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"Accursed creator! Why did you form a monster so hideous that even YOU turned from me in disgust?"Source: Frankenstein | Author: Mary Shelley
"And they brought us whole binders full of women."Source: 2012 Presidential Debate | Speaker: Mitt Romney
"Any mean thing someone's gonna think of to say about me, I've already said to me, about me. Probably in the last half hour."Source: Girls | Speaker: Hannah Horvath
"Because only one thing counts in this life: get them to sign on the line which is dotted."Source: Glengarry Glen Ross | Speaker: Blake
"Burn!"Source: That '70s Show | Speaker: Kelso
"But a certain Samaritan, as he journeyed, came where he was."Source: Luke 10:30, 33-34 | Author: Luke
"By all means, attribute my legitimate feelings of sadness to menses."Source: Orange Is the New Black | Speaker: Piper Chapman
"Christmas won't be Christmas without any presents"Source: Little Women | Author: Louisa May Alcott
"Eddie, you're a born loser."Source: The Hustler | Speaker: Bert Gordon
"Five hundred twenty-five thousand six hundred minutes. How do you measure, measure a year?"Source: Seasons of Love | Speaker: Cast of Rent
"For the moment I know this: there are sick people and they need curing."Source: The Plague | Author: Albert Camus
"Guys like us, that work on ranches, are the loneliest guys in the world"Source: Of Mice and Men | Author: John Steinbeck
"Have you no sense of decency, sir?"Source: McCarthy Hearings | Speaker: Joseph Welch
"He ain't mean," said Slim. "I can tell a mean guy from a mile off."Source: Of Mice and Men | Author: John Steinbeck
"He that is without sin among you, let him first cast a stone at her."Source: The Gospel of John | Speaker: Jesus of Nazareth
"He was an old man who fished alone in a skiff in the Gulf Stream and he had gone eighty-four days now without taking a fish."Source: The Old Man and the Sea | Author: Ernest Hemingway
"How many ears must one man have before he can hear people cry?"Source: Blowin' in the Wind | Speaker: Bob Dylan
"I don't know what it is about me that makes people think I want to hear their problems."Source: True Blood | Speaker: Pam Swynford de Beaufort
"I have to remind myself that some birds aren't meant to be caged."Source: Shawshank Redemption | Speaker: Red
"I see dead people."Source: The Sixth Sense | Speaker: Cole Sear
"I was born a poor black child."Source: The Jerk | Speaker: Navin R. Johnson
"I was so worried I baked a whole cake. And then I ate a whole cake."Source: Broad City | Speaker: Lincoln Rice
"I'm also just a girl standing in front of a boy asking him to love her."Source: Notting Hill | Speaker: Anna Scott
"I'm not even supposed to be here today."Source: Clerks | Speaker: Dante Hicks
"If no one fought except on his own conviction, there would be no wars."Source: War and Peace | Author: Leo Tolstoy
"If you need me, I'll be down here on the floor. Dying."Source: Bob's Burgers | Speaker: Tina Belcher
"If you think Mick Jagger will be out there trying to be a rock star at age 50, then you are sadly, sadly mistaken."Source: Almost Famous | Speaker: Dennis Hope
"In sleep, he sang to me. In dreams, he came. That voice which calls to me and speaks my name."Source: The Phantom of the Opera (1986 Musical) | Speaker: Christine Daae
"Maybe Christmas, perhaps...means a little bit more!"Source: How the Grinch Stole Christmas | Author: Dr. Seuss
"Mirror, mirror on the wall, who is the fairest of them all?"Source: Snow White | Speaker: The Evil Queen
"Miss Jean Louise, stand up. Your father's passing."Source: To Kill a Mockingbird | Speaker: Reverend Sykes
"No, Lennie, I ain't mad. I never been mad, and I ain' now. That's a thing I want ya to know."Source: Of Mice and Men | Author: John Steinbeck
"Not that there's anything wrong with that."Source: Seinfeld | Speaker: Jerry Seinfeld
"Note to self: After a long day at work, I don't need to see that!"Source: The Comeback | Speaker: Valerie Cherish as Aunt Sassy
"Oh, Moses, Moses, you stubborn, splendid, adorable fool."Source: The Ten Commandments | Speaker: Nefretiri
"Oh, there's an empty place in my bones that calls out for something unknown."Source: Jack's Lament | Speaker: Jack Skellington
"Pleased to meet you. Hope you guess my name."Source: Sympathy for the Devil | Speaker: The Rolling Stones
"Show me the meaning of being lonely"Source: "Show Me the Meaning of Being Lonely" | Speaker: The Backstreet Boys
"Some say love, it is a hunger, an endless aching need. I say love, it is a flower and you its only seed."Source: The Rose | Speaker: Bette Midler
"The hardest thing in this world is to live in it."Source: Buffy the Vampire Slayer | Speaker: Buffy Summers
"The neighbors' dog will not stop barking."Source: Another Reason Why I Don't Keep a Gun in the House | Author: Billy Collins
"there's a bluebird in my heart that/ wants to get out/ but I'm too tough for him"Source: Bluebird | Author: Charles Bukowski
"This is a man's world. But it wouldn't be nothing, nothing without a woman or a girl."Source: It's a Man's Man's Man's World | Speaker: James Brown
"This is the city."Source: Dragnet | Speaker: Sergeant Joe Friday
"Today, I consider myself the luckiest man on the face of the earth."Source: The Pride of the Yankees | Speaker: Lou Gehrig
"Unless someone like you cares a whole awful lot, nothing is going to get better. It's not."Source: The Lorax | Author: Dr. Seuss
"Whether I shall turn out to be the hero of my own life, or whether that station will be held by anybody else, these pages must show."Source: David Copperfield | Author: Charles Dickens
"Woe is me for my hurt! my wound is grievous: but I said, Truly this is a grief, and I must bear it."Source: Jeremiah 10:19 | Author: Jeremiah
"You never really understand a person until you consider things from his point of view […] until you climb into his skin and walk around in it."Source: To Kill a Mockingbird | Author: Harper Lee
"You're motoring. What's your price for flight?"Source: "Sister Christian" | Speaker: Night Ranger