so clear, but the Rust programming language is fundamentally about empowerment: no matter what kind of code you are writing now, Rust empowers you to reach farther, to program with confidence in a wider variety of domains than you did before.",
+ "source": "The Rust Programming Language"
+ }, {
+ "text": "The unknown future rolls toward us. I face it for the first time with a sense of hope, because if a machine, a Terminator, can learn the value of human life, maybe we can, too.",
+ "source": "Terminator 2: Judgement Day"
+ }, {
+ "text": "We've known each other for many years but this is the first time you've ever come to me for counsel or for help. I can't remember the last time you invited me to your house for a cup of coffee, even though my wife is Godmother to your only child. But, let's be frank here. You never wanted my friendship and you were afraid to be in my debt.",
+ "source": "The Godfather"
+ }, {
+ "text": "This is the first day of my life. I swear I was born right in the doorway. I went out in the rain, suddenly everything changed; they're spreading blankets on the beach. Yours is the first face that I saw. I think I was blind before I met you. Now I don't know where I am, I don't know where I've been, but I know where I want to go.",
+ "source": "First Day of My Life"
+ }, {
+ "text": "In the all night cafe at a quarter past eleven, same old man sitting there on his own, looking at the world over the rim of his teacup, and each tea lasts an hour and he wanders home alone.",
+ "source": "The Streets Of London"
+ }, {
+ "text": "He has a life, a real life here. One that keeps him grounded and decent. As you've heard, there are many people who care about Neal, people who see him as more than just a criminal. He's frustrating, I'll admit - he drives me crazy on his best days. I don't always have to know where Neal is or what he's up to, but I do know that he has a good heart and a set of principles that weren't there six years ago when he was just another case file that got dropped on my desk.",
+ "source": "White Collar"
+ }, {
+ "text": "Come and hold my hand. I want to contact the living. Not sure I understand this role I've been given. I sit and talk to God and he just laughs at my plans. My head speaks a language I don't understand.",
+ "source": "Feel"
+ }, {
+ "text": "Whatever you are physically, male or female, strong or weak, ill or healthy, all those things matter less than what your heart contains. If you have the soul of a warrior, you are a warrior. Whatever the color, the shape, the design of the shade that conceals it, the flame inside the lamp remains the same. You are that flame.",
+ "source": "Clockwork Angel"
+ }, {
+ "text": "There's something waiting in the stratosphere, and it's waiting just to tell us what it's doing here.",
+ "source": "Stratosphere"
+ }, {
+ "text": "If there's one thing I learned from Rodrick, it's to set people's expectations real low so you end up surprising them by practically doing nothing at all.",
+ "source": "Diary of a Wimpy Kid"
+ }, {
+ "text": "For attractive lips, speak words of kindness. For lovely eyes, seek out the good in people. For a slim figure, share your food with the hungry. For beautiful hair, let a child run his or her fingers through it once a day. For poise, walk with the knowledge that you never walk alone...",
+ "source": "In One Era & Out the Other"
+ }, {
+ "text": "I still don't know what it really means to grow up. However, if I happen to meet you, one day in the future, by then, I want to become someone you can be proud to know.",
+ "source": "5cm per Second"
+ }, {
+ "text": "The simple fact is that if you don't enjoy what you're doing and the people with whom you're doing it, then there is no possible way that you are ever going to do it as well as something you do enjoy. As some wise person once said, 'Life is not a dress rehearsal.' This is it!",
+ "source": "The Virgin Way"
+ }, {
+ "text": "In an age as agitated as ours, it no longer suffices just to be advertised in the newspaper. To be advertised in this way is the same thing as being consigned to oblivion. If one is to be noticed, one must at least appear on the first page under a hand that points to and, as it were, announces or advertises the advertisement.",
+ "source": "Writing Sampler"
+ }, {
+ "text": "Sometimes, you read a book and it fills you with this weird evangelical zeal, and you become convinced that the shattered world will never be put back together unless and until all living humans read the book.",
+ "source": "The Fault in Our Stars"
+ }, {
+ "text": "I had a mother, I had a father, things - things that made sense. Do you remember things that made sense? Things you could count on? Before we all got so lost? What are we gonna do, Charlie? What am I gonna do?",
+ "source": "Born on the Fourth of July"
+ }, {
+ "text": "I can just hear them now. \"How could you let us down?\" But they don't know what I felt, or see it from this way around. Feeling it overtake, all that I used to hate. Wonder what if we trade. I tried but it's way too late. All the slides I don't read, two sides of me can't agree. When I breathe in too deep. Going with what I always longed for.",
+ "source": "New Person, Same Old Mistakes"
+ }, {
+ "text": "A pretty girl is like a melody that haunts you night and day. Just like the strain of a haunting refrain, she'll start up on a marathon and run around your brain. You can't escape, she's in your memory by morning, night, and noon. She will leave you and then come back again, a pretty girl is just like a pretty tune.",
+ "source": "A Pretty Girl Is Like A Melody"
+ }, {
+ "text": "Money, you've got lots of friends crowding around the door. When you're gone and spending ends, they don't come no more. Rich relations give crust of bread and such. You can help yourself, but don't take too much. Mama may have, papa may have, but God bless the child that's got his own. That's got his own.",
+ "source": "God Bless the Child"
+ }, {
+ "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? Don't it make you sad to know that life is more than who you are? We grew up way too fast and now there's nothing to believe and reruns all become our history. A tired song keeps playing on a tired radio, and I won't tell no one your name.",
+ "source": "Name"
+ }, {
+ "text": "So now the sadness comes - the revelation. There is a depression after an answer is given. It was almost fun not knowing. Yes, now we know. At least we know what we sought in the beginning. But there is still the question: why? And this question will go on and on until the final answer comes. Then the knowing is so full, there is no room for questions.",
+ "source": "Twin Peaks"
+ }, {
+ "text": "Whenever I'm alone with you, you make me feel like I am home again. Whenever I'm alone with you, you make me feel like I am whole again. Whenever I'm alone with you, you make me feel like I am young again. Whenever I'm alone with you, you make me feel like I am fun again.",
+ "source": "Lovesong"
+ }, {
+ "text": "The people who succeed don't heed the doubters and don't give in to despair or negativity. They don't talk about emptying the tank, they just empty it. It's just one more indispensable life lesson I've learned from my mentor, coach, and friend James Galanis, who even now never stops reminding me that you can achieve great things in life if you are true to yourself and you do the work when nobody is watching.",
+ "source": "Carli Lloyd When Nobody was Watching"
+ }, {
+ "text": "Sometimes I feel my heart will overflow. Hello, I've just got to let you know, 'cause I wonder where you are and I wonder what you do. Are you somewhere feeling lonely? Or is someone loving you? Tell me how to win your heart, for I haven't got a clue. But let me start by saying I love you.",
+ "source": "Hello"
+ }, {
+ "text": "What is your obsession with this money? My father died when I was thirteen and I inherited this money. You don't think that every day I wake up and wish I could give it back? That I would give it back in a second if I could have one more day with him? But I can't, and that's my life and I deal with it.",
+ "source": "Good Will Hunting"
+ }, {
+ "text": "I'd discovered, after a lot of extreme apprehension about what spoons to use, that if you do something incorrect at table with a certain arrogance, as if you knew perfectly well you were doing it properly, you can get away with it and nobody will think you are bad-mannered or poorly brought up. They will think you are original and very witty.",
+ "source": "The Bell Jar"
+ }, {
+ "text": "So you think that money is the root of all evil? Have you ever asked what is the root of money? Money is a tool of exchange, which can't exist unless there are goods produced and men able to produce them. Money is the material shape of the principle that men who wish to deal with one another must deal by trade and give value for value. Money is not the tool of the moochers, who claim your product by tears or of the looters, who take it from you by force. Money is made possible only by the men who produce. Is this what you consider evil?",
+ "source": "Atlas Shrugged"
+ }, {
+ "text": "If there really is a complete unified theory that governs everything, it presumably also determines your actions. But it does so in a way that is impossible to calculate for an organism that is as complicated as a human being. The reason we say that humans have free will is because we can't predict what they will do.",
+ "source": "A Brief History of Time"
+ }, {
+ "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.",
+ "source": "Meditations"
+ }, {
+ "text": "It's the possibility of having a dream come true that makes life interesting, he thought, as he looked again at the position of the sun, and hurried his pace. He had suddenly remembered that, in Tarifa, there was an old woman who interpreted dreams.",
+ "source": "The Alchemist"
+ }, {
+ "text": "It used to make you so happy, the water. I think it's brave to try to be happy. You've gotten so comfortable being unhappy. Wouldn't it be wonderful to wake up in the morning and choose to be happy, to let the water wash everything away?",
+ "source": "Pushing Daisies"
+ }, {
+ "text": "Rhymes trap you into saying things you don't want to say. A word like \"fire\" is a good example. Before you know it you're reaching for desire, or to get higher, or calling someone a liar, or putting them on a pyre, even if that wasn't what you were going to say.",
+ "source": "Lyrics: Writing Better Words for Your Songs"
+ }, {
+ "text": "I have no idea how I untangled the complicated process of words and thought, but it happened quickly and naturally. By the time I was two, all my memories had words, and all my words had meanings.",
+ "source": "Out of My Mind"
+ }, {
+ "text": "We'd like to know a little bit about you for our files. We'd like to help you learn to help yourself. Look around you, all you see are sympathetic eyes. Stroll around the grounds until you feel at home.",
+ "source": "Mrs. Robinson"
+ }, {
+ "text": "A Yoga master came to my office for a consult. I asked her to show me what made her pain worse. She sat on the floor in a pose fully twisting her spine, staying there for several minutes. It took her another few minutes to work through the pain to stand up. I stated, \"I think I know what is causing your pain - doing that exercise.\"",
+ "source": "Back Mechanic"
+ }, {
+ "text": "Well, I can't recall one time in my life I've felt as lonely as I do tonight. I feel like I could lay down and get up no more. It's the damndest feeling; I never felt it before. Tonight I feel like an old violin soon to be put away and never played again.",
+ "source": "The Old Violin"
+ }, {
+ "text": "It's a praying mantis. Do you know how they mate? The male will sneak up on the female and she'll bite off his head and the rest of his body will keep on mating and when they're done she'll eat him. She'll eat the rest of him.",
+ "source": "What's Eating Gilbert Grape"
+ }, {
+ "text": "If we do our job right, we never need to go to court. Look, the reason we're not a law firm? We don't have to play within the rules of the law. We're fixers, crisis managers. We make the problems of our clients go away, big or small. It's not about solving some crime, it's not about justice, it's about our client.",
+ "source": "Scandal"
+ }, {
+ "text": "But physical interpretation, which is in general a very sure guide and had been most often such for me, misled me in that case.",
+ "source": "The Psychology of Invention in the Mathematical Field"
+ }, {
+ "text": "In another time, another culture, he may have been a seer, a shaman priest. In our world he's a shoe salesman and lives among the shadows.",
+ "source": "Twin Peaks"
+ }, {
+ "text": "Silence fell between them, as tangible as the dark tree shadows that fell across their laps and that now seemed to rest upon them as heavily as though they possessed a measurable weight of their own.",
+ "source": "A Wrinkle in Time"
+ }, {
+ "text": "I didn't get you to do anything. I gave you a name and you made your choice, and that choice was in you before your wife or any of this other stuff. It was always there, waiting. Didn't you use that man to be what you were waiting to become? This thing, your wife, those are just excuses. You think you were Superman, previous? And hey, own it. You think I'd have done less? That's the kind of thing that keeps you out of Heaven. I don't want to go.",
+ "source": "True Detective"
+ }, {
+ "text": "Because she doesn't just give you a present, she gives you a present and she tells you where to put it, how to use it, what it costs - for insurance purposes of course - and God forbid you should have a different opinion or you don't think it works in the space or you just get tired of waking up every morning with those horrifying animals staring at you!",
+ "source": "Gilmore Girls"
+ }, {
+ "text": "Stand tall, boy. Have some respect for yourself. Don't you know if you let people walk over you now they'll be walking over you for the rest of your life! Look at me. You think I'm gonna spend the rest of my life in this slop house?",
+ "source": "Back to the Future"
+ }, {
+ "text": "One of you go find the forest ranger. Since we're done with the May Day rites and it's still so early in the morning, my love will have a chance to hear the beautiful music of my hunting dogs barking as they chase their prey. Unleash the dogs in the western valley. Let them go. Now go find the forest ranger.",
+ "source": "A Midsummer Night's Dream"
+ }, {
+ "text": "I don't even like kids. They're always sticky like they've got jam on their hands. Even if there's no jam in the house, somehow, they've always got jam on their hands! I'm not the right guy to deal with that. I have no patience for jam hands!",
+ "source": "Gilmore Girls"
+ }, {
+ "text": "He is here, actually he was here! He's just nipped out to go to the toilet a few minutes ago. His drink is over there on the table by those barrels. The only problem is that no one has ever actually seen a toilet in RuneScape so he may take a little while.",
+ "source": "Runescape"
+ }, {
+ "text": "My teacher scolds me that I neglect education, she don't know I collect real education. My neighbor thinks that I am wasting my time, he don't know that he is wasting his time.",
+ "source": "It's My Life What Ever I Wanna Do"
+ }, {
+ "text": "Grown-up people do not know that a child can give exceedingly good advice even in the most difficult case.",
+ "source": "The Idiot"
+ }, {
+ "text": "The market ceiling can function in the same way as when you hit your head on the ceiling. You quickly crouch down and rub the sore spot. First-mover advantage, scale advantage and double jeopardy indicate that it can be quite painful to hit your head on the ceiling.",
+ "source": "Creativity Unlimited: Thinking Inside the Box for Business Innovation"
+ }, {
+ "text": "To teach how to live without certainty, and yet without being paralyzed by hesitation, is perhaps the chief thing that philosophy, in our age, can still do for those who study it.",
+ "source": "A History of Western Philosophy"
+ }, {
+ "text": "There are of course those who do not want us to speak. I suspect even now, orders are being shouted into telephones, and men with guns will soon be on their way. Why? Because while the truncheon may be used in lieu of conversation, words will always retain their power. Words offer the means to meaning, and for those who will listen, the enunciation of truth. And the truth is, there is something terribly wrong with this country, isn't there?",
+ "source": "V for Vendetta"
+ }, {
+ "text": "Furthermore, those not understanding this intensity will say you work all the time and probably resent it - you make them look bad. But for you, work is play.",
+ "source": "The Highly Sensitive Person: How to Thrive When the World Overwhelms You"
+ }, {
+ "text": "Oh baby, it's alright. It's alright to feel like a fat child in a push chair. Old enough to run. Old enough to fire a gun. Just give me this one night, just one night, to feel like I might be on the right path. Wise enough to know myself.",
+ "source": "No Reptiles"
+ }, {
+ "text": "What if all of this is a dream, and it isn't even our dream, it's that dog's dream? Maybe we're just existing in his mind and all of a sudden he'll go drink out of the toilet and we'll be gone. What will happen to us if that dog wakes up? It will be over.",
+ "source": "Freaks and Geeks"
+ }, {
+ "text": "People know what they do; frequently they know why they do what they do; but what they don't know is what what they do does.",
+ "source": "Madness and Civilization"
+ }, {
+ "text": "Five years ago, we lost. All of us. We lost friends. We lost family. We lost a part of ourselves. Today, we have a chance to take it all back. You know your teams, you know your missions. Get the stones, get them back. One round trip each. No mistakes. No do-overs. Most of us are going somewhere we know, that doesn't mean we should know what to expect. Be careful. Look out for each other. This is the fight of our lives. And we're going to win. Whatever it takes. Good luck.",
+ "source": "Avengers: Endgame"
+ }, {
+ "text": "If there were an answer I could give you to how the universe works, it wouldn't be special. It would just be machinery fulfilling its cosmic design. It would just be a big, dumb food processor. But since nothing seems to make sense, when you find something or someone that does, it's euphoria.",
+ "source": "The Good Place"
+ }, {
+ "text": "And baseball was proof positive that democracy was real. A baseball box score, after all, is a democratic thing. It doesn't say how big you are or what religion you follow. It does not know how you voted or the color of your skin. It simply states what kind of ballplayer you were on any particular day.",
+ "source": "42"
+ }, {
+ "text": "Old Tom Bombadil is a merry fellow, bright blue his jacket is, and his boots are yellow. None has ever caught him yet, for Tom, he is the Master: his songs are stronger songs, and his feet are faster.",
+ "source": "The Lord of The Rings"
+ }, {
+ "text": "There is neither happiness nor unhappiness in this world; there is only the comparison of one state with another. Only a man who has felt ultimate despair is capable of feeling ultimate bliss. It is necessary to have wished for death in order to know how good it is to live.",
+ "source": "The Count of Monte Cristo"
+ }, {
+ "text": "Great, let's round up all the useless cats and hope a tree falls on them.",
+ "source": "Warriors: Power of Three #1: The Sight"
+ }, {
+ "text": "Okay, I don't know you, but I do know that you can fix your attitude. Do you wanna go home and feel sorry for yourself about a man you didn't wanna marry? Or do you wanna go talk to that cute boy who's been looking at you and give him your number before I throw him in my Benz for myself?",
+ "source": "Parks and Recreation"
+ }, {
+ "text": "One day soon, man is going to be able to harness incredible energies, maybe even the atom... energies that could ultimately hurl us to other worlds in... in some sort of spaceship. And the men that reach out into space will be able to find ways to feed the hungry millions of the world and to cure their diseases. They will be able to find a way to give each man hope and a common future. And those are the days worth living for.",
+ "source": "Star Trek"
+ }, {
+ "text": "And I knew that in spite of all the roses and kisses and restaurant dinners a man showered on a woman before he married her, what he secretly wanted when the wedding service ended was for her to flatten out underneath his feet like Mrs Willard's kitchen mat.",
+ "source": "The Bell Jar"
+ }, {
+ "text": "If you loved someone, you loved him, and when you had nothing else to give, you still gave him love.",
+ "source": "Nineteen Eighty Four"
+ }, {
+ "text": "There will come a time when all of us are dead. All of us. There will come a time when there are no human beings remaining to remember that anyone ever existed or that our species ever did anything. There will be no one left to remember Aristotle or Cleopatra, let alone you. Everything that we did and built and wrote and thought and discovered will be forgotten and all of this will have been for naught. Maybe that time is coming soon and maybe it is millions of years away, but even if we survive the collapse of our sun, we will not survive forever.",
+ "source": "The Fault in Our Stars"
+ }, {
+ "text": "To pass beyond is what I seek, I fear that I may be too weak. And those are few who've seen it through to glimpse the other side, the promised land is waiting like a maiden that is soon to be a bride.",
+ "source": "The Wall"
+ }, {
+ "text": "If I ruled the world, every man would see the world was his friend. There'd be happiness that no man could end, no my friend, not if I ruled the world. Every hand would be held up high, there'd be sunshine in everyone's sky.",
+ "source": "If I Ruled the World"
+ }, {
+ "text": "The lady said the Langston who wrote these words is a poet. Seems more like a magician to me, pulling words from my heart I never knew I had.",
+ "source": "Finding Langston"
+ }, {
+ "text": "Even if someone says they're doing fine, I'm sure that's just because they haven't noticed that they're truly lonely. I cried myself to sleep more times than I care to count, admittedly.",
+ "source": "Story of Seasons: Trio of Towns"
+ }, {
+ "text": "Live, then, and be happy, beloved children of my heart, and never forget that, until the day God deigns to reveal the future to man, the sum of all human wisdom will be contained in these two words: Wait and hope.",
+ "source": "The Count of Monte Cristo"
+ }, {
+ "text": "Well, I don't really think that the end can be assessed as of itself as being the end because what does the end feel like? It's like saying when you try to extrapolate the end of the universe, you say, if the universe is indeed infinite, then how - what does that mean? How far is all the way, and then if it stops, what's stopping it, and what's behind what's stopping it? So, what's the end, you know, is my question to you.",
+ "source": "This Is Spinal Tap"
+ }, {
+ "text": "Somewhere out there, someone's saying a prayer that we'll find one another in that big somewhere out there.",
+ "source": "An American Tail"
+ }, {
+ "text": "Consider this: Is the pious being loved by the gods because it is pious, or is it pious because it is being loved by the Gods? We speak of something carried and something carrying, of something led and something leading, of something seen and something seeing, and you understand that these things are all different from one another and how they differ? So there is also something loved and - a different thing - something loving.",
+ "source": "Plato: Five Dialogues"
+ }, {
+ "text": "You can't quit until you try. You can't live until you die. You can't learn to tell the truth until you learn to lie. You can't breathe until you choke. You gotta laugh when you're the joke. There's nothing like a funeral to make you feel alive. Just open your eyes. Just open your eyes. And see that life is beautiful. Will you swear on your life, that no one will cry at my funeral?",
+ "source": "Life is Beautiful"
+ }, {
+ "text": "Let's just say this: you will feel the fear and pain known only to humans who've used the notebook. And when it's your time to die, it will fall on me to write your name in my death note. Be warned any human who's used a death note can neither go to heaven nor hell for eternity... That's all.",
+ "source": "Death Note"
+ }, {
+ "text": "For it is the nature of a log or stone to remain motionless on level ground.",
+ "source": "The Art of War"
+ }, {
+ "text": "You gave me wings and made me fly, you touched my hand. I could touch the sky. I lost my faith, you gave it back to me, you said no star was out of reach.",
+ "source": "Because You Loved Me"
+ }, {
+ "text": "Every day that I don't beg Cardan for forgiveness over a feud he started is a day I win. He can humiliate me, but every time he does and I don't back down, he makes himself less powerful. After all, he's throwing everything he's got at someone as weak as I am and it's not working. He's going to take himself down.",
+ "source": "The Cruel Prince"
+ }, {
+ "text": "Sometimes I just stare at myself in the bathroom mirror. I mean, not just for a minute or two, but for a really, really long time. That's a bit weird, isn't it? I just stand there with the door locked. I stand there and stare and wonder. I look deep into my eyes, almost like I'm looking for something. I look at my nose, my ears, my mouth, the shape of my head. I'm searching for something. Something I don't understand. It's like this person I'm looking at isn't really me. When I sleep and I dream, I'm not this person looking back at me.",
+ "source": "Something Happened"
+ }, {
+ "text": "Take care where you're going, doing all the things you do. Even when you're away from me, I'm the closest thing to you. Come here when it's over, when you think you've lost your world. Come here with your restlessness, and I will calm you down. 'Cause it feels like home when you are here.",
+ "source": "Come Here"
+ }, {
+ "text": "What's in your eyes 'cause they talk to me. They know how to read my mind. I get this feeling when you're next to me, it's like joy and summertime. I wanna be your favorite song that will only bring you joy. But now that I never see you, I can only wish for more. At the end of the day, I'll, I'll keep writing you. Should I stop by and say hi or just keep riding straight?",
+ "source": "Movin' Down the Line"
+ }, {
+ "text": "He was a polished jazz player, whose poverty had less to do with his musical ability and more to do with his color. Henry had liked him immediately. Not because they were both outcasts, although if he really thought about it, that might have had a ring of truth to it - no, he liked him because of his music.",
+ "source": "Hotel on the Corner of Bitter and Sweet"
+ }, {
+ "text": "We sat and drank with the sun on our shoulders and felt like free men. Hell, we could have been tarring the roof of one of our own houses. We were the lords of all creation. As for Andy - he spent that break hunkered in the shade, a strange little smile on his face, watching us drink his beer.",
+ "source": "The Shawshank Redemption"
+ }, {
+ "text": "Secretly, I want the box more than the jewelry. I want it to be all mine and never have to give it back. I could find any old thing. A pebble, a leaf, a pistachio shell and put it in the box. Like magic, these things would get to be special at least for a day.",
+ "source": "The Night Diary"
+ }, {
+ "text": "A rational investor should be willing to pay a higher price for a share the larger the growth rate of dividends and earnings.",
+ "source": "A Random Walk Down Wall Street"
+ }, {
+ "text": "It took a lot of energy to ask that question. I wished he had answered it. I don't know when I'll be able to ask it again.",
+ "source": "The Night Diary"
+ }, {
+ "text": "On my block, a lot of people walk their dogs, and I always see them walking along with their little poop bags, which to me is just the lowest function of human life. If aliens are watching this through telescopes, they're gonna think the dogs are the leaders. If you see two life forms, one of them's making a poop, the other one's carrying it for him, who would you assume was in charge?",
+ "source": "Seinfeld"
+ }, {
+ "text": "To be my own master. Such a thing would be greater than all the magic and all the treasures in all the world! But what am I talking about? Let's get real here, it's not gonna happen. Genie, wake up and smell the hummus.",
+ "source": "Aladdin"
+ }, {
+ "text": "I still want to smack him. Or remind him that the last transfer we had from Abnegation, who is sitting right next to him, managed to knock out some of his teeth, so who knows what this next one will do.",
+ "source": "Four: A Divergent Collection"
+ }, {
+ "text": "I have often walked down this street before, but the pavement always stayed beneath my feet before. All at once am I several stories high knowing I'm on the street where you live.",
+ "source": "My Fair Lady"
+ }, {
+ "text": "When you get a virus, you get a fever. That's the human body raising its core temperature to kill the virus. Planet Earth works the same way. Global warming is the fever, mankind is the virus. We're making our planet sick. A cull is our only hope. If we don't reduce our population ourselves, there's only one of two ways this can go. The host kills the virus, or the virus kills the host.",
+ "source": "Kingsman: The Secret Service"
+ }, {
+ "text": "I'm so glad you came, I'm so glad you remembered, the walking through walls in the heart of December. The blindness of happiness, of falling down laughing, and I really believed that this time was forever.",
+ "source": "Last Dance"
+ }, {
+ "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. It was a turning point in his career, but he did not know it. He put the ring in his pocket almost without thinking; certainly it did not seem of any particular use at the moment.",
+ "source": "The Hobbit"
+ }, {
+ "text": "So they stood at the edge of the woods while all the other kids filed past. Katherine shot Jonah a white-faced worried look as she walked by, but there was nothing she could do.",
+ "source": "Found"
+ }, {
+ "text": "And who are you, the proud lord said, that I must bow so low? Only a cat of a different coat, that's all the truth I know.",
+ "source": "The Rains Of Castamere"
+ }, {
+ "text": "I don't believe you commissioned me to make an offer on the widow's claim to keep the regulators off you, Al. I think someone found something out there you want.",
+ "source": "Deadwood"
+ }, {
+ "text": "I felt that even when they were polite they hardly saw me, that they would have begged the pardon of Jack the Bear, never glancing his way if the bear happened to be walking along minding his business. It was confusing. I did not know if it was desirable or undesirable.",
+ "source": "Invisible Man"
+ }, {
+ "text": "Growing to hate decisive moments, the only thing within a breath of real. So now I fall to my knees and beg in earnest to what powers may govern the sky. Just let me sleep one night without these dreams - these dreams that always haunt me.",
+ "source": "In Summary Of What I Am"
+ }, {
+ "text": "Welcome aboard the HMS majesty ship, where the drinks are free and the sails are made of cotton candy. We're going to be taking you to some of the most exotic known places in the world, so relax, enjoy, and don't forget to buy a raffle ticket in the parlor.",
+ "source": "Holiday"
+ }, {
+ "text": "Faith isn't an act of intelligence, it's an act of imagination. Every time you give them a new metaphor, a mustard seed, a field, a garden, a vineyard, it's like pointing something out to a cat - the cat looks at your finger, not at what you're pointing at. They don't need to understand it, they only need to believe, and they do. They imagine the kingdom as they need it to be, they don't need to grasp it, it's there already, they can let it be. Imagination, not intellect.",
+ "source": "Lamb: The Gospel According to Biff, Christ's Childhood Pal"
+ }, {
+ "text": "Since we are not yet fully comfortable with the idea the people from the next village are as human as ourselves, it is presumptuous in the extreme to suppose we could ever look at sociable, tool-making creatures who arose from other evolutionary paths and not see beasts but brothers, not rivals but fellow pilgrims journeying to the shrine of intelligence.",
+ "source": "Speaker for the Dead"
+ }, {
+ "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. In the sidestreet something's moving look around, look around. All around you walls are tumbling down. Stop staring at the ground.",
+ "source": "Swamp Thing"
+ }, {
+ "text": "If you know what you're worth, go and get what you're worth. But you gotta be willing to take the hits, and not pointing fingers... saying you ain't where you wanna be because of him or her or anybody! Cowards do that, and that ain't you! You're better than that!",
+ "source": "Rocky Balboa"
+ }, {
+ "text": "I had felt it growing, this feeling that had been hiding beneath the surface for some time now. I'd seen him, this person who never intended to be seen, and my faulty, silly, useless heart kept whispering his name. I clutched my chest, feeling my heart racing.",
+ "source": "The Crown"
+ }, {
+ "text": "In detective work, there's no winning or losing... there's no being inferior or superior... that's because there's always one and only one truth.",
+ "source": "Meitantei Conan"
+ }, {
+ "text": "In the beginning God created the heavens and the earth. The earth was without form, and void; and darkness was on the face of the deep. And the Spirit of God was hovering over the face of the waters.",
+ "source": "Genesis 1:1-3 (NKJV)"
+ }, {
+ "text": "Wish we could turn back time, to the good old days. When our momma sang us to sleep but now we're stressed out, we're stressed out, sometimes a certain smell will take me back to when I was young.",
+ "source": "Stressed Out"
+ }, {
+ "text": "It wasn't dark beyond the cave door - darkness would be something; darkness would mean that, with a little light, there'd be plenty to see. Darkness would be comforting, actually. This was so much worse.",
+ "source": "Found"
+ }, {
+ "text": "The present is eternally flawed. But where you start might not be as important as the direction you are heading. Perhaps happiness is always to be found in the journey uphill, and not in the fleeting sense of satisfaction awaiting at the next peak. Much of happiness is hope, no matter how deep the underworld in which that hope was conceived.",
+ "source": "12 Rules for Life. An Antidote to Chaos"
+ }, {
+ "text": "War must be, while we defend our lives against a destroyer who would devour all; but I do not love the bright sword for its sharpness, nor the arrow for its swiftness, nor the warrior for his glory. I love only that which they defend.",
+ "source": "The Lord of the Rings"
+ }, {
+ "text": "Erdos knows about more problems than anybody else, and he not only knows about various problems and conjectures, but he also knows the tastes of various mathematicians. So if I get a letter from him giving me three of his conjectures and two of his problems, then it's sure that these are exactly the kind of conjectures and problems I'm interested in, and these are exactly the kind of questions I may be able to answer. Of course, this applies not only to me, but to everybody else.",
+ "source": "N Is a Number: A Portrait of Paul Erdős"
+ }, {
+ "text": "I'm far from home, no place to go, but I don't feel cold. I've been so blind, just lost my mind, but all I have lost I find. Your face reminds me of these games, the memories don't erase. I'll never be the same anymore, I'm on the highest stop with no control...",
+ "source": "New Dawn"
+ }, {
+ "text": "The presence of a noble nature, generous in its wishes, ardent in its charity, changes the lights for us: we begin to see things again in their larger, quieter masses, and to believe that we too can be seen and judged in the wholeness of our character.",
+ "source": "Middlemarch"
+ }, {
+ "text": "You stopped and smiled at me, asked me if I'd care to dance. I fell into your open arms and I didn't stand a chance. Now listen honey, I just want to be beside you everywhere.",
+ "source": "I Only Want To Be With You"
+ }, {
+ "text": "The brain can be a tool. It can recall phone numbers, solve math puzzles, or create poetry. In this way, it works for the rest of the body, like a tractor. But when you can't stop thinking of that math problem or phone number, or when troubling thoughts and memories arise without your intent, it's not your brain working, but your mind wandering. Then the mind controls you; then the tractor has run wild.",
+ "source": "Way of the Peaceful Warrior"
+ }, {
+ "text": "There's no truth in the courtroom. There's just your version of what happened versus theirs. That's how the justice system works. It's not what's right and what's fair. It's who tells the most convincing story.",
+ "source": "How to Get Away With Murder"
+ }, {
+ "text": "Imagine there's no heaven. It's easy if you try. No hell below us, above us only sky. Imagine all the people living for today. Imagine there's no countries. It isn't hard to do. Nothing to kill or die for and no religion too. Imagine all the people living life in peace.",
+ "source": "Imagine"
+ }, {
+ "text": "According to all known laws of aviation, there is no way that a bee should be able to fly. Its wings are too small to get its fat little body off the ground. The bee, of course, flies anyway. Because bees don't care what humans think is impossible.",
+ "source": "The Bee Movie"
+ }, {
+ "text": "It's four in the morning, the end of December. I'm writing you now just to see if you're better. New York is cold, but I like where I'm living. There's music on Clinton Street all through the evening. I hear that you're building your little house deep in the desert. You're living for nothing now, I hope you're keeping some kind of record. Yes, and Jane came by with a lock of your hair. She said that you gave it to her that night that you planned to go clear. Did you ever go clear?",
+ "source": "Famous Blue Raincoat"
+ }, {
+ "text": "We settled down together, in the bow of the boat, and we looked at the waves breaking into whitecaps, and then we looked at each other, and through this look, fired by the bitterness of our childhood and the all-consuming roar of the sea, something happened, something irremediable: love, bittersweet, until death. But at the time it was still just a look.",
+ "source": "The Kindly Ones"
+ }, {
+ "text": "There was once a fish that lived in a pond. One day, he met another fish that used to live in the sea. The pond fish asked, \"What is the sea?\" and the sea fish said, \"It is a vast amount of water that is a million, million times bigger than your pond.\" The pond fish never talked to the sea fish again because he thought the sea fish was a liar.",
+ "source": "Unlimited Memory: How to Use Advanced Learning Strategies to Learn Faster, Remember More and Be More Productive"
+ }, {
+ "text": "Very simple was my explanation, and plausible enough - as most wrong theories are!",
+ "source": "The Time Machine"
+ }, {
+ "text": "Light up your face with gladness. Hide every trace of sadness. Although a tear may be ever so near, that's the time you must keep on trying. Smile, what's the use of crying? You'll find that life is still worthwhile if you just smile.",
+ "source": "Smile"
+ }, {
+ "text": "You can tell me that your dog ran away then tell me that it took three days. I've heard every joke, I've heard every one you'd say. You think there's not a lot goin' on. Look closer baby, you're so wrong. And that's why you can stay so long when there's not a lot goin' on.",
+ "source": "Corner Gas"
+ }, {
+ "text": "I suddenly had the impression that I had been left all alone, that everyone was shrinking away from me, avoiding me. You are, of course, right to ask who that everyone is, for although I've lived in Petersburg for eight years now, I haven't managed to make a single friend.",
+ "source": "White Nights"
+ }, {
+ "text": "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"
+ }, {
+ "text": "All the blue light reflections that color my mind when I sleep. And the lovesick rejections that accompany the company I keep. All the razor perceptions that cut just a little too deep. Hey I can bleed as well as anyone, but I need someone to help me sleep.",
+ "source": "Mrs. Potter's Lullaby"
+ }, {
+ "text": "Of course, there are those who learn after the first few times. They grow out of sports. And there are others who were born with the wisdom to know that nothing lasts. These are the truly tough among us, the ones who can live without illusion, or without even the hope of illusion. I am not that grown-up or up-to-date. I am a simpler creature, tied to more primitive patterns and cycles. I need to think something lasts forever, and it might as well be that state of being that is a game; it might as well be that, in a green field, in the sun.",
+ "source": "A Great and Glorious Game: Baseball Writings of A. Bartlett Giamatti"
+ }, {
+ "text": "Take a drink, my friend, and say what you have in your heart. But you never drink. You never say. Because you are afraid of what you have in your heart!",
+ "source": "The Barefoot Contessa"
+ }, {
+ "text": "The clues we've uncovered during our search have led me to believe there's a strong possibility that Tom is actually a dog, not a small child as we had originally thought. Come to think of it, I seem to recall a young girl walking about the train with a dog in her arms. I intend to find her and confirm my suspicions.",
+ "source": "Professor Layton and the Diabolical Box"
+ }, {
+ "text": "Like a stranger, I am on the outside looking in. I tore myself apart and I am left a skeleton. And it's been a long way down for me. It's been a long way down, but now I'm finally here. I will never understand.",
+ "source": "Skeleton"
+ }, {
+ "text": "People talk to you a great deal about your education, but some good memory is perhaps the best education.",
+ "source": "The Brothers Karamazov"
+ }, {
+ "text": "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"
+ }, {
+ "text": "I have proved in my own case that it is of no small benefit on finding oneself in bed in the dark to go over again in the imagination the main outlines of the forms previously studied, or of other noteworthy things conceived by ingenious speculation; and this exercise is entirely to be commended, and it is useful in fixing things in the memory.",
+ "source": "The Notebooks of Leonardo"
+ }, {
+ "text": "It's sometimes quite astonishing that a single, average life is enough to encompass so much that it's at all possible ever to have any success in one's work here.",
+ "source": "The Trial"
+ }, {
+ "text": "The only thing that burns in hell is the part of you that won't let go of your life: your memories, your attachments. They burn them all away, but they're not punishing you, they're freeing your soul. If you're frightened of dying and you're holding on, you'll see devils tearing your life away. If you've made your peace, then the devils are really angels freeing you from the earth.",
+ "source": "Jacob's Ladder"
+ }, {
+ "text": "I thought I had the whole world in my mouth. I thought I could say what I wanted to say. For a second that thought became a sword in my hand. I could slay any problem that would stand in my way. I felt just like a crusader. Lion-heart, a Holy Land invader. But nobody can say what they really mean to say, and the impotency of speech came up and hit me that day, and I would have made this instrumental \r\nbut the words got in the way.",
+ "source": "No Language in Our Lungs"
+ }, {
+ "text": "It is not knowledge, but the act of learning, not possession but the act of getting there, which grants the greatest enjoyment. When I have clarified and exhausted a subject, then I turn away from it, in order to go into darkness again.",
+ "source": "Letter to Farkas Bolyai, 2 September 1808"
+ }, {
+ "text": "Perhaps one did not want to be loved so much as to be understood.",
+ "source": "Nineteen Eighty Four"
+ }, {
+ "text": "Remember the day I set you free, I told you you could always count on me. From that day on, I made a vow. I'll be there when you want me, some way, some how.",
+ "source": "Ain't No Mountain High Enough"
+ }, {
+ "text": "Imagine for a moment if we once again knew these few unremarkable things: What it is we're eating. Where it came from. How it found its way to our table. And what, in a true\r\naccounting, it really cost. We would no longer need any reminding that however we choose to feed ourselves, we eat by\r\nthe 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"
+ }, {
+ "text": "You know what I'd like to be? A cartoon of some kind. You know, like when they get hit in the head with a frying pan or something, and their head looks like the frying pan, with the handle and everything? Then they just go boing and their head comes back to normal? Wouldn't that be great?",
+ "source": "Breaking Away"
+ }, {
+ "text": "But when a man suspects any wrong, it sometimes happens that if he be already involved in the matter, he insensibly strives to cover up his suspicions even from himself.",
+ "source": "Moby Dick"
+ }, {
+ "text": "Intrigued by that enigma, he dug so deeply into her sentiments that in search of interest he found love, because by trying to make her love him he ended up falling in love with her.",
+ "source": "One Hundred Years of Solitude"
+ }, {
+ "text": "What makes a good book? An author who knows how to leave out all the unnecessary bulk and delivers a lean story where not a single word is fluff.",
+ "source": "Inside The Mind of an Introvert"
+ }, {
+ "text": "Never give up, no matter how far behind you are, no matter how unlikely it seems you will catch your competitor in front of you. Keep pushing until the checkered flag falls. How many times have you seen the leader of a race have a mechanical problem with only a few laps to go? You will never be able to take advantage of their problems if you are not close. You have to be close to take advantage of luck.",
+ "source": "Speed Secrets: Professional Race Driving Techniques"
+ }, {
+ "text": "If sharks were men, they would build enormous boxes in the ocean for the little fish, with all kinds of food inside, both vegetable and animal. They would take care that the boxes always had fresh water, and in general they would make all kinds of sanitary arrangements. If, for example, a little fish were to injure a fin, it would immediately be bandaged, so that it would not die and be lost to the sharks before its time. So that the little fish would not become melancholy, there would be big water festivals from time to time; because cheerful fish taste better than melancholy ones.",
+ "source": "If Sharks Were Men"
+ }, {
+ "text": "He started ripping the bark, using his fingernails at first, and when that didn't work he used the sharp edge of the hatchet, cutting the bark in thin slivers, hairs so fine they were almost not there. It was painstaking work, slow work, and he stayed with it for over two hours. Twice he stopped for a handful of berries and once to go to the lake for a drink.",
+ "source": "Hatchet"
+ }, {
+ "text": "And now the end is near, and so I face the final curtain. My friend, I'll say it clear. I'll state my case of which I'm certain, I've lived a life that's full. I traveled each and every highway, and more, much more than this, I did it my way.",
+ "source": "My Way"
+ }, {
+ "text": "Have you ever experienced a time when no matter how hard you tried, you failed, and the time you spent felt wasted? If ever you feel such pangs of regret, try to remember this tale... the story of a young man's quest to save a sweet princess.",
+ "source": "Paper Mario: The Thousand-Year Door"
+ }, {
+ "text": "George, I am an old man and most people hate me. But I don't like them either, so that makes it all even. You know just as well as I do that I run practically everything in this town but the Bailey Building and Loan. You know, also, that for a number of years I've been trying to get control of it. Or kill it. But I haven't been able to do it. You have been stopping me.",
+ "source": "It's a Wonderful Life"
+ }, {
+ "text": "We catched fish, and talked, and we took a swim now and then to keep off sleepiness. It was kind of solemn, drifting down the big still river, laying on our backs looking up at the stars, and we didn't ever feel like talking loud, and it warn't often that we laughed, only a kind of low chuckle. We had mighty good weather, as a general thing, and nothing ever happened to us at all, that night, nor the next, nor the next.",
+ "source": "The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn"
+ }, {
+ "text": "Language is one of the keys to being human. It allows us to communicate with other human beings and to leave a legacy of our thoughts and actions for future generations. The dominant temporal lobe helps to process sounds and written words into meaningful information.",
+ "source": "Change Your Brain, Change Your Life"
+ }, {
+ "text": "I've seen it watching me, that misty thing without a face. It weaves my thoughts, lined them up in black lace. It buries my shape and leaves no trace. Tomorrow I will have no shame, and I will start again.",
+ "source": "Make A Wish"
+ }, {
+ "text": "I was reading about how countless species are being pushed toward extinction by man's destruction of forests. 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"
+ }, {
+ "text": "You're going in the drink and I am going to make a cup of tea. Underneath the floor boards is the famous river Thames. I hope for your sakes you can hold your breath for as long as it takes to boil that kettle. After that, I am going to ask you a question.",
+ "source": "RocknRolla"
+ }, {
+ "text": "Don't make assumptions - find the courage to ask questions and to express what you really want. Communicate with others as clearly as you can to avoid misunderstandings, sadness and drama. With just this one agreement, you can completely transform your life.",
+ "source": "The Four Agreements: A Practical Guide to Personal Freedom, A Toltec Wisdom Book"
+ }, {
+ "text": "I can touch what my heart used to dream of long before I knew someone warm like you.",
+ "source": "For Once in My Life"
+ }, {
+ "text": "She hangs her head and cries on my shirt. She must be hurt very badly. Tell me what's making you sad, Li? Open your door, don't hide in the dark. You're lost in the dark, you can trust me 'cause you know that's how it must be.",
+ "source": "Sad Lisa"
+ }, {
+ "text": "There are still faint glimmers of civilization left in this barbaric slaughterhouse that was once known as humanity. He was one of them. What more is there to say?",
+ "source": "The Grand Budapest Hotel"
+ }, {
+ "text": "They are important, you understand, without being interesting. Indeed, I have found that it is usually in unimportant matters that there is a field for the observation, and for the quick analysis of cause and effect which gives the charm to an investigation. The larger crimes are apt to be the simpler, for the bigger the crime the more obvious, as a rule, is the motive.",
+ "source": "The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes"
+ }, {
+ "text": "Every single night the same arrangement. I go out and fight the fight. Still, I always feel this strange estrangement. Nothing here is real, nothing here is right. I've been making shows of trading blows, just hoping no one knows that I've been going through the motions, walking through the part. Nothing seems to penetrate my heart.",
+ "source": "Buffy the Vampire Slayer"
+ }, {
+ "text": "Every time I think of you I feel shot right through with a bolt of blue. It's no problem of mine but it's a problem I find, living a life that I can't leave behind. There's no sense in telling me the wisdom of a fool won't set you free. But that's the way that it goes, and it's what nobody knows, while every day my confusion grows.",
+ "source": "Bizzare Love Triangle"
+ }, {
+ "text": "Ultimately, this is not about solving your problems. It's about realizing that there are no problems. Only situations - to be dealt with now, or to be left alone and accepted as part of the \"isness\" of the present moment until they change or can be dealt with.",
+ "source": "The Power of Now"
+ }, {
+ "text": "That's me in the corner, that's me in the spotlight losing my religion trying to keep up with you, and I don't know if I can do it.\r\nOh no, I've said too much, I haven't said enough.",
+ "source": "Losing My Religion"
+ }, {
+ "text": "Now John at the bar is a friend of mine, he gets me my drinks for free. And he's quick with a joke or to light up your smoke, but there's someplace that he'd rather be.",
+ "source": "Piano Man"
+ }, {
+ "text": "That night of my sister's 18th birthday a lot of things happened. Maybe more than she knew. Because that night when my father let Karen go out, he let Karen go. Maybe that's how it had to be. Children leave. And parents stay behind. Still, some things are deeper than time and distance and your father will always be your father. And he will always leave a light on for you.",
+ "source": "The Wonder Years"
+ }, {
+ "text": "We don't understand what really causes events to happen. History is the fiction we invent to persuade ourselves that events are knowable and that life has order and direction. That's why events are always reinterpreted when values change. We need new versions of history to allow for our current prejudices.",
+ "source": "The Complete Calvin and Hobbes"
+ }, {
+ "text": "The whole point was to find a way to practice nuclear war without destroying ourselves. To get the computers to learn from mistakes we couldn't afford to make. Except I never could get Joshua to learn the most important lesson.",
+ "source": "WarGames"
+ }, {
+ "text": "But I'll tell you something: I think you're magicians because you're unhappy. A magician is strong because he feels pain. He feels the difference between what the world is and what he would make of it. Or what did you think that stuff in your chest was? A magician is strong because he hurts more than others. His wound is his strength. Most people carry that pain around inside them their whole lives, until they kill the pain by other means, or until it kills them. But you, my friends, you found another way: a way to use the pain. To burn it as fuel, for light and warmth. You have learned to break the world that has tried to break you.",
+ "source": "The Magicians"
+ }, {
+ "text": "There's sometimes a buggy. How many drivers does a buggy have? So, let's just say I'm driving this buggy, and if you fix your attitude, you can ride along with me. Now you will see me one more time, if you do good. You will see me two more times, if you do bad.",
+ "source": "Mulholland Drive"
+ }, {
+ "text": "To make you a vampire they have to suck your blood. And then you have to suck their blood. It's like a whole big sucking thing. Mostly they're just gonna kill you.",
+ "source": "Buffy the Vampire Slayer"
+ }, {
+ "text": "The alternative is unconsciousness, the default setting, the rat race, the constant gnawing sense of having had and lost some infinite thing.",
+ "source": "Commencement Address at Kenyon College, 21 May 2005"
+ }, {
+ "text": "Today is the shadow of tomorrow. Today is the present future of yesterday. Yesterday is the shadow of today. The darkness of the past is yesterday. And the light of the past is yesterday. The days of yesterday are all numbered in sum, in the world once, because once upon a time there was a yesterday.",
+ "source": "Shadows of Tomorrow"
+ }, {
+ "text": "Love is corny, when you get right down to it. It has two left feet. It trips over itself, because it is so large that it's awkward. It's sort of silly, done right. After all, how do you convey something that huge?",
+ "source": "A Heart in a Body in the World"
+ }, {
+ "text": "Comfortable, Mullet? It seems sadly ironic that it's that tie that's got you into this pickle. Now you just take all the time you want. You can play some music if you like.",
+ "source": "Snatch"
+ }, {
+ "text": "Happiness can be found, even in the darkest of times, if one only remembers to turn on the light.",
+ "source": "Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban"
+ }, {
+ "text": "Haven't you ever happened to come across in a book some vague notion that you've had, some obscure idea that returns from afar and that seems to express completely your most subtle feelings?",
+ "source": "Madame Bovary"
+ }, {
+ "text": "I don't think stand-up should really work on the page, so the very existence of this book is an indication of my ultimate failure as a comedian. The text of a stand-up set should be so dependent on performance and tone that it can't really work on the page, otherwise it's just funny writing.",
+ "source": "How I Escaped My Certain Fate"
+ }, {
+ "text": "You know that I write slowly. This is chiefly because I am never satisfied until I have said as much as possible in a few words, and writing briefly takes far more time than writing at length.",
+ "source": "Calculus Gems"
+ }, {
+ "text": "Sometimes all I want to do is head west on twenty in a car I can't afford with a plan I don't have. Just me, my music and the road.",
+ "source": "Baby Driver"
+ }, {
+ "text": "In one respect, man is the nearest thing to me, so far as I must do good to men and endure them. But so far as some men make themselves obstacles to my proper acts, man becomes to me one of the things which are indifferent, no less than the sun or wind or a wild beast. Now it is true that these may impede my action, but they are no impediments to my affects and disposition, which have the power of acting conditionally and changing: for the mind converts and changes every hindrance to its activity into an aid; and so that which is a hindrance is made a furtherance to an act; and that which is an obstacle on the road helps us on this road.",
+ "source": "Meditations"
+ }, {
+ "text": "You know what I say? I say one down, a couple hundred thousand to go. I don't mean to get on my high horse, but I'm telling you, I do not like the deer. I'm sick of it; they're taking over. They're like rats. They're destroying the ecosystem. I see a dead deer on the side of the road and I think, \"That's a start.\"",
+ "source": "Get Out"
+ }, {
+ "text": "A census taker once tried to test me. I ate his liver with some fava beans and a nice Chianti.",
+ "source": "The Silence of the Lambs"
+ }, {
+ "text": "I will need my spectacles and a clear head. Today I broke my rules and I drank vodka. Tomorrow I will translate it, and then I will bring what I've done to your home. ",
+ "source": "Eastern Promises"
+ }, {
+ "text": "Yes, I guess we do. For instance, I think it's wrong for you to put your name in sales reports you didn't write. I think it's wrong you keep a bag of herbs in your bottom left drawer. I think it's wrong you slept with the district manager's wife. And you want to know something? You don't even have to worry about it because I think it's wrong to blab this kind of thing. You know, you should be glad that I'm the only one who knows this stuff about you. Anyone else here would sell you down the river in a second. God, I'm so much better than you.",
+ "source": "Malcolm in the Middle"
+ }, {
+ "text": "Writing is hard work. A clear sentence is no accident. Very few sentences come out right the first time, or even the third time. Remember this in moments of despair. If you find that writing is hard, it's because it is hard.",
+ "source": "On Writing Well"
+ }, {
+ "text": "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.",
+ "source": "The Iliad"
+ }, {
+ "text": "What it all comes down to is that everything is going to be quite alright. 'Cause I've got one hand in my pocket and the other one is flicking a cigarette.",
+ "source": "Hand in My Pocket"
+ }, {
+ "text": "Close your eyes in the night and I'll be right in front of you. So sit back, enjoy the view until the morning. When the sun comes from the west, that's where you'll find my silhouette. I'll ride a cloud, come back to you without a warning. So don't speak, 'cause it only makes my heart bleed. No matter what you say, I'll be only just a call away.",
+ "source": "Only Just A Call Away"
+ }, {
+ "text": "The big final rule for the comma is one that you won't find in any books by grammarians. It is quite easy to remember, however. The rule is: don't use commas like a stupid person. I mean it. More than any other mark, the comma requires the writer to use intelligent discretion and to be simply alert to potential ambiguity.",
+ "source": "Eats, Shoots & Leaves: The Zero Tolerance Approach to Punctuation"
+ }, {
+ "text": "Maybe you should come with me for a few weeks. See what happens. See how much you learn. Then, we'll talk about your future.",
+ "source": "The Godfather: Part III"
+ }, {
+ "text": "If you challenge the conventional wisdom, you will find ways to do things much better than they are currently done.",
+ "source": "Moneyball"
+ }, {
+ "text": "I hate this. I hate being here. I hate that you have to be here. I hate that there's evil and that I was chosen to fight it. I wish a whole lot of the time that I hadn't been. I know a lot of you wish I hadn't been, either. This isn't about wishes. This is about choices. I believe we can beat this evil. Not when it comes. Not when its army is ready. Now. Tomorrow morning I'm opening the seal. I'm going down into the Hellmouth and I am finishing this once and for all.",
+ "source": "Buffy the Vampire Slayer"
+ }, {
+ "text": "It's getting harder and harder for me to return to my true form. Some nights, I can't do it at all. What's causing it? Iron roads and machines that breathe smoke. Magic is draining from the world, and with it, we magical creatures grow ever weaker.",
+ "source": "Love, Death & Robots"
+ }, {
+ "text": "Ocean man, take me by the hand, lead me to the land that you understand. Ocean man, the voyage to the corner of the globe is a real trip. Ocean man, the crust of a tan man imbibed by the sand. Soaking up the thirst of the land.",
+ "source": "Ocean Man"
+ }, {
+ "text": "Of all things I liked books best. My father had a large library and whenever I could manage I tried to satisfy my passion for reading. He did not permit it and would fly in a rage when he caught me in the act. He hid the candles when he found that I was reading in secret. He did not want me to spoil my eyes. But I obtained tallow, made the wicking and cast the sticks into tin forms, and every night I would bush the keyhole and the cracks and read, often till dawn.",
+ "source": "My Inventions"
+ }, {
+ "text": "You held me down, but I got up, already brushing off the dust. You hear my voice, you hear that sound like thunder, gonna shake your ground. You held me down, but I got up. Get ready 'cause I've had enough. I see it all, I see it now.",
+ "source": "Roar"
+ }, {
+ "text": "Peripheral vision and the feel of the keyboard provide some knowledge about key locations. Frequently used keys become completely learned, infrequently used keys are not learned well, and the other keys are partially learned. But as long as a typist needs to watch the keyboard, the speed is limited. The knowledge is still mostly in the world, not in the head.",
+ "source": "The Design of Everyday Things"
+ }, {
+ "text": "You asked me why I don't have original art? I've had three different names and a dozen different aliases because of you. And to be an artist, you have to know who you are.",
+ "source": "White Collar"
+ }, {
+ "text": "You choose to be hurt rather than to hurt others, right? You're nice and wonderful. But while it seems like you are choosing both, you're really forsaking both.",
+ "source": "Tokyo Ghoul"
+ }, {
+ "text": "Sometimes we talk all night long, we don't shut up. And when it's late we'll say we're still wide awake so... We love to talk about how you'll come up to visit me. And we'll rent a car and we'll drive upstate.",
+ "source": "Affection"
+ }, {
+ "text": "All I could think of was that the teachers must've found the illegal stash of candy I'd been selling out of my dorms room. Or maybe they'd realized I got my essay on Tom Sawyer from the Internet without ever reading the book and now they were going to take away my grade. Or worse, they were going to make me read the book.",
+ "source": "The Lightning Thief"
+ }, {
+ "text": "It's a human sign when things go wrong, when the scent of her lingers and temptation's strong. Into the boundary of each married man, sweet deceit comes calling and negativity lands.",
+ "source": "Sacrifice"
+ }, {
+ "text": "I think you're a lonely person. I see all these phones and all this stuff on your desk. It means nothing.",
+ "source": "Taxi Driver"
+ }, {
+ "text": "Gax is a name you should not give to your child at all. It's only in the book because my kids are beside me as I'm writing and they absolutely insisted. Keep this in mind, prospective parents, if you're planning to work from home.",
+ "source": "The Baby Name Wizard"
+ }, {
+ "text": "I've been thinking lots about my life and how quick I'd wash it down the drain. Past tense, the future, nothing matters now. I act on my own and I'm to blame. Living's a wicked dream, where things turn out all wrong. We're all so weak, no matter how strong.",
+ "source": "Demons"
+ }, {
+ "text": "With gene therapy, we can remove those genes which we know may lead to sickness or disease, and at the same time, splice in genes with beneficial effects such as resistance to cancer for example.",
+ "source": "Metal Gear Solid"
+ }, {
+ "text": "I believe that for every one of these anxious, anguished people who have come here this evening there must be hundreds of others also touched by the implanted vision who never made it this far. It's simply because they never watched the television. Or perhaps they watched it but never made the psychic connection.",
+ "source": "Close Encounters of the Third Kind"
+ }, {
+ "text": "Samatha is a state in which the mind is brought to rest, focused only on one item and not allowed to wander. When this is done, a deep calm pervades body and mind, a state of tranquility which must be experienced to be understood.",
+ "source": "Mindfulness in Plain English"
+ }, {
+ "text": "You found something else. In that cell you found something that mattered more to you than life. It was when they threatened to kill you unless you gave them what they wanted... you told them you'd rather die. You faced your death, Evey. You were calm. You were still.",
+ "source": "V for Vendetta"
+ }, {
+ "text": "I sit at my table and wage war on myself. It seems like it's all, it's all for nothing. I know the barricades and I know the mortar in the wall breaks. I recognize the weapons, I used them well. 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"
+ }, {
+ "text": "Most people believe that reality is truth and appearances are deceiving. But those of us who know the Moon Arcanum understand we can only truly know the appearance itself. You can never touch the so-called reality that lies just beyond the reach of your own perception.",
+ "source": "The Dragon Prince"
+ }, {
+ "text": "Why, once I met this guy who knew this guy who knew this guy who knew this guy who knew this guy who knew this guy who knew this guy who knew this guy who knew this guy who knew this guy's cousin.",
+ "source": "SpongeBob SquarePants"
+ }, {
+ "text": "I'm so glad you came, I'm so glad you remembered, to see how we're ending our last dance together. Expectant, too punctual, but prettier than ever, I really believe that this time it's forever.",
+ "source": "Last Dance"
+ }, {
+ "text": "When I first learned the truth, I thought Sebastian's life would be ruined. But seeing you, I realized everything would be fine. Because someone still loved him.",
+ "source": "The Prince and the Dressmaker"
+ }, {
+ "text": "Home will always be here unseen out of sight, where I disappear and hide. I think dreamy things as I'm waving goodbye, so I'll spread out my wings and fly.",
+ "source": "Umbrella Beach"
+ }, {
+ "text": "Time, dear friend, time brings round opportunity; opportunity is the martingale of man. The more we have ventured the more we gain, when we know how to wait.",
+ "source": "The Three Musketeers"
+ }, {
+ "text": "A faerie heart is different from a human heart. Human hearts are elastic. They have room for all sorts of passions, and they can break and heal and love again and again. Faerie hearts are evolutionarily less sophisticated. They are small and hard, like tiny grains of sand. Our hearts are too small to love more than one person in a lifetime.",
+ "source": "Tiger Lily"
+ }, {
+ "text": "The Minipirates had little iron hooks instead of hands and wooden stumps instead of proper legs, nor did I ever see one without an eyepatch. At first I thought they'd been wounded during their reckless attempts to board a prize, but I later learned that they were born that way, complete with hats and moustaches.",
+ "source": "The 13 and a Half Lives of Captain Bluebear"
+ }, {
+ "text": "Death is but crossing the world, as friends do the seas; they live in one another still. For they must needs be present, that love and live in that which is omnipresent. In this divine glass they see face to face; and their converse is free, as well as pure. This is the comfort of friends, that thought they may be said to die, yet their friendship and society are, in the best sense, ever present, because immortal.",
+ "source": "More Fruits of Solitude"
+ }, {
+ "text": "In the beginning there was only a small amount of injustice abroad in the world, but everyone who came afterwards added their portion, always thinking it was very small and unimportant, and look where we have ended up today.",
+ "source": "The Devil and Miss Prym"
+ }, {
+ "text": "Of all the gin joints in all the towns in all the world, she walks into mine.",
+ "source": "Casablanca"
+ }, {
+ "text": "It led me by the hand, as if to fill the niches in the memories in my oozing brain fluid. Without even a destination, we kept walking. Disgusting clouds were floating in the sky. I already know what will happen to me the next time I wake up.",
+ "source": "Tokyo Ghoul"
+ }, {
+ "text": "No matter what they call us, however they attack, no matter where they take us, we'll find our own way back. I can't deny what I believe, I can't be what I'm not. I know I'll love forever, I know no matter what.",
+ "source": "No Matter What"
+ }, {
+ "text": "The problem with Microsoft is they just have no taste. They have absolutely no taste, and what that means is, and I don't mean that in a small way, I mean that in a big way.",
+ "source": "Triumph of the Nerds"
+ }, {
+ "text": "The time has come, to say fair's fair. To pay our rent, now, to pay our share. The time has come, a fact's a fact. It belongs to them, we're gonna give it back. How do we dance when our earth is turning? How do we sleep when our beds are burning?",
+ "source": "Beds are Burning"
+ }, {
+ "text": "If anybody asks you if you in this game, you tell 'em you in it for life, a'ight? You play it hard, you play it tight, and you make sure they know you gonna stand by your people. No loose talk, no second thoughts and no snitching. Play it like that.",
+ "source": "The Wire"
+ }, {
+ "text": "I remember the night you were charged with practicing iambic pentameter without a license.",
+ "source": "Cheers"
+ }, {
+ "text": "I'll live on and carry your name, and be what you always thought I could be. I hope we meet at the end. But I'll never forgive the world for taking my best friend.",
+ "source": "Bring Me Home"
+ }, {
+ "text": "Using the laser guide, you can steer your rocket past the gunship defenses and prevent it from shooting down your rocket. This will only anger it at first. But if you can survive long enough to make several direct hits, you will be rewarded with a prize worthy of any mantle piece.",
+ "source": "Half-Life 2"
+ }, {
+ "text": "Yes, Steve, I can tell you those things because when I said that we weren't releasing any information whatsoever I meant except his name, his address, his ethnicity, and what we think his motives are.",
+ "source": "The West Wing"
+ }, {
+ "text": "Look, I understand too little too late. I realize there are things you say and do you can never take back. But what would you be if you didn't even try? You have to try. So after a lot of thought, I'd like to reconsider. Please, if it's not too late, make it a cheeseburger.",
+ "source": "Here I Am"
+ }, {
+ "text": "I tried several times to call her, but after the first call, she wouldn't come to the phone any longer. I also sent flowers but with no luck. The smell of the flowers only made me sicker. The headaches got worse. I think I got stomach cancer. I shouldn't complain though. You're only as healthy as you feel.",
+ "source": "Taxi Driver"
+ }, {
+ "text": "It is the view of the ministry that theoretical knowledge will be sufficient to get you through your examinations, which after all, is what school is all about. And how is theory supposed to prepare us for what's out there? There is nothing out there dear, who do you imagine would want to attack children like yourself. Oh, I don't know, maybe, Lord Voldemort?",
+ "source": "Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix"
+ }, {
+ "text": "You can trust us to stick to you through thick and thin - to the bitter end. And you can trust us to keep any secret of yours - closer than you yourself keep it. But you cannot trust us to let you face trouble alone, and go off without a word. We are your friends, Frodo. Anyways: there it is. We know most of what Gandalf has told you. We know a good deal about the Ring. We are horribly afraid - but we are coming with you; or following you like hounds.",
+ "source": "The Lord of The Rings"
+ }, {
+ "text": "I think she wanted you, of all people, to know the truth. She wanted to live on in your memory, not as a soldier, but as a woman. But - she was forbidden to tell you herself. And that's why she told me. Snake, history will never know what she did. No one will ever learn the truth. Her story... her debriefing, will endure only in your heart. Everything she did, she did for her country. She sacrificed her life and her honor for her native land. She was a real hero. She was a true patriot.",
+ "source": "Metal Gear Solid 3: Snake Eater"
+ }, {
+ "text": "I find it wholesome to be alone the greater part of the time. To be in company, even with the best, is soon wearisome and dissipating. I love to be alone. I never found the companion that was so companionable as solitude.",
+ "source": "Walden"
+ }, {
+ "text": "I was long into my second decade of living single before I came to see my friends in the city for what they were: my personal community, my urban tribe.",
+ "source": "Urban Tribes: A Generation Redefines Friendship, Family, and Commitment"
+ }, {
+ "text": "Look and think as far ahead as possible. Often, a driver's natural reaction is to look at the wall or the point you're just about to get to. That's not enough. You won't drive a smooth, flowing line if you don't look far ahead. Looking well ahead, and concentrating on getting to where I'm looking, seems to really help me.",
+ "source": "Speed Secrets: Professional Race Driving Techniques"
+ }, {
+ "text": "Well, all I can say Gerry is that some marches are for things and some are against things, but never has there been a march for absolutely nothing. Now is our chance to put that right. Grab your toaster and kettle and discover like me, how great it feels to devote yourself to something truly purposeless. By doing something with absolutely no point to it, we eliminate the possibility of failure, because in a sense the worse it may go then the more it can be considered a success.",
+ "source": "Round Ireland with a Fridge"
+ }, {
+ "text": "The cost of a thing is the amount of what I will call life which is required to be exchanged for it, immediately or in the long run.",
+ "source": "Walden"
+ }, {
+ "text": "Now you make sure you tell old Marlo I burned the money. 'Cause it ain't about that paper. It's about me hurtin' his people and messin' with his world. Tell that boy he ain't man enough to come down to the street with Omar. You tell him that!",
+ "source": "The Wire"
+ }, {
+ "text": "If you have been rejected many times in your life, then one more rejection isn't going to make much difference. If you're rejected, don't automatically assume it's your fault. The other person may have several reasons for not doing what you are asking her to do: none of it may have anything to do with you. Perhaps the person is busy or not feeling well or genuinely not interested in spending time with you. Rejections are part of everyday life. Don't let them bother you. Keep reaching out to others. When you begin to receive positive responses then you are on the right track. It's all a matter of numbers. Count the positive responses and forget about the rejections.",
+ "source": "Meeting People Is Easy"
+ }, {
+ "text": "If I can't find the cure, I'll fix you with my love. No matter what you know, I'll fix you with my love. And if you say you're okay, I'm gonna heal you anyway. Promise I'll always be there, promise I'll be the cure.",
+ "source": "The Cure"
+ }, {
+ "text": "One, don't pick up the phone. You know he's only calling 'cause he's drunk and alone. Two, don't let him in. You'll have to kick him out again. Three, don't be his friend. You know you're gonna wake up in his bed in the morning, and if you're under him, you ain't getting over him.",
+ "source": "New Rules"
+ }, {
+ "text": "They had their faces twisted toward their haunches and found it necessary to walk backward, because they could not see ahead of them. And since he wanted so to see ahead, he looks behind and walks a backward path.",
+ "source": "The Divine Comedy"
+ }, {
+ "text": "Where it began, I can't begin to know, but then I know it's growing strong. Was in the spring, then spring became the summer. Who'd have believed you'd come along?",
+ "source": "Sweet Caroline"
+ }, {
+ "text": "Even a few people leaving would reverberate through the entire user base. The users are interconnected; that is the whole point. College kids are online because their friends are online, and if one domino goes, the other dominoes go. Don't you get that?",
+ "source": "The Social Network"
+ }, {
+ "text": "But sometimes illumination comes to our rescue at the very moment when all seems lost; we have knocked at every door and they open on nothing until, at last, we stumble unconsciously against the only one through which we can enter the kingdom we have sought in vain a hundred years - and it opens.",
+ "source": "In Search of Lost Time"
+ }, {
+ "text": "She may be the face I can't forget. The trace of pleasure or regret may be my treasure or the price I have to pay. She may be the song that summer sings. May be the chill the autumn brings. May be a hundred different things within the measure of a day.",
+ "source": "She"
+ }, {
+ "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"
+ }, {
+ "text": "I had a job, I had a girl. I had something going, mister, in this world. I got laid off down at the lumber yard, our love went bad, times got hard. Now I work down at the carwash, where all it ever does is rain. Don't you feel like you're a rider on a downbound train.",
+ "source": "Downbound Train"
+ }, {
+ "text": "The road is long with many a winding turn that leads us to who knows where. But I'm strong, strong enough to carry him. He ain't heavy, he's my brother.",
+ "source": "He Ain't Heavy He's My Brother"
+ }, {
+ "text": "What would you think if I sang out of tune? Would you stand up and walk out on me? Lend me your ears and I'll sing you a song and I'll try not to sing out of key. Oh I get by with a little help from my friends.",
+ "source": "With A Little Help From My Friends"
+ }, {
+ "text": "My tea's gone cold, I'm wondering why I got out of bed at all. The morning rain clouds up my window, and I can't see at all. And even if I could it'd all be gray, but your picture on my wall. It reminds me that it's not so bad, it's not so bad.",
+ "source": "Stan"
+ }, {
+ "text": "Very often research which has deeply interested me while I was investigating it loses its interest for me just after I have the solution, unhappily at a time which coincides with the period when I have to record it. After a while, say a couple of months, I come to a more just appreciation of it.",
+ "source": "The Psychology of Invention in the Mathematical Field"
+ }, {
+ "text": "The naked cannot clothe the poor in spirit with oxygen, and the wine I tasted reminded me of the night she took advantage of my advances rather than the blood sacrifice that I can make a better decision.",
+ "source": "I Died With You"
+ }, {
+ "text": "I still want to smack him. Or remind him that the last transfer we had from Abnegation, who is sitting right next to him, managed to knock out some of his teeth, so who knows what this next one will do.",
+ "source": "Four: A Divergent Collection"
+ }, {
+ "text": "There was a demon that lived in the air. They said whoever challenged him would die. Their controls would freeze up, their planes would buffet wildly, and they would disintegrate. The demon lived at Mach 1 on the meter, seven hundred and fifty miles an hour, where the air could no longer move out of the way. He lived behind a barrier through which they said no man could ever pass. They called it the sound barrier.",
+ "source": "The Right Stuff"
+ }, {
+ "text": "At night I'm driving in your car, pretending that we'll leave this town. We're watching all the streetlights fade. And now you're just a stranger's dream, I took your picture from my frame. And now you're nothing like you seem, your shadow fell like last night's rain.",
+ "source": "Shadow"
+ }, {
+ "text": "I have these thoughts so often, I ought to replace that slot with what I once bought; 'cause somebody stole my car radio and now I just sit in silence.",
+ "source": "Car Radio"
+ }, {
+ "text": "I called Betsy again at her office and she said maybe we'd go to a movie together after she gets off work tomorrow. That's my day off. At first she hesitated but I called her again and then she agreed.",
+ "source": "Taxi Driver"
+ }, {
+ "text": "Night gathers, and now my watch begins. It shall not end until my death. I shall take no wife, hold no lands, father no children. I shall wear no crowns and win no glory. I shall live and die at my post. I am the sword in the darkness. I am the watcher on the walls. I am the shield that guards the realms of men. I pledge my life and honor to the Night's Watch, for this night and all the nights to come.",
+ "source": "A Game of Thrones"
+ }, {
+ "text": "Well, that's the heart of our problem isn't it? You don't trust me. You still don't trust me. I may be a ward of the state, and I will do my job for the FBI, but as far as my personal life goes, we are done. We're done.",
+ "source": "White Collar"
+ }, {
+ "text": "Something inside me has always been there. But now it's awake. And I don't know what it is or where it came from, but I need help.",
+ "source": "Star Wars: The Last Jedi"
+ }, {
+ "text": "I'm in a crisis. I need help. Come on, mood, shift back to good again. Come on, be a friend. Nina Twin is trying to help, and I really hope that she succeeds. Though I picked the thorny path myself, I'm afraid of where it leads. Chemicals, don't strangle my pen. Chemicals, don't make me sick again. I'm always so dubious of your intent, like I can't afford to replace what you've spent. Come on, chemicals. Nina Twin is trying to help, and I really hope she gets me straight, because my own inner cosmology has become too dense to navigate.",
+ "source": "Heimdalsgate Like a Promethean Curse"
+ }, {
+ "text": "Whipped cream isn't whipped cream at all if it hasn't been whipped with whips, just like poached eggs isn't poached eggs unless it's been stolen in the dead of the night.",
+ "source": "Charlie and the Chocolate Factory"
+ }, {
+ "text": "Being able to quit things that don't work is integral to being a winner. Going into a project or job without defining when worthwhile becomes wasteful is like going into a casino without a cap on what you will gamble: dangerous and foolish.",
+ "source": "The 4-Hour Workweek"
+ }, {
+ "text": "Well, isn't this great, we've all learned something. Tony can't choose who his sister's gonna fall for, Monica can't choose who she's gonna fall for, and I think that I've learned the greatest lesson of all. I love being lifted.",
+ "source": "Taxi"
+ }, {
+ "text": "Oh, I don't know. I mean, what makes you think that elves are any more magical than something like... like a whale? You know what I mean? What if I told you a story about how underneath the ocean, there was this giant sea mammal that used sonar and sang songs and it was so big that its heart was the size of a car and you could crawl through the arteries? I mean, you'd think that was pretty magical, right?",
+ "source": "Boyhood"
+ }, {
+ "text": "And the great owners, who must lose their land in an upheaval, the great owners with access to history, with eyes to read history and to know the great fact: when property accumulates in too few hands it is taken away. And that companion fact: when a majority of the people are hungry and cold they will take by force what they need.",
+ "source": "The Grapes of Wrath"
+ }, {
+ "text": "She would not say of anyone in the world now that they were this or were that. She felt very young; at the same time unspeakably aged. She sliced like a knife through everything; at the same time was outside, looking on. She had a perpetual sense, as she watched the taxi cabs, of being out, out, far out to the sea and alone; she always had the feeling that it was very, very dangerous to live even one day.",
+ "source": "Mrs. Dalloway"
+ }, {
+ "text": "Is it a shame that I can't accept love? Am I too burned out to move towards what will keep me alive or too smart to get pulled into someone else's world?",
+ "source": "Solipsist"
+ }, {
+ "text": "There is a theory which states that if anybody ever discovers exactly what the Universe is for and why it is here, it will instantly disappear and be replaced by something even more bizarre and inexplicable. There is another theory which states that this has already happened.",
+ "source": "The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy"
+ }, {
+ "text": "It is vitally important for us to keep engaging with the world, with people whose lives are different from our own. Travel opens minds and hearts, expands our thinking, and breeds tolerance - all things that are fundamentally good for societies.",
+ "source": "Travel and Tolerance"
+ }, {
+ "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"
+ }, {
+ "text": "Well if you think I'm that type of girl, you've got another thing coming, mister. 'Cause I don't do one-night stands, I don't date musicians, and I don't roll over just because you bought in this game. Fair warning - I'll be resisting your every move and enjoying your every mistake. I trust it won't be the first time you made mistakes with the opposite sex.",
+ "source": "Plumbers Don't Wear Ties"
+ }, {
+ "text": "I would rather not have upset him, but I couldn't see any reason to change my life. Looking back on it, I wasn't unhappy. When I was a student, I had lots of ambitions like that. But when I had to give up my studies I learned very quickly that none of it really mattered.",
+ "source": "The Stranger"
+ }, {
+ "text": "I'd been asked this question hundreds of times over the years.",
+ "source": "The Fault in Our Stars"
+ }, {
+ "text": "One ring to rule them all, one ring to find them, one ring to rule them all, and in the darkness bind them.",
+ "source": "The Fellowship of the Ring"
+ }, {
+ "text": "It's not time to make a change. Just sit down and take it slowly. You're still young, that's your fault, there's so much you have to go through. Find a girl, settle down. If you want, you can marry. Look at me, I am old, but I'm happy.",
+ "source": "Father and Son"
+ }, {
+ "text": "The withered leaves collect at my feet and the wind begins to moan. Memory, all alone in the moonlight. I can dream of the old days, life was beautiful then. I remember the time I knew what happiness was. Let the memory live again.",
+ "source": "Memory"
+ }, {
+ "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.",
+ "source": "Dirty Laundry"
+ }, {
+ "text": "There she goes. There she goes again, racing through my brain. And I just can't contain this feeling that remains.",
+ "source": "There She Goes"
+ }, {
+ "text": "If one day I could get out of here, I would allow myself to be crazy. Everyone is indeed crazy, but the craziest are the ones who don't know they're crazy; they just keep repeating what others tell them to.",
+ "source": "Veronika Decides to Die"
+ }, {
+ "text": "The world ain't all sunshine and rainbows. It's a very mean and nasty place and I don't care how tough you are it will beat you to your knees and keep you there permanently if you let it. You, me, or nobody is gonna hit as hard as life. But it ain't about how hard you hit. It's about how hard you can get hit and keep moving forward. That's how winning is done! Now if you know what you're worth then go out and get what you're worth. But you've gotta be willing to take the hits, and not pointing fingers saying you ain't where you wanna be because of him, or her, or anybody! Cowards do that and that ain't you! You're better than that!",
+ "source": "Rocky IV"
+ }, {
+ "text": "When I look up at the night sky, and I know that, yes, we are part of this Universe, we are in this Universe, but perhaps more important than both of those facts is that the Universe is in us. When I reflect on that fact, I look up - many people feel small, 'cause they're small and the Universe is big, but I feel big, because my atoms came from those stars.",
+ "source": "The Most Astounding Fact"
+ }, {
+ "text": "We live in an age when people do more writing than they have at any other time in history. Not only have computers made it easier to produce clean texts, but they've also allowed average writers to create documents that twenty years ago would have required professional designers.",
+ "source": "Quick Access Reference for Writers"
+ }, {
+ "text": "You're not like the others. I've seen a few; I know. When I talk, you look at me. When I said something about the moon, you looked at the moon, last night.",
+ "source": "Fahrenheit 451"
+ }, {
+ "text": "Before me there stands an opportunity, there for the taking in this moment - this exact moment. I shall prepare myself to face a monster of which only I may conquer. Conjure the power bestowed upon our souls, conjure the power.",
+ "source": "Mikasa"
+ }, {
+ "text": "In this particular instance it is not at all far-fetched to think of it as a piercing ray of light, penetrating the chromatic coils and darkness of the storm and magically initiating the process of dispersal.",
+ "source": "Upheavals of Thought: The Intelligence of Emotions"
+ }, {
+ "text": "Imagine for a moment that among humans some people can fly. Government staff come and tell you that you can take a course that will teach you how. This sounds great, and one hears of emotional accounts of what it is like to soar in the sky. But you have no personal experience of what flying feels like. To learn it you must go for six to nine months daily to school. You do exercises like flapping your arms but you never really take off. And you do not often need to fly anywhere. Whenever you do, you can either take the plane or send a relative who can fly to do what is needed. So, is the benefit worth the effort?",
+ "source": "What We Know About Acquisition of Adult Literacy"
+ }, {
+ "text": "If I'm curt with you it's because time is a factor. I think fast, I talk fast and I need you guys to act fast if you wanna get out of this. So, pretty please with sugar on top. Clean the car!",
+ "source": "Pulp Fiction"
+ }, {
+ "text": "Liquor dealers had to be where they could run into people who might buy their consignments like detectives had to be where they were likeliest to hear the latest about a big tanker full of grain alcohol that for some reason hadn't shown up yet.",
+ "source": "The Bootlegger"
+ }, {
+ "text": "Here's what I think happened: the old man heard the fight between the boy and his father a few hours earlier. Then, when he's lying in his bed, he heard a body hit the floor in the boy's apartment, heard the woman scream from across the street, got to his front door as fast as he could, heard somebody racing down the stairs and assumed it was the boy!",
+ "source": "12 Angry Men"
+ }, {
+ "text": "Right, I am going to tell you how this works. You're going in the drink and I am going to make a cup of tea. Underneath the floor boards is the famous river Thames. I hope for your sakes you can hold your breath for as long as it takes to boil that kettle. After that, I am going to ask you a question, one question. You are going to give me a name and if it's the right name, I send you home warm and dry in a fresh set of clothes. If it's the wrong name, you'll be fed to the crayfish.",
+ "source": "RocknRolla"
+ }, {
+ "text": "When I lay with you I could stay there. Close my eyes, feel you here forever. You and me together, nothing gets better. I set fire to the rain, watched it pour as I touched your face. Well, it burned while I cried, 'cause I heard it screaming out your name.",
+ "source": "Set Fire to the Rain"
+ }, {
+ "text": "There's not a day goes by I don't feel regret. Not because I'm in here, because you think I should. I look back on the way I was then: a young, stupid kid who committed that terrible crime. I want to talk to him. I want to try to talk some sense to him, tell him the way things are. But I can't. That kid's long gone, and this old man is all that's left. I got to live with that.",
+ "source": "The Shawshank Redemption"
+ }, {
+ "text": "Beauty is in the eye of the beholder. Yet there are those who open many eyes. Eyes are the mirror of the soul, someone has said. So we look closely at the eyes to see the nature of the soul. Sometimes when we see the eyes - those horrible times when we see the eyes, eyes that, that have no soul - then we know a darkness, then we wonder: where is the beauty? There is none if the eyes are soulless.",
+ "source": "Twin Peaks"
+ }, {
+ "text": "I know you, I walked with you once upon a dream. I know you, the gleam in your eyes is so familiar a gleam. Yet I know it's true that visions are seldom all they seem, but if I know you, I know what you'll do - you'll love me at once, the way you did once upon a dream.",
+ "source": "Sleeping Beauty"
+ }, {
+ "text": "Dreams. Each man longs to pursue his dream. Each man is tortured by this dream, but the dream gives meaning to his life. Even if the dream ruins his life, man cannot allow himself to leave it behind. In this world, is man ever able to possess anything more solid, than a dream?",
+ "source": "Berserk"
+ }, {
+ "text": "There are many ways to get out; surrender is one, losing is another. Winning, cheating, which I don't recommend, but you have to do something. You have to have a strategy. See the number one rule in chess is this; whatever you do, don't play the other person's game. Play your own... Your move.",
+ "source": "Joan of Arcadia"
+ }, {
+ "text": "A necessary sacrifice to bring peace to this planet. We can not let the humans pay for our mistakes. It's been an honor serving with you all. Autobots, roll out!",
+ "source": "Transformers"
+ }, {
+ "text": "Whether this tale be true or false, none can tell, for none were there to witness it themselves.",
+ "source": "The Sigh"
+ }, {
+ "text": "The prize returns to me. Did you imagine that I would let you steal it from me? You what? That jewel belongs to my father and you know it. Your father, a good-for-nothing scavenger just like his daughter!",
+ "source": "Flushed Away"
+ }, {
+ "text": "The men in the room suddenly realized that they didn't want to know her better. She was beautiful, but she was beautiful in the way a forest fire was beautiful: something to be admired from a distance, not up close.",
+ "source": "Good Omens"
+ }, {
+ "text": "I have long loved you, and loved you even before I knew that I did.",
+ "source": "The Chronicles of Prydain"
+ }, {
+ "text": "If all else perished, and he remained, I should still continue to be; and if all else remained, and he were annihilated, the universe would turn to a mighty stranger.",
+ "source": "Wuthering Heights"
+ }, {
+ "text": "If I told you that a flower bloomed in a dark room would you trust it? I mean, I write poems in these songs dedicated to you when you're in the mood for empathy, there's blood on my pen.",
+ "source": "Poetic Justice"
+ }, {
+ "text": "What is finished is the idea that this great country is dedicated to the freedom and flourishing of every individual in it. It's the individual that's finished. It's the single, solitary human being that's finished. It's every single one of you out there that's finished, because this is no longer a nation of independent individuals.",
+ "source": "Network"
+ }, {
+ "text": "And these medications have a legitimate use. They've helped a lot of people. It's a generational thing. You know teenagers always find a way to abuse something. And why not, right? Being zonked out of your mind is a lot more fun than dealing with your problems.",
+ "source": "Charlie Bartlett"
+ }, {
+ "text": "Well, things are getting pretty serious right now. I mean, we chat online for, like, two hours every day so I guess you could say things are gettin' pretty serious.",
+ "source": "Napoleon Dynamite"
+ }, {
+ "text": "What is the point of being alive if you don't at least try to do something remarkable?",
+ "source": "An Abundance of Katherines"
+ }, {
+ "text": "There is no good and evil, there is only power and those too weak to seek it.",
+ "source": "Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone"
+ }, {
+ "text": "The real evil is the power to kill people. Someone who finds himself with that power is cursed. No matter how you use it, anything obtained by killing people can never bring true happiness.",
+ "source": "Death Note"
+ }, {
+ "text": "The proper purpose of law is to use the power of its collective force to stop this fatal tendency to plunder instead of to work. All the measures of the law should protect property and punish plunder. But, generally, the law is made by one man or one class of men. And since law cannot operate without the sanction and support of a dominating force, this force must be entrusted to those who make the laws.",
+ "source": "The Law"
+ }, {
+ "text": "There'll always be the argument that video games are meant to be played for fun. Believe me, some of it's a lot of fun. Video games are meant to be played at home, relaxing on a couch amongst friends. And they are, and that's fun. But competitive gaming, when you wanna attach your name to a world record, when you want your name written into history, you have to pay the price.",
+ "source": "The King of Kong: A Fistful of Quarters"
+ }, {
+ "text": "Therefore you should be desirous of hearing patiently the opinions of others, and consider and reflect carefully whether or no he who censures you has reason for his censure; and correct your work if you find that he is right, but if not, then let it seem that you have not understood him, or - in case he is a man whom you esteem - show him by argument why it is that he is mistaken.",
+ "source": "The Notebooks of Leonardo"
+ }, {
+ "text": "I've thought about this a lot. If we're together this is what's going to happen. I'm going to keep pursuing what I'm pursuing, and it's going to take up more and more of my time. You're going to see me less and less. When you do, I'll be distracted, I'll be upset, I'll be playing things in my mind. And you're going to just grow to resent me. At a certain point, you'll tell me to ease up on the drumming, to spend more time with you. And I won't be able to. And I'll start to resent you for even asking me that. I'll feel like you're dragging me down, you'll feel like you don't matter - and before long, we'll hate each other. So I think we should just cut it off now, cleanly, for those reasons.",
+ "source": "Whiplash"
+ }, {
+ "text": "Tommy had felt alone in a crowd before, even inferior to everyone in a crowd, but now he felt, well, different. It wasn't just the clothes and the make up, it was the humanity. He wasn't part of it. Heightened senses or not, he felt like he had his nose pressed against the window, looking in. The problem was, it was the window of a donut shop.",
+ "source": "You Suck"
+ }, {
+ "text": "If I had had the power to prevent my own birth I should certainly never have consented to accept existence under such ridiculous conditions.",
+ "source": "The Idiot"
+ }, {
+ "text": "Are you telling me that not only did you invent a secret plan to fight inflation but now you don't support it?",
+ "source": "The West Wing"
+ }, {
+ "text": "What we do know is that, as the chemical window closed, another awakening took place; that the human spirit is more powerful than any drug - and that is what needs to be nourished: with work, play, friendship, family. These are the things that matter. This is what we'd forgotten - the simplest things.",
+ "source": "Awakenings"
+ }, {
+ "text": "We may never know who killed Paige. But this isn't about you not going to jail for Paige's murder, this is about you not living a lie. Not hiding. This is about you standing up and being who you are. That's honorable, that's brave, that's heroic, and that's who you are, Sully. You're a hero. You fought a war and you were braver than I can ever imagine being. This is just another war - for every gay person who ever wore a uniform. Be brave now.",
+ "source": "Scandal"
+ }, {
+ "text": "Finally, sparing neither labor nor expense, I succeeded in constructing for myself so excellent an instrument that objects seen by means of it appeared nearly one thousand times larger and over thirty times closer than when regarded with our natural vision.",
+ "source": "Sidereus Nuncius"
+ }, {
+ "text": "We frequently pass so near to happiness without seeing, without regarding it, or if we do see and regard it, yet without recognizing it.",
+ "source": "The Count of Monte Cristo"
+ }, {
+ "text": "Klausner sat down beside the telephone and waited. He tried to remember what the shriek of the tree had sounded like, but he couldn't. He could remember only that it had been enormous and frightful and that it had made him feel sick with horror. He tried to imagine what sort of noise a human would make if he had to stand anchored to the ground while someone deliberately swung a small sharp thing at his leg so that the blade cut in deep and wedged itself in the cut. Same sort of noise perhaps?",
+ "source": "The Sound Machine"
+ }, {
+ "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.",
+ "source": "My Youth Romantic Comedy is Wrong, as I Expected"
+ }, {
+ "text": "The morning sun in all its glory greets the day with hope and comfort too. And you fill my life with laughter, you can make it better.",
+ "source": "Have I Told You Lately"
+ }, {
+ "text": "Really knowing is good. Not knowing, or refusing to know, is bad, or amoral, at least. You can't act if you don't know. Acting without knowing takes you right off the cliff.",
+ "source": "Something Wicked This Way Comes"
+ }, {
+ "text": "Well, I guess the gentlemen are in a pretty tall hurry to get me out of here. The way the evidence has piled up against me, I can't say I blame them much. And I'm quite willing to go, sir, when they vote it that way but before that happens I've got a few things I want to say to this body. I tried to say them once before and I got stopped colder than a mackerel. Well, I'd like to get them said this time, sir. And as a matter of fact I'm not going to leave this body until I do get them said.",
+ "source": "Mr. Smith Goes to Washington"
+ }, {
+ "text": "I can lead with pride, I can make us strong. I'll be satisfied if I play along, but the voice inside sings a different song. What is wrong with me? See the light as it shines on the sea, it's blinding. But no one knows how deep it goes. And it seems like it's calling out to me, so come find me, and let me know what's beyond that line. When will I cross that line? The line where the sky meets the sea, it calls me. And no one knows how far it goes. If the wind in my sail on the sea stays behind me, one day I'll know how far I'll go.",
+ "source": "How Far I'll Go"
+ }, {
+ "text": "Opening your eyes is all that is needing. The heart lies and the head plays tricks with us, but the eyes see true. Look with your eyes. Hear with your ears. Taste with your mouth. Smell with your nose. Feel with your skin. Then comes the thinking, afterward, and in that way knowing the truth.",
+ "source": "A Game of Thrones"
+ }, {
+ "text": "There's no such thing as a painless 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": "Fullmetal Alchemist: Brotherhood"
+ }, {
+ "text": "I can't perform under pressure. That's why I never play anything for money, I choke. I could choke tonight. And she works in my office, can you imagine? She goes around telling everyone what happened? Maybe I should cancel, I have a very bad feeling about this.",
+ "source": "Seinfeld"
+ }, {
+ "text": "On some shelf in some hexagon, it was argued, there must exist a book that is the cipher and perfect compendium of all other books, and some librarian must have examined that book; this librarian is analogous to a god.",
+ "source": "The Library of Babel"
+ }, {
+ "text": "I was trying to feel some kind of good-bye. I mean I've left schools and places I didn't even know I was leaving them. I hate that. I don't care if it's a sad good-bye or a bad good-bye, but when I leave a place I like to know I'm leaving it. If you don't you feel even worse.",
+ "source": "The Catcher in the Rye"
+ }, {
+ "text": "We sit silently and watch the world around us. This has taken us a lifetime to learn. It seems only the old are able to sit next to one another and not say anything and still feel content. The young, brash and impatient, must always break the silence. It is a waste, for silence is pure. Silence is holy. It draws people together because only those who are comfortable with each other can sit without speaking. This is the great paradox.",
+ "source": "The Notebook"
+ }, {
+ "text": "He rode past me and kept on goin'. Never said nothin' goin' by. He just rode on past and he had his blanket wrapped around him and his head down. And when he rode past I seen he was carryin' fire in a horn the way people used to do and I could see the horn from the light inside of it. About the color of the moon. 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"
+ }, {
+ "text": "Pork and beans are actually cooked in the can. One fairly large piece of pork is placed in the can before cooking. After being heated during processing, it melts down to the size you see in the can, its flavor having permeated the beans.",
+ "source": "Why Do Clocks Run Clockwise?: Mysteries of Everyday Life Explained"
+ }, {
+ "text": "If you are looking for ransom, I can tell you I don't have money.",
+ "source": "Taken"
+ }, {
+ "text": "And in the world a heart of darkness, a firezone, where poets speak their hearts then bleed for it. Jara sang, his song a weapon, in the hands of love. You know his blood still cries from the ground. It runs like a river to the sea. We run like a river runs to the sea.",
+ "source": "One Tree Hill"
+ }, {
+ "text": "Everyone always wants new things. Everybody likes new inventions, new technology. People will never be replaced by machines. In the end, life and business are about human connections. And computers are about trying to murder you in a lake. And to me the choice is easy.",
+ "source": "The Office"
+ }, {
+ "text": "How would he like to come with me to the Museum of Natural History after everyone else has left, just the two of us, and he can touch anything he wants. I just heard it as you must have heard it and that's not good. Let me start again. I'm a paleontologist, you'll be there with us and the touching refers only to bones - fossils!",
+ "source": "Friends"
+ }, {
+ "text": "Seeing someone lose it like that. You know, it reminded me of how I feel sometimes. Like I'm on the verge of just blowing up. All the stress and pressure and anxiety just bubbling up. But I'm never able to let it out like that. You know, I just keep it inside.",
+ "source": "It's Kind of a Funny Story"
+ }, {
+ "text": "Your problem is you spent your whole life thinking there are rules. There aren't. We used to be gorillas. All we had is what we could take and defend. The truth is, you're more of a man today than you were yesterday.",
+ "source": "Fargo (TV)"
+ }, {
+ "text": "And I have one of those very loud, stupid laughs. I mean if I ever sat behind myself in a movie or something, I'd probably lean over and tell myself to please shut up.",
+ "source": "The Catcher in the Rye"
+ }, {
+ "text": "There were those of us who fought against this. But in the end, we could not keep up with the expense involved in the arms race, the space race, and the peace race. And at the same time, our people grumbled for more nylons and washing machines. Our Doomsday scheme cost us just a small fraction of what we'd been spending on defense in a single year. But the deciding factor was when we learned that your country was working along similar lines, and we were afraid of a Doomsday gap.",
+ "source": "Dr. Strangelove or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb"
+ }, {
+ "text": "You been confusing since the day I met you. Another night chasing, this feels like home. Since I've been miles away, no change. Outsider inside looking dazed. Just wash the glitter off your face and go home.",
+ "source": "nowhere else"
+ }, {
+ "text": "Well then, from out of nowhere, a huge tidal wave lifted me, tossed me like a cork, and I found myself right on top of him - face to face with the blowhole. I could barely see from the waves crashing down upon me, but I knew something was there. So I reached my hand in, felt around, and pulled out the obstruction.",
+ "source": "Seinfeld"
+ }, {
+ "text": "Today you are you, that is truer than true. There is no one alive who is youer than you.",
+ "source": "Happy Birthday to You!"
+ }, {
+ "text": "If I lay here, if I just lay here, would you lie with me and just forget the world?",
+ "source": "Chasing Cars"
+ }, {
+ "text": "To win back my youth, there is nothing I wouldn't do - except take exercise, get up early, or be a useful member of the community.",
+ "source": "A Woman of No Importance"
+ }, {
+ "text": "Don't let us forget that the causes of human actions are usually immeasurably more complex and varied than our subsequent explanations of them.",
+ "source": "The Idiot"
+ }, {
+ "text": "You are too concerned with what was and what will be. There is a saying: Yesterday is history, tomorrow is a mystery, but today is a gift. That is why it is called the present.",
+ "source": "Kung Fu Panda"
+ }, {
+ "text": "Well, the problem is, it's not easy for me to think of ways to improve myself, because I'm pretty much one of the best people I know.",
+ "source": "Diary of a Wimpy Kid"
+ }, {
+ "text": "Well, it just so happens, this hacienda comes with its very own private beach. And this private beach just so happens to look particularly beautiful bathed in moonlight. And there just so happens to be a full moon out tonight.",
+ "source": "Kill Bill, Volume 2"
+ }, {
+ "text": "Fly me to the moon and let me play among the stars. Let me see what spring is like on Jupiter and Mars. In other words, hold my hand. In other words, darling kiss me. Fill my heart with song and let me sing forevermore. You are all I long for, all I worship and adore. In other words, please be true. In other words, I love you.",
+ "source": "Fly Me to the Moon"
+ }, {
+ "text": "So glad of this as they I cannot be, who are surprised withal.",
+ "source": "The Tempest"
+ }, {
+ "text": "Bypasses are devices that allow some people to dash from point A to point B very fast while other people dash from point B to point A very fast. People living at point C, being a point directly in between, are often given to wonder what's so great about point A that so many people from point B are so keen to get there, and what's so great about point B that so many people from point A are so keen to get there. They often wish that people would just once and for all work out where the hell they wanted to be.",
+ "source": "Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy"
+ }, {
+ "text": "That's because we're uncool. And while women will always be a problem for us, most of the great art in the world is about that very same problem. Good-looking people don't have any spine. Their art never lasts. They get the girls, but we're smarter.",
+ "source": "Almost Famous"
+ }, {
+ "text": "I can practically see your face and another revolutionary falls from grace. Hear the thunder in your brain. Not enough sunshine, too much rain.",
+ "source": "Swamp Thing"
+ }, {
+ "text": "When you decide to be something, you can be it. That's what they don't tell you in the church. When I was your age they would say we can become cops, or criminals. Today, what I'm saying to you is this: when you're facing a loaded gun, what's the difference?",
+ "source": "The Departed"
+ }, {
+ "text": "We fight every night for something. When the sun sets, we're both the same. Half in the shadows, half burned in flames. We can't look back for nothing. Take what you need, say your goodbyes. I gave you everything and it's a beautiful crime.",
+ "source": "Beautiful Crime"
+ }, {
+ "text": "Father snores as his wife gets into her dressing gown, picks up the letter that's lying there. Standing alone at the top of the stairs, she breaks down and cries to her husband.",
+ "source": "She's Leaving Home"
+ }, {
+ "text": "It's called cellular because your car phone is tied into different radio transmitters, each one called a cell. And as you travel, the signal from your phone travels from cell to cell.",
+ "source": "The Eighties"
+ }, {
+ "text": "Scientists talk about dark matter, the invisible, mysterious substance that occupies the space between stars. Dark matter makes up 99.99 percent of the universe, and they don't know what it is. Well I do. It's apathy. That's the truth of it; pile together everything we know and care about in the universe and it will still be nothing more than a tiny speck in the middle of a vast black ocean.",
+ "source": "John Dies at the End"
+ }, {
+ "text": "You're not going through it. It's going through you. And once it's all gone, you become the new you, with a different perspective from the same point of view, fully unaffected by the old truth you once knew. Connected at the roots, to the trunk, to the branches, to the leaves and the way they fly away when wind dances. A frantic see saw free fall in mid air that represents the floating folly of us being here, we're complicated creatures huh?",
+ "source": "Start A Fire"
+ }, {
+ "text": "Have you ever sailed across an ocean, Donald, on a sail boat surrounded by sea with no land in sight, without even the possibility of sighting land for days to come, to stand at the helm of your destiny? I want that, one more time.",
+ "source": "The Blacklist"
+ }, {
+ "text": "A turn here, a turn there, and it goes on for years, becomes something else. I'm sorry, you know, for the man I became, the father I was... I hope you got the strength to learn from that. And I hope you got no doubts how much I loved you, son. You're better than me. If I'd been stronger, I would've been more like you. Hell, son, if everyone was stronger, they'd be more like you.",
+ "source": "True Detective"
+ }, {
+ "text": "In Newton's time it was possible for an educated person to have a grasp of the whole of human knowledge, at least in outline. But since then, the pace of the development of science has made this impossible. Because theories are always being changed to account for new observations, they are never properly digested or simplified so that ordinary people can understand them.",
+ "source": "A Brief History of Time"
+ }, {
+ "text": "Do not go gentle into that good night. Old age should burn and rave at close of day; rage, rage against the dying of the light. Though wise men at their end know dark is right, because their words had forked no lightning they do not go gentle into that good night. Good men, the last wave by, crying how bright their frail deeds might have danced in a green bay, rage, rage against the dying of the light. Wild men who caught and sang the sun in flight, and learn, too late, they grieved it on its way, do not go gentle into that good night.",
+ "source": "Do Not Go Gentle Into That Good Night"
+ }, {
+ "text": "Come on and love me just a little bit. I'm gonna teach you how to sing it out. Come on, let me show you what it's all about.",
+ "source": "ABC"
+ }, {
+ "text": "Fortunately you have got someone who relies on you. We started out as friends, but the thought of you just caves me in. The symptoms are so deep. It is much too late to turn away. We started out as friends.",
+ "source": "Sign Your Name"
+ }, {
+ "text": "It's strange, but the way you look right now sort of looks like this tree. It looks all dark and gloomy, almost like it could start crying any second now. How sad...",
+ "source": "The Legend of Zelda: Majora's Mask"
+ }, {
+ "text": "I'm not sure what he thinks is going to happen, but I've decided I'm going to write in it every day if I can.",
+ "source": "The Night Diary"
+ }, {
+ "text": "I've never tried to keep a specific person alive before, and it's much more troublesome than I would have believed. But that's probably just because it's you. Ordinary people seem to make it through the day without so many catastrophes.",
+ "source": "Twilight"
+ }, {
+ "text": "A little bit of Monica in my life, a little bit of Erica by my side, a little bit of Rita's all I need, a little bit of Tina's what I see, a little bit of Sandra in the sun, a little bit of Mary all night long, a little bit of Jessica here I am, a little bit of you makes me your man.",
+ "source": "Mambo No. 5"
+ }, {
+ "text": "No, the goal of war is not to kill. The goal of war is to win. By surrounding the enemy, you would force him only to fight more desperately. If you surround him on three sides and leave him an escape route, he will leave your land and there will be less blood spilled on both sides. For a warrior of the Mandinka, courage is not enough.",
+ "source": "Roots"
+ }, {
+ "text": "Sometimes you're the windshield, sometimes you're the bug.\r\nSometimes it all comes together baby. Sometimes you're a fool in love. Sometimes you're the Louisville Slugger. Sometimes you're the ball. Sometimes it all comes together baby. Sometimes you're going to lose it all.",
+ "source": "The Bug"
+ }, {
+ "text": "Are you sure? Fine! Well, you go and have a really good night's sleep then, I'm hoping to get a couple hours later on myself but I'll be up in good time to serve you your breakfast in bed. If you can remember to sleep with your mouth open you won't even have to wake up, I'll just drop in small pieces of lightly buttered kipper when you're breathing in the right direction if that doesn't put you out!",
+ "source": "Fawlty Towers"
+ }, {
+ "text": "I think if your clients want to sit on my shoulders and call themselves tall, they have the right to give it a try. But there's no requirement that I enjoy sitting here listening to people lie. You have part of my attention. You have the minimum amount. The rest of my attention is back at the offices of Facebook, where my colleagues and I are doing things that no one in this room, including and especially your clients, are intellectually or creatively capable of doing.",
+ "source": "The Social Network"
+ }, {
+ "text": "There was only one catch and that was Catch-22, which specified that a concern for one's safety in the face of dangers that were real and immediate was the process of a rational mind. Orr was crazy and could be grounded. All he had to do was ask; and as soon as he did, he would no longer be crazy and would have to fly more missions.",
+ "source": "Catch-22"
+ }, {
+ "text": "I've taken my bows and my curtain calls. You brought me fame and fortune, and everything that goes with it. I thank you all. But it's been no bed of roses, no pleasure cruise. I consider it a challenge before the whole human race, and I ain't gonna lose.",
+ "source": "We Are The Champions"
+ }, {
+ "text": "I don't want tickets, I need you to find me a painting, a classic, been nicked out of Lenny's house. And since you got more feet on the street than coppers on the beat, I'd like you to assist. I'll leave you a little livener. There's a large twenty to get some tongues wagging.",
+ "source": "RocknRolla"
+ }, {
+ "text": "Every night, I live and die, feel the party to my bones. Watch the wasters blow the speakers, spill my guts beneath the outdoor light. It's just another graceless night.",
+ "source": "Perfect Places"
+ }, {
+ "text": "But the queen - too long she has suffered the pain of love,\r\nhour by hour nursing the wound with her lifeblood,\r\nconsumed by the fire buried in her heart. His looks, his words, they pierce her heart and cling - no peace, no rest for her body, love will give her none.",
+ "source": "The Aeneid"
+ }, {
+ "text": "It can't be, somebody tell me this is all a dream. Left your rings, like the life we had didn't mean a thing... can't you see you've broken me? Oh Valerie, this isn't how our story had to be. Oh Valerie, thought you'd always be a part of me. I don't know if you know, I still think about you, oh... if you're ever coming home - I miss you so.",
+ "source": "Valerie"
+ }, {
+ "text": "Love is when you look into someone's eyes and suddenly you go all the way inside, to their soul, and you both know instantly. I always imagined I'd fall in love nursing a blind soldier who was wounded in battle. Or maybe while rescuing someone in the middle of a blizzard, seconds before the avalanche hits. I thought at least by the age of fifteen I'd have a love life, but I don't even have a like life!",
+ "source": "My So-Called Life"
+ }, {
+ "text": "It is something to be able to paint a particular picture, or to carve a statue, and so to make a few objects beautiful; but it is far more glorious to carve and paint the very atmosphere and medium through which we look, which morally we can do. To affect the quality of the day, that is the highest of arts.",
+ "source": "Walden"
+ }, {
+ "text": "This is for the record. History is written by the victor. History is filled with liars. If he lives, and we die, his truth becomes written - and ours is lost. Shepherd will be a hero, 'cause all you need to change the world is one good lie and a river of blood. He's about to complete the greatest trick a liar ever played on history. His truth will be the truth. But only if he lives, and we die.",
+ "source": "Call Of Duty: Modern Warfare 2"
+ }, {
+ "text": "I appreciate but can't accept this thank you note that's sealed with your last breath, and I won't stand aside and listen to you give up.",
+ "source": "My Reply"
+ }, {
+ "text": "What were you thinking, telling me to change my game? This star wasn't going anywhere, it was kaput! Don't you see what I've done with this place, with this whole thing? Don't you see that I've changed the game? No, I am the game! Before I knew where this was going, I would've listened to you. Right now I distance myself from whatever you have to say. I've made this something way bigger than you are ever gonna be. I made it this far, and I'm taking it to the top.",
+ "source": "Initial D: Fifth Stage"
+ }, {
+ "text": "That's great Rachel, but I'm on my third glass of chardonnay and I don't think you called me over here to tell me you submitted your application to the bar, or that you're putting your foot down with Louis.",
+ "source": "Suits"
+ }, {
+ "text": "As you know the concept of the suction pump is centuries old. Really that's all this is except that instead of sucking water I'm sucking life. I've just sucked one year of your life away. I might one day go as high as five but I really don't know what that would do to you. So let's just start with what we have. What did this do to you? Tell me. And remember, this is for posterity so be honest. How do you feel?",
+ "source": "The Princess Bride"
+ }, {
+ "text": "Winning? Is that what you think it's about? I'm not trying to win. I'm not doing this because I want to beat someone, or because I hate someone, or because I want to blame someone. It's not because it's fun, God knows it's not because it's easy, and it's not even because it works, because it hardly ever does. I do what I do because it's right. Because it's decent. And above all, it's kind. It's just that. Just kind. If I run away today, good people will die. If I stand and fight, some of them might live. Maybe not many, maybe not for long. Hey, you know, maybe there's no point in any of this at all, but it's the best I can do, so I'm going to do it, and I will stand here doing it until it kills me, and you're going to die, too. Someday.",
+ "source": "Doctor Who"
+ }, {
+ "text": "I can and do say that nothing human beings have ever before attempted in the entire nutty history of the race even approaches this in absolute fascination. When I first understood what this project is about I didn't sleep for two nights, and I don't mean in the usual way; I mean I literally did not sleep.",
+ "source": "Time and Again"
+ }, {
+ "text": "We live in an age when people do more writing than they have at any other time in history. Not only have computers made it easier to produce clean texts, but they've also allowed average writers to create documents that twenty years ago would have required professional designers.",
+ "source": "Quick Access Reference for Writers"
+ }, {
+ "text": "Open to everything happy and sad, seeing the good when it's all going bad. Seeing the sun when I can't really see, hoping the sun will at least look at me. Focus on everything better today; all that I needed I never could say. Hold on to people - they're slipping away. Hold on to this while it's slipping away.",
+ "source": "Slipping Away"
+ }, {
+ "text": "First time we had dinner, you asked me what I wanted from you. And the first time we kissed, I realized that I don't want anything... except you. And now I'm asking if you'll go on one more adventure with me. Sara Ellis, will you marry me?",
+ "source": "White Collar"
+ }, {
+ "text": "You like boats but not the ocean. You go to a lake in the summer with your family up in the mountains. There's a long wooden dock and a boathouse with boards missing from the roof and a place you used to crawl underneath to be alone. You're a sucker for French poetry and rhinestones. You're very generous. You're kind to strangers and children and when you stand in the snow you look like an angel.",
+ "source": "Groundhog Day"
+ }, {
+ "text": "On the contrary, it may happen that the atoms are launched in a rather disorderly manner. If so, most of the meetings will be uninteresting ones; but on the other hand, as in a kind of lottery, that disorder can be highly valuable, because the few meetings which are useful, being of an exceptional nature and between seemingly very remote ideas, will probably be the most important ones.",
+ "source": "The Psychology of Invention in the Mathematical Field"
+ }, {
+ "text": "The jagged mountains were pure blue in the dawn and everywhere birds twittered and the sun when it rose caught the moon in the west so that they lay opposed to each other across the earth, the sun whitehot and the moon a pale replica, as if they were the ends of a common bore beyond whose terminals burned worlds past all reckoning. As the riders came up through the mesquite and pyracantha single file in a light clank of arms and chink of bitrings the sun climbed and the moon set and the horses and the dewsoaked mules commenced to steam in flesh and in shadow.",
+ "source": "Blood Meridian"
+ }, {
+ "text": "Take me home to the friends I've always known. Take me home, back to the place where I belong. A distant coast line, what peaks insight, washing the white of that ocean's tide.",
+ "source": "Home"
+ }, {
+ "text": "A mortal, Frodo, who keeps one of the Great Rings, does not die, but he does not grow or obtain more life, he merely continues, until at last every minute is a weariness. And if he often uses the Ring to make himself invisible, he fades: he becomes in the end invisible permanently, and walks in the twilight under the eye of the Dark Power that rules the Rings.",
+ "source": "The Lord of The Rings"
+ }, {
+ "text": "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\""
+ }, {
+ "text": "For once I can touch what my heart used to dream of long before I knew someone warm like you would make my dreams come true.",
+ "source": "For Once in My Life"
+ }, {
+ "text": "I hear you're buying a synthesizer and an arpeggiator and are throwing your computer out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Yaz record. I hear that you and your band have sold your guitars and bought turntables. I hear that you and your band have sold your turntables and bought guitars. I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.",
+ "source": "Losing My Edge"
+ }, {
+ "text": "I am the happiest creature in the world. Perhaps other people have said so before, but not one with such justice. I am happier even than Jane; she only smiles, I laugh.",
+ "source": "Pride and Prejudice"
+ }, {
+ "text": "You're telling us you killed those three young men on the subway? And why should we believe you? I've got nothing left to lose, nothing can hurt me anymore. My life, is nothing but a comedy. Let me get this straight, you think killing those guys is funny. I do, and I'm tired of pretending it's not. Comedy is subjective Murray, isn't that what they say. All of you, this system that knows so much, you decide what's right or wrong. The same way that you decide what's funny, or not.",
+ "source": "Joker"
+ }, {
+ "text": "So I go about my day as normal. But I can't seem to pass it off as just a random event. It consumes me. I thought I was moving on, but I guess I was just switching off. And now I see my life as the banal slog it instantly became. And I don't know if I can go on the same. But I don't wanna dig up old bones. I mean, I don't even know if she has the same phone number. Who knows? Maybe she does.",
+ "source": "Past Life"
+ }, {
+ "text": "Hanging by threads of palest silver, I could have stayed that way forever. Bad blood and ghosts wrapped tight around me, nothing could ever seem to touch me. I lose what I love most; did you know I was lost until you found me?",
+ "source": "A Stroke of Luck"
+ }, {
+ "text": "Look at the night and it don't seem so lonely. We filled it up with only two, and when I hurt, hurting runs off my shoulder. How can I hurt when I'm holding you?",
+ "source": "Sweet Caroline"
+ }, {
+ "text": "Come to me now and rest your head for just five minutes, everything is good. Such a cozy room, the windows are illuminated by the evening, sunshine through them, fiery gems for you, only for you.",
+ "source": "Our House"
+ }, {
+ "text": "Works of art participate in our lives; we are not just distant observers of their lives. They are in conversation among themselves and with us.",
+ "source": "What Are People For?"
+ }, {
+ "text": "So when you find yourself locked onto an unpleasant train of thought, heading for the places in your past where the screaming is unbearable, remember there's always madness. Madness is the emergency exit.",
+ "source": "Batman: The Killing Joke"
+ }, {
+ "text": "I will not vanish, you will not scare me. Try to get through it, try to push through it. You were not thinking that I will not do it. They be lovin' someone and I'm another story. Take the next ticket, get the next train. Why would I do it? Anyone'd think that.",
+ "source": "Let It Happen"
+ }, {
+ "text": "I open up the paper. There's a story of an actor who had died while he was drinking. He was no one I had heard of. And I'm turning to the horoscope and looking for the funnies when I'm feeling someone watching me.",
+ "source": "Tom's Diner"
+ }, {
+ "text": "With all due respect ma'am, I'm done wasting my breath on you, because the purpose of this hearing was to determine if Mike Ross had reformed. But you don't seem to be interested in that because you've already made your mind up.",
+ "source": "Suits"
+ }, {
+ "text": "The explosion would be just the right size to maximize the amount of paperwork your lab would face. If the explosion were smaller, you could potentially cover it up. If it were larger, there would be no one left in the city to submit paperwork to.",
+ "source": "What If?"
+ }, {
+ "text": "I have to disagree. I make good life choices. Mostly because they're forced on me, but I make them. And I find myself in unpleasant situations all the time. You know why? Because even if you have a choice it can and will be taken away from you.",
+ "source": "Wonderfalls"
+ }, {
+ "text": "He also swore himself by a binding oath that whatever wife he married he would abate her maidenhead at night and slay her next morning to make sure of his honour.",
+ "source": "The Arabian Nights"
+ }, {
+ "text": "Now if you choose not to respond to my parental authority I should warn you I have mind-altering drugs in the other room and I'm not afraid to use them.",
+ "source": "Everwood"
+ }, {
+ "text": "For years I've been rushing around, taking whatever I fancied, not giving a tinker's curse for those I hurt. Yet here I am... with riches and reputation, feeling no wiser than when I left home. Yet when I turn around, and look at the course I've run... there's not a man or woman that I love left standing beside me.",
+ "source": "Assassin's Creed 4"
+ }, {
+ "text": "In one small part of space, the war continues. In war, there can be only one victor. Space is an uninhabited wilderness and bloody wounds disappear with time. Maybe the multitude of stars in the sky remember those wounds. Maybe it is fated that even those stars will vanish one day. Man's presence in the midst of these stars is all that remains of a forgotten battle.",
+ "source": "Legend of the Galactic Heroes"
+ }, {
+ "text": "He'd been terrified of dying his entire life, and as much as he tried not to think about it, death was always in the back of his head, around every corner, and hovering on each horizon. He'd brushed shoulders with death on a few occasions, but in his carefree youth, it had almost seemed like an abstract, impossible thing to ever happen to him. But with each passing decade, he began to gauge the time he probably had left, and by his 40s - what he considered his halfway point at best - he had come to know just one thing: you will only get older. The next thing you know, you're looking back instead of forward.",
+ "source": "It's Such a Beautiful Day"
+ }, {
+ "text": "If this had been an old house, with creaking wood, and dark shadows, and heavily panelled walls, there might have been an eerie feeling. But this house was the essence of modernity. There were no dark corners - no possible sliding panels - it was flooded with electric light - everything was new and bright and shining. There was nothing hidden in this house, nothing concealed. It had no atmosphere about it. Somehow, that was the most frightening thing of all...",
+ "source": "And Then There Were None"
+ }, {
+ "text": "He didn't know if that was really true or not, but he discovered something which was tremendously liberating: he didn't care. He was very tired of thinking and thinking and still not knowing. He was also tired of being frightened, like a man who has entered a cave on a lark and now begins to suspect he is lost. Stop thinking about it, then. That's the solution.",
+ "source": "The Dark Half"
+ }, {
+ "text": "But maybe this isn't the end of the road, maybe it's a stop-off, a moment to reflect before moving on. Because that's how we honor those we've lost: by looking forward, not back. You see, this is one of those stories with a moral. And the moral is simply this: life persists.",
+ "source": "The Transformers: Last Stand of the Wreckers"
+ }, {
+ "text": "It wasn't that I had anything against the movies, but they had never been very important to me, and not once in more than fifteen years of teaching and writing had I felt the urge to talk about them. I liked them as everyone else did - as diversions, as animated wallpaper, as fluff. No matter how beautiful or hypnotic the images sometimes were, they never satisfied me as powerfully as words did. Too much was given, I felt, not enough was left to the viewer's imagination, and the paradox was that the closer movies came to simulating reality, the worse they failed at representing the world - which is in us as much as it is around us.",
+ "source": "The Book of Illusions"
+ }, {
+ "text": "There was a time not that long ago when many drivers thought nothing of tossing empty bottles out the windows of their cars. Years later, these same citizens came to realize that littering was not an acceptable way to dispose of their trash. The web design community is now undergoing a similar shift in attitude, and web standards are key to this transformation.",
+ "source": "Designing with Web Standards"
+ }, {
+ "text": "He looked at her the way all women want to be looked at by a man.",
+ "source": "The Great Gatsby"
+ }, {
+ "text": "Too many times we stand aside and let the waters slip away 'til what we put off 'til tomorrow has now become today. So don't you sit upon the shoreline and say you're satisfied. Choose to chance the rapids and dare to dance the tide.",
+ "source": "The River"
+ }, {
+ "text": "I hadn't seen anything so beautiful in my life. She was like an angel. I just sat next to her on that bus and had a conversation all the way to school. Next to Mamma no one ever talked to me or asked me questions. From that day on we were always together. Jenny, she helped me learn how to read and I showed her how to swing. Sometimes we'd just sit out and wait for the stars. For some reason Jenny never wanted to go home she was my most special friend, my only friend.",
+ "source": "Forrest Gump"
+ }, {
+ "text": "Heaven, I'm in heaven, and my heart beats so that I can hardly speak, and I seem to find the happiness I seek when we're out together dancing, cheek to cheek. Heaven, I'm in heaven, and the cares that hang around me through the week seem to vanish like a gambler's lucky streak when we're out together dancing, cheek to cheek.",
+ "source": "Cheek to Cheek"
+ }, {
+ "text": "Punishment and negative reinforcement are opposites. Punishment is when something bad happens to you because of something you did; negative reinforcement is when something bad stops happening to you, or doesn't start happening to you in the first place, because of something you did. Punishment is bad, and negative reinforcement is good.",
+ "source": "Animals in Translation"
+ }, {
+ "text": "If there is a design or pattern on our china, we eat until we can see the design clearly. If you're on a diet, eat from plates with no design - or even better, from plain white china. Without the design present to influence you, you have less incentive to clean your plate.",
+ "source": "Cheap Psychological Tricks: How To Get What You Want and Be Happy"
+ }, {
+ "text": "Man, do not pride yourself on your superiority to the animals, for they are without sin, while you, with all your greatness, you defile the earth wherever you appear and leave an ignoble trail behind you - and that is true, alas, for almost every one of us!",
+ "source": "The Brothers Karamazov"
+ }, {
+ "text": "For the same reasons that scientific standards change within each of the natural sciences, they differ extensively between them and across the divide between natural and social sciences. Indeed the differences between standards in the natural and social sciences must be wider than the others.",
+ "source": "Philosophy of Social Science (Dimensions of Philosophy) 5th Edition"
+ }, {
+ "text": "In the middle of our life journey I found myself in a dark wood. I had wandered from the straight path. It isn't easy to talk about it: it was such a thick, wild, and rough forest that when I think of it my fear returns.",
+ "source": "Inferno"
+ }, {
+ "text": "If one has only one good memory left in one's heart, that may sometime be the means of saving us.",
+ "source": "The Brothers Karamazov"
+ }, {
+ "text": "Harry, I have no idea where this will lead us, but I have a definite feeling it will be a place both wonderful and strange.",
+ "source": "Twin Peaks"
+ }, {
+ "text": "Before time began, there was the Cube. We know not where it comes from, only that it holds the power to create worlds and fill them with life. That is how our race was born. For a time we lived in harmony, but like all great power, some wanted it for good, others for evil. And so began the war. A war that ravaged our planet until it was consumed by death, and the Cube was lost to the far reaches of space. We scattered across the galaxy, hoping to find and rebuild our home. Searching every star, every world. And just when all hope seemed lost, message of a new discovery drew us to an unknown planet called... Earth. But we were already too late.",
+ "source": "Transformers"
+ }, {
+ "text": "So it was that over the course of time, the man and the weapon seemed as one. Ashbringer became a name of legend, attributed not just to the fearsome blade but also to the relentless knight who wielded it.",
+ "source": "World of Warcraft"
+ }, {
+ "text": "Mom says each of us has a veil between ourselves and the rest of the world, like a bride wears on her wedding day, except this kind of veil is invisible. We walk around happily with these invisible veils hanging down over our faces. The world is kind of blurry, and we like it that way. But sometimes our veils are pushed away for a few moments, like there's a wind blowing it from our faces. And when the veil lifts, we can see the world as it really is, just for those few seconds before it settles down again.",
+ "source": "When You Reach Me"
+ }, {
+ "text": "Wise men say only fools rush in, but I can't help falling in love with you. Shall I stay, would it be a sin if I can't help falling in love with you?",
+ "source": "Can't Help Falling in Love"
+ }, {
+ "text": "Let us imagine that you are in a race with a tortoise. The tortoise has a ten-yard head start. In the time it takes you to run that ten yards, the tortoise has moved one yard. And then in the time it takes you to make up that distance, the tortoise goes a bit farther, and so on forever. You are faster than the tortoise but you can never catch him; you can only decrease his lead.",
+ "source": "The Fault in Our Stars"
+ }, {
+ "text": "They told me that you had gone totally insane, and that your methods were unsound.",
+ "source": "Apocalypse Now"
+ }, {
+ "text": "Now kids, just 'cause we lost the family stand doesn't mean we can't sell our produce out of a janky wheelbarrow.",
+ "source": "Amphibia"
+ }, {
+ "text": "See, I write jokes for a living, man. You know, I sit in my hotel at night, I think of something that's funny, then I go get a pen and I write it down. Or, if the pen's too far away, I have to convince myself that what I thought of ain't funny.",
+ "source": "Mitch All Together"
+ }, {
+ "text": "Few things are harder to put up with than the annoyance of a good example.",
+ "source": "Pudd'nhead Wilson"
+ }, {
+ "text": "Fred pulled back and steered the nose of the plane into the cloud. The air was bitterly, shockingly cold, and wet, and suddenly the world, which had been so intricately detailed, no longer existed.",
+ "source": "The Explorer"
+ }, {
+ "text": "All the girls in the world were divided into two classes: one class included all the girls in the world except her, and they had all the usual human feelings and were very ordinary girls; while the other class - herself alone - had no weaknesses and was superior to all humanity.",
+ "source": "Anna Karenina"
+ }, {
+ "text": "Throw your soul through every open door, count your blessings to find what you look for. Turn my sorrow into treasured gold. You'll pay me back in kind and reap just what you sow.",
+ "source": "Rolling in the Deep"
+ }, {
+ "text": "We had joy, we had fun, we had seasons in the sun, but the hills that we climbed were just seasons out of time.",
+ "source": "Seasons in the Sun"
+ }, {
+ "text": "Don't look so disappointed, dear one. Just try them on. Today is a day to celebrate. It is the day that you become the same age as the young hero spoken of in all the legends. You only have to wear them for one day, so don't look so down. Be proud, child. In the olden days, this was the day the boys were finally considered to be men. They were taught the ways of the sword to prepare them for battle with their enemies. But we don't live in such a way any longer. Our ways are the ways of peace.",
+ "source": "The Legend of Zelda: The Wind Waker"
+ }, {
+ "text": "Oh... and how is education supposed to make me feel smarter? Besides, every time I learn something new, it pushes some old stuff out of my brain. Remember when I took that home wine-making course and I forgot how to drive?",
+ "source": "The Simpsons"
+ }, {
+ "text": "You said I sounded a bit callous in my last letter, Dad. Let me see if I can put things in a better way. At this particular Mobile Army Hospital we are not concerned with the ultimate reconstruction of the patient. We care only about getting the kid out of here alive enough for someone else to put on the fine touches. We work fast and we're not dainty. We try to play par surgery on this course. Par is a live patient.",
+ "source": "M*A*S*H"
+ }, {
+ "text": "Every temptation is an opportunity to do good. On the path to spiritual maturity, even temptation becomes a stepping-stone rather than a stumbling block when you realize that it is just as much an occasion to do the right thing as it is to do the wrong thing. Temptation simply provides the choice.",
+ "source": "The Purpose-Driven Life: What on Earth Am I Here For?"
+ }, {
+ "text": "Life, liberty, and property do not exist because men have made laws. On the contrary, it was the fact that life, liberty, and property existed beforehand that caused men to make laws in the first place.",
+ "source": "The Law"
+ }, {
+ "text": "I've heard a lot of talk of Billy Mitchell, and I've heard a lot of talk of strange videos and things. But I haven't heard much in the way of him getting in front of a camera crew with people and getting a record in front of people. I haven't heard about that yet. Maybe he did that 25 years ago. But I haven't heard of him doing it lately, and it makes you wonder why not.",
+ "source": "The King of Kong: A Fistful of Quarters"
+ }, {
+ "text": "I know. I'm trying to save him by avoiding him so I could be with him. But I can't go near him or I'll destroy him. So if I could just manage to stay away from him then maybe we could be together. Please don't repeat that back to me.",
+ "source": "Wonderfalls"
+ }, {
+ "text": "Of all men's creations, books are the nearest to us, for they contain our very thoughts, our ambitions, our indignations, our illusions, our fidelity to truth, and our persistent leaning toward error.",
+ "source": "Books"
+ }, {
+ "text": "I could tell from the set of his lips, he would say no more on this subject. I suppressed my curiosity, though it was far from idle. There were many things I needed to think through on this particular issue, things that were only beginning to occur to me. No doubt his quick mind had already comprehended every aspect that eluded me.",
+ "source": "Twilight"
+ }, {
+ "text": "You know how far I'm prepared to go. I will be a boat and row your beauty to the moon if that's okay with you. I hope you don't mind if I get lost inside your eyes. Please excuse me if I don't imply but I've just gotta let you know that.",
+ "source": "Sunset Lover"
+ }, {
+ "text": "This was the first salmon I had seen and perfectly convinced me that we were on the waters of the Pacific Ocean.",
+ "source": "The Journals of Lewis and Clark"
+ }, {
+ "text": "Little bird, tell me, where do you go to get those colors of blue and gold, where do you find such beautiful clothes? Oh, little bird, tell me, where do you go? Are you up there in the silver clouds, or hopping here and there down on the ground? Are you gazing at the stars as you weave your yarn? Little bird, how do you do dressed so fine in gold and blue? Those feathers look delightful on you, I can't tell if they're old or new.",
+ "source": "Little Bird"
+ }, {
+ "text": "Reading books doesn't make you smarter. Reading smart books makes you smarter. Reading dumb books makes you dumber.",
+ "source": "Inside The Mind of an Introvert"
+ }, {
+ "text": "Combat for a naval aviator is fought in short, violent bursts. Our missions last but an hour or two before we are clear of danger and back on the carrier playing poker with our buddies. We are spared the sustained misery of the infantrymen who slog through awful conditions and danger for months on end.",
+ "source": "Faith of My Fathers"
+ }, {
+ "text": "When she returns to the forum page, her post is there. It is a way now, approximately, of being at home. The forum has become one of the most consistent places in her life, like a familiar cafe that exists somehow outside of geography and beyond time zones.",
+ "source": "Pattern Recognition"
+ }, {
+ "text": "I feel his presence. But he can also feel mine. He's come for me. He can feel it when I'm near. That's why I have to go. As long as I stay, I'm endangering the group and our mission. I have to face him.",
+ "source": "Return of the Jedi"
+ }, {
+ "text": "I put a spatially tessellated void inside a modified temporal field until a planet developed intelligent life. I then introduced that life to the wonders of electricity, which they now generate on a global scale. And, you know, some of it goes to power my engine and charge my phone and stuff.",
+ "source": "Rick and Morty"
+ }, {
+ "text": "Whatever happened to the values of humanity? Whatever happened to the fairness and equality? Instead of spreading love we're spreading animosity, lack of understanding leading us away from unity. That's the reason why sometimes I'm feeling under, that's the reason why sometimes I'm feeling down.",
+ "source": "Where Is The Love"
+ }, {
+ "text": "I felt so lonesome I most wished I was dead. The stars were shining, and the leaves rustled in the woods ever so mournful; and I heard an owl, away off, who-whooing about somebody that was dead, and a whippowill and a dog crying about somebody that was going to die.",
+ "source": "The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn"
+ }, {
+ "text": "This tree is our symbol. Our affirmation of life, and everyone in this town gives part of their water rations to keep it alive. We've learned, administrator, that hope is a powerful weapon against anything, even drought.",
+ "source": "Star Trek: The Next Generation"
+ }, {
+ "text": "Reason will not lead to solution. I will end up lost in confusion. I don't care if you really care, as long as you don't go.",
+ "source": "Lovefool"
+ }, {
+ "text": "A spaceship from another star. They ask me where all the people are. What do I tell them? Him? I tell them I'm the only one. There was a war but I must have won. Please take me with you.",
+ "source": "A Smart Kid"
+ }, {
+ "text": "Arizona moon, keep shining from the desert sky above. You know pretty soon that big yellow moon will light the way back to the one you love.",
+ "source": "¡Three Amigos!"
+ }, {
+ "text": "Who's coming to take it from me? Come on, look at me. No plan, no backup, no weapons, oh and something else I don't have: anything to lose. So if you're sitting up there in your silly little spaceship with all your silly little guns, and you've got any plans of taking the Pandorica tonight, just remember who's standing in your way. Remember every black day I ever stopped you, and then do the smart thing. Let somebody else try first.",
+ "source": "Doctor Who"
+ }, {
+ "text": "Human beings are poor examiners, subject to superstition, bias, prejudice, and a profound tendency to see what they want to see rather than what is really there.",
+ "source": "The Road Less Travelled"
+ }, {
+ "text": "Somebody said you got a new friend. But does she love you better than I can? And there's a big black sky over my town. I know where you're at, I bet she's around. And yeah I know it's stupid, but I just gotta see it for myself.",
+ "source": "Dancing on My Own"
+ }, {
+ "text": "For this is what it means to be a king: to be first in every desperate attack and last in every desperate retreat, and when there's hunger in the land (as must be now and then in bad years) to wear finer clothes and laugh louder over a scantier meal than any man in your land.",
+ "source": "The Horse and His Boy"
+ }, {
+ "text": "First of all, let's stop pretending that everyone can or should go to college. Every airline needs high-paid mechanics and none of them have to go to college. There are plumbers in some parts of the country that make a better living than dentists. Now, I'm not talking about lowering our ambitions. I'm talking about targeting our ambitions correctly.",
+ "source": "The West Wing"
+ }, {
+ "text": "When you look for it, there is nothing to see. When you listen for it, there is nothing to hear. When you use it, it is inexhaustible.",
+ "source": "Tao Te Ching"
+ }, {
+ "text": "It was hard to toss things I had once thought were valuable enough to spend money on and just as hard to separate myself from worn and ragged clothing I had for sentimental reasons. The first ten minutes of sorting through clothing was like choosing which child of mine should live or die. Once I'd passed through the first few tough decisions, though, the momentum had been built and it was a breeze.",
+ "source": "The 4-Hour Workweek"
+ }, {
+ "text": "I was left there with no water and no food while he stumbled off across the cobbles and up into the farm-house beyond. There was the sound of slamming doors and raised voices before I heard footsteps running back across the yard and excited voices coming closer. Two heads appeared at my door.",
+ "source": "War Horse"
+ }, {
+ "text": "Well, your hand is programmed over years to write letters a certain way. Try to mimic someone else's, and your style will always creep in. But turn the signature upside down and it becomes nothing more than a drawing. All you have to do is copy the lines. The preconceptions about letters go away and you have a perfect signature.",
+ "source": "White Collar"
+ }, {
+ "text": "From the tip of his wand burst the silver doe. She landed on the office floor, bounded once across the office, and soared out of the window. Dumbledore watched her fly away, and as her silvery glow faded he turned back to Snape, and his eyes were full of tears.",
+ "source": "Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows"
+ }, {
+ "text": "I believe virtually everything I read and I think that is what makes me more of a selective human than someone who doesn't believe anything.",
+ "source": "This Is Spinal Tap"
+ }, {
+ "text": "It is indeed true that, in contrast to the exhilaration which the discoveries of the physical sciences tend to produce, the insights which we gain from the study of society more often have a dampening effect on our aspirations.",
+ "source": "The Pretence of Knowledge"
+ }, {
+ "text": "Many students do not realize the great importance of definitions to mathematics. This importance stems from the need for mathematicians to communicate with each other. If two people are trying to communicate about some subject, they must have the same understanding of its technical terms. However, there is an important structural weakness. It is impossible to define every concept.",
+ "source": "A First Course in Abstract Algebra"
+ }, {
+ "text": "Meanwhile, let us have a sip of tea. The afternoon glow is brightening the bamboos, the fountains are bubbling with delight, the soughing of the pines is heard in our kettle. Let us dream of evanescence and linger in the beautiful foolishness of things.",
+ "source": "Beautiful Foolishness"
+ }, {
+ "text": "I'm out on a date tonight in a candlelit restaurant down by the riverside. Everything's going alright I guess, she took down my number and home address. Everything was going perfectly until it backfired at the disco, she slapped me at the disco.",
+ "source": "Backfire at the Disco"
+ }, {
+ "text": "If the children don't grow up, our bodies get bigger but our hearts get torn up. We're just a million little gods causing rain storms, turning every good thing to rust. I guess we'll just have to adjust.",
+ "source": "Wake Up"
+ }, {
+ "text": "She seemed to know, to accept, to welcome her position, the citadel of the family, the strong place that could not be taken.",
+ "source": "The Grapes of Wrath"
+ }, {
+ "text": "Baby, what's it gonna hurt if they don't know, makin' everybody think that we're solo. Just as long as you know you got me, and boy I got ya, 'cause tonight I'm making deals with the devil, and I know it's gonna get me in trouble. Just as long as you know you got me.",
+ "source": "Side To Side"
+ }, {
+ "text": "We use words like honor, code, loyalty. We use these words as the backbone of a life spent defending something. You use them as a punchline. I have neither the time nor the inclination to explain myself to a man who rises and sleeps under the blanket of the very freedom that I provide and then questions the manner in which I provide it. I would rather you just said thank you and went on your way. Otherwise, I suggest you pick up a weapon and stand a post. Either way, I don't give a damn what you think you are entitled to.",
+ "source": "A Few Good Men"
+ }, {
+ "text": "It used to be risky for a scientist to assert that anything about human behavior was innate. To back up such claims, you had to show that the trait was hardwired, unchangeable by experience, and found in all cultures.",
+ "source": "The Righteous Mind"
+ }, {
+ "text": "It matters not how strait the gate, how charged with punishments the scroll, I am the master of my fate, I am the captain of my soul.",
+ "source": "Invictus"
+ }, {
+ "text": "I am now quite cured of seeking pleasure in society, be it country or town. A sensible man ought to find sufficient company in himself.",
+ "source": "Wuthering Heights"
+ }, {
+ "text": "The math is compelling. Most of the people in the world are not your customers. They haven't even heard of you actually. And while many of these people are not qualified buyers or aren't interested in buying your product, many of them might be - if only they knew you existed, if they could be convinced that your offering is worth paying for.",
+ "source": "Small is the New Big"
+ }, {
+ "text": "Translating from one language to another, unless it is from Greek and Latin, the queens of all languages, is like looking at Flemish tapestries from the wrong side, for although the figures are visible, they are covered by threads that obscure them, and cannot be seen with the smoothness and color of the right side.",
+ "source": "Don Quixote"
+ }, {
+ "text": "It's not really a place; it's a feeling. Sometimes riding at night I punch off the headlights and roll on the throttle and just rocket blind into the dark.",
+ "source": "Twin Peaks"
+ }, {
+ "text": "Family cares about you, not what you can do for them. Family's there through the good, bad, all of it. They got your back, even when it hurts. That's family.",
+ "source": "Supernatural"
+ }, {
+ "text": "Once more into the fray. Into the last good fight I'll ever know. Live and die on this day. Live and die on this day.",
+ "source": "The Grey"
+ }, {
+ "text": "An informed citizenry has to understand place, not because place is more important than other kinds of knowledge but because it forms the foundation for so much other knowledge.",
+ "source": "Maphead"
+ }, {
+ "text": "As it fades, I see the truth - in plain sight, yet hidden all along. We are all children of blood and bone. All instruments of vengeance and virtue. This truth holds me close, rocking me like a child in a mother's arms. It binds me in its love as death swallows me in its grasp.",
+ "source": "Children of Blood and Bone"
+ }, {
+ "text": "With all six stones, I could simply snap my fingers, they would all cease to exist and I call that... mercy. And then what? I finally rest, and watch the sun rise on a grateful universe. The hardest choices require the strongest wills.",
+ "source": "Avengers: Infinity War"
+ }, {
+ "text": "I'm in the race of life and time passed by. I sit back and I watch it, hands in my pockets. Waves come crashing over me, but I just watch 'em. I just watch 'em. I'm underwater, but I feel like I'm on top of it. I'm at the bottom, but I don't know what the problem is. I'm in a box, but I'm the one who locked me in. I'm suffocating and I'm running out of oxygen.",
+ "source": "Paralyzed"
+ }, {
+ "text": "People tend to think that their beliefs are absolutely true - but in reality these beliefs are true only for them.",
+ "source": "Unlimited Memory: How to Use Advanced Learning Strategies to Learn Faster, Remember More and Be More Productive"
+ }, {
+ "text": "Life is fair. We all get the same nine-month shake in the box, and then the dice roll. Some people get a run of sevens. Some people, unfortunately, get snake-eyes. It's just how the world is.",
+ "source": "Full Dark, No Stars"
+ }, {
+ "text": "I don't worry. This is all wrong. I don't know what it is but when I kiss you it's like I'm kissing my brother. I guess that doesn't make any sense, does it?",
+ "source": "Back to the Future"
+ }, {
+ "text": "One just can't imagine what prison is like from outside. You think, well, there'd be lots of time to think and read, it wouldn't be too bad. But it is too bad. It's the slowness of time. I'll swear all the clocks in the world have gone centuries slower since I came here.",
+ "source": "The Collector"
+ }, {
+ "text": "If a man's wearing his pants on his head or if he says his words backwards from time to time, you know it's all laid out there for you. But if he's friendly to strangers and keeps his home spick-and-span, more often than not he's done something even his own ma couldn't forgive.",
+ "source": "Fallout New Vegas"
+ }, {
+ "text": "Ah how shameless - the way these mortals blame the gods. From us alone, they say, come all their miseries, yes, but they themselves, with their own reckless ways, compound their pains beyond their proper share.",
+ "source": "The Odyssey"
+ }, {
+ "text": "I've paid my dues time after time. I've done my sentence but committed no crime. And bad mistakes, I've made a few. I've had my share of sand kicked in my face, but I've come through.",
+ "source": "We Are The Champions"
+ }, {
+ "text": "By now, I assume you know your father's been accused of a very serious crime. He told me he was innocent and I believed him. I worked with him a long time. He's no killer, Neal. The man I know can't be. After he was arrested, your dad told me that our department is filled with dirty cops and they set him up.",
+ "source": "White Collar"
+ }, {
+ "text": "It is not a man's duty, as a matter of course, to devote himself to the eradication of any, even the most enormous wrong; he may still properly have other concerns to engage him; but it is his duty, at least, to wash his hands of it, and, if he gives it no thought longer, not to give it practically his support.",
+ "source": "Civil Disobedience"
+ }, {
+ "text": "Fireflies, a million little pieces, feeds the dying light, and brings me back to life. In your eyes, I see something to believe in, your hands are like a flame, your palms' the sweetest pain.",
+ "source": "Ignite"
+ }, {
+ "text": "Every day I come by your house and I pick you up. And we go out. We have a few drinks, and a few laughs, and it's great. But you know what the best part of my day is? For about ten seconds, from when I pull up to the curb and when I get to your door, 'cause I think, maybe I'll get up there and I'll knock on the door and you won't be there. No goodbye. No see you later. No nothing. You just left. I don't know much, but I know that.",
+ "source": "Good Will Hunting"
+ }, {
+ "text": "Kings of little kingdoms fought together, and the young Sun shone like fire on the red metal of their new and greedy swords. There was victory and defeat; and towers fell, fortresses were burned, and flames went up into the sky. Gold was piled on biers of dead kings and queens; and mounds covered them, and the stone doors were shut; and the grass grew over all.",
+ "source": "The Lord of The Rings"
+ }, {
+ "text": "When one fib becomes due as it were, you must forge another to take up the old acceptance; and so the stock of your lies in circulation inevitably multiplies, and the danger of detection increases every day.",
+ "source": "Vanity Fair"
+ }, {
+ "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. Never turn down an opportunity to pass - you may not get it again.",
+ "source": "Speed Secrets: Professional Race Driving Techniques"
+ }, {
+ "text": "I just want to 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"
+ }, {
+ "text": "Look Dave, I can see you're really upset about this. I honestly think you ought to sit down calmly, take a stress pill, and think things over. I know I've made some very poor decisions recently, but I can give you my complete assurance that my work will be back to normal.",
+ "source": "2001 - A Space Odyssey"
+ }, {
+ "text": "Well, you've cracked the sky, scrapers fill the air, but will you keep on building higher till there's no more room up there? Will you make us laugh, will you make us cry? Will you tell us when to live, will you tell us when to die?",
+ "source": "Where Do The Children Play"
+ }, {
+ "text": "In a town of moderate size, two men lived in neighbouring houses; but they had not been there very long before one man took such a hatred of the other, and envied him so bitterly, that the poor man determined to find another home, hoping that when they no longer met every day his enemy would forget all about him. So he sold his house and the little furniture it contained, and moved into the capital of the country, which was luckily at no great distance. About half a mile from this city he bought a nice little place, with a large garden and a fair-sized court, in the centre of which stood an old well.",
+ "source": "The Arabian Nights"
+ }, {
+ "text": "You were the chosen one! It was said that you would destroy the Sith, not join them. You were to bring balance to the Force, not leave it in darkness.",
+ "source": "Star Wars Episode III - Revenge of the Sith"
+ }, {
+ "text": "Well, when I came home from school my head started to get really hot. So I drank some cold water, but it didn't do nothing. So I laid in the bathtub for a while, but then I realized that it was my hair that was making my head hot. So I went into my kitchen and I shaved it all off. I don't want anyone to see.",
+ "source": "Napoleon Dynamite"
+ }, {
+ "text": "I have a dream, a fantasy, to help me through reality. And my destination makes it worth the while, pushing through the darkness still another mile.",
+ "source": "I Have A Dream"
+ }, {
+ "text": "I'll tell you bedtime stories, and you pretend they're not boring. One day we'll have a house of our very own and we'll make it our home. And I'll do anything for you. It's just two little words. They're gonna change my world. Three letters, in old. And I mean them with all I got. We're gonna say I do.",
+ "source": "Two Little Words (I do)"
+ }, {
+ "text": "I can tell you the license plate numbers of all six cars outside. I can tell you that our waitress is left-handed and the guy sitting up at the counter weighs two hundred and fifteen pounds and knows how to handle himself. I know the best place to look for a gun is the cab of the gray truck outside, and at this altitude, I can run flat out for a half mile before my hands start shaking. Now why would I know that? How can I know that and not know who I am?",
+ "source": "The Bourne Identity"
+ }, {
+ "text": "It matters not how strait the gate, how charged with punishments the scroll, I am the master of my fate, I am the captain of my soul.",
+ "source": "Invictus"
+ }, {
+ "text": "Reading is not a natural process; the habits necessary for efficient reading must be learned. The habits and the skills involved in effective reading should be acquired during the initial period of reading instruction.",
+ "source": "Improving Reading Skills"
+ }, {
+ "text": "She said that she had just joined up as a new recruit. She said they threw her in prison because she refused to take part in the rebellion. I gave her the key. Looks like she managed to break out of here though. I hope she's okay.",
+ "source": "Metal Gear Solid"
+ }, {
+ "text": "Amil says he can't read right because the words jump around and change on him. Papa thinks he's lying so he doesn't have to do his schoolwork. But I know he's not. I see the way he studies the writing, his eyes squinted, his face pinched. I see how hard he tries. He even turns the book upside down sometimes, but he says nothing helps. I think it's because Amil is a little bit magical. His eyes turn everything into art.",
+ "source": "The Night Diary"
+ }, {
+ "text": "The point is I intend to undertake this. And I'll do it with or without you. So if you're scared, if you haven't got the stomach for this, let's get it out right now!",
+ "source": "Seinfeld"
+ }, {
+ "text": "What is honor compared to a woman's love? What is duty against the feel of a newborn son in your arms or the memory of a brother's smile? Wind and words. Wind and words.",
+ "source": "A Game of Thrones"
+ }, {
+ "text": "The sun lay on the grass and warmed it, and in the shade under the grass the insects moved, ants and ant lions to set traps for them, grasshoppers to jump into the air and flick their yellow wings for a second, sow bugs like little armadillos, plodding restlessly on many tender feet.",
+ "source": "The Grapes of Wrath"
+ }, {
+ "text": "You cannot defeat me with a blade that does not sparkle with the power to repel evil! What you hold is useless. Go back to the world below, and tell that to the pathetic fools who made this blade! Its power is gone, and its edges are dull!",
+ "source": "The Legend of Zelda: The Wind Waker"
+ }, {
+ "text": "It's true! Yes, I have been ill, very ill. But why do you say that I have lost control of my mind, why do you say that I am mad? Can you not see that I have full control of my mind? Indeed, the illness only made my mind, my feelings, my senses stronger, more powerful.",
+ "source": "The Tell-Tale Heart"
+ }, {
+ "text": "Listen, where I'm from there's a saying, \"Three heads are better than one.\" Wait, is it two heads? Whatever, the point is, three heads, thinking together are harder to break than only one arrow. It means you should rely on those around you instead of thinking about stuff alone!",
+ "source": "Re:Zero - Starting Life in Another World"
+ }, {
+ "text": "People remember their high school days as the high point of their lives. People say these things because everyone holds fond memories of their time in high school; however, I doubt that every high school student would want to remember their school life that way. For example, if neither studying, nor sports, nor socializing are of interest to someone, what then? What if there are students who prefer to keep a low profile? Though I guess that would be a pretty lonely way to live.",
+ "source": "Hyouka"
+ }, {
+ "text": "I've seen places, faces and smiled for a moment. But oh, you haunted me so. Still my tongue tied, young pride would not let my love for you show in case you say no.",
+ "source": "From Russia With Love"
+ }, {
+ "text": "Lonely people tend, rather, to be lonely because they decline to bear the psychic costs of being around other humans. They are allergic to people. People affect them too strongly.",
+ "source": "A Supposedly Fun Thing I'll Never Do Again"
+ }, {
+ "text": "You forget everything. The hours slip by. You travel in your chair through centuries you seem to see before you, your thoughts are caught up in the story, dallying with the details or following the course of the plot, you enter into characters, so that it seems as if it were your own heart beating beneath their costumes.",
+ "source": "Madame Bovary"
+ }, {
+ "text": "You've gotta choose people who aren't much more motivated than you are but don't surround yourself with total narcissists. Otherwise, things start to be about something other than you.",
+ "source": "Wonderfalls"
+ }, {
+ "text": "The day will come, according to NASA, that a launch will be so routine that the press and television won't even bother to cover it.",
+ "source": "The Eighties"
+ }, {
+ "text": "All falsehood is a mask; and however well made the mask may be, with a little attention we may always succeed in distinguishing it from the true face.",
+ "source": "The Three Musketeers"
+ }, {
+ "text": "I stopped in the middle of that building and I saw - the sky. I saw the things that I love in this world. The work and the food and the time to sit and smoke. And I looked at the pen and I thought to myself, what the hell am I grabbing this for? Why am I trying to become what I don't want to be? What am I doing in an office, making a contemptuous, begging fool of myself, when all I want is out there, waiting for me the minute I say I know who I am!",
+ "source": "Death of a Salesman"
+ }, {
+ "text": "If I fling one bag of trash out of my car window and onto the highway, it won't seem significant or destructive. Large numbers of people doing the same thing, though, would be very destructive.",
+ "source": "Sociology: Exploring the Architecture of Everyday Life"
+ }, {
+ "text": "Well, by the second morning I was out of food. The third day the light bulb burnt out. Pitch black in there. That's when the rats started coming out. I dozed off and I felt a thing nibbling my finger. I woke up, it was, you know, chewing my finger.",
+ "source": "True Detective"
+ }, {
+ "text": "I hate all the rules and organization and teams and ranks in sports. Somebody's always yelling at you, telling you where to be, what to do, and when to do it. I figure when I want THAT, I'll join the army and at least get paid.",
+ "source": "The Complete Calvin and Hobbes"
+ }, {
+ "text": "You know, you go to thrift shops and you go to garage sales because you think you're going to find something that's, you know, real rare. And most of the time, it's a total waste of time, but once in a while, you'll, you'll come up with something that'll whet your appetite.",
+ "source": "American Splendor"
+ }, {
+ "text": "Most test subjects do experience some, uh, cognitive deterioration after a few months in suspension. Now, you've been under for... quite a bit longer, and it's not out of the question that you might have a very minor case of serious brain damage. But don't be alarmed, all right? Although, if you do feel alarmed, try to hold onto that feeling, because that is the proper reaction to being told you have brain damage.",
+ "source": "Portal 2"
+ }, {
+ "text": "What is going to happen to Kazi, Mama? He's the only one who looks at me with happy, loving eyes. No one else looks at me that way, not even Papa. When Papa looks at us, his eyes are always looking back inside his head at his own thoughts. He sees and he doesn't see.",
+ "source": "The Night Diary"
+ }, {
+ "text": "What good are prayers and shrines to a person mad with love? The flame keeps gnawing into her tender marrow hour by hour, and deep in her heart the silent wound lives on.",
+ "source": "The Aeneid"
+ }, {
+ "text": "Mankind doesn't need warfare and bloodshed to prove itself. Everyday life can provide honor and valor. Let's hope that from now on this country can find its heroes in smaller places. In the most ordinary of deeds.",
+ "source": "Doctor Who"
+ }, {
+ "text": "There's something about a check that, to a man, is not masculine. I don't know exactly what it is. I think to a man, a check is like a note from your mother that says \"I don't have any money, but if you'll contact these people, I'm sure they'll stick up for me. If you just trust me this one time I don't have any money but I have these. I wrote on these; is this of any value at all?\"",
+ "source": "Seinfeld"
+ }, {
+ "text": "The tricky part of illness is that, as you go through it, your values are constantly changing. You try to figure out what matters to you, and then you keep figuring it out. It felt like someone had taken away my credit card and I was having to learn how to budget. You may decide you want to spend your time working as a neurosurgeon, but two months later, you may feel differently. Two months after that, you may want to learn to play the saxophone or devote yourself to the church. Death may be a one-time event, but living with terminal illness is a process.",
+ "source": "When Breath Becomes Air"
+ }, {
+ "text": "Chess is a mental exercise that can be pursued for its own sake or for some other reason. The skills required to play a strong chess game include the ability to visualize, the ability to memorize, the ability to recognize patterns, the ability to use analytic logic, the ability to plan ahead, the ability to make decisions, and the ability to accept the consequences of your actions. Is it any wonder that chess is touted as a useful subject for study in many schools?",
+ "source": "The Everything Chess Basics Book"
+ }, {
+ "text": "Wildflower knew I wasn't well, but on the kitchen floor I got better again. I grabbed my keys and drove toward a star, and there I was understood for the first time in my life, 'cause that's when I was introduced to true serendipity. I knew it when you showed up again in the snow, I was always told your heart is where you're home.",
+ "source": "Be Brave"
+ }, {
+ "text": "If the cause of death is written within 40 seconds of writing the person's name, it will happen. If the cause of death is not specified, the person will simply die of a heart attack. After writing the cause of death, details of death should be written in the next 6 minutes and 40 seconds.",
+ "source": "Death Note"
+ }, {
+ "text": "You move like I want to. To see like your eyes do.",
+ "source": "Digital Bath"
+ }, {
+ "text": "If I had been downright honest with myself, I would have seen very plainly in my heart that I did but half fancy being committed this way to so long a voyage, without once laying my eyes on the man who was to be the absolute dictator of it, so soon as the ship sailed out upon the open sea. But when a man suspects any wrong, it sometimes happens that if he be already involved in the matter, he insensibly strives to cover up his suspicions even from himself. And much this way it was with me. I said nothing, and tried to think nothing.",
+ "source": "Moby Dick"
+ }, {
+ "text": "Underneath the bridge the tarp has sprung a leak and the animals I've trapped have all become my pets and I'm living off of grass and the drippings from the ceiling but it's okay to eat fish 'cause they don't have any feelings.",
+ "source": "Something in the Way"
+ }, {
+ "text": "I thought I was gonna be the first Funspot kill screen and then I had three fireballs trap me. I had the hammer in my hand; they still got me. So anything can happen in Donkey Kong. So for someone else to beat me to the kill screen would be a letdown, but let's see what happens. Maybe he'll crack under the pressure and maybe I'll get my chance to do it first.",
+ "source": "The King of Kong: A Fistful of Quarters"
+ }, {
+ "text": "Take my love, take my land, take me where I cannot stand. I don't care; I'm still free. You can't take the sky from me. Take me out to the black. Tell them I ain't coming back.",
+ "source": "Firefly"
+ }, {
+ "text": "Inside his house a kid gets one name, but on the other side of the door, it's whatever the rest of the world wants to call him.",
+ "source": "Maniac Magee"
+ }, {
+ "text": "Meanwhile he himself, the Prince, had risen to his feet; the sudden movement of his huge frame made the floor tremble, and a glint of pride flashed in his light blue eyes at this fleeting confirmation of his lordship over both human beings and their works.",
+ "source": "The Leopard"
+ }, {
+ "text": "I think about all the people I've loved, now long gone. I think about my beautiful Jan, and how I lost her so many years ago. I think about all of us walking our own Green Mile, each in our own time. But one thought, more than any other, keeps me awake most nights. If he could make a mouse live so long, how much longer do I have? We each owe a death, there are no exceptions, but sometimes, oh God, the Green Mile seems so long.",
+ "source": "The Green Mile"
+ }, {
+ "text": "There's no pretty way to put this. I grew up in the suburbs. I guess most people think of the suburb as a place with all the disadvantages of the city and none of the advantages of the country. And vice versa. But in a way those really were the wonder years for us there in the suburbs. It was kind of a golden age for kids.",
+ "source": "The Wonder Years"
+ }, {
+ "text": "You have been on my mind, I've been trying to let it go. I've been trying to find something as incredible.",
+ "source": "The Vapors"
+ }, {
+ "text": "Don't you see? What these two people, who are such geniuses at romance, are trying to do is to get you to take your hair down, thinking that it will stimulate me like some sort of Pavlovian dog. So, why don't you just oblige them. Get this silliness over with so we can get on with our lives.",
+ "source": "Cheers"
+ }, {
+ "text": "The only thing that matters is just following your heart, and eventually you'll finally get it right.",
+ "source": "In This Diary"
+ }, {
+ "text": "The things you're looking for, Montag, are in the world, but the only way the average chap will ever see ninety-nine per cent of them is in a book.",
+ "source": "Fahrenheit 451"
+ }, {
+ "text": "So I built a machine; a human machine. I made it with steel and soy-protein. Born from a test tube and into a vat. To live and to heave and to die just like that.",
+ "source": "Soy-Protein Munt Machine"
+ }, {
+ "text": "She asks me to kill the spider. Instead, I get the most peaceful weapons I can find. I take a cup and a napkin. I catch the spider, put it outside and allow it to walk away. If I am ever caught in the wrong place at the wrong time, just being alive and not bothering anyone, I hope I am greeted with the same kind of mercy.",
+ "source": "Helium"
+ }, {
+ "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. ",
+ "source": "Snatch"
+ }, {
+ "text": "This is our hope. This is the faith with which I return to the South. With this faith we will be able to hew out of the mountain of despair a stone of hope. With this faith we will be able to transform the jangling discords of our nation into a beautiful symphony of brotherhood. With this faith we will be able to work together, to pray together, to struggle together, to go to jail together, to stand up for freedom together, knowing that we will be free one day.",
+ "source": "I Have a Dream"
+ }, {
+ "text": "All this time we wait on this shallow line for a martyr to save our lives when you can't. A warning sign, a lack in reaction time, mixed with a war to fight keeps us here. The tide is in. It's time we all learn to swim. These rooftops won't save our lives and nor did you. Everything's all right.",
+ "source": "The Day No One Needed To Know"
+ }, {
+ "text": "For as long as I can remember, I have always found it easier to add and subtract numbers from left to right instead of from right to left. By adding and subtracting numbers this way, I found that I could call out the answers to math problems in class well before my classmates put down their pencils. And I didn't even need a pencil!",
+ "source": "Secrets of Mental Math: The Mathemagician's Guide to Lightning Calculation and Amazing Math Tricks"
+ }, {
+ "text": "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"
+ }, {
+ "text": "Give not thyself up, then, to fire, lest it invert thee, deaden thee, as for the time it did me. There is a wisdom that is woe; but there is a woe that is madness.",
+ "source": "Moby Dick"
+ }, {
+ "text": "It is known that many of the germs which cause diseases cannot get into the body unless the protecting membranes have first been injured in some way. Thus the germs that cause plague and lockjaw find their way into the system principally through abrasions of the skin. Many physicians have come to believe that the typhoid fever germ cannot get into the body from the intestine where it is taken with our food or drink unless the walls of the intestine have been injured in some way.",
+ "source": "Insects and Diseases"
+ }, {
+ "text": "I have something here for you. Your father wanted you to have this when you were old enough, but your uncle wouldn't allow it. He feared you might follow old Obi-Wan on some damn fool idealistic crusade like your father did.",
+ "source": "Star Wars"
+ }, {
+ "text": "The game of Chess is not merely an idle amusement. Several very valuable qualities of the mind, useful in the course of human life, are to be acquired or strengthened by it, so as to become habits, ready on all occasions. For life is a kind of chess, in which we have often points to gain, and competitors or adversaries to contend with, and in which there is a vast variety of good and ill events, that are, in some degree, the effects of prudence or the want of it.",
+ "source": "The Morals of Chess"
+ }, {
+ "text": "A field, though fertile, cannot yield a harvest without cultivation, no more can the mind without learning; thus each is feeble without the other.",
+ "source": "Tusculan Disputations"
+ }, {
+ "text": "What have you done? You have awakened in me all that should have stayed dormant. I have sought a tranquil existence, and had it, until I saw you. Since then my powers have failed me, for I cannot rid myself of you. In every book I read, I see your face. In every sound, I hear your voice, or the jingle of your tambourine. I've questioned my conscience through the deep hours of the night only to awaken in greater confusion.",
+ "source": "The Hunchback of Notre Dame"
+ }, {
+ "text": "I have spoken words of hope. But only of hope. Hope is not victory. War is upon us and all our friends, a war in which only the use of the Ring could give us surety of victory. It fills me with great sorrow and great fear: for much shall be destroyed and all may be lost.",
+ "source": "The Lord of The Rings"
+ }, {
+ "text": "Finally, from so little sleeping and so much reading, his brain dried up and he went completely out of his mind.",
+ "source": "Don Quixote"
+ }, {
+ "text": "I don't think it really helped me, in my love life, my nascent love life. I think that having won something like that could be regarded as being a significant liability.",
+ "source": "Spellbound"
+ }, {
+ "text": "This is the problem with danger, isn't it? You can even be warned and ignore the warning. Danger can seem far away until the sky grows dark, and a bolt of fury heads straight toward you.",
+ "source": "A Heart in a Body in the World"
+ }, {
+ "text": "The key goals in user-interface design are increase in speed of learning and in speed of use, reduction of error rate, encouragement of rapid recall of how to use the interface, and increase in attractiveness to potential users and buyers.",
+ "source": "Computer Graphics: Principles and Practice"
+ }, {
+ "text": "The bizarre thing is, is that I did it for my old man... I tortured this poor kid, because I wanted him to think that I was cool. He's always going off about you know when he was in school, all the wild things he used to do. And I got the feeling that he was disappointed that I never cut loose on anyone, right?",
+ "source": "The Breakfast Club"
+ }, {
+ "text": "To evaluate an option from the other side's point of view, consider how they might be criticized if they adopted it. Write out a sentence or two illustrating what the other side's most powerful critic might say about the decision you are thinking of asking for.",
+ "source": "Getting to Yes: Negotiating Agreement Without Giving In"
+ }, {
+ "text": "I don't do lost causes or tilt at windmills. I don't perform miracles or do the impossible. I make cold calculations about difficult situations, and I do not take on anything I know I won't win. And I will win this - I just need you to trust me. I promise you, I will not let you die in here.",
+ "source": "Scandal"
+ }, {
+ "text": "Human speech is like a cracked kettle on which we tap crude rhythms for bears to dance to, while we long to make music that will melt the stars.",
+ "source": "Madame Bovary"
+ }, {
+ "text": "As Harry and Ron walked back to the castle for dinner, their pockets weighed down with rock cakes they'd been too polite to refuse, Harry thought that none of the lessons he'd had so far had given him as much to think about as tea with Hagrid.",
+ "source": "Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone"
+ }, {
+ "text": "How often do you think about why your friends came into your life? Was it random? By design? Or maybe a little of both? Regardless of the reasons, some friends you just know are gonna be by your side for a while. Others, you're not so sure. And then there's that one friend who... well, you hope one day becomes something more, but friend will have to do for now. And that's okay, I guess.",
+ "source": "The Flash"
+ }, {
+ "text": "Every new beginning comes from some other beginning's end.",
+ "source": "Closing Time"
+ }, {
+ "text": "Join in with me, with me. We'll fly on someone else's wings, to where everybody is one. Above the sky we read, it's written black on white - the truth, follow the lead. Echoes of the same old psalm. Sing with me, with me, in unity. Join in with me. I have been trying to break out for too long from the cage. I found my path when I thought that I was wrong. Stay close to me, to me. I'll show you what you need to see, to see.",
+ "source": "Mirage"
+ }, {
+ "text": "So, 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"
+ }, {
+ "text": "I'm happy here. You know, someone once told me my life is a dream with an anklet attached. If I wake up tomorrow and that anklet is still on, I have a good job, a wonderful home, a partner and a best friend. A family. But to wake up and answer only to myself, that would mean everything.",
+ "source": "White Collar"
+ }, {
+ "text": "I have lived to see strange days. Long we have tended our beasts and our fields, built our houses, wrought our tools, or ridden away to help in the wars of Minas Tirith. And that we called the life of Men, the way of the world. We cared little for what lay beyond the borders of our land. Songs we have that tell of these things, but we are forgetting them, teaching them only to children, as a careless custom. And now the songs have come down among us out of strange places, and walk visible under the Sun.",
+ "source": "The Two Towers"
+ }, {
+ "text": "And even though the moment passed me by, I still can't turn away. 'Cause all the dreams you never thought you'd lose got tossed along the way. And letters that you never meant to send got lost or thrown away. And now we're grown up orphans that never knew their names. We don't belong to no one; that's a shame. If you could hide inside me, maybe for a while, and I won't tell no one your name.",
+ "source": "Name"
+ }, {
+ "text": "That's always seemed so ridiculous to me, that people want to be around someone because they're pretty. It's like picking your breakfast cereals based on color instead of taste.",
+ "source": "Paper Towns"
+ }, {
+ "text": "As to my own part, having turned my thoughts for many years upon this important subject, and maturely weighed the several schemes of other projectors, I have always found them grossly mistaken in their computation.",
+ "source": "A Modest Proposal"
+ }, {
+ "text": "Here we go, off the rails, don't you know it's time to raise our sails. It's freedom like you never knew. Don't need bags, or a pass. Say the word I'll be there in a flash. You could say my hat is off to you.",
+ "source": "Super Mario Odyssey"
+ }, {
+ "text": "Here comes the rain again, falling from the stars. Drenched in my pain again, becoming who we are. As my memory rests but never forgets what I lost. Wake me up when September ends.",
+ "source": "Wake Me Up When September Ends"
+ }, {
+ "text": "Even the most motivated and intelligent student will advance more quickly under the tutelage of someone who knows the best order in which to learn things, who understands and can demonstrate the proper way to perform various skills, who can provide useful feedback, and who can devise practice activities designed to overcome particular weaknesses.",
+ "source": "Peak: Secrets from the New Science of Expertise"
+ }, {
+ "text": "Disorder increases with time because we measure time in the direction in which disorder increases.",
+ "source": "Disorder Increases"
+ }, {
+ "text": "It was in fact a very important part of my plan that you were unharmed. We needed someone with no motive to see what had happened here. Someone other than Zee, obviously. Where is Zee?",
+ "source": "You're Next"
+ }, {
+ "text": "The sun during midday will light up the dark night. Night dreams of day. Light dreams of darkness. But the ignorant sun will chase away the darkness... and burn the shadows, eventually burning itself! The shade of the tree with the flowers that bloom at night is where the residents of darkness rest. The people of daytime are not allowed!",
+ "source": "Paprika"
+ }, {
+ "text": "If you want truth, you should begin by giving it.",
+ "source": "The Chronicles of Prydain"
+ }, {
+ "text": "If you're feeling fancy free, come wander through the world with me, and any place we chance to be will be a rendezvous. Two for the road, we'll travel through the years collecting precious memories, selecting souvenirs and living life the way we please.",
+ "source": "Two for the Road"
+ }, {
+ "text": "Even if the morrow is barren of promises, nothing shall forestall my return. To become the dew that quenches the land, to spare the sands, the seas, the skies, I offer thee this silent sacrifice.",
+ "source": "Crisis Core: Final Fantasy VII"
+ }, {
+ "text": "Look, I'm not the first guy who fell in love with a girl he met in a restaurant who then turned out to be the daughter of a kidnapped scientist, only to lose her to her childhood lover who she'd last seen on a deserted island, and who turned out fifteen years later to be the leader of the French underground.",
+ "source": "Top Secret!"
+ }, {
+ "text": "Days can be sunny, with never a sigh, don't need what money can buy. Birds in the trees sing their day full of song, why shouldn't we sing along? I'm chipper all the day, happy with my lot. How do I get that way? Look at what I've got.",
+ "source": "I Got Rhythm"
+ }, {
+ "text": "I am very proud, revengeful, ambitious, with more offences at my beck than I have thoughts to put them in, imagination to give them shape, or time to act them in.",
+ "source": "Hamlet"
+ }, {
+ "text": "I have spent my whole life scared, frightened of things that could happen, might happen, might not happen. 50 years I spent like that, finding myself awake at three in the morning. But you know what? Ever since my diagnosis, I sleep just fine. What I came to realize is that fear, that's the worst of it. That's the real enemy. So get up, get out in the real world, and you kick that bastard as hard as you can right in the teeth.",
+ "source": "Breaking Bad"
+ }, {
+ "text": "I was just guessing at numbers and figures, pulling the puzzles apart. Questions of science, science and progress do not speak as loud as my heart.",
+ "source": "The Scientist"
+ }, {
+ "text": "My pop was real big. He did like he pleased. That's why everybody worked on him. The last time I seen my father, he was blind and diseased from drinking. And every time he put the bottle to his mouth, he didn't suck out of it, it sucked out of him until he shrunk so wrinkled and yellow even the dogs didn't know him.",
+ "source": "One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest"
+ }, {
+ "text": "I said that I would see you because I had heard that you were a serious man. A man to be treated with respect but I must say no to you and I will give you my reasons. It's true, I have a lot of friends in politics. But they wouldn't be so friendly if they knew my business was drugs instead of gambling which they consider a harmless vice, but drugs, that's a dirty business. ",
+ "source": "The Godfather"
+ }, {
+ "text": "With the coming of Dean Moriarty began the part of my life you could call my life on the road. Before that I'd often dreamed of going West to see the country, always vaguely planning and never taking off. Dean is the perfect guy for the road because he actually was born on the road, when his parents were passing through Salt Lake City.",
+ "source": "On the Road"
+ }, {
+ "text": "You know, that might be the answer - to act boastfully about something we ought to be ashamed of. That's a trick that never seems to fail.",
+ "source": "Catch-22"
+ }, {
+ "text": "Estella, to the last hour of my life, you cannot choose but remain part of my character, part of the little good in me, part of the evil. But, in this separation I associate you only with the good, and I will faithfully hold you to that always, for you must have done me far more good than harm, let me feel now what sharp distress I may. O God bless you, God forgive you!",
+ "source": "Great Expectations"
+ }, {
+ "text": "My mind is open so wide since you came inside, I feel so alive. I was blinded, your smile shining behind those green eyes. The horizon so enticing, please say you'll be mine.",
+ "source": "Blue Dream"
+ }, {
+ "text": "The crowd is running for their lives. I think I'm going to step inside. I can't stand here and watch this anymore. No, I can't go in there. Children are searching for their mothers and oh, not since the Hindenburg tragedy has there been anything like this.",
+ "source": "WKRP in Cincinnati"
+ }, {
+ "text": "All I have to do is divine from what I know of you: are you the sort of man who would put the poison into his own goblet or his enemy's? Now, a clever man would put the poison into his own goblet, because he would know that only a great fool would reach for what he was given. I am not a great fool, so I can clearly not choose the wine in front of you. But you must have known I was not a great fool, you would have counted on it, so I can clearly not choose the wine in front of me.",
+ "source": "The Princess Bride"
+ }, {
+ "text": "Hackers penetrate and ravage delicate public and privately owned computer systems, infecting them with viruses, and stealing materials for their own ends. These people, they are terrorists.",
+ "source": "Hackers"
+ }, {
+ "text": "At lunch he told Bill about a physics book he was reading about time. How the passing of time is just an illusion because all of eternity is actually taking place at once: the past never vanishes away and the future has already happened. All of history is fixed and laid out, like an infinite landscape of simultaneous events that we simply happen to travel through in one direction. Bill made a joke that he could've sworn he'd been told that somewhere before, but the guy just stared at him like he didn't get it.",
+ "source": "It's Such a Beautiful Day"
+ }, {
+ "text": "You're just a whiny little basket case who's milking this depression thing for all it's worth. So here it is, four in the afternoon and you get to do exactly what you want, well, way to go. Now excuse me, but I got a zillion chores to do or Mom and Dad are gonna kick my butt.",
+ "source": "Roseanne"
+ }, {
+ "text": "'Cause what the world needs now is a new kind of tension 'cause the old one just bores me to death. 'Cause what the world needs now is another folk singer like I need a hole in my head.",
+ "source": "Teen Angst (What the World Needs Now)"
+ }, {
+ "text": "Well, that idea might make a stupid idea feel better about itself.",
+ "source": "Pushing Daisies"
+ }, {
+ "text": "How many times have you seen the leader of a race have a mechanical problem with only a few laps to go? You will never be able to take advantage of their problems if you are not close. You have to be close to take advantage of luck.",
+ "source": "Speed Secrets: Professional Race Driving Techniques"
+ }, {
+ "text": "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"
+ }, {
+ "text": "I was never more hated than when I tried to be honest. Or when, even as just now I've tried to articulate exactly what I felt to be the truth. No one was satisfied.",
+ "source": "Invisible Man"
+ }, {
+ "text": "When the shoes first fell from the sky, he remembered thinking that destiny had struck him. Now he thought so again. It was more than a coincidence. It had to be destiny.",
+ "source": "Holes"
+ }, {
+ "text": "Come as you are, as you were, as I want you to be. As a friend, as a friend, as a known enemy. Take your time, hurry up. The choice is yours, don't be late. Take a rest as a friend, as an old memoria.",
+ "source": "Come As You Are"
+ }, {
+ "text": "Yes. I consider myself a nerd. And this movie has uplifted me. There's this one scene, where a nerd grabs the microphone during a pep rally and announces that he is a nerd and that he is proud of it and stands up for the rights of other nerds.",
+ "source": "American Splendor"
+ }, {
+ "text": "I do not for one think that the problem was that the band was down. I think that the problem may have been that there was a Stonehenge monument on the stage that was in danger of being crushed by a dwarf. All right? That tended to understate the hugeness of the object.",
+ "source": "This Is Spinal Tap"
+ }, {
+ "text": "If you open your mind for me, you won't rely on open eyes to see. The walls you built within come tumbling down, and a new world will begin.",
+ "source": "Silent Lucidity"
+ }, {
+ "text": "Such a waste of talent. He chose money over power - in this town, a mistake nearly everyone makes. Money is the McMansion in Sarasota that starts falling apart after 10 years. Power is the old stone building that stands for centuries. I cannot respect someone who does not see the difference.",
+ "source": "House of Cards"
+ }, {
+ "text": "There's a lot more to racing than just winning. I mean, taking the race by a full lap... Where's the entertainment in that? No, no, no... I wanted to give folks a little sizzle.",
+ "source": "Cars"
+ }, {
+ "text": "Changes, they might drive you half-insane, but it's killing you to stay the same, but it's all gonna work out, it's all gonna work out someday. Moments, livin' with your eyes half-open. You've been thinking 'bout these changes. It's all gonna work out, it's all gonna work out someday.",
+ "source": "Changes"
+ }, {
+ "text": "Any customer can have a car painted any color that he wants so long as it is black.",
+ "source": "My Life and Work"
+ }, {
+ "text": "The inability to envision a certain kind of person doing a certain kind of thing because you've never seen someone who looks like him do it before is not just a vice. It's a luxury. What begins as a failure of the imagination ends as a market inefficiency: when you rule out an entire class of people from doing a job simply by their appearance, you are less likely to find the best person for the job.",
+ "source": "Moneyball"
+ }, {
+ "text": "If you spend too much time trying to find out what is good or bad about someone else, you'll forget your own soul and end up exhausted and defeated by the energy you have wasted in judging others.",
+ "source": "Aleph"
+ }, {
+ "text": "I once lived in the Lost Woods, until the day I wandered into a magic transporter. The power of the Dark World quickly turned me into this tree shape. I guess the two forests are connected with each other.",
+ "source": "The Legend of Zelda: A Link to the Past"
+ }, {
+ "text": "That woman has to show you're a fraud, but as far as the world knows you're a goddamn lawyer and that's the way it's gonna stay. Don't forget, we don't need to prove you're a lawyer; she needs to prove you're not.",
+ "source": "Suits"
+ }, {
+ "text": "I can always tell when you're lying. I also know that you cannot tell me why you do so. So there is no need to convince me, or wrap everything in lies, or try to take the blame on yourself like that. Because I have complete faith in you, Subaru-kun.",
+ "source": "Re:Zero"
+ }, {
+ "text": "I was assailed by memories of a life that wasn't mine anymore, but one in which I'd found the simplest and most lasting joys: the smells of summer, the part of town I loved, a certain evening sky, Marie's dresses and the way she laughed.",
+ "source": "The Stranger"
+ }, {
+ "text": "I think I really like it best when you can kid the pants off a girl when the opportunity arises.",
+ "source": "The Catcher in the Rye"
+ }, {
+ "text": "I guess this is just another lost cause, Mr. Paine. All you people don't know about lost causes. Mr. Paine does. He said once they were the only causes worth fighting for and he fought for them once. For the only reason any man ever fights for them. Because of just one plain simple rule. Love thy neighbor.",
+ "source": "Mr. Smith Goes to Washington"
+ }, {
+ "text": "I've always loathed the necessity of sleep. Like death, it puts even the most powerful men on their backs.",
+ "source": "House of Cards"
+ }, {
+ "text": "It is a custom of our justice to condemn some as a warning to others. To condemn them because they have done wrong would be stupidity, as Plato says. For what is done cannot be undone. But they are condemned that they may not go wrong again in the same way, or that others may avoid following their example. We do not correct the man we hang; we correct others through him. I do the same. My errors are sometimes natural and incorrigible; but whereas honest men benefit the public by setting an example, I may perhaps benefit them by making them avoid my example.",
+ "source": "On the Art of Conversation"
+ }, {
+ "text": "There should be a statute of limitation on grief. A rulebook that says it is all right to wake up crying, but only for a month. That after 42 days you will no longer turn with your heart racing, certain you have heard her call out your name. That there will be no fine imposed if you feel the need to clean out her desk; take down her artwork from the refrigerator; turn over a school portrait as you pass - if only because it cuts you fresh again to see it. That it's okay to measure the time she has been gone, the way we once measured her birthdays.",
+ "source": "My Sister's Keeper"
+ }, {
+ "text": "As long as people believe in absurdities, they will continue to commit atrocities.",
+ "source": "Modern Warfare"
+ }, {
+ "text": "My friend, I shall be pedagogic, and say you ought to start with Logic. Days will be spent to let you know that what you once did at one blow, like eating and drinking so easy and free, can only be done with One, Two, Three.",
+ "source": "Faust"
+ }, {
+ "text": "People think that a liar gains a victory over his victim. What I've learned is that a lie is an act of self-abdication, because one surrenders one's reality to the person to whom one lies, making that person one's master, condemning oneself from then on to faking the sort of reality that person's view requires to be faked. And if one gains the immediate purpose of the lie - the price one pays is the destruction of what the gain was intended to serve. The man who lies to the world is the world's slave from then on.",
+ "source": "Atlas Shrugged"
+ }, {
+ "text": "My aunt used to live in Paris. I remember, she used to come home and she would tell us stories about being abroad, and I remember she told us she jumped into the river once. Barefoot. She smiled. Leapt without looking, and tumbled into the Seine. The water was freezing, she spent a month sneezing, but said she would do it again.",
+ "source": "La La Land"
+ }, {
+ "text": "There is a door at the end of a silent corridor. And it's haunting Harry Potter's dreams. Why else would he be waking in the middle of the night, screaming in terror?",
+ "source": "Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix"
+ }, {
+ "text": "It must have been love, but it's over now. It must have been good, but I lost it somehow.",
+ "source": "It Must Have Been Love"
+ }, {
+ "text": "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.",
+ "source": "The Legend of Zelda: Ocarina Of time"
+ }, {
+ "text": "I walk through the valley of the shadow of death. And I'll fear no evil because I'm blind to it all. And my mind and my gun they comfort me. Because I know I'll kill my enemies when they come. Surely goodness and mercy will follow me all the days of my life and I will dwell on this earth forevermore. Still I walk beside the still waters and they restore my soul. But I can't walk on the path of the right because I'm wrong.",
+ "source": "Through the Valley"
+ }, {
+ "text": "Perhaps I'm just projecting my own concern about it. I know I've never completely freed myself from the suspicion that there are some extremely odd things about this mission. I'm sure you agree there's some truth in what I say.",
+ "source": "2001: A SPACE ODYSSEY"
+ }, {
+ "text": "This town is very peaceful. Yes, and that is why there are so many flowers. But... I have heard there are places in the world where no flowers bloom. I could never forgive myself if I did nothing to try to bring flowers to such places. That is why I shoot out spores as often as I can. It is my civic duty!",
+ "source": "Paper Mario: The Thousand-Year Door"
+ }, {
+ "text": "When I grow up, I'm not going to read the newspaper and I'm not going to follow complex issues and I'm not going to vote. That way I can complain that the government doesn't represent me. Then, when everything goes down the tubes, I can say the system doesn't work and justify my further lack of participation.",
+ "source": "The Complete Calvin and Hobbes"
+ }, {
+ "text": "We have a criminal jury system which is superior to any in the world and its efficiency is only marred by the difficulty of finding twelve men every day who don't know anything and can't read.",
+ "source": "The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn"
+ }, {
+ "text": "She dreams of 1969 before the soldiers came. The life was cheap on bread and wine and sharing meant no shame. She is awakened by the screams of rockets flying from nearby, and scared she clings onto her dreams to beat the fear that she might die.",
+ "source": "The Lebanon"
+ }, {
+ "text": "That's what the money is for! You should be thanking me every morning when you wake up, along with Jesus, for giving you another day!",
+ "source": "Mad Men"
+ }, {
+ "text": "All the old paintings on the tomb, they do the sand dance, don't you know? If they move too quick, they're falling down like a domino.",
+ "source": "Walk Like an Egyptian"
+ }, {
+ "text": "Faith always starts with desire. That means we want something to happen, badly.",
+ "source": "The Born Identity"
+ }, {
+ "text": "The important thing, I think, is not to be bitter. You know, if it turns out that there is a God, I don't think that he's evil. I think that the worst you can say about him is basically he's an underachiever. After all, you know, there are worse things in life than death. If you've ever spent an evening with an insurance salesman, you know exactly what I mean. The key here is to not think of death as an end, but think of it more as a very effective way of cutting down on your expenses.",
+ "source": "Love and Death"
+ }, {
+ "text": "The time I waited seemed endless, and I felt doubts and fears crowding upon me. What sort of place had I come to, and among what kind of people? What sort of grim adventure was it on which I had embarked?",
+ "source": "Dracula"
+ }, {
+ "text": "Girls in white dresses with blue satin sashes, snowflakes that stay on my nose and eyelashes, silver-white winters that melt into springs, these are a few of my favorite things.",
+ "source": "My Favorite Things"
+ }, {
+ "text": "There is a door at the end of a silent corridor. And it's haunting Harry Potter's dreams. Why else would he be waking in the middle of the night, screaming in terror?",
+ "source": "Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix"
+ }, {
+ "text": "I am assured by our merchants, that a boy or a girl before twelve years old, is no salable commodity, and even when they come to this age, they will not yield above three pounds, or three pounds and half a crown at most, on the exchange; which cannot turn to account either to the parents or kingdom, the charge of nutriments and rags having been at least four times that value.",
+ "source": "A Modest Proposal"
+ }, {
+ "text": "I want this mark all the way back to Earth with time to spare. We've never lost an American in space, we're sure as hell not gonna lose one on my watch. Failure is not an option!",
+ "source": "Apollo 13"
+ }, {
+ "text": "I thought I was part of the family. I thought I mattered... But I was just their toy, something to throw away when you're done with it.",
+ "source": "Detroit: Become Human"
+ }, {
+ "text": "I don't know that I brood. I just occasionally take time out to silently consider the specific ways in which others have wronged me.",
+ "source": "Ayoade on Ayoade: A Cinematic Odyssey"
+ }, {
+ "text": "I don't know why he saved my life. Maybe in those last moments he loved life more than he ever had before. Not just his life, anybody's life, my life. All he'd wanted were the same answers the rest of us want. Where did I come from? Where am I going? How long have I got?",
+ "source": "Blade Runner"
+ }, {
+ "text": "Once you get into the processed foods you have to be a fairly determined ecological detective to follow the intricate and\r\nincreasingly obscure lines of connection linking the Twinkie, or the nondairy creamer, to a plant growing in the earth some place, but it can be done.",
+ "source": "The Omnivore's Dilemma: A Natural History of Four Meals"
+ }, {
+ "text": "It is by will alone I set my mind in motion. It is by the juice of Sapho that thoughts acquire speed, the lips acquire stains, the stains become a warning. It is by will alone I set my mind in motion.",
+ "source": "Dune"
+ }, {
+ "text": "I'm wearying to escape into that glorious world, and to be always there: not seeing it dimly through tears, and yearning for it through the walls of an aching heart: but really with it, and in it.",
+ "source": "Wuthering Heights"
+ }, {
+ "text": "Just as there are painters and musicians among the poets, so there are poets and painters among the musicians. They become clearly distinguished from each other in proportion as the \"other artist\" is able to assert himself in their conceptions.",
+ "source": "J. S. Bach (Volume II)"
+ }, {
+ "text": "Some things you just can't explain. You don't even try. You don't know where to start. All your sentences would jumble up like a giant knot if you opened your mouth. Any words you used would come out wrong.",
+ "source": "Wonder"
+ }, {
+ "text": "It doesn't matter who you are or what you look like, so long as somebody loves you.",
+ "source": "The Witches"
+ }, {
+ "text": "Okay everybody, gather round. I want you to watch me pay these bills.",
+ "source": "Married... with Children"
+ }, {
+ "text": "I'm pretty sure there's a lot more to life than being really, really good-looking. And I plan on finding out what that is.",
+ "source": "Zoolander"
+ }, {
+ "text": "What is new about the Space Age is that it brings home to us, in concrete ways, a possibility that would have shocked and dismayed our ancestors: that the heavens might be empty.",
+ "source": "Our Quest for Meaning in the Heavens - The Wall Street Journal"
+ }, {
+ "text": "At three in the morning the blood runs slow and thick, and slumber is heavy. The soul either sleeps in blessed ignorance of such an hour or gazes about itself in utter despair. There is no middle ground.",
+ "source": "Salem's Lot"
+ }, {
+ "text": "Poor Alice! It was as much as she could do, lying down on one side, to look through into the garden with one eye; but to get through was more hopeless.",
+ "source": "Alice's Adventures in Wonderland"
+ }, {
+ "text": "I see a beautiful city and a brilliant people rising from this abyss, and, in their struggles to be truly free, in their triumphs and defeats, through long years to come, I see the evil of this time and of the previous time of which this is the natural birth, gradually making expiation for itself and wearing out.",
+ "source": "A Tale of Two Cities"
+ }, {
+ "text": "As the red day is dawning and the lightning cracks the sky, they'll raise their hands to the heavens above with resentment to their eyes. Running back from the mid-morning light, there's a burning in my heart. We're banished from a time in a fallen land to a life beyond the stars. In your darkest dreams see to believe our destiny is time. And endlessly we'll all be free tonight.",
+ "source": "Through the Fire and Flames"
+ }, {
+ "text": "I only see my goals, I don't believe in failure 'cause I know the smallest voices, they can make it major. I got my boys with me, at least those in favor. And if we don't meet before I leave, I hope I'll see you later.",
+ "source": "7 Years"
+ }, {
+ "text": "Keying text quickly is important, but it is more important to be able to make it look professional. Presenting text is more than just placing one letter after another. Making the text readable involves positioning, style, and size.",
+ "source": "Keyboarding Made Simple (1985)"
+ }, {
+ "text": "Music finds a comfortable parallel with that of human language. Much as language has words, sentences, and stories, music has tones, melodies, and songs. ",
+ "source": "Civilization IV"
+ }, {
+ "text": "Men, in as much as I am the reigning officer in charge here, I feel it would not be wrong to start you on a program of rehabilitation. What do I mean by rehabilitation? I mean any constructive activity which would bring out the talents you may have.",
+ "source": "The Andy Griffith Show"
+ }, {
+ "text": "We're bobbing along in our barrel. Some of us tip right over the edge. But there's one thing really mystifying. It's got me laughing, now it's got me crying. All my life I will be death-defying 'til I know... I wonder, wonder why the wonder falls. I wonder why the wonder falls on me. I wonder, wonder why the wonder falls with everything I touch and hear and see.",
+ "source": "Wonderfalls"
+ }, {
+ "text": "If you had an injury and your doctor said it might help, would you be willing to let leeches feast for a few minutes, say, on your hand? On your face?",
+ "source": "Inquiry Into Life"
+ }, {
+ "text": "In the early days of America, when men wore ruffles on their shirts and buckles on their shoes, when they rode horseback and swore allegiance to the king of England, there lived in Boston a man who cared for none of these things. His name was Samuel Adams. His clothes were shabby and plain, he refused to get on a horse and he hated the king of England.",
+ "source": "Why Don't You Get a Horse, Sam Adams"
+ }, {
+ "text": "You realize that trying to keep your distance from me will not lessen my affection for you. All efforts to save me from you will fail.",
+ "source": "The Fault in Our Stars"
+ }, {
+ "text": "Our evaluations of reflection and transmission at material interfaces in various situations will, in addition to the underlying physical processes and mathematical relations between the local fields and waves at the interfaces, also include all implications to the distributions of total fields and waves in each of the material regions in the system, as well as the related energy and power considerations.",
+ "source": "Electromagnetics"
+ }, {
+ "text": "For it was said that they had become like those peculiar demons which dwell in matter, but in which no light may be found.",
+ "source": "Half-Life 2"
+ }, {
+ "text": "Being human is about fighting even when it seems hopeless, and finding happiness even in a world that hates it.",
+ "source": "Zero Escape: Virtue's Last Reward"
+ }, {
+ "text": "This made me reflect, how vain an attempt it is for a man to endeavor to do himself honor among those who are out of all degree of equality or comparison with him.",
+ "source": "Gulliver's Travels"
+ }, {
+ "text": "I hadn't realized that music could unlock things in you, could transport you to somewhere even the composer hadn't predicted. It left an imprint in the air around you, as if you carried its remnants with you when you went.",
+ "source": "Me Before You"
+ }, {
+ "text": "Some people can't believe in themselves until someone else believes in them first.",
+ "source": "Good Will Hunting"
+ }, {
+ "text": "You can work back to God from the phenomenal universe, or you can move from the Creator to the phenomenal universe. Each implies the other. The Creator would not be the Creator if there were no universe, and the universe would cease to be if the Creator did not sustain it. The Creator does not exist prior to the universe in time; he does not exist in time at all. God creates the universe constantly; he is with it, not above or behind it. This is impossible to understand for you because you are a created thing and exist in time. But eventually you will return to your Creator and then you will again no longer exist in time.",
+ "source": "The Divine Invasion"
+ }, {
+ "text": "Every minute of every day we choose. Who we are. Who we forgive. Who we defend and protect. To choose a side or to walk the line. To play the middle. To straddle the fence between what is and what should be. This was the course I chose. Trying to find the delicate balance of interests that can never exist. Choosing by not choosing. Defending a center which cannot hold. So death chose for me.",
+ "source": "The X-Files"
+ }, {
+ "text": "When I saw the break of day, I wished that I could fly away.",
+ "source": "Don't Know Why"
+ }, {
+ "text": "Very well, gentlemen. This, and maybe other similar things, is what I have to say in my defense. Perhaps one of you might be angry as he recalls that when he himself stood trial on a less dangerous charge, he begged and implored the jurymen with many tears, that he brought his children and many of his friends and family into the court to arouse as much pity as he could, but that I do none of these things, even though I may seem to be running the ultimate risk.",
+ "source": "Apology of Socrates"
+ }, {
+ "text": "Alright, how about the fact that this is actually happening? You have your armies, you have your ships, you have your dragons... Everything you ever wanted, since you were old enough to want anything. It's all yours for the taking. Are you afraid? Good. You're in the Great Game now, and the Great Game is terrifying. The only people who aren't afraid of failure are madmen like your father.",
+ "source": "Game of Thrones"
+ }, {
+ "text": "Any physical theory is always provisional, in the sense that it is only a hypothesis: you can never prove it. No matter how many times the results of experiments agree with some theory, you can never be sure that the next time the result will not contradict the theory.",
+ "source": "A Brief History of Time"
+ }, {
+ "text": "You know, this place makes me wonder, which would be worse... to live as a monster? Or to die as a good man?",
+ "source": "Shutter Island"
+ }, {
+ "text": "While walking through the train, Luke and I encountered a lady by the name of Babette. This woman, large in both stature and character, was in a dreadful panic over her lost boy, Tom. It seems the child got away from her while she was distracted, leaving only a single tiny shoe behind. Where could a child that small have wandered off to?",
+ "source": "Professor Layton and the Diabolical Box"
+ }, {
+ "text": "Every magic trick consists of three parts, or acts. The first part is called the pledge, the magician shows you something ordinary. The second act is called the turn, the magician takes the ordinary something and makes it into something extraordinary. But you wouldn't clap yet, because making something disappear isn't enough. You have to bring it back.",
+ "source": "The Prestige"
+ }, {
+ "text": "See, in the perfect world, I would be perfect, world. I don't trust people enough beyond the surface world. I don't love people enough to put my faith in men, I put my faith in these lyrics, hoping I make amend.",
+ "source": "PRIDE."
+ }, {
+ "text": "The Sky People have sent us a message that they can take whatever they want. That no one can stop them. Well, we will send them a message. You ride out as fast as the wind can carry you. You tell the other clans to come. Tell them Toruk Macto calls to them!",
+ "source": "Avatar"
+ }, {
+ "text": "Sir, there was this idiotic round robin. It was sarcastic. There was no way they didn't know that. They were just mad at me for imposing discipline and calling them stupid.",
+ "source": "The West Wing"
+ }, {
+ "text": "If only sorrow could build a staircase or tears could show the way. I would climb my way to heaven, and bring him back home again.",
+ "source": "Suicide Season"
+ }, {
+ "text": "Frodo began to feel restless, and the old paths seemed too well-trodden. He looked at maps, and wondered what lay beyond their edges: maps made in the Shire showed mostly white spaces beyond its borders.",
+ "source": "The Lord of The Rings"
+ }, {
+ "text": "Build a man a fire, and he'll be warm for a day. Set a man on fire, and he'll be warm for the rest of his life.",
+ "source": "Jingo"
+ }, {
+ "text": "But I had a point here. A lesson, if you will. There are other organisations out there. And, in time, I'm sure they're going to spoon-feed you their own patented form of bull. Ignore the verbage and look at what they're doing. What they're asking you to do. What sort of world they'd have you build and how they're going to pay for it.",
+ "source": "Fallout 4"
+ }, {
+ "text": "The fault lies not with the mob, who demands nonsense, but with those who do not know how to produce anything else.",
+ "source": "Don Quixote"
+ }, {
+ "text": "Noontime, and I'm still pushing myself along the road, the darkest part into the narrow lanes, I can't stumble or stay put. Someone else is speaking with my mouth, but I'm listening with my heart. I've made shoes for everyone, even you, while I go barefoot.",
+ "source": "I and I"
+ }, {
+ "text": "She finished her letter, wondering whether she had said enough and not too much, and sat with the folded and sealed letter between her hands with something of her usual hesitation when she had taken any step of importance. Then she rose quickly and sent it away. She felt she must go into her brother's presence, having fulfilled his wishes. She had not a moment for reflection then, for the front doorbell, usually so silent, rang loudly, and in a moment a tall, broad-shouldered, middle-aged man came into the room and went straight up to her.",
+ "source": "Mrs. Dorriman, Volume 3 of 3"
+ }, {
+ "text": "The bully who oppressed your youth isn't at the table with us, perhaps he's long dead.",
+ "source": "Deadwood"
+ }, {
+ "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. However, there is an apparent difference among the ends aimed at. For the end is sometimes an activity, sometimes a product beyond the activity; and when there is an end beyond the action, the product is by nature better than the activity.",
+ "source": "Aristotle: Introductory Readings"
+ }, {
+ "text": "I got that sunshine in my pocket, got that good soul in my feet. I feel that hot blood in my body when it drops. I can't take my eyes up off it, moving so phenomenally. Room on lock the way we rock it, so don't stop.",
+ "source": "Can't Stop the Feeling"
+ }, {
+ "text": "Oh, we could be the stars falling from the sky, shining how we want, brighter than the sun.",
+ "source": "Brighter Than the Sun"
+ }, {
+ "text": "As I suspected, the dining car of the Molentary Express is quite popular with the passengers, and though we've waited patiently to be seated, I get the feeling we won't be eating any time soon. The waiter recommended waiting for the lunchtime rush to pass on the observation deck located in the last carriage. I'm inclined to take his advice.",
+ "source": "Professor Layton and the Diabolical Box"
+ }, {
+ "text": "Brother, I'm not depressed and haven't lost spirit. Life everywhere is life, life is in ourselves and not in the external. There will be people near me, and to be a human being among human beings, and remain one forever, no matter what misfortunes befall, not to become depressed, and not to falter - this is what life is, herein lies its task.",
+ "source": "The Brothers Karamazov"
+ }, {
+ "text": "People say I'm crazy doing what I'm doing. Well, they give me all kinds of warnings to save me from ruin. When I say that I'm okay, well they look at me kinda strange. Surely, you're not happy now, you no longer play the game.",
+ "source": "Watching The Wheels"
+ }, {
+ "text": "My whole life is other people deciding what's acceptable. When I put on a dress, I get to decide what's silly.",
+ "source": "The Prince and the Dressmaker"
+ }, {
+ "text": "Three hidden keys open three secret gates wherein the errant will be tested for worthy traits, and those with the skill to survive these straits will reach the end where the prize awaits.",
+ "source": "Ready Player One: A Novel"
+ }, {
+ "text": "She may be the beauty or the beast. May be the famine or the feast. May turn each day into a heaven or a hell. She may be the mirror of my dream, a smile reflected in a stream. She may not be what she may seem inside her shell.",
+ "source": "She"
+ }, {
+ "text": "Neal, the board is deciding whether to release you from your anklet permanently. They wanna know who's in your life. Are they a good influence, or are they gonna steer you back to the dark side?",
+ "source": "White Collar"
+ }, {
+ "text": "He never shut up about you. You'd think he was the only guy in the planet who had a son the way he carried on. One day, he brought you down to the precinct and he introduced you around as a junior detective to every cop in the house. I mean, you just loved that. And then, I remember, at some point you drifted away. Man, did he panic. He had about ten detectives looking for you. We finally found you in the captain's office, wearing his hat. I guess you always had a thing for hats.",
+ "source": "White Collar"
+ }, {
+ "text": "We understood each other in a way, me and my mom and my dad. As screwed up as we all were, we did understand each other. My mother, she knew what it's like to feel your entire life like you're drowning with the exception of these moments, these very rare, brief instances, in which you suddenly remember... you can swim.",
+ "source": "Bojack Horseman"
+ }, {
+ "text": "Dad warmed to his pep talk. \"You've got to have perfect accuracy and you've got to type at least 110 words a minute, not counting glossary strings. You've got to have it all down, kid, and you have to get it while you're young. Then... then you can really go somewhere. When you've got all that you'll be able to slip into the gloves and really move. The sooner you go, the farther you'll go faster. By the time you're ready for a job, boy, you've got to be flying.\"",
+ "source": "Dad's Nuke"
+ }, {
+ "text": "There are moments that define a person's whole life. Moments in which everything they are and everything they may possibly become balance on a single decision. Life and death, hope and despair, victory and failure teeter precariously on the decision made at that moment. These are moments ungoverned by happenstance, untroubled by luck. These are the moments in which a person earns the right to live, or not.",
+ "source": "Rot & Ruin"
+ }, {
+ "text": "There is an old building up ahead. A bank or museum or something like that. Whatever the hell it used to be, now it is a nexus for Overwatch in City 17. It is the main source of pain for this part of town, thanks to a huge suppression device that rains down hell from the roof of the place.",
+ "source": "Half-Life 2"
+ }, {
+ "text": "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"
+ }, {
+ "text": "If there is one thing the history of evolution has taught us it's that life will not be contained. Life breaks free, expands to new territory, and crashes through barriers, painfully, maybe even dangerously. ",
+ "source": "Jurassic Park"
+ }, {
+ "text": "People say these things because everyone holds fond memories of their time in high school; however, I doubt that every high school student would want to remember their school life that way. For example, if neither studying, nor sports, nor socializing are of interest to someone, what then?",
+ "source": "Hyouka"
+ }, {
+ "text": "I know you're into banks and Wall Street, but everyone knows you're the final word, you're like the Supreme Court. All I want to do is protect you from these guys and your lawyers can't do that.",
+ "source": "The Godfather: Part III"
+ }, {
+ "text": "I have climbed the highest mountains, I have run through the fields. I have run, I have crawled, I have scaled these city walls, but I still haven't found what I'm looking for.",
+ "source": "I Still Haven't Found What I'm Looking For"
+ }, {
+ "text": "When you work as a spy, it's easy to think of people as assets - resources to accomplish a goal - because you don't have a personal relationship with an asset. You don't care about an asset. You don't miss the scent of an asset when she leaves the room.",
+ "source": "Burn Notice"
+ }, {
+ "text": "This is my most special place in all the world, Ray. Once a place touches you like this the wind never blows so cold again. You feel for it like it was your child. I can't leave Chisholm.",
+ "source": "Field of Dreams"
+ }, {
+ "text": "Now when you pick a pawpaw, or a prickly pear, and you prick a raw paw, next time beware. Don't pick the prickly pear by the paw. When you pick a pear, try to use the claw. But you don't need to use the claw when you pick a pear of the big pawpaw.",
+ "source": "Bare Necessities"
+ }, {
+ "text": "\"I believe,\" he said, speaking more slowly now, \"that there is a whole world of sound about us all the time that we cannot hear. It is possible that up there in those high-pitched inaudible regions there is a new exciting music being made, with subtle harmonies and fierce grinding discords, a music so powerful that it would drive us mad if only our ears were tuned to hear the sound of it.\"",
+ "source": "The Sound Machine"
+ }, {
+ "text": "My life's work is teaching. And I believed that if you boys won that science fair, got scholarships, went off and did something great with your lives, somehow my life would have counted for something, Homer. You know what? Sometimes you really can't listen to what anybody else says. You just gotta listen inside. You're not supposed to end up in those mines. You know why? 'Cause I think you made other plans. I want you to know something. I'm proud of you.",
+ "source": "October Sky"
+ }, {
+ "text": "I consider all the things I have done to become a worthy adversary of him, but maybe I haven't been fighting Cardan at all. Maybe I've been fighting my own shadow.",
+ "source": "The Cruel Prince"
+ }, {
+ "text": "They used to tell me I was building a dream, and so I followed the mob. When there was earth to plow or guns to bear, I was always there, right on the job. They used to tell me I was building a dream with peace and glory ahead. Why should I be standing in line just waiting for bread? Once I built a railroad, I made it run. Made it race against time. Once I built a railroad, now it's done. Brother, can you spare a dime?",
+ "source": "Brother, Can You Spare a Dime?"
+ }, {
+ "text": "But then he'll wonder why I haven't been married. You know what I'm gonna do? I'm gonna say that I was married. The real question is should I say that I have kids? Guys like girls that have kids right?",
+ "source": "Parks and Recreation"
+ }, {
+ "text": "Now, normally, she sells seashells by the seashore, but today we're on the lookout for sharks. Seamen see many, but do you see any? I heard around these parts there must be plenty. Take my hand, and a sword; if we don't get one, we're not welcome back on board.",
+ "source": "Holiday"
+ }, {
+ "text": "With the All Spark gone, we cannot return life to our planet. And fate has yielded its reward: a new world to call home. We live among its people now, hiding in plain sight, but watching over them in secret, waiting, protecting. I have witnessed their capacity for courage, and though we are worlds apart, like us, there's more to them than meets the eye. I am Optimus Prime and I send this message to any surviving Autobots taking refuge among the stars. We are here. We are waiting.",
+ "source": "Transformers"
+ }, {
+ "text": "A powerful monster, living down in the darkness, growled in pain, impatient as day after day the music rang loud in that hall, the harp's rejoicing call and the poet's clear songs, sung of the ancient beginnings of us all.",
+ "source": "Beowulf"
+ }, {
+ "text": "Is it really necessary to send that email? The more emails you send, the more work others will have to do to prioritize your requests. How many of the things you're mentioning are important? If you have 10 issues to discuss, break them into two groups and focus on the most important group.",
+ "source": "The Art of Project Management"
+ }, {
+ "text": "And, anyway, it's not about making money, it's about taking money. Disrupting the status quo, because the status is not quo. The world is a mess and I just need to rule it.",
+ "source": "Dr. Horrible's Singalong Blog"
+ }, {
+ "text": "Every single night I endure the fight of little wings of white-flamed butterflies in my brain. These ideas of mine percolate the mind, trickle down the spine, swarm the bell, swellin' to a blaze. That's when the pain comes in like a second skeleton trying to fit beneath the skin. I can't fit the feelings in. Every single night is a fight with my brain.",
+ "source": "Every Single Night"
+ }, {
+ "text": "I am sitting in a room, different from the one you are in now. I am recording the sound of my speaking voice, and I am going to play it back into the room again and again, until the resonant frequencies of the room reinforce themselves, so that any semblance of my speech, with perhaps the exception of rhythm, is destroyed. What you will hear then are the natural resonant frequencies of the room articulated by speech. I regard this activity not so much as a demonstration of a physical fact, but more as a way to smooth out any irregularities my speech might have.",
+ "source": "I Am Sitting in a Room"
+ }, {
+ "text": "Roll the window down this cool night air is curious.",
+ "source": "Passenger"
+ }, {
+ "text": "A man who doesn't spend time with his family can never be a real man.",
+ "source": "The Godfather"
+ }, {
+ "text": "She takes care of herself, she can wait if she wants, she's ahead of her time. Oh, and she never gives out and she never gives in. She just changes her mind.",
+ "source": "She's Always A Woman"
+ }, {
+ "text": "It was as if that great rush of anger had washed me clean, emptied me of hope, and, gazing up at the dark sky spangled with its signs and stars, for the first time, the first, I laid my heart open to the benign indifference of the universe.",
+ "source": "The Stranger"
+ }, {
+ "text": "I didn't know the girl, but I knew her family. All their lives were shattered in a nightmare of brutality. They try to carry on, try to bear the agony; try to hold some faith in the goodness of humanity.",
+ "source": "Nobody's Hero"
+ }, {
+ "text": "A real artist must never be afraid of what other people are gonna say about him.",
+ "source": "Fame"
+ }, {
+ "text": "In the wild lands beyond Bree there were mysterious wanderers. The Bree-folk called them Rangers, and knew nothing of their origin. They were taller and darker than the Men of Bree and were believed to have strange powers of sight and hearing, and to understand the languages of beasts and birds.",
+ "source": "The Lord of The Rings"
+ }, {
+ "text": "There are those who say that the world is like a calm pond, and that any time a person does even the smallest thing, it is as if a stone has dropped into the pond, spreading circles of ripples further and further out, until the entire world has been changed by one tiny action, but the Baudelaires could not bear to think of the tiny action of the trigger of the harpoon gun, or how the world changed in just one instant. Instead, they frantically rushed to the edge of the pond as the sub-sub-librarian began to sink. Klaus grabbed one hand, and Sunny grabbed the other, and Violet reached for his face, as if she were comforting someone who had begun to cry.",
+ "source": "A Series of Unfortunate Events: The Penultimate Peril"
+ }, {
+ "text": "Being polite is not only the right way to respond to people but also the easiest. Life is so filled with unavoidable conflict that I see no reason to promote more confrontations.",
+ "source": "Odd Thomas"
+ }, {
+ "text": "They say truth is the first casualty of war. But who defines what's true? Truth is just a matter of perspective. The duty of every soldier is to protect the innocent, and sometimes that means preserving the lie of good and evil - that war isn't just natural selection played out on a grand scale. The only truth I found is that the world we live in is a giant tinderbox. All it takes... is someone to light the match.",
+ "source": "Call Of Duty: Modern Warfare 3"
+ }, {
+ "text": "What really counted was the possibility of escape, a leap of freedom, out of the implacable ritual, a wild run for it that would give whatever chance for hope there was. Of course, hope meant being cut down on some street corner, as you ran like mad, by a random bullet. But when I really thought it through, nothing was going to allow me such a luxury. Everything was against it; I would just be caught up in the machinery again.",
+ "source": "The Stranger"
+ }, {
+ "text": "Life is a comedy for those who think and a tragedy for those who feel.",
+ "source": "Emotional Intelligence"
+ }, {
+ "text": "I wrote him back a letter and I told him it was not the perfect country and western song, because he hadn't said anything at all about mama, or trains, or trucks, or prison, or gettin' drunk. Well, he sat down and wrote another verse to this song and he sent it to me, and after reading it I realized that my friend had written the perfect country and western song, and I felt obliged to include it on this album. The last verse goes like this here. Well, I was drunk the day my mom got out of prison, and I went to pick her up in the rain. But before I could get to the station in my pickup truck, she got runned over by a damned old train.",
+ "source": "You Never Even Called Me by My Name"
+ }, {
+ "text": "And I said, I don't care if they lay me off either, because I told Bill that if they move my desk one more time, then I'm quitting, I'm going to quit. They've moved my desk four times already this year, and I used to be over by the window, and I could see the squirrels, and they were married, but then, they switched from the Swingline to the Boston stapler, but I kept my Swingline stapler.",
+ "source": "Office Space"
+ }, {
+ "text": "It was love at first sight, at last sight, at ever and ever sight.",
+ "source": "Lolita"
+ }, {
+ "text": "If you ever looked at me once with what I know is in you, I would be your slave.",
+ "source": "Wuthering Heights"
+ }, {
+ "text": "You fill up my senses like a night in the forest, like the mountains in springtime, like a walk in the rain, like a storm in the desert, like a sleepy blue ocean.",
+ "source": "Annie's Song"
+ }, {
+ "text": "With your feet on the air and your head on the ground, try this trick and spin it, yeah. Your head will collapse, but there's nothing in it, and you'll ask yourself \"Where is my mind?\"",
+ "source": "Where is My Mind"
+ }, {
+ "text": "A guy like me should never be allowed to get in here in the first place. I know that! And I hate to stand here and try your patience like this, but either I'm dead right or I'm crazy!",
+ "source": "Mr. Smith Goes to Washington"
+ }, {
+ "text": "It was night again. The Waystone Inn lay in silence, and it was a silence of three parts. The most obvious part was a hollow, echoing quiet, made by things that were lacking. If there had been a wind it would have sighed through the trees, set the inn's sign creaking on its hooks, and brushed the silence down the road like trailing autumn leaves. If there had been a crowd, even a handful of men inside the inn, they would have filled the silence with conversation and laughter, the clatter and clamor one expects from a drinking house during the dark hours of night. If there had been music... but no, of course there was no music. In fact there were none of these things, and so the silence remained.",
+ "source": "The Name of the Wind"
+ }, {
+ "text": "Our attempts to succeed in life will be largely determined by our confidence. This rests on the way we see ourselves, what we believe about ourselves, what we believe we are capable of.",
+ "source": "The Born Identity"
+ }, {
+ "text": "A water snake glided smoothly up the pool, twisting its periscope head from side to side; and it swam the length of the pool and came to the legs of a motionless heron that stood in the shadows. A silent head and beak lanced down and plucked it out by the head, and the beak swallowed the little snake while its tail waved frantically.",
+ "source": "Of Mice and Men"
+ }, {
+ "text": "You have an urgent look about you... Has something happened? Whatever it is, from the look on your face I suspect that it is no laughing matter.",
+ "source": "The Legend of Zelda: The Wind Waker"
+ }, {
+ "text": "By what right do you dare say that there's a superior few to which you belong? By what right did you dare decide that that boy in there was inferior and therefore could be killed? Did you think you were God, Brandon? Is that what you thought when you choked the life out of him? Is that what you thought when you served food from his grave? I don't know what you thought, but I know what you've done. You've murdered!",
+ "source": "Rope"
+ }, {
+ "text": "No offence, but NASA spends fifteen years, hundreds of millions of dollars so that we can watch man walk on the moon and in the end it falls to you blokes! I mean, how do you feel about that?",
+ "source": "The Dish"
+ }, {
+ "text": "All right, we're not doing this, gentlemen. We're not gonna do this. We're not gonna go bouncing off the walls for the next ten minutes, 'cause we're just gonna end up right back here with the same problems! Try to figure out how to stay alive!",
+ "source": "Apollo 13"
+ }, {
+ "text": "I've begun to realize that you can listen to silence and learn from it. It has a quality and a dimension all its own.",
+ "source": "The Chosen"
+ }, {
+ "text": "Everyone's creeping up to the money god, putting tongues where they didn't ought to be. On stepping stones of human hearts and souls, into the land of \"nothing for free\". Well the way that we're living is all take and no giving. There's nothing to believe in. The loudest mouth will hail the newfound way to be king for a day.",
+ "source": "King for a Day"
+ }, {
+ "text": "Tim and the Princess lounge in the castle garden, laughing together, giving names to the colorful birds. Their mistakes are hidden from each other, tucked away between the folds of time, safe.",
+ "source": "Braid"
+ }, {
+ "text": "We're always thinking of eternity as an idea that cannot be understood, something immense. But why must it be? What if, instead of all this, you suddenly find just a little room there, something like a village bath-house, grimy, and spiders in every corner, and that's all eternity is. Sometimes, you know, I can't help feeling that that's what it is.",
+ "source": "Crime and Punishment"
+ }, {
+ "text": "One of the hardest things to do in a fight is to make it look like you're trying to kill someone without doing any permanent damage. They don't teach any half-moves in combat training. There are moves designed to kill and maim as efficiently as possible. If those are off limits, one option is open your fist right before a punch lands. Painful, but the force is distributed. Another showy option is a kick to the shoulder. You might break a rib or two, but if you aim right, nobody is going to the morgue.",
+ "source": "Burn Notice"
+ }, {
+ "text": "I just have a little question here. You could be a janitor anywhere. Why did you work at the most prestigious technical college in the whole world? And why did you sneak around at night and finish other people's formulas that only one or two people in the world could do and then lie about it? 'Cause I don't see a lot of honor in that, Will.",
+ "source": "Good Will Hunting"
+ }, {
+ "text": "But as our culture has transformed from one that was fundamentally based on internal memories to one that is fundamentally based on memories stored outside the brain, what are the implications for ourselves and our society? What we've gained is indisputable. But what have we traded away?",
+ "source": "Moonwalking with Einstein"
+ }, {
+ "text": "It's freeing to know, it's all up to me, who I choose to be, what I choose to leave. This miracle that we get to witness, this pause in the chaos, it's Love. This speck in a galaxy, dot in a sunbeam, it's more than enough. You gotta realize your worth, you're meant to be on this earth. Think about how many miracles lead to your birth. Don't put a lock on your mind, life is yet to be defined. Beauty in the unknown, for a human this is home.",
+ "source": "Volition"
+ }, {
+ "text": "How could you possibly see anything in here with that big hat over your eyes? I hate caves! Our kind isn't meant to be underground. We should be soaring high in the wide open sky.",
+ "source": "Dust: An Elysian Tail"
+ }, {
+ "text": "May your hands always be busy, may your feet always be swift. May you have a strong foundation when the winds of changes shift. May your heart always be joyful, may your song always be sung, and may you stay forever young.",
+ "source": "Forever Young"
+ }, {
+ "text": "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"
+ }, {
+ "text": "More than anyone I'd ever met, he seemed to participate in life as if it were art, and to practice a studied, careful carefreeness. His sense of what is worthy seemed to overlap very little with any conventional sense of what is useful, and if there were one precept that could be said to govern his life, it is that one's highest calling is to engage in enriching escapades at every turn.",
+ "source": "Moonwalking with Einstein"
+ }, {
+ "text": "Play the victim all you want. But you and me? We know the truth. Dad loved you best. More than Michael. More than me. Then he brought the new baby home and you couldn't handle it. So this is all just one big temper tantrum. Time to grow up.",
+ "source": "Supernatural"
+ }, {
+ "text": "Will the witness please state his name and occupation.",
+ "source": "Phoenix Wright: Ace Attorney"
+ }, {
+ "text": "A good cook changes his knife once a year because he cuts. A mediocre cook changes his knife once a month because he hacks. I've had this knife of mine for nineteen years and I've cut up thousands of oxen with it, and yet the blade is as good as though it had just come out of the grindstone. There are spaces between the joints, and the blade of the knife has really no thickness. If you insert what has no thickness into such spaces, then there's plenty of room - more than enough for the blade to play about it. That's why after nineteen years the blade of my knife is still as good as when it first came from the grindstone.",
+ "source": "Zhuangzi: Basic Writings"
+ }, {
+ "text": "Help me if you can, I'm feeling down and I do appreciate you being around. Help me get my feet back on the ground, won't you please, please help me?",
+ "source": "Help!"
+ }, {
+ "text": "I am not unmindful that some of you have come here out of great trials and tribulations. Some of you have come fresh from narrow cells. Some of you have come from areas where your quest for freedom left you battered by the storms of persecution and staggered by the winds of police brutality. You have been the veterans of creative suffering. Continue to work with the faith that unearned suffering is redemptive.",
+ "source": "I Have a Dream"
+ }, {
+ "text": "My life is a perfect graveyard of buried hopes. That's a sentence I read once and I say it over to comfort myself in these times that try the soul.",
+ "source": "Anne of Green Gables"
+ }, {
+ "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"
+ }, {
+ "text": "I have been told of a certain sea snake which has a very unusual method of attracting its prey. It will lie at the bottom of the ocean as if wounded. Then its enemies will approach, and yet it will lie quite still. And then its enemies will take little bites of it, and yet it remains still.",
+ "source": "The Gladiator"
+ }, {
+ "text": "When a child enters school for the first time he will encounter many things with which he is unfamiliar. The schoolroom desk, some of the tables and cabinets, the blackboards, charts, and other classroom equipment may be entirely novel to him.",
+ "source": "Improving Reading Skills"
+ }, {
+ "text": "I've been quite open about this around the office: I don't want this parks department to build any parks, because I don't believe in government. I think that all government is a waste of taxpayer money. My dream is to have the park system privatized and run entirely for profit by corporations.",
+ "source": "Parks and Recreation"
+ }, {
+ "text": "We all crave for love, for it can lift us to the stars; equally, losing it can be devastating. Love can change us for life like nothing else. Can the ancient wisdom be a fit guide for us here? The answer is yes, for two reasons. One is that human emotions do not change as centuries pass; the other is the fact that this wisdom is based on a profound belief that the cosmos exists because of love.",
+ "source": "The Happiness Handbook"
+ }, {
+ "text": "I know what you want. You want a story that won't surprise you. That will confirm what you already know. That won't make you see higher or further or differently. You want a flat story. An immobile story. You want dry, yeastless factuality.",
+ "source": "Life of Pi"
+ }, {
+ "text": "One of the greatest attributes of God is power. Power to create, power to lay down and power to take up, power to control the earth and the heavens, and power to consume His enemies. God is full of power, glory, and majesty and He has given all His children power to become great, power to destroy the works of Satan, power to become children of God, power to dominate, power to procreate, power to fulfill destiny.",
+ "source": "The Unseen Power: You May Not Know What You Are Worth Until You Are Challenged"
+ }, {
+ "text": "Try to remember the kind of September when life was slow and oh, so mellow. Try to remember the kind of September when grass was green and grain so yellow. Try to remember the kind of September when you were a young and callow fellow. Try to remember and if you remember then follow. Try to remember when life was so tender that no one wept except the willow. Try to remember when life was so tender that dreams were kept beside your pillow. Try to remember when life was so tender, that love was an ember about to billow. Try to remember and if you remember then follow. Deep in December it's nice to remember, although you know the snow will follow. Deep in December it's nice to remember without a hurt the heart is hollow. Deep in December it's nice to remember the fire of September that made you mellow. Deep in December our hearts should remember then follow.",
+ "source": "Try to Remember"
+ }, {
+ "text": "All the world used her ill, said this young misanthropist... and we may be pretty certain that persons whom all the world treats ill, deserve entirely the treatment they get. The world is a looking-glass, and gives back to every man the reflection of his own face. Frown at it, and it will in turn look sourly upon you; laugh at it and with it, and it is a jolly kind companion; and so let all young persons take their choice.",
+ "source": "Vanity Fair"
+ }, {
+ "text": "You've undoubtedly noticed how some authors go to so much trouble to build up great tension a few pages before the end of their stories - but a reader who is holding the book physically in his hands can feel that the story is about to end. Hence, he has some extra information which acts as an advance warning, in a way.",
+ "source": "Gödel, Escher, Bach: An Eternal Golden Braid"
+ }, {
+ "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"
+ }, {
+ "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"
+ }, {
+ "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"
+ }, {
+ "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"
+ }, {
+ "text": "Space ain't man's final frontier. Man's final frontier is the soul\r\nguided 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"
+ }, {
+ "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"
+ }, {
+ "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"
+ }, {
+ "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"
+ }, {
+ "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"
+ }, {
+ "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)"
+ }, {
+ "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"
+ }, {
+ "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"
+ }, {
+ "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"
+ }, {
+ "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"
+ }, {
+ "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"
+ }, {
+ "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"
+ }, {
+ "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"
+ }, {
+ "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"
+ }, {
+ "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"
+ }, {
+ "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"
+ }, {
+ "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"
+ }, {
+ "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"
+ }, {
+ "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"
+ }, {
+ "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"
+ }, {
+ "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"
+ }, {
+ "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"
+ }, {
+ "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"
+ }, {
+ "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"
+ }, {
+ "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"
+ }, {
+ "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"
+ }, {
+ "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"
+ }, {
+ "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"
+ }, {
+ "text": "I hope you still feel small when you stand beside the ocean. Whenever one door closes I hope one more opens.",
+ "source": "I Hope You Dance"
+ }, {
+ "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"
+ }, {
+ "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"
+ }, {
+ "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"
+ }, {
+ "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"
+ }, {
+ "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"
+ }, {
+ "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"
+ }, {
+ "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"
+ }, {
+ "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"
+ }, {
+ "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"
+ }, {
+ "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"
+ }, {
+ "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"
+ }, {
+ "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"
+ }, {
+ "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"
+ }, {
+ "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"
+ }, {
+ "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"
+ }, {
+ "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"
+ }, {
+ "text": "I've always been afraid that if I screamed, I might break apart in a million pieces.",
+ "source": "The Night Diary"
+ }, {
+ "text": "And when the car broke down, they started walking. But where were they going without ever knowing the way?",
+ "source": "The Way"
+ }, {
+ "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"
+ }, {
+ "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)"
+ }, {
+ "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"
+ }, {
+ "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"
+ }, {
+ "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"
+ }, {
+ "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"
+ }, {
+ "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"
+ }, {
+ "text": "Putting more makeup on the masks that we wear. Turning the nightlights on in the daytime to scare.",
+ "source": "Nightlight"
+ }, {
+ "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"
+ }, {
+ "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"
+ }, {
+ "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"
+ }, {
+ "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"
+ }, {
+ "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"
+ }, {
+ "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"
+ }, {
+ "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"
+ }, {
+ "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"
+ }, {
+ "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"
+ }, {
+ "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"
+ }, {
+ "text": "When we played our charade, we were like children posing. Playing at games, acting out names, guessing the parts we played.",
+ "source": "Charade"
+ }, {
+ "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"
+ }, {
+ "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"
+ }, {
+ "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"
+ }, {
+ "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"
+ }, {
+ "text": "I wish I were a girl again, half-savage and hardy, and free.",
+ "source": "Wuthering Heights"
+ }, {
+ "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"
+ }, {
+ "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"
+ }, {
+ "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"
+ }, {
+ "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"
+ }, {
+ "text": "We could love that tractor then as we have loved this land when it was ours.",
+ "source": "The Grapes of Wrath"
+ }, {
+ "text": "I saw in your eyes and I saw the way you carried yourself that you're not a happy person.",
+ "source": "Taxi Driver"
+ }, {
+ "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"
+ }, {
+ "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"
+ }, {
+ "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"
+ }, {
+ "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"
+ }, {
+ "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"
+ }, {
+ "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)"
+ }, {
+ "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"
+ }, {
+ "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)"
+ }, {
+ "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"
+ }, {
+ "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"
+ }, {
+ "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)"
+ }, {
+ "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"
+ }, {
+ "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"
+ }, {
+ "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"
+ }, {
+ "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"
+ }, {
+ "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"
+ }, {
+ "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"
+ }, {
+ "text": "The gentleman understands what is moral. The small man understands what is profitable.",
+ "source": "The Analects"
+ }, {
+ "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"
+ }, {
+ "text": "They say truth is the first casualty of war. But who defines what's true? Truth is just a matter of perspective. The duty of every soldier is to protect the innocent, and sometimes that means preserving the lie of good and evil - that war isn't just natural selection played out on a grand scale. The only truth I found is that the world we live in is a giant tinderbox. All it takes... is someone to light the match.",
+ "source": "Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 3"
+ }, {
+ "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"
+ }, {
+ "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"
+ }, {
+ "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"
+ }, {
+ "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"
+ }, {
+ "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"
+ }, {
+ "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"
+ }, {
+ "text": "Why are you trying so hard to fit in when you were born to stand out?",
+ "source": "What a Girl Wants"
+ }, {
+ "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"
+ }, {
+ "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"
+ }, {
+ "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"
+ }, {
+ "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"
+ }, {
+ "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"
+ }, {
+ "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"
+ }, {
+ "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"
+ }, {
+ "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"
+ }, {
+ "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"
+ }, {
+ "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"
+ }, {
+ "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"
+ }, {
+ "text": "Last night I dreamed of chickens,\r\nthere were chickens everywhere,\r\nthey were standing on my stomach,\r\nthey were nesting in my hair,\r\nthey were pecking at my pillow,\r\nthey were hopping on my head,\r\nthey were ruffling up their feathers\r\nas they raced about my bed.\r\n\r\nThey were on the chairs and tables,\r\nthey were on the chandeliers,\r\nthey were roosting in the corners,\r\nthey were clucking in my ears,\r\nthere were chickens, chickens, chickens\r\nfor as far as I could see...\r\nwhen I woke today, I noticed\r\nthere were eggs on top of me.",
+ "source": "Last Night I Dreamed of Chickens"
+ }, {
+ "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"
+ }, {
+ "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"
+ }, {
+ "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"
+ }, {
+ "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"
+ }, {
+ "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"
+ }, {
+ "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"
+ }, {
+ "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"
+ }, {
+ "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"
+ }, {
+ "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"
+ }, {
+ "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"
+ }, {
+ "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"
+ }, {
+ "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"
+ }, {
+ "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"
+ }, {
+ "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"
+ }, {
+ "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"
+ }, {
+ "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"
+ }, {
+ "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"
+ }, {
+ "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"
+ }, {
+ "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"
+ }, {
+ "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"
+ }, {
+ "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"
+ }, {
+ "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"
+ }, {
+ "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"
+ }, {
+ "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"
+ }, {
+ "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"
+ }, {
+ "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"
+ }, {
+ "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"
+ }, {
+ "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"
+ }, {
+ "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?"
+ }, {
+ "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"
+ }, {
+ "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"
+ }, {
+ "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"
+ }, {
+ "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"
+ }, {
+ "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"
+ }, {
+ "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"
+ }, {
+ "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"
+ }, {
+ "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"
+ }, {
+ "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"
+ }, {
+ "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"
+ }, {
+ "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"
+ }, {
+ "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"
+ }, {
+ "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"
+ }, {
+ "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"
+ }, {
+ "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"
+ }, {
+ "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"
+ }, {
+ "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"
+ }, {
+ "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"
+ }, {
+ "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"
+ }, {
+ "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"
+ }, {
+ "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"
+ }, {
+ "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"
+ }, {
+ "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"
+ }, {
+ "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"
+ }, {
+ "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"
+ }, {
+ "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"
+ }, {
+ "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"
+ }, {
+ "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"
+ }, {
+ "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"
+ }, {
+ "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"
+ }, {
+ "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"
+ }, {
+ "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"
+ }, {
+ "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"
+ }, {
+ "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"
+ }, {
+ "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"
+ }, {
+ "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)"
+ }, {
+ "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"
+ }, {
+ "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"
+ }, {
+ "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"
+ }, {
+ "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"
+ }, {
+ "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"
+ }, {
+ "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"
+ }, {
+ "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"
+ }, {
+ "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"
+ }, {
+ "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"
+ }, {
+ "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)"
+ }, {
+ "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"
+ }, {
+ "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"
+ }, {
+ "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"
+ }, {
+ "text": "To devise is the work of the master, to execute the act of the servant.",
+ "source": "The Notebooks of Leonardo"
+ }, {
+ "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"
+ }, {
+ "text": "I drive by this place a lot and I see you here. I see a lot of people around you.",
+ "source": "Taxi Driver"
+ }, {
+ "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"
+ }, {
+ "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"
+ }, {
+ "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"
+ }, {
+ "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"
+ }, {
+ "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"
+ }, {
+ "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"
+ }, {
+ "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"
+ }, {
+ "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"
+ }, {
+ "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."
+ }, {
+ "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"
+ }, {
+ "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"
+ }, {
+ "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"
+ }, {
+ "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"
+ }, {
+ "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"
+ }, {
+ "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"
+ }, {
+ "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"
+ }, {
+ "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"
+ }, {
+ "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"
+ }, {
+ "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"
+ }, {
+ "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"
+ }, {
+ "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"
+ }, {
+ "text": "Be not afraid of greatness. Some are born great, some achieve greatness, and others have greatness thrust upon them.",
+ "source": "Twelfth Night"
+ }, {
+ "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"
+ }, {
+ "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"
+ }, {
+ "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"
+ }, {
+ "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"
+ }, {
+ "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"
+ }, {
+ "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"
+ }, {
+ "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"
+ }, {
+ "text": "This is a modern fairy tale. No happy endings, no wind in our sails.",
+ "source": "The Heart Wants What It Wants"
+ }, {
+ "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"
+ }, {
+ "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"
+ }, {
+ "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"
+ }, {
+ "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"
+ }, {
+ "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"
+ }, {
+ "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"
+ }, {
+ "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"
+ }, {
+ "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"
+ }, {
+ "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"
+ }, {
+ "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"
+ }, {
+ "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"
+ }, {
+ "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"
+ }, {
+ "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"
+ }, {
+ "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"
+ }, {
+ "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"
+ }, {
+ "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"
+ }, {
+ "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"
+ }, {
+ "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"
+ }, {
+ "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"
+ }, {
+ "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"
+ }, {
+ "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"
+ }, {
+ "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"
+ }, {
+ "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"
+ }, {
+ "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"
+ }, {
+ "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"
+ }, {
+ "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"
+ }, {
+ "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"
+ }, {
+ "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"
+ }, {
+ "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"
+ }, {
+ "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"
+ }, {
+ "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"
+ }, {
+ "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"
+ }, {
+ "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"
+ }, {
+ "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"
+ }, {
+ "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"
+ }, {
+ "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"
+ }, {
+ "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"
+ }, {
+ "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"
+ }, {
+ "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"
+ }, {
+ "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"
+ }, {
+ "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"
+ }, {
+ "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"
+ }, {
+ "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"
+ }, {
+ "text": "We're all old enough to know better than to toy with the hearts of children.",
+ "source": "ReLIFE"
+ }, {
+ "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"
+ }, {
+ "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"
+ }, {
+ "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"
+ }, {
+ "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"
+ }, {
+ "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"
+ }, {
+ "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"
+ }, {
+ "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"
+ }, {
+ "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"
+ }, {
+ "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"
+ }, {
+ "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)"
+ }, {
+ "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"
+ }, {
+ "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"
+ }, {
+ "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"
+ }, {
+ "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"
+ }, {
+ "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"
+ }, {
+ "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"
+ }, {
+ "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"
+ }, {
+ "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"
+ }, {
+ "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"
+ }, {
+ "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"
+ }, {
+ "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"
+ }, {
+ "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"
+ }, {
+ "text": "However we choose to feed ourselves, we eat by\r\nthe 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"
+ }, {
+ "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"
+ }, {
+ "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"
+ }, {
+ "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"
+ }, {
+ "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"
+ }, {
+ "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"
+ }, {
+ "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"
+ }, {
+ "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"
+ }, {
+ "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"
+ }, {
+ "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!"
+ }, {
+ "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"
+ }, {
+ "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"
+ }, {
+ "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"
+ }, {
+ "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"
+ }, {
+ "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"
+ }, {
+ "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"
+ }, {
+ "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"
+ }, {
+ "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"
+ }, {
+ "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"
+ }, {
+ "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"
+ }, {
+ "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"
+ }, {
+ "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"
+ }, {
+ "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"
+ }, {
+ "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"
+ }, {
+ "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"
+ }, {
+ "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"
+ }, {
+ "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"
+ }, {
+ "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"
+ }, {
+ "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"
+ }, {
+ "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?"
+ }, {
+ "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"
+ }, {
+ "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"
+ }, {
+ "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"
+ }, {
+ "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"
+ }, {
+ "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"
+ }, {
+ "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"
+ }, {
+ "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"
+ }, {
+ "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"
+ }, {
+ "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"
+ }, {
+ "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"
+ }, {
+ "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"
+ }, {
+ "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"
+ }, {
+ "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"
+ }, {
+ "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"
+ }, {
+ "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"
+ }, {
+ "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"
+ }, {
+ "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"
+ }, {
+ "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"
+ }, {
+ "text": "There are spaces between the joints, and the blade of the knife has really no thickness.",
+ "source": "Basic Writings"
+ }, {
+ "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"
+ }, {
+ "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"
+ }, {
+ "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"
+ }, {
+ "text": "The ships hung in the sky in much the same way that bricks don't.",
+ "source": "The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy"
+ }, {
+ "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"
+ }, {
+ "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"
+ }, {
+ "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"
+ }, {
+ "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"
+ }, {
+ "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"
+ }, {
+ "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"
+ }, {
+ "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"
+ }, {
+ "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"
+ }, {
+ "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"
+ }, {
+ "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"
+ }, {
+ "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"
+ }, {
+ "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"
+ }, {
+ "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"
+ }, {
+ "text": "I'm as mad as hell and I'm not going to take this anymore!",
+ "source": "Network"
+ }, {
+ "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"
+ }, {
+ "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"
+ }, {
+ "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)"
+ }, {
+ "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"
+ }, {
+ "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"
+ }, {
+ "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"
+ }, {
+ "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"
+ }, {
+ "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"
+ }, {
+ "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"
+ }, {
+ "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"
+ }, {
+ "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"
+ }, {
+ "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"
+ }, {
+ "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"
+ }, {
+ "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"
+ }, {
+ "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"
+ }, {
+ "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"
+ }, {
+ "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"
+ }, {
+ "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"
+ }, {
+ "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"
+ }, {
+ "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"
+ }, {
+ "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"
+ }, {
+ "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"
+ }, {
+ "text": "My mind is a raging torrent, flooded with rivulets of thought cascading into a waterfall of creative alternatives.",
+ "source": "Blazing Saddles"
+ }, {
+ "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?"
+ }, {
+ "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"
+ }, {
+ "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"
+ }, {
+ "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"
+ }, {
+ "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"
+ }, {
+ "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"
+ }, {
+ "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"
+ }, {
+ "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"
+ }, {
+ "text": "I don't care what consequence it brings. I have been a fool for lesser things.",
+ "source": "The Longest Time"
+ }, {
+ "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"
+ }, {
+ "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"
+ }, {
+ "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"
+ }, {
+ "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"
+ }, {
+ "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"
+ }, {
+ "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"
+ }, {
+ "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)"
+ }, {
+ "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"
+ }, {
+ "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"
+ }, {
+ "text": "The spirits that I summoned up I now can't rid myself of.",
+ "source": "The Sorcerer's Apprentice"
+ }, {
+ "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"
+ }, {
+ "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"
+ }, {
+ "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"
+ }, {
+ "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"
+ }, {
+ "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"
+ }, {
+ "text": "It is sometimes an appropriate response to reality to go insane.",
+ "source": "VALIS"
+ }, {
+ "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"
+ }, {
+ "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"
+ }, {
+ "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"
+ }, {
+ "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"
+ }, {
+ "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"
+ }, {
+ "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"
+ }, {
+ "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"
+ }, {
+ "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"
+ }, {
+ "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"
+ }, {
+ "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"
+ }, {
+ "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"
+ }, {
+ "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"
+ }, {
+ "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"
+ }, {
+ "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"
+ }, {
+ "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"
+ }, {
+ "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"
+ }, {
+ "text": "What is better? To be born good or to overcome your evil nature through great effort?",
+ "source": "Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim"
+ }, {
+ "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"
+ }, {
+ "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"
+ }, {
+ "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"
+ }, {
+ "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"
+ }, {
+ "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"
+ }, {
+ "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"
+ }, {
+ "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"
+ }, {
+ "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"
+ }, {
+ "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"
+ }, {
+ "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"
+ }, {
+ "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"
+ }, {
+ "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"
+ }, {
+ "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"
+ }, {
+ "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"
+ }, {
+ "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"
+ }, {
+ "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"
+ }, {
+ "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"
+ }, {
+ "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"
+ }, {
+ "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"
+ }, {
+ "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"
+ }, {
+ "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"
+ }, {
+ "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"
+ }, {
+ "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"
+ }, {
+ "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"
+ }, {
+ "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"
+ }, {
+ "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"
+ }, {
+ "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"
+ }, {
+ "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"
+ }, {
+ "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"
+ }, {
+ "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"
+ }, {
+ "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"
+ }, {
+ "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"
+ }, {
+ "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"
+ }, {
+ "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"
+ }, {
+ "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"
+ }, {
+ "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"
+ }, {
+ "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"
+ }, {
+ "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"
+ }, {
+ "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"
+ }, {
+ "text": "You know some automotive yoga could really lower your RPMs, man.",
+ "source": "Cars"
+ }, {
+ "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"
+ }, {
+ "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"
+ }, {
+ "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"
+ }, {
+ "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"
+ }, {
+ "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"
+ }, {
+ "text": "Just a small town girl living in a lonely world, she took the midnight train going anywhere.",
+ "source": "Don't Stop Believin'"
+ }, {
+ "text": "We barely remember who or what came before this precious moment, choosing to be here right now.",
+ "source": "Parabola"
+ }, {
+ "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"
+ }, {
+ "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"
+ }, {
+ "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"
+ }, {
+ "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"
+ }, {
+ "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"
+ }, {
+ "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"
+ }, {
+ "text": "But I'll tell you something: I think you're magicians because you're unhappy. A magician is strong because he feels pain. He feels the difference between what the world is and what he would make of it. Or what did you think that stuff in your chest was? A magician is strong because he hurts more than others. His wound is his strength. Most people carry that pain around inside them their whole lives, until they kill the pain by other means, or until it kills them. But you, my friends, you found another way: a way to use the pain. To burn it as fuel, for light and warmth. You have learned to break the world that has tried to break you.",
+ "source": "The Magicians"
+ }, {
+ "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"
+ }, {
+ "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"
+ }, {
+ "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"
+ }, {
+ "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"
+ }, {
+ "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"
+ }, {
+ "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"
+ }, {
+ "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"
+ }, {
+ "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"
+ }, {
+ "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"
+ }, {
+ "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"
+ }, {
+ "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"
+ }, {
+ "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"
+ }, {
+ "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"
+ }, {
+ "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"
+ }, {
+ "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"
+ }, {
+ "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"
+ }, {
+ "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"
+ }, {
+ "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"
+ }, {
+ "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"
+ }, {
+ "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"
+ }, {
+ "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"
+ }, {
+ "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"
+ }, {
+ "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"
+ }, {
+ "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"
+ }, {
+ "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"
+ }, {
+ "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"
+ }, {
+ "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"
+ }, {
+ "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"
+ }, {
+ "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"
+ }, {
+ "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"
+ }, {
+ "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"
+ }, {
+ "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"
+ }, {
+ "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"
+ }, {
+ "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"
+ }, {
+ "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"
+ }, {
+ "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"
+ }, {
+ "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"
+ }, {
+ "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"
+ }, {
+ "text": "When you marry champagne, you can't trade it in for beer. You're stuck with it.",
+ "source": "The Leopard Man"
+ }, {
+ "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"
+ }, {
+ "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)"
+ }, {
+ "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"
+ }, {
+ "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"
+ }, {
+ "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"
+ }, {
+ "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"
+ }, {
+ "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"
+ }, {
+ "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"
+ }, {
+ "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"
+ }, {
+ "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"
+ }, {
+ "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"
+ }, {
+ "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"
+ }, {
+ "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"
+ }, {
+ "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"
+ }, {
+ "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"
+ }, {
+ "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"
+ }, {
+ "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"
+ }, {
+ "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"
+ }, {
+ "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"
+ }, {
+ "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"
+ }, {
+ "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"
+ }, {
+ "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"
+ }, {
+ "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"
+ }, {
+ "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"
+ }, {
+ "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"
+ }, {
+ "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"
+ }, {
+ "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"
+ }, {
+ "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"
+ }, {
+ "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"
+ }, {
+ "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"
+ }, {
+ "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"
+ }, {
+ "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"
+ }, {
+ "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"
+ }, {
+ "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"
+ }, {
+ "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"
+ }, {
+ "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"
+ }, {
+ "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"
+ }, {
+ "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?"
+ }, {
+ "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"
+ }, {
+ "text": "Clever, but schoolteacher beat him anyway to show him that definitions belonged to the definers - not the defined.",
+ "source": "Beloved"
+ }, {
+ "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"
+ }, {
+ "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"
+ }, {
+ "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"
+ }, {
+ "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"
+ }, {
+ "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"
+ }, {
+ "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"
+ }, {
+ "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"
+ }, {
+ "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"
+ }, {
+ "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"
+ }, {
+ "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"
+ }, {
+ "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"
+ }, {
+ "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"
+ }, {
+ "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"
+ }, {
+ "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"
+ }, {
+ "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"
+ }, {
+ "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"
+ }, {
+ "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"
+ }, {
+ "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"
+ }, {
+ "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"
+ }, {
+ "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"
+ }, {
+ "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"
+ }, {
+ "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"
+ }, {
+ "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"
+ }, {
+ "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"
+ }, {
+ "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"
+ }, {
+ "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"
+ }, {
+ "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"
+ }, {
+ "text": "Nowadays people know the price of everything and the value of nothing.",
+ "source": "The Picture of Dorian Gray"
+ }, {
+ "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!"
+ }, {
+ "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"
+ }, {
+ "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"
+ }, {
+ "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"
+ }, {
+ "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"
+ }, {
+ "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."
+ }, {
+ "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"
+ }, {
+ "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"
+ }, {
+ "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"
+ }, {
+ "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"
+ }, {
+ "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"
+ }, {
+ "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"
+ }, {
+ "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"
+ }, {
+ "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"
+ }, {
+ "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"
+ }, {
+ "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"
+ }, {
+ "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"
+ }, {
+ "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"
+ }, {
+ "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"
+ }, {
+ "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"
+ }, {
+ "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"
+ }, {
+ "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"
+ }, {
+ "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"
+ }, {
+ "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"
+ }, {
+ "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"
+ }, {
+ "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"
+ }, {
+ "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"
+ }, {
+ "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!"
+ }, {
+ "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"
+ }, {
+ "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"
+ }, {
+ "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"
+ }, {
+ "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"
+ }, {
+ "text": "All children have to be deceived if they are to grow up without trauma.",
+ "source": "Never Let Me Go"
+ }, {
+ "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"
+ }, {
+ "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"
+ }, {
+ "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"
+ }, {
+ "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"
+ }, {
+ "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"
+ }, {
+ "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"
+ }, {
+ "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"
+ }, {
+ "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"
+ }, {
+ "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"
+ }, {
+ "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"
+ }, {
+ "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"
+ }, {
+ "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"
+ }, {
+ "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"
+ }, {
+ "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"
+ }, {
+ "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"
+ }, {
+ "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"
+ }, {
+ "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"
+ }, {
+ "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"
+ }, {
+ "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"
+ }, {
+ "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"
+ }, {
+ "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"
+ }, {
+ "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"
+ }, {
+ "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"
+ }, {
+ "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"
+ }, {
+ "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"
+ }, {
+ "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"
+ }, {
+ "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"
+ }, {
+ "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"
+ }, {
+ "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"
+ }, {
+ "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"
+ }, {
+ "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"
+ }, {
+ "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"
+ }, {
+ "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"
+ }, {
+ "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)"
+ }, {
+ "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"
+ }, {
+ "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"
+ }, {
+ "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"
+ }, {
+ "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"
+ }, {
+ "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"
+ }, {
+ "text": "You lock the door, and throw away the key. There's someone in my head but it's not me.",
+ "source": "Brain Damage"
+ }, {
+ "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"
+ }, {
+ "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"
+ }, {
+ "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"
+ }, {
+ "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"
+ }, {
+ "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"
+ }, {
+ "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"
+ }, {
+ "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"
+ }, {
+ "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"
+ }, {
+ "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"
+ }, {
+ "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"
+ }, {
+ "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"
+ }, {
+ "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"
+ }, {
+ "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"
+ }, {
+ "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"
+ }, {
+ "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"
+ }, {
+ "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"
+ }, {
+ "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"
+ }, {
+ "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)"
+ }, {
+ "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"
+ }, {
+ "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"
+ }, {
+ "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"
+ }, {
+ "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"
+ }, {
+ "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"
+ }, {
+ "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"
+ }, {
+ "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"
+ }, {
+ "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"
+ }, {
+ "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"
+ }, {
+ "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"
+ }, {
+ "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"
+ }, {
+ "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"
+ }, {
+ "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"
+ }, {
+ "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"
+ }, {
+ "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"
+ }, {
+ "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"
+ }, {
+ "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"
+ }, {
+ "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"
+ }, {
+ "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)"
+ }, {
+ "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"
+ }, {
+ "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"
+ }, {
+ "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"
+ }, {
+ "text": "All animals are equal, but some animals are more equal than others.",
+ "source": "Animal Farm"
+ }, {
+ "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"
+ }, {
+ "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"
+ }, {
+ "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"
+ }, {
+ "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\""
+ }, {
+ "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"
+ }, {
+ "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"
+ }, {
+ "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"
+ }, {
+ "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"
+ }, {
+ "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"
+ }, {
+ "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"
+ }, {
+ "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"
+ }, {
+ "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"
+ }, {
+ "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"
+ }, {
+ "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"
+ }, {
+ "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"
+ }, {
+ "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"
+ }, {
+ "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"
+ }, {
+ "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"
+ }, {
+ "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"
+ }, {
+ "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"
+ }, {
+ "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"
+ }, {
+ "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"
+ }, {
+ "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"
+ }, {
+ "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"
+ }, {
+ "text": "Every man desires to live long, but no man wishes to be old.",
+ "source": "Gulliver's Travels"
+ }, {
+ "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"
+ }, {
+ "text": "After all, what justification is there for a word which is simply the opposite of some other word?",
+ "source": "Nineteen Eighty-Four"
+ }, {
+ "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"
+ }, {
+ "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"
+ }, {
+ "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"
+ }, {
+ "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"
+ }, {
+ "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"
+ }, {
+ "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"
+ }, {
+ "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"
+ }, {
+ "text": "To be honest, as this world goes, is to be one man picked out of ten thousand.",
+ "source": "Hamlet"
+ }, {
+ "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"
+ }, {
+ "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"
+ }, {
+ "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"
+ }, {
+ "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"
+ }, {
+ "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"
+ }, {
+ "text": "The ingenious are always fanciful, and the truly imaginative never otherwise than analytic.",
+ "source": "The Tell-Tale Heart"
+ }, {
+ "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)"
+ }, {
+ "text": "Our job is to find truth, no matter how painful it may be.",
+ "source": "Phoenix Wright: Ace Attorney"
+ }, {
+ "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"
+ }, {
+ "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"
+ }, {
+ "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"
+ }, {
+ "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"
+ }, {
+ "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"
+ }, {
+ "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"
+ }, {
+ "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"
+ }, {
+ "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"
+ }, {
+ "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"
+ }, {
+ "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"
+ }, {
+ "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)"
+ }, {
+ "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"
+ }, {
+ "text": "There's something happening somewhere. Baby, I just know that there is.",
+ "source": "Dancing in the Dark"
+ }, {
+ "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"
+ }, {
+ "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"
+ }, {
+ "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"
+ }, {
+ "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"
+ }, {
+ "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"
+ }, {
+ "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"
+ }, {
+ "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"
+ }, {
+ "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"
+ }, {
+ "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"
+ }, {
+ "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"
+ }, {
+ "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"
+ }, {
+ "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"
+ }, {
+ "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"
+ }, {
+ "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"
+ }, {
+ "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"
+ }, {
+ "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"
+ }, {
+ "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"
+ }, {
+ "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"
+ }, {
+ "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"
+ }, {
+ "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"
+ }, {
+ "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"
+ }, {
+ "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"
+ }, {
+ "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"
+ }, {
+ "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"
+ }, {
+ "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"
+ }, {
+ "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"
+ }, {
+ "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"
+ }, {
+ "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"
+ }, {
+ "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"
+ }, {
+ "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"
+ }, {
+ "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"
+ }, {
+ "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"
+ }, {
+ "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"
+ }, {
+ "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"
+ }, {
+ "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"
+ }, {
+ "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"
+ }, {
+ "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"
+ }, {
+ "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"
+ }, {
+ "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"
+ }, {
+ "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"
+ }, {
+ "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"
+ }, {
+ "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"
+ }, {
+ "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"
+ }, {
+ "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"
+ }, {
+ "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"
+ }, {
+ "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"
+ }, {
+ "text": "And the point is, to live everything. Live the questions now.",
+ "source": "Letters to a Young Poet"
+ }, {
+ "text": "Too much mystery is merely an annoyance. Too much adventure is exhausting. And a little terror goes a long way.",
+ "source": "Odd Thomas"
+ }, {
+ "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"
+ }, {
+ "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)"
+ }, {
+ "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)"
+ }, {
+ "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"
+ }, {
+ "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"
+ }, {
+ "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"
+ }, {
+ "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"
+ }, {
+ "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"
+ }, {
+ "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"
+ }, {
+ "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"
+ }, {
+ "text": "Waits at the window, wearing the face that she keeps in a jar by the door. Who is it for?",
+ "source": "Eleanor Rigby"
+ }, {
+ "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"
+ }, {
+ "text": "I do not wish any reward but to know I have done the right thing.",
+ "source": "The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn"
+ }, {
+ "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"
+ }, {
+ "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"
+ }, {
+ "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"
+ }, {
+ "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"
+ }, {
+ "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"
+ }, {
+ "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"
+ }, {
+ "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"
+ }, {
+ "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"
+ }, {
+ "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"
+ }, {
+ "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"
+ }, {
+ "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"
+ }, {
+ "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"
+ }, {
+ "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"
+ }, {
+ "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"
+ }, {
+ "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"
+ }, {
+ "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"
+ }, {
+ "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"
+ }, {
+ "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"
+ }, {
+ "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"
+ }, {
+ "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"
+ }, {
+ "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"
+ }, {
+ "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"
+ }, {
+ "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"
+ }, {
+ "text": "It is better to be unhappy and know the worst, than to be happy in a fool's paradise.",
+ "source": "The Idiot"
+ }, {
+ "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"
+ }, {
+ "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"
+ }, {
+ "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"
+ }, {
+ "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"
+ }, {
+ "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"
+ }, {
+ "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"
+ }, {
+ "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"
+ }, {
+ "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"
+ }, {
+ "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"
+ }, {
+ "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"
+ }, {
+ "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"
+ }, {
+ "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"
+ }, {
+ "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!"
+ }, {
+ "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"
+ }, {
+ "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"
+ }, {
+ "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"
+ }, {
+ "text": "It's a story of the goddess, and the boy she loves. A love story. Her mother does not approve of him, so she casts a wide river in the sky to separate them forever. But once a year, all the birds in the sky feel sad for them, and they form a bridge so the two of them may be together for a single night.",
+ "source": "The Karate Kid"
+ }, {
+ "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"
+ }, {
+ "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"
+ }, {
+ "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"
+ }, {
+ "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"
+ }, {
+ "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"
+ }, {
+ "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"
+ }, {
+ "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"
+ }, {
+ "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"
+ }, {
+ "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"
+ }, {
+ "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"
+ }, {
+ "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"
+ }, {
+ "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"
+ }, {
+ "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"
+ }, {
+ "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"
+ }, {
+ "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)"
+ }, {
+ "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"
+ }, {
+ "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"
+ }, {
+ "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"
+ }, {
+ "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"
+ }, {
+ "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"
+ }, {
+ "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"
+ }, {
+ "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"
+ }, {
+ "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"
+ }, {
+ "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"
+ }, {
+ "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"
+ }, {
+ "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"
+ }, {
+ "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"
+ }, {
+ "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"
+ }, {
+ "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"
+ }, {
+ "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"
+ }, {
+ "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"
+ }, {
+ "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"
+ }, {
+ "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"
+ }, {
+ "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"
+ }, {
+ "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"
+ }, {
+ "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"
+ }, {
+ "text": "Life seems to speed up as we get older because life gets less memorable as we get older.",
+ "source": "Moonwalking with Einstein"
+ }, {
+ "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"
+ }, {
+ "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"
+ }, {
+ "text": "The burned hand teaches best. After that advice about fire goes to the heart.",
+ "source": "The Lord of the Rings"
+ }, {
+ "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"
+ }, {
+ "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"
+ }, {
+ "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"
+ }, {
+ "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"
+ }, {
+ "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"
+ }, {
+ "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"
+ }, {
+ "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"
+ }, {
+ "text": "I often think that men don't understand what is noble and what is ignorant, though they always talk about it.",
+ "source": "Anna Karenina"
+ }, {
+ "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"
+ }, {
+ "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"
+ }, {
+ "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"
+ }, {
+ "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"
+ }, {
+ "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"
+ }, {
+ "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"
+ }, {
+ "text": "The secret of a good old age is simply an honorable pact with solitude.",
+ "source": "One Hundred Years of Solitude"
+ }, {
+ "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"
+ }, {
+ "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"
+ }, {
+ "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"
+ }, {
+ "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"
+ }, {
+ "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"
+ }, {
+ "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"
+ }, {
+ "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"
+ }, {
+ "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"
+ }, {
+ "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"
+ }, {
+ "text": "It is only with the heart that one can see rightly; what is essential is invisible to the eye.",
+ "source": "The Little Prince"
+ }, {
+ "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"
+ }, {
+ "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"
+ }, {
+ "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"
+ }, {
+ "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"
+ }, {
+ "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"
+ }, {
+ "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"
+ }, {
+ "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"
+ }, {
+ "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"
+ }, {
+ "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"
+ }, {
+ "text": "Is getting rid of all the thorns in someone's path really what's best for them?",
+ "source": "ReLIFE"
+ }, {
+ "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"
+ }, {
+ "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"
+ }, {
+ "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"
+ }, {
+ "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"
+ }, {
+ "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"
+ }, {
+ "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"
+ }, {
+ "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"
+ }, {
+ "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"
+ }, {
+ "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"
+ }, {
+ "text": "The softness and fragility of baby animals caused us the same intense pain.",
+ "source": "Lolita"
+ }, {
+ "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"
+ }, {
+ "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"
+ }, {
+ "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"
+ }, {
+ "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"
+ }, {
+ "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"
+ }, {
+ "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"
+ }, {
+ "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"
+ }, {
+ "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"
+ }, {
+ "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"
+ }, {
+ "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"
+ }, {
+ "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"
+ }, {
+ "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"
+ }, {
+ "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"
+ }, {
+ "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"
+ }, {
+ "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"
+ }, {
+ "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"
+ }, {
+ "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"
+ }, {
+ "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"
+ }, {
+ "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"
+ }, {
+ "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"
+ }, {
+ "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"
+ }, {
+ "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"
+ }, {
+ "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"
+ }, {
+ "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"
+ }, {
+ "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"
+ }, {
+ "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"
+ }, {
+ "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"
+ }, {
+ "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"
+ }, {
+ "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!"
+ }, {
+ "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"
+ }, {
+ "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"
+ }, {
+ "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"
+ }, {
+ "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"
+ }, {
+ "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"
+ }, {
+ "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"
+ }, {
+ "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"
+ }, {
+ "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"
+ }, {
+ "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"
+ }, {
+ "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"
+ }, {
+ "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"
+ }, {
+ "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"
+ }, {
+ "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"
+ }, {
+ "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"
+ }, {
+ "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"
+ }, {
+ "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"
+ }, {
+ "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"
+ }, {
+ "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"
+ }, {
+ "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"
+ }, {
+ "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"
+ }, {
+ "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"
+ }, {
+ "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"
+ }, {
+ "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"
+ }, {
+ "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"
+ }, {
+ "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"
+ }, {
+ "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"
+ }, {
+ "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."
+ }, {
+ "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"
+ }, {
+ "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"
+ }, {
+ "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"
+ }, {
+ "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"
+ }, {
+ "text": "Now this is a story all about how my life got flipped - \r\nturned 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)"
+ }, {
+ "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"
+ }, {
+ "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"
+ }, {
+ "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"
+ }, {
+ "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)"
+ }, {
+ "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"
+ }, {
+ "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"
+ }, {
+ "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"
+ }, {
+ "text": "I must learn to be content with being happier than I deserve.",
+ "source": "Pride and Prejudice"
+ }, {
+ "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"
+ }, {
+ "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"
+ }, {
+ "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"
+ }, {
+ "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"
+ }, {
+ "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"
+ }, {
+ "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"
+ }, {
+ "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"
+ }, {
+ "text": "There's something way down deep that's eternal about every human being.",
+ "source": "Our Town"
+ }, {
+ "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"
+ }, {
+ "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"
+ }, {
+ "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"
+ }, {
+ "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"
+ }, {
+ "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"
+ }, {
+ "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"
+ }, {
+ "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"
+ }, {
+ "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"
+ }, {
+ "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"
+ }, {
+ "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"
+ }, {
+ "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"
+ }, {
+ "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"
+ }, {
+ "text": "And to think, if it weren't for you... I never would've danced at all.",
+ "source": "Us"
+ }, {
+ "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"
+ }, {
+ "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"
+ }, {
+ "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"
+ }, {
+ "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"
+ }, {
+ "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"
+ }, {
+ "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"
+ }, {
+ "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"
+ }, {
+ "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"
+ }, {
+ "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"
+ }, {
+ "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"
+ }, {
+ "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"
+ }, {
+ "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"
+ }, {
+ "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"
+ }, {
+ "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"
+ }, {
+ "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"
+ }, {
+ "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"
+ }, {
+ "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"
+ }, {
+ "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"
+ }, {
+ "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"
+ }, {
+ "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"
+ }, {
+ "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"
+ }, {
+ "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"
+ }, {
+ "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"
+ }, {
+ "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"
+ }, {
+ "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"
+ }, {
+ "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"
+ }, {
+ "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"
+ }, {
+ "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"
+ }, {
+ "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"
+ }, {
+ "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"
+ }, {
+ "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"
+ }, {
+ "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"
+ }, {
+ "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"
+ }, {
+ "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"
+ }, {
+ "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"
+ }, {
+ "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"
+ }, {
+ "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"
+ }, {
+ "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"
+ }, {
+ "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"
+ }, {
+ "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"
+ }, {
+ "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"
+ }, {
+ "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"
+ }, {
+ "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"
+ }, {
+ "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"
+ }, {
+ "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"
+ }, {
+ "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"
+ }, {
+ "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"
+ }, {
+ "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"
+ }, {
+ "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"
+ }, {
+ "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!"
+ }, {
+ "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"
+ }, {
+ "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"
+ }, {
+ "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"
+ }, {
+ "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"
+ }, {
+ "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"
+ }, {
+ "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"
+ }, {
+ "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"
+ }, {
+ "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"
+ }, {
+ "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"
+ }, {
+ "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"
+ }, {
+ "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"
+ }, {
+ "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"
+ }, {
+ "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"
+ }, {
+ "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)"
+ }, {
+ "text": "The awful thing is that beauty is mysterious as well as terrible. God and the devil are fighting there and the battlefield is the heart of man.",
+ "source": "The Brothers Karamazov"
+ }, {
+ "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"
+ }, {
+ "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"
+ }, {
+ "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"
+ }, {
+ "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"
+ }, {
+ "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"
+ }, {
+ "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"
+ }, {
+ "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"
+ }, {
+ "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"
+ }, {
+ "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"
+ }, {
+ "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"
+ }, {
+ "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"
+ }, {
+ "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"
+ }, {
+ "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"
+ }, {
+ "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"
+ }, {
+ "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"
+ }, {
+ "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"
+ }, {
+ "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"
+ }, {
+ "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"
+ }, {
+ "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"
+ }, {
+ "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"
+ }, {
+ "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"
+ }, {
+ "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"
+ }, {
+ "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"
+ }, {
+ "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"
+ }, {
+ "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"
+ }, {
+ "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"
+ }, {
+ "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"
+ }, {
+ "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"
+ }, {
+ "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"
+ }, {
+ "text": "Delicacy and dignity are taught by one's own heart, not by a dancing master.",
+ "source": "The Idiot"
+ }, {
+ "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"
+ }, {
+ "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"
+ }, {
+ "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"
+ }, {
+ "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"
+ }, {
+ "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"
+ }, {
+ "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?"
+ }, {
+ "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"
+ }, {
+ "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"
+ }, {
+ "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"
+ }, {
+ "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"
+ }, {
+ "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"
+ }, {
+ "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"
+ }, {
+ "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"
+ }, {
+ "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"
+ }, {
+ "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"
+ }, {
+ "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"
+ }, {
+ "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"
+ }, {
+ "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"
+ }, {
+ "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"
+ }, {
+ "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"
+ }, {
+ "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"
+ }, {
+ "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"
+ }, {
+ "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"
+ }, {
+ "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"
+ }, {
+ "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"
+ }, {
+ "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"
+ }, {
+ "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"
+ }, {
+ "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"
+ }, {
+ "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"
+ }, {
+ "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"
+ }, {
+ "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"
+ }, {
+ "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"
+ }, {
+ "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"
+ }, {
+ "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"
+ }, {
+ "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"
+ }, {
+ "text": "I hate bactine because it gets on my fingers and I get eczema from the lidocaine.",
+ "source": "South Park: The Fractured But Whole"
+ }, {
+ "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"
+ }, {
+ "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"
+ }, {
+ "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"
+ }, {
+ "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"
+ }, {
+ "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"
+ }, {
+ "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"
+ }, {
+ "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"
+ }, {
+ "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"
+ }, {
+ "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"
+ }, {
+ "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"
+ }, {
+ "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"
+ }, {
+ "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"
+ }, {
+ "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"
+ }, {
+ "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"
+ }, {
+ "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"
+ }, {
+ "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."
+ }, {
+ "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"
+ }, {
+ "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"
+ }, {
+ "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"
+ }, {
+ "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"
+ }, {
+ "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"
+ }, {
+ "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"
+ }, {
+ "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"
+ }, {
+ "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"
+ }, {
+ "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"
+ }, {
+ "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"
+ }, {
+ "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"
+ }, {
+ "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"
+ }, {
+ "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"
+ }, {
+ "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"
+ }, {
+ "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"
+ }, {
+ "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"
+ }, {
+ "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"
+ }, {
+ "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"
+ }, {
+ "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"
+ }, {
+ "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"
+ }, {
+ "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"
+ }, {
+ "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"
+ }, {
+ "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"
+ }, {
+ "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"
+ }, {
+ "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"
+ }, {
+ "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"
+ }, {
+ "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"
+ }, {
+ "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"
+ }, {
+ "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"
+ }, {
+ "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"
+ }, {
+ "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"
+ }, {
+ "text": "Lured into dental condemnation by my own teeth, I felt lost and betrayed.",
+ "source": "Dayfever"
+ }, {
+ "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"
+ }, {
+ "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"
+ }, {
+ "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"
+ }, {
+ "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"
+ }, {
+ "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"
+ }, {
+ "text": "Riches and pleasure seemed to him to be really greater tragedies than poverty or sorrow.",
+ "source": "De Profundis"
+ }, {
+ "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"
+ }, {
+ "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"
+ }, {
+ "text": "Let me tell you something my friend. Hope is a dangerous thing. Hope can drive a man insane.",
+ "source": "The Shawshank Redemption"
+ }, {
+ "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"
+ }, {
+ "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"
+ }, {
+ "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"
+ }, {
+ "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"
+ }, {
+ "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"
+ }, {
+ "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"
+ }, {
+ "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"
+ }, {
+ "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"
+ }, {
+ "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"
+ }, {
+ "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"
+ }, {
+ "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"
+ }, {
+ "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"
+ }, {
+ "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"
+ }, {
+ "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"
+ }, {
+ "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"
+ }, {
+ "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"
+ }, {
+ "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"
+ }, {
+ "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"
+ }, {
+ "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"
+ }, {
+ "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"
+ }, {
+ "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"
+ }, {
+ "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"
+ }, {
+ "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"
+ }, {
+ "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"
+ }, {
+ "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"
+ }, {
+ "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!"
+ }, {
+ "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"
+ }, {
+ "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"
+ }, {
+ "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"
+ }, {
+ "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"
+ }, {
+ "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"
+ }, {
+ "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"
+ }, {
+ "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"
+ }, {
+ "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"
+ }, {
+ "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"
+ }, {
+ "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"
+ }, {
+ "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"
+ }, {
+ "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"
+ }, {
+ "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"
+ }, {
+ "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"
+ }, {
+ "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"
+ }, {
+ "text": "I always feel a certain sense of reverence in libraries, even small city ones that smell like homeless internet users.",
+ "source": "Maphead"
+ }, {
+ "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"
+ }, {
+ "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"
+ }, {
+ "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"
+ }, {
+ "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"
+ }, {
+ "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"
+ }, {
+ "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"
+ }, {
+ "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"
+ }, {
+ "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"
+ }, {
+ "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"
+ }, {
+ "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"
+ }, {
+ "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"
+ }, {
+ "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"
+ }, {
+ "text": "No one's gonna drag you up to get into the light where you belong. But where do you belong?",
+ "source": "The Sign"
+ }, {
+ "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"
+ }, {
+ "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"
+ }, {
+ "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"
+ }, {
+ "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"
+ }, {
+ "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"
+ }, {
+ "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"
+ }, {
+ "text": "Dawn was close. The weaker stars had already disappeared, and even the brightest were uncertain of themselves.",
+ "source": "Weaveworld"
+ }, {
+ "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"
+ }, {
+ "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"
+ }, {
+ "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"
+ }, {
+ "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"
+ }, {
+ "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"
+ }, {
+ "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"
+ }, {
+ "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"
+ }, {
+ "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"
+ }, {
+ "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"
+ }, {
+ "text": "The quick brown fox jumps over the lazy dog.",
+ "source": "Unknown"
+ }, {
+ "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"
+ }, {
+ "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"
+ }, {
+ "text": "An excellent leader must be passionate because it's their duty to keep everyone moving forward.",
+ "source": "Love Live! School Idol Project"
+ }, {
+ "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"
+ }, {
+ "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"
+ }, {
+ "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"
+ }, {
+ "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"
+ }, {
+ "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"
+ }, {
+ "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"
+ }, {
+ "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"
+ }, {
+ "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"
+ }, {
+ "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"
+ }, {
+ "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"
+ }, {
+ "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"
+ }, {
+ "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"
+ }, {
+ "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"
+ }, {
+ "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"
+ }, {
+ "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"
+ }, {
+ "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"
+ }, {
+ "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"
+ }, {
+ "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"
+ }, {
+ "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"
+ }, {
+ "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"
+ }, {
+ "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"
+ }, {
+ "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"
+ }, {
+ "text": "The choice for mankind lies between freedom and happiness and for the great bulk of mankind, happiness is better.",
+ "source": "Nineteen Eighty Four"
+ }, {
+ "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"
+ }, {
+ "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"
+ }, {
+ "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"
+ }, {
+ "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"
+ }, {
+ "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"
+ }, {
+ "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"
+ }, {
+ "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"
+ }, {
+ "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"
+ }, {
+ "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"
+ }, {
+ "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"
+ }, {
+ "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"
+ }, {
+ "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"
+ }, {
+ "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"
+ }, {
+ "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"
+ }, {
+ "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?"
+ }, {
+ "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"
+ }, {
+ "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"
+ }, {
+ "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"
+ }, {
+ "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"
+ }, {
+ "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"
+ }, {
+ "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"
+ }, {
+ "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"
+ }, {
+ "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"
+ }, {
+ "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"
+ }, {
+ "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"
+ }, {
+ "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"
+ }, {
+ "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"
+ }, {
+ "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"
+ }, {
+ "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"
+ }, {
+ "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"
+ }, {
+ "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"
+ }, {
+ "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"
+ }, {
+ "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"
+ }, {
+ "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"
+ }, {
+ "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"
+ }, {
+ "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"
+ }, {
+ "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"
+ }, {
+ "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"
+ }, {
+ "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"
+ }, {
+ "text": "The supreme question about a work of art is out of how deep a life does it spring.",
+ "source": "Ulysses"
+ }, {
+ "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"
+ }, {
+ "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"
+ }, {
+ "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"
+ }, {
+ "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"
+ }, {
+ "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"
+ }, {
+ "text": "All we can know is that we know nothing. And that's the height of human wisdom.",
+ "source": "War and Peace"
+ }, {
+ "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"
+ }, {
+ "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"
+ }, {
+ "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"
+ }, {
+ "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"
+ }, {
+ "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"
+ }, {
+ "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"
+ }, {
+ "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"
+ }, {
+ "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"
+ }, {
+ "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"
+ }, {
+ "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"
+ }, {
+ "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"
+ }, {
+ "text": "It doesn't actually take very much to make the deepest part of us incredibly happy.",
+ "source": "Burgs"
+ }, {
+ "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"
+ }, {
+ "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"
+ }, {
+ "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"
+ }, {
+ "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"
+ }, {
+ "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"
+ }, {
+ "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"
+ }, {
+ "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"
+ }, {
+ "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"
+ }, {
+ "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"
+ }, {
+ "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"
+ }, {
+ "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"
+ }, {
+ "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"
+ }, {
+ "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"
+ }, {
+ "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"
+ }, {
+ "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"
+ }, {
+ "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"
+ }, {
+ "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"
+ }, {
+ "text": "Every time I think of exercise, I have to lie right down until the feeling leaves me.",
+ "source": "Mr. Smith Goes to Washington"
+ }, {
+ "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"
+ }, {
+ "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"
+ }, {
+ "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"
+ }, {
+ "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"
+ }, {
+ "text": "Everything that we did and built and wrote and thought and discovered will be forgotten.",
+ "source": "The Fault in Our Stars"
+ }, {
+ "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"
+ }, {
+ "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"
+ }, {
+ "text": "We lived on farms, then we lived in cities, and now we're going to live on the internet!",
+ "source": "The Social Network"
+ }, {
+ "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"
+ }, {
+ "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"
+ }, {
+ "text": "Life is to be lived, not controlled; and humanity is won by continuing to play in face of certain defeat.",
+ "source": "Invisible Man"
+ }, {
+ "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"
+ }, {
+ "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"
+ }, {
+ "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"
+ }, {
+ "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"
+ }, {
+ "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"
+ }, {
+ "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"
+ }, {
+ "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"
+ }, {
+ "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"
+ }, {
+ "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"
+ }, {
+ "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"
+ }, {
+ "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"
+ }, {
+ "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"
+ }, {
+ "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"
+ }, {
+ "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"
+ }, {
+ "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"
+ }, {
+ "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"
+ }, {
+ "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.\r\nBirds fly over the rainbow. Why then, oh, why can't I?",
+ "source": "The Wizard of Oz"
+ }, {
+ "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"
+ }, {
+ "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"
+ }, {
+ "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"
+ }, {
+ "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"
+ }, {
+ "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"
+ }, {
+ "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"
+ }, {
+ "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"
+ }, {
+ "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"
+ }, {
+ "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"
+ }, {
+ "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"
+ }, {
+ "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"
+ }, {
+ "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"
+ }, {
+ "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"
+ }, {
+ "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"
+ }, {
+ "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"
+ }, {
+ "text": "We believe not in death but in life and there is no object more valuable than a man's life.",
+ "source": "Roots"
+ }, {
+ "text": "Give me honorable enemies rather than ambitious ones, and I'll sleep more easily by night.",
+ "source": "A Game of Thrones"
+ }, {
+ "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"
+ }, {
+ "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"
+ }, {
+ "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"
+ }, {
+ "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"
+ }, {
+ "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"
+ }, {
+ "text": "Things, events, that occupy space yet come to an end when someone dies make us stop in wonder.",
+ "source": "Collected Fiction"
+ }, {
+ "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"
+ }, {
+ "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"
+ }, {
+ "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"
+ }, {
+ "text": "Begin at the beginning and go on till you come to the end: then stop.",
+ "source": "Alice's Adventures in Wonderland"
+ }, {
+ "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"
+ }, {
+ "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"
+ }, {
+ "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"
+ }, {
+ "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"
+ }, {
+ "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"
+ }, {
+ "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"
+ }, {
+ "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"
+ }, {
+ "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"
+ }, {
+ "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"
+ }, {
+ "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"
+ }, {
+ "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!"
+ }, {
+ "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"
+ }, {
+ "text": "We are what we pretend to be, so we must be very careful what we pretend to be.",
+ "source": "Mother Night"
+ }, {
+ "text": "It takes something more than intelligence to act intelligently.",
+ "source": "Crime and Punishment"
+ }, {
+ "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"
+ }, {
+ "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"
+ }, {
+ "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"
+ }, {
+ "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"
+ }, {
+ "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"
+ }, {
+ "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"
+ }, {
+ "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"
+ }, {
+ "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"
+ }, {
+ "text": "Long brooding over those lost pleasures exaggerates their charm and sweetness.",
+ "source": "Vanity Fair"
+ }, {
+ "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"
+ }, {
+ "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"
+ }, {
+ "text": "From a certain point onward there is no longer any turning back. That is the point that must be reached.",
+ "source": "The Trial"
+ }, {
+ "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"
+ }, {
+ "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"
+ }, {
+ "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"
+ }, {
+ "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"
+ }, {
+ "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"
+ }, {
+ "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"
+ }, {
+ "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"
+ }, {
+ "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"
+ }, {
+ "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"
+ }, {
+ "text": "A strange game. The only winning move is not to play. How about a nice game of chess?",
+ "source": "WarGames"
+ }, {
+ "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"
+ }, {
+ "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"
+ }, {
+ "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"
+ }, {
+ "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"
+ }, {
+ "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"
+ }, {
+ "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"
+ }, {
+ "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"
+ }, {
+ "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"
+ }, {
+ "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"
+ }, {
+ "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"
+ }, {
+ "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"
+ }, {
+ "text": "Everybody is identical in their secret unspoken belief that way deep down they are different from everyone else.",
+ "source": "Infinite Jest"
+ }, {
+ "text": "You want praise from people who kick themselves every fifteen minutes, the approval of people who despise themselves.",
+ "source": "Meditations"
+ }, {
+ "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"
+ }, {
+ "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"
+ }, {
+ "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"
+ }, {
+ "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"
+ }, {
+ "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"
+ }, {
+ "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"
+ }, {
+ "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"
+ }, {
+ "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"
+ }, {
+ "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"
+ }, {
+ "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"
+ }, {
+ "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"
+ }, {
+ "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"
+ }, {
+ "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"
+ }, {
+ "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"
+ }, {
+ "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"
+ }, {
+ "text": "Oh, you're too late. There's really nothing left to explore.",
+ "source": "The Truman Show"
+ }, {
+ "text": "All he ever wanted out of life was love. You see, he just didn't have any to give.",
+ "source": "Citizen Kane"
+ }, {
+ "text": "Nothing looks more suspicious in America than someone who's actually prepared to make something.",
+ "source": "Grand Theft Auto V"
+ }, {
+ "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"
+ }, {
+ "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"
+ }, {
+ "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"
+ }, {
+ "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"
+ }, {
+ "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"
+ }, {
+ "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"
+ }, {
+ "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"
+ }, {
+ "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"
+ }, {
+ "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"
+ }, {
+ "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"
+ }, {
+ "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"
+ }, {
+ "text": "You think you will die, but you just keep living, day after day after terrible day.",
+ "source": "Great Expectations"
+ }, {
+ "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"
+ }, {
+ "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"
+ }, {
+ "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"
+ }, {
+ "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"
+ }, {
+ "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"
+ }, {
+ "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"
+ }, {
+ "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"
+ }, {
+ "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"
+ }, {
+ "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"
+ }, {
+ "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"
+ }, {
+ "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"
+ }, {
+ "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"
+ }, {
+ "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"
+ }, {
+ "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"
+ }, {
+ "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"
+ }, {
+ "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"
+ }, {
+ "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"
+ }, {
+ "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!)"
+ }, {
+ "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"
+ }, {
+ "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"
+ }, {
+ "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"
+ }, {
+ "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"
+ }, {
+ "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"
+ }, {
+ "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"
+ }, {
+ "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"
+ }, {
+ "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"
+ }, {
+ "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"
+ }, {
+ "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"
+ }, {
+ "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"
+ }, {
+ "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"
+ }, {
+ "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)"
+ }, {
+ "text": "Moreover, as I was still in the prime of life, it pleased me better to be up and doing.",
+ "source": "The Arabian Nights"
+ }, {
+ "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"
+ }, {
+ "text": "If we had any nerve at all we would make an effort to really address the wrongs in this society, righteously.",
+ "source": "Effort"
+ }, {
+ "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"
+ }, {
+ "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"
+ }, {
+ "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"
+ }, {
+ "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?"
+ }, {
+ "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"
+ }, {
+ "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"
+ }, {
+ "text": "We turn away to face the cold, enduring chill, as the day begs the night for mercy love. The sun so bright it leaves no shadows, only scars, carved into stone on the face of earth. The moon is up and over One Tree Hill we see the sun go down in your eyes.",
+ "source": "One Tree Hill"
+ }, {
+ "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"
+ }, {
+ "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"
+ }, {
+ "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"
+ }, {
+ "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"
+ }, {
+ "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"
+ }, {
+ "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"
+ }, {
+ "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"
+ }, {
+ "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"
+ }, {
+ "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"
+ }, {
+ "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"
+ }, {
+ "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"
+ }, {
+ "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"
+ }, {
+ "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"
+ }, {
+ "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"
+ }, {
+ "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"
+ }, {
+ "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"
+ }, {
+ "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"
+ }, {
+ "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"
+ }, {
+ "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"
+ }, {
+ "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"
+ }, {
+ "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"
+ }, {
+ "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"
+ }, {
+ "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"
+ }, {
+ "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"
+ }, {
+ "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"
+ }, {
+ "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"
+ }, {
+ "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"
+ }, {
+ "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"
+ }, {
+ "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"
+ }, {
+ "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"
+ }, {
+ "text": "Do you ever get down on your knees and thank God you know me and have access to my dementia?",
+ "source": "Seinfeld"
+ }, {
+ "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!"
+ }, {
+ "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"
+ }, {
+ "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"
+ }, {
+ "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"
+ }, {
+ "text": "I need a love reaction. Come on now, baby, give me just one look.",
+ "source": "Dancing in the Dark"
+ }, {
+ "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"
+ }, {
+ "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"
+ }, {
+ "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"
+ }, {
+ "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"
+ }, {
+ "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"
+ }, {
+ "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"
+ }, {
+ "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"
+ }, {
+ "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"
+ }, {
+ "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"
+ }, {
+ "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"
+ }, {
+ "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"
+ }, {
+ "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"
+ }, {
+ "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"
+ }, {
+ "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"
+ }, {
+ "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"
+ }, {
+ "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"
+ }, {
+ "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"
+ }, {
+ "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"
+ }, {
+ "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"
+ }, {
+ "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"
+ }, {
+ "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"
+ }, {
+ "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"
+ }, {
+ "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"
+ }, {
+ "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"
+ }, {
+ "text": "The hottest places in hell are reserved for those who, in times of great moral crisis, maintain their neutrality.",
+ "source": "Dante's Inferno"
+ }, {
+ "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"
+ }, {
+ "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"
+ }, {
+ "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)"
+ }, {
+ "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"
+ }, {
+ "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"
+ }, {
+ "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"
+ }, {
+ "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"
+ }, {
+ "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"
+ }, {
+ "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"
+ }, {
+ "text": "There was no telling what people might find out once they felt free to ask whatever questions they wanted to.",
+ "source": "Catch-22"
+ }, {
+ "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"
+ }, {
+ "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"
+ }, {
+ "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"
+ }, {
+ "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"
+ }, {
+ "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"
+ }, {
+ "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"
+ }, {
+ "text": "To be fond of dancing was a certain step towards falling in love.",
+ "source": "Pride and Prejudice"
+ }, {
+ "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"
+ }, {
+ "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"
+ }, {
+ "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"
+ }, {
+ "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"
+ }, {
+ "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"
+ }, {
+ "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"
+ }, {
+ "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"
+ }, {
+ "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"
+ }, {
+ "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"
+ }, {
+ "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"
+ }, {
+ "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"
+ }, {
+ "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"
+ }, {
+ "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)"
+ }, {
+ "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"
+ }, {
+ "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"
+ }, {
+ "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"
+ }, {
+ "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"
+ }, {
+ "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"
+ }, {
+ "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"
+ }, {
+ "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"
+ }, {
+ "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"
+ }, {
+ "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"
+ }, {
+ "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"
+ }, {
+ "text": "I walked away and left him standing there in the moonlight watching over nothing.",
+ "source": "The Great Gatsby"
+ }, {
+ "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"
+ }, {
+ "text": "This won't take long. There. That should give us enough time to make it to a lifeboat.",
+ "source": "Halo: Combat Evolved"
+ }, {
+ "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"
+ }, {
+ "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"
+ }, {
+ "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"
+ }, {
+ "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"
+ }, {
+ "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"
+ }, {
+ "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"
+ }, {
+ "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"
+ }, {
+ "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"
+ }, {
+ "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"
+ }, {
+ "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"
+ }, {
+ "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"
+ }, {
+ "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"
+ }, {
+ "text": "Hmm, looks like the chad is still hanging on that one, but I'm sure they'll count it.",
+ "source": "Postal 2"
+ }, {
+ "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"
+ }, {
+ "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"
+ }, {
+ "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"
+ }, {
+ "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"
+ }, {
+ "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"
+ }, {
+ "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"
+ }, {
+ "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"
+ }, {
+ "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"
+ }, {
+ "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"
+ }, {
+ "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"
+ }, {
+ "text": "One morning I shot an elephant in my pajamas. How he got in my pajamas, I don't know.",
+ "source": "Animal Crackers"
+ }, {
+ "text": "No matter how many men you kill, you can't kill your successor.",
+ "source": "Dying Every Day: Seneca at the Court of Nero"
+ }, {
+ "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"
+ }, {
+ "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"
+ }, {
+ "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"
+ }, {
+ "text": "She seems to have an invisible touch, yeah. She reaches in and grabs right hold of your heart.",
+ "source": "Invisible Touch"
+ }, {
+ "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"
+ }, {
+ "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"
+ }, {
+ "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"
+ }, {
+ "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"
+ }, {
+ "text": "There is mystery everywhere. Beneath rocks, there is damp earth and an army of ants planning a revolution.",
+ "source": "Harbor Me"
+ }, {
+ "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"
+ }, {
+ "text": "The greatest enemy of knowledge is not ignorance, it is the illusion of knowledge.",
+ "source": "Enemy of Knowledge"
+ }, {
+ "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"
+ }, {
+ "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"
+ }, {
+ "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"
+ }, {
+ "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"
+ }, {
+ "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"
+ }, {
+ "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"
+ }, {
+ "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"
+ }, {
+ "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"
+ }, {
+ "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"
+ }, {
+ "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"
+ }, {
+ "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"
+ }, {
+ "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"
+ }, {
+ "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"
+ }, {
+ "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"
+ }, {
+ "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"
+ }, {
+ "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"
+ }, {
+ "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"
+ }, {
+ "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"
+ }, {
+ "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"
+ }, {
+ "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"
+ }, {
+ "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"
+ }, {
+ "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"
+ }, {
+ "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"
+ }, {
+ "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"
+ }, {
+ "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"
+ }, {
+ "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 \r\nthe learning, rather than punished for the mistake?",
+ "source": "Braid"
+ }, {
+ "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"
+ }, {
+ "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"
+ }, {
+ "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"
+ }, {
+ "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"
+ }, {
+ "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"
+ }, {
+ "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"
+ }, {
+ "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"
+ }, {
+ "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"
+ }, {
+ "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"
+ }, {
+ "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"
+ }, {
+ "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"
+ }, {
+ "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"
+ }, {
+ "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"
+ }, {
+ "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"
+ }, {
+ "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"
+ }, {
+ "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"
+ }, {
+ "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"
+ }, {
+ "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"
+ }, {
+ "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"
+ }, {
+ "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"
+ }, {
+ "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"
+ }, {
+ "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"
+ }, {
+ "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"
+ }, {
+ "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"
+ }, {
+ "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"
+ }, {
+ "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"
+ }, {
+ "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"
+ }, {
+ "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"
+ }, {
+ "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"
+ }, {
+ "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"
+ }, {
+ "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"
+ }, {
+ "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"
+ }, {
+ "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"
+ }, {
+ "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"
+ }, {
+ "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"
+ }, {
+ "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"
+ }, {
+ "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"
+ }, {
+ "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"
+ }, {
+ "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"
+ }, {
+ "text": "Tonight the light of love is in your eyes, but will you love me tomorrow?",
+ "source": "Will You Love Me Tomorrow"
+ }, {
+ "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"
+ }, {
+ "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"
+ }, {
+ "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"
+ }, {
+ "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"
+ }, {
+ "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"
+ }, {
+ "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"
+ }, {
+ "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"
+ }, {
+ "text": "Sometimes you're the windshield, sometimes you're the bug.\r\nSometimes it all comes together baby. Sometimes you're a fool in love.",
+ "source": "The Bug"
+ }, {
+ "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"
+ }, {
+ "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"
+ }, {
+ "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"
+ }, {
+ "text": "Everyone thinks they are above average, which is statistically impossible.",
+ "source": "Inside The Mind of an Introvert"
+ }, {
+ "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"
+ }, {
+ "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"
+ }, {
+ "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"
+ }, {
+ "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!"
+ }, {
+ "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"
+ }, {
+ "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"
+ }, {
+ "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"
+ }, {
+ "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"
+ }, {
+ "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"
+ }, {
+ "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"
+ }, {
+ "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"
+ }, {
+ "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"
+ }, {
+ "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"
+ }, {
+ "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"
+ }, {
+ "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"
+ }, {
+ "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"
+ }, {
+ "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"
+ }, {
+ "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"
+ }, {
+ "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"
+ }, {
+ "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"
+ }, {
+ "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"
+ }, {
+ "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"
+ }, {
+ "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"
+ }, {
+ "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"
+ }, {
+ "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"
+ }, {
+ "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"
+ }, {
+ "text": "I never realize how much I like being home unless I've been somewhere really different for a while.",
+ "source": "Juno"
+ }, {
+ "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"
+ }, {
+ "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"
+ }, {
+ "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"
+ }, {
+ "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"
+ }, {
+ "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"
+ }, {
+ "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"
+ }, {
+ "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"
+ }, {
+ "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"
+ }, {
+ "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"
+ }, {
+ "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"
+ }, {
+ "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"
+ }, {
+ "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"
+ }, {
+ "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"
+ }, {
+ "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"
+ }, {
+ "text": "Inside tank of fuel is not fuel, but love. Above us, there is nothing above but the stars above.",
+ "source": "Elektronik Supersonik"
+ }, {
+ "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"
+ }, {
+ "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"
+ }, {
+ "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"
+ }, {
+ "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"
+ }, {
+ "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"
+ }, {
+ "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"
+ }, {
+ "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)"
+ }, {
+ "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"
+ }, {
+ "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"
+ }, {
+ "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"
+ }, {
+ "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"
+ }, {
+ "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"
+ }, {
+ "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"
+ }, {
+ "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"
+ }, {
+ "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"
+ }, {
+ "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"
+ }, {
+ "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"
+ }, {
+ "text": "It's much better to do good in a way that no one knows anything about it.",
+ "source": "Anna Karenina"
+ }, {
+ "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"
+ }, {
+ "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"
+ }, {
+ "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"
+ }, {
+ "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"
+ }, {
+ "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"
+ }, {
+ "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"
+ }, {
+ "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"
+ }, {
+ "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"
+ }, {
+ "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"
+ }, {
+ "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"
+ }, {
+ "text": "Popular is even weirder. Turns out, it's not the same thing as having friends at all.",
+ "source": "Merci Suárez Changes Gears"
+ }, {
+ "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"
+ }, {
+ "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"
+ }, {
+ "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"
+ }, {
+ "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"
+ }, {
+ "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"
+ }, {
+ "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"
+ }, {
+ "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"
+ }, {
+ "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"
+ }, {
+ "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"
+ }, {
+ "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"
+ }, {
+ "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"
+ }, {
+ "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"
+ }, {
+ "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"
+ }, {
+ "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"
+ }, {
+ "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"
+ }, {
+ "text": "Some people don't understand the promises they're making when they make them.",
+ "source": "The Fault in Our Stars"
+ }, {
+ "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"
+ }, {
+ "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"
+ }, {
+ "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"
+ }, {
+ "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"
+ }, {
+ "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"
+ }, {
+ "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"
+ }, {
+ "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"
+ }, {
+ "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"
+ }, {
+ "text": "I'm going to kill a stranger, so don't you be a stranger.",
+ "source": "No Reptiles"
+ }, {
+ "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"
+ }, {
+ "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"
+ }, {
+ "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"
+ }, {
+ "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"
+ }, {
+ "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"
+ }, {
+ "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"
+ }, {
+ "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"
+ }, {
+ "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"
+ }, {
+ "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"
+ }, {
+ "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"
+ }, {
+ "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"
+ }, {
+ "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"
+ }, {
+ "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"
+ }, {
+ "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"
+ }, {
+ "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"
+ }, {
+ "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"
+ }, {
+ "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"
+ }, {
+ "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"
+ }, {
+ "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!\""
+ }, {
+ "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"
+ }, {
+ "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"
+ }, {
+ "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"
+ }, {
+ "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"
+ }, {
+ "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"
+ }, {
+ "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"
+ }, {
+ "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"
+ }, {
+ "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"
+ }, {
+ "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"
+ }, {
+ "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"
+ }, {
+ "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"
+ }, {
+ "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"
+ }, {
+ "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"
+ }, {
+ "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"
+ }, {
+ "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"
+ }, {
+ "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!"
+ }, {
+ "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"
+ }, {
+ "text": "Is it really not possible to touch the gaming table without being instantly infected by superstition?",
+ "source": "The Gambler"
+ }, {
+ "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"
+ }, {
+ "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"
+ }, {
+ "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"
+ }, {
+ "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"
+ }, {
+ "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"
+ }, {
+ "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"
+ }, {
+ "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"
+ }, {
+ "text": "I've never felt this healthy before. I've never wanted something rational.",
+ "source": "Head Over Feet"
+ }, {
+ "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"
+ }, {
+ "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"
+ }, {
+ "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"
+ }, {
+ "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)"
+ }, {
+ "text": "Oh yes, the past can hurt. But you can either run from it, or learn from it.",
+ "source": "The Lion King"
+ }, {
+ "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"
+ }, {
+ "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"
+ }, {
+ "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"
+ }, {
+ "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"
+ }, {
+ "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"
+ }, {
+ "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)"
+ }, {
+ "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"
+ }, {
+ "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"
+ }, {
+ "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"
+ }, {
+ "text": "The darker the night, the brighter the stars, the deeper the grief, the closer is God.",
+ "source": "Crime and Punishment"
+ }, {
+ "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"
+ }, {
+ "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"
+ }, {
+ "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"
+ }, {
+ "text": "And now my bitter hands cradle broken glass of what was everything.",
+ "source": "Black"
+ }, {
+ "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"
+ }, {
+ "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"
+ }, {
+ "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"
+ }, {
+ "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"
+ }, {
+ "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"
+ }, {
+ "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"
+ }, {
+ "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"
+ }, {
+ "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"
+ }, {
+ "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"
+ }, {
+ "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"
+ }, {
+ "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"
+ }, {
+ "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"
+ }, {
+ "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"
+ }, {
+ "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"
+ }, {
+ "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"
+ }, {
+ "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"
+ }, {
+ "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"
+ }, {
+ "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"
+ }, {
+ "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"
+ }, {
+ "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"
+ }, {
+ "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"
+ }, {
+ "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"
+ }, {
+ "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"
+ }, {
+ "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"
+ }, {
+ "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"
+ }, {
+ "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"
+ }, {
+ "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"
+ }, {
+ "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"
+ }, {
+ "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"
+ }, {
+ "text": "Speed. I am speed. One winner, forty-two losers. I eat losers for breakfast.",
+ "source": "Cars"
+ }, {
+ "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"
+ }, {
+ "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"
+ }, {
+ "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"
+ }, {
+ "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"
+ }, {
+ "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"
+ }, {
+ "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"
+ }, {
+ "text": "Since we're all going to die, it's obvious that when and how don't matter.",
+ "source": "The Stranger"
+ }, {
+ "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"
+ }, {
+ "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"
+ }, {
+ "text": "I do not know if all cops are poets, but I know that all cops carry guns with triggers.",
+ "source": "Invisible Man"
+ }, {
+ "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"
+ }, {
+ "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"
+ }, {
+ "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"
+ }, {
+ "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"
+ }, {
+ "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"
+ }, {
+ "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"
+ }, {
+ "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"
+ }, {
+ "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"
+ }, {
+ "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"
+ }, {
+ "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"
+ }, {
+ "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"
+ }, {
+ "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"
+ }, {
+ "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"
+ }, {
+ "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"
+ }, {
+ "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"
+ }, {
+ "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"
+ }, {
+ "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"
+ }, {
+ "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"
+ }, {
+ "text": "She loved him not only in spite of but because he himself was incapable of love.",
+ "source": "The Sound and the Fury"
+ }, {
+ "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"
+ }, {
+ "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"
+ }, {
+ "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"
+ }, {
+ "text": "We live in the flicker - may it last as long as the old earth keeps rolling!",
+ "source": "Heart of Darkness"
+ }, {
+ "text": "If sugar is so bad, how come Jesus made it taste so good?",
+ "source": "Parks and Recreation"
+ }, {
+ "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"
+ }, {
+ "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"
+ }, {
+ "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"
+ }, {
+ "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"
+ }, {
+ "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"
+ }, {
+ "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"
+ }, {
+ "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"
+ }, {
+ "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"
+ }, {
+ "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"
+ }, {
+ "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"
+ }, {
+ "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"
+ }, {
+ "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"
+ }, {
+ "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"
+ }, {
+ "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"
+ }, {
+ "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"
+ }, {
+ "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"
+ }, {
+ "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"
+ }, {
+ "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"
+ }, {
+ "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"
+ }, {
+ "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"
+ }, {
+ "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"
+ }, {
+ "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"
+ }, {
+ "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"
+ }, {
+ "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"
+ }, {
+ "text": "Let this moment of clarity lift this curse that has been cast upon me.",
+ "source": "Eight of Nine"
+ }, {
+ "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"
+ }, {
+ "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"
+ }, {
+ "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"
+ }, {
+ "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"
+ }, {
+ "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"
+ }, {
+ "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"
+ }, {
+ "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"
+ }, {
+ "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"
+ }, {
+ "text": "They, of course, didn't know me; but I knew them all right.",
+ "source": "White Nights"
+ }, {
+ "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"
+ }, {
+ "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"
+ }, {
+ "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"
+ }, {
+ "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"
+ }, {
+ "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"
+ }, {
+ "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"
+ }, {
+ "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. 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"
+ }, {
+ "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"
+ }, {
+ "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"
+ }, {
+ "text": "The mystery of human existence lies not in just staying alive, but in finding something to live for.",
+ "source": "The Brothers Karamazov"
+ }, {
+ "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"
+ }, {
+ "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"
+ }, {
+ "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"
+ }, {
+ "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"
+ }, {
+ "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"
+ }, {
+ "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"
+ }, {
+ "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"
+ }, {
+ "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"
+ }, {
+ "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"
+ }, {
+ "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)"
+ }, {
+ "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"
+ }, {
+ "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"
+ }, {
+ "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"
+ }, {
+ "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"
+ }, {
+ "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"
+ }, {
+ "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"
+ }, {
+ "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"
+ }, {
+ "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"
+ }, {
+ "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"
+ }, {
+ "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"
+ }, {
+ "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"
+ }, {
+ "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"
+ }, {
+ "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"
+ }, {
+ "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"
+ }, {
+ "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"
+ }, {
+ "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"
+ }, {
+ "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"
+ }, {
+ "text": "This is one time where television really fails to capture the true excitement of a large squirrel predicting the weather.",
+ "source": "Groundhog Day"
+ }, {
+ "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"
+ }, {
+ "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"
+ }, {
+ "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"
+ }, {
+ "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"
+ }, {
+ "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"
+ }, {
+ "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"
+ }, {
+ "text": "Remember that all the people in this world haven't had the advantages that you've had.",
+ "source": "The Great Gatsby"
+ }, {
+ "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"
+ }, {
+ "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"
+ }, {
+ "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"
+ }, {
+ "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"
+ }, {
+ "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"
+ }, {
+ "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"
+ }, {
+ "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"
+ }, {
+ "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"
+ }, {
+ "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"
+ }, {
+ "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"
+ }, {
+ "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"
+ }, {
+ "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"
+ }, {
+ "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"
+ }, {
+ "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"
+ }, {
+ "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"
+ }, {
+ "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"
+ }, {
+ "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"
+ }, {
+ "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"
+ }, {
+ "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"
+ }, {
+ "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"
+ }, {
+ "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"
+ }, {
+ "text": "I've got to get up in the morning and spend some more money on my overpriced education.",
+ "source": "Good Will Hunting"
+ }, {
+ "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"
+ }, {
+ "text": "Everybody thinks they are protecting and defending their people. But we are all people, right?",
+ "source": "The Night Diary"
+ }, {
+ "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"
+ }, {
+ "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"
+ }, {
+ "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"
+ }, {
+ "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"
+ }, {
+ "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"
+ }, {
+ "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"
+ }, {
+ "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"
+ }, {
+ "text": "Do the gods light this fire in our hearts or does each man's mad desire become his god?",
+ "source": "The Aeneid"
+ }, {
+ "text": "Mary Elizabeth is a really nice person underneath the part of her that hates everyone.",
+ "source": "The Perks of Being a Wallflower"
+ }, {
+ "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"
+ }, {
+ "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"
+ }, {
+ "text": "What condemnation could possibly be more harsh than one's own, when self-pretense is no longer possible?",
+ "source": "What Dreams May Come"
+ }, {
+ "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"
+ }, {
+ "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"
+ }, {
+ "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"
+ }, {
+ "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"
+ }, {
+ "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"
+ }, {
+ "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"
+ }, {
+ "text": "Some people thought we were at war with the Germans -\r\n 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"
+ }, {
+ "text": "Respect was invented to cover the empty place where love should be.",
+ "source": "Anna Karenina"
+ }, {
+ "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"
+ }, {
+ "text": "He never did... anything that was... illegal... Unless you count all the times he sold dope disguised as a nun.",
+ "source": "Heavy Metal"
+ }, {
+ "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"
+ }, {
+ "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"
+ }, {
+ "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"
+ }, {
+ "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"
+ }, {
+ "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"
+ }, {
+ "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"
+ }, {
+ "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"
+ }, {
+ "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"
+ }, {
+ "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"
+ }, {
+ "text": "Of all creatures that breathe and move upon the earth, nothing is bred that is weaker than man.",
+ "source": "The Odyssey"
+ }, {
+ "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"
+ }, {
+ "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"
+ }, {
+ "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"
+ }, {
+ "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"
+ }, {
+ "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"
+ }, {
+ "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"
+ }, {
+ "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"
+ }, {
+ "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"
+ }, {
+ "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"
+ }, {
+ "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"
+ }, {
+ "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"
+ }, {
+ "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"
+ }, {
+ "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"
+ }, {
+ "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"
+ }, {
+ "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"
+ }, {
+ "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"
+ }, {
+ "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"
+ }, {
+ "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"
+ }, {
+ "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"
+ }, {
+ "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"
+ }, {
+ "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"
+ }, {
+ "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"
+ }, {
+ "text": "Freeze this moment a little bit longer. Make each sensation a little bit stronger. Experience slips away.",
+ "source": "Time Stand Still"
+ }, {
+ "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"
+ }, {
+ "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"
+ }, {
+ "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"
+ }, {
+ "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"
+ }, {
+ "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"
+ }, {
+ "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"
+ }, {
+ "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"
+ }, {
+ "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"
+ }, {
+ "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"
+ }, {
+ "text": "Unless someone like you cares a whole awful lot, nothing is going to get better... It's not.",
+ "source": "The Lorax"
+ }, {
+ "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'"
+ }, {
+ "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"
+ }, {
+ "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"
+ }, {
+ "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"
+ }, {
+ "text": "It sounds plausible enough tonight, but wait until tomorrow. Wait for the common sense of the morning.",
+ "source": "The Time Machine"
+ }, {
+ "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"
+ }, {
+ "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"
+ }, {
+ "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"
+ }, {
+ "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"
+ }, {
+ "text": "Do you know what would happen if I suddenly decided to stop going into work?",
+ "source": "Breaking Bad"
+ }, {
+ "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"
+ }, {
+ "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\r\ncarnivore 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\r\ngrazed 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"
+ }, {
+ "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"
+ }, {
+ "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"
+ }, {
+ "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"
+ }, {
+ "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"
+ }, {
+ "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"
+ }, {
+ "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"
+ }, {
+ "text": "Rest assured that I was on the internet within minutes registering my disgust throughout the world.",
+ "source": "The Simpsons"
+ }, {
+ "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"
+ }, {
+ "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"
+ }, {
+ "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"
+ }, {
+ "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"
+ }, {
+ "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"
+ }, {
+ "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"
+ }, {
+ "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"
+ }, {
+ "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"
+ }, {
+ "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"
+ }, {
+ "text": "By venturing too close to the dragon's flame, you made an ash out of yourself.",
+ "source": "King's Quest I"
+ }, {
+ "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"
+ }, {
+ "text": "Well, our daughter Becky left home for a year and a half and when she came back we barely recognized her.",
+ "source": "Roseanne"
+ }, {
+ "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"
+ }, {
+ "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"
+ }, {
+ "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"
+ }, {
+ "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"
+ }, {
+ "text": "I did not bow down to you, I bowed down to all the suffering of humanity.",
+ "source": "Crime and Punishment"
+ }, {
+ "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"
+ }, {
+ "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"
+ }, {
+ "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"
+ }, {
+ "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"
+ }, {
+ "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"
+ }, {
+ "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"
+ }, {
+ "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"
+ }, {
+ "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"
+ }, {
+ "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)"
+ }, {
+ "text": "But I can't imagine a life without breathless moments breaking me down.",
+ "source": "The Heart Wants What It Wants"
+ }, {
+ "text": "Everybody is identical in their secret unspoken belief that way deep down they are different from everyone else.",
+ "source": "Infinite Jest"
+ }, {
+ "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"
+ }, {
+ "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"
+ }, {
+ "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"
+ }, {
+ "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"
+ }, {
+ "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"
+ }, {
+ "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"
+ }, {
+ "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"
+ }, {
+ "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"
+ }, {
+ "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"
+ }, {
+ "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)"
+ }, {
+ "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"
+ }, {
+ "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"
+ }, {
+ "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"
+ }, {
+ "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"
+ }, {
+ "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"
+ }, {
+ "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"
+ }, {
+ "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"
+ }, {
+ "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"
+ }, {
+ "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"
+ }, {
+ "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"
+ }, {
+ "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"
+ }, {
+ "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"
+ }, {
+ "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"
+ }, {
+ "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"
+ }, {
+ "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"
+ }, {
+ "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"
+ }, {
+ "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 skilful with tools.",
+ "source": "The Fellowship of the Ring"
+ }, {
+ "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"
+ }, {
+ "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"
+ }, {
+ "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"
+ }, {
+ "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"
+ }, {
+ "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)"
+ }, {
+ "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"
+ }, {
+ "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"
+ }, {
+ "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"
+ }, {
+ "text": "Never trust the living! We cannot have a routine haunting like yours provide proof that there is existence beyond death.",
+ "source": "Beetlejuice"
+ }, {
+ "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"
+ }, {
+ "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"
+ }, {
+ "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"
+ }, {
+ "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"
+ }, {
+ "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"
+ }, {
+ "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"
+ }, {
+ "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"
+ }, {
+ "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"
+ }, {
+ "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"
+ }, {
+ "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"
+ }, {
+ "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"
+ }, {
+ "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"
+ }, {
+ "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"
+ }, {
+ "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"
+ }, {
+ "text": "Hokey religions and ancient weapons are no match for a good blaster at your side, kid.",
+ "source": "Star Wars"
+ }, {
+ "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?"
+ }, {
+ "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"
+ }, {
+ "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"
+ }, {
+ "text": "If you ain't true to yourself then you ain't true to nobody.",
+ "source": "Cool As Ice"
+ }, {
+ "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"
+ }, {
+ "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"
+ }, {
+ "text": "They got the greatest country in the world here. The highest standard of living. The grossest national product.",
+ "source": "All in the Family"
+ }, {
+ "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"
+ }, {
+ "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"
+ }, {
+ "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"
+ }, {
+ "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"
+ }, {
+ "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"
+ }, {
+ "text": "New thoughts and hopes were whirling through my mind, and all the colours of my life were changing.",
+ "source": "David Copperfield"
+ }, {
+ "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"
+ }, {
+ "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"
+ }, {
+ "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"
+ }, {
+ "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"
+ }, {
+ "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"
+ }, {
+ "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"
+ }, {
+ "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"
+ }, {
+ "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"
+ }, {
+ "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"
+ }, {
+ "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"
+ }, {
+ "text": "Taking a new step, uttering a new word, is what people fear most.",
+ "source": "Crime and Punishment"
+ }, {
+ "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"
+ }, {
+ "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"
+ }, {
+ "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"
+ }, {
+ "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"
+ }, {
+ "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"
+ }, {
+ "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"
+ }, {
+ "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"
+ }, {
+ "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"
+ }, {
+ "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"
+ }, {
+ "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"
+ }, {
+ "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"
+ }, {
+ "text": "Here, take a cookie. I promise, by the time you're done eating it, you'll feel right as rain.",
+ "source": "The Matrix"
+ }, {
+ "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"
+ }, {
+ "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"
+ }, {
+ "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"
+ }, {
+ "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"
+ }, {
+ "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"
+ }, {
+ "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"
+ }, {
+ "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"
+ }, {
+ "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"
+ }, {
+ "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"
+ }, {
+ "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"
+ }, {
+ "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"
+ }, {
+ "text": "One thing, or an infinite number of things, dies with every man's or woman's death.",
+ "source": "Collected Fiction"
+ }, {
+ "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"
+ }, {
+ "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"
+ }, {
+ "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"
+ }, {
+ "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"
+ }, {
+ "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"
+ }, {
+ "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"
+ }, {
+ "text": "My brain was just pouring this stuff out. Everything I'd ever read, heard, seen was now organized and available.",
+ "source": "Limitless"
+ }, {
+ "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"
+ }, {
+ "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"
+ }, {
+ "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"
+ }, {
+ "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"
+ }, {
+ "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"
+ }, {
+ "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"
+ }, {
+ "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"
+ }, {
+ "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"
+ }, {
+ "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"
+ }, {
+ "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"
+ }, {
+ "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"
+ }, {
+ "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"
+ }, {
+ "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"
+ }, {
+ "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"
+ }, {
+ "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"
+ }, {
+ "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"
+ }, {
+ "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"
+ }, {
+ "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"
+ }, {
+ "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"
+ }, {
+ "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"
+ }, {
+ "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"
+ }, {
+ "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"
+ }, {
+ "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)"
+ }, {
+ "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"
+ }, {
+ "text": "I still think picking a hero is overrated. You pick one, you admire them; a week later they've been arrested.",
+ "source": "Everwood"
+ }, {
+ "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"
+ }, {
+ "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"
+ }, {
+ "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"
+ }, {
+ "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"
+ }, {
+ "text": "All five horizons revolved around her soul as the earth to the sun.",
+ "source": "Black"
+ }, {
+ "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"
+ }, {
+ "text": "And why the winter suns so rush to bathe themselves in the sea\r\nand what slows down the nights to a long lingering crawl.",
+ "source": "The Aeneid"
+ }, {
+ "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"
+ }, {
+ "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"
+ }, {
+ "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"
+ }, {
+ "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"
+ }, {
+ "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"
+ }, {
+ "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"
+ }, {
+ "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"
+ }, {
+ "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"
+ }, {
+ "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"
+ }, {
+ "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"
+ }, {
+ "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"
+ }, {
+ "text": "I don't ever want to feel like I did that day. Take me to the place I love, take me all the way.",
+ "source": "Under The Bridge"
+ }, {
+ "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"
+ }, {
+ "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"
+ }, {
+ "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"
+ }, {
+ "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"
+ }, {
+ "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"
+ }, {
+ "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"
+ }, {
+ "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"
+ }, {
+ "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"
+ }, {
+ "text": "The spirits burned up in its ominous flame lose their way and wander this world forever.",
+ "source": "Pokemon Black Version 2"
+ }, {
+ "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"
+ }, {
+ "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"
+ }, {
+ "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"
+ }, {
+ "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"
+ }, {
+ "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"
+ }, {
+ "text": "Just because you're paranoid doesn't mean they aren't after you.",
+ "source": "Catch-22"
+ }, {
+ "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"
+ }, {
+ "text": "Death is a primitive concept. I prefer to think of them as battling evil in another dimension.",
+ "source": "The Last Starfighter"
+ }, {
+ "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"
+ }, {
+ "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)"
+ }, {
+ "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"
+ }, {
+ "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"
+ }, {
+ "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"
+ }, {
+ "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"
+ }, {
+ "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"
+ }, {
+ "text": "Results are not guaranteed, but if not perfectly satisfied, your wasted time will be refunded.",
+ "source": "The Phantom Tollbooth"
+ }, {
+ "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"
+ }, {
+ "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"
+ }, {
+ "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"
+ }, {
+ "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"
+ }, {
+ "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"
+ }, {
+ "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"
+ }, {
+ "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"
+ }, {
+ "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"
+ }, {
+ "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"
+ }, {
+ "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"
+ }, {
+ "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"
+ }, {
+ "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)"
+ }, {
+ "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"
+ }, {
+ "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"
+ }, {
+ "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"
+ }, {
+ "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"
+ }, {
+ "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"
+ }, {
+ "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"
+ }, {
+ "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"
+ }, {
+ "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"
+ }, {
+ "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"
+ }, {
+ "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"
+ }, {
+ "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"
+ }, {
+ "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"
+ }, {
+ "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"
+ }, {
+ "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"
+ }, {
+ "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"
+ }, {
+ "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"
+ }, {
+ "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"
+ }, {
+ "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"
+ }, {
+ "text": "Rummaging in our souls, we often dig up something that ought to have lain there unnoticed.",
+ "source": "Anna Karenina"
+ }, {
+ "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"
+ }, {
+ "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"
+ }, {
+ "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"
+ }, {
+ "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"
+ }, {
+ "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"
+ }, {
+ "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)"
+ }, {
+ "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"
+ }, {
+ "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"
+ }, {
+ "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"
+ }, {
+ "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"
+ }, {
+ "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"
+ }, {
+ "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"
+ }, {
+ "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"
+ }, {
+ "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)"
+ }, {
+ "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"
+ }, {
+ "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"
+ }, {
+ "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"
+ }, {
+ "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"
+ }, {
+ "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"
+ }, {
+ "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"
+ }, {
+ "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"
+ }, {
+ "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"
+ }, {
+ "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"
+ }, {
+ "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"
+ }, {
+ "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"
+ }, {
+ "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"
+ }, {
+ "text": "I need you, the reader, to imagine us, for we don't really exist if you don't.",
+ "source": "Lolita"
+ }, {
+ "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"
+ }, {
+ "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"
+ }, {
+ "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"
+ }, {
+ "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"
+ }, {
+ "text": "He really had been through death, but he had returned because he could not bear the solitude.",
+ "source": "One Hundred Years of Solitude"
+ }, {
+ "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"
+ }, {
+ "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"
+ }, {
+ "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"
+ }, {
+ "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"
+ }, {
+ "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"
+ }, {
+ "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"
+ }, {
+ "text": "You'd think at a certain point all these atypical somethings would amount to a typical something.",
+ "source": "Awakenings"
+ }, {
+ "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!"
+ }, {
+ "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"
+ }, {
+ "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"
+ }, {
+ "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"
+ }, {
+ "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"
+ }, {
+ "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"
+ }, {
+ "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"
+ }, {
+ "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"
+ }
+]
\ No newline at end of file
diff --git a/public/js/script.js b/public/js/script.js
index db5639c97..b8b71444f 100644
--- a/public/js/script.js
+++ b/public/js/script.js
@@ -22,6 +22,7 @@ let activeWordTopBeforeJump = 0;
let activeWordTop = 0;
let activeWordJumped = false;
let sameWordset = false;
+let quotes = [];
let accuracyStats = {
correct: 0,
@@ -29,6 +30,7 @@ let accuracyStats = {
}
let customText = "The quick brown fox jumps over the lazy dog".split(' ');
+let randomQuote = null;
const testCompleted = firebase.functions().httpsCallable('testCompleted');
const addTag = firebase.functions().httpsCallable('addTag');
@@ -38,28 +40,28 @@ const updateResultTags = firebase.functions().httpsCallable('updateResultTags');
const saveConfig = firebase.functions().httpsCallable('saveConfig');
- function smooth(arr, windowSize, getter = (value) => value, setter) {
- const get = getter
- const result = []
-
- for (let i = 0; i < arr.length; i += 1) {
- const leftOffeset = i - windowSize
- const from = leftOffeset >= 0 ? leftOffeset : 0
- const to = i + windowSize + 1
-
- let count = 0
- let sum = 0
- for (let j = from; j < to && j < arr.length; j += 1) {
- sum += get(arr[j])
- count += 1
- }
-
- result[i] = setter ? setter(arr[i], sum / count) : sum / count
+function smooth(arr, windowSize, getter = (value) => value, setter) {
+ const get = getter
+ const result = []
+
+ for (let i = 0; i < arr.length; i += 1) {
+ const leftOffeset = i - windowSize
+ const from = leftOffeset >= 0 ? leftOffeset : 0
+ const to = i + windowSize + 1
+
+ let count = 0
+ let sum = 0
+ for (let j = from; j < to && j < arr.length; j += 1) {
+ sum += get(arr[j])
+ count += 1
}
-
- return result
+
+ result[i] = setter ? setter(arr[i], sum / count) : sum / count
}
+ return result
+}
+
function showNotification(text, time) {
let noti = $(".notification");
noti.text(text);
@@ -78,9 +80,9 @@ function showNotification(text, time) {
}
function copyResultToClipboard() {
- if(navigator.userAgent.toLowerCase().indexOf('firefox') > -1){
- showNotification('Sorry, this feature is not supported in Firefox',4000);
- }else{
+ if (navigator.userAgent.toLowerCase().indexOf('firefox') > -1) {
+ showNotification('Sorry, this feature is not supported in Firefox', 4000);
+ } else {
let src = $('#middle');
var sourceX = src.position().left;/*X position from div#target*/
var sourceY = src.position().top;/*Y position from div#target*/
@@ -88,16 +90,16 @@ function copyResultToClipboard() {
var sourceHeight = src.height();/*clientHeight/offsetHeight from div#target*/
let bgColor = getComputedStyle(document.body).getPropertyValue('--bg-color').replace(' ', '');
- try{
- html2canvas(document.body,{
+ try {
+ html2canvas(document.body, {
backgroundColor: bgColor,
height: sourceHeight + 50,
width: sourceWidth + 50,
x: sourceX - 25,
y: sourceY - 25
- }).then(function(canvas) {
+ }).then(function (canvas) {
// document.body.appendChild(canvas);
- canvas.toBlob(function(blob) {
+ canvas.toBlob(function (blob) {
navigator.clipboard.write([
new ClipboardItem(
Object.defineProperty({}, blob.type, {
@@ -106,14 +108,14 @@ function copyResultToClipboard() {
})
)
]).then(f => {
- showNotification('Copied to clipboard',1000);
- }).catch(f => {
- showNotification('Error saving image to clipboard',2000);
- })
+ showNotification('Copied to clipboard', 1000);
+ }).catch(f => {
+ showNotification('Error saving image to clipboard', 2000);
+ })
});
});
- }catch(e){
- showNotification('Error creating image',2000);
+ } catch (e) {
+ showNotification('Error creating image', 2000);
}
}
}
@@ -137,15 +139,15 @@ function getReleasesFromGitHub() {
})
}
-function verifyUsername(){
-// test = firebase.functions().httpsCallable('moveResults')
-// test2 = firebase.functions().httpsCallable('getNames')
-// test3 = firebase.functions().httpsCallable('checkNameAvailability')
+function verifyUsername() {
+ // test = firebase.functions().httpsCallable('moveResults')
+ // test2 = firebase.functions().httpsCallable('getNames')
+ // test3 = firebase.functions().httpsCallable('checkNameAvailability')
const check = firebase.functions().httpsCallable('checkIfNeedsToChangeName')
- check({uid: firebase.auth().currentUser.uid}).then(data => {
- if(data.data === 1){
+ check({ uid: firebase.auth().currentUser.uid }).then(data => {
+ if (data.data === 1) {
$('.nameChangeMessage').slideDown();
- }else if(data.data === 2){
+ } else if (data.data === 2) {
$('.nameChangeMessage').slideDown();
}
})
@@ -157,19 +159,19 @@ function verifyUsername(){
Sorry for this inconvenience.
`);
- let newName = prompt('Please provide a new username - you can use lowercase and uppercase characters, numbers and one of these special characters ( . _ - ). The new name cannot be longer than 12 characters.',firebase.auth().currentUser.displayName);
- if(newName){
+ let newName = prompt('Please provide a new username - you can use lowercase and uppercase characters, numbers and one of these special characters ( . _ - ). The new name cannot be longer than 12 characters.', firebase.auth().currentUser.displayName);
+ if (newName) {
cn = firebase.functions().httpsCallable('changeName');
- cn({uid:firebase.auth().currentUser.uid,name:newName}).then(d => {
- if(d.data === 1){
+ cn({ uid: firebase.auth().currentUser.uid, name: newName }).then(d => {
+ if (d.data === 1) {
//all good
alert('Thanks! All good.');
location.reload();
$('.nameChangeMessage').slideUp();
- }else if(d.data === 0){
+ } else if (d.data === 0) {
//invalid or unavailable
alert('Name invalid or taken. Try again.');
- }else if(d.data === -1){
+ } else if (d.data === -1) {
//error
alert('Unknown error. Contact Miodec on Discord.');
}
@@ -203,7 +205,7 @@ function capitalizeFirstLetter(str) {
return str.charAt(0).toUpperCase() + str.slice(1);
}
-function roundedToFixed(float, digits){
+function roundedToFixed(float, digits) {
let rounded = Math.pow(10, digits);
return (Math.round(float * rounded) / rounded).toFixed(digits);
}
@@ -220,8 +222,8 @@ function initWords() {
currentInput = "";
let language = words[config.language];
-
- if(language === undefined && config.language === "english_10k"){
+
+ if (language === undefined && config.language === "english_10k") {
showBackgroundLoader();
$.ajax({
url: "js/english_10k.json",
@@ -234,6 +236,18 @@ function initWords() {
})
}
+ if (config.mode === "quote") {
+ showBackgroundLoader();
+ $.ajax({
+ url: "js/english_quotes.json",
+ async: false,
+ success: function (data) {
+ hideBackgroundLoader();
+ quotes = data;
+ }
+ })
+ }
+
if (language == undefined || language == []) {
config.language = "english";
language = words[config.language];
@@ -249,7 +263,7 @@ function initWords() {
while (randomWord == previousWord || randomWord == previousWord2 || (!config.punctuation && randomWord == "I") || randomWord.indexOf(' ') > -1) {
randomWord = language[Math.floor(Math.random() * language.length)];
}
- if (config.punctuation && config.mode != "custom"){
+ if (config.punctuation && config.mode != "custom") {
randomWord = punctuateWord(previousWord, randomWord, i, wordsBound);
}
wordsList.push(randomWord);
@@ -260,14 +274,20 @@ function initWords() {
for (let i = 0; i < customText.length; i++) {
wordsList.push(customText[i]);
}
+ } else if (config.mode == "quote") {
+ randomQuote = quotes[Math.floor(Math.random() * quotes.length)];
+ let w = randomQuote.text.split(" ");
+ for (let i = 0; i < w.length; i++) {
+ wordsList.push(w[i]);
+ }
}
showWords();
}
-function emulateLayout(event){
+function emulateLayout(event) {
if (config.layout == "default" || event.key === " ")
return event;
- const qwertyMasterLayout = {"Backquote":"`~","Digit1":"1!","Digit2":"2@","Digit3":"3#","Digit4":"4$","Digit5":"5%","Digit6":"6^","Digit7":"7&","Digit8":"8*","Digit9":"9(","Digit0":"0)","Minus":"-_","Equal":"=+","KeyQ":"qQ","KeyW":"wW","KeyE":"eE","KeyR":"rR","KeyT":"tT","KeyY":"yY","KeyU":"uU","KeyI":"iI","KeyO":"oO","KeyP":"pP","BracketLeft":"[{","BracketRight":"]}","KeyA":"aA","KeyS":"sS","KeyD":"dD","KeyF":"fF","KeyG":"gG","KeyH":"hH","KeyJ":"jJ","KeyK":"kK","KeyL":"lL","Semicolon":";:","Quote":"'\"","Backslash":"\\|","KeyZ":"zZ","KeyX":"xX","KeyC":"cC","KeyV":"vV","KeyB":"bB","KeyN":"nN","KeyM":"mM","Comma":",<","Period":".>","Slash":"/?","Space":" "}
+ const qwertyMasterLayout = { "Backquote": "`~", "Digit1": "1!", "Digit2": "2@", "Digit3": "3#", "Digit4": "4$", "Digit5": "5%", "Digit6": "6^", "Digit7": "7&", "Digit8": "8*", "Digit9": "9(", "Digit0": "0)", "Minus": "-_", "Equal": "=+", "KeyQ": "qQ", "KeyW": "wW", "KeyE": "eE", "KeyR": "rR", "KeyT": "tT", "KeyY": "yY", "KeyU": "uU", "KeyI": "iI", "KeyO": "oO", "KeyP": "pP", "BracketLeft": "[{", "BracketRight": "]}", "KeyA": "aA", "KeyS": "sS", "KeyD": "dD", "KeyF": "fF", "KeyG": "gG", "KeyH": "hH", "KeyJ": "jJ", "KeyK": "kK", "KeyL": "lL", "Semicolon": ";:", "Quote": "'\"", "Backslash": "\\|", "KeyZ": "zZ", "KeyX": "xX", "KeyC": "cC", "KeyV": "vV", "KeyB": "bB", "KeyN": "nN", "KeyM": "mM", "Comma": ",<", "Period": ".>", "Slash": "/?", "Space": " " }
let layoutMap = layouts[config.layout];
let qwertyMap = layouts["qwerty"];
@@ -278,11 +298,11 @@ function emulateLayout(event){
for (let i = 0; i < qwertyMap.length; i++) {
const key = qwertyMap[i];
let keyIndex = key.indexOf(qwertyKey);
- if (keyIndex != -1){
+ if (keyIndex != -1) {
mapIndex = i;
}
}
- if (!shift && /[A-Z]/gm.test(event.key)){
+ if (!shift && /[A-Z]/gm.test(event.key)) {
shift = 1;
}
newKey = layoutMap[mapIndex][shift];
@@ -293,7 +313,7 @@ function emulateLayout(event){
return event;
}
-function punctuateWord(previousWord, currentWord, index, maxindex){
+function punctuateWord(previousWord, currentWord, index, maxindex) {
let word = currentWord;
@@ -306,7 +326,7 @@ function punctuateWord(previousWord, currentWord, index, maxindex){
let rand = Math.random();
if (rand <= 0.8) {
word += ".";
- } else if (rand > .8 && rand < .9){
+ } else if (rand > .8 && rand < .9) {
word += "?";
} else {
word += "!";
@@ -342,11 +362,11 @@ function addWord() {
let language = words[config.language];
let randomWord = language[Math.floor(Math.random() * language.length)];
previousWord = wordsList[wordsList.length - 1];
- previousWordStripped = previousWord.replace(/[.?!":\-,]/g,'').toLowerCase();
+ previousWordStripped = previousWord.replace(/[.?!":\-,]/g, '').toLowerCase();
while (previousWordStripped == randomWord || randomWord.indexOf(' ') > -1 || (!config.punctuation && randomWord == "I")) {
randomWord = language[Math.floor(Math.random() * language.length)];
}
- if (config.punctuation && config.mode != "custom"){
+ if (config.punctuation && config.mode != "custom") {
randomWord = punctuateWord(previousWord, randomWord, wordsList.length, 0)
}
wordsList.push(randomWord);
@@ -361,7 +381,7 @@ function addWord() {
function showWords() {
$("#words").empty();
- if (config.mode == "words" || config.mode == "custom") {
+ if (config.mode == "words" || config.mode == "custom" || config.mode == "quote") {
$("#words").css("height", "auto");
for (let i = 0; i < wordsList.length; i++) {
let w = "";
@@ -396,7 +416,7 @@ function updateActiveElement() {
activeWordTop = $("#words .word.active").position().top;
}
-function compareInput(wrdIndex,input,showError) {
+function compareInput(wrdIndex, input, showError) {
$($('#words .word')[wrdIndex]).empty();
let ret = "";
let currentWord = wordsList[wrdIndex];
@@ -405,22 +425,22 @@ function compareInput(wrdIndex,input,showError) {
ret += '' + currentWord[i] + " ";
// $(letterElems[i]).removeClass('incorrect').addClass('correct');
} else {
- if(config.difficulty == "master"){
- if(!resultVisible) showResult(true);
- if(!afkDetected){
+ if (config.difficulty == "master") {
+ if (!resultVisible) showResult(true);
+ if (!afkDetected) {
let testNow = Date.now();
let testSeconds = roundTo2((testNow - testStart) / 1000);
incompleteTestSeconds += testSeconds;
restartCount++;
}
}
- if(!showError){
+ if (!showError) {
if (currentWord[i] == undefined) {
// ret += '' + input[i] + " ";
} else {
ret += '' + currentWord[i] + " ";
}
- }else{
+ } else {
if (currentWord[i] == undefined) {
ret += '' + input[i] + " ";
} else {
@@ -438,73 +458,73 @@ function compareInput(wrdIndex,input,showError) {
if ((currentWord == input || (config.quickEnd && currentWord.length == input.length)) && wrdIndex == wordsList.length - 1) {
inputHistory.push(input);
currentInput = "";
- if(!resultVisible) showResult();
+ if (!resultVisible) showResult();
}
// liveWPM()
}
-function highlightBadWord(index,showError) {
- if(!showError) return;
+function highlightBadWord(index, showError) {
+ if (!showError) return;
$($("#words .word")[index]).addClass("error");
}
function showTimer() {
if (!config.showTimerBar) return;
- if(config.timerStyle === "bar"){
+ if (config.timerStyle === "bar") {
$("#timerWrapper").animate({
"opacity": 1
- },250);
- }else if(config.timerStyle === "text" && config.mode === "time"){
+ }, 250);
+ } else if (config.timerStyle === "text" && config.mode === "time") {
$("#timerNumber").animate({
"opacity": .25
- },250);
+ }, 250);
}
}
function hideTimer() {
- if(config.timerStyle === "bar"){
+ if (config.timerStyle === "bar") {
$("#timerWrapper").animate({
"opacity": 0
- },125);
- }else if(config.timerStyle === "text"){
+ }, 125);
+ } else if (config.timerStyle === "text") {
$("#timerNumber").animate({
"opacity": 0
- },125);
+ }, 125);
}
}
function restartTimer() {
- if(config.timerStyle === "bar"){
- if(config.mode === "time"){
+ if (config.timerStyle === "bar") {
+ if (config.mode === "time") {
$("#timer").stop(true, true).animate({
"width": "100vw"
- },0);
- }else if(config.mode === "words" || config.mode === "custom"){
+ }, 0);
+ } else if (config.mode === "words" || config.mode === "custom") {
$("#timer").stop(true, true).animate({
"width": "0vw"
- },0);
+ }, 0);
}
}
}
function updateTimer() {
- if(config.mode === "time"){
- if(config.timerStyle === "bar"){
+ if (config.mode === "time") {
+ if (config.timerStyle === "bar") {
let percent = 100 - (((time + 1) / config.time) * 100);
$("#timer").stop(true, true).animate({
"width": percent + "vw"
- },1000,"linear");
- }else if(config.timerStyle === "text"){
+ }, 1000, "linear");
+ } else if (config.timerStyle === "text") {
$("#timerNumber").html(config.time - time);
}
- }else if((config.mode === "words"|| config.mode === "custom") && config.timerStyle === "bar"){
- let percent = Math.floor(((currentWordIndex+1) / wordsList.length) * 100);
- $("#timer").stop(true, true).animate({
- "width": percent + "vw"
- },250);
+ } else if ((config.mode === "words" || config.mode === "custom" || config.mode === "quote") && config.timerStyle === "bar") {
+ let percent = Math.floor(((currentWordIndex + 1) / wordsList.length) * 100);
+ $("#timer").stop(true, true).animate({
+ "width": percent + "vw"
+ }, 250);
}
-
+
}
@@ -513,7 +533,7 @@ function hideCaret() {
}
function showCaret() {
- if($("#result").hasClass('hidden')){
+ if ($("#result").hasClass('hidden')) {
updateCaretPosition();
$("#caret").removeClass("hidden");
startCaretAnimation();
@@ -539,7 +559,7 @@ function updateCaretPosition() {
currentLetterIndex = 0;
}
let currentLetter = $($("#words .word.active letter")[currentLetterIndex]);
- if(currentLetter.length == 0) return;
+ if (currentLetter.length == 0) return;
let currentLetterPos = currentLetter.position();
let letterHeight = currentLetter.height();
@@ -582,10 +602,10 @@ function updateCaretPosition() {
}, duration)
let browserHeight = window.innerHeight;
- let middlePos = (browserHeight / 2) - $("#caret").outerHeight()/2;
+ let middlePos = (browserHeight / 2) - $("#caret").outerHeight() / 2;
let contentHeight = document.body.scrollHeight;
-
- if (newTop >= middlePos && contentHeight > browserHeight) {
+
+ if (newTop >= middlePos && contentHeight > browserHeight) {
window.scrollTo({
left: 0,
top: newTop - middlePos,
@@ -638,7 +658,7 @@ function countChars() {
}
}
}
- if(i < inputHistory.length-1){
+ if (i < inputHistory.length - 1) {
spaces++;
}
}
@@ -652,7 +672,7 @@ function countChars() {
}
}
-function roundTo2(num){
+function roundTo2(num) {
return Math.round((num + Number.EPSILON) * 100) / 100
}
@@ -665,7 +685,7 @@ function calculateStats() {
let testNow = Date.now();
let testSeconds = roundTo2((testNow - testStart) / 1000);
let wpm = roundTo2(((chars.correctWordChars + chars.spaces) * (60 / testSeconds)) / 5);
- let wpmraw = roundTo2(((chars.allCorrectChars + chars.spaces + chars.incorrectChars + chars.extraChars) * (60/testSeconds))/5);
+ let wpmraw = roundTo2(((chars.allCorrectChars + chars.spaces + chars.incorrectChars + chars.extraChars) * (60 / testSeconds)) / 5);
let acc = roundTo2((accuracyStats.correct / (accuracyStats.correct + accuracyStats.incorrect)) * 100);
return {
wpm: isNaN(wpm) ? 0 : wpm,
@@ -685,11 +705,11 @@ function hideCrown() {
function showCrown() {
$("#result .stats .wpm .crownWrapper").animate({
opacity: 1
- }, 250,"easeOutCubic");
+ }, 250, "easeOutCubic");
}
function showResult(difficultyFailed = false) {
- resultVisible=true;
+ resultVisible = true;
testEnd = Date.now();
testActive = false;
setFocus(false);
@@ -698,7 +718,7 @@ function showResult(difficultyFailed = false) {
hideTimer();
testInvalid = false;
let stats = calculateStats();
- if(stats === undefined){
+ if (stats === undefined) {
stats = {
wpm: 0,
wpmRaw: 0,
@@ -710,19 +730,19 @@ function showResult(difficultyFailed = false) {
}
}
clearIntervals();
- let testtime = roundedToFixed(stats.time,1);
+ let testtime = roundedToFixed(stats.time, 1);
$("#result .stats .wpm .bottom").text(Math.round(stats.wpm));
$("#result .stats .raw .bottom").text(Math.round(stats.wpmRaw));
$("#result .stats .acc .bottom").text(Math.floor(stats.acc) + "%");
$("#result .stats .key .bottom").text(stats.correctChars + stats.spaces + "/" + stats.incorrectChars);
- $("#result .stats .time .bottom").text(testtime+'s');
+ $("#result .stats .time .bottom").text(testtime + 's');
- setTimeout(function() {
- $("#resultExtraButtons").removeClass('hidden').css('opacity',0).animate({
+ setTimeout(function () {
+ $("#resultExtraButtons").removeClass('hidden').css('opacity', 0).animate({
opacity: 1
- },125);
+ }, 125);
}, 125);
-
+
$("#testModesNotice").css({
'opacity': 0,
// 'height': 0,
@@ -737,14 +757,14 @@ function showResult(difficultyFailed = false) {
mode2 = config.words;
// $("#result .stats .time").removeClass('hidden');
// $("#result .stats .time .bottom").text(roundedToFixed(stats.time,1)+'s');
- } else if (config.mode === "custom"){
+ } else if (config.mode === "custom") {
mode2 = "custom";
}
if (firebase.auth().currentUser != null) {
$("#result .loginTip").addClass('hidden');
- }else{
+ } else {
$("#result .loginTip").removeClass('hidden');
}
@@ -758,7 +778,7 @@ function showResult(difficultyFailed = false) {
} else if (config.mode == "words") {
testType += " " + config.words
}
- if(config.mode != "custom"){
+ if (config.mode != "custom") {
testType += "
" + config.language.replace('_', ' '); } if (config.punctuation) { @@ -769,7 +789,7 @@ function showResult(difficultyFailed = false) { } if (config.difficulty == "expert") { testType += "
expert"; - }else if(config.difficulty == "master"){ + } else if (config.difficulty == "master") { testType += "
master"; } @@ -777,46 +797,48 @@ function showResult(difficultyFailed = false) { let otherText = ""; - if(difficultyFailed){ + if (difficultyFailed) { otherText += "
failed" } - if(afkDetected){ + if (afkDetected) { otherText += "
afk detected" } - if(testInvalid){ + if (testInvalid) { otherText += "
invalid" } - if(sameWordset){ + if (sameWordset) { otherText += "
repeated" } - if(otherText == ""){ + if (otherText == "") { $("#result .stats .info").addClass('hidden'); - }else{ + } else { $("#result .stats .info").removeClass('hidden'); otherText = otherText.substring(4); - $("#result .stats .info .bottom").html(otherText); + $("#result .stats .info .bottom").html(otherText); } let tagsText = ""; - try{ + try { dbSnapshot.tags.forEach(tag => { - if(tag.active === true){ - tagsText += "
"+tag.name; - } + if (tag.active === true) { + tagsText += "
" + tag.name; + } }) - }catch(e){ - + } catch (e) { + } - if(tagsText == ""){ + if (tagsText == "") { $("#result .stats .tags").addClass('hidden'); - }else{ + } else { $("#result .stats .tags").removeClass('hidden'); tagsText = tagsText.substring(4); - $("#result .stats .tags .bottom").html(tagsText); + $("#result .stats .tags .bottom").html(tagsText); } + $("#result .stats .source .bottom").html(randomQuote.source); + let labels = []; for (let i = 1; i <= wpmHistory.length; i++) { labels.push(i.toString()); @@ -836,10 +858,10 @@ function showResult(difficultyFailed = false) { wpmOverTimeChart.data.labels = labels; - let rawWpmPerSecond = keypressPerSecond.map(f => Math.round((f/5)*60)); + let rawWpmPerSecond = keypressPerSecond.map(f => Math.round((f / 5) * 60)); + + rawWpmPerSecond = smooth(rawWpmPerSecond, 1); - rawWpmPerSecond = smooth(rawWpmPerSecond,1); - wpmOverTimeChart.data.datasets[0].borderColor = mainColor; wpmOverTimeChart.data.datasets[0].data = wpmHistory; @@ -850,36 +872,36 @@ function showResult(difficultyFailed = false) { wpmOverTimeChart.options.annotation.annotations[0].label.backgroundColor = subColor; wpmOverTimeChart.options.annotation.annotations[0].label.fontColor = bgColor; - let maxChartVal = Math.max(...[Math.max(...rawWpmPerSecond),Math.max(...wpmHistory)]); + let maxChartVal = Math.max(...[Math.max(...rawWpmPerSecond), Math.max(...wpmHistory)]); let errorsNoZero = []; - for(let i = 0; i < errorsPerSecond.length; i++){ - errorsNoZero.push({ - x: i+1, - y: errorsPerSecond[i] - }); + for (let i = 0; i < errorsPerSecond.length; i++) { + errorsNoZero.push({ + x: i + 1, + y: errorsPerSecond[i] + }); } wpmOverTimeChart.data.datasets[2].data = errorsNoZero; - if(difficultyFailed){ - showNotification("Test failed",2000); - }else if(afkDetected){ - showNotification("Test invalid - AFK detected",2000); - }else if(sameWordset){ - showNotification("Test invalid - repeated",2000); - }else{ + if (difficultyFailed) { + showNotification("Test failed", 2000); + } else if (afkDetected) { + showNotification("Test invalid - AFK detected", 2000); + } else if (sameWordset) { + showNotification("Test invalid - repeated", 2000); + } else { let activeTags = []; - try{ + try { dbSnapshot.tags.forEach(tag => { - if(tag.active === true){ + if (tag.active === true) { activeTags.push(tag.id); } }) - }catch(e){ - + } catch (e) { + } let completedEvent = { @@ -899,9 +921,10 @@ function showResult(difficultyFailed = false) { testDuration: testtime, blindMode: config.blindMode, theme: config.theme, - tags: activeTags + tags: activeTags, + source: config.mode == "quote" ? randomQuote.source : "N/A" }; - if(config.difficulty == "normal" || ((config.difficulty == "master" || config.difficulty == "expert") && !difficultyFailed)){ + if (config.difficulty == "normal" || ((config.difficulty == "master" || config.difficulty == "expert") && !difficultyFailed)) { // console.log(incompleteTestSeconds); // console.log(restartCount); restartCount = 0; @@ -915,60 +938,60 @@ function showResult(difficultyFailed = false) { accountIconLoading(true); let localPb = false; let dontShowCrown = false; - db_getLocalPB(config.mode,mode2,config.punctuation,config.language,config.difficulty).then(lpb => { - db_getUserHighestWpm(config.mode,mode2,config.punctuation,config.language,config.difficulty).then(highestwpm => { - if(lpb < stats.wpm && stats.wpm < highestwpm){ + db_getLocalPB(config.mode, mode2, config.punctuation, config.language, config.difficulty).then(lpb => { + db_getUserHighestWpm(config.mode, mode2, config.punctuation, config.language, config.difficulty).then(highestwpm => { + if (lpb < stats.wpm && stats.wpm < highestwpm) { dontShowCrown = true; } - if(lpb < stats.wpm){ + if (lpb < stats.wpm) { //new pb based on local - if(!dontShowCrown){ + if (!dontShowCrown) { hideCrown(); showCrown(); } localPb = true; } - if(highestwpm > 0){ + if (highestwpm > 0) { wpmOverTimeChart.options.annotation.annotations[0].value = highestwpm; - wpmOverTimeChart.options.annotation.annotations[0].label.content = "PB: "+ highestwpm; - if(maxChartVal >= highestwpm - 15 && maxChartVal <= highestwpm + 15){ + wpmOverTimeChart.options.annotation.annotations[0].label.content = "PB: " + highestwpm; + if (maxChartVal >= highestwpm - 15 && maxChartVal <= highestwpm + 15) { maxChartVal = highestwpm + 15; } wpmOverTimeChart.options.scales.yAxes[0].ticks.max = Math.round(maxChartVal); wpmOverTimeChart.options.scales.yAxes[1].ticks.max = Math.round(maxChartVal); wpmOverTimeChart.update({ duration: 0 }); } - testCompleted({uid:firebase.auth().currentUser.uid,obj:completedEvent}).then(e => { + testCompleted({ uid: firebase.auth().currentUser.uid, obj: completedEvent }).then(e => { accountIconLoading(false); - if(e.data === -1){ - showNotification('Could not save result',3000); - }else if(e.data === 1 || e.data === 2){ + if (e.data === -1) { + showNotification('Could not save result', 3000); + } else if (e.data === 1 || e.data === 2) { dbSnapshot.results.unshift(completedEvent); - try{ + try { firebase.analytics().logEvent('testCompleted', completedEvent); - }catch(e){ + } catch (e) { console.log("Analytics unavailable"); } - if(e.data === 2){ + if (e.data === 2) { //new pb - if(!localPb){ - showNotification('Local PB data is out of sync! Resyncing.',5000); + if (!localPb) { + showNotification('Local PB data is out of sync! Resyncing.', 5000); } - db_saveLocalPB(config.mode,mode2,config.punctuation,config.language,config.difficulty,stats.wpm); - }else{ - if(localPb){ - showNotification('Local PB data is out of sync! Refresh the page to resync it or contact Miodec on Discord.',15000); + db_saveLocalPB(config.mode, mode2, config.punctuation, config.language, config.difficulty, stats.wpm); + } else { + if (localPb) { + showNotification('Local PB data is out of sync! Refresh the page to resync it or contact Miodec on Discord.', 15000); } } - + } }) }) }) } else { - try{ + try { firebase.analytics().logEvent('testCompletedNoLogin', completedEvent); - }catch(e){ + } catch (e) { console.log("Analytics unavailable"); } @@ -977,9 +1000,9 @@ function showResult(difficultyFailed = false) { } else { showNotification("Test invalid", 3000); testInvalid = true; - try{ + try { firebase.analytics().logEvent('testCompletedInvalid', completedEvent); - }catch(e){ + } catch (e) { console.log("Analytics unavailable"); } } @@ -989,27 +1012,27 @@ function showResult(difficultyFailed = false) { wpmOverTimeChart.options.scales.yAxes[1].ticks.max = maxChartVal; wpmOverTimeChart.update({ duration: 0 }); - swapElements($("#words"),$("#result"),250, () => { + swapElements($("#words"), $("#result"), 250, () => { - if(config.blindMode){ - $.each($('#words .word'),(i,word)=>{ + if (config.blindMode) { + $.each($('#words .word'), (i, word) => { let input = inputHistory[i]; - if(input == undefined) input = currentInput; - compareInput(i,input,true); - if(inputHistory[i] != wordsList[i]){ - highlightBadWord(i,true); + if (input == undefined) input = currentInput; + compareInput(i, input, true); + if (inputHistory[i] != wordsList[i]) { + highlightBadWord(i, true); } }) } let remove = false; - $.each($('#words .word'),(i,obj)=>{ - if(remove){ + $.each($('#words .word'), (i, obj) => { + if (remove) { $(obj).remove(); - }else{ + } else { $(obj).removeClass('hidden'); - if($(obj).hasClass('active')) remove = true; + if ($(obj).hasClass('active')) remove = true; } }); }); @@ -1034,41 +1057,41 @@ function restartTest(withSameWordset = false) { hideTimer(); // restartTimer(); let el = null; - if(resultVisible){ + if (resultVisible) { //results are being displayed el = $("#result"); - }else{ + } else { //words are being displayed el = $("#words"); } - if(resultVisible){ + if (resultVisible) { $("#words").stop(true, true).animate({ opacity: 0 }, 125); - $("#wordsTitle").stop(true,true).animate({ + $("#wordsTitle").stop(true, true).animate({ opacity: 0 - }, 125, ()=>{ + }, 125, () => { $("#wordsTitle").slideUp(0); }); - $("#resultExtraButtons").stop(true,true).animate({ + $("#resultExtraButtons").stop(true, true).animate({ opacity: 0 - }, 125, ()=>{ + }, 125, () => { $("#resultExtraButtons").addClass('hidden'); }); } resultVisible = false; - - - // .css("transition", "1s linear"); - + + + // .css("transition", "1s linear"); + el.stop(true, true).animate({ opacity: 0 }, 125, () => { - if(!withSameWordset){ + if (!withSameWordset) { sameWordset = false; initWords(); - }else{ + } else { sameWordset = true; testActive = false; currentWordIndex = 0; @@ -1136,8 +1159,8 @@ function changeCustomText() { customText = customText.replace(/[\n\r\t ]/gm, ' '); customText = customText.replace(/ +/gm, ' '); customText = customText.split(' '); - if(customText.length >= 10000){ - showNotification('Custom text cannot be longer than 10000 words.',4000); + if (customText.length >= 10000) { + showNotification('Custom text cannot be longer than 10000 words.', 4000); changeMode('time'); customText = "The quick brown fox jumped over the lazy dog".split(' '); } @@ -1146,7 +1169,7 @@ function changeCustomText() { function changePage(page) { - if(pageTransition){ + if (pageTransition) { return; } restartTest(); @@ -1168,16 +1191,16 @@ function changePage(page) { restartTest(); } else if (page == "about") { pageTransition = true; - swapElements(activePage, $(".page.pageAbout"), 250, ()=>{ + swapElements(activePage, $(".page.pageAbout"), 250, () => { pageTransition = false; history.pushState('about', null, 'about'); $(".page.pageAbout").addClass('active'); }); hideTestConfig(); hideSignOutButton(); -} else if (page == "settings") { + } else if (page == "settings") { pageTransition = true; - swapElements(activePage, $(".page.pageSettings"), 250, ()=>{ + swapElements(activePage, $(".page.pageSettings"), 250, () => { pageTransition = false; history.pushState('settings', null, 'settings'); $(".page.pageSettings").addClass('active'); @@ -1190,7 +1213,7 @@ function changePage(page) { changePage("login"); } else { pageTransition = true; - swapElements(activePage, $(".page.pageAccount"), 250, () =>{ + swapElements(activePage, $(".page.pageAccount"), 250, () => { pageTransition = false; history.pushState('account', null, 'account'); $(".page.pageAccount").addClass('active'); @@ -1204,7 +1227,7 @@ function changePage(page) { changePage('account'); } else { pageTransition = true; - swapElements(activePage, $(".page.pageLogin"), 250, ()=>{ + swapElements(activePage, $(".page.pageLogin"), 250, () => { pageTransition = false; history.pushState('login', null, 'login'); $(".page.pageLogin").addClass('active'); @@ -1215,7 +1238,7 @@ function changePage(page) { } } -function changeMode(mode,nosave) { +function changeMode(mode, nosave) { config.mode = mode; $("#top .config .mode .text-button").removeClass("active"); $("#top .config .mode .text-button[mode='" + mode + "']").addClass("active"); @@ -1234,8 +1257,15 @@ function changeMode(mode,nosave) { $("#top .config .time").addClass("hidden"); $("#top .config .customText").removeClass("hidden"); $("#top .config .punctuationMode").addClass("hidden"); + } else if (config.mode == "quote") { + $("#top .config .wordCount").addClass("hidden"); + $("#top .config .time").addClass("hidden"); + $("#top .config .customText").addClass("hidden"); + $("#top .config .punctuationMode").addClass("hidden"); + $("#result .stats .source").removeClass("hidden"); + changeLanguage("english"); } - if(!nosave) saveConfigToCookie(); + if (!nosave) saveConfigToCookie(); } function liveWPM() { @@ -1256,7 +1286,7 @@ function liveWPM() { function liveRaw() { let chars = 0; for (let i = 0; i < inputHistory.length; i++) { - chars += inputHistory[i].length + 1; + chars += inputHistory[i].length + 1; } let testNow = Date.now(); let testSeconds = (testNow - testStart) / 1000; @@ -1281,7 +1311,7 @@ function hideLiveWpm() { $("#liveWpm").css('opacity', 0); } -function swapElements(el1, el2, totalDuration, callback = function() { return; }) { +function swapElements(el1, el2, totalDuration, callback = function () { return; }) { if ( (el1.hasClass('hidden') && !el2.hasClass('hidden')) || (!el1.hasClass('hidden') && el2.hasClass('hidden')) @@ -1309,7 +1339,7 @@ function swapElements(el1, el2, totalDuration, callback = function() { return; } }, totalDuration, () => { callback(); }); - }else{ + } else { callback(); } @@ -1335,22 +1365,22 @@ function updateAccountLoginButton() { function accountIconLoading(truefalse) { - if(truefalse){ + if (truefalse) { $("#top #menu .account .icon").html(''); - }else{ + } else { $("#top #menu .account .icon").html(''); } } -function toggleResultWordsDisplay(){ - if(resultVisible){ - if($("#words").stop(true,true).hasClass('hidden')){ +function toggleResultWordsDisplay() { + if (resultVisible) { + if ($("#words").stop(true, true).hasClass('hidden')) { //show - $("#wordsTitle").css('opacity',1).removeClass('hidden').slideDown(250); + $("#wordsTitle").css('opacity', 1).removeClass('hidden').slideDown(250); - let newHeight = $("#words").removeClass('hidden').css('height','auto').outerHeight(); + let newHeight = $("#words").removeClass('hidden').css('height', 'auto').outerHeight(); $("#words").css({ height: 0, @@ -1359,7 +1389,7 @@ function toggleResultWordsDisplay(){ height: newHeight, opacity: 1 }, 250); - }else{ + } else { //hide $("#wordsTitle").slideUp(250); @@ -1372,101 +1402,101 @@ function toggleResultWordsDisplay(){ }).animate({ height: 0, opacity: 0 - }, 250, ()=>{ + }, 250, () => { $("#words").addClass('hidden'); }); } } } -function flipTestColors(tf){ - if(tf){ +function flipTestColors(tf) { + if (tf) { $("#words").addClass('flipped'); - }else{ + } else { $("#words").removeClass('flipped'); } } -function applyColorfulMode(tc){ - if(tc){ +function applyColorfulMode(tc) { + if (tc) { $("#words").addClass('colorfulMode'); - }else{ + } else { $("#words").removeClass('colorfulMode'); } } -function showEditTags(action,id,name){ - if(action === "add"){ - $("#tagsWrapper #tagsEdit").attr('action','add'); +function showEditTags(action, id, name) { + if (action === "add") { + $("#tagsWrapper #tagsEdit").attr('action', 'add'); $("#tagsWrapper #tagsEdit .title").html('Add new tag'); $("#tagsWrapper #tagsEdit .button").html(``); $("#tagsWrapper #tagsEdit input").val(''); $("#tagsWrapper #tagsEdit input").removeClass('hidden'); - }else if(action === "edit"){ - $("#tagsWrapper #tagsEdit").attr('action','edit'); - $("#tagsWrapper #tagsEdit").attr('tagid',id); + } else if (action === "edit") { + $("#tagsWrapper #tagsEdit").attr('action', 'edit'); + $("#tagsWrapper #tagsEdit").attr('tagid', id); $("#tagsWrapper #tagsEdit .title").html('Edit tag name'); $("#tagsWrapper #tagsEdit .button").html(``); $("#tagsWrapper #tagsEdit input").val(name); $("#tagsWrapper #tagsEdit input").removeClass('hidden'); - }else if(action === "remove"){ - $("#tagsWrapper #tagsEdit").attr('action','remove'); - $("#tagsWrapper #tagsEdit").attr('tagid',id); - $("#tagsWrapper #tagsEdit .title").html('Remove tag '+name); + } else if (action === "remove") { + $("#tagsWrapper #tagsEdit").attr('action', 'remove'); + $("#tagsWrapper #tagsEdit").attr('tagid', id); + $("#tagsWrapper #tagsEdit .title").html('Remove tag ' + name); $("#tagsWrapper #tagsEdit .button").html(``); $("#tagsWrapper #tagsEdit input").addClass('hidden'); } - + if ($("#tagsWrapper").hasClass("hidden")) { $("#tagsWrapper") - .stop(true, true) - .css("opacity", 0) - .removeClass("hidden") - .animate({opacity: 1},100,e=>{ - $("#tagsWrapper #tagsEdit input").focus(); - }); - } + .stop(true, true) + .css("opacity", 0) + .removeClass("hidden") + .animate({ opacity: 1 }, 100, e => { + $("#tagsWrapper #tagsEdit input").focus(); + }); + } } -function hideEditTags(){ +function hideEditTags() { if (!$("#tagsWrapper").hasClass("hidden")) { - $("#tagsWrapper #tagsEdit").attr('action',''); - $("#tagsWrapper #tagsEdit").attr('tagid',''); + $("#tagsWrapper #tagsEdit").attr('action', ''); + $("#tagsWrapper #tagsEdit").attr('tagid', ''); $("#tagsWrapper") - .stop(true, true) - .css("opacity", 1) - .animate( + .stop(true, true) + .css("opacity", 1) + .animate( { - opacity: 0 - },100,e => { + opacity: 0 + }, 100, e => { $("#tagsWrapper").addClass('hidden'); }); - } + } } -function showBackgroundLoader(){ - $("#backgroundLoader").stop(true,true).fadeIn(125); +function showBackgroundLoader() { + $("#backgroundLoader").stop(true, true).fadeIn(125); } -function hideBackgroundLoader(){ - $("#backgroundLoader").stop(true,true).fadeOut(125); +function hideBackgroundLoader() { + $("#backgroundLoader").stop(true, true).fadeOut(125); } -function updateTestModesNotice(){ +function updateTestModesNotice() { let anim = false; - if($(".pageTest #testModesNotice").text() === "") anim = true; + if ($(".pageTest #testModesNotice").text() === "") anim = true; $(".pageTest #testModesNotice").empty(); - if(config.difficulty === "expert"){ + if (config.difficulty === "expert") { $(".pageTest #testModesNotice").append(`
`);
}
-$(document).on('mouseenter','#words .word',e =>{
- if(resultVisible){
+$(document).on('mouseenter', '#words .word', e => {
+ if (resultVisible) {
let input = $(e.currentTarget).attr('input');
- if(input != undefined) $(e.currentTarget).append(`" + config.language.replace('_', ' '); } if (config.punctuation) { @@ -769,7 +789,7 @@ function showResult(difficultyFailed = false) { } if (config.difficulty == "expert") { testType += "
expert"; - }else if(config.difficulty == "master"){ + } else if (config.difficulty == "master") { testType += "
master"; } @@ -777,46 +797,48 @@ function showResult(difficultyFailed = false) { let otherText = ""; - if(difficultyFailed){ + if (difficultyFailed) { otherText += "
failed" } - if(afkDetected){ + if (afkDetected) { otherText += "
afk detected" } - if(testInvalid){ + if (testInvalid) { otherText += "
invalid" } - if(sameWordset){ + if (sameWordset) { otherText += "
repeated" } - if(otherText == ""){ + if (otherText == "") { $("#result .stats .info").addClass('hidden'); - }else{ + } else { $("#result .stats .info").removeClass('hidden'); otherText = otherText.substring(4); - $("#result .stats .info .bottom").html(otherText); + $("#result .stats .info .bottom").html(otherText); } let tagsText = ""; - try{ + try { dbSnapshot.tags.forEach(tag => { - if(tag.active === true){ - tagsText += "
"+tag.name; - } + if (tag.active === true) { + tagsText += "
" + tag.name; + } }) - }catch(e){ - + } catch (e) { + } - if(tagsText == ""){ + if (tagsText == "") { $("#result .stats .tags").addClass('hidden'); - }else{ + } else { $("#result .stats .tags").removeClass('hidden'); tagsText = tagsText.substring(4); - $("#result .stats .tags .bottom").html(tagsText); + $("#result .stats .tags .bottom").html(tagsText); } + $("#result .stats .source .bottom").html(randomQuote.source); + let labels = []; for (let i = 1; i <= wpmHistory.length; i++) { labels.push(i.toString()); @@ -836,10 +858,10 @@ function showResult(difficultyFailed = false) { wpmOverTimeChart.data.labels = labels; - let rawWpmPerSecond = keypressPerSecond.map(f => Math.round((f/5)*60)); + let rawWpmPerSecond = keypressPerSecond.map(f => Math.round((f / 5) * 60)); + + rawWpmPerSecond = smooth(rawWpmPerSecond, 1); - rawWpmPerSecond = smooth(rawWpmPerSecond,1); - wpmOverTimeChart.data.datasets[0].borderColor = mainColor; wpmOverTimeChart.data.datasets[0].data = wpmHistory; @@ -850,36 +872,36 @@ function showResult(difficultyFailed = false) { wpmOverTimeChart.options.annotation.annotations[0].label.backgroundColor = subColor; wpmOverTimeChart.options.annotation.annotations[0].label.fontColor = bgColor; - let maxChartVal = Math.max(...[Math.max(...rawWpmPerSecond),Math.max(...wpmHistory)]); + let maxChartVal = Math.max(...[Math.max(...rawWpmPerSecond), Math.max(...wpmHistory)]); let errorsNoZero = []; - for(let i = 0; i < errorsPerSecond.length; i++){ - errorsNoZero.push({ - x: i+1, - y: errorsPerSecond[i] - }); + for (let i = 0; i < errorsPerSecond.length; i++) { + errorsNoZero.push({ + x: i + 1, + y: errorsPerSecond[i] + }); } wpmOverTimeChart.data.datasets[2].data = errorsNoZero; - if(difficultyFailed){ - showNotification("Test failed",2000); - }else if(afkDetected){ - showNotification("Test invalid - AFK detected",2000); - }else if(sameWordset){ - showNotification("Test invalid - repeated",2000); - }else{ + if (difficultyFailed) { + showNotification("Test failed", 2000); + } else if (afkDetected) { + showNotification("Test invalid - AFK detected", 2000); + } else if (sameWordset) { + showNotification("Test invalid - repeated", 2000); + } else { let activeTags = []; - try{ + try { dbSnapshot.tags.forEach(tag => { - if(tag.active === true){ + if (tag.active === true) { activeTags.push(tag.id); } }) - }catch(e){ - + } catch (e) { + } let completedEvent = { @@ -899,9 +921,10 @@ function showResult(difficultyFailed = false) { testDuration: testtime, blindMode: config.blindMode, theme: config.theme, - tags: activeTags + tags: activeTags, + source: config.mode == "quote" ? randomQuote.source : "N/A" }; - if(config.difficulty == "normal" || ((config.difficulty == "master" || config.difficulty == "expert") && !difficultyFailed)){ + if (config.difficulty == "normal" || ((config.difficulty == "master" || config.difficulty == "expert") && !difficultyFailed)) { // console.log(incompleteTestSeconds); // console.log(restartCount); restartCount = 0; @@ -915,60 +938,60 @@ function showResult(difficultyFailed = false) { accountIconLoading(true); let localPb = false; let dontShowCrown = false; - db_getLocalPB(config.mode,mode2,config.punctuation,config.language,config.difficulty).then(lpb => { - db_getUserHighestWpm(config.mode,mode2,config.punctuation,config.language,config.difficulty).then(highestwpm => { - if(lpb < stats.wpm && stats.wpm < highestwpm){ + db_getLocalPB(config.mode, mode2, config.punctuation, config.language, config.difficulty).then(lpb => { + db_getUserHighestWpm(config.mode, mode2, config.punctuation, config.language, config.difficulty).then(highestwpm => { + if (lpb < stats.wpm && stats.wpm < highestwpm) { dontShowCrown = true; } - if(lpb < stats.wpm){ + if (lpb < stats.wpm) { //new pb based on local - if(!dontShowCrown){ + if (!dontShowCrown) { hideCrown(); showCrown(); } localPb = true; } - if(highestwpm > 0){ + if (highestwpm > 0) { wpmOverTimeChart.options.annotation.annotations[0].value = highestwpm; - wpmOverTimeChart.options.annotation.annotations[0].label.content = "PB: "+ highestwpm; - if(maxChartVal >= highestwpm - 15 && maxChartVal <= highestwpm + 15){ + wpmOverTimeChart.options.annotation.annotations[0].label.content = "PB: " + highestwpm; + if (maxChartVal >= highestwpm - 15 && maxChartVal <= highestwpm + 15) { maxChartVal = highestwpm + 15; } wpmOverTimeChart.options.scales.yAxes[0].ticks.max = Math.round(maxChartVal); wpmOverTimeChart.options.scales.yAxes[1].ticks.max = Math.round(maxChartVal); wpmOverTimeChart.update({ duration: 0 }); } - testCompleted({uid:firebase.auth().currentUser.uid,obj:completedEvent}).then(e => { + testCompleted({ uid: firebase.auth().currentUser.uid, obj: completedEvent }).then(e => { accountIconLoading(false); - if(e.data === -1){ - showNotification('Could not save result',3000); - }else if(e.data === 1 || e.data === 2){ + if (e.data === -1) { + showNotification('Could not save result', 3000); + } else if (e.data === 1 || e.data === 2) { dbSnapshot.results.unshift(completedEvent); - try{ + try { firebase.analytics().logEvent('testCompleted', completedEvent); - }catch(e){ + } catch (e) { console.log("Analytics unavailable"); } - if(e.data === 2){ + if (e.data === 2) { //new pb - if(!localPb){ - showNotification('Local PB data is out of sync! Resyncing.',5000); + if (!localPb) { + showNotification('Local PB data is out of sync! Resyncing.', 5000); } - db_saveLocalPB(config.mode,mode2,config.punctuation,config.language,config.difficulty,stats.wpm); - }else{ - if(localPb){ - showNotification('Local PB data is out of sync! Refresh the page to resync it or contact Miodec on Discord.',15000); + db_saveLocalPB(config.mode, mode2, config.punctuation, config.language, config.difficulty, stats.wpm); + } else { + if (localPb) { + showNotification('Local PB data is out of sync! Refresh the page to resync it or contact Miodec on Discord.', 15000); } } - + } }) }) }) } else { - try{ + try { firebase.analytics().logEvent('testCompletedNoLogin', completedEvent); - }catch(e){ + } catch (e) { console.log("Analytics unavailable"); } @@ -977,9 +1000,9 @@ function showResult(difficultyFailed = false) { } else { showNotification("Test invalid", 3000); testInvalid = true; - try{ + try { firebase.analytics().logEvent('testCompletedInvalid', completedEvent); - }catch(e){ + } catch (e) { console.log("Analytics unavailable"); } } @@ -989,27 +1012,27 @@ function showResult(difficultyFailed = false) { wpmOverTimeChart.options.scales.yAxes[1].ticks.max = maxChartVal; wpmOverTimeChart.update({ duration: 0 }); - swapElements($("#words"),$("#result"),250, () => { + swapElements($("#words"), $("#result"), 250, () => { - if(config.blindMode){ - $.each($('#words .word'),(i,word)=>{ + if (config.blindMode) { + $.each($('#words .word'), (i, word) => { let input = inputHistory[i]; - if(input == undefined) input = currentInput; - compareInput(i,input,true); - if(inputHistory[i] != wordsList[i]){ - highlightBadWord(i,true); + if (input == undefined) input = currentInput; + compareInput(i, input, true); + if (inputHistory[i] != wordsList[i]) { + highlightBadWord(i, true); } }) } let remove = false; - $.each($('#words .word'),(i,obj)=>{ - if(remove){ + $.each($('#words .word'), (i, obj) => { + if (remove) { $(obj).remove(); - }else{ + } else { $(obj).removeClass('hidden'); - if($(obj).hasClass('active')) remove = true; + if ($(obj).hasClass('active')) remove = true; } }); }); @@ -1034,41 +1057,41 @@ function restartTest(withSameWordset = false) { hideTimer(); // restartTimer(); let el = null; - if(resultVisible){ + if (resultVisible) { //results are being displayed el = $("#result"); - }else{ + } else { //words are being displayed el = $("#words"); } - if(resultVisible){ + if (resultVisible) { $("#words").stop(true, true).animate({ opacity: 0 }, 125); - $("#wordsTitle").stop(true,true).animate({ + $("#wordsTitle").stop(true, true).animate({ opacity: 0 - }, 125, ()=>{ + }, 125, () => { $("#wordsTitle").slideUp(0); }); - $("#resultExtraButtons").stop(true,true).animate({ + $("#resultExtraButtons").stop(true, true).animate({ opacity: 0 - }, 125, ()=>{ + }, 125, () => { $("#resultExtraButtons").addClass('hidden'); }); } resultVisible = false; - - - // .css("transition", "1s linear"); - + + + // .css("transition", "1s linear"); + el.stop(true, true).animate({ opacity: 0 }, 125, () => { - if(!withSameWordset){ + if (!withSameWordset) { sameWordset = false; initWords(); - }else{ + } else { sameWordset = true; testActive = false; currentWordIndex = 0; @@ -1136,8 +1159,8 @@ function changeCustomText() { customText = customText.replace(/[\n\r\t ]/gm, ' '); customText = customText.replace(/ +/gm, ' '); customText = customText.split(' '); - if(customText.length >= 10000){ - showNotification('Custom text cannot be longer than 10000 words.',4000); + if (customText.length >= 10000) { + showNotification('Custom text cannot be longer than 10000 words.', 4000); changeMode('time'); customText = "The quick brown fox jumped over the lazy dog".split(' '); } @@ -1146,7 +1169,7 @@ function changeCustomText() { function changePage(page) { - if(pageTransition){ + if (pageTransition) { return; } restartTest(); @@ -1168,16 +1191,16 @@ function changePage(page) { restartTest(); } else if (page == "about") { pageTransition = true; - swapElements(activePage, $(".page.pageAbout"), 250, ()=>{ + swapElements(activePage, $(".page.pageAbout"), 250, () => { pageTransition = false; history.pushState('about', null, 'about'); $(".page.pageAbout").addClass('active'); }); hideTestConfig(); hideSignOutButton(); -} else if (page == "settings") { + } else if (page == "settings") { pageTransition = true; - swapElements(activePage, $(".page.pageSettings"), 250, ()=>{ + swapElements(activePage, $(".page.pageSettings"), 250, () => { pageTransition = false; history.pushState('settings', null, 'settings'); $(".page.pageSettings").addClass('active'); @@ -1190,7 +1213,7 @@ function changePage(page) { changePage("login"); } else { pageTransition = true; - swapElements(activePage, $(".page.pageAccount"), 250, () =>{ + swapElements(activePage, $(".page.pageAccount"), 250, () => { pageTransition = false; history.pushState('account', null, 'account'); $(".page.pageAccount").addClass('active'); @@ -1204,7 +1227,7 @@ function changePage(page) { changePage('account'); } else { pageTransition = true; - swapElements(activePage, $(".page.pageLogin"), 250, ()=>{ + swapElements(activePage, $(".page.pageLogin"), 250, () => { pageTransition = false; history.pushState('login', null, 'login'); $(".page.pageLogin").addClass('active'); @@ -1215,7 +1238,7 @@ function changePage(page) { } } -function changeMode(mode,nosave) { +function changeMode(mode, nosave) { config.mode = mode; $("#top .config .mode .text-button").removeClass("active"); $("#top .config .mode .text-button[mode='" + mode + "']").addClass("active"); @@ -1234,8 +1257,15 @@ function changeMode(mode,nosave) { $("#top .config .time").addClass("hidden"); $("#top .config .customText").removeClass("hidden"); $("#top .config .punctuationMode").addClass("hidden"); + } else if (config.mode == "quote") { + $("#top .config .wordCount").addClass("hidden"); + $("#top .config .time").addClass("hidden"); + $("#top .config .customText").addClass("hidden"); + $("#top .config .punctuationMode").addClass("hidden"); + $("#result .stats .source").removeClass("hidden"); + changeLanguage("english"); } - if(!nosave) saveConfigToCookie(); + if (!nosave) saveConfigToCookie(); } function liveWPM() { @@ -1256,7 +1286,7 @@ function liveWPM() { function liveRaw() { let chars = 0; for (let i = 0; i < inputHistory.length; i++) { - chars += inputHistory[i].length + 1; + chars += inputHistory[i].length + 1; } let testNow = Date.now(); let testSeconds = (testNow - testStart) / 1000; @@ -1281,7 +1311,7 @@ function hideLiveWpm() { $("#liveWpm").css('opacity', 0); } -function swapElements(el1, el2, totalDuration, callback = function() { return; }) { +function swapElements(el1, el2, totalDuration, callback = function () { return; }) { if ( (el1.hasClass('hidden') && !el2.hasClass('hidden')) || (!el1.hasClass('hidden') && el2.hasClass('hidden')) @@ -1309,7 +1339,7 @@ function swapElements(el1, el2, totalDuration, callback = function() { return; } }, totalDuration, () => { callback(); }); - }else{ + } else { callback(); } @@ -1335,22 +1365,22 @@ function updateAccountLoginButton() { function accountIconLoading(truefalse) { - if(truefalse){ + if (truefalse) { $("#top #menu .account .icon").html(''); - }else{ + } else { $("#top #menu .account .icon").html(''); } } -function toggleResultWordsDisplay(){ - if(resultVisible){ - if($("#words").stop(true,true).hasClass('hidden')){ +function toggleResultWordsDisplay() { + if (resultVisible) { + if ($("#words").stop(true, true).hasClass('hidden')) { //show - $("#wordsTitle").css('opacity',1).removeClass('hidden').slideDown(250); + $("#wordsTitle").css('opacity', 1).removeClass('hidden').slideDown(250); - let newHeight = $("#words").removeClass('hidden').css('height','auto').outerHeight(); + let newHeight = $("#words").removeClass('hidden').css('height', 'auto').outerHeight(); $("#words").css({ height: 0, @@ -1359,7 +1389,7 @@ function toggleResultWordsDisplay(){ height: newHeight, opacity: 1 }, 250); - }else{ + } else { //hide $("#wordsTitle").slideUp(250); @@ -1372,101 +1402,101 @@ function toggleResultWordsDisplay(){ }).animate({ height: 0, opacity: 0 - }, 250, ()=>{ + }, 250, () => { $("#words").addClass('hidden'); }); } } } -function flipTestColors(tf){ - if(tf){ +function flipTestColors(tf) { + if (tf) { $("#words").addClass('flipped'); - }else{ + } else { $("#words").removeClass('flipped'); } } -function applyColorfulMode(tc){ - if(tc){ +function applyColorfulMode(tc) { + if (tc) { $("#words").addClass('colorfulMode'); - }else{ + } else { $("#words").removeClass('colorfulMode'); } } -function showEditTags(action,id,name){ - if(action === "add"){ - $("#tagsWrapper #tagsEdit").attr('action','add'); +function showEditTags(action, id, name) { + if (action === "add") { + $("#tagsWrapper #tagsEdit").attr('action', 'add'); $("#tagsWrapper #tagsEdit .title").html('Add new tag'); $("#tagsWrapper #tagsEdit .button").html(``); $("#tagsWrapper #tagsEdit input").val(''); $("#tagsWrapper #tagsEdit input").removeClass('hidden'); - }else if(action === "edit"){ - $("#tagsWrapper #tagsEdit").attr('action','edit'); - $("#tagsWrapper #tagsEdit").attr('tagid',id); + } else if (action === "edit") { + $("#tagsWrapper #tagsEdit").attr('action', 'edit'); + $("#tagsWrapper #tagsEdit").attr('tagid', id); $("#tagsWrapper #tagsEdit .title").html('Edit tag name'); $("#tagsWrapper #tagsEdit .button").html(``); $("#tagsWrapper #tagsEdit input").val(name); $("#tagsWrapper #tagsEdit input").removeClass('hidden'); - }else if(action === "remove"){ - $("#tagsWrapper #tagsEdit").attr('action','remove'); - $("#tagsWrapper #tagsEdit").attr('tagid',id); - $("#tagsWrapper #tagsEdit .title").html('Remove tag '+name); + } else if (action === "remove") { + $("#tagsWrapper #tagsEdit").attr('action', 'remove'); + $("#tagsWrapper #tagsEdit").attr('tagid', id); + $("#tagsWrapper #tagsEdit .title").html('Remove tag ' + name); $("#tagsWrapper #tagsEdit .button").html(``); $("#tagsWrapper #tagsEdit input").addClass('hidden'); } - + if ($("#tagsWrapper").hasClass("hidden")) { $("#tagsWrapper") - .stop(true, true) - .css("opacity", 0) - .removeClass("hidden") - .animate({opacity: 1},100,e=>{ - $("#tagsWrapper #tagsEdit input").focus(); - }); - } + .stop(true, true) + .css("opacity", 0) + .removeClass("hidden") + .animate({ opacity: 1 }, 100, e => { + $("#tagsWrapper #tagsEdit input").focus(); + }); + } } -function hideEditTags(){ +function hideEditTags() { if (!$("#tagsWrapper").hasClass("hidden")) { - $("#tagsWrapper #tagsEdit").attr('action',''); - $("#tagsWrapper #tagsEdit").attr('tagid',''); + $("#tagsWrapper #tagsEdit").attr('action', ''); + $("#tagsWrapper #tagsEdit").attr('tagid', ''); $("#tagsWrapper") - .stop(true, true) - .css("opacity", 1) - .animate( + .stop(true, true) + .css("opacity", 1) + .animate( { - opacity: 0 - },100,e => { + opacity: 0 + }, 100, e => { $("#tagsWrapper").addClass('hidden'); }); - } + } } -function showBackgroundLoader(){ - $("#backgroundLoader").stop(true,true).fadeIn(125); +function showBackgroundLoader() { + $("#backgroundLoader").stop(true, true).fadeIn(125); } -function hideBackgroundLoader(){ - $("#backgroundLoader").stop(true,true).fadeOut(125); +function hideBackgroundLoader() { + $("#backgroundLoader").stop(true, true).fadeOut(125); } -function updateTestModesNotice(){ +function updateTestModesNotice() { let anim = false; - if($(".pageTest #testModesNotice").text() === "") anim = true; + if ($(".pageTest #testModesNotice").text() === "") anim = true; $(".pageTest #testModesNotice").empty(); - if(config.difficulty === "expert"){ + if (config.difficulty === "expert") { $(".pageTest #testModesNotice").append(`
expert
`);
- }else if(config.difficulty === "master"){
+ } else if (config.difficulty === "master") {
$(".pageTest #testModesNotice").append(`master
`);
}
-
- if(config.blindMode){
+
+ if (config.blindMode) {
$(".pageTest #testModesNotice").append(`blind
`);
}
@@ -1476,25 +1506,25 @@ function updateTestModesNotice(){
// tagsString += $(tag).children('.title').text() + ', ';
// }
// })
- try{
+ try {
dbSnapshot.tags.forEach(tag => {
- if(tag.active === true){
+ if (tag.active === true) {
tagsString += tag.name + ', ';
}
})
- if(tagsString !== ""){
+ if (tagsString !== "") {
$(".pageTest #testModesNotice").append(`${tagsString.substring(0, tagsString.length - 2)}
`);
}
- }catch(e){
+ } catch (e) {
}
- if(anim){
- $(".pageTest #testModesNotice").css('transition','none').css('opacity',0).animate({
+ if (anim) {
+ $(".pageTest #testModesNotice").css('transition', 'none').css('opacity', 0).animate({
opacity: 1
- },125, (e) => {
- $(".pageTest #testModesNotice").css('transition','.125s');
+ }, 125, (e) => {
+ $(".pageTest #testModesNotice").css('transition', '.125s');
});
}
@@ -1502,7 +1532,7 @@ function updateTestModesNotice(){
$("#tagsWrapper").click(e => {
- if($(e.target).attr('id') === "tagsWrapper"){
+ if ($(e.target).attr('id') === "tagsWrapper") {
hideEditTags();
}
})
@@ -1517,18 +1547,18 @@ $("#tagsWrapper #tagsEdit input").keypress(e => {
}
})
-function tagsEdit(){
+function tagsEdit() {
let action = $("#tagsWrapper #tagsEdit").attr('action');
let inputVal = $("#tagsWrapper #tagsEdit input").val();
let tagid = $("#tagsWrapper #tagsEdit").attr('tagid');
hideEditTags();
- if(action === "add"){
+ if (action === "add") {
showBackgroundLoader();
- addTag({uid:firebase.auth().currentUser.uid,name:inputVal}).then(e => {
+ addTag({ uid: firebase.auth().currentUser.uid, name: inputVal }).then(e => {
hideBackgroundLoader();
let status = e.data.resultCode;
- if(status === 1){
- showNotification('Tag added',2000);
+ if (status === 1) {
+ showNotification('Tag added', 2000);
dbSnapshot.tags.push({
name: inputVal,
id: e.data.id
@@ -1536,42 +1566,42 @@ function tagsEdit(){
updateResultEditTagsPanelButtons();
updateSettingsPage();
updateFilterTags();
- }else if(status === -1){
- showNotification('Invalid tag name',3000);
- }else if(status < -1){
- showNotification('Unknown error',3000);
+ } else if (status === -1) {
+ showNotification('Invalid tag name', 3000);
+ } else if (status < -1) {
+ showNotification('Unknown error', 3000);
}
})
- }else if(action === "edit"){
+ } else if (action === "edit") {
showBackgroundLoader();
- editTag({uid:firebase.auth().currentUser.uid,name:inputVal,tagid:tagid}).then(e => {
+ editTag({ uid: firebase.auth().currentUser.uid, name: inputVal, tagid: tagid }).then(e => {
hideBackgroundLoader();
let status = e.data.resultCode;
- if(status === 1){
- showNotification('Tag updated',2000);
+ if (status === 1) {
+ showNotification('Tag updated', 2000);
dbSnapshot.tags.forEach(tag => {
- if(tag.id === tagid){
+ if (tag.id === tagid) {
tag.name = inputVal;
}
})
updateResultEditTagsPanelButtons();
updateSettingsPage();
updateFilterTags();
- }else if(status === -1){
- showNotification('Invalid tag name',3000);
- }else if(status < -1){
- showNotification('Unknown error',3000);
+ } else if (status === -1) {
+ showNotification('Invalid tag name', 3000);
+ } else if (status < -1) {
+ showNotification('Unknown error', 3000);
}
})
- }else if(action === "remove"){
+ } else if (action === "remove") {
showBackgroundLoader();
- removeTag({uid:firebase.auth().currentUser.uid,tagid:tagid}).then(e => {
+ removeTag({ uid: firebase.auth().currentUser.uid, tagid: tagid }).then(e => {
hideBackgroundLoader();
let status = e.data.resultCode;
- if(status === 1){
- showNotification('Tag removed',2000);
- dbSnapshot.tags.forEach((tag,index) => {
- if(tag.id === tagid){
+ if (status === 1) {
+ showNotification('Tag removed', 2000);
+ dbSnapshot.tags.forEach((tag, index) => {
+ if (tag.id === tagid) {
dbSnapshot.tags.splice(index, 1);
}
})
@@ -1579,8 +1609,8 @@ function tagsEdit(){
updateSettingsPage();
updateFilterTags();
updateActiveTags();
- }else if(status < -1){
- showNotification('Unknown error',3000);
+ } else if (status < -1) {
+ showNotification('Unknown error', 3000);
}
})
}
@@ -1592,15 +1622,15 @@ $(document).on("click", "#top .logo", (e) => {
$(document).on("click", "#top .config .wordCount .text-button", (e) => {
wrd = $(e.currentTarget).attr('wordCount');
- if(wrd == "custom"){
+ if (wrd == "custom") {
let newWrd = prompt('Custom word amount');
- if(newWrd !== null && !isNaN(newWrd) && newWrd > 0 && newWrd <= 10000){
+ if (newWrd !== null && !isNaN(newWrd) && newWrd > 0 && newWrd <= 10000) {
changeWordCount(newWrd);
- if(newWrd > 2000){
- showNotification("Very long tests can cause performance issues or crash the website on some machines!",5000);
+ if (newWrd > 2000) {
+ showNotification("Very long tests can cause performance issues or crash the website on some machines!", 5000);
}
}
- }else{
+ } else {
changeWordCount(wrd);
}
restartTest();
@@ -1608,15 +1638,15 @@ $(document).on("click", "#top .config .wordCount .text-button", (e) => {
$(document).on("click", "#top .config .time .text-button", (e) => {
time = $(e.currentTarget).attr('timeConfig');
- if(time == "custom"){
+ if (time == "custom") {
let newTime = prompt('Custom time in seconds');
- if(newTime !== null && !isNaN(newTime) && newTime > 0 && newTime <= 3600){
+ if (newTime !== null && !isNaN(newTime) && newTime > 0 && newTime <= 3600) {
changeTimeConfig(newTime);
- if(newTime >= 1800){
- showNotification("Very long tests can cause performance issues or crash the website on some machines!",5000);
+ if (newTime >= 1800) {
+ showNotification("Very long tests can cause performance issues or crash the website on some machines!", 5000);
}
}
- }else{
+ } else {
changeTimeConfig(time);
}
restartTest();
@@ -1645,7 +1675,7 @@ $(document).on("click", "#top .config .mode .text-button", (e) => {
});
$(document).on("click", "#top #menu .icon-button", (e) => {
- if($(e.currentTarget).hasClass('discord')) return;
+ if ($(e.currentTarget).hasClass('discord')) return;
href = $(e.currentTarget).attr('href');
changePage(href.replace('/', ''));
})
@@ -1738,14 +1768,14 @@ $(window).resize(() => {
updateCaretPosition();
});
-$(document).mousemove(function(event) {
- if($("#top").hasClass("focus") && (event.originalEvent.movementX > 0 || event.originalEvent.movementY > 0)){
+$(document).mousemove(function (event) {
+ if ($("#top").hasClass("focus") && (event.originalEvent.movementX > 0 || event.originalEvent.movementY > 0)) {
setFocus(false);
}
});
//keypresses for the test, using different method to be more responsive
-$(document).keypress(function(event) {
+$(document).keypress(function (event) {
event = emulateLayout(event);
if (!$("#wordsInput").is(":focus")) return;
if (event["keyCode"] == 13) return;
@@ -1754,25 +1784,25 @@ $(document).keypress(function(event) {
if (event["keyCode"] == 93) return;
//start the test
if (currentInput == "" && inputHistory.length == 0 && !testActive) {
- try{
+ try {
if (firebase.auth().currentUser != null) {
firebase.analytics().logEvent('testStarted');
} else {
firebase.analytics().logEvent('testStartedNoLogin');
}
- }catch(e){
+ } catch (e) {
console.log("Analytics unavailable");
}
testActive = true;
testStart = Date.now();
// if (config.mode == "time") {
- restartTimer();
- showTimer();
+ restartTimer();
+ showTimer();
// }
updateActiveElement();
updateTimer();
clearIntervals();
- timers.push(setInterval(function() {
+ timers.push(setInterval(function () {
time++;
if (config.mode === "time") {
updateTimer();
@@ -1786,13 +1816,13 @@ $(document).keypress(function(event) {
currentKeypressCount = 0;
errorsPerSecond.push(currentErrorCount);
currentErrorCount = 0;
- if(keypressPerSecond[time-1] == 0 &&
- keypressPerSecond[time-2] == 0 &&
- keypressPerSecond[time-3] == 0 &&
- keypressPerSecond[time-4] == 0 &&
- keypressPerSecond[time-5] == 0 &&
- keypressPerSecond[time-6] == 0 && !afkDetected){
- showNotification("AFK detected",3000);
+ if (keypressPerSecond[time - 1] == 0 &&
+ keypressPerSecond[time - 2] == 0 &&
+ keypressPerSecond[time - 3] == 0 &&
+ keypressPerSecond[time - 4] == 0 &&
+ keypressPerSecond[time - 5] == 0 &&
+ keypressPerSecond[time - 6] == 0 && !afkDetected) {
+ showNotification("AFK detected", 3000);
afkDetected = true;
}
if (config.mode == "time") {
@@ -1815,12 +1845,12 @@ $(document).keypress(function(event) {
}
currentKeypressCount++;
currentInput += event["key"];
- $("#words .word.active").attr('input',currentInput);
+ $("#words .word.active").attr('input', currentInput);
setFocus(true);
activeWordTopBeforeJump = activeWordTop;
- compareInput(currentWordIndex,currentInput,!config.blindMode);
+ compareInput(currentWordIndex, currentInput, !config.blindMode);
let newActiveTop = $("#words .word.active").position().top;
- if(activeWordTopBeforeJump != newActiveTop){
+ if (activeWordTopBeforeJump != newActiveTop) {
activeWordJumped = true;
}
updateCaretPosition();
@@ -1835,7 +1865,7 @@ $(document).keydown((event) => {
if (event["keyCode"] == 9) {
if (config.quickTab) {
event.preventDefault();
- if($(".pageTest").hasClass("active")){
+ if ($(".pageTest").hasClass("active")) {
if (testActive && !afkDetected) {
let testNow = Date.now();
let testSeconds = roundTo2((testNow - testStart) / 1000);
@@ -1843,7 +1873,7 @@ $(document).keydown((event) => {
restartCount++;
}
restartTest();
- }else{
+ } else {
changePage('test');
}
}
@@ -1861,7 +1891,7 @@ $(document).keydown((event) => {
) {
return;
} else {
- if(config.maxConfidence) return;
+ if (config.maxConfidence) return;
if (event["ctrlKey"] || event["altKey"]) {
currentInput = "";
inputHistory.pop();
@@ -1870,7 +1900,7 @@ $(document).keydown((event) => {
}
currentWordIndex--;
updateActiveElement();
- compareInput(currentWordIndex,currentInput,!config.blindMode);
+ compareInput(currentWordIndex, currentInput, !config.blindMode);
}
} else {
// if ($($(".word")[currentWordIndex - 1]).hasClass("hidden")) {
@@ -1881,7 +1911,7 @@ $(document).keydown((event) => {
} else {
currentInput = currentInput.substring(0, currentInput.length - 1);
}
- compareInput(currentWordIndex,currentInput,!config.blindMode);
+ compareInput(currentWordIndex, currentInput, !config.blindMode);
}
// currentKeypressCount++;
updateCaretPosition();
@@ -1897,10 +1927,10 @@ $(document).keydown((event) => {
let nextTop = Math.floor($($("#words .word")[currentWordIndex + 1]).position().top);
if (nextTop > currentTop || activeWordJumped) {
//last word of the line
- if(currentTestLine > 0){
+ if (currentTestLine > 0) {
let hideBound = currentTop;
- if(activeWordJumped){
+ if (activeWordJumped) {
hideBound = activeWordTopBeforeJump;
}
activeWordJumped = false;
@@ -1908,9 +1938,9 @@ $(document).keydown((event) => {
let toHide = [];
let wordElements = $("#words .word");
for (let i = 0; i < currentWordIndex + 1; i++) {
- if($(wordElements[i]).hasClass('hidden')) continue;
+ if ($(wordElements[i]).hasClass('hidden')) continue;
let forWordTop = Math.floor($(wordElements[i]).position().top);
- if(forWordTop < hideBound){
+ if (forWordTop < hideBound) {
// $($("#words .word")[i]).addClass("hidden");
toHide.push($($("#words .word")[i]));
}
@@ -1920,7 +1950,7 @@ $(document).keydown((event) => {
currentTestLine++;
}
}
- if(config.blindMode) $("#words .word.active letter").addClass('correct');
+ if (config.blindMode) $("#words .word.active letter").addClass('correct');
if (currentWord == currentInput) {
inputHistory.push(currentInput);
currentInput = "";
@@ -1930,15 +1960,15 @@ $(document).keydown((event) => {
currentKeypressCount++;
} else {
inputHistory.push(currentInput);
- highlightBadWord(currentWordIndex,!config.blindMode)
+ highlightBadWord(currentWordIndex, !config.blindMode)
currentInput = "";
currentWordIndex++;
if (currentWordIndex == wordsList.length) {
showResult();
return;
- }else if(config.difficulty == "expert" || config.difficulty == "master"){
+ } else if (config.difficulty == "expert" || config.difficulty == "master") {
showResult(true);
- if(!afkDetected){
+ if (!afkDetected) {
let testNow = Date.now();
let testSeconds = roundTo2((testNow - testStart) / 1000);
incompleteTestSeconds += testSeconds;
@@ -1950,7 +1980,7 @@ $(document).keydown((event) => {
updateCaretPosition();
currentKeypressCount++;
}
- if (config.mode === "words" || config.mode === "custom") {
+ if (config.mode === "words" || config.mode === "custom" || config.mode === "quote") {
updateTimer();
}
if (config.mode == "time") {
@@ -1977,8 +2007,8 @@ if (firebase.app().options.projectId === "monkey-type-dev-67af4") {
}
if (window.location.hostname === "localhost") {
- window.onerror = function(error) {
- this.showNotification(error,3000);
+ window.onerror = function (error) {
+ this.showNotification(error, 3000);
};
$("#top .logo .top").text("localhost");
$("head title").text($("head title").text() + " (localhost)");
@@ -1991,29 +2021,29 @@ if (window.location.hostname === "localhost") {
${input}
`);
+ if (input != undefined) $(e.currentTarget).append(`${input}
`);
}
})
-$(document).on('mouseleave','#words .word',e =>{
+$(document).on('mouseleave', '#words .word', e => {
$('.wordInputAfter').remove();
})
$(document).ready(() => {
- updateFavicon(32,14);
+ updateFavicon(32, 14);
$('body').css('transition', '.25s');
restartTest();
if (config.quickTab) {
$("#restartTestButton").addClass('hidden');
}
$("#centerContent").css("opacity", "0").removeClass("hidden").stop(true, true).animate({ opacity: 1 }, 250);
- if(window.location.pathname === '/account'){
- history.replaceState('/',null,'/');
- }else if(window.location.pathname !== '/'){
- let page = window.location.pathname.replace('/','');
+ if (window.location.pathname === '/account') {
+ history.replaceState('/', null, '/');
+ } else if (window.location.pathname !== '/') {
+ let page = window.location.pathname.replace('/', '');
changePage(page);
}
});
@@ -2055,12 +2085,12 @@ let wpmOverTimeChart = new Chart(ctx, {
maxBarThickness: 10,
type: "scatter",
pointStyle: "crossRot",
- radius: function(context) {
+ radius: function (context) {
var index = context.dataIndex;
var value = context.dataset.data[index];
return value.y <= 0 ? 0 : 3
},
- pointHoverRadius: function(context) {
+ pointHoverRadius: function (context) {
var index = context.dataIndex;
var value = context.dataset.data[index];
return value.y <= 0 ? 0 : 5
@@ -2117,7 +2147,7 @@ let wpmOverTimeChart = new Chart(ctx, {
autoSkipPadding: 40
},
gridLines: {
- display:false
+ display: false
}
},
{
@@ -2136,7 +2166,7 @@ let wpmOverTimeChart = new Chart(ctx, {
autoSkipPadding: 40
},
gridLines: {
- display:false
+ display: false
}
},
{
@@ -2149,17 +2179,17 @@ let wpmOverTimeChart = new Chart(ctx, {
fontFamily: 'Roboto Mono'
},
ticks: {
- precision:0,
+ precision: 0,
fontFamily: 'Roboto Mono',
beginAtZero: true,
autoSkip: true,
autoSkipPadding: 40
},
gridLines: {
- display:true
+ display: true
}
}
- ]
+ ]
},
annotation: {
annotations: [{
@@ -2170,7 +2200,7 @@ let wpmOverTimeChart = new Chart(ctx, {
value: '-30',
borderColor: 'red',
borderWidth: 1,
- borderDash: [2,2],
+ borderDash: [2, 2],
label: {
// Background color of label, default below
backgroundColor: 'blue',
@@ -2178,28 +2208,28 @@ let wpmOverTimeChart = new Chart(ctx, {
// Font size of text, inherits from global
fontSize: 11,
-
+
// Font style of text, default below
fontStyle: "normal",
-
+
// Font color of text, default below
fontColor: "#fff",
-
+
// Padding of label to add left/right, default below
xPadding: 6,
-
+
// Padding of label to add top/bottom, default below
yPadding: 6,
-
+
// Radius of label rectangle, default below
cornerRadius: 3,
-
+
// Anchor position of label on line, can be one of: top, bottom, left, right, center. Default below.
position: "center",
-
+
// Whether the label is enabled and should be displayed
enabled: true,
-
+
// Text to display in label - default is null. Provide an array to display values on a new line
content: "PB",