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Love it or hate it, change is a huge part of life. Click on any change quote below to see it in context and find out where it falls on Shmoop's pretentious scale. We'll give you details on who said it, when they said it, and in some cases, why on earth they thought it was okay to say it.
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"'Cause you're hot then you're cold…"Source: "Hot N Cold" | Speaker: Katy Perry
"A lie keeps growing and growing until it's as clear as the nose on your face."Source: Pinocchio | Speaker: The Blue Fairy
"A little bit of Monica in my life..."Source: Mambo No 5 | Speaker: Lou Bega
"A whole new world."Source: Aladdin | Speaker: Aladdin and Princess Jasmine
"Abby... normal."Source: Young Frankenstein | Speaker: Igor
"Ain't no sunshine when she's gone..."Source: "Ain't No Sunshine" | Speaker: Bill Withers
"All animals are equal, but some animals are more equal than others."Source: Animal Farm | Author: George Orwell
"And now for something completely different."Source: Monty Python's Flying Circus | Speaker: The Announcer
"And now that you don't have to be perfect, you can be good."Source: East of Eden | Author: John Steinbeck
"And so we beat on, boats against the current, borne back ceaselessly into the past."Source: The Great Gatsby | Author: F. Scott Fitzgerald
"And they brought us whole binders full of women."Source: 2012 Presidential Debate | Speaker: Mitt Romney
"Arise, shine; for thy light is come, and the glory of the Lord is risen upon thee."Source: The Book of Isaiah | Author: The Prophet Isaiah
"As God is my witness, I'll never be hungry again."Source: Gone with the Wind | Author: Margaret Mitchell
"Ask not what your country can do for you—ask what you can do for your country."Source: Inauguration Address, January 20, 1961 | Speaker: John F. Kennedy
"Be kind whenever possible. It is always possible."Source: The Dalai Lama's visit to Capitol Hill | Speaker: Dalai Lama
"But it does move."Source: Unknown | Speaker: Galileo Galilei
"But that's life. One minute you're on top of the world. The next minute, some secretary is running you over with a lawnmower."Source: Mad Men | Speaker: Joan Holloway
"But this is a truth that applies to the human race and to no particular race of men."Source: To Kill a Mockingbird | Author: Harper Lee
"Bye, bye Miss American Pie"Source: American Pie | Speaker: Don McLean
"Can the Ethiopian change his skin, or the leopard his spots?"Source: The Book of Jeremiah | Speaker: The Prophet Jeremiah
"Can we all get along?"Source: Press Conference | Speaker: Rodney King
"Captain, it is I, Ensign Pulver, and I just threw your stinking palm tree overboard. Now, what's all this crud about no movie tonight?"Source: Mister Roberts | Speaker: Frank Pulver
"Change will not come if we wait for some other person or if we wait for some other time. We are the ones we've been waiting for. We are the change that we seek."Source: February 5, 2008 Speech | Speaker: Barack Obama
"Come as you are"Source: "Come as You Are" | Speaker: Nirvana
"Come out, come out, wherever you are."Source: Cape Fear | Speaker: Max Cady
"Darkness cannot drive out darkness; only light can do that. Hate cannot drive out hate; only love can do that."Source: "Loving Your Enemies" Sermon, Christmas Day 1957 | Speaker: Martin Luther King Jr.
"Dave, stop. Stop, will you? Stop, Dave. Will you stop, Dave? Stop, Dave. I'm afraid."Source: 2001: A Space Odyssey | Speaker: HAL 9000
"Do you ever feel like a plastic bag?"Source: "Firework" | Speaker: Katy Perry
"Earn this. Earn it."Source: Saving Private Ryan | Speaker: Captain James Miller
"Ebony and ivory live together in perfect harmony."Source: Ebony and Ivory | Speaker: Paul McCartney and Stevie Wonder
"Education is the key to unlock the golden door of freedom."Source: 1896 Letter to Booker T. Washington | Author: George Washington Carver
"For the moment I know this: there are sick people and they need curing."Source: The Plague | Author: Albert Camus
"Got a long list of ex-lovers; they'll tell you I'm insane."Source: "Blank Space" | Speaker: Taylor Swift
"Happiness is not something ready-made. It comes from your own actions."Source: Unknown | Speaker: Dalai Lama
"Have a good life."Source: Cheers | Speaker: Sam Malone
"Have the courage to follow your heart and intuition. They somehow already know what you truly want to become."Source: Stanford Commencement Speech (2005) | Speaker: Steve Jobs
"He ain't no drag—Papa's got a brand new bag."Source: Papa's Got a Brand New Bag | Speaker: James Brown
"He slimed me."Source: Ghostbusters | Speaker: Dr. Peter Venkman
"He's leavin'… on that midnight train to Georgia."Source: Midnight Train to Georgia | Speaker: Gladys Knight and the Pips
"Here's looking at you, kid."Source: Casablanca | Speaker: Rick
"Hey, where did we go? Days when the rains came..."Source: "Brown-Eyed Girl" | Speaker: Van Morrison
"History will be kind to me, for I intend to write it."Source: Misquoted | Speaker: Winston Churchill
"Hit the road, Jack."Source: "Hit the Road Jack" | Speaker: Ray Charles
"Hoke, you're my best friend."Source: Driving Miss Daisy | Speaker: Miss Daisy
"How many ears must one man have before he can hear people cry?"Source: Blowin' in the Wind | Speaker: Bob Dylan
"How wonderful it is that nobody need wait a single moment before starting to improve the world."Source: The Diary of Anne Frank | Author: Anne Frank
"I ain't so tough."Source: The Public Enemy | Speaker: Tom Powers
"I am not an animal!"Source: Elephant Man | Speaker: John Merrick
"I can't go back to yesterday, because I was a different person then."Source: Alice's Adventures in Wonderland | Author: Lewis Carroll
"I can't live with or without you."Source: "With or Without You" | Speaker: U2
"I don't like work—no man does—but I like what is in the work—the chance to find yourself."Source: Heart of Darkness | Author: Joseph Conrad
"I don't think we're in Kansas anymore."Source: The Wizard of Oz | Speaker: Dorothy Gale (Judy Garland)
"I don't wanna grow up, I'm a Toys "R" Us kid."Source: Toys "R" Us Commercial | Author: James Patterson
"I don't want to move to a city where the only cultural advantage is being able to make a right turn on a red light."Source: Annie Hall | Speaker: Alvy Singer
"I kissed a girl, and I liked it."Source: "I Kissed a Girl" | Speaker: Katy Perry
"I may have lost my heart, but not my self-control."Source: Emma (1996 adaptation) | Speaker: Emma Woodhouse
"I might love the people upstairs more If only they lived on another floor."Source: The People Upstairs | Author: Ogden Nash
"I shot the sheriff"Source: I Shot the Sheriff | Speaker: Bob Marley
"I was thrown out of NYU my freshman year for cheating on my metaphysics final […] I looked within the soul of the boy sitting next to me."Source: Annie Hall | Speaker: Alvy Singer
"I wouldn't give you two cents for all your fancy rules."Source: Mr. Smith Goes to Washington | Speaker: Jefferson Smith
"I'll be taking these Huggies and whatever cash you got."Source: Raising Arizona | Speaker: H.I. McDunnough
"I'll remember you, honey. You're the one that got away."Source: Hud | Speaker: Hud Bannon
"I'm going back to the start"Source: "Scientist" | Speaker: Coldplay
"I've got all my life to live and I've got all my love to give"Source: I Will Survive | Speaker: Gloria Gaynor
"I've seen fire and I've seen rain."Source: "Fire and Rain" | Speaker: James Taylor
"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 | Author: Emily Brontë
"If I leave here tomorrow, would you still remember me?"Source: "Free Bird" | Speaker: Lynyrd Skynyrd
"If we confess our sins, he is faithful and just to forgive us our sins"Source: 1 John 1:9 | Author: The Elder
"If you don't like what's being said, change the conversation."Source: Mad Men | Speaker: Don Draper
"If you wanna make the world a better place, take a look at yourself and make a change."Source: "Man in the Mirror" | Speaker: Michael Jackson
"In the beginning there was faith—which is childish; trust—which is vain; and illusion—which is dangerous."Source: Night | Author: Elie Wiesel
"In this world nothing can be said to be certain, except death and taxes."Source: 1789 Letter | Author: Benjamin Franklin
"Is a man who chooses the bad perhaps in some way better than a man who has the good imposed upon him?"Source: A Clockwork Orange | Author: Anthony Burgess
"It don't matter if you're black or white."Source: Black or White | Speaker: Michael Jackson
"It is not the strongest of the species that survives, nor the most intelligent, but the one most responsive to change."Source: The Origin of the Species | Speaker: Charles Darwin
"It is our choices, Harry, that show what we truly are, far more than our abilities."Source: Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets | Author: J.K. Rowling
"It took more than one man to change my name to Shanghai Lily."Source: Shanghai Express | Speaker: Shanghai Lily
"It was a bright cold day in April, and the clocks were striking thirteen."Source: 1984 | Author: George Orwell
"It was as though some huge force were pressing down upon you […] persuading you, almost, to deny the evidence of your senses."Source: 1984 | Author: George Orwell
"It was beauty killed the beast."Source: King Kong | Speaker: Carl Denham
"It was the best of times, it was the worst of times."Source: A Tale of Two Cities | Author: Charles Dickens
"It wasn't a rock. It was a rock lobster."Source: "Rock Lobster" | Speaker: The B-52's
"It will be foul weather to day: for the sky is red and lowring."Source: Matthew 16:2-3 | Author: Matthew
"It's amazing. You look like a normal person, but actually you are the angel of death."Source: When Harry Met Sally | Speaker: Sally Albright
"It's me. I'm the thing that needs to be fixed. I'm the thing that needs to be handled. I'm the scandal, and the best way to deal with a scandal is to shut it down."Source: Scandal | Speaker: Olivia Pope
"It's no surprise to me, I am my own worst enemy."Source: "My Own Worst Enemy" | Speaker: Lit
"It's not the years, honey. It's the mileage."Source: Raiders of the Lost Ark | Speaker: Indiana Jones
"It's this century. It still does perplex me so."Source: American Horror Story: Coven | Speaker: Delphine LaLaurie
"I’d rather be a hammer than a nail"Source: "El Condor Pasa (If I Could)" | Speaker: Simon and Garfunkel
"James Gatz—that was really, or at least legally, his name."Source: The Great Gatsby | Author: F. Scott Fitzgerald
"Just one more thing..."Source: Columbo | Speaker: Lieutenant Columbo
"Kid, the next time I say, "Let's go someplace like Bolivia," let's go someplace like Bolivia."Source: Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid | Speaker: Butch Cassidy
"Ladies and gentlemen…The Beatles!"Source: The Ed Sullivan Show | Speaker: Ed Sullivan
"Let us then suppose the mind to be, as we say, white paper."Source: Essay Concerning Human Understanding | Author: John Locke
"Life finds a way."Source: Jurassic Park | Speaker: Dr. Ian Malcolm
"Life starts all over again when it gets crisp in the fall."Source: The Great Gatsby | Author: F. Scott Fitzgerald
"Look for the bare necessities, the simple bare necessities."Source: Bare Necessities | Speaker: Baloo
"Looks like I picked the wrong week to quit sniffing glue."Source: Airplane! | Speaker: Steven McCroskey
"Makes me that much stronger"Source: "Fighter" | Speaker: Christina Aguilera
"Mankind must put an end to war—or war will put an end to mankind."Source: Address to the UN General Assembly (1961) | Speaker: John F. Kennedy
"Maybe Christmas, perhaps...means a little bit more!"Source: How the Grinch Stole Christmas | Author: Dr. Seuss
"Miss Jean Louise, stand up. Your father's passing."Source: To Kill a Mockingbird | Speaker: Reverend Sykes
"Molly, you in danger, girl."Source: Ghost | Speaker: Oda Mae Brown
"Mr. Christian!"Source: Mutiny on the Bounty | Speaker: Captain Bligh
"Mrs Dalloway said she would buy the flowers herself."Source: Mrs Dalloway | Author: Virginia Woolf
"My love for you will still be strong after the boys of summer have gone."Source: The Boys of Summer | Speaker: Don Henley
"My soul has grown deep like the rivers."Source: The Negro Speaks of Rivers | Author: Langston Hughes
"Never in the field of human conflict was so much owed by so many to so few."Source: Speech to the House of Commons, August 20, 1940 | Speaker: Winston Churchill
"Nip it in the bud!"Source: The Andy Griffith Show | Speaker: Barney Fife
"No man is good enough to govern any woman without her consent."Source: The annual convention of the California State Suffrage Association | Speaker: Susan B. Anthony
"Now what the hell ya suppose is eatin' them two guys?"Source: Of Mice and Men | Author: John Steinbeck
"Oh, there's an empty place in my bones that calls out for something unknown."Source: Jack's Lament | Speaker: Jack Skellington
"Once there was only dark."Source: True Detective | Speaker: Rust Cohle
"Oo-ee-oo, I look just like Buddy Holly."Source: "Buddy Holly" | Speaker: Weezer
"Open up your mind, let your fantasies unwind."Source: The Phantom of the Opera (1986 Musical) | Speaker: The Phantom
"Our long national nightmare is over."Source: Inaugural Address, September 9, 1974 | Speaker: President Gerald Ford
"Play it again, Sam."Source: Casablanca | Speaker: Ilsa Lund
"Play it, Sam."Source: Casablanca | Speaker: Ilsa Lund
"Resistance is futile."Source: Star Trek: The Next Generation | Speaker: The Borg
"Roads? Where we're going, we don't need roads."Source: Back to the Future | Speaker: Dr. Emmett Brown
"Rosebud."Source: Citizen Kane | Speaker: Charles Foster Kane
"Sawyer, you're going out a youngster, but you've got to come back a star!"Source: 42nd Street | Speaker: Julian Marsh
"School's out for summer!"Source: School's Out | Speaker: Alice Cooper
"Shane! Shane! Come back!"Source: Shane | Speaker: Little Joey
"Snap out of it!"Source: Moonstruck | Speaker: Loretta Castorini
"So we drove on toward death through the cooling twilight."Source: The Great Gatsby | Author: F. Scott Fitzgerald
"Soylent green is people!"Source: Soylent Green | Speaker: Thorn
"Tell all the truth but tell it slant"Source: Tell all the truth but tell it slant— | Author: Emily Dickinson
"Tell me what you don't like about yourself."Source: Nip/Tuck | Speaker: Sean McNamara and Christian Troy
"That the sun will not rise tomorrow implies no more contradiction than that it will rise."Source: An Enquiry Concerning Human Understanding | Author: David Hume
"That's one small step for man, one giant leap for mankind."Source: First Moon Landing | Speaker: Neil Armstrong
"That's what I love about these high school girls, man. I get older, they stay the same age."Source: Dazed and Confused | Speaker: David Wooderson
"The caged bird sings of freedom"Source: Caged Bird | Author: Maya Angelou
"The Christian religion cannot be believed by any reasonable person."Source: An Enquiry Concerning Human Understanding | Author: David Hume
"The last miracle I did was the 1969 Mets. Before that, I think you have to go back to the Red Sea."Source: Oh, God! | Speaker: God
"The mask was a thing on its own, behind which Jack hid, liberated from shame and self-consciousness"Source: Lord of the Flies | Author: William Golding
"The officer nodded, as if a question had been answered."Source: Lord of the Flies | Author: William Golding
"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."Source: On the Road | Author: Jack Kerouac
"The revolution is not an apple that falls when it is ripe! You have to make it fall."Source: Libération | Speaker: Che Guevara
"The tree of liberty must be refreshed from time to time with the blood of patriots and tyrants."Source: Letter to Col. William S. Smith, November 13, 1787 | Author: Thomas Jefferson
"The tribe has spoken."Source: Survivor | Speaker: Jeff Probst
"The trouble with having an open mind, of course, is that people will insist on coming along and trying to put things in it."Source: Diggers (The Bromeliad Trilogy) | Author: Terry Pratchett
"The words of the prophets are written on the subway walls."Source: The Sound of Silence | Speaker: Simon and Garfunkel
"The world, that understandable and lawful world, was slipping away."Source: Lord of the Flies | Author: William Golding
"There are places I remember all my life, though some have changed."Source: "In My Life" | Speaker: The Beatles
"There are some men who don't end every sentence with a proposition."Source: Pillow Talk | Speaker: Jan Morrow
"there's a bluebird in my heart that/ wants to get out/ but I'm too tough for him"Source: Bluebird | Author: Charles Bukowski
"There's something in our world that makes men lose their heads—they couldn't be fair if they tried."Source: To Kill a Mockingbird | Author: Harper Lee
"They paved paradise, and put up a parking lot."Source: "Big Yellow Taxi" | Speaker: Joni Mitchell
"They tried to make me go to rehab; I said "no, no, no.""Source: Rehab | Speaker: Amy Winehouse
"Things fall apart; the centre cannot hold."Source: The Second Coming | Author: William Butler Yeats
"Thirty—the promise of a decade of loneliness, a thinning list of single men to know, a thinning brief-case of enthusiasm, thinning hair"Source: The Great Gatsby | Author: F. Scott Fitzgerald
"This is no dream! This is really happening!"Source: Rosemary's Baby | Speaker: Rosemary Woodhouse
"This is the people's war!"Source: Mrs. Miniver | Speaker: The Vicar
"This is the way the world ends. Not with a bang but a whimper."Source: The Hollow Men | Author: T.S. Eliot
"This place is like somebody's memory of a town."Source: True Detective | Speaker: Rust Cohle
"Today, I consider myself the luckiest man on the face of the earth."Source: The Pride of the Yankees | Speaker: Lou Gehrig
"Two roads diverged in a wood, and I — I took the one less traveled by, And that has made all the difference."Source: The Road Not Taken | Author: Robert Frost
"Wake up Maggie, I think I got something to say to you."Source: "Maggie May" | Speaker: Rod Stewart
"War—huh yeah—what is it good for? Absolutely nothing!"Source: War | Speaker: Edwin Starr
"Watch the skies. Everywhere. Keep looking. Keep watching the skies."Source: The Thing from Another World | Speaker: Ned "Scotty" Scott
"Water, water, every where, Nor any drop to drink."Source: The Rime of the Ancient Mariner | Author: Samuel Taylor Coleridge
"Wax on, wax off."Source: The Karate Kid | Speaker: Mr. Miyagi
"We are never ever ever getting back together."Source: We Are Never Ever Getting Back Together | Speaker: Taylor Swift
"We are the world."Source: We Are the World | Speaker: Every Famous Singer Ever
"We didn't land on Plymouth Rock. The rock was landed on us."Source: Speech at the Audubon Ballroom | Speaker: Malcolm X
"We didn't land on Plymouth Rock—Plymouth Rock landed on us."Source: Malcolm X | Speaker: Malcolm X (played by Denzel Washington)
"We'll always have Paris."Source: Casablanca | Speaker: Rick Blaine
"We're just two lost souls swimming in a fish bowl, year after year."Source: "Wish You Were Here" | Speaker: Pink Floyd
"We've got to fight until we overcome."Source: Ballot or the Bullet | Speaker: Malcolm X
"We've got to have rules and obey them. After all, we're not savages. We're English, and the English are best at everything."Source: Lord of the Flies | Author: William Golding
"Well, I've wrestled with reality for thirty-five years, doctor, and I'm happy to state I finally won out over it."Source: Harvey | Speaker: Elwood P. Dowd
"What a treacherous thing to believe a person is more than a person."Source: Paper Towns | Author: John Green
"What we've got here…is failure to communicate."Source: Cool Hand Luke | Speaker: Captain
"Whatever tomorrow brings, I'll be there…"Source: "Drive" | Speaker: Incubus
"Whatever we had missed, we possessed together the precious, the incommunicable past."Source: My Ántonia | Author: Willa Cather
"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 | Speaker: Harry Burns
"When your man wanna get buckwild…"Source: "Hit 'Em Up Style" | Speaker: Blu Cantrell
"Wherever there's a fight, so hungry people can eat, I'll be there."Source: The Grapes of Wrath | Speaker: Tom Joad
"Who is that girl I see?"Source: "Reflection" | Speaker: Mulan
"Would ya do me a favor, Harry? Drop dead."Source: Born Yesterday | Speaker: Billie Dawn
"Would you be shocked if I put on something more comfortable?"Source: Hell's Angels | Speaker: Helen
"Yesterday, all my troubles seemed so far away."Source: "Yesterday" | Speaker: The Beatles
"You ain't never had a friend like me!"Source: Friend Like Me | Speaker: Genie
"You are about to enter another dimension."Source: The Twilight Zone | Speaker: Rod Serling
"You better start swimming or you'll sink like a stone, 'cause the times they are a-changing."Source: The Times They Are a-Changin' | Speaker: Bob Dylan
"You can never step into the same river twice."Source: Cratylus by Plato | Author: Heraclitus
"You complete me."Source: Jerry Maguire | Speaker: Jerry Maguire
"You don't know what you've got 'til it's gone."Source: "Big Yellow Taxi" | Speaker: Joni Mitchell
"You just hold your head high and keep those fists down. No matter what anybody says to you, don't you let 'em get your goat. Try fighting with your head for a change."Source: To Kill a Mockingbird | Author: Harper Lee
"You know it don’t take much intelligence to get yourself into a nailed-up coffin, Laura. But who in hell ever got himself out of one without removing one nail?"Source: The Glass Menagerie | Author: Tennessee Williams
"You lived your life like a candle in the wind."Source: "Candle in the Wind" | Speaker: Elton John
"You make me want to be a better man."Source: As Good As It Gets | Speaker: Melvin Udall
"You must be the change you wish to see in the world."Source: Unknown | Author: Mahatma Gandhi
"You think I'm licked. You all think I'm licked. Well, I'm not licked."Source: Mr. Smith Goes to Washington | Speaker: Jefferson Smith
"You want to be taken seriously? Stop dressing like a little girl."Source: Mad Men | Speaker: Joan Holloway
"You wouldn't like me when I'm angry."Source: The Incredible Hulk | Speaker: Dr. David Banner
"You're off to Great Places! Today is your day! Your mountain is waiting, so...get on your way!"Source: Oh, the Places You'll Go! | Author: Dr. Seuss
"You're the sanest man that ever walked into this courtroom."Source: Mr. Deeds Goes to Town | Speaker: Judge May
"You're worth the whole damn bunch put together."Source: The Great Gatsby | Author: F. Scott Fitzgerald