Positive Quotes
Quotes happier than a unicorn licking a lollipop. Almost.
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Positive Quotes
“And in the morning... I’m making waffles!” Have more beautiful words ever been spoken? Click on any positive 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.
"Adrian!"Source: Rocky | Speaker: Rocky Balboa
"And in the morning...I'm making waffles!"Source: Shrek | Speaker: Donkey
"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 the ball."Source: Caddyshack | Speaker: Ty Webb
"Buongiorno, principessa!"Source: Life Is Beautiful | Speaker: Guido
"California girls, we're unforgettable."Source: "California Gurls" | Speaker: Katy Perry
"Come on down!"Source: The Price is Right | Speaker: Johnny Olson
"Come unto me, all ye that labor and are heavy laden, and I will give you rest."Source: Matthew 11:28 | Speaker: Jesus
"Could be raining."Source: Young Frankenstein | Speaker: Igor
"Did you ever know that you're my hero?"Source: Wind Beneath My Wings | Speaker: Bette Midler
"Don't just fly, soar."Source: Dumbo | Speaker: Timothy Mouse
"Don't you know I'm still standing better than I ever did."Source: "I'm Still Standing" | Speaker: Elton John
"Dy-no-mite!"Source: Good Times | Speaker: James "J.J." Evans Jr.
"Ebony and ivory live together in perfect harmony."Source: Ebony and Ivory | Speaker: Paul McCartney and Stevie Wonder
"Every day I'm shuffling."Source: Party Rock Anthem | Speaker: LMFAO
"Every time a bell rings an angel gets his wings."Source: It's a Wonderful Life | Speaker: Zuzu Bailey
"Excuse me while I kiss this guy."Source: "Purple Haze" | Speaker: Jimi Hendrix
"Get up offa that thing and dance 'till you feel better!"Source: Get Up Offa That Thing | Speaker: James Brown
"Get ur freak on."Source: "Get Ur Freak On" | Speaker: Missy Elliot
"Good golly, Miss Molly, sure like to ball."Source: Good Golly Miss Molly | Speaker: Little Richard
"He's a sweet talkin', sugar-coated candy man."Source: "Candy Man" | Speaker: Christina Aguilera
"Hello. IT. Have you tried turning it off and on again?"Source: The IT Crowd | Speaker: Roy Trenneman
"Here comes the sun. And I say, it's all right."Source: "Here Comes the Sun" | Author: George Harrison
"Here it is, your moment of Zen."Source: The Daily Show | Speaker: The Daily Show
"Here's Johnny! (Tonight Show)"Source: The Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson | Speaker: Ed McMahon
"Hey sista, go sista…"Source: "Lady Marmalade" | Speaker: Robert Crewe and Kenny Nolan
"Hi-di-ho, neighbor!"Source: Home Improvement | Speaker: Wilson W. Wilson, Jr.
"Hi-yo, Silver!"Source: The Lone Ranger | Speaker: The Lone Ranger
"I can't help falling in love with you."Source: Can't Help Falling in Love | Speaker: Elvis Presley
"I get by with a little help from my friends."Source: With a Little Help from My Friends | Speaker: The Beatles
"I got all the riches, baby, one man can claim"Source: My Girl | Speaker: The Temptations
"I have no notion of loving people by halves; it is not my nature."Source: Northanger Abbey | Author: Jane Austen
"I kissed a girl, and I liked it."Source: "I Kissed a Girl" | Speaker: Katy Perry
"I know not all that may be coming, but be it what it will, I'll go to it laughing."Source: Moby-Dick | Author: Herman Melville
"I like big butts and I cannot lie."Source: Baby Got Back | Speaker: Sir Mix-a-Lot
"I put my thing down, flip it, and reverse it."Source: "Work It" | Speaker: Missy Elliot
"I saw you, Walt Whitman, childless, lonely old grubber, poking among the meats in the refrigerator and eyeing the grocery boys."Source: A Supermarket in California | Author: Allen Ginsberg
"I see a little silhouetto of a man. Scaramouche, Scaramouche, will you do the fandango?"Source: "Bohemian Rhapsody" | Speaker: Queen
"I think this is the beginning of a beautiful friendship."Source: Casablanca | Speaker: Rick Blaine
"I think to myself: what a wonderful world."Source: What a Wonderful World | Speaker: Louis Armstrong
"I wanna really really really wanna zig-a-zig ha."Source: "Wannabe" | Speaker: The Spice Girls
"I would rather be with the people of this town than with the finest people in the world."Source: Roxanne | Speaker: Mayor Deebs
"I wouldn't give you two cents for all your fancy rules."Source: Mr. Smith Goes to Washington | Speaker: Jefferson Smith
"I'd like to buy a vowel."Source: Wheel of Fortune | Speaker: Contestants
"I'm a smart, strong, sensual woman."Source: Bob's Burgers | Speaker: Tina Belcher
"I'm listening."Source: Frasier | Speaker: Frasier Crane
"I'm sittin' on the dock of the bay, watching the tide roll away."Source: (Sittin' On) The Dock of the Bay | Speaker: Otis Redding
"I'm the king of the world!"Source: Titanic | Speaker: Jack Dawson
"I've got a lovely bunch of coconuts."Source: "I've Got a Lovely Bunch of Coconuts" | Speaker: Danny Kaye
"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 got the moves like Jagger."Source: "Moves Like Jagger" | Speaker: Maroon 5
"In spite of everything, I still believe people are really good at heart."Source: The Diary of Anne Frank | Author: Anne Frank
"Is that your final answer?"Source: Who Wants to Be a Millionaire | Speaker: Regis Philbin
"Islands in the stream, that is what we are."Source: Islands in the Stream | Speaker: Dolly Parton and Kenny Rogers
"It don't matter if you're black or white."Source: Black or White | Speaker: Michael Jackson
"It matters not what someone is born, but what they grow to be."Source: Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire | Author: J.K. Rowling
"It's going down. I'm yelling, "Timber!""Source: "Timber" | Speaker: Pitbull and Kesha
"It's showtime, folks!"Source: All That Jazz | Speaker: Joe Gideon
"Legen—wait for it—dary!"Source: How I Met Your Mother | Speaker: Barney Stinson
"Let the wild rumpus start!"Source: Where the Wild Things Are | Author: Maurice Sendak
"Let's get physical."Source: Physical | Speaker: Olivia Newton-John
"Let's get ready to rumble!"Source: Professional Wrestling | Speaker: Michael Buffer
"Life finds a way."Source: Jurassic Park | Speaker: Dr. Ian Malcolm
"Life moves pretty fast."Source: Ferris Bueller's Day Off | Speaker: Ferris Bueller
"Life starts all over again when it gets crisp in the fall."Source: The Great Gatsby | Author: F. Scott Fitzgerald
"Made it, Ma! Top of the world!"Source: White Heat | Speaker: Cody Jarrett
"May the Force be with you."Source: Star Wars | Speaker: Han Solo
"My bone cleaveth to my skin and to my flesh, and I am escaped with the skin of my teeth."Source: Job 19:20 | Author: Job
"Nanu nanu."Source: Mork & Mindy | Speaker: Mork
"New York, New York!"Source: "Theme from New York, New York" | Speaker: Frank Sinatra
"Norm!"Source: Cheers | Speaker: The Cast of Cheers
"Nostalgia. It's delicate, but potent."Source: Mad Men | Speaker: Don Draper
"Nothing is hopeless; we must hope for everything."Source: A Wrinkle in Time | Author: Madeleine L'Engle
"Once there was only dark."Source: True Detective | Speaker: Rust Cohle
"Pretty woman, walkin' down the street."Source: Oh, Pretty Woman | Speaker: Roy Orbison
"School's out for summer!"Source: School's Out | Speaker: Alice Cooper
"Seize the moment. 'Cause tomorrow you might be dead."Source: Buffy the Vampire Slayer | Speaker: Buffy Summers
"Shake it like a Polaroid picture!"Source: Hey Ya | Speaker: Outkast
"Shake it off."Source: Shake It Off | Speaker: Taylor Swift
"Shine bright like a diamond."Source: "Diamonds" | Speaker: Rihanna
"Should auld acquaintance be forgot, and never brought to mind?"Source: Auld Lang Syne | Speaker: Robert Burns
"Signed, sealed, delivered, I'm yours."Source: Signed, Sealed, Delivered I'm Yours | Speaker: Stevie Wonder
"Sing us a song, you're the piano man."Source: Piano Man | Speaker: Billy Joel
"Survey says!"Source: Family Feud | Speaker: Family Feud Hosts
"Sweet Caroline! Ba, ba, ba!"Source: "Sweet Caroline" | Speaker: Neil Diamond
"That government of the people, by the people, for the people, shall not perish from the earth."Source: The Gettysburg Address | Author: Abraham Lincoln
"That'll do pig. That'll do."Source: Babe | Speaker: Farmer Hoggett
"That's when you know you've found somebody really special. When you can just…comfortably share silence."Source: Pulp Fiction | Speaker: Mia Wallace
"The arc of the moral universe is long, but it bends toward justice."Source: March from Selma, 1965 | Speaker: Martin Luther King, Jr.
"The best and most beautiful things in the world cannot be seen nor even touched, but just felt in the heart."Source: The Story of My Life | Author: Helen Keller
"The future's so bright, I gotta wear shades"Source: The Future's So Bright, I Gotta Wear Shades | Speaker: Timbuk 3
"The mystery of life isn't a problem to solve, but a reality to experience."Source: Dune | Author: Frank Herbert
"The party don't start 'til I walk in."Source: "TiK ToK" | Speaker: Ke$ha
"The richest man in town."Source: It's a Wonderful Life | Speaker: Harry Bailey
"The San Francisco Treat!"Source: Rice-A-Roni commercial | Speaker: Rice-A-Roni
"There’s only one rule that I know of, babies—God damn it, you’ve got to be kind."Source: God Bless You, Mr. Rosewater | Author: Kurt Vonnegut
"They call me Mister Tibbs!"Source: In the Heat of the Night | Speaker: Detective Virgil Tibbs
"This is Halloween!"Source: This Is Halloween | Speaker: Citizens of Halloween Town
"This is the people's war!"Source: Mrs. Miniver | Speaker: The Vicar
"To infinity and beyond!"Source: Toy Story | Speaker: Buzz Lightyear
"Today, I consider myself the luckiest man on the face of the earth."Source: The Pride of the Yankees | Speaker: Lou Gehrig
"Two thumbs up."Source: Siskel & Ebert & the Movies | Speaker: Gene Siskel and Roger Ebert
"Wassup?"Source: 2000 Budweiser commercial | Speaker: Various Budweiser mascots
"We are the world."Source: We Are the World | Speaker: Every Famous Singer Ever
"We live in the best of all possible worlds."Source: Essays of Theodicy on the Goodness of God, the Freedom of Man and the Origin of Evil | Author: Gottfried Wilhelm Leibnitz
"We've got a situation."Source: Jersey Shore | Speaker: Mike "The Situation" Sorrentino
"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
"Whenever, wherever"Source: "Whenever, Wherever" | Speaker: Shakira
"Whoever believes in him shall not perish but have eternal life."Source: John 3:16 | Speaker: Jesus
"Win just one for the Gipper."Source: Knute Rockne All American | Speaker: George Gipp
"Yabba dabba doo!"Source: The Flintstones | Speaker: Fred Flintstone
"Yeah, that's the ticket!"Source: Saturday Night Live | Speaker: Tommy Flanagan, the Pathological Liar
"You ain't never had a friend like me!"Source: Friend Like Me | Speaker: Genie
"You are beautiful, no matter what they say."Source: Beautiful | Speaker: Christina Aguilera
"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 | Speaker: The Rolling Stones
"You can't live forever; you can't live forever."Source: The Great Gatsby | Speaker: F. Scott Fitzgerald
"You go, Glen Coco!"Source: Mean Girls | Speaker: Damian
"You held me down, but I got up."Source: "Roar" | Speaker: Katy Perry
"You look mahvelous!"Source: Saturday Night Live | Speaker: Fernando Lamas
"You must do the thing you think you cannot do."Source: You Learn by Living: Eleven Keys for a More Fulfilling Life | Author: Eleanor Roosevelt
"You never know what worse luck your bad luck has saved you from."Source: No Country for Old Men | Author: Cormac McCarthy
"You're so money and you don't even know it."Source: Swingers | Speaker: Trent Walker
"You're the sanest man that ever walked into this courtroom."Source: Mr. Deeds Goes to Town | Speaker: Judge May
"Your body is a wonderland."Source: "Your Body is a Wonderland" | Speaker: John Mayer
"Your love keeps lifting me higher."Source: "(Your Love Keeps Lifting Me) Higher and Higher" | Speaker: Jackie Wilson